Books - "biography"
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Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers
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: Tee Publishing 1999
KEYWORDS: specials industrial biography samuel smiles history
Edith Cavell: A Bridge and Bravery
Softcover octavo (Near 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Queenstown and District Historical Society Incorporated
KEYWORDS: specials Danny Knudson New Zealand nonfiction Queenstown Edith Cavell biography New Zealand
Milton
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in dw (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: Chatto & Windus 1961
KEYWORDS: specials E.M.W. Tillyard Milton poetry biography
Peter Lawford: Mixing With Monroe, The Kennedys, The Rat Pack and the whole damn crowd
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PUBLISHER: Futura 1990
KEYWORDS: specials peter lawford celebrities fame cinema film actors entertainment biography patricia seaton politics amercia usa history jfk monroe
Light Fantastic - Adventures in Theatre
ex library 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 1997
KEYWORDS: specials theatre history biography john lahr bulgakov mamet shaw wilde orton stoppard kushner albee odets
The English Notebooks
Based upon the Original Manuscripts in the Pierpoint Morgan Library
Ex library, first edition, imperial octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & blind embossed publisher's motif to front board, xliv + 667pp, VG (library markings, bruising to spine extrems & board corners, fading to upper board, slight soiling marks to upper front board, tanning to eps, label residue stain to fep, slight soiling to lower page corners & upper page edges)
PUBLISHER: Moderln Language Assn of America 1941
KEYWORDS: ex library first edition Nathaniel Hawthorne Randall Stewart journals notebooks diaries biography England English writings
Some Recollections of a happy Life
Marianne North in Australia and New Zealand
First Edition Thus. Hardcover imperial 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Edward Arnold Australis Pty Limited 1986
KEYWORDS: First Edition Thus specials Helen Vellacott Daniel Thomas Marianne North Australia New Zealand nonfiction history biography botany
A Small Place in Italy
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Picador 1995
KEYWORDS: specials Eric Newby biography travel writing memoir Italy
Elizabeth & Leicester
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PUBLISHER: Panther Books Limited 1961
KEYWORDS: specials Elizabeth Jenkins history biography Queen Victoria Lord Leicester Victorian
Henry Montagu Butler: Master of Trinity College Cambridge 1886-1918
A Memoir By His Son J.R.M. Butler
octavo hardcover, first edition, lacks dw (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, omplete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green and Co. 1925
KEYWORDS: specials J.R.M.Butler Henry Montagu Butler Trinity College Cambridge biography memoir
Hugh Dalton
super octavo hardcover, lacks title page (VG) in dw (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, omplete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Johnathan Cape (date?)
KEYWORDS: specials Ben Pimlott Hugh Dalton biography politics England
The Mystery of La Perouse
First edition, octavo, mustard-coloured cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 187pp, illus, VG+ (bookseller's label to fep, light tanning & foxing) in d/w, VG (2cm closed tears to front upper & lower edges & to lower rear/flap edge, bruising & creasing to spine extrems & corners, v slight soiling to rear)
PUBLISHER: Bascands Ltd 1961
KEYWORDS: first edition Mona Gordon biography history Pacific exploration navigation navigator expedition naval nautical journey sailing
Tangweera: Life and Adventures among Gentle Savages
First edition (author is the brother of Gustavus von Tempsky), super octavo, white cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and brown lettering with brown illus to front board, black eps, tissue guard to title page, xi + 318pp, illus, VG- (heavy soiling to rear board, fading, staining & rubbing to spine, soiling to front board & bruising to front board fore-edge & lower corner, dampstaining to feps, owner's name in pencil to helf-title page, tanning)
PUBLISHER: Edward Arnold 1899
KEYWORDS: first edition C Napier Bell New Zealand biography travel anthropology history Central America Mosquito Indians
Gurdjieff and Mansfield
First edition, octavo, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, xvii + 261pp, VG+ (v sl wear to boards, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (sl wear to covers, light tanning to upper edges and flaps, sl soiling)
PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1980
KEYWORDS: first edition James Moore Katherine Mansfield George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff biography literary criticism
A Burglar's Life
A Classic of the Convict Days
Ex-library. hardcover 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Angus & Robertson Ltd 1968
KEYWORDS: specials W. Hiener J.E. Hiener ex-library autobiography biography convict literature Australia
Nell Gwyn
A Biography
Ex-library, first edition, hardcover 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Macmillan 2005
KEYWORDS: specials ex library first edition Charles Beauclerk Nell Gwyn Samuel Pepys literature biography history social anthropology
The Last English Revolutionary
Tom Wintringham 1898-1949
Ex-library, first edition, hardcover 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Sutton Publishing 2004
KEYWORDS: specials Hugh Purcell ex library first edition biography war politics history revolution espionage military
Satyr Square
A Year, A Life in Rome
Ex-library Hardcover 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Leonard Barkan memoir biography literary criticism travel travelogue Italy Rome
Survivor on the River Kwai
The Incredible Story of Life on the Burma Railway
Softcover 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Viking 2013
KEYWORDS: specials Reg Twigg biography history Burma railway World War II military
Eva Braun: Ein Ungewohnliches Frauenschicksal in Geschichtlich Bewegter Zeit
TEXT IN GERMAN, imperial octavo, royal blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, 324pp, illus, VG+ (owner's name & date in ink to fep, some underlining in ink) in d/w, fine
PUBLISHER: KW Schutz 1988
KEYWORDS: TEXT IN GERMAN en deutsch Johannes Frank Eva Braun biography history