Biografia

Robert Plant _ A Life

Rees, Paul · 2014 · San Francisco Book Company

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London Harper Paperback Octavo wraps, 360 pp spine creased. Good

Elizabeth and Mary _ Cousins, Rivals, Queens

Dunn, Jane · 2004 · San Francisco Book Company

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London HarperCollins Paperback Octavo wraps, 538 pp. Very good

Chaliapin

Gorky, Maxim · 1988 · San Francisco Book Company

€17.00 ($18.74 | £14.18 | ¥2,992)

London Columbus Books Paperback Octavo wraps, 320 pp covers worn on the edges spine soiled and creased. Good

Art Lover _ A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim

Gill, Anton · 2003 · San Francisco Book Company

€18.00 ($19.84 | £15.02 | ¥3,168)

New York HarperCollins Paperback Octavo wraps, 480 pp. Very good

Graham Greene _ Friend and Brother

Duran, Leopoldo; Cameron, Euan (trans) · 1994 · San Francisco Book Company

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

London HarperCollins Cloth/dust jacket Octavo black cloth, silver lettering, dust jacket, 352 pp. Very good very good

The Life of William Morris _ Two Volumes Bound as One

Mackail, J. , W. · 1995 · San Francisco Book Company

€17.00 ($18.74 | £14.18 | ¥2,992)

New York Dover Publications, Inc Paperback Octavo wraps, 364 pp. Very good

Karl Polanyi _ A Life on the Left

Dale, Gareth · 2016 · San Francisco Book Company

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

New York Columbia University Press Cloth/dust jacket Octavo green cloth, yellow lettering, dust jacket, 381 pp, dust jacket worn and stained on edges, pages water damaged, pastedowns and front and back endpapers stained. Good good

Edward Carpenter _ A Life of Liberty and Love

Rowbotham, Sheila · 2009 · San Francisco Book Company

€17.00 ($18.74 | £14.18 | ¥2,992)

London Verso Paperback Octavo wraps, 563 pp. Very good

The Obamas _ A True Story

Kantor, Jodi · 2012 · San Francisco Book Company

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London Penguin Books Paperback Octavo wraps, 365 pp. Very good

Virginia Woolf & Vanessa Bell _ Remembering St Ives

Dell, Marion; Whybrow, Marion · 2004 · San Francisco Book Company

€30.00 ($33.06 | £25.03 | ¥5,280)

Padstow, Cornwell Tabb House Paperback Small Quarto wraps, 194 pp. Very good

England's Leonardo _ Robert Hooke and the Seventeenth-Century Scientific Revolution

Chapman, Allan · 2005 · San Francisco Book Company

€100.00 ($110.21 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Bristol Institute of Physics Publishing Cloth/dust jacket Octavo black cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 330 pp, dj lightly worn, owner's name written on the front endpaper, underlining and notes in pencil. Good very good

Louis Pasteur _ Free Lance of Science

Dubos, Rene · 1976 · San Francisco Book Company

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

New York Charles Scribner's Sons Cloth/dust jacket Octavo black cloth, silver lettering, dust jacket, 420 pp, library marks and stickers on the front endpaper and on the dj spine. Good good

The Amazon of Letters _ The Life and Loves of Natalie Barney

Wickes, George · 1977 · San Francisco Book Company

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

London W.H. Allen Cloth/dust jacket Octavo red cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket clipped, 286 pp, first edition. Very good very good

Dear Tom _ Letters from Home

Courtnay, Tom · 2000 · San Francisco Book Company

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London Black Swan Paperback Octavo wraps, 376 pp. Very good

Charlotte Bronte _ A Passionate Life

Gordon, Lyndall · 1994 · San Francisco Book Company

€24.00 ($26.45 | £20.02 | ¥4,224)

London Chatto & Windus Cloth/dust jacket Octavo red cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 418 pp. Very good very good

Samuel Pepys _ The Year of Peril

Bryant, Arthur · 1948 · San Francisco Book Company

€17.00 ($18.74 | £14.18 | ¥2,992)

London Collins Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo blue cloth, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 466 pp, covers lightly worn and scuffed. Good

The Portable Thoreau

Bode, Carl (ed) · 1982 · San Francisco Book Company

€16.00 ($17.63 | £13.35 | ¥2,816)

New York Penguin Books Paperback Octavo wraps, 698 pp covers worn on the edges. Good

An Orderly Man

Bogarde, Dirk · 1983 · San Francisco Book Company

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

London Chatto & Windus Cloth/dust jacket Octavo red cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket unclipped, 291 pp first edition. Very good very good

The Redouté brothers: Masters of scientific illustration in Paris

Lack, H.W.; Compton, J.A.; Callmander, M.W. · 2024 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

MNHN 822, 176 col photos + col & b/w illus. . PB. NEW. . This work provides the first comprehensive biography of the three Redouté brothers, Antoine-Ferdinand, Pierre-Joseph and Henri-Joseph. Originating from humble origins in the Ardennes, they all took root in Paris where An...

Mahatma Gandhi, his life in pictures

Gandhi, Mahatma · 1968 · Greensleeves Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.06 | ¥4,641)

good . 1968 revised edition, with chipped dustjacket, bright clean copy, no markings, frontendpaper missing, illus, binding tight, Professional booksellers since 1981 Ministry of Information of the Government of India