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Mendelssohn: A Life in Music


TODD, R LARRY

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

$25.00
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The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris


ROBINSON, ANDREW

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

$17.50
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Bishop Monrad in Aotearoa: Ditlev Gothard Monrad's Life and His Legacy to New Zealand


MACFARLANE, IAN (Ed)

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

$25.00
xxa3bg212970

Architecture: Man in Possession of His Earth: Frank Lloyd Wright


WRIGHT, IOVANNA LLOYD & NICHOLSON, PATRICIA COYLE (Designer & Ed)

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

$20.00
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Letters to Monica


LARKIN, PHILIP & THWAITE, ANTHONY (Ed)

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

$10.00
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Swedenborg: Life and Teaching


TROBRIDGE, GEORGE

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

$9.50
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Krishnamurti: The Years of Awakening


LUTYENS, MARY

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

$45.00
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Lou Andreas-Salome


LIVINGSTONE, ANGELA

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

$22.50
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Living with Kundalini: The Autobiography of Gopi Krishna


KRISHNA, GOPI; SHEPARD, LESLIE (ed)

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

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Bhagavan Ramana & Mother


NATARAJAN, A R

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

$40.00
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The Life and Times of Sir George Grey


REES, WILLIAM LEE & REES, LILY

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

$50.00
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Baryshnikov in Black and White


BARYSHNIKOV, MIKHAIL & ACOCELLA, JOAN & GOLOVITSER, VALERY & GRESKOVIC, ROBERT

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

$60.00
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Olivier Messiaen and the Music of Time


GRIFFITHS, PAUL

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

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Marcel Proust, 1871-1922: A Centenary Volume


QUENELL, PETER (ed)

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

$37.50
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The Olympian Soldier: G C Cooke


BEATSON, KATH

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

$27.50
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Proust: The Search


TAYLOR, BENJAMIN

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

$12.50
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The Torch in My Ear


CANETTI, ELIAS; NEUGROSCHEL, JOACHIM (transl)

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

$10.00
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Me Talk Pretty One Day


SEDARIS, DAVID

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

$10.00
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Proust


WHITE, EDMUND

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

$145.00
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Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands (Third Edition, Somewhat Abridged) 2 Vol Set


YONGE, CHARLOTTE MARY

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

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