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$38.50
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D. W. Griffith: An American Life


SCHICKEL, RICHARD

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: Simon and Schuster 1984

KEYWORDS: D W Griffith film movies motion pictures producers directors American US industry biography memoir

$17.50
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The Movies, Mr Griffith, and Me


GISH, LILLIAN & PINCHOT, ANN

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: Mercury House 1988

KEYWORDS: D W Griffith movies film industry films motion pictures producers directors biography memoir Hollywood

$38.50
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Sergio Leone: Something to do With Death


FRAYLING, CHRISTOPHER

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: Faber and Faber 2000

KEYWORDS: Sergio Leone Italian filmmakers film movies Italy biography entertainment

$20.00
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The Life of Muhammad, Apostle of Allah


IBN ISHAQ & EDWARDES, MICHAEL (ed.)

Super octavo softcover (Near Fine) in slipcase (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: Folio Society 2004

KEYWORDS: folio society ibn ishaq michael edwardes islam muslim islamic prophet history biography

$15.00
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Thackeray: The Uses of Adversity, 1811-1846


RAY, GORDON N. & [THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE]

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 will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1955

KEYWORDS: william makepeace thackeray history biography literature britain british

$100.00
2a18o/22

Hubert Hervey: Student and Imperialist: A Memoir


GREY, EARL

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif to front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, vi + 151pp + 31pp book ads, folding map, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing & fraying to extrems, moderate fading to spine & board edges, light chafing & wrinkling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sm ink stamp to ffep, moderate foxing to prelims, light foxin gto folding map)

PUBLISHER: Edward Arnold 1899

KEYWORDS: military history memoirs biography Hubert Hervey

$40.00
2a18r/6

The Poet's Progress


CRESSWELL, WALTER D'ARCY & ROTHENSTEIN, WILLIAM (Portrait)

FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained black, deckled page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, VG (light bruising to extrems, sl fading to spine & board edges, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals, light tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber 1930

KEYWORDS: first edition New Zealand writers literary biography memoir autobiography Walter D'Arcy Cresswell poetry literature

$24.50
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John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court


BROOKHISER, RICHARD & [MARSHALL, JOHN]

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: Basic Books 2018

KEYWORDS: richard brookhiser john marshall america american history supreme court biography

$18.50
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Grant


CHERNOW, RON & [GRANT, ULYSSES S.]

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. Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: Apollo 2018

KEYWORDS: ulysses s grant us president civil war america american biography reconstruction ron chernow

$15.00
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Curzon in India: Vol I: Achievement


DILKS, DAVID

THIS VOL ONLY, 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: Rupert Hart-Davis 1969

KEYWORDS: Viceroyalty of Lord Curzon India biography memoir history

$15.00
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Franck


DAVIES, LAURENCE

TIDY EX-LIBRARY, 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: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd 1973

KEYWORDS: Cesar Franck music musicians masters biography memoir classical

$40.00
2f5a/34

Such Sweet Thunder: The Story of the Ford Grand Prix Engine


BLUNSDEN, JOHN & PHIPPS, DAVID

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

$28.50
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A Woman on Paper: Georgia O'Keeffe


POLLITZER, ANITA & BOYLE, KAY (intro.) [O'KEEFFE, GEORGIA]

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

$22.50
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The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers


CARR, VIRGINIA SPENCER

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

$10.00
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Saint Thomas Aquinas of the Order of the Preachers (1225-1274): A Biographical Study of the Angelic Doctor


CONWAY, Fr. PLACID

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

$35.00
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Marcel Proust


TADIE, JEAN-YVES & CAMERON, EUEN & [PROUST, MARCEL]

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

$22.50
xxfec184621

Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Very Private Life


MARTIN, ROBERT BERNARD & [HOPKINS, GERARD MANLEY]

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

$30.00
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The Life of St. Gemma Galgani


Fr. GERMANUS & O'SULLIVAN, Fr. A. M. (Trans) & GASQUET, Fr. aBBOT AIDAN (Intro)

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

$28.50
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James Watt: Craftsman & Engineer


DICKINSON, H. W.

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

$20.00
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Angelheaded Hipster: A Life of Jack Kerouac


TURNER, STEVE

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

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