Books - "biography"
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Information for the People: or, Treasury of Useful Knowledge: Comprising a Large Amount of Interesting and Instructive Reading, Designed for Popular Use
Super octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt illustrations to spine & boards, frontispiece, 530pp + 16pp adverts, illus, VG (moderate bruising to spine extrems & board corners, moderate tanning to spine, moderate tanning to page edges, light rubbing & light soiling to boards, light sporadic foxing to pages, dampstaining to advert pages)
PUBLISHER: Robert Sears 1850
KEYWORDS: natural history Geography agriculture economics biography arts science
Stoned on Duty
Super octavo, illus light card covers, 239pp, VG (moderate tanning to page edges, light rubbing creasing to covers, prev owners inscription in ink to fep)
PUBLISHER: Hodder Moa Beckett 1995
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history police biography Peter Williamson
The Seven Lives of Lady Barker
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: David Bateman Ltd 1996
KEYWORDS: New Zealand biography memoir Mary Anne Barker station life in new zealand history
My Own Story
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: Vintage 2015
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Emmeline Pankhurst history suffragette women's rights politics England
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
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: Vintage 2011
KEYWORDS: biography memoir history Edmund de Waal art ceramics
The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family
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: Abacus 2010
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Mitford family English
In Her Mother's Shoes
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 Jack Publishing 2012
KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature fiction novel biography adoption
William Colenso: His Life and Journeys
super octavo, green cloth boards, frontispiece, 494pp, illus, VG (light soiling to boards, light tanning to page edges, light bruising to spine extrems, previous owner's name in ink to fep)
PUBLISHER: A.H. & A.W. Reed 1948
KEYWORDS: biography history William Colenso
Adolf Hitler
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: Doubleday 1976
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Adolf Hitler military history war third reich nazism politics
Shelley's First Love
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: Kyle Cathie 1992
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Percy Bysshe Shelley Harriet Grove poet
Wake of the Invercauld: Shipwrecked in the Sub-Antarctic: A Great Granddaughter's Pilgrimage
Large 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: Exisle Publishing 1997
KEYWORDS: travel exploration history adventure maritime nautical New Zealand Robert Holding biography autobiography Madelene Ferguson Allen
The Memoirs of Cora Pearl
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: Granada 1983
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Cora Pearl courtesan eroticism
Memoirs of a British Agent: Being an Account of the Author's Early Life in Many Lands and of His Official Mission to Moscow in 1918
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: Macmillan/Papermac 1985
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Bruce Lockhart espionage military politics history spy British Russia
The Young Charles Darwin
Super octavo 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2009
KEYWORDS: biography memoir history Charles Darwin
Tressell of Mugsborough
First edition, 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: Lawrence and Wishart 1951
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Robert Tressell first edition
John Pascoe
Quarto, black boards with silver lettering to spine, orange eps, 344pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Craig Potton Publishing & Whitcombe Press 2003
KEYWORDS: John Pascoe biography New Zealand climbing photography
John WIlliam Godward: The Eclipse of Classicism
Warmly inscribed and signed by author, quarto, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, frontispiece, illus title page, 286pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Antique Collectors' Club 1997
KEYWORDS: signed John WIlliam Godward Greco-Roman painter painting art biography
The Mouse & His Master: The Life and Work of Terence Cuneo
Small oblong folio in slipcase, cream textured boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, upper page edges stained dark green, illus eps, frontispiece, 244pp, illus, VG+ (a few soiling spots to front board, inscription in ink to fep verso) in slipcase, VG (some soiling, light creasing)
PUBLISHER: New Cavendish Books 1977
KEYWORDS: Terence Cuneo art painting paintings biography
An Architecture of Illusion
Ex-library, 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: Rizzoli International 1981
KEYWORDS: architecture art interior exterior painting Richard Haas pictorial biography collection anthology
Listening to the River
Limited numbered signed edition, octavo softcover, string bound light card covers (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: The Stone Street Press 1989
KEYWORDS: literature letters correspondance family biography memoir Malachi McCormick