Books - "biography"
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Jim Pike, the Master: His Life and Times 1892-1969
SIGNED & INSCRIBED, HOLOGRAPHY LETTER FROM AUTHOR LOOSELY ENCLOSED, quarto, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, unpaginated prelims + 158pp, illus/photos, VG- (light to moderate bruising to extrems, moderate teo heavy water staining & soiling to base of spine & boards, sl foxing to page edges, moderate water staining to front eps) in d/w, VG- (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine & edges, moderate water satining to top edge of front cover)
PUBLISHER: Alan J Chittick 2001
KEYWORDS: signed Alan J Chittick horse racing sport equine history Jim Pike jockeys biography biographies memoir
Scarlet: Clarrie Grimmett, Test Cricketer
Super octavo, green heavy boards, xi + 271pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, 1.5cm closed tear to base of rear, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: The Cricket Publishing Company 2008
KEYWORDS: sport history cricket cricketers Clarrie Grimmett biography biographies memoir
Notes From the Margins: The West Coast's Peter Hooper
SIGNED, octavo, illus light card wrappers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, 202pp, illus/photos, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Frontiers Press 2017
KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand writers authors Pat White literature literary biography biographies memoir Peter Hooper
Flyboys: The Final Secret of the Air War in the Pacfic
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Aurum Press 2003
KEYWORDS: Pacific war military history biography George Bush missing persons Chichi Jima
Churchill the Writer: His Life as a Man of Letters
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Hutchinson 1992
KEYWORDS: Winston Churchill literary biography
Van Gogh and Gauguin: Electric Arguments and Utopian Dreams
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Westview 2001
KEYWORDS: Van Gogh Paul Gaugin biography art history
The Transportation, Escape and Pardoning of Mary Bryant (nee Broad)
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Angus and Robertson 1963
KEYWORDS: Mary Bryant Broad historical biography
The Last Kaiser: William the Impetuous
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Phoenix Press 2000
KEYWORDS: Kaiser William II biography Germany Prussia history world war one
Amongst Ghosts: Memories and Thoughts of a New Zealand-Chinese Family
Super octavo stapled wrappers (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: Learning Media 1992
KEYWORDS: Chinese Kiwi family memoir history biography New Zealand
Lucretius
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1965
KEYWORDS: Lucretius Roman poet literary biography criticism
A Man of Integrity: A Biography of Sir Clifton Webb
SIGNED BY AUTHOR 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 costs
PUBLISHER: The Dunmore Press 1979
KEYWORDS: signed Sir Clifton Webb New Zealand political biography
The Message of Igor Strawinsky [Stravinsky]
Small 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 costs
PUBLISHER: Boosey & Hawkes 1953
KEYWORDS: Igor Stravinsky composer biography
Reading the Rocks: How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life
Super octavo hardcover (near FINE) 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: Bloomsbury 2017
KEYWORDS: history of geology Victorian geologists biography fossils
Gay-Lussac: Scientist and Bourgeois
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1978
KEYWORDS: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac scientist biography history of science
For Others With Love: A Story of Early Sisters and Methodist Deaconesses
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Baker Family Publishing 2007
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Methodist church history biography
Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics
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 costs
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 1993
KEYWORDS: women mystics biography European mysticism history
I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America
Quarto 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: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 1989
KEYWORDS: b&w photography photographic portraits influential black American women history biography African Americans
C.L.R. James: A Life
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Pantheon Books 2001
KEYWORDS: Cyril Lionel Robert C.L.R. James literary political biography Black Power movement
Bloom's Modern and Critical Views: Jane Austen
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Chelsea House 2004
KEYWORDS: Jane Austen literary criticism history biography
Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press
KEYWORDS: vladimir nabokov biography memoir