Books - "biography"
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Camille Pissarro: Letters to His Son Lucien
FIRST EDITION, LACKS D/W, super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 367pp, illus/photos, VG (light scuffing to extrems, moderate fading to spine & board edges, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. ownership stamps in ink to ffep)
PUBLISHER: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co 1943
KEYWORDS: autobiography biography Camille Pissarro Lucien letters correspondance art history
Ned Kelly: A Short 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: Lothian Books 2003
KEYWORDS: ned kelly biography australia australian outlaw
Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head
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: Faber and Faber 2010
KEYWORDS: syd barrett biography british musical music history rock pink floyd english
Life on the Line
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 2001
KEYWORDS: biography memoir autobiography lauren roche nz new zealand
Elwyn Richardson and the Early World of Creative Education in New Zealand
Super octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, xiii + 267pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light scuffing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to covers, sl creasing to prelims)
PUBLISHER: NZCER Press 2016
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history creative education Elwyn Richardson teaching biography
Henry James at Work
Super octavo, grey heavy boards with black buckram spine, yellow lettering to spine, ix + 142pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light fading to board edges, light chafing to boards, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: The University of Michigan Press 2009
KEYWORDS: Henry James literature literary biography Theodora Bosanquet memoir history
Lionel Terry: The Making of a Madman
Octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 222pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chipping to edges, moderate chafing to covers, moderate fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Otago Foundation Books 1977
KEYWORDS: New Zealand biography Lionel Terry true crime murder homicide
Exploration Fawcett
Super octavo, hardcover (VG) lacks d/w; 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: Hutchinson & Co 1955
KEYWORDS: history explorer exploration percy harrison fawcett eccentric mystery biography memoir
Winston S. Churchill : VOL II - Young Statesman 1901 - 1914
Super octavo, hardcover (VG) in d/w (scruffy); 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: Heinemann 1967
KEYWORDS: biography young winston churchill
Mary MacKillop : An Extraordinary Australian
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: E. J. Dwyer / David Ell Press 1994
KEYWORDS: biography mary mackillop australia aus nun
My Young Years
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1973
KEYWORDS: biography arthur rubinstein pianist music
Misi Utu: Dr D W Hoodless: An Educator's Vision and the Central Medical School, Fiji
Super octavo, illus glossy card covers, white lettering to spine, 139pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine, sl tanning/foxing to page edges, sl cracking to front gutters)
PUBLISHER: Mary Egan Publishing 2016
KEYWORDS: Fiji education D W Hoodless medicine medical school biography memoir Pacific healthcare history
The Story of Mary Aikenhead: Foundress of the Irish Sisters of Charity
EX-LIBRARY, sm octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, black rule to boards, viii + 196pp, VG (usual library markings & labels, light to moderate scuffing & bruising to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's blind embossed mark to title page)
PUBLISHER: Burns and Oates 1897
KEYWORDS: Mary Aikenhead catholic church Ireland Irish biography memoir
Tyrone Guthrie: The Authorised Biography
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: Hamish Hamilton 1976
KEYWORDS: tyrone guthrie media drama biography theater director shakespeare
Edsel: The Story of Henry Ford's Forgotten Son
Imperial octavo, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, x + 426pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising to extrems, light foxing to page edges, sm ink notation to full title page, prev. ownership label to dedication pg, light highlighting & underlining to text on some pgs) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Society of Automotive Engineers 2002
KEYWORDS: Edsel Ford Henry family cars transport automotive biography memoir business
Chopin: Prince of the Romantics
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: Harper Press / Collins 2010
KEYWORDS: chopin biography music musical history the romantics romanticism
Chopin's Funeral
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: Abacus 2004
KEYWORDS: chopin biography music musical history classical
W. A. Mozart
VERY HEAVY- EXTRA SHIPPING REQ'D, imperial otavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xxvii + 1515pp, Near FINE (sl soiling to page edges) in d/w & protective wrap, VG+ (light creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2007
KEYWORDS: classical music composers Mozart history biography
Jane Welsh Carlyle and Her Victorian World: A Story of Love, Work, Friendship and Marriage
Super octavo, grey heavy boards with black spine, gilt lettering to spine, blind publisher's stamp to front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece, 398pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems) in d/w & plastic cover, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Overlook Duckworth 2017
KEYWORDS: Jane Welsh Carlyle literature Thomas Carlyle biography literary memoir
Isolation is no Barrier: The Memoirs of Harry Leonard Riley OBE JP
Square octavo, illus glossy card covers, black lettering to front cover, 147pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light creasing to spine, newspaper clippings affixed to inside front coversl cracking to front gutter)
PUBLISHER: F Bruce King 1998
KEYWORDS: New Zealand biography memoir Harry Leonard Riley Nelson Golden Bay