Books - "biography"
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Katherine Mansfield
Sm 8vo stapled 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: A. H. & A. W. Reed
KEYWORDS: Katherine Mansfield New Zealand biography life lives
Who's Who in Pacific Navigation
Super 8vo 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: University of Hawaii Press 1991
KEYWORDS: voyages exploration navigation pacific ocean Oceania discovery biography explorer
The Life and Letters of the Great Earl of Cork
Super 8vo, grey/brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, teg, frontis. & plates with tissue guards, xvi + 531 pp., plates, VG- (light to moderate soiling/scuffing to boards, moderate 2cm tear to front joint, moderate scuffing & tearing to edges & extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to pg edges & eps/prelims/terminals, prev owner's inscription in black ink to ffep, moderate tanning to plate tissue guards, sporadic light soiling & foxing throughout, light to moderate cracking to front hinge, bgd sl sloppy).
PUBLISHER: Duckworth and Company 1904
KEYWORDS: 16th century Earl of Cork England renaissance social history biography life lives esquire gentlemen
Ruling Passions
FIRST EDITION. 8vo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, top edges stained red, yellow eps, x + 271 pp., plates, VG+ (light scuffing & bruising to board & spine edges/extrems, sl tanning to fore & bottom pg edges, light soiling to eps) in d/w VG (light scuffing & light to moderate fading & tanning, light bruising to edges & extrems, 2cm cloed tear to top spine extrem at fold).
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1977
KEYWORDS: modern first editions England English 20th century literature journalism essays autobiography biography
Rita Angus
Sq 8vo, purple heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, grey eps, frontis., 214 pp., illus/photos, VG+ (sl soiling to boards, light bruising to spine extrems, minor soiling to pg edges) in d/w VG- (light scuffing & soiling, light to moderate creasing to edges, light bruising to extrems, 3cm closed tear to front bottom extrem at fold, light tanning).
PUBLISHER: National At Gallery 1982
KEYWORDS: New Zealand art artist exhibition biography criticism 20th century portrait landscape sketchbook
Roger Fry: A Biography
FIRST EDITION, THIRD IMPRESSION. 8vo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontis., 307 pp., VG (light to moderate soiling to boards & spine, light scuffing & rubbing, light soiling/bruising & scuffing to edges & extrems, moderate tanning to pg edges, light tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, sm tear to hinge at rear gutter, light tanning & foxing throughout) in d/w VG- (moderate soiling & tanning, some fading, light to moderate bruising & chipping to edges & extrems, moderate tear to head of spine with loss, encased in a plastic wrapper).
PUBLISHER: The Hogarth Press 1940
KEYWORDS: first edition Virginia Woolf Roger Fry biography life lives author 20th century art criticism literature
Deceived with Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood
FIRST EDITION. 8vo, heavy green card boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, [10] + 181 pp., illus/photos, NF (v sl bruising to edges & extrems, light soiling & tanning to pg edges) in d/w VG+ (light to moderate tanning & fading, sl curling to edges, light bruising to extrems).
PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1984
KEYWORDS: first edition Bloomsbury Group memoir biography life lives 20th century literature
Don't Look Round
8vo, red buckram boards, black lettering & double rules to spine, stamp to front board, frontis., illus tp, 240 pp., illus, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards, moderate fading to spine, light wear to joints, light tanning/soiling & foxing to pg edges, prev bookseller's sm green pricing sticker to front pastedown, light tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, sporadic light foxing throughout), lacking d/w.
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co. 1952
KEYWORDS: Violet Trefusis autobiography memoir biography life lives 20th century literature
Harold Nicolson: A Biography 1886-1929, 1930-1968 (2 vols)
2 VOL SET. 8vo, heavy blue card boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, frontis. (vol 1 only), vol 1- xii + 429 pp., vol 2- xii + 403 pp., plates, VG+ (minor scuffing to boards, sl scuffing & bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, light tanniing & soiling to pg edges, light taning to eps, light soiling to reps & terminals (vol 1)), in d/ws, VG+ (sl tanning to edges, light fading to spine (vol 1), light soiling to front cover & spine (vol 2), light creasing/bruising to edges (vol 2)).
PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1980-81
KEYWORDS: Harold Nicolson biography life lives 19th 20th century travel diary diarist diplomat
Guthrie-Smith of Tutira
Tidy ex-library, 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: Whitcombe & Tombs 1959
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Zealanders biography biographies memoir Guthrie-Smith Tutira
Sri Ramakrishna: A Biography
Sm 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: Sri Ramakrishna Math N/D
KEYWORDS: Sri Ramakrishna biography biographies memoir spirituality Hindu
J Krishnamurti: As I Knew Him
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: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers 1998
KEYWORDS: biography biographies memoir J Krishnamurti philosophy spirituality wisdom
The Happening of a Guru: A Biography of Ramesh S Balsekar
LACKS D/W, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Yogi Impressions Books 2003
KEYWORDS: biography biographies memoir Ramesh S Balsekar spirituality wisdom teachings
A Perfect Life: The Story of Swami Muktananda Paramahamsa
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Siddha Yoga / SYDA Foundation 1996
KEYWORDS: spirituality teachers philosophy biography biographies memoir Swami Muktananda Paramahamsa
The Life of John Marshall 1755-1835 (4 Vol Set)
4 VOL SET, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, subject's signature in gilt to front boards, deckled/roughcut page fore-edges, frontispieces, mixed pagination, illus, VG (light to moderate bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems/edges, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, light tanning to eps, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to ffeps)
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin 1916-19
KEYWORDS: history historical figures John Marshall biography biographies memoirs Americans
Andrew Jackson: Portrait of a President
FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, red full leather boards, gilt lettering & rule plus raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to boards, aeg, patterned/printed eps, frontispiece, 627pp, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems)
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 1985
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings library of the presidents series US American politics political leaders former presidents biography biographies memoir Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography
FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, red full leather boards, raised bands to spine, gilt lettering & decoration to spine & boards, aeg, illus/printed eps, unpaginated prelims + 1072pp, illus, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems)
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 1987
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings library of the presidents series US American politics political leaders former presidents biography biographies memoir Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson: The Border Captain
FULL LEATHER BINDING, super octavo, red full leather boards, gilt lettering & rule with raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to boards, aeg, illus/printed eps, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims, 461pp, illus/photos, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: The Easton Press 1985
KEYWORDS: full leather bindings library of the presidents series US American politics political leaders former presidents biography biographies memoir Andrew Jackson
Thomas Wolfe: 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Doubleday 1960
KEYWORDS: biography biographies memoir Thomas Wolfe
The Warden of English: The Life of H W Fowler
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2001
KEYWORDS: H W Fowler literary biography biographies memoir