Books - "biography"
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Father John Sullivan
Ex-library, octavo hardcover (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: Longmans Green and Co 1942
KEYWORDS: religion religious biographies biography memoir Father John Sullivan history theology
St Edmund of Abingdon: A Study in Hagiography and History
Octavo hardcover (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: Oxford University Press 1960
KEYWORDS: religion religious leaders figures theology hagiography history historical saints St Edmund of Abingdon biography biographies
Neil Young: Long May You Run: The Illustrated History
Imp. 8vo, pp. 224; illus. heavy card bds; photos, illus.; VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to eps, prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: Voyageur Press 2010
KEYWORDS: Neil Young 20th century musician life lives biography illustrated history
Whole Lotta Led Zeppelin: The Illustrated History of the Heaviest Band of all Time
Imp. 8vo, pp. 287; black heavy card bds; illus. eps & prelims, photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with sl chipping
PUBLISHER: Voyageur 2008
KEYWORDS: Led Zeppelin 20th century music musicians band life lives biography illustrated pictorial history
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Bookplate signed & numbered. Imp. 8vo, pp. 398; blue heavy card bds, spine & front board lettered in grey; photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate soiling to prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Abrams 2011
KEYWORDS: The Beatles George Harrison Olivia Harrison life lives biography
Genesis: Chapter & Verse
Imp. 8vo, pp. 359; ; illus. light card covers; frontis., photos, illus.; VG+ (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; sl tanning & soiling to pg edges).
PUBLISHER: Thomas Dunne Books 2007
KEYWORDS: Genesis band 20th century music musicians life lives biography
Midnight Oil
Imp. 8vo, pp. 366; ; yellow heavy card bds; photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to edges & extrems; sl soiling to pg edges).
PUBLISHER: Melbourne Books 2016
KEYWORDS: Midnight Oil Australian bands music 20th century musicians life lives biography
Charles Abel and the Kwato Mission of Papua New Guinea 1891-1975
8vo, pp. xxviii + 299; illus. light card covers; photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning, foxing & soiling to prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: Melbourne University Press 1996
KEYWORDS: Papua New Guinea Kwato mission Charles Abel life lives biography missions missionaries
A Fly in Amber, being an Extravagant Biography of the Romantic Antiquary: Sir Robert Bruce Cotton
Octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 395pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, sl fading to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1962
KEYWORDS: history historical figures Sir Robert Bruce Cotton biography biographies memoir courtiers nobility aristocrats aristocracy
Samuel Marsden: A Pioneer of Civilization in the South Seas
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED & SIGNED 'FROM THE AUTHOR', octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiii + 256pp + xviii to rear, illus, VG (light chafing & rubbing to board edges/extrems, light soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims & sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges- sl loss, moderate tanning & light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Angus & Robertson 1932
KEYWORDS: signed first editions travel writing literature Samuel Marsden south seas historians biography biographies exploration
Sir Henry
Octavo, red cloth boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 129pp, VG (light scuffing to extrems, light tanning & soiling to spine & boards/edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, sm ex-libris plate to front pastedown, title plate tipped in to ffep, synopsis plates tipped in to rear pastedown, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs
KEYWORDS: Sir Henry Parkes biography biographies memoir politicians politics Australian
Otto Binder: The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary
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: North Atlantic Books 2016
KEYWORDS: scifi science fiction Otto Binder biography biographies memoir
Sybille Bedford: An Appetite for Life
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: Chatto & Windus 2020
KEYWORDS: biography biographies memoir Sybille Bedford history
Neither Civil nor Servant: The Philip Yeo Story
8vo, pp. 220; illus. light card covers, french flaps; photos, illus.; 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).
PUBLISHER: Straits Times Press 2016
KEYWORDS: Philip Yeo Peh Shing Huei life lives biography civil servant Singapore
Salmond: Southern Jurst
Signed, inscribed & dated by author. Super 8vo, pp. 294; black heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; VG (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 1995
KEYWORDS: New Zealand 19th 20th century law Sir John Salmond life lives biography
Two Brides for Apollo: The Life of Samuel Williams
Signed & inscribed by author. Super 8vo, pp. xxx + 469; blue buckram bds, spine lettered in gilt; photos, illus.; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; sl soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w VG+ (light scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; sl tanning).
PUBLISHER: iUniverse 2009
KEYWORDS: Samuel Williams 18th 19th century life lives biography
Frontiers and Wars: His Four Early Books Covering His Life as Soldier and War Correspondent
First edition. Super 8vo, pp. 567; blue buckram bds, red label to spine letteredin gilt; frontis., plates; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate, soiling tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev bookseller's stamp in purple ink to ffep); in d/w, VG (moderate scuffing & soiling; light bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; moderate tanning & foxing; price clipped to front flap).
PUBLISHER: eyre & Spottideoode 1962
KEYWORDS: Winston S Churchill war warfare life lives biography autobiography military history