Books - "biography"
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Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School
Provenance attributed to Vincent O'Sullivan. Super 8vo, pp. [8] + 440; black heavy card bds, spine lettered in silver gilt; VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate soiling & pencil markings to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; light to moderate annotation & underlining in pencil throughout); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with sl curling & chipping).
PUBLISHER: Verso 2016
KEYWORDS: Star Jeffries 20th century Frankfurt School philosophy life lives biography politics culture Europe Germany
Life and Letters of Thomas Hodgkin (Second Edition)
LACKS FEP, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece with tissue guard, xiii + 447pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate bruising & rubbing to spine & extrems, light tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards/edges, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, prev. owners' names in ink & pencil to prelims, moderate cracking to guttes sporadically throughout, light foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green and Co 1918
KEYWORDS: biography biographies memoir letters correspondence Thoams Hodgkin
The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold (Fifth Edition) (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, octavo, brown full leather boards, gilt lettering to spines, black rule & decoration to spines & boards, gilt initials in gothic script to front boards of both vols, all page edges stained red, marbled eps, frontispiece to vol 1, vol 1- xxiii + 440pp, vol 2- xvi + 448pp, VG (moderate rubbing & surface loss to spines & board edges, minor chafing & rubbing/surface loss to boards, light soiling to page edges, numerous gift & ownership inscriptions in ink to prelims, moderate to heavy cracking to gutters, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional ink markings to margins)
PUBLISHER: B Fellowes, Ludgate Street 1845
KEYWORDS: Thomas Arnold biography biographies memoir autobiographies history letters correspondence historical
Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus
Super octavo, blue heavy boards, white lettering to spine, illus eps, xi + 547pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 2019
KEYWORDS: art design history Walter Gropius biography biographies memoir
Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-Bye to All That (1895-1929)
Super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 461pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Continuum 2018
KEYWORDS: literary biography biographies memoir Robert Graves literature history
Andrew A. Bonar: Diary and Life
8vo 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: Banner of Trust Trust 1960
KEYWORDS: Andrew A Bonar diary journal life lives biography
Orthodox Saints: Spiritual Profiles for Modern Man
Ex-library. 8vo 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: Holy Cross Orthodox Press 1976
KEYWORDS: orthodox religion religious Saints life lives biography profile
Rowan's Rule: The Biography of the Archbishop
Ex-library. 8vo 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: Hodder & Stoughton 2009
KEYWORDS: Rowan Williams life lives biography religion religious
Europe of the Heart: The Autobiography of Father Dominique Pire
8vo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (G+); 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: Hutchinson & Co. 1960
KEYWORDS: Father Dominique Pire life lives biography autobiography
An Extraordinary Australian: Mary MacKillop
Super 8vo 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: E. J. Dwyer 1993
KEYWORDS: Mary MacKillop life lives biography
Twice Called: The Autobiography of Seventeen Convert Sisters
8vo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (G+); 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: The Bruce Publishing Company 1959
KEYWORDS: religion religous spiritual spirituality convert Catholic Christian Christianity life lives biography
Orthodox Saints Volume Three: Spiritual Profiles for Modern Man
This vol only. 8vo hardcover (VG) lacks d/w; 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: Holy Cross Orthodox Press 1980
KEYWORDS: religion religious orthodox saints life lives biography
A Memoir: People and Places
Super 8vo hardcover (VG), pencil underlining, 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: Duckworth 2000
KEYWORDS: Mary Warnock life lives biography memoir
Memories
Super 8vo hardcover (VG), segment cut from ffep, 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: George Allen and Unwin 1970
KEYWORDS: Julian Huxley life lives biography
Art Spiegelman: Conversations
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: University Press of Mississippi 2007
KEYWORDS: graphic novels literary biography autobiography Art Spiegelman cartoonists Maus
John G: The Authorised Biography of John Gielgud
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: Hodder & Stoughton 2001
KEYWORDS: entertainment actors John Gielgud biography biographies memoir
John Elwyn
Quarto, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 136pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing & scuffing to board edges/extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light to moderate fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Scolar Press / Ashgate Publishing 2000
KEYWORDS: art history biography biographies memoir John Elwyn British landscape paintings appreciation criticism
The Great Days
8vo, pp. 189; blue heavy card bds. spine lettered in gilt; plates; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; adhesive residue from tape to bds & eps; sl soiling throughout); in d/w, VG (moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1978
KEYWORDS: Walter Bonatti life lives biography autobiography climbing mountain rock expedition adventure mountaineer
Wild Card: An Autobiography 1923-1958
Signed, inscribed & dated by author. Super 8vo, pp. [10] + 278; illus. light card covers; photos; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; moderate bruising to edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: McPhee Gribble 1990
KEYWORDS: Dorothy Hewitt 20th century life lives biography autobiography
D N Dunlop: A Man of Our Time
Octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiii + 463pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl foxing/soiling to page edges, sl tanning to photographic pages) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, minor fading to spine & edges, light chafing & soiling, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear)
PUBLISHER: Temple Lodge 1992
KEYWORDS: English translations biography biographies memoir D N Dunlop world power conference esoteric occultism occultists anthroposophy history