BIOGRAPHIES from Luis Porretta Fine Arts

London: MacMillan. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in maroon linen grained buckram, edges lightly rubbed a lovely clean, tight 2 volume set. ; 9" x 6.5" .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in blue cloth, light shelf wear only, with a similar dust wrapper. ; 9.5" x 6.5"; 967 pages .

Toronto: Longmans, Green & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1947. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Bound in blue grained cloth, gilt titles and decoration, title rubbed, edges a little rubbed, printed on Wartime paper, contents very good, clean and tight. ; 8" x 6.5"; 312 pages .

Hamburg: Duetsche Grammophonon. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in maroon pebble grained cloth, gilt titles, a lovely clean tight copy showing minimal usage. A huge tome which will require additional shipping costs. ; 13" x 13"; 276 pages .

London: Edward Arnold. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in green embossed cloth, gilt titles, light shelf wear only, previous owners signature, a lovely clean tight 2 volume set. ; 9" x 6" .

London: Richards Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in orange grained cloth, edges a little rubbed, spine slightly sunned, a lovely clean tight copy. ; 8" x 5"; 202 pages .

Munchen: Zentralverlag Der NSDAP. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in blue linen-grained cloth, gilg titles and decoration, boards soiled, spine rubbed, edges rubbed, some repairs to edges, gilt Eagle and Swastika motif, text block very good, clean and tight. Signed in ink by German anarchist/archeologist and Nazi opponent, Rudolf Michaelis and… Read more about this item

London: Trubner and Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in crimson half calf with red linen-grained boards, gilt titles, five raised panels, light rubbing to edges, uncut page edges. Previous owners bookplate, (Frederick William Brown). A lovely copy showing minimal usage only.; 7.5" x 5.25"; 180 pages .

New York: Garden City Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in black grained cloth, edges lightly rubbed, gilt titles, uncut page edges, previous owners bookplate, (E. T. Sterne). A very good clean tight copy. ; 8.5" x 6"; 492 pages .

London: John Lane. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in marroon linen grained buckram, edges a little rubbed, repaired at the head, gilt decoration, 468pp, of which 194 are black and white plates. Contents very good, clean and tight. ; 8" x 5.5"; 468 pages .

Toronto: Swan Publishing. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1965. First Edition. Softcover. A photo biography of Winston Churchill including 5 full-page portraits (published to be framed) by Karsh, shows lighty shelf wear only. ; 11" x 8.5" .

Toronto: Stoddart. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. New, with similar dust wrapper. ; 8" x 6.5"; 360 pages .

New York: Swallow Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1966. Softcover. Four volume set bound in stiff glossy wraps, a lovely clean tight set showing minimal if any usage only. ; 8" x 6.5" .

London: Martin Hopkinson. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth, edges lightly rubbed, spine a little sunned, gilt titles, previous owners signature. A lovely clean tight copy. Scarce. ; 8" x 6"; 306 pages .

Nanaimo: Deane Finlayson. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. A lovely clean unread copy, with similar dust jacket, signed by Donna Dash, Deane Finlayson and Joan Finlayson. Scarce. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 317. pages .

London: Vincent Brooks Day & Son. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1878. Lithograph. This charming original Vanity Fair 'Spy' lithograph is in very good condition, full borders as published, original color. Images available. ; 16" x 10" .

Connecticut: Greenwood Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial glossy boards, a new and unused copy. ; 8vo; 547 pages .

London: Max Parrish. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust wrapper lightly rubbed at edges, a little chipped in one or two places, owners signature, a lovely clean tight copy. ; 8vo; 277. pages .

New York: Macmillan. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth, gilt titles, edges very lightly rubbed, page edges uncut, owners signature, a lovely clean, tight, copy.; Thick 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 364. pages .

London: Saunders and Otley. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1826. Hardcover. Full calf, hinges professionaly replaced, title in gilt to leather on spine, gilt decoration on compartments to spine, leather a littlke rubbed and scuffed, text block very tight, marbled page edges and end papers, previous owners calling card pasted to front endpaper, engraved frontispiece… Read more about this item