Books - "autobiography"
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Tales of Fishing (In New Zealand and Beyond)
Octavo illus light card covers, 232pp, illus; near fine (very light rubbing to top page edge)
PUBLISHER: The Halcyon Press 2001
KEYWORDS: fishing new zealand bryn hammond adventure autobiography
Madagascar or Robert Drury's Journal, During Fifteen Years' Captivity on that Island: And a further descrition of Madagascar by the Abbe Alexia Rochon
Octavo red cloth boards, gilt lettering to front board and spine, black illus to front board, frontis, 399pp, illus + folding map, VG- (3cm portionn of upper spine missing, heavy fraying with loss to spine base, moderately heavy browning to spine & less so to boards, some browning & soiling to page edges, light foxing to eps, one plate loose, owner's ex libris label to front pastedown)
PUBLISHER: T. Fisher Unwin 1890
KEYWORDS: history autobiography robert drury madagascar personal account nineteenth century
Alone in the Wilderness
Octavo green cloth boards, gilt title to front, black illus to front, 295pp, illus; VG+ (tanning, light foxing) in protective plastic cover
PUBLISHER: Small, Maynard & Co 1913
KEYWORDS: joseph knowles autobiography adventure survival solitary lifestyle
Victorian Village: The Diaries of the Reverend John Coker Egerton of Burwash, 1857 - 1888
Octavo illus light card covers, frontis, 369pp, illus; near fine (light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Alan Sutton, 1992
KEYWORDS: diaries autobiography john coker egerton burwash nineteenth century history england
Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China (2 volume set)
First edition octavo illus boards, silver lettering to front and spine, (vol 1) xiv + 326pp, frontis, fldg map (near fine), illus (vol 2) frontis, x + 342pp + 4pp adverts, illus; both VG+ (foxing, tanning, owner's inscription in pencil to feps)
PUBLISHER: Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co. 1898
KEYWORDS: travel china thibet tartary asia history autobiography m. huc
A Hackney Memory Chest
Softcover octavo (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: Centerprise Trust 1983
KEYWORDS: history autobiography george a cook homerton specials
Send for the Artist...
Oblong quarto blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to fron and spine, illus eps, xiv + 194pp, illus; VG+ in VG d/w (light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Random House 1995
KEYWORDS: air force official artist autobiography maurics conly arts new zealand RNZAF
Northward Over the Great Ice: A Narrative of Life and Work along the Shores and upon the Interior Ice-Cap of Northern Greenland in the Years 1886 and 1891 - 1897; With a Description of the Little Tr
Two volume set, octavo red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontis, illus (1) lxxx + 521pp (2) xiv + 625pp; both VG (foxing to eps, light fading to spine, wear to cloth cover with slight fraying at spine edges, v light tanning (1) small chip to spine top)
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co, 1898
KEYWORDS: history greenland eskimos travel adventure autobiography nineteenth-century robert e. peary
A Hunter's Life among Lions, Elephants, and other Wild Animals of South Africa
Octavo brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, indented illus to front and back boards, illus, xiv + 303pp + 4pp adverts; VG- (numerous closed tears to spine, wear and discolouration to boards, foxing, tanning)
PUBLISHER: Derby & Jackson 1858
KEYWORDS: south africa hunting wildlife autobiography adventure travel
Liberty Bell: Ten Years of Writing
Softcover octavo (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: Alistair Taylor 1988
KEYWORDS: autobiography deborah coddington specials
Stamper Battery: Reminiscences of a Goldfield Childhood
Ex library, Hardcover (VG) 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: Blackwood & Janet Paul 1964
KEYWORDS: history autobiography new zealand goldfields amelia howe specials
A London Boyhood
Hardcover octavo (VG) d/w (VG), ex-library; 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: Heinemann 1974
KEYWORDS: autobiography london ian niall specials
Working Lives Volume One 1905-45
Paperback (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: Hackney WEA
KEYWORDS: history sociology autobiography hackney specials
Working Lives Volume Two: Hackney 1945-77
Paperback (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: Centerprise 1977
KEYWORDS: hackney autobiography history sociology specials
Gelobtes Neuseeland: Fluchten bis ans Ende der Welt
paperback (VG), SIGNED by author; 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: aufbau taschenbuch verlag 2006
KEYWORDS: german languages travel new zealand autobiography freya klier specials
Memories & Adventures
Paperback octavo (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: Coronet Books 1990
KEYWORDS: winston s. churchill autobiography childhood early career specials
Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now
Paperback octavo (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: Doubleday/Anchor 1997
KEYWORDS: jan wong autobiography china history specials
Cock-A-Doodle-Do
Hardcover octavo (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: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd 1941
KEYWORDS: autobiography charles b. cochran film specials
White Coolie
Paperback (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: Corgi Books 1971
KEYWORDS: japanese capture second world war autobiography british prisoner of war ronald hastain specials
The Obedient Banker: From Bombay to Beverly Hills (A revealing insight into the unusual life of a colonial banker)
Softcover octavo (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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Authorhouse 2011
KEYWORDS: banking autobiography travel history jeremy tait specials