Children of the Roojme__A Family's Journey
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1991. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. beige cloth, green papered boards, bronze lettering, dust jacket, 303pp, signed by author to full title page. More
Biography
Andrei Sakharov__Facets of a Life
Gif-sur-Yvette, France: Editions Frontieres, 1991. Cloth/no dust jacket. Quarto. Hardcover. 730 pp. Reminiscences of approximately 50 people plus 5 annexes and section "About the Authors." part of "Legends of our Time" a series edited by J. Tran Thanh Van. More
J. G. Frazer His Life and Work
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. green cloth gilt lettering dust jacket 348 pp. More
The Education of Henry Adams__An Autobiography
New York: Heritage Press, 1942. Chamberlain, Samuel. Hardcover Quarto in slipcase. Hardcover. brown cloth to spine, marbled papered boards, gilt lettering, 483 pp, near fine in poor slipcase, small spot to edge, splitting and tape at edges of slipcase, title label to spine of slipcase, Heritage Press monthly newsletter laid in. More
Nabokov's Otherworld
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Cloth/dust jacket and mylar wrapped octavo. Hardcover. gray cloth, gilt lettering, mylar-wrapped dust jacket, 266 pp, More
Walker Percy: A Southern Wayfarer
Jackson, Miss. Univ Pr Of Mississippi, 1986. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. yellow cloth blue lettering dust jacket 160 pp. More
Stendhal__A Biography
Boston: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1980. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. black cloth with silver lettering to spine illustrated dust jacket 285pp previous owners inscription to front paste away. More
The American Henry James
London: John Calder, 1958. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. off-white boards, gilt lettering, no dust jacket 369 pp, discoloration to spine, owner's name on front endpaper. More
The Double Bond__Primo Levi__A Biography
New York: Viking Press, 2002. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. black cloth silver lettering dust jacket 898 pp. More
Public Characters of All Nations, Consisting of Biographical Accounts of Nearly Three Thousand Eminent Contemporaries, Alphabeticall Arranged__With Numerous Portraits__In Three Volumes
London: Plummer and Brewis, 1823. Hardcover Octavo no dust jacket. Hardcover. three volumes, marble boards, blue cloth spine, white label, black lettering, deckled edges, 750 pp, 864 pp, 640 pp, bookplate to inside front cover covered by front paste downs, front hinge and endpaper of first volume loose, corners bumped... More
Salman Rushdie: A Memoir
London: Jonathan Cape, 2012. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. purple cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 636 pp. More
Trollope__ Artist and Moralist
London: Chatto & Windus, 1971. Cloth/dust jacket and mylar wrapped octavo. Hardcover. grey cloth gilt lettering dust jacket 203 pp. More
Chamfort__A Biography
Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1992. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. papered boards gilt lettering dust jacket 340 pp. More
Notes from a Battered Grand: A Memoir__Fifty Years of Music from Honky-Tonk to High Society
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1992. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. black cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 305 pp, top corner of front endpaper missing. More
King Hussein of Jordon_A Political Life
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Paperback Octavo. Paperback. illustrated wraps, 431 pp, moderate creasing at spine. More
The Autobiography of Margot Asquith
Cambridge: The Riverside Press/Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. grey cloth gilt lettering no dust jacket 342 pp slight water stains to upper edge of page in latter third of book. More
Simenon__ A Biography
London: Chatto & Windus, 1997. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. black cloth gilt lettering dust jacket 447 pp. More
Graham Greene
London: Calder and Boyars, 1970. Cloth/dust jacket and mylar wrapped Octavo. Hardcover. brown cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 257 pp. More
Bellow_ A Biography
New York: Random House, 2000. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. quarter-bound in grey cloth, grey papere boards, gilt lettering, dust jacket, unclipped 686 pp, first edition, inscribed to Carol Shields by the author on the half title page. More
Andre Tardieu
Paris: Librairie Plon, 1957. Paperback Octavo. Paperback. wraps 213 pp No. 156 of 300 inscribed by Ivor Martin on half title page text in French. More
Ellen Terry__Player in her Time
London: Phoenix House, 1987. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. white cloth gilt lettering dust jacket 504 pp. More