The shelf
History & Biography
38 copies on this shelf. One of each, examined point by point and photographed honestly — the flaws are on the page, not in the fine print.
38 of 273 books · 1 copy each
First editionConfessions of a Knife
Richard Selzer
Simon and Schuster, 1979
$20Near Fine/Very Good
First editionHistoric Waynesville & Haywood County, North Carolina: "What was it like?"
Louise K. Nelson
Louise K. Nelson, 1999
$45Near Fine/Near Fine
First editionCissy: The Extraordinary Life of Eleanor Medill Patterson
Ralph G. Martin
Simon and Schuster, 1979
$25Very Good/Very Good
First editionWilliam Bartram, The Search for Nature's Design: Selected Art, Letters & Unpublished Writings
Thomas Hallock and Nancy E. Hoffmann (editors); William Bartram
University of Georgia Press, 2010
$55Fine/Near Fine
First editionRevolt in the Desert
'T. E. Lawrence'
George H. Doran Company, 1927
$45Good
First editionCharles Dickens: His Life and Work
Stephen Leacock
Doubleday, Doran, 1936
$25Good
Charles Dickens: His Life and Work
Stephen Leacock
Doubleday, Doran, 1936
$30Very Good
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years
Carl Sandburg
Dell Publishing, 1960
Pulitzer Prize for History, 1940 (for The War Years)
$25Very Good
First editionSignedThis Man Gibson
Robert W. Lawrence
Gospel Teachers Publications, Dallas, 1974
$115Very Good
First editionWired: The Short Life & Fast Times of John Belushi
Bob Woodward
Simon and Schuster, 1984
$35Near Fine/VG+
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years
Carl Sandburg
Dell (Laurel Edition)
Pulitzer Prize for History, 1940 (for The War Years)
$25Very Good
First editionThe Years of MacArthur, Volume III: Triumph and Disaster 1945-1964
D. Clayton James
Houghton Mifflin, 1985
$40Near Fine/Near Fine
Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany 1944-1945
Russell F. Weigley
Indiana University Press, 1981
$40Very Good/Very Good
Rights of Man
Thomas Paine
Easton Press, 1989
$35Near Fine
First editionMonty 3 Volume Set (Marshall Montgomery)
Nigel Hamilton
McGraw-Hill, 1983
$85Near Fine/Near Fine
First editionTruman
David McCullough
Simon & Schuster, 1992
Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 1993
$30Near Fine/Very Good
Bill Mauldin's Army
Bill Mauldin
Presidio Press, 1983
$20Very Good
First editionA Path to Peace
George J. Mitchell and Alon Sachar
Simon & Schuster, 2016
$20Fine/Very Good
First editionNegro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power
Garry Wills
Houghton Mifflin, 2003
$20Fine/Very Good
First editionThe Dark Side of Camelot
Seymour M. Hersh
Little, Brown, 1997
$25Fine/Very Good
First editionLucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy
Sarah Bradford
Viking, 2004
$20Near Fine/Near Fine
First editionNabokov: His Life in Art
Andrew Field
Little, Brown, 1967
$30Near Fine/Very Good
First editionOscar Wilde
Richard Ellmann
Alfred A. Knopf, 1988
$30Fine/Near Fine
First editionThe Executioner's Song
Norman Mailer
Little, Brown, 1979
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1980
$55Near Fine/VG+
First editionDarkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink
Anthony McCarten
HarperCollins, 2017
$25Near Fine/Very Good
First editionThe Great Getty: The Life and Loves of J. Paul Getty - Richest Man in the World
Robert Lenzner
Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1986
$20Very Good/Very Good
First editionLost Victories
Field-Marshal Erich von Manstein
Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, 1958
$50Near Fine/Very Good
My Early Life: A Roving Commission
Winston S. Churchill
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
$35Very Good
First editionYossele Rosenblatt: A Biography
Samuel Rosenblatt
Farrar, Straus and Young, New York, 1954
$30Very Good/Good
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and The War Years
Carl Sandburg
Pulitzer Prize for History, 1940 (for The War Years)
$20VG+/Very Good
First editionThe Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent
Robert A. Caro
$30Near Fine/Very Good
First editionReason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
Jane Goodall with Phillip Berman
$13Near Fine/Near Fine
First editionHellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
Hampton Sides
$20Very Good/Very Good
First editionAmerican Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
Jon Meacham
Pulitzer Prize for Biography, 2009
$14Fine
First editionAmerican Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
Joseph J. Ellis
National Book Award for Nonfiction, 1997
$15Ex-library/VG+
First editionThe Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman's Narrative
Gregg Hecimovich
$15Fine/Fine
First editionSignedTeam of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin
$75Very Good/Very Good
First editionSignedLetters of J.B. Yeats
J.B. Yeats (Joseph Hone, intro by John McGahern)
$250Near Fine/Near Fine
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