Books - "biography"
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Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 2000
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Manuel Puig author writer
Durer's Gloria
TEXT IN GERMAN, 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: Gebr. Mann Verlag 1971
KEYWORDS: art history Albrecht Durer Germany biography memoir collection anthology pictorial catalogue
A Tudor Tragedy: The Life and Times of Catherine Howard
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: The Reprint Society 1962
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Catherine Howard royal family monarchy Henry VIII wife
Being Shelley: The Poet's Search For Himself
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: Vintage Books 2008
KEYWORDS: biography memoir P. B. Shelley poet poetry literature
The Faramus Story: Being the Experiences of Anthony Charles Faramus
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Allan Wingate 1954
KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second world war biography memoir Anthony Charles Faramus first edition
Problems in Titian: Mostly Iconographic
First edition, Imperial octavo, brown cloth boards with sliver lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 208pp + 199 plates, illus, VG+ (light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (price clipped, light rubbing, light bruising to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: Phaidon 1969
KEYWORDS: Titian Painters history Italy Biography
'The Most English Minister...': The Policies and Politics of Palmerston
Super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxx + 647pp, illus, VG+ (light tanning to page edges, light bruising to spine extrems) in d/w VG (light creasing, moderate bruising to spine extrems & cover corners, light rubbing, light soiling, price clipped)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1966
KEYWORDS: Henry John Temple Palmerston biography Politics governmen
Renoir: My Father
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 costs
PUBLISHER: The Reprint Society Ltd 1964
KEYWORDS: biography Pierre-Auguste Renoir Jean Renoir art painting
Jungle Riot: The Life and Witness of Nate Saint
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1960
KEYWORDS: biography Nate Saint missionary Ecuador missionary Christian history
Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Writings, 1942-1945
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: biography Yamato Ichihashi Japanese internment camps America World War Two WW2
Hugo van der Goes: Stilentwicklung und Chronologie
TEXT IN GERMAN, super ocatvo, navy blue cloth boards, gilt lerttering to spine & front board, 306pp, illus, nr fine (v light sporadic foxing to terminals & half title page) in d/w, VG+ (v light creasing to extrems & edges, 3mm closed tear to top rear corner, light internal foxing)
PUBLISHER: Verlag Philipp von Zabern 1992
KEYWORDS: art history Germany biography Hugo van der Goes text in German
Layard of Nineveh
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: John Murray 1963
KEYWORDS: biography Sir Henry Layard Persia explorer
Edward Albee
First edition, ownership signature of musician Rick Bryant, 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: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd 1971
KEYWORDS: biography Edward Albee Ronald Hayman theatre drama
Frank Sargeson, A 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: Viking 1995
KEYWORDS: biography Frank Sargeson Michael King New Zealand literary history
The Story of Endeavour: Captain Cook's Historic Ship
Octavo softcover, stapled light card covers (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 Northern Publishing 1973 approx
KEYWORDS: history exploration Captain James Cook Endeavour biography memoir New Zealand travel
Toivonen: Pauli, Henri & Harri: Finnlands Schnellste Familie (Finland's Fastest Family)
TEXT IN GERMAN & ENGLISH, large quarto, heavy illus card boards, white lettering to spine & boards, illus prelims, 223pp + 1pp advert, illus, VG+ (light bruising to board edges, light sticker residue to front board, v light scuffing to boards)
PUBLISHER: McKlein Publishing 2012
KEYWORDS: biography memoir car racing Pauli Henri Harri Toivonen sports motor rally text in German & English
Walter Rohrl: Ruckspiegel: Meine Laufbahn in Bildern
TEXT IN GERMAN, large quarto, heavy illus card boards, white lettering to spine & boards, illus prelims, 255pp + 1pp advert, illus, nr fine (vv light creasing & scuffing to spine extrems), in d/w, nr fine (in clear plastic contact)
PUBLISHER: Verlag Reinhard Klein 2007
KEYWORDS: rally car motor sports biography memoir Walter Rohrl text in German
Hockney: The Biography: Volume 1 1937-1975
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: Century 2011
KEYWORDS: biography memoir David Hockney painter art artist
Ota: The Pygmy in the Zoo
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: Bookman Press 1992
KEYWORDS: Ota Benga US America pygmy anthropology sociology human rights biography memoir
The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune 1915-1964
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: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Saul Bellow writer novelist author first edition