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David, Tommy & James, Carwyn & Welland, Colin
Tommy David
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanning to page edges, traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 91pp. An autobiographical account of the career of Welsh rugby star Tommy David. Illustrated.
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Prevost, Abbe & Robertson, Mysie E. I. (translator)
Adventures of a Man of Quality
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to very slightly faded spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, foxing to some pages, small mark to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with sunning to spine. The author escaped to England from France where a warrant had been placed for his arrest. This work describes his adventures in England and is full of vivid and convincing details about the life of the period.
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Ingham, Bernard
Kill the Messenger
Signed on front end paper by Tom Pendry, then an MP and now Lord Pendry. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. 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. 408pp. Autobiography of Margaret Thatcher's Press Secretary for most of her years in office. First edition, second printing.
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Namm, Thomas
Doctor Faustus : The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn
Name on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, dusty top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped but very dusty with rubbing/small tears/slight loss to edges and very sunned spine. 510pp. The background of this novel of the entire life story of a great creative musician is a more up to date version of the Faust legend. The musician sells his soul for twenty-four years of musical genius.
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Teddy Sheringham with Mel Webb
My Autobiography
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased but very well sunned. 256pp. Autobiography of the Millwall, Manchester United, Tottenham and England football player.
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Sinclair-Stevenson, Christopher
Enjoy!: A Celebration of Jennifer Paterson -Tribute to a Fat Lady by Her Friends
Ex library book with usual marks and stamps. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty page edges and bump to lower rear corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor indents and traces of storage. 222pp. Friends, colleagues and fellow cooks pay tribute in their writings about Jennifer Paterson, one half of the Two Fat Ladies TV chef duo who died in 1999 at the height of hertelevision fame.
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Manning, Anne
The Household of Sir Thomas More
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A mostly clean tight copy with bright unmarked boards, rubbing to ends of sunned spine and no bumping to corners. Front board with lavish gilt embossing and lettering. Gilt top of page edges, other edges untrimmed and dusty. End papers a little dusty with a few fingermarks and traces of foxing. 185pp. The author has re-told the story of the life of Sir Thomas More, from Henry VIII's time as speech from the participants. With twenty-four lovely coloured illustrations from CE Brock. Quite scarce in this edition.
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Kevin Keegan; Mike Langley
Against the World: Playing for England
No marks or inscriptions. Tiny crease to upper corner of rear covers, single crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 160pp. Very well illustrated sporting autobiography of Kevin Keegan who had been England football captain more than ten times. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Reginald, 12th Earl of Meath
Memories of the Nineteenth Century
Stamp 'The Library of the Homes of S Barnabas' on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. Very clean very tight slightly foxed pages with unmarked boards, rubbing to spine ends, browned foxed page edges and bumping to lower front corner. 354pp. Autobiography of a diplomat born in London in 1841. A fascinating account of life in the 19th century and his many travels abroad. Illustrated with period photographs.
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Coveney, Michael
Maggie Smith: A 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. 353pp. Biography of one of Britain's best-loved actors, Dame Maggie Smith, who, over six decades has entertained us in theatre and film.
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Lowe, David A. (editor)
Callas: As They Saw Her
No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 264pp. Opera singer Maria Callas as seen by fellow artists and other celebrities including Placido Domingo and Noel Coward. Illustrated.
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Crawley, Tony
Bebe : The Films of Brigitte Bardot
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Foxing to fore page edges. Very clean very tight pages with unmarked brown cloth boards and bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped but well rubbed with minor marking to rear and a few small tears. 256pp. Very well illustrated biography of Brigitte Bardot followed by her filmography - production, cast, story and extensive notes on her films from 1952 to 1973.
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Tom Pendry
Taking It On The Chin: Memoirs of a Parliamentary Bruiser (Signed By Lord Pendry)
Signed by Tom Pendry. Otherwise book and jacket in mint unread condition.. 324pp. Surely one of the most colourful characters ever to have graced the Palace of Westminster, Tom Pendry has been a boxer, a bruiser and a scholar, whose political career as an agent, candidate, Labour MP and peer has spanned over sixty years. Full of revealing anecdotes and candid descriptions of colleagues, his memoirs throw new light on successive governments and great, epoch-making events, and are a mixture of light and shade, irreverent wit and deeply serious intent.
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Robson, Bobby
Time on the Grass : An Autobiography
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 slight traces of storage. 180pp. The story of football star and manager Bobby Robson from his beginnings in the North-East up to the his time at Ipswich Town when he turned the club around to be one of the most powerful in Europe and their UEFA Cup win..
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Hamilton, Nigel
Bill Clinton: An American Journey
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. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 784pp. A major biography of US President Bill Clinton who was born into a 'white trash' family in racially segregated Arkansas.
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Busch, Noel F.
Adlai E. Stevenson : Portrait of a Democrat
Signed on front end paper by T Pendry (now Lord Pendry). No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards, slightly dusty page edges and minor bump to upper rear corner. 240pp. Biography of the American politician who was Governor of Illinois and United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
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Paterson, Michael
Winston Churchill: His Military Life 1895-1945
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very minor creasing to upper edge. 320pp. A collection of eye-witness accounts from those who knew Churchill, those who met him, and those who opposed him, as well as his own eloquent commentary through his fifty years of military involvement.
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Lewis, Mike
The Trains Don't Stop There Anymore: The Life Story of a Footballing Nomad
No marks or inscriptions. Very tiny crease to upper front corner, none to rear orr to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 256pp. Mike Lewis tells us about his times in football management at Newport County and Tottenham Hotspur, Reading, and Fulham and his ownership of Swansea City and Exeter City Football Clubs. In 2007 he was convicted of fraudulent trading at Exeter City club. Illustrated. Scarce in the UK.
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Macaulay, Lord
Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays Volumes I and II of 2 Voume Set
Two voolume set. Names to title page. No other added marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Both copies with very clean very tight pages, tanned end papers and page edges, slightly rubbed red cloth boards, nicks and rubbing to ends of sunned spines and bumping to two corners. Total of 1835pp. Contributions to the Edinburgh Review comprising critiques and biographies of writers, politicians and other prominent figures from history.
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Torre, Joe; Verducci, Tom
The Yankee Years
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. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very minor creasing to upper edge. 502pp. The story of Joe Torre's years as the manager of New York Yankees who had not wona World Series in the previous eighteen years. Over the next twelve years he turned that around to become the most beloved and successful manager in the game of baseball.
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Eason, Marian
The Deaf Doctor: Memories of a 1950s Cotswold Childhood (Signed By Author)
Signed by author to title page. No other marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked maroon cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a little indenting and slight traces of storage. 184pp. The author's life growing up on a Cotswold farm during the fifteen years after the Second World War when life was so like the 1930s and before the huge changes in the 1960s. There is a strong element of horses throughout as the young Marion's mother trained the Badminton Horse Trials winner.
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Borland, Don
Uncle Willie (Signed By Author and Subject)
Signed on front end paper by Author and 'Uncle Willie'. 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 or torn or creased with very light indenting and minor traces of storage. Biography of 'an angel on a bicycle', born in 1898, a packer in a bleach and dye works who went on to become a Doctor of Divinity and was still working as Congregational minister at the age of 96. His ministries began at and returned to Chinley and Buxworth in Derbyshire and included Mexborough, Walsall and Leicester.
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Allen, Lyman Whitney
An Epic Trilogy (3 Volumes) : Vol I - George Washington ; Vol II - Robert E Lee ; Vol III - Abraham Lincoln (Limited Edition Signed By Author)
Volume I is No 6 of 500 first and autographed editions signed and inscribed by the author. The inscription reads ' For the mother of our dear little daughter Mrs Arthur Guy with sincere appreciation and best wishes' No other marks. No creasing to covers or to spines. Three very clean very tight copies with very slightly faded very slightly foxed unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Grey cloth corners and spines on blue stiff card boards with quality paper untrimmed on two edges. Volume II of identical format and condition is the fifth (trilogy) edition. Total of 603pp. Epic poems of the lives of US Presidents George Washington (The Commander-in-Chief) and Abraham Lincoln (The Emancipator) and of US Confederate General Robert E Lee (The Gray Cavalier).
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Henderson, Daniel
Die goldenen Bienen. Betsy Patterson und die Bonapartes
No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright blue coth boards with gilt lettering, verytiny mark to lower front edgeunmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 371pp. The story of Elizabeth Patterson, an American beauty at the start of the 19th century who was briefly married to Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia and youngest brother of Napoleon I. the All text in German.
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Roberts, Frances, C. and Fisk, Sarah, Huff
Shadows on the Wall : The Life and Works of Howard Weeden
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 147pp. Biography of artist and poet Howard Weeden whose talent showed through in her superb paintings of plantation negro subjects around her home in Huntsville, Alabama and her often associated poetry with over fifty of her paintings, some in colour.
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Naish, George Prideaux Brabant
Horatio Nelson (Pitkin Pride of Britain books')
No marks or inscriptions. Faint creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked slightly foxed boards and no bumping to corners. Staples not rusty. 24pp. Concise, very well illustrated biography of Nelson.
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Thomas, Sir Robert
Sir Bob : The Autobiography of Sir Robert Thomas
No inscriptions or marks. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 208pp. The story of the miner's son who follwed his father down the mine near Wigan, Lancashire before becoming a union officer and then a councillor for Manchester. He worked tirelessly for the city, was instrumental in the introduction of the Clean Air Act and ultimately became Lord Mayor and then Council Leader.
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Hunt, Lord John
Life is a Meeting (Signed By Author)
Signed by John Hunt on 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. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 286pp. Events and facets of the life of Lord John Hunt, who was leader of the 1953 successful Everest expedition and who also lived a very full life in so many other ways, as a distinguished soldier and politician.
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Nicholas Murray
World Enough And Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell
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 slight indenting to rear. 294pp. Biography of Andrew Marvell, one of the finest lyric poets of the seventeenth century whose introspective poetry was not rediscovered until the 1920s.when it achieved full recognition.
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McCormack, W.J.
Fool of the Family: A Life of J.M. Synge
Appears unread. 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. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very minor creasing. 499pp. Biography of the author of The Playboy of the Western World which provoked riots at its Dublin premiere in 1907. McCormack details the complex religious and social environment in which Synge slowly refined his talents as a writer.
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Miranda Seymour
Robert Graves: Life on the Edge
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 creasing to lower front edge an minor traces of storage. 524pp. A major biography of Robert Graves, one of the greatest poets and polymaths of the 20th century.
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Edward Mendelson
Later Auden
Appears unread. 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 light creasing to lower edge. 570pp. The history of the poems of W H Auden and of the events that went into them from the time he moved to America in 1939 until his death in Austria in 1973. His poems are also effectively his autobiography as he once said that 'anything of importance that happens to one is immediately incorporated into a poem'.
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John C. Tibbetts
Schumann: A Chorus of Voices (includes the CS)
Appears unread and in mint condition book and jacket. 496pp. A series of interviews and conversations with dozens of individuals from different fields giving their perspective on the life and work of Robert Schumann as well as his place in the history of musc. Includes a CD in an unopened wallet with eight pieces by Schumann by pianist Ronald Brautigam performing the complete Novelette, Opus 21 plus two interviews.
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Dickson, Lovat
Half-Breed : The Story of Grey Owl
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to very sharp corners. Slightly dusty dust jacket clipped but not price clipped or marked or torn with small damp spot and a little rubbing to upper edge. 345pp. The full story of Grey Owl, born Archie Belaney who went to live as an American Indian in the early 20th century.
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Margaret Thatcher
The Path to Power
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bump to lower front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a little indenting to spine and minor traces of storage. 656pp. Margaret Thatcher's own account of her early years before she became Prime Minister and her thoughts and feelings as she left Downing Street in 1990 and about the course Britain, Europe and the rest of the world took over the next five years.
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Hopkins, Anthony (foreword)
The Great Composers
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. 464pp. An illustrated companion to the lives and works of the most celebrated composers.
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Sam Willis
The Admiral Benbow: The Life and Times of a Naval Legend (Hearts of Oak Trilogy Vol.2)
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with faint creasing/rubbing to upper edge. 410pp. The story of Admiral Benbow, an English naval hero of the 17th century whose life sadly ended when he was wounded in a battle with the French in 1702 and in which the other ships in his squadron deserted him. Illustrated.
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Warwick; Dionne & Freeman Dave
My Life as I See It
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 small scratches to rear. 290pp. Autobiography of Motown pop singer Dionne Warwick who who had her first chart hits in 1962.
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Roe, F. Gordon
Rowlandson: The Life and Art of a British Genius (Limited Edition)
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked gilt embossed light blue cloth boards, sunned centre of spine and bumping to lower corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped with some loss to centre of spine, spine ends and lower corners. Forty-eight plates plus 71pp. Biography of the British artist born in 1756, a caricaturist, satirist and a genius who painted the mingled beauty of the British. Limited Edition no 141 of 500 copies. Scarce in dust jacket.
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David Millar
Racing Through the Dark: The Fall and Rise of David Millar
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. 354pp. Autobiography of racing cyclist David Millar who was at the top of his profession as a Tour de France yellow jersey wearer and a World Champion time triallist when he was caught taking drugs. This account follows his time before and after.
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Rosanna Negrotti
William Wordsworth: A Biography with Selected Poems
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. 120pp. A collection of Wordsworth's best work, largely from his early years. The poems are accompanied by drawings and colour paintings of the Lake Distict by renowned painters.
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Wole Soyinda
Isara : A Voyage Around 'Essay'
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. Fore-edge page edges untrimmed. 262pp. The Nigerian novelist, playwright, critic and professor of comparative literature tells the story of his upbringing in a small Nigerian town in the first part of the 20th century. The 'Essay' in the sub-title was the author's father.
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Beth Macy
Truevine: An Extraordinary True Story of Two Brothers and a Mother's Love
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. 420pp. The story of two brothers from Truevine, Virginia who were supposedly kidnapped in 1899 by the circus and put to work as circus freaks, entertaining as far afield as Buckingham Palace. The author tells the extraordinary story of what really happened.
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Ray Mac Manais
The Road from Ardoyne: The Making of a President
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. 399pp. Biography of Mary Robinson (Mary McAleese) who became the first Irish President to come from Northern Ireland.
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David M. Kiely
John Millington Synge: A Biography
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very slight creasing to upper edge and very minor traces of storage. 305pp. Biography of JM Synge, one of Ireland's great writers. Illustrated.
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Bruno, Frank; Giller, Norman
Frank Bruno : Know What I Mean? : His Own Knockout Story
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. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with light creasing to edge and minor traces of storage. 160pp. The heartwarming, hilarious and often hard-hitting story of one of the world's great fighters. Well illustrated.
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Jeremy Murray-Brown
Kenyatta
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, well-tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 381pp. The story of Jomo Kenyatta, the first President of the Republic of Kenya, who began his life as a Kikuyu herdboy.
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Gary James
Football With A Smile: Authorised Biog of Joe Mercer, OBE (Manchester City, Everton, Arsenal, England, Coventry City, Aston Villa, & Sheffield United) (Signed By Author)
Inscribed by author on title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 304pp. Biography of the footballing legend Joe Mercer who in his career played with or managed Manchester City, Everton, Arsenal, England, Coventry City, Aston Villa, & Sheffield United
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Andre De Dienes
Marilyn Mon Amour
No marks or inscriptions. Extremely minor creasing to front cover, none to rear or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 155pp. The private album of Andre de Dienes, perhaps the most renowned photographer of Marilyn Monroe, showing the wealth of his photographs of the legend.
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M. J. Kruck von Poturzyn
Lady Hester Stanhope : Eine Frau ohne Furcht
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked very slightly foxed boards and no bumping to corners. 235pp. Biography of Lady Hester Stanhope, ths so-called Queen of the Desert - and a woman without fear. She was a British socialite at the end of the 18th century who left her life in Britain to travel and carry out archaeological work in the Middle East. All text in German.
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