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LEMONNIER LEON
SIR WALTER RALEIGH
LA RENAISSANCE DU LIVRE. 1931. In-8 Carré. Relié. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 242 pages augmentées de nombreuses gravures en noir et blanc dans et hors texte . Frontispice en noir et blanc de Walter Raleigh
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BONNEFON D.
LES ECRIVAINS MODERNES DE LA FRANCE OU BIOGRAPHIE DES PRINCIPAUX ECRIVAINS FRANCAIS
LIBRAIRIE FISCHBACHER. In-12 Carré. Relié demi-cuir. Etat d'usage. Coins frottés. Dos frotté. Intérieur frais. 608 pages - plats et contreplats jaspes - auteur et titre dores - dos a 5 nerfs - signet conserve - 7eme edition
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HIATT CHARLES
ELLEN TERRY AND HER IMPERSONATIONS
GEORGE BELL AND SONS. 1898. In-8 Carré. Cartonnage d'éditeurs. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 274 pages augmentées de quelques planches photos en noir et blanc . Frontispice en noir et blanc du portrait d Ellen Terry . OUVRAGE EN ANGLAIS .
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MASSIN JEAN ET BRIGITTE
VAN LUDWIG BEETHOVEN
ISBN : 2213003483. FAYARD. 1977. In-8 Carré. Relié, Jaquette. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 845 pages - jaquette abimee
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O'Brien, Justin
The Modern Prince: Charles J.Haughey and the Quest for Power
Hardcover. Jacket leading corners, edges and spine ends are slightly worn. Binding is intact, contents are clean and clear. Used
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Wilshire, Lewis
Where Kingcups Grew: A West Country Childhood
Paperback. Superficial marks on covers. Minor abrasion on spine. Binding is intact, contents are clean and clear. AM Used
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Foot, M. R. D. (ed.)
The Gladstone Diaries; Volumes I-IV
Hardcover. No jacket. Ex-library. A very good 4 volume set of this definitive collection. Uniformly bound in blue cloth, hardly used during its life in a prestigious University reference library. Ex - Library
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Meikle, Jim
Thinking Big: The History of Davis Langdon
Hardcover without jacket. Upper leading corners are bumped. Page block is a little grubby. Clear and clean throughout. Used
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Barraclough, June
First Loves: A Yorkshire Adolescence
Hardcover. Dust jacket has one or two small indentations. Small surface scratch on front board. Binding is sound and pages are tight throughout. Text is clear. AF Used
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Barraclough, June
First Loves: A Yorkshire Adolescence
Hardcover. Dust jacket has one or two small indentations. Binding is sound and pages are tight throughout. Text is clear. AF Used
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Whitelaw, Billie
Billie Whitelaw...Who He? : An Autobiography
Dust jacket, black cover with gilt lettering to spine and contents in very good clean condition. Light sunning to top of page block. Illustrated with numerous b / w plates from photographs. Used
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Janssen, Frans A.
Dibdin in Paris (1818)
Hardcover with slightly tanned front board. Pages are clean, binding is sound, and text remains clear throughout. No dust jacket. T Used
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Ball, Stuart
Winston Churchill: Vidas Historicas
Text in Potuguese language. Hardcover with lightly bumped leading corners and some superficial scores and scuffs. Tiny scrape on foot of spine. Pages are clean and tight hroughout. T Used
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Fletcher, C.
Joseph Conrad (British Library Writers' Lives)
Text in Japanese language. Paperback with some superficial scores and scuffs. Pages are clean, binding is sound, and text remains clear throughout. T Used
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Spaulding, Jonathan
Ansel Adams and the American Landscape: A Biography
Hardcover. New. AF
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Whitelaw, Billie
Billie Whitelaw...Who He?
Paperback. A few light marks on covers. Foxing on page block, early and closing pages. Binding is intact, contents are clear. AM Used
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Darwin, Francis (ed.)
Life of Charles Darwin
Hardcover. No jacket. Boards are marked. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are worn. Nicks on spine ends. Spine is slightly cocked. Page block is tanned and marked. Frontispiece and tissue paper are detached. Hinge is visible between title page and front pastedown. Several marks in the volume. Contents are clear. AM Used
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Froude, James Anthony
Caesar: A Sketch
Original brown hardcover with bumped and nicked spine ends and lightly worn leading corners and spine edges. Small surface tear on spine body. One small tear on upper edge of rear board. A few superficial scores, scuffs and marks on boards. Minor age spotting to page block, endpapers and title pages. Pencil underlining and marginalia on pages 396 - 411. Text is clear throughout. Volume is slightly cocked, but binding remains intact. Includes folded colour map. No dust jacket. T Used
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Cooke, William
Edward Thomas: A Critical Biography
Hardcover. Rear of jacket is tanned and marked. Jacket leading corners, edges and spine ends are slightly worn and creased. Boards are lightly marked. Hardcover spine ends are a little bumped. Previous owner's name penned on FEP. Binding is intact, contents are clean and clear. AM Used
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O'Donnell, Josephine
Among the Covent Garden Stars
No dust jacket. Hardcover. Foreword by Sir Thomas Beecham, Bart. Penned dedication by the author on FEP. Boards have a few minor surface marks and scratches. Spine ends are a little worn, bumped and frayed. Leading corners are slightly worn. Page block and pages are lightly tanned and foxed. Binding is intact. Text and illustrations remain clear. AF Used
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Masson, David
The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey
Vol. II - Autobiography and literary reminscences. Used
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Houin, Charles; Bourguignon, Jean
Vie d'Arthur Rimbaud (Biographies Payot)
Includes the text of private dedication by editor Michel Drouin. Text in French language. Paperback with lightly creased lower leading corner and a few superficial scratches. Neat pen marginalia on page 10. Minor bump through lower leading corners of final pages. Binding is sound throughout. T Used
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Morshead, O. F.; Shepard, Ernest H. (ed's)
The Diary of Samuel Pepys Selections
Book has wear / creasing at head and tail of spine, small rip at bottom of spine, boards are lightly bumped, grubby marks on front and back boards. No jacket. Small grubby marks on page block. Contents are clean, bright and tight. J Used
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Unknown, Unknown
Display: 5 German Authors Their Life and Work
Book is in good condition, covers and spine soiled, creased on spine, worn on covers along - side spine, lightly worn at edges and corners of covers, minor scratch at top edge on front cover, minor marks on page block, very mall pen scribble on FEP and inside front cover. Used
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Elliott, Brian
Marcus Clarke
Ex - library. Jacket is in good condition, faint grubby marks all over, price clipped, wear at head and tail of spine, 'BCLA' written on spine of jacket and book. Book itself is worn at head and tail of spine, slightly bumped at corners of covers. FEP roughly removed, usuall library stamps on half itle page, back of title page, etc. Large browned area on BEP, soiled on top of page block, stamp on bottom of page block. Pages are slightly yellowed, otherwise clear and tight. J Ex - Library
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Martin, Theodore
Memoir of William Edmondstoune Aytoun
No dust jacket. Boards are rather grubby but in reasonable condition given book's age. Hardcover spine has become detached from book spine. Three nicks to spine head, which is also worn and creased. Board fabric coming away from spine foot. Spine is faded, with several abrasions, but text still legible. Front board has several small black marks and leading corners are rather worn. Pencil and pen marks on front pastedown. Binding become detached from the beginning and spine. Pages a little yellowed and tanned around edges. Contents sound. AF Used
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Hamilton, Thomas
The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton
Jacket has creased upper edges. Jacket and hardcover leading corners, and head and foot of spine, are slightly bumped. Red mark on face of page block. Contents are sound and clean, and the text is clear. TH. Used
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Abbott, Craig S.
Marianne Morre: A Referance Guide
Hardcover without jacket. Cover is lightly shelfworn, worn at head and tail of spine, bumped at corners of boards, minor marks and scuffs on boards, gilt lettering on spine, foxed on page block. Contents are clean, bright and tight. J Used
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Stephen, Leslie
Alexander Pope
Pocket edition. English Men of Letters series. Item slightly cocked, with green decorative covers. Leading corners are slightly worn; minor wear on leading and lower edges. Spine is bumped and worn on head and foot. Page block, pastedowns and endpapers are tanned / foxed. Name inked on first blank; bookseller stamp on BEP. Small nick on edge of p.161. A few pages have inked marginalia, including some underlining with correction fluid, but with no text obscured, mainly in first two chapters. Otherwise, pages are slightly aged but generally clean with sound binding and all text remains clear. TS Used
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Marx, Arthur
Groucho
Third printing in year of publication. Ex - library. Boards worn, spine a little grubby and bumped at head and tail. Significant loss to jacket on spine and rear cover; this has been repaired and the titles filled in in coloured pencil. Several small marks on what remains of jacket, a little sunned. Endpapers tanned; bookplate and previous owner name on front endpaper; contents otherwise clean and sound. Twenty pages b&w photographs. TPW Ex - Library
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Ollard, Richard
Pepys: A Biography
Well - worn jacket, with nicked and creased edges - especially front lower. Superficial marks on jacket front and rear. Leading corners, and head and foot of spine, of jacket and hardcover, are slightly bumped. Page block is a little marked. Contents are sound and clean, and the text is clear. TH. Used
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Tibble, Anne
Alone
Shelf - worn dust jacket with numerous superficial scorings. Leading edge of front jacket quite worn. Back jacket very foxed. Spine ends and leading corners worn. Spine rather faded. Pencilled notes covering front pastedown and FEP. Endpapers slightly yellowed and foxed. Several pages of pencilled notes laid in between pages 96 and 97. Contents sound. AF Used
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Stephen, Leslie
Studies of a Biographer: Vol I, II
No dust jacket on either. Spine sun tanned. Head and foot of spine bumped with other softening of some edges and corners of boards. Puckering type effect on covers, particularly on front of vol II. Some soiling on boards. Inner hinges weakening slightly in places. Head page block dusty. Contents clean and sound. MB Used
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The British Academy
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows X (Proceedings of the British Academy 172)
No dust jacket. Binding is very well preserved. Pages are clean and crisp and printing is tight, clean and bright throughout. MB Used
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The British Academy
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows VII (Proceedings of the British Academy 153)
No dust jacket. Binding is very well preserved. Pages are clean and crisp and printing is tight, clean and bright throughout. MB Used
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Edwards, Brian
Troubles, Trials and Travels: Three London Boroughs, Old Bailey, the KGB and Me
Softcover in very good clean condition. Bottom of page block is a bit grubby. Superficial scoring on front. Pages are clean and tight throughout. Illustrated with colour and b / w photographs. T Used
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Cumming, Ian
Helvetius: His Life and Place in the History of Educational Thought
Hardcover without jacket, very faint soiling on boards, bottom corners of boards bumped, few very minor marks on back board. Contents are clean, bright and tight. J Used
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Holmes, Richard
Coleridge: Early Visions
Pictorial softcover has numerous creases along spine, significantly worn edges and creased and worn corners. Bottom of page block is a bit grubby with pen mark. Pages are tanned, but clean and tight throughout. Corners of early and last pages are lightly worn. Top corners of pages 163, 165 are lightly creased. Illustrated with numerous b / w plates. T Used
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White, Edmund
Genet
Hardcover. Signed with dedication by author. Minor shelfwear on cover. Upper and lower edges / corners lightly creased and rubbed. Spine base board is bumped. PAge block has a few minor grubbby marks. Pages are in very good condition; bright, clean, crisp. BW Used
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Rolph, C.H.
Kingsley: Life Letters and Diaries of Kingsley Martin
Hardcover. Upper front edge has small tear, approx 1cm. Upper and lower edges and corners slightly worn. Spine ends bumped and rubbed. Page block is slightly grubby with a small stain on the face and some foxing on the head. Pages are in very good condition; clean, crisp and bright. BW Used
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Lowerre, Susan
Under the Neem Tree
Softcover. Some creasing to spine foot and a small nick to spine head. Light creasing to cover spine. Edges of back cover faded. Small dent near lower rear leading corner. Cream - coloured pages clean and fresh. Contents sound. AF Used
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Martin, Kingsley
Editor: a Second Volume of Autobiography, 1931 - 1945
Ex - library. Jacket sunned behind slightly grubby plastic jacket; call no. on spine. Some light stains on outside edge of page block. FEP torn out; some inkstamps on front matter. Contents otherwise clean and sound. TPW Ex - Library
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Markus, Julia
Dared and Done : The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
Paperback. Minor shelfwear on cover. Page block foot is grubby. Pages are bright, clean, crisp, in very good condition. BW Used
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Briggs, Julia.
A Woman of Passion: Life of E.Nesbit, 1858 - 1924
Hardcover. Jacket covered in plastic jacket. Plastic jacket is slightly wrinkled and split / torn on the upper leading corners and spine head. Dust jacket is slightly sunned on and around the edges on front side. Page block head lightly foxed, there's a small stain on page block face. Pages are bright, clean, crisp, in very good condition. BW Used
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Robert, Marthe
The Psychoanalytic Revolution: Sigmund Freud's Life and Achievement
Hardcover. Dust jacket is marked. Jacket leading corners, edges and spine ends are worn and nicked. Small abrasion on jacket front flap. Hardcover spine ends and front leading corners are bumped. A few marks on page block. Binding is intact, contents are clean and clear. AM Used
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Moray, Barbara
For My Children
No dust jacket. Hardcover. Cloth boards. Gilt lettering on front board. Leading corners and spine ends a little worn. Pages very clean and fresh. Text sound and tight. Illustrated with black and white photographs. AF Used
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O'Brien, Glenn
Les Rogers
Paperback. A few minor marks on covers. Leading corners and spine ends are slightly worn. Binding is intact, contents are clean and clear. AM Used
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Yeo, Margaret
The Greatest of the Borgias
First edition. Hardcover with significantly faded spine and edges of rear board, bumped spine ends and slightly worn leading corners. Brown spotting to foot of spine. Age tanning to head of page block. Foot of page block has minor grubby marks. Library sticker on inside front cover. Leading edge of BEP is lightly creased. Pages are lightly tanned. Binding is sound, and text remains clear throughout. No dust jacket. T Used
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Orlandi, Enzo (ed.)
The Life and Times of Raphael
Used
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Maynard, Theodore
The Life of Thomas Cranmer
Hardcover. No jacket. A few superficial marks on boards. Spine ends and leading corners are a little bumped. One or two minor marks on page block. Ex - libris stamps on front pastedown and FEP. Binding is intact, contents are clean and clear. AM Used
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