Biografia

Charles Dickens.

Pope-Hennessy, Una · 1947 · Hessay Books

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

The Reprint Society, 1947. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 496 pp, brown boards, the front one slightly marked, red leather label, b + w illustrations. Internally clean. A biography of the author of 'Oliver Twist' etc... Very Good /No Jacket.

Nijinsky.

Nijinsky, Romola · 1936 · Hessay Books

£4.50 (€5.39 | $5.94 | ¥949)

Gollancz, 1936. Hard Cover, 6th impression. A biography of the dancer by his wife. 416 pp, cloth covered boards, faded to spine, home made dustjacket. B + w photographs. Front gutter worn, otherwise internally clean... Good /No Jacket.

Wilfred Grenfell

MOORE, TOM · 1980 · The Old Bookshelf, UK

£9.95 (€11.93 | $13.14 | ¥2,099)

Canada: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 0889026777. Good 1980 paperback lightly bumped to extremities with some light foxing and damp staining to covers. Edges lightly foxed. Internally, some light foxing to inside covers. Clean, bright pages. ...

Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work

DeSalvo, Louise · 1990 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

New York, Ballantine, 1990. First printing of this edition. Paperback. First printing of this 8vo paperback edition. Pp xxii + 372. Name of ownership on the inside of the upper wrapper else a clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. Near Fine .

Former Naval Person Churchill and the Wars at Sea

HOUGH, RICHARD · 1985 · The Old Bookshelf, UK

£5.95 (€7.13 | $7.86 | ¥1,255)

United Kingdom: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0297787063. Very Good 1st Edition hardcover in Good dustjacket. Clean blue cloth boards bumped to spine head and upper corners. Gilt titles bright. Internally, no writing or stamps. Clean, bright page...

Beaumarchais, a Biography

LEVER, MAURICE; SUSAN EMANUEL (TRANSLATED BY) · 2009 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2009, First American Edition. (ISBN: 9780374113285). Cloth, 8vo. 411 pages. Author of The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro, also an inventor, entrepreneur, musician, dramatist, diplomat, spy, fighter, confidant of kings, a patro...

A Book of Hours: Music, Literature, and Life. A Memoir

LEE, M. OWEN · 2004 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, Continuum. 2004, First Edition. (ISBN: 0826415865). Cloth, 8vo. 284 pages. A fascinating memoir. Perhaps it should be first read by students who are just moving-up from high school. Lee's teaching in Rome, his love of opera and his travel to opera hotspots; his imagi...

St. Philip Neri

JOUHANDEAU, MARCEL; GEORGE LAMB (TRANSLATED) · 1960 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

London, Longmans. 1960, First Thus. Glossy Printed Boards, 7"x 5". 129 pages. The author, "I am no historian. All I shall try to do is to give some sense of the exceptional being St. Philip was, and to make him palpable.." "With his character and teaching, he left a great name...

Paris Salons, Cafés, Studios

HUDDLESTON, SISLEY · 1928 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

New York, Blue Ribbon Books. 1928. Orange cloth, 8vo. 366 pages. Memoir post-World War I. First person narratives of luncheons, cocktails, time spent with every notable writer, painter, journalist who lived in or passed through Paris and other parts of France. Clean throughout...

The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece

SIBLIN, ERIC · 2009 · Ultramarine Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

New York, Atlantic Monthly Press. 2009. (ISBN: 9780802119292). Paper boards, 8vo. 319 pages. Bach's cello suites written in early 18th-century; Casals finds the compositions and brings them to fame late 19th-century. Includes a good deal of European history and biography. Deep...

Lives and Letters: A.R. Orage, Beatrice Hastings, Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry, S.S. Koteliansky - 1906-1957

CARSWELL, JOHN · 1978 · Ultramarine Books

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

New York, A New Directions Book. 1978, First Edition. (ISBN: 0811206815). Brown cloth, 8vo. 307 pages; b&w illustrations. Memoir of a literary freelancer and of freelancers with whom he kept company. Clean throughout; tight binding. Fine/No Jacket.

Conversations with Willie: Recollections of W. Somerset Maugham

MAUGHAM, ROBIN · 1978 · Ultramarine Books

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

New York, Simon and Schuster. 1978, First Edition. (ISBN: 0671240463). quarter cloth / paper boards, 8vo. 188 pages; b&w photo illustrations. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Fine/Fine.

Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte

DA PONTE, LORENZO; ELISABETH ABBOTT (TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN); ARTHUR LIVINGSTON (EDITED AND ANNOTATED); THOMAS G. BERGIN (PREFACE) · 1959 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York, The Orion Press. 1959. Embossed Quarter Cloth, 10" x 7". 277 pages; 25 b&w illustrations. "Mozart's librettist (and friend), Casanova's friend, the first Professor of Italian Literature at Columbia University." Reads like a novel with a stream of characters and place...

It's All in the Music

MONTEUX, DORIS G. · 1965 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1965, First Printing. Cloth, 8vo. 272 pages; b&w photographs. Written by his wife, the life of a conductor of the Metropolitan Opera, the Boston Symphony Orhestra, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the London Symphony Orchestra where he rece...

Jacks or Better

MATTHEWS, T.S. · 1977 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, Harper & Row. 1977, First Edition. (ISBN: 0060128429). Cloth, 8vo. 354 pages. The narrative of six people, including Matthews, who when young project can't-miss futures. The author surveys their lives decades later; the early projections largely miss the mark. Clean ...

Misia

GOLD, ARTHUR; ROBERT FIZDALE · 1981 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, Morrow Quill Paperbacks. 1981, First Paperback Edition. (ISBN: 0688003951). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Large 8vo. 338 pages; well illustrated, color and b&w. The wife, muse, sponsor. Perhaps the personification of Art Nouveau. "Her greatest talent - she was a pia...

An Uncommon Woman, the Empress Frederick, Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm

PAKULA, HANNAH · 1995 · Ultramarine Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

New York, Simon & Schuster. 1995. (ISBN: 0684842165). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), thick 8vo. 701 pages; 88 b&w illustrations, mostly photos. Born to Queen Victoria in 1840 she lived the remaining half of the 19th-century married into the German royal family. She battled ant...

How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood

MANN, WILLIAM J. · 2009 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2009, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780547134642). Cloth, 8vo. 484 pages; numerous b&w photo-illustrations. The author also wrote "Kate" ; he had access to private papers of Mike Todd, Hedda Hopper and other Hollywood personalities and confidants of...

John Curry

MONEY, KEITH · 1978 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf. 1978, First American Edition. (ISBN: 0394501349). quarter-cloth & marbled boards, 4to. 224 pages; numerous photo-illustrations. A biography rich with full-page photos of Curry. Inscribed by Curry on the front free endpaper. Spine lightly faded; corne...

Sky Hooks, the Autobiography of John Kane

KANE, JOHN; FRANK CROWNINSHIELD (FOREWORD) (MARIE MCSWIGAN) · 1938 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company. 1938, First Edition. Cloth, 4to. 196 pages; color frontispiece (self portrait), 22 b&w reproductions, 4 photographs. Autobiography but "as told to" Marie McSwigan, who has no credit on the title page. A man whose life wasa hardscrabble af...