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Sprigge, Elizabeth
Gertrude Stein: Her Life and Work
Signed and dedicated on FEP by author. Light shelfwear to DJ edges and corners. Internally clean, tight and bright Used
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Edwards, David L.; Smith, Peter (eds.)
Robert Runcie : A Portrait by His Friends
Soft cover with light crease along spine and contents in very good clean condition. Light yellowing to page edges. Illustrated with b / w plates from photographs. Clean Copy
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Daiches, D.
Milton
Library markings to spine, stamping to inner front cover and FEP. Library plate to FEP. Good clean copy, pages bright and tight. Ex Library Minimal Stamping.
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Altmann, Alexander
Moses Mendelssohn. A Biographical Study
Sound book with clean pages. Slightly discoloured dust jacket -ageing of the spine-. Used
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Niblett, Rosalind
Roman Hertfordshire
Text is clean, clear and bright. Contains black and white illustrations. Cover is in good, clean condition. Used
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Clark, Ronald W.
Benjamin Franklin
With 16pp illustrations. Ex library copy with bookplate and torn out return slip on FEP; library stamps on endpapers and page block. Classification labels taped to spine of dust jacket and cover.Dust jacket slightly faded; title wearing from spine; text clean and tight throughout Ex Library
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Gray, Ronald D.
Hitler and the Germans
Dust jacket has a protective laminate layer. Ex - library stamps in the usual places. Used
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Keller, Gottfried
Martin Sandler
Hardcover. No jacket. Cover has slight fading. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. First British Edition. Used
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Thomson, George Malcolm
Sir Francis Drake
Cover is very worn and grubby. Contents are in good clean condition. Contains some balck / white plates.
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La Follette, Robert M.
La Follette's Autobiography: A Personal narrative of Political Experiences
Layer of plastic taped to covers, has marked first and last pages. Tape also where page block meets covers and has started to detach. Text is otherwise sound and clean. Original owner's name on first page. Used
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Wilson, Romer
All Alone: The Life and Private history of Emily Jane Bronte
Hinges cracked but not yet broken; booksellers' sticker on BEP. Some wear to cover, chips at top and bottom of spine. Good condition otherwise, text clean. Used
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Churchill, Randolph S
Winston S. Churchill. 1874-1965 (8 VOLUME SET)
[I] Youth 1874-1900 (xxxvi, 608pp). [II] Young Statesman 1901-1914 (xxix, 775pp). [III] The Challenge of War 1914-1916 (xxxvii, 988pp). [IV] 1917-1922 (xvi, 967pp). [V] 1922-1939 (xxvii, 1167pp). [VI] Finest Hour 1939-1941 (xx, 1308pp). [VII] Road to Victory 1941-1945 (xx, 1417pp). [VIII] Never Despair 1945-1965 (xvii, 1438pp). All 1st Editions.
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Yeltsin, Boris
Against the Grain : An Autobiography
A sound book with clean pages and clear content.
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McLachlan, John
Rara Avis (Rare Bird): A Memoir of Richard Wright
Signed by author. Text is clean, clear and bright throughout. Cover is in very good, clean condition. Used
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Dornstein, Ken
The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky : A True Story
Sound book with clean pages and clear content. Name previous owner on FEP.
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Wordsworth, Jane
Leading Ladies: Twenty-three Outstanding Women
'Famous New Zealanders' series. With many photos of famous women from New Zealand, including Eve Rimmer, Katharine Wilson Sheppard, Learmonth Whyte Dalrymple, Mabel Bowden Howard, etc. Some wear and fading to cover; text and photographs still clean and sound. Used
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Davis, Linda H.
Onward and Upward : A Biography of Katharine S. White
Sound book with clean pages and clear content.
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Jones, J. R.
Marlborough
Noticable shelf wear / rubbing to cover. Otherwise very good condition, contents clean, sound, and bright throughout. Used
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Mohamed, Syed Hussain
My Brief
Signed/dedicated by author. No publication data (self-published?). 108pp poetry of certainly consistent quality. "Recall the youthful time of forty-one years ago, / A lonesome soul felt an intense fondness grow. / Just then Cupid came and took aim so precisely / And the rest happy to say is a matrionial story." ( from 'My Rare Gem', Sonnet 0407.) "Keep to the fair way, do not stray, / Maintain right aim and do not sway, / Develop a good routine you must try, / Never to cheat especially after a bad lie." (from 'The Fair Way'.) Light wear to cover; contents clean and sound. Used
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Mulliner, H. G.
Arthur Burroughs, A Memoir
Blue cloth cover a little scuffed and worn but in fairly good condition. Owner's name and stamp on FEP. A contempary newspaper review, dated 1937, has been attached to the pre - title page with a safety pin, and has caused some discoloration. A few light pencil marks in margins. Used
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Robinson, Kathy
Children of Silence : The Story of Sarah and Joanne's Triumph over Deafness
Dust jacket is lightly worn, clear, bright and tight. Used
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Soler, Bartolomé
Marcos Villarí
Translated from the Spanish by William Stirling. Light wear to cover, bumped at top and bottom of spine. Previous owner's ink stamp on FEP, small ink stamp reading 'GALP' on BEP; contents ohterwise clean and sound throughout. Used
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Shead, Richard
Constant Lambers
Sound book with clean pages and clear content. Stamps on FEP and last page. Some spotting on FEP. Library shelf mark label on spine of dust jacket. Light wear of DJ. Ex Library
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Medvedev, Zhores A.
Gorbachev
Sound book with clean pages and clear content.
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Cooke, Alistair
Memories of the Great and the Good
Very good condition, hinge edge of front d/w is lightly sunned, clear bright and tight. Used
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Nicolson, Nigel, (ed.)
Harold Nicolson Diaires and Letters - 1930 -39, 1939-45 and 1945 -1962
Housed in original box. THREE VOLUMES. SLight cresing to spines, some flat creasing to covers, but otherwise good clean sound copys, text tight and clear. Used
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Boston, Richard
Osbert - A Portrait of Osbert Lancaster
Pages clean, bright and tight Used
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Cary, Joyce
Memoir of the Bobots
Sound publication with clean pages and clear content. Includes publishers slip. Some discolouration of back cover.
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Hastings, MacDonald
Diane, a Victorian
Sound publication with clean pages and clear content. Slight (edge - )wear of dust jacket.
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Motion, Andrew
Philip Larkin : A Writer's Life
Sound publication with clean pages and clear content. Slight edge wear
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Wineapple, Brenda
Sister Brother : Gertrude and Leo Stein
Sound publication with clean pages and clear content.
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Reid, T. W.
The Life, Letters, and Friendships of Richard Monckton Milnes First Lord Houghton. Volume 2
Sound publication with clean pages and clear content. Slight foxing of FEP, BEP and title pages. Light wear of cover and few light marks on front cover.
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Putnam, Ruth Ed.
Life and Letters of Mary Putnam Jacobi
Corners are rubbed, both top and tail of spine are bumped, top edge of upper board is slightly softened, FEP and BEP are mildly age darkened, page block is rough cut and tanned, clear and tight. Used
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Ray, Martin (ed.)
Joseph Conrad : Interviews and Recollections
Dust jacket with light crease at back, black cover with gilt lettering on spine and contents in very good clean condition. Mild age spotting on top of page block. Clean Copy
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Britton, Carl
John Stuart Mill
Paper cover is sound with very slight signs of wear at ends of spine. Pages are clean and bright throughout. Yellowing to page edges. Previous owner's name on front inside cover. Used
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Garnett, H.
Portrait of Guy Fawkes. An Experiment in Biography
Sound publication with clean pages and clear content. Some (edge - )wear to dust jacket.
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Motion, Andrew
Philip Larkin : A Writer's Life
A number of black and white photographs throughout, clean, bright and tight. Used
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Bion, Wilfred R.
All My Sins Remembered : Another Part of a Life - The Other Side of Genius: Family Letters
jacket and binding are extremely well preserved, though with some minor signs of very light wear. pages are immaculately preserved and printing likewise. very good condition. Used
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Royce, Marion
Eunice Dyke : Health Care Pioneer
Light wear / soiling to cover, contents clean and sound throughout. Occasional black and white photos in the text. Used
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Bourne, K.
The Letters of the Third Viscount Palmerston to Laurence and Elizabeth Sulivan 1804 - 1863
Binding is slightly grubby but otherwise very well preserved. pages are clean and crisp and printing is tight clean and bright throughout. Used
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Mitchell, Donald
Gustav Mahler; Volume I : The Early Years
Soft cover looks a little edge and corner worn with creases at front. Contents in very good clean condition. Illustrated with b / w photographs, frontispiece plates and musical scores. Used
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Shirazi, J. K. M.
Life of Omar Al - Khayyami
Paper covered boards with floral design. Strip of this on spine has been replaced; mesh visible at edges of spine. Previous owner's bookplate on pastedown and name on FEP. Two articles on Omar taped in at half - title. Minor foxing to first and last couple of pages; contents otherwise clean and sound. An attractive volume despite signs of age and handling. Used
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Hadjinikolov, Vesselin; Elazar, David; Michev, Dobrin; Panayotov, Lyub Omir; Radenkova, Petra
Georgi Dimitrov 1882 - 1949
Clean red cloth boards. Endpapers a little discoloured; contents otherwise clean and sound. Dust jacket shows a little wear, torn at one corner. Publication details scarce; Sofia Press, 287 pp. Used
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Levin, Bernard
I Should Say So
Sound publication with clean pages and clear content.
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Burton, J. H.
Lives of Simon Lord lovat, and Duncan Forbes of Culloden
Sound publication with clean pages and clear content. Slight edge wear. Sticker on inside front cover. Slight light foxing throughout.
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Symonds, John Addington; Cellini, Benvenuto
The Life of Benvenuto Cellini
No dust jacket as issued. With mezzotint portrait and sixteen reproductions of Cellini's works. Red cloth covers with gilt design on front; faded on spine, slight wear, rounded corners. FEP and frontispiece detached; contents otherwise clean and sound. Gilt top edge of page block, slightly soiled. Used
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Macgibbon, David
Jean Bourdichon: A Court Painter of the Fifteenth Century
Definitive study of the greatest of French illuminators, illustrated with 31 plates + frontispiece. Privately printed at the Glasgow university press, and extremely scarce. Red cloth boards showing light wear at edges. Lightly foxed endpapers but contents otherwise clean, sound, and well - preserved throughout. Dust jacket faded on spine, shows light wear/soiling. Used
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Burney, Frances (Madame D'Arblay); Barrett, Charlotte (Ed.)
Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay. Vol I: 1778-1784
Hardcover in good condition for age. No jacket. Volume one only. Boards are marked, worn and faded. Leading corners and spine ends are bumped and nicked. Page block and some pages are foxed. Front pastedown hinge has been reinforced with paper. Binding is visible on early and closing pages, but remains intact. Previous owner's name in crayon on reverse of FEP. Some pages are creased. Text remains clear throughout. HCW Used
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Burney, Frances (Madame D'Arblay); Barrett, Charlotte (Ed.)
Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay. Vol II: 1785-1788
Hardcover in good condition for age. No jacket. Volume two only. Boards are marked. Leading corners and spine ends are bumped and nicked. Page block and pages are foxed. Tears on pastedown hinges, but binding remains intact. Hinge between FEP and title page is reinforced with paper. Previous owner's name pencilled on title page. Penned annotations on closing blank pages. Creases and nicks throughout pages. Text remains clear throughout. HCW Used
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Amis, John
Amiscellany : My Life, My Music
First edition. Light wear to dust jacket, blue cloth boards bumped a little at bottom edge. Contents clean, sound, bright throughout. Eight pages black and white plates. Used
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