Biografia

The Memoirs of Kohler Of The K W V

C W H Kohler; Anette Joelson (ed) · 1946 · Dodman Books

£21.75 (€26.07 | $28.74 | ¥4,590)

London, Hurst & Blackett, 1st Edition, With appreciative forward from J C Smuts, testifying to Kohler's role in reviving and unifying the South African grape and wine industries. Stock lightly toned, but otherwise all in VG internal order. Former owner's name neatly to front p...

IF I HAD MY TIME AGAIN An Anthology Contributed By Twenty Distinguished Men And Women

James Marchant (ed) · 1950 · Dodman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Odhams Press, Eclectic collection of notables answer the question. Contributions from Marie Stopes, George Robey, John Middleton Murry, Lord Dowding, C E M Joad and many others. All in VG internal order bar small bump to bottom corner affecting first c.50 pages. Blue c...

Amy Winehouse – In Her Words

Amy Winehouse · 2023 · Denton Island Books

£17.00 (€20.38 | $22.46 | ¥3,588)

HarperCollins, 2023. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition. 9780008558383 Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages, slight rubbing to corners of covers. Amy Winehouse: In Her Words shines a spotlight on her incredible writing talent, her wit, her charm and lust for life. Bringing together ...

The Trouble Begins at Eight Mark Twain's Lecture Tours

LORCH, FRED W. · 1968 · S. Howlett-West Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1968. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light rubbing and bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. The ...

A Retrospect of Fifty Years, Volumes I-II

James Cardinal Gibbons · 1916 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Baltimore, John Murphy Company, 1916. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 2 vols. 335p; 287p. Ex-library. A set of two orange cloth hardcover books in good reading condition. Spines stained and faded. Binding is thus tight in both volumes. Ink numbers on spines; library ...

A Retrospect of Fifty Years, Volumes I-II

James Cardinal Gibbons · 1916 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Baltimore, John Murphy Company, 1916. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 2 vols. 335p; 287p. Ex-library. A set of two orange cloth hardcover books in good reading condition. Spines stained and faded. Binding is thus tight in both volumes. Ink numbers on spines; library ...

A Calendar of Care: Reflections of a Country Pastor

James Schmitmeyer · 2000 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Chicago, Liturgy Training Publications, National Catholic Rural Life Conference, 2000. 2nd Printing. Paperback. 85p. A softcover book in near-fine condition. Deacon's embossed stamp on title pages, but otherwise clean and tight. Appears virtually unread. Memoir of a Catholic p...

A Loyal Life: A Biography of Henry Livingston Richards with Selections from His Letters and a Sketch of the Catholic Movement in America

Joseph Havens Richards · 1913 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

St. Louis, B. Herder, 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 397p. Ex-library hardcover book in original binding. Label on spine and small, light scratches on right side of front cover. Stamps on edges, endpapers, and title page, and card pocket in back. Pencil marks in the margins of ...

A Passion for Nature the Life of John Muir

WORSTER, DONALD · 2008 · The Old Bookshelf, UK

£14.95 (€17.92 | $19.75 | ¥3,155)

United States: Oxford University Press, 2008. Hardcover. ISBN: 0195166825. Very Good hardcover in Near Fine dustjacket. Clean maroon cloth boards. Titles bright. Internally, binding slightly shaken, but very secure. No writing or stamps. Clean, bright pages. Unclipped dustjack...

Three-Cornered Heart.

FREMANTLE, ANNE. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Collins, 1971. 1st edition. "This is the story of two women, Anne Fremantle and her mother, Tiny. It is the story of two generations, two societies, almost two civilisations, from the London of Gladstone, Browning and Pater to the Oxford of Waugh, Auden and Duncan Sand...

The Devil of Decourcy Island: The Brother XII

Ron MacIsaac; Don Clark; Charles Lillard · 1989 · Rainy Day Books

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,677)

Book As New Beach Holme Publishers, Limited New copy, multiples available.

A Dictionary Of Irish Biography

Henry Boylan · 1988 · Dodman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

New York, St Martin's Press, 2nd Edition, Second edition with c.200 additional entries. Stock toned, but otherwise all in VG internal order. Smart burgundy boards with bright gilt titling to spine. G+ unclipped d/j lightly rubbed. 8vo. [19] 420pp, Very Good, Good, 8vo - over 7...

The River Bank. An Autobiography of the 1920s.

OMMANNEY, F.D. · 1966 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Longmans, 1966. 2nd impression. "Autobiography, set in the countryside of the North Downs and in London, is partly family reminiscence, often extremely funny, and partly a nostalgic and brilliantly evocative picture of the 1920s in which the author grew up." Pp.279, bl...

A Life of Sir Francis Galton. From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics.

GILLHAM, NICHOLAS WRIGHT. · 2001 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 0195143655. 1st edition. Francis Galton "was an important African explorer, travel writer, and geographer. He was the metereologist who discovered the anticyclone, a pioneer in using fingerr=prints to identify individuals, the inventor of...

Aaron Burr. Portrait of an Ambitious Man.

PARMET, HERBERT S AND HECHT, MARIE B. · 1967 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967. 1st edition. Describes fully "Burr's heroic deeds in the Revolutionary War, his debut and success as a politician, his scandal-clouded term a Vice-President under Jefferson, his feud and famous duel with Alexander Hamilton, his abortive a...

Mother Jane Margaret C.S.M.V.

SISTER JANET. · 1974 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Wantage: S. Mary's Press, 1974. 1st edition. Biographical sketch of Mother Jane Margaret, Mother Genera of C.S.M.V. Pp.x/76, portrait frontispiece + 6 further black & white photos and 5 line drawing head and tail pieces to chapters, owner's name to front free endpaper. Paperba...

The Autobiography of Arthur Machen.

MACHEN, ARTHUR. · 1974 · Chilton Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London: Garnstone Press, 1974. 0855114312. With an introduction by Morchard Bishop. One Volume edition of Machen's autobiography, telling "of his childhood in his father's vicarage in the romantic Mnmouth countryside, of his struggles in London to gain a precarious foot-hold b...

General T. Perronet Thompson. 1783-1869. His Military, Literary and Political Campaigns.

JOHNSON, L.G. · 1957 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1957. 1st edition. Biography of the British Parliamentarian, Governor of Sierra Leone and radical reformer. Pp.294, black & white portrait frontispiece + 3 further plates, owner's details to front free endpaper. Blue cloth, sunning to edges of...

House of Glass the Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family

FREEMAN, HADLEY · 2020 · The Old Bookshelf, UK

£8.95 (€10.73 | $11.83 | ¥1,889)

United Kingdom: Fourth Estate, 2020. Hardcover. ISBN: 0008322635. Very Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine dustjacket. Unclipped dustjacket lightly shelf-worn, else Fine. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8...

Wild Rice: The Biography of Vivian Lillie Rice

BLOT, DAVID; DEMMON, LIBBY · 2010 · Clausen Books

$13.00 (€11.79 | £9.84 | ¥2,076)

Fort Collins, CO, Selene River Press. 2010, 2nd Printing. (ISBN: 9780977840106). Wraps, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Photographs/Decorations. Paperback, Textblock is in pristine condition, bright and tight. Lightly bumped head of spine and creased corners. 177pp. including...