Biografi

E.M. Forster and his world

King, Francis · 1978 · San Francisco Book Company

€18.00 ($19.84 | £15.02 | ¥3,167)

New York Charles Scribner's Sons Cloth/dust jacket Small Quarto gray cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 128 pp dj worn on the edges owner's ex-libris bookplate on the front pastedown. Very good good

Bloomsbury Portraits

Shone, Richard · 1976 · San Francisco Book Company

€27.00 ($29.76 | £22.53 | ¥4,751)

Oxford Phaidon Press Limited Cloth/dust jacket Octavo illustrated cloth, dust jacket, 272 pp dj spine sunned and chipped at top edge. Very good good

W. Somerset Maugham _ and His World

Raphael, Frederic · 1978 · San Francisco Book Company

€18.00 ($19.84 | £15.02 | ¥3,167)

London Thames & Hudson Cloth/dust jacket Octavo ten cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 128 pp owner's ex-libris bookplate on the front pastedown. Very good very good

Edith Sitwell

Salter, Elizabeth · 1988 · San Francisco Book Company

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,519)

London Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Cloth/dust jacket Quarto blue cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 101 pp. Very good very good

The Sitwells _ and the Arts of the 1920s and 1930s

Skipwith, Joanna · 1994 · San Francisco Book Company

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.03 | ¥5,279)

London National Portrait Gallery Hardcover/dust jacket Quarto illustrated boards, dust jacket, 239 pp. Very good very good

The Ugly One _ The Childhood Memoirs of Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly 1913-39

Ranfurly, Hermione · 1998 · San Francisco Book Company

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,639)

London Michael Joseph Cloth/dust jacket Octavo blue cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, mylar wrap, 202 pp. Very good very good

Frank _ The Making of a Legend

Kaplan, James · 2010 · San Francisco Book Company

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,639)

London Sphere Paperback Octavo wraps, 786 pp. Very good

Gandhi's Passion _ The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi

Wolpert, Stanley · 2001 · San Francisco Book Company

€17.00 ($18.74 | £14.18 | ¥2,991)

Oxford Oxford University Press Paperback Octavo wraps, 308 pp. Very good

Himmler _ Reichsfuhrer SS

Padfield, Peter · 1990 · San Francisco Book Company

€24.00 ($26.45 | £20.02 | ¥4,223)

London Macmillan Cloth/dust jacket Octavo green cloth, silver lettering, dust jacket, 656 pp. Very good very good

The Reckoning _ The Murder of Christopher Marlowe

Nicholl, Charles · 1992 · San Francisco Book Company

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,519)

London Jonathan Cape Cloth/dust jacket Octavo blue cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 413 pp. Very good very good

Lorca _ A Dream of Life

Stainton, Leslie · 1999 · San Francisco Book Company

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,519)

London Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Paperback Octavo wraps, 568 pp. Very good

Inner Exile _ Recollections of a Life with Werner Heisenberg

Heisenberg, Elisabeth · 1980 · San Francisco Book Company

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,557)

Boston Birkhauser Cloth/dust jacket Octavo blue cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 170 pp book agency stamp on the front endpaper. Very good very good

Nureyev _ His Life

Solway, Diane · 2003 · San Francisco Book Company

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,639)

London Phoenix Press Paperback Octavo wraps, 625 pp , water damage covers lightly worn spine creased. Good

Jane Austen _ A Life

Tomalin, Claire · 1997 · San Francisco Book Company

€23.00 ($25.35 | £19.19 | ¥4,047)

London Viking Cloth/dust jacket Octavo blue cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 358 pp. Very good very good

Charles Darwin _ A New Life

Bowlby, John · 1990 · San Francisco Book Company

€22.00 ($24.25 | £18.35 | ¥3,871)

New York W. W. Norton & Company, Inc Cloth/dust jacket Octavo burgundy cloth, gilt lettering, papered boards, dust jacket, 511 pp, minor chips on edges of dust jacket. Very good good

Michael Douglas _ Out of the Shadows

Dougan, Andy · 2003 · San Francisco Book Company

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,639)

London Robson Paperback Octavo wraps, 310 pp, reading crease to spine. Very good

Like a Fiery Elephant _ The Story of B. S. Johnson

Coe, Jonathan · 2004 · San Francisco Book Company

€18.00 ($19.84 | £15.02 | ¥3,167)

London Picador Cloth/dust jacket Octavo black cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket unclipped, 486 pp, first edition, edges and pages toned. Very good very good

My Century _ The Odyssey of a Polish Intellectual

Wat, Aleksander; Milosz, Czeslaw (foreword); Lourie, Richard (trans) · 1988 · San Francisco Book Company

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,519)

Berkeley University of California Press Cloth/dust jacket Octavo gray cloth, black lettering, dust jacket, 407 pp. Very good very good

Jane Austen at Home _ 250th Birthday Edition§

Worsley, Lucy · 2024 · San Francisco Book Company

€22.00 ($24.25 | £18.35 | ¥3,871)

London Hodder & Stoughton Cloth/dust jacket Octavo blue cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 488 pp. Very good very good

Edith Wharton _ A Woman in Her Time

Auchinloss, Louis · 1971 · San Francisco Book Company

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,399)

New York The Viking Press Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo beige cloth, gilt lettering, 191 pp, Inscribed by relative of Beatrix Ferrand (Niece of Wharton), bookplate to front pastedown, covers slightly soiled, stain to top right corner. Good