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A Companion To In Memoriam
(first edition) 72pp. VG+(green cloth,sl.soiling,sl.shelf wear to extrems.,paste-action to eps.,edges and contents sl.foxed,dealer's label to fep.,owner's signature to title page)
PUBLISHER: macmillan london 1888
KEYWORDS: poetry biography theology elizabeth rachel chapman
Letters of Charles Eliot Norton
with biographical comment by his daughter sara nor
first edition 2 vols.514pp./510pp.illus.(b&w) both vols.VG+(burgundy cloth,mod.wear to spine and extrems.,t.e.g.,sl.foxing to edges,eps.,and prelims.,gutters cracked,paste-action to eps.,bookplates to both feps.)
PUBLISHER: constable london 1913
KEYWORDS: charles eliot norton biography literature modern f
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF GOOD MEN AND GREAT
MEMORIAL EDITION
vol1 only, ex lib, gilt-stamped blue leatherette, usual cancellation stamps, 345pp, illus, lacks dustwrapper, VG+ (v sl bruised corners, v sl bumped spine head & foot, v sl rubbed & soiled, stamps to front ep and ink inscription from former owner)
PUBLISHER: P. F. Collier & Sons, New York, 1928
KEYWORDS: biography elbert hubbard george eliot carlyle rusk
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF FAMOUS WOMEN
MEMORIAL EDITION
vol2 only, ex lib, gilt-stamped blue leatherette, usual cancellation stamps, 307pp, illus, lacks dustwrapper, VG+ (v sl bruised corners, v sl bumped spine head & foot, v sl rubbed & soiled, stamps to front ep and ink inscription from former owner)
PUBLISHER: P. F. Collier & Sons, New York, 1928
KEYWORDS: biography elbert hubbard ii elizabeth browning mad
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF AMERICAN STATESMEN
MEMORIAL EDITION
vol3 only, ex lib, gilt-stamped blue leatherette, usual cancellation stamps, 305pp, illus, lacks dustwrapper, VG+ (v sl bruised corners, v sl bumped spine head & foot, v sl rubbed & soiled, stamps to front ep and ink inscription from former owner)
PUBLISHER: P. F. Collier & Sons, New York, 1928
KEYWORDS: biography washington franklin jefferson adams hanc
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF EMINENT PAINTERS
MEMORIAL EDITION
vol4 only, ex lib, gilt-stamped blue leatherette, usual cancellation stamps, 346pp, illus, lacks dustwrapper, VG+ (v sl bruised corners, v sl bumped spine head & foot, v sl rubbed & soiled, stamps to front ep and ink inscription from former owner)
PUBLISHER: P. F. Collier & Sons, New York, 1928
KEYWORDS: biography michelangelo rembrandt rubens meisonnier
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF ENGLISH AUTHORS
MEMORIAL EDITION
vol5 only, ex lib, gilt-stamped blue leatherette, usual cancellation stamps, 347pp, illus, lacks dustwrapper, VG+ (v sl bruised corners, v sl bumped spine head & foot, v sl rubbed & soiled, stamps to front ep and ink inscription from former owner)
PUBLISHER: P. F. Collier & Sons, New York, 1928
KEYWORDS: biography morris browning tennyson burns milton jo
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF EMINENT ORATORS
MEMORIAL EDITION
vol7 only, ex lib, gilt-stamped blue leatherette, usual cancellation stamps, 418pp, illus, lacks dustwrapper, VG+ (v sl bruised corners, v sl bumped spine head & foot, v sl rubbed & soiled, stamps to front ep and ink inscription from former owner)
PUBLISHER: P. F. Collier & Sons, New York, 1928
KEYWORDS: biography pericles mark antony savonarola luther b
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF GREAT REFORMERS
MEMORIAL EDITION
vol9 only, ex lib, gilt-stamped blue leatherette, usual cancellation stamps, 418pp, illus, lacks dustwrapper, VG+ (v sl bruised corners, v sl bumped spine head & foot, v sl rubbed & soiled, stamps to front ep and ink inscription from former owner)
PUBLISHER: P. F. Collier & Sons, New York, 1928
KEYWORDS: biography wesley george garibaldi cobden paine kno
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF GREAT TEACHERS
MEMORIAL EDITION
vol10 only, ex lib, gilt-stamped blue leatherette, usual cancellation stamps, 418pp, illus, lacks dustwrapper, VG+ (v sl bruised corners, v sl bumped spine head & foot, v sl rubbed & soiled, stamps to front ep and ink inscription from former owner)
PUBLISHER: P. F. Collier & Sons, New York, 1928
KEYWORDS: biography moses confucius pythagoras plato king al
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF GREAT BUSINESSMEN
MEMORIAL EDITION
vol11 only, ex lib, gilt-stamped blue leatherette, usual cancellation stamps, 431pp, illus, lacks dustwrapper, VG+ (v sl bruised corners, v sl bumped spine head & foot, v sl rubbed & soiled, stamps to front ep and ink inscription from former owner)
PUBLISHER: P. F. Collier & Sons, New York, 1928
KEYWORDS: biography robert owen james oliver stephen girard
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF GREAT LOVERS
MEMORIAL EDITION
vol13 only, ex lib, gilt-stamped blue leatherette, usual cancellation stamps, 418pp, illus, lacks dustwrapper, VG (v sl cocked, v sl bruised corners, v sl bumped spine head & foot, v sl rubbed & soiled, stamps to front ep and ink inscription from former owner)
PUBLISHER: P. F. Collier & Sons, New York, 1928
KEYWORDS: biography robert louis stevenson fanny osbourne jo
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF THE GREAT: GUIDEBO
MEMORIAL EDITION
guidebook, ex lib, gilt-stamped blue leatherette, usual cancellation stamps, 418pp, illus, lacks dustwrapper, VG+ (v sl bruised corners, v sl bumped spine head & foot, v sl rubbed & soiled, stamps to front ep and ink inscription from former owner)
PUBLISHER: P. F. Collier & Sons, New York, 1928
KEYWORDS: biography little journeys elbert hubbard roycroft
The Eye in the Mandala
patrick white: a vision of man and god
172pp, VG+ (black cloth, minor bumps to upper spine, sl cocked.) in VG+ d/w (minor creasing to upper spine, v sl soil to rear wrap, price clipped.)
PUBLISHER: reed, london, 1976
KEYWORDS: patrick white peter beatson biography literature a
Evil Genius
the story of joseph goebbles
245pp, ills (b/w) VG- (black cloth, v sl soils to rear board, owners inscription to ffep, stamp to first four pages, foxing to prelims, foredges, eps and some contents, date at upper rear paste down, sl cocked.) in VG- d/w (browned, soiled and foxed.)
PUBLISHER: allan wingate, london, 1953
KEYWORDS: ebermayer meissner hage goebbles biography history
REBECCA WEST
A LIFE
first edition, blue cloth, 288pp, illus, VG+ (v sl bumped spine head and foot, v sl soiled) d/w NF with v sl wear to extrems)
PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1987
KEYWORDS: modern first edition biography rebecca west victor
I PRESUME
Stanleys Triumph and Disaster
first edition, ex lib with minimal markings, burgundy cloth, 207pp illus, VG+(v sl bruised corners, v sl bumped spine head & foot & lower board edges) d/w VG(v sl wear, tears & creasing to upper extrems with sl chipped spine head, vsl rubbed sunned & soiled)
PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Bles London 1956
KEYWORDS: modern first edition ian anstruther biography stan
THE CONSTANT CAPTAIN GONZALO DE SANDOVAL
ex lib, minimal markings, unissued, 221pp, VG+ (v sl cocked, handsome half cloth binding, v sl edge wear) d/w VG (sl sunned soiled & rubbed)
PUBLISHER: Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, 19
KEYWORDS: biography gonzalo de sandoval cortes tenochtitlan
LIFE AND LETTERS OF THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
2 vols, ex lib, original moroon cloth with gilt title to spines & gilt embossed library labels to front & spines, vol 1 viii 503pp plates, vol 2 vi 504pp plates, VG(sl edgewear, corners v sl bruised vol 1 sl vol 2, spine head & foot v sl bumped with v sl tears, boards rubbed & soiled & v sl sunned, v sl holes to spine foot vol 2, library labels to fornt pastedowns, pkts to rear, library stamps to half title, sl internal seperation at front hinges, sl foxing to ep's, edges sl browned & v sl foxed)
PUBLISHER: MacMillan & Co London 1900
KEYWORDS: history biography thomas henry huxley
Letters and Other Unpublished Writings of Walter Savage Landor
ex lib, 282pp, VG- (black cloth bumped and rubbed, small soil to spine, adhesive to front paste down, library stamps to prelims and some contents, sl foxing to prelims and some contents, rough cut edges sl soiled,sl cocked.)
PUBLISHER: richard bentley, london, 1897
KEYWORDS: stephen wheeler walter savage landor biography lit