Books - "biography"
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Sailing to Bohemia
SIGNED, Limited numbered edition, octavo, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, xii + 200pp, illus, Nr Fine in d/w VG+ (light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Puriri Press 2007
KEYWORDS: Biography New Zealand Politics government
Nicolas Poussin: Paints the Seven Sacraments Twice
Super octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 416pp, illus, VG+ (light soiling to boards, light tanning & light foxing to page edges, light foxing to eps) in d/w VG+ (light rubbing, light bruising to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: Paravail 2000
KEYWORDS: signed Nicolas Poussin biography history Seven Sacraments arts paintings
Courage: Eight Portraits
First Edition with tipped in typed letter informally signed Gordon, black boards with silver lettering to spine, x + 274pp, illus, Nr Fine, in d/w VG+ (light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 2007
KEYWORDS: Courage history Biography
How We Escaped From Pretoria
Revised enlarged edition, octavo, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, black illustrations to spine & front board, frontispiece, 231pp + folding map, illus, VG (light tanning to page edges, light rubbing & light soiling to boards, light tanning to eps, light sporadic foxing to pages)
PUBLISHER: William Blackwood & Sons 1901
KEYWORDS: Great Britain Army Gordon Highlanders South African War history biography military
Fight and Kick and Bite: The Life and Work of Dennis Potter
Ex-library, 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: Hodder and Stoughton 1995
KEYWORDS: Dennis Potter biography memoir literature screenplay entertainment
Solzhenitsyn: A Biography
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: W. W. Norton and Company 1984 approx
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn Russia literature
Thomas Love Peacock
Ex-library, 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: Macmillan 1966
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Thomas Love Peacock literature essay
Arthur Miller: A Life
Ex-library, 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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 2003
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Arthur Miller entertainment plays theatre drama
The Life and Ideas of Robert Owen
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: International Pubishers 1969
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Robert Owen textiles business socialism politics trade
George Washington: His Boyhood and Manhood
Octavo hardcover (VG) no d/w; 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: Hodder and Stoughton 1907
KEYWORDS: biography memoir George Washington politics America US
The Life and Works of Sigmund Freud
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: Pelican/Penguin Books 1964
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Sigmund Freud psychiatry psychology dream interpretation
To Bed at Noon: The Life and Art of Maurice Duggan
Ex-library, 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: Auckland University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Maurice Duggan writer literary New Zealand
Aneurin Bevan: A Biography Volume One: 1897-1945
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: Macgibbon & Kee 1962
KEYWORDS: politics history biography memoir Aneurin Bevan socialism British
Lola Montez
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Alvin Redman 1957
KEYWORDS: first edition biography memoir Lola Montez history high society entertainer adventurer
Edward, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine: A Biography of the Black Prince
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 cost.
PUBLISHER: Allen Lane/Penguin Books 1978
KEYWORDS: biography memoir royalty monarchy Edward prince of wales England history first edition politics
Yuan Mei: Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet
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: Grove Press/Macmillan 1956
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Yuan Mei poet poetry poems literary literature
The Face Without a Frown: Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire
Super octavo hardcover (VG) no d/w; 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: Frederick Muller 1945
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Georgiana duchess of devonshire aristocracy British history
The Life of Hatshepsut: The King of the South and North Kamari'a, Daughter of the Sun
Super octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, xxviii + 260pp, illus, VG (light soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, light tanning to eps)
PUBLISHER: W. Heffer & Sons 1920
KEYWORDS: Queen Hatshepsut Egypt ancient history biography
The Wardens of Savernake Forest
First edition, Super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, x + 352pp, illus, VG (bookseller's label to fep, light tanning & light foxing to page edges, light bruising to spine extrems, light foxing to eps) in d/w VG- (price clipped, 5cm closed tear to front cover internally repaired with cellotape, light rubbing, light soiling, 3.5cm tear with loss to lower spine, several small tears with loss to cover edges & upper spine)
PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1949
KEYWORDS: Savernake Forest Wiltshire England history biography
The Life and Times of Akhnaton: Pharaoh of Egypt
frontispiece, xxxi + 255pp, illus, VG (moderat tanning & moderate foxing to page edges, light rubbing & light foxing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light foxing through pages, clear pocket stuck with cellotape to fep containing paper articles)
PUBLISHER: Thornton Butterworth 1922
KEYWORDS: biography ancient history Egypt Pharaoh Akhnaton