Books - "biography"
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Diana Ross: An Unauthorized Biography
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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Sidgwick & Jackson 2007
KEYWORDS: music popular pop Diana Ross motown legend biography memoir entertainment
A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton
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: Fourth Estate 2003
KEYWORDS: Joseph Paxton horticulture urban planning architecture business buildings biography memoir
A Long Time Away
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: Cheryl E. Grubb 1995
KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history biography memoir W G McConnochie ww2 world war two 2 second fighter pilots air force rnzaf
The Green Leaf: A Tribute to Grey Owl
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: Lovat Dickson Ltd 1938
KEYWORDS: grey owl the green leaf philosophy biography humanitarianism first peoples canada indigenous collection
The Diaries
Imperial octavo (N. FINE) in slipcover (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: The Folio Society 2007
KEYWORDS: irish poet ireland biography diaries journals the faeries
A Glorious Fame: The Life of Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle, 1623-1673
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 1988
KEYWORDS: margaret cavendish duchess of newcastle england english history of biography
Just Who Does He Think He Is? A Theatrical Life
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: Steele Roberts 2006
KEYWORDS: george webby memoir autobiography biography nz actor theatre drama new zealand
Best Foot Forward: The Autobiography of Colin Hodgkinson
Jacket torn at rear. 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Odhams 1957
KEYWORDS: colin hodgkinson autobiography biography memoir pilot flying airplanes fleet air arm airforce
Stuart Surridge: Skipper of Surrey's Golden Era
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: The History Press 2008
KEYWORDS: sport cricket English Stuart Surridge biography memoir illustrated Surrey county
Winston S. Churchill: Youth/Young Statesman: 1874-1914 (2 Vol Set)
Octavo, blue & cream cloth boards, gilt lettering to spines, deckled page edges, frontispieces, vol 1- xxxviii + 629pp, vol 2- xxxiv + 763pp, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some light closed tearing, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin 1966-67
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Winston Churchill British politics history
The Sun is God
Quarto 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: Lund Humphries / Piano Nobile
KEYWORDS: painting fine art cyril mann biography british visual post-war post war london
Constable in Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter
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: Penguin / Fig Tree 2009
KEYWORDS: john constable landscape painting english painter biography marriage maria bicknell love
Andrew Buchanan Diaries 1865, 1873
Octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 120pp, VG+ (light fading to spine, prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep, string/binding sl exposed esp. to rear pgs- som epgs sl loosened)
PUBLISHER: Hazard Press 1997
KEYWORDS: New Zealand family history Buchanan Andrew Chingford genealogy Dunedin diaries diary journal biography
Sir John Soane's Museum London
Square imperial octavo, black heavy boards, white lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, illus prelims, 158pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Merrell Publishers 2009
KEYWORDS: architecture John Soane buildings history museum biography home illustrated guide
Genuine Fake: A Biography of Alan Watts
Super octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, x + 198pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: william Heinemann 1986
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Alan Watts sixties 60s philosophy
Christopher Dresser: A Design Revolution
Lg quarto, illus light card covers, red & black lettering to spine, frontispiece, illus prelims, 240pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate creasing to covers- particularly to rear, light chafing & soiling, sl foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: V&A Publications 2004
KEYWORDS: Christopher Dresser British design history industrial biography
John Jones of Otago: Whaler, Coloniser, Shipowner, Merchant
Octavo, red buckram boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 111pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate denting to front board, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & moderate chipping to spine & edges, moderate tanning & foxing, minor tape repairs to spine extrems)
PUBLISHER: A. H. and A. W. Reed 1949
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Otago history regional John Jones biography maritime nautical
Lands For the People? The Highland Clearances and the Colonisation of New Zealand: A Biography of John McKenzie
SIGNED, super octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, illus prelims, 363pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising & creasing to spine & covers, light chafing, light soiling & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of Otago Press 1996
KEYWORDS: signed New Zealand history biography memoir John McKenzie politics colonisation Otago regional
Frederick Page: A Musician's Journal
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: John McIndoe 1986
KEYWORDS: frederick page nz music history victoria university college evelyn biography illustrated new zealand
The Life of Jane Austen
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: The Harvester Press 1986
KEYWORDS: literary biography Jane Austen memoir literature