Books - "biography"
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A Widow's Story
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Fourth Estate 2011
KEYWORDS: literature biography Joyce Carol Oates
Bob Dylan: An Intimate Biography
Reprint; 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: W. H. Allen 1972
KEYWORDS: bob dylan dylanology rock american music biography american folk
Hanly: A New Zealand Artist
Ex-library, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1989
KEYWORDS: New Zealand art artists Patrick Hanly biography memoir
The Secret of Chanel No 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume
Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, co mplete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2010
KEYWORDS: perfume Chanel history biography fashion France French perfumeries
The Claws of the Dragon; Kang Sheng - The Evil Genius Behind Mao - And His Legacy of Terror in People's China
Super octavo hardcover (VG-, binding slightly shaky and prelim. pages starting to come loose, but all present) 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: Simon & Schuster 1992
KEYWORDS: john byron robert pack kang sheng biographies biography china chinese history 20th twentieth century political revolutionaries cultural revolution politics politicians communism mao zedong
The Architect of Kokoda; Bert Kienzle - The Man Who Made the Kokoda Trail
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Hachette Australia 2013
KEYWORDS: robyn bert kienzle neil mcdonald kokoda trail campaigns australian military veterans biography biographies history papua new guinea japanese conflicts warfare world war two 2 second wwii
Friday On My Mind; the life of George Young
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PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 2020
KEYWORDS: jeff apter george young music musicians biographies biography ac/dc easybeats flash and & the pan australian rock n roll popular history
Never Enough; The Story of the Cure
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Omnibus Press 2009
KEYWORDS: jeff apter the cure music musicians musical biography biographies history histories memoirs post-punk popular english england britain british robert smith
Madame de Maintenon
FIRST EDITION; Octavo hardcover (VG-, moderate foxing); 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: J. M Dent and Sons Ltd 1930
KEYWORDS: madame marquise de maintenon francoise d'aubigne scarron maud cruttwell biography biographies french france european history monarchy monarchies monarchs royals royalty king louis xiv
Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself; A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace
Super octavo softcover (VG, heavy discolouration/tanning to covers, but good clean reading copy); 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: Broadway Books 2010
KEYWORDS: david lipsky david foster wallace literary biographies biography journalism interviews road trips
The Private Life of Louis XV
LACKS FEP; Super octavo hardcover (VG-, boards slightly shaky, cracking to gutters, light foxing); 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: The Bodley Head Limited 1924
KEYWORDS: mouffle d'angerville king louis xv biography biographies french france european history royalty monarchs monarchy
A Daughter of the Medicis; The Romantic Story of Marguerite de Valois
FIRST EDITION; Super octavo hardcover (VG-, front gutter moderately cracked and wobbly, boards still attached); 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: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1930
KEYWORDS: first editions marguerite de valois jean h mariejol biography biographies queen of navarre france medicis french royal history monarchs monarchy monarchies royalty
A Life of Science; A Tribute to Charles Alexander Fleming
Super octavo stapled illus. light card covers (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: Royal Society of New Zealand 1988
KEYWORDS: royal society of new zealand tribute to charles alexander fleming science scientists natural history biographies biography
The Moneymaker
FIRST EDITION; 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Bantam Press 1999
KEYWORDS: janet gleeson john law finance history credit scottish biography scotland economics politics money
Damn Right I've Got The Blues; Buddy Guy and the Blues Roots of Rock-and-Roll
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PUBLISHER: Woodford Press 1993
KEYWORDS: buddy guy blues rock and roll popular music biography biographies chicago louisiana country united states american u.s.a. guitar
Washington; The Indispensable Man
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-, price-clipped); 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: William Collins Sons & Co Ltd 1976
KEYWORDS: george washington james thomas flexner biographies biography united states of american u.s.a history founding fathers
The Life and Works of Robert Burns: Volume 1
THIS VOL. ONLY; 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 costs.
PUBLISHER: W & R Chambers Ltd. 1896
KEYWORDS: robert burns chambers william wallace biography literature scotland scottish robbie literary history culture
Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life
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 costs.
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2007
KEYWORDS: thomas hardy england english britain british literature writer biography victorian literary ralph pite history culture
In the Shadow of The Magic Mountain; The Erika and Klaus Mann Story
Super octavo, black heavy card boards, red lettering to silver cloth spine, frontispiece, xi + 302pp, b&w photo illus, Nr FINE in d/w, VG+ (v. light rubbing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: The University of Chicago Press, Ltd. 2008
KEYWORDS: literary biographies biography erika klaus thomas mann germany gay lesbian queer homosexual authors writers performance artists
James Merrill; Life and Art
Super octavo, red cloth boards, silver lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxiv + 913pp, b&w photo illus, VG+ (light rubbing & brusing to board extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light rubbing & creasing to extrems, light sun-fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
KEYWORDS: literary biography biographies american united states u.s.a. poets poetry gay queer homosexual writers authors