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Morrah, Dermot: To Be A King - A priviledged account of the early life and education of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales written with the approval of H.M. The Queen
Book Number: 3525
Quality BC, 1968, G/VG
Keywords: History Royalty Biography
Price: $20.00 |
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CLARKE, Patricia: TASMA The Life of Jessie Couvreur
Book Number: 3660
Sydney. Allen & Unwin. 1994. Cloth. 213pp. 8vo. Fine/near fine.
Keywords: biography couvreur australian writer author tasms
Price: $28.00 |
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Hector Bolitho: A BATSFORD CENTURY
Book Number: 3696
B.T. Batsford. 1st 1943 gilt page tops, uncut pages, colour frontis, no d/w, illustrated with photographs and drawings, index 153pp. inscribed by po.
Keywords: publishing, bookfair
Price: $25.00 |
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ELIZABETH: ELIZABETH AND HER GERMAN GARDEN
Book Number: 3723
London, Macmillan, 1906, Illustrated by Simon Harmon Vedder pp175, sixteen colour plates.no d/w, covers a little worn. Mary Annette Beauchamp was born in Sydney, Australia in 1866. She was cousin of Katherine Mansfield. PO inscription on ffl.
Keywords: gardening, biography, australian interest. She married twice, first to Count Henning August von Arnim of Prussia, who died in 1910; and secondly to Earl Russell and was known as Countess Russell.
Price: $45.00 |
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Drosnin, Michael: Citizen Hughes.
Book Number: 3988
Holt, Rinehart and Winston New York 1985. First edition, stated. Hard cover/dust wrapper 532pp. A bit of wear on dw edges. good. In his own words - how Howard Hughes tried to buy America
Keywords: eccentric
Price: $25.00 |
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Henriksen, Aage: Isak Dinesen - Karen Blixen
Book Number: 4022
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. First edition stated. Hardcover. 8to. 197pp. Good copy in same unclipped d/w by Borowsky. Rough cut page ends.
Keywords: Isak Dinesen Karen Blixen danish literature out of africa
Price: $45.00 |
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White, W. L.: Bernard Baruch: Portrait of a Citizen
Book Number: 4070
NY: Harcourt Brace and Co.1950 First Edition, Hardcover 8to. 158pp. Very good / good d/w with two small pieces missing.
Keywords: Bernard Baruch wall stree biography business money truman woodrow milionare
Price: $18.00 |
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Hellman, Lillian: Maybe
Book Number: 4279
Little Brown: Boston 1980 First Edition Or. Brown cloth in unclipped d/w, with rough cut pages. 102pp. Very Good. / Very good d/w.
Keywords: This is based on Hellman's encounters with Sarah Cameron, whom she saw only intermittently over forty years--in Paris, New York, Rome and Hollywood, never with any degree of intimacy, yet Hellman h as created an intriguing and fascinating story.
Price: $15.00 |
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Dickens, Monica: An Open Book.
Book Number: 4346
London: Heinemann, 1978, 1st edition. 8vo. Hardcover. 210pp, + b/w plates, index. Very good / very good clipped d/w.
Keywords: Biography authors Dickins monica charles dickens grandaughter london
Price: $15.00 |
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Stanbury Thompson: JOURNAL OF JOHN GABRIEL STEDMAN 1744-1797 Including an authentic account of his expedition to Surinam, in 1772
Book Number: 4464
London. Mitre Press. 1962. 437pp. 8vo. Original red cloth in d/w. Shelf wear on top and bottom of d/w. Illustrated with 17 plate and 5 intext illustrations.
Keywords: Gives a true picture of social, military and diplomatic life in the middle of the 18th century for a soldier
Price: $35.00 |
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