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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BENNETT, MIKE

FIRST EDITION BUT LACKS TITLE PAGE, super octavo, reddish orange heavy boards, white lettering to spine, enclosed ephemera to front eps, illus/maps/photos, VG (moderate scuffing to base of spine, edges and extrems, light foxing and minor tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG (light fading to spine, light creasing to edges and extrems, minor chipping to head of rear flap, light bruising to head of spine, minor soiling to upper edges of flaps) (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Reed 1979

KEYWORDS: First Edition hunting deer New Zealand biography

FAGAN, ANDREW

Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to front wrapper and spine, illus/photos, VG+ (minor tanning to upper page edges, minor scuffing to edges) (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Swirly World Press 2024

KEYWORDS: biography travel voyages boats Swirly World

DE BEAUVOIR, SIMONE & SIMONS, MARGARET A (ed) & TIMMERMAN, MARYBETH (ed) & MADE, MARY BETH (ed) & LE BON DE BEAUVOIR, SYLVIE

FIRST EDITION, grey heavy boards, gilt and blind lettering to spine with gilt decoration, VG+ (light pen and pencil annotations throughout, light bruising to head and base of spine, minor bruising and scuffing to extrems) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing to edges and extrems and head and base of spine, minor soiling to rear wrapper and rear flap edges, minor 1.2cm open tear to lower edge of front flap, minor soiling to spine) (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: University of Illinois Press 2004

KEYWORDS: First Edition philosophy Simone de Beauvoir memoir biography