VILLIERS, ALAN

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Penguin 2001

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MASSON, ROSALINE (Ed)

First edition, super octavo hardcover (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: W & R Chambers Ltd 1922

KEYWORDS: First edition Robert Louis Stevenson biography memoir reminiscences

MAURICE, ALBERT

Ex library, super octavo hardcover (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: W&R Chambers 1957 (?)

KEYWORDS: specials Albert Maurice Henry Morton Stanley Africa Congo exploration explorer de Brazza biography letters correspondence

GIBB, SIR HAMILTON (Ed)

This volume only, octavo, light blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & gilt stamped design & blind rule to front board, xi + 539-771pp, illus, nr fine, in VG+ d/w (rubbing & tanning, small ding to front edge, tanning to interior)

PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society / Cambridge University Press 1971

KEYWORDS: Sir Hamilton Gibb Ibn Battuta history travel biography North Africa Asia Minor Mecca Central Asia India China Muslim countries

ACKROYD, PETER

First edition, super octavo, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, patterned eps, xvi + 1195pp. Illus, nr fine, in VG+ d/w (slight rubbing to front, sticker residue to front)

PUBLISHER: Sinclair Stevenson 1990

KEYWORDS: first edition Peter Ackroyd Charles Dickens biography history literary criticism

CARR, CALEB

Paperback octavo (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: Random House 1992

KEYWORDS: biography frederick townsend ward military history caleb carr specials

RICHARDSON, ROBERT D. jr

Paperback super 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: University of California Press 1996

KEYWORDS: henry thoreau biography literary history robert d. richardson jr specials

NISBET, JACK

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Sasquatch Books 2009

KEYWORDS: specials jack nisbet david douglas natural history biography scotland nature pacific northwest

ANDERSON, MOLLY

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Hazard Press Publishers 1988

KEYWORDS: specials dame daphne purves biography molly anderson education dunedin otago new zealand history

GLENDINNING, VICTORIA

Super 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: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1984

KEYWORDS: specials Victoria Glendinning Vita Sackville West biography Harold Nicolson Sissinghurst Violet Trefusis Virginia Woolf

SEMMLER, CLEMENT

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Lansdowne Press 1975

KEYWORDS: specials Clement Semmler Banjo Paterson biography Australia history literary criticism

HAWORTH, JENNIFER

Oblong imperial octavo, illus light card covers with French flaps, frontispiece, 224pp, illus, VG+

PUBLISHER: Wily Publications 2008

KEYWORDS: Jennifer Haworth New Zealand art artists war warfare history paintings biography Peter McIntyre Austen Deans Allan Barns Graham Russell Clark John McIndoe

MCCORMICK, E. H

First edition, octavo, dark red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & gilt stamp to front board, frontispiece, xvi + 278pp + 32 b&w illus, illus, VG (owner's name in ink to fep, v slight foxing) in VG+ d/w (slight soiling & tanning)

PUBLISHER: Auckland City Art Gallery 1954

KEYWORDS: EH McCormick Frances Hodgkins New Zealand art artists painting biography

MCCORMICK, E. H

Super octavo, illus light card covers, frontispiece, 159pp, illus, fine

PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 1990

KEYWORDS: EH McCormick Frances Hodgkins art biography painting New Zealand artists

HALL, MICHAEL

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PUBLISHER: Seren 1997

KEYWORDS: specials francis brett young michael hall literature biography criticism

HENDERSON, PHILIP

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PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul

KEYWORDS: specials tennyson poetry literature biography philip henderson

READ, PIERS PAUL

hardback super octavo with d/w, some tears 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: Simon & Schuster 2003

KEYWORDS: specials piers paul read actors film entertainment biography alec guiness stage theatre

KEESING, NANCY

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PUBLISHER: Macmillian 1963

KEYWORDS: specials nancy keesing sarah white pioneer family australie new south wales biography

HILLARY, EDMUND & HILLARY, PETER

First edition, 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1984

KEYWORDS: specials first edition Edmund Hillary Peter Hillary New Zealand climbing mountaineering biography history Nepal

THWAITE, ANN

First edition, super octavo, dark grey boards with yellow lettering to spine, red eps, xix + 716pp, illus, nr fine (v small stain spot to upper edges) in VG+ d/w (bruising/bending to upper edge of front flap, v slight rubbing to front board)

PUBLISHER: Fabr & Faber 1996

KEYWORDS: first edition Ann Thwaite Emily Tennyson biography literary criticism Alfred Tennyson poet