Books - "biography"
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Sir Bob Charles: The Biography, Limited Commemorative Edition - 2020
SIGNED, LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#113/1963) (SIGNED BY BOB CHARLES). Quarto illus heavy board, white lettering on spine, frontispiece, xvii + 311pp + [4], illus/photos, VG+ (slight bruising to spine + extrems, slight bruising and chaffing to boards, slight tanning to page edges).
PUBLISHER: Hope Publishing LTD 2020
KEYWORDS: golf New Zealand NZ biography Sir Bob Charles sport history limited numbered signed
Safer Than a Known Way: One Man's Epic Struggle Against Japanese and Jungle
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, green cl boards, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., plates; 224; VG+ (light to moderate soiling to boards, light to moderate burising to edges & extrems with moderate chipping, esp to lwr spine extrem; light soiling to pg edges, light tanning to prelims & terminals); in d/w G (moderate soiling & rubbing, heavy bruising to edges & extrems with heavy chipping, lg segement torn out to front cover & lwr spine; some foxing).
PUBLISHER: Odhams Press 1958
KEYWORDS: ww2 Second World War Two 2 USA soldier life lives memoir biography autobiography war wartime first edition
White Coolie
Octavo, blue cl boards, spine & front board lettered in black; frontis.; x + 303; VG (light soiling to boards, light to moderate burising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges, prev ownership inscription in pen to ffep); in d/w VG- (light soiling & rubbing, moderate bruising to edges & extrems with heavy chipping & tearing, price clipped).
PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1947
KEYWORDS: Ronald Hastain ww2 Second World War 2 two life lives soldier officer biography memoir autobiography war wartime
Patriots and Scoundrels: Behind Enemy Lines in Wartime Greece, 1943-44
Super octavo, blue card boards, spine lettered in gilt; photos; xviii + 172; VG+ (light soiling to boards, moderate burising to edges & extrems; light soiling & foxing to pg edges); in d/w VG (light soiling, foxing & rubbing, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Hyland House 1997
KEYWORDS: John Ponder ww2 World War Two Second Greece life lives biography memoir Greek war wartime
Sweet is War
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, red buckram boards, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., plates; x + 100; VG (light soiling to boards, light to moderate burising to edges & extrems; light to moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges, prev bookseller's label pasted to ffep, light to moderate tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals); in d/w VG (light soiling & rubbing, moderate bruising to edges & extrems with moderate chipping, some archival repairs, light tanning & foxing).
PUBLISHER: Gerald Duckworth & Co. 1954
KEYWORDS: Malcolm Munthe life lives memoir biography autobiography war wartime soldier ww2 Second World War 2 Two
Pontano: Poet and Prime Minister
Super octavo, red cl boards, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., illus.; photos; xii + 426; VG+ (light soiling to boards, light to moderate burising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges); in d/w VG (light soiling & rubbing, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems with curling).
PUBLISHER: Duckworth 1991
KEYWORDS: Carol Kidwell Pontano Italy Italian politics life lives biography poetry
The Life of David Hume
FIRST EDITION. Super octavo, cream buckram boards, spine lettered in gilt; frontis.; xx + 683; VG (light to moderate soiling to boards, light to moderate burising to edges & extrems w some chipping; light soiling & foxing to pg edges, bookplate to fr pastedown); in d/w VG- (light to moderate soiling & rubbing, heavy bruising to edges & extrems w heavy chipping & tearing, esp to lwr spine & top edge to fr cover)
PUBLISHER: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1954
KEYWORDS: David Hume 18th eighteenth century philosophy British Scottish Scotland first edition life lives biography
Our Italian Front
First edition. Octavo, blue buckram boards, spine lettered in gilt; panel, decorations & centrepiece in blind to front board; frontis., plates, folding map; x + 203 pp.; VG (moderate soiling to boards, moderate bruising & scuffing to edges & extrems; light to moderate soiling, tanning & foxing to pg edges & eps, light cracking to central & rear gutters, prev owner inscr in pencil to ffep).
PUBLISHER: A. & C. Black 1920
KEYWORDS: ww1 First World War One 1 life lives memoir biography autobiography wartime British Italian Italy military history
Chats on the Cricket Field
FIRST EDITION. Signed & inscribed by author. Sm octavo, green buckram boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt; illus.; xvi + 468 + xxi pp.; VG (moderate soiling & scuffing to boards, moderate bruising to edges & extrems w some chipping; light soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning & foxing to eps; gift inscr to ht recto; some annotations to rear).
PUBLISHER: Merritt & Hatcher (1910)
KEYWORDS: sports sport games cricket sportsmen sportsman profiles lives biography
Order in Chaos: The Memoirs of General of Panzer Troops, Hermann Balck
Super octavo, illus. card boards; photos; xx + 541 pp.; VG+ (light soiling to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges).
PUBLISHER: University Press of Kentucky 2015
KEYWORDS: ww2 Second World War Two 2 II life lives biography auotbiography memoir