Books - "biography"
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Madoff: The Man Who Stole $65 Billion
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 2009
KEYWORDS: biography finance economics bernie madoff ponzi scheme true crime erin arvedlund specials
Alexander Fleming: The Man and the Myth
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PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1985
KEYWORDS: alexander fleming biography medical history penicillin gwyn fleming specials
Travel Diaries of a Naturalist 1
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PUBLISHER: collins harvill
KEYWORDS: specials nature peter scott biography travel exploration
You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker
Octavo paperback (G+); 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: Penguin 1983
KEYWORDS: specials John Keats Dorothy Parker biography literature history
Please Don't Make Me Go
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PUBLISHER: Harper Element 2008
KEYWORDS: specials John Fenton non-fiction biography child abuse
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
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PUBLISHER: Penguin 2010
KEYWORDS: specials Dan Kieran Ian Vince comedy humour travel fiction biography literature
A Voice Reborn
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PUBLISHER: Arcadia Books 1999
KEYWORDS: specials Kyra Vayne Andrew Palmer Sue Lawley music singer soprano biography opera
The Gift of Nessus
First edition, octavo, dark red boards with blue letteringto spine, 224 pages, VG (bruising damage to upper spine, slight rubbing to board upper edges, owner's name in ink to front pastedown, slight fading to eps) in VG d/w (fading, bruising & rubbing to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co
KEYWORDS: Zofia Kossak Poland 17th century Casimir Korsak novel fiction literature biography
Melville in the South Seas
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PUBLISHER: Dover Publications 1966
KEYWORDS: specials Charles Roberts Anderson Herman Melville biography whaling South Seas US Navy history literature history lit crit
Melville and his World
Ex library, imperial octavo in plastic covered 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: Thames & Hudson London 1971
KEYWORDS: specials ex library Gay Wilson Allen Herman Melville biography whaling sea voyages South Seas Marquesas literature
Book Self; The Reader as Writer and the Writer as Critic
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PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2008
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism biography new zealand c.k. stead specials
The Callas Legacy; the Complete Guide to her Recordings on Compact Disc (fourth edition)
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PUBLISHER: Duckworth 1995
KEYWORDS: arts music biography singing maria callas opera john ardoin specials
Dance of the Peacocks; New Zealanders in Exile in the time of Hitler and Mao Tse-Tung
Super octavo, illus light card covers, 480pp, illus, VG (light wear, light foxing to end pages, light tanning to page edges, owners inscription in ink to fep)
PUBLISHER: Vintage 2003
KEYWORDS: history biography new zealand exile james mcneish hitler mao tse-tung
Robert Louis Stevenson: Man and Writer (in two volumes)
A Critical Biography
2 volume set, first edition, super octavo, dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece to both volumes, vi + 351pp (vol 1) and vi + 304pp (vol 2), both vols VG (bruising to spine extrems, slight rubbing to board edges, owner's name in pencil to feps, heavy foxing to pages & esp. page edges, browning to eps)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston & Co 1924 (?)
KEYWORDS: first edition JA Steuart Robert Louis Stevenson biography literary criticism history
In Step with Sturt
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PUBLISHER: Graphic Books 1979
KEYWORDS: specials Keith Swan Margaret Carnegie Charles Sturt biography Australian explorer history Riverina New South Wales
Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World
Super octavo hardcover in d/w (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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company 2012
KEYWORDS: specials Evan Thomas Dwight Eisenhower American history USA president politics biography
Kidman: The Forgotten King
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PUBLISHER: Angus and Robertson
KEYWORDS: specials Jill Bowen Sidney Kidman Australia history biography cattle king grazier businessman
The Reverend Thomas Miller M.A. A Family Tribute by his Sons
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PUBLISHER: Presbyterian Book Room 1949
KEYWORDS: new zealand history biography reverend thomas miller specials
His Mother's Country
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PUBLISHER: melbourne university press
KEYWORDS: specials maslyn williams biography family australia
Mary Diana Dods, A Gentleman and a Scholar
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PUBLISHER: william morrow and company inc.
KEYWORDS: specials mary shelley literature betty bennett biography history