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$40.00
3d3/20

Caesar of the Skies: The Life Story of Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith


SHEIL, Flying Officer BEAU & SIMPSON, COLIN

FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue cloth boards, dark blue lettering to spine, x + 202pp + illus to rear, VG- (spine cocked, moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, light to moderate soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing & soiling to page edges & eps, gift inscription in ink to front pastedown, moderate foxing to prelims & sporadically throughout, moderate cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Cassell 1937

KEYWORDS: first editions military history biography biographies memoir Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith

$30.00
xxene221076

Niels Bohr's Times, In Physics, Philosophy, and Polity


PAIS, ABRAHAM

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: Clarendon Press 1991

KEYWORDS: Niels Bohr nuclear physics history biography

$24.50
xxese221129

Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes


SIMMONS, SYLVIE

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: Helter Skelter Publishing 2002

KEYWORDS: serge gainsbourg songwriter music french biography

$30.00
xxewe221157

Art Sex Music


FANNI TUTTI, COSEY

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: Faber & Faber

KEYWORDS: cosey fanni tutti art artist memoir biography musician

$22.50
xx116pol221204

Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams


TOSCHES, NICK

UK FIRST EDITION, MUSIC CRITIC TREVOR REEKIE'S COPY, 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: Martin Secker & Warburg 1992

KEYWORDS: UK first editions Dean Martin music singers crooners biography biographies

$16.50
xx116pol221212

El Sid: Saint Vicious


DALTON, DAVID

OWNERSHIP OF MUSIC CRITIC TREVOR REEKIE, 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: St Martin's Griffin 1998

KEYWORDS: Sid Vicious punk music biography biographies memoir rock Sex Pistols

$27.50
xx117pol221214

The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley


NASH, ALANNA

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: Aurum Press 2003

KEYWORDS: first editions music rock and roll stars Elvis Presley Colonel Tom Parker biography

$18.50
xx117pol221218

Hey Ho Let's Go: The Story of The Ramones


TRUE, EVERETT

OWNERSHIP OF MUSICIAN TREVOR REEKIE, 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: Omnibus Press 2005

KEYWORDS: rock music musicians bands The Ramones biography biographies memoir

$16.50
xx120pol221257

Factory: The Story of a Record Label


MIDDLES, MICK

OWNERSHIP OF MUSIC CRITIC TREVOR REEKIE, 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: Virgin Books 2009

KEYWORDS: music history Factory Records record labels biography

$35.00
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Richthofen: Beyond the Legend of the Red Baron


KILDUFF, PETER

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: Arms and Armour Press 1995

KEYWORDS: military history ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war fighter pilots German Germany The Red Baron Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen biography

$40.00
3d2/47

Rolling With the Stones


WYMAN, BILL & HAVERS, RICHARD

Heavy lg quarto, illus glossy boards, white lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 512pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (minor tanning to spine, light creasing to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Dorling Kindersley 2002

KEYWORDS: rock music bands musicians The Rolling Stones history biography autobiography Bill Wyman

$45.00
3d2/58

Kepler


CASPAR, MAX & HELLMAN, C DORIS (Trans & Ed)

FIRST EDIITON, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 401pp, VG (moderate soiling to boards, minor rubbing to board edges/extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owners name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, minor fading & scuffing to spine, moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate tanning)

PUBLISHER: Abelard-Schuman 1959

KEYWORDS: first editions Johannes Kepler astronomy science history biography physics

$100.00
3e5/1

The Life and Times of Sir Julius von Haast: Explorer, Geologist, Museum Builder


VON HAAST, H F

LACKS D/W, super octavo, blue buckram boards, orange lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxi + 1142pp, folding maps to rear, VG+ (sl fading to spine, sl rubbing to extrems, minor tanning & soiling to page edges, sl tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional sl cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: H F von Haast 1948

KEYWORDS: New Zealand early settlers pioneers Sir Julius von Haast biography biographies memoir

$22.50
xx125pol221300

The Secret of the Sierra Madre: The Man Who Was B Traven


WYATT, WILL

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: Doubleday & Company 1980

KEYWORDS: literature literary B Traven biography

$30.00
xx126pol221302

Huxley in Hollywood


DUNAWAY, DAVID KING

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: Harper & Row 1989

KEYWORDS: literature literary biography memoir Aldous Huxley first editions

$20.00
xx126pol221306

Malcolm Lowry: A Biography


DAY, DOUGLAS

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: Oxford University Press 1984

KEYWORDS: biography memoir biographies Malcolm Lowry literature literary

$32.50
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The Illustrated Red Baron: The Life and Times of Manfred von Richthofen


KILDUFF, PETER

Quarto 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: Cassell & Co 2000

KEYWORDS: German fighter pilots Baron von Richthofen biography biographies memoir Red Baron luftwaffe military history

$60.00
3e5/31

Sir William Jardine: A Life in Natural History


JACKSON, CHRISTINE E & DAVIS, PETER

Super octavo, illus heavy boards, green & black lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 244pp, illus, VG (moderate fading to board edges, minor chafing & soiling to boards & spine, light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Leicester University Press 2001

KEYWORDS: natural history historians biography biographies memoir Sir William Jardine

$40.00
3e4/1

A Talent to Survive: The Wartime Exploits of Lt-Col Richard Lowther Broad, MC, Legion d'Honneur, Croix de Guerre


WOODS, REX

Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 205pp, illus/photos, VG+ (spine sl rubbed/bruised, sl tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, prev. owner's fully adhesive covering to covers- tidy application)

PUBLISHER: William Kimber & Co 1982

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 pows prisoners of war escape stories biography biographies memoir Richard Lowther Broad Seaforth Highlanders

$75.00
3e4/7

Hans Krebs: Architect of Intermediary Metabolism 1933-1937, Volume II


HOLMES, FREDERIC LAWRENCE

THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 481pp, illus, VG+ (sl chafing to boards, prev. owner's name [David Galloway] in ink to ffep with inscription) in d/w, VG (moderate fading to spine, light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling, minor general wrinkling)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1993

KEYWORDS: medical Hans Kreb biography memoir biochemistry history

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