Books - "biography"
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Lord Denning: A Life
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
King of Fools
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
Thomas More
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
Born for Friendship: The Spirit of Sir Thomas More
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
Nigel Tranter, Scotland's Storyteller
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
Out of the Box: the Highs and Lows of a Champion Smuggler
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
Eugene V. Debs: Spokesman for Labor and Socialism
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
Crazy Sundays: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
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
The Curse of the Misbegotten: A Tale of the House of O'Neill
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
Archangels & Archaeology: J. S. M. Ward's Kingdom of the Wise
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
Partisan
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
Pharaoh's Fool
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
The Roman Socrates; A Portrait of St Philip Neri
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
Shiner Slattery
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
Reminiscences of the Young-Hussey
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
The Life of James K. Baxter
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
Sukarno: An Autobiography
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
Tales of Three Campaigns: A Soldier's Plain Unvarnished Story of a Part of New Zealanders in the Great War
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
The English Cyclopaedia. A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge. Biography Vol. VI
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
Loose Change: the Story of Six Women
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