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$37.50
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Fourteen Friends


LEES-MILNE, JAMES

Super 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: John Murray 1996

KEYWORDS: James Lees-Milne Lees Milne life lives biography autobiography memoir memoirs

$37.50
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Asa Gray: American Botanist, Friend of Darwin


DUPREE, A HUNTER

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: The John Hopkins University Press 1988

KEYWORDS: A Hunter Dupree Asa Gray 19th century botanist life lives biography

$15.00
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Mendelssohn Remebered


NICHOLS, ROGER

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: Faber and Faber 1997

KEYWORDS: Roger Nichols Felix Mendelssohn 19th century life lives biography

$15.00
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Dying: A Memoir


HORNE, DONALD & HORNE, MYFANWY

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: Viking 2007

KEYWORDS: Donald MyFanwy Horne 20th century life lives biography memoir diary diaries essay

$40.00
1y57a/3

Finding Frank: The Life on Frank Erceg, New Zealand Deer Hunter, Mountaineer, Photographer


MAICH, LOUISE

Super 8vo, pp. 336; green heavy card boards, spine lettered in gilt; photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Bateman Books 2023

KEYWORDS: Frank Erceg New Zealand photographer photography mountaineering life lives biography

$40.00
1y28a/7

The Cattle King: The Story of Sir Sidney Kidman


IDRIESS, ION L

Octavo, orange heavy boards, black lettering to spine & front board, illus/maps to eps, frontispiece, x + 356pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl fading to spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (in plastic cover- edges likely adhesive stained, light to moderate tanning to spine, light fading to edges of flaps)

PUBLISHER: Angus and Robertson 1937

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian biography biographies memoir Sir Sidney Kidman history

$17.50
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Sean Connery: Gilt-Edged Bond


GANT, RICHARD

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Mayflower-Dell 1967

KEYWORDS: James Bond actors Sean Connery biography biographies memoir film stars

$37.50
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Arthur Rackham: His Life and Work


HUDSON, DEREK

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1974

KEYWORDS: art biographies biography memoir artists illustrators Arthur Rackham

$15.00
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Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem


BOZZA, ANTHONY

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: Corgi 2004

KEYWORDS: rap music musicians Eminem Marshall Mathers biography biographies memoir

$25.00
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The Cloak That I Left


HAGGARD, LILIAS RIDER

FIRST EDITION, 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: Hodder and Stoughton 1951

KEYWORDS: first editions biography biographies memoir H Rider Haggard literature

$90.00
1y60a/13

Frederick McCubbin 18550-1917: 'The Proff' and his art


MACKENZIE, ANDREW; BLEAKLEY, ROBERT (forew); DARGIE, Sir WILLIAM (introd)

Signed & inscribed by author. 4to, pp. xiv + 354; green cl boards, spine lettered in gilt; frontis., photos, illus.; 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); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: Mannagum Press 1990

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian art artists 19th 20th century Frederick McCubbin life lives biography

$120.00
1y60a/24

The People of Many Peaks: The Maori Biographies from The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Volume 1 1769-1869


ORANGE, CALUDIA (ed)

Super 8vo, pp. x + 389; illus. light card covers; 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 to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription to ht).

PUBLISHER: Bridget Williams Books 1991

KEYWORDS: Claudia Orange Dictionary of New Zealand Biography Maori 18th 19th century

$15.00
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Kid Gloves


MARS-JONES, ADAM

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 2016

KEYWORDS: biography biographies memoir Adam Mars-Jones father son

$22.50
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Alvin Ailey: A Life in Dance


DUNNING, JENNIFER

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: Addison-Wesley Publishing 1996

KEYWORDS: entertainment dance dancers Alvin Ailey biography biographies memoir

$40.00
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C. Y. O'Connor: His Life and Legacy


EVANS, A G

Super 8vo, pp. xiv + 287; black heavy card boards, spine lettered in gilt; illus. eps, photos; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).

PUBLISHER: University of Western Australia Press 2001

KEYWORDS: A G Evans C Y O'Connor civil engineer engineering Australia Australian history life lives biography

$650.00
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Historia de la Prodigiosissima Imagen de Nuestra Senora del Nino Perdido, Venerada en el Religiosissimo Colegio de Jesus de Nazareno de Agustinos Descalzoa, en la Villa de Caudiel, del Reyno de Valencia. Anadese al Fin la Exemplar Vida del Ven. Herma


DE SANTA TERESA, Father DIEGO;

8vo (19.5 x 14 cm), pp. [34] + 448 + [6]; vellum wrapper, spine lettered in black; G (heavy scuffing, soiling & warping to wrapper; some sm holes to wrapper; moderate to heavy bruising to spine & wrapper edges & extrems with moderate chipping; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; front wrapper completely detatched from text block, rear cover partially; moderate to heavy creasing & tearing to pastedowns, vellum visible beneath; sl loss to adhesion of fold-ins; moderate tanning, foxing & creasing throughout; prev owners' inscriptions in black ink to tp verso & final pg; heavy creasing & tearing to final 2 pp.).

PUBLISHER: Joseph Thomas Lucas 1765

KEYWORDS: antiquarian 18th century Spanish Spain religious texts religion Valencia life lives biography school college institution education

$40.00
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Milarepa: Tibets Grosser Yogi


EVANS-WENTZ, W Y

TEXT IN GERMAN, octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 246pp, VG+ (light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, sl chafing)

PUBLISHER: Otto Wilhelm Barth Verlag 1985

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN GERMAN Tibet Milarepa biography biographies spirituality Tibetan buddhists

$80.00
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The Reign of the House of Rothschild


CORTI, COUNT & LUNN, BRIAN and BEATRIX (Trans)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, folding family tree frontispiece, xii + 511pp, illus, VG (light scuffing to extrems, light tanning/fading & foxing to spine, light soiling to rear board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, occasional foxing & soiling to pages throughout, occasional sl cracking to gutters)

PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1928

KEYWORDS: first editions house of Rothschild family genealogy history biography biographies

$15.00
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Kafka


CITATI, PIETRO & ROSENTHAL, RAYMOND (Trans)

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: Martin Secker & Warburg 1990

KEYWORDS: first editions Franz Kafka biography biographies memoir literature literary

$32.50
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WSC A Cartoon Biography


URQUHART, FRED (Compiled by) & NICOLSON, HAROLD (Fore)

FIRST EDITION, 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: Cassell & Company 1955

KEYWORDS: first editions cartoons Winston Churchill history biography biographical

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