Biografia

Nobody's Perfect _ Billy Wilder _ A Personal Biography

Chandler, Charlotte · 2002 · San Francisco Book Company

€24.00 ($26.45 | £20.02 | ¥4,225)

New York Simon & Schuster Hardcover/dust jacket Octavo blue and gray papered boards, silver lettering, dust jacket, 352 pp. Very good very good

In the Future of Yesterday _ a Life of Stefan Zweig

Gorner, Rudiger · 2025 · San Francisco Book Company

€16.00 ($17.64 | £13.35 | ¥2,816)

London, Haus, 2025. Paperback Octavo. Paperback. wraps, 487 pp. Very good .

The Kick _ A Memoir of the Poet

Murphy, Richard · 2017 · San Francisco Book Company

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

Cork, Ireland Cork University Press Cloth/dust jacket Octavo red cloth, silver lettering, dust jacket, 360 pp. Very good very good

Martin Luther _ The Christian Between God and Death

Marius, Richard · 1999 · San Francisco Book Company

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

Cambridge, Mass Harvard University Press Cloth/dust jacket Octavo black cloth spine, papered boards, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 542 pp. Very good very good

Twelve Years a Slave

Northup, Solomon · 2025 · San Francisco Book Company

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

USA Privately Printed Paperback Octavo wraps, 132 pp. Very good

Exile's Return _ A Literary Odyssey of the 1920's

Cowley, Malcolm · 1961 · San Francisco Book Company

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.41 | ¥17,603)

London The Bodley Head Limited Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo red cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket unclipped, 322 pp first UK edition owner's name and date written on the front endpaper. Very good very good

Caesar _ The Life of a Colossus

Goldsworthy, Adrian · 2007 · San Francisco Book Company

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London Orion Books Paperback Octavo wraps, 696 pp covers worn. Good

Byron _ Shelley _ Keats

Nichol, John ; Symonds, John Addington ; Colvin, Sidney · 1895 · San Francisco Book Company

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

London Macmillan Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo blue cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine, no dust jacket, 233 pp W. C. Barton bookplate to front pastedown , signed by Barton on half-title page, signed by previous owner on front free endpaper, slight wear marks...

Poincare _ A Biographical Portrait

Huddleston, Sisley · 1924 · San Francisco Book Company

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,041)

London T. Fisher Unwin Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, no dust jacket, 191 pp humidity marks to some pages. Good

First Childhood _ and Far from the Madding War

Lord Berners · 1983 · San Francisco Book Company

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Oxford Oxford University Press Paperback Octavo wraps, 200 pp. Very good

Un Savant, une Epoque _ Sonia Kovalevskaia _ 1850-1891 _ L'Aventure d'une Mathematicienne

Detraz, Jacquline (ed) ; Dhombres, Jean (ed) · 1993 · San Francisco Book Company

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

Paris Belin Paperback Octavo wraps, 279 pp. text in French. Very good

A Woman of No Character _ An Autobiography of Mrs Mantey

Morgan, Fidelis · 1987 · San Francisco Book Company

€16.00 ($17.64 | £13.35 | ¥2,816)

London Faber & Faber Paperback Octavo wraps, 176 pp. Very good

Sebastian Kneipp, Water Doctor _ Water, Witchcraft, Worishofen - The Man Who Brought Natural Healing to the World

Fleckenstein, Alexa · 2010 · San Francisco Book Company

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

USA Privately Printed Paperback Octavo wraps, 459 pp inscribed by the author on the half title page. Very good

The Man Who Loved China _ The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom

Winchester, Simon · 2009 · San Francisco Book Company

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

New York Harper Paperback Octavo wraps, 316 pp inscription to half title page. Good

John Maynard Keynes _ 1883-1946 Economist, Philosopher, Statesman

Skidelsky, Robert · 2003 · San Francisco Book Company

€27.00 ($29.76 | £22.52 | ¥4,753)

New York Penguin Books Paperback Octavo wraps, 1021 pp covers lightly worn. Very good

Lorenzo de' Medici & the Art of Magnificence

Kent, F.W. · 2004 · San Francisco Book Company

€22.00 ($24.25 | £18.35 | ¥3,873)

Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press Cloth/dust jacket Octavo purple cloth, silver lettering, dust jacket, 229 pp. Very good very good

A Girl Called Vincent _ The Life of Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay

Goddu, Krystyna Poray · 2016 · San Francisco Book Company

€17.00 ($18.74 | £14.18 | ¥2,992)

Chicago Chicago Review Press Hardcover/dust jacket Octavo blue papered boads, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 208 pp. Very good very good

Francisco I. Madero _ Apostle of Democracy

Ross, Stanley R. · 1955 · San Francisco Book Company

€16.00 ($17.64 | £13.35 | ¥2,816)

New York Columbia University Press Paperback Octavo wraps, 378 pp owner's name in ink title page, pencil inotes first few pages. Very good

A Sequel to Dark Quartet _ Path to the Silent Country _ Charlotte Bronte's Years of Fame

Banks, Lynne Reid · 1977 · San Francisco Book Company

€16.00 ($17.64 | £13.35 | ¥2,816)

London Weidenfeld and Nicolson Cloth/dust jacket Octavo red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dust jacket unclipped, 208 pp first edition. Very good very good

Machiavelli in Hell

de Grazia, Sebastian · 1996 · San Francisco Book Company

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

London Macmillan Paperback Octavo wraps, 496 pp. Very good