Books - "biography"
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H. M. Stanley: Unpublished Letters
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
Dickens
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
The Devil Soldier: The American Soldier of Fortune Who Became a God in China
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
Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
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
The Collector: David Douglas and The Natural History of the Northwest
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
Nothing Like a Dame: A Biography of Dame Daphne Purves
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
Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West
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
The Banjo of the Bush: The Work, Life and Times of A. B. Paterson
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
Letters of Frances Hodgkins
Imperial octavo, green buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, x + 584pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising and scuffing to spine extrems and board edges, prev owners name in ink to fep), in VG d/w (moderate sunning to sine and upper edge of cover, chipping to upper spine extrem, light soiling and scuffing to covers)
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: Linda Gill Frances Hodgkins New Zealand art correspondence letters diaries journals painting painter Dunedin biography
The Art of War: New Zealand War Artists in the Field 1939-1945
Peter McIntyre, Austen Deans, Allan Barns-Graham, Russell Clark, John McIndoe
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
Works of Frances Hodgkins in New Zealand
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
Portrait of Frances Hodgkins
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
Francis Brett Young
first edition hardback octavo with 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: Seren 1997
KEYWORDS: specials francis brett young michael hall literature biography criticism
Tennyson: Poet and Prophet
first edition, hardback octavo with 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: Routledge & Kegan Paul
KEYWORDS: specials tennyson poetry literature biography philip henderson
Alec Guiness
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
By Gravel and Gum: The Story of A Pioneer Family
first edition, hardback octavo, with 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: Macmillian 1963
KEYWORDS: specials nancy keesing sarah white pioneer family australie new south wales biography
Two Generations
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
Emily Tennyson: The Poet's Wife
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
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