Biografi

Klondyke Bill

Helge Ingstad · 1955 · Dodman Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

London, William Kimber, 1st Edition, Account "somewhat freely rendered of one of the strangest characters from the Arctic wastes of North America, Klondyke Bill, gold-digger and trapper". Some light marking, but in general all is in good internal order. However, blue boards ar...

Franco : A Concise Biography

HODGES, GABRIELLE ASHFORD. · 2000 · Horsham Rare Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

London: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2000, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. ISBN: 0297643045. Fine red cloth and gilt hard back with a fine unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions or marks. Illustrated with map and black & white photographs. ; Black & white pho...

Elliot's New Life

GORDON, LYNDALL · 1988 · Horsham Rare Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. ISBN: 0198117272. Fine blue cloth hard back, no inscriptions or marks. With very good unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Biographical a...

Aggrey of Africa. A Study in Black and White.

SMITH, EDWIN W. · 1929 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

London: Student Christian Movement, 1929. 1st edition. Biography of the Ghanian intellectual, missionary, Pan-Africanist and teacher. He was born in the Gold Coast (modern Ghana) and later emigrated to the United States, but returned to Africa for several years. As part of the...

Room to Swing a Cat. The Memoirs of Sir Michael Parsons. (Signed).

PARSONS, SIR MICHAEL. · 2003 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,796)

Spennymoor: The Memoir Club, 2003. 1841040649. 1st edition. "Told entirely from memory without the encumbrance of diaries or historical assistance..it tells of a young British businessman's life in Calcutta in the last few years before the war and under the British Raj. It goe...

One Man's Tide.

RANSFORD, ERNEST MERRILL. · 1999 · Chilton Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,640)

Sandy, Beds: Chillingham Publications, 1999. 0953571203. 1st edition. Memoir published in celebration of the author's 100th birthday, including memories of his service in two World Wars. Pp.147, many black & white photos + sketches done while in hospital in Baghdad convalesing...

Of No Fixed Abode. An Account of Colonial Service in Nigeria and Fiji and of Subsequent Work in London and East Africa.

MADDOCKS, KENNETH. · 1988 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Ipswich: The Wolsey Press, 1988. 0951389505. 1st edition. A short memoir of former Govenor of Fiji Sir Kenneth Maddocks' nearly 35 years in the Colonial Service and later years, written 25 after his retirement. 21.5cms x 15.5cms. Pp.170, 13 black & white photo illustrations, t...

Memories of a Grandfather.

O.F.T. [OLIVER THOMPSON]. · 1981 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

Aldeburgh, 1981. Author's memories of World War Two and of the Worshipful Company of Skinners, and much more. Pp.92, occasional black & white photos and illustrations, splash marks to a few margins (not affecting text). White stiff card covers, creasing and faint splashed mark...

Tending the Fire: The Story of Maria Martinez

MORRIS, JUDDI · 1997 · Clausen Books

$7.95 (€7.21 | £6.02 | ¥1,269)

Flagstaff, AZ, Rising Moon/Northland Publishing. 1997, First Impression. (ISBN: 0873586549). Wraps, 12mo - over 6 " 7 " Tall. Ill.: Drawings. Paperback, Owner's name on half title page; Textblock very clean and tight; Covers lightly edge and corner rubbed. 113p. Very Good+.

William J. Walsh Archbishop of Dublin

Patrick J. Walsh · 1928 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Dublin, The Talbot Press Limited, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. 612p. A burgundy hardcover book in very good condition. Ex-library; original binding. Label on spine; stamps on foredges. Label and card pocket on endpapers; stamps on half-title and title pages. Text clean and ...

I'LL Take Texas

LASSWELL, MARY; IN COLLABORATION WITH BOB POOL · 1958 · Clausen Books

$9.50 (€8.62 | £7.19 | ¥1,517)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1958, Second Printing. Cloth Spine, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Jo Alys Downs. Hardcover, Top edge color bleeding across the top of the first few pages, ink gift inscription dated Nov 30, 1968 on ffep; Pages 363-374 are creased and folded...

Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery

KELLY, SCOTT · 2017 · Clausen Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Alfred A. Knopf. 2017, First Edition. (ISBN: 9781524731595). Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Photos. Hardcover, Textblock is very clean and very tight, b&w photographs, colored photographs. All page edges are straight and sound. Black cloth, bumped at the head and ...

Very Rev. Charles Hyacinth Mckenna, O.P. , P.G. , Missionary and Apostle of the Holy Name Society

Rev. V.F. O'Daniel · 1917 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

New York, The Holy Name Bureau, 1917. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 409p. Ex-library hardcover book in original cloth. Spine slightly faded. Label on spine, stamps on endpapers and title page, and card pocket in back. Early owner's inscription on front endpaper. Ot...

Contre bonne fortune

Rothschild, Guy de · 1983 · Kastenvol

€8.00 ($8.82 | £6.67 | ¥1,408)

Pierre Belfond, Paris, 1983,372pp, foto's kleur en zw/w, 24x15cm., dikke paperback met flappen, leesrimpels, wat verkleurd

Daring to Live: Heroic Christians of Our Day

Doris Burton · 1955 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Chicago, Henry Regnery Company, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. 176p. A blue cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Ex-library; original binding. Label residue on spine. Label and stamp on rear endpaper and stamp on title page. Text clean and binding tight. Good .

The young George du Maurier A selection of his letters, 1860 - 67.

du Maurier, Daphne (ed) · 1951 · Aucott & Thomas

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

Peter Davies, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book, some foxing on endpapers and page edges, name and date in pencil on front endpaper, in an unclipped dustjacket which is chipped and torn, has old tape marks on both sides and is repaired at the ...

Drawn in Colour. African Contrasts.

JABAVU, NONI. · 1960 · Chilton Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,953)

London: John Murray, 1960. 1st edition. A personal account of an individual African's experiences and impressions of the differences between East and South Africa in their contact with Westernisation. "Noni Jabavu's first book is a picture of the life lived by her Bantu people...

Freedom Found: My Life Story

Warren Miller · 2016 · Denton Island Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

Warren Miller Company, 2016. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9780963614469 Firmly bound, clean unmarked pages; clean bright jacket. Such dynamic man with such a great life story. It's hard to grasp how much one person can experience in a life time, but Mr. Miller does a wonder...

Improbable Journeys: From Crossing the Himalayas on Horseback to a Career in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Binns, Bernard A.O.; Smith, Ron · 2020 · Rainy Day Books

$24.50 (€22.23 | £18.54 | ¥3,911)

Book Good. Rock's Mills Press Name plate pasted in else very little wear.

John Arpin: Keyboard Virtuoso

Popple, Robert · 2009 · Rainy Day Books

$33.50 (€30.39 | £25.36 | ¥5,348)

Book Very Good. Dundurn Press Very clean tight copy. Signed by the author.