DEL MAR, NORMAN

3 VOL SET, LACKS D/W, super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges of vol 1 stained grey, frontispieces, mixed pagination, illus/photos, VG (moderate scuffing & rubbing to spine & board edges & extrems, light to moderate staining/soiling to boards, light fading to spines, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, occasional sl cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Barrie and Rockliff / Barrie & Jenkins 1962-72

KEYWORDS: Richard Strauss music history musicians classical composers biography biographies memoir

MERRILL, LISA

Tidy ex-library, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxv + 318pp, illus, VG+ (minor library markings, light tape residue to board edges, sl rubbing to extrems, sl foxing & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, minor library markings)

PUBLISHER: The University of Michigan Press 1999

KEYWORDS: Charlotte Cushman gay lesbian history lgbtq stage theatre theater gender portrayal biography

SMYTHE, F S

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiv + 330pp, illus, folding maps to rear, VG (spine cocked, light fading to spine, light bruising to extrems, minor soiling & wrinkling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, light foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to spine, other moderate foxing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1940

KEYWORDS: first editions biography biographies memoir Edward Whymper explorers mountaineering

Brother THOMAS of CELANO & HOWELL, A G FERRERS (Trans)

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, page edges to base of page block deckled, frontispiece with tissue guard, xxiv + 360pp, VG+ (sl rubbing & bruising to extrems, sl fading to spine, sl oiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light tanning to eps, minor foxing to prelims, light cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1908

KEYWORDS: St Saint Francis of Assisi religion religious history saints biography biographies memoir

RICHARDSON, HAL

FIRST EDITION, LACKS D/W, octavo, green heavy boards, black lettering to spine, illus/maps to eps, unpaginated prelims + 189pp, VG+ (minor tanning/fading to spine sl soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, 1cm closed tear to top edge of half title page)

PUBLISHER: Angus and Robertson 1957

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history soldiers Jock McLaren first editions biography biographies memoir ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2

TANGUAY, DANIEL

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 2007

KEYWORDS: biography biographies memoir Leo Strauss philosophy

TRYNKA, PAUL

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: Sphere 2010

KEYWORDS: David Bowie rock music musicians biography biographies memoir

DI ROBILANT, ANDREA

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: Atlantic Books 2018

KEYWORDS: literature literary biography biographies memoir Ernest Hemingway

LEE, HERMIONE

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: Faber & Faber 2020

KEYWORDS: literature literary biography biographies memoir Tom Stoppard playwrights

BUCKNELL, KATHERINE

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: Chatto & Windus 2024

KEYWORDS: literature literary biography biographies memoir Christopher Isherwood

SPURLING, HILARY

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PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton 2017

KEYWORDS: literature literary biography biographies memoir Anthony Powell

COOPER, ARTEMIS

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: John Murray 2016

KEYWORDS: literature literary biography biographies memoir Elizabeth Jane Howard

REES, LAURENCE

Super octavo softcover (VG) minor underlining in ink & soiling; 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: Viking / Penguin Random House 2020

KEYWORDS: military war history ww2 2nd second world war two ii 2 Adolf Hitler Josef Stalin biography biographies

THE CRUMP BROTHERS

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: Penguin Random House New Zealand 2022

KEYWORDS: Barry Crump literary biography New Zealand family memoir Crump brothers New Zealanders

ALEXANDER, JOHN T.

IN SLIPCASE, imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in slipcase (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: Folio Society 1999

KEYWORDS: Catherine the Great biography Russian history Queens Imperial Russia Folio Society Enlightenment Women

ROCHE, STANLEY

LACKS D/W Super 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: Oxford University Press 1979

KEYWORDS: biography Grace Morton Stanley Roche New Zealand memoir

GAAR, GILLIAN G & ONO, YOKO (preface)

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: Blandford 1993

KEYWORDS: Music rock & roll history women female musicians biography Gillian G Gaar Yoko Ono pop

JARA, JOAN

EX LIBRARY 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: Ticknor & Fields 1984

KEYWORDS: Music biography Victor Jara Joan memoir thatre activism communism communist Chilean poets singer songwriters

ASCHER, CAROL

LACKS D/W super 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: Beacon Press 1981

KEYWORDS: Simone De Beauvoir biography Carol Ascher writers authors philosophers feminists literature literary

GOEBEL, PARRIS & O'CONNOR, TRACY

SLIGHT WATER DAMAGE/WRINKLING TO REAR 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: Mary Egan Publishing 2018

KEYWORDS: Parris Goebel autobiography biography memoir dance hip hop New Zealanders Royal Family New Zealand Kiwi Kiwis