Search Results: BIOGRAPHY from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

London: Cassell, 1935. Hardcover. Very good overall. Translated by June Head. 8vo, 434pp. Half black calf and marbled boards, title in gilt at spine. Boards quite rubbed, some traces of sticky tape repairs at edges of boards. Internally, a sticky tape repair to verso of plate at p176. The bookplate of Compagnie Generale Transatlantique inside front board.

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992. Hardcover. 4to, b&w frontis, xxiii, 495pp, b&w illus throughout. Yellow cloth covers, title in black at spine. Covers bright and fresh, very good. Internally like new.

London: George Rutledge & Sons. Very good in good plus dj. 8vo, 300 pp, b&w frontis, b&w illus. In English; translated by Lucy Crump, Broadway Translations. Bright blue cloth cover with title in black on paper label on spine. Spine very slightly rubbed at top and base, o/w very good plus. Original yellow dj, chipped at foredge. Owner's signature on front endpaper.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985. Hardcover. Fine. Biography of Rex Whistler the artist and illustrator written by his brother Laurence the poet and glass engraver. 8vo, blue cloth covers with silver title on spine and color dj, 321 pp includes 8 pp index, with 16 pp color and 16 pp bw illustrations. Dj sunned on spine, interior clean, binding tight. Fine condition.

London: J. Dodsley, 1776. Second edition. Hardcover. Very good. Susanna Dobson's first work, an abridgment of J. F. A. de Sade's Mémoires pour la vie de François Pétrarque. Two volumes. 8vo, frontispiece, xxx, 544pp, Index; 556pp, Index. Contemporary calf with gilt decorated spine, compartments and raised bands. Burgundy spine label, quite rubbed on Volume I, so that title is barely legible, also rubbed at spine ends. Volume II spine slt rubbed; volume number chipped away. Heraldic bookplate of Sir William Curtis inside front covers. Sir Curtis was the successful son of a ship biscuit manufacturer, referred to as Sir Billy Biscuit by satirists; he was Lord Mayor of London in 1795. OCLC: 2403718.