Books - "biography"
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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
Mary Jemison Indian Captive (Original Title: Mary Jemison: Seneca Captive)
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 n/d
KEYWORDS: children's educational biography Mary Jemison
My Secret Life: Books 1 to 6 in two volumes
Two-volume set (six books), small octavo, black light card covers with gilt lettering (vol.1), yellow light card covers with maroon lettering (vol.2), xii + 314pp, xii + 317pp, VG- (archival tape repairs to spine sides & front & rear hinges, very heavy browning to page edges & eps, moderate tanning elsewhere, some foxing to page edges, some soiling to cover, binding intact but fragile )
PUBLISHER: Brandon House 1967
KEYWORDS: biography erotica journal diary Victorian sexual mores
Qantas by George! The remarkable story of George Roberts
Imperial 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: The Watermark Press 2000
KEYWORDS: biography george roberts aviation
Brackles: Memoirs of a Pioneer of Civil Aviation
First edition, super octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt wings to front board, illus eps, frontispiece, xv + 695pp, illus,VG (some fading to spine extrems & board upper edges, some foxing to page edges & eps, owner's name & date in ink to half-title page verso, sporadic light foing) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing to spine extrems & upper edges, sellotape repairs to rear upper edges & upper flap folds, some staining)
PUBLISHER: NSB Miller 1952
KEYWORDS: Air Commodore HG Brackley Brackles biography civil aviation history RNAS RAF
Virgin King: Inside Richard Branson's Business Empire
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: Harper Collins 1995
KEYWORDS: Richard Branson Virgin business biography
Creative Meddler: The Life and Fantasies of Charles St Julian
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Melbourne University Press 1990
KEYWORDS: Charles St Julian biography Australian Pacific history
Robbie Deans: Red, Black & Gold
First edition, 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Mower Books 2014
KEYWORDS: New Zealand sport Robbie Deans rugby biography All Blacks
Beethoven: A Victorian Tribute based on the Papers of Sir George Smart
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Dennis Dobson 1976
KEYWORDS: Ludwig van Beethoven biography music
The Truth about Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, And How Far She'll Go to Become President
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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Sentinel 2005
KEYWORDS: Hillary Clinton US American politics biography elections
E. M. Forster: A New Life
First edition, 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: Bloomsbury 2010
KEYWORDS: EM Forster biography literary criticism
Striving for the Comfort Zone: A Perspective on Julius Jeffreys
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Windy Knoll 2004
KEYWORDS: Julius Jeffreys biography
Shakespeare: The Most Famous Man in London
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: Black Dog Books 2009
KEYWORDS: William Shakespeare drama theatre plays biography literary criticism
The Professioin of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins
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: William Collins 2015
KEYWORDS: true crime biography reggie ronnie kray twins
Churchill: 1874-1915
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: Jonathan Cape 1982
KEYWORDS: winston churchill biography english british history
Me and My Brothers: Inside the Kray Empire
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: Grafton 1988
KEYWORDS: Ronnie Reggie Kray brothers biography crime criminals
Berthe Morisot
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: University of California Press 1995
KEYWORDS: Berthe Morisot biography art history impressionist painter