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Andrews, Nigel
True Myths : The Life and Times of Arnold Schwarzenegger
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with small enclosed tear and small crease to rear and very minor nicks to edges. 284pp. Born in a remote Austrian village, the son of a local policeman, Arnold Schwarzenegger became the world's greatest body-builder and then the world's highest-paid film actor. Between these two career rungs he became a millionaire by dealing in real estate. Since 1980 he has hobnobbed with two Presidents, married JFK's niece - all maybe good training for his present role as Governor of California, which he became after the events of this volume.
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O'Connor, Garry (editor)
Olivier : In Celebration
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing and faint indenting to front. 236pp. Twenty-three actors, friends, playwrights, directors and critics celebrate one of Britain's greatest actors.
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Moseley, Roy; Masheter, Philip; Masheter, Martin
Roger Moore : A Biography
No marks or inscriptions. A clean tight copy with bright unmarked boards, browning to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with browning and slight creasing to edges. 249pp. Biography of actor Roger Moore, best known in his roles in The Saint, The Persuaders and as James Bond.
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Tuska, Jon
The Complete Films of Mae West
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Very tiny crease to upper rear corner, none to front or to spine. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright boards, trace of label removal to front and no bumping to corners. 196pp. Biography of movie star Mae West, well illustrated in black & white photographs.
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Law, Denis
The King : The Autobiography
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright laminated boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 308pp. The biography of the footballer from Aberdeen who in the 1960s was the king of Old Trafford.
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Giggs, Ryan
Giggs : The Autobiography
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Price clipped dust jacket not marked, torn or creased with slight traces of handling. 309pp. Autobiography of the Manchester United and Wales stalwart footballer since 1991.
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Sampson, Curt
Hogan
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny mark to lower page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with faint creasing to spine ends. 262pp. Full-scale biography of Ben Hogan, one of the most complex and fascinating athletes of the twentieth century who won four US Opens in six years.
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Busby, Russ
Billy Graham, God's Ambassador : A Lifelong Mission of Giving Hope to the World
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked, torn or creased with very faint traces of storage. 272pp. A superb photo-biography of Christian preacher Billy Graham, capturing the public and private moments of one of the world's most prominent figures and certainly the most influential evangelist of the twentieth century.
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Goldstone, Richard H
Thornton Wilder : An Intimate Portrait
Previous owner's name on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with two tiny nicks and very light creasing to upper edge. Protected in a removable plastic sleeve. 299pp. The first full-length study of the work and life of one of the few American writers born around the start of the twentieth century whose reputation has been undiminished. His first novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey catapulted him to fame in 1927 and he remained in the literary limelight ever since.
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Derry, John W
William Pitt
Previous owner's name on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean crisp tight copy with slightly dulled unmarked boards and minor rubbing to some corners. 160pp. Biography of William Pitt the younger, born 1759 who was a Member of Parliament and later British Prime Minister through some very troubled times, including the French Revolution and War and the Irish Rebellion and Union.
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Hawk, Tony; Mortimer, Sean
Hawk : Occupation Skateboarder
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight rubbing to upper edges of lightly faded covers. 289pp. Growing up in Serra Mesa, California with a 144 IQ, Tony Hawk was a hyperactive child who struggled hard to become a champion skateboarder and created a new style of skateboarding. This is his hard-hitting autobiography.
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Knowles, Beyonce & Rowland, Kelly & williams, Michelle
Soul Survivors : The Official Autobiography of Destiny's Child
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with tiny nick to slightly creased upper edge. 280pp. The story of Destiny's Child and its three singers - Beyonce Knowles, Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland. Well illustrated in colour and black and white.
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Keeling, Peter
Masters of Old Trafford : From Busby to Ferguson, the Inside Story of the Great Managers
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor bump to bottom of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with small crease to bottom of spine and traces of storage. 230pp. The story of the managers of Manchester United, from Matt Busby who was appointed manager in 1945, through Wilf McGuinness, Frank O'Farrell, Tommy Docherty, Dave Sexton, Ron Atkinson to Alex Ferguson who has now been manager since 1986 - for 24 years. A scarce book.
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Bingham, Madeleine
Sheridan : The Track of a Comet
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing/rubbing to upper edge. 383pp. A rounded, colourful portrait of Richard Brinsley Sheridan - writer, theatre producer and politician in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, yet a man who began with neither family influence nor wealth. Illustrated.
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Kitson, Frank
When Britannia Ruled the Waves : The Heyday of the Royal Navy : The Life and Paintings of Vice Admiral Sir Henry Kitson, KBE, CB 1877-1952
Book in mint condition. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with two small repaired tears to upper edge and light creasing to upper and lower edges. 112pp. This is a story about a youth who joined the Royal Navy in 1891 and left it at sixty-five in 1942. In addition to being a successful officer who rose to high rank he was from his early days a beautiful artist. The book is a written account of his career illustrated extensively by his photographs and a wealth of his paintings. The author, his elder son, retired in 1985 as Commander-in-Chief UK Land Forces.
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Topping, Brett; Heller, Nancy
The Age of Grandeur and a Woman Who Lived It : Artist Evelyn Metzger
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, bump to upper front edge and no bumping to corners. Other than the small bump, the book is 'fine'. 263pp. Biography of Evelyn Metzger, born in New York in 1911 and a woman who has travelled through life first class. The book is her story and is filled with the lavish and sumptuous places and buildings relevant to her life plus reproductions of over a hundred of her paintings
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Ayling, Stanley
John Wesley
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing to upper edge. 350pp. A biography of John Wesley the founder of Methodism as a religious movement, a man with boundless energy who preached over 40,000 sermons.
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Kenin, Richard
Return to Albion: Americans in England, 1760-1940
Previous owner's neat book plate on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with nicks to lower edge and slight fading to spine. 288pp. An account of the Americans who, over a span of almost two centuries, left an indelible mark on England, leaving their homeland to settle overseas in the UK. Included in these are James McNeill Wjistler, Henry James, John James Audubon, T S Eliot, Robert Fulton, Ezra Pound and others.
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Peyser, Joan
Leonard Bernstein
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn but well-handled with signs of storage. 430pp. This in-depth biography is a candid, compelling and often shocking portrait of the complicated musical superstar. Illustrated.
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Search, Gay; Hamilton, Tony; Hamilton, Geoff
Geoff Hamilton : A Man and His Garden: A Portrait of Britian's Best-Loved Gardener
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked, torn or creased with traces of storage. 192pp. The biography of well-loved Gardener's World presenter Geoff Hamilton.
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Jarratt, Phil
The Charles Parsons Story 1915-1990
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked black leatherette boards and no bumping to corners. 143pp. The story of the Charles Parsons Group of Companies from Sydney, Australia, established in 1915 as a textiles, woollens and trimmings firm and of Charles Parsons and family. A scarce volume.
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Grant, Neil (compiler)
Rita Hayworth in Her Own Words
Book in mint condition. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with tiny water mark to bottom of spine and traces of storage. 62pp. How did the 'Love Goddess' and undisputed queen of 1940s Hollywood feel about herself ? In this book Rita Hayworth's own views on life, her films and her men are combined with a glorious collection of photographs to give a glimpse of the real Rita. A scarce book.
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Hatfield, Charles F.
A Sheffielder's Song : Recollections of Charles F Hatfield
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean tight copy with very lightly marked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with nick to top of spine and well handled. A scarce book.
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Duffy, Kevin
Fifty Years Behind the Counter (SIGNED By AUTHOR)
Signed by Kevin Duffy on dedication page. No other inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of handling and no bumping to corners. 152pp. This story is of the author's half-century behind the counters of Ireland. He captures the magic of rurality at its romantic best, swept aside eventually by the light of bulbs and the growl of tractors. Life for the farmer was even tougher then, and as Kevin seeks escape from the stones of a thirty-acre farm in Cong, we seek asylum with him behind the counters of countless pubs and shops from Dublin to Shrule. We climb walls with the young apprentice, flushed still with the sound of the dance floor - we count the shillings with him for that new jacket to impress. In time we find him opening his family shop in Kilmaine, and then his own in downtown Headford, where the pressures of married life see him turn his hand to selling exotic items, from farm machinery and Guinness to property and Hondas. We build that dream home with him beside his trout-filled Corrib and travel to many countries on business perks as the Celtic Tiger bites. Above all, we learn that it was not just the men and women behind the sheep wire, or the men behind the gates of schools, churches or barracks that made rural Ireland tick. It was really the men behind the counters who supplied the essentials of life itself.
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Rusinek, Michal
Land of Nicholas Copernicus
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, slight rubbing to rear and minor bumping to one corner and lower edge. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with signs of storage. 235pp. The life of the great Polish astronomer Copernicus against the background of the times (fifteenth/sixteenth centuries), the world in which he lived and the planet he launched on its orbit round the sun, thus initiating the Copernican era and a revolution in man's concept of the universe. With a number of tipped-in coloured plates, sixty pages of text and around 170 pages of captioned black & white photographs.
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James, Robert Rhodes
Henry Wellcome
Book in mint condition. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or creased with tiny nick to upper front corner. 422pp. Biography of the founder of the Wellcome Trust, the largest and most significant benefactor ever to British medical research. His life was an extraordinary story of achievement and disappointment, triumph and sadness, that began in deep poverty in northern Wisconsin in 1853 and ended with his death in London in 1936 as a celebrated and greatly honoured millionaire.
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Loudon, Mary
Relative Stranger : A Life After Death
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very slight crease to upper front edge. 335pp.
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Woodford, Peggy
Mozart : His Life and Times
Very slight foxing to top of page edges. No other marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a trace of creasingto upper rear edge. 144pp. A study of the short but amazingly productive life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born in Salzburg in Austria in 1756. By the time of his death only 35 years later he had written over 600 works.
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Johnson, Ruth (recollections of) ; Body, A. H. (Compiler)
Old Road : A Lancashire Childhood, 1912-1926
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, with minor indent to rear and no bumping to corners. Slight rubbing to hinge of front end paper and label removal to rear end paper. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with small nick to edges and slight creasing to spine ends. 140pp. A scarce book in dust jacket. The painting 'Old Road' by LS Lowry owed much to the life story in this work, as told to him in the 1950s by Ruth Johnson, whose recollections these are.
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Dyke, George Vaughan
John Lawes of Rothamsted : Pioneer of Science, Farming and Industry (SIGNED By AUTHOR)
Signed by author on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards, minor bump to foot of faded spine and no bumping to corners. No dust jacket as issued. A scarce volume. 234pp. Biography of John Bennet Lawes, the unquestioned authority on most aspects of agricultural science for much of the nineteenth century who founded the Rothamstead Research Station.
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Winsten, S. (editor)
G.B.S. 90 : Aspects of Bernard Shaw's Life and Work
Previous owner's name on free front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight fading to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped with repairs to spine ends and rubbing to all edges. 200pp. Biography and tributes to literary master George Bernard Shaw at the age of 90 by over twenty-five of his contemporaries .
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Bieber, Justin
Justin Bieber : First Step 2 Forever - My Story
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 240pp. With free poster on reverse of dust jacket.
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The Editors
Vincent Van Gogh
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very minor traces of storage. 15 pages text plus colour plates on 44pp. An excellent example of Van Gogh's work.
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Solt, Andrew and Egan, Sam
Imagine : John Lennon
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 255pp. Based on the film Imagine, this book is a biography and a photographic record of John Lennon, the tough Liverpool kid who conquered the world with his music.
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Richards, Viv; Foot, David
Viv Richards
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright very faintly rubbed unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very slight creasing to upper edge.
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Snell, F. J.
Boys Who Became Famous
Prize plate inside front board dated 1921. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean crisp very tight copy with slightly dusty boards and page edges and very minor bumping to corners. 191pp. Including Napolean, Mozart, Humphry Davy, Sir Walter Scott, Benjamin Franklin, Byron etc.
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Ruhlmann, William
The History of the Grateful Dead (complete with poster)
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with bright blue cloth boards, slight scratching to lower front edge and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with small tear to top of spine and repaired tear to foot of spine and light creasing to edges. Tucked-in larger than A2 size poster in excellent condition. Very scarce in the UK. 96pp. Published to mark the 25th anniversary of the Grateful Dead, then the longest-lived musical group from the days of the San Francisco psychedelic rock movement of the mid-1960s.Very well illustrated and complete with the 25 x 17 inch poster which came with the book.
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Porter, Alan
The Sporting Life : Chris Balderstone
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing to upper and lower edges and traces of storage. Quite scarce. 174pp. Biography of Chris Balderstone who played cricket and football non-stop for 20 years. His football was initially with Huddersfield Town and then in the top league with Carlisle United and he was capped twice by England whilst in the Leicestershire cricket team.
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Clark, Manning
In Search of Henry Lawson
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with faint indenting to front and rear and rubbing to upper edge. Scarce in the UK. 143pp. Biography of the Australian literary hero who wrote both prose and poetry. He was the first articulate voice of the real Australia.
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Cole, Margaret
Beatrice Webb
Previous owner's neat name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, bright gilt lettering to spine, light dusting/foxing to page edges and bumping to upper rear corner. Dust jacket not price clipped with stain to lower rear edge, irregular fading to spine and small tears to edges. 197pp. The authentic memoir of one of Britain's greatest women who helped build the socialist movement within the country.
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James, Gary
The Official Manchester City Hall of Fame
Book in virtually mint condition. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing to upper edge. 178pp. A tribute to the first eighteen players inaugurated into Manchester City Football Club's Hall of Fame. Very well illustrated with detailed profiles and playing career of each player.
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Sperling, Cass W.; Millner, Cork; Warner, Jack, Jr.
Hollywood Be Thy Name : The Warner Brothers Story
Book in mint condition. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a little fading to spine. 365pp. Family biography of the Warner Brothers written with full cooperation of the Warner family. Illustrated in black & white.
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Macdonald, Frederic W.
The Life of William Morley Punshon
Prize plate inside front board and fingermarks to a few pages. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean very tight copy with slightly marked boards, dusty page edges and minor bumping to corners. Damp mark to lower board corners, no effect on contents. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. 468pp. Biography of the methodist minister and preacher who spent some of his life in Canada.
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Salewicz, Chris
Mick and Keith
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 313pp. An in-depth profile of two of the Rolling Stones rock group, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards - the 'oldest married couple in rock and roll'.
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Thompson, Dorothy
Sophia's Son: The Story of a Suffolk Parson : The Rev. Henry Thompson M.A., His Life and Times, 1841-1916
Inscription on front end paper. No other marks. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked cream cloth boards, minor bumping to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped with dusty marks and with rubbing to edges. 160pp. A fascinating story of Victorian/Edwardian social history in a rural parish written by the parson's daughter
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Kellow, Brian
Ethel Merman : A Life
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked white cloth boards and no bumping to corners. White dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 326pp. Biography of the actress who set the standard for American musical theatre and was the undisputed queen of Broadway.
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Gold, Jacqueline
Good Vibrations : The True Story of Ann Summers
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very slight creasing to upper edge and minor traces of handling. 178pp. The story of the phenominally successful sex toys, lingerie etc company Ann Summers and its charismatic millionaire boss Jacqueline Gold.
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Shallcross, Martyn
The Private World of Daphne du Maurier
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to upper edge and traces of handling. 183pp. Fascinating insight into the life of author Daphne du Maurier by a close friend who knew her for over twenty years including during her most reclusive period.
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Liversedge, Stan
Busby : Epitaph to a Legend
No marks or inscriptions. Tiny crease to lower corner of front cover, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked lightly indented boards . 144pp. The story of Matt Busby of Manchester United.
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Clinch, Minty
Harrison Ford : A Biography
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to edges and traces of storage. 214pp. Biography of actor Harrison Ford, of Indiana Jones and Han Solo fame, to mention just two of his films.
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