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By: Brown Frederick
Price: $33.00
Publisher: The Viking Press - New York: 1968
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2016055
A well researched and presented biography of Jean Cocteau. Book in very good conldition with unclipped dust jacket. View more info
By: Ebury Sue
Price: $20.00
Publisher: The Miegunyah Press, Australia: 2010
Seller ID: 2018010
Biography of The Life of Sir Edward Dunlop. Includes many photos supporting the well researched and presented text. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Pimlico lONDON: 2000
Seller ID: 2018014
Freya Stark had a career as a writer, explorer and official diplomat. She explored ancient trading routes in the Yemeni desert, Crusaders castles in Syria, uncharted regions of Arabia and Alexander the Great's path through Turkey. She often travelled along through dangerous and uncomfortable territoreis. During the Second World War she worked for the Foreign Office inBaghdad and Cairo and made an ill fated tour of America for the ministry of Information. This is a we... View more info
By: Grattan Michelle Edited By
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New Holland Australia: 2001
Seller ID: 2017043
Well researched and presented account of all Australian Prime Ministers untill publication. Part profile, part political analysis, twenty-one historians, biographers and political analysysts discuss those who have reached Ausralia's highest public office and the forces that have shaped them. View more info
By: Leamer Laurence
Price: $25.00
Publisher: William Morrow, New York: 2001
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2018019
Well researched and presented biography of the Kennedy men and their struggle to create the most powerful family in the United States. Based on four years of interviews with Kennedy insiders and experts, as well as in depth research including unprecedented new sources and materials. Unpaginated, no names or marks. View more info
By: Louis Yvonne
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Murdpch Books, Australia: 2010
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2017016
The author's journey to discover her past. View more info
By: Marnham Partrick
Price: $27.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury Books London: 1998
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2017063
The author brings the art, the politics and the complexity of the man into vivid focus. He beautifully demonstrates that just as Rivera mythologized himself, the artist also endowed the Mexican people with a national myth, melding a troubled revolutionary history and an Indian culture obsessed with death into something bold and visionary. View more info
By: Marr David
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Random House, Australia: 1994
Edition: 1st Soft Cover Edition
Seller ID: 2016037
Excellent condition. View more info
By: Mawdsley James
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd. London: 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2016044
A compelling account of the author's incarceration in Burma. He endured torture, beatings, hunger strikes and over a year in solitary confinement. View more info
By: McHugh Evan
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Penguin - Australia: 2011
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2017064
Well researched and presented the author includes Cash and Company, Matthew Brady, Bold Jack Donohue, Ben Hall, Captain Thunderbolt and Ned Kelly as well as others. View more info
By: Nicolson Nigel
Price: $17.00
Publisher: Phoenix Books, Uk: 1992
Edition: 1st Soft Cover Edition
Seller ID: 2018013
Written by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson's son Nigel the portrait is drawn partly by Vita herself in an autobiography she left behind at her death in 1962 and partly by her son Nigel. It is an absorbing story built around two very remarkable people. View more info
By: Purcell Hugh
Price: $14.00
Publisher: The History Press, UK: 2011
Seller ID: 2017044
This is the story of the very last of the stayers-on. Through their eyes we see how the legacy has withered over the years but, with their help, also how it has evolved in a new millennium. from post-imperial hangover to heritage industry. Remarkable stories of both historical and social interest. Book has slight mark on compressed page edges, elso very good condition. View more info
Price: $24.00
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd. London: 1991
Seller ID: 2017065
Beautifully described account of the author's journey from England to Persia in 1926. View more info
By: Stein Gertrude
Price: $16.00
Publisher: Peter Owen London: 1995
Seller ID: 2018004
First published in 1940 on the day Paris fell to the Germans Gertrude Stein has managed to include her childhood memories of Paris with observations and amusing anecdotes about everything French. View more info
By: Wead Doug
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Atria Books, NY: 2005
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2016056
Book looks at the parents of the American presidents and analyses the types of families into which the presidents were born and sheds a fascinating light on how their destinies were shaped during childhood. View more info
By: West W.J.
Price: $32.00
Publisher: Canongate UK: 1992
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2016052
A revealing new account of George Orwell's book Nineteen Eighty-Fours's origins and importance and includes the first account of Eileen Orwell's major contribution to the book, the discovery of a real Brotherhood Movement, the first account of the secret internal postal censorship in Britain and many more revelations. Both book and dust jacket in excellent condition. View more info
By: Winstone H.V.F.
Price: $32.00
Publisher: Barzan Publishing, London: 2004
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 2018012
H.V.E. Winstone's absorbing biography of Gertrude Bell was the first full-scale account of her life when it was published in 1978. Since then it has been reprinted many times. In this revised edition, the author sheds fresh light on Gertrude's life and on recent events in Iraq. Text supported by end paper maps and black and white photos. View more info
