Books - "biography"
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Avant L'exil
Text in French, 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Nelson (n/d)
KEYWORDS: Biography France History politics
Richthofen The Red Baron
First edition, square super octavo, illus heavy card boards with black lettering to spine & front board, illus prelims, unpaginated but aprox 36pp, illus, VG+ (some browning to board edges, reading crease to spine) in d/w, VG (tear with loss to upper spine & front upper edge, light creasing to edges, light chaffing to spine & flap folds)
PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton 1968
KEYWORDS: children's educational history Red Baron Richthofen World War 1 German fighter pilot biography
Unbroken: The Extraordinary True Story of Courage and Survival
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: Fourth Estate 2012
KEYWORDS: Second World War Two WW2 Louis Zamperini biography survival
The Bookseller of Kabul
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: Virago 2010
KEYWORDS: Sultan Khan Afghanistan biography
Facing the Music: Charles Baeyertz and the Triad
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: Otago University Press 2008
KEYWORDS: biography
An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom) from 1789 to 1877 (Title to front cover & spine Uncle Tom's Story of HIs LIfe)
Small octavo, illus yellow heavy card boards with black lettering, 8pp reviews + frontispiece x 2 + 243pp, VG- (front board attached with unattractive brown tape externally & to front hinge, heavy soiling to boards, bruising, dings & smoe fraying to board edges & corners, moderate browning to page edges & eps, inscription in ink to fep, occasional foxing elsewhere)
PUBLISHER: Christian Age Office 1878
KEYWORDS: Harriet Beecher Stowe Reverend Josiah Henson biography
Never a Soul at Home: New Zealand Literary Nationalism and the 1930s
Octavo, black & white illus light card covers wit black lettering, 296pp, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 1998
KEYWORDS: New Zealand literary criticism writers authors biography
Scotty-Land: The Man Who Invented a Nation
Octavo softcover (nr 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 will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Polygon 2011
KEYWORDS: Sir Walter Scott biography literary criticism Scotland
The Music Lovers
paperback (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: Hodder 1964
KEYWORDS: biography Music Tchaikovsky
A Walk with a White Bushman
octavo softcover (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: Chatto & Windus 1986
KEYWORDS: travel biography South Africa
Errol Flynn: The Untold Story
paperback (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: Granada 1980
KEYWORDS: biography
Pulitzer: A Life
Quarto hardcover (Nr Fine) 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: John Wiley & Sons 2001
KEYWORDS: biography joseph pulitzer
A Man From The Ministry: Tales of a New Zealand Architect
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: Caxton Press 1996
KEYWORDS: South Pacific New Zealand Ministry of Works W Frank Ponder architecture design history biography Antarctic
Supreme Sacrifice: 30 Anzac Stories from John McGlashan College, Dunedin
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 McGlashan College 2003
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Dunedin John McGlashan school Old Boys World War Two biography
Recollections of Virginia Woolf
Paperback (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: Penguin 1975
KEYWORDS: Virginia Woolf literary criticism biography memoir essays articles
Elmer Keith: The Other Side of a Western Legend
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: Precision SHooting 2002
KEYWORDS: Elmer Keith biography cowboy
Tina Modetti: A Fragile Life
Large quarto softcover with French flaps (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 1993
KEYWORDS: Tina Modotti biography photography photographer
Alexander Calder
Large quarto, cream cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, blue eps, xvi + 302pp, illus, VG+ (inscribed & signed by author) in d/w, VG+ (moderate fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1993
KEYWORDS: Alexander Calder biography art artist sculptor sculpture
Wine, Women and Song: A Spitfire Pilot's Story: Compiled from Doug Brown's Letters and Reminiscences
INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY DOUG BROWN, quarto, black boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, ix + 358pp, illus, (VG+), in d/w (VG+)
PUBLISHER: Stayer Ltd 2011
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Doug Brown spitfire pilot biography diaries World War Two
So Youing to Die: The Story of Hannah Senesh
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: Scholastic Inc 1993
KEYWORDS: children's educational biography Hannah Senesh