Biografia

Adam Smith and the Pursuit of Perfect Liberty

Buchan, James · 2006 · San Francisco Book Company

€16.00 ($17.64 | £13.35 | ¥2,816)

London Profile Books Cloth/dust jacket Octavo black cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 198 pp, pencil note on title page. Very good very good

The Strategy of Truth _ A Study of Sir Thomas Browne

Nathanson, Leonard · 1967 · San Francisco Book Company

€18.00 ($19.84 | £15.01 | ¥3,169)

Chicago University of Chicago Press Cloth/dust jacket Octavo red cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 241 pp, dj edges worn, pencil markings inside. Good good

Under My Skin _ Volume One of my Autobiography, to 1949

Lessing, Doris · 1994 · San Francisco Book Company

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

London Harper Cloth/dust jacket Octavo blue cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket unclipped, 419 pp, inscribed by author on the half title page. Very good very good

Abraham Lincoln _ The Prairie Years and The Wars Years

Sandburg, Carl · 1978 · San Francisco Book Company

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,041)

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania Franklin Library Hardcover Octavo maroon full leather, gilt lettering and design, all edges gilt, 1086 pp. Very good

Vita _ The Life of Vita Sackville-West

Glendinning, Victoria · 1984 · San Francisco Book Company

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London Penguin Books Paperback Octavo wraps, 430 pp, newspaper clip paste inside front cover. Very good

Flaubert _ A Life

Wall, Geoffrey · 2001 · San Francisco Book Company

€17.00 ($18.74 | £14.18 | ¥2,992)

London Faber & Faber Paperback Octavo wraps, 413 pp, spine creased. Very good

A Childhood _ The Biography of a Place

Crews, Harry · 1978 · San Francisco Book Company

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,161)

New York Harper & Row Cloth/dust jacket Octavo green cloth spine, papered boards, dust jacket, 171 pp, lettering faded on spine, foxing on edges, minor tears to dj, inscribed by owner on half title page. Good good

Jacques-Louis David

Brookner, Anita · 1980 · San Francisco Book Company

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,921)

London Chatto & Windus Paperback Small Quarto wraps, 223 pp. Very good

Elie Wiesel _ Confronting the Silence

Berger, Joseph · 2023 · San Francisco Book Company

€16.00 ($17.64 | £13.35 | ¥2,816)

New Haven Yale University Press Paperback Octavo wraps, 342 pp. Very good

The Garner Files _ A Memoir

Garner, James; Winokur, Jon; Andrews, Julie (intro) · 2012 · San Francisco Book Company

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

New York Simon & Schuster Paperback Octavo wraps, 288 pp. Very good

Saki _ A Life of Hector Hugh Munro

Langguth, A.J. · 1982 · San Francisco Book Company

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Oxford Oxford University Press Paperback Octavo wraps, 366 pp covers lightly worn. Very good

Aubrey's Brief Lives

Dick, Oliver Lawson (ed) · 1950 · San Francisco Book Company

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,161)

London Secker & Warburg Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo red cloth, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 419 pp covers lightly worn and sunned spine sunned owner's name and date written on the front endpaper foxing on the edges. Good

Ralph Richardson _ an Actor's Life

O'Connor, Garry · 1986 · San Francisco Book Company

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1986. Paperback Octavo. Paperback. wraps, 281 pp covers lightly worn. Very good .

Lytton Strachey _ The New Biography

Holroyd, Michael · 1994 · San Francisco Book Company

€18.00 ($19.84 | £15.01 | ¥3,169)

London Chatto & Windus Paperback Octavo wraps, 780 pp covers worn on the edges spine creased, humidity stain on bottom edge. Good

A Life of Picasso _ Volume 1 1881-1906

Richardson, John · 1991 · San Francisco Book Company

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

London Jonathan Cape Cloth/ no dust jacket Small Quarto pink cloth, black lettering and design, no dust jacket, 548 pp covers lightly worn. Very good

Lennon _ The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life

Riley, Tim · 2011 · San Francisco Book Company

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

New York Hyperion Hardcover Octavo black papered boards, silver lettering, no dust jacket, 765 pp first edtion. Very good

Brando _ The Biography

Manso, Peter · 1994 · San Francisco Book Company

€17.00 ($18.74 | £14.18 | ¥2,992)

New York Hyperion Paperback Octavo wraps, 1097 pp. Very good

I Am Dynamite _ a Life of Friedrich Nietzsche

Prideaux, Sue · 2018 · San Francisco Book Company

€16.00 ($17.64 | £13.35 | ¥2,816)

London, Faber & Faber, 2018. Paperback Octavo. Paperback. wraps, 445 pp. Very good .

Quant by Quant _ The Autobiography of Mary Quant

Quant, Mary · 2022 · San Francisco Book Company

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London V&A Paperback Octavo wraps, 200 pp includes 5 postcards. Very good

The Pontificate of Clement VII _ History, Politics, Culture

Gouwens, Kenneth; Reiss, Sheryl E. (eds) · 2005 · San Francisco Book Company

€75.00 ($82.67 | £62.56 | ¥13,202)

Aldershot, Hampshire Ashgate Cloth/dust jacket Octavo black cloth, silver lettering, dust jacket, 437 pp. Very good very good