MOON, CHRIS

One Step Beyond (Signed Copy)

London, Macmillan. 1999, First. (ISBN: 0333740513). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine Dustjacket which is not price-clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. SIGNED to title page with 'Bestest' with no dedication and dated 1 December 2000. 388 pages, 29 illustrations. Ex soldier Chris Moon missed the challenge of military life and applied to join the mine-clearance programme organised by the HALO Trust (Hazardous Areas Life Support Organisation). He was stationed first in Cambodia, where he and two other colleagues were kidnapped by the Khmer Rouge and faced execution but managed not only to negotiate himself out of his own execution but also that of his two colleagues. In 1995 he was blown up in a supposedly safe area of a minefield in remote Mozambique losing an arm and a leg. He survived initially because he treated himself. About fourteen hours after he was injured he arrived in South Africa where doctors said they'd never seen anyone live with such a small amount of blood. He recovered three or four times faster than was expected and after rehabilitating himself within a year after leaving hospital he ran the London Marathon, raised significant sums to help disabled people in the developing world and successfully completed a full time Masters Degree. Chris taught himself to run and is believed to be the world's first amputee ultra distance runner. In 1997 completed the gruelling Marathon De Sables. Since then he's run the world's toughest ultra marathons and most recently the Badwater Death Valley 135 mile Ultra, where the temperature averaged over 50 degrees Celsius. He did this and took 12 hours off his previous best time to complete it in 41 hours 51 minutes. L. Fine/Fine. Signed by Author.

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N° du livre: 011207

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Mots-clés: Mine Clearance, Halo, Khmer Rouge, Ultra Marathon Races, Amputee Athlete 0333740513

MOREAU, DAVID

More Wrestlng Than Dancing - an Autobiography

London, Hutchinson. 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 0091739233). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarkd copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. For several years David Moreau has beguiled listeners to BBC Radio 4 with alarmingly funny autobiographical sketches. In his autobiography he relates his bizarre escapades, from an African infancy to his role as a budding captain of industry. His education in England lived up to the most flamboyant fantasies of those who seek to abolish the public schools. NOT EX LIB A1C. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 008500

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Mots-clés: Bbc Radio 4 Broadcast 0091739233

MORRIS, DESMOND

Animal Days

London, Jonathan Cape. 1979, First Edition. (ISBN: 0224017381). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. Doctor Morris relates his personal history of his early animal days before he wrote his best selling books on animal and human behaviour, with his television appearances as presenter of the popular 'Zootime' and his work at London's Regent Park Zoo. He recalls his childhood, his academic journey and as curator of mammals his encounters with the giant pandas presented by Kruschev. A charming and fascinating biography. NOT BOOK CLUB C3B. Fine/Fine.

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N° du livre: 002425

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Mots-clés: Biography, Zoologist, Animal Television Programmes 0224017381

MORRIS, EDMUND

Dutch - a Memoir of Ronald Reagan

London, Harper Collins. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 0002177099). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a thin quarter inch biro 'v' mark to top edge) with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First UK edition, first printing. xx + 874 pages. Illustrations in the text. The authorized biography of President Ronald Reagan, written with complete interpretative freedom, whilst he was still president. During 13 years of archival research and interviews with Reagan, his family, friends, admirers and enemies, Morris studied his subject with a closeness and dispassion, not to mention alternations of amusement, horror and amazed respect. A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.2 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 13. Near Fine/Fine.

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N° du livre: 008183

Catalogue: Biography - American - General

Mots-clés: American President, Biography, Ronald Reagan 0002177099

MOTION, ANDREW

The Lamberts - George, Constance and Kit

London, Chatto and Windus. 1986, First Edition. (ISBN: 0701127317). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Near Fine unmarked copy apart from a small mark to front board and usual age toning o page edges with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xi + 388 pages. 42 illustrations. Few families have had more colourful or more pervasive an influence on the arts than the Lamberts - or led more blighted, self-destructive lives. George Lambert, the son of a Baltimore railway engineer, was born in St. Petersburg, grew up in the outback, served as a war artist in Palestine and Gallipoli, and established himself as Australia's lesding painter. Immortalised by Anthony Powell in 'A Dance to the Music of Time'. His son Constant was the first English composer to be commissioned by Diaghilev, a founder of the Sadler's Wells Ballet, a champon of jazz, the quintessential Fitzrovian and Edith Sitwell's collaborator on 'Facade'. Kit Lambert, the 'Svengali of rock and roll', managed The Who, started Britain's first successful independent record label, ruined his life with heroin and, it was rumoured, was eventually murdered. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.84 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 21. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 009925

Catalogue: Biography - General

Mots-clés: George Lambert Australian Painter, Constant Lambert, Kit Lambert 0701127317

MOTION, ANDREW

The Lamberts - George, Constance and Kit

London, Chatto and Windus. 1986, First Edition. (ISBN: 0701127317). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Near Fine unmarked copy apart from usual age toning o page edges with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xi + 388 pages. 42 illustrations. Few families have had more colourful or more pervasive an influence on the arts than the Lamberts - or led more blighted, self-destructive lives. George Lambert, the son of a Baltimore railway engineer, was born in St. Petersburg, grew up in the outback, served as a war artist in Palestine and Gallipoli, and established himself as Australia's lesding painter. Immortalised by Anthony Powell in 'A Dance to the Music of Time'. His son Constant was the first English composer to be commissioned by Diaghilev, a founder of the Sadler's Wells Ballet, a champon of jazz, the quintessential Fitzrovian and Edith Sitwell's collaborator on 'Facade'. Kit Lambert, the 'Svengali of rock and roll', managed The Who, started Britain's first successful independent record label, ruined his life with heroin and, it was rumoured, was eventually murdered. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.84 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 21. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 010418

Catalogue: Biography - General

Mots-clés: George Lambert Australian Painter, Constant Lambert, Kit Lambert 0701127317

NEGUS, ARTHUR TALKS TO PRICE, BERNARD

A Life Among Antiques

London, Hamlyn. 1982, First Edition. (ISBN: 060034228x). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. The famous television antiques expert, noted particularly for 'Going for a Song' and the 'Antiques Road Show', talks about his life and career to the broadcaster and antiques lover. NOT EX LIB C3A. Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 001084

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Mots-clés: 060034228x

NETTER, SUSAN

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward

London, Piatkus. 1989, First Edition. (ISBN: 0861888693). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket. A moving and candid unauthorised biography of the actor and his wife, their successful marriage, a survey of the films they have made together and the glamour of Hollywood to the pleasures and sadness of family life. NOT EX LIB B2B. Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 003885

Catalogue: Biography - American - General

Mots-clés: American Actors, Biography, Filmography, Hollywood 0861888693

NOOR, QUEEN

Leap of Faith - Memoirs of an Unexpected Life

New York, Miramax. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 0786867175). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. xi + 468 pages. 40 illustrations. This is the dramatic and inspiring story of an American woman's remarkable journey into the heart of a man and his nation. Born into a distinguished Arab-American family and raised amid privilege, Lisa Halaby joned the first freshman class at Princeton to accept women, graduating in 1974 with a degree in architecture and urban planning. Two years later, while visiting her father in Jordan, she was casually introduced on the airport runway to King Hussein. Widely admired in the Arab world as a voice of moderation, and for his direct lineage to the prophet Muhammed, and soon to be the world's most eligible bachelor after the tragic death of his wife. The next time they met, Hussein would fall madly in love with the athletic, outspoken daughter of of his longtime friend and, after a whirlwind, secret courtship, Lisa Halaby became Noor Al Hussein, Queen of Jordan. PLEASE NOTE : A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.9 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST L. Fine/Fine.

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N° du livre: 008917

Catalogue: Biography - General

Mots-clés: King Hussein of Jordan, Lisa Halaby, Noor Al Hussein 0786867175

OLDENBOURG, ZOE

Catherine the Great

Geneva, Heron Collectors Edition. 1968. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold decoration and motifs with cream and gold diamond pattern motif to front board on green leatherette boards. Green and gold decorated endpapers. Historical appendix. Yellow page marker bound in. 26 illustrations. Uniform with Women Who Made History Series. 14. Fine/No Jacket.

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N° du livre: 000775

Catalogue: Biography - Russian - General

OLIPHANT, MRS.

The Makers of Florence - Dante, Giotto, Savonarola and Their City

London, Macmillan. 1889. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gilt title and decoration to spine, gilt fleur-de-lys motif, decoration and rules to front on green cloth boards. Boards are clean and unmarked with only a little wear to spine head and tail. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. Top edge gilt and green endpapers. A Very Good + copy of this work first printed in 1876. With frontispiece portrait of Savonarola engraved by C.H. Jeens tissue guarded and 53 illustrations from drawings by by Professor Delamotte. xx and 422 pages + publisher's catalogue. A most attractive volume in very good condtion. C3B. Very Good TEG/No Jacket.

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N° du livre: 001844

Catalogue: Biography - General

Mots-clés: Dante, Giotto, Savonarola

ORMROD, RICHARD

Una Troubridge - the Friend of Radclyffe Hall

London, Jonathan Cape. 1984, First Edition. (ISBN: 0224021796). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xviii + 340 pages. 30 illustrations. When Una Troubridge (1887-1963) died at the age of 76 part of the inscription she had instructed her executors to put on her coffin read: Una Vincenzo Troubridge, The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. It is clear that Una considered that the most significant thing she had done in her life was to dedicate herself body and soul from the age of 28 to 'John' Radclyffe Hall, as lover, companion, comrade in arms, secretary and, latterly, nurse. For this she effectively relinquished husband, child, mother, friends and social approval. It is a love story as compelling as the Brownings and, strangely, little has been written about either of the central characters. What we know about the author of The Well of Loneliness has come from Una, while Una has until now remained an enigma. Yet she was a gifted singer, the only sculptor for whom Nihinsky ever sat and Colette's first English translator. Born Margot Elena Gertrude Taylor, she was nicknamed Una by her family as a child and chose the middle name Vincenzo herself, after her Florentine relatives. She married Captain Ernest Troubridge in October 1908; they had one daughter, Andrea. Ernest Troubridge rose to the rank of admiral during and immediately after the First World War, and Una gained her title when Admiral Troubridge was knighted in June 1919, although they were already legally separated at the time. D4E. Fine/Fine.

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N° du livre: 009826

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Mots-clés: 0224021796

OVERBYE, DENNIS

Einstein in Love - a Scientific Romance

London, Bloomsbury. 2001, First. (ISBN: 0747553238). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. xv + 416 pages. No figure towers over the intellectual landscape of the 20th century more compellingly than Albert Einstein. This is the first biography of the great physicist to focus on his life during the first two decades of the century, when he invented relativity, with its elastic view of space and time, and first glimpsed the quantum chaos in the heart of atoms. Despite his brilliance, he was also a young man in love - not only with the exhilarating vistas of physics, but with the extraordinary woman who was to become his first wife. Mileva Maric was a brooding and gifted Serb mathematician who was intellectual collaborator and emotional adversary. Drawing upon hundreds of unpublished letters and a decade of research, Overbye reveals Einstein as a self-styled bohemian, a poet, a violinist and a self-confident, charismatic whirlwind who left personal and professional turmoil in his wake. L. Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 010255

Catalogue: Biography - General

Mots-clés: Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric 0747553238

PARKIN, MOLLY

Moll - the Making of Molly Parkin - an Autobiography

London, Victor Gollancz. 1993, First Edition. (ISBN: 0575053895). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 272 pages. 43 photographs. The writer, fashion guru, painter, poet-performer and media personality recounts her life story in which nothing is held back, witty, sexy, totally honest and reveals a funny, talented and generous woman. 43 photographs. D4D. Fine/Fine.

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N° du livre: 009871

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Mots-clés: 0575053895

PEPPERALL, R.A.

Emigrant to Australia

London, Latimer House. 1948, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Silver title on blue cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear but with a small amount of fading to spine head. Internally there is light foxing to closed edges and a touch to endpapers else clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has some chipping, small closed tears, wear to edges and is not price clipped. After the First World War, just as after that of the Second World War, the economic situation in Great Britain was difficult. Thousands of young men, newly released from the armed forces anxious to launch themselves afresh, found themselves hampered and frustrated, and in desperation turned their thoughts to the Dominions overseas. The author was one of that generation, a professional soldier, yet now retired from the Indian Army, who emigrated to Australia in 1923. Of Australia and of farming he knew nothing, settling down to a life wholly strange to him. How did he fare? With what unexpected problems and difficulties did he have to cope? What lessons does his experience offer to those who would like to emigrate? A fascinating tale of an early emigrant and of farming in Australia. 1. Very Good/Good.

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N° du livre: 008269

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Mots-clés: Australia, Emigration in the 1920's, Australian Farming, Biography