Books - "biography"
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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
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