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The Essie Summers Story


SUMMERS, ESSIE

SIGNED BY ESSIE SUMMERS, 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: Mills & Boon 1974

KEYWORDS: New Zealand writers authors literature literary biography autobiography signed memoir Essie Summers Mills & Boon romance

$16.50
xxhac223058

Alexander Hamilton


CHERNOW, RON

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: Apollo / Head of Zeus 2020

KEYWORDS: biography memoir biographies Alexander Hamilton history US America American founding fathers

$15.00
xxhaa223087

Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age


MADDOCKS, FIONA

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: Review 2002

KEYWORDS: history historical biography biographies Hildegard of Bingen

$15.00
xxhaa223089

James Joyce's Dublin Houses


IGOE, VIVIEN

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: Mandarin 1990

KEYWORDS: literature James Joyce literary biography

$19.50
xxhcf223106

Herculine Barbin; Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite


BARBIN, HERCULINE & FOUCAULT, MICHEL (Intro) & McDOUGALL, RICHARD (Trans)

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: Pantheon Books 1980

KEYWORDS: biography memoir Herculine Barbin history hermaphrodites

$25.00
xxhef223135

Louise Bogan: A Portrait


FRANK, ELIZABETH

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: Alfred A Knopf 1984

KEYWORDS: Louise Bogan biography memoir biographies literature literary

$25.00
xxhef223136

A Traitor's Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751-1816


O'TOOLE, FINTAN

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: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998

KEYWORDS: literary biography biographies memoir Richard Brinsley Sheridan literature playwrights stage drama theatre theater

$25.00
xxheg223139

Debussy: A Painter in Sound


WALSH, STEPHEN

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in 3/4 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: Faber & Faber 2018

KEYWORDS: classical music composers biography biographies memoir history Debussy

$19.50
xxheg223143

James Joyce: A Passionate Exile


McCOURT, JOHN

Quarto 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: Orion 2000

KEYWORDS: James Joyce literature literary biography memoir biographies

$19.50
xxheg223149

Chopin's Piano: A Journey Through Romanticism


KILDEA, PAUL

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: Allen Lane / Penguin 2018

KEYWORDS: Frederic Chopin classical music composers preludes biography history memoir

$90.00
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Winston S Churchill: Volume I Companion; Part 1 1874-1896 & Part 2 1896-1900


CHURCHILL, RANDOLPH S

FIRST EDITION, TWO VOLUME SET, super octavo, red buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, upper edges dyed red, mixed pagination, VG+ (slight scuffing & rubbing to boards, spines & edges, slight bruising to spines, v slight soiling to page edges & pastedowns, vertical crease to spine of volume 1) in d/w VG (light chipping to edges, slight soiling & tanning to jackets, 1cm & 2cm closed tear to volume 1 jacket hinge)

PUBLISHER: Heinemann 1967

KEYWORDS: winston s churchill memoir biography history britain british randolph s churchill

$100.00
3g2/19

The Adventures of John Renton


MARWICK, J G

Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to boards, frontispiece, vii + 95pp, illus, VG (light bruising & scuffing to board edges & spine, slight soiling to boards, previous owner's name in ink to front pastedown, moderate to heavy foxing to pages)

PUBLISHER: Kirkwall: W R Macintosh, The Kirkwall Press, The Orcadian Office 1935

KEYWORDS: john renton solomon islands polynesia colonial shipwreck sailor biography

$25.00
xxhgb223183

Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life


MERYMAN, RICHARD

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: HarperPerennial 1998

KEYWORDS: Andrew Wyeth art artists biography biographies memoir

$15.00
xxhgb223185

History Play: The Lives and Afterlife of Christopher Marlowe


BOLT, RODNEY

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: HarpeCollins 2004

KEYWORDS: literature literary history biography biographies memoir Christopher Marlowe

$15.00
xxhic223186

Born Naked


MOWAT, FARLEY

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: Key Porter Books 1993

KEYWORDS: biography memoir biographies Farley Mowat entertainment entertainers

$15.00
xxhic223192

Gypsy: The Art of the Tease


SHTEIR, RACHEL

Ex-library, 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: Yale University Press 2009

KEYWORDS: Gypsy Rose Lee history biography biographies memoir

$22.50
xxhjg223213

Pushkin: The Man and His Age


EDMONDS, ROBIN

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: Macmillan 1994

KEYWORDS: Alexander Pushkin Russian literature literary biographies biography memoir

$17.50
xxhlf223225

Dr Quicksilver 1660-1742: The Life and Times of Thomas Dover


STRONG, L A G

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: Andrew Melrose 1955

KEYWORDS: Dr Thomas Dover Quicksilver history biography memoir medical treatments

$25.00
xxhmg223246

William H Pickering: America's Deep Space Pioneer (The NASA History Series)


MUDGWAY, DOUGLAS J

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: NASA 2007

KEYWORDS: WIlliam H Pickering NASA space programme history biography memoir deep space travel

$40.00
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The Philosopher's I : Autobiography and the Search for the Self


WRIGHT, J LENORE

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, x + 217pp, VG+ (minor bruising & scuffing to board corners, minor fading to rear board, sl soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press 2006

KEYWORDS: first editions philosophy literature biography autobiography theory criticism history

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