Biography

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the height of World War II, two American journalists embedded in China witnessed firsthand the catastrophic collapse of a nation torn...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the winter of 1849–1850, Gustave Flaubert — not yet the celebrated author of Madame Bovary — embarked on an extraordinary journey through Egypt, a land...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the turn of the twentieth century, England basked in the last golden glow of imperial confidence — a world...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind every great monarch stands a figure of equal brilliance, and in King Without a Crown, Daphne Bennett...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Minor staining to fore-edge.In the sweltering summer of 1914, the great powers of Europe stumbled — with catastrophic certainty — into the...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew literary figures of the twentieth century lived as boldly and wrote as brilliantly as...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the tumultuous theatre of the Hundred Years' War, one man rose to such legendary heights that his very name struck terror into the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt just twenty-four years of age, William Pitt the Younger became Britain's youngest Prime Minister, and Robin Reilly's authoritative biography chronicles the extraordinary life of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedA celebration of lives richly lived, Three Score and Ten brings together the voices of two formidable British women of...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind every scandalous Hollywood headline of the mid-twentieth century, there stood one man: Jerry Giesler, the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBetween the wars, a generation of Australian women put pen to paper and carved out literary identities in a cultural landscape that was rarely welcoming...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of the most dramatic confrontations of the Cold War era, a brilliant physicist who...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: FEP missingIn the golden haze of political retrospection, Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, opens a window onto the defining moments and remarkable personalities...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedIn the frozen grip of the Arctic, an entire Royal Navy expedition vanished without trace — and the desperate quest to find it became one...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsIn the vivid and richly imagined world of Tudor England, Rosemary Sutcliff's The Queen Elizabeth Story chronicles the life...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBefore the age of the computer, there was Ada — a woman of breathtaking intellect born into the shadow of literary legend, whose genius would...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of culture, identity, and justice lies one of Australia's most pressing and enduring struggles —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore the guns of August shattered the old world forever, there existed a civilisation of breathtaking complexity, contradictions,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the crossroads of biography and literary criticism stands The Egotistical Sublime, a landmark scholarly work that traces the inner...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most electrifying artistic lives of the twentieth century belongs to Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, the French-born sculptor...

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