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Sorabji, Richard
Opening Doors: The Untold Story of Cornelia Sorabji: Reformer, Lawyer and Champion of Women's Rights in India
Hardcover in unclipped jacket, very good condition. No notable flaws. TA Used
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Hutchings, Richard J.
Alfred and Emily Tennyson: A Marriage of True Minds - A Centenary Celebration
Staple-bound paperback in very good condition. A couple of marks to rear cover, no other notable flaws. TA Used
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Pearson, Hesketh
Modern Men and Mummers
Hardcover without dust jacket. Spine is tanned and scuffed at ends, boards are rubbed at edges and front board lightly marked near spine head. Hinge break at contents page and page block tanned. 2 penned annotations to FEP and further pencilled annotation to the same, can be rubbed out if wished. Internal contents are clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Singer, Peter
The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. First edition, First Impression. Signed by author on title page. Minor shelf and edgewear to jacket, slight bumps to board spine head and board edges. No other faults, clean throughout. AD Used
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Hannah, Gavin (ed.)
The Deserted Village: The Diary of an Oxfordshire Rector - James Newton of Nuneham Courtenay 1736-86
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Minor edgewear to jacket and mark to page block face. No other faults. AD Used
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Bonnington, Chris; Clarke, Charles
Everest: The Unclimbed Ridge
Paperback in very good condition. Minor shelfwear to covers, slight crease to rear upper leading corner and light tanning of page edges. Clean throughout and spine tight. AD Used
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Heidegger, Martin; Heidegger, Gertrud (ed.); Glasgow, R.D.V. (trans.)
Letters to His Wife: 1915-1970
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Minor edgewear to jacket and bump to front upper leading board corner. Light score and mark to page block head. Hinge break and faint mark to margin of page 115. Contents otherwise clean. AD Used
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Bakharev, A.N.
I.V. Michurin: The Great Remaker of Nature
Hardcover fully bound in green cloth with gilt lettering and embossed decoration to front board and also to spine. Spine is scuffed and worn at ends, light tanning of the endpapers. Contents are clean throughout and the spine is tight. AD Used
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Zhi, Mei; Benton, Gregor (trans. & Ed.)
F: Hu Feng's Prison Years
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. First edition, First impression. Minor shelfwear to jacket and small bump to rear lower board edge. No other faults, clean throughout. AD Used
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Brook, Charles
Battling Surgeon
Paperback in good condition. Includes a dust jacket with tanning to spine and to extremities, wear to upper edges and watermark to spine head. Bump to spine head and creases to upper leading page corners. Light foxing of endpapers. Text is unmarked throughout and binding is sound. AD Used
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Dainton, Fred
Doubts and Certainties: A Personal Memoir of the 20th Century
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Light wear to jacket edges and spine ends. Small watermark to jacket inside spine foot. No other faults. Boards and pages excellent. AD Used
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Hooke, Robert; Robinson, Henry W. (ed.); Adams, Walter (ed.)
The Diary of Robert Hooke 1672-1680
Hardcover fully bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. First edition with fold-out plans and letters in excellent condition. Spine is tight and contents are clean and unmarked. Former copy of Birmingham College Lilbrary with their stamps to page block, prelims, and to reverse sides of fold-outs. AD Used
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Cammett, John M.
Antonio Gramsci and the Origins of Italian Communism
Paperback in good condition. Covers are edge and shelfworn with creases to spine. Page block is foxed. Previous owner's name and date penned to faceing title page page. Internal contents are clean throughout and binding is sound. AD Used
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Andrew Michael Roberts
Hill, Geoffrey (Writers and Their Work Series)
Paperback in very good condition. Very slight edgewear to covers. No other faults. AD Used
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Hayman, Ronald
Robert Bolt (Contemporary Playwright's Series)
Paperback in very good condition. Signed by author and dedicated to Charles Tomlinson. Covers are lightly shelfworn and crease to front lower leading corner. Some lightly pencilled notations from Tomlinson to a couple of pages. Binding is sound. AD Used
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Hayman, Ronald
John Arden (Contemporary Playwright Series)
Paperback in very good condition. Signed by author and dedicated to Charles Tomlinson. Minor shelfwear to covers, no other faults. AD Used
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Hayman, Ronald
Samuel Beckett (Contemporary Playwright Series)
Paperback in very good condition. Signed by author and dedicated to Charles Tomlinson. Light foxing to inside of covers and minor shelfwear generally. Contents clean and binding sound. AD Used
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Johnson House Committee
Dr. Samuel Johnson and His Birthplace: A Retropect and Guide
Paperback in good condition. Covers lightly shelf and edgeworn, page block and prelims foxed. Previous owners' names to inside front cover and to half-title page - plus a number of names inscribed to the same. Former copy of Charles Tomlinson with his lightly pencilled annotations to a number of internal pages. Clipping from 'The Listener' laid-in. AD Used
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Campbell, Margaret
Dolmetsch: The Man and His Work
Hardcover in very good condition with a good condition clipped dust jacket. Jacket is sunned at spine and chipped at spine ends. Wear to jacket edges and tanning and foxing to jacket inside. Page block lightly marked. Boards, pages excellent. AD Used
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Plow, Geoffrey
Irmtraud Morgner: Adventures in Knowledge, 1959-1974
Paperback in like new condition. Unused shop stock with minor shelfwear only. AD Used
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Marsh, Cynthia
Maixm Gorky: Russian Dramatist
Paperback in like new condition. Unused shop stock with minor shelfwear only. AD Used
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Hayman, Ronald
John Whiting (Contemporary Playwrights Series)
Paperback in very good condition. Signed by author and dedicated to Charles Tomlinson. Light shelfwear to covers and light foxing of page block. No other faults. AD Used
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Szasz, Thomas
Karl Krause and the Soul-Doctors: A Pioneer Critic and His Criticism of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Sunning to jacket spine and watermarks to jacket rear upper and lower edges. Rear board lightly marked. Pages excellent and contents clean. AD Used
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Perutz, Max; Perutz, Vivien (Ed.)
What a Time I am Having: Selected Letters of Max Perutz
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. First edition, first impression. Jacket lightly shelf and edgeworn with small pen mark to front. Page block faintly marked and light water mark to leading edge of REP. No notable flaws. AD Used
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Goslar, MICHELE
Yourcenar
Paperback in very good condition. Signed and dedicated by author on half-title page. Text in French. Creases to spine and to front upper leading corner, minor edge and shelfwear to covers generally. Page edges lightly tanned. Pencil writing on the back page. AD Used
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Sinclair, William J.
Semmelweis: His Life and His Doctrine
Hardcover without dust jacket. Gilt lettering to spine and gilt page block head. Former copy of the British Medical Association Library, with a few of their stamps to prelims. Boards are edgeworn and bumped at corners with some tape residue across spine. Endpapers and pastedowns are lightly marked. Main contents are clean and binding is tight. AD Used
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Pearson, S. Vere
Men, Medicine and Myself
Hardcover without dust jacket. Blue cloth boards are tanned and sunned at spine and along board edges. Watermark to preface page and gift dedication penned to FEP. Text is clean and spine is tight. AD Used
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Higgins, Elizabeth Twistington
Still Life: The Story of a Struggle with Disablement
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Former library copy with usual stamps. Jacket is shelf and edgeworn with a small scuff to front. Marks from glue residue to endpapers and penned annotation to FEP. Main contents clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Ritchie, J. Ewing
The Life and Times of Viscount Palmerston: Embracing the Diplomatic and Domestic History of the British Empire During the Last Half Century, Volumes 1&2
Hardover, complete 2 volume set, 840pp each. Not dated, presume ca. 1860. Bound in 3/4 leather with gilt lettering and gilt decoration to spine. Illustrated with steel engravings from photographs and paintings. Each volume with bookplate belonging to Leonard William Harrington Hutchings on front pastedown and his shop receipt dated 1961 from Wellington, NZ, laid-in. Light wear to board extremities and corners rubbed. Slight hinge breaks at both FEPs. Internally, some minor foxing and creases to upper page corners, especially in vol.1. A very heavy set, quite handsome and in very good condition for age. AD Used
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Weintraub, Stanely (ed.)
The Playwright and the Pirate, Bernard Shaw and Frank Harris: A Correspondence
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in plastic sleeve. Tanning and light wear to jacket edges. Address label to rear pastedown. Contents clean throughout and spine tight. AD Used
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Dekker, Erwin
Jan Tinbergen (1903-1994) and the Rise of Economic Expertise
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Slight shelfwear to jacket only, almost like new. AD Used
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Daughrity, Dyron B.
A Worldly Christian: The Life and Times of Stephen Neill
Paperback in very good condition. Unread copy with creased lower leading corners of final few pages and rear cover and small scuff to spine head. No other faults, clean throughout. AD Used
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Griffen, Scott
My Heart is Africa: A Flying Adventure
Paperback in very good condition. Signed and dedicated by author on FEP. (Ink from which has bled through the page slightly). A few minor marks to page block and light rubbing of cover corners. No other faults, clean throughout. Publisher's promotional brochure laid-in. AD Used
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Woolf, Virginia; Woolf, Leonard (ed.)
A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf
Hardcover, first edition, with unclipped dust jacket designed by V.Bell. Jacket is tanned at spine and chipped at spine ends, including tears to spine sides. Tanning and wear to jacket edges. Orange cloth boards are rubbed at edges, corners and spine ends. Spine is cocked and page block is lightly foxed. Internal contents remain clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Croce, Benedetto; Collingwood, R.G. (trans.)
Benedetto Croce: An Autobiography
Hardcover with plastic sleeve, no dust jacket. Spine is tanned and front and rear boards are shelfworn. Foxing to page block and to initial few pages. Few small markings to FEP. Text is clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
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Marzillier, John
The Gossamer Thread: My Life as a Psychotherapist
Paperback in very good condition. Slightest of shelfwear to covers and faint marking to page block foot, no other faults. AD Used
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Saddlemyer, Ann
Becoming George: The Life of Mrs W.B. Yeats
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Mark to page block face and minor edgewear to jacket. Contents clean, pages excellent. AD Used
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Heisenberg, Werner; Heisenberg, Elisabeth; Hirsh-Heisenberg, Anna Maria (ed.); Heisenberg, Irene (trans.)
My Dear Li: Correspondence 1937-1946
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Light shelfwear to jacket and small taped repair to rear hinge flap. No other faults, contents clean and pages excellent. AD Used
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Smith, Christian
A Little Bit of Peace and War
Paperback in like new condition. No faults. AD Used
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Smith, Christian
A Little Bit of Peace and War
Paperback in like new condition. No faults. AD Used
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Pocock, Tom (ed.)
Travels of a London Schoolboy 1826-1830: John Pocock's Diary of Life in London and Voyages to Cape Town and Australia
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in plastic sleeve. Very good condition, clean throughout. AD Used
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Taylor, Robert
Nuffield College Memories: A Personal History
Paperback in very good condition. A few faint marks to page block, no other faults. AD Used
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Cohen, J.M.
The Life of Ludwig Mond
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Tanning to jacket spine, wear to jacket edges - including a 4cm tear to rear flap hinge and a few marks and foxing to jacket rear. Page block foxed and mark to page block face. Internal contents clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Winston, Richard
Thomas Mann: The Making of an Artist, 1875-1911, from His Childhood to the Writing of Death in Venice
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Faint marks to page block head, no other faults. Clean throughout. AD Used
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MARQUEZ, Gabriel GARCIA; Grossman, Edith (trans.)
Living to Tell the Tale
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Light edgewear to jacket and faint marks to page block face. Internally clean and unmarked throughout. AD Used
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Dilthey, Wilhelm
Briefwechsel Zwischen Wilhelm Dilthey Und Dem Grafen Paul York V.Wartenburg 1877-1897
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Modern reprint of a work from 1923 with gothic script. Board spine ends and upper corners are bumped. Page block foot has a few watermarks. Internal contents are clean and unmarked. AD Used
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Maschler, Tom
Publisher
Hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Jacket is faintly marked at rear and lightly worn at edges. Marks to page block face and foxing to page block head. Some lightly pencilled marks to page margins, can be erased if requested. Text remains clean throughout. AD Used
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Cassidy, David C.
J. Robert Oppenheimer: And the American Century
Paperback in very good condition. Light wear to lower leading corners and faint marks to page block foot. No other faults. AD Used
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Cust, Robert H. Hobart
The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, Volumes I&II
Hardcover, 2 volume set, beautifully bound in dark blue half-leather with blue cloth sides by Asprey. Spine has 5 raised bands and gilt printing, page block in full gilt and endpapers blocked with a nature motiff. This set is part of a limited run of 1500 copies, not numbered. There is minor shelf wear to the blue cloth sides, some light scoring to the page blocks, creases to title page upper leading corner in both and mark to half-title page in v.2. Both volumes with frontispiece and many illustrations; v.1 390pp, v.2 532pp. A very handsome and well preserved set. AD Used
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Scott, Samuel H.
Vignettes of Childhood: Sketches And Reflections
Hardcover without dust jacket. Boards are marked and worn at edges, page block is foxed and endpapers are tanned. Text and illustrations are clean and unmarked, binding is sound. AD Used
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