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$12.00
xxrah146149

Lord Denning: A Life


FREEMAN, IRIS

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Arrow 1994

KEYWORDS: lord denning biography judge britain historical

$10.00
xxrah146150

King of Fools


PARKER, JOHN

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Futura 1988

KEYWORDS: john parker biography nonfiction duke of windsor prince of wales illustrated

$17.50
xxrai146186

Thomas More


SARGENT, DANIEL

Octavo hardcover (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Sheed & Ward 1934

KEYWORDS: christianity catholicism biography thomas more historical daniel sargent

$9.50
xxrai146192

Born for Friendship: The Spirit of Sir Thomas More


BASSET, BERNARD

Ex-library, 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Burns & Oates 1965

KEYWORDS: thomas more biography reformation roman catholicism bernard basset

$12.00
xxgcf146246

Nigel Tranter, Scotland's Storyteller


BRADFIELD, RAY

lacks fep, imperial 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 cost

PUBLISHER: B&W 1999

KEYWORDS: biography Nigel Tranter Scotland

$15.00
xxgdg146307

Out of the Box: the Highs and Lows of a Champion Smuggler


MCSORLEY, JULIE & MCSORLEY, MARCUS

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Roaring Forties 2015

KEYWORDS: biography Reg Spiers smuggler smuggling athlete athletics crime drug running drugs

$14.00
xxrai146327

Eugene V. Debs: Spokesman for Labor and Socialism


BROMMEL, BERNARD J.

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Charles H Kerr 1978

KEYWORDS: Biography Debs union railroad socialist

$12.00
xxrai146342

Crazy Sundays: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood


LATHAM, AARON

First edition ex library 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Secker and Warburg 1972

KEYWORDS: Biography F Scott Fitzgerald Hollywood

$14.00
xxrai146343

The Curse of the Misbegotten: A Tale of the House of O'Neill


BOWEN, CROSWELL

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Rupert Hart-Davis 1960

KEYWORDS: Biography Eugene O'Neill

$55.00
1y20/48

Archangels & Archaeology: J. S. M. Ward's Kingdom of the Wise


GINN, GEOFFREY

Super octavo, illus glossy boards, white lettering to spine & boards, xiv + 318pp, illus, Near FINE (v sl chafing to boards)

PUBLISHER: Sussex Academic Press 2012

KEYWORDS: biography memoir J S M Ward history spirituality antiquities freemasonry freemasons religion

$45.00
1y21/34

Partisan


CAFFIN, JAMES

FIRST EDITION, octavo, light orange buckram boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 186pp, illus, VG- (light scuffing to spine extrems & board corners, moderate warping to front board, moderate tanning to page edges & eps, moderate insect damage to eps & prelims) in d/w, tatty (heavychipping to edges with some loss, heavy chafing to covers, light insect damage to front flap, light tanning)

PUBLISHER: Collins 1945 approx.

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history biography memoir John Denvir medal for valour war hero first edition

$40.00
1y22/35

Pharaoh's Fool


DISHER, MAURICE, WILLSON

first edition; super octavo; grey buckram cloth boards; black lettering on spine; frontis; viii+252pp, illus; VG+ (sl. rubbing to covers; sl. bruising to cover extrems; sl. staining to spine edges; sl. tanning to eps & page edges) in d/w VG- (in plastic cover, mod. tanning, soiling & foxing; a few v. small closed tears which have been sealed with sellotape; price clipped)

PUBLISHER: Heinemann 1957

KEYWORDS: first edition biography Giovanni Belzoni Regency period Egyptology engineering tombs pyramids

$60.00
1y23/24

The Roman Socrates; A Portrait of St Philip Neri


BOUYER DE L'ORATOIRE, LOIUS & DAY, MICHAEL (trans)

small octavo; blue cloth covers; gilt lettering on spine; 87pp; VG+ (top edges sl. foxed; sl. rubbing to covers; edges bruised with sl. surface loss; eps sl. tanned) in d/w sl. tatty (mod. rubbing with surface loss & scratches; sl. grubby; interior mod. foxed: but is has done its job)

PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Chapman 1958

KEYWORDS: biography history St Philip Neri

$55.00
1y23/33

Shiner Slattery


LEE, JOHN A.

SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, octavo, light brown heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 173pp, VG+ (light creasing & fading to spine extrems, light tanning to page edges, white out covering owner's name in ink to fep) in d/w & removable protective clear plastic cover, VG (moderate creasing to edges, light sun fading to spine)

PUBLISHER: Collins 1964

KEYWORDS: biography memor Shiner Slattery signed first edition New Zealand Otago south Canterbury

$60.00
1y24/22

Reminiscences of the Young-Hussey


YOUNG (nee HUSSEY), LESLEY

Quarto, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, illus title page, 125pp, illus, VG (moderate fading to spine, light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Not specified

KEYWORDS: New Zealand biography memoir Young Hussey Lesley

$50.00
1y25/17

The Life of James K. Baxter


McKAY, FRANK

DATED, INSCFRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, brown heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xii + 320pp,illus, VG+ (light creasing & scuffing to spine extrems, light soiling to board edges, light foxing & tanning to page edges & eps) in d/w & removable protective clear plastic cover, VG+ (light fading to rear cover, light tanning & foxing to internal sides)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1990

KEYWORDS: SIGNED New Zealand literature biography memoir James K Baxter

$40.00
1y25/24

Sukarno: An Autobiography


ADAMS, CINDY

Super octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, x + 324pp, illus, VG (moderate staining & light creasing/scuffing to spine extrems, light tanning & staining to page edges, light tanning to eps, crack to full length of gutter to pg 157) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges with heavy archival tape repairs, moderate tanning to covers & internal sides)

PUBLISHER: Gunung Agung 1966

KEYWORDS: autobiography biography memoir President Sukarno communism Asia politics

$48.50
1y26/12

Tales of Three Campaigns: A Soldier's Plain Unvarnished Story of a Part of New Zealanders in the Great War


BRERETON, MAJOR C. B. & GRAY, JOHN H. (Ed) & MILLWARD, PETER (Intro) & PUGSLEY, Dr. CHRISTOPHER (Fore)

Imperial octavo, red heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus prelims, 378pp, illus, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing to covers, sl sticky residue to front cover)

PUBLISHER: John Douglas 2015

KEYWORDS: military history New Zealand illustrated Great War ww1 first world war biography memoir Major C B Brereton

$45.00
1y27/12

The English Cyclopaedia. A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge. Biography Vol. VI


KNIGHT, CHARLES (conduct.)

THIS VOL. ONLY, large quarto, half bound in leather, marbled heavy card boards, gold lettering & decorative rule on title label to spine, blind embossed decorative rules of spine, marbled page edges & eps,1034 paginated colums, VG ( light rubbing with surface loss to leather edges, 4cm tear to top front hinge, moderate rubbing with some surface loss, bookseller sticker to pastedown, moderate foxing to prelims)

PUBLISHER: Bradbury and Evans 1858

KEYWORDS: encyclopedia biography england united kingdom

$9.00
xxrba146525

Loose Change: the Story of Six Women


DAVIDSON, SARA

paperback (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 cost.

PUBLISHER: Fontana 1978

KEYWORDS: autobiography biography sixties America California

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