Biografia

Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes

TIMMONS, BASCOM N. · 1953 · Round Table Books, LLC

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

NY: Henry Holt & Company, 1953. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full brick cloth, gilt lettering on brown panels on spine and cover. Illustrated with photographs. The story of General Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States, Nobel Pe...

Chopin Among Artists and Scholars

Jerzy Miziolek, Hubert Kowalski · 2010 · Denton Island Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

University of Warsaw, 2010. First Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages. When speaking about Fryderyk Chopin (1810- 49), we tend to think of Zelazowa Wola, where he was born, of no. 12 Place Vendôme in Paris, where he spent the last months of h...

Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens SIGNED

Eddie Izzard · 2017 · Denton Island Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,643)

Michael Joseph, 2017. First Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition/Very Good. 9780718181727 Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages, small smudge mark to side closed page block; moderate creasing to upper edge of jacket, slightly worn"signed copy...

Becoming Judy Chicago

Gail Levin · 2007 · Denton Island Books

£19.00 (€22.78 | $25.11 | ¥4,010)

Crown Publishing, 2007. First Edition, Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. 9781400054121 Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages, 1" stain mark to upper closed page block (external); small stain to rear of jacket. A provocative portrait of the controversial multimedia artist ...

Bismarck

CRANKSHAW, EDWARD · 1981 · Round Table Books, LLC

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

NY: Viking Adult, 1981. 067016982X. 1st Edition. Second Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 067016982X. First Edition, Second Printing. Quarter bound in publisher's brown cloth over tan boards, gilt lettering on spine, author's initials, gilt, on cover, brown endpapers. Illustrated wi...

Heerser zonder kroon. Roman over het leven van Struensee, de lijfarts van koningin Caroline mathilde van Denemarken

Maass, Edgar / Crom, J.Wim, Ned.bew. · 0 · Kastenvol

€6.50 ($7.16 | £5.42 | ¥1,144)

Stok ZHU, Den Haag- Cultuur serie, z.j., 422pp., zw.w. filmfoto's, geb.hardcover, zeer goed.

His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra

KELLEY, KITTY · 1986 · Round Table Books, LLC

$80.00 (€72.58 | £60.54 | ¥12,776)

NY: Bantam, 1986. 0553051377. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0553051377. First Edition, First Printing. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over gray boards, white lettering on spine. Illustrated with B&W photographs. Both the volume and the unclipped ($21...

Mendelssohn Remembered

NICHOLS, ROGER. · 1997 · Horsham Rare Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London: Faber & Faber, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. ISBN: 057117860X. Fine dark green cloth hard back with a fine unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions or marks. ; Black & white illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 258 pages. Fine in Fine dust jacket .

Kaddish

Wieseltier, Leon · 1998 · The Glass Key

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

New York, Knopf, 1998. Later printing. Hardcover. 4th impression. 8vo. Pp xi + 588. Green paper boards stamped in silver on the spine. Previous owner's initials neatly in ink on the front free endpaper else a clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy in an unclipped dust jacket. ...

Stand Tall, My Son

Clutesi, George · 1990 · The Glass Key

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Victoria B.C. Newport Bay Publishing, 1990. First Edition. Paperback. First printing of this trade paperback edition. Pp 176 including 6pp in colour. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. Very good .

A KNIGHT TO REMEMBER A Tribute To The Late Sir Louis Sterling Souvenir Programme

1962 · Dodman Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, The British Technion Society, Souvenir Programme from an event at the National Sporting Club celebrating the life of Sir Louis Sterling, record company magnate and leading figure among British jewry. The event was organised in 1962, four years after Sterling's death, t...

ROMMEL.

Douglas-Home, Charles (intro. Lord Chalfont), · 1975 · A Book for all Reasons

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,161)

Futura, London, 1975, 1st in imprint, paperback, 143pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., maps/diagrams in text, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, ex-school library, a biography of the German army commander Erwin Rommel, from his early days in the infantry in 1910 to WW1 and his tr...

CHESHIRE V.C. - A Story of War and Peace.

Braddon, Russell, · 1972 · A Book for all Reasons

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Arrow, ondon, 1972, reissued edn., paperback, 191pp, [i] ads., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, Group Captain Leonard Cheshire was one of the major innovative flying brains of Bomber Command, serving with 102 squadron and in command of 76 and 617 squadrons, he introduced low...

1943 - THE VICTORY THAT NEVER WAS.

Grigg, John, · 1980 · A Book for all Reasons

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Eyre Methuen, London, 1980, 1st edn., 255pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., 3 maps in text, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, an examination of WW2 from Pearl Harbor, of the relationship between Roosevelt and Churchill and a re-appraisal ...

MOST OF MY LIFE.

Harvie-Watt, G. S., · 1980 · A Book for all Reasons

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Springwood Books, 1980, 1st edn., 263pp, 12pp half tone ills.,dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, Member of Parliament and barrister, he was Winston Churchill's Parliamentary Private Secretary for four years from 1941-45 and his memoirs gi...

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LORD MOUNTBATTEN.

Terraine, John, · 1971 · A Book for all Reasons

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,161)

Arrow Books, London, 1971, 2nd imp., paperback, 256pp, 32 pp half tone photo ills., coloured photo-pictorial upper wrapper, tv tie-in with Rediffusion Television's production of the same name, an illustrated biography from childhood to retirement, including brief details of H...

BOMBER HARRIS : HIS LIFE AND TIMES.

Probert, Air Commodore Henry, MBE MA, · 2003 · A Book for all Reasons

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Greenhill Books, London, 2003, paperback, 432pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., 5 maps and 4 charts in text, coloured photo pictorial upper wrapper, described as the definitive biography of Sir Arthur Harris the author describes Harris's life from youth in Rhodesia to fighting i...

MACARTHUR.

Mayer, Sydney L., · 1973 · A Book for all Reasons

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Pan / Ballantine, London, 1973, 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, maps, line ill. and numerous half tone ills. in text. coloired photo pictorial wrappers, in the Pan/Ballantine series 'History of World War ll - War Leaders' book No. 3, an account of the military life of Do...

CHURCHILL.

Mason, David, · 1973 · A Book for all Reasons

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Pan/Ballantine, London, 1973, 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, numerous half tone photo ills. and maps in text, coloured photo pictorial wrappers, in the Pan/Ballantine series 'History of World War ll', War Leader Book No. 9, an acc...

BOMBER HARRIS - The Story of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris, Bt, GCB, OBE, AFC, LLD, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (sic), Bomber Command, 1942-1945.

Saward, Dudley, · 1984 · A Book for all Reasons

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Cassell - Buchan and Enright, London, 1984 1st edn., 347pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, coloured endpapers, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, the authorised biography of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris and...