The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling His Life and Works
London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1977. First. Hard Cover. A scintillating investigation which dissects the forces that drove a towering, flawed, paradoxical genius.
London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1977. First. Hard Cover. A scintillating investigation which dissects the forces that drove a towering, flawed, paradoxical genius.
Sinclair- Stevenson, 1994. hardcover. This biography offers the reader, not the bearded prophet with baleful eye, but a likeable Lawrence: a hilarious mimic; an inspired teacher; a brilliant journalist; an ecological visionary; and above all - as he saw himself - a married man. Maddox examines Lawrence's restless life through.....
1998. 2nd Edition. Hard cover. The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia is the authoritative single-volume reference work on people, both living and dead. In addition to its thousand or more pages of A-Z entries, the book offers an invaluable Ready Reference section with lists of political leaders and rulers, Nobel Prizewinners, patron.....
Rider & Co, 2018. paperback. The incredible, bestselling memoir of survival, hope and empowerment THE AWARD-WINNING SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Even in hell, hope can flower 'I'll be forever changed by her story' - Oprah Winfrey 'Extraordinary ... will stick with you long after you read it'.....
London: 1868. Vol 2 of 3, Good condition, Gold AEG.
London: 1868.
1868. 3 Vols, Good condition, gilt AEG.
London: Andre Deutsch Limited, 1962. hardback, binded with dark green cloth.
Nelson, 1965. Hardcover. First Published in GB. 348 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over grey cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper.
Eyre Methuen, 1976. first. hardcover. A biography on the great Oscar Wilde.
1979. paperback. One of the true classics of women's spirituality. Distraught by the untimely death of her husband, Irina Tweedie awakened to a religious and spiritual quest which took her to India, where she found a Sufi teacher who was to revolutionize her life. This book was written from the.....
Auckland: Williams Collins, 1981. Hard cover. In women of the North Jane recounts the lives of 44 remarkable women who lived various lives in Northland in the early 19th century.
The Dunmore Press, 1985. first. hardcover- cloth. biography of la peruse the man, his early life and family background.
Jonathan Cape, 1966. hardcover. Was Ian Fleming James Bond? Many think so. Certainly the super-hero and his creator had similarities - an aristocratic background, sophisticated tastes, a fatal appeal to women, and an intimate knowledge of the of international spy rings. Still Fleming disclaimed any relation to "that cardboard body".....
Boston: Beacon Press, 2009. paperback. After many years, historian and Helen Keller expert Kim Nielsen realized that she, along with other historians and biographers, had failed Anne Sullivan Macy. While Macy is remembered primarily as Helen Keller's teacher and mythologized as a straightforward educational superhero, the real story of this.....
Valor Foundation,The,U.S., 1992. paperback. Here is the full and authentic story of Joel S. Goldsmith. Much of the book is in his own words made available to Lorraine Sinkler in conversations, letters and tape recordings. "This is a great book but it takes time and thought to.....
First Edition Ltd, 2008. paperback. This book describes the deeply moving itinerary of an exceptional human being, Omraam Mikaël Aïvanhov. A man who offered simple but infinitely effective methods to deal with most difficulties of everyday life. His methods respond to our own deep-felt need to love better, to know.....
NY: Simon and Schuster, 2005. Hard Cover with jacket. An account of the former British prime minister's seventy-year relationship with the United States describes how his work during the First and Second World Wars laid a foundation of a century-long alliance between the countries and established a key policy of.....
Kingston, Surrey : M. Cane (46 Galsworthy Road, Kingston, Surrey), 1977. no 34 of 400no ltd edition The life and career of Harry Payne, a famed military artist from late 1800`s A useful reference book.
Soft cover.
Hachette New Zealand, 1989. hardcover. A biographical account and collection of work by the famous New Zealand artist Pat Hanly.
Millwood Heritage Productions, 2007. hardcover. Folio, brown faux leather boards, blind stamp lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, illus prelims, xvi + 440pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light to moderate bruising & scuffing to spine extrems, light bruising to board corners) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to spine extrems.....
The Amalgamated Press, 1934. hardcover. 2 vol. comprehensive reference of biographies, published circa 1934 and edited by reference expert Sir John Alexander Hammerton. Profusely illustrated. A very comprehensive reference encyclopaedia of biographies, organised alphabetically, including all figures and persons deemed notable by the editor, Sir John Alexander Hammerton. Including politicians.....
1956. hardcover. A light, popular biography of Edward as Prince of Wales and King.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. paperback. C.S. Lewis is the twentieth century's most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades, they and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the Inklings, which met weekly in Lewis's Oxford rooms and a nearby.....