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Sagar, Keith
The Life of D. H. Lawrence : An Illustrated Biography
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight fading/bump to foot of spine and no bumping to corners. Price clipped dust jacket not marked or torn with light creasing to upper edge, nick to lower rear edge, fading to spine and upper front edge and traces of handling. 256pp. Authentic biography of Lawrence who has become a legend as an author and a man and which uses as a source all 5000 of Lawrence's letters still in existence.
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Billson, Anne
My Name Is Michael Caine
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, single crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 192pp. Illustrated film biography of Michael Caine.
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Marr, Andrew
Diamond Queen : Elizabeth II and Her People
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 torn or creased with slight marking to rear near foot of spine. 418pp.
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Yablonsky, Lewis
George Raft
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, tiny bump to spine, minor indent to edge of first few pages and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with small nick and slight creasing to upper edge and a little sunning/fading. 286pp. Biography of movie star George Raft.
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O'Sullevan, Peter
Calling the Horses : A Racing 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 or torn with light creasing to edges. 368pp. Autobiography of racing commentator Peter O'Sullevan.
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Keating, Ronan
Ronan Keating : Life Is a Rollercoaster
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 or creased with minor traces of handling. 303pp.
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Harrison, Ted
Tanni : The Inspiring Story of a World-Class Athlete
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 or creased with traces of storage. 223pp. Biography of Paralympic Champion and London Marathon wheelchair winner Tanni Grey Thompson.
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Cuny, Hilaire
Albert Einstein : The Man and His Theories
Ex-library book with usual marks and stamps. A clean very tight copy with tape-marked black cloth boards, missing front end paper and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight rubbing to top of sunned spine. 167pp.
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Parker, John
Sean Connery
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. 274pp.
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Membery, York
Ralph Fiennes : The Biography
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, crease to spine. A very clean copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Photographic plates slightly wavy, no effect at all on text pages. 210pp. The unauthorised biography.
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Devillers, Marceau
James Dean : On Location
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked black cloth boards and minor bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little indenting to front and small nick to upper front corner. 207pp. Very well illustrated in black & white.
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Schneiders
Edgar Degas
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, bump to foot of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with small tears to foot of spine and rear corners and scratch/enclosed tear across rear. 119pp.
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Amann, Per
Paul Gauguin
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 with a little creasing to edges and small indent to rear. 104pp.
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Haesaerts, Paul
James Ensor
Ex-library book with usual marks and stamps. No creasing to covers or to spine. Mainly clean pages in a very tight binding with unmarked boards, lib mark to foot of spine and slight rubbing but no bumping to corners. 386pp.Very extensive study of the work on painter James Ensor, born in Belgian of a British father. With a large number of tipped-in colour plates and a catalogue in black & white.
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Kynaston, David
Bobby Abel: Professional Batsman, 1857-1936
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 or creased with minor traces of handling. 164pp. Biography of the cricket batsman who played for Surrey and England between 1881 and 1904.
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Davis, Sharon
Dusty : An Intimate Portrait of Dusty Springfield
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 or creased with minor traces of handling. 244pp.
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Stanley-Clarke, Jenny
Kylie : Naked
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 a trace of rubbing to upper edge. 235pp.
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Richard, Wendy; Wiggins, Lizzie
Wendy Richard - No "S" : My Life Story
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 or creased with traces of storage. 276pp.
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Thomas, David
Tell Me Why, Mummy : An Inspirational True Story of Personal Triumph over Childhood Tragedy
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 or creased. 277pp. The true story of a little boy who was constantly abused by his mother, until he found the strength to fight backand make his future worth something.
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Davenport, Kathlyn
Some Oldham Times
Book in mint unread condition. 38pp. Extremely scarce. The author tells her story and that of her immediate ancestors over the latter years of the nineteenth and earlier years of the twentieth centuries in Oldham in Lancashire.
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Ellis, J. J.
Life Story of John Wesley : Memoirs of Mighty Men
Neat inscription on front end paper. Fingermarks to a few pages. No creasing to covers or to spine. Mainly clean pages in a tight binding. Damp effect to upper corner of rear cover, to rear end paper and to hinge joints between end papers and boards. Spine rubbed and sunned with minor splits and about 0.5 inches missing from top. Very dusty boards with rubbing to corners and a little marking. 64pp. Extremely scarce. Undated but inscription witrh date of 1921. Illustrated.
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Brasnett, Hugh
Thomas Hardy : A Pictorial Guide (revised)
Probably unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked slightly sunned boards and no bumping to corners. 109pp. A pictorial guide to Hardy's countryside, his books, stories and poems.
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Ward, J. T.
Revolutionary Tory : The Life of Joseph Rayner Stephens of Ashton under Lyne 1805-1879
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight booklet with bright boards, minor trace of label removal and no bumping to corners. 93-116pp. Reprinted from the 'Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society' vol LXVIII. Extremely scarce.
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Palmer, Robert & Shanahan, Mary
The Rolling Stones
No marks or inscriptions. Small, very minor creases to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 253pp. Excellent well illustrated study of the Rolling Stones.
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Pickles, Hilda
Crooked Sixpences Among the Chalk : Seventy-Five Years of Schooling (in Tyneside & Cumbria)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 192pp. The author's time as pupil, teacher and co-opted Education Commitee member in the north of England from the 1920s.
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Cathcart, Helen
The Duchess of Kent
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and the tiniest of bumps to upper corners. Dust jacket price clipped with no marking, small repairs to spine ends and slight rubbing to edges. 200pp.
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Henderson, Ernest
The World of Mr Sheraton : How $1,000 Became $400 Million
Small water mark to lower edge, no effect on text. No other marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very small creases to a few page corners and no bumping to corners. 237pp.
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Fitzgeorge-Parker, Tim
Jockeys of the Seventies
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 176pp. A series of short biographies and racing histories of a number of prominent jockeys from the 1970s, starting with Lester Piggott.
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Zeidler, Birgit
Claude Monet : Life and Work
Appears unread. Neat inscription on half title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 95pp.
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The Editor
Manchester Memoirs : Special Commemorative Dalton Edition : Vol 142 2003-2004
Book in mint unread condition. 155pp. Special edition of Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society Journal to commemorate the bicentenary of John Dalton's famous paper entitled 'New Theory of Chemical Philosophy' in which he described his table of Atomic Weights and revolutionised chemistry.
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Mosey, Don
Fred, Then and Now
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 or creased with minor traces of storage. 196pp. Biography of the Yorkshire and England cricketer, one of the fastest bowlers ever and the first man to take 300 Test wickets.
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Hook, Walter Farquhar
Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury : New Series Volume I - Reformation Period (Volume VI)
Previous owner's bookplate inside front board. Very small number of faint notes in pencil. Foxing to a few pages. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to very lightly rubbed unmarked covers. Slight browning to pages and rubbing to corners and spine ends. 509pp.
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Hook, Walter Farquhar
Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury : New Series Volume II - Reformation Period (Volume VII)
Previous owner's bookplate inside front board. Foxing to a very few pages. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. No marking to covers with slight browning to pages and rubbing to corners and spine ends. Publisher's adverts plus 419pp.
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Hook, Walter Farquhar
Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury : New Series Volume III - Reformation Period (Volume VIII)
Previous owner's bookplate inside front board. Foxing to a very few pages. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. No marking to covers with slight browning to pages and rubbing to corners and spine ends. 447pp.
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Hook, Walter Farquhar
Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury : New Series Volume IV - Reformation Period (Volume IX)
'From the author' written on half-title page. Previous owner's bookplate inside front board. Foxing to a very few pages. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to slightly rubbed covers. No marking to covers with slight browning to pages and minor rubbing to corners and spine ends. 592pp.
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Vines, Alice Gilmore
Neither Fire Nor Steel: Sir Christopher Hatton
Previous owner's place and date to front end paper and minor foxing to top of page edges. 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 torn or creased with small mark to faded spine and tiny nick to lower rear edge.
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Bowyer, Alison
Delia Smith : The Biography
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 or creased with very minor traces of storage. 243pp. Biography of the cookery writer. Press Release tucked in. 243pp.
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Sinyard, Neil
The Films of Woody Allen
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 slight traces of handling and storage. 96pp. 'In this lavishly illustrated volume, containing over 130 carefully chosen pictures in black and white and colour, Woody Allen emerges as one of America's most talented and best-loved humorists as well as one of its finest film-makers.'
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Goodwin, Cliff
To Be a Lady : Biography of Catherine Cookson
Neat inscription on front end paper. No other marks. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight browning to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with minor traces of handling. 326pp. 'First complete biography of one of Britain's best selling and best read writers - from a crowded, confusing home in East Jarrow -.as amazing and compulsive as any of her best sellers'. This biography was published despite the efforts of Catherine Cookson herself to forbid any biography to be produced.
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Bruno, Frank; Giller, Norman
Frank Bruno : From Zero to Hero
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 torn or creased with small damp mark to lower rear edge, no effect on book. 194pp.
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Vaughan, Roger
Herbert Von Karajan
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, very faint crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, yellowing to page edges and no bumping to corners. 282pp.
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Flippo, Chet (text) and Evans, Mike (editor)
Graceland
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 256pp. The story of Elvis's home and of himself.
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Leigh, John
Bobby Johnstone : The Passing of an Age
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked very slightly indented boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight indenting to front. 223pp. The story of footballer Bobby Johnstone, born in Selkirk, who starred with Hibernian, Manchester City and Oldham Athletic before returning to Hibernian.
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Stanley, David E. with Coffee, Frank
The Elvis Encyclopedia : Special Commemorative Edition
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 or creased with publisher's marks to upper rear edge and minor traces of storage. 287pp. A comprehensive study of Elvis Presley.
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Britt, Stan
Sinatra : A Celebration
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 160pp. A celebration of the life and work of Frank Sinatra.
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Weir, Simon
Police Annual 1982
No marks or inscriptions. Not price clipped. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very slight rubbing to upper front cover. 47pp.
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Elvy, Rev John M.
Recollections of Th 'Owd Church After Forty Years Experience (Signed By Author)
Fond inscription by the author on reverse of the preface. Pages very foxed. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 31pp. History of Manchester Cathedral and its officials from 1863 including the author in whose time it was transformed from a humble Parish Church to a Cathedral. Very scarce with signature.
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Gehring
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1792
Previous owner's neat name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked green cloth boards, very minor rubbing to spine and no bumping to corners. 131pp. Undated but ca 1930s.
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Various
Eagle Omnibus Number Two (2)
Prize plate inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. 184pp. True stories of real people - David Jones, C E Tyndale-Biscoe, Henry Martyn, William Jackson, Sam Pollard and Clifford Harris.
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Davidson, Noel
Only the Best Will Do : The Eddie Stobart Story
Book in unread mint condition. 199pp. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. The fascinating story, dilligently researched and grippingly told of the founder and owner of the transport firm seen everywhere on our roads today.
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