Books - "biography"
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Such Sweet Thunder: The Story of the Ford Grand Prix Engine
LACKS D/W, octavo, blue heav yboards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 224pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & discolouration to board edges & extrems plus spine, sl soiling to boards, light foxing & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Motor Racing Publications 1971
KEYWORDS: motorsports grand prix Ford engines engineering biography
A Woman on Paper: Georgia O'Keeffe
Quarto softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster 1988
KEYWORDS: correspondance letters art history theory feminism feminist american georgia o'keeffe anita pollitzer biography stieglitz alfred
The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers
Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Anchor 1976
KEYWORDS: literary biography american literature carson mccullers southern gothic
Saint Thomas Aquinas of the Order of the Preachers (1225-1274): A Biographical Study of the Angelic Doctor
Sm octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green and Co 1911
KEYWORDS: St Saint Thomas Aquinas biography memoir religion religious figures
Marcel Proust
MISBOUND; TEXT BLOCK UPSIDE DOWN; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Viking 2000
KEYWORDS: marcel proust france french modernism modernist biography in search of lost time misbound
The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford and Protonary Apostolic to His Holiness Pope Pius XII
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Chapman & Hall 1959
KEYWORDS: evelyn waugh britain british england english ronald knox biography
Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Very Private Life
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 1991
KEYWORDS: gerard manley hopkins biography poet poetry britain british england english jesuit robert bernard martin
The Life of St. Gemma Galgani
Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Tan Books and Publishers 2000
KEYWORDS: religion religious biography biographies saint saints St Gemma Galgani Italy Italian women female
The George Sand - Gustave Flaubert Letters
FIRST EDITION, super octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Duckworth & Co 1922
KEYWORDS: letters literature literary biography George Sand Gustave Flaubert correspondence collection anthology first edition
James Watt: Craftsman & Engineer
LACKS D/W, super octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Babcock & Wilcox / Cambridge University Press 1935
KEYWORDS: engineering engineers biography memoir James Watt
Angelheaded Hipster: A Life of Jack Kerouac
Square octavo softcover (VG): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 1997
KEYWORDS: literary biography memoir Jack Kerouac literature
Ideas and Opinions
Super octavo, grey shiny decorative heavy boards, black lettering to spine, grey sparkly eps, frontispiece, illus/photos, Near FINE, in slipcase, VG+ (light bruising & scratching)
PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2010
KEYWORDS: Albert Einstein biography memoir ideas philosophy philosophies social commentary
Napoleon
LACKS FEP, super octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1935
KEYWORDS: history Napoleon Bonaparte military history biography memoir
Queen Victoria: A Personal Sketch
LACKS FEP, imperial octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1900
KEYWORDS: English British monarchy monarchs queens Queen Victoria royals royalty royal family biography history
The Secretary: A Journey With Hillary Clinton From Beirut to the Heart of American Power
Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Times Books / Henry Holt and Company 2013
KEYWORDS: Hillary Rodham Clinton biography memoir politics political cabinet ministers foreign relations women US America American
Man Ray
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton 1989
KEYWORDS: dadaism surrealism philosophy Man Ray biography memoir dadaist movement
N.C. Wyeth: A Biography
SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR; super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Knopf 1998
KEYWORDS: signed inscribed n.c. wyeth illustrator artist america american biography david michaelis
The Life of Admiral Christopher Columbus, by His Son Ferdinand
Super octavo softcover (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Rutgers University Press 1992
KEYWORDS: christopher columbus ferdinand exploration colonisation colonialism imperialism colonization spain america americas age of discovery biography
Suppressed Murder of Wyatt Earp
FIRST EDITION, octavo, black buckram boards, white lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xix + 135pp, illus/photos, VG (spine cocked, light bruising to extrems, moderate soiling to top spine edge & rear board, light foxing & soiling to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping with archival tape repairs to edges, moderate fading to spine, moderate chafing & soiling, moderate damp wrinkling to rear)
PUBLISHER: The Naylor Company 1967
KEYWORDS: first editions wild west Wyatt Earp crime US American America history justice biography
Enemy Submarine: The Story of Gunther Prien Captain of U 47
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: William Kimber 1954
KEYWORDS: military history Gunther Prien naval u47 biography memoir Scapa Flow