Books - "biography"
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Finding Frank: The Life on Frank Erceg, New Zealand Deer Hunter, Mountaineer, Photographer
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
The Cattle King: The Story of Sir Sidney Kidman
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
Sean Connery: Gilt-Edged Bond
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
Arthur Rackham: His Life and Work
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
Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem
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
The Cloak That I Left
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
Sketches from a Nameless Land
4to, 48; illus. heavy card boards; illus. eps & tp, illus.; VG (light to moderate 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).
PUBLISHER: Lothian 2010
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian children's book books juvenile fiction life lives biography autobiography memoir
Frederick McCubbin 18550-1917: 'The Proff' and his art
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
The People of Many Peaks: The Maori Biographies from The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Volume 1 1769-1869
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
Kid Gloves
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
Alvin Ailey: A Life in Dance
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
C. Y. O'Connor: His Life and Legacy
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
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
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