Books - "biography"
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John H Behan: Sacrificed Sheriff
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: High-Lonesome Books 2002
KEYWORDS: John H Behan history biography biographies memoir wild west US America American
Einstein: His Life and Times
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: Alfred A Knopf 1965
KEYWORDS: Albert Einstein biography biographies memoir scientists science
The Count of Saint Germain
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: Garber Communications / Steinerbooks 1988
KEYWORDS: count comte de st saint germain history biography biographies memoir
Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life
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PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 2021
KEYWORDS: art history biography biographies memoir Barbara Hepworth
Ackerley: A Life of J R Ackerley
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PUBLISHER: Constable 1989
KEYWORDS: literature literary playwrights J R Ackerley biography biographies memoir
The Brandon Papers
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PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus / Hogarth Press 1985
KEYWORDS: Lady Brandon medicine medical history autobiographical biography biographies
Bloomsbury
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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1973
KEYWORDS: literature literary biography biographies memoir Quentin Bell Bloomsbury
Ruth
FIRST EDITION, 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: Hutchinson 1986
KEYWORDS: first editions Ruth Harrison biography biographies memoir
The Age of Disenchantments
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PUBLISHER: Ecco / HarperCollins 2019
KEYWORDS: literature literary history biography biographies memoir Spanish civil war Spain Aaron Shulman
Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me
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PUBLISHER: Monoray 2023
KEYWORDS: Bernie Taupin Elton John biography music songwriter
C. Y. O'Connor: A Brief Biography
Small oblong 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: Cyril Ayris 2007
KEYWORDS: C. Y. O'Connor biography New Zealand Australia Western Australia engineer gold fields
Lou Reed: The King of New York
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PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
KEYWORDS: Lou Reed biography music Velvet Underground rock musicians
The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren: The Biography
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: Constable 2020
KEYWORDS: Malcolm McLaren art Sex Pistols biography street culture
Leonard Woolf: A Political Biography
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PUBLISHER: The Hogarth Press 1978
KEYWORDS: Leonard Woolf biography politics
Sowing: An autobiography of the years 1880 to 1904
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PUBLISHER: The Hogarth Press 1974
KEYWORDS: Leonard Woolf biography autobiography 20th century
The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers
FIRST EDITION, octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, printed eps, xix + 598pp, illus/photos, VG (light rubbing & bruising to board edges/extrems, minor tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, sl fading to spine, light to moderate chafing/tanning & wrinkling/soiling)
PUBLISHER: Peter Owen 1977
KEYWORDS: first editions biography biographies memoir Carson McCullers literature literary
One Hand Clapping: A Memoir of Childhood
Octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 208pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate fading to spine, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1975
KEYWORDS: literature literary biography biographies memoir Richard Cowper John Middeton Murry
Georges Perec: A Life in Words
Super octavo, green/teal cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxx + 802pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light soiling to page edges, black marker line to base of page block) in d/w, VG+ (in tidy removable protective cover, sl creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Harvill 1993
KEYWORDS: literature literary biography biographies memoir Georges Perec
Lives of the Engineers; Harbours - Lighthouses - Bridges, Smeaton and Rennie
SPINE PARTIALLY DETACHED BUT BINDING SOUND, octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt decoration & black rule to front board, frontispiece, ix + 389pp, illus, G+ (spine brittle/cracking & partially detached & flapping, moderate scuffing to extrems, light soiling & chafing to front board, heavy scuffing & minor surface loss to rear board, heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, ffep missing, light soiling to eps, prev. owner's name & ink stamp to full title page, some minor ink annotation & underlining to contents page & prelims, occasional moderate crackinglight to moderate soiling & foxing to terminals with ex-libris ink stamp also).
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1874
KEYWORDS: civil engineering engineers biography bridges smeaton rennie lighthouses harbours design construction history
The Unknown Leonardo
Lg heavy quarto, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 319pp, illus, VG+ (light discolouration to board edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light foxing to eps, gift inscription in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate chafing & scuffing)
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1974
KEYWORDS: art history biography biographies Leonardo da Vinci