Books - "autobiography"
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Why I Still Carry a Guitar: The Spiritual Journet of Cat Stevens to Yusuf
Super 8vo, pp. [6] + 105; brown cl bds, spine & front board lettered in silver gilt; plates; VG- (sl scuffing & soiling to bds; minor bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; spine heavily cocked).
PUBLISHER: Motivate Publishing 2014
KEYWORDS: Yusuf Islam spiritual spirituality Cat Stevens life lives biography autobiography memoir inspiration motivation
Wild Card: An Autobiography 1923-1958
Signed, inscribed & dated by author. Super 8vo, pp. [10] + 278; illus. light card covers; photos; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; moderate bruising to edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: McPhee Gribble 1990
KEYWORDS: Dorothy Hewitt 20th century life lives biography autobiography
High Adventure
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR- EARLY SIGNATURE STYLE, A TRULY LOVELY COPY! Octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, frontispiece, 224pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (in protective plastic cover- easily removed if desired, light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1955
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Zealanders signed first editions Sir Edmund Hillary exploration adventure travel literature writing climbing mountaineering autobiography autobiographies memoir history historical
Something Like an Autobiography
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: Vintage / Random House N/D (modern)
KEYWORDS: autobiography autobiographies memoir Akira Kurosawa film directors movies
Reform: A Memoir
Super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, 800pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light soiling to page edges, adhesive residue to rear cover)
PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2014
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history politics political government leaders Geoffrey Palmer autobiography autobiographies memoir law policy Prime Ministers
Half-Safe: Across the Atlantic by Jeep
Octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering & decoration to spine, maps to eps, 279pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, sm patches of scuffing & adhesive staining to eps) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing to edges, moderate overall tanning, minor tape staining to flaps, 3cm closed tear & scuff to rear flap)
PUBLISHER: Andre Deutsch 1955
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature adventure Ben Carlin Atlantic autobiography autobiographies memoir
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Super 8vo 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: Random House 2019
KEYWORDS: Robert Iger life lives biography autobiography Walt Disney Company business
Sandstone Gothic
8vo 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: Allen & Unwin 1998
KEYWORDS: Andrew Riemer 20th century life lives biography memoir autobiography
Bushline: A Memoir
Super octavo, illus heavy boards, grey & black lettering to spine, 257pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine, spine sl cocked, minor bruising to board edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Potton & Burton 2022
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Zealanders Robbie Burton autobiography autobiographies memoir travel writing literature tramping landscape nature
'Away With all Pests...' : An English Surgeon in People's China
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 192pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & tanning to board extrems & edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping/peeling to edges, moderate fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Paul Hamlyn 1969
KEYWORDS: CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES OF AMPUTATIONS first editions signed J S Horn medical medicine health China Chinese surgeon autobiography autobiographies memoir
Eighty Years On: A Further Memoir
INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, octavo, illus light card covers, white & brown lettering to spine, 375pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, sl chafing to covers, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Dunmore Publishing 2010
KEYWORDS: signed Nicholas Tarling New Zealand history autobiography autobiogarphies memoir