Books - "biography"
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Voltaire In Love
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 1960
KEYWORDS: specials Nancy Mitford Voltaire biography history
Zurbaran 1598-1664
Quarto, red faux-leather boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 415pp, illus, VG+ (slight soiling to page fore-edges, owner's name & address stamp to half-title & title pages) in d/w, VG (v slight creasing to upper edges, tatty 1cm tear to front upper corner)
PUBLISHER: Alpine Fine Arts Collection 1987
KEYWORDS: Julian Gallego Jose Gudiol Francisco de Zurbaran Spanish painter paintings art biography complete catalogue
Clifford of the Cabal: A Life of Thomas, First Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, Lord High Treasurer of England (1630-1673)
First edition, inscribed & signed by current Cliffords, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xix + 350pp, illus, VG- (some fading & spotting to boards, v light bruising to spine extrems, small ding to front board upper corner, moderate foxing & tanning) in d/w, VG (moderate browning to spine, some creasing to spine extrems, small tatty tear to upper spine extrem, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1937
KEYWORDS: first edition Thomas Lord Clifford of Chudleigh biography history Cyril Hughes Hartmann
Australian Dictionary of Biography: Volume 1 1788-1850 A-H
This volume only, imperial 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: Melbourne University Press 1966
KEYWORDS: specials Douglas Pike Australian history genealogy biography social science reference
Australian Dictionary of Biography: Volume 2 1788-1850 I-Z
This volume only, imperial 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: Melbourne University Press 1967
KEYWORDS: specials Douglas Pike Australian history genealogy biography social science reference
'Blest Madman' Fitzgerald of Canterbury
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: Canterbury University Press 1998
KEYWORDS: specials Edmund Bohan James Edward Fitzgerald New Zealand biography Fanny Erskine Draper Canterbury history
Beyond Death and Dishonour: One Japanese at War in New Zealand
Octavo softcover (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: Castle Publishing 2001
KEYWORDS: specials Michiharu Shinya Eric Thompson Japanese POW New Zeaand biography Featherston
Bernard Shaw
Vol.1 The Search for Love; Vol.2 The Pursuit of Power; Vol 3 The Lure of Fantasy; Vol.4 The Last augh
Four-volume set, all books first editions, 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: Chatto & Windus 1988-1992
KEYWORDS: first edition specials Michael Holroyd George Bernard Shaw biography literary criticism
Throw Me The Wreck, Johnny: Memories of Kelly Tarlton, The Man Behind the Legend
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: Halcyon Press 1996
KEYWORDS: specials New Zealand Steven Locker-Lampson Kelly Tarlton biography diver treasure hunter
Shackleton's Whisky: A Spirit of Discovery - Ernest Shackleton's 1907 Antarctic Expedition, and the rare malt whisky he left behind
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: Longacre 2012
KEYWORDS: specials Neville Peat Ernest Shackleton antarctic expedition history biography
Atoms, Dinosaurs & DNA: 68 Great New Zealand Scientists
Quarto softcover (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 2008
KEYWORDS: specials Veronika Meduna Rebecca Priestley New Zealand science scientists biography
John Denver: Mother Nature's Son
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: Mainstream Publishing 1999
KEYWORDS: specials John Collis John Denver biography country & western folk pop music
The Life of Martin Luther, The German Reformer, in Fifty Pictures
To which is added A Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Reformation in Germany
Imperial octavo, half bound, marbled heavy card boards gilt lettering to dark brown leather spine, gilt decorative rule between five raised bands to spine, aeg, marbled eps, frontispiece, xii + 207pp, illus, VG (heavy scuffing to boards & spine, some bruising & fraying to board & spine edges & corners, some damage to marbled ep edges, two inscriptions & dates in ink to prelims, moderate foxing & tanning to prelims & terminals, lighter sporadic foxing elsewhere, closed tears to lower edge of four or five pages)
PUBLISHER: Nathanial Cooke 1853
KEYWORDS: Gustav Konig Martin Luther biography Germany reformation art pictures
Spun Out: The Shane Warne Story
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: Bantam 2006
KEYWORDS: specials sport cricket Paul Barry Shane Warne biography
Kippenberger: An Inspired New Zealand Commander
Foreword by Major Gen Piers Reid
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: Harper Collins 1997
KEYWORDS: specials Glyn Harper Major General Sir Howard Kippenberger biography military commander World War 2
Cowboy Fiddler: As Told to John R Erickson
William W Savage & Charles R Townsend (forewords)
Super octavo hardcover (nr fine) 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: Texas Tech University 1992
KEYWORDS: specials Frankie McWhorter John R Erickson biography cowboy music musician
Legacies to a Young Land
Small 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Lasting Memories 2006
KEYWORDS: specials Ethel Fenwick Basil Avery New Zealand biography Mappins Thomsons Fenwicks Evans
Dante
octavo hardcover (fine) in d/w (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: Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2001
KEYWORDS: specials R W B Lewis Dante Alighieri biography history poetry
Bernard of Hollywood's Marilyn
hardcover quarto (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: Boxtree 1993
KEYWORDS: specials Susan Nermard illus marilyn monroe norma jean hollywood photographic history biography
Charles Darwin: A Biography
Ex library, 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 1990
KEYWORDS: specials John Bowlby Charles Darwin biography science biology evolution first edition