Books - "biography"
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W. H. Hudson: A Biography
Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+) illus; 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: Faber and Faber 1982
KEYWORDS: specials Ruth Tomalin William Henry Hudson biography travel exploration environment
Moore: G. E. Moore and the Cambridge Apostles
Octavo softcover (VG) illus; 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: Oxford University Press 1981
KEYWORDS: specials Paul Levy G. E. Moore philosophy history biography
Contemporary British Composers
With Portraits and Facsimiles of Musical Examples
Super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, blind rule to front board, frontispiece, xii + 324pp, illus, VG- (lacks f.e.p., light rubbing & soiling to boards, light bruising to spine extrems, front gutter cracked, bookseller's sticker to lower front pastedown, some tanning to eps & page edges, some foxing)
PUBLISHER: Cecil Palmer 1925
KEYWORDS: Joseph Holbrooke British composers music biography biographies
King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) illus; 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: St. Martin's 1996
KEYWORDS: specials Shawn Levy Jerry Lewis biography comedy broadway hollywood
Oliver Cromwell
First edition, Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) illus; 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: J. M. Dent & Sons 1988
KEYWORDS: specials first edition Pauline Gregg biography military politics history
George Bolt Pioneer Aviator: Foundations of a Future
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: A. H & A. W Reed Ltd
KEYWORDS: Specials New Zealand E F Harvie George Bolt Biography Aviation Histroy
You Don't Look 35, Charlie Brown!
Imperial 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Holt, Rinehart & Winston
KEYWORDS: Specials Biography Charlie Brown Peanuts Comics Cartoons Humour
Spirits of Place: Five Famous Lives in Their English Landscape
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Penguin 2002
KEYWORDS: specials Jane Brown Virgina Woolf EM Forster Rupert Brooke Dora Carrington LP Hartley biography biographies
Pilate: The Biography of an Invented Man
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Vintage 2000
KEYWORDS: specials Ann Wroe Pontius Pilate biography history theology religion
Father of The Bensons: The Life of Edward White Benson Sometime Archbishop of Canterbury
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: Lennard Publishing 1998
KEYWORDS: Specials Biography Edward White Benson Religion Geoffrey Palmer Noel Lloyd
EF Benson As He Was
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: Lennard Publishing 1988
KEYWORDS: Specials Biography Edward Frederic Benson Religion Geoffrey Palmer Noel Lloyd
His Way: A Biography of Robert Muldoon
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: Auckland University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: Specials New Zealand politics history government biography Robert Muldoon Barry Gustafson
Mayhew's Characters
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (G+. torn); 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: Spring Books (nd)
KEYWORDS: Specials History biography Henry Mayhew victorian london
Marcel Proust: A Biography in Two Volumes
2 VOL SET, super octavo, blue boards (vol.1) & purple boards (vol.2), gilt lettering in black title label to spines, illus eps, xvi + 351pp, 424pp, illus, VG (light bruising to spine and board extrems, light foxing to eps, sl soiling and foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (moderate soiling and scuffing to covers, moderate chipping to spine extrems, 3cm closed tear to flap hinge)
PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1965
KEYWORDS: George D Painter Marcel Proust biography literary criticism
Sigmar Polke: Musik Ungeklarter Herkunft (Music from an Unknown Source)
Scarce, booklet with English translation loosely enclosed, folio, white light card covers, 139pp ,illus, nr fine (v v slight browning to page edges) in d/w with full-size flaps, VG+ (slight rubbing to edges, v v slight creasing to corners & spine extrems), booklet is VG+ (v light rubbing & soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen 1997
KEYWORDS: Sigmar Polke Bice Curiger Fiona Elliott text in German and English German art artist biography painting art exhibition scarce
Le Sheikh el Arab: Etude Historique sur la Famille Bengana
Inscribed, dated & signed (possibly by author?), imperial octavo, grey-blue light card covers with black & red lettering, fold-out frontispiece, 155pp, illus + large folding map to rear, VG- 4cm slit of (insect damge to front cover, moderate staining & tanning to covers & spine, bruising & fraying to spine extrems & cover edges, heavy foxing to page edges, moderately heavy foxing elsewhere) TEXT IN FRENCH
PUBLISHER: Ancienne Maison Bastide-Jourdan Jules Carbonel 1930
KEYWORDS: Cheikh el Arab Bouaziz Bengana family biography TEXT IN FRENCH
Dolly Parton
Square folio, blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, frontispiece, 120pp, illus, VG+ (occasional light foxing) in d/w, VG+
PUBLISHER: Metro Books / Friedman Fairfax Publishers 1998
KEYWORDS: Judith Mahoney Pasternak Dolly Parton country music singer biography pictorial photographic portrait
Pearn Pioneers: Cornwall, Taranaki
Octavo, illus blue light card stapled wrappers with black lettering to front cover, 76pp, illus, VG (some tanning & fading to spine & page edges)
PUBLISHER: Pearn Descendants 1986
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Cornwall Taranaki Pearn family pioneers biography history
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
Ex library, first edition, small quarto, navy blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to sipne, blind rule to front board, gilt arm & torch motif to front board, frontispiece, xviii + 492pp, illus + maps & facsimile docs, VG (usu library markings but relatively light, moderately heavy tanning & foxing to page edges, crack to front hinge paper only)
PUBLISHER: Angus & Robertson 1914
KEYWORDS: first edition Ernest Scott Matthew Flinders biography Australia history
Australia's Heroes; being a Slight Sketch of the Most Prominent amongst the Band of Gallant Men who devoted their Lives and Energies to the Cause of Science
Ex library, second edition, octavo, marbled heavy card boards with black leather spine, no title to spine just gilt library number, page edges stained red, viii + 312pp, VG- (light library markings, moderately heavy chaffing to board edges & boards, heavy bruising & fraying to spine extrems, label staining to front board, light staining to eps, light foxing)
PUBLISHER: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (second edition)
KEYWORDS: Charles H Eden Australia biography colonial history scientist