Biografia

The Sea Dreamer: A Definitive Biography of Joseph Conrad

Jean-Aubry, Gerard · 1957 · Round Table Books, LLC

$100.00 (€90.68 | £75.70 | ¥15,971)

Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Doubleday & Company Stated First Edition. First Printing Stated first edition, first printing (first edition in English). Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Translated from the French by Helen Sebba. NB: The Sea Dreamer: A...

Untitled: The Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor. Signed copy

Pasternak, Anna · 2019 · Barter Books Ltd

£28.00 (€33.54 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

VG : in very good condition with creased dust jacket. Pages toned London William Collins First Edition 240mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). 342pp. Signed by the author on the title page.

A Testimonial to Charles J. Paine and Edward Burgess from the City of Boston for Their Successful Defence of the America's Cup

1887 · Clausen Books, RMABA

$75.00 (€68.01 | £56.77 | ¥11,978)

Order of the City Council Former owner's penciled name/date on 2nd ffep, usual aging to the textblock, else clean and tight, decorative end papers, tissue protected plates. All edges have usual age toning/discoloring. Fraying/Bumping to the head and foot of the spine and to th...

Discours de réception à l'Académie française le 18 février

Jean RICHEPIN · 1909 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€300.00 ($330.82 | £250.43 | ¥52,835)

Charpentier et Fasquelle | Paris 1909 | 16 x 20.2 cm | Broché | Edition originale, un des exemplaires imprimés sur japon. Petites déchirures avec légers manques angulaires sur les plats partiellement insolés en leurs marges, une déchirure en pied du dos. Agréable état intérieu...

Voyage inachevé, autobiographie

Yehudi MENUHIN · 1977 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€400.00 ($441.10 | £333.91 | ¥70,447)

Seuil | Paris 1977 | 15.2 x 24 cm | Broché | Edition originale de la traduction française. Dos ridé, quelques traces de pliures sur les plats. Cahier photographique en fin de volume. Envoi autographe signé à pleine page de Yehudi Menuhin à la famille Caron. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPT...

Surviving the Mob _ A Street Soldier's Life Inside the Gambino Crime Family

Griffin, Dennis N.; DiDonato, Andrew · 2010 · San Francisco Book Company

€16.00 ($17.64 | £13.36 | ¥2,818)

Las Vegas, Nevada Huntington Press Paperback Octavo wraps, 265 pp. Very good

Menotti _ A Biography

Gruen, John · 1978 · San Francisco Book Company

€23.00 ($25.36 | £19.20 | ¥4,051)

New York Macmillan Cloth/dust jacket Octavo brown cloth spine, gilt lettering, papered boards, dust jacket unclipped, 242 pp, first edition, dust jacket with minor tears to front cover. Very good good

Ayn Rand and the World She Made

Heller, Anne Conover · 2010 · San Francisco Book Company

€20.00 ($22.05 | £16.70 | ¥3,522)

New York Anchor Books Paperback Octavo wraps, 567 pp, spine worn. Good

Things Near and Far _ Volume Nine of The Caerleon Edition of the Works of Arthur Machen

Machen, Arthur · 1923 · San Francisco Book Company

€35.00 ($38.60 | £29.22 | ¥6,164)

London Martin Secker Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo green cloth, gilt lettering, gilt top edge, 174 pp, The Caerleon Edition of the Works of Arthur Machen, Volume 9, cloth covers damp stained. Good

William and Dorothy Wordsworth _ 'All in Each Other'

Newlyn, Lucy · 2016 · San Francisco Book Company

€17.00 ($18.75 | £14.19 | ¥2,994)

Oxford Oxford University Press Paperback Octavo wraps, 386 pp. Very good

Galileo Antichrist _ A Biography

White, Michael · 2007 · San Francisco Book Company

€25.00 ($27.57 | £20.87 | ¥4,403)

London Weidenfeld & Nicolson Cloth/dust jacket Octavo red cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 284 pp. Very good very good

The Life of Lou Reed _ Notes from the Velvet Underground

Sounes, Howard · 2019 · San Francisco Book Company

€22.00 ($24.26 | £18.37 | ¥3,875)

New York Diversion Books Hardcover/dust jacket Octavo blue boards, black lettering to spine, dust jacket, 377 pp. Very good very good

The House of Mitford

Guinness, Jonathan ; Guinness, Catherine · 1984 · San Francisco Book Company

€23.00 ($25.36 | £19.20 | ¥4,051)

London Hutchinson Cloth/dust jacket Octavo blue cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 604 pp dust jacket slightly worn, cover edges slightly worn. Good good

Memoirs of a Revolutionary _ 1901-1941

Serge, Victor ; Sedgwick (trans, ed) · 1975 · San Francisco Book Company

€18.00 ($19.85 | £15.03 | ¥3,170)

London Oxford University Press Paperback Octavo wraps, 401 pp covers worn, front cover partially separated. Fair

BURN THIS LETTER Love and Trouble in a Marriage of Four

PEDERSEN Susan · 2026 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£14.00 (€16.77 | $18.49 | ¥2,954)

John Murray, 2026. 9781399806220 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original black lettered orange cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (front inside fold creased - otherwise VG). Pp. xix + 328, with b&w illus (no inscriptions).

THE BARD OF COLOUR ROBERT ROSE The Life of a Poet and Activist in the Nineteenth Century

COOPER Glynis · 2026 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£15.00 (€17.97 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Pen & Sword Books, 2026. 9781036110321 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered brown cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. ix + 162, illus with b&w plates (no inscriptions).

BONAPARTE 1769-1802

GUENIFFEY Patrice · 2013 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£30.00 (€35.94 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2013 Rebound paperback edn. Tall 8vo. Rebound in gilt lettered maroon buckram cloth with original pictorial upper cover stuck to rear paste-down (small mark on lower board - otherwise Fine). Pp. 855, illus with coloured plates (previous owner's armor...

MONSIEUR ET MADAME TALLIEN

BOURQUIN Marie-Helene · 1987 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£25.00 (€29.95 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Paris: Librairie Académique Perrin, 1987 Rebound paperback edn. 8vo. Rebound in gilt lettered green buckram cloth (Fine). Pp. 385, illus with b&w plates (no inscriptions). [French text].

MADAME TALLIEN La reine du Directoire 1773-1835

GILLES Christian · 1999 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£25.00 (€29.95 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Biarritz: Atlantica, 1999 Rebound paperback edn. 8vo. Rebound in gilt lettered maroon buckram cloth with original pictorial upper cover stuck to front paste-down (Fine). Pp. 348 (no inscriptions). [French text].

BECOMING GEORGE The Invention of George Sand

SAMPSON Fiona · 2026 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£14.00 (€16.77 | $18.49 | ¥2,954)

Doubleday, 2026. 9781529924336 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. 384 (no inscriptions).