SMILES, SAMUEL

SPINE PARTIALLY DETACHED BUT BINDING SOUND, octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt decoration & black rule to front board, frontispiece, ix + 389pp, illus, G+ (spine brittle/cracking & partially detached & flapping, moderate scuffing to extrems, light soiling & chafing to front board, heavy scuffing & minor surface loss to rear board, heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, ffep missing, light soiling to eps, prev. owner's name & ink stamp to full title page, some minor ink annotation & underlining to contents page & prelims, occasional moderate crackinglight to moderate soiling & foxing to terminals with ex-libris ink stamp also).

PUBLISHER: John Murray 1874

KEYWORDS: civil engineering engineers biography bridges smeaton rennie lighthouses harbours design construction history

RETI, LADISLAO (Ed) & BUHRER, EMIL M (Designed by)

Lg heavy quarto, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 319pp, illus, VG+ (light discolouration to board edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light foxing to eps, gift inscription in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate chafing & scuffing)

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson & Co 1974

KEYWORDS: art history biography biographies Leonardo da Vinci

DICKENS, CHARLES; ROWLAND, PETER (ed)

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PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 1988

KEYWORDS: Chalres Dickens 19th century literautre Victorian biography Folio Society

ASHER, MICHAEL & PERU, MARIANTONIETTA (photo)

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: Penguin 1999

KEYWORDS: T E Lawrence military history biography Arabian revolt

AUBREY, JOHN; BARBER. RICHARD (ed)

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PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 1988

KEYWORDS: John Aubrey biography history education philosophy

KURENBERG, JOACHIM VON; LORIMER, E O (trans) & STEED, WICKHAM (intro)

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PUBLISHER: Constable & Co 1933

KEYWORDS: biography Fritz von Holstein German 18th century 19th century

ZIEGLER, PHILIP

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PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1993

KEYWORDS: biography life Lord Wilson 20th century lives

REID, BRYAN

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PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 2004

KEYWORDS: David Ballantyne New Zealand biography

SHAKESPEARE, NICHOLAS

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PUBLISHER: The Harvill Press 1999

KEYWORDS: Bruce Chartwin biography 20th century

MORRIS, ROGER

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PUBLISHER: Robson Books 1982

KEYWORDS: Alexander Haig United States politics biography

HARKER, JACK S

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PUBLISHER: Challange Communications Foundation 1992

KEYWORDS: New Zealand G T Robson biography military religion

COTTRELL, LEONARD

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PUBLISHER: Evans Brothers 1951

KEYWORDS: Madame Tussaud Marie Grossholtz London England 18th century biography

AUCHINCLOSS, LOUIS

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PUBLISHER: The Modern Library 2001

KEYWORDS: Louis Auchincloss novelist biography journal 20th century

RUDD, STEELE

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PUBLISHER: Lloyd O'Neil 1973

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian Rudd family biography

NICOLSON, NIGEL

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PUBLISHER: Phoenix 1997

KEYWORDS: memoir Virginia Woolf biography 19th century military politics

DAWSON, ELIZABETH

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PUBLISHER: Geoffrey Bles 1962

KEYWORDS: 20th century memoir biography mothers relationships

APTER, JEFF

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PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 2010

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Liam Finn Tim Finn music biography

ADAMSON, IAIN

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PUBLISHER: Frederick Muller 1964

KEYWORDS: James Cassels barrister judge law biography England

WATERHOUSE, KEITH

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PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1994

KEYWORDS: Edwardian Victorian Leeds London England biography memoir

CAINE, BARBARA

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PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2006

KEYWORDS: history biography Strachey family