New York: Penguin, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a young man who grew up in Wyoming, a cowboy at heart, who worked - and died - on an oil rig there - a life which dramatizes the greed and carelessness behind this latest oil rush. 202 pp. ISBN: 978-1-594201837.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965. dj. Hardcover first edition - Informal profiles by this former sportswriter of some of the stars of the "Golden Decade" of the 1920s - in boxing, tennis, baseball, football, golf - including Bobby Jones, Babe Ruth, Gertrude Ederle, Gene Tunney, Helen Wills, Ty Cobb, Jack Dempsey, Knute Rockne and many more. Illustrated with many photographs. 315 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Comprehensive biography of William Lloyd Garrison, the foremost political agitator and one of the most important American visionaries of the nineteenth century, a tireless fighter for abolition: for 35 years he edited and published 'The Liberator ' a weekly abolitionist newspaper in Boston. A National Book Award finalist. Photographs, Reference Notes, Index. xxi, 707 pp. ISBN: 0-312187408.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of the Aztec society in the Valley of Mexico 80 years before its conquest by Spain, focusing on its doomed ruler Moctezuma I. Illustrated by Carolyn Huff Kinsey. Chart of family relationships, very extensive notes, references, index. xvi, 272pp. Map endpapers.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1958). Hardcover first edition - Very personal and intimate letters written by this notable Southern author, covering almost half a century from the late 1890s, at the beginning of her career to 1945, shortly before her death. Compiled and edited with an introduction and commentary by Blair Rouse. Index. 384 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. A book which combines history and biography as it "interweaves the stories of some of the most important social, political, and religious figures of America's Victorian era with the courageous and notorious life of Victoria Woodhull, to tell the story of her astonishing rise and fall and rise again. . . set amid the battle for woman suffrage, the Spiritualist movement that swept across the nation (10 million strong by midcentury) in the age of Radical Reconstruction following the Civil War, and the bitter fight that pitted black men against white women in the struggle to win the right to vote." Illustrated with photographs. Extensive notes, bibliography, index. xv, 531 pp. ISBN: 0-394555368.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover - A massive and well-researched biography of one of the most powerful and influential men in Hollywood, from his days as a poor Polish immigrant through his steady climb to prominence. Photographs, notes, and sources, index. 579 pp. ISBN: 0-394-510593.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A massive, but well-researched, well-written and innovative look at Lincoln's political abilities by this Pulitzer Prize winning author - an account of how Lincoln brought his former rivals into his cabinet and used their political gifts to preserve the Union during the Civil War. Photographs. Extensive notes, index. 916 pp. ISBN: 0-684824906.

New York: Schocken, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - A profusely illustrated biography of this children's illustrator and artist. Index, notes, list of books illustrated by Greenaway. Genealogical chart on endpapers. 240 pgs. ISBN: 0-8052-37755.

New York: Penguin, 2019. dj. Hardcover first edition - "The astonishing story of the author's father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German lines in France, whose epic feats of irregular warfare proved vital in keeping Nazi tanks away from Normandy after D-Day." Photographs, maps, notes, index. xvii, 252 pp. ISBN: 978-0735225206.

Stevensville, Montana: Stoneydale Press, (2000). First edition - Told in the first person, and written for older children, this is an account of the life and times of York, the personal slave of William Clark and the only black member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. On their return, York did not receive his promised freedom until over a year later, and his attempt to start a freight business was unsuccessful. According to this account, he returned to St Louis and earned passage on a steamship to the mouth of the Little Big Horn River, where he married a Crow Indian, and lived the rest of his life among them, as an honored leader. Illustrated. Foreword by Huil Willis. 61 pp. ISBN: 0-912299932.

New York: Congdon & Weed, (1983.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Definitive biography of this master of modern hard boiled detective fiction, author of 'The Maltese Falcon' and other classics. SIGNED on the title page by Nolan. Illustrated with photographs. Includes notes, bibliography of sources, a basic checklist of Dashiell Hammett books and an index. 276 pages. ISBN: 0-312-922817.

New York: Congdon & Weed, (1983.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Definitive biography of this master of modern hard boiled detective fiction, author of 'The Maltese Falcon' and other classics. SIGNED on the front endpaper by Nolan. Illustrated with photographs. Includes notes, bibliography of sources, a basic checklist of Dashiell Hammett books and an index. 276 pages. ISBN: 0-312-922817.

New York: Random House, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first definitive biography of Hammett, written with the co-operation and assistance of Lillian Hellman and his daughters. Based on letters and material never before available. Illustrated with photographs. Select bibliography, notes, index. 344 pp. ISBN: 0-394-505018.

Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue, 1999. SIGNED first edition - An autobiographical account of growing up in a family of migrant farm workers. Born in south Texas, Hart spent her childhood moving back and forth between this small segregated southern Texas town and the fields in Minnesota. SIGNED by the author on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-927534-819.

New York: Random House, (1993). SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of his life in public service by this Senator and presidential candidate whose candidacy was derailed by scandal.This book emphasizes his accomplishmens in the Senate and elsewhere. INSCRIBED on the title page."For -- best wishes.Index. xl, 327 pp. ISBN: 0-679419888.

New York: Lothrup, Lee & Shepherd, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of this civil rights activist, clergyman, legislator, and United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Photographs, index. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-688418961.

New York: Hawthorn Books, (1957.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A popular biography of Eugenio Pacelli who became Pope Pius XII, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church during "the rise of Fascism, World War II, the postwar menace of Communism, the Korean War, the unrest in the Soviet satellites, the Suez crisis." Illustrated with 38 black and white photographs, including previously unpublished pictures of the Pope as a young child, and 22 full page drawings by Louis Priscilla. Index. Imprimatur. Illustrated endpapers. 251 pp.

Boston: Lee and Shepard, Publishers. (1856.). Hardcover - Engraved frontispiece, 384 pp. Bound in dark green cloth with black embossed design on front cover, large gold decoration on spine.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography of McNamara which focuses on his role as Secretary of Defense, his involvement in the Vietnam War, and his decision to keep publicly supporting that war even after he knew it was unwinnable. Also tells the stories of just five of the many people who were caught up in the wake of his decisions: an artist who tries to kill him after he had resigned from the Cabinet, a Quaker who immolated himself outside the Pentagon, a young Marine scarred by battle, a nurse desperate to believe her agonies in Vietnam were for a good cause, a member of a Saigon family. Photographs, notes, selected bibliography, index. 427 pp. ISBN: 0-679427619.

New York: Harper Collins, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first "authoritative guide to Hillerman's art and the world it portrays.' Contents include a chronology; a book by book guide to Hillerman's detective fiction by Jon L. Breen; an extensive interview with Hillerman by Breen, a chapter on the Navajo Nation by George Hardeen; a guide to Native American clans in his fiction and a concordance of his characters by Elizabeth Gaines and Diane Hammer; and selections of nonfiction & fiction. 375pp plus 8 pages of photographs from his family's own collection. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-060170344.

New York: Walker, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A definite biography of the complex and under-rated African American writer who is best known for his Harlem cycle crime novels by a writer who is himself an acclaimed poet, novelist and critic. Photographs, list of works by Himes, notes, index. 337 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-13629.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A fourth generation Japanese-American, this is Hongo's account of his return to the tiny town of Volcano in Hawaii, where he was born and of his discovery of the past of his family. SIGNED on the title page. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-394-571673.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Both the biography of her mother, Lena Horne (from her first appearances at the Cotton Club and New York Cafe Society to her departure for Hollywood, where she became the first true black movie star) and the story of several generations of her family, from the matriach who was able to buy her own freedom from slavery, to the to Frank Horne, Lena's uncle, a poet during the Harlem Renaissance and a member of FDR's "Black Cabinet" and to Lena herself. This is also the story of the influential black bourgeoisie - what Du Bois called 'the talented tenth' - from emancipation to the civil rights movement. Photographs. xii. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-394513061.

New York: Chelsea House Publishers, (1991). A biography of this important Harlem Renaissance author, written for younger readers and illustrated throughout with photographs. Introductory essay by Coretta Scott King. A title in the Black Americans of Achievement series, edited by Nathan Irvin Huggins. List of books by Hurston, a chronology, suggestions for further reading and index. Slightly oversized square format. 120 pp. ISBN: 0-791011542.