Biography

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Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: This copy of W. L. White’s They Were Expendable (Harcourt, Brace, 1942) belonged to...

The book titled Andy Warhol: The Factory Years, 1964-67 by the author Nat Finkelstein. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedLong before the modern world cast its shadow over the highlands and coastal villages of Papua New Guinea, a remarkable land of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the age of tall ships and uncharted seas, one man dared to sail beyond the edges of the known world — Abel Tasman,...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerVictorian London springs vividly to life in Mayhew's London, a masterfully curated selection drawn from Henry Mayhew's monumental...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the tradition of great Victorian-era biographical portraits, The Young Man from Home chronicles the remarkable life of James Balfour (1830–1913), a...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFrom the heart of early twentieth-century Australia emerges the voice of Frank Wilmot — better known by his pen name...

Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodOne of the most astonishing true stories of survival and defiance ever committed to the page, Papillon chronicles the harrowing...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBefore Arthur Phillip ever set sail for Botany Bay, his formative years were shaped by a lesser-known chapter of maritime history —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the sun-scorched, untamed landscape of mid-nineteenth-century Australia, two voices rise from the dust to tell a story of courage,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedFrom the goldfields of colonial Victoria to the gleaming towers of modern finance, The House of Were: 1839–1954 chronicles...

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Edition: No. 153 of 250 copiesCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: minor marks and specks on the boards; binding...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the luminous margins of a single year, Beverley Farmer's A Body of Water: A Year's Notebook presents an intimate, meditative...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew memoirs capture the raw beauty of displacement and reinvention quite like The Winter Sparrows: Growing Up in Scotland & Australia. Mary Rose Liverani chronicles...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Protective covering over dust jacket (removable)For over a century, the rolling fields and ancient farmsteads of Sussex were alive with the sound of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerStep into the candlelit world of eighteenth-century Leipzig, where the genius of Johann Sebastian Bach unfolds not through the grand sweep of history,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerBehind the handshakes, the club memberships, and the shared school ties lies a invisible architecture of power that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodBehind the notorious epithet lies a woman of extraordinary complexity — and Carolly Erickson's Bloody Mary presents the definitive biographical portrait of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the golden age of Pacific trade, few figures cut as bold a path through the islands of the South Seas as...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodA privileged childhood becomes a vivid window into the grandeur and peculiarities of colonial governance in Adelaide Lubbock's People in Glass Houses:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn Reflections, Sir John Marks CBE — a distinguished figure in British public life — presents an intimate and candid memoir charting...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFor a century, Janet Clarke Hall has stood as one of Australia's most distinguished residential colleges, shaping the lives of generations of women at...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA rich tapestry of voices, recollections, and lived experience, More Memories of Melbourne University: Undergraduate Life in the Years Since 1919 presents...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBorn in poverty as Amy Lyon, the daughter of a Cheshire blacksmith, Emma Hamilton rose through scandal, patronage, and sheer force of personality to...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerLong before the age of satellites and GPS, brave men charted the unknown...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodA haunting meditation on ideology, despair, and the fragile architecture of belief, But the Dead Are Many: A Novel in Fugue Form chronicles the psychological...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the first human who looked up at the stars and dared to ask why, to the brilliant minds who mapped continents,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSecrets buried beneath generations of wealth and ambition have a way of refusing to stay hidden — and in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA life lived on the edges of convention and lit by an indomitable spirit, The Fifth Sparrow is the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor any reader venturing into the labyrinthine worlds of James Joyce, William York Tindall's authoritative companion stands as an...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the golden age of colonial Melbourne, one man transformed raw antipodean earth into breathtaking landscapes that...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA towering figure in Australian intellectual and economic life, Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin was a...