UNKNOWN

READING COPY OR REBIND, LACKS SPINE, FRONTIS & PRELIMS, octavo, marbled heavy boards half bound in leather with blind decoration, marbled page edges, vignette, 716pp + 44pp supplement, folding table near rear, illus, G- (missing spine, front board & eps detached but present, moderate to heavy scuffing & surface loss to boards & extrems, heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling throughout- text unaffected, occasional minor pencil underlining & markings, rear board & terminals/supplement pgs detached but present, occasional creasing to pages at rear, binding otherwise reasonably sound)

PUBLISHER: London: Published for The Proprietors by John Saunders, 25, Newgate Street, 1835 (?)

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ZELL-RAVENHEART, OBERON; MANOY, LAUREN (ed.)

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PUBLISHER: New Page Books 2004

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FITZSIMONS, PETER

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PUBLISHER: Hachette 2021

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian explorer exploring exploration life lives biography

LORKIN, LINN

Warmly inscribed & signed. 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: Steele Roberts 2022

KEYWORDS: New Zealand 20th century music life lives biography autobiography memoir

COLLIS, JOHN STEWART

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: Penguin 1988

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BAKEWELL, SARAH

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: Vintage 2017

KEYWORDS: Sarah Bakewell life lives literary biography philosophy 20th century existentialism

SMART, ELIZABETH; VAN WART, ALICE (ed.)

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PUBLISHER: Paladin 1992

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MORIARTY, MICHAEL

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PUBLISHER: Polity Press 1991

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GILMORE, MAEVE

Paperback (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: New English Library 1971

KEYWORDS: Maeve Gilmore Mervyn Peake life lives biography memoir

STEVENS, JOHN

Slim 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: Kondansha International 1993

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ANDERSON, JOHN A

Super octavo, turqoise heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/maps/photos, VG+ (minor tanning to page edges, minor cocking to structure of boards, minor scuffing to base of spine and extrems) in d/w, VG+ (minor creasing to edges and extrems) (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Halcyon Press 1996

KEYWORDS: New Zealand hunting Fiordland memoir biography Wapiti John A Anderson

SOLANDER, DANIEL & DUYKER, EDWARD (ed & transl) & TINGBRAND, PER (ed & transl) & FROST, ALAN (fore)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/photos/diagrams, VG+ (minor foxing and soiling to page edges, minor bruising to head of spine and head of rear hinge) in d/w, VG+ (minor creasing to edges and extrems, minor soiling to rear flap) (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Scandinavian University 1995

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BENNETT, MIKE

FIRST EDITION BUT LACKS TITLE PAGE, super octavo, reddish orange heavy boards, white lettering to spine, enclosed ephemera to front eps, illus/maps/photos, VG (moderate scuffing to base of spine, edges and extrems, light foxing and minor tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (light fading to spine, light creasing to edges and extrems, minor chipping to head of rear flap, light bruising to head of spine, minor soiling to upper edges of flaps) (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Reed 1979

KEYWORDS: First Edition hunting deer New Zealand biography

FAGAN, ANDREW

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to front wrapper and spine, illus/photos, VG+ (minor tanning to upper page edges, minor scuffing to edges) (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Swirly World Press 2024

KEYWORDS: biography travel voyages boats Swirly World

DE BEAUVOIR, SIMONE & SIMONS, MARGARET A (ed) & TIMMERMAN, MARYBETH (ed) & MADE, MARY BETH (ed) & LE BON DE BEAUVOIR, SYLVIE

FIRST EDITION, grey heavy boards, gilt and blind lettering to spine with gilt decoration, VG+ (light pen and pencil annotations throughout, light bruising to head and base of spine, minor bruising and scuffing to extrems) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing to edges and extrems and head and base of spine, minor soiling to rear wrapper and rear flap edges, minor 1.2cm open tear to lower edge of front flap, minor soiling to spine) (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: University of Illinois Press 2004

KEYWORDS: First Edition philosophy Simone de Beauvoir memoir biography

WEBER, BRUCE

Imperial octavo, illus heavy boards in loose protective cover, illus/photos, Near FINE (prev. bookseller's labe to rear board - photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Bulfinch Press 1997

KEYWORDS: biography memoirs Bruce Weber art photography

CHAPMAN, ROGER G (Ed) & DUVAL, CLEVELAND T (Ed) & DARWIN, CHARLES

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED NUMBERED, IN SLIPCASE, folio, dark navy blue heavy boards half bound in black leather with raised bands to spine, gilt lettering and tooling to front board, gilt lettering and decorations to spine, marbled eps, frontispiece, XII + 376pp, illus/diagrams- not counted presumesd all present, VG+ (sl soiling to leatherwork, light foxing to page edges & prelims) in VG+ slipcase (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Nova Pacifica 1982

KEYWORDS: First Edition Limited Numbered biography memoirs Charles Darwin science biology philosophy New Zealand

GEKOSKI, RICK

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, black heavy boards, white lettering and decoration to front cover, white lettering to spine, VG+ (minor foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (minor creasing to edges and extrems)

PUBLISHER: Peribo 2009

KEYWORDS: First Edition Signed by Author Bibliomemoirs memoirs biography

RABY, PETER

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PUBLISHER: Pimlico 2002

KEYWORDS: Peter Raby Alfred Russel Wallace life lives biography naturalist explorer 19th century

WRIGHT, MACHAELLE

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: Perelandra 2019

KEYWORDS: Machaelle Wright life lives memoirs autobiography biography