‎BIOGRAFIA‎

‎Bethel, Dayle M‎

‎Makiguchi the Value Creator: Revolutionary Japanese Educator and Founder of Soka Gakkai‎

‎Weatherhill 1973. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item500grams ISBN:0834800772 Weatherhill hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 4949992 ISBN : 0834800772 9780834800779

‎Niecks, F‎

‎Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician Volume 1-2‎

‎Novello Ewer & Co 1888. Volume 1-2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Re-bound by library. Medium 8vo. Navy library cloth with gilt lettering on backstrip. Light external wear only. Frontispiece in vol I. Interior is secure pages clean save for foxing and a little grubbiness on a few pages. Trimmed. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1600grams ISBN: Novello, Ewer & Co hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 4949688

‎Henderson, T F‎

‎Mary Queen of Scots: Her Environment and Tragedy Volumes 1 and 2‎

‎Hutchinson 1905. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item2050grams ISBN: Hutchinson hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 3997638

‎Akiva Goldsman, based on the biography of Sylvia Nasar‎

‎BEAUTIFUL MIND Movie Script Screenplay‎

‎Script Format reprint. Like New. / 2000 REVISED DRAFT / I HAVE MORE TITLES LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR OTHER TITLES /THE SCRIPT IS PRINTED ON THREE-HOLE PUNCHED PAPER AND BOUND WITH 2 BRASS BRADS /SHIPS WITHIN 24HRS!! unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 020821010

‎TOM RICKMAN BASED ON BIOGRAPHY BY DAVID MCCULLOUGH‎

‎TRUMAN Movie Script Screenplay‎

‎Script Format reprint. Like New. / I HAVE MORE TITLES LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR OTHER TITLES / THE SCRIPT IS PRINTED ON THREE-HOLE PUNCHED PAPER AND BOUND WITH 2 BRASS BRADS /SHIPS WITHIN 24HRS!! unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 021720018

‎WHITE, Newman Ivey:‎

‎Shelley. A Biography in Two Volumes.‎

‎London: Secker & Warburg 1947. 1st edition. "This is the first biography to make use of the diary of Shelley's first sweetheart Harriet Grove; a number of letters bearing on his wife; basic information on a domestic tragedy whose effects on his work during 1818 have been almost unknown; the full story of the "daughter" of Shelley and Mary baptized in Naples; and a great mass of contemporary criticism of his work." Volume I: Pp.xvi/748 colour portrait frontispiece 40 black & white illustrations minor spotting to endpapers. Vollume II: Pp.x/642/cxlviiindex black & white portrait frontispiece 43 further black & white illustrations minor spotting to endpaers. Both volumes bound in blue cloth which has uneven bleached areas. White dustwrappers toned to spines with soiling to front and rear losses to lower front corner and large section of lower rear of Vol.I and tear and hole to front of Vol.II.both dustwrappers have a removable clear protective wrap. Scarce. A heavy set which may cost extra to send overseas. G/Good. London: Secker & Warburg, 1947. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 50398

‎LITTLEWOOD, Letty:‎

‎The Chestnut Trees. Illustrated by Mary Kent Harrison.‎

‎Wimbledon: Acme Press 1963. 1st edition. Childhood memoirs of Letty Littlewood's life growing up in the English countryside in the years leading up to the Great War. Illustrated by Mary Kent Harrison. Pp.80 frontispiece 5 further scraperboard plates and occasional vignette tree & leaf illustrations by Mary Kent Harrison inscribed "To Sheelagh with much love from Letty 1/3/67" to reverse of frontispiece pink chestnut leaf pattern endpapers some cracking to inner rear hinge but holding. Dark green leatherette covered boards silver titles and tree illustration to front title to spine faded wear to top and tail of spine and corner tips. Scarce. G. Wimbledon: Acme Press, 1963. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 50991

‎MOSLEY, Charlotte(editor).:‎

‎In Tearing Haste : Letters Between Deborah Devonshire snd Patrick Leigh Fermor. Signed.‎

‎ndon: John Murray 2008. 1st edition. A lifelong exchange of letters full of wit and insight which will delight Leigh Fermor and Mitford fans alike. "There are glimpses of President Kennedy's inauguration weekends at Sandringham stag hunting in France filming with Errol Flynn in French Equatorial Africa and above all of life at Chatsworth the great house that Debo spent much of her life restoring and of Paddy in the house that he and his wife Joan designed and built on the southernmost peninsula of Greece." Pp.xxvi/390 16 pages of black & white photos 2 line drawings signed by both Charlotte Mosley and Deborah Devonshire to title page notation Windsor Festival Sept.08 to front free endpaper. Blue boards dustwrapper. VG/VG. ndon: John Murray, 2008. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 51013 ISBN : 0719568587 9780719568589

‎CRITTALL, Mr and Mrs FH: F H‎

‎Fifty Years of Work and Play.‎

‎London: Constable & Co.Ltd 1934. 1st edition. "i have described my childhood and schooldays the beginnings in Bank Street Braintree of what is now the Crittall Manufacturing Company Limited its rapid and remarkable development from obscurity to great dimensions. Trade Unions Wages and Housing are also dealt with concluding with some comments of Safeguarding." Author's preface. Autobiography and industrial history with concluding section "Strange Lands and Stranger People" devoted to extraxts from the author's wife's travel diaries. Pp.260 black & white portrait frontispiece 31 further black & white photo illustrations loss to top third of front free endpaper owner's details to inside front board. Brown cloth dustwrapper is worn with long vertical tear to spine edge and losses to top and tail and corners but is now in a removable clear protective wrap. Scarce. G/ Fair. "Crittall�s story begins in 1849 with an ironmonger�s shop in Braintree England owned by Frances Berrington Crittall. In 1884 his son Francis Henry Crittall took the helm and made the pivotal decision to help pioneer the production of steel-framed windows.Over the coming decades Crittall grew rapidly. During both World Wars Crittall factories shifted production to support the war effort. Women workers made munitions and crucial war supplies including Bailey bridges wing spars for planes and windows for military buildings." CrittallWindowsUK. London: Constable & Co.Ltd, 1934. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 51313

‎GEIGER, Hermann:‎

‎Geiger Der Gletscherflieger. Signed.‎

‎Lausanne: Marguerat 1954. 1st edition. Trans: The Glacier Pilot. Autobiography of Hermann Geiger Swiss aviator and search and rescue pilot whose heroic actions gave him national hero status in Switzerland. Known as "The Glacier Pilot" he pioneered the art of landing his Piper PA-18 on glaciers in the Swiss Alps like no other. Text in German. Pp.210/iv tipped-in colour photo frontispiece 1 further tipped-in colour photo and 40 black & white photo plates 9 text illustrations inscribed by the author to actor Patrick Jordan to half-title page pages tanned. Red cloth. Dustwrapper worn with scuffed wear to spinemark to lower front and tears with minor loss to corners and top and tail of spine now in a removable clear protective wrap. Plus: Signed photo postcard and photo funeral memorial card for Hermann Geiger - who died from injuries suffered in a fatal collision with a glider in 1966 at the age of 52. Also two small tanned newspaper cuttings one about him being awared the Perry Medal by the Ski Club of Great Britain; and the other recording his death loosely enclosed with the envelope addressed to Patrick Jordan. G/G. "Geigers was from Sion in Valais Switzerland the son of a farmer. His love of flying began at the age of ten when he went to an aviation club for the first time. He began working as a mechanic when he was fifteen at a garage. He built his own glider and took gliding lessons as a young man. In 1940 he trained to become a police officer giving flying lessons in his spare time. He was the first man to land his plane on Kanderfirm a 7800-foot glacier in Switzerland. He modified his Piper plane with retractable metal skies enabling him after much practice to land on glaciers and mountains where most would not dare. On 16 July 1953 he also successfully landed on the summit of Monte Rosa glacier." wiki. Patrick Jordan appeared as "Mr Puckle" in the film SOS Gletscherpilot SOS Glacier Pilot 1959. IMDb. Lausanne: Marguerat, 1954. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 51363

‎REA, Mrs George .T [Sara Rea].:‎

‎A Broken Journey. Memoir of Mrs Beatty Wife of Rev. William Beatty. Indian Missionary.‎

‎London: James Nisbet & Co. 1894. 1st edition. Memoir of Mrs Beatty Wife of Rev. William Beatty Lost in the S.S. "Roumania" October 1892. Written using letters and journals provided by her bereaved husband. Pp.xvi/184/8publisher's catalogue portrait frontispiece 8 further black & white illustrations. Blue cloth gilt title to spine publisher's labels pasted to front board bumps to corner tips wear to top of spine. G. The Liverpool and Bombay steamer Roumania was lost with nearly all on board off the coast of Portugal in a dense fog in October.1892 113 people died. London: James Nisbet & Co., 1894. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 51419

‎LIPNER, Julius J:‎

‎Brahmabandhab Upadhyay. The Life and Thought of Revolutionary.‎

‎Delhi: Oxford University Press 1999. 1st edition. Biography of Brahmabandhab Upadhyay.1861-1907. "Christian and Hindu holy man and savant prophet and revoluitionary Upadhyay was a paradoxical figure who played a key role in the struggle for independence.His fiery convictions and passionate rhetoric won him many admirers and branded him a dangerous revolutionary in the eyes of the British colonial establishment." Pp.xxiv/.409 inscribed by the author to title page. Illustrated boards have minor wear to top and tail of spine matching dustwrapper has similar wear to top and tail of spine. VG/VG. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 51986 ISBN : 0195642643 9780195642643

‎HICK, John:‎

‎John Hick. An Autobiography.‎

‎Oxford: Oneworld 2005. A vivid picture of twentieth-century society from 1950s America to racial tensions in England and in apartheid-era South Africa he recounts the events that have shaped his life including his early conversion to evangelical Christianity his role as a conscientious objector in the Second World War and his gradual - often controversial - move towards a religious pluralism embracng all the world faiths." Pp.viii/328 inscribed by the author to half-title page. Paperback. VG. Oxford: Oneworld, 2005. paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 52077 ISBN : 1851683925 9781851683925

‎CAMSELL, Charles:‎

‎Son of the North.‎

‎Toronto: The Ryerson Press 1954. 1st edition. "Born in a remote outpost of the fur trade in the North West Territories Dr Camsell spent his young manhood amongst traders Indians and prospectors in the days before the railroad tje steamboat or the airplane. He taught in a mission school was caught up in the Klondike gold rush and as freighter mail carrier explore and prospector travelled thousands of miles by canoe scow wagon and dog-team over the perilous rivers and barrens of a North that offered constant challenge to courage and endurance." Pp.xii/244 portrait frontispiece 32 further black & white photos and 3 sketch mapsgift message "To E.O.P. Eric Odin Faulkner with happy memories of Mackenzie River 1950 initials Xmas. 54" previous owner's name to front free endpaper slight toning to pages. Light brown cloth dustwrapperrubbed with edge tears and some minor losses. G/G. "Sir Eric Odin Faulkner banker was born on April 21 1914 in Saint Albans Hertfordshire. Son of Sir Alfred Edward Faulkner C.B. C.B.E. and Lady Florence Edith Faulkner. He died 8 August aged 80. Chairman of Lloyds Bank 1969-77 he oversaw its successful international merger leading to the foundation of Lloyds Bank International and the Lloyds Bank Group. Twice president of the British Bankers Association. Previously in a long career he was a Member of the Board for the Hudson's Bay Company from 1950-1970." Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1954. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 52532

‎CASSINI, Countess Marguerite:‎

‎Never a Dull Moment.‎

‎New York: Harper & Brothers 1956. 1st edition. The Memoirs of Countess Marguerite Cassini. "The daughter of an important Czarist diplomat Marguerite Cassini was born intoo a life of legendary privilege.until the Russian Revolution swept away everythin she had known." Pp.366. toning to pages.Grey spine with red boards dustwrapper worn with tears and losses. G/ Fair. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 52809

‎MANNERHEIM, Carl / LEWENHAUPT, Count Eric (translator).:‎

‎The Memoirs of Marshall Mannerheim.‎

‎New York: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc. 1954. First edition. Memoirs of the Finnish military commander and statesman. He served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War 1918 as regent of Finland 1918�1919 as commander-in-chief of the Finnish Defence Forces during World War II 1939�1945 and as the president of Finland 1944�1946. He became Finland's only field marshal in 1933 and was appointed honorary Marshal of Finland in 1942. Pp.540 black & white photo portrait frontispiece. Black boards with bump to lower front corner dustwrapper has edge chipping and tears with sone losses. Scarce. G/G. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1954. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 52879

‎CLARK, Adrian and DRONFIELD, Jeremy:‎

‎Queer Saint. The Cultured Life of Peter Watson.‎

‎London: John Blake / Metro 2015. The Cultured Life of Peter Watson who Shook Twentieth-Century Art and Shocked High Society. "When Peter Watson was murdered in his bath by a jealous boyfriend in 1956 the art world lost one of its wealthiest most influential patrons. This compelling attractive man adored by Cecil Beaton a man who was called a legend by contemporaries who was the subject of two scandalous novels and who helped launch the careers of Francis Bacon John Craxton and Lucien Freud fell victim to a fortune-hungry lover." Pp.xvi/415. Black boards dustwrapper. VG/VG. London: John Blake / Metro, 2015. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 52893 ISBN : 1784186007 9781784186005

‎ELLIS, Vivian:‎

‎I'm on a See-Saw. An Autobiography. signed.‎

‎London; Michael Joseph 1953. 1st edition. Autobiography of the English musical comedy composer best known for the song "Spread a Little Happiness" and the Paul Temple theme "Coronation Scot". Pp.270 inscribed "To musician Peter Durrent with best wishes from Vivian Ellis" to title page many black & white photos owner's name to front free endpaper slight toning to pages. Blue cloth dustwrapper design by William Maclaren has 1cm loss to top of spine and chipped wear to edges and corner tips. G/G. London; Michael Joseph, 1953. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 53094

‎EVANS, Lawrence:‎

‎Letters of Walter Pater.‎

‎Oxford: Clarendon Press 1970. 1st edition. Walter Pater's "letters here collected for the first time shed new light on an especially elusive personality and furnish significant details concerning the literary career of a major Victorian writer." Pp.xlviii/182 black & white portrait frontispiece 4 plates showing Pater's handwriting. Dak blue cloth dustwrapper has edge wear but is in a removable clear protective wrap. VG/G. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 46925

‎GHULAM RASSUL GALWAN (Aksakal of Leh).:‎

‎Servant of Sahibs. A Book to be Read Aloud.‎

‎Cambridge: W.Heffer & Sons Ltd 1923. 1st edition. Ghulam Rassul Galwan 1878-1925 was a Ladakhi explorer of Kashmiri descent after whom the Galwan River is named. He was an acclaimed guide and caravan bashi caravan manager who accompanied numerous expeditions of European explorers during the British Raj. Excerpts from his travel diary were published under the title Servant of Sahibs edited by Katherine Barrett wife of Robert Barrett. Pp.xx/282 black & white portrait frontispiece spotting to preliminaries including title page and rear endpapers. Green cloth gilt title to spine. Scarce. G. Bookplate of "Park Close Englefield Green" to inside front board. Park Close was built in the Arts & Crafts style and owned in its early years by the civil engineer and politician Urban Hanlon Broughton as his summer residence. In 1930 his widow Mrs Urban H. Broughton was still living there and at 37 Grosvenor Square London. In 2004 it was bought for 8 million pounds and the anonymous buyers renamed it "Windsor Court" but since then it has been left to deteriorate and may not be saved Cambridge: W.Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1923. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 47948

‎FREWEN, Moreton:‎

‎Melton Mowbray & Other Memories.‎

‎London: Herbert Jenkins 1924. 1st edition. Autobiography of the Anglo Irish writer Moreton Frewen. Pp.xii/311 portrait frontispiece 15 further black & white plates dampstain to margin of p.98 and top margin of facing plate. Grey cloth bleaching to top front andrear corners. Scarce. G. "Frewen was a charming if financially incompetent adventurer from an English landed gentry family known for reckless financial and political schemes. He ran through two family fortunes before being granted a remittance and "encouraged" by family to emigrate to America.He emigrated to Wyoming during the cattle boom in the 1870s and 1880s. He married an American heiress and they settled together on a huge Wyoming ranch The Prince of Wales Ranch where Frewen built an enormous log lodge/castle later destroyed by fire and ran up ever increasing debt earning the sobriquets "Mortal Ruin" and "the splendid pauper". Returning to the United Kingdom where he owned homes in London and Cork Frewen served as Vice President of the Imperial Federation League. He wrote on tariff reform and other economic matters and was an advocate of bimetallism. He became involved in Irish affairs through inheriting the Innishannon Estate some 3000 acres near Cork and through his friendships with Lord Dunraven and Timothy Healy MP. He was elected unopposed at the December 1910 general election as an All-for-Ireland League MP for North East Cork taking his seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He resigned on 5 July 1911 because his seat was needed for Healy and because of his reactionary public statements: his opposition to the Parliament Bill to remove the legislative veto of the House of Lords was proving a political liability. Later he signed the British Covenant in support of Ulster while continuing to engage in political intrigues". wiki. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1924. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 49293

‎HAWKINS, Sir John:‎

‎The Life of Samuel Johnson.‎

‎London: Printed for J.Buckland J.Rivington and Sons et al 1787. The Second edition revised and corrected. Ex library. Pp.605/15index occasional minor spotting library inkstamp to title page. Green cloth library binding black title label to spine. G. London: Printed for J.Buckland, J.Rivington and Sons, (et al), 1787. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 50039

‎BURNS, James‎

‎How to Play Tennis‎

‎NY: Macmillan 1931. Bound in green illustrated cloth stamped in black in the original dust jacket. This is the "new edition" actually the third printing with a forward by Allison Danzig. A tight clean copy in a great dust jacket. 18 copies on OCLC/Worldcat -- but exceedingly scarce in dust jacket. 112 pp. Illustrated. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good /Very Good . Macmillan Hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 7001168

‎TODD, John:‎

‎John Todd : The Story of His Life. Told Mainly by Himself.‎

‎London: Sampson Low Marston Low & Searle 1876. Compiled and Edited by John E.Todd Pastor of the Church of the Redeemer New Haven Conn. "Doctor Todd never wrote an autobiography or even kept a diary; but in his published writings under various disguises and in his letters.he has told in his own language the different parts of the story which it has been the task of the compiler to find and knit together."Preface. Ex Library. Pp.529 portrait frontispiece 9 further black & white illustrations folding bookplate with rules of Guille-All�s Library Guernsey to inside front board and library inkstamp Bibioteque Guilles-All�s Guernsey to reverse of title page small bookbinder's label W.Bone & Son Fleet St. London to inside rear board cracking to inner hinges but holding a few minor spots to preliminaries. Blue blind-stamped cloth gilt title to spine orange Guille-Alles Library label to front board wear to top and tail of spine and corner tips. Good. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1876. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 44982

‎SPARK, Dr William:‎

‎Musical Reminiscences: Past and Present.‎

‎London: Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co.Ltd 1892. 1st edition. Pp.viii/316/5catalogue portrait frontispiece 14 illustrations owner's inkstamp John Holgate to title page and inner front endpaper occasional light spotting. Red cloth gilt title to front and spine some discolouration to spine and dark patchfrom an old label to front board wear to top and tail of spine. G."Dr William Spark 1824-1897. Organist conductor and composer. One of the most influential figures in Leeds music during the second half of the 19th Century Spark's first Leeds appointment was in 1842 as deputy organist to Samuel Sebastian Wesley at Leeds Parish church; then organist and choirmaster at Chapeltown Church and from 1850 organist at St George's Church. From the opening of the Town Hall in 1858 Spark was appointed Borough later City Organist and held this post for nearly forty years. He designed the Hall's grand organ in conjunction with Henry Smart and inaugurated the Tuesday afternoon and Saturday night organ recitals. He founded the Leeds Madrigal and Motet Society and the Leeds Recreation Society. The latter organisation managed the popular People's Concerts in the Albion Street Music Hall from 1852-59. In 1864 Spark formed a 45-strong orchestra made up of local amateurs and professionals plus section principals from the Halle and Liverpool Philharmonic to give regular Wednesday subscription concerts in the Town Hall. Dr Spark conducted the orchestra's inaugural concert on 9th November 1864. He took an active part in establishing the Leeds Triennial Musical Festival and was principal organist at several festivals. Dr Spark was also a prolific composer and arranger of works for his Town Hall recitals. His largest composition the oratorio 'Immanuel' received its first performance in the Town Hall under the composer's baton in 1890."discoveringleeds. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.Ltd, 1892. hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 43460