Hobbes: A Biography
Cambridge University Press. Paperback. 22.5 x 15 cm. Octavo. 390pp. End notes, index. More
Memoir, Autobiography & Biography
My Past and Thoughts: The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen
University of California Press, 1982. Paperback. 21 x 13.5 cm. Octavo. xlix 684 xi pp. Abridged by Dwight Macdonald, translated by Constance Garnett. More
Fremont: The West's Greatest Adventurer Being a Biography from Certain hitherto unpublished sources of General John C. Fremont together with his wife Jessie Benton Fremont (2 volume set)
New York & London: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. 24 x 16 cm. ix 738pp. Two volume set, both stated first editions with code M-B. Bound into blue cloth with gilt lettering. Some soiling to covers. Internally nice. Frontispiece and additional illustrations in both volumes. Armorial bookplate..... More
The Alvin Karpis Story
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1971. Hardcover. 22 x 14.5 cm. 256pp. Purple cloth in dust jacket. Illustrated with photographs. Bookplate on front free endpaper. Minor edgewear to jacket. Autobiography of a 1930s era gangster. More
Francis Bacon: History, Politics & Science
Cambridge University Press, 1993. Hardcover. Octavo. 409pp. Black cloth in dust jacket. Tanning and some foxing to the paper. More
David Friedrich Strauß, Father of Unbelief: An Intellectual Biography
Oxford University Press, 2000. First Impression. Hardcover. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. 293pp. Black boards in dust jacket. One corner of back cover lightly bumped. More
The Life of Benvenuto Cellini.
Officina Bodoni in Verona for The Limited Editions Club, 1937. Fritz Kredel. Limited ed. Hardcover. 33 x 24.5 cm. Folio. 302pp. Grey patterned linen in slipcase. Limited to 1550 copies signed by the artist, Fritz Kredel, this being copy 684. Some light edgwear to jacket. Lacking jacket. More
Germaine De Staël: a Political Portrait
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2016. Hardcover. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. 296pp. Black boards in dust jacket. More
Law, Justice and Empire: The Colonial Career of John Gorrie 1829-1892
The Press University of the West Indies, 1997. 371pp. End notes, bibliography, index. The Press UWI Biography Series, 2. More
Josephine: Napoleon's Empress
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1925. Hardcover. 22.5 x 14 cm. Octavo. vii 246pp. 12 illustrations; portraits. Green cloth. First edition with "First Published in 1925 on copyright page". Spine is sun toned. More
Not to Me Only.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 22 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 340pp. Map endpapers. Blue boards in dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Chipping and sun toning to the jacket. Some rubbing to the edges of the boards. More
The Passionate Years.
Alvin Redman, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. octavo. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2'. 370pp. Dust jacket has some small closed tears with some light creasing and chipping at edges. Thin stain on title page which has bled into the page preceding this page resulting from a publishers label. More
Stormy Years The Autobiography of Carter H. Harrison Five Time Mayor of Chicago.
Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1935. Limited. Hardcover. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. Octavo. 360pp. Frontispiece photo. Bound in green boards. This is copy number 20 of 99 copies of the autograph ediiton signed by Harrison on the limitation page. Harrison also signed and inscribed to the previous owner..... More
Schopenhauer: A Biography
Cambridge University Press, 2013. Paperback. 23 x 15 cm. Octavo. 575pp. Bibliography, index. More
Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict
Oxford University Press, 2021. Fifth Impression. Hardcover. 24 x 16 cm. Octavo. 448pp. Black boards in dust jacket. Biography of the theologian. More
What Fun!
Privately Printed, 2002. Hardcover. 26.5 x 20 cm. 1/4 brown leather spine, grey cloth covers in grey cloth slipcase. Laid-in is a hand written note signed by the author "Ken". Tipped-in photographs. Memoir of life in of the former CEO of Dayton Hudson company, also touching on life in Minneapolis..... More
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi in two volumes.
London: Richard Bentley, 1838. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volume set. 20.5 x 13 cm. Octavo. xix 288pp, ix 263 36pp ads. Bound in publisher's pink embossed cloth. With engraved frontispiece portrait of Grimaldi in volume one and 11 etched plates by Cruikshank, 5 in volume 1, 6 in volume 2..... More
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George Washington [5 volume set].
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948 - 1952. Hardcover. Five volume set bound in black cloth with gilt spine lettering and housed in slipcase. Complete as issued, but two additional volumes were later published. Octavo. No dust jackets. Map endpapers, usually maps, and frontispiece in each volume. Each book is..... More
Edwin Austin Abbey Royal Academician: The Record of His Life and Work (2 volume set)
London, Methuen and Company Limited & New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921. Edwin Austin Abbey. 1/4 grey cloth and dark grey paper over boards, tan spine labels. Two volume set. 26.5 x 19.5 cm. 518pp, Quarto. Extensively illustrated with over 200 illustrations including photogravures & wood engravings. Most of these..... More
The Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt in four volumes.
London: John Murray, 1862. Second Edition. Full Leather. 4 volume set. Bound in contemporary tan leather with spine labels. 19.5 x 12.5 cm. 12mo. xii 403pp xxiii, viii 405pp xxxii, ix 435 xxxiii, viii 421pp xlix. Chip out of the head of the spine of volume one, tail of spines..... More
A Memoir of William Pengelly of Torquay, F.R.S., Geologist; With a Selection from his Correspondence
London: John Murray, 1897. Hardcover. 23 x 15 cm. Octavo. Red cloth. Dull gilt to spine. signed, with a short inscription by the editor/daughter of William Pengelly, Hester Pengelly Julia. Spine is faded and spotted. Corners are bumped. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Frontispiece portrait and 10 additional plates..... More
India and the Awakening East
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. xvi 237pp. Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the half-title page. Brown and black boards in clipped dust jacket. Illustrated with 32pp of photographs, map endpapers. Despite the dust jacket being clipped, the original price of..... More
This I Remember
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. 24 x 16.5 cm. Octavo. x 387pp. Blue cloth in dust jacket. Signed by Eleanor Roosevelt on the half-title page. Frontispiece portrait.Bump to the top of the front cover. Chipping to the edges of the jacket. Original price of $4.50..... More
Safari Encore
Privately Printed, 1950. Hardcover. Octavo. xvi 304pp. Bound into green cloth with black cover and spine labels. Signed and inscribed by the author on the second page. Privately printed in an edition of 400 copies. Map endpapers. Frontispiece photo of the author and additional photographs throughout. Front gutter is partially..... More
History Man: The Life of R. G. Collingwood
Princeton University Press, 2011. Paperback. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 385pp. End notes, index. More