Books - "biography"
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Nga Tangata Taumata Rau 1769 - 1869
Text in Maori, quarto, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, green eps, xv + 444pp, VG+ (v light foxing to upper page edges, prev. owners details in pen to fep) in d/w, VG+ (fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Alen & Unwin / Te Tari Taiwhenua1990
KEYWORDS: New Zealand text in Maori language people biography biographies dictionary
Nga Tangata Taumata Rau 1870-1900
Text in Maori, quarto, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, green eps, xv + 239pp, VG+ (v light foxing to upper page edges , prev. owners details in pen to fep) in d/w, VG+ (fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Bridget Williams & Dept of Internal Affairs 1994
KEYWORDS: New Zealand text in Maori language people biography biographies dictionary reference
Annals of a New Zealand Family: The Household of Gilbert Mair, Early Pioneer
Signed limited numbered (131/400) edition, octavo blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & gilt initials to front board, frontispiece, 151pp + 6pp book adverts, illus, VG (light sunning to spine and light bruising to spine extrems and board corners, light soiling to boards, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (moderate browning to spine and covers, light chipping and scuffing to spine extrems and flap corners, small spot of surface loss to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1935
KEYWORDS: Mrs J Howard Jackson signed New Zealand Gilbert Mair biography local history
Leon Battista Alberti: Complete Edition
Large quarto, brown cloth boareds with gilt lettering to spine & front board, 397pp, illus, VG (light rubbing to boards, v light foxing to eps, light foxing & tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (light rubbing, some creasing to edges, small chip with archival tape repair to upper spine)
PUBLISHER: Phaidon Press Ltd 1977
KEYWORDS: Franco Borsi Leon Battista Alberti Italian Renaissance architecture art painting scupture building biography essays criticism
A Closer Look at Ariel: A Memory of Sylvia Plath
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: Faber and Faber 1974
KEYWORDS: specials Nancy Hunter Steiner Sylvia Plath memoir biography autobiography
Slave to Beauty: The Eccentric Life and Controvesial Career of F. Holland Day, Photographer, Publisher, Aesthete
Small quarto 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: David R Godine 1981
KEYWORDS: specials Estelle Jussim F Holland Day American photography publishing biography
The Trials of Radclyffe Hall
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: Doubleday 1999
KEYWORDS: specials Diana Souhami Radclyffe Hall literary biography
The Last Dandy, Ralph Barton: American Artist, 1891-1931
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: University of Missouri Press 1991
KEYWORDS: specials Bruce Kellner Ralph Barton American art artist biography
Lunatic Soup
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: Hardie Grant 2008
KEYWORDS: specials Andrew Fraser true crime biography
Tarzan, Gene and Me Kelly: A Sort of Fictional Biography
Large Quarto 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: Diogenes Designs 2001
KEYWORDS: specials Murray Ball New Zeaand cartoons biography fiction literature pictorial humour
Oroonoko or The Royal Salve: A True History
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: W. W. Norton & Company 1997
KEYWORDS: specials Aphra Behn Oroonoo biography memoir
In the Footsteps of Ethel Benjamin: New Zealand's First Woman Lawyer
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: Victoria University Press 2009
KEYWORDS: specials Janet November Ethel Benjamin New Zealand law lawyer biography legal profession
A Life of William Shakespeare
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: Oracle 1996
KEYWORDS: specials Sidney Lee William Shakespeare biography theatre playwright
Something Beautiful for God: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Millicent Baxter's copy (NZ author and mother of James K Baxter), her ownership signature to fep, octavo, cream boards with gilt lettering to spine,orange eps, 156pp, illus, VG+, in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & bruising to edges & corners, esp to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: William Collins & Sons 1971
KEYWORDS: Malcolm Muggeridge Mother Teresa Missionaries of Charity biography Calcutta
One Family's War
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: Futura / Macdonald 1987
KEYWORDS: specials Patrick Mayhew second world war two ww2 wwII Lady Mayhew letters correspondence memoirs history biography
In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
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: John Murray 2009
KEYWORDS: specials Charlotte Mosley Deborah Devonshire Patrick Leigh Fermor letters corrospondence memoirs biography
Running in the Family
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: Picador / Pan Books 1984
KEYWORDS: specials Michael Ondaatje autobiography family biography memoir literature poetry
The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty
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: Bantam Press 2004
KEYWORDS: specials Kitty Kelley Bush family American politics biography history
The Colonel of Tamarkan: Philip Toosey and the Bridge on the River Kwai
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: Simon & Schuster 2005
KEYWORDS: specials Julie Summers Philip Toosey second world war two ww2 wwII military biography history
Dervorgilla, Lady of Galloway and Her Abbey of the Sweet Heart
Imperial octavo, grey light card covers with black lettering, frontispiece, xi + 155pp, illus, VG-- (6cm x 1cm T-shaped closed but untidy tear to spine, 2cm closed tears to upper & lower spine extrems, untidy creasing & chipping to cover edges, owner's bookplate to f.e.p. and front pastedown, owner's inscription to front pastedown, light foxing)
PUBLISHER: David Douglas 1913
KEYWORDS: Wentworth Huyshe F Fissi Dervorgilla Lady of Galloway biography history