Books - "autobiography"
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From Cow Bells to Bell Bottoms: Wartime Experiences: Extracted From Memoirs of an Ordinary Bloke
INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, illus light card covers, blacklettering to spine, illus title page & prelims, 260pp, illus, VG (sl creasing to covers, prev owners deatils in ink to fep)
PUBLISHER: Canrig Publishing 1998
KEYWORDS: SIGNED New Zealand autobiography memoir Francis Bentnick Heffer
Four Million Footsteps
SCARCE, octavo, green heavy card boards, gilt llettering to spine, 175pp, illus, VG (light creasing to spine extrems, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges & eps, owner's name in ink to fep) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing to edges, light tanning/soiling/scuffing to spine & covers, price clipped, light tanning & foxing to internal sides)
PUBLISHER: Pelham Books 1970
KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Bruce Tulloh New York Los Angeles LA endurance sport athletics running
No Road to Follow: Autobiography of a New Zealand Artist
Ephemera enc. inc. SIGNED typed letter by author dated 1967, imperial octavo, sky blue heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, 180pp, illus, VG+ (light scuffing to spine extrems & board corners, owner's name in ink to fep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & scuffing to covers, light internal foxing)
PUBLISHER: Godwit Press 1994
KEYWORDS: New Zealand art autobiography memoir Eric Lee-Johnson illustrated
Tea-Tree Brry Kid: The Influence of the Far North
loosely enclosed holograph single page dated, signed letter from author; super octavo; illustrated light card covers, white lettering on blue spine, x+196pp, illus, VG+ (sl. rubbing & fading to covers; spine is creased; page edges sl. soiled)
PUBLISHER: Northland Historical Publications Society Incorporated 1996
KEYWORDS: autobiography history New Zealand Far North Alice Evans
Reminiscences and Reflections
loosely enclosed cache of seven original photos of Krebs and original typed letter with holograph corrections & signature of Hans Krebs. Also, revealing letter from his biographer, Frederic Holmes; super octavo; black cloth boards; gilt lettering on spine; pale blue eps; 298pp; VG+ (sl. rubbing & bruising to covers, sl. browning to pages, with sl. foxing to eps & page edges, fep is creased, name of former owner, in pencil, & tiny bookseller's label on fep) in d/w VG (sl. rubbing, soiling & sunning, partic. to spine; price clipped; sl. foxing to interior)
PUBLISHER: Clarendon Press 1981
KEYWORDS: autobiography Krebs science chemistry Hitler Cambridge Oxford university reminiscences
77 Years among the Kowhais: Beyond Hunterville, 1896-1973
inscribed & signed by author; super octavo; green cloth boards; brown lettering on spine and fr. cover; illus.eps; 103pp; illus, VG+ (sl. sunning/fading to spine extrems & board edges, sl. rubbing) in d/w, VG (sl. foxing to interior; spine v. faded; sl. scuffing; in protective mylar cover).
PUBLISHER: Service Printers 1977
KEYWORDS: history autobiography Hunterville New Zealand Leary Pohonui Valley block
90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life
Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Fleming H. Revell 2004
KEYWORDS: Autobiography Don Piper
Illalong Children
Imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Lansdowne 1985
KEYWORDS: banjo paterson illustrated autobiography new south wales australia illalong
Mao's Last Dancer: Young Readers' Edition
octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Puffin 2005
KEYWORDS: autobiography dance ballet China
Once in a House on Fire
octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Picador 1998
KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir coming of age
The Burial Brothers
octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Penguin 1997
KEYWORDS: autobiography road trip New York to Rio de Janeiro adventure hearse comedy humour
From WImbledon to Waco
octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber 1996
KEYWORDS: autobiography road trip England USA adventure family comedy humour
The Hawke Memoirs
imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1994
KEYWORDS: autobiography Bob Hawke Australia history politics political memoir
They Say the Lion: Britain's Legacy to the Arabs: A Personal Memoir
super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1986 (?)
KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Middle East politics Britain Iraq Jordan Egypt Sudan Bahrain culture
The Rest of It: Hustlers, Cocaine, Depression, and Then Some, 1976 - 1988
Super octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Duke University Press 2018
KEYWORDS: Autobiography Duberman Martin
Bali, Sekala & Niskala: Essays on Religion, Ritual & Art
two vol set, super octavo, illus, light card covers, black lettering on spine, vol 1: xv+376, vol 2: xv+383pp, illus, VG+ (sl. sunning to covers of vol. 1, mod. sunning to vol 2)
PUBLISHER: Periplus 1996
KEYWORDS: autobiography travel Bali Indonesia Balinese culture dance art geography gamelan Hinduism music pageants rituals ceremony
The Story of Isaac Levinsohn, a Polish Jew, told by Himself
small octavo; tan cloth boards; gilt lettering, with attractive gilt & black illus, on spine & cover; patterned eps; frontis; 112+8ads pp, illus, VG (mod. foxing to prelims; mod. browning to pages; sl. rubbing & soiling to covers; sl. bruising to edges; name of previous owner, in pencil & tiny bookseller's label on fep)
PUBLISHER: Alfred Holness n/d
KEYWORDS: autobiography Levinsohn Judaism Jewish Ploish Poland history culture
Soldiering On being the Memoirs of General Sir Hubert Gough
first edition; super octavo; red cloth boards; gilt lettering & bands on spine; blind decoration on cover; illus/maps on eps; 260pp; illus; VG (sl. browning to eps & page edges; mod. rubbing to covers, with mod. surface loss; sl. bruising & very sl. fraying to edges, partic. spine extrems; covers have lost some colour; gutters a little shaky; newspaper clipping stuck to prelim with sellotape),
PUBLISHER: Arthur Baker 1954
KEYWORDS: first edition autobiography Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Ladysmith Curragh Mutiny Operation Michael offensive World War I Boer history
Tales of Three Campaigns: A Soldier's Plain Unvarnished Story of a Part Played by New Zealanders in the Great War
Imperial octavo, red heavy card board, gilt lettering to spine and front board, illus prelims, 378pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing to front cover)
PUBLISHER: John Douglas 2015
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Nelson ww1 first world war illustrated military history autobiography memoir
Sukarno: An Autobiography
Super octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, x + 324pp, illus, VG (moderate staining & light creasing/scuffing to spine extrems, light tanning & staining to page edges, light tanning to eps, crack to full length of gutter to pg 157) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges with heavy archival tape repairs, moderate tanning to covers & internal sides)
PUBLISHER: Gunung Agung 1966
KEYWORDS: autobiography biography memoir President Sukarno communism Asia politics