Autobiography And Biography from Great Expectations Rare Books

New York: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 2021. Book. As New. Hardcover. Second Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 869 pages. Foreword by George F. Will. Includes a short glossary of terms and an index. Second printing. An encyclopedic volume consisting of 100 numbered chapters,… Read more about this item

Netherlands: De Lantaarn, 1990. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Large format hardcover, quarto size volume bound in blue cloth lettered in white on spine, in publisher's non priced, non clipped blue pictorial dust-jacket. Dutch edition, text in Dutch. 128 pages. Translated from the original English by Willem Witteveen. … Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: Zoland Books, 1999. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Third Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 372 pages. Contains a Glossary of Binomial and Common Nabokovian Butterfly Names; Nabokov's Scientific Publicationson Blue Butterlies; Principal Academic PublicationsCompleting Nabokov's Work on Neotropical Blues; a General Bibliogtaphy and an Index. Illustrated with black… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: Mit Press, 2002. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Large royal octavo hardcover bound in orange cloth lettered in black on spine, in publisher's orange non priced, non clipped dust-jacket. 534 pages. Selected Bibliography, Index. With an Afterword by Gisela Baronin Freytag v. Loringhoven. Illustrated throughout with… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 330 pages. Includes Bibliographical References and Index. Illustrated with black and white photographs. First edition, first printing with full number line. The story of a Wall Street mogul turned scientific facilitator… Read more about this item

Maarssen, Netherlands: Gary Schwartz Publisher, 1984. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Hardcover, large format folio size volume bound in brown faux leather lettered in gold, in non priced, non clipped dust-jacket. Dutch edition, text in Dutch. 380 pages. Includes bibliographical references and index. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of 345… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 757 pages. Includes: References (Bibliography); Notes, Index. Illustrated with photographs. Stated first edition, first printing with no other printings listed. The definitive biography of the man who organized and ran the… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1932. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, black cloth, no dust-jacket. 386 pages. Bibliography, Notes, Index. Illustrated with frontispiece and four pages of black and white photographs. Published circa 1932. No previous ownership marks. Cloth rubbed; worn along top of spine.… Read more about this item

New York: Funk and Wagnalls, Publishers, 1883. Book. Near Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, decorative publisher's binding in green diagonal ribbed cloth; central panels with decorative borders with flowers and two acorns, dots all over, lettered panel at foot, circle with pattern within at head, lettering within heading, all within decorative rule… Read more about this item

New York: Galahad Books, 1995. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's uncut, unpriced dust-jacket. 596 pages. Includes an Afterward; Notes and Index. Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. Illustrated with black and white photographs. First Galahad Books edition thus. No previous ownership… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1899. Book. Near Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, maroon cloth lettered in gold. 302 pages. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece with tissue guard intact. Published in th American Men of Letters series, edited by Charles Dudley Warner. Reprint. No previous ownership marks. … Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902. Book. Near Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, maroon cloth lettered in gold. 302 pages. Top edge gilt. Index. Publisher's catalog appended. Frontispiece with tissue guard intact. Published in the American Men of Letters series, edited by Charles Dudley Warner. … Read more about this item

Chicago IL: Henry Regnery Company, 1974. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, maroon cloth in publisher's price-clipped dust-jacket, 173 pages. With contributions by Philip Dyer and Martin Battersby. Profusely illustrated throughout with 179 black and white and 23 color photographs. First American edition. Russian born, Serge Diaghilev… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1896. Book. Near Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, maroon cloth lettered in gold. 320 pages. Top edge gilt. Three part bibliography of Bayard Taylor, Index. Publisher's catalog appended. Frontispiece with tissue guard intact. Published in the American Men of Letters series, edited… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902. Book. Near Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, maroon cloth lettered in gold. 336 pages. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece with tissue guard intact. Published in th American Men of Letters series. First edition. Previous owner's signature and date (1903) and small bookseller's… Read more about this item

Doubleday, 2002. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 397 pages. Includes: Notes (Bibliographical References; Bibliography, Index. Stated first edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight, unmarked copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket, protected by clear… Read more about this item

Boston : Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1904. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, maroon cloth lettered in gold. 239 pages. Top edge gilt. Index. Publisher's catalog appended. Frontispiece with tissue guard intact. Published in the American Men of Letters series, edited by Charles Dudley Warner. First… Read more about this item

Harvey Cedars, New Jersey: Down The Shore Publishing, 2003. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, brown boards in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 322 pages. Foreword by John T. Cunningham. Appendices, Selected Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with photographs, maps and engravings. First edition, stated first printing with full… Read more about this item

New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2014. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, case-bound in color printed paper covered pictorial boards. no dust-jacket as issued. 133pages. Introduction by Cheryl Strayed. Illustrated throughout with line drawings, some highlighted with color. Stated first US edition, first printing with full number line.… Read more about this item

New York: Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2017. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, light gray boards in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 420 pages. Notes, Index. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs. Stated first edition, first printing with full number line. No… Read more about this item