Biography

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the gilded drawing rooms and country estates of Victorian and Edwardian England, a new and audacious social transaction was...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodHe was the greatest actor of the twentieth century — a titan of stage and screen whose name became synonymous...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFrom the timeless pages of the ancient Vedic epic Srimad-Bhagavatam emerges one of the most profound and spiritually luminous figures in all of sacred...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBorn at the crossroads of two worlds, Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage is a sweeping...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodA landmark of Australian Jewish literature, Alien Son by Judah Waten chronicles the coming-of-age of a young boy born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingBehind every throne lies a story of desire, ambition, and dangerous influence — and The Kings' Mistresses by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA titan of British wit, law, and letters finally turns the lens on himself — the result is a memoir...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodShe was imperious, eccentric, and utterly unlike anyone who had come before her — Dame Edith Sitwell, one of the...

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Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingAt the height of the Cold War, few minds were as sharp, as conflicted, or as consequential as that...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat does it truly mean to dedicate a life to the pursuit of history? The Making of an Historian presents the collected essays...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodBeneath the grey skies of England, the Thames has flowed silently through millennia of human ambition, worship, tragedy, and...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodIn the blood-soaked skies above the Western Front, one pilot rose above all others to become Belgium's greatest...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodTwo generations of visionary men — one a pioneering legal mind, the other a relentless aviation inventor — shaped the course of Australian history...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the skies over Southern Rhodesia during the Second World War, a remarkable chapter of Allied aviation history was quietly written —...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the intersection of personal memoir and social chronicle, Edmund Wilson's The Thirties stands as one of the most vivid and unflinching...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary biographers comes Golden Codgers: Biographical Speculations, a collection of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the crucible of the Second World War, six men shaped the destiny of nations — and the...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageDublin in the 1920s was a city of contradictions — scarred by revolution, yet alive with wit, poetry,...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most celebrated and controversial works of 20th-century social science, Coming of Age in Samoa chronicles...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the desperate, smoke-choked skies of the Pacific in the early days of World War II, a band...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the frozen grip of winter, with World War I bleeding Russia dry, the Romanov dynasty collapsed not...

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