Search Results: Biography from Books & Bygones

London: Victor Gollancz, 1954. Book. Good. Hardback. Fifth Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 373 pages. A fascinating look at the 'tycoons' of America - Vanderbilt, Astor, Rockfeller, Carnegie......

London: Viking, 2000. Book. Very Good. Hardback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was and is an icon for women. Beautiful, exquisitely dressed, cultivated, gracious, a little mysterious and almost regal, she personifies the way we would like all our world leaders' wives to be. Sarah Bradford paints an extraordinary portrait of a woman riddled with contradictions: kind, considerate, proud, loyal and loving, yet also supremely selfish, manipulative and greedy. Drawing on remarkable new testimony from those closest to Jackie, "America's Queen" follows her from her rigid, bleak childhood to the glorious glamour and complication of life as Kennedy's wife, to the even more glamorous but ultimately poisonous marriage to Onassis, to the final serenity of her years as a New York publishing editor. The secrets of Onassis's will, Jackie's affairs, her extraordinary spending habits, her treachery to old friends - all of these are revealed… Read More

Sherborne: Amateur Players of Sherborne, 1978. Book. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrated. Title page signed To Daisy With Love Fred. Mark to top edge not affecting contents. Dustwrapper rubbed..

London: Faber and Faber, 1985. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. W. H. Auden was the greatest poet of his generation, he was also a practising homosexual, whose great lifelong love was Chester Kallman..

London: Penguin, 1987. Book. Good. Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 4.25 x 7"; 313 pages; paperback; illustrated; good;.

New York: Putnam, 1977. Book. Good Reading Copy. Hardback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 6 x 8.5"; 364 pages; white boards with gilt title to spine; the book is grubby to all edges, but is complete and tightly bound; dustwrapper chipped, torn and grubby; illustrated; good reading copy; SBN 399-11789-X;.

London: Robson Books, 1993. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A biography of the Young Pretender, Charles Stuart, whose claim to the British throne divided the kingdom and shook the monarchies of continental Europe..

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994. Book. Good. Hardback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 6.5 x 9.5"; 1118pp; black cloth; dustwrapper; good clean copy; illustrated; 7 years of research - scores of exclusive interviews - never before published photographs;.

London: Collins and Brown, 1992. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1816 was "the year without a summer", when a volcanic eruption blotted out the sun, and it was also the season when a momentous friendship was forged. Byron, Shelley, Mary Shelley (who wrote "Frankenstein" in that year) and Claire Clairmont (Mary's step-sister, pregnant with Byron's child) were neighbours across the shores of Lake Geneva. Byron had just fled from England following the scandal surrounding his separation from his wife and rumours of incest with his half-sister, Augusta Leigh. This book charts the friendship between the flamboyant Byron and the youthful Shelley's and their friends and hangers-on, through Italy and England, through personal tragedies and passions, sex and scandal, wit and heartbreak - all accompanied by a prodigious and precocious outpouring of brilliant poetry which echoed the creative relationship between Byron and… Read More

London: Pavilion Books, 1983. Book. Good. Hardback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 8.75 x 11.25"; 191pp; black with gilt; dustwrapper chipped at top of spine, back slightly grubby; illustrated throughout with b&w photographs;.

London: John Blake, 2000. Book. Very Good. Hardback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 6.25 x 9.5"; 239 pages; black cloth with silver title to spine; dustwrapper; free front end paper is inscribed Dear Lenny (Henry) Thought you might like to see this. We're mentioned from about P158 onwards but the book is quite amazing. Cass certainly has had an incredible life. Ironically as a man who made a reputation as a "thug" the least interesting stuff is the football violence. Hope you enjoy it. Love Al. (Hunter); vg/vg;.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Book. Good. Hardback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 6.25 x 9.5"; 418 pages; red boards, black cloth spine with gilt title, very light foxing to top edge; dustwrapper; very good;.

New York: Oxford University Press Inc, USA, 1989. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Empress of the vast Russian Empire by the age of 33, Catherine's private and public life generated tremendous controversy, and she has been portrayed variously as a political genius, a despotic foreign adventuress, a tyrant, and a nymphomaniac. John Alexander's detailed research draws on little-known sources, including Catherine's love notes, to produce a balanced appraisal of this remarkable woman throughout the whole of her long reign..

London: Heinemann, 1933. Book. Good. Hardback. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 139pp, yellow cloth no dustwrapper slightly foxed to cut edges and pages.

London: Michael O'Mara Books, 1998. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 6 x 9.5"; 217pp; red cloth with gilt; dustwrapper; illustrated; very good copy;.

London: Hammond, Hammond & Co., 1947. Book. Good. Hardback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 6 x 8.75"; 296pp; brown cloth with gilt title to spine; dustwrapper; g/g;.

London: National Trust, 1966. Book. Good. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 5.75 x 8.75; 8pp leaflet with picture of Winston Churchill to front; This is a temporary brochure to be used until a permanent guide-book has been prepared;.

London: Penguin, 1974. Book. Good. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 7.5 x 9.5"; not paginated; large format paperback; various related newspaper cuttings loosely inserted; good clean copy;.

London: Mitchell Beazley, 1993. Book. Good. Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 9.5 x 11"; 192pp; illustrated laminated card covers; nice clean copy, bottom right corner bumped;.

London: Gollancz, 1994. Book. Very Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 6.25 x 9.5"; 320pp; blue cloth with gilt; dustwrapper; mint copy;.