Books - "biography"
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Empress of Rome: The Life of Livia
Super octavo hardcover (near FINE) in D/W (near FINE); 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: Quercus 2010
KEYWORDS: Livia historical biography Imperial Rome history politics women public figures
Biographical Memoir of Adam Smith
Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, clxxvii + 338pp + library to rear, VG+ (light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Augustus M Kelley 1966
KEYWORDS: biography biographies memoir Adam Smith history historical Economic Classics series
Sedition and Alchemy: A Biography of John Cale
Super octavo, illus glossy light card wrappers, white & coloured lettering to spine, illus prelims, 239pp, illus/photos, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Peter Owen 2003
KEYWORDS: music biography biographies memoir John Cale
Jazz Visions: Reflections on Lennie Tristano and His Legacy
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, viii + 214pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, minor soiling to boards, sl soiling & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Equinox 2005
KEYWORDS: music jazz Lennie Tristano history musicians biography
Building With Frank Lloyd Wright: An Illustrated Memoir
SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS, octavo, imperial octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, x + 147pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, occasional sl soiling throughout) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate chafing & soiling, 2.5cm closed tear to base of rear flap fold)
PUBLISHER: Southern Illinois University Press 1986
KEYWORDS: signed Herbert Katherine Jacobs architecture architects Frank Lloyd Wright memoir biography
The Shining Brow: Frank Lloyd Wright
Octavo, brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, brown lettering & gilt base to base of spine & front board, frontispiece, 300pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl soiling to boards, light tanning & soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (moderate fading to spine, moderate to heavy scuffing & creasng/chipping to spine & cover edges, minor chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Horizon Press 1960
KEYWORDS: biography biographies memoir Frank Lloyd Wright architecture architects
Dostoevsky: The Making of a Novelist
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: John Lehmann 1950
KEYWORDS: fyodor dostoevsky biography
Thomas Bray
EX-LIBRARY 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: SPCK London 1954
KEYWORDS: christian thomas bray biography church history
A Life of My Own
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
KEYWORDS: claire tomalin biography memoir
Monsieur Proust
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: Collins and Harvill Press 1976
KEYWORDS: marcel proust biography
George Stubbs and the Wide Creation: Animals, people and places in the life of George Stubbs, 1724-1806
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: Chatto & Windus 2005
KEYWORDS: robin blake george stubbs biography
In Command: Minesweeper captain & Labour parliamentarian The Hon Phil Connolly
SIGNED BY AUTHOR 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: Steele Roberts 2009
KEYWORDS: phil connolly labour new zealand memoir biography history military
Unknown Pleasures
Small 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: Continuum 2004
KEYWORDS: joy division biography music history
Menlove: The Life of John Menlove Edwards with an Appendix of his writings
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: Ernest Press 1993
KEYWORDS: john menlove edwards biography
The Life of Mozart: Including His Correspondence
Super octavo hardcover (VG+) 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: The Folio Society 1991
KEYWORDS: ludwig amadeus mozart classical music biography memoir
My Father Who is on Earth
Octavo, light green cloth boards, red lettering & rule to spine & front board, 195pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising & fading to board extrems & edges, sl tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, ffep missing, prev. bookseller's sm label to base of rear pastedown) in d/w, VG (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges & spine, moderate soiling to spine, other minor general soiling)
PUBLISHER: G P Putnam's Sons 1946
KEYWORDS: autobiography biography memoir John Frank Lloyd Wright architecture architects
Fashion & Peversity: A Life of Vivienne Westwood and the Sixties Laid Bare
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, vii + 245pp, illus/photos, VG (sl rubbing & bruising to extrems, sl adhesive staining to board edges & eps, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in blue felt pen to ffep) in d/w, VG (in plastic protective cover with adhesive edges- cover edges likely stained if removed, sl discolouration/fading)
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 1996
KEYWORDS: first editions fashion icons designers Vivienne Westwood 60s sixties modern history biography
Solon and his Political Theory: [The Contemporary Significance of a Basic Contribution to Political Theory by One of the Seven Wise Men]
Octavo stapled wrappers (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: The William-Frederick Press 1958
KEYWORDS: Solon political theory historical biography history politics ancient Greece
Didion & Babitz
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: Atlantic Books 2024
KEYWORDS: Joan Didion Eve Babitz biography letters friendship
Rising Ground: And No Room to Turn
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: Vivien Eyers 2023
KEYWORDS: Geoff Willams aviation biography Otago New Zealand