Books - "biography"
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Fellini the Artist [Second, Enlarged Edition]
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: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. 1985
KEYWORDS: Federico Fellini Italian film director biography filmography filmmaking cinema
A Winter on the Nile: Florence Nightingale, Gaustave Flaubert and the Temptations of Egypt
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: Windmill Books 2011
KEYWORDS: Gaustave Flaubert Florence Nightingale Egypt Nile travel biography
Fergie
Octavo Hardcover (VG+) signed by Fergie, lacks d/w; 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: Whitcoulls 1976
KEYWORDS: New Zealand, rugby, sport, biography Fergie McCormick
A Spoke in the Wheel: The Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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: SCM Press 1991
KEYWORDS: Dietrich Bonhoeffer German theologian biography world war two history
Bonnie Prince Charlie
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: Unwin Hyman 1988
KEYWORDS: Charles Edward Bonnie Prince Charlie Stuart historical biography British monarchy 18th century history
Good Luck to All the Lads: The Wartime Story of Brian Cox 1939-43
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: J. J. Angerstein & Associates 2008
KEYWORDS: Bran Cox biography military history world war two New Zealand
Let the Wind Speak: Mary de Rachewiltz and Ezra Pound
Super octavo, grey heavy boards, yellow lettering to spine, xvii + 324pp, illus, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: University of Pennsylvania Press 2023
KEYWORDS: literature literary biography biographies memoir Ezra Pound Mary de Rachewiltz
Lady Spy, Gentleman Explorer: The Double Life of Herbert Dyce Murphy
Octavo, illus light card wrappers, red & green lettering to spine, xiv + 407pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate creasing to spine & covers, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover, light tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Jane Curry Publishing 2005
KEYWORDS: biography biographies memoir Australia Australia explorers Herbert Dyce Murphy
Angel Gear: On the Road With Sam Hunt
SIGNED BY SAM HUNT, imperial octavo, turquoise heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims + 115pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading & bruising to spine & board edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges, 'ghost' lettering from Sam Hunt's signature to title page) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Heinemann Reed 1989
KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand Sam Hunt Colin Hogg biography literature poems poetry verse
Making Tracks: The Rise of Blondie
UK FIRST EDITION, quarto, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, illus prelims, 192pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate creasing & fading to spine & covers, minor chafing & soiling to covers, minro tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light soiling to inside covers)
PUBLISHER: Elm Tree Books 1982
KEYWORDS: UK first editions pop music artists singers Blondie Debbie Deborah Harry autobiography biography
Caesar of the Skies: The Life Story of Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue cloth boards, dark blue lettering to spine, x + 202pp + illus to rear, VG- (spine cocked, moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, light to moderate soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing & soiling to page edges & eps, gift inscription in ink to front pastedown, moderate foxing to prelims & sporadically throughout, moderate cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Cassell 1937
KEYWORDS: first editions military history biography biographies memoir Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith
Niels Bohr's Times, In Physics, Philosophy, and Polity
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: Clarendon Press 1991
KEYWORDS: Niels Bohr nuclear physics history biography
Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes
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: Helter Skelter Publishing 2002
KEYWORDS: serge gainsbourg songwriter music french biography
Art Sex Music
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: Faber & Faber
KEYWORDS: cosey fanni tutti art artist memoir biography musician
El Sid: Saint Vicious
OWNERSHIP OF MUSIC CRITIC TREVOR REEKIE, 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: St Martin's Griffin 1998
KEYWORDS: Sid Vicious punk music biography biographies memoir rock Sex Pistols
The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley
FIRST EDITION, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Aurum Press 2003
KEYWORDS: first editions music rock and roll stars Elvis Presley Colonel Tom Parker biography
Factory: The Story of a Record Label
OWNERSHIP OF MUSIC CRITIC TREVOR REEKIE, 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: Virgin Books 2009
KEYWORDS: music history Factory Records record labels biography
Richthofen: Beyond the Legend of the Red Baron
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: Arms and Armour Press 1995
KEYWORDS: military history ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war fighter pilots German Germany The Red Baron Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen biography
Rolling With the Stones
Heavy lg quarto, illus glossy boards, white lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 512pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (minor tanning to spine, light creasing to edges, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Dorling Kindersley 2002
KEYWORDS: rock music bands musicians The Rolling Stones history biography autobiography Bill Wyman
Kepler
FIRST EDIITON, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 401pp, VG (moderate soiling to boards, minor rubbing to board edges/extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owners name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, minor fading & scuffing to spine, moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate tanning)
PUBLISHER: Abelard-Schuman 1959
KEYWORDS: first editions Johannes Kepler astronomy science history biography physics