Books - "biography"
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Douglas Lilburn: His Life and Music
Quarto 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Canterbury University Press 2006
KEYWORDS: specials Philip Norman composer music history New Zealand Sympathy Orchestra biography
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart Into a Visionary Leader
Super 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Sceptre 2015
KEYWORDS: specials Brent Schlender Rick Tetzeli Steve Jobs biography history
An Irresistable: The True Story of Jane New and a Colonial Scandal
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: Allen and Unwin 2006
KEYWORDS: specials Carol Baxter Jane New biography memoir history
Donald Reid: Pioneer, Statesman, Merchant 1833 - 1919
Facsimile reproduction, octavo,blue faux leather boards with gilt lettering to spine, pale blue eps, folding illustration, 379pp, illus, nr fine in d/w, VG+ (light browning)
PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed
KEYWORDS: ANR Alfred Eccles Donald Reid New Zealand pioneer biography history
Beatrice Cenci
Super octavo, black cloth boards with git motif to front board, gilt decorative rule & gilt lettering in red title panel to spine, upper page edges stained red, black eps, frontispiece, xii + 321pp, VG (some tanning to page edges, some staining to front & rear pastedowns, date in ink to fep verso, owner's name stamp to title page)
PUBLISHER: Peter Owen Ltd 1956
KEYWORDS: Corrado Ricci Beatrice Cenci biography true crime execution Italy Italian history Vatican
My 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: Mower / Upstart Press 2015
KEYWORDS: specials Dan Carter Duncan Reive New Zealand sport rugby biography autobiography memoir
Famous For 15 Minutes: My Years With Andy Warhol
First edition, 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Methuen 1989
KEYWORDS: specials Ultra Violet Isabelle Collin Dufresne Andy Warhol memoir history hollywood pop art biography
The Search for Anne Perry
Super 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Harper Collins 2012
KEYWORDS: specials first edition Joanne Drayton Anne Perry Juliet Hulme true crime biography
I Once Was a Buddhist Nun
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: Inter-Vasity Press 2009
KEYWORDS: specials Esther Baker biography religion christianity buddhism
Schott's Almanac 2011
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: Bloomsbury 2010
KEYWORDS: specials Ben Schott American history biography collection reference politics
The Works of William Cowper: His Life and Letters & Cowper's Private Correspondence edited by Rev. Grimshawe
SEVEN VOLUMES ONLY (missing volume 4 of 8) , first edition in original binding, duodecimo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & blind-stamped decorative rule to boards & spine, frontispiece with tissue guard & illus title page to vols 1 to 7, xxii + 335pp, xvi + 340pp, xx + 354pp, xvii + 413pp, lviii + 281pp, viii + 359pp + 8pp book adverts, 431pp (Vols 1 to 8 respectively), some pages still unopened (uncut), VG (bruising & fraying to spine extrems, moderate browning & foxing to page edges, prelims & terminals, moderately heavy browning to illus & tissue guards, frontispiece & tissue guard missing to vol.1, some staining to boards, binding sloppy in vol.8)
PUBLISHER: Saunders and Otley 1835
KEYWORDS: William Ley Rev TS Grimshawe William Cowper biography literature essays letters correspondence
Burton Brothers: Photographers
Large quarto, red boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, ix + 139pp, illus, VG+ (inscription & owner's name to fep, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (moderate tanning to edges, some creasing & nicks to edges & spine extrems, light soiling to rear)
PUBLISHER: John McINdoe Ltd 1980
KEYWORDS: Hardwicke Knight New Zealand photography photographers Walter Alfred Burton Brothers biography
The Wilde Album
First edition; octavo hardcover (Nr Fine) d/w (Nr Fine) 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Fourth Estate 1997
KEYWORDS: specials Merlin Holland photographic biography Oscar Wilde photography
The Trials of Radclyffe Hall
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: Virago 1999
KEYWORDS: specials Diana Souhami satirical biography Radclyffe Hall literature
Life of Lord Byron, with His Letters and Journals in Six Volumes
Six-volume set, original bindings, many pages unopened (uncut), octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, blind decorative rule to boards, frontispiece & illus title pages, xiii + 359pp + 32pp book ads (vol.1), 340pp, 376pp, 359pp, 376pp, 448pp (vols 2 to 6 respectively), sparsely illustrated, VG (heavy browning to spines, some staining & rubbing to boards, light bruising & fraying to spine extrems, heavy browning to page edges & eps, annotation 1897 to fep verso, wear to front& rear hinge paper of vol 1, dampstaining to front hinge of vol 4, some tanning & foxing, crease to rear ep vol.1)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1851
KEYWORDS: Thomas Moore Lord Byron biography correspondence letters journals diaries
The Life of James McCosh: A Record Chiefly Autobiographical
First edition, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, dark blue eps, fontispiece with tissue guard, vii + 287pp, illus, VG- (heavy fading to boards & spine, some bruising & fraying to spine extrems, internal hinges cracked, light soiling to eps, tanning to page edges, light foxing to prelims)
PUBLISHER: T. and T. Clark 1896
KEYWORDS: James McCosh William Milligan Sloane autobiography memoir biography first edition
Autobiography
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 1989
KEYWORDS: specials John Stuart Mill biography autobiography philosophy history poltics economics
Clinton: The President They Deserve
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 1997
KEYWORDS: specials Martin Walker president Bill Clinton politics biography
The Tao of Muhammad Ali
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 1997
KEYWORDS: specials Davis Miller Muhammad Ali boxing sport biography
John Buchan
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: Oxford University Press 1985
KEYWORDS: specials Janet Adam Smith John Buchan biography politics history