GORDON, LYNDALL

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG+). Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Little, Brown and Company 2005

KEYWORDS: Mary Wollstonecraft life lives 18th century social history biography

BEAH, ISHMAEL

Octavo softcover (VG+). Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008

KEYWORDS: life lives biography autobiography memoirs war wartime

ROBERTS, SOPHY

Super octavo softcover (VG+). Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Doubleday 2025

KEYWORDS: Sophy Roberts life lives biography Elephants ivory Africa history

RICH, MARI (edited) & HOSTETTER, MARTHA (assist. editor)

Ex-Library, minor dampwrinkling. Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); photos available on request; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: H W Wilson 2002

KEYWORDS: nobel prize biography photograph illustrated laureate politics literature science

MCGUIRE, PAULA (edited)

Tidy ex-Library. Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); photos available on request; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

PUBLISHER: H W Wilson 1992

KEYWORDS: nobel prize biography photograph illustrated laureate politics literature science

FINKE, MICHAEL C

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 2005

KEYWORDS: Anton Chekhov literature biography Russian Michael C Finke

O'CONNOR, ULICK

Sm ctavo softcover (VG-); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Granada Publishing 1981

KEYWORDS: Ulick O'Connor Gogarty Dublin Irish poets biography history literary renaissance

HUXLEY, ALDOUS & BRADSHAW, DAVID (Intro)

Octavo softcover (VG); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Flamingo 1994

KEYWORDS: Aldous Huxley David Bradshaw biography Francois Leclerc du Tremblay religion politics theology Father Joseph Richelieu

FRANK, KATHERINE

Octavo softcover (VG); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Penguin 1995

KEYWORDS: Katherine Frank Egypt biography tuberculosis travel Lucie Duff Cairo 1800s

CHUKOVSKY, KORNEI & ROSE, PAULINE (Trans)

FIRST EDITION Previous owner's details in ink. Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co N/D

KEYWORDS: Chekhov Russian authors literary biography essay Kornei Chukovsky first edition

MANN, THOMAS & KESTEN, HERMANN (Selection & Foreword) & WINSTON, RICHARD and CLARA (Trans)

Very tidy ex library, imperial octavo, dark navy blue buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus/photos, VG+ in d/w, VG+ (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Andre Deutsch 1983

KEYWORDS: Thomas Mann biography diaries literature literary

GEKOSKI, RICK

FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, black illus heavy boards, white lettering to front cover and spine, VG+, in d/w, VG+ (Photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Peribo 2009

KEYWORDS: first edition signed by bibliomemoir Rick Gekoski history biography

KINCAID, J

Octavo, green heavy boards quarter bound in dark teal buckram, black lettering to spine, 343pp, ex-libris plate of John Halstead Robson to front pastedown, VG (moderate scuffing to board edges & extrems, minor chipping to spine & title plate, moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning/soiling to page edges, minor tanning & foxing to eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, occasional moderate cracking to gutters throughout)

PUBLISHER: T and W Boone 1847

KEYWORDS: military memoir biography Sir John Kincaid Napoleonic Wars war 95th Rifles rifleman british UK history

MILLER, LEE & CALVOCORESSI, RICHARD

Imperial octavo, light grey heavy boards, blind stamped decoration to front cover, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, illus title page, VG+ in VG+ d/w (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 2002

KEYWORDS: art photography biography Lee Miller

HORSBURGH, MARGARET & SPINETTO, HEATHER & MURPHY, JUDY & CRAWFORD, JILL & RONALDSON, RACHEL & HILTON SYLVIA

Super octavo, printed light card wrappers with french flaps, white lettering to front cover and spine, VG+ (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Dunmore Publishing 1943

KEYWORDS: medical hospitals cardio-thoracic nurses cardio New Zealand history biography

TANG, DAVID

Super octavo, light brown buckram boards, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, 205pp, illus/photos, NF in d/w, VG+ (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Next Publications 2007

KEYWORDS: Apple Daily memoirs biography essays David Tang China newspaper

HEMMINGWAY, ERNEST & CALABI, SILVIO & HELSLEY, STEVE & SANGER, ROGER

Super octavo, chocolate dark brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 181pp, illus/photos, Near FINE in d/w, VG+(photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Shooting Sportsman 2010

KEYWORDS: Ernest Hemingway firearms guns sports hunting biography memoirs

GROB, MARCO

Elephant folio, dark grey cloth boards with holographic plate, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus/photos, VG+ (sl soiling to front board, light tanning & soiling to page edges, minor cracking to head of gutter at title page)

PUBLISHER: TeNeues 2016

KEYWORDS: economics politics money celebrities society social science biography Marco Grob

MOYLE, FRANNY

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, dark grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, XII +508pp,illus/photos, Near FINE in Near FINE d/w (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Viking 2016

KEYWORDS: memoirs biography J M W Turner art

RICHARDS, JIM & NAISMITH, BARRY

Ex library, quarto, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to front and spine, frontispiece, 96pp, illus/photos, VG- (usual library markings, minor tape soiling to front and rear boards, minor foxing and tanning to eps, heavy cracking to rear gutter with binding exposed, potentially rear pages missing) in d/w, VG (loose protective cover, minor chipping to head of spine, front and rear wrappers)

PUBLISHER: GP publications 1986

KEYWORDS: Jim Richards biography racing cars mechanics engineering