Books - "biography"
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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
Nat King Cole
ex library, 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: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2000
KEYWORDS: specials Daniel Mark Epstein ex library biography Nat King Cole music
Norman Birkett, Uncommon Advocate
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: Mayflower 1963
KEYWORDS: specials literature John Chandos Normal Birkett biography lawyer advocate
It Changed My Life
Writings on the Women's Movement
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: Dell Publishing Co., Inc. 1977
KEYWORDS: specials Betty Friedan politics history biography memoir social movement womens movement feminism
Flora MacDonald
The Most Loyal Rebel
Ex-library Softcover octavo (G) ; 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: Mandarin 1994
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Hugh Douglas history nonfiction biography Flora MacDonald British History Amerian History
Rings & Curtains
Family and Personal Memoirs
Ex-library hardcover imperial octavo (VG-) in d/w (G) ; text in French ; 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: Quartet Books Limited 1992
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Jack Le White Peter Ford biography memoir cicrus history popular entertainment social history cultural anthropology
L.A. Lore
First edition 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: Sinclair-Stevenson Limited 1992
KEYWORDS: first edition specials Stephen Brook travel Los Angeles portrait of a city biography of LA
Warm Milk and Apples
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: The Copy Press 2004
KEYWORDS: specials Evered H. Goodall New Zealand biography memoir personal history
Cartmel: People and Priory
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: Titus Wilson & Son Ltd 1995
KEYWORDS: specials Sam Taylor history biography English history religion
The Age of Alexander
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: Penguin Books Ltd 1983
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Plutarch ancient history biography classical studies
Seneca
First edition, super octavo, red buckram boards with black lettering to spine, frontispiece with tissue guard, vii + 206pp, VG- (browning to spine, fading & soiling to boards, esp front board fore-edge, bruising & fraying to spine extrems, owner's name & year in ink to fep, tanning to page edges & eps)
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green and Co 1920
KEYWORDS: Francis Holland Seneca biography ethic physic philosophy literary criticism history classics first edition
Herodotus Father of History
First edition, super octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, iv + 315pp, VG (heavy foxing to eps, cellotape residue stains to eps, tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG- (cellotape residue stains internally, browning to spine, tanning & foxing, bruising & nicks to rear upper edge & spine upper extrem)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1953
KEYWORDS: first edition John L Myres Herodotus classics literary criticism biography Greek literature history
Anne Frank
Hardcover oblong 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 2005
KEYWORDS: specials Jospehine Poole Angela Barrett childrens nonfiction biography Anne Frank WWII Jewish Nazi history