Books - "biography"
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Mendelssohn: A Life in Music
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: Oxford University Press 2003
KEYWORDS: classical music composers biography biographies memoir history Felix Mendelssohn
The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris
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: Thames & Hudson 2002
KEYWORDS: biography memoir biographies Michael Ventris linear b code breakers historical artefacts history
Bishop Monrad in Aotearoa: Ditlev Gothard Monrad's Life and His Legacy to New Zealand
Square 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: Karere Publications 2011
KEYWORDS: Ditlev Gothard Monrad history New Zealand biography biographies early settlers pioneers
Architecture: Man in Possession of His Earth: Frank Lloyd Wright
Lg 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: Macdonald & Co 1963
KEYWORDS: architecture architects Frank Lloyd Wright buildings design biography biographies history
Letters to Monica
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: Faber and Faber 2011
KEYWORDS: Philip Larkin Monica Jones literature literary biography biographies letters correspondence
Swedenborg: Life and Teaching
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: Pillar Books / Swedenborg Foundation Inc. 1976
KEYWORDS: Emanuel Swedenborg natural science history philosophy biography biographies
Krishnamurti: The Years of Awakening
Paperback (G+) scruffy 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: Avon 1976
KEYWORDS: spirituality teachers Krishnamurti biography biographies history religion religious leaders
Lou Andreas-Salome
Super octavo, green cloth boards, grey lettering to spine, frontispiece, illus title page, 255pp, Near FINE (sl tanning & foxing to page egdes) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light tanning & soiling to spine & edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Gordon Fraser Gallery 1984
KEYWORDS: literature literary biography biographies memoir Lou Andreas-Salome religion psychoanalysis sex
Living with Kundalini: The Autobiography of Gopi Krishna
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Shambhala 1993
KEYWORDS: Gopi Krishna Hindu India Leslie Shepard life lives autobiography biography
Bhagavan Ramana & Mother
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Ramana Maharshi Centre for Learning 1995
KEYWORDS: Ramana Maharshi spiritual spirituality 20th century life lives biography
The Life and Times of Sir George Grey
Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind decoration & rule to boards, patterned eps, frontispiece, (6) + 496pp, illus, VG- (moderate scuffing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning to spine, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page egdes & eps, ex-libris plate & prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, v heavy cracking to front & rear gutter- boards shaky, moderate wrinkling to prelims, inscription in ink to title page, moderate foxing & pencil markings throughout)
PUBLISHER: H Brett of Lake Takapuna 1892
KEYWORDS: Sir George Grey biography biographies memoir history historical
Baryshnikov in Black and White
Imperial octavo, white cloth boards, black lettering to spine, 320pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl discolouration to board edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 2002
KEYWORDS: Russian dancers ballet performers Mikhail Baryshnikov art photography performing arts biography
Olivier Messiaen and the Music of Time
Super octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 274pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, light foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink & scribbled out plus moderate patch of scuffing & adhesive residue to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light tanning & fading to spine, light creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1985
KEYWORDS: classical music composers Olivier Messiaen biography biographies memoir
Marcel Proust, 1871-1922: A Centenary Volume
Super 8vo hardcover (VG) in torn 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: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1971
KEYWORDS: Marcel Proust 19th century novelist life lives biography
The Olympian Soldier: G C Cooke
Signed & inscribed by author. Imp. 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Kath Beatson 2008
KEYWORDS: Kath Beatson military history live lifes biography G C Cooke
Proust: The Search
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: Benjamin Taylor Marcel Proust life lives biography
The Torch in My Ear
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Granta Books 1999
KEYWORDS: Elias Canetti life lives biography autobiography
Me Talk Pretty One Day
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Abacus
KEYWORDS: David Sedaris 21st century life lives biography autobiography
Proust
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Phoenix 2000
KEYWORDS: Edmund White Marcel Proust literary biography life lives
Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands (Third Edition, Somewhat Abridged) 2 Vol Set
2 VOL SET, ex-library, octavo, half leatherbound brown textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & raised bands to spines, marbled page edges & eps, gilt library stamp to front boards, frontispieces- tissue guard to vol 2, vol 1- xii + 370pp, vol 2- unpaginatd prelims + 390pp, VG- (moderate scuffing & surface loss to leatherwork on spines & board corners, light to moderate chafing & rubbing to boards, moderate tanning & fading to page edges, usual library markings, heavy cracking to gutters- binding to rear of vol 1 partially detached, rear ep torn out to vol 1, rear eps detached but present to vol 2, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals of both vols, sporadic foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan and Co 1874
KEYWORDS: religion religious history missionaries Melanesian islands John Coleridge Patteson biography biographies