Books - "biography"
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Where the Prize is Highest: The Stories of the New Zealanders who won the Victoria Cross
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
Gilkes and Dulwich 1885-1914: A Study of a Great Headmaster
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
The Story of a New Zealand Writer: Jane Mander
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
Funny Things that Happened on the Way to Rimini
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
Josiah Wedgwood FRS: His Personal History
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
A Mother in History
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
John Shaw Neilson
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
Man of the Mist: A Biography of Elsdon Best
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
Shackleton's Argonauts: The Epic Tale of Shackleton's Voyage to Antarctica in 1915
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
The Silver Chanter and Other Piper Tales
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
Black and White: A Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley
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
An Introduction to Barth's Dogmatics for Preachers
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
The Diamond Seeker: The Story of John Williamson
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
In Bohemia with Du Maurier: The First of a Series of Reminiscences
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
Manet
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
Yehudiana: Reliving the Menuhin Odyssey: Book One
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
Petals & Bullets: Dorothy Morris, New Zealand Nurse in the Spanish Civil War
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
Mine Alone: The Unrelenting Struggle of an Immigrant Mining Engineer from Staffordshire for Recognition in Colonial New Zealand
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
Roy Traill of Stewart Island His Kith and His Kin
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
Into the Wild
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