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$22.50
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People Who Lead to My Plays


KENNEDY, ADRIENNE

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Knopf 1987

KEYWORDS: biography autobiography playwright adrienne kennedy cleveland

$24.50
xxstf172191

Edmund Wilson, the Man in Letters


WILSON, EDMUND & CASTRONOVO, DAVID (Ed & Intro) & GROTH, JANET (Ed & Intro)

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: Ohio University Press 2001

KEYWORDS: Edmund Wilson correspondence letters autobiography literature

$42.50
2i42a/3

Told Round a Brushwood Fire: The Autobiography of Arai Hakuseki


HAKUSEKI, ARAI & ACKROYD, JOYCE (Trans)

Super octavo, cream cloth boards with blue buckram spine, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 347pp, Near FINE (prev. owner's v sm name label to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping ot edges, 1cm loss to lower spine extrem, light to moderate fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press & University of Tokyo Press 1979

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Arai Hakuseki Japanese literature philosophy Confucius

$25.00
xxstg172231

Just Who Does He Think He Is? A Theatrical Life


WEBBY, GEORGE

Super 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Steele Roberts 2006

KEYWORDS: george webby memoir autobiography biography nz actor theatre drama new zealand

$16.50
xxstg172235

Best Foot Forward: The Autobiography of Colin Hodgkinson


HODGKINSON, COLIN; MCINDOE, SIR ARCHIBALD (forew.)

First Edition, super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (G+, torn); 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: Odhams 1957

KEYWORDS: colin hodgkinson autobiography biography memoir pilot flying airplanes fleet air arm airforce

$17.50
xxsth172246

Adventures by Sea and Land


MOFFATT, HARRY LOUIS

Imperial 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: Nelson Historical Society 1979

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir New Zealand Harry Louis Moffatt exploration travel Nelson regional history

$20.00
xxsth172249

Scrambles Amongst the Alps


WHYMPER, EDWARD & TYNDALE, H. E. G. (Revised & Ed)

Octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (tatty); 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 Murray 1948

KEYWORDS: British mountaineering exploration climbing mountain mountains Edward Whymper autobiography memoir pioneer

$45.00
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Treasured Islands: The Memoirs of Colleen Turbet Williams


WILLIAMS, COLLEEN TURBET & COX, BARBARA

SIGNED & INSCRIBED, quarto, illus light card covers, white & red lettering to spine, 110pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light curling & peeling to spine & covers)

PUBLISHER: Colleen Williams 2004

KEYWORDS: memoir autobiography Colleen Turbet Williams illustrated Fiji British colony colonies New Zealand

$22.50
2i48a/41

Kinross Writings


KINROSS, BESSIE

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, illus title page, 84pp, illus/photos, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Wickliffe New Zealand Ltd 2015

KEYWORDS: New Zealand pioneers autobiography Bessie Kinross settlers Central Otago memoirs

$45.00
2i51a/15

Reminiscences of Arthur Dudley Dobson; Engineer 1841-1930


DOBSON, ARTHUR DUDLEY, LESTER, G. M. L. (Preface)

1984 RE-PRINT OF SECOND EDITION, sm octavo, black heavy boards, rubbed title plate to spine, black lettering to title plate to front board, frontispiece, 225pp, illus/photos, VG+ (moderate rubbing to title pate to spine, light bruisin gto extrems, light tanning to page edges, sl tape staining to pastedowns) in mylar cover- taped

PUBLISHER: Capper Press 1984 (Reprint of Second Edition by Whitcombe & Tombs)

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Arthur Dudley Dobson New Zealand history pioneers settlers

$15.00
xxstj172377

Wandering Girl


WARD, GLENYSE

Super 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: Magabala Books 1987

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian autobiography memoir Aborigines Glenyse Ward

$50.00
1w49a/16

Between Hitler and a Hard Place: A Memoir 1924-1948


PANNY, ROLF

Octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, white & black lettering to spine, 279pp, illus/photos, VG+ (v sl soiling and rubbing to covers, v sl soiling to page edges, prev owners inscription in ink to fep)

PUBLISHER: Steele Roberts Publishers 2011

KEYWORDS: Rolf Panny German autobiography memoir military ww2 2nd second world war 2 two Germany youth children childhood customs culture life

$180.00
1w49a/22

A Year Amongst the Persians; Impressions as to the Life, Character & Thought of the People of Persia; Received During Twelve Months' Residence in That Country in the Years 1887-1888


BROWNE, EDWARD GRANVILLE & ROSS, Sir E. DENISON (Memoir)

FOLDING MAP TO REAR, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, gilt motif & rule to front board, teg, deckled page edges, frontispiece, xxii + 650pp, VG (light to moderate bruising to extrems, moderate fading to spine & board edges, moderate staining to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, sl water staining to edges of eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1926

KEYWORDS: history exploration Persia autobiography memoir Edward Granville Browne culture travel

$40.00
1w49a/27

A Trenchard Brat: A Life in Aviation


WESTON, Flt.Lt. FREDERICK GEORGE

SIGNED, LETTER FROM AUTHOR TIPPED TO FFEP, imperial octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, x + 299pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, errata slip tipped in to pg214) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Brewin Books 1999

KEYWORDS: aviation history autobiography memoir Frederick Weston military raf air force British

$245.00
1y7a/27

Touch Lucky


JAY, FRANK

Octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 255pp, illus/plates, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, ligth staining to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep, plate opp. pg218 detached but present, light foxing to pgs throughout)

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston & Co n/d

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Frank Jay military history mercenaries British Irish Spanish Italian

$80.00
1y10a/11

The Diary of Beatrice Webb 1873-1943: Glitter Around and Darkness; All the Good Things in Life; The Power to Alter Things; The Wheel of Life (4 Vol Set)


WEBB, BEATRICE & MacKENZIE, NORMAN (Ed) & MacKENZIE, JEANNE (Ed)

4 VOLUME SET, super octavo, green and/or black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spines, illus/printed eps, xvi-xv + 376-519pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light creasing to spines, prev. owner's name in ink to eps of all vols, 2cm stain to pgs103-105 of vol 1, light foxing to page edges) in d/w & protective plastic covers, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light to moderate fading to spines)

PUBLISHER: Virago Press 1982-1985

KEYWORDS: diary journal Beatrice Webb autobiography memoir socialism socialists politics British history

$245.00
1y10a/30

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly


BOURDAIN, ANTHONY

UK FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, super octavo, black heavy boards, red lettering to spine, x + 307pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, moderate chafing & soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 2000

KEYWORDS: first edition Anthony Bourdain autobiography memoir chef cooking culinary cookery Brasserie Les Halles

$12.00
xxstk172449

The Search Within the Inner Experiences of a Pyschoanalyst


REIK, THEODOR

Tape repairs to spine, scruffy. 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: Evergreen 1958

KEYWORDS: pyschology inner experiences pyschoanalysis freud memoir autobiography biography

$30.00
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Forever Dobie: The Many Lives of Dwayne Hickman


HICKMAN, DWAYNE & HICKMAN, JOAN ROBERTS

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Carol Publishing Group 1994

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Dwayne Hickman television tv entertainment Dobie Gillis

$38.50
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George Stephenson: The Engineer and His Letters


SKEAT, W. O.

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1973

KEYWORDS: George Stephenson biography autobiography letters correspondance engineering history

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