Boyd, Madeleine (Ed.); Ernest Boyd (Intro.)

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova

New York, The Modern Library, 1929. Hardcover. pp. xii, 492. 8vo. Light shelfwear to edges, very shaken yet binding remains sound, previous owner's embossed stamp to title, otherwise contents clean and unmarked; good. .

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N° du livre: 055520

Catalogue: Biography

Boyd, Valerie

Wrapped in Rainbows; the Life of Zora Neale Hurston

New York, Scribner, 2004. Paperback. pp. 527. 8vo. Light shelfwear, very good-. .

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N° du livre: 076722

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Bredsdorff, Elias

Hans Christian Andersen: The Story of His Life and Work 1805-75

New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994. Paperback. 8vo. Very good+. .

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N° du livre: 026804

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Brennecke, Jr., Ernest

The Life of Thomas Hardy

New York City, Greenberg, Publisher, Inc, 1925. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. viii, 259.Large 8vo,,Small tear to top spine edge, very light edgewear, ink name; vg, A handsome book, with charming illustrations. No dust jacket. Ill.: photo frontis, b&w plates.

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N° du livre: 9900029911

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Authors;20th century writer;Hardy, Thomas;The Dynasts;Poet;;;; photo frontis, b&w plates

Breytenbach, Breyten

The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist

London, Faber and Faber, 1984. Hardcover. 8vo. Lightest shelfwear; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. .

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N° du livre: 057762

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Southern Africa; South Africa; Cultural; Africa; Nonfiction; Autobiography; Memoir;

O'Brien, P. J.

The Lindberghs: The Story of a Distinguished Family

Great Britain, International Press, 1935. Hardcover. pp. 352. 8vo. Black and white photographs. Light shelfwear, ink name; very good-. .

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N° du livre: 051952

Catalogue: Biography

Brittain, Vera

England's Hour

Toronto, The Macmillan Company of Canada Ltd, 1941. Hardcover. pp. 301. 8vo. Bound in pumpkin cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Black & white illustrations. Sunning to spine with dampstain to rear board. Both hinges loose. Contents clear and unmarked with exception of ffep; good+. .

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N° du livre: 065692

Catalogue: Biography

BRITTAIN, Vera

Testament of Youth an Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1939. Hardcover. pp. 661. 8vo. Original blue cloth binding with black lettering to spine. Front hinge is cracked, rear joint has received a recent application of clear tape, edgewear, previous owner's name (Dorothy S. Perkin - who was a sometime correspondent of the author) on the front free endpaper. The contents are unmarked. A fair copy of the author's most famous work. First published in August, 1935, in red cloth, this is a later printing, bound in blue cloth and published in October, 1939. .

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N° du livre: 9900044077

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: BritLit;Biography;Pacifism;;;;;;

Brophy, Brigid

Black and White; a Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley

London, Jonathan Cape, 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. pp.95. 8vo. 44 black & white reproductions. Light shelfwear; very good in price-clipped, very good- dustjacket showing some minor soiling. .

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N° du livre: 074363

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Lyrical Art; Biography; Art; Caricaturists;

Brown, Judith M.

Gandhi and CIVIL Disobedience: The Mahatma in Indian Politics, 1928-34

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1977. Hardcover. pp. xix, 414. 8vo. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Black & white illustrations. Light rubbing to boards, top corners lightly bumped, ink name, light pencil notations along margins; very good-. .

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N° du livre: 051787

Catalogue: Biography

Brown, Ian

Sixty; the Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning? | a Diary of My Sixty-First Year

Toronto, Random House Canada, 2015. Hardcover. pp. 313. 8vo. Light shelfwear, owner's gift note to half title; very good in very good dustjacket. .

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N° du livre: 078049

Catalogue: Biography

[Browne, Martha Griffith] [Mattie Griffith]

Autobiography of a Female Slave

New York City, J. S. Redfield, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. pp. 401, ads. Small 8vo. Bound in original brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Boards worn & bumped, with some soiling. Rear hinge cracked, binding a bit sprung, ffep removed; still a good copy. Martha Griffith Browne (also known as Mattie Griffith) was a white woman who, prior to her conversion to abolitionism, had owned slaves. She wrote sketches and poems for 'The National Anti-Slavery Standard', before writing this fictionalized slave narrative in 1856. 'Autobiography of a Female Slave' is one of several noteworthy antebellum novels about slavery that were written by abolitionist authors. In some cases these novels reflected the storytelling style and conventions of the slave narrative so convincingly that they were mistaken for actual autobiographies of former slaves. The effectiveness of these novels in representing slavery, and the point of view of slaves, made them useful weapons in the antislavery struggle. (See: 'Documenting the American South. North American Slave Narratives', University of North Carolina [Chapel Hill] - available online; also 'Black Slave Narratives', John F. Bayliss (ed.) Macmillan, 1970). The title has recently been reprinted a number of times. Although the copyright page shows the date of 1856, when the novel was written, it was not published until 1857. This is the first edition, and a very scarce title, in its original, unsophisticated, binding. .

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N° du livre: 9900030468

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Slavery; Abolition; African American; Negro; Black interest; Slaves; Abolitionist; Civil War;

Bruce, Harry

Maud; the Early Years of L.M. Montgomery

Halifax, Nimbus Publishing, 2003. Paperback. pp. 125. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. .

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N° du livre: 089775

Catalogue: Literary Biography

Bulgakov, Mikhail; Mirra Ginsburg (Trans.)

The Life of Monsieur de Moliere; a Portrait of the Great French Satirist

New York, Funk & Wagnalls, 1970. Hardcover. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good in torn, soiled, good- dustjacket with moisture stains to spine and small portions missing from top and tail of spine. frontispiece. .

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N° du livre: 061580

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Monsieur de Moliere; Biography; French Satirist; Jean-Baptiste; Poquelin; Playwright; Actor; 17th century;

Burns, George; David Fisher

All My Best Friends

New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. Hardback. pp. 320. 8vo. Black and white photographs. Light shelfwear; very good+ in very good, rubbed dustjacket. .

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N° du livre: 088353

Catalogue: Biography