Books - "biography"
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Nelson & Emma
Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in slipcase (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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 1994
KEYWORDS: specials Roger Hudson Emma Hamilton Horatio Nelson biography
Jerry Collins' Road to the World Cup
Signed by Jerry Collins, 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Hodder Moa2007
KEYWORDS: specials Tim Castle Jerry Collins biography All Blacks sport rugby
Jan Steen: Painter and Storyteller
Quarto, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, grey eps, frontispiece, 272pp, illus, nr fine (v slight soiling to boards and upper page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light rubbing, light bruising to edges)
PUBLISHER: National Gallery of Art, Washington 1997
KEYWORDS: Jan Steen H Perry Chapman Wouter Th Kloek Arthur K Wheelock art painting history biography
The Right Honourable Sir Francis H. D. Bell, His Life and Times
Super octavo hardcover (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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Butterworth & Co. Ltd 1937
KEYWORDS: specials William Downie Stewart Sir Francis HD Bell biography
England's Constable: The Life and Letters of John Constable
Super octavo hardcover (nr fine) in slipcase (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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 1985
KEYWORDS: specials Joseph Darracott John Constable biography memoirs letters correspondence
From the Toss of a Coin: The Story of Alpheus Hayes & Normanvale South Canterbury
Signed by author, octavo hardcover (VG, slight bruising to spine extrems) in d/w (VG, light fading & rubbing); 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Pegasus Press 1978
KEYWORDS: M Anna Hayes Alpheus Hayes Normanvale South Canterbury New Zealand biography history signed
Bid Time Return
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: J. H. De Bussy 1954
KEYWORDS: specials Basil Fuller Rhodesia memoirs biography history first edition
A Century of Art in Otago: Being a Survey of the Work of Otago's Painters, Writers and Musicians
Imperial octavo hardcover (VG-, loss to 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Harry H. Tombs (nd)
KEYWORDS: specials HH Harry H Tombs New Zealand Otago art painting writing literature music biography biographies history
Schliemann of Troy: Treasure and Deceit
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1995
KEYWORDS: specials david traill heinrich schliemann biography archaeology
The History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh
Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in slipcase (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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 1971
KEYWORDS: specials Folio SOciety Francis Bacon King Henry VII Seventh biography history
Outcats: Jazz Composers, Instrumentalists, and Singers
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1990
KEYWORDS: specials Francis Davis jazz music composers instrumentaists singers artists biography biographies essays
Jerome Kern
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Robson Books 1985
KEYWORDS: specials Michael Freedland Jerome Kern biography musician songwriter composer
Tommy Brayshaw: The Ardent Angler-Artist
Numbered limited edition, octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus turquoise eps, 94pp + 16pp colour plates, illus, VG+ (owner's name to f.e.p., v light foxing to upper page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of British Columbia Press 1977
KEYWORDS: Tommy Brayshaw Stanley E Read fishing angling fish art painting biography
The Tetley Affair, or Colonial Dreams & Nightmares
Signed by author, octavo, illus light card covers, 143pp, illus, VG+ (light fading to sine & front cover)
PUBLISHER: The Heritage Press 1997
KEYWORDS: Helen J Loftus New Zealand Joseph Dresser Tetley William Webster Hawkins William Maxwell Hammick Chaytor brothers family biography history memoirs
The Spirit of Mountaineering Volume I: The Jack Adamson Story
Oblong 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Spirit Ltd 2007
KEYWORDS: specials Mary Hobbs Jack Adamson mountaineering New Zealand biography photography history
Queen Victoria
Imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in slipcase (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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Folio Society 2007
KEYWORDS: Folio Society specials elizabeth longford queen victoria history biography
Frank Buchman by His Friends: Eighty
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Blandford Press 1958
KEYWORDS: specials Frank Buchman biography articles tributes speeches
The Dow Story: The History of the Dow Cheical Company
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: McGraw Hill BOok Co1968
KEYWORDS: specials Don Whitehead Dow Chemical Company business history Herbert Henry Dow biography chemistry science
Currency Lads & Lasses: Behind the Faces on Australian Banknotes
Large 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Lothian Books 2004
KEYWORDS: specials Geoff Hocking Australian banknotes portraits history biography Sir Joseph Banks to Sir Ian Clunies Ross Nellie Melba Banjo Paterson Henry Lawson
Mapplethorpe: A Biography
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1995
KEYWORDS: specials Patricia Morrisroe Robert Mapplethorpe biography art photography photographer