CHARLIE CHAPLIN. A Brief Life.
New York, Doubleday. 2014. 8vo. pp.viii + 289 with black & white photographs. White quarter cloth with papered boards hardcover in original pictorial dust wrapper. Very Good.
BIOGRAPHY
THE LIFE OF THOMAS MORE.
Folio Society, London, 2017. 8vo.pp.xxi + 456 + 32 platesmostly in colour. Quarter black cloth in decorated boards in orange slip case. Fine as new copy in the origial publishers shrink wrap. Tudor History.
GANDHI ,Naked Ambition.
Quercus , London , 2010. 8vo.pp.xii +323 ,illustrations,notes,bibliography ,index. Very Good handcover in Very Good dust wrapper. ISBN 9781849162104 A concise ,elegant and masterly account of one of the seminal figures of twentieth century history.
ROSE SCOTT: Vision and revision in Feminism.
Melbourne, Publshed by Oxford University Press, 1994. First Edition. Royal 8vo pp.xi +331 index, select bibliography, notes & black and white photographs. Original dark green hardcover in pictorial dustwrapper. Rose Scott (1847-1925) was a central figure in the history of Australian feminist reform. This book is the first detailed account.....
LONDON TO DOWN UNDER .
Boolarong Publications,Brisbane, 1986. First Edition.8vo.pp.x +109. Illustrated,Very Good hardcover in Very Good dust jacket. ISBN 090817599 X.
TINA MODOTTI: Between Art and Revolution
New Haven & London: Published by Yale University Press, 2003. First Edition in English. 8vo. pp.xviii + 329. Index and illustrations in black & white. a few spots on the foredges Original red hardcover in pictorial dustt wrapper. Very Good. A charismatic stage and screen actress. A model whose beauty.....
BRIEF LIVES.
London, Published by The Folio Society. 2016. Edited from the original manuscripts by Oliver Lawson Dick. Introduced by Peter Conrad. Illustrated by Joe Ciardiello. 8vo. pp. 433. Quarter black cloth with pictorial boards in tan slipcase.Fine as new copy in original publishers shrink wrap.
MOTHER STAYED AT HOME. Letters To A Travelling Daughter.
Sydney, James Fraser Publishing. 1985. First Edition 8vo. pp.104, illustrations in black and white in text.Original red cloth hardcover in rear foxed now protected pictorial dust wrapper. In Collaroy, one of Sydney's northern beach suburbs Gwen Badgery (the mother) settled herself at an elderly typewriter and wrote spicy, gossipy letters.....
JOSEPHINE. The Hungry Heart.
New York. Published by Random House, 1993. First Edition. Royal 8vo. pp.xxiii + 533, index with photographs in black & white, Original black cloth spine, green boards hardcover in pictorial dustwrapper. Fine copy.
THE DOYLE DIARY. The Last Great Conan Doyle Mystery: With a Holmesian Investigation into the Strange and Curious Case of Charles Altamont Doyle.
Paddington Press, New York & London,1979. landscape ,180x255: 91pp. colour and black and white line illustrations, Original cloth hardcover in pictorial dust jacket, Very Good. Arthur Conan Doyles father was in a lunatic asylum in Scotland when he produced this diary in 1889.Haunting and beautifuly disturbing.
THE PASTONS. A Family In The War of The Roses.
London, The Folio Society, 2001. Royal 8vo. pp.208 + 10 full page colour plates, map endpapers. Full pictorial hardcover in blue slipcase. Very good.
CHARLEMAGNE.Father of A CONTINENT.
London, Published by The Folio Society. 2006. 8vo. pp.xx + 428 with colour plates.Gilt decorated cloth hardcover boards in red slipcase. Fine as new copy still in the original publishers shrinkwrap. The most important study of Charlemagne in a generation, this biography by distinguished medievalist Alessandro Barbero illuminates both the.....
THOMAS BECKET
London, The Folio Society, 2002. Royal 8vo.pp.xvi + 366 + 17 colour and black & white plates. Original purple decorated cloth hardcover in matching slip case. Fine copy as new in original publishers shrink wrap.
A WALKABOUT LIFE. Case Histories of A Nursing Sister In Love With Life.
Australia, Published by The Author. 2018. Royal 8vo. pp. 286 with colour and black & white photographs and other illustrations.Original stiff card pictorial softcover. Signed by the Author on the title page,
ELSA SCHAPARELLI'S PRIVATE ALBUM.
Published by Double-Barrelled Books, 2014. Foreword by Hubert de Givenchy. 4to.pp.192. profusely illustrated in black & white, sepia and colour. pink endpapers.Black hardcover titled in silver, in pictorial dust wrapper. Fine. An elaborately illustrated, highly personal look at one of the most prominent fashion figures of the 20th century.
WILSON
Simon & Shuster,London, 2013. Large thick softcover,8vo.pp.xi+818, illustrations.index. Very Good. Woodrow Wilson still stands as one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century ,as as one of the most enigmatic.More than one hundred years after his inauguration Pulitzer prize winning author Scott Berg has produced this biography.berg has.....
HIROHITO AND THE MAKING OF MODERN JAPAN.
New York, Harper Collins, 2000. Royal 8vo. pp.xi + 800 with black & white photographs and 4 maps. original grey quarter papered boards, hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. A Very Good copy.
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT. Champion of Freedom.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003. Royal 8vo.pp.viii + 1280 with black & white photographs. Original black cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper.
CAXTON: England's First Publisher
London, Published by Osprey, 1976. 8vo. pp. xii+220, frontispiece, with black & white illustrations notes, index lower front bottom corner bumped. Original pale green cloth, hardcover the spine blocked in red titled in gilt.In very good dustwrapper.
MARK CLARK.
London, Jonathan Cape, 1985. First Edition. 8vo.pp.xii + 306. Illustrated black & white photographs, map endpapers, index, General uniform tanning present. Original green hardcover in pictorial dustwrapper.
MOROTAI. A Memoir of War.
Kansas, Sunflower University Press, 1989. Second Enlarged Edition. Royal 8vo.pp. 283 with black & white photographs and maps. Quality large softcover. Very Good.
BOGART. In Search of My Father.
London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1995. Foreword by Lauren Bacall. First Edition. Royal 8vo. pp.vii + 286 with black & white photographs, index. Very good hardcover in very good pictorial dust wrapper.
THE WORLD OF JIMMY BRESLIN.
Hutchinson, London, 1968. 8vo. pp.vi + 282.. Original purple cloth hardcover in price clipped dust wrapper. There is a minor chip at the head of the dust wrapper.else a Very Good cop. ISBN090863704 .James Earle Breslin was an American journalist and author. Until the time of his death, he wrote.....
REACH FOR THE SKY.
London, The Folio Society, 2017. Royal 8vo. pp.vii + 362 with black & white photographs. Original decorated blue and black cloth in blue slipcase. A near fine copy in near fine slipcase.
BRICKTOP.
London, Published by Atheneum, 1983. First Edition. 8vo. pp.xviii + 301.Index. Photographs in black & white. Very good quarter red cloth papered boards hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper A fine copy. Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith better known as Bricktop, was an American dancer, jazz singer, vaudevillian, and.....