Books - "biography"
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Peter Pears: A Biography
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1992
KEYWORDS: Christopher Headington Peter Pears life lives biography
Percy Grainger
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: Faber and Faber 1982
KEYWORDS: John Bird Percy Grainger 19th 20th century life lives biography
Alan Pearson: His Life and Art
Signed, inscribed & dated by Alan Pearson. Imp. 8vo, pp. viii + 159; black heavy card boards, spine lettered in silver gilt; photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; sl soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in black ink to base of ffep); in d/w, VG (light scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with light chipping).
PUBLISHER: Hazard Press 1991
KEYWORDS: Alan Pearson 20th century New Zealand art artist life lives biography criticism Denys Trussell
Philip Roth: The Biography
Super 8vo, pp. xii + 898; grey heavy card boards, spine lettered in white; plates; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; sl soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; some sl water damage; sl tanning).
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 2021
KEYWORDS: Blake Bailey Philip Roth life lives American literary biography 20th century
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