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$13.50
xxsen93165

Where the Prize is Highest: The Stories of the New Zealanders who won the Victoria Cross


BRYANT, G.

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: Collins 1972

KEYWORDS: specias G Bryant New Zealanders soldiers military history Victoria Cross biography

$15.00
xxseo93217

Gilkes and Dulwich 1885-1914: A Study of a Great Headmaster


LEAKE, W. R. M. ET AL

Small quarto 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Alleyn Club (n/d)

KEYWORDS: WRM Leake Arthur Herman Gilkes Dulwich College education school headmaster biography

$15.00
xxseo93230

The Story of a New Zealand Writer: Jane Mander


MCGREGOR, RAE

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Otago University Press 1998

KEYWORDS: specials Rae McGregor New Zealand literary criticism biography

$25.00
xxseo93239

Funny Things that Happened on the Way to Rimini


BORRIE, DR ALEX

Octavo softcover (VG) inscription in ink to fep; 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: Dr Alex Borrie 2000

KEYWORDS: specials Dr Alex Borrie memoir biography Regimental Medical Officer 24 New Zealand battalion Second World War Two WW2 Italy

$60.00
2s3/46

Josiah Wedgwood FRS: His Personal History


SMILES, SAMUEL

Octavo, brown buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt urn motif & gilt rule to front board, patterened eps, frontispiece with tissueguard, xi + 304pp + 13pp book ads, VG (slight fading to spine, light bruising to spine extrems, two small scratches to front board, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges and eps, owner's name in ink to fep, 4cm closed tear to upper corner of pages 9/10 & 11/12 of book ads at rear)

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1894

KEYWORDS: Samuel Smiles Josiah Wedgwood biography

$12.50
xxsep93269

A Mother in History


STAFFORD, JEAN

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: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1966

KEYWORDS: specials Jean Stafford Mrs Oswald biography Lee Harvey Oswald

$10.00
xxsep93283

John Shaw Neilson


ANDERSON, HUGH & BLAKE, L. J.

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: Rigby Ltd 1972

KEYWORDS: specials Hugh Anderson LJ Blake John Shaw Neilson biography literary criticism Australian poet

$45.00
xxsep93309

Man of the Mist: A Biography of Elsdon Best


CRAIG, E. W. G.

FIRST EDITION, 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: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1964

KEYWORDS: specials EWG Craig Elsdon Best New Zealand biography

$30.00
xxseq93323

Shackleton's Argonauts: The Epic Tale of Shackleton's Voyage to Antarctica in 1915


HURLEY, FRANK

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Collins 1979

KEYWORDS: specials Frank Hurley Ernest Shackleton Antarctica exploration biography history

$25.00
xxseq93335

The Silver Chanter and Other Piper Tales


MCHARDY, STUART

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: Birlinn Ltd 2004

KEYWORDS: specials Stuart McHardy bagpipes bagpiping biography history short stories fiction

$10.00
xxseq93356

Black and White: A Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley


BROPHY, BRIGID & BEARDSLEY, AUBREY (Illus)

Ex library, scruffy copy, 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: Jonathan Cape 1968

KEYWORDS: specials Brigid Brophy Aubrey Beardsley biography artist art criticism first edition

$19.50
xxses93469

An Introduction to Barth's Dogmatics for Preachers


COME, A. B.

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: SCM Press Ltd 1963

KEYWORDS: specials A B Come religion Barth biography

$55.00
2s4/14

The Diamond Seeker: The Story of John Williamson


GAWAINE, JOHN

Lacks f.e.p., octavo, orange cloth boards wth white lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, 184pp, VG (lacks f.e.p., slight bruising to spine extrems, v light foxing to eps, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG- (moderate fading to spine, some rubbing, light soiling some creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan South Africa 1976

KEYWORDS: John Gawaine John Thoburn Williamson biography diamonds diamond mining

$150.00
2s4/16

In Bohemia with Du Maurier: The First of a Series of Reminiscences


MOSCHELES, FELIX & DU MAURIER, G. (Illus)

Second edition (1000 copies), octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, black lettering & illus to front board, t.e.g., black eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, 146pp + 14pp book catalogue, illus, VG-moderate tanning to spine, some bruising & fraying to spine extrems, front gutter cracked, half-title loose, owner's inscription to f.e.p., moderate tanning to page edges, v light foxing to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: T. Fisher Unwin 1896

KEYWORDS: Felix Moscheles G du Maurier art sketches biography autobiography memoir

$19.50
xxset93526

Manet


PERRUCHOT, HENRI & HARE, HUMPHREY (Trans) & ELLSMOOR, JEAN (Ed)

First edition, 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: Perpetua Limited 1962

KEYWORDS: specials Henri Perruchot Edouard Manet French art artist biography art history first edition

$30.00
xxset93536

Yehudiana: Reliving the Menuhin Odyssey: Book One


BAILEY, PHILIP

Inscribed dated & signed by author, this volume only, 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Fountaindale Press 2008

KEYWORDS: specials Philip Bailey Yehudi Menuhin music violin biography signed

$26.50
xxseu93556

Petals & Bullets: Dorothy Morris, New Zealand Nurse in the Spanish Civil War


DERBY, MARK

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Potton & Burton 2015

KEYWORDS: specials Mark Derby Dorothy Morris New Zeaand nurse Spanish Civil War military medicine nursing biography

$27.50
xxseu93565

Mine Alone: The Unrelenting Struggle of an Immigrant Mining Engineer from Staffordshire for Recognition in Colonial New Zealand


MERCER, R. D.

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Butterfly Cree Books 2007

KEYWORDS: specials RD Mercer New Zeaand Staffordshire mining engineering biography history Joseph Taylor

$45.00
xxsev93805

Roy Traill of Stewart Island His Kith and His Kin


NATUSCH, SHEILA

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: Nestegg Books 1991

KEYWORDS: specials Sheila Natusch Roy Traill New Zealand Stewart Island biography

$10.00
xxsfa93612

Into the Wild


KRAKAUER, JON

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: pan

KEYWORDS: survival biography travel jon krakauer chris mccandless

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