Biografia

A Nineteenth-Century Crusader

LOCKE, CHARLES EDWARD · 1902 · Clausen Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Cincinnati, Jennings & Pye. 1902. Embossed Green Cloth, 12mo - over 6 " - 7 " tall. Ill.: Photo Frontispiece. Hardcover, Faint pencil notation on ffep; Textblock very clean and tight; Binding lightly edge and corner rubbed; 37p. British Prime Minister, statesman and reformer W...

Divas and Deadlines

Frow, Vivien · 2011 · Rainy Day Books

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

Book Very Good. Aldridge Street Editing Very light wear. Signed by the author.

The Lady Who Tamed Pegasus: The Story of Pancho Barnes

TATE, GROVER TED · 1984 · Clausen Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Maverick Publishing Company. 1984. (ISBN: 0892880929). Wraps, 8vo - over 7 " - 9 " tall. Ill.: B&W Photographs. Paperback, A couple loose photos, but none missing; Textblock clean; Minor reading crease along and down the spine, lightly creased corners. 104p. Very Good.

Silhouettes of Charles S. Thomas: Colorado Governor and United States Senator

THOMAS, SEWELL · 1959 · Clausen Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Caldwell, ID, The Caxton Printers, Ltd. 1959, Limited First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Photograph/Plates. Ex-Library Hardcover, Signed twice by the author on the copyright page; No. 200 of 2,000 copies. Retired library copy, usual stamps, stickers, labels...

12 Years a Slave

NORTHUP, SOLOMON · 2014 · The Old Bookshelf, UK

£14.95 (€17.92 | $19.75 | ¥3,154)

United States: Canterbury Classics, 2014. Flexible covers. ISBN: 1626862362. Near Fine flexibound softcover with lightly bumped spine tail and bottom rear corner. Internally, no writing or stamps. Clean, bright pages. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our ...

Strange Glory. A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

MARSH, CHARLES. · 2014 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2014. 9780307269812. 1st edition. "In the decades since his execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor, theologian, and anti-Hitler conspirator, has become one of the most widely read and inspiring Christian thinkers of our...

The Undelivered Mardle. A Memoir of Belief, Doubt and Delight.

ROGERS,JOHN. · 2012 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2012. 9780232529562. 1st edition. "The day on which John Rogers was due to deliver his 'mardle' (a talk of local interest) to the people of Letheringham in Suffolk about their ancient priory church, he suffered a heart attack. In this book, he...

Poker Alice; History of a Woman Gambler in the West

MUMEY, NOLIE · 1951 · Clausen Books

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Denver, Artcraft Press. 1951, Limited 1st Edition, #193 of 500 Copies. Stiff Wraps, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ill.: Photographs. Paperback, 47p; map tipped in back, signed by author on limitation page, textblock is clean and tight. Lightly edge worn, glassine dust jacket with...

How I Grew

McCarthy, Mary · 1987 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. First UK edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp 278 + 16pp b&w plates. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy in an unclipped dust jacket. Considerable age-tanning to the text paper. Very Good/very g...

The Autobiography

ANONYMOUS · 2024 · The Old Bookshelf, UK

£10.95 (€13.13 | $14.47 | ¥2,310)

United Kingdom: Independently Published, 2024. Hardcover. Near Fine hardcover with single small ding to spine edge, else Fine. Nice, tight copy. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 228 pages. Near Fine .

Famous Speeches: Abraham Lincoln

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM (FAMOUS SPEECHES BY); TOWNSEND, WILLIAM H. (INTRO. BY) · 1935 · Clausen Books

$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)

New Rochelle Peter Pauper Press. 1935. Cloth w/Paper Paste-down, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Plates. Ex-Library Hardcover, Copy 430/950. Retired library copy, usual stamps, stickers, and labels; Some faint age toning to end pages, else textblock is clean and tight. Minima...

Growing Up on The Times. An Autobiography. (signed).

HEREN, LOUIS. · 1978 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: Hamsh Hamiilton, 1978. 0241898862. 1st edition. Louis Heren joined The Times as a messenger boy rising to foreign correspondent and met and got to know men such as Gandhi, Nehru, Ben Gurion, Moshe Dayan, MacArthur, Willy Brandt, Khrushchev, Kennedy, Martin Luther King,...

Storm in a D-Cup. The Autobiography of June Kenton, the Driving Force Behind Rigby & Peller.

KENTON, JUNE. · 2017 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

SJG Gift Publishing, 2017. 9781527202047. 1st edition. The autobiography of June Kenton, corsetiere to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and the 'driving force' behind the firm of Rigby & Peller. "She initially learned her skills at London's Berlei Corsetry School but revolution...

Intrepid Woman: Betty Lussier's Secret War 1942-1945

Lussier, Betty: · 2010 · Grahame Thornton, Bookseller

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2010 1st. ed. HBK + d/w. Index 221pp. + 16 b/w plates. VG/VG.

The Daughters Of George III

Dorothy Margaret Stuart · 1939 · Dodman Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Macmillan & Co, 1st Edition, 2nd Printing, Second printing (October 1939) of first edition (September 1939). Stock lightly toned, but otherwise all in VG+ clean and bright internal order. No inscriptions. Light shelfwear to smart red boards, bumped to lower corners, wi...

WISHING ON THE MOON The Life And Times Of Billie Holiday

Donald Clarke · 1994 · Dodman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Viking, 1st Edition, All in VG internal order bar heavy toning to page edges. Smart Black boards with bright silver titling to spine. Unclipped d/j a little worn to edges. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 8vo. 468pp, Good, Good, 8vo,...

My Life and Times by Sarah Wren Williams.

Williams-Garcia, Judith and Sarah Wren Williams, · 2010 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

np, Private published, (2010). VG PB spiral bound cardboard covers. Williams was born in rural Maine.

The Two of Us: my life with John Thaw.

Hancock, Sheila, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

London, Bloomsbury, (2004). 1st ed 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Thaw, star of Inspector Morse, died from cancer in 2002, Hancock lost a beloved husband. In this double biography, she. chronicles their personal and professional lives, together and apart.

Pieces of My Heart.

Wagner, Robert J., · 2008 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Harper, (2008). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. One day on the golf course next to his parent's house he saw a foursome playing: Fred Astaire, Clark Gable, Randolph Scott;. and Cary Grant. Seeing these giants of the silver screen awed him and fueled his dreams of becoming a movie star.

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.

Anonymous, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Harper, (2004). 1st ed 66 ptg. VG in VG DJ. A co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous tells how members recover& how the society functions.