Books - "biography"
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Richard Meinertzhagen
Soldier, Scientist & Spy
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: Mandarin Paperbacks 1990
KEYWORDS: specials Mark Cocker biography history espionage
Mountjoy 1563 - 1606: The Last Elizabethan Deputy
Ex library, scarce, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 232pp, illus, VG (usu library markings)
PUBLISHER: Clonmore & Reynolds/ Burns Oates & Washbourne 1958
KEYWORDS: Frederick M Jones Lord Mountjoy Lord Deputy biography history Essex Cecil Hugh O'Neill Christopher Blount Charles Blount religion religious history
The Page of James the Fifth of Scotland
Ex library, first edition, octavo, red cloth boards with silver lettering to spine & gilt motif to front board, 258pp, VG (usu library markings, plastic-covered boards, browning to eps, foxing to page edges, occasional foxing to pages)
PUBLISHER: R & T Washbourne 1900
KEYWORDS: James V Fifth Scotland Scottish history regency biography
Plutarch: Alexander: A Commentary
super octavo, dark blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, lxix + 231pp, VG+ (small stain spot to rear board, v.slight tanning to eps) in d/w, VG- (tanning to spine, soiling spots to front & rear, sellotape stains to inside, foxing to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1969
KEYWORDS: JR Hamilson Plutarch Alexander Macedonia biography history classics
Land, Sea, and Air: Reminiscences of Mark Kerr
First UK edition, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece with tissue guard, x + 406pp, illus + folding chart, VG (heavy fading to spine, moderate fading to boards, light bruising to spine extrems, inscription in ink to fep, heavy tanning to some pages esp prelims, moderate foxing elsewhere)
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green & Co 1927
KEYWORDS: Mark Kerr memoir reminiscence history biography travel nautical air exploration expedition
St. Francis and The Song of the Brotherhood
Ex-library 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: The Seabury Press 1981
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Eric Doyle biography history Francis of Assisi religion theology
Father McShane of Maryknoll
Missioner in South China
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: Dial Press Inc., 1932
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials James Edward Walsh religion religious history biography missionary journeys China
The Marilyn Encyclopedia
Quarto, illus black light card covers, frontispiece, ix + 342pp, illus, fine
PUBLISHER: Overlook Press 1999
KEYWORDS: Adam Victor Marilyn Monroe biography photographic record photographs films reference encyclopaedia
Wild Flower Hunter
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Constabe & Co 1961
KEYWORDS: specials HJ Samuel Ellis Rowan biography botany wild flowers Australia New Zealand America drawings
Molitor: Ebeniste from the Ancien Regime to the Bourbon Restoration
with a complete catalogue of the furniture
Quarto, dark brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, 248pp, illus, VG+ (tiny stain to front board, small ding to front board upper edge). Otherwise condition is 'fine'. In d/w, VG+ (slight creasing to edges, brusing to rear upper corner)
PUBLISHER: Philip Wilson Publishers 1992
KEYWORDS: Ulrich Leben Bernard Molitor cabinet-making furniture woodwork ebeniste fashion biography catalogue
The Makers of Australasia: The Explorers of Australia and their Life-Work
Super octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering in red decorative panels to spine & front board, frontispiece, xiv + 303pp, illus, VG (slight soiling spots to boards, bruising to spine extrems, inscription in ink to fep, light tanning to eps, v slight foxing)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1908
KEYWORDS: Ernest Favenc James Hight Australia explorers biography histor George Evans John Oxley Hamilton Hume Allan Cunningham Charles Sturt Thomas Mitchell Eyre Burke Grtey expeditions exploration
Waiting for the Sun
The harrowing story of a peasant boy in occupied Tibet
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: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 1999
KEYWORDS: specials Mary Craig biography memoir history Tibet occupation China refugee exile
Late for Tea at the Deer Palace
The Lost Dreas of my Iraqi Family
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: HarperPress 2011
KEYWORDS: specials Tamara Chalabi biography multigenerational memoir Iraq chronology
An Impossible Woman
The Memories of Dottoressa Moor
Ex-library First edition hardcover super octavo (VG-) in d/w (VG-) ; weak spine ; 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 Bodley Head 1975
KEYWORDS: ex-library first edition specials Graham Greene biography Dottoressa Moor nineteenth century Doctor in Caprese
Cardinal Manning
From the French of Francis de Pressense
Ex-library 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 costs
PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1897
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Francis de Pressense E Ingall biography religion Cardinal Manning nineteenth century Church
Thatcher's Gold
The Life and Times of Mark Thatcher
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: Pocket Books 1997
KEYWORDS: specials Paul Halloran Mark Hollingsworth biography Mark Thatcher
Behind the Mask
The Life of Vita Sackville-West
Hardcover imperial octavo (VG+) in d/w (VG+) lacks title page ; 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: HarperCollins Publishers 2014
KEYWORDS: specials Matthew Dennison biography Vita Sackville-West
The Life and Letters of Sister of Sister St. Francis Xavier (Irma Le Fer de La Motte)
Of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana
Ex-library Hardcover imperial 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 costs
PUBLISHER: B. Herder Book Co. 1917
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Clementine de la Corbiniere biography Sister St Francis Xavier religion religious literature
The Greatest of the Borgias
Ex-library hardcover super 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 costs
PUBLISHER: The Bruce Publishing Company 1952
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Margaret Yeo biography religious history St. Francis Borgia
The Life of Mother Mary Potter
Foundress of the Congregation of the Little Company of Mary
Ex-library hardcover octavo (VG) lacks d/w ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least imperial 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: Shed & Ward 1935
KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Eve Healy religion religious biography Mother Mary Potter