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Ireland: In All Her Sins and in Some of Her Graces


DONLEAVY, J P

FIRST EDITION, 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: Michael Joseph 1986

KEYWORDS: first editions Ireland history Irish culture J P Donleavy autobiography autobiographies memoir literary literature

$17.50
xx185pol207971

Art Spiegelman: Conversations


SPIEGELMAN, ART & WITEK, JOSEPH (Ed)

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

$150.00
1y36a/22

Random Recollections: Notes from a Lifetime at the Bar


HANLON, A C & MYERS, The Rt Hon Sir MICHAEL (Preface)

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

$40.00
2e25a/6

The Great Days


BONATTI, WALTER; SUTTON, GEOFFREY (transl)

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

$75.00
2e25a/37

Why I Still Carry a Guitar: The Spiritual Journet of Cat Stevens to Yusuf


ISLAM, YUSUF

Super 8vo, pp. [6] + 105; brown cl bds, spine & front board lettered in silver gilt; plates; VG- (sl scuffing & soiling to bds; minor bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; spine heavily cocked).

PUBLISHER: Motivate Publishing 2014

KEYWORDS: Yusuf Islam spiritual spirituality Cat Stevens life lives biography autobiography memoir inspiration motivation

$22.50
2e18b/26

Wild Card: An Autobiography 1923-1958


HEWETT, DOROTHY

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

$20.00
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Something Like an Autobiography


KUROSAWA, AKIRA & BOCK, AUDIE E (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Vintage / Random House N/D (modern)

KEYWORDS: autobiography autobiographies memoir Akira Kurosawa film directors movies

$45.00
1y88a/21

Reform: A Memoir


PALMER, GEOFFREY

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

$22.50
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The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company


IGER, ROBERT

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

$26.50
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Sandstone Gothic


RIEMER, ANDREW

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

$40.00
ak1/10a/12

Bushline: A Memoir


BURTON, ROBBIE

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

$55.00
ak1/10a/13

'Away With all Pests...' : An English Surgeon in People's China


HORN, Dr JOSHUA S & SNOW, EDGAR (Intro)

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

$45.00
ak1/10a/18

Eighty Years On: A Further Memoir


TARLING, NICHOLAS

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

$30.00
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Three Wild Dogs, and the Truth


ZUSAK, MARKUS

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

$150.00
ak1/15a/30

Pages from the Memory Log of G M Hassing: Sailor, Pioneer, Schoolmaster


HASSING, G M

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

$95.00
ak1/18a/8

Eighty Years in New Zealand: Embracing Fifty Years of New Zealand Fishing


MANNERING, GEORGE EDWARD

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

$15.00
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The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity


VONNEGUT, MARK; VONNEGUT, KURT (forew)

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

$10.00
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Stalking Tom Waits: The Adventures of a Fan in Search of a Ticket


RAYMY

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

$19.50
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Recollections: Mainly of Writers & Artists


GRIGSON, GEOFFREY

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

$30.00
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I Will Arise and Go Now


McGRATH, PATRICK and PATSY

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

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