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Maurice Gee: Life and Work


BARROWMAN, RACHEL

SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, black buckrma boards, gilt lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 543pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, sl chafing to boards, light foxing & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (in plastic protective cover- easiy removed if desired, light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2015

KEYWORDS: signed Rachel Barrowman New Zealand writers authors literature literary biography biographies memoir Maurice Gee

$18.50
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Margaret Thatcher, Volume One: The Grocer's Daughter


CAMPBELL, JOHN

THIS VOL ONLY, 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: Jonathan Cape 2000

KEYWORDS: Margaret Thatcher history politics political biographies memoir biography Conservative party tory tories prime ministers

$9.50
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U and I: A True Story


BAKER, NICHOLSON

Octavo softcover (VG) has a smoky aroma; 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: Granta Books / Penguin 1992

KEYWORDS: literature literary biography memoir biographies John Updike Nicholson Baker

$17.50
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Benjamin Britten: A Biography


CARPENTER, HUMPHREY

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 1993

KEYWORDS: music composers Benjamin Britten classical biography memoir biographies

$15.00
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Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era of White Hopes


ROBERTS, RANDY

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: Robson Books 1992

KEYWORDS: sport boxing biography memoir biographies boxers Papa Jack Johnson history

$27.50
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Richard Tauber


NAPIER-TAUBER, DIANA & COCHRAN, Sir CHARLES B (Fore)

LACKS D/W, 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: Art & Educational Publishers 1949

KEYWORDS: music entertainment biographies memoir biography Richard Tauber history

$16.50
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Chopin


MAREK, GEORGE R & GORDON-SMITH, MARIA

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 1978

KEYWORDS: classical music composers piano Frederic Fryderyk Chopin biography biographies memoir

$16.50
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John Milton: A Hero of Our Time


HAWKES, DAVID

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: Counterpoint 2009

KEYWORDS: literature literary biography biographies memoir John Milton art

$19.50
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King of the Wilderness: The Life of Deny King


MATTINGLY, CHRISTOBEL

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: Text Publishing 2003

KEYWORDS: biography memoir Deny King biographies self sufficiency Australia Australian

$22.50
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Sting Like a Bee: The Muhammad Ali Story


TORRES, JOSE & MAILER, NORMAN (Preface) & SCHULBERG, BUDD (Epilogue) & NEIMAN, LE ROY (Sketches)

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: Abelard-Schuman 1971

KEYWORDS: sport boxing boxers Muhammad Ali Cassius Clay biography memoir biographies

$27.50
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Anthony Blunt: His Lives


CARTER, MIRANDA

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+) has a smoky aroma; 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: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001

KEYWORDS: biography memoir Anthony Blunt biographies art history historians

$15.00
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Gloves Off: The Joe Louis Story


ASTOR, GERALD

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: Pelham Books 1975

KEYWORDS: sport history boxing boxers Joe Louis biography memoir biographies

$17.50
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Ali: A Life


EIG, JONATHAN

Super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG) boards soiled; 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: Simon & Schuster 2017

KEYWORDS: Muhammad Ali sport history boxing boxers biography biographies memoir Cassius Clay

$15.00
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Stretcher Bearer! Fighting for Life in the Trenches


HORTON, CHARLES H & LE VACK, DALE (Compiled & Ed)

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: Lion Books 2014

KEYWORDS: military history ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war medical RAMC Royal Army Medical Corps Charles Bert Horton biography

$27.50
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An Aide-de-Camp of Napoleon: Memoirs of General Count de Segur


GENERAL COUNT DE SEGUR & PATCHETT-MARTIN, H A (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: Worley Publications 1995

KEYWORDS: history Napoleonic war Napoleon memoir biography General Count de Segur

$85.00
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Jan Tschichold: Master Typographer: His Life, Work & Legacy


TSCHICHOLD, JAN & DE JONG, CEES W et al

Sm folio, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, publisher's blind stamp motif to front board, 351pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light rubbing to boards & spine, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 2008

KEYWORDS: typography typographers Jan Tschichold biography memoir biographies printing history

$40.00
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Douglas Annand: The Art of Life


McDONALD, ANNE

Lg quarto, illus light card wrappers, white & black lettering to spine, 96pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing/bruising to spine & cover edges/extrems, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Publications Department of the National Gallery of Australia 2001

KEYWORDS: art artists biography memoir biographies Douglas Annand

$47.50
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Edward Bawden: At Home - A Working Life


WEAVER, IRIS et al

Square octavo, illus heavy boards & eps, frontispiece, 64pp, illus/photos, Near FINE (sl fading to base of boards) in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, sl creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: St Judes / Random Spectacular 2018

KEYWORDS: art artists Edward Bawden biography biographies memoir

$65.00
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Te Puea: A Biography


KING, MICHAEL

SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED, LACKS D/W, super octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 331pp, illus/photos, VG- (heavy scuffing to spine & board edges, 3cm crack to base of rear hinge, moderate chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light soiling to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional light pencil annotation)

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1977

KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa history signed Michael King Maori biography biographies memoir leaders Te Puea Herangi

$40.00
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Sandow the Magnificent: Eugen Sandow and the Beginnings of Bodybuilding


CHAPMAN, DAVID L

Super octavo, grey cloth boards, red gilt lettering to spine, xiii + 229pp, illus/photos, VG+ (spine sl cocked, sl bruising to extrems, sl soiling to page edges, gift inscription in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light to moderate fading to spine, light creasing to edges, sl chafing, sl tanning to flaps)

PUBLISHER: University of Illinois Press 1994

KEYWORDS: history biography biographies memoir sport bodybuilding bodybuilders Eugen Sandow

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