Biografia

Up Close with Lee Kuan Yew _ Insights from colleagues and friends

Yew, Lee Kuan · 2016 · San Francisco Book Company

€16.00 ($17.64 | £13.35 | ¥2,816)

Singapore Marshall Cavendish Paperback Octavo wraps, 328 pp. Very good

History of My Life _ Volumes 1 and 2

Casavnova, Giacomo; Trask, Willard R. (trans) · 1966 · San Francisco Book Company

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,041)

New York Harcourt Brace & World Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo / Slipcase maroon cloth, gilt lettering, slipcase, 330 pp spine lightly sunned. Very good

E.B. White _ A Biography

Elledge, Scott · 1986 · San Francisco Book Company

€18.00 ($19.84 | £15.01 | ¥3,169)

New York Norton Paperback Octavo wraps, 400 pp covers lightly worn. Very good

Madam _ The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age

Applegate, Debby · 2021 · San Francisco Book Company

€27.00 ($29.76 | £22.52 | ¥4,753)

New York Doubleday Cloth/dust jacket Octavo yellow cloth spine, papered boards, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 553 pp. Very good very good

Flaubert _ A Biography

Brown, Frederick · 2006 · San Francisco Book Company

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

New York Little, Brown & Co Hardcover/dust jacket Octavo white papered boards, black lettering, dust jacket, 628 pp. Very good very good

The Peabody Sisters _ Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism

Marshall, Megan · 2006 · San Francisco Book Company

€16.00 ($17.64 | £13.35 | ¥2,816)

Boston Houghton Mifflin Paperback Octavo wraps, 602 pp. Very good

John James Audubon _ The Making of an American

Rhodes Richard · 2006 · San Francisco Book Company

€16.00 ($17.64 | £13.35 | ¥2,816)

New York Vintage/Random House Paperback Octavo Wraps, 511 pp. Very good

St. Michael amd the Dragon _ memoirs of a paratrooper

Leuliette, Pierre: Edmomds, John B. (trans) · 1964 · San Francisco Book Company

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,801)

Boston Houghton Mifflin Cloth/dust jacket Octavo purple cloth, blue lettering, dust jacket unclipped, 334 pp first edition, dj lightly worn on the edges. Very good good

W.C. Fields _ a biography

Curtis, James · 2003 · San Francisco Book Company

€22.00 ($24.25 | £18.35 | ¥3,873)

New York Alfred A Knopf Cloth/dust jacket Octavo black cloth, silver lettering, dust jacket, 593 pp top edge soiled. Very good very good

Young Stalin

Montefiore, Simon Sebag · 2008 · San Francisco Book Company

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London Hachette Paperback Octavo wraps, 442 pp. Very good

Mosaic _ Memoirs

Kirstein, Lincoln · 1994 · San Francisco Book Company

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux Cloth/dust jacket Octavo black cloth, silver lettering, dust jacket, 269 pp dj chipped top of spine spine slightly cocked. Good good

Salvador Dali _ The Surrealist Jester

Secrest, Meryle · 1988 · San Francisco Book Company

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London Paladin Paperback Octavo wraps, 307 pp covers worn on the edges spine creased. Good

E.M. Forster and his world

King, Francis · 1978 · San Francisco Book Company

€18.00 ($19.84 | £15.01 | ¥3,169)

New York Charles Scribner's Sons Cloth/dust jacket Small Quarto gray cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 128 pp dj worn on the edges owner's ex-libris bookplate on the front pastedown. Very good good

Bloomsbury Portraits

Shone, Richard · 1976 · San Francisco Book Company

€27.00 ($29.76 | £22.52 | ¥4,753)

Oxford Phaidon Press Limited Cloth/dust jacket Octavo illustrated cloth, dust jacket, 272 pp dj spine sunned and chipped at top edge. Very good good

W. Somerset Maugham _ and His World

Raphael, Frederic · 1978 · San Francisco Book Company

€18.00 ($19.84 | £15.01 | ¥3,169)

London Thames & Hudson Cloth/dust jacket Octavo ten cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 128 pp owner's ex-libris bookplate on the front pastedown. Very good very good

Edith Sitwell

Salter, Elizabeth · 1988 · San Francisco Book Company

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

London Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Cloth/dust jacket Quarto blue cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 101 pp. Very good very good

The Sitwells _ and the Arts of the 1920s and 1930s

Skipwith, Joanna · 1994 · San Francisco Book Company

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)

London National Portrait Gallery Hardcover/dust jacket Quarto illustrated boards, dust jacket, 239 pp. Very good very good

The Ugly One _ The Childhood Memoirs of Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly 1913-39

Ranfurly, Hermione · 1998 · San Francisco Book Company

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London Michael Joseph Cloth/dust jacket Octavo blue cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, mylar wrap, 202 pp. Very good very good

Frank _ The Making of a Legend

Kaplan, James · 2010 · San Francisco Book Company

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London Sphere Paperback Octavo wraps, 786 pp. Very good

Gandhi's Passion _ The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi

Wolpert, Stanley · 2001 · San Francisco Book Company

€17.00 ($18.74 | £14.18 | ¥2,992)

Oxford Oxford University Press Paperback Octavo wraps, 308 pp. Very good