Biografia

Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian

Gitta Honegger · 2012 · Denton Island Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Yale University Press, 2012. Softcover. Fine Condition. 9780300194609 Missing its dust cover. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages, clean bright covers. This book, the first comprehensive biography of Thomas Bernhard in English, examines his life and work and their intricate rel...

The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

Adam Shatz · 2024 · Denton Island Books

£17.00 (€20.38 | $22.46 | ¥3,586)

Apollo, 2024. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9781035900046 Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages; clean bright jacket. A well looked after copy. A masterly new biography of Fanon -- Edo Konrad - The Guardian 464 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ...

Praying to the Aliens

Gary Numan · 1998 · Denton Island Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Andre Deutsch Ltd, 1998. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages, light soiling to lower closed text block slight wear to cover edges, small area of sticker removal damage on rear cover.B&W photos. Great insight into Gary Numan who in the 80's used t...

Blunt

John S Peart-Binns · 1969 · Dodman Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Queensbury, The Mountain Press, 1st Edition, ND. 1969-WorldCat. Biography of Alfred Blunt, Bishop of Bradford and advocate of Christian communism, perhaps best known for a speech in 1936 which accidentally triggered the abdication crisis. Well illustrated with photos and all i...

Patches Of Memory

C T Pownall · 1956 · Dodman Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Knaresborough, Privately Printed, 1st Edition, Exceptionally scarce memoir from Carolyn Theresa Pownall with much on her New York childhood, family connections in Millbrook and the Rangeley Lakes, travel overseas and settling as the wife of a vicar in Yorkshire. Exceptionally ...

TIME'S WINGED CHARIOT A Backward Glance Through Ninety Years

Ronald Milner · 2023 · Dodman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Greenleaf Press, 1st Edition, Retired Bishop looks back over long life and a changing church and country. All in VG clean and bright internal order. Some wear to card covers including creasing to spine. 8vo. 621pp, Good, No Jacket, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall, 621

LEAVES IN THE STORM A Book Of Diaries Edited With A Running Commentary

Stefan Schimanski; Henry Treece (eds) · 1947 · Dodman Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London, Lindsay Drummond, 1st Edition, Excerpts from the diaries of contemporary writers during the years of WW2. Stock lightly toned to page edges and some foxing to block, but this rarely intruding onto pages. No inscriptions. Smart brown boards with dulled titling to spine....

This Bank Robber's Life: The Life and Fast Times of Patrick "Paddy" Mitchell

Mitchell, Patrick · 2002 · Rainy Day Books

$37.00 (€33.57 | £28.01 | ¥5,908)

Book Good. Patrick Mitchell Canada Covers have light wear, spine creases. Interior is clean.

Outlaw Pilot : True Adventures of Jimmy Midnight Anderson

Anderson, James F. · 1993 · Rainy Day Books

$23.00 (€20.87 | £17.41 | ¥3,673)

Book Good. Writers Den Light wear.

Salvador Huerta Gutierrez: Family Memories

Maria Guadalupe Alatorre Huerta, comp · 1927 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Jalisco, Ediciones Catolicas de Guadalajara. Paperback. 95p. A thin softcover book in fine condition with a like dustwrapper. Gutierrez, a devout Mexican Catholic, was martyred in 1927 during the Church persecution of the period. He was beatified in 2005. This scarce book is a...

Silent Lamp: The Thomas Merton Story

William H. Shannon · 1993 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York, Crossroad, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 304p. A hardcover book in good condition with a fine dustjacket. Underlining in pencil on most pages, but binding is tight and jacket is fully intact. Externally like new. Fair .

Excerpt from "Cheerful Ascetic": The Life of Francis Xavier Seelos, C. Ss. R.

Michael J. Curley · 1990 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

Redemptorist Fathers, Baltimore Province. Paperback. Ex-library softcover booklet in original stapled binding. Label on front, stamp on title page, and sticker in back. Otherwise a clean, tight booklet in very good condition. Ca. 1990s reprint of a chapter from a biography of ...

Who Is Teresa Neumann

Rev. Charles M. Carty · 1974 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Rockford, IL, TAN Books and Publishers, Inc, 1974. Paperback. 62p. Ex-library softcover booklet in original stapled binding. Labels on front and inside back cover; stamp on title page. Otherwise a clean, tight booklet in very good condition. Fair .

Brahmabandhab Upadhyay. The Life and Thought of Revolutionary.

LIPNER, JULIUS J. · 1999 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. 0195642643. 1st edition. Biography of Brahmabandhab Upadhyay.(1861-1907). "Christian and Hindu, holy man and savant, prophet and revoluitionary, Upadhyay was a paradoxical figure who played a key role in the struggle for independence..His ...

American Secret Service Agent

WILKIE, DON; AS TOLD TO MARK LEE LUTHER · 1934 · Clausen Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

NY, Frederick A. Stokes Company. 1934, First Edition. Red Cloth, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ill.: Plates. Hardcover, Former owner's bookplate, name/address label on fep and penciled name/date on ffep. Usual aging to the textblock, one pencil mark on page 80, else textblock is...

A Testimonial to Grace

Avery Dulles · 1952 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

New York, Sheed and Ward, 1952. 5th printing. Hardcover. 121p. Ex-library hardcover book in original binding. Label scuff on spine, stamps on endpapers and title page, and card pocket in front. Owner's signature inisde as well. Otherwise a clean, tight book in good reading con...

Late Have I Loved Thee: Stories of Religious Conversion and Commitment in Later Life

Rev. Richard M. Erikson · 1995 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Mahwah, NJ, Paulist Press, 1995. Paperback. 194p. Ex-library softcover book in original binding. Label on spine, stamp on title page, and card pocket in back. Otherwise a clean, tight book in very good condition. Fair .

From Fashions to the Fathers: The Story of My Life

Hilda C. Graef · 1957 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Westminster, MD, The Newman Press, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 329p. Ex-library hardcover book in original binding. Label residue on spine; stamps on edges, endpapers, and title page; card pocket in back. A few small pen marks in table of contents. Otherwise a clean, tight b...

In No Strange Land: Some American Catholic Converts

Katherine Burton · 1942 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Longmans, Green and Co, 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 254p. Ex-library hardcover book in original binding. Spine slightly faded and corners of boards lightly worn. Label on spine; stamps on edges, endpapers, and title page; card pocket in back. Pencil marginalia in t...

Anselm Grun: Su Vida

Freddy Derwahl · 2010 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.25 | ¥2,795)

Santander, Editorial Sal Terrae, 2010. Paperback. 231p. A glossy softcover ex-library book in original binding. Faint label residue on spine, edges and corners slightly worn. Label and stamp on rear endpaper. Otherwise, very good condition with text clean and binding tight. Te...