Books - "autobiography"
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Art Spiegelman: Conversations
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: University Press of Mississippi 2007
KEYWORDS: graphic novels literary biography autobiography Art Spiegelman cartoonists Maus
Random Recollections: Notes from a Lifetime at the Bar
WARMLY INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, blue patterned buckram boards, blue speckling to page edges, frontispiece, xii + 332pp, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board edges/corner, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Otago Daily Times / Witness Newspapers 1939
KEYWORDS: signed A C Hanlon New Zealand law history lawyers autobiography autobiographies memoir legal profession
The Great Days
8vo, pp. 189; blue heavy card bds. spine lettered in gilt; plates; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; adhesive residue from tape to bds & eps; sl soiling throughout); in d/w, VG (moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1978
KEYWORDS: Walter Bonatti life lives biography autobiography climbing mountain rock expedition adventure mountaineer
Wild Card: An Autobiography 1923-1958
Signed, inscribed & dated by author. Super 8vo, pp. [10] + 278; illus. light card covers; photos; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; moderate bruising to edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: McPhee Gribble 1990
KEYWORDS: Dorothy Hewitt 20th century life lives biography autobiography
Something Like an Autobiography
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: Vintage / Random House N/D (modern)
KEYWORDS: autobiography autobiographies memoir Akira Kurosawa film directors movies
Reform: A Memoir
Super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, 800pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light soiling to page edges, adhesive residue to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2014
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history politics political government leaders Geoffrey Palmer autobiography autobiographies memoir law policy Prime Ministers
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Super 8vo 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: Random House 2019
KEYWORDS: Robert Iger life lives biography autobiography Walt Disney Company business
Sandstone Gothic
8vo 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: Allen & Unwin 1998
KEYWORDS: Andrew Riemer 20th century life lives biography memoir autobiography
Bushline: A Memoir
Super octavo, illus heavy boards, grey & black lettering to spine, 257pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine, spine sl cocked, minor bruising to board edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Potton & Burton 2022
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Zealanders Robbie Burton autobiography autobiographies memoir travel writing literature tramping landscape nature
'Away With all Pests...' : An English Surgeon in People's China
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 192pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & tanning to board extrems & edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/peeling to edges, moderate fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Paul Hamlyn 1969
KEYWORDS: CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES OF AMPUTATIONS first editions signed J S Horn medical medicine health China Chinese surgeon autobiography autobiographies memoir
Eighty Years On: A Further Memoir
INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, illus light card covers, white & brown lettering to spine, 375pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, sl chafing to covers, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Dunmore Publishing 2010
KEYWORDS: signed Nicholas Tarling New Zealand history autobiography autobiogarphies memoir
Three Wild Dogs, and the Truth
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: Picador 2024
KEYWORDS: first editions literature dogs pets canine relationships autobiography autobiographies memoir family Markus Zusak
Pages from the Memory Log of G M Hassing: Sailor, Pioneer, Schoolmaster
SCARCE, octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering & illus to front board, frontispiece, 74pp, VG- (moderate scuffing & fraying to board edges, moderate fading & tanning to spine, light discolouration to boards, light to moderate tanning to page edges, heavy cracking to gutters- page block partially detached, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Southland Times Co N/D
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history autobiography autobiographies memoir G M Hassing
Eighty Years in New Zealand: Embracing Fifty Years of New Zealand Fishing
FIRST EDITION, octavo, grey buckram boards, red lettering to spine & front board, 255pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & scuffing to spine & extrems, light staining to top edge of front board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minor wrinkling to prelims) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate fading to spine & front cover, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Simpson & Williams 1943
KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand history G E Mannering autobiography autobiographies memoir
The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
8vo 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: Seven Stories Press 2002
KEYWORDS: life lives memoir biography autobiography Mark Vonnegut mental healthy
Stalking Tom Waits: The Adventures of a Fan in Search of a Ticket
Octavo stapled light card covers (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: Raymy 2008
KEYWORDS: rock music musicians Raymy quests concerts fandom autobiography Tom Waits
Recollections: Mainly of Writers & Artists
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: Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press 1984
KEYWORDS: literature art literary recollections autobiography autobiographies Geoffrey Grigson
I Will Arise and Go Now
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo softcover (VG+) staining to page edges; 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: Patrick & Patsy McGrath 2012
KEYWORDS: signed Patrick McGrath New Zealand Irish immigration migration migrants autobiography autobiographies memoir
A Pakeha's Recollections: The Reminiscences of Murray Gladstone Thomson
LACKS D/W, octavo, brown buckram boards, black lettering to spine, blind stamp lettering to front board, frontispiece. 120pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, light foxing to frontispiece & photographic pages, light scuffing to top edges of rear eps)
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1944
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Otago history historical accounts autobiography autobiographical Murray Gladstone Thomson pioneers
The Way Out (Italian Intermezzo)
Octavo, teal/aqua buckram boards, red lettering to spine, 384pp, VG+ (light bruising to board edges & extrems, light tanning to page edges & eps, light soiling & pencil annotation to ffep, light foxing & newspaper articles glued in to rear eps, light cracking to gutter of pg32/33) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges- some minor loss, moderate tanning & rubbing to spine, light tanning & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Collins Clear-Type Press 1946
KEYWORDS: Uys Krige autobiography autobiographies memoir military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 pows prisoners of war