Category: Biography

Heroines of Freethought

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Charles P. Somerby : 1876

Seller ID: 23459

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

12mo (7.75") 20 cm; Hardcover, dark brown cloth, dark brown endpapers, 327 + 7 pages, publishercatalog in rear, fascinating concise biographies of eleven famous freethinking women (feminist, socialist, atheist, or all three) of UK and US; who are: Madame Roland. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin. Mary W. Godwin Shelley. George Sand. Harriet Martineau. Frances Wright d'Arusmont. Emma Martin. Margaret Reynolds Chappellsmith. Ernestine L. Rose. Frances Power Cobb. George Eliot. ; 1st edition, 1876. NAP. This is an actual book from 1876, not a modern computer-generated travesty. ; Cloth worn at extremit...
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Margaret Fuller : Whetstone of Genius

By: Wade, Mason

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Augustus M. Kelley : 1973

Seller ID: 23134

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

304 pages; 8vo (9.25") 23 cm; Hardcover, blue cloth, [xvi] + 304 pages, index, bibliography, appendix, 12 b/w portraits and illustrations. ; Originally published by Viking Press, 1940. This is a top-quality facsimile reprint published by Augustus M. Kelley, 1973. ; A towering figure in 19th-century literature and philosophy, Margaret Fuller (aka Marchioness Ossoli) came to be called "Mother of the Feminist Movement" -- she rubbed elbows with great writers and liberals of her day, including William Ellery Channing, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Horace Greeley, Harriet Martineau, man...
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Seven Sons : Millionaires and Vagabonds

By: Webb, Theodore A.

Price: $32.00

Publisher: Trafford Publishing : 1999

Seller ID: 20074

ISBN-13: 9781552122556

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

392 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; Tan softcover, [viii] + 392 pages, bibliography, endnotes, over 100 medium-quality b/w photos and illustrations. ; Sprawling yet fascinating biography of the seven famous Washburn sons, among them an inventor, an Ambassador to France, a Governor of Maine, a US Senator and a Civil War General. ; A touch of edgewear only. Quite scarce.
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Riding Bareback to Las Vegas : An Autobiography

By: White, Harry A. as told to B. J. Lawry

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Vantage Press : 1985

Seller ID: 23571

ISBN-13: 9780533061334

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

128 pages; 8vo (8.25") 21 cm; Hardcover, brown cloth, [xvi] + 112 pages, 36 b/w photos and facsimiles with captions. Copyright page inscribed at length and dated March 1, 1985, and SIGNED by author, Harry A. White. ; Forewords by Ruby Keeler, Pearlie Mae and Anthony Newley. ; A circus and vaudeville performer in his youth and the dance partner (and husband) of famed performer Alice Manning, Harry White became a singer and bandleader, toured London and Paris, played the Palace many times, toured with USO during World War 2, shared a house with Pearl Bailey, and lived his greatest years in Las V...
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Abigail Adams : A Biography

By: Whitney, Janet

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Konecky & Konecky : 2002

Seller ID: 20348

ISBN-13: 9781568523750

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

357 pages; 8vo (9.5") 25 cm; Hardcover, lavender boards, [xvi] + 357 pages, index, bibliography, endnotes, family tree diagram, 4 b/w illustrations. ; Copyright 1947, this is an unabridged facsimile edition, 2002.; No defects to book or jacket. Appears unread.
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Life of Rev. Hosea Ballou, Volume 1 : With Accounts of His Writings, and Biographical Sketches of His Seniors and Contemporaries in the Universalist Ministry

By: Whittemore, Thomas

Price: $40.00

Publisher: James M. Usher : 1854

Seller ID: 20200

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

420 pages; 8vo (8") 21 cm; This is vol-1 ONLY of a four-vol set. Hardcover, dark brown cloth, gilt title on spine, 420 pages, pale pink endpapers, b/w portrait frontispiece engraving of Ballou, footnotes throughout. ; The Rev. Hosea Ballou (1771-1852) was one of the most important Universalist preachers in US history. He was vice president of the Universalist Church of America 13 years and president 13 years. His book, A Treatise on Atonement, 1805, was the first publican to establish a complete Universalist theology and it also set forth a unitarian view of Jesus. The Rev. Thomas Whittemore, ...
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Life of Courage, a : Sherwin Wine and Humanistic Judaism

By: Wine, Sherwin, with Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Harry T. Cook, Marilyn Rowens

Price: $13.00

Publisher: International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism; : 2003

Seller ID: 18863

ISBN-13: 9780967325965

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

318 pages; 8vo (9.25") 23 cm; Softcover, 318 pages, bibliography, numerous sidebars, 9 b/w photos. ; Compiled by Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Harry T. Cook, and Marilyn Rowens, with contributions from Adam Chalom, Tamara Kolton, Miriam Jerris, Judith Goren, Shulamit Aloni, Yaakov Malkin, Peter Schweitzer, Felix Posen, Ed Doerr, Charles R. Paul and more. ; Humanistic Jusaism was organized by Rabbi Sherwin Wine in the 1960s in Michigan and has spread to encompass approximately 30 congregations. ; Only a touch of wear. ; With this item you will also get: 1) Sabbath Services in the Spirit of Humanistic Judai...
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Reflections, My Life : An Autobiography

By: Wright, Roberta Hughes (Roberta Virginia Greenidge)

Price: $58.00

Publisher: Published by Author : 2003

Seller ID: 23600

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

313 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; Softcover, white plastic spiral binding, [x] + 313 pages, appendix, several facsimile clippings, 42 facsimile pieces of correspondence, 352 low- to medium-quality b/w photos with captions. Includes chapter on the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Title page inscribed and SIGNED by author, Roberta. ; An amazing personal scrapbook of photos and memories. Author published a very brief autobiography in 1976. This 2nd edition, 2003, incorporates it completely and has been greatly enlarged. ; Author, an African American, held a Juris Doctor and a Doctor of Philosophy; served as coll...
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Category: Biography