Books - "biography"
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Sidney Bechet: The Wizard of Jazz
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Da Capo Press 1996
KEYWORDS: Sidney Bechet music biography Jazz musicians soloists saxophonists clarinet players New Orleans history
Dancers of To-Day: Rowena Jackson and Philip Chatfield
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: A. & C. Black Ltd 1958
KEYWORDS: Rowena Jackson Philip Chatfield dance biography ballet dancers black and white photographs New Zealand
Hans Holbein
Quarto hardcover (near FINE); 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Reaktion Books 1997
KEYWORDS: Hans Holbein the Younger Renaissance artists biography painter art history illustrations in colour and black and white
Song by Song: The Lives and Work of 14 Great Lyric Writers
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Ross Anderson 1984
KEYWORDS: song lyrics songwriters lyricists music biography commentary Cole Porter Noel Coward Stephen Sondheim
ED SHEERAN
Super octavo softcover (near FINE); 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 costs
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2018
KEYWORDS: Ed Sheeran pop music biography musicians singers
AC/DC: Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Orion Books 2012
KEYWORDS: AC/DC rock biography music musicians bands
Austerlitz
FIRST EDITION, octavo, maroon heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginatd prelims + 415pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light foxing & soiling to page edges, light soiling to eps) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing to edges, light chafing & moderate soiling)
PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton 2001
KEYWORDS: first editions war history Jacques Austerlitz kindertransports children biography biographies memoirs
Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons
FIRST EDITION, octavo, maroon faux leather boards, gilt lettering to black spine & front board, xxv + 229pp, illus, VG (light bruising to board edges & extrems, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (moderate bruising & chipping/tearing to edges, prev. bookseller's label to front flap)
PUBLISHER: Feral House 1999
KEYWORDS: first editions Jack Parsons biography biographies memoir literature magick magic esoteric
In Dark Places: The Confessions of Teina Pora and an Ex-Cop's Fight for Justice
INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY TEINA PORA (UNCOMMON), super octavo, illus light card wrappers with french flaps, 240pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate scuffing & creasing to spine & cover extrems & edges, light chafing, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover, light to moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, moderate water staining to top edges of first 11 pages, sl cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Paul Little Books 2016
KEYWORDS: signed Teina Pora New Zealand true crime justice law legal biography biographies wrongful imprisonment convictions homicide murder Susan Burdett
The Counterfeit Traitor
Octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained red, frontispiece, 285pp, illus/photos, VG (sl fading & bruising to spine extrems, sl fading to spine, minor tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to spine extrems- minor archival tape repair, 2x moderate closed tearing to top edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling)
PUBLISHER: Frederick Muller 1958
KEYWORDS: Eric Erickson ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 espionage spies biography biographies allied forces
The Gambling Man
SCARCE, octavo, illus light card wrappers, red & black lettering to spine, 576pp, illus/photos, VG- (moderate creasing to spine & covers, 3cm closed tear to top edge of rear cover, light to moderate chafing & soiling to covers, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, moderate cracking to gutters sporadically throughout)
PUBLISHER: Polynesian Press 1991
KEYWORDS: Australia horse racing equine biography biographies memoir Bill Waterhouse