Books - "biography"
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Soldier
Ex-library. Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (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: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1976
KEYWORDS: John A Lee life lives military biography autobiography memoir New Zealand
Thomas Cromwell: A Life
FIRST EDITION. Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (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: Allen Lane 2018
KEYWORDS: 16th sixteenth century life lives biography history Thomas Cromwell King
Invasion of the Bastard Cannibals: And Other True Stories of a Southerner beyond the Mason-Dixon
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: Promontory Press 2016
KEYWORDS: life lives biography autobiography memoir memoirs
Brave Companions
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: Simon & Schuster 1992
KEYWORDS: David McCullough essays life lives biography history
The Everest Years: A Climber's Life
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (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: Hodder & Stoughton 1986
KEYWORDS: Chris Bonington life lives mountaineering mountain climbing biography autobiography memoirs
The Brilliant Outsider
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: ABC Books 2017
KEYWORDS: Australian life lives biography George Ingle Finch
Walking in Light
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: Penguin 2009
KEYWORDS: Kelvin Cruickshank life lives biography autobiography memoir
Center Stage: Helen Gahagan Douglas, A Life
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (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: Oxford University Press 1992
KEYWORDS: legislation legislators United States actress actresses life lives biography
The Private World of Jean Giono
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (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: Basil Blackwell 1967
KEYWORDS: W D Redfern Jean Giono life lives literary biography
Elizabeth Fry
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: Macmillan 1981
KEYWORDS: life lives biography Elizabeth Fry
Well Done Leander
FIRST EDITION, octavo, teal heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/maps to eps, illus/photos, VG (photos available on request), in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chipping to edges & spine, moderate tanning/soiling & foxing to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Collins Bros & Co 1971
KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand military history maritime navy naval ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 autobiography biography Jack S Harker Leander cruisers
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
FIRST EDITION, octavo, green buckram boards, black lettering & rule to spine, frontispiece with tissue guard, unpaginated prelims + 512pp + ads to rear, illus, G+ (moderate to heavy scuffing & cracking to front & rear hinges, moderate to heavy soiling & discolouration to spine, moderate soiling to boards, light to moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's ink annotation to front pastedown, minor tanning & foxing/soiling to eps & prelims/terminals, moderate cracking to gutters throughout, minor foxing & soiling to pages throughout) Photos available on request
PUBLISHER: Mother Earth Publishing 1912
KEYWORDS: first editions Alexander Berkman prison diaries incarceration autobiography social philosophy jail penitentiary biography
Wrecked on a Reef or Twenty Months in Auckland Islands
FACSIMILE EDITION, super octavo, white lettering to front board and spine, illus/photos, VG+ (light tanning and minor foxing to page edges, minor fading to upper edges of boards and head of spine, minor scuffing to extrems and bases of hinges) in d/w, VG+ (minor creasing to flaps and front wrapper edges, minor fading to spine) (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Robert Steele 2003
KEYWORDS: Facsimile Edition true story New Zealand memoirs biography Francois Raynal
Rose O'Neil: The Girl Who Loved to Draw
INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, folio, illus light card wrappers with french flaps, black, dark green and pink lettering to front wrapper, black lettering to spine, illus/photos, VG+ (minor bruising to extrems, minor adhesion markings to base of spine and rear wrapper, light marking and minor soiling to rear wrapper, minor soiling to rear hinge) (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Boxing Day 2009
KEYWORDS: art comics women feminism illustrations biography memoirs Rose O'Neil
The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement & Changed Global Black Politics
Very tidy Ex Library (unread), super octavo, dark grey heavy boards, light grey lettering to spine, illus/photos, VG+ (minor adhesion markings to boards, minor Ex Library labelling to fep, minor Ex Library markings to fep, rep, terminal and page edges, minor scratchmarks to rear board) in d/w, VG+ (loose protective cover, minor Ex Library labelling to front wrapper and spine) (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Princeton Univeristy Press 2014
KEYWORDS: biography memoirs politics civil rights activism Marcus Garvey
Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution
Very tidy Ex Library (unread), super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white and dark green lettering to front board, white and black lettering to spine, VG+ (minor Ex Library labelling to front wrapper, spine and fep, minor Ex Library markings to rep and page edges) (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan 2009
KEYWORDS: Che Guevara economics politics Cuba biography socialism
Niey Elias: Explorer and Envoy Extraordinary in High Asia
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red heavy boards, gilt silver lettering to spine, red staining to upper page edges, illus/photos, Near Fine in d/w, VG (minor creasing to wrappers, minor scuffing to upper edges of wrappers, minor 0.8cm open tear to upper edge of front wrapper, light fading to spine, minor fading to upper edge of rear wrapper, minor soiling to base of spine, minor creasing to flaps, minor soiling to rear flap) (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1971
KEYWORDS: First Edition mountaineering Asia biography memoirs Niey Elias
The Life and Correspondence of J.M.W. Turner
Octavo, light yellow heavy boards, black decoration and lettering to spine, illus, VG+ (minor tanning and foxing to page edges, minor marking to lower page edges, minor creasing to head and base of spine, light soiling to edges of boards) in d/w, VG (light creasing to heads and bases of spine and hinges, minor soiling to wrappers, minor scuffing to hinges and extrems, moderate tanning to wrappers, heavy tanning to spine, minor scratchmarking to front wrapper) (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Ward Lock 1970
KEYWORDS: biography memoirs J M W Turner
Acland: More than a Surgeon: The Life of Sir Hugh Acland (1874-1956)
Super octavo, mint green heavy boards, black lettering to front board and spine, illus/photos, VG+ (minor creasing and bruising to extrems, light creasing to heads and bases of hinges and spine) (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Hawthorne Press 2026
KEYWORDS: biography memoirs Sir Hugh Acland
Artists of Wonderland: The Life, Political Cartoons, and Illustrations of Tenniel
FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, plum coloured heavy boards, gilt decoration to front board, gilt lettering to spine, illus, VG+ (minor fading and creasing to head and base of spine and hinges, minor foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (minor creasing to heads and bases of hinges and spine, minor soiling to head of spine, minor marking to front wrapper, minor creasing/rolling to upper edges of wrappers, minor creasing to flaps) (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: University of Virginia Press 2005
KEYWORDS: art illustrations biography Sir John Tenniel