Books - "biography"
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No Fretful Sleeper: A Life of Bill Pearson
Softcover French flaps super octavo (near 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: Auckland University Press 2010
KEYWORDS: biography bill pearson new zealand author paul millar specials
Mr Surveyor Thomson: Early Days in Otago and Southland
Octavo green boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 146pp + 1pp adverts, illus; VG+ (owner's name to fep, tape residue to eps, light tanning) d/w (VG+, small closed tear and chip to back, light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1971
KEYWORDS: new zealand otago southland regional history surveying john turnbull thomson biography john hall-jones
Life of Sir Walter Raleigh
decimo-octavo, lovely full leather boards with gilt tooling, five raised bands to spine, marbled eps and edges, frontispiece, xii + 270pp, illus including folding maps at rear (VG+), VG+ (tidy copy, wear to extremities, slight soiling to boards and light foxing to eps)
PUBLISHER: Rivingtons 1877
KEYWORDS: history biography sir walter raleigh louise creighton
Reminiscences of a Stowaway: A Career of Adventure
ex-library, RARE, octavo, green cloth boards with faded gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxiv + 293pp + 3pp adverts, illus, VG- (wear to extremities including tear to spine, library stamps and stickers to eps and front board, some early pages only loosely fixed)
PUBLISHER: Chapman & Hall 1920
KEYWORDS: c.e. gouldsbury literature biography
Winston Spencer Churchill: Servant of Crown and Commonwealth - A tribute by various hands presented to him on his eightieth birthday
hardcover octavo (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: Cassell & Company Ltd 1954
KEYWORDS: england politics biography winston churchill specials
Frederick Page: A Musician's Journal
hardback 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: john mcindoe
KEYWORDS: specials music art culture frederick page biography journal
The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Volume Four, 1921-1940
First edition Quarto black boards with gilt lettering to front and spine, xxii + 650pp; near fine (owner's stamp to fep) d/w (VG+, v light fading to spine, v light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 1998
KEYWORDS: new zealand biography history reference claudia orange
Lifting the Latch
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: oxford university press
KEYWORDS: specials sheila stewart history mont abbott biography
Te Puea: a biography
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: Hodder and Stoughton 1990
KEYWORDS: new zealand biography te puea michael king specials
With Flags Flying
octavo, illus light card covers, xii + 151pp, illus, VG+ (light foxing to prelims) in VG+ d/w pasted to covers (fading to spine and wear to extremities)
PUBLISHER: Centre Print 1972
KEYWORDS: new zealand history biography elizabeth holman florence keen
The Horse of Pride; Life in a Breton Village
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: Yale University Press 1978
KEYWORDS: Breton biography history pierre-jakez helias specials
Flynn of the Inland
hardcover (VG) lacks d/w; 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: Angus and Robertson 1939
KEYWORDS: john flynn australia christian missionary biography ion l. idriess history specials
Aloha Solomons: The Story of a People's Courage and Loyalty
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: University of the South Pacific
KEYWORDS: biography history solomon islands gwen cross anthropology sociology specials
The Gumdigger: The Story of Kauri Gum
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: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1948
KEYWORDS: new zealand history biography a. h. reed specials
Lovelock: New Zealand's Olympic Gold Miler
Softcover quarto (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: John McIndoe 1984
KEYWORDS: new zealand sports biography jack lovelock athletics history christopher tobin specials
Kafka's Relatives: Their Lives & His Writing
hardcover octavo (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: Yale University Press 1991
KEYWORDS: literary criticism kafka biography anthony northey specials
James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist
ex-library, hardcover octavo (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: Davis Poynter 1975
KEYWORDS: biography literary criticism james joyce stan gebler davies specials
Stravinsky in Pictures and Documents
blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 688pp, illus, near fine in VG+ d/w (small hole on spine)
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 1979
KEYWORDS: igor stravinsky biography photography music vera stravinsky robert craft
A Million Miles in Sail: Being the Story of the Sea Career of Captain C.C. Dixon
ex-library, hardcover octavo (good +); 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: Hurst & Blackett 1933
KEYWORDS: sailing biography captain c.c. dixon john herries mcculloch specials
Fragments From My Diary
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: Penguin 1940
KEYWORDS: biography maxim gorki specials