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$56.50
1y11/14

Ross District Memories: an Autobiography. Jim Rea's reminiscences of his life in the Mikonui and Totara Vallyes of Westland


REA, JIM

octavo, illus light card covers, stapled, black lettering on white spine, 185pp, illus, VG (slight chipping to spine, slight foxing, particularly to top page edges, slight rubbing to covers)

PUBLISHER: Greymouth Evening Star 1990

KEYWORDS: autobiography New Zealand ROss District Mikonui Totara Westland

$24.50
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To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell (Volume III: Faces In My Time)


POWELL, ANTHONY

First edition, 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: Heinemann 1980

KEYWORDS: Anthony Powell memoir illustrated literature autobiography

$8.50
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death


BAUBY, JEAN-DOMINIQUE & LEGGATT, JEREMY (Trans)

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: Vintage International 1998

KEYWORDS: Jean-Dominique Bauby memoir autobiography Elle journalism media

$10.00
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Lord of the Air


BROOKE, TAL

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: Harvest House Publishers 1990

KEYWORDS: new age autobiography memoir spirituality antichrist religion

$57.50
1y12/216

Wrecked on a Reef or Twenty Months in the Auckland Isles. A True Story of Shipwreck, Adventure, and Suffering.


Translation of the 1880 text.

REYNAL, FRANCOIS & MORTELIER, CHRISTIANE (trans & appendices)

Super octavo, red cloth boards, white lettering on spine & front cover, frontispiece, 260pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w Near FINE.

PUBLISHER: Steele Roberts 2003

KEYWORDS: autobiography 1880's history shipwreck survival

$22.50
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A World Away


MANSON, CECIL

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: Pigeon Press 1981

KEYWORDS: Autobiography memoir Cecil Manson

$40.00
1y13/47

The Tin Ring: How I Cheated Death


FANTLOVA, ZDENKA

Octavo, illus heavy card boards, black lettering to spine, xi + 228pp, VG+ (light scuffing to spine extrems & board corners with some surface loss)

PUBLISHER: Northumbria Press 2010

KEYWORDS: holocaust Jewish survivors autobiography memoir Zdenka Fantlova ww2 second world war politics nazi nazis

$15.00
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Blessed: The Autobiography


BEST, GEORGE & COLLINS, ROY

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: Ebury 2001

KEYWORDS: Sport autobiography George Best football

$100.00
1y14/18

Reminiscences


SELWYN, MRS S. H. & EVANS, ENID A. (Intro & Notes)

Sarah Harriet Selwyn, quarto, stapled/bound light card card covers, illus prelims, ix + 82pp, VG- (light scuffing with moderate loss to spine extrems, moderate creasing & foxing/tanning/soiling/water staining to covers, light tanning & foxing to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: n/a 1961

KEYWORDS: New Zealand autobiography correspondance memoir Sarah Harrriet Selwyn

$65.00
1y14/44

From Cow Bells to Bell Bottoms: Wartime Experiences: Extracted From Memoirs of an Ordinary Bloke


HEFFER, Lt. FRANCIS BENTINCK

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

$225.00
1y15/12

Four Million Footsteps


TULLOH, BRUCE

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

$40.00
1y15/27

No Road to Follow: Autobiography of a New Zealand Artist


LEE-JOHNSON, ERIC

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

$40.00
1y17/42

Tea-Tree Brry Kid: The Influence of the Far North


EVANS, ALICE

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

$675.00
1y18/3

Reminiscences and Reflections


KREBS, HANS & MARTIN, ANNE (collab)

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

$52.50
1y18/8

77 Years among the Kowhais: Beyond Hunterville, 1896-1973


LEARY, NORMAN

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

$10.00
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90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life


PIPER, DON & MURPHEY, CECIL

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

$14.00
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Illalong Children


PATERSON, A. B. & LOVETT, ROBERT (illus)

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

$9.00
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Mao's Last Dancer: Young Readers' Edition


CUNXIN, LI

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

$8.50
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Once in a House on Fire


ASHWORTH, ANDREA

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

$10.00
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The Burial Brothers


MAYLE, SIMON

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

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