BOUYER DE L'ORATOIRE, LOIUS & DAY, MICHAEL (trans)

small octavo; blue cloth covers; gilt lettering on spine; 87pp; VG+ (top edges sl. foxed; sl. rubbing to covers; edges bruised with sl. surface loss; eps sl. tanned) in d/w sl. tatty (mod. rubbing with surface loss & scratches; sl. grubby; interior mod. foxed: but is has done its job)

PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Chapman 1958

KEYWORDS: biography history St Philip Neri

LEE, JOHN A.

SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, octavo, light brown heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 173pp, VG+ (light creasing & fading to spine extrems, light tanning to page edges, white out covering owner's name in ink to fep) in d/w & removable protective clear plastic cover, VG (moderate creasing to edges, light sun fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Collins 1964

KEYWORDS: biography memor Shiner Slattery signed first edition New Zealand Otago south Canterbury

YOUNG (nee HUSSEY), LESLEY

Quarto, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, illus title page, 125pp, illus, VG (moderate fading to spine, light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Not specified

KEYWORDS: New Zealand biography memoir Young Hussey Lesley

McKAY, FRANK

DATED, INSCFRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, brown heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xii + 320pp,illus, VG+ (light creasing & scuffing to spine extrems, light soiling to board edges, light foxing & tanning to page edges & eps) in d/w & removable protective clear plastic cover, VG+ (light fading to rear cover, light tanning & foxing to internal sides)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1990

KEYWORDS: SIGNED New Zealand literature biography memoir James K Baxter

ADAMS, CINDY

Super octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, x + 324pp, illus, VG (moderate staining & light creasing/scuffing to spine extrems, light tanning & staining to page edges, light tanning to eps, crack to full length of gutter to pg 157) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges with heavy archival tape repairs, moderate tanning to covers & internal sides)

PUBLISHER: Gunung Agung 1966

KEYWORDS: autobiography biography memoir President Sukarno communism Asia politics

BRERETON, MAJOR C. B. & GRAY, JOHN H. (Ed) & MILLWARD, PETER (Intro) & PUGSLEY, Dr. CHRISTOPHER (Fore)

Imperial octavo, red heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus prelims, 378pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing to covers, sl sticky residue to front cover)

PUBLISHER: John Douglas 2015

KEYWORDS: military history New Zealand illustrated Great War ww1 first world war biography memoir Major C B Brereton

KNIGHT, CHARLES (conduct.)

THIS VOL. ONLY, large quarto, half bound in leather, marbled heavy card boards, gold lettering & decorative rule on title label to spine, blind embossed decorative rules of spine, marbled page edges & eps,1034 paginated colums, VG ( light rubbing with surface loss to leather edges, 4cm tear to top front hinge, moderate rubbing with some surface loss, bookseller sticker to pastedown, moderate foxing to prelims)

PUBLISHER: Bradbury and Evans 1858

KEYWORDS: encyclopedia biography england united kingdom

DAVIDSON, SARA

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: Fontana 1978

KEYWORDS: autobiography biography sixties America California

TATE, ALLEN (edit)

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PUBLISHER: Pelican 1971

KEYWORDS: biography literature literary criticism Eliot

DU BRETON, J. LUCAS

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PUBLISHER: Bantam1956

KEYWORDS: biography Borgias history Italy murder poisoning intrigue politics Lucrezia Cesare Pope Alexander

ALLISON, WILLIAM & FAIRLEY, JOHN

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PUBLISHER: Quartet 1995

KEYWORDS: biography Percy Toplis British army mutiny World War One I 1

KING, MICHAEL

FIRST AUSTRALIAN 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: Picador 2000

KEYWORDS: biography janet frame new zealand

KLEIN, EDWARD

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PUBLISHER: St. Martins Press 2003

KEYWORDS: history biography kennedy jfk jaqui o

REEVES, RICHARD

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PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster 1993

KEYWORDS: biography john f kennedy jfk

WILSON, IAN

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PUBLISHER: Headline 1994

KEYWORDS: shakespeare biography

SIGGINS, MAGGIE

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PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 1994

KEYWORDS: history biography louis riel canda america

SELVER, PAUL & MASARYK, JAN (Intro)

Super octavo, black buckram boards, silver coloured lettering to spine, top page edges stained red, frontispiece, 326pp, illus, VG- (heavy scuffing to spine extrems & board edges with light fraying, moderate chafing to boards, moderate denting to board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps/prelims/terminals, cracks to gutters- heavy at rear gutter, sm scribbles in ink to front eps)

PUBLISHER: Michael Joseph 1940

KEYWORDS: biography memoir Masaryk politics

LEWIS, DAVID

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PUBLISHER: Collins

KEYWORDS: antarctica exploration biography

CHAMBERS, JAMES

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PUBLISHER: John Murray 2004

KEYWORDS: biography henry temple england politics

OGILVIE, GORDON

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PUBLISHER: Godwit 1999

KEYWORDS: biography new zealand denis glover