Biografia

Who's Who 1998

No Author · 1998 · Books & Bygones

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Book Very Good Very Good A & C Black Ltd London 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall This edition provides information on people of influence and interest, contains over 30,000 biographies, approximately 1000 of which are new entries. It lists people from all walks of life: the arts and ...

America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Bradford, Sarah · 2000 · Books & Bygones

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Book Very Good Very Good Viking London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was and is an icon for women. Beautiful, exquisitely dressed, cultivated, gracious, a little mysterious and almost regal, she personifies the way we would like all our world leaders' wi...

Goddess : The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe

Summers, Anthony · 1985 · Books & Bygones

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

Book Very Good Very Good First Edition Victor Gollancz London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Of the new material presented, the most provocative is Summers's assertion that Monroe's corpse was first discovered by Robert Kennedy and Peter Lawford. The reason for the confusion of fac...

Auden in Love

Farnan, Dorothy J. · 1985 · Books & Bygones

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Book Very Good Very Good First Edition Faber and Faber London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall W. H. Auden was the greatest poet of his generation, he was also a practising homosexual, whose great lifelong love was Chester Kallman.

Flaws in the Glass: A Self Portrait

White, Patrick · 1983 · Books & Bygones

£4.50 (€5.39 | $5.95 | ¥950)

Book Very Good Penguin London A rare and perceptive self-portrait of a great writer's gradual discovery of his creative powers. Illustrated

Doris Lessing: a Biography

Klein, Carole · 2000 · Books & Bygones

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Book Very Good Very Good Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Throughout her life, Doris Lessing broke the rules in both her personal life and within the accepted mores of literature. A trailblazer of the women's movement and an early experimenter with d...

Disappearance of Goldie Rapaport, The

Schwarzmann, Gina & Kent, Evelyn Julia · 1994 · Books & Bygones

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Book Very Good Evelyn Kent Associates London Goldie's peaceful childhood world is torn apart by Nazi brutality. The sadness is relieved by the courage and kindness of so many people and the spirit and integrity that shines like a guiding light throughout - John O'Toole.

Heart of a Woman, The

Angelou, Maya · 1997 · Books & Bygones

£4.00 (€4.80 | $5.29 | ¥844)

Book Very Good Virago London The fourth volume of her enthralling autobiography finds the author immersed in the world of Black writers and artists in Harlem, working in the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King.

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Chang, Jung · 1993 · Books & Bygones

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Book Very Good Flamingo London Through the lives of three different women - grandmother, mother and daughter - this book tells the story of 20th-century China. At times scarcely credible in the details it reveals of the suffering of millions of ordinary Chinese people.

Daughter of the River

Hong, Ying · 1999 · Books & Bygones

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Book As New Bloomsbury London The daughter is Hong Ying, a Chinese poet and novelist whose Summer of Betrayal (1997) was banned in the People's Republic. The river is the Yang"

Thecla Merlo - Messenger of the Good News

Agasso, Domenico · 1993 · Books & Bygones

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Book Very Good St. Paul MultiMedia Productions Slough 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 5.25 x 8.5"; 237 pages; paperback; illustrated; very good; the life of Thecla (Teresa) Merlo, co-founder of the Daughter's of St. Paul;

Dear London - Notes from the Big City

Kurtz, Irma · 1997 · Books & Bygones

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Book Very Good Good First Edition Fourth Estate London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 5.5 x 9"; 212 pages; black cloth with gilt; dustwrapper, slightly bumped to top edge; vg/g; title page has been stamped 'Fourth Estate Ltd, 6 Salem Road, London W2 4BU, Tel 0171 727 8993 - LIBRARY...

Backcloth

Bogarde, Dirk · 1987 · Books & Bygones

£4.00 (€4.80 | $5.29 | ¥844)

Book Good Penguin London 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 4.25 x 7"; 313 pages; paperback; illustrated; good;

Floyd in the Soup

Floyd, Keith · 1988 · Books & Bygones

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Book Very Good Pan London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 6 x 9"; 166 pages; paperback; vg/-;

Elton John

Tatham, Dick & Jasper, Tony · 1976 · Books & Bygones

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

Book Illustrated Very Good Good Octopus London 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 9 x 12"; 91 pages; blue boards with black title; dustwrapper, priceclipped; vg/g; illustrated;

Particular Friendship, A

Bogarde, Dirk · 1990 · Books & Bygones

£4.00 (€4.80 | $5.29 | ¥844)

Book Good Penguin London 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall paperback; g/-

Planet of the Blind

Kuusisto, Stephen · 1998 · Books & Bygones

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Book Very Good Very Good Third Impression Faber and Faber London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 5.25 x 8"; 194pp; orange cloth with black in fine condition; dustwrapper in fine condition; this is a story of a the life of a half-blind man, struggling through life pretending he could...

Rommel - A Confrontation in the desert - War Biography Vol.2

Milligan, Spike · 1974 · Books & Bygones

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Book Good Good First Edition Michael Joseph London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 5.5 x 8.75"; 191pp; black cloth with gilt; dustwrapper; spine slightly cocked, but reasonably good copy;

Smile and be a villain!

Toibin, Niall · 1987 · Books & Bygones

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Book Illustrated Good Town House Dublin 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 5.5 x 8.5"; 309 pages; paperback; illustrated; crease to front cover; good;

Sinners and Sandalwood - Tales of the Old Pacific

Short, F.G. · 1997 · Books & Bygones

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Book Good Inscribed By the Author Limited Jomaru Press Australia 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 6" x 8.5"; 195pp; green buckram with gilt titles; no dustwrapper, as published; a story of the islands in the Pacific; 195 of 250 copies; private publication; signed by the author and th...