Books - "biography"
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Django Reinhardt
first edition 247pp ills.[b/w] VG+ (grey cloth,sl.soiled,content edges sl.soiled) lacks d/w
PUBLISHER: cassell london [1961]
KEYWORDS: music jazz biography arts django reinhardt charles delaunay
Rhwng Y Silffoedd
first edition 174pp [text in welsh] ills.[b/w] VG+ (black cloth,minor shelf wear) in VG- d/w (mod.rubbed and soiled,chipping and wear to extrms.w.some closed tears)
PUBLISHER: gwasg gee dinbych 1978
KEYWORDS: biography history wales thomas richards
Commodore John Rodgers
captain,commodore,and senior officer of the american navy 1773-1838
first edition 434pp ills.[b/w] VG (blue cloth w.gilt flag stamped to spine,sl.rubbed and soiled,new eps,sl.foxing to untrimmed content edges,small piece from pp45/46 torn away but present,teg)
PUBLISHER: arthur h.clark cleveland 1910
KEYWORDS: nautical biography john rodgers charles paullin
Sayyid Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani
ex-lib.first edition 479pp [b/w frontis.portrait] VG+ (blue cloth,tape stains to boards and eps w.libr.mark to spine,usual libr.stamps w.label removed from rear pastedown,contents clean and tight) in VG d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled/creased w.libr.mark to spine,tape stains to rolled edges)
PUBLISHER: university of california press berkeley 1972
KEYWORDS: history biography sayyid jamal ad-din nikki keddie
Forty Years of American Life
lacks title page 509pp G+ (green cloth w.black borders and stamps,rubbed and soiled,chipping and wear to bevelled edges,new eps,owner's sign.to half-title,lacks title page,contents sl.soiled w.sl.stain to foot edge)
PUBLISHER: longmans green london [1874]
KEYWORDS: history travel geography biography thomas low nichols america
Jungle Lindsay
[first edition] 282pp ills.[b/w] VG (red cloth,sl.rubbed and stained,sunned spine,sl.wear to extrems.,eps and content edges sl.foxed) lacks d/w
PUBLISHER: sampson low marston london [nd]
KEYWORDS: history geography biography hector lindsay
Eifion Wyn
first edition 263pp [text in welsh] VG+ (black cloth,v.sl.soiled,sl.bumps to extrems.,owner's sign.to ffep,eps and content edges sl.soiled) in VG+ d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.sunned spine,sl.bumps to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: gwasg gomer llandysul 1980
KEYWORDS: history literature biography peredur wyn williams welsh
A Personal Narrative of Those Transactions in the County Wexford,in which the Author was engaged,during the awful period of 1798
first edition [reading copy] 276pp+errata slip and publisher's slip tipped-in at rear G (quite possibly the original binding of greenish paper boards w.grey cloth spine,rubbed and stained,chipping and wear to extrems.w.many surface losses,rear hinge has been chewed,prelims.and untrimmed content edges sl.foxed/soiled,contents foxed,several sections detached,appears to be missing ppvii/viii however it could have been mis-paginated as the text seems to run logically,lacks pp105-108,spine cracked and shaky w.separation starting at many sections,errata slip and publisher's note both tipped-in at rear)
PUBLISHER: printed for author by james m'mullen dublin 1832
KEYWORDS: history biography law wexford thomas cloney
Mostly a Farmer
first edition 193pp F in VG+ d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.internal foxing)
PUBLISHER: cape catley whatamongo bay 1976
KEYWORDS: new zealand biography history lance waters
The Making of a New Zealander
reprint signed by author 215pp ills.[b/w] VG+ (brown cloth,owner's inscr.to ffep,content edges v.sl.foxed) in VG d/w (mod.rubbed and soiled,mod.wear and chipping to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: reed wellington 1959
KEYWORDS: new zealand history alan mulgan biography signed
The Man on the twenty dollar note
octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG)
PUBLISHER: reed sydney 1976
KEYWORDS: history aviation biography charles kingford-smith ward mcnally
Gog and Magog and I
first edition inscribed by author 184pp ills.[b/w] VG (black cloth,sl.rubbed and soiled,mod.bumps to extrems.,author's inscription [but no signature] to ffep dated 3.v.35,prelims.and content edges mod.foxed,spine cracked but tight) lacks d/w
PUBLISHER: sampson low marston london [nd]
KEYWORDS: london guildhall history biography lewes sayer
The Life of Lord Fisher of Kilverstone
2 vols.
reprint 2 vols.312/328pp ills.[b/w] VG (beige cloth,mod.rubbed and soiled,sl.bumps to extrems.,content edges sl.soiled,spines cracked but tight) lacks d/ws
PUBLISHER: hodder and stoughton london 1929
KEYWORDS: lord fisher kilverstone biography nautical bacon
Schoonerman
first edition 294pp ills.[b/w] VG+ (brown cloth,sl.wear to extrems.) in VG+ d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: hollis & carter london 1981
KEYWORDS: nautical biography richard england schooner
A Secret Country
first edition proof copy 286pp ills.[b/w] VG+ (in wrappers,sl.rubbed and soiled w.owner's stamps to front cover,owner's inscr.to inside front cover and stamp to half-title)
PUBLISHER: jonathan cape london 1989
KEYWORDS: john pilger biography history proof copies literature
Memoirs of an Artist Naturalist
first edition 96pp ills.[b/w and col.] VG+ (green cloth,v.sl.soiled,prelims.and untrimmed edges sl.foxed) in VG d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled w.col.plate to front cover,sunned spine,mod.wear to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: gurney and jackson london 1946
KEYWORDS: natural history george lodge arts biography
Sgrepan Pererin
first edition 132pp [text in welsh] ills.[b/w] NF (pink cloth,minor shelf wear) in G+ d/w (mod.rubed and soiled,price sticker to front cover,2x2cm loss to head of front cover/spine,mod.wear and chipping to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: llyfrfa'r m.c. caernarfon 1971
KEYWORDS: lewis jones biography history literature wales welsh
Kiki of Montparnasse
ex-lib.first edition 222pp VG+ (green cloth,tape stains to boards w.libr.mark to spine,tape stains to eps,usual libr.stamps w.label removed from rfep) in VG d/w (libr.marks to spine w.tape stains to upper/lower edges)
PUBLISHER: cassell london 1968
KEYWORDS: history biography literature kiki montparnasse frederick kohner
An Admiral's Yarns
second printing 313pp ills.[b/w] VG- (olive cloth,rubbed and stained,mod.wear and chipping to extrems.,owner's sign.to ffep,prelims.and content edges mod.foxed w.some sl.foxing to contents) lacks d/w
PUBLISHER: herbert jenkins london 1922
KEYWORDS: military history nautical biography charles dundas
Memoirs of Charles Lamb
ex-lib.first edition numbered/limited [110/150] initialed by publisher [large paper edition] 291pp ills.[b/w portraits] VG (beige cloth w.gilt to top board,rubbed and stained,bumps and wear to extrems.,browned spine w.some small holes,usual libr.stamps and labels,prelims.and untrimmed content edges sl.foxed/soiled,numbered colophon to prelims.)
PUBLISHER: gibbings london 1892
KEYWORDS: biography history literature charles lamb talfourd