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$25.00
xxchf32549

No Fretful Sleeper: A Life of Bill Pearson


MILLAR, PAUL

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

$45.00
1j47/22

Mr Surveyor Thomson: Early Days in Otago and Southland


HALL-JONES, JOHN

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

$225.00
1j47/33

Life of Sir Walter Raleigh


CREIGHTON, LOUISE

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

$150.00
1j47/38

Reminiscences of a Stowaway: A Career of Adventure


GOULDSBURY, C.E.

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

$12.00
xxcia32594

Winston Spencer Churchill: Servant of Crown and Commonwealth - A tribute by various hands presented to him on his eightieth birthday


MARCHANT, JAMES (ed)

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

$22.50
xxche32453

Frederick Page: A Musician's Journal


THOMSON, J. M. & PAUL, JANET (EDITORS)

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

$60.00
2e11/2

The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography: Volume Four, 1921-1940


ORANGE, CLAUDIA (ed)

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

$14.00
xxcic32695

Lifting the Latch


STEWART, SHEILA

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

$15.50
xxcif32824

Te Puea: a biography


KING, MICHAEL

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

$38.50
2e12/7

With Flags Flying


KEENE, FLORENCE

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

$17.50
xxcii33003

The Horse of Pride; Life in a Breton Village


HELIAS, PIERRE-JAKEZ & GUICHARNAUD, JUNE (trans)

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

$14.00
xxhwa33106

Flynn of the Inland


IDRIESS, ION L.

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

$19.50
xxhwa33094

Aloha Solomons: The Story of a People's Courage and Loyalty


CROSS, GWEN

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

$28.50
xxhwc33197

The Gumdigger: The Story of Kauri Gum


REED, A. H.

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

$14.50
xxhwc33205

Lovelock: New Zealand's Olympic Gold Miler


TOBIN, CHRISTOPHER

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

$15.00
xxhwd33230

Kafka's Relatives: Their Lives & His Writing


NORTHEY, ANTHONY

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

$12.00
xxhwd33232

James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist


DAVIES, STAN GEBLER

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

$40.00
2e12/16

Stravinsky in Pictures and Documents


STRAVINSKY, VERA & CRAFT, ROBERT

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

$15.00
xxhwf33319

A Million Miles in Sail: Being the Story of the Sea Career of Captain C.C. Dixon


MCCULLOCH, JOHN HERRIES

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

$9.00
xxhwf33320

Fragments From My Diary


GORKI, MAXIM

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

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