Biografia

Queen Elizabeth.

Wilson, Mona · 1930 · Hessay Books

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

Daily Express Publications, 1111. Hard Cover, Early 1930s. 152pp, brown paper covered leather look boards, a little rubbed to edges of spine. A couple of spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean. A biography of Elizabeth I... Very Good /No Jacket.

Nelson.

Oman, Carola · 1950 · Hessay Books

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

Reprint Society, 1950. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 596pp, black cloth covered boards with red leather label. B + w maps and illustrations. Original owner's name to flyleaf, otherwise a clean copy. A classic biography of Admiral Nelson.. Very Good /No Jacket.

Lytton Strachey A Biography.

Holroyd, Michael · 1971 · Hessay Books

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

Penguin, 1971. Mass Market Paperback, Revised edition. 1144pp, the paper browning a little with age, illustrated softback covers with a couple of light creases. B + w photographs. Internally clean and tight. The life of the writer and his family and friends, taken from the aut...

The Little Goddess.

Snow, Lyndon · 1973 · Hessay Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Collins, 1973. First Edition. Hard Cover, 160pp, the paper browning a little with age. Dustjacket illustrated by Biro is a little rubbed to edge of spine and priceclipped but otherwise complete. Internally very clean. A fictionalised account of the life of Skittles, the lover ...

Children of The Empire The Victorian Haggards.

Manthorpe, Victoria · 1996 · Hessay Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

Gollancz, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover, A heavy book of 250pp. Complete illustrated dustjacket. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. The story of the author Rider Haggard and his 9 siblings - the Indian civil servant, the amorous Cairo Colonel, the Black Sheep, the vicar...

A Portrait of Sheridan.

Ayling, Stanley · 1985 · Hessay Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

Constable, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover, 218pp, complete dustjacket. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. A biography of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the 18th century dramatist and politician... As New /As New.

Nathan Trotter Philadelphia Merchant 1787 1853.

Tooker, Elva · 1955 · Hessay Books

£13.50 (€16.18 | $17.84 | ¥2,848)

Harvard University Press, 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover, A heavy book of 276pp. Illustrated dustjacket with closed tears to the edges. B + w illustrations. Previous owner's bookplate to the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. A study of the business of a Philadelphia mercha...

The Making of Charles Dickens.

Hibbert, Christopher · 1967 · Hessay Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Harper & Row, 1967. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition. 321pp. Complete dustjacket with one short closed tear to the edge. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. An extensive study of Charles Dickens' childhood and youth, and how it affected his later work... Fine /Very...

The Life of Oliver Goldsmith.

Forster, John · 1903 · Hessay Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

Hutchinson, 1903. First Edition. Hard Cover, 'Abridged, and newly edited with Notes etc.' 460pp, green cloth covered boards with a little wear to top of spine. Previous owner's name to flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. A classic biography of the 18th century writer... Very ...

Richardson.

Downs, Brian W · 1928 · Hessay Books

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Routledge, 1928. First Edition. Hard Cover, 248pp, red cloth covered boardswith gilt series logo. Frontispiece portrait. Internally clean. A biography of Samuel Richardson, his circle, a study of the novels, sentiment etc... Very Good /No Jacket.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

DE QUINCEY, THOMAS · 1950 · Round Table Books, LLC

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

New York: The Heritage Press, 1950. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Zhenya Gay. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over green patterned boards, gilt lettering on spine, a.e.g. (red.) Illustrated with 12 Gravures by Zhenya Gay. Includes an Introduction by W...

Why Lincoln Laughed

CONWELL, RUSSELL H. · 1922 · Round Table Books, LLC

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1922. 1608324265. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. ISBN: 1608324265. Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover. "A-W" code on copyright page. Former owner's printed bookplate on fep, gilt on spine faded, else fine: unmarked, tight, square, ...

John Burroughs, Boy and Man

Barrus, Clara · 1922 · Brookline Village Books

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,026)

Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page & Co. 1922. Hardcover. ix, 385 pages frontispiece, plates, portraits 21 cm. Very good conditionll, slightly cocked, top of spine kighly worn Signed by the author for Mrs. Earl St. John.7.

Father and I; Memories of Lafcadio Hearn

Koizumi, Kazuo · 1935 · Brookline Village Books

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. viii p. 3 l. [3]-208 p. front.(ports.) plates. 22 cm. Very good condition zs.

Jerome le Royer de la Dauversiere: His Friends and Enemies (1597-1659)

Henri Bechard · 1991 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Bloomingdale, OH, Apostolate for Family Consecration, John Paul II Holy Family Center, 1991. Paperback. 478p. A softcover book in fine condition. Regarded as a founder of Montreal, Royer founded two religious orders for evangelization and ministry to the poor in what is now Qu...

Kino: A Legacy; His Life, His Works, His Missions, His Monuments

Charles W. Polzer · 1998 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Tucson, Jesuit Fathers of Southern Arizona, 1998. 1st Edition. Paperback. 198p. A softcover book in near-fine condition. Owner's blind-stamp on title page, but otherwise clean and tight. Biography of Fr. Eusebio Francisco Kino, a pioneer missionary among the Native Americans o...

John Gully and his times.

Darwin, Bernard · 1935 · Aucott & Thomas

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Cassell & Co. Ltd. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Reading copy, an ex private library hardback with the usual stamps & stickers, boards pulled and cloth very worn, page edges grubby. x + 230 pages, 3 illustrations on plates, one missing and one detached, index. Poor with no d...

It's too late now: the autobiography of a writer.

Milne, A. A. · 1939 · Aucott & Thomas

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Reading copy, an ex private library hardback with the usual stamps & stickers, boards pulled, page edges grubby. xii + 268 pages, frontispiece present but detached. Poor with no dust jacket.

Russian doctor A surgeon's life in contemporary Russia and why he chose to leave.

Golyakhovsky, Vladimir · 1984 · Aucott & Thomas

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

U. S. A .: Robert Hale Ltd, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which is sunned at the spine and small loss to laminate at back cover. viii + 312 pages, photos on plates. Very Good in Good du...

From the Diary of a Snail;

Grass, Gunter · 1974 · The Glass Key

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London, Secker and Warburg, 1974. First UK edition. Hardcover. First impression. 8vo. Pp 310. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. Name of ownership rubber stamped on the front free endpaper else a clean, unmarked and ti...