Books - "biography"
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Star Gazing: The Players in My 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: HaperCollins 2021
KEYWORDS: sport sports sportsmen cricket cricketers life lives biography autobiography memoir
KP: The Autobiography
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 2014
KEYWORDS: Kevin Pieterson cricket cricketer sport sports biography autobiography life lives
Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography
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: The Banner of Truth Trust 1992
KEYWORDS: Jonathan Edwards life lives biography 18th century America
Preservation Hall: Music from the Heart
Imp 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: Bayou Press 1991
KEYWORDS: Louisianna New Orleans Jazz biography life lives
The Tap-Dancing Knife Thrower
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: HaperCollins 2020
KEYWORDS: Paul Hogan Australia history 20th century life lives biography autobiography first edition
Throw out the Lifeline
Octavo softcover (VG+); Photos available on request. 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 McIndoe 1979
KEYWORDS: memoir biography New Zealand Southland literature Joan MacIntosh
Ben Hogan: The Authorised Biography
Octavo softcover (VG+); Photos available on request. 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 2005
KEYWORDS: sports golf biography Ben Hogan James Dodson history golfing
Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World he Made
Super octavo softcover (VG-); Photos available on request. 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: Yellow Jersey 2000
KEYWORDS: sports basketball biography Michael Jordan David Halberstam
Lunar Notes: Zoot Horn Rollo's Captain Beefheart Experience
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, yellow and white lettering to front wrapper and spine, illus half title page, 125pp, illus/photos, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Gonzo 2013
KEYWORDS: biography Captain Beefheart Zoot Horn Rollo eccentric music the Magic Band
G. J. Churchward: A Locomotive Biography
Super octavo, dark green illus light card wrappers, lime green and white lettering to front wrapper and spine, 216pp, illus/photos, VG (light fading to spine, light to moderate creasing & scuffing to extrems, minor chafing/creasing & soiling to wrappers, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, minro foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1975
KEYWORDS: trains locomotive biography G J Churchward history railways industrial transport
My Memoirs: 1878-1918 Ex-Kaiser William II
FIRST EDITION super octavo, dark blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to front boards and spine, gilt motif to front board, unpaginated prelims + 348pp, VG (minor bruising & scuffing to extrems, light wrinkling to spine, minor chafing & soiling to boards, moderate foxing & ligh ttanning/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in pencil to front pastedown, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, occasional sl cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Cassell & Company 1922
KEYWORDS: first edition Kaiser William II Ex-Kaiser memoir biography Germany Prussia emperor WW1 World War I Hohenzollern Dynasty abdication history
The Art of Hanna-Barbera: Fifty Years of Creativity
Folio, white cloth boards, embossed and stamped blind lettering to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, illus front eps, extended frontispiece, illus title page, illus prelims and terminal, xiv + 270pp, illus/cartoons, VG+ (light to moderate foxing to front and rear boards, minimal foxing to feps and terminal, minimal tanning to title page and prelims, gift inscription in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (price clipped flap, 7cm tidy closed tear to rear with tidy tape repair to rear, light to moderate scuffing to upper edge of spine, paper repair to base of spine, minimal creasing to flap folds and spine)
PUBLISHER: Viking Studio Books / Penguin 1989
KEYWORDS: cartoons art history tv television vintage biography Hanna-Barbera
Elvis, The Man in My Backyard
INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, black illus light card wrappers, black/white lettering to front wrapper and spine, v + 199pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl curling to wrappers, sl soiling to page edges, prev. owner's details in ink to inside wrapper)
PUBLISHER: Shirley Connell 2012
KEYWORDS: signed by author Elvis Presley rock music country pop history biography
Memories of The Burma - Thai Railway
Super octavo, stapled green light card wrappers, white lettering to front wrapper, map to inside front wrapper, 23pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffing to spine and minimal creasing & fading)
PUBLISHER: N/D (c.1998)
KEYWORDS: history Thai Thailand biography Burma trains railways military war Japan history
Log of Logs: A Catalogue of Logs, Journals, Shipboard Diaries, Letters, and All Forms of Voyage Narratives, 1788 to 1988, for Australia and New Zealand, and Surrounding Oceans
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, illus red light card wrappers, yellow lettering to front wrapper, white lettering to spine, illus inside wrappers, X + 630pp, illus/photos, VG (faded colour to spine, minimal scuffing to extrems, 4cm closed tear in front hinge, light creasing to rear cover and spine, minimal tanning, soiling and foxing to page edges, gift inscription in ink to inside front wrapper)
PUBLISHER: Roebuck N/D (c.1990s)
KEYWORDS: navy maritime logs ships nautical Australia history biography New Zealand
Log of Logs: Volume Two: A Catalogue of Logs, Journals, Shipboard Diaries, Letters, and All Forms of Voyage Narratives, 1788 to 1993, for Australia and New Zealand, and Surrounding Oceans
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, dark green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus prelims, frontispiece, illus terminals, XII + 608pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, minimal foxing to upper page edges and eps, minimal marking to front pastedown and lower page edges, minimal creasing to page corners from pages 481-496)
PUBLISHER: Roebuck 1993
KEYWORDS: navy maritime logs ships nautical Australia history biography New Zealand
Olly: The Life and Times of Frederick Oliver Robinson 2nd Marquis of Ripon
UK FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, X + 222pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, minimal soiling to upper page edges) in d/w, VG+ (minimal creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Rupert Godfrey 2012
KEYWORDS: UK first edition biography Frederick Oliver Robinson 2nd Marquis of Ripon history
Dambuster-in-Chief: The Life of Air Chief Marshal Sir Ralph Cochrane
Super octavo, denim blue heavy boards, gilt silver lettering to spine, IX + 309pp, illus/photos, VG+ (minimal foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (minimal creasing to extrems)
PUBLISHER: Pen & Sword 2020
KEYWORDS: Royal New Zealand Air Force military aviation Chief Marshal Sir Ralph Cochrane biography Royal Navy WW2 World War II
The Next Vintage: The Babich Family and 100 Years of New Zealand Wine
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY JOE BABICH, super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt decoration to front board, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 220pp, illus/photos, VG+ (minimal tanning and soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to full title page) in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, light soiling, sl creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: David Ling Publishing 2015
KEYWORDS: first edition signed Joe Babich biography wine New Zealand history
Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Religion
Super octavo, illus heavy boards, yellow and white lettering to front board and spine, XVI + 187pp, VG+ (moderate pencil annotations & light highlighting to text, light tanning and foxing to page edges, light foxing to rear eps and terminals)
PUBLISHER: Routledge 2001
KEYWORDS: philosophy religion Ludwig Wittgenstein history biography