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Portraits from a Life


MILLER, LEE & CALVOCORESSI, RICHARD

Imperial octavo, light grey heavy boards, blind stamped decoration to front cover, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, illus title page, VG+ in VG+ d/w (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Thames & Hudson 2002

KEYWORDS: art photography biography Lee Miller

$40.00
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Hearts Hands Minds: The Cardio-thoracic Nurses of Green Lane Hospital


HORSBURGH, MARGARET & SPINETTO, HEATHER & MURPHY, JUDY & CRAWFORD, JILL & RONALDSON, RACHEL & HILTON SYLVIA

Super octavo, printed light card wrappers with french flaps, white lettering to front cover and spine, VG+ (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Dunmore Publishing 1943

KEYWORDS: medical hospitals cardio-thoracic nurses cardio New Zealand history biography

$45.00
3q3/303

An Apple a Week


TANG, DAVID

Super octavo, light brown buckram boards, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, 205pp, illus/photos, NF in d/w, VG+ (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Next Publications 2007

KEYWORDS: Apple Daily memoirs biography essays David Tang China newspaper

$50.00
3q3/305

Hemingway's Guns: The Sporting Arms of Ernest Hemingway


HEMMINGWAY, ERNEST & CALABI, SILVIO & HELSLEY, STEVE & SANGER, ROGER

Super octavo, chocolate dark brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 181pp, illus/photos, Near FINE in d/w, VG+(photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Shooting Sportsman 2010

KEYWORDS: Ernest Hemingway firearms guns sports hunting biography memoirs

$175.00
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Money People Politics


GROB, MARCO

Elephant folio, dark grey cloth boards with holographic plate, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus/photos, VG+ (sl soiling to front board, light tanning & soiling to page edges, minor cracking to head of gutter at title page)

PUBLISHER: TeNeues 2016

KEYWORDS: economics politics money celebrities society social science biography Marco Grob

$60.00
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Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J M W Turner


MOYLE, FRANNY

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, dark grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, XII +508pp,illus/photos, Near FINE in Near FINE d/w (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Viking 2016

KEYWORDS: memoirs biography J M W Turner art

$40.00
3q4/331

The Jim Richards Story


RICHARDS, JIM & NAISMITH, BARRY

Ex library, quarto, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to front and spine, frontispiece, 96pp, illus/photos, VG- (usual library markings, minor tape soiling to front and rear boards, minor foxing and tanning to eps, heavy cracking to rear gutter with binding exposed, potentially rear pages missing) in d/w, VG (loose protective cover, minor chipping to head of spine, front and rear wrappers)

PUBLISHER: GP publications 1986

KEYWORDS: Jim Richards biography racing cars mechanics engineering

$60.00
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Waterman: The Life and Times of Duke Kahanamoku


DAVIS, DAVID

SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, afton light blue boards, silver gilt lettering to black cloth spine, 315pp, VG+ (minor damp staining to lower corner of front board & base of rear board, minor scuffing to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (moderate creasing & light water staining to edges, minor chipping to front fold)

PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press 2015

KEYWORDS: biography Duke Kahanamoku olympics sports swimming signed

$65.00
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The Last Voyage of Capt. John Ross R.N., For The Discovery of a North West Passage: Performed In The Years 1829-30-31-32 and 33


UNKNOWN

READING COPY OR REBIND, LACKS SPINE, FRONTIS & PRELIMS, octavo, marbled heavy boards half bound in leather with blind decoration, marbled page edges, vignette, 716pp + 44pp supplement, folding table near rear, illus, G- (missing spine, front board & eps detached but present, moderate to heavy scuffing & surface loss to boards & extrems, heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling throughout- text unaffected, occasional minor pencil underlining & markings, rear board & terminals/supplement pgs detached but present, occasional creasing to pages at rear, binding otherwise reasonably sound)

PUBLISHER: London: Published for The Proprietors by John Saunders, 25, Newgate Street, 1835 (?)

KEYWORDS: maritime exploration biography Captain John Ross history antiquarian books rebinding reading copy

$32.50
xxfka227602

Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard


ZELL-RAVENHEART, OBERON; MANOY, LAUREN (ed.)

Super octavo softcover (VG+); Photos available on request. 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: New Page Books 2004

KEYWORDS: new age life lives biography magic magick wizard spiritual mythical

$17.50
xxfkb227616

The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins: Australia's Greatest Explorer


FITZSIMONS, PETER

Super octavo softcover (VG); Photos available on request. 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: Hachette 2021

KEYWORDS: Australia Australian explorer exploring exploration life lives biography

$25.00
xxfkb227625

The Redhead Gets the Gig: A Musical Memoir


LORKIN, LINN

Warmly inscribed & signed. Octavo softcover (VG); Photos available on request. 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: Steele Roberts 2022

KEYWORDS: New Zealand 20th century music life lives biography autobiography memoir

$14.00
xxfkh227643

The Worm Forgives the Plough


COLLIS, JOHN STEWART

Octavo softcover (VG-); Photos available on request. 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 1988

KEYWORDS: John Stewart Collis life lives biography nature

$16.50
xxfkj227649

At the Existentialist Cafe


BAKEWELL, SARAH

Octavo softcover (VG-); Photos available on request. 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: Vintage 2017

KEYWORDS: Sarah Bakewell life lives literary biography philosophy 20th century existentialism

$20.00
xxfkj227651

Necessary Secrets: The Journals of Elizabeth Smart


SMART, ELIZABETH; VAN WART, ALICE (ed.)

Octavo softcover (VG-); Photos available on request. 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: Paladin 1992

KEYWORDS: Elizabeth Smart journals diary diaries life lives biography

$26.50
xxflb227663

Roland Barthes


MORIARTY, MICHAEL

Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); Photos available on request. 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: Polity Press 1991

KEYWORDS: Roland Barthes life lives biography 20th century essays politics political history

$10.00
xxflh227675

A World Away: A Memoir of Mervyn Peake


GILMORE, MAEVE

Paperback (VG-); Photos available on request. 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: New English Library 1971

KEYWORDS: Maeve Gilmore Mervyn Peake life lives biography memoir

$30.00
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Three Zen Masters : Ikkyu, Hakuin, and Ryokan


STEVENS, JOHN

Slim octavo softcover (VG+); Photos available on request. 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: Kondansha International 1993

KEYWORDS: Zen biography John Stevens Ikkyu Sojun Hakuin Ekaku Ryokan Taigu buddhism spirituality Japan

$95.00
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Fiorland Memories: The New Zealand Wapiti Saga


ANDERSON, JOHN A

Super octavo, turqoise heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/maps/photos, VG+ (minor tanning to page edges, minor cocking to structure of boards, minor scuffing to base of spine and extrems) in d/w, VG+ (minor creasing to edges and extrems) (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Halcyon Press 1996

KEYWORDS: New Zealand hunting Fiordland memoir biography Wapiti John A Anderson

$50.00
3q5/413

Daniel Solander: Collected Correspondence 1753-1782


SOLANDER, DANIEL & DUYKER, EDWARD (ed & transl) & TINGBRAND, PER (ed & transl) & FROST, ALAN (fore)

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/photos/diagrams, VG+ (minor foxing and soiling to page edges, minor bruising to head of spine and head of rear hinge) in d/w, VG+ (minor creasing to edges and extrems, minor soiling to rear flap) (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Scandinavian University 1995

KEYWORDS: Daniel Solander biography memoirs letters travel naturalist natural history collectors

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