Biografia

Audrey Hepburn: The Paramount Years

NOURMAND, TONY · 2006 · Little Lane Books

A$45.00 (€27.66 | $30.49 | £23.08 | ¥4,867)

UK, Boxtree. 2006. Hardcover with dust jacket, 28.5cm. Book, 168 crisp pp, a kilo to post. faults? upper right corners bumped. Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Funny Face, Paris When It Sizzles, Breakfast at Tiffany's; these early films established Audrey Hepburn as the epitome of styl...

A Touch of Genius: The Life of T.E. Lawrence

BROWN, MALCOLM JOHNSTON · 1988 · Little Lane Books

A$36.00 (€22.13 | $24.39 | £18.46 | ¥3,894)

UK, J.M Dent & Sons Limited. 1988. Hardcover with dust jacket, 25.5cm. Book, A Touch of Genius: The Life of T.E. Lawrence by Malcolm Johnston Brown is a touch over a kilo & 232pp. reviewer says >>> This is a serious biographical work which covers the life of T. E. Lawrence, La...

Ukiyo-E to Shin Hansa: The Art of Japanese Woodblock Prints

AMY REIGLE NEWLAND (ED) · 1990 · Little Lane Books

A$45.00 (€27.66 | $30.49 | £23.08 | ¥4,867)

UK, Magna Books. 1990. Hardcover with dust jacket, 37cm. Book, Ukiyo-E to Shin Hansa: The Art of Japanese Woodblock Prints is a mighty 2 kg & 256 large format pp. Faults? top & bottom edge of dj "rolled". This well-illustrated volume tells the full story of Japanese printmakin...

The Fight for Malaya the Jungle War of Maurice Cotterill

HOLDER R.W. · 2007 · Little Lane Books

A$79.00 (€48.56 | $53.53 | £40.51 | ¥8,545)

KL, Editions Didier Millet Sdn Bhd. 2007, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9789814217200) Hardcover with dust jacket, 20cm. Book, A gripping chronicle of one man's survival in a period of chaos and deprivation, before the postwar progress of Malaysia towards independence and a new era. As ...

Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan B

KHOURI, NORMA · 2003 · Little Lane Books

A$25.00 (€15.37 | $16.94 | £12.82 | ¥2,704)

Atria Books. 2003. Hardcover with dust jacket, 24 Cm. Book, 211 crisp pp & just under 500g to post. Norma Khouri's book is a gift to the memory of her friend. In it she recounts a powerful love story that ends in an appalling tragedy, and also attempts to bring to the world's ...

Evie Hayes and I Loves Ya Back

CRAMPTON JOHN · 1992 · Little Lane Books

A$10.00 (€6.15 | $6.78 | £5.13 | ¥1,082)

Australia, Angus & Robertson. 1992, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0207174059) Hardcover with dust jacket, 24 Cm. Book, The story of the Australian show business legend Evie Hayes as well as a record of the history of Australian theatre and television. Filled with fascinating memorabilia...

The Incomparable Rex a Memoir of Rex Harrison in the 1980s

GARLAND PATRICK · 1998 · Little Lane Books

A$14.00 (€8.61 | $9.49 | £7.18 | ¥1,514)

Macmillan London Limited. 1998, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0333717961) Hardcover with dust jacket, 25cm. Book, An affectionate and witty memoir of one of Britain's great theatrical and cinematic talents. Very Good/Very Good.

Young Thomas Hardy

GITTINGS ROBERT · 1986 · Little Lane Books

A$9.00 (€5.53 | $6.10 | £4.62 | ¥973)

Penguin. 1986. (ISBN: 0140580204) Card Cover , 20cm. Book, Well researched and presented biography of Thomas Hardy by the award winning Robert Gittings. Good.

Bob Carr a Self-Made Man

WEST, ANDREW & MORRIS, RACHEL · 2003 · Little Lane Books

A$12.00 (€7.38 | $8.13 | £6.15 | ¥1,298)

Australia, HarperCollins. 2003. Soft cover with dust jacket, 19.5cm. Book, 423pp, 2 photo sections, 800g to post. Bob Carr is in every respect a self-made man - 'a serious construction', as his childhood friend Michael Boggs describes him. If you think you know Bob Carr, think...

Barrow\S Boys

FLEMING FERGUS · 1998 · Little Lane Books

A$28.00 (€17.21 | $18.97 | £14.36 | ¥3,028)

Granta Books. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 0186207173) Hardcover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, A biography of John Barrow, who documented the exploits of explorers from the first half of the nineteenth century. 489pp & just over one kilo for post to you. Ba...

The Miracle of Hope: Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan; Political Prisoner, Prophet of Peace

ANDRé NGUYEN VAN CHAU, FRANCIS XAVIER NGUYEN VAN THUAN · 0 · Little Lane Books

A$27.00 (€16.60 | $18.29 | £13.85 | ¥2,920)

USA, Pauline Books & Media. Soft cover with dust jacket, 19cm. Book, 288 pp with two photo sections, 650g to post. Written by a personal friend of Cardinal Van Thuan, this moving biography chronicles the life of the man Pope John Paul II says was .."marked by a heroic configur...

Lafcadio Hearn

STEVENSON, ELIZABETH · 1961 · Little Lane Books

A$40.00 (€24.59 | $27.10 | £20.51 | ¥4,326)

USA, Macmillan. 1961. Hardcover with dust jacket, 24 Cm. Book, 362pp & 800g to post. Hearn's fascination with Japan was reciprocal as he was an early European visitor to many areas of Japan, so much so that the screens of his accommodation were often pierced by pinholes so the...

44 a Dublin Memoir

SHERIDAN, PETER · 1999 · Little Lane Books

A$9.00 (€5.53 | $6.10 | £4.62 | ¥973)

Macmillan. 1999. Paperback with dust jacket, 23.5cm. Book, 294pp, under 500g to post. Lovely reading! It's the 1960's Peter is 10 years old, and he's his Da's right hand man. Television has just come into the household, the Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band L.P. is being li...

A Moment of War

LEE LAURIE · 1992 · Little Lane Books

A$18.00 (€11.06 | $12.20 | £9.23 | ¥1,947)

Chivers Press Uk. 1992, 1st Thus. (ISBN: 0745175031) Hardcover with dust jacket, 25cm. Ex-Library, Large Print and ex library with frontis removed, clean pages, pen and ink illustrations. A Moment of War is an ironic, elegiac account of youthful idealism at the end of Auden's ...

My Kenya Days

THESIGER WILFRED · 1994 · Little Lane Books

A$30.00 (€18.44 | $20.33 | £15.39 | ¥3,245)

Harper Collins, London. 1994, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 000255268X) Hardcover with dust jacket, 25cm. Book, Wilfred Thesiger is one of the 20th Century's greatest travellers and explorers. His books Arabian Sands and The Marsh Arabs have been hailed as classics of modern travel writ...

Napoleon and Wellington

ROBERTS ANDREW · 2001 · Little Lane Books

A$45.00 (€27.66 | $30.49 | £23.08 | ¥4,867)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson Uk. 2001, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0297646079) Hardcover with dust jacket, 24 Cm. Book, At breakfast on the morning of the battle of Waterloo, the Emperor Napoleon declared that the Duke of Wellington was a bad general, the British were bad soldiers and that F...

Comrade Jim the Spy Who Played for Spartak

RIORDAN, JIM · 2009 · Little Lane Books

A$16.00 (€9.84 | $10.84 | £8.21 | ¥1,731)

UK, Harper Perennial. 2009. Paperback with dust jacket, 19cm. Book, 223pp, 2 photo sections, less than 500g to post. This seems to be a brilliant read, here's the synopsis >> Like many working class children growing up in the war, the young Jim Riordan would fantasize his way ...

Women War Heroines

FORTY, GEORGE & ANNE · 1997 · Little Lane Books

A$15.00 (€9.22 | $10.16 | £7.69 | ¥1,622)

UK, Arms and Armour. 1997. Hardcover with dust jacket, 24 Cm. Book, From Boudicca and Joan of Arc to Edith Cavell and Mata Hari, women have played a part in military history since the dawn of time. This book considers not only those engaged in active combat, but also the role ...

Mr Brown\S War a Diary of the Second World War

MILLGATE, HELEN (ED) · 1999 · Little Lane Books

A$26.00 (€15.98 | $17.62 | £13.33 | ¥2,812)

UK, Sutton Publishing. 1999. Paperback with dust jacket, 23cm. Book, 278pp, middle photo section, just under the 500g. Richard Brown kept a personal diary throughout the whole of the Second World War. He used it to record the course of the conflict as he perceived it, gleaned ...

Return with Honor

O'GRADY, SCOTT WITH JEFF COPLON · 1995 · Little Lane Books

A$36.00 (€22.13 | $24.39 | £18.46 | ¥3,894)

USA, Doubleday. 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket, 24.5cm. Book, 206pp, photo section, just under 500g. Return With Honor is the incredible story of U. S. Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady, who, while helping enforce the NATO No-Fly Zone in Bosnia, managed to survive a missile im...