Biography

Author: John HetheringtonBinding: HardbackPublished: F. W. Cheshire, Melbourne, 1967Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Dust jacket worn John Hetherington's Melba chronicles the extraordinary...

Author: Edith SitwellBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 1994Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsEnglish Eccentrics chronicles a fascinating array of unconventional figures from British history, presenting their peculiar habits and...

Author: Marian AndersonBinding: HardbackPublished: The Cresset Press, 1957Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsMarian Anderson's My Lord, What A Morning presents a compelling autobiography, chronicling the extraordinary life...

Author: Valerie JenkinsBinding: HardbackPublished: London Hart-Davis, MacGibbon Ltd, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous Owner Inscription back of FEPValerie Jenkins’s Where I Was Young:...

Author: Alan HaynesBinding: HardbackPublished: Peter Owen., 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor bumps to edge of DJ, light foxing.-

Author: Jean MetcalfeBinding: HardbackPublished: Book Club Associates, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis poignant memoir, Sunnylea: A 1920S Childhood Remembered, chronicles a vivid journey back to...

Author: Jane BronhillBinding: HardbackPublished: Methuen Haynes, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Minor foxing to page edges, sun-faded spine.The Merry Bronhill chronicles the remarkable...

Author: Frank Thring & Roland RoccheccioliBinding: HardbackPublished: HUTCHINSON OF AUSTRALIA, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsThis compelling biography, The Actor Who Laughed,...

Author: -Binding: HardbackPublished: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: All plates present. This compelling art history volume chronicles the tumultuous life and groundbreaking...

Author: M. D. HayBinding: HardbackPublished: RUPERT HART-DAVIS, 1958Condition:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Chipped and worn DJ with a few missing pieces. This compelling historical...

Author: Crosbie MorrisonBinding: HardbackPublished: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1961Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsAlong The Track With Crosbie Morrison presents a captivating journey through the...

Author: J. B. PriestleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978Condition:Book: Acceptable, ex-libraryJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsThis compelling critical biography chronicles the multifaceted career...

Author: Osbert SitwellBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1948Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsGreat Morning chronicles the formative years of a distinguished British literary figure, presenting...

Author: Sir Robert Gordon MenziesBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell London, 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling memoir chronicles the distinguished career of a pivotal figure in 20th-century Australian politics....

Author: Kingsley MartinBinding: HardbackPublished: Readers Union; Phoenix House, 1958Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis collection, New Statesman Profiles, assembles a...

Author: Osbert SitwellBinding: HardbackPublished: MACMILLAN, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis volume, Laughter In The Next Room, continues Osbert Sitwell's acclaimed autobiographical saga, painting a vivid...

Author: Derek HudsonBinding: HardbackPublished: HEINEMANN : LONDON, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis biography chronicles the extraordinary life and artistic legacy...

Author: Ai KobayashiBinding: HardbackPublished: School of Historical Studies, The University of Melbourne, 2009Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Some moisture damageMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Biographical thesis....

Author: Martin GilbertBinding: HardbackPublished: Houghton Mifflin Company Boston, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical biography chronicles Winston Churchill's challenging period out of power, often referred to...

Author: K. A. AustinBinding: HardbackPublished: RIGBY LIMITED, 1964Condition:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: GoodMarkings: No markings"The Voyage of the Investigator 1801-1803 Commander Matthew Flinders R.N." by K. A. Austin is a historical account...

Author: Evelyn WaughBinding: HardbackPublished: The Reprint Society, 1948Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerWhen The Going Was Good chronicles Evelyn Waugh's early journeys...

Author: PlutarchBinding: HardbackPublished: Forgotten Books, 1936Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerPlutarch's Lives Of Illustrious Men presents a monumental collection of biographies, meticulously detailing the lives of prominent Greek and Roman...

Author: Ricky SwallowBinding: HardbackPublished: National Gallery of Victoria, 2009Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis monograph presents the distinctive sculptural practice of an acclaimed contemporary artist. It chronicles the ingenious methods...

In 1993, writer and democracy activist Hwang Sok-yong was sentenced to five years in the Seoul Detention Center upon his return to South Korea from North Korea, the country he...

'A brilliantly candid, timely and perceptive account.' Andy Haldane 'Asks all the right questions.' Mark Carney Has the West gone bust? Or is there another way? In their new book,...

The 18th-century landscape garden is the only art form to have originated wholly in Britain which then went on to influence the rest of the world. Tim Richardson here tells...

We all have a need to belong, to have a place and people we feel tied to: our nation, our family, our hometown or house. So how come one can...

Hu Feng, the 'counterrevolutionary' leader of a banned literary school, spent twenty-five years in the Chinese Communist Party's prison system. But back in the Party's early days, he was one...

A breathtakingly honest memoir about the complexities of forgiveness when a young widow discovers her husband's secret life after his death. Six months after the death of her husband, Julie...

The book titled A Woman of No Character by the author Fidelis Morgan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.

Shortly before his death in 1978, Paul Scott won the Booker Prize for Fiction. In this biography, the author explores Scott's family background in North London, his war years in...

Author: George Hogarth, Esq.Binding: HardbackPublished: James S. Virtue, 1111Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Rebound copy. Brittle pages. Vol I - some...

Author: Brendan CassidyBinding: HardbackPublished: HARVEY MILLER PUBLISHERS, 2011Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly biography The Life & Letters Of Gavin Hamilton: Artist & Art Dealer In Eighteenth-Century...

Author: Alison Littlemore; Kraig CarlstromBinding: HardbackPublished: (Sydney, ), 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling volume chronicles the lives and groundbreaking work of nine influential ceramic artists. It...

Author: Elisabeth Darby; Nicola SmithBinding: HardbackPublished: Yale University Press, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe Cult Of The Prince Consort presents a compelling historical analysis of Prince Albert's...

Author: Felix RiesenbergBinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Cape, Ltd., 1925Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: FEP missingMarkings: Previous ownerThis maritime memoir, Under Sail, chronicles the adventures and challenges of life aboard a square-rigged...

Author: Sir James Bisset; In Collaboration With P. R. StephensenBinding: HardbackPublished: Angus and Robertson, 1961Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks:...

Author: Ray ParkinBinding: HardbackPublished: The Hogarth Press, 1960Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsOut Of The Smoke chronicles Ray Parkin's...

Author: Frederick PalmerBinding: HardbackPublished: JOHN MURRAY, 1917Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Worn and dull spine. Hinges cracked....

Author: Wilfrid HarrisonBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson University Library, 1961Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis historical collection, The Greatest Men Of...

Author: Jean BattenBinding: HardbackPublished: GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO. LTD., 1938Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerMy Life by Jean...

Author: John BeedeBinding: HardbackPublished: AUSTRALASIAN BOOK SOCIETY, 1965Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling historical account, They Hosed Them Out: A...

Author: David MarrBinding: HardbackPublished: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN, 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsDavid Marr's Barwick presents a compelling biography of Sir Garfield Barwick, a towering...

Author: Don LawsonBinding: HardbackPublished: ABELARD-SCHUMAN, 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerFamous American Political Families chronicles the enduring legacies and intricate...

Author: Edmund HillaryBinding: HardbackPublished: THE VIKING PRESS, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsFrom The Ocean To The Sky chronicles an extraordinary journey of human endurance and discovery. This...

Author: W. Stanford ReidBinding: HardbackPublished: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling biography, Trumpeter Of God, chronicles the tumultuous life and profound influence...

Author: Eve PownallBinding: HardbackPublished: RIGBY, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAustralian Pioneer Women chronicles the remarkable lives of the women who shaped a nascent nation. This compelling historical...

Author: Meryle SecrestBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerMeryle Secrest's Kenneth Clark: A Biography chronicles the extraordinary life of one of the 20th century's...