Biografi

Picasso: His Life and Work

Penrose, Roland · 1959 · San Francisco Book Company

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,038)

New York Harper & Brothers Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo brown boards, red cloth to spine, purple lettering to spine, dust jacket, mylar wrapped, 392 pp dust jacket edges worn. Very good fair

Monsieur Proust

Albaret, Celeste; Bray, Barbara (trans) · 1976 · San Francisco Book Company

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,399)

London Collins and Harvill Press Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dust jacket, 387 pp dust jacket edges worn. Very good good

The Memoirs of Frederic Mistral

Mistral, Frederic ; Wickes, George (trans) · 1994 · San Francisco Book Company

€16.00 ($17.64 | £13.35 | ¥2,815)

Paris Alycamps Press Paperback Octavo wraps, 264 pp. Very good

Francois Hotman _ A Revolutionary's Ordeal

Kelley, Donald R. · 1973 · San Francisco Book Company

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.03 | ¥5,279)

Princeton Princeton University Press Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dust jacket, mylar protected, 370 pp previous owner signed front free endpaper. Very good very good

Mahler Remembered

Lebrecht, Norman · 1989 · San Francisco Book Company

€16.00 ($17.64 | £13.35 | ¥2,815)

London Faber & Faber Paperback Octavo wraps, 322 pp. Very good

Goring _ A Biography

Irving, David · 1990 · San Francisco Book Company

€16.00 ($17.64 | £13.35 | ¥2,815)

New York Avon Books Paperback Octavo wraps, 573 pp edges slghtly worn. Good

Blues from Laurel Canyon _ My Life as a Bluesman

Mayall, John ; McIver, Joel ; Fleetwood, Mick (fore) · 2026 · San Francisco Book Company

€16.00 ($17.64 | £13.35 | ¥2,815)

London Omnibus Press Paperback Octavo wraps, 246 pp. Very good

The Lisle Letters: An Abridgement

Byrne, Muriel St, Clare [ed.] · 1983 · Barter Books Ltd

£15.60 (€18.70 | $20.61 | ¥3,290)

VG : in very good condition with scuffed gold slipcase London The Folio Press First Edition 240mm x 170mm (9" x 7"). xxvi; 436pp.

Memories & Reflections [SIGNED]

Valentine, Mary Currell (née Hayes) (1931-2016) · 2013 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$165.00 (€149.70 | £124.89 | ¥26,340)

[Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canad] Privately Printed First Edition, First Printing pp. 147 + fourteen unnumbered leaves of colour plates (printed to rectos only). Quarto, measuring 9" x 11". Pictorial card covers held with black plastic spiral binding. Bright, clean, and unmarked; ne...

The White Nile

Alan Moorhead · 1961 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,668)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1961. Cloth. A scarce early impression of a popular exploration of the impact of Nile explorers upon the Scramble for Africa, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. A scarce early impression of The While Nile, a popular history on the nineteenth centu...

Jock of the Bushveld

Sir Percy Fitzpatrick · 1907 · Rooke Books

£5,750.00 (€6,892.21 | $7,596.59 | ¥1,212,692)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1907 . First edition. Cloth. Inscribed by the author to Director of Military Intelligence Cedric Rhys Price, this is an exceptional first edition of Sir James Percy FitzPatrick's classic account of his travels with his dog. Beautifully ill...

THE ENIGMA OF KIDSON Portrait of an Eton Schoolmaster

BLACKETT Jamie · 2017 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Quiller, 2017. 9781846892509 1st edn. 8vo .Original gilt lettered blue cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 335+ 532, with coloured and b&w illus (no inscriptions).

AN INNKEEPER'S DIARY

FOTHERGILL John · 1931 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

Chatto & WIndus, 1931 1st edn 1st printing signed by author on title page. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (spine chipped at headcap and boards lightly marked - in protective cover), no dustwrapper. Pp. x, 294, illus with b&w plates and folding facsimile of the 'Height ...

JANE WELSH CARLYLE AND HER VICTORIAN WORLD A Story of Love Work Friendship and Marriage

CHAMBERLAIN Kathy · 2017 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Duckworth Overlook, 2017. 9780715651650 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (near Fine, not price clipped). Pp. 398, illus with b&w plates (no inscriptions).

SIR JOSEPH BANKS 18th Century Explorer Botanist and Entrepreneur

LYTE Charles · 1980 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Sydney: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1980. 9780589502249 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered maroon cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protective cover). Pp. 248, illus with coloured and b&w plates (previous owner's neat inscription on front endpaper).

FOR WANT OF THE GOLDEN CITY

SITWELL Sacheverell · 1973 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

Thames and Hudson, 1973 1st edn signed and inscribed by author on title page. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth, top edge blue, pictorial endpapers (near Fine), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 464 (no other inscriptions).

PRETTY YOUNG REBEL The Life of Flora Macdonald

FRASER Flora · 2022 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Bloomsbury, 2022. 9781408879825 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original red lettered cream cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (near Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. xxxi + 285, illus with coloured and b&w plates (no inscriptions).

A PECULIARLY ENGLISH GENIUS OR A WILTSHIRE TAOIST A Biography of Richard Jefferies Volume I The Early Years 1848-1867

ROSSABI Andrew · 2017 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

Foulsham: Petton Books, 2017 1st edn signed by author on title page. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (Fine), no dustwrapper. Pp. xx + 799, with b&w illus in text (no other inscriptions).

5 Vols the Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson Volumes III-VII

Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson; Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas [Ed.] · 1845 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.68 | $310.47 | ¥49,562)

London, Henry Colburn, 1845-1846 . Leather. The first edition of the concluding five volumes of Nelson's extensive correspondence, spanning the Battle of the Nile through to his final months and death at Trafalgar. In contemporary quarter calf over cloth boards, with remn...

Escape: A Book of Escapes of All Kinds

[ed. by Francis Yeats-Brown] · 1937 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.08 | ¥50,617)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1937. Cloth. An anthology of daring escapes across modern history, stretching from Charles II to a British spy in Lenin's Russia. An early edition of Escape: A Book of Escapes of All Kinds, arranged and edited with introductions by British off...