Books - "biography"
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Shakespeare: The man and his achievement
Super 8vo 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: Scarborough Books 1982
KEYWORDS: Shakespeare biography 16th 17th century author poet dramatist literature theatre life lives
Open at the Top: The Life of Ernest Holmes
Octavo softcover (VG) occasional pencil markings to margins; 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: Open View Press 1993
KEYWORDS: Ernest Holmes biography biographies memoir religion theology
Venture Inward
Paperback (VG-) some annotation in ink; 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: Paperback Library 1969
KEYWORDS: esp psychic abilities Edgar Cayce philosophy awareness clairvoyance biography biographies memoir
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby: Revealer of Spiritual Healing to This Age
Sm octavo softcover (VG) underlining in ink throughout; 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: DeVorss & Co 1984
KEYWORDS: biography biographies memoir Phineas Parkhurst Quimby history
Much Silence: Meher Baba: His Life and Work
Paperback (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: B I Publications 1975
KEYWORDS: Meher Baba biography biographies memoir works teachings wisdom spirituality
The Path: Autobiography of a Western Yogi
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: Ananda Publications
KEYWORDS: spiritual spirituality yoga yogi meditation life lives biography autobiography
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, and Epic Journey, a Lost Age
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: Mariner / HarperCollins 2023
KEYWORDS: exploration history Peter Freuchen biography biographies memoir explorers
William Davison of Alnwick: Pharmacist and Printer 1781-1858
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 1968
KEYWORDS: printers printing history William Davison biography biographies
Stanley Morison 1889-1967
LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#347/800), 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: W S Cowell 1969
KEYWORDS: Stanley Morison biography biographies memoir radio bbc shows portraits
From the Blitz to the Jungle and Beyond: A Memoir
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: McKenzie Publishing 2017
KEYWORDS: New Zealand biography biographies memoir Brian Hennessy ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2
Alpine Partisan: The Survival of Trooper Southon
Scruffy ex-library - lacks prelims, octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (G+) jacket 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Not Availabe
KEYWORDS: Alfred Southon military history war stories biography biographies memoir
The Ordeal of Ivor Gurney
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: Oxford University Press 1978
KEYWORDS: classical music composers Ivor Gurney biographies biography memoir
Nijinsky: Prelude a L'Apres-Midi D'un Faune
Sm folio, grey cloth boards, red lettering to spine, red publisher's motif to front board, 141pp, illus, VG+ (sl tanning & water staining to boards- with minor bruising also, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing/chipping & water staining to edges, light tanning & moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 1990
KEYWORDS: music performers ballet dancers dance profiles biographies biography Nijinsky
Ethel & Ernest
FIRST EDITION, octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus title page, 103pp, VG+ (sl scuffing to extrems, sl foxing & soiling to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light cahfing & soiling, moderate foxing, light creasing & chipping to edges)
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1998
KEYWORDS: biography literature literary Raymond Briggs Ethel Ernest parents illustrated cartoons autobiography first editions
Life of Hernan Cortes
Duodecimo, half leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering to maroon leather title plates on spine with gilt decoration/tooling also, title vignette to prelims, 344pp, VG (light rubbing to leatherwork on spine & board corners, light chafing & rubbing to boards, moderate to heavy tanning/soiling to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear pastedown, minor cracking to gutters at front, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, light tanning throughout)
PUBLISHER: Constable & Co, and Hurst, Chance, and Co London 1829
KEYWORDS: antiquarian books biography biographies memoir Hernan Cortes Mexico Mexican history 16th sixteenth century Spanish conquistadors
Duncan Grant: A Biography
Super octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xv + 570pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, sl rubbing to eps) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing, light tanning to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1997
KEYWORDS: Duncan Grant artists art history biography biographies memoir
There's the Lighthouse: A Biography of Adrian Stephen
Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xi + 187pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (v sl soiling to board edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, sl soiling)
PUBLISHER: James & James 1997
KEYWORDS: bloomsbury group history biography biographies memoir Adrian Stephen
The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen
Super octavo, black buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece with tissue guard, viii + 510pp, VG- (light to moderate bruising to board extrems/edges, light to moderate fading & rubbing to spine, heavy cracking to rear hinge/spine, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, light tanning to eps, sm ink stamp to top of front pastedown, minor cracking to gutters at prelims)
PUBLISHER: Duckworth & Co 1906
KEYWORDS: Leslie Stephen letters correspondence biography biographies memoir literary
Literary Gent
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: Jonathan Cape Ltd. 1978
KEYWORDS: biography david higham book trade
The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray
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: Quirk Books 2015
KEYWORDS: biography bill murray acting film