Search Results: Biography from Lansdowne Books

George G. Harrap, London, 1946. Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket in protective mylar covering. First Edition. 8 1/2 X 5 1/2. Original binding in orange cloth with gilt title. With a forward by Freya Stark and sixty-four plates in Half-tone. 169 pages, includes index. Colour map printed end papers. A very nice tight, clean, straight. An account of his journey to Ibn Saud at the time when Saudia Arabia was newly formed. Fine book in a dust jacket. Price unclipped.

A near fine copy of the 1969 first edition, first issue. 256-page text in fine, tight, clean condition with no inscriptions. Dust jacket price-clipped and in fine condition and in protective mylar covering. An unusually difficult book to find in fine condition. This is the second instalment of 'The Corfu Trilogy' by Durrell

John Murray 1953: Green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine and to front: approximately 6 x 9.5 inches tall: dust jacket: 286 handcut pages: black and white photographic illustrations. Synopsis: The third volume of Freya Starks autobiography based on her letters of the 1928 33 period, describing her travels in Arabia, and in Greece and Syria immediately before the Second World War. Contents are arranged under the following headings : 1) First Journey to the South, 1933 1935. 2) Iraq Revisited, 1935 1937. 3) The Winter In Huraidha, 1937 1938. 4) Greece and Syria: the Year of Munich, 1938 1939. 5) The War, 1939. Condition: Hard cover and contents firm, clean and good. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket but which is not price-clipped. [xvi], map on green paper, B&W Photographs; 8vo; 287 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. First Edition. F/F. 8vo. original grey boards with gilt letter in dust jacket with mylar protective cover; pp. xxiv, 520 (last blank), with illustrations.Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty. The daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Gertrude turned her back on house parties and debutante balls, choosing instead to read history at Oxford, where she took a first in only two years. [This book] is her story, vividly told and impeccably researched, drawing on Gertrude's own writings, both published and unpublished. It is a compelling portrait of a woman who transcended the restrictions of her class and age and in so doing created a remarkable and enduring legacy."

Green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering to spine, owners signature to front: yellow dust jacket: approximately 5.75 x 9 inches tall: 297 handcut pages including index: black and white photographic illustrations. Includes the original newspaper article from The Times Saturday January 10 1981 news article, " Letters from Libya" by Freya Stark as a separate item.Synopsis : Freya Starks autobiographical account of her service with the Ministry of Information and the Foreign Office during the Second World War from 1939 to 1946. She recounts details of a mainly persuasive role during her assignment in Aden, where she assisted with the Arab News Service; the Yemen, where she combated fascist influence by operating the only cinema projector in the country; in Egypt where she formed and expanded the Brotherhood of Freedom during the North Africa Campaign ; in Iraq where she extended the Brotherhood Committees in opposition to German influence ( here she was caught up in the German instigated siege of the… Read More

First edition. Hardcover in dust jacket protected with mylar covering.About the Author: Ros Pesman has taught history at the University of Sydney.Synopsis: The historian Roslyn Pesman has produced a subtle, erudite and fastidiously researched account of Australian women's travel from the 1870s--when travel in Europe became popular--until 1970, when jet travel altered the concept of this key Australian rite of passage. Drawing on innumberable travel diaries, letters, and interviews, Pesman analyses the different needs and expectations of Australian women of all types and generations. After reading Pesman, it is difficult to think of a key Australian artist, intellectual or public figure who was not affected in some way by her adventures abroad.

Blue buckram, gilt titles. In original pictorial dust jacket [original artwork in pastel by artist Jillian Willettnow ] now in protective mylar with slight damage at top of spine. Illustrated with b/w photographs: contemporary portraits and the author's own photographs of the places mentioned. Romance and thriller in one, all based on factual records. Set in diplomatic and royal circles. A sequel of the next generation to Anna and the King of Siam. (Biography, Thailand, Siam, Southeast Asia, History)

Near Fine in fine unclipped dust jacket in protective mylar. Hardcover first edition - First printing. A debut novel, originally published in Arabic in Lebanon, which discusses frankly the " social, romantic and sexual tribulations of four young women from elite classes of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia." Translated by Rajaa Alsanea and Marilyn Booth. Includes glossary of names, 286 pp. Originally banned in Saudi Arabia, the tale of four young women university students from Riyadh follows their struggles to navigate the precarious paths between desire, fulfillment, and Islamic tradition while witnessing the ways in which the Arab world is being changed by new economic and political realities

Signed by the Author. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: V.G+ Cloth boards with slight bumping to top and bottom edges with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. The life and times of its founder George Pitches Manning. Includes fold out family tree, decorative end pages, photos, previous owners bookplate. This book may be collected at Port Fairy, Victoria.

SIGNED BY Sepplets family - [ see photograph]Hard Cover. Near Fine with fading to front and back cover. First Edition. 9 X 6". Being an Historical Record of the Life and Times of the Seppelt Family through Four Generations. 51 pages. B/w and colour illustrations. Comes with an old Seppelts Compliment Slip. Illust. end-papers. 12 photographic plates, some colour. Decorated end papers. Hard cover. Gilt spine lettering with purple boards a little fading with gilt family crest to front board with gilt lettering and decoration. A good clean tight copy.

First impression, not price-clipped. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, dust jacket now in protective mylar. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Subjects: Li, Cunxin 1961-. Ballet dancers. Defectors. Genre: Biography. Language: EnglishSynopsis:An extraordinary memoir of a peasant boy raised in rural Maoist China who was plucked from his village to study ballet and went on to become one of the greatest dancers of his generation. In 1961, three years of Mao's Great Leap Forward-along with three years of poor harvests-had left a rural China suffering terribly from disease and deprivation. Li Cunxin, his parents' sixth son, lived in a small house with twenty of his relatives and, along with the rest of his family, subsisted for years on the verge of starvation. But when he was eleven years old, Madame Mao decided to revive the Peking Dance Academy, and sent her men into the countryside searching for children to attend. Chosen on the basis of his physique alone, Li… Read More

1st Edition. Near fine hardback purple cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.Dust jacket in protective mylar. Physical description: . Subjects: Melba, Nellie Dame 1861-1931. Melba, Nellie Dame. Opera Singing Melba, Dame Nellie Biographies. Opera - Singers. Singers - Biography. Singers Australia; Biography. 1 Kg.

Galahad Books, New York, 1974. Hardcover (Illustrated Boards). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.
A note about the artist.--Omar Khayyam: an introduction, by E. J. FitzGerald.Green coloured endpages. The text is illustrated with coloured illustrated frontispiece, coloured plates and black-and-white drawings throughout the text by Sarkis Katchadourian. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured illustration to the front panel and backstrip. Purple coloured insert to the backstrip and within that insert, gilt coloured titles. Illustrated dustwrapper in protective sleeve, again by Sarkis Katchadourian, with black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. The classic Edward Fitzgerald translation of the Persian poet Omar Khayyam's poems. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. [8], IX - XVI, 19 - 131, [1] pagesweight .7

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: V.G+ . A very good copy bound in red deckled cloth with gilt logo on front with pages clean and tight. Overall a very nice copy. Signed by Redman. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. This book may be collected at Port Fairy, Victoria.

Hardcover. Condition: N. Fine. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition now in protective mylar.
1st Edition. Translated from the French by Sandra Smith.
The manuscript for this novel, written by Nemirovsky before she died in Auschwitz in 1942, was discovered by her granddaughter in 2004. Source of the 2015 film.
Illus with b&w map and pictorial endpapers

London, John Murray, 1950. First edition, xii, 346pp, with double-paged map, 24 illustrations, wood engravings by Reynolds Stone, index, original cloth with slightly damaged dust jacket in mylar. Uneven bottom edges from when the uncut edges were separated.Very good condition.

Facsimile of original handwritten diary with transcript on facing pages. The authors recorded his voyage on the sailing ship "William Metcalfe" between 25 July 1839 and 15 Nov. 1839. Inscribed Issued to Clients by Were and Son in April 1964frontis. maps on endpapers , dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and front board in protective mylar jacket, illus, frontispiece, fold-out genealogical tree.

Centenary Edition; profusely illustrated with b/w photographic illustrations throughout; A Representation of Every Sphere Showing Activities and Interests Social, Philanthropic, Historic, Scholastic, Sport and Travel.
Original maroon cloth, title lettered on spine and front. Well-preserved with pages clean and tight. Overall a fine copy.