Remnick, David

The Bridge; the Life and Rise of Barack Obama

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Hardcover. pp. 656. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good in very good dustjacket. .

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Book number: 086908

Catalogue: Biography

Reynolds, K. D.; H. C. G Matthew

Queen Victoria

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in near fine dustjacket. .

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Book number: 047694

Catalogue: Biography

Rice, Anne

Called out of Darkness; a Spiritual Confession

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. Hardcover. pp. 245. 8vo. Light shelfwear, ink inscription to ffep; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. .

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Book number: 087777

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Richler, Mordecai

Dispatches from the Sporting Life

Toronto, Vintage Canada, 2003. Paperback. 8vo. Light shelfwear; good+. .

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Book number: 034223

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Rickles, Don; David Ritz

Rickles' Book; a Memoir

New York, Simon & Schuster, 2007. Hardcover. pp. 239. 8vo. Black and white photographs. Light shelfwear; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. .

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Book number: 088360

Catalogue: Biography

Rilke, Rainer Maria; Violet M. MacDonald (trans.)

Letters to Merline; 1919-1922

London, Methuen, 1951. Hardcover. pp. 149. Small 8vo. Blue binding with gilt lettering to spine. Light shelfwear, musty odour. Dustjacket age toned, with nicks and short tears to edges; very good in very good- dustjacket. .

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Book number: 086294

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Ritchie, J. Ewing

The Life and Times of Viscount Palmerston

London, London Printing and Publish, 1860. Hardcover. pp. 840, 840. Heavy 4to. Two volume set, uniformly bound in black 3/4 leather. Hinges of vol. I cracking but still intact. Bds. bumped, with wear to extremities. Conts. clean & tight; overall, vg cond. Henry John Temple (1784-1865) was the elder son of Henry Temple, second Viscount Palmerston. He succeeded to the peerage in 1802 and became a Tory MP in 1807, eventually becoming Foreign Secretary in 1830, a post which he held for many years, and during many great international events and upheavals. He became prime minister in 1855. In all, during his political career, he was elected to sit in 17 parliaments; serving four monarchs: George III, George IV, William IV and Queen Victoria. All steel engravings present, save for one plate in vol. II: 'The Empress of the French'. All are protected by tissue guard. A very robust, handsome, set on the shelf. Ill.: steel engravings.

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Book number: 9900021503

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: England;English history;Prime Minister;Tory;;;;; steel engravings

Roberton, Thomas B.

The Fighting Bishop /John Strachan the First Bishop of Toronto/ and Other Essays in His Times

Ottawa, The Graphic Publishers Ltd, 1926. Hardcover. Small 8vo, pp. 179. Light shelfwear, slightest fraying to tail of spine, small white spot to middle of front cover; very good-. No dustjacket. "[This is] the career of John Strachan, who arrived in Canada a poor land and became a power in the land. .

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Book number: 011103

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Canadian History; Francis Bond Head; Lake Erie; Chateauguay

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Tomorrow Is Now

New York, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. pp. xvii, 139. 8vo. Black quarter cloth over blue boards, with gilt lettering to spine. Moderate shelfwear, bumping to corners and spine ends; good+ in fair dustjacket, showing creasing, chipping and tearing, protected in Brodart sleeve. .

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Book number: 072309

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: American History; Politics; First Lady; Memoir; FDR;

Rosenthal, Eric

General de Wet

Cape Town, Siondium Publishers, 1968. Hardcover. pp. 295. 8vo. Black and white maps, photographs. Light general shelfwear, some light offsetting from now removed tape to endpapers; very good- in lightly rubbed, very good- dustjacket. .

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Book number: 063548

Catalogue: Biography

Rushdie, Salman

Joseph Anton: A Memoir

Canada, Knopf Canada, 2012. Hardcover. pp. xii, 636. Lightest shelfwear, a few pencil marks; very good, in lightly rubbed, near fine dust jacket. .

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Book number: 021434

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Keywords: Satanic Verses; Autobiography; Ayatollah Khomeini; Fatwa

Rushdie, Salman

Joseph Anton; a Memoir

Canada, Knopf Canada, 2012. Hardcover. pp. xii, 636. Lightest shelfwear; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. .

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Book number: 025075

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Keywords: Satanic Verses; Autobiography; Ayatollah Khomeini; Fatwa

Sandburg, Carl

Abraham Lincoln: The War Years / in Four Volumes

New York, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939. Hardcover. 8vo. Bound in full navy blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Publisher's top stain. Profusely illustrated. Very light general shelfwear; very good+. Overall, a very good+ presentable set. "With 426 Half-Tones of Photographs, And 244 Cuts of Cartoons, Letters, Documents. .

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Book number: 039467

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Civil War; American History; Military History;

Sartre, Jean Paul; Bernard Frechtman (Trans.)

Saint Genet; Actor and Martyr

New York, Mentor Books, 1963. Paperback. pp. 669. 8vo. Spine and corners of covers creased, previous owner's embossed stamp to title page; very good-. .

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Book number: 062175

Catalogue: Biography

Sassoon, Siegfried; Paul Fussell

Sherston's Progress

New York, Penguin Classics, 2013. Paperback. pp. 147. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. .

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Book number: 082485

Catalogue: Biography