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E.J. Harding & Stephen Constantine (editor)
Dominions Diary: The Letters of E.J.Harding, 1913-16
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. 336pp. E. J. Harding was secretary to the Dominions Royal Commission from 1912 to 1917. Here are set out his private letters to his parents and sister illustrated with over 100 contemprary postcards and photographs as he travelled to New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Newfoundland and Canada over those years.
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Stark, Rudolph
Wings of War : An Airman's Diary of the Last Year of World War I
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked front board, almost invisible small damp mark to upper edge of rear board, slightly tanned top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with traces of sunning and small damp effect to top of rear edge. 227pp. A classic aviation memoir from World War I from the German perspective. The author served from 1917-1918 with Jagdstaffel 35 flying Fokker D7 airplanes and this account is from his day-to-day diaries.
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David Hockney and Nikos Stangos (editor)
David Hockney by David Hockney
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 light indenting to front. 312pp. In this witty, candid and revealing account of himself, Hockney tells of his early life in Bradford, his Royal College of Art years and his time in California and Paris. This work is also a showcase for his drawings and paintings, of which there are 414 examples, many in colour.
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Robert MacLeod
Charles Rennie Mackintosh : Architect and Artist
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. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with extremely minor creasing to upper edge. 160pp. The author endeavours to show that Mackintosh was one of the greatest of British architects. The study concentrates on his major design work carried out between 1896 and 1909 but also looks at his later work and in particular his paintings.
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Domenico Laurenza
Leonardo's Machines
Appears to be in as new unread condition. 239pp. Secrets and inventions of the (Leonardo) Da Vinci Codices. Superb images and descriptions of Leonardo's scientific and engineering works.
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Wood, Eric Fisher
The Note-Book of an Attache : Seven Months in the War Zone
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slightly dusty unmarked boards and page edges, well-sunned spine, small bump to front fore-edge, rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Untrimmed lower page edges. Four fold-out documents present, three in good condition and one badly torn but complete. 345pp. The account of an American citizen who was studying in Paris at the start of the First World War and who was quickly given the role of Attache at the American Embassy. During the next seven months he worked in Paris and visited Berlin and prisoner of war camps among many other places. This is the diary of his work and his observations. Illustrated with fifteen photographs by the author and facsimiles of four official documents. First British Edition.
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Bradley, J. L. (editor)
Ruskin: The Critical Heritage
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, small tear to top edge of one page where edge badly cut by printers and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight sunning to spine and spine margin. 436pp. This study of Ruskin aims to suggest how differing publications of the Victorian years received his major writings and to indicate the place of the man and his work in the last third of the 19th century.
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Frank Whitford
Gustav Klimt (Artists in context)
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. 160pp. Biography and artworks of fin-de-siecle Austrain painter Gustav Klimt. Very well illustrated.
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Neil Young
Special Deluxe
Appears unread. 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. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 383pp. Musician Neil Young's account of his Canadian boyhood, his musical influences, his family, his rock and roll life, and one of his deepest, most ebullient passions - cars.
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Michael Lane
Baron Marks of Woolwich
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked maroon cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very slight creasing to upper front edge and minor traces of storage. 146pp. Biography of the international entrepreneur, engineer, patent agent and politician. He was responsible for a number of cliff railways including at Lynton and Lynmouth, Bristol, Bridgnorth and at Matlock in Derbyshire. He was involved with a number of other business enterprises and he became MP for Launceston in 1906, later crossing the floor of the House to join Ramsay Macdonald in 1929.
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Richard Edghill; Dante Friend
Once a Blue, Always a Blue: The Autobiography of Richard Edghill
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. 256pp. Autobiography of Richard Edghill who played for Manchester City from 1988 to 2002.
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Lucy Bean
Strangers in Our Midst (Signed By Author)
Inscribed by the Author on the title page. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked cream cloth boards, a trace of foxing to page edges and tiny bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or creased with small tear to upper front edge and slight rubbing to corners. 232pp. A biographical account of the author's time with the S.A.W.A.S (the South African Auxiliary Services) in South Africa and in Italy. Their function was to provide help for visiting troops. The author was a close friend of General Smuts. Illustrated. Extremely scarce in the UK.
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Carey Schofield
Jagger
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards, tanned pages and bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with slight creasing to upper edge. 248pp. Biography of Mick Jagger and also of course, the Rolling Stones. Illustrated.
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C. P. O. Bartlett & Chaz Bowyer (editor)
Bomber Pilot, 1916-1918
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked with slight traces of sunning and tiny tear to upper front spine corner. 180pp. A unique and fascinating record of a pilot's life in the pioneer days of aerial warfare. The officer flew light bombers along the Belgian coast and later in France with the RAF during the Ludendorff offensive. Illustrated.
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Gruner, E. Hamilton
With Golden Quill (Limited Edition)
Inscription on front end paper from 'the authoress' younger brother'. Also a Chinese proverb in Mandarin and in English No other marks A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked cream cloth with gilt embossed boards and bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped with very slight marking, sunning to spine and torn upper and lower edges with small pieces missing. Partially protected in fully-removable transparent sleeve with ragged upper edge. 208pp. A depiction of Shakespeare's life in a three act play, with a Tudor Cameo (preamble) by William Jaggard. A Limited Edition of 500 copies. Illustrated.
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Anthony Denning and Ranger, Paul
Theatre in the Cotswolds: The Boles Watson Family and the Cirencester Theatre
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. 254pp. The story of the theatre in Cirencester which began in the 18th century under the management of John Boles Watson and continued well into the 19th century. This study also gives brief descriptions and histories of a futher forty-four regional theatres which were established by John Boles Watson across the southern half of Britain, some of which are still in use today.
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Barry Davies
Interesting, Very Interesting: The Autobiography
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 svery slight rubbing to edges. 344pp. The autobiography of sports commentator Barry Davies of the instantly recognisable face and voice, who has led us through some of the most iconic sports events and personalities of the forty years up to the early 2000s.
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Marc Ferro
Nicholas II: The Last of the Tsars
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 nick to lower rear edge and slight creasing to upper front edge. 305pp. An in-depth study of Nicholas II of Russia, forced unwillingly into taking the throne on his father's death, he struggled with a role he was ill equipped for. He was dominated by his wife Alexandra, fought a war with Japan, had to accept a constitituent assembly following the 1905 revolution, was faced with the 1914 World War and finally the 1917 revolution precipitated his abdication and death at the hands of the revolutionaries. Illustrated.
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Barnes, Ken & Wagg, Jimmy (editor)
This Simple Game : The Footballing Life of Ken Barnes
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 torn or creased with small mark to rear. 192pp. Widely regarded as one of the finest footballers of his generation, having followed a distinguished career with Mnchester City in the 1950s, Ken Barnes here tells his story. Illustrated.
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Hughes, Spencer Leigh M.P. 'sub rosa'
Press, Platform and Parliament
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to sunned spine. A clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, dusty page edges and very minor bumping to corners. 320pp. Biography of Liberal MP Spencer Leigh Hughes, who represented Stockport for the rest of his life. He wrote for the Morning Leader for a number of years under the pseudonym 'sub rosa'. A few illustrations. Very scarce in the UK.
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Christopher Wright
Rembrandt Self-Portraits
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 rubbing to upper edge. 135pp. Fifty-nine of the around one hundred self-protraits painted by Rembrandt arranged in a chronological order, many in colour.
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Edgar Degas ; Richard Kendall (editor)
Degas By Himself: Drawings, Prints, Paintings, Writings
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 or creased with very minor traces of storage. 328pp. A rich and detailed selection of the works of Edgar Degas, an impressionist but also so much more. A heavy book.
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Vivienne Couldrey
Tiffany: The Art of Louis Comfort
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 or creased with slight traces of storage. 192pp. A lavish presentation of the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany. His creations were shunned after the harsh realities of the First World War and it was not until the 1950s that a new interest was found in them. Today they can command fabulous prices.
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Robert Osborn
Osborn on Osborn
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with bright red cloth boards, faint foxing to front and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with tiny nick and small dip in upper edge. 190pp. Biography and works from Robert Osborn, one of America's most admired artists and satirists.
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Sheeran, John & Sara, Mary
Margaret Firth (Yorkshire artists)
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. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. Now protected in a fully-removable transparent sleeve. 60pp. Biography and the works of Margaret Firth, an artist from Yorkshire. Scarce in hardback format.
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Ashley Jackson
My Brush with Fortune : An Autobiography (Signed)
Signed with a sketch added to the dedication page. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with light indenting and very slight creasing to edges. 125pp. Autobiography of Ashley Jackson, born in Penang who came to live in Holmfirth in Yorkshire and now flourishes as a renowned watercolourist.
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Bateman, H. M.
H. M. Bateman by Himself
Neat inscription on front end paper. No other marks and no creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked matt brown cloth unevenly sunned boards, tanning to page edges and very minor bumping to lower front corner. Sixteen plates plus 134pp. Autobiography of humorous cartoonist HM Bateman who usually depicted someone involved in a social gaffe over much of the early 20th century. As well as the cartoon plates at the end, the book has many more of Bateman's drawings throughout. Newspaper obituary from 1970 tucked in.
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Richard Calvocoressi
Magritte
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. 48 full-page colour images plus 31pages introduction and discussion. 128pp. The work of Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte.
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Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof
In the Name of Sorrow and Hope
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to page fore-edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a little rubbing to front. 181pp. The grandaughter of Israeli politician Yitzhak Rabin reflects on her life and on the key role which her grandfather played in it and on the world stage.
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Jane Ellen Wayne
Cooper's Women
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 slightly sunned spine and very minor traces of storage. 190pp. The intimate biography of the life and loves of one of Hollywood's biggest stars. First UK Edition.
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Lauda, Niki; Irving, David
Formula 1 : The Art and Technicalities of Grand Prix Driving
No marks or inscriptions. 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 or creased with minor traces of storage. 245pp. An interview with Niki Lauda, the technical principles, the technical data, driving the Grand Prix car, testing, traning, fitness and the race. Now quite scarce.
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Tom Cullen
Maundy Gregory: Purveyor of Honours
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with tiny nicks to upper edge and minor foxing to spine. 256pp. A study of the man at the centre of the web of corruption and intrigue during the later years of Lloyd George as Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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Elie Eliachar
Living with Jews
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with matt dark blue cloth unmarked boards, very slightly dusty top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with traces of storage. 238pp. Autobiography of Elie Eliachar, born a Sephardi jew and an outstanding leader of that cmmunity in Israel. He was a businessman, was passionate in his commitment to his community, was active in the peace movement as honorary president of the Israel-Palestine Peace Council, a deputy mayor of Jerusalem and a member of the First and Second Knesset.
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Boris Yeltsin
Midnight Diaries
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, indent to rear and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very light rubbing/creasing to upper edge. 398pp. Boris Yeltsin's account of his tumultuous years as President of Russia, based on the diairies he maintained during this time.
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Purdy, Anthony and Sutherland, Douglas
Burgess and MacLean
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked navy cloth boards, foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with tiny tears and nicks to edges and a little rubbing. Now protected in a fully-removable transparent sleeve. 191pp. An account of the story of Burgess and Maclean, the British diplomats who were spys for the Russians, including the story of their previous lives.
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Margaret Crosland
Simone de Beauvoir: The Woman and Her Work
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly tanned pages and minor bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 463pp. Biography of French literary intellectual and post-war feminist Simone de Beauvoir.
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West-Riding Branch Aircrew Association
High Endeavours: Personal Experiences Recalled by Members
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. 297pp. A series of forty individual's accounts of time spent as aircrew, some from dusring the Second World War and some from peacetime, all personal being from the West Riding of Yorkshire.
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Alison Adburgham
A Radical Aristocrat: Sir William A.Molesworth of Pencarrow
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. 222pp. Biography of Sir William Molesworth (1810-1855) who, although he owned extensive properties in Cornwall and Devon, was a Member of Parliament who fought for the rights of people - for extension of the ballot,, for national education, repeal of the Corn Laws, abolition of transportation, self-government for the colonies and a defence of all religions.
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Sheridon, R. K.
Kurt von Schuschnigg : A Tribute
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 with clean cream front and rear, slightly sunned spine, and a few nicks and chips to edges and corners. Now protected in a fully-removable transparent sleeve. 324pp. Biography of Kurt von Schuschnigg, the last Chancellor of free Austria before it was absorbed within Germany in the 1930s. Scarce with dust jacket.
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Taylor, Bob
Crimebuster: Inside the minds of Britain's most evil criminals
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 or creased with very minor traces of storage. 285pp. An autobiographical account of the work of Bob Taylor, the detective with the 100% conviction record and his achievements including as a junior officer on the Yorkshire Ripper case and as lead detective in the hunt for Michael Sams, the killer of Julie Dart.
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Petrie, Sir Charles
Don John of Austria
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with rubbing/nick to spine ends. 336pp. Biography of Austrian nobleman Don John, born in 1547, the illegitimate son of Emperor Charles V and husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. He is best known as the victorious commander of the forces of the Holy League at Lepanto in 1571, a battle which saved Italy from becoming a Turkish Pashalik.
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Maclean, Fitzroy
Bonnie Prince Charlie
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight bump to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very light creasing to upper front edge. 386pp. An authoritative biography of Bonnie Prince Charlie which throws new light on the life of this legendary figure. Illustrated.
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Sutherland, Halliday
A Time to Keep (Signed By Author)
Signed 'Halliday Sutherland' to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, upper page edges dusty and with bumping to upper corners. Fore and lower page edges untrimmed and dusty. Dust jacket not price clipped with a few small marks, repaired tear to front, sunned spine and small pieces missing from top of spine. Now protected in a fully-removable transparent sleeve. 286pp. A second volume of reminiscences from the author following on from 'Arches of the Years' in which we visit his Highland childhood, his youth in Scotland, his medical life, yachting holidays, hospitals, law-courts, churches and race-courses. The last chapters tell of his reception into the Church of Rome, his famous law-suit with Dr Marie Stopes and his visit to Lourdes. Very scarce signed copy.
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The Editor
Aubrey Beardsley
No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to corners. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards. 44pp. With fifty six of Beardsley's drawings and an introduction in Spanish. Scarce.
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Wilde, Johannes
Venetian Art: From Bellini to Titian (Studies in History of Art & Architecture)
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. 267pp. Detailed study of the paintings of Venetian artists Titian and Bellini from the 15th and 16th centuries with 222 illustrations.
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Hunter, Ian
Nothing to Repent: The Life of Hesketh Pearson: Biography of Hesketh Pearson
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, very slightly dusty page edges and a very tiny bump to lower front corner. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with creasing to upper and lower edges and minor traces of storage. 211pp. Hesketh Pearson had many careers in his life, a South American adventurer, a stage actor, Secretary of the Shakespeare Society, a soldier in the First World War and a biographer of prominent stage actors and politicians.
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Hudson, Derek
Lewis Carroll: An Illustrated Biography
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 272pp. Biography of Lewis Carroll, now republished with a great many illustrations. Now protected in fully-removable transparent sleeve.
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Pickering, Edward
The Yellow Jersey Club
Appears unread. Inscription on front end paper. No other marks. 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. 307pp. Inside the minds of the Tour de France winners. Printed on slightly yellow paper.
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Thompson, Douglas
Cilla Black: Bobby's Girl
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and with bumping to upper rear corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with creasing to upper rear corner and a little to all edges. 300pp. Cilla Black tells the story of her mereoric rsie to fame from the docker's daughter to the First Lady of Television and of her private life with husband Bobby.
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Nimmo, Derek
As The Actress Said To The Bishop: Star Studded Stories From The Stage And Screen
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked maroon cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with very minor creasing to upper edge and a little sunning around spine. 173pp. Autobiographical (and other) tales from star of stage and screen Derek Nimmo.
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