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Hollywood Animal


ESZTERHAS, JOE

Super 8vo 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: Hutchinson 2004

KEYWORDS: Joe Eszterhas 20th century life lives biography memoir

$24.50
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While You're Away: New Zealand Nurses at War 1899-1948


ROGERS, ANNA

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: Auckland University Press 2003

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military nurse nursing nurses women at in war First Second World War 1 2 I II WW WWI WWII biography memoir

$25.00
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Bert Brown of Papua


SAUNDERS, GARY

First edition. 8vo 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: Michael Joseph 1965

KEYWORDS: Gary Saunders Rev Herbert Alfred Brown Papua New Guinea life lives biography missionary

$9.50
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Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad


DIRIE, WARIS & MILLER, CATHLEEN

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 costs

PUBLISHER: Virago 2001

KEYWORDS: Waris Dirie Cathleen Miller life lives biography

$20.00
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The World and its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger


FUJIWARA, CHRIS

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 & Faber 2023

KEYWORDS: Hollywood film industry producers Otto Preminger biography biographies cinema memoir

$10.00
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Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams


WEBB, NICK

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: Headline 2003

KEYWORDS: scifi science fiction literature literary biography biographies memoir Douglas Adams Hitchhiker's Guide

$45.00
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The Life and Times of Frederick John Robert Hadwin


HADWIN, FRED

4to, pp. [6] + ii + 292; illus. light card covers; photos; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals).

PUBLISHER: Fred Hadwin 2014

KEYWORDS: Fred Hadwin Frederick John Robert life lives memoir biography

$62.50
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Ravel


NICHOLS, ROGER

Super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 430pp, illus, Near FINE (sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing, light fading to spine, prev. bookseller's label to rear cover)

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2011

KEYWORDS: biography biographies memoir Maurice Ravel music musical history composers

$60.00
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Francis Bacon: Revelations


STEVENS, MARK & SWAN, ANNALYN

FIRST US EDITION, ILLUSTRATED, imperial octavo, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to black spine, deckled page fore-edges, xiv + 861pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & discolouration to board edges & extrems, light to moderate soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light to moderate creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Alfred A Knopf 2020

KEYWORDS: first US editions illustrated Francis Bacon art artists biography biographies memoir

$47.50
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The Life of Sir Joseph Banks


SMITH, EDWARD

REBOUND, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, red speckling to page edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, 348pp, illus/plates- not counted presumed all present, VG (moderate fading/tanning to spine, light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, light to moderate foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, sporadic patches of minor foxing throughout, occasional unobtrusive notes on blank ages, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, prev. owners' names to ffep, numerous newspaper clippings tipped in to rear)

PUBLISHER: John Lane, the Bodley Head 1911

KEYWORDS: Sir Joseph Banks biography biographies memoir exploration voyages naturists

$75.00
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Where There's a Will There's a Way: Memories of my Childhood and Sawmilling Days in the Marlborough Sounds


HARVEY, G J C (JOHN)

Signed by author. Super 8vo, pp. 180; illus. light card covers; illus. tp, photos; VG+ (sl scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; sl soiling to pg edges).

PUBLISHER: G. J. C. (John) Harvey N.D.

KEYWORDS: G J C John Harvey life lives biography autobiography memoir New Zealand Marlborough Sounds

$40.00
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Leon Dufour (1780-1865): Savant naturaliste et medecin


BOONE, CHANTAL

Text in French. Super 8vo, pp. 336; illus. light card covers; VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; sl soiling to prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in black ink to fly lea).

PUBLISHER: Atlantica 2003

KEYWORDS: Leon Dufour life lives 18th 19th century biography naturalist

$50.00
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Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science


ENDERSBY, JIM

Signed by author. Super 8vo, pp. xii + 429; illus. light card covers; photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; sl soiling to prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription to front cover verso).

PUBLISHER: The University of Chicago Press 2008

KEYWORDS: Joseph Dalton Hooker 19th century science botany botanists life lives biography

$125.00
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Joseph Banks: A Life


O'BRIAN, PATRICK

First edition. Super 8vo, pp. 328; orange heavy card boards, spine lettered in gilt; plates; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; sl soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in black ink to front pastedown); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Collins Harvill 1987

KEYWORDS: Patrick O'Brian Sir Joseph Banks life lives biography first edition

$75.00
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The Life of Sir Joseph Banks: President of the Royal Society with Some Notices of his Friends and Contemporaries


SMITH, EDWARD

Super 8vo, pp. xvi + 348 + [4 (advts)] + 16 catalogue; red buckram boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt, roll-tooled border in white & gilt motfi to front board; teg, frontis., plates; VG (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; bookplate to front pastdown; prev ownership inscription in black ink to ffep).

PUBLISHER: John Lane

KEYWORDS: Edward Smith Sir Joseph Banks life lives biography

$40.00
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John Pascoe


MACLEAN, CHRIS

Signed by author. Super 8vo, pp. 344; black heavy card boards, spine lettered in silver gilt; photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges); in d/w, VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Craig Potton Publishing 2003

KEYWORDS: Chirs MacLean John Pascoe mountain mountaineering New Zealand history life lives biography

$40.00
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Mom & Me & Mom


ANGELOU, MAYA

First edition. 8vo, pp. [10] + 195; maroon heavy card boards, spine lettered in gilt; photos; VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges); in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Virago 2013

KEYWORDS: Maya Angelou life lives biography autobiography memoir first edition

$18.50
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Paine


HAWKE, DAVID FREEMAN

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Harper & Row 1974

KEYWORDS: Thomas Paine US American history revolution biography biographies

$14.00
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I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen


SIMMONS, SYLVIE

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: Jonathan Cape 2012

KEYWORDS: Leonard Cohen music musicians biography biographies memoir

$15.00
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The Fortunes of Mitchell Kennerley, Bookman


BRUCCOLI, MATTHEW J

Very tidy 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1986

KEYWORDS: literature literary biographies biography memoir Mitchell Kennedy

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