Search Results: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary from Rainy Day Paperback Exchange

Lima, Peru: Biblioteca Vision Peruana, 1987. Trade Paperback. VERY GOOD. Tight, bright, clean and square. Peruvian narrator, poet, journalist, essayist and dramatist. - Short biography. 1888 - 1919. 62 pages. Text in Spanish.

editions du seuil / Le Livre de poche (#360), c1957. Paperback. VERY GOOD+. Tight, bright, clean & square. Edgewear to exterior. Reading crease on spine. Roman autobiogarphique. Text in French. 181 pages.

Paris, France: Clasiques du XXe Siecle/ Editions Universitaires, 1965. Paperback. NEAR FINE. Tight, slight page yellowing, faint aging and rubbing to exterior, square. 125 pages with bibliography. Text in French.

France: Ecrivans de Toujours (#62) / editions du seuil, 1966. Paperback. VERY GOOD-. Tight, bright, clean & square. Owner's name on first free page. Small wear hole on back cover. Text in French. 192 pages. ISBN: Andre Gide par lui-meme.

Bienne/ Switzerland: Collection Celebrites Suisses/ Editions du Panorama, ©1960. (1st edition). Hardbound. NEAR FINE/Good. Tight, tanned page edges, clean, square. Bookstore sticker on title page. Occasional faint pencil lines in margins. Black with gilt. DJ is intact but has chipping on exterior edges + @2cm rip on end of each spine hinge and @1cm rip on hinge of front flap. 154+ pages, 7-3/8x5" (18.7x13cm) Text in French.

NY: New American Library, 1985. (1st printing). Hardbound. FINE/Fine. As new except for slight tilt in fine unclipped Dust Jacket. "extraordinary conversations, recorded over the last two years of Truman Capote's life, the genius that elevated talk to art and gossip to literature lives on…" ISBN: 0453004946.

France: Ecrivans de Toujours (#18) / editions du seuil. Paperback. VERY GOOD+. Tight, bright, clean & square. Reading crease on spine. Owner's name on first free page. Text in French. 192 pages.

NY: Rosen, Mandell & Immerman, 2002. Trade Paperback. FINE. As new - gift quality! Poems (Poesie), writings (scritti) and love letters (Lettere di amore) (each in Italian and in English) written by Virgil Marrocchino. Born in 1927 in Montemilone, Italy, emigrated to America in 1950,. Learned English during service in the Korean War. Courted Angela with his writings and raised 3 daughters who assembled and published this book. 230 pages

NY: Scribner, ©1971. Trade Paperback. VERY GOOD+. As new except for tiny chip on front corner, owner's name on first free page and tiny stain and remainder mark on exterior page edges. "the letters…record the relationship between a great writer and an incomparable editor. From 1910 to 1940, the correspondence reveals the genesis of a talent and the progress of a career..." 282 pages. ISBN: 0684135035.

Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1983. (1st edition). Paperback. FINE. As new and unread but has hand written price on title page. 155 indexed pages. Nobel prize winning author. Born and raised in Ireland. Lived over 70 years in England becoming "an established figure in British life, not just as a dramatist but as a leading socialist. 0.6

Paris, France: Seuil, 1977. Paperback. VERY GOOD. Falls open, bright, clean, slight curl.Slight edgewear and chipping on hinge. Checkmarks in Chronologie. Gift inscription. Illustrated with many black & white photos. Text in French. ISBN: 2020000628.

Copenhagen, Denmark: Host & Son, 1972. (2nd edition, 1978). Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for light shelfwear to spine ends. Illustrated in a lovely cover with French flaps. "A short biography (64 pages) of the man who wrote all those wonderful fairy tales. Includes an extensive "Further Reading" list on his stories and his life. ISBN: 8714278820.

Chester, SC: Ponderosa Press, 1984. Trade paperback. VERY GOOD-. Tight, bright, clean interior, soiled exterior, faint curl to outside edge. Light bump to bottom, outside corner. The final issue of this journal devoted to everything about Jack London. 124 illustrated pages.

Lima, Peru: Biblioteca Vision Peruana, 1987. Trade Paperback. VERY GOOD. Tight, bright, clean and square. Peruvian writer, journalist, painter, photographer and even an inventor - Short biography. 1874 - 1942. 63 pages with Bibliography. Text in Spanish.

NY: Knopf, 1949. (1st American edition). Hardbound. GOOD- / Fair dj. Tight, bright, clean and square. Blue cloth with gilt, but gilt on spine is mostly worn away. Gift inscription on first free page. Faint age soil to exterior page edges. Unclipped dust jacket is present but age soiled, tattered along edged and folds and tape repaired on inside.

Paris, France: Ecrivans de Toujours (#55) / editions du seuil, 1961. Paperback. VERY GOOD-. Tight, bright, clean, slight tilt. Initials and date on first free page. Reading crease on spine, light shelfwear to covers. 191 pages including chronologie, bibliographie, illustrations en noir.

Paris, France: Hachette, 1952. (reprint, 1957). Trade Paperback. Tight, clean interior, covers age soiled, slight tilt. Sunned spine. Stitched binding, rough cut page edges. Text in French. 563 pages

Paris, France: Hachette, 1957. Trade Paperback. GOOD+. Tight, age soiled exterior with sunned spine, clean interior, slight tilt. 1/2" split on top edge of spine hinge. Biography and literary criticism of 3 generations of the Dumas family - Les trois Dumas : le général Dumas, Alexandre Dumas, père, Alexandre Dumas, fils. 499 pages, Text in French.

Paris, France: Chez Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1960. (signed - limited editon). Trade Paperback. VERY GOOD+. Inscription to Marc et Jacqueline Chadourne signed by editor. Tight, bright, clean interior, faint age soil to exterior, slight curl. Sunned spine and some minor spotting on exterior page edges. 304 pages with index, 8.5x5.25" ( 21.6x+L913.3cm) Text in French.

France: Ecrivans de Toujours (#67) / editions du seuil, 1964. Paperback. VERY GOOD+. Tight, bright, clean & square. Owner's name on first free page. Text in French. 189 pages.