Books - "biography"
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Primo Levi: Tragedy of an Optimist
Super octavo, black heavy boards, copper gilt lettering to spine, x + 452pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl bruising to spine extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Aurum Press 1998
KEYWORDS: literature literary biographies biography memoir Primo Levi
The Exile: A Life of Ivy Litvinov
Octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, 216pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light chafing, prev. bookseller's sm label to front cover)
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1983
KEYWORDS: Ivy Litvinov biography biographies memoir literature literary history historical
Good Night, Beloved Comrade: The Letters of Denton Welch to Eric Oliver
Octavo, illus heavy boards, blue lettering to spine, xiv + 213pp, illus/photos, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: University of Wisconsin Press 2017
KEYWORDS: letters correspondence Denton Welch Eric Oliver biography autobiographies memoir literary literature art
Nobody Grew But the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis
Super octavo, beige buckram boards, red gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 255pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: Northwestern University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: literature literary biography biographies memoir William Gaddis history
My Way: The Way of the White Clouds
Super 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Element 1995
KEYWORDS: Osho philosophy biography transformation spiritual spirituality happiness love
Baird T. Spalding: As I knew Him
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: DeVorss & Co. Publishers 1980
KEYWORDS: Baird T. Spalding life lives biography 20th century religion religious
Swedenborg: Life and Teachings
Sm 8vo hardcover (VG+) lacking 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: The Swedenborg Society 1974
KEYWORDS: Swedenborg life lives biography education early science philosophy philosopher 18th century
Rules of the Game: Beyond the Pale: Memoirs of Sir Oswald Mosley and Family
Super 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Pimlico 1994
KEYWORDS: life lives biography memoirs Sir Oswald Mosley 20th century English England politics
Breif Lives
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Book Clubs Associates 1983
KEYWORDS: John Aubrey 17th century biography literature
The Biography and Typgraphy of William Caxton, England's First Printer
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: FrederickMuller 1971
KEYWORDS: William Caxton William Blades biography typography printing history printer
Ahead of His Age: Bishop Barnes of Birmingham
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: William Collins Sons & Co 1979
KEYWORDS: Bishop Barnes history England English religion religious biography biographies memoir Christianity
On a Spaceship With Beelzebub, by a Grandson of Gurdjieff
Octavo softcover (VG) some underlining in ink; 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: Globe Press Books 1991
KEYWORDS: biography biographies memoir spirituality spiritual formation Georges Gurdjieff
Long Pilgrimage
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: The Dawn Horse Press 1983
KEYWORDS: teachings wisdom philosophy spirituality Shivapuri Baba memoir biography biographies teachers
Richard Dimbleby: A Biography
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: Hodder and Stoughton 1975
KEYWORDS: Richard Dimbleby biography biographies memoir journalists journalism broadcasters history
Mason: The Life of R A K Mason
Ex-library, 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: Victoria University Press 2003
KEYWORDS: New Zealand literary biographies biography memoir literature poets poetry R A K Mason
John Buchan and His World
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: Thames and Hudson 1979
KEYWORDS: John Buchan biography biographies memoir history
Newman's Journey
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: Fount / HarperCollins 1996
KEYWORDS: John Henry Newman history religion religious leaders biography biographies memoir
No. 747. Being the Autobiography of a Gipsy
Post 8vo, tan cl bds, spine & front board lettered/ruled & decorated in blue/red & black/white, black eps, frontis., iv + 459 pp., chapter initals, VG (light scuffing & soiling to spine & bds, light to moderate bruising & sl soiling to spine & board edges & extrems, light to moderate tanning & light foxing to pg edges & prelims/terminals, moderate cracking to front gutter).
PUBLISHER: J. W. Arrowsmith [1890]
KEYWORDS: Gispy Gypsies Gipsies Gypsy Romani Romany life lives autobiography biography 19th century social history
Vita di S. Giovanni Battista de Rossi
TEXT IN ITALIAN. Ex-library. Imp. 8vo, full-bound in green leather with patterned gilt panel, spine lettered & decorated in gilt, illus. eps. frontis., [8] + 294 pp. + [2 (index)] pp., VG (light to moderate scuffing & fading to bds, moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with fraying of leather & some loss of colour, moderate tanning to pg edges, moderate tanning & soiling/foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, moderate open tear to ffep extrem & library stamps in black & red inkk to ffep, closed tears to tp at gutter, library stamps to tp in grey & red ink,)
PUBLISHER: Artigianelli di S. Giuseppe 1881
KEYWORDS: Italy Italian 19th century biography life lives literature
Louis Agassiz: A Life in Science
Octavo softcover (G+) scruffy copy; 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 of Chicago Press / Phoenix 1966
KEYWORDS: Louis Agassiz biography biographies memoir history