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Howe, Geoffrey
Conflict of Loyalty
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. First printing of first edition, signed and dedicated by author on title page. Invitation to book signing laid-in. Minor edge and shelfwear to jacket; page block faintly marked and page edges lightly tanned. No other notable flaws, very good condition. AD Used
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Miller, Arthur
Timebends: A Life
Hardcover, first edition, with unclipped dust jacket. Signed by author on title page. Light edgewear to jacket, tanning to page block and to page edges, faint mark to FEP and to page block head. Boards excellent, spine tight and contents clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Aitken, Jonathan
Pride and Perjury
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. First impression of first printing, signed and dedicated by author on title page. Jacket is edgeworn with a 2cm tear to spine head, boards are rubbed at edges and corners, page block and page edges are tanned. Contents are unmarked and spine is tight. AD Used
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Chamberlain, Geoffrey
Special Delivery: The Life of the Celebrated British Obstetrician: William Nixon
Paperback. Very faint crease on the rear leading corner of the cover, otherwise all in excellent condition. CM Used
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Kuznetsova, O.; Bone, Edith (trans.)
The Enemy under the Microscope: A Story of the Life of Pasteur
Hardcover. Translated from the Russian by Edith Bone. Publication date not stated - not 1900. The price clipped jacket (plastic protected) is marked and edgeworn with nicks and creases to the edges and corners; tear to the rear lower edge. The hardcover is worn in places and has some marks along the front spine side. Light foxing on the page block and on some pages. The binding is sound, all text and illustrations are clear. CM Used
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Garland, Joseph
A Time for Remembering
Hardcover. Newspaper clipping of the obituary of Dr Joseph Garland, laid in. Rather sunned and edgeworn jacket with a few light marks. Fading on the hardcover spine ends. Pages are clean and sound; all content is clear. CM Used
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Blunden, Edmund; Stallworthy, Jon
Undertones of War
Hardcover without jacket, in card slipcase. Very good condition. Several marks to front board and page block head. Internally pages are clean and contents are bright and clear. A few small and minor marks and scores to slipcase. TA Used
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Dixon, Mark
An Eton Schoolboy's Album
Hardcover. Very good condition. Dust jacket good condition, with protective plastic cover. RB Used
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Nye, Edwin R.; Gibson, Mary E.
Ronald Ross, Malariologist and Polymath: A Biography
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Jacket has light tanning and and light wear to edges. Faint mark to page block foot. No other notable flaws. Clean and bright. AD Used
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Bourne, Lawrence R.
Captain Coppernob: The Story of a Sailing Voyage
Hardcover, first edition, without dust jacket. Includes full colour frontispiece and 12 further illustrations. Boards are edgeworn and a tad grubby, spine is tanned, spine ends and corners mildly bumped. Foxing to page block and to most pages internally. Spine is cocked and hinge break at title page. Sticker remnant to FEP. Pages are free from any extra markings, illustrations are bright and clear. AD Used
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Sommerville, E.OE.; Ross, Martin
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
Hardcover with clear acetate jacket. Includes tissue protected frontispiece. Cocked spine and hinge break at half-title page. Foxing to page block and to pages internally throughout. Bookplate to front pastedown and penned annotation and penned name of previous owner to half-title page. Internally clean and unmarked. AD Used
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STANHOPE, [Philip Henry] Earl
Life of the Right Honourable William Pitt. 4 Volumes
Hardcover, 4 volume set, bound in brown leather with gilt borders to front and rear cover, five raised bands and gilt decoration to spine and marbled page block. Former copy of cricketer Arthur Robinson with his signature to FEP of all four books and his book plate to front pastedown of all four as well. A very handsome set in very good condition, V.1 has bumps at lower edges, V.2 has a score to front board and mark to rear. Light foxing to prelims and wear to leading corners and spine ends of boards in all. Text is clean and spines are tight. AD Used
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Dobson, J.O.; Watson, Malcolm (intro.)
Ronald Ross: Dragon Slayer - A short account of a great discovery and of the man who made it
Hardcover - very good for age. Introduction by Sir Malcolm Watson. Jacket edgeworn and lightly marked (plastic protected) with several small tears to the edges and corners, plus chipped spine ends. Tanning on the hardcover spine and marks at pastedown hinges. Minor marks on the page block and some pages which have rough cut lower edges. The binding is sound and all text is clear. CM Used
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Koestler, Arthur; Koestler, Cynthia; Harris, Harold (ed.)
Stranger on the Square
Hardcover. Edited, with an introduction and epilogue by Harold Harris. Related newspaper clippings laid in. Minor shelfwear to the jacket; faint stain on the inside at the lower edge. The inner flaps, pastedowns and endpapers are tanned. One or two creased page corners. All text and images are clear. CM Used
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Gelfand, Michael; Hely-Hutchinson, C. (foreword)
Livingstone the Doctor: His Life and Travels - A Study in Medical History
Hardcover with plastic protected jacket - unclipped. Foreword by C. Hely-Hutchinson. Minor marks, tanning and wear to the jacket. Foxing on the page block and some page edges. Name of former owner penned on front pastedown. The binding is sound; all text and the fold-out maps are clear. CM Used
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Iltis, Hugo; Paul, Eden (trans.); Paul, Cedar (trans.)
Life of Mendel
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in plastic sleeve. Includes 8 gravures, 4 half-tone plates and numerous illustrations in the text. Jacket is marked, edgeworn and scuffed at spine. Blue cloth boards are edgeworn, sunned and marked at spine and spine foot, foxed both front and rear. Foxing to endpapers and page block. Internal contents are clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Metchnikoff, Olga
Life of Elie Metchinikoff: 1845-1916
Hardcover without dust jacket. Signed by Olga Metchnikoff and dedicated to Mabel Robinson on FEP. Red cloth boards are sunned at spine, water marked at leading edges and bumped at corners. Water mark to front pastedown and faint marks to FEP. Internal contents clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Farr, Finis
Black Champion: The Life and Times of Jack Johnson
Hardcover in very good condition with good condition clipped dust jacket. Jacket is edgeworn, chipped at spine ends and inner flaps are taped to paste downs. Boards feel solid, spine is tight and contents are clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Glamann, Kristof; French, Geoffrey (trans.)
Beer and Marble: Carl Jacobsen of New Carlsberg
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Wear to jacket edges and page block lightly tanned. Bump to rear board upper leading corner. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Keynes, Milo (ed.)
Sir Francis Galton, FRS: The Legacy of His Ideas, Proceedings of the 28th Annual Symposium of the Galton Institute, London, 1991
Hardcover without dust jacket. Faint marks to boards and page block. Light tanning to edges of pages, no other notable flaws. Very good condition throughout. AD Used
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Watkins, Gwen
Portrait of a Friend
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Very good condition. Edgewear to jacket and light foxing to interior edges of jacket and page block. Spine is a little cocked; spine ends and leading corners of boards are slightly bumped. Gilt lettering to board spine. Binding is sound, pages are internally clean with clear text throughout. TA Used
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Kanigel, Robert
The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Very good condition. Light wear and light marks to jacket edges and light foxing to page block head. Pages are sound and internally clean. Contents are clear throughout. TA Used
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Smithers, David Waldron
Not a Moment to Lose: Some Reminiscences (The Memoir Club)
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Jacket spine and inner flap edges tanned and mark to rear inner flap. Bumps to upper board edges and foxing to page block head. No other notable flaws; contents clean and crisp. AD Used
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Sinclair, David
Not a Proper Doctor
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Tanning to jacket spine and edges; board spine lightly sunned; light foxing to page block head. No other notable flaws; contents crisp and clean. AD Used
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Burgess, Perry
Born of Those Years: The Autobiography of Perry Burgess
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in plastic sleeve. Jacket is edgeworn with marks to front and rear. Small tears to edges of jacket. Hinge break at FEP and foxing to page block. Boards are sound and pages are clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
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Baron, John
The Life of Edward Jenner, M.D. (Volumes 1&2)
Hardcover 2 volume set without dust jackets. Rebound green cloth boards in excellent condition, V.1 624pp, V.2 471pp. Includes illustrations of Jenner's doctrines and selections from his correspondence. Frontispiece to each volume, V.1 with tissue papper. Foxing to page blocks and prelims; marks to page block feet. No other notable flaws. Text is clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
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Julian, Robert
Postcards from Palm Springs....a Memoir
Paperback with slight crease to rear spine hinge. Otherwise like new. AD Used
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Epstein, Edward Jay
Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Minor wear to jacket edges, light marks to first and second end pages, small inked annotation to front pastedown and sticker to rear pastedown. Inked date stamp to REP and foxing to page block head. Spine is tight, boards excellent and contents clean and crisp. AD Used
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Burrough, Bryan; Helyar, John
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Minor edgewear to jacket, very slight foxing to page block and sticker to rear pastedown. Spine is tight and contents clean throughout. AD Used
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Jones, Raymond A.
Arthur Ponsonby: The Politics of Life
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket; very good condition. Jacket has a few taped repairs along edges; penned annotation to front pastedown, date stamp to REP and sticker to rear pastedown. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Wells, Stanley
Shakespeare: A Dramatic Life
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket with plastic sleeve. Crease to jacket at rear spine hinge, tanning of page block and page edges, sticker to rear pastedown. No other notable flaws, spine is tight and contents clean. AD Used
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Renoir, Jean
Ma Vie et Mes Films
Paperback in very good condition, text in French. Crease to front cover upper leading edge and light edgewear to covers. Sticker to rear inside cover. No other notable flaws, no creases to spine, text clean and clear. AD Used
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Horn, Michael
Studien Zur Geschichte Papst Eugens III (1145-1153)
Paperback in good condition, text in German. Crease to spine, light wear to cover edges and marks to page block. Bump to spine head and score to page block head. Binding is tight and contents clean. AD Used
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Berghahn, Cord-Friedrich; Biegel, Gerd; Kinzel, Till (eds.)
Johann Joachim Christoph Bode: Studien Zu Leben Und Werk
Hardcover without dust jacket. Text in German. Board edges have a few minor bumps, slight scores and very faint marks to page block. Contents crisp and clean, spine tight. Very good condtition. AD Used
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Douglas, Mary
Evans-Pritchard: His Life, Work, Writings and Ideas
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Minor wear to jacket edges, including a split at lower leading corner and sticker residue to inner front flap. A few minor marks to page block. No other notable flaws; contents clean and spine tight. AD Used
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Stewart, Jean Cantlie
The Quality of Mercy: The Lives of Sir James and Lady Cantlie
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Signed by author with the following dedication on FEP: "To Elizabeth and Tony, with grateful thanks and best wishes, Jean Cantlie Stewart, 24/3/83." Jacket is sunned at spine and worn along upper edges with a small tear at spine head. Internal contents are clean and unmarked, spine is tight. AD Used
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Twort, Antony
In Focus, Out of Step: A Biography of Frederick William Twort F.R.S. 1877-1950
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Very minor wear to jacket edges and page block has a couple of faint marks and light scores. Boards excellent, contents clean and crisp. AD Used
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Ludovici, L.J.
Fleming: Discoverer of Penicillin
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in plastic sleeve. First edition in very good condition. Jacket has some minor edgewear, plus a light crease and faint marks to rear. Boards have a few minor bumps to edges and spine has a slight lean. Minor foxing of page block. Contents are clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Cameron, Hector Charles
Joseph Lister: The Friend of Man
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Foxing to jacket front and inside, tanning to spine and a couple small tears to spine foot. Blue cloth boards are bumped at corners and lightly foxed, rear board slightly bowed. Bookplate to front pastedown, foxing to page block and few internal pages. Spine is tight and contents clean. AD Used
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Thomson, StClair
Joseph Lister 1827-1912: Personal Memories of Sir StClair Thomson
Hardcover without dust jacket. Publish date not printed, presume ca. 1940. Minor rubbing of board edges. Marks and surface tear to title page. Water mark to rear pastedown and University of London stamps to 2 internal pages. AD Used
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Permberton, John
Will Pickles of Wensleydale: The Life of a Country Doctor
Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Minor wear and light tanning of jacket edges. Tanning to endpapers and page block lightly marked. Contents clean and spine tight. AD Used
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Isherwood, Christopher
Kathleen and Frank
Hardcover - first printing. Very light wear at points on unclipped jacket, with small nick at spine foot. One or two small marks on boards. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown; another owner's label on rear pastedown. Pages are clean and sound. TS Used
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Leatherbarrow, W.J. (ed.)
Dostoevskii and Britain (Anglo-Russian Affinities Series)
Hardcover without dust jacket; printed boards. Speckled marks to page block head. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Aitken, Jonathan
Porridge and Passion
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Signed and dedicated by author on half-title page. Minor wear to jacket edges and small bump to board spine foot. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Crick, Michael
Sultan of Swing: The Life of David Butler
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Signed by David Bulter on half-title page. Like new condition. AD Used
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Schwezoff, Igor
Borzoi
Hardcover - 1st edition. The plastic protected jacket (unclipped) is edgeworn with some marks on the inner flap edges and rear. Some foxing on the page block, inside of jacket and boards. The binding is sound; all content is clear. CM Used
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Spalding, Ruth
The Improbable Puritan: A Life of Bulstrode Whitelocke 1605-1675
Hardcover - name and details of former owner Jean Tsushima penned on FEP; another owner's details also penned on the same endpaper. Jacket shelfworn with a sticker on the front flap. Small tear on the lower edge of the rear of the jacket which is also a little sunned. Traces of foxing on the rear inner flap, page block and at a few points inside. The binding is sound, all content is clear. CM Used
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Graves, Robert
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
Hardcover, first edition, first impression, second issue. Very good condition book in good condition jacket with original price sticker to front flap. Salmon coloured cloth boards with gilt printing to spine, lightly worn at edges. Jacket is tanned at spine and edgeworn with chips and small tears, plus taped repairs to spine ends and corners verso. As stated, second issue, with the infamous Sassoon poem excised and replaced with asterisks. Includes 7 illustrations, an errata slip bound in at page 398 and publisher's order-form brochure entitled "War: Robert Graves, Ernst Hemmingway, F.A. Voigt, A.D. Gristwood, E.E. Cummings", advertising the selection of First World War memoirs by these writers and published by Cape is laid-in. The spine is tight and the contents are clean throughout. AD Used
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Baker, Randall
King Husain and the Kingdom of Hejaz
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Light sunning of jacket spine and minor wear to jacket edges and corners. Boards and jacket bumped at lower leading corners. No other notable flaws, clean throughout. AD Used
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Greave, Peter
The Seventh Gate
Paperback in very good condition. Minor edgewear to covers and light tanning of page block. Minor pen mark to half-title page and small mark to inside rear cover. Clean throughout and binding sound. AD Used
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