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Jean de LA BRUYÈRE · 1697 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€1,100.00 ($1,212.40 | £917.69 | ¥193,605)

Estienne Michallet | Paris 1697 | 9.5 x 16.5 cm | Relié | Nouvelle édition. Selon Brunet, III, 720, toutes les éditions comportant la clef sont des contrefaçons étrangères. En effet, on considère que la neuvième édition de Michallet date de 1696 et que la dernière édition du m...

LADIES FOR LIBERTY Women Who Made A Difference In American History [SIGNED]

John Blundell · 2011 · Dodman Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,637)

New York, Algora Publishing, 1st Edition, All in VG, crisp, clean and bright internal order. Signed by author to title page with dedication. Card covers lightly worn. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 8xo. xi. 218pp, Signed by Author(s), Very...

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Philip John Stead · 1959 · Dodman Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London, Panther / Hamilton & Co, First paperback edition of biography of "the first and most feared of all the great detectives" and hard to find thus. Suitably sexed up on the cover with sensational blurb and Josh Kirby artwork. Toned to page edges, but otherwise all in VG in...

Walt Whitman's America _ A Cultural Biography

Reynolds, David S. · 1995 · San Francisco Book Company

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,160)

New York Alfred A Knopf Cloth/dust jacket Octavo tan cloth spine, papered boards, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 671 pp. Very good very good

How to Stop Time _ Heroin from A to Z.

Marlowe, Ann · 1999 · San Francisco Book Company

€16.00 ($17.63 | £13.35 | ¥2,816)

New York Anchor Books Paperback Octavo wraps, 297 pp. Very good

Madame Claude _ Her Secret World of Pleasure, Privilege & Power

Stadiem, William · 2018 · San Francisco Book Company

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

New York St Martin's Press Paperback Octavo wraps, 278 pp, black ink markings on the front and rear covers. Very good

Proust

Hayman, Ronald · 1991 · San Francisco Book Company

€16.00 ($17.63 | £13.35 | ¥2,816)

London Minerva Paperback Octavo wraps, 564 pp, covers lightly worn, price tag on the front cover. Very good

Desert Queen _ The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser of Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia

Wallach, Janet · 1997 · San Francisco Book Company

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London Orion House Paperback Octavo wraps, 419 pp worn edges. Good

Samuel Pepys _ The Years of Peril

Bryant, Arthur · 1967 · San Francisco Book Company

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.03 | ¥5,280)

London Collins Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo blue cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 466 pp, dj worn on the edges. Very good good

Love the World or Get Killed Trying

Chamberland, Alvina · 2024 · San Francisco Book Company

€16.00 ($17.63 | £13.35 | ¥2,816)

London Menard Press Paperback Octavo wraps, 270 pp. Very good

My Friend Henry Miller

Perles, Alfred · 1956 · San Francisco Book Company

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,040)

New York John Day Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo red cloth, black lettering, dust jacket, 255 pp, dj worn and torn, covers lightly worn. Good fair

Rahel Varnhagen _ The Life of a Jewess

Arendt, Hannah; Weissberg, Liliane (ed); Winston, Richard and Clara (trans) · 1997 · San Francisco Book Company

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press Cloth/dust jacket Octavo blue cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 388 pp. Very good very good

Praeterita _ Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts, Perhaps Worthy of Memory, in My Past Life

Ruskin, John · 1889 · San Francisco Book Company

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Boston Dana Estes & Company Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo green cloth, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 459 pp, covers lightly worn and scuffed. Good

Anna Freud _ A Biography

Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth · 1988 · San Francisco Book Company

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

New York Summit Books Cloth/dust jacket Octavo purple cloth spine, papered boards, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 527 pp, dj lightly worn on the edges. Very good very good

Walt Whitman _ A Life

Kaplan, Justin · 1986 · San Francisco Book Company

€17.00 ($18.74 | £14.18 | ¥2,992)

New York Touchstone Paperback Octavo wraps, 429 pp, covers worn on the edges, spine creased, owner's inscription on the front endpaper. Good

Joy Goddess _ A'lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance

Bundles, A'lelia · 2025 · San Francisco Book Company

€22.00 ($24.25 | £18.35 | ¥3,872)

New York Scribner Hardcover/dust jacket Octavo black papered boards, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 363 pp. Very good very good

Becoming Kareem _ Growing Up On and Off the Court

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem; Obstfeld, Raymond · 2017 · San Francisco Book Company

€17.00 ($18.74 | £14.18 | ¥2,992)

New York Little, Brown & Co Cloth/dust jacket Octavo black papered boards, yellow lettering, dust jacket, 289 pp. Very good very good

Broadway Butterfly _ Vivian Gordon _ The Lady Gangster of Jazz Age New York

Destefano, Antrhony M. · 2024 · San Francisco Book Company

€22.00 ($24.25 | £18.35 | ¥3,872)

New York Citadel Press Hardcover/dust jacket Octavo black papered boards, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 246 pp. Very good very good

Samuel Pepys and his world

Trease, Geoffrey · 1978 · San Francisco Book Company

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

London Thames & Hudson Cloth/dust jacket Octavo green cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 128 pp. Very good very good

Too Rich _ The High Life and Tragic Death of King Farouk

Stadiem, William · 2009 · San Francisco Book Company

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,160)

London Parkway Publishing Paperback Octavo illustrated wraps, 409 pp small tear on the bottom of the spine Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Very good