Books - "biography"
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Kelleys of the Outrigger
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: ORAFA 1990
KEYWORDS: travel culture business Hawaii biography memoir Estelle Roy Kelley hotelier
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
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: Back Bay / Little, Brown and Company 2008
KEYWORDS: military history USA America biography memoir Douglas MacArthur
Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden
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: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2001
KEYWORDS: military terrorism al quaeda biography memoir Osama bin Laden 9/11 taliban
The Challenge of War: Winston S. Churchill 1914-1916
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: Minerva 1990
KEYWORDS: military history biography memoir Winston Churchill Britain politics
Scott and Amundsen
First edition, super octavo, blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, xx + 665pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning to page edges) in d/w VG (slight fading, light bruising to spine extrems & cover corners, light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1979
KEYWORDS: biography exploration Antarctica history Robert Falcon Scott Roald Amundsen
The Remarkable Expedition: The Story of Stanley's Rescue of Emin Pasha
First edition, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 273pp, VG (previous owner's label to fep, light tanning & light foxing to page edges, light rubbing to boards) in d/w VG (price clipped, light rubbing, light soiling, light bruising to spine extrems, 1cm closed tear to lower front cover)
PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1947
KEYWORDS: Emin Pasha biography Henry Morton Stanley Africa History Sudan
Frederic Remington: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture in the Amon Carter Museum and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Collection
Oblong folio, brown card boards with gilt illus of man on horse to front board & gilt lettering to green leather spine, brown eps, frontispiece, 218pp, illus, Nr Fine (light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG+ (light rubbing, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Harry N. Abrams 1973
KEYWORDS: arts paintings drawing biography America Frederic Remington
Chilean Flora Through the Eyes of Marianne North 1884
Quarto, Green boards with white lettering to front board, patterned eps, 133pp, illus, Nr Fine in d/w Nr Fine
PUBLISHER: Pehuen Editors 1999
KEYWORDS: natural history Chile flora arts painting biography Marianne North
Scottie: A True Story of Ambition, Weakness & Redemption
Octavo, illus light card covers, 170pp, VG+ ( light rubbing to covers, v. light foxing to inside covers)
PUBLISHER: Last Side Publishing 2008
KEYWORDS: biography Neville Scott sport athletics running olymics New Zealand
The Woman of Substance: The Life and Books of Barbara Taylor Bradford
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: HarperCollins 2006
KEYWORDS: biography memoir literature entertainment ficton Barbara Taylor Bradford writer author
My Forty Years With Debrett
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (scruffy); 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: Robert Hale Ltd 1963
KEYWORDS: British history biography memoir John Debrett royalty monarchy
Last Post at Mhow
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: Jarrolds Publishers 1969
KEYWORDS: John Lilley biography memoir India history military British empire
Born Under Saturn: A Biography of William Hazlitt
Octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (tatty); 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: Collins 1943
KEYWORDS: biography memoir William Hazlitt writer author literary
The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover: Official and Confidential
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1993
KEYWORDS: biography memoir J. Edgar Hoover fbi security USA America history
Hoffa
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: The MIT Press 1993
KEYWORDS: Jimmy Hoffa politics US America teamster mafia scandal biography memoir law
The Boss: J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition
Small 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: Virgin 1993
KEYWORDS: biography memoir J. Edgar Hoover fbi history US America politics security
John Drawbridge
First edition, Quarto, illus boards with white lettering to spine & front board, 264pp, illus, Fine in d/w Fine
PUBLISHER: Ron Sang 2008
KEYWORDS: John Drawbridge Painting New Zealand Artists arts Biography history
Robert Burns and Ayrshire: A Guide to the People and Places the Poet Knew
Imperial octavo, illus boards, illus title page, 480pp, illus, Nr Fine
PUBLISHER: Alloway 2013
KEYWORDS: Robert Burns Ayrshire Scotland travel history biography
Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell and His Words 1792-1855
Signed by author & President of institute of Surveyors NSW, limited numbered edition, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, vii + 594pp, illus, VG+ (light foxing to page edges, light fraying to spine) in d/w VG (light fading to spine, light rubbing, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Institution of Surveyors N.S.W. 1985
KEYWORDS: Thomas Livingston Mitchell history biography
Henry Clay Frick: An Intimate Portrait
Imperial octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 601pp, illus, Nr Fine in d/w VG+ (light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Abbeville Press 1998
KEYWORDS: arts biography business