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Skimpole, Herbert
Bernard Shaw: The Man and His Work
Hardcover without jacket; comes with plastic protective cover. Signature of J.I.M. Stewart, 1924, on FEP. Light marks to front board, pages lightly tanned. Marks and tanning to page block. Spine is tight and pages are internally clean. AD Used
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Flint, William Russell
In Pursuit: An Autobiography
Limited edition of 850 copies quarter bound in red leather with grey cloth, this is number 676 and is signed by author's son, Francis Russell Flint. Marbled endpapers designed by Flint, one hundred and twenty illustrations in all, of which thirteen are in full colour. Top edge gilt, gilt stamp to front and gilt printing to spine. Comes in slipcase with original ribbon still in place. Minimal rubbing to cloth on boards, very handsome. AD Used
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Gelb, Arthur; Gelb, Barbara
O'Neil: Life with Monte Cristo
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket; very good condition. Light wear to rear jacket and markings to rear paste down and inside of jacket. Otherwise, like new condition. AD Used
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Neale, J.E.; Strong, Roy (intro.)
Elizabeth I
Hardcover in slipcase; first published as "Queen Elizabeth" in 1934 by Jonathan Cape and reissued by them under the title "Queen Elizabeth I" in 1952 with a new preface. This edition published in 2005 by arrangement with Random House. Blocked with a 17th-century coin portrait of Elizabeth I from the British Museum; frontispiece features a full colour coronation portrait of Elizabeth I. Discreet blind-stamp to half-title page. Very good condition. AD Used
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Southy, Robert; Fenwick, Kenneth
Life of Nelson
Hardcover in worn slipcase. Illustrated; map endpapers; gilt-decorated blue cloth covers. Sunning to spine and light marks to rear board. Slight foxing to pageblock and initial few pages, otherwise clean and sound. AD Used
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Chaplin, Patrice
Hidden Star: Oona O'Neill Chaplin: A Memoir
Hardcover; first edition, first impression; unclipped dust jacket with very minimal edgewear. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Brocheux, Pierre; Duiker, Claire (transl.)
Ho Chi Minh: A Biography
Hardcover; unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear and crease to front inner fold. Like new condition. AD Used
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Bell, Christopher M.
Churchill and Sea Power
Hardcover; unclipped dust jacket; OUP stamp to upper pageblock. Jacket has minimal edgewear and price sticker remant to rear; faint marks to pageblock. Otherwise, like new condition. Used
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Skelton, Barbara
Weep No More
Hardcover; unclipped dust jacket in protective sleeve; very good condition. Jacket is sunned at spine, lightly worn at edges. Rear flap edge has worn down to board and there is slight wear to the board edge as well. Pages are crisp and clean; spine is tight. AD Used
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Skelton, Barbara
Tears Before Bedtime
Hardcover; first edition; unclipped dust jacket with some edgewear. Board edges also lightly worn; internally clean; spine tight. AD Used
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Napier, Priscilla
The Sword Dance: Lady Sarah Lennox and the Napiers
Hardcover in clipped dust jacket with both shelf and edgewear, starting to split at lower edge. Spine has a slight lean and there is minimal foxing to pageblock. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. Includes a fold-out family tree. AD Used
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Sykes, Christopher
Evelyn Waugh: A Biography
Hardcover; clipped dust jacket with heavily worn extremities and sunned spine. Boards are marked front and back, bumped at corners and spine ends. Pageblock lightly marked, but internal pages are clean and clear. AD Used
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Gold, Arthur; Fizdale, Robert
Misia: The Life of Misia Sert
Hardcover; first UK edition; unclipped dust jacket with wear to edges, including some small tears. Rough cut pageblock lightly foxed, boards worn at edges and bumped at corners. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. AD Used
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Blunt, Wilfrid
John Christie of Glyndebourne
Hardcover; unclipped dust jacket with sunning and light marks to spine, edges lightly worn. Faint marks to page block, no other notable flaws. AD Used
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Ireland, Alexander Mrs.
Life of Jane Welsh Carlyle
Hardcover without dust jacket; frontispiece protected with tissue paper. Boards are worn at extremities and sunned at spine, lightly bumped at corners. Foxing to pageblock and to some internal pages. Spine is a little loose. AD Used
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Bergreen, Laurence
Capone: The Man and the Era
Hardcover; unclipped dust jacket; very good condition. Jacket is sunned at spine and lightly worn at edges. Mark to pageblock and previous owner's bookplate on front paste down. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Grant, Michael; McLeish, Kenneth
Nero
Hardcover without jacket, in card slipcase. Very good condition. This edition follows the text of the first 1970 edition except for the deletion of the reference endnotes and the inclusion of an updated Further Reading list. No notable flaws, in gift quality condition. TA Used
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Greenaway, George (trans., ed.)
The Life and Death of Thomas Becket: Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury Based on the Account of William fitzStephen His Clerk with Additions from Other Contemporary Sources
Hardcover without jacket, in card slipcase. Good condition, first edition. 8cm crack to board at spine front side. General wear along spine, particularly at spine ends. Page block and pages are lightly tanned but remain sound and text is clear. Slipcase is worn with cracks at edges but remains good. TA Used
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Thoreau; Ward, Colin
Walden
Hardcover without jacket, in card slipcase. Very good condition. A few small marks to spine but no other flaws to book. Several small marks to slipcase, particularly to top side. TA Used
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Hughes, Anne; Preston, Mollie (ed.); Croucher, Michael
Anne Hughes: Her Boke
Hardcover without jacket, in card slipcase. Very good condition. Cloth bound boards with small mark to rear. Bump to head of slipcase and sunning to edges of case. TA Used
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Twain, Mark; Powers, Ron
Life on the Mississippi
Hardcover without jacket, in card slipcase. Very good condition. The text of this edition follows that of the 1984 Viking Penguin edition, including the suppressed passages, with minor emendations. A very minor mark to page block foot and only a couple of marks to slipcase, otherwise in gift quality condition. TA Used
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Cole, G.D.H.; Green, F.E.
The Life of William Cobbett
Hardcover; without dust jacket; errata slip taped in by publisher; rough cut pageblock; bookplate to front paste down. Spine is heavily faded, boards are lightly marked with minor wear to edges. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. AD Used
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Lockyer, Roger (ed.)
The History of the Great Rebellion, Edward Hyde: Earl of Clarendon
Hardcover in slipcase; published by Oxford University Press for the Folio Society; gilt decorated front board; gilt printing to spine; maps drawn by K.C. Jordan; frontispiece. Spine is faded and lightly marked, rear cover has a light blemish. Llipcase is quite worn and scuffed at edges, tanned at rear. Pages, text and images are clean and clear, spine is tight. AD Used
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Joris, Lieve
De Melancholieke Revolutie
Paperback in very good condition. Signed by author on titlepage; invitation to meet author for book signing is pasted in. Pageblock very slightly foxed, small score to rear cover and very minor wear to lower leading corner. AD Used
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Menuhin, Yehudi
Unfinished Journey: Autobiography
Hardcover; first edition; flat signed by author on FEP; unclipped dust jacket in protective cover. Pageblock lightly marked, no other notable flaws. AD Used
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Solzhenitsyn, Alexander; Willetts, H.T. (transl.)
Lenin in ZURICH: Chapters
Hardcover; first edition, first impression; unclipped dust jacket. Light edgewear to jacket and light tanning to jacket flaps. Pageblock lightly tanned and a couple of nicks to page 98. Boards are excellent and pages are clean throughout. AD Used
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Norton, David Fate
David Hume: Common-Sense Moralist, Sceptical Metaphysician
Paperback in good condition. Upper leading corner of front cover is split, cover slightly bowed, spine ends bumped and light edgewear to covers. Pages are clean throughout and spine is uncreased. AD Used
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Cooper, Thomas; Saville, John (intro.)
The Life of Thomas Cooper
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Jacket is worn at edges, including a 2cm tear to rear lower edge, and lightly marked. Small tear to front paste down. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Craig, Edward Gordon
Index to the Story of My Days: Some Memoris of Edward Gordon Craig 1872-1907
Hardcover; unclipped, plastic protected dust jacket with light edgewear, including a few small tears and a few foxing marks. Jacket designed by Edward Burrett based on woodcuts by the author. Decorative gilt spine.; frontispiece and many illustrations throughout; bookshop sticker to front paste down. Boards have light foxing to covers and edges. Pageblock and initial pages also foxed. Text and illustrations clear and clean throughout, spine is tight. AD Used
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Maxwell, Elisabeth
A Mind of My Own: My Life with Robert Maxwell
Hardcover; first edition, first impression; unclipped dust jacket with plastic protective cover. Spine slightly cocked, some light marks to pageblock. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Smith, Gordon
Mervyn Peake: A Personal Memoir
Hardcover in clipped dust jacket. Light wear to jacket corners and spine ends, light score to front cover. Boards are bumped at corners and spine ends, slight indentation to front cover board. Previous owner's name has been tipexed over on FEP. Remaining pages are clean apart from a faint mark on page 11. Includes 49 illustrations and 6 photographs, all crisp and clear. AD Used
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Gussow, Mel
Edward Albee: A Singular Journey, A Biography
Hardcover without dust jacket; few faint marks to rear board and light score to front board; tanned page edges; marks to lower pageblock. Author's obituary laid in. AD Used
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Warner, Philip
Auchinleck: The Lonely Soldier
Paperback in very good condition. Lower leading corner and spine lightly creased; tanning to pageblock and page edges. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Barker, Dudley
G.K. Chesterton: A Biography
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket; full colour frontispiece by James Gunn. Jacket has light wear to edges, but spine is sunned and has 4cm tear at head. Rear cover has a light crease across the upper third. Additional 4cm at rear upper leading corner and mark to inner rear flap. Boards have very light edgewear and slightest of bumps to corners. Pageblock lightly marked, but pages internally are clean and text is clear. AD Used
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Chesterton, G.K.; Williams, J.E. Hodder
Thomas Carlyle (The Bookman Booklets)
Hardcover with decorative red boards; first edition; numerous illustrations; frontispiece by William Barr, protected with tissue paper. Front board is sunned and marked, with a scuffed lower leading corner. Rear cover is cockled and has almost entirely come away from binding. Pageblock and page edges are lightly foxed but otherwise clean. AD Used
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Gregoire, Lucien
Murder by the Grace of God: The CIA and Pope John Paul I
Hardcover in dust jacket, like new condition. A couple of minor imperfections to jacket on spine and at rear. Boards are slightly bowed; pages are clean with clear contents. TA Used
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Thayer, Alexander; Curteis, Ian (ed. & Intro.)
Life of Beethoven
Hardcover with slipcase; no dust jacket. The text of this edition was revised by Elliot Forbes, edited by Ian Curteis and was first published by Princeton University in two volumes in 1964. Many illustrations, including full colour frontispiece and illustrated endpapers. Faint marks to lower pageblock, no other notable flaws. AD Used
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Austen-Leigh, J.E.; Weldon, Fay (intro.)
A Memoir of Jane Austen By Her Nephew
Hardcover in slipcase, no dust jacket. Includes introductions by Fay Weldon and R.W. Chapman, a full colour frontispiece and 17 b&w illustrations. Cover boards have a few very faint marks and slipcase is shelfworn with some light foxing to top. Pages are crisp and clean, spine is tight. AD Used
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Williams, Shirley
Climbing The Bookshelves: The autobiography of Shirley Williams
Very good first edition hardcover in like dustjacket (unclipped). DJ has promo sticker from BBC R4
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Sussman, Peter Y. (ed.)
Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Very good condition. Sunning to jacket at upper and side edges and faintly to spine. A few small marks to jacket on inside and outside and light edgewear. Minor scores to jacket rear and marks to page block. Pages are sound and internally clean, contents are clear throughout. TA Used
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Leslie, Ann
Killing My Own Snakes: A Memoir
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. First edition, first impression, very good condition. Flat signed by author in pen on title page. Gilt lettering to board spine. Very light wear to edges of jacket and a few minor scores to jacket. Pages are clean and sound, contents are clear. TA Used
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Trudeau, Margaret
Beyond Reason
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Very good condition. Score to page block foot and small bump to front board upper edge. Light wear to jacket edges. No other notable flaws. Pages are sound and contents are clear. TA Used
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Hall, N. John
Max Beerbohm: A Kind of a Life
Hardcover in dust jacket; jacket in clear plastic cover. Very good condition, first edition. Gilt lettering to board spine. Board spine ends are faintly bumped and bump to rear board at upper edge. No other notable flaws. Pages are sound and contents are bright and clear. TA Used
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Geist, Kenneth L.; Burton, Richard (intro.)
Pictures Will Talk: The Life and Films of Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Marks to FEP and half-title page; upper page block foxed, lower page block faintly marked; DJ lightly edgeworn and creased at inner rear flap. Boards are lightly bumped at spine ends. Pages are clean internally and text is clear. AD Used
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Taylor, John Russell
Hitch: The Life and Times of Alfred Hitchcock
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Cover slightly bowed, upper rear corner is rubbed and page block faintly marked. DJ chipped at spine ends, lightly edgeworn and rear cover tanned. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. AD Used
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Nicholson, Michael
Shooting Salmon and Hunting Lions: The Strange Story of Boppa Neslon
Hardcover, first edition, in unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Boards are bumped at spine head and lightly marked on lower edges. DJ faintly sunned at spine, worn along edges and lightly creased on rear lower edge. Small tear to jacket rear at lower leading corner, repaired with tape on inside. Pages are clean throughout and spine is tight. AD Used
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Harman, Harriet
A Woman's Work
Hardcover; first edition, first impression; unclipped dust jacket; very good condition. Jacket is marked on rear side and rear inner flap; spine is slightly cocked. Small mark on page 123. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Crosland, Susan
Tony Crosland
Hardcover; first edition; unclipped, plastic protected, dust jacket. Small dent to lower rear board edge, page block faintly marked. Jacket spine is lightly tanned and plastic slighlty puckered. Very good condition throughout. AD Used
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Barna, Yon
Eisenstein
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket with some light edge wear. Lower board edges are lightly worn and page block is slightly tanned. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Spurling, Hilary
Matisse The Master: A Life of Henri Matisse, Volume Two The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Includes many b&w illustrations and 25 colour plates. Board edges are lightly sunned, faint mark to page block, jacket edges very slightly worn. Otherwise, like new condition. AD Used
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