Biography And Memoir from Old Saratoga Books

Boston And Chicago: United Society of Christian Endeavor. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, spine sunned, pages toned.. 1900. Hardcover. Light green decorated cloth with b/w photo of Lincoln affixed to front boards. [3]pp of publisher ads at rear, describing this book as a collection of anecdotes about Lincoln's life by his presidential secretaries. Illustrations by… Read more about this item

NY: Harper and Brothers. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, spine cracked at pp. 238-239, . bookplate on front pastedown, owner name and stamp on front flyleaf, . foxing.. 1867. Hardcover. Green cloth titled in gilt on spine, xxiii, 371pp + [12]pp of publisher ads. Two engraved portraits of the subject of this biography, Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's beloved… Read more about this item

Chester, CT: Pequot Press. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, lacks slipcase.. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 0871061104 . Warmly inscribed by both the author and Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, Raymond E. Baldwin, on the title page. Photos, index, appendix. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 297 pages .

Private Printing. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, endpapers soiled, . small white circular stain on rear boards.. 1912. Hardcover. Inscribed by the Tylers on the front free endpaper. Dark green cloth binding with gilt lettering stamped on spine. Top edges gilt. Many photos and folding genealogical charts. An autobiography of the Amherst, Mass. Minister and Amherst… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards soiled, owner name on front flyleaf, . remains of jacket flap on rear pastedown endpaper.. 1942. Later Printing. Hardcover. Tan illustrated cloth binding. Map endpapers. Many black and white photos. The author's memoir about life in the Maine wilderness. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 322 pages .

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.. 1991. First Printing. Hardcover. 0399136134 . A former OSS spy during World War II, the Countess of Romanones continues her biography in this third installment, in which she tells of her 1971 assignment with future CIA chief William Casey in helping ferret out… Read more about this item

Private Printing. Very Good. 2018. Softcover. 1532377231 . xviii, 298pp, index. Photos, index, notes, bibliography. Published in conjunction with the Rensselaerville Historical Society, The Westerlo Historical Society, and the Town of Westerlo Heritage Museum. Biography of the pioneering woman doctor (1899-1993) who served patients in rural Albany County, New York.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Cambridge, UK: Baily's. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.. 1998. Hardcover. 0952362880 . Inscribed by the author on the title page. Foreword by Jan Morris, viii, 288pp. Photos, bibliography, index. Biography of the life and naval career of Sir Francis Bridgeman (1848-1929). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Stroud, UK: The History Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. 0750982659 . Foreword by Nigel West. Bibliography, acknowledgements, index, photos. Chapters from the autobiography of one of the founders of British intelligence, who worked during the first half of the twentieth century. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages .

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket; Spine faded, boards lightly worn, name on . half-title page.. 1908. Hardcover. Red cloth binding, vi, 256pp + 32pp of publisher catalogue. Edited by Masson's daughter, Flora Masson. David Masson was a Scottish man of letters and this collection includes four essays on Thomas Carlyle, his London… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. Good in Fair dust jacket; Front free endpaper removed, jacket heavily . tattered and chipped, page edges foxed.. 1949. Twenty-Seventh Printing. Hardcover. Memoir by Baroness Maria von Trapp, whose courtship, immediate motherhood of seven children and flight from Hitler's control of Austria was made world famous in the movie The Sound of Music. Illustrations by… Read more about this item

Hanover, NH: University Press of New England. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Edges foxed.. 1989. First Printing. Hardcover. 0874514797 . Author photo on rear jacket flap. An interesting memoir about the author's time spent as a sawyer in a Vermont saw mill. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 184 pages .

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 0394488199 . Many photographs, biographical notes. Chronicle of the short, intense life of Edie Sedgwick. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 454 pages .

NY: E. P. Dutton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards and jacket lightly worn.. 1982. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0525241213 . Map endpapers, illustrations by the author. Maps, appendices, biographies. A personal account of British Royal Navy voyages, mostly in the Far East, from 1837-1869 by surgeon Dr. Edward H. Cree. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 276… Read more about this item

NY: David McKay. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn and sunned.. 1963. Later Printing. Hardcover. Edited by Coloniel Roderick Macleod and Denis Kelly. Diaries of the British Field Marshal in the early years of World War II. Navy cloth binding, maps and illustrations, appendices, index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 434 pages .

NY: Enigma Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Boards rubbed.. 2002. Later Printing. Hardcover. 1929631022 . xxvi, 626pp. Notes, glossary, index, and acknowledgments. This is the first complete edition of The Diary in English, entirely updated with an introduction by the famed Italian historian Renzo De Felice, editor of the original Italian edition. (from the rear jacket panel)… Read more about this item

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1992. First American Edition. Hardcover. 1557506515 . Foreword by Margaret Thatcher, maps, photos, index. xix, 360pp. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Viking. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket rubbed, toned, and taped on the . reverse.. 1960. First Printing. Hardcover. 0670467758 . Memoirs of Winston Churchill's Chief of Staff during World War II and one of the architects of the Allied Victory. Edited by Lord Ismay's son, Hastings Lionel Ismay. Preface by Winston Churchill. Map endpapers. Blue cloth with… Read more about this item

Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press. Good in Very Good dust jacket; Minimal notations on two pages.. 2004. First American Edition. Hardcover. 1585675024 . Notes, glossary, and index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 335 pages .

London: John Murray. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, spine toned.. 1919. Hardcover. Blue cloth binding, xviii, 358pp. Photos, appendices, index. The British Royal Navy Admiral recounts his fifty years of service, including chasing slave dhows, his command of the HMS Terrible, the Boxer Rebellion, his command of the Second Cruiser Squadron, and World War I. ; 8vo 8"… Read more about this item