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| Bedford, Sybille: ALDOUS HUXLEY, A BIOGRAPHY. Volume One: 1894-1939. Volume Two: 1939-1963.
Book Number: 36476
Quartet Books, London, 1979 Large 8vos. softcovers. 400, 370pp. b/w illus. very good.
Keywords: aldous huxley biography authors
Price: $30.00 |
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| Freedman, Ralph.: Life of a Poet: Rainer Maria Rilke.
Book Number: 36501
NY.: Farrar Straus Giroux. (1996), 1996. 1st. edition - stated 8vo. Hardcover in d/w - Very Good. PO stamp on ffl. Photographs, notes and sources, index; 640 pages.
Keywords: German, Russian French Poet. 1875 - 1926.
Price: $35.00 |
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| Goodman, Jonathan: Who he?: Goodman's dictionary of the unknown famous
Book Number: 36550
London Buchan & Enright 1984 8vo hardcover 281pp index. very good / very good d/w with small tear on rear corner.
Keywords: Biographies Memoirs Who he? Goodman's dictionary of the unknown famous Goodman Jonathan
Price: $18.00 |
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| Shankland, Peter: Byron of the Wager
Book Number: 36588
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan 1975 8vo hardcover 288pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: byron biography poets
Price: $15.00 |
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| Lennard Bickel: FLOREY - The Man Who Made Penicillin
Book Number: 36766
Melbourne University Press 1995 8vo. softcover. 314pp. index, b/w illus. very good
Keywords: penicillin, antibiotic, mould, bacteria
Price: $15.00 |
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| Kathleen Jones: A Glorious Fame - The Life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle 1623-1673
Book Number: 36769
Bloomsbury 1990 8vo. Papeback. 192pp. Very good, light toning of pages. Index. Illustrated with b&w plates. Magaret Cavendish was the first woman to write specifically for publication. Writing in the turbulent days of the Civil War and after, she was a remarkable woman who masked her shyness with an extravagant public persona and fantastic costumes she designed herself. Renowned in her day, Samuel Pepys queued with the crowds in Whitehall to see her arrive at Court and John Evelyn wrote of 'the extraordinary fanciful habit and garb and discourse of teh Duchess'.
Keywords: First Woman Female Author - Fashion Designer.
Price: $15.00 |
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| Todd, Janet: Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life (Lives in Letters S.)
Book Number: 36787
London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2000 8vo hardcover 516pp index, b/w illus. very good, small owner's inscription on fep. / very good d/w. The true Mary Wollstonecraft - the passionate, complex woman behind the political visionary and proto-feminist.
Keywords: Society Politics Philosophy Biography Mary Wollstonecraft A Revolutionary Life (Lives in Letters S ) Todd Janet
Price: $35.00 |
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| Brittain, Vera: Chronicle of friendship: Diary of the thirties, 1932-1939
Book Number: 36976
London V. Gollancz 1986 8vo hardcover 448pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Literature Fiction World Literature British General Chronicle of friendship Diary of the thirties 1932 1939 Brittain Vera
Price: $30.00 |
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| Chesterton, G. K.: Robert Louis Stevenson
Book Number: 37061
Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1929. Small 8vo. blue cloth hardcover. 259pp. good+, foxed. / no d/w.
Keywords: Robert Louis Stevenson biography
Price: $25.00 |
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| Agate, James: THE SELECTIVE EGO - The Diaries of James Agate.
Book Number: 37168
London Harrap, 1976 8vo. hardcover. 269pp. index. Newly edited by Tim Beaumont. very good. / very good d/w.
Keywords: Autobiography and Biography
Price: $18.00 |
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