Biografia

Henry Sewall: Physiologist and Physician

WEBB, GERALD; POWELL, DESMOND · 1946 · Clausen Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press. 1946, First Edition. Green Cloth, 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Ill.: Black & White Plates. Ex-Library Hardcover, Retired library copy with the usual stamps and labels; Gift inscription on front free endpaper from author Desmond Powell to his...

The Smile of a Ragpicker

Paul Glynn · 2002 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Hunters Hill, NSW, Marist Fathers Books, 2002. 4th printing. Paperback. 196p. A softcover book in very good condition. Spine creased; otherwise clean and tight. Biography of Satoko Kitahara, a Japanese convert who worked with the poor during the 1940s. Illustrated with lots of...

No More Champagne: Churchill and his Money SIGNED/Inscribed

David Lough · 2015 · Denton Island Books

£23.00 (€27.57 | $30.39 | ¥4,854)

Head of Zeus, 2015. Reprint, Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9781784081812 Inscribed by Author. SIGNED by the author, and inscribed to the previous owner. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages, top closed page block is age browned; clean bright jacket. Plenty of eye-opening detai...

William Caxton (1424-1491)

PLOMER, HENRY R. · 1925 · Clausen Books

$8.99 (€8.16 | £6.80 | ¥1,436)

London/Boston, Leonard Parsons/Small, Maynard and Company. 1925. Green Cloth, 12mo - over 6 " - 7 " tall. Ill.: Frontispiece. Hardcover, Previous owner's bookplate on fep, else very clean and tight; Light shelf and character wear; Lacks dust jacket. 195p. including index. Very...

The Family Romance of the Impostor-Poet Thomas Chatterton

Kaplan, Louise J. · 1987 · The Glass Key

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

New York, Atheneum, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. First impression. 8vo. Pp xv + 301. Quarter bound in yellow cloth stamped in gilt on the spine with sides of blue paper boards. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy in unclipped dust jacket. Very Good/very good.

Keeping Faith: memoirs of a president.

Carter, Jimmy, · 1982 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Bantam, (1982). 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. ".my impressions of life in the White House; the crises that confronts me, the people who worked.with or against me.".

Eric Gill

MacCarthy, Fiona · 2003 · The Glass Key

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London, Faber and Faber, 2003. Later printing. Paperback. 2nd impression of this 4to paperback (234 x 152mm). Pp xiii + 338 + 64pp b&w plates. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. Very Good .

Lawrence & Apocalypse

Corke, Helen · 1933 · The Glass Key

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

London, William Heinemann, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. First impression. 8vo. Pp 130. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy without dust jacket. Spotting to the book block edges and the prelims. Very good .

New Shelley Letters

Scott, W. S. (Ed) · 1948 · The Glass Key

£27.00 (€32.37 | $35.68 | ¥5,698)

London, Bodley Head, 1948. First printing of this edition. Hardcover. First impression. 8vo. Pp 167 + 8pp b&w plates. Grey cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy in unclipped dust jacket. The protected dust jacket is a little rubbed...

Nancy Blackett under sail with Arthur Ransome.

Wardale, Roger · 1991 · Aucott & Thomas

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is rubbed at the edges. 272 pages, photos on plates, illustrations in the text, bibliography, index. Very Good in Very Good ...

Cushing of Boston: A Candid Portrait

Joseph Dever · 1965 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Boston, Bruce Humphries, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 287p. Ex-library, original binding. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. A hardcover book in good reading condition with dustjacket. Small pieces of tape on edges of cover. Stamps, call number, and card pocket inside...

Winter Music: A Life of Jessica Powers: Poet, Nun, Woman of the 20th Century

Dolores R. Leckey · 1992 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Kansas City, MO, Sheed & Ward, 1992. Paperback. 172p. A glossy softcover ex-library book in original binding. Label on spine. Label on rear endpaper and stamp on title page. Otherwise, very good condition with text clean and binding tight. Good .

A Broken Journey. Memoir of Mrs Beatty, Wife of Rev. William Beatty. (Indian Missionary).

REA, MRS GEORGE .T. [SARA REA]. · 1894 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London: James Nisbet & Co, 1894. 1st edition. Memoir of Mrs Beatty, Wife of Rev. William Beatty, Lost in the S.S. "Roumania", October 1892. Written using letters and journals provided by her bereaved husband. Pp.xvi/184/8(publisher's catalogue), portrait frontispiece + 8 furth...

Rural Roots: The Trials and Triumphs of a Back-to-the-Lander

De Candole, Richard · 2009 · Rainy Day Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Book Very Good. Self Published Very clean tight copy, signed by the author.

No Fixed Address - Offshore Adventures of Nuthin Wong

Hamman, A. Clive · 0 · Rainy Day Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Book Good. No publishing information stated. Light wear.

From Forecastle to Academy: Sailor and Artist; Autobiography by Lars Gustaf Sellstedt

SELLSTEDT, LARS GUSTAF · 1904 · Round Table Books, LLC

$200.00 (€181.45 | £151.36 | ¥31,941)

Buffalo, NY: The Matthews-Northrup Works, 1904. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Lars Gustaf Sellstedt. Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, photographic paste-down on cover, t.e.g, fore and bottom edges deckle, brown endpapers. Generou...

Santa Anna: The Napoleon of the West

HANIGHEN, FRANK C. · 1934 · Round Table Books, LLC

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

NY: Coward-McCann, Inc, (1934). 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full beige cloth, red lettering on spine, red and green medallion on cover, fore-edge deckle, maps on endpapers. Illustratedwith 12 photographs, maps, prints, and cartoons. Spine mildly sunned...

Son of Woman: The Story of D.H. Lawrence

Murry, John Middleton · 1931 · The Glass Key

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London & Toronto, Jonathan Cape, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. First impression. 8vo. Pp 397 + frontis & 7pp plates. Publisher's original black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy without dust jacket. Printed advertisement for ...

The Letters of D.H. Lawrence: Edited with an Introduction by Aldous Huxley

Lawrence, D. H. · 1962 · The Glass Key

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

London, Heinemann, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Edited by Aldous Huxley. 8vo. Pp xxxiv + 889. Brown cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine and upper panel. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy without dust jacket. Very Good .

The Collected Letters of D.H. Lawrence: Volume Two

Lawrence, D. H. · 1962 · The Glass Key

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

London, Heinemann, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Edited by Harry T. Moore. 8vo. Pp 639 - 1307. Brown cloth boards stamped in gilt on a black panel on the spine. Name of ownership neatly stamped on the front free endpaper else a clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy in uncli...