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The Du Ponts : Portrait of a Dynasty


DUKE, MARC

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) with 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: E.P. Dutton & Co Inc 1976

KEYWORDS: biography Samuel Du Pont Victor Irenee gun black powder photos black & white

$34.50
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Courage Her Passport


WHITBY, H.A. MORTON

FIRST EDITION octavo hardcover (VG+) with 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: Frederick Muller Ltd 1963

KEYWORDS: biography Marie Krauss holocaust concentration camp photos black & white

$25.00
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New Zealand Cycling Legends 02 : Harry Watson - The Mile Eater


KENNETT, JONATHAN & WALL, BRONWEN & GRAY, IAN

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: The Kennett Bros 2006

KEYWORDS: biography Harry Watson New Zealand cylcing road racing photos black & white

$50.00
1y67/41

Richard Spruce (1817 - 1893): Botanist and Explorer


SEAWARD, M. R. D. & FITZGERALD, S. M. D. (ed.'s) [SPRUCE, RICHARD]

Octavo illus. yellow light card covers, 359pp, illus., VG+ (light scuffing and creasing to covers, occassional soiling to edges and within (unobtrusive), prev. owner's name in flowing script, pen, to reverse of front cover)

PUBLISHER: Royal Botanic Gardens 1996

KEYWORDS: richard spruce biography biology science botany exploration victorian natural history

$65.00
1y69/8

Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (2 volume set)


SANDBURG, CARL

2x VOLUME SET, octavo black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus., xvi+480pp / vi+482pp, VG+ (v. sl. soiling to boards (unobtrusive), light tanning to pages, very occasional foxing, light scuffing to boards, lack d/w's)

PUBLISHER: Harcourt, Brace & World [n/d, 25th printing]

KEYWORDS: abe abraham lincoln carl sandburg prairie years biography us usa american united states america politics president presidents

$36.50
ak3/11/1562

Regions of the Great Heresy: Bruno Schulsz: A Biographical Portrait


FICOWSKI, JERZY (SCHULZ, BRUNO) & ROBERTSON, THEODOSIA (ED & TRANS)

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: W.W. Norton & Company 2003

KEYWORDS: biography jewish polish literary critic fine artist art short stories

$10.00
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Gumboots and a Sarong: The Asian adventures of a ready-for-anything Kiwi cowhand


KIRK, MARGARET

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: ColCom 1997

KEYWORDS: Biography Sybil Muir Borneo Evangelical Mission New Zealand

$10.00
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Walt Whitman: A Life


KAPLAN, JUSTIN

Lacks fep, 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: Bantam 1982

KEYWORDS: Biography poet Walt Whitman

$25.00
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The Schweitzer Album


ANDERSON, ERICA (WORDS & PICTURES) & SCHWEITZER, ALBERT

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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: A & C Black 1965

KEYWORDS: biography polymath theologian organist writer humanitarian philosopher physician christianity music education alsatian german christian

$25.00
ak3/11/1594

The Len Deighton Companion


MILWARD-OLIVER, EDWARD & (DEIGHTON, LEN)

FIRST EDITION, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Grafton Books 1987

KEYWORDS: interview biography companion guide len deighton literature espionage mystery thriller military

$16.50
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Wallace, The Hero of Scotland


PATERSON, JAMES

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: William P. Nimmo n/d

KEYWORDS: William Wallace biography Scotland history war

$15.00
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George Green, Miller Snienton


GREEN, GEORGE & WILKINS-JONES, FREDA M.

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: City of Nottingham Leisure Services 1980

KEYWORDS: biography George Green memoir Nottinghamshire England Snienton history

$15.00
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George Augustus Selwyn: Pioneer Bishop of New Zealand


REED, A. W.

Octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (scruffy); 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: A.H. & A. W. Reed 1939

KEYWORDS: biography Selwyn New Zealand history missionary pioneer

$19.50
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Mapplethorpe: A Biography


MORRISROE, PATRICIA

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: Random House 1995

KEYWORDS: biography Mapplethorpe art photography

$15.00
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Richard Tauber : Ein Leben - eine Stimme


SCHNEIDEREIT, OTTO

TEXT IN GERMAN 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: Veb Lied Der Zeit 1981

KEYWORDS: biography text German Richard Tauber

$100.00
1y70/30

The Life of Nelson: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain


MAHAN, CAPTAIN A.T.

2 VOL SET, Super Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt embossed illus of ships to front boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges gilt, illus frontispiece with tissue guard in both vols, vol 1 454 pp, vol 2 427 pp + 3pp adverts, 9 illus plates in vol 1 with tissue, 10 maps in vol 1, 8 illus plates in vol 2 with tissue, 10 maps in vol 2, VG (minor soiling blotches to front board of vol 1, moderate bruising and scuffing to spine and boards, light foxing to prelims and terminals, previous owners name in pencil to feps)

PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, & Company 1898

KEYWORDS: Biography Nelson Captain Lord Vice-Admiral Great Britain navy naval power sea Agamemnon Trafalgar history maritime Hamilton Horatia

$42.50
1y70/44

The Young Lukacs


CONGDON, LEE

VERY TIDY EX LIBRARY, super octavo, black heavy card boards, frontispiece, 235pp, illus, VG+ (minimal library markings) in d/w VG+ (v. slight creasing to extrems)

PUBLISHER: University of North Carolina Press 1983

KEYWORDS: Intellectual biography Georg Lukacs marxist thinker

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Six Poets of San Francisco Renaissance


KHERDIAN, DAVID

TIDY 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: The Giligia Press 1967

KEYWORDS: biography bibliography poet San Francisco photos black & white

$45.00
1y71/28

The Letters of William S. Burroughs: 1945 - 1959


BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. & HARRIS, OLIVER (ed.)

Super octavo quarter bound cream heavy card boards, black cloth to spine with gilt lettering, xl+472pp, VG+ (sl soiling and sunning to board extrems, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w VG+ (light rubbing and soiling to covers, light creasing to extrems)

PUBLISHER: Picador 1993

KEYWORDS: william s burroughs beat literature american literary biography letters

$40.00
1y71/29

The Manson Women: A Family Portrait


LIVSEY, CLARA

FIRST EDITION, super octavo black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 244pp, VG+ (light tanning to pages, v. sl. soiling to edges) in d/w VG (light scuffing and tanning, v. sl. fading, moderate foxing confined to reverse)

PUBLISHER: Richard Marek Publishers 1980

KEYWORDS: charles manson family true crime murder cult biography interviews american history

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