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1w47a/31

Dennis 'Hurricane' David


DAVID, DENNIS (Group Capt. W. D. DAVID)

Super octavo, cream heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, vii + 216pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sm. numerals in ink to ffep) in d/w, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Grub Street 2000

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Dennis Hurricane David raf British royal air force military aviation history

$45.00
2i32a/32

There's Gold in Rocky


BOYER, JACK

Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to front cover, 109pp, illus, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Jack Boyer 2000

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history illustrated autobiography memoir Jack Boyer gold hunting prospecting

$15.00
xxstg1722037

Two Shepherds Who Lost Their Sheep


A True Historical Story Surrounding the Importation of Four New Breeds of Exotic Sheep from Great Britain and Republic of Ireland to New Zealand 1972

DIACK, ALAN R.

Octavo softcover Nr. 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Montana Reflections 2007

KEYWORDS: sheep farming animal welfare new zealand history autobiography alan diack oldenburg german white headed mutton oxford down finnish landrace east frisian

$22.50
xxste172103

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

$15.00
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.)

Jacket torn at rear. 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: 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
2i45a/41

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

$40.00
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

$20.00
xxstj172339

The Big Huey: An Inmate's Candid Account of Five Years Inside New Zealand's Prisons


NEWBOLD, GREG

Revised, 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: William Collins 1985

KEYWORDS: New Zealand justice law legal true crime prison system autobiography Greg Newbold inmates jail

$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

$45.00
1w49a/10

Wolfgang Falck: The Happy Falcon; Father of the Night Fighters


FALCK, WOLFGANG

Quarto, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus prelims, 199pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Eagle Editions 2002

KEYWORDS: aviation German luftwaffe ww2 second 2nd world war 2 two autobiography memoir Wolfgang Falck military history

$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

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