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By: A. De Q. Robin
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Australia, Church of England: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 225351
ISBN: 0959654305
Condition: Very Good Condition
This biography shows Dr Booth as a man among men and as a strong leader through difficult times, both in the church and the community. Dust jacket has a fre small closed tears to top edges. 91 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0959654305. ISBN/EAN: 9780959654301. Inventory No: 225351. Hardcover View more info
By: A. E. Debenham, S.M. [Aided and abetted by Marien Dreyer]
Price: $17.50
Publisher: Sydney, Edwards & Shaw: 1966
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 232710
Condition: Good Condition
The first time a Magistrate in Australia has set down an account of his work. Last two pages has 176 pages. Tanning to pages. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; New Zealand; Biography & Autobiography; Australian::Australian Law. Inventory No: 232710. Hardcover View more info
By: A. J. Jacobs
Price: $12.00
Publisher: London, William Heinemann: 2008
Seller ID: 245143
ISBN: 0434017116
Condition: Very Good Condition
Avoiding shellfish was easy. The stoning of adulterers proved a little more difficult - and potentially controversial. Was it enough to walk up to an adulterer and gently touch them with a stone? Even that could be grounds for accusations of assault, especially with female adulterers in Manhattan. So what's a good Bible-reading boy to do? Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to dive in head first and attempt to obey the hundreds of less-publicized rules. The resulting spiritual journey is at once funny and pro... View more info
By: A. P. Rowe
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Australia, Melbourne University Press: 1960
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 207858
Condition: Good Condition
Dust jacket has small closed tears to edges. 227 pages. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Previous owners name on inside cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 207858. Hardcover View more info
Price: $14.00
Publisher: New Jersey, The Red Sea Press: 1995
Seller ID: 230653
ISBN: 0932415849
Condition: Very Good Condition
A startling story of Abeba Tesfagiorgis's experience in the hands of Ethiopians in Asmara and her subsequent escape. 210 pages. Light fading to spine edge. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; United States; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0932415849. ISBN/EAN: 9780932415844. Inventory No: 230653. Paperback View more info
By: Abraham Bisno
Price: $17.50
Publisher: USA, The University of Wisconsin Press: 1967
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 230167
Condition: Very Good Condition
244 pages. Dust jacket has protective non adhesive covering. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 230167. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. Hardcover View more info
By: Adeline Yen Mah
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Great Britain, HarperCollins: 2000
Seller ID: 233272
ISBN: 0002570998
Condition: Very Good Condition
Author of bestselling Falling Leaves weaves together for the same audience her own personal experiences with the best of Chinese philosophy. Adeline Yen Mah, whose autobiography, Falling Leaves, is an international bestseller, here interweaves her own experiences with her views on Chinese thought and wisdom to create an illuminating and highly personal guide for Western readers. Adeline Yen Mah was born in Tianjin, and through the conversations and wisdom of her grandfather and aunt learnt a great deal of traditional Chinese thought, history and religion. Through her father's second marriage, ... View more info
By: Adeline Yen Mah
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Great Britain, Penguin Books: 1997
Seller ID: 239349
ISBN: 0140265988
Condition: Very Good Condition
Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield Adeline from a childhood of appalling emotional abuse at the hands of a cruel and manipulative Eurasian stepmother. Determined to survive through her enduring faith in family unity, Adeline struggled for independence as she moved from Hong Kong to England and eventually to the United States to become a physician and writer. A compelling, painful,... View more info
By: Adriane Wildencamp [ Signed by Author]
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Australia, Hale & Iremonger: 1998
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 242992
ISBN: 0868066656
Condition: Very Good Condition
This autobiographical work is almost painfully intimate, and yet it is a joyous book, full of hope and wonder. We experience the author's childhood and medical studies in Germany and in 1982 follow her to Australia, where she settles in Tasmania. While adventuring across the globe she manages to become deeply rooted in place and time. 321 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Signed Editions. Signed by Author. ISBN/EAN: 9780868066653. Inventory No: 242992. Paperback View more info
By: Alan Lapidus
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 247642
ISBN: 0312361661
Condition: Near Fine Condition
Alan Lapidus' life has been a "Zelig"-like romp through most of the cultural and political highlights of the recent past. He has popped up as architect for or observer of many of our era's most iconic figures, including Donald Trump, various mafia big-shots, mayors, Aristotle and Jackie Onassis, Bob Guccione, pit bosses, real estate legends and spies. "Everything By Design" takes us behind the scenes in Las Vegas, Disney World, Havana, Atlantic City, Moscow, the Amazon rainforest, and New York. Along the way we learn why Mickey Mouse never seems to use the restroom, why the bac... View more info
By: Alastair Duncan
Price: $12.00
Publisher: NSW, Australia, Lexington Avenue Press: 2004
Seller ID: 242804
ISBN: 0975151045
Condition: Very Good Condition
Foreword by Judy Nunn. The London born Fuller brothers migrated to New Zealand in the 1890s and became theatre, cinema & radio entrepreneurs in New Zealand & Australia, where Fullers Theatres rivalled J C Williamson. 218 pages. Inscription to previous owner on front endpaper. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography; Theatre & Plays; Theatre. ISBN: 0975151045. ISBN/EAN: 9780975151044. Inventory No: 242804. Paperback View more info
By: Albert Prejean
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Great Britain, Harvill: 1956
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 230210
Condition: Very Good Condition
216 pages. Light browning to page edges. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 230210. Hardcover View more info
By: Alex Guiness
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Great Britain, Penguin Books: 1997
Seller ID: 241215
ISBN: 0140262830
Condition: Good Condition
he memoirs of the actor Sir Alec Guinness. The book includes pen portraits of such characters as Ralph Richardson, Sybil Thorndike and John Gielgud, as well as accounts of Guinness's film career, religious beliefs and wartime experiences. 246 pages. Foxing to endpapers and page edges. Cover edges rubbed. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0140262830. ISBN/EAN: 9780140262834. Inventory No: 241215. Paperback View more info
By: Alexander Styron
Price: $15.00
Publisher: USA, Scribner: 2011
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 244410
ISBN: 1416591796
Condition: Very Good Condition
Bill Styron's writing and his depression dominated the Styron family landscape, and Alexandra, the youngest of four children and the one who spent the most time alone with her father, learned to navigate his storms in order to survive. She describes a man plagued by demons and not averse to imposing them on a young daughter. Part biography, part memoir, part elegy, Reading My Fathertells the story of a daughter coming to know her father at last. From Styron's Tidewater Virginia youth and precocious literary debut to the triumphs of his best known books and on through his devastating spiral int... View more info
By: Alfred Bader
Price: $18.00
Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 227540
ISBN: 0297834614
Condition: Near Fine Condition
This is the autobiography of the distinguished chemist, art collector and philanthropist, Alfred Bader. Born in Vienna, Bader fled to England at the age of 14, ten months before the outbreak of World War II. Although a Jewish refugee from the Nazis, he was interned in 1940 and sent to a Canadian prisoner-of-war camp. In this book, he tells the story of his success in the United States. It was a case of hard study and hard work. Obtaining his release in 1941, he was accepted by Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, where he studied engineering chemistry. There followed a fellowship in organi... View more info
By: Alice Greenup
Price: $12.50
Publisher: Australia, HarperCollins: 2013
Seller ID: 245952
ISBN: 073228810X
Condition: Good Condition
A real-life 'The Farmer Wants a Wife'; the true story of how a city girl found love and a whole new life in the outback. What really happens when a city girl becomes a farmer's wife? If you're a fan of Rachael treasure, you'll love this memoir: a real-life outback love story that proves truth is even better than fiction ... A footloose city slicker who couldn't tell a bull from a cow was hardly the ideal candidate to answer an ad for a governess on a Mackay cattle station. But Alice Greenup was game for anything, until she was bowled over by a handsome young jackeroo with a devastating smile. ... View more info
By: Anais Nin
Price: $12.50
Publisher: Great Britain, Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics: 1993
Seller ID: 241960
ISBN: 0140186654
Condition: Good Condition
This story explores the inner world of a fascinating and complex woman whose affairs with four men express all the duplicity and fragmentation of self involved in the search for love. 297 pages. Light foxing to endpapers and page edges. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0140186654. ISBN/EAN: 9780140186659. Inventory No: 241960. Paperback View more info
By: Anais Nin
Price: $9.50
Publisher: London, Quartet: 1979
Seller ID: 235348
ISBN: 0704330792
Condition: Good Condition
266 pages. Light browning to page edges. Front blank endpaper has been removed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Family & Relationships; ISBN: 0704330792. ISBN/EAN: 9780704330795. Inventory No: 235348. Paperback View more info
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