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War


JUNGER, SEBASTIAN

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: Fourth Estate 2011

KEYWORDS: specials Sebastian Junger autobiography biography memoir politics war Middle East Afghanistan embedded journalism experiential biography

$15.00
xxerb60100

A Zen Romance


One Woman's Adventures in a Monastery

BOEHM, DEBORAH BOLIVER

Softcover octavo (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: Kodansha International Ltd, 1997

KEYWORDS: specials Deborah Boliver Boehm autobiography memoir travel Japan religion Zen humour romance

$125.00
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A British Borderland: Service and Sport in Equatoria


WILSON, CAPTAIN H. A.

First edition, super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, black lettering & black decorative motif to front board, xxi + 345pp, illus + folding map, VG (browning to spine, small stain to rear board, small nick to cloth of lower spine, browning to eps, foxing throughout & to page edges)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1913

KEYWORDS: first edition Captain HA Wilson Equatorial Africa autobiography memoir travel hunting Zanzibar Mombasa Nairobi Uganda

$10.00
xxere60271

Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number


Translated from the Spanish by Toby Talbot

TIMERMAN, JACOBO

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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1982

KEYWORDS: specials Jacobo Timerman autobiography argentina inprisonment totalitarianism

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xxere60283

My Invented Country


A Memoir

ALLENDE, ISABEL

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 keeps postage costs down.

PUBLISHER: Harper Perennial 2004

KEYWORDS: specials isabel allende literature memoir feminism chile autobiography

$17.50
xxerf60343

Trade Winds and Turtles


MULVILLE, DAN

First edition hardcover super octavo (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: Putnam & Company Ltd 1960

KEYWORDS: first edition specials Dan Mulville autobiography memoir sailing history

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xxesa60450

Myself with Others


Selected Essays

FUENTES, CARLOS

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: Picador, Pan Books Ltd 1989

KEYWORDS: specials Carlos Fuentes nonfiction autobiography memoir essays history arts literature cinema politics diplomacy history

$22.50
1t15d/14

Saga of a Wayward Sailor


JONES, TRISTAN

First edition, super octavo, light blue boardswith gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, iv + 264pp, illus, VG+ (slight bruising to spine extrems, v slight fading to board edges) in d/w, VG (fading to spine, bruising & nicks to corners & spine extrems)

PUBLISHER: The Bodley Head 1980

KEYWORDS: Tristan Jones autobiography explorer maritime nautical sailing exploration voyage Cresswell sailor yachting adventures travel

$34.50
1t30a/8

Weight-Lifting Made Easy and Interesting


8th Edition

PULLUM, W. A.

Small octavo, red cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xiv + 176pp (last 5 pp adverts), illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (light fading, bruising to lower spine extrem, 1cm tear with loss to front flap lower corners, slight soiling to rear))

PUBLISHER: Athletic Publications Ltd (nd)

KEYWORDS: WA Pullum sport weightlifting athletics autobiography

$55.00
1t30a/17

March, Kind Comrade


STEUART, R. H. J.

First edition, ex library, octavo, oatmeal cloth boards with brown lettering to spine, frontispiece, xi + 261pp, VG- (plastic-covered boards, usu library markings, heavy tanning to eps, owner's name in ink to fep, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Sheed & Ward 1931

KEYWORDS: first edition ex library RHJ Steuart autobiography WWI World War One first world war military service

$12.50
xxesb60504

A Life Stripped Bare: Tiptoeing Through the Ethical Minefield


HICKMAN, LEO

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: Eden Project / Transworld 2005

KEYWORDS: specials Leo Hickman autobiography ethical lifestyle living moral lifestyle

$9.00
xxesb60521

True North


A Memoir

CONWAY, JILL KER

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: Vintage 1995

KEYWORDS: specials Jill Ker Conway autobiography Australian in America

$245.00
1w8a/12

Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life


COETZEE, J. M.

Uncorrected proof copy first edition, octavo, yellow light card covers with black lettering, 166pp, VG+ (slight fading to spine & cover edges, v. v. slight foxing to cover fore-edge)

PUBLISHER: Secker & Warburg 1997

KEYWORDS: JM Coetzee South Africa childhood autobiography literature

$40.00
1w8a/17

A White Boy among the Maoris in the 'Forties: Pages from an Unpublished Autobiography of James West Stack


Foreword by his Daughter Mrs Frank Coxon

STACK, JAMES WEST & REED, A. H. (Ed)

Octavo, illus brown heavy card boards, printed eps, frontispiece, 23pp + 1pp advert, illus, VG (light rubbing to spine, v slight bruising to boards corners & edges, owner's name in pencil to fep)

PUBLISHER: AH Reed 1934

KEYWORDS: James West Stack autobiography Mrs Frank Coxon New Zealand Maori history

$9.50
xxeta60809

The Ochre People


JABAVU, NONI

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Ravan Press 1995

KEYWORDS: specials Noni Jabavu autobiography memoir South Africa travel writing

$19.50
2e5a/16

Life Changing: Learning from the Past; Fixing the Future


THOMPSON, ALASDAIR

Super octavo, illus light card covers with white lettering to black spine, 337pp, VG+ (lacks fep)

PUBLISHER: Xlibris 2013

KEYWORDS: Alasdair Thompson New Zealand autobiography Employers & Manufacturers Union business mayor Thames Coromandel

$30.00
2e17a/3

Kowhai and Orchid: Life on Two Islands


The Life of a Kiwi Presbyterian Minister in New Zealand and Indonesia

PATERSON, ROBERT

Signed by author, imperial octavo, illus light card covers, 232pp, illus, fine

PUBLISHER: Robert M Paterson 2009

KEYWORDS: Robert Paterson New Zealand South Island Sulawesi Indonesia presbyterian minister autobiography

$225.00
2e24a/31

Casual Ramblings: Up and Down New Zealand


Reprinted from the Auckland Weekly News and the New Zealand Herald

TRAMP, A.

first edition, scarce, Dennis McEldowney's copy, octavo, brown stapled paper wrappers, frontispiece, 150pp + 20pp adverts, G+ (3x4cm torn off portion to lower cover front corner, heavy bruising, nicks, tears and creasing to covers, rust staining from staples to covers, handwritten title to front cover, browning to page edges, pencil annotation to title page, heavy browning to eps, foxing elsewhere)

PUBLISHER: Wilsons and Horton 1891

KEYWORDS: A Tramp John Dickson Wickham first edition scarce New Zealand travel history autobiography

$17.50
xxeuc61288

Once is Enough: A Memoir


SARGESON, FRANK

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 cost

PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1973

KEYWORDS: specials Frank Sargeson New Zealand memoir literature autobiography

$85.00
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Air of Battle


FRY, WILLIAM M.

First edition, super octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, 194pp, illus, nr fine(bookseller's label to front pastedown) in d/w VG+ (price clipped, v slight rubbing to edges)

PUBLISHER: William Kimber 1974

KEYWORDS: Wing Commander William Fry autobiography World War I One First World War fighter pilot aviation Somme Paschendaele memoir air battles

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