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Toss Woollaston: A Life in Letters


WOOLLASTON, TOSS & TREVELYAN, JILL (Ed)

Tidy ex-library, 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: Te Papa Press 2004

KEYWORDS: Toss Woollaston New Zealand art artists letters correspondence autobiography

$20.00
xxpkg217256

A Higher Kind of Loyalty: A Memoir by China's Foremost Journalist


BINYAN, LIU & HONG, ZHU (Trans) & GITTINGS, JOHN (Preface)

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: Methuen 1990

KEYWORDS: Liu Binyan journalists journalism autobiography memoir China Chinese

$20.00
xxpkg217257

The Loony-Bin Trip


MILLETT, KATE

FIRST EDITION, 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: Simon and Schuster 1990

KEYWORDS: first editions autobiography memoir Kate Millett women literature

$30.00
xxpke217279

My Cricketing Life


BRADMAN, DON

FIRST EDITION, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Stanley Paul & Co 1931

KEYWORDS: first editions autobiography autobiographies memoir sport history cricket Don Bradman

$20.00
xxpjc217295

Changeling: The Autobiography of Mike Oldfield


OLDFIELD, MIKE

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: Virgin Books 2008

KEYWORDS: music musicians Mike Oldfield autobiography autobiographies memoir

$25.00
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Fevers, Feuds and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History


FARMER, PAUL

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: Picador / Farrar Straus and Giroux 2021

KEYWORDS: West Africa Ebola viruses virus breakouts disease Sierra Leone Liberia Guinea autobiography Paul Farmer anthropology

$17.50
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Kiss Hollywood Good-Bye


LOOS, ANITA

UK FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) inscription in ink to ffep; 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: W H Allen 1974

KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Anita Loos Hollywood film industry UK first editions

$30.00
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Derek Jarman's Garden


JARMAN, DEREK & SOOLEY, HOWARD (Photos)

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: Thames & Hudson 1999

KEYWORDS: Derek Jarman gardening gardens autobiography

$35.00
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Resilience: A Story of Persecution, Escape, Survival and Triumph


WOOLF, INGE

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: Holocaust Centre of New Zealand 2023

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Jewish communities Inge Woolf autobiography holocaust

$17.50
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Tainted Life


ALMOND, MARC

Super octavo softcover (VG) cracking to gutters; 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: Pan Books 2000

KEYWORDS: Marc Almond autobiography memoir music musicians Soft Cell

$20.00
xxpgf217365

The Only Paradise


HEWITT, KATHLEEN

Octavo hardcover (VG-) gutters cracked; 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: Jarrolds N/D

KEYWORDS: Kathleen Hewitt autobiography memoir autobiographies

$72.50
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Where the Clouds Can Go


KAIN, CONRAD & THORINGTON, J MONROE (Ed & Additional Chapters)

SCARCE IN D/W, super octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xix + 456pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, G+ (price clipped, v heavy cracking & chipping to spine & edges- some loss, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling)

PUBLISHER: Charles T Branford 1954

KEYWORDS: explorstion adventure mountaineering mountain climbing Conrad Kain alpine autobiography

$950.00
2g45/50

A Clean Breast: The Life and Loves of Russ Meyer (3 Vol Set)


MEYER, RUSS & SCHWARTZ, ADOLPH ALBION (Told to)

HEAVY 3 VOL SET- EXTRA SHIPPING REQ'D, quarto, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spines & front boards, frontispiece to vol 1, mixed paginated prelims + 1213pp total, illus/photos, VG+ (sl rubbing to extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light foxing to prelims)

PUBLISHER: The Hauck Publishing Company 2000

KEYWORDS: glamour photography photographers Russ Meyer art autobiography memoir

$60.00
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I Me Mine


HARRISON, GEORGE

SECOND IMPRESSION, ex-library, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 399pp, VG (spine cocked, usual library markings, light bruising & rubbing to board & spine edges/extrems, light soiling & tape staining/residue to spine & boards, minor tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, minor patches of soiling sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG- (card reinforcement to internal sides, heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, moderate to heavy fading to spine, moderate tanning & light soiling)

PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster 1980

KEYWORDS: George Harrison autobiography autobiographies memoir music musicians The Beatles

$40.00
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Punk in the Gym


POLLITT, ANDY

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, printed eps, illus prelims, (7) + 317pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Vertebrate Publishing 2016

KEYWORDS: first editions Andy Pollitt autobiography climbing adventure sports

$60.00
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She is My Son: The Adrienne Clark Story


HOLLAND, BEVERLY

SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, illus light card wrappers, pink lettering to spine, 99pp, illus/photos, VG (light fading to spine, light creasing to spine & cover edges, light chafing to covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, various ephemera tipped in to inside covers, prev. owner's personal, insightful & heart-felt annotations of personal journey to prelims & terminals, occasional foxing to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: Aphrodite Press 1992

KEYWORDS: signed Beverly Holland Adriennce Clark autobiography biographies memoir trans transgender transsexual New Zealand sex changes

$35.00
xxpej217390

Letters of E B White (Revised Edition)


WHITE, E B & GUTH, DOROTHY LOBRANO (Originally Collected by) & WHITE, MARTHA (Revised & Updated) & UPDIKE, JOHN (Fore)

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: Harper Perennial 2007

KEYWORDS: literature literary autobiography letters correspondence E B White

$15.00
xxpel217398

Blind Man's Buff


MINTON, H GARLAND

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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Paul Elek / Elek Books 1974

KEYWORDS: autobiography autobiographies memoir H Garland Minton first editions blindness

$40.00
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Tales of a Cultural Conduit & the Nervous Set


LANDESMAN, JAY

Super octavo, illus light card covers, white & yellow lettering to spine, vi + 264pp, Near FINE

PUBLISHER: Tiger of the Stripe 2006

KEYWORDS: Jay Landesman autobiography autobiographies memoir culture

$45.00
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A Sailor's Odyssey: The Autobiography of Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope


VISCOUNT CUNNINGHAM OF HYNDHOPE

Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained blue, frontispiece, 715pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & scuffing/rubbing to spine extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps- moderate soiling also, blue cloth reinforcement to front gutter, minor foxing throughout, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG- (heavy scuffing & chipping, moderate soiling, some discreet reinforcement to internal sides)

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1951

KEYWORDS: maritime navy naval warfare autobiography autobiographies memoir Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope

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