Biografi

Conan Doyle His Life and Art

PEARSON, HESKETH · 1943 · Little Lane Books

A$20.00 (€12.29 | $13.55 | £10.26 | ¥2,163)

UK, Methuen. 1943, 1st Soft Cover Edition. Hardcover , 22.5cm. Book, Pearson, with access to family papers presents a full picture of Doyle's remarkable life. Cover has a "dent" on theedge where the book has fallen onto a ?? (use your detective skills to surmise something appr...

The Rise and Fall of Sir Anthony Eden

CHURCHILL, RANDOLPH · 1959 · Little Lane Books

A$23.00 (€14.14 | $15.58 | £11.80 | ¥2,488)

UK, MacGibbon and Kee. 1959. Hardcover with dust jacket, 20.5cm. Book, Good Reads review - An interesting book, but Randolph Churchill's typically scabrous approach to everyone other than his father makes the book smack of score-settling to a degree. When Churchill had a tumor...

E=Mc2 a Biography of the World\S Most Famous Equation

BODANIS, DAVID · 2000 · Little Lane Books

A$23.00 (€14.14 | $15.58 | £11.80 | ¥2,488)

UK, Macmillan. 2000. Hardcover with dust jacket, 22.5cm. Book, Even people who approach physics and mathematics with trepidation will be fascinated and enlightened by this dazzling book..This is a clearly written, astonishingly understandable book that celebrates human achieve...

Under Two Dictators Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler

BUBER-NEUMANN, MARGARETE · 2009 · Little Lane Books

A$15.00 (€9.22 | $10.16 | £7.69 | ¥1,622)

UK, Pimlico. 2009. Papeback with dust jacket, 23cm. Book, This book is a unique account by a survivor of both the Soviet and Nazi concentration camps: its author, Margarete Buber-Neumann, was a loyal member of the German Communist party. From 1935, she and her second husband, ...

Stanley Baldwin Man Or Miracle?

ROBERTS, BECHHOFER · 1936 · Little Lane Books

A$23.00 (€14.14 | $15.58 | £11.80 | ¥2,488)

UK, Robert Hale and Company. 1936. Hardcover with dust jacket, 22cm. Book, Baldwin first entered the House of Commons in 1908 as the Member of Parliament for Bewdley. In May 1923, Baldwin became Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party. He was made Leader of the Opp...

Letters between Samuel Butler and Miss Savage

1935 · Little Lane Books

A$29.00 (€17.83 | $19.65 | £14.87 | ¥3,137)

UK, Jonathan Cape. 1935. Hardcover , 21cm. Book, 380pp, spotting to compressed edge & throughout. Butler had known Eliza Savage for many a year before their relations turned from frosty to friendly - both were avid letter keepers & this collection focuses on their corresponden...

Michael X a Life in Black and White

WILLIAMS JOHN · 2008 · Little Lane Books

A$20.00 (€12.29 | $13.55 | £10.26 | ¥2,163)

London, Century. 2008. Papeback with dust jacket, 23.5cm. Book, Michael X (1933 - 16 May 1975), born Michael de Freitas in Trinidad and Tobago to a Portuguese father and a Bajan-born mother, was a self-styled black revolutionary and civil rights activist in 1960s London. He wa...

Max Perutz and the Secret of Life

FERRY, GEORGINA · 2007 · Little Lane Books

A$35.00 (€21.51 | $23.71 | £17.95 | ¥3,786)

UK, Chatto & Windus. 2007. Hardcover with dust jacket, 24 Cm. Book, Few scientists have thought more deeply about the nature of their calling and its impact on humanity than Max Perutz, who explored the protein hemoglobin and won a Nobel Prize in 1962. Brimming with the zest o...

Painting the Head in Oil

SANDEN, JOHN HOWARD · 1976 · Little Lane Books

A$45.00 (€27.66 | $30.49 | £23.08 | ¥4,867)

USA, Watson-Guptill Publications. 1976. Hardcover with dust jacket, 29cm. Book, First Edition. 8.5"X11.25". Tan covering with lettering on the spine. The dust jacket has not been price clipped, it's complete & untorn but looks pretty aged. Edited by Joe Singer. A book based on...

The Animaliers: The Animal Sculptors of the 19th & 20th Centuries

MACKAY, JAMES · 1973 · Little Lane Books

A$80.00 (€49.18 | $54.20 | £41.03 | ¥8,653)

London, Ward Lock. 1973. Hardcover with dust jacket, 25.5cm. Book, 160pp, many photos, some in color. Very good hardcover in d.j. One of the few surveys of sculptors of bronze animals- -Barye, Fremiet, the Bonheurs, the French School, the American School, other European countr...

Green Gold in Alaska

CAREY, MARY · 1982 · Little Lane Books

A$26.00 (€15.98 | $17.62 | £13.33 | ¥2,812)

Self Published. 1982, 1st. Hardcover with dust jacket, 22.5cm. Ill.: Doug Linstrand. Book, Very good clean tight copy. Signed, "Happiness" by author. 351pp Carey a well-known reporter & write & autobio-commenter writes about wilderness living in Alaska. dj ok but a small chip ...

John Perceval

ALLEN, TRAUDI · 1992 · Little Lane Books

A$45.00 (€27.66 | $30.49 | £23.08 | ¥4,867)

Melbourne, Melbourne University Press. 1992. Papeback with dust jacket, 28.5cm. Book, Attractively illustrated book which describes why John Perceval has earned a place in the front rank of Australia's leading painters. This book on Perceval's painting, surveys his career from...

Walter Spies and Balinese Art

RHODIUS, H. & DARLING, J. · 1980 · Little Lane Books

A$65.00 (€39.96 | $44.04 | £33.33 | ¥7,030)

Zutphen, Terra. 1980, First Edition of English Version. Hardcover with dust jacket, 28cm. Book, 1980. large 8°. orig.cloth, title in gilt on front boards and spine, dustjacket unclipped but creased. Other fault is the book has no damp stain but the upper third of the pages is ...

Losing My Mind : An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer\S

DEBAGGIO, THOMAS · 2002 · Little Lane Books

A$26.00 (€15.98 | $17.62 | £13.33 | ¥2,812)

USA, The Free Press. 2002. Hardcover with dust jacket, 22cm. Book, Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. From Publishers Weekly: "I have a clear sense of history, I just don't know whether it is mine," writes DeBaggio in this moving and unusual memoir. The author, who has prev...

Flaws in the Glass, a Self-Portrait

WHITE PATRICK · 1984 · Little Lane Books

A$8.00 (€4.92 | $5.42 | £4.10 | ¥865)

Penguin, Australia. 1984. (ISBN: 0140062939) Soft cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, "With candour, force and emotion, Patrick White writes of his youth in Australia, his English boarding school, his life at Cambridge and trips to Germany, London during the Blitz, RAF wa...

Royal Doulton Series Ware Volume Two

IRVINE, LOUISE · 1984 · Little Lane Books

A$25.00 (€15.37 | $16.94 | £12.82 | ¥2,704)

London, Richard Dennis. 1984. Laminated Pictorial Boards with dust jacket, 22.5cm. Book, 144 clean, white & tightly bound pages with a multitude of bw illus showing pattern numbers & marks. Book in exc condition & part of a series that covered flora-fauna, nursery, photographi...

Elizabeth Barrett\S Letters to Mrs David Ogilvy

HEYDON & KELLEY (ED) · 1974 · Little Lane Books

A$25.00 (€15.37 | $16.94 | £12.82 | ¥2,704)

U.K. John Murray. 1974. Hardcover with dust jacket, 21.5cm. Book, A book of letters that are "seething from end to end with passionate emotion". Thee is a birthday inscription to JE Barrett(1982). dj unclipped sewn-in pages that are bright & tight. Excellent/Excellent.

Savage Arena

TASKER, JOE · 1982 · Little Lane Books

A$136.00 (€83.60 | $92.14 | £69.75 | ¥14,710)

London, Methuen. 1982, 2nd Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket, 24 Cm. Book, SAVAGE ARENA by Joe Tasker was published posthumously in 1982 but covers a span of his remarkable climbing career from the first British winter ascent of the Eigerwand, via Dunagiri South Face with D...

When the Feast Is Finished

ALDISS, BRIAN · 1999 · Little Lane Books

A$18.00 (€11.06 | $12.20 | £9.23 | ¥1,947)

UK, Little Brown and Co. 1999, 1st UK. with dust jacket, 22.5cm. Book, Small closed tear rear dj, 230 clean tightly bound pp. The writer Brian Aldiss provides an account of his wife's fatal illness and her death from pancreatic cancer in November 1997. The book describes how t...

Glow of Candlelight the Story of Patricia Murphy

MURPHY, PATRICIA · 1961 · Little Lane Books

A$20.00 (€12.29 | $13.55 | £10.26 | ¥2,163)

NJ, Prentice Hall Inc. 1961. Hardcover with dust jacket, 19.5cm. Book, Delightful autobiography of a girl from a Newfoundland fishing village who made her way to New York and Florida to become one of the Jazz Age's top restaurant owners, hostesses, philanthropists and horticul...