Books - "biography"
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Across the Great Divide
Robert Stuart and the Discovery of the Oregon Trail
First UK edition hardcover imperial octavo (NF) 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: Sutton Publishing Limited 2004
KEYWORDS: first UK edition specials Laton McCartney American history pioneers Oregon Trail settlers biography Robert Stuart
Patrick Y. Alexander 1867 - 1943
Patron and Pioneer of Aeronautics
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Cross Manufacturing Co. Ltd 1984
KEYWORDS: specials Gordon Cullingham biography Patrick Young Alexander aviation aeronautics aeronautical engineering ballooning meteorology
Edge of Midnight: the Life of John Schlesinger
The Authorised Biography
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Arrow 2005
KEYWORDS: specials William J Mann biography John Schlesinger Hollywood history cinema film
House of Stone - The True Story of a Family Divided in War-Torn Zimbabwe
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: Harper Press 2006
KEYWORDS: specials christina lamb biography rhodesia civil war history travel nigel hough briatin afria
Conversations with Isaiah Berlin
Recollections of an Historian of Ideas
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 cost
PUBLISHER: Orion Books Limited 1993
KEYWORDS: specials Ramin Jahanbegloo philosophy biography politics Isaiah Berlin
Judge Ward
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: Geoff Adams 2011
KEYWORDS: specials new zealand colonialism history geoff adams dudley ward anne thorpe talbot women biography suffrage literature
'Helicopter' Pioneering with Igor Sikorsky based on a Personal Account by William E Hunt
Association copy with warm signed & dated inscription by author to NZ Aviation Author Ian Mackersey, imperial octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 229pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, VG+ (small stain to rear)
PUBLISHER: Airlife Publishing 1998
KEYWORDS: William E Hunt Igor Sikorsky helicopters aviation aeronautical history biography air transport engineering design
Smithy: The Kingsford-Smith Story
Ex library, lacks fep, association copy, ownership signature of Ian Mackersey, aviation biography of Kingsford-Smith, & his pencil notations to index & throughout & lengthy pencil note to rear ep. Octavo, blue boards with silver lettering to spine, 190pp, illus, VG- (sellotape residue stains to boards & eps, lacks fep, light tanning to eps, some foxing & tanning) in d/w, (price clipped, some tanning, moderate tape residue stains to edges)
PUBLISHER: Robert Hale 1966
KEYWORDS: Ward McNally Charles Kingsford-Smith biography aviation aeronautics history flying pilot
Richard Pearse: Pioneer Aviator
Oblong quarto 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Museum of Transport & Richard Pearse Memorial Commmittee 1983
KEYWORDS: specials aviation aeronautical history aircraft industry aviators pilots Richard Pearse biography C Geoffrey Rodliffe New Zealand
Wright and Wright Printers: The Other Career of Wilbur and Orville
Quarto light card stapled wrapper (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: Charlotte & August Brunsman 1988
KEYWORDS: specials Charlotte K August E Brunsman Orville Wilbur Wright biography printers
The First Fifteen Years; 1981-1996 A Fifteenth Anniversary History of Aviation Trail
A Continuation of the Story begun in The First Ten Years: 1981-1991
Quarto light card stapled wrapper (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: Aviation Trail 1996
KEYWORDS: specials Mary Ann Johnson Orville Wilbur Wright biography aviation history
Venturer Courageous: Group Captain Leonard Trent
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson of NZ 1983
KEYWORDS: specials James Sanders first edition biography Leonard Trent new zealand world war II military
Scott of the Antarctic
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Harper Perennial 2006
KEYWORDS: specials David Crane Antarctica exploration Captain Robert Falcon Scott biography
He Died Old: Mithradates Eupator King of Pontus
First edition, 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: Faber & Faber 1958
KEYWORDS: first edition specials Alfred Duggan Mithradates Eupator biography King of Pontus Roman Empire Pompey
The Wright Brothers at Carillon Historical Park
staplebound softcover super octavo (nr 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: Carillon Historical Park 1993
KEYWORDS: specials Charlotte K Brunsman August E Brunsman Fred C Fisk Tom D Crouch Wilbur Wright Orville Wright Carillon Historical Park aviation history illustrated biography
The Wright Brothers
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Dover Publications 1989
KEYWORDS: specials Fred C Kelly wright brothers aviation history biography illustrated
Masden and the Missions: Prelude to Waitangi
First edition, mauve cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xix + 295pp, illus, VG (fading to boards & esp to spine extrems, light bruising to spine extrems, 1cm stain to front board upper corner, some tanniong to eps, light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG- (heavy bruising, creasing & nicks to edges & corners, 3cm portion lost to upper spine extrem & 1cm portion to lower, soiling to rear)
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1956
KEYWORDS: Eric Ramsden Peter H Buck Te Rangi Hiroa Samuel Marsden biography history Maori missionaries missions European impact
Years of Combat
loosely inserted notes of Ian Mackersey (NZ aviation author), 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: Quality Book Club 1963
KEYWORDS: specials sholto douglas lord douglas of kirtleside aviation flight aeronautics navigation piloting auto biography
Dawn over Kitty Hawk: The Novel of the Wright Brothers
First edition, 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: Tom Doherty 2003
KEYWORDS: first edition Walter J Boyne Orville Wilbur Wright Brothers literature fiction aviation biography
To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight
First edition, super octavo hardcover (nr fine) in d/w (nr 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: Free Press/ Simon & Schuster 2003
KEYWORDS: specials first edition James Tobin Orville Wilbur Wright Brothers biography aviation aeronautical history flying pilots pioneers flight