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Porter, Cathy
Alexandra Kollontai: A Biography
Paperback in very good condition. Light crease to spine, very minor edgewear to covers and minor pen marks by previous owner (Lynn Walsh) to a few margins. Text is clear throughout. AD Used
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Krauze, Enrique
El Poder y el Delirio
Paperback with unclipped dust jacket and french flaps, very good condition. Text in Spanish. Both jacket and covers have minor edgewear. Page block is faintly marked. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Fulford, Roger (ed.)
Dearest Mama: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia 1861-1864
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked, foxing to page block, half-title page and inside of jacket at upper edge. Light score to jacket front. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Fulford, Roger (ed.)
Beloved Mama: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the German Crown Princess 1878-1885
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Board edges lightly rubbed, page block foxed, jacket lightly edgeworn. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Fulford, Roger (ed.)
Darling Child: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia 1871-1878
Hardcover in clipped dust jacket. Foxing to page block, title page and illustration pages. Tanning to endpapers and sunning to jacket spine. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Gray, Simon
The Year of the Jouncer
Hardcover in dust jacket. Very good condition, second impression. Flat signed by author in pen on title page. Light edgewear to jacket and jacket spine head. A couple of faint marks to page block face, boards are excellent. Pages are internally clean with clear text throughout. TA Used
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Fort, Adrian
Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor
Hardcover, first edition in unclipped dust jacket. No notable flaws. AD Used
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Spurling, Hilary
Ivy When Young: The Early Life of I. Compton-Burnett 1884-1919
Hardcover, first edition, in unclipped dust jacket. Front cover slightly bowed, page block lighlty foxed and jacket a little worn at edges. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
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Spurling, Hilary
Secret's of a Woman's Heart: The Later Life of I. Compton-Burnett 1920-1969
Hardcover, first edition in unclipped dust jacket. Very slight foxing to page block and jacket tanned at spine and edges. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Shepard, Ernest H.
Drawn from Memory
Hardcover (no jacket, as issued; red cloth); Slightly Foxed Editions no. 44, in a limited edition of 2000, this hand-numbered #1472. An excellent copy with no notable faults. Illustrated. TS Used
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Shepard, Ernest H.
Drawn from Life
Hardcover (no jacket, as issued; green cloth); Slightly Foxed Editions no. 45, in a limited edition of 2000, this hand-numbered #1472. An excellent copy with no notable faults. Illustrated. TS Used
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Holroyd, Michael
A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. First edition, first impression. Light edgewear to jacket and nicks to side edges of two pages. Small and minor score to page block face. Pages are clean and text is clear. TA Used
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Zweig, Stefan; Paul, Eden (transl.); Paul, Cedar (transl.)
Marie Antoinette
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Bookplate from Tom Maschler to front paste down. Jacket lightly edgeworn with small tear to spine head and tanning to inner edges. Spine is tight, pages are clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
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Schreiner, Olive; Rive, Richard (ed.)
Olive Schreiner Letters: Volume I 1871-1899
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Foxing to inside of jacket and sunning to jacket spine. Small mark to front board cover and light foxing to page block. Spine is tight, pages are clean and pages are unmarked throughout. AD Used
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Cecil, Hugh; Cecil, Mirabel
Clever Hearts: Desmond and Molly MacCarthy a Biography
Hardcover in clipped dust jacket, very good condition. Minor edgewear and foxing to inside of jacket, no other notable flaws. Boards excellent, pages clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Ashdown, Paddy
The Ashdown Diaries, Volume I: 1988 - 1997
Hardcover without dust jacket. First edition, first printing; signed in ink by author on title page. A few marks and light foxing to page block and faint marks to boards. Very good condition. AD Used
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Gordon, Lyndall
Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, first edition. Light foxing to page block and light edgewear to jacket, including a 2cm tear to lower leading corner. Spine is tight, pages are crisp and clean throughout. AD Used
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Holmes, Richard
Coleridge: Early Visions
Hardcover, first edition, first impression in unclipped dust jacket. Faint water mark to rear paste down, jacket lightly worn and tanned at inside edges. Spine is tight, pages clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
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Smedley, Agnes
The Great Road: The Life and Times of Chu Teh
Hardcover in very good condition; unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is edgeworn with a couple of small tears; appears to have 2 layers, the bottom one has been illustrated with pencil and is secured to boards with tape. Mapped endpapers are tanned, creases to a couple of upper leading page corners, front board slightly bowed. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
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Chamberlain, Austen
Politics From Inside: An Epistolary Chronicle 1906-1914
Hardcover, second edition, signed presentation copy. Bookplate from United University Club on front paste down and signed by author on FEP. Mark to spine and minor rubbing to edges. Page block marked at face and foot. Spine is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Bentwich, Norman
My 77 Years: An Account of My Life and Times 1883-1960
Hardcover, first edition, in clipped dust jacket with plastic protective sleeve. Jacket tanned at spine, worn at edges and foxed on inside. Tanned endpapers and page block, plus light foxing to the latter; minor pen mark to FEP. Boards excellent, spine tight, text clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Tuchman, Barbara
The Zimmermann Telegram
Hardcover with slipcase. Cloth bound with printed paper sides. Small mark in margin of intro page xii and faint marks to page block. Slipcase has a few faint marks. Spine is tight, text is clean and clear throughout. AD Used
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De Saint-Simon, Louis; Norton, Lucy (ed. & Trans.)
Historical Memoris of the Duc De Saint-Simon, A Shortened Version, Volume III: 1715-1723
Hardcover, first edition in unclipped dust jacket. A few faint marks to page block and light edgewear to jacket. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Legh, Thomas Wodehouse
Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy
Hardcovers, 2 volume set with gilt upper page block and gilt decoration to front. Edges are rubbed and bumped at corners. Page block is foxed. Vol. 1: Crack along front hinge and notes in pencil to front pastedown, foxing to a few early pages. Spines are tight and pages are sound and clear throughout. AD Used
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Repington, A. Court
After the War: A Diary
Hardcover with clear plastic dust cover, no jacket. Board edges lightly rubbed, end papers tanned, pages are rough cut. Ink stamp to FEP and annotation to the same. Tear to page 247. Text is clean and unmarked throughout. Spine is tight. AD Used
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Beatty, Richmond Croom
Lord Macaulay: Victorian Liberal
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Jacket lightly shelfworn and faintly marked at spine. Boards excellent. Stamps to FEP, all other pages clean and crisp. AD Used
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Einstein, Albert; Klein, Martin J. (ed.); Kox, A.J. (ed.); Renn, JURGEN (ed.); Schulmann, Robert (ed.)
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 3, The Swiss Years: Writings, 1909-1911
Oversized hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Text in English and German. Faint marks to page block, no other notable flaws. AD Used
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Einstein, Albert; Klein, Martin J. (ed.); Kox, A.J. (ed.); Schulmann, Robert (ed.)
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 5, The Swiss Years: Correspondence, 1902-1914
Oversized hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Text in English and German. Faint marks to page block and minor edgewear to jacket. AD Used
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Ashdown, Paddy
The Ashdown Diaries Volume II: 1997-1999
Hardcover, first edition with unclipped dust jacket. Signed by author on title page and dedicated "To Mark, Best Wishes - Remember to switch the phone off next-time! Paddy Ashdown." Jacket is edgeworn with a 3cm tear along front upper edge and crease along front lower edge. Board corners mildly bumped, faint marks to page block. Spine is tight and pages are clean throughout. AD Used
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James, Henry
A Small Boy and Others: A Memoir
Paperback. Spine slightly creased; a hint of tanning to page edges. A very good copy with clear text throughout. TS Used
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Milton, Nan
John Maclean
Paperback first edition in very good condition. Minor edgewear to covers and light scoring to page block. This copy appears to be unread. Spine is uncreased and pages are clean and crisp throughout. AD Used
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West, Rebecca; Scott, Bonnie Kime (ed.)
Selected Letters of Rebecca West
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Very good condition. Faint marks to page block and slight hinge break at title page. Page 239 has small tear to upper edge. Boards are excellent and text is clean and clear throughout. AD Used
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Hope, Adrian; Troubridge, Laura; Lancaster, Marie-Jaqueline (ed.)
Letters of Engagement 1884-1888: The Love Letters of Adrian Hope and Laura Troubridge
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket; very good condition. Minor wear to upper edge of jacket and faint mark to page block foot. Otherwise, like new. AD Used
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FERNANDEZ-Armesto, Felipe (intro.)
Columbus on Himself
Hardcover in slipcase, no dust jacket. Includes 4 maps and many illustrations in colour and b&w. Faint mark to page block head & sunned spine, otherwise book is excellent. Case has a few shelf-wear marks to one side. AD Used
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Channon, Henry; James, Robert Rhodes (ed.)
CHIPS: The Diaries or Sir Henry Channon
Hardcover, first edition, second impression, with unclipped dust jacket. Foxing to page block head, endpapers and to inside of jacket. Jacket is edgeworn and page block face has a couple light marks. Spine is tight and pages are clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
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Lutyens, Mary (ed.)
Effie in Venice: Her Picture of Society and Life with John Ruskin 1849-1852
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Jacket lightly edgeworn with a very small tear to rear near spine head. Inside of jacket is tanned at edges and lightly foxed, small mark to front flap. Spine is cocked, hinge break at title page and light foxing to page block. Internal pages are clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Lees-Milne, James
Through Wood and Dale: Diaries, 1975-1978
Hardcover in very good condition. Faint marks to page block and glue visible at front and rear paste down hinges. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Novales, Alberto Gil
William Maclure in Spain
Paperback in very good condition. Minor edge and shelfwear to covers, printing on spine slightly smudged. Author's business card laid-in. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
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LUKACS, Georg; Anchor, Robert (trans.)
Goethe and His Age
Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Board corners lightly bumped and jacket edgeworn. Spine tight, boards excellent and pages clean throughout. AD Used
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Cooper, John
Making Ends Meet: A Working Life Remembered
Paperback in very good condition, signed and dedicated by author on title page. Minor wear to front lower leading corner, otherwise like new condition. AD Used
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Crisp, Quentin
How to Become a Virgin
Hardcover, first edition, with unclipped dust jacket. Faint marks to page block foot and minor bumps to lower edges of boards, no other notable flaws. AD Used
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Montefiore-Brice, A
David Livingstone: His Labours and His Legacy
Hardover without dust jacket. Cloth boards with gilt printing and blocked design to front and to spine. No publish date printed, but presentation bookplate on front paste down is dated 1910. Faint marks to front board, tanning to spine and rubbing to board edges. Hinge break at FEP and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Text and illustrations are clear and unmarked throughout. AD Used
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Sklar, Kathryn Kish
Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900
Paperback in very good condition. Signed and dedicated by author on half-title page. Minor bump to spine head, marks to page block foot and small crease to upper leading corner of pages 39-42. Spine is tight and uncreased, pages are clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
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Jenner, Delia
Letters from Peking
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Former library copy with remains of library bookplate to FEP and library stamps to title page and copyright page. Glue residue to both paste downs and to jacket flaps, front paste down has tipex and sticker remnant as well. Jacket is edgeworn and glue residue to front and rear boards. Spine is tight and pages are clean throughout. AD Used
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Hayter, Alethea (ed.)
FitzGerald to His Friends: Selected Letters of Edward Fitzgerald
Hardcover. First edition. Jacket unclipped; spine sunned, with mark towards foot. Text is clear throughout. TS Used
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Toynbee, Philip; Bullimore, John (ed.)
End Of a Journey: An Autobiographical Journal 1979-81
Hardcover in clipped dust jacket, very good condition. Minor edgewear to jacket and a couple of small bumps to edges of boards. Dedication penned to half-title page. Pages are clean and sound. TA Used
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Jara, Joan
Victor: An Unfinished Song
Paperback in good condition. Spine is sunned and creased. Covers edgeworn and creased at corners. Faint markings to page block. Internally, pages are clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Adair, Robin (transl.)
Ease and Endurance: Being a Translation of X. Marcel Boulestin's A Londres Naguere
Hardcover (no jacket) in good condition. Minor marks, tanning and wear to the boards and cocked spine. Tanning and foxing on the page block and at several points inside. The binding remains sound with clear text and images. CM Used
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Lenin, VI; Gorky, AM; Isaacs, Bernard (trans.)
Lenin and Gorky: Letters, Reminiscences, Articles
Hardcover in very good condition with unclipped dust jacket in good condition. Jacket is edgeworn with a couple of small tears and foxing to inside. Red leatherette boards are excellent. Page block is foxed. Internally, clean and unmarked throughout; spine is tight. AD Used
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Ross, Michael
The Reluctant King: Joseph Bonaparte, King of The Two Sicilies and Spain
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Minor wear to jacket edges and price sticker remnant to inner front flap. Light foxing to page block head, faint marks to rest of page block. Boards excellent, spine is tight and pages are clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
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