Books - "biography"
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Debussy: A Painter in Sound
Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in 3/4 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: Faber & Faber 2018
KEYWORDS: classical music composers biography biographies memoir history Debussy
James Joyce: A Passionate Exile
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: Orion 2000
KEYWORDS: James Joyce literature literary biography memoir biographies
Chopin's Piano: A Journey Through Romanticism
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PUBLISHER: Allen Lane / Penguin 2018
KEYWORDS: Frederic Chopin classical music composers preludes biography history memoir
Winston S Churchill: Volume I Companion; Part 1 1874-1896 & Part 2 1896-1900
FIRST EDITION, TWO VOLUME SET, super octavo, red buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine, upper edges dyed red, mixed pagination, VG+ (slight scuffing & rubbing to boards, spines & edges, slight bruising to spines, v slight soiling to page edges & pastedowns, vertical crease to spine of volume 1) in d/w VG (light chipping to edges, slight soiling & tanning to jackets, 1cm & 2cm closed tear to volume 1 jacket hinge)
PUBLISHER: Heinemann 1967
KEYWORDS: winston s churchill memoir biography history britain british randolph s churchill
The Adventures of John Renton
Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to boards, frontispiece, vii + 95pp, illus, VG (light bruising & scuffing to board edges & spine, slight soiling to boards, previous owner's name in ink to front pastedown, moderate to heavy foxing to pages)
PUBLISHER: Kirkwall: W R Macintosh, The Kirkwall Press, The Orcadian Office 1935
KEYWORDS: john renton solomon islands polynesia colonial shipwreck sailor biography
Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life
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: HarperPerennial 1998
KEYWORDS: Andrew Wyeth art artists biography biographies memoir
History Play: The Lives and Afterlife of Christopher Marlowe
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: HarpeCollins 2004
KEYWORDS: literature literary history biography biographies memoir Christopher Marlowe
Born Naked
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: Key Porter Books 1993
KEYWORDS: biography memoir biographies Farley Mowat entertainment entertainers
Gypsy: The Art of the Tease
Ex-library, 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: Yale University Press 2009
KEYWORDS: Gypsy Rose Lee history biography biographies memoir
Pushkin: The Man and His Age
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: Macmillan 1994
KEYWORDS: Alexander Pushkin Russian literature literary biographies biography memoir
Dr Quicksilver 1660-1742: The Life and Times of Thomas Dover
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: Andrew Melrose 1955
KEYWORDS: Dr Thomas Dover Quicksilver history biography memoir medical treatments
William H Pickering: America's Deep Space Pioneer (The NASA History Series)
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: NASA 2007
KEYWORDS: WIlliam H Pickering NASA space programme history biography memoir deep space travel
The Philosopher's I : Autobiography and the Search for the Self
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, x + 217pp, VG+ (minor bruising & scuffing to board corners, minor fading to rear board, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press 2006
KEYWORDS: first editions philosophy literature biography autobiography theory criticism history
Jottings of a Gentleman: Eyre Evans of Oamaru
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, imperial ocatvo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 266pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sm stain to fore-edge of page block)
PUBLISHER: Mono Unlimited 2007
KEYWORDS: signed Corry Skilbeck New Zealand history Oamaru biography memoir Eyre Evans pioneers early settlers colonists colonialism
Maurice Gee: Life and Work
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, black buckrma boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 543pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, sl chafing to boards, light foxing & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (in plastic protective cover- easiy removed if desired, light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2015
KEYWORDS: signed Rachel Barrowman New Zealand writers authors literature literary biography biographies memoir Maurice Gee
Margaret Thatcher, Volume One: The Grocer's Daughter
THIS VOL ONLY, 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: Jonathan Cape 2000
KEYWORDS: Margaret Thatcher history politics political biographies memoir biography Conservative party tory tories prime ministers
U and I: A True Story
Octavo softcover (VG) has a smoky aroma; 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: Granta Books / Penguin 1992
KEYWORDS: literature literary biography memoir biographies John Updike Nicholson Baker
Benjamin Britten: A Biography
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 & Faber 1993
KEYWORDS: music composers Benjamin Britten classical biography memoir biographies
Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era of White Hopes
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: Robson Books 1992
KEYWORDS: sport boxing biography memoir biographies boxers Papa Jack Johnson history
Richard Tauber
LACKS D/W, octavo hardcover (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: Art & Educational Publishers 1949
KEYWORDS: music entertainment biographies memoir biography Richard Tauber history