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xxddr48847

Evita: The Woman with the Whip


MAIN, MARY

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: Corgi Books 1978

KEYWORDS: biography evita eva peron politics argentina mary main specials

$15.00
xxdds49061

The Powys Brothers: A Study


WARD, RICHARD HERON

Ex library, 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: John Lane The Bodley Head

KEYWORDS: specials ex library Richard Heron Ward John Cowper Powys brothers literary criticism biography portraits

$15.00
xxcja49066

Welsh Ambassadors: John Cowper Powys, Llewellyn Powys, Theodore Francis Powys


MARLOW, LOUIS

Ex library, octavo hardcover, (VG+) in d/w (VG-) 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: Bertram Rota 1971

KEYWORDS: specials ex library Louis Marlow John Cowper Powys Llewellyn Theodore Francis literary criticism biography

$15.00
xxcja49079

The English Country Gentleman: A Study of Nineteenth Century Types


KIRBY, CHESTER

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: James Clarke & Co (year ?)

KEYWORDS: Chester Kirby specials history essays England Lord George Bentinck Grantley Berkeley Duke of Richmond Sir John Bennet Lawes biography

$50.00
2f18/20

General Gordon, Soldier, Administrator, and Christian Hero


A Biographical and Historical Sketch of his Career in China and the Soudan

EMERSON, GEORGE R

Duodecimo, green boards with gilt lettering & decoration to front board, frontispiece, folding map, viii + 202pp, illus, VG (staining spots to boards, rubbing to spine, bruising to spine extrems & board corners, foxing, esp to prelims & rear eps)

PUBLISHER: Ward Lock & Co (year?)

KEYWORDS: George R Emerson General Charles George Gordon biography military history China Sudan Soudan

$20.00
2f18/34

Alan Pearson: His Life and Art


TRUSSELL, DENYS

Ex library, imperial octavo, black boards with silver lettering to spine, viii + 159pp, illus, VG- (usu library markings, rubbing to board edges, tape reinforcements to front & rear ep gutters, creasing & label residue to fep, some page sections loosened) in VG- d/w (plastic covered, usu library markings)

PUBLISHER: Hazard Press 1991

KEYWORDS: ex library Denys Trussell Alan Pearson art painter painting artist biography

$19.50
2f18/36

The Art of Alfred Sharpe


BLACKLEY, ROGER

Oblong quarto, illus light card covers with French flaps, frontispiece, 144pp, illus, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Auckland City Art Gallery / David Bateman 1992

KEYWORDS: Roger Blackley Alfred Sharpe New Zealand art artist colonial watercolourist biography art history landscape

$35.00
2f18/38

Saying So Doesn't Make it So: Papers in Honour of B. Foss Leach


Monograph 17

SUTTON, DOUGLAS G (Ed)

Imperial octavo, light blue light card covers with black lettering to spine & cover, frontispiece, vi + 303pp, illus, VG (light soiling, fading to spine, creasing to upper rear corner)

PUBLISHER: New Zealand Archaeological Association 1989

KEYWORDS: Douglas Sutton B Foss Leach biography archaeology anthropology Roger Fyfe Stuart Park Atholl Anderson archaeozoology lithic studies alaeobotany dating

$12.50
xxeif49272

Sons & Brothers; The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy


MAHONEY, RICHARD D.

ex-library, hardcover super 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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Arcade Publishing 1999

KEYWORDS: american politics history john f. kennedy robert kennedy richard d. mahoney biography specials

$32.50
2f21/42

Burke and the Nature of Politics: The Age of the American Revolution


CONE, CARL B

Ex library, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xv + frontispiece + 415pp, VG (usu library markings, slight rubbing to boards, label residue to front & rear pastedown) in VG- d/w (fading to spine, bruising to edges, 1cm closed tear to upper front edge, 8cm closed cut to centre front, stain spots to lower spine)

PUBLISHER: University of Kentucky Press (1957?)

KEYWORDS: ex library Carl B Cone Edmund Burke politics American Revolution biography parliament George III government

$32.50
2f21/43

Burke and the Nature of Politics: The Age of the French Revolution


CONE, CARL B

Ex library, super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, iii + 527pp, VG (usu library markings, slight rubbing to boards & lower board edges, label residue to front & rear pastedown, some pencil notations) in VG- d/w (bruising & nicks to spine extrems, rubbing to front & rear, damp stain to front flap, price clipped, 2cm tear with loss & 3cm stain to upper spine edge)

PUBLISHER: University of Kentucky Press (1964?)

KEYWORDS: ex library Carl B Cone Edmund Burke politics biography government French Revolution parliament empire

$10.00
xxejc49477

'Elota's Story' - The Life and Times of a Solomon Islands Big Man


KEESING, R. M. (ed.)

first edition, lacks fep., hardback octavo with d/w, binding at front weak (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 Queensland Press 1978

KEYWORDS: specials biography elota ga'enaafou solomon islands culture

$90.00
2f22/17

The Becks of Hartwood


KEEN, J. NELSON

Scarce, octavo, light blue light card stapled wrapper with blue lettering to front board, 44pp + 4 blank pages, illus, VG (tanning & rubbing to boards, bruising to lower front board corner, owner's name stamp to top page 1)

PUBLISHER: Nelson Keen (?) 1973

KEYWORDS: scarce Joseph Beck Hartwood Wairio Southland New Zealand family history biography C ounty Down Northern Ireland Brague Farm 1690 gold railways farming

$50.00
2f22/27

William Rolleston


STEWART, WILLIAM DOWNIE

First edition, brown buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, blind rule to front & rear board edges, frontispiece, xvi + 215pp, VG+ (bruising to spine extrems, dings to lower front board edge, tanning to rear eps & to page edges) in VG d/w (soiling & rubbing to front & rear, browning to spine, small hole to centre spine, bruising & creasing to spine extrems, 1cm closed tear to lower front edge, two 2cm untidy tears to upper front board corners)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd 1940

KEYWORDS: William Downie Stewart William Rolleston first edition New Zealand politics biography

$22.50
2f22/48

Gadfly: The Life and Times of James Shelley


CARTER, IAN

octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, viii + 339pp, illus, near fine in VG+ d/w (light wear and rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 1993

KEYWORDS: ian carter biography james shelley new zealand journalism broadcasting

$25.00
2f23/15

An Unknown Few


The Story of Those Holders of the George Cross, The Empire Gallantry Medal, and the Albert Medals Associated with New Zealand

O'SHEA, PHILLIP P

Oblong imperial octavo, blue buckram boards with silver lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 130pp, illus, VG+ (v slight rubbing to boards) in VG d/w (rubbing & staining to front & rear, bruising/creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: PD Hasselberg Government Printer 1981

KEYWORDS: Phillip P O'Shea military history New Zealand soldiers George Cross Empire Gallantry Medal Albert Medals biography medal winners

$14.00
xxekd50044

Lawrence and the Arabs


GRAVES, ROBERT

hardcover octavo (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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1928

KEYWORDS: robert graves lawrence of arabia biography specials

$10.00
xxekd50079

Stalin: A Political Biography


DEUTSCHER, ISAAC

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: Penguin Books 1968

KEYWORDS: history biography joseph stalin russia politics specials

$9.00
xxkaa50091

The Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst


TOMALIN, NICHOLAS & HALL, RON

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: Penguin Books 1973

KEYWORDS: nicholas tomalin ron hall donald crowhurst biography sailing trimaran maritime specials

$9.50
xxkaa50096

The Intelligent Heart: The Story of D.H. Lawrence


MOORE, HARRY T.

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: Penguin Books 1960

KEYWORDS: harry t. moore biography d.h. lawrence literature literary criticism specials

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