Books - "biography"
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Evita: The Woman with the Whip
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
The Powys Brothers: A Study
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
Welsh Ambassadors: John Cowper Powys, Llewellyn Powys, Theodore Francis Powys
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
The English Country Gentleman: A Study of Nineteenth Century Types
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
General Gordon, Soldier, Administrator, and Christian Hero
A Biographical and Historical Sketch of his Career in China and the Soudan
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
Alan Pearson: His Life and Art
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
The Art of Alfred Sharpe
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
Saying So Doesn't Make it So: Papers in Honour of B. Foss Leach
Monograph 17
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
Sons & Brothers; The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy
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
Burke and the Nature of Politics: The Age of the American Revolution
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
Burke and the Nature of Politics: The Age of the French Revolution
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
'Elota's Story' - The Life and Times of a Solomon Islands Big Man
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
The Becks of Hartwood
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
William Rolleston
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
Gadfly: The Life and Times of James Shelley
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
An Unknown Few
The Story of Those Holders of the George Cross, The Empire Gallantry Medal, and the Albert Medals Associated with New Zealand
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
Lawrence and the Arabs
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
Stalin: A Political Biography
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
The Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
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
The Intelligent Heart: The Story of D.H. Lawrence
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