Books - "autobiography"
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War
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
A Zen Romance
One Woman's Adventures in a Monastery
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
A British Borderland: Service and Sport in Equatoria
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
Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
Translated from the Spanish by Toby Talbot
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
My Invented Country
A Memoir
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
Trade Winds and Turtles
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
Myself with Others
Selected Essays
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
Saga of a Wayward Sailor
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
Weight-Lifting Made Easy and Interesting
8th Edition
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
March, Kind Comrade
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
A Life Stripped Bare: Tiptoeing Through the Ethical Minefield
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
True North
A Memoir
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
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life
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
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
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
The Ochre People
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
Life Changing: Learning from the Past; Fixing the Future
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
Kowhai and Orchid: Life on Two Islands
The Life of a Kiwi Presbyterian Minister in New Zealand and Indonesia
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
Casual Ramblings: Up and Down New Zealand
Reprinted from the Auckland Weekly News and the New Zealand Herald
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
Once is Enough: A Memoir
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
Air of Battle
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