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Scurr, Ruth
John Aubrey: My Own Life
Hardcover with jacket. Very good condition. CM Used
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Coote, Colin
A Companion of Honour: The Story of Walter Elliot
Hardcover (no jacket) in good condition. The spine is slightly cocked with some minor wear. Foxing on the page block and a few pages. The binding is sound with clear text and images. CM Used
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Davis, William C.
Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater
Hardcover with jacket. Very good condition with clean and sound pages. CM Used
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Brailsford, Mabel Richmond
The Making of William Penn
Hardcover in good condition. No jacket. First edition. Not ex-library. With woodcut frontispiece by Clare Leighton. Rear board is lightly marked. Leading corners, lower edges and spine ends are bumped and worn. Spine is sunned. Page block and pages are foxed. Upper leading corners of early pages are bumped. Text is clear throughout. HCW Used
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Nickalls, G. O. (Gully)
A Rainbow in the Sky: Reminiscences
Hardcover in very good condition, with good jacket. Plastic-protected jacket is sunned, lightly marked and nicked. Front flap is price-clipped. Hardcover spine ends are bumped. Page block is lightly foxed, slightly affecting page edges. Penned dedication on front pastedown. Text is clear throughout. HCW Used
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Trevor-Roper, H. R.
Archbishop Laud, 1573 - 1645
Hardcover in good condition. No jacket. Second edition. Previously owned by Roger Lockyer. Lockyer's bookplate on FEP. Nine pages of 1641 comparison of Cardinal Wolsey and Laud laid-in. Boards are lightly scored. Spine ends are bumped and nicked. Page block is marked and tanned. Minor bumps and nicks on leading edges of a few pages. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. Spine is cocked but binding remains intact. HCW Used
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Olley, Gordon P.
A Million Miles in the Air: Personal Experiences, Impressions, and Stories of Travel By Air (The "Great Adventure" Series)
Hardcover with jacket in acceptable condition. Plastic-protected jacket is marked, creased and torn. Some tears are repaired with tape. Front lower edge and spine foot of jacket are chipped. Jacket spine is sunned. Page block and pages are tanned and foxed. Gap in binding on reverse of half title page is taped. Frontispiece is partially detached. Spine is slightly cocked but binding remains intact. Contents are clear throughout. HCW Used
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Graves, Charles
Great Days
Hardcover with jacket in acceptable condition. This book does not have a publication date. It was not published in 1900. Jacket, boards and page block are marked. Jacket leading corners, edges and spine ends are worn, creased and nicked. Two centimetre tear on rear of jacket. Damp damage has stained and warped rear of jacket, rear board and closing pages. Hardcover leading corners, edges and spine ends are lightly bumped. Pages are creased and lightly foxed. Text is clear throughout. Binding is sound. HCW Used
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Grey, Jeffrey
Australian Brass: The Career of Lieutenant General Sir Horace Robertson
Minor sunning to jacket spine and front. Contents are sound and clean, and the text is clear. TH. Used
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Barrett, Paul H.; Gautrey, Peter J.; Herbert, Sandra; Kohn, David; Smith, Sydney (eds.)
Charles Darwin's Notebooks, 1836-1844: Geology, Transmutation of Species, Metaphysical Enquiries
Hardcover (no jacket) in good condition. Lightly worn spine ends and leading corners. The page block is marked. Bumps and small tears to the lower rear pastedown hinge, also affecting the closing few pages and BEP. The binding is sound with clear text throughout. CM Used
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Skinner, B. F.
Particulars of My Life: Part One of an Autobiography
Paperback (part one) in very good condition. Small creases on the front and spine foot. Pages are clean and sound; all text and images are clear. CM Used
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Almogi, Yosef
Total Commitment
Hardcover in very good condition, with good jacket. Price-clipped jacket is lightly marked, scored and worn, with a few minor nicks. Three centimetre tear on front upper edge of jacket. Hardcover spine ends are lightly bumped and worn. Page block is marked. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. HCW Used
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Lundquist, James
Theodore Dreiser
Hardcover (no jacket) in good condition. Second printing, 1978. Ex-library. Light exterior edgewear. Labels on the front pastedown and copyright page; some pen on the latter. Minor abrasion on FEP. Stamps at a few points. Text is clear and the binding is sound. Used
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Hakutani, Yoshinobu
Young Dreiser: A Critical Study
Hardcover (no jacket) in good condition. Ex-library. Minor exterior edgewear. Labels on the pastedowns and reverse of FEP. Stamps on the page block and at a few points inside. Binding is sound; all content is clear. Used
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Hoffnung, Annetta
Gerard Hoffnung: His Biography
Hardcover with jacket in good condition. Signed and dedicated by author to Derek Ingram on title page. With foreword by Peter Ustinov. Relevant clippings, exhibition flyers etc. laid in. Price-clipped jacket is marked, scored and sunned, with minor edge-wear. Jacket spine head is nicked. Minor marks and fading on boards. Spine foot is bumped. Page block is marked. Pages are clean and contents are clear throughout. Spine is cocked but binding remains intact. HCW Used
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Sillitoe, Alan
Life Without Armour
Hardcover with plastic-protected jacket in good condition. First edition. Four centimetre split on front spine side. Hardcover spine ends are lightly bumped and worn. Minor nick on spine foot. Page block and pages are tanned. Text is clear throughout. Spine is cocked but binding remains intact. HCW Used
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Mahler-Werfel, Alma
Alma Mahler-Werfel: Diaries 1898-1902
Paperback; minor shelfwear to the cover; the spine is lightly creased; a few faint scores on the rear of cover. Foxing on the opening title pages. Very good condition, with sound binding and clear content. From the German edition, transcribed and edited by Antony Beaumont and Susanne Rode-Breymann. CM Used
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Paget, Stephen
John Hunter: Man of Science and Surgeon (1728 - 1793) (Masters of Medicine)
Hardcover in good condition. No jacket. 272 pages. Gilt-decorated boards and spine are stained. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are bumped and worn. Page block and rough-cut pages are lightly marked and tanned. Penned dedication on FEP. Light creases throughout pages. Binding is visible between some pages but remains intact. Text is clear throughout. HCW Used
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Payne, Joseph Frank
Thomas Sydenham (Masters of Medicine)
Hardcover in acceptable condition. No jacket. Ex-Peel Park library. Gilt-decorated boards and spine are stained. Sticker on tanned spine. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are bumped and worn. Spine ends are torn. Page block and rough-cut pages are lightly marked and tanned. Label on front pastedown. Early pages from FEP to frontispiece are detached. Stamps on some pages. Label remains on FEP. Pen on title page. Light creases throughout pages. A few pages are nicked and chipped. Binding is visible between some pages but remains intact. Text is clear throughout. HCW Used
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Milner II, Clyde A.; O'Connor, Carol A.
As Big as the West: The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart
Hardcover with jacket. Very good condition. CM Used
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Shaw, Anthony
The Upside of Trouble
Hardcover. The lightest of wear to one or two edges of jacket; contents are clean and sound. TS Used
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Klima, Ivan
My Golden Trades
Hardcover. First edition, first printing. The lightest of wear to jacket's upper edge. Pages are clean and sound; very good condition. TS Used
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Patten, Robert L.
George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art: Volume 1: 1792-1835
Hardcover (volume one) in very good condition. The jacket spine is sunned. Minor bumps to the jacket and hardcover upper leading corners. Pen mark on the FEP. Pages are clean and sound; all content is clear. CM Used
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Anthony Powell
Journals 1990 - 1992
Hardcover in Very Good condition. First Edition. Shelf wear along the edges of the jacket. Sunning on the spine and front cover. Browning to pages, text is clear. Used
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Frank MacShane
The Life of John O'Hara
Hardcover in good condition with dust jacket. Jacket not priced clipped. Sunning on the spine. Wear long the edges and ends of the jacket. Ends of the spine are slightly creased. Light tanning on the FEP and BEP. Newspaper article about O'Hara inside. Dated 22/3/81 from the Sunday Times. Small pen mark on the bottom of the boards. Pages are clear. Used
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Schom, Alan
Emile Zola: A Bourgeois Rebel
Hardcover in very good condition. Minor shelfwear to the jacket; small repaired nick on the front upper edge. Pages are clean and sound; all content is clear. CM Used
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Walker, Nigel
A Man Without Loyalties: A Penologist's Afterthoughts
Hardcover with jacket in good condition. Jacket is lightly scored and worn with a few minor nicks. Hardcover spine is slightly cocked with bumped and worn ends. Page block is lightly marked. A few pages are dog-eared. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. HCW Used
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McDonald, Deborah
Clara Collet, 1860 - 1948: An Educated Working Woman
Paperback in good condition. Covers are lightly scored and edge-worn. Spine is cocked. Page block and a few pages are lightly marked. Pencilled underlining and marginalia throughout pages. A few pages are dog-eared. Text remains legible throughout. HCW Used
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Ferris, Paul (Ed.)
Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters
Hardcover in very good condition. Minor shelfwear and sunning to the jacket. Light wear and one or two small marks on the hardcover spine ends. Minor marks on the page block. Pages are clean and sound; all text is clear. CM Used
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Bell, Anne Olivier (ed.)
The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume IV: 1931-1935
Hardcover in good condition. The price clipped jacket has been laminated to the hardcover. The spine is sunned (not affecting text) and the rear has a few light marks. Faint marks on the page block and endpaper edges. Small amount of correction fluid on the FEP. Pages are clean and sound; all text is clear. CM Used
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Wilson, Edmund
A Prelude: Landscapes, Characters and Conversations from the Earlier Years of My Life
Hardcover with jacket in very good condition. Price-clipped jacket is lightly worn. Hardcover spine ends are lightly bumped. Hardcover leading corners are worn. Page block is lightly marked. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. HCW Used
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Addison, Jospeh; Budgell, Eustace; Hampden, John (ed.); Steele, Richard
Sir Roger De Coverly
Hardcover in good condition. No jacket. Hardcover is lightly edge-worn. Page block is lightly marked, affecting a few page edges. Text is clear throughout. HCW Used
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De La Mare, Walter
Memoirs of a Midget
Hardcover without jacket. A few marks on boards, which are bumped at corners and spine ends. Page block head is slightly discoloured. Pages are a little creased, with occasional rough edges, but this is due to war economy paper used and not any lapse in care. All text is clear, and binding is sound throughout. TS Used
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Freeman, John
A Portrait of George Moore in a Study of His Work
Hardcover with jacket in good condition. Signed and hand-numbered by author. No. 157 of 600 limited editions, signed and numbered. Jacket is marked, tanned and worn, with nicks. Hardcover edges are tanned, bumped and lightly marked. Page block and a few pages are lightly marked. Previous owner's sticker on front pastedown. Some pages are rough-cut, some remain sealed on edges. Light creases throughout. Text is clear. HCW Used
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Fiori, Giuseppe
Antonio Gramsci: Life of a Revolutionary
Hardcover with jacket in good condition. Jacket is marked, sunned and worn. Jacket leading corners, edges and spine ends are creased and nicked. Hardcover edges are marked and faded. Spine ends are bumped. Page block is marked. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. HCW Used
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Farjeon, Eleanor
Magic Casements (P.E.N. Books)
Hardcover in good condition. No jacket. Boards are marked and tanned. Leading corners, edges and spine ends are bumped and worn. Spine is nicked. Page block and pages are lightly marked and tanned. Minor creases throughout pages. Text is clear throughout. HCW Used
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Nott, John
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Recollections of an Errant Politician
Hardcover with jacket. Very good condition. First edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Minor bump to the hardcover spine foot. Light tanning on the page block. The binding is sound; all content is clear. CM Used
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Houseman, John
Final Dress
Paperback - Touchstone edition; the third volume of Houseman's memoirs, covering the years 1955 to 1974. Spine is sunned, with lightly creased ends; minor edgewear to covers; a few marks and scores, and one or two dents, on page block. Content is clear throughout, with clean, sound pages. TS Used
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Johnson, Diane
The Life of Dashiell Hammet
Hardcover. Slight scuff on jacket's rear, faintly affecting rear board; page block head is foxed. Content is clear, and pages are clean and sound. TS Used
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Flower, John E.
Pierre Courtade: The Making of a Party Scribe
Hardcover (no jacket) in very good condition. CM Used
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Callow, Philip
Walt Whitman: From Noon to Starry Night
Hardcover in very good condition. Light shelfwear to the jacket. The page block is lightly tanned. Pages are clean; text and images are clear. CM Used
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Vansittart, Peter
Paths from a White Horse: A Writer's Memoir
Hardcover with jacket. First edition, first printing. Foxing on the page block head. Pages are clean; text and images are clear. CM Used
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society: Volume 3, 1957
Hardcover with jacket in good condition. Ex-library. Jacket is marked, tanned and worn, with a few nicks. Tape on jacket edges and flaps. Labels on front flap and front pastedown. Hardcover edges are lightly marked and worn. Spine ends are bumped. Page block and a few pages are lightly marked. Stamp on title page. Creases throughout pages. Text is clear throughout. HCW Used
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society: Volume 16, 1970
Hardcover with jacket in good condition. Ex-library. No jacket. Boards are lightly worn. Spine ends are bumped. Page block is lightly marked. Stamps and labels on front pastedown and FEP. Creases throughout pages. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. HCW Used
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Ticknor, George
Life of William Hickling Prescott
Roughcut pages. RUbbing to covers, so much so that 1/3 are speckled. A kind of nice gradient effect though Used
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Leaming, Barbara
Orson Welles
Hardcover in very good condition. Light tanning and shelfwear to the jacket. Pages are clean; text and images are clear. CM Used
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De Botton, Alain
Kiss & Tell
Hardcover with jacket in very good condition. First edition, first printing. Minor bumps on jacket and hardcover edges. Page block is lightly marked. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. HCW Used
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Eastlake Smith, Charles (ed.); Lady Eastlake
Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake: Vol. II
Hardcover in good condition. No jacket. Volume two only. 9, 331 pp. With eight facsimiles of Lady Eastlake's drawings. Hardcover is lightly marked, worn and faded. Spine ends are bumped. Rough-cut pages are lightly marked. Minor tears on pastedown hinges, creased tissue paper for frontispiece and one or two pages. Minor abrasions on early pages. Light creases and bumps throughout pages. Spine is cocked but binding remains intact. Contents are clear throughout. HCW Used
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Obama, Barack
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Hardcover in good condition. No jacket. First thus edition. Boards and page block are lightly marked. Spine foot is bumped. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. HCW Used
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Maddux, Rachel; Walker, Nancy A. (ed.)
Communication, the Autobiography of Rachel Maddux, and Her Novella, Turnip's Blood
Hardcover with jacket in very good condition. Jacket is lightly scored and worn. Jacket edges are bumped. Jacket spine is sunned. Skoob sticker on rear of jacket. Jacket and hardcover spine ends are bumped. Hardcover edges and page block are marked. Rear leading corners are lightly bumped. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. HCW Used
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