Books - "biography"
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William Hogarth: A Freemason's Harlot
Quarto, illus light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, 223pp, illus, FINE (in removable plastic protective cover)
PUBLISHER: Kendall Tavern Press 2017
KEYWORDS: masonic freemasons freemasonry culture history rituals literature illustrated biography memoir William Hogarth art symbolism
Francis Chichester
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: Hutchinson / Hodder & Stoughton 1975
KEYWORDS: biography seaman new zealand australia francis chichester
Ragamuffin King: Henry IV of France called The Great
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: Jonathan Cape 1948
KEYWORDS: history france king henry biography
Mary Queen of Scots
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: Methuen 1985
KEYWORDS: biography mary queen of scots
Bentley: The 1938/1939 Overdrive Cars
SIGNED by both authors, quarto, green heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, 256pp, illus, Near FINE (v light foxing to top page edges), in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, v sl chafing to covers)
PUBLISHER: Academy Books 1994
KEYWORDS: SIGNED cars Bentley motor history engineering illustrated memoir biography Derby
Alexander the Corrector: The Tormented Genius who Unwrote the Bible
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: Harper Perennial 2005
KEYWORDS: Biography Alexander Cruden Cruden's Concordance bible asylum
The Last Kaiser: A biography of William II German Emperor and King of Prussia
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: Purnell Book Services 1977
KEYWORDS: Biography Kaiser William Germany Emperor Third Reich
The Life of St Vincent de Paul
Lacks fep, small octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp decoration to boards & spine, frontispiece, xxvi + 216pp + 8pp adverts, VG- (moderate creasing & light staining/chipping to spine & extrems, light staining to boards, moderate bruising & light fraying to board corners, heavy tanning to page edges, fep missing, moderate scuffing/soiling to eps, cracks to full length of gutters)
PUBLISHER: Burns and Lambert 1856
KEYWORDS: StVincent de Paul biography memoir religion saints Christianity theology
The Early Years of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort
Super octavo hardcover (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: Smith, Elder and Co 1867
KEYWORDS: prince consort albert charles grey biography queen victoria
King of Fools
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: Futura 1988
KEYWORDS: john parker biography nonfiction duke of windsor prince of wales illustrated
Thomas More
Octavo hardcover (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: Sheed & Ward 1934
KEYWORDS: christianity catholicism biography thomas more historical daniel sargent
Born for Friendship: The Spirit of Sir Thomas More
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: Burns & Oates 1965
KEYWORDS: thomas more biography reformation roman catholicism bernard basset
Nigel Tranter, Scotland's Storyteller
lacks fep, 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: B&W 1999
KEYWORDS: biography Nigel Tranter Scotland
Out of the Box: the Highs and Lows of a Champion Smuggler
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: Roaring Forties 2015
KEYWORDS: biography Reg Spiers smuggler smuggling athlete athletics crime drug running drugs
Eugene V. Debs: Spokesman for Labor and Socialism
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: Charles H Kerr 1978
KEYWORDS: Biography Debs union railroad socialist
Crazy Sundays: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
First edition 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: Secker and Warburg 1972
KEYWORDS: Biography F Scott Fitzgerald Hollywood
The Curse of the Misbegotten: A Tale of the House of O'Neill
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: Rupert Hart-Davis 1960
KEYWORDS: Biography Eugene O'Neill
Archangels & Archaeology: J. S. M. Ward's Kingdom of the Wise
Super octavo, illus glossy boards, white lettering to spine & boards, xiv + 318pp, illus, Near FINE (v sl chafing to boards)
PUBLISHER: Sussex Academic Press 2012
KEYWORDS: biography memoir J S M Ward history spirituality antiquities freemasonry freemasons religion
Partisan
FIRST EDITION, octavo, light orange buckram boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 186pp, illus, VG- (light scuffing to spine extrems & board corners, moderate warping to front board, moderate tanning to page edges & eps, moderate insect damage to eps & prelims) in d/w, tatty (heavychipping to edges with some loss, heavy chafing to covers, light insect damage to front flap, light tanning)
PUBLISHER: Collins 1945 approx.
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history biography memoir John Denvir medal for valour war hero first edition
Pharaoh's Fool
first edition; super octavo; grey buckram cloth boards; black lettering on spine; frontis; viii+252pp, illus; VG+ (sl. rubbing to covers; sl. bruising to cover extrems; sl. staining to spine edges; sl. tanning to eps & page edges) in d/w VG- (in plastic cover, mod. tanning, soiling & foxing; a few v. small closed tears which have been sealed with sellotape; price clipped)
PUBLISHER: Heinemann 1957
KEYWORDS: first edition biography Giovanni Belzoni Regency period Egyptology engineering tombs pyramids