BROOZNY, WILLIAM BIG BILL & BRUYNOGHE, YANNICK

Octavo blue cloth boards, pink lettering and bands to spine, viii+139pp, illus., VG (moderate fading to boards, light tanning to edges and within, light foxing to edges and endpapers) in d/w VG- (prev. owner's tape repairs along top edge across spine, heavy fading to spine, triangular segment approx. 3cm long missing top of spine, light scuffing and chipping, light foxing and moderate tanning)

PUBLISHER: Jazz Book Club / Cassell & Company 1955

KEYWORDS: blues american music jazz book club big bill broozney autobiography memoir america us usa united states black african american

SULLIVAN, JOHN L. & SARGENT, DR. DUDLEY A.

FIRST EDITION, ORIGINAL BOARDS (spine rebacked, with modern (rather unsightly) label attached); small octavo illus. (boxer squaring up) yellow heavy card boards with adverts. to rear (Van Houten's Chocolate), adverts. to pastedowns, ix+294pp+adverts. to front and rear, illus., VG- (rebacking as above; cocked; heavy scuffing & rubbing to boards, moderate soiling, prev. owner's stamp to fep. rear endpapers and elsewhere within (excessively fond of this stamp, they were), front and rear hinges tape reinforced, heavy to moderate soiling within, light tanning and foxing within)

PUBLISHER: George Routledge and Sons 1892

KEYWORDS: boxing sports sporting scarce rare original boards pugilist pugilism martial arts nineteenth 19th c century fighting john l sullivan boxer biography autobiography

HARRISON, SHIRLEY

Super octavo hardcover (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 costs

PUBLISHER: Smith Griffon Publisers 1993

KEYWORDS: literature biography autobiography jack ripper crime

WHITE, EDMUND

FIRST EDITION. super octavo hardcover (VG+) with 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 2005

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir edmund white modern first edition

HOLIDAY, BILLIE & DUFTY, WILLIAM

FIRST EDITION, octavo red cloth boards, black and silver lettering to spine, illus., 250pp, VG- (scruffy: heavy scuffing to boards with moderate fraying to top of spine, moderate soiling to boards; moderate tanning to edges, light tanning within; main detraction: pages 99-102 have closed tears with prev. owner's tape repairs, unsightly, leaving tape stains to adjacent pages also) in d/w G+ (substantially complete, back section split from front; heavy scuffing creasing and rubbing; moderately large sections missing to top and bottom of spine, with small triangular sections missing from corner of front, which is, otherwise, substantially complete)

PUBLISHER: Doubleday & Company, 1956

KEYWORDS: lady day billie holiday jazz music autobiography memoir singer classic american america united states us usa blues popular african black

DAVIES, W.H. & BERNARD SHAW, G. (pre)

small octavo hardcover (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 costs

PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1927

KEYWORDS: autobiography W H Davies traveller travels

ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER & BUCKNELL, KATHERINE (ed & intro)

EX LIBRARY 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Vintage 2001

KEYWORDS: autobiography Christopher Isherwood writer Hollywood

HOLCROFT, M.H.

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 costs

PUBLISHER: John McIndoe 1989

KEYWORDS: autobiography M H Holcroft loss bereavement journey

DUNNE, PETER

super octavo softcover (Near Fine); 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Dunmore Publishing 2005

KEYWORDS: autobiography Peter Dunn member parliment New Zealand

BEATTY, CHARLES

FIRST EDITION, octavo blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv+207pp, VG (moderate soiling to boards, moderate tanning and foxing to edges and contents) in d/w VG (moderate fading, light scuffing chipping and creasing, price clipped, moderate foxing to reverse)

PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Chapman 1972

KEYWORDS: charles beatty autobiography consciousness extra dimension dimensions dimensional extradimensional psychology memory immortality esoteric esotericism jung jungian

STEAD, C. K.

FIRST EDITION, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2020

KEYWORDS: new zealand poet novelist activist c. k. stead memoir autobiography literary australia

BAREA, ARTURO & BAREA, ILSA (illus)

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: Fontana Paperbacks 1984

KEYWORDS: autobiography Barea Spanish civil war

TERTZ, ABRAM (SINYAVSKY, ANDREY)

Paperback (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: Fontana 1977

KEYWORDS: Biography autobiography prison literature Tertz Russia Soviet

VAN RAAY, CARLA

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Index Books 2007

KEYWORDS: memoir autobiography

WILLIAMS, ELDRED

Paperback (NEAR FINE); 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Melrose Books 2006

KEYWORDS: memoir autobiography

IRVINE, LYN

ex-library Octavo hardcover (VG-) with 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber 1957

KEYWORDS: memoir autobiography

KNIPFEL, JIM

FIRST EDITION Super Octavo Hardcover (VG+) with 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Jeremy P. Tarcher / Putnam 2000

KEYWORDS: memoir autobiography author writer

WHEATLEY, DENNIS

FIRST EDITION, single vol. 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 costs

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1977

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoirs modern first edition

MACLEAN, CHRIS

Quarto illus. white heavy card boards, 210pp, illus., nr. FINE in d/w nr. FINE

PUBLISHER: Potton & Burton 2018

KEYWORDS: new zealand literature literary publishing book books industry buisness memoir autobiography chris maclean print printing publisher

MACCOLL, EWAN & SEEGER, PEGGY

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Sidgwick & Jackson1990

KEYWORDS: autobiography Ewan McColl theatre workshop folk music photos black & white