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Weiss, Peter
Trotsky in Exile (Modern Plays)
Name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked lightly rubbed boards and no bumping to corners. 126pp. Script for the play which covers the whole of Trotsky's life in politics from the Tsarist regime in 1902 to his death in exile in Mexico in 1940.
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Gallacher, William
Revolt on the Clyde
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards with irregular sunning and no bumping to corners. 301pp. William Gallacher was a founder member of the British Communist Party, MP for West Fife from 1935 to 1950 and this famous autobiography covers his early years in the Social Democratic Federeation, the time of revolutionary struggles in the Workers and Soldiers Councils on Clydeside during World War I and his 1920 meeting with Lenin.
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Guillem Balague
Messi (Signed By Author)
Appears unread. Signed by Guillem Balague to title page. 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. 628pp. Biography of Barcelona's Lionel Messi written by distinguished sports commentator and writer Guillem Balague. Well illustrated. Tucked in is a copy Guillem Balague's signature from the internet as confirmation.
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Bingham, Derick
The Wild-Bird Child: A Life of Amy Carmichael
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. 223pp. Amy Carmichael, Christian missionary from Northern Ireland who worked tirelessly to provide a safe home for South Indian children who were forced into a life of prostitution.
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Lytton, Sir Henry
A Wandering Minstrel : Reminiscences
Neat book plate to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A clean very tight copy with lightly marked boards, tanned page edges, rubbing/slight bumping to ends of sunned spine and no bumping to corners. 287pp. Reminiscences of his life by actor Sir Henry Lytton, born 1867. Foreword by one time Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Illustrated.
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Timothy Dudley-Smith
John Stott: The making of a leader
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 very minor traces of storage. 513pp. An account of the life of evangelical clergyman John Stott, born in 1921. Illustrated.
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Dudley-Smith, Bishop Timothy
John Stott: a Global Ministry
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 minor crease to upper rear edge. 538pp. Biography of evangelical Christian John Stott.
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Williams, J.P.R.
JPR: The Autobigraphy of J P R Williams
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards, very slight foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased with some fading to apine. 254pp. Autobiography of the multi-talented Welsh rugby union player.
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Hotchner, A. E.
Doris Day: Her Own Story
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dustiy page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with rubbing/light creasing to upper edge and small tear to upper edge of front dust flap. Filmography plus 357pp. The story of movie star Doris Day including all her marriages, affairs, real and rumoured and her celebrations and tragedies. Illustrated.
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Charles, John
King of Soccer
Prize plate inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, light foxing to page edges and very minor bumping to upper rear corner and spine foot. Rubbed dusty dust jacket not price clipped with chips and small tears to edges and small piece missing from rear spine corner. 159pp. Autobiography of Welsh football star who went to play for Leeds United before sensationally transferring to Juventus in Italy for an all-time record fee (at the time) of ú60,000.
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Trevillion, Paul
'King' Pele - An Appreciation
Small ink mark to upper corner of front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A clean tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty/foxed page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with rubbing/small nicks to edges and corners. Unpaginated. pp. A concise biography of Pele with photographs plus an insight into the skills and tricks of the Brazilian star with line drawings and descriptions.
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Haggard, Sir H. Rider
The Days of My Life : An Autobiography : Volume 2 (I)
Ex library book with usual marks and stamps. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean tight pages with lightly marked red cloth boards, dusty page edges and minor bumping to upper corners. 286pp. Part 2 of the autobiography of writer Rider Haggard. Tissue guarded frontispiece of the author. All photographic plates present.
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Bold, Alan
Robert the Bruce (Pride of Britain)
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 24pp. Concise account of the life of Robert the Bruce, Scotland's greatest patriot king.
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Marchant, Michael (Intro) Murray, Peter Murray & Hall, Douglas
Emile Antoine Bourdelle: Pioneer of the Future
No marks or inscriptions to book or slipcase. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Slipcase in excellent condition. 76pp. Exhibition catalogue of work by Bourdelle at Yorkshire Sculpture Park 24 May - 29 October 1989. Colour and black & white plates of the artist's work with associated desciption and commentand concise biography.
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Wyndham Lewis, D B.
Francois Villon : A Documented Survey
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked black boards, well-foxed slightly dusty page edges and minor bumping to upper corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped or marked with sunned spine and small tears to upper rear edge and spine foot. Fold-out map of Paris in 1530 in excellent condition. 355pp. Biography of Francois Villon, French poet of the late Middle Ages who had many encounters with the law, was born in 1431 and vanished from history after 1463.
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Morton, Frederic
The Rothschilds : A Family Portrait
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 with slight creasing and nicks/chips to corners and top of sunned spine. 264pp. The story of a family which has been of almost legendary influence in the world's economic history for over 200 years. Illustrated.
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Spender, Stephen
World Within World
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, crease down spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanned page edges, sunning to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped but with pieces missing and tanned, especially to spine. 305pp. Autobiography of distinguished poet Stephen Spender. Tucked in is a Readers News supplement from 1953 with a concise biography of Stephen Spender.
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Cockburn, Claud
Crossing the Line
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. 198pp. The second of Claud Cockburn's autobiographical works.
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Wheeler, Sir Mortimer
Still Digging
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty page fore-edges and no bumping to corners. Very slightly dusty dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with sunning to spine. 240pp. Autobiography of distinguished archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler. Illustrated.
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Way, R. P.
Antique Dealer
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and tiny bump to upper rear corner. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped or marked with small tear/crease to upper front edge, nicks to upper corners and sunning to spine. 207pp. The author tells his own fascinating story which was finding, buying and selling antiques, in Bristol and Bath over 50 years.
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Amis, Kingsley
Memoirs
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 and no bumping to corners. 346pp. A series of essays and sketches from the life of author Kingsley Amis.
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Walker, Rowland
The Prairie Wagon Trail
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked with small tears and light creasing to upper and lower edges. 224pp. This story of the forty-niners in the old wild west is based on the reminiscences of the author's grandfather who was one of them. It is an exciting narrative and ends with the author visiting him in his Yorkshire farmouse. Undated ca 1950s.
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Purcell, Steve
Des Lynam: The 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 or creased. 209pp. Biography of BBC sports presenter Des Lynam.
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Langdon, Helen
Holbein (Colour Plate Books)
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 with small tear to lower rear edge and general traces of storage. 48 full-page colour plates plus 16pp. A concise biography of the German painter Hans Holbein with examples of his work.
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Hughes, Henry
Through Mighty Seas: Romance of a Little Windjammer
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 tiny nick to lower rear edge. 240pp. Biographical account of the author's voyages in the Pride of Wales wind-jammer from the Welsh port of Portmadoc to the South Americas and the West Indies. Illustrated.
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Hardy, Florence Emily
The Early Life of Thomas Hardy 1840-1891
Tiny name/date (1929) to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, gilt top of page edges, clear gilt lettering/embossing to front/spine, rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. 327pp. This account of Hardy's life, published under his second wife's name was in fact a collaboration between them from his diaries, notebooks and letters and completed by his wife after his death. Illustrated including with pictures of Thomas Hardy at various stages in his life. Tucked in is a further photograph of Hardy in his later years from part of a book review article.
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Kevin Ratcliffe
My Memories of Everton
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 slight traces of storage. 114pp. Well illustrated autobiography of Kevin Ratcliffe who played for Everton in the 1970s and 1980s. Includes a concise histoy of Everton Football Club. Full-page colour photographs throughout.
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Herrmann, Daniel F. (editor)
Eduardo Paolozzi
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. 288pp. Biography of the sculptor considered the 'Godfather of Pop Art' Eduardo Paolozzi and 217 plates of his works in sculpture, print and collage in this catalogue for this major exhibition in London 2017 and Berlin in 2018 plus comment and discussion of his public sculpture.
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Billcliffe, Roger
Mackintosh Watercolours
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. 144pp. Am in-depth study of Mackintosh's watercolours with almost 100 pages of the book given over to the actual paintings including some paintings by his wife Margaret Macdonald.
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Parker, Alan
Vicious: Too Fast to Live
No marks or inscriptions. Crease to rear cover, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 144pp. This study explodes the public image of punk legend Sid Vicious, detailing his life before, during and after the Sex Pistols. Very well illustrated.
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Glasier, J. Bruce
William Morris and the Early Days of the Socialist Movement (Signed By Katherine Bruce Glasier)
Inscribed on half-title page by Katharine Bruce Glasier (the author's wife) in 1922. No other marks. No creasing to covers or to slightly sunned spine. Very clean very tight pages with slightly rubbed unmarked card boards and no bumping to corners. 173pp. A biographical account of William Morris, being reminiscences of Morris's work as a propagandist, and observations on his character and genius, with some account of the persons and circumstances of the early Socialist agitation.
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Hanson, Lawrence and Elisabeth
Marian Evans & George Eliot : A Biography
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to very slightly sunned spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, dusty top of page edges, small bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. 402pp. In-depth biography of Mary Ann Evans or Marian Evans who used the pseudonym George Eliot to get her work published.
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Carlyle, Thomas
Essays on Burns and Scott
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, stain to lower half of page fore-edges- no effect on pages - and no bumping to corners. 192pp. Literary critiques of the works of Burns and Scott.
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Snow, C. P.
Trollope: An Illustrated Biography
Name crossed out 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 and no bumping to corners. 191pp. A highly rated account of Anthony Trollope, one of the most misunderstood writers in the English language - well illustrated with colour plates and black & white photographs.
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Glasier, J. Bruce
James Keir Hardie : A Memorial
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing and slight rubbing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked sunned boards and no bumping to corners. 85pp. Biography of the founder of the Independent Labour Party, James Keir Hardie. Illustrated. Undated ca 1916. Scarce.
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John Collis
Eddie Cochran
No marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to lower corners of covers. Very clean very tight pages with bright unmarked lightly rubbed boards, traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 48pp. A biography in words and pictures (11 pages) of rock music legend Eddie Cochran plus music, lyrics and tablature of nineteen of his songs. Includes C'mon Everybody, Summerime Blues, Cut Across Shorty and Three Steps to Heaven. An extremely scarce essential work for an Eddie Cochran fan.
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Mackenzie, Compton
The Windsor Tapestry
Name crossed out on front end paper. No other added marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, spine not sunned, foxing to front and rear pages and the tiniest bump to lower front corner. 584pp. A study of the life, heritage and abdication of H.R.H the Duke of Windsor in 1936.
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Judd, Denis
Prince Philip: A Biography
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked dark grey cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 271pp. Biography of the late Prince Philip. Illustrated.
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Swanton, E.W.
Cricketers of My Time: Heroes to Remember
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 torn with minor trace of label removal to front and slight crease to upper rear edge. 240pp. Mini-biographies of over eighty cricket stars from the memory of EW Swanton who has been writing cricketing obituaries for the Daily Telegraph and The Cricketer for more than fifty years. Illustrated.
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Duchamp, Marcel
Notes
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. 155pp. With 289 separately numbered notes about art and more from Marcel Duchamp, artist, writer, exponent of Dada and Cubism, chess player and sculptor. Text in French.
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Lord Rosebery
Robert Burns : Appreciations
Foxing to pages. No other marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to corners and upper edge. Clean tight pages with marking to rear, tanned page edges and rubbing to some corners. 43pp. Large paper copy of two speeches - in Dumfries and Glasgow - by Lord Rosebery celebrating the life of poet and writer Robert Burns on the centenary of his death. With five photographs.
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West, Philip
Watergate
Red ink side lines to a few paragraphs on first eight pages. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, slight foxing adjacent to front spine edge and to page edges and no bumping to corners. 90pp. The story of Richard Nixon and the Watergate conspiracy, starting with Nixon's political activities from 1946.
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Carol Clerk
The Saga of "Hawkwind"
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. Tiny crease to upper corner of rear cover, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 578pp. The story of the troubled 35 year odyssey of 1970s rock band Hawkwind with their tradition of free gigs, benefits and protests, They embraced everything except themselves with their endless fallings out and their epic history of sex, drugs, madness, writs, rage and revenge. Updated edition.
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Paylor, Eric; Wilson, John
Teesside's Sporting Greats
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. 256pp. Mini biographies and photographs of ninety-five sporting stars from the North East of England around Teesside. covering all major sports.
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Green, Martin; Sienkiewicz, Bill
Voodoo Child: The Illustrated Legend of Jimi Hendrix
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 very minor traces of storage. 128pp. The story of Jimi Hendrix, set out in coloured cartoon style and associated text. Lacks the CD.
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Fothergill, John
The Innkeeper's Diary
Book and slipcase in as new condition. 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. 278pp. The author's entertaining account of a hotel he ran in the 1920s, where he was abusive to his guests in a similar manner to Basil Fawlty of Fawlty Towers.
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Spavens, William and Rodger, N. A. M. (editor)
Memoirs of a Seafaring Life : The Narrative of William Spavens
Book and slipcase in as new unread condition. 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. Originally published in 1796, this account by the author tells of his sea service as a young man in the 1750s and 60s, during or just after the Seven Years War. His reason for telling his story was to earn some money to support himself, now disabled after his years at sea.
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Costello, Elvis
Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, tanning and foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very slight creasing to upper edge. 682pp. Autobiography of Elvis Costello, singer, songwriter and musician. This Waterstones exclusive edition includes eight extra pages of photographs which show Costello's handwritten songs.
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Bradley, James
Reminiscences in the Life of Joshua Bradley : Donor of Hyde Town Hall Clock and Bells.
Inscription on reverse of frontispiece. No other marks. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked with nicks to corners, slight sunning to spine and well creased. 281pp. Biography of the man who started lowly and became General Manager of Boston Mills in Hyde, Cheshire. Born in 1817, he worked his way up as a textile worker and left his mark on the town by donating the clock still seen on the Town Hall and the bells therein.
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Zmijewsky, Boris and Pfeiffer, Lee
The Films of Clint Eastwood (revised)
No marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 256pp. A fascinating review of the films of Clint Eastwood. Well illustrated.
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