Books - "biography"
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Notes of a War Correspondent
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: Charles Scribner's Sons 1910
KEYWORDS: life lives military biography war wartime 19th century
Ruth Bernhard: Between Art & Life
Sq 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: Chronicle Books 2000
KEYWORDS: Ruth Bernhard life lives artist biography art
The Royal Air Force: A Personal Experience
Signed by author. 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: Ian Allan 2001
KEYWORDS: 20th century military biography life lives aviation air force
Fangio: The Life Behind the Legend
Ex-library. 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: Virgin Books 2003
KEYWORDS: Juan Manuel Fangio Grand Prix life lives sports biography
Alf Francis: Racing Mechanic
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: G. T. Foulis & Co. 1966
KEYWORDS: Alf Francis life lives motorsports motor sports cars car automobile biography
African Experience
Signed & inscribed by author. 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: R. Trevor Howells 1994
KEYWORDS: life lives biography military history New Zealand
My Early Life: A Roving Commission
First edition, second state (12 works by the same author listed, front board blank). Octavo, red cl boards, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., plates; 392 pp.; VG (light soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light to moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges, eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscr to fr pastedown & ffep; some tanning & foxing throughout).
PUBLISHER: Thornton Butterworth 1930
KEYWORDS: life lives biography autobiography memoir Winston Churchill social history 19th 20th century
Coming Clean: One Man's Struggle to Overcome a Life of Addiction and Crime
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: Real Film and Publishing 2017
KEYWORDS: crime addiction life lives biography autobiography memoir
Bad Manners
Octavo, illus yellow stapled light card wrappers, black lettering to wrappers, 52pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing/curling & soiling to wrappers, sl peeling to bottom 1cm of wrappers, sl foxing & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: S T Publishing 1993
KEYWORDS: Bad Manners music biography biographies skinheads Doug Trendle Buster Bloodvessel punk ska
William Ings: Early Settler & Baptist Layman: A Biography
SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, octavo, illus stapled light card wrappers, black lettering to front wrapper, unpaginated prelims + 82pp + footnotes to rear, illus/photos, VG+ (light rubbing & soiling to wrappers, light foxing & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Natalie Fraser-Wood 1989
KEYWORDS: signed history New Zealand early settlers pioneers biography biographies memoir William Ings family
Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life
OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF BRIAN MOLOUGHEY Super octavo, white light card wrapper, red and black lettering to spine, illus to cover, unpaginated prelims + 755pp, illus/photos, VG+ ( light scuffing to spine extrems, light scuffing and soiling to wrapper, light soiling and chaffing to page edges, light creasing to front wrapper and eps, prev. owner's name [Brian Moloughey] in ink to half title page),
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 2016
KEYWORDS: Walter Benjamin history philosophy Europe critic culture German biography
The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton: With and Essay on the Rowley Poems
2 VOLUME SET. Super octavo, mustard buckram boards, black lettering to spines, occasional decoration to chapter headers, vol 1 cvii+379pp, vol 2 xlvi+346pp, VG (light tanning/soiling & bruising to spines, minor scuffing & soiling to boards of vol 1- moderate to vol 2, light soiling and foxing to page edges, light foxing to eps, very light foxing throughout, occasional pencil annotations).
PUBLISHER: AMS Press 1968
KEYWORDS: Thomas Chatterton poetry biography UK Britain collected works poems literature
The Terrible Ones: A Complete History of 32 Battalion (2 Vol Boxed Set)
HEAVY 2 VOL SET, IN SLIPCASE, super octavo, brown heavy boards, white lettering to spine, camo pattern to eps, 1269pp total, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl rubbing to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling) in slipcase, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Zebra Press 2012
KEYWORDS: military history 32 battalion terrible ones South Africa army African buffalo soldiers biography
Reputations
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, red cl boards, spine lettered in black; illus., maps; 327 pp.; VG (light to moderate soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems w light to moderate chipping; light to moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges, esp & prelims/terminals; prev ownership inscr to ffep; some foxing & pencil annotation throughout).
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1928
KEYWORDS: First World War One I 1 life lives biography autobiography memoir history 20th century milirary
Thomas Potts of Canterbury: Colonist and Conservationist
Super octavo, illus. light card covers; illus., photos, plates; 328 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; sl soiling to page edges; bookseller's sticker to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Otago University Press 2020
KEYWORDS: early New Zealand history Canterbury Thomas Potts colonial colonisation colonization life lives biography
China and the Vocation of History in the Twentieth Century: A Personal Memoir
Provenance of Brian Moloughney. Super octavo, blue cl boards, spine lettered in silver gilt, character to front board in blind; plates; xxxviii + 270 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards; light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2010
KEYWORDS: China Chinese 20th century intellectual history life lives memoir biography autobiography sinologists historiography
Beastie Boys Book
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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 2018
KEYWORDS: hip hop rap music entertainment bands Beastie Boys biography
The Exile
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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1938
KEYWORDS: Pearl Buck literature literary biography memoir history
Miles Davis: The Definitive 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Thunder's Mouth Press 2007
KEYWORDS: jazz music musicians Miles Davis biography entertainment
Reremoana Hakiwai
SIGNED BY AUTHOR, imperial 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 cost
PUBLISHER: Central Hawke's Bay Printers and Publishers 1981
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa NZ history Maori te ao Reremoana Hakiwai Hawke's Bay biography