Books - "biography"
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The Du Ponts : Portrait of a Dynasty
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
Courage Her Passport
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
New Zealand Cycling Legends 02 : Harry Watson - The Mile Eater
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
Richard Spruce (1817 - 1893): Botanist and Explorer
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
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (2 volume set)
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
Regions of the Great Heresy: Bruno Schulsz: A Biographical Portrait
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
Gumboots and a Sarong: The Asian adventures of a ready-for-anything Kiwi cowhand
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
Walt Whitman: A Life
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
The Schweitzer Album
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
The Len Deighton Companion
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
Wallace, The Hero of Scotland
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
George Green, Miller Snienton
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
George Augustus Selwyn: Pioneer Bishop of New Zealand
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
Mapplethorpe: A Biography
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
Richard Tauber : Ein Leben - eine Stimme
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
The Life of Nelson: The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain
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
The Young Lukacs
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
Six Poets of San Francisco Renaissance
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
The Letters of William S. Burroughs: 1945 - 1959
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
The Manson Women: A Family Portrait
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