Biografia

Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders

DRENNAN, WILLIAM R. · 2007 · Clausen Books

$8.95 (€8.12 | £6.77 | ¥1,429)

Madison, WI, Terrace Books. 2007, 5th Printing. (ISBN: 0299222101). Wraps, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: B&W Photographs. Paperback, Minor fold to the corners, else textblock is very clean and tight; Minor shelf wear; Reading crease along the spine, creased corners. 218pp. ...

Giambattista Bodoni: His Life and His World

Valerie Lester · 2015 · Denton Island Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

David R. Godine, 2015. First Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9781567925289 Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages, slight wear to jacket. This is the first English-language biography of the relentlessly ambitious and incomparably talented printer Giambattista Bodoni (1740...

A Rope in Case

LILLIAN, BECKWITH · 1968 · The Old Bookshelf, UK

£6.95 (€8.33 | $9.18 | ¥1,466)

United Kingdom: Hutchinson, 1968. First Edition; 2nd Impression. Hardcover. Illustrated by Douglas Hall. Very Good 1969 2nd Impression hardcover (stated) in Fair dustjacket. Clean green cloth boards.bumped to spine ends and lightly rubbed to lower corners. Fore-edge lightly fo...

J.R. R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle Earth: A Biography

GROTTA-KURSKA, DANIEL · 1981 · Clausen Books

$7.95 (€7.21 | £6.02 | ¥1,270)

NY, Warner Books. 1981, 5th Printing. (ISBN: 0446301116). Wraps, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ill.: The Bros. Hilderbrandt (cover art). Paperback, Textblock is very clean and tight. All edges yellow. Illustrated front cover, usual wear to the edges/spine/corners. 253pp. includi...

Richard Hillary

Lovat Dickson · 1951 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

MacMillan and Co Limited, London, 1951. Reprint, Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Maroon cloth covers are a little marked and faded. Corners and spine ends are rubbed. Light foxing to end-papers and prelims. Pages are otherwise clean and free from annotation. Sound bi...

Ernest Renan

Lewis Freeman Mott · 1921 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

D Appleton and Company, New York; London, 1921. First Edition, Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Darkened blue covers with gilt lettering, rubbed edges, wear on spine-ends and corners, split to webbing between title-page and frontis but binding is otherwise sound, clea...

The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer

WERT, JEFFRY D. · 1996 · Clausen Books

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

NY, Simon and Schuster. 1996, Reprint. Boards, 8vo - Over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Hardcover, Textblock is very clean and tight. Covers slightly edge and corner worn and rubbed. Dust jacket lightly edge and corner rubbed. 462p. including index. Very Good+/Very Good (in mylar).

A Middy's Recollections. 1853-1860.

MONTAGU, VICTOR ALEXANDER. · 1900 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1900. Memoir of Rear-Admiral the Honourable Victor Alexander Montagu. Montagu entered the Royal Navy as a cadet at the age of 11. He served in the Crimean War (1832–56), seeing action in the Baltic campaign and in the Black Sea. Montagu survived...

Memorials of Samuel Gurney.

GELDART, MRS THOMAS. · 1857 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London: W. and F.G. Cash, 1857. 1st edition. Memoir of the English banker and philanthropist from the Quaker, Gurney family, of Norwich. He was the brother of the social reformer and philanthropist Elizabeth Fry. Pp.viii/156/24 (publisher's catalogue), portrait engraved fronti...

Friedrich Engels der Denker: Aufsatze aus der Grossen Sowjet-Enzyklopaedie - Hauptdaten aus dem Leben - Blbliographie

Red. · 1945 · Kastenvol

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Mundus,Basel - Erbe und Gegenwart - zum 50.Todestag 5.August 1945, 1945,367pp., zw.w.portret voorin, 17,5x11cm.,geb.harde kaft, stofomslag, goed, licht vergeeld

Caroline Courtier The Life of Lord Cottington.

Havran, Martin J · 1973 · Hessay Books

£4.50 (€5.39 | $5.94 | ¥949)

Macmillan, 1973. First Edition. Hard Cover, With an Introduction by A L Rowse. 232pp, complete dustjacket with a crease to the front bottom edge. Frontispiece portrait. Previous owner's name to the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. Francis Cottingham (1579 - 1652) raised hi...

The Way We Wore: A Life in Clothes. Inscribed by author.

Daphne Selfe · 2015 · Denton Island Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Macmillan, 2015. First Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition/Near Fine. 9781447291916 Inscribed by Author. Inscribed by author: " To Rowan, best wishes from Daphne, 6-12-15". Clean unmarked pages, light creasing to jacket at top of spine. The inspirational memoir from Britain's o...

Einstein: The Life and Times

CLARK, RONALD W. · 1971 · Round Table Books, LLC

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York and Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1971. Book Club Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Bound in publisher's full gray cloth, gilt (black) lettering on spine, red printed endpapers, top edge green. Illustrated with 16 pages of B&W photographs. Includes Sourc...

Roots Schmoots: Journeys Among Jews

JACOBSON, HOWARD · 1994 · Round Table Books, LLC

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1994. 087951521X. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 087951521X. Quarter bound in black cloth over gray boards, gilt lettering on spine, publisher's blind-stamped medallion on cover.. There is a crease on page 43, else unmarked, tight, square and ...

My First Forty Years

DOMINGO, PLACIDO · 1983 · Round Table Books, LLC

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. 0394523296. First American Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0394523296. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over gray boards, gilt lettering on spine and cover, fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with 70 B&W photographs. The volume is in pe...

Field Notes

Hames, Jack · 1990 · Rainy Day Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Book Good. Gertrude Hames Canada Signed by the author, as well as other name printed inside. Light wear. Two copies available.

Raymond Williams

Fred Inglis · 1998 · Denton Island Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Routledge, 1998. Softcover. Fine Condition. 9780415187169 Clean and bright, firmly bound, flat uncreased covers. `... a useful introduction to the ideas which exercised the Welsh-man and made him one of the leading figures on the British Left, relating them to the facts of his...

Letters of Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

SPURGEON, CHARLES HADDON / MURRAY, IAIN. (EDITOR). · 1992 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1992. 0851516068. "In this fine selection of letters to young and old, to members of his congregation and strangers, to colleagues and fellow-pastors, we are given a glimpse of Spurgeon as his friends must have known him: full of life; ful...

The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson volumes II, III & IV

Stevenson, Robert Louis - Edited By Sidney Colvin · 1911 · De Alkenaer

€38.75 ($42.71 | £32.33 | ¥6,820)

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1911 382+392+417 p.., hardcover, lichte schade rug, in redelijk goede staat, met goud op snede.. per stuk €14,75.

Alexander Cohen. Uiterst links & rechts. Journalistiek werk (2 delen)

Spoor, R. · 1980 · De Alkenaer

€6.75 ($7.44 | £5.63 | ¥1,188)

De Engelbewaarder, Amsterdam, 1980 200+232 p., Softcover, goed.