Biografi

Sir Isaac Newton

Andrade, E. N. da C. · 1954 · Books & Bygones

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Book Good Good First Edition Collins London 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 140 pages. Part of a notable series of short biographies.

Still Eastward Bound

Lindsey, John · 1940 · Books & Bygones

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Book Good No Jacket Inscribed By the Author First Edition Rich & Cowan London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 311 pages. Inscription to free front endpaper reads - For Winifred + Henry Haas, with good wishes from - John Lindsey 1940. Red cloth with gilt title to spine. Illustrations...

Seed of Sarah : Memoirs of a Survivor

Isaacson, Judith Magyar · 1990 · Books & Bygones

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Book Good Good First Edition University of Illinois Press Urbana, IL 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 171 pages. This absorbing tale moves deftly from the author's idyllic childhood in Hungary through her terrifying coming-of-age as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps...

Raw: My Autobiography

Thompson, Antony Worrall · 2003 · Books & Bygones

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Book Very Good Good - Priceclipped Signed by Author(s) First Edition Bantam Press London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 390 pages. Stuffed with hugely entertaining anecdotes and lightly sprinkled with AWT's n0-holds-barred opinions, Raw is a heart-rendingly honest story of triumph ...

Dark Monarch, The - A Portrait from Within

Berlin, Sven · 1962 · Books & Bygones

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

Book Berlin, Sven Good Good First Edition Galley Press London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 204 pages. Rare first edition book, as it was withdrawn immediately after publication and destroyed, due to artists who believed themselves to be portrayed in the book taking libel action. ...

Stonehouse Gang Story, The

Webb, Harry · 1978 · Books & Bygones

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Book Good Good Signed by Author(s) First Edition Figaro Press for The Stonehouse Gang Birmingham 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 160 pages. Starting with just two boys the author launched the Stonehouse Gang to give young people a sense of purpose, adventure and excitement. Free fro...

Two Quiet Lives

Cecil, Lord David · 1965 · Books & Bygones

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Book Good Good - Priceclipped Reprint Constable and Company London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 194 pages. 'A book rare in our day... an invaluable reminder of life's possibilities.' - Elizabeth Bowen

A Touch of the Memoirs

Sinden, Donald · 1982 · Books & Bygones

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Book Good Good - Priceclipped Inscribed By the Author First Edition - Paperback Hodder and Stoughton London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 256 pages. Title page is inscribed 'For John Bedford best wishes Donald Sinden, 23-3-82. Dustjacket has been priceclipped by publisher.

Spencer Tracy - A Biography

Swindell, Larry · 1970 · Books & Bygones

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Book Good Good - Priceclipped First Edition W. H. Allen London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 319 pages. Black and white illustrations. Former owner's inscription to free front endpaper.

Thomas Hardy's Wessex

Worth, James W. · 1978 · Books & Bygones

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

Book Good Pitkin Pictorials London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 24 pages. Pictorial guide. Fully illustrated.

Age of the Moguls, The

Holbrook, Stewart H. · 1954 · Books & Bygones

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Book Good Good Fifth Printing Victor Gollancz London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 373 pages. A fascinating look at the 'tycoons' of America - Vanderbilt, Astor, Rockfeller, Carnegie.....

W.H. Auden : A Tribute

Spender, Stephen · 1975 · Books & Bygones

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Book Good Good First Edition Weidenfeld & Nicolson London 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Wystan Hugh Auden, who died in Vienna in September 1973, was known to the world as one of the finest poets of the twentieth century.

Life of D. H. Lawrence, The

Sagar, Keith · 1980 · Books & Bygones

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Book Good Good First Edition Eyre Methuen London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall The text is illustrated throughout with over 150 pictures, including 16 in colour, of Lawrence, his friends and associates, places where he lived, and of his paintings.

House of Byron, The

Walker, Violet W. · 1988 · Books & Bygones

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Book Good Good Signed by Author(s) First Edition Quiller Press London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall A history of the family from the Norman conquest 1066-1988. Revised and completed by Margaret J. Howell. Front endpaper is signed Robin Byron 5th December 1990.

Weep No More

Skelton, Barbara · 1989 · Books & Bygones

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Book Good Good First Edition Hamish Hamilton London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Small tear to bottom front edge of dustjacket, otherwise a good clean book. In this second - and, some people will be relieved to hear, final - volume of her riotous autobiography, Barbara Skelton is...

Life in Letters, A

Chekhov, Anton · 1994 · Books & Bygones

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Book Very Good Slipcase First Thus Folio Society London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Covers the period 1860-1904. Translated by Gordon McVay. Appears to be unread.

Parson in the Vale of White Horse, A : George Woodward's Letters from East Hendred, 1753-1761

Woodward, George; Gibson, Donald · 1982 · Books & Bygones

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Book Very Good Good First Edition Alan Sutton Gloucester 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Light sunning to spine. This book portrays a middle-class Georgian family with a country parson at its head.

Chartwell

No Author · 1966 · Books & Bygones

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

Book Good National Trust London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 5.75 x 8.75; 8pp leaflet with picture of Winston Churchill to front; This is a temporary brochure to be used until a permanent guide-book has been prepared;

Diary of a Cotswold Parson, The

Witts, Francis Edward - Edited By David Verey · 1998 · Books & Bygones

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Book Very Good Reprint Sutton Publishing Stroud, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall An interesting view of social history of the period.

Raglan: From the Peninsula to the Crimea

Sweetman, John · 1993 · Books & Bygones

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Book Very Good Very Good First Edition Arms & Armour London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall From this work emerges the portrait of a caring, thoughtful and capable man, greatly at variance with the unflattering image bequeathed by Raglan's detractors.