Biografia

Equiano's Travels - His Autobiography: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African

EQUIANO, OLAUDAH · 1994 · The Glass Key

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

London, Heinemann Educational, 1994. Later printing. Paperback. 8th printing of this mass market paperback edition. Abridged and Edited by Paul Edwards. Name of ownership on the inside of the upper wrapper else a clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. Very Good + .

Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer's Workbook

FINDLEY, TIMOTHY · 1990 · The Glass Key

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Toronto, HarperCollins, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. First impression. 8vo. Pp 325. Quarter bound in burgundy cloth stamped on the spine with sides of black paper boards. Signed by the author on the title page else a clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy in an unclipped du...

Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev

DESSAIX, ROBERT · 2004 · The Glass Key

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Sydney, Picador Australia, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. First impression. 8vo. Pp 275. Glazed printed paper boards. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy without dust jacket (as issued?).. Near Fine .

Kenneth Tynan Letters

TYNAN, KATHLEEN (ED) · 1995 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Minerva, 1995. First printing of this edition. Paperback. First printing of this 8vo paperback edition. Pp xvi + 669 + 16pp b&w photographs. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. Very Good + .

Bernard Shaw: Volume 1 1856-1898 the Search for Love

HOLROYD, MICHAEL · 1988 · The Glass Key

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. First impression. 8vo. Pp viii + 486 + 32pp monochrome halftone photographs. Black cloth boards with the title stamped in gilt on a green panel on the spine. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy in a bright, unclippe...

A Poacher's Tale.

SPEAKMAN, FRED J. AND CURTIS, ALFRED T. · 1960 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: G.Bell and Sons Ltd, 1960. 1st edition. "The life-story of an Essex poacher as told by himself to Fred J.Speakman. Alfred Thomas Curtis was born of a line of poachers into a poaching family..The book is full of exploits and the wisdom they brought.." Pp.x/189, owner's ...

I Remember

BRAINARD, JOE · 1995 · Citynightsbooks

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.70 | ¥15,969)

E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A. Penguin USA. 1995, First Edition. (ISBN: 0140245219). Soft Cover. Book, First pb printing. Includes an Afterword by Ron Padgett. Unread, as new with light shelfwear, tiny bump at bafck cover foreedge. Scarce. 146 pp.

A Wider World: Portraits in an Adolescence

SIMON, KATE · 1986 · Citynightsbooks

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. HarperCollins. 1986, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0060155264). Hardcover. Book, Second printing. Blue cloth binding, gilt titles. NYC in the 1930s by the author of Bronx Primitive, of which is it somewhat a continuation. Book near fine with fading to clot...

The Trials of Radclyffe Hall

SOUHAMI, DIANA · 1999 · Citynightsbooks

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

New York, New York, U.S.A. Doubleday & Co. 1999, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0385489412). Hardcover. Book, First printing. A definitive biography with Chapter Notes, Index. Center photo supplement on coated paper. Book unread, as new. DJ near new with pinhole at spine. 458 pp. Fine/Fine.

King's Day

PORTER, T.E. · 1975 · Citynightsbooks

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Mulch Press. 1975, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0913142131). Soft Cover. First printing (NP). An account off a Depression-era hog slaughtering event in Florida, illustrated with B&W reproductions of photographs by Dorothea Lange, John Collier and others. Book very good with edge soil a...

Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom 1940--1945

BURNS, JAMES MACGREGOR · 1970 · Citynightsbooks

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1970, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0151788715). Hardcover. Stated first edition. Red cloth, gilt/blindstamp titles. Center B&W photo supplement on coated paper. Bibliography/boklist at end. Book unread and very good but for owner's felt-tipped 2x3 block to fr...

Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

JACKSON, GEORGE · 1970 · Citynightsbooks

$750.00 (€680.50 | £567.73 | ¥119,766)

Coward McCann, Inc. 1970, 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition (NAP). Black cloth, gilt titles, B&W photo endsheets. With an Introduction by Jean Genet. One of the most iconic and formative books of its time. His letters to friends and family are extraordinary in their range ...

Recollections of My Life as a Woman

DI PRIMA, DIANE · 2001 · Citynightsbooks

$150.00 (€136.10 | £113.55 | ¥23,953)

Viking Press. 2001, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0140231587). Hardcover. First printing. Flatsigned on title page. Subtitled The New York Years (1950s) . Book unread, near fine with a couple of light edge marks. DJ near fine. 423 pp. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Author.

Meatless Days

SULARI, SARA · 1989 · Citynightsbooks

$65.00 (€58.98 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Univ. Chicago. 1989, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0226779807). Hardcover. First printing. Red cloth, gilt titles. A memoir of growing up in post-Colonial Pakistan as the child of a Welch mother and a Pakistani father. Book unread, near new. DJ likewise near new. 186 pp. Near Fine/Near ...

Meatless Days

SULERI, SARA · 1989 · Citynightsbooks

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Univ of Chicago Pr. 1989, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0226779807). Hardcover. Red cloth, gilt titles. First printing of the first US edition. In this memoir, the author recounts growing up during Pakistan's struggle for independence and its impact on her Wels...

Albert Einstein

BECKHARD, ARTHUR · 1960 · John Thompson Books

CA$5.50 (€3.50 | $3.85 | £2.92 | ¥615)

Canada, Avon. 1960, 1st Printing. Paperback. Solid with light wear on the covers. Very Good.

A brief account of the Skipwiths of Newbold, Metheringham and Prestwould.

SKIPWITH, Fulmar (Compiler). · 1867 · John Turton

£46.40 (€55.62 | $61.30 | ¥9,788)

Tunbridge Wells: William Brackett, printer, 1867 for private circulation only. 21cm. [4], 46pp, 4 folding pedigrees. Original decorated green cloth gilt. Genealogical tables spotted o/w a very good copy. Author's presentation inscription to front free endpaper recto.

The Luck of the Nine! Reminiscenses of a Varied Life.

HAMMOND, L.W. · 1997 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Little Waldingfield: Printed and published by the author, 1997. Author's memoir, including memories of his wartime in the Merchant Navy. Pp.104. Red card cover bound with a plastic spine and clear plastic to front and spine. G+.

Spinoza. Bildnis eines geistigen Helden

KAYSER, RUDOLF · 1932 · Antiquariaat Livia

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Wien - Leipzig, Phaidon-Verlag, 1932. Hardcover (leinen). 315 Seiten. Schwarz / Weiss-Abbildungen. Conditie: Gut. mit 24 Kupfertiefdruckbildern.

Audrey Hepburn

PARIS, BARRY · 1996 · Antiquariaat Livia

€18.00 ($19.84 | £15.02 | ¥3,168)

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1996. Hardcover, met stofomslag. 452 pp. Black & White images. ISBN/EAN: 0399140565. Conditie: Good, first end paper missing, comes with the author's business card.