Biografia

Leaders of Men, or History Told in Biography [Young Folks Library, Volume XIX]

HARPER, WILLIAM RAINEY (EDITOR); THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF · 1902 · Clausen Books

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

Boston, Hall and Locke Company. 1902, Third Edition. Half Leather, Cloth Sides, 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Ill.: Six Color Plates; 105 Black and White Drawings. Hardcover, Young Folks Library, Vol XIX only; Gently aged endpapers, else textblock very clean and tight; Top edge...

Trading for Milady's Furs: In the Service of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1923-1943

Milne, Jack · 1975 · Rainy Day Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Ex-Library Good Good Western Producer Prairie Books Canada Usual library marks, light overall wear.

I Was Winston Churchill's Private Secretary

Moir, Phyllis · 1941 · Rainy Day Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Book Good No Jacket Wilfred Funk Reprint. Light stain affects all of the endpapers, and inside the back cover. Red boards are very lightly soiled, corners bumped.

My Adventures As an Illustrator

ROCKWELL, NORMAN; TOM ROCKWELL · 1995 · Round Table Books, LLC

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1995. 0810925966. First Edition. First Printing. Soft Cover. ISBN: 0810925966. Illustrated by Norman Rockwell. In this autobiography, Norman Rockwell describes his early struggles to become an artist: his rising career as a popular illustrator of magazines...

La 628-E8

MIRBEAU, OCTAVE · 1907 · Round Table Books, LLC

$200.00 (€181.45 | £151.36 | ¥31,941)

Paris: Bibliotheque-Charpentier, 1907. Second Edition. First Printing. Leather. Quarter bound in burgundy morocco over marbled boards, spine in five compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering on red label on one compartment, marbled endpapers. Small bookseller's la...

Mijn steeg in Teheran (1953, gezien door de ogen van een kind)

Shirazi, Manny / Luyten/Rouws, vert.E-N. · 0 · Kastenvol

€4.50 ($4.96 | £3.75 | ¥792)

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No Bootstraps When You're Barefoot: My Rise from a Jamaican Plantation Shack to the Boardrooms of Bay Street

Hall, Wes · 2022 · Rainy Day Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Book Good Very Good Random House Canada Almost half the pages are wavy along the bottom, the last 15 more so, due to some sort of liquid damage.

An Elderly Eclectic Gentleman

Warren, Jim · 2011 · Rainy Day Books

$39.00 (€35.38 | £29.52 | ¥6,229)

Book Very Good. FriesenPress Very clean tight copy. Gift inscription by the author.

Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage

Jonny Steinberg · 2023 · Denton Island Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

William Collins, 2023. First Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition/Near Fine. 9780008353780 First Edition, first printing. Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages, a few shallow indent marks and light creasing to front of jacket. From one of South Africa’s foremost nonfiction writers,...

The 'New' Lloyd George and the Old.

Walters, E W · 1916 · Hessay Books

£17.50 (€20.98 | $23.12 | ¥3,693)

Joseph Johnson, 1111. First Edition. Hard Cover, Probably published in 1916. 231pp, hand cut edges, Dark green cloth covered boards with gilt title. Frontispiece portrait of Lloyd George. A couple of spots of foxing to the edges, otherwise internally clean. A biography of Lloy...

The Bach Mai Hospital Project

BARTECCHI, CARL E. · 2013 · Clausen Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Bennington, VT, Merriam Press. 2013, First Edition. (ISBN: 9781482759273). Wraps, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: B&W Photographs. Paperback, Author's ink signature and inscription on title page, textblock very clean and very tight; Lightly corner worn; 144p. including append...

Soc Trang: A Vietnamese Odyssey

BARTECCHI, CARL E.; FOREWORD BY GENERAL WILLIAM C. WESTMORELAND · 1983 · Clausen Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Boulder, CO, Rocky Mountain Writers Guild. 1983, Second Printing. (ISBN: 093705030X). Wraps, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: B&W Photographs. Paperback, Author's ink signature and inscription on title page; Light crease to bottom corners, else textblock clean and very tight; ...

I Never Sold My Saddle

TYSON, IAN; WITH COLIN ESCOTT · 1994 · Clausen Books

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.19 | ¥10,381)

Salt Lake City, UT, Gibbs-Smith Publishers. 1994, First Edition/1st Printing. (ISBN: 0879056134). Boards, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ill.: B&W Photographs/Music. Hardcover, Beautiful, gift quality copy, appears unread in a bright and tight textblock, includes b&w photographs a...

Hero of the Air: Glenn Curtiss and the Birth of Naval Aviation

TRIMBLE, WILLIAM F. · 2010 · Clausen Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Annapolis, Maryland, Naval Institute Press. 2010, 2nd Printing. (ISBN: 9781591148791). Boards, 8vo - over 7 " - 9 " tall. Ill.: B&W Photographs. Hardcover, Gift quality copy, textblock is very clean and tight. Slight bump at head and foot of the spine. Unclipped dust jacket, m...

Charles A. Lindbergh: Autobiography of Values

LINDBERGH, CHARLES A.; JOVANOVICH, WILLIAM (EDITOR); SCHIFF, JUDITH A. (COEDITOR) · 1978 · Clausen Books

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1978, First Edition/2nd Printing. (ISBN: 0151102023). Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Photographs. Hardcover, Textblock very clean and tight, blue end papers, photographs. Couple spots along top edge;. Sunned bottom edges, light bumping t...

Lindbergh [Pulitzer Prize Winner]

BERG, A. SCOTT · 1999 · Clausen Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Berkley Books. 1999, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0425170411). Wraps, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: B&W Photographs. Paperback, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Rippled bottom edge, else textblock is clean and tight, b&w photographs. No remainder marks. Creased corners, reading cr...

Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero

MATTHEWS, CHRIS · 2011 · Clausen Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Simon & Schuster. 2011, First Edition/1st Printing. (ISBN: 9781451635089). Quarter Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: B&W Photographs. Hardcover, Gift quality copy, textblock immaculate and tight, b&w photographs. Quarter cloth minimally edge rubbed. Unclipped dust ja...

Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers

HOWARD, FRED · 1988 · Clausen Books

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

NY, Ballantine Books. 1988, First Ballantine Books Ed./1st Printing. (ISBN: 0345353935). Wraps, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: B&W Photographs. Paperback, Textblock is very clean and tight, b&w photographs. All edges are straight and sound. Minor creasing to the corners and ...

Still Life. Sketches from a Tunbridge Wells Childhood.

COBB, RICHARD. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press, 1983. 0701126957. Reprint with corrections and including the poem "A Bouquet for Tunbridge Wells" by the author's friend John Hall. "A book about growing up in a prosperous community in the south-east of England in the twenties and ...

Bimbashi McPherson. A Life in Egypt.

CARMAN, BARRY AND MCPHERSON, JOHN. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

London: BBC, 1983. 0563201347. "Joseph McPherson, a classical scholar with an Oxford degree in Natural Sciences, a linguist, athlete and determined individualist, arrived in Egypt in 1901. He fell in love with the country, its people and customs and stayed there until his deat...