Books - "biography"
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Jonesy
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED. 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: Craig Printing Co. 1981
KEYWORDS: Norman P H Jones New Zealand life lives biography autobiohraphy
The Four Brontes: The Lives and Works of Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne Bronte
2nd impression. 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 1950
KEYWORDS: Bronte 20th century literature literary history biography life lives
An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo
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: Harper Press 2013
KEYWORDS: Richard Davenport-Hines 20th century Profumo life lives biography
Crusoe's Captain: Being the Life of Woodes Rogers, Seaman, Trade, Colonial Govenor
FIRST EDITION. 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: Odhams Press 1960
KEYWORDS: Woodes Rogers journey voyage exploration captain ship sailing Pacific Ocean life lives biography
Sherpa: Stories of Life and Death from the Forgotten Guardians of Everest
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: Cassell 2022
KEYWORDS: Mount Mt Everest sherpa sherpas life lives biography biographies
Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker
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: John Murray 2017
KEYWORDS: Charles Darwin life lives biography
John Banks: A Biography
Signed by John Banks. 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 1997
KEYWORDS: John Banks Paul Goldsmith life lives biography
John Key: Portrait of a Prime Minister
Signed & inscribed by John Key. 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 2014
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Prime Minister John Key life lives biography
Rasputin
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: Pan Books 2017
KEYWORDS: Rasputin life lives biography
Reach for the Sky
IN SLIPCASE, super octavo, blue cloth & black buckram boards, white lettering & blue decoration to black spine, black & white illus to front board, printed eps, frontispiece, 362pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in slipcase, VG+
PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2017
KEYWORDS: folio society aviation military history Douglas Bader biography memoir
Wellington: The Path to Victory 1769-1814
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 728pp, illus, VG+, in d/w, VG+ (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2013
KEYWORDS: military history Duke of Wellington biography
Bligh: Master Mariner
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: Hachette 2010
KEYWORDS: Captain Bligh history sailors mariner life lives biography Royal Navy
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
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: The Bodley Head 2016
KEYWORDS: Lyndall Roper Martin Luther life lives biography
An Autobiography, or The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Super octavo, illus cl boards, spine lettered in black, 444 pp., VG+, in slipcase, VG+ (light bruising). Photos available on request.
PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2010
KEYWORDS: M K Gandhi life lives biography autobiography Folio Society
My Cricketing Days
FIRST EDITION, sm octavo, white lettering to front wrapper and spine, VG (minor creasing to head of spine, minor scuffing to boards, heavy tanning and moderate foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (loose protective cover, minor losses to d/w with repairs, light soiling to wrappers and spine, light scuffing to hinges and edges of front wrapper, light creasing to wrappers, moderate tanning to upper edges of flaps) (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: William Heinneman 1930
KEYWORDS: First Edition cricket sports history biography memoirs C G Macartney
The Chronicle of W G
NUMBERED AND LIMITED FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND TWO OF GRACE'S RELATIVES, quarto, illus light card wrappers, black lettering to front wrapper and spine, illus title page, 1102pp, illus/photos, VG (light creasing & soiling to spine & wrappers, prev. owner's name in ink to top corner of ffep, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & prelims, moderate crack to gutter of contents page - photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians 1998
KEYWORDS: cricket biography memoirs W G Grace
The Thought of Thomas Aquinas
Octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to front wrapper and spine, VG+ (previous owner's marking to fep, minor scuffing to extrems) (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Clarendon 1993
KEYWORDS: biography memoirs Thomas Aquinas religion philosophy theology
Russell's Metaphysical Logic
Super octavo, black light card wrappers, dark grey, yellow and white lettering to front wrapper, white and yellow lettering to spine, VG+ (prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear - photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: CSLI Publications 1999
KEYWORDS: metaphysics physics science biography memoirs Bertrand Russell logic
Lewis Carroll: Photographer: The Princeton University Library Albums
Imperial octavo, dark green heavy boards quarter bound in dark red cloth boards, gilt silver lettering, tooling and stamped laid in plate to front board, gilt silver lettering to spine, illus/photos, VG+ (minor fading to tooling and lettering of spine) (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press & Princeton University Library 2002
KEYWORDS: Lewis Carroll biography memoirs art photography
Future Jaw-Clap: The Primitive Art Group and Braille Collective Story
Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, yellow lettering to front wrapper, black lettering to spine, illus/photos, Near Fine (photos available on request)
PUBLISHER: Te Herenga Waka University Press 2024
KEYWORDS: music musicians biography memoirs Primitive Art Group Braille Collective