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London: the Grolier Society [circa .1896], edition de luxe, limited to 1000 copies. (Hardcover set) 411, 388pp.. Very good, no dust jacket. 3 / 4 burgundy leather over burgundy cloth, gilt lettering and raised bands on the spine. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, each volume has 6 plates with captioned tissue guards including colored frontispieces.… Read more

London: Chancellor Press [1-85152-727-3] 1994, reprint. (Hardcover) 512pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Illustrations. "More than 5,000 entries and over 1,100 illustrations featuring the most famous men and women of all time". (Biography, Biographical Dictionary).

London: Methuen [0-413-74560-0] 2000, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 579pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Frontispiece, photographs, chronology, notes, bibliography, index. Pencil marks in the margins. Biography of John Gielgud. (Biography, Actors, Theater, Theatre).

New York: Viking [0-670-88579-7] 2004, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 574pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Illustrations, photographs, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. Lightly shelfworn and light residue from a price sticker on the front panel of the dust jacket. Biography of Jorge Luis Borges. Locale: Argentina. (Biography).

Nunney: R.S. Surtees Society [0-9507697-7-0] 1984. (Hardcover) 351pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Brown cloth with titles in gilt and crest on front board. Frontispiece, color plates, index. Marginal note on p. 79, lightly edgeworn. (Biography, British Army, Military, Napoleonic Wars, Peninsular War).

London: Hamish Hamilton 1951, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 349pp. Good in poor dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece, index. The covers are stained on the spine and edges, and the dust jacket is chipped. (Biography, Autobiography).

London: William Heinemann 1937, 1st edition. (Hardcover) 312pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Publisher's review slip laid in. The dust jacket is price-clipped, has some edge-chipping and is a bit soiled on the back panel. (Biography).

Akron: St. Dunstan Society 1901. (Hardcover set) 454, 474, 478pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. Bound in elaborately decorated dark brown pebble-grained leather. Map endpapers, top edges gilt, color illustrated series title page in each volume, color plates with captioned tissue guards, ribbon book marks. The spines faded to a golden tan (with some unevenness),… Read more

New York: Riverhead Books [1-57322-241-0] 2003, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 275pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by the author. Locale: Ireland. (Biography, Journalists, Memoir).

New York: Alfred A Knopf 1959. (Hardcover) 279pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Illustrations, photographs, bibliography, index. The dust jacket is lightly edgeworn. Biography of P.T. Barnum. (Biography, Circuses).

New York: Bloomsbury [1-58234-410-8] 2004, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 497pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Book about Pablo Neruda. (Biography, Poets).

New York: Alfred A Knopf 1956, 3rd printing. (Hardcover) 317pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. A previous owner's name and date on the front endpaper, the dust jacket is price-clipped and edgeworn including small chips missing from the top of the dust jacket spine. Book about Madame Bovary, Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock Holmes, Marie… Read more

London: John Murray [0-7195-4288-X] 1986. (Hardcover) 248pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Photographs, index. A remainder mark on the bottom edge, the dust jacket is price-clipped. (Biography, Autobiography, Bloomsbury Group).

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston [0-03-014536-8] 1975. (Hardcover) 240pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers, photographs, illustrations, photographs, index. The covers are lightly splayed, and there are 4 lines of notes in ink on the blank page facing p. 240. Biography of Dylan Thomas. Locale: Wales. (Biography, Poets,… Read more

Garden City: Blue Ribbon Books 1941. (Hardcover) 381pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece, bibliography, index. The dust jacket is price-clipped, faded on the spine and lightly edgeworn including closed tears and chips missing, a previous owner's bookplate on the front endpaper, the endpapers are toned. Biography of Oscar Wilde. Locale: England.… Read more

Oxford: Oxford University Press 1965, Abridged. (Hardcover) 252pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and crest on the spine. Notes, index. The dust jacket is price-clipped and lightly edgeworn including a small chip missing from the top edge of the back panel, and a previous owner's name on the… Read more

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart 978-0-7710-6536-1 [978-0-7710-6536-1] 2007. (Hardcover) 1121pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Locale: Canada. (Prime Ministers, Meech Lake Accord, Prime Ministers--Canada).

New York: Dutton [0-525-93763-3] 1994, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 494pp. Near fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrations, chronology, notes, bibliography, index. A previous owner's name on the front endpaper. Biography of Oscar Wilde. (Biography).

New York: W.W. Norton & Company [0-393-05159-5] 2004, 1st American edition. (Hardcover) 530pp. Near fine in fine dust jacket. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. The spine is lightly edgeworn. Biography of P.G. Wodehouse. (Biography).

New York: Henry Holt and Company [0-8050-7473-2] 2003, 1st printing. (Hardcover) 466pp. Near fine in fine dust jacket. Photographs, notes, appendices, further reading, ndex. The spine is lightly edgeworn at top and bottom. Biography of George Orwell. (Biography).