Nin, Anais; Gunther Stuhlmann (ed.)

Diary of Anais Nin Volume 6; 1955-1966

New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. Paperback. pp. 414. 8vo. Light shelfwear, ink inscription to half title page; very good. .

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Book number: 088222

Catalogue: Biography

Nin, Anaïs

The Early Diary of Anais Nin; Volume Four 1927-1931

San Diego, Harcourt, 1985. Hardcover. pp. 502. 8vo. Bound to spine in tan cloth. Light shelfwear, sticker ghost to ffep. Dustjacket protected with plastic brodart sleeve; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. .

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Book number: 091013

Catalogue: Literary Biography

[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]; Weil-Nordon, Prof. P. (Intro.)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Centenary 1859-1959

London, John Murray, 1959. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. 136. Small folio. Beautifully bound in silver-decorated red buckram. Bevelled boards, silver rules, titling in silver, with ribbon marker. Coloured tipped-in frontispiece and 130 other illustrations. Slight dent to top edge of front board, slightest rubbing to extreme corner tips of boards. Contents clean and unmarked. Binding slightly stressed between pp. 132-133 - the book may have been pressed flat. Otherwise, in very good to near fine condition. The dust wrapper is slightly chipped at top and bottom of folds. Front flap has been diagonally clipped at bottom. Slight blue smudge (thumbnail size) to front panel. Perhaps a trifle soiled; else in very good condition. .

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Book number: 9900030000

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Sherlock Holmes; Sherlockiana; ACD;

MacKenzie, Norman and Jeanne

H.G. Wells: A Biography

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1973. Hardcover. pp. xvi, 487. 8vo. Bound in full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine, and blind stamped lettering to front board. Black and white photographic plates. Shaken, light shelfwear; very good- in very good- dustjacket with a few short closed tears to edges. .

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Book number: 053273

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Northup, Solomon; Ira Berlin (Intro.); Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (General Editior)

Twelve Years a Slave

New York, Penguin Books, 2012. Paperback. pp. xxxvi, 240. 8vo. Black and white illustrations. Very good. .

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Book number: 053678

Catalogue: Biography

Oates, Joyce Carol

The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates 1973-1982

New York, Ecco, 2007. Hardcover. 8vo. Light shelfwear, ink line to bottom edge; good+. Edited by Greg Johnson. .

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Book number: 057288

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Obama, Barack

A Promised Land

New York, Crown Publishing Group, 2020. Hardcover. pp. xvi, 751. 8vo. Colour photographs. Light shelfwear, corners bumped; very good in very good, rubbed dustjacket. .

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Book number: 087416

Catalogue: Biography

Oliphant, Margaret; Elisabeth Jay [Ed.]

The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant

Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2002. Paperback. pp. 221. 8vo. Light shelfwear, creasing and rubbing to covers; very good. .

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Book number: 082188

Catalogue: Biography

Nels Olson

Time in Many Places

St. Cloud, MN, North Star Press, 1980. Hardcover. pp. ix, 206. 8vo. Black and white illustrations. Light general shelfwear. Occasional ink and pencil notations to textblock; good+ in good+ slightly worn dustjacket, showing closed tears to edges. .

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Book number: 073433

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: American History; Midwest Hiostory; Regional History; Minnesota;

Orwell, George; Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus (ed.)

The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Volume 4; in Front of Your Nose, 1945-50

Middlesex, Penguin Books, 1970. Paperback. pp. 621. 8vo. General shelfwear and creasing, bowing to spine; good. .

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Book number: 089752

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Orwell, George; Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus (ed.)

The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 2; My Country Right or Left 1940-1943

Middlesex, Penguin Books, 1970. Paperback. pp. 540. 8vo. General shelfwear and creasing, bowing to spine; good. .

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Book number: 089753

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Overbye, Dennis

Einstein in Love; a Scientific Romance

New York, Viking Adult, 2000. Hardcover. pp. 416. 8vo. Light shelfwear, Some nicking to edges and light soiling to dustjacket; very good+ in very good dustjacket. .

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Book number: 089007

Catalogue: Biography

Page, Jesse

Samuel Crowther the Slave Boy Who Became Bishop of the Niger

New York, Fleming H. Revelle Company, 1890. 4th edition, eighteenth thousand. Hardcover. pp. xii, 160. 12mo. Publisher's brown cloth binding, with gilt and black decoration and lettering to spine and boards. Illustrated with engravings. Binding is square and tight. Front endpaper repaired at hinge, rear free endpaper replaced. Spot to frontispiece, smudge to title page, a few occasional spots but contents mostly clean and unmarked. A lovely copy. The story of "the fist Native Bishop of Africa, the pathetic incidents of his early life, and the gracious success which has crowned his efforts on the banks of the Niger. .

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Book number: 087742

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Missionaries; Race; History; Slavery;

Patchett, Ann

Truth & Beauty; a Friendship

New York, Harper Perennial, 2005. Paperback. pp. 257. 8vo. Very good+. .

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Book number: 085734

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Patterson, George

Memoirs of the Rev. S.F. Johnston, the Rev. J.W. Matheson, and Mrs. Mary Johnston Matheson. Missionaries on Tanna. ; with Selections from Their Diaries and Correspondence, and Notices of the New Hebrides, Their Inhabitants and Missionary Work Among Them

Philadelphia, W. S. & A. Martien, 1864. Hardcover. pp. 504. 8vo. Cloth bound. Engraved frontispiece of Mary Johnston Matheson. Likely originally burgundy, now heavily discoloured by the sun. Binding scuffed with some tears, corners bumped, gilt lettering to spine faded, ink inscriptions to ffep and second page, some foxing and light spotting throughout, some purple splotching to final 20 pages, not affecting text; good-. .

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Book number: 086659

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Polynesia; Colonialism; Western Expansion; Exploration; Conversion; Protestant Missions; Racism; Cultural Genocide; South Pacific;