HOLMES, RICHARD

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PUBLISHER: BBC Books 2005

KEYWORDS: Winston Churchill political biography history BBC tv programme

ALEXANDER, ALISON

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PUBLISHER: Tasmanian Historical Research Association 1987

KEYWORDS: Van Diemen's Land Australian Tasmanian colonial history historical biography women Tasmania Australia

ASHLEY, MIKE

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PUBLISHER: Carroll & Graf / Avalon 2001

KEYWORDS: Algernon Blackwood literary biography

HAMER, EMILY

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PUBLISHER: Cassell 1996

KEYWORDS: British lesbian political history historical biography queer women essays

JOURDAN, PHILIP

FIRST EDITION, ex-school library, octavo, blue leather boards, gilt lettering/decoration & raised bands to spine, gilt decoration to borders of front & rear board, gilt school emblem to front board, marbled page edges & eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, 293pp, illus, VG (usual library markings, light to moderate scuffing/rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems, light to moderate chafing to boards, mior tanning to page edges, school presentation plate to front pastedown, moderate to heavy foxing throughout, occasional light cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: John Lane the Bodley Head 1911

KEYWORDS: first editions leather bindings Cecil Rhodes biography biographies memoir politics political history historical

SISTREN & FORD SMITH, HONOR (ed)

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PUBLISHER: The Women's Press 1986

KEYWORDS: jamaica jamaican history memoir biography women's collective feminist feminism

YUTANG, LIN

Super octavo, blue buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, xii + 370pp, illus, vG (light rubbing to extrems, light fading to spine, light to moderate soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to base of ffep, occasional light foxing & staining to pages throughout) in d/w, G+ (v heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges & spine- some patches of moderate loss, heavy creasing to flaps, minor tanning & foxing/soiling)

PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1948

KEYWORDS: history historical biography biographies memoir Su Tungpo literary

HALL, NORMAN S

Octavo, blue buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, silver gilt lettering & aviation illus to front board, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims + 191pp, illus, VG+ (minor chafing & soiling to boards, sl soiling to page edges, distributor's label to front pastedown)

PUBLISHER: Arno Press 1972

KEYWORDS: aviation history biography Frank Luke

ROGER, JACQUES & BONNEFOI, SARAH LUCILLE (Trans) & WILLIAMS, L PEARCE (Ed)

Super octavo, red heavy boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, xvii + 492pp, illus, VG+ (sl rubbing & bruising to extrems, sl foxing & soiling to top page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate fading to spine & rear cover, light wrinkling at spine area, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1997

KEYWORDS: natural history Georges Buffon naturalists biography nature

ROVELLI, CARLO & ROSENBERG, MARION LIGNANA (Trans)

Super octavo, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to black spine, frontispiece, xix + 209pp, illus, VG+ (ghost lettering to front board from jacket, light bruising & fading to board edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing, prev. bookseller's label to rear)

PUBLISHER: Westholme Publishing 2011

KEYWORDS: ancient history popular science biography Anaximander Greek philosophy philosophers

DALI, SALVADOR & PARINAUD, ANDRE & SALEMSON, HAROLD J (Trans)

FIRST EDITION, ex-library, super octavo, cream heavy boards, red gilt lettering to spine & front board, 300pp, illus/photos, VG (usual library markings, moderate soiling & tape staining to spine & boards/edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps with moderate adhesive staining also, sl foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, moderate tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: W H Allen 1976

KEYWORDS: art biography biographies autobiographies memoir artists Salvador Dali first editions

CARTWRIGHT, DAVID E

Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxiv + 575pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, prev. bookseller's label to rear, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2010

KEYWORDS: Arthur Schopenhaur philosophy philosophers history biography biographies memoir

GIBRAN, KAHLIL & GIBRAN, JEAN

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PUBLISHER: Avenel Books 1981

KEYWORDS: Kahlil Gibran literary biography memoir autobiography

BAILEY, KATHRYN

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PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1998

KEYWORDS: Anton Webern composer biography music history

OSBORNE, ROGER

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PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1999

KEYWORDS: Jacques Deprat geologist biography fraud

WILLEY, BASIL

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PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1963

KEYWORDS: literary essays criticism biography Francis W Newman Tennyson J A Froude Mark Rutherford John Morley

CARTER, WILLIAM C

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PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2006

KEYWORDS: Marcel Proust literary biography queer LGBTQIA

ESCOTT, JOHN & MERRITT, GEORGE & MACEWEN, WILLIAM

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PUBLISHER: Little, Brown 2004

KEYWORDS: Hank Williams country music singer biography

PURNELL, SONIA

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PUBLISHER: Virago Press 2019

KEYWORDS: Virginia Hall world war two spy biography history female spies espionage women

HALPERN, IAN

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PUBLISHER: Citadel Press / Kensington Publishing 2003

KEYWORDS: James Taylor music biography singer songwriter musician Carly Simon