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The Editor
Famous Men : Biographical Sketches
Tech school presentation plate inside front board. No other added marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to sunned spine. A well read copy with dull unmarked boards, dusty page edges, one loose soiled page and no bumping to corners. ca 500pp. Nineteen biographical sketches including James Watt, Nelson, George Stephenson, Earl of Dundonald, Louis Napoleon, Cook, George Washington, Sir Walter Scott, Peter the Great, Columbus, William Penn and Alexander Selkirk. Undated ca 1900 (from presentation plate).
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Cardus, Neville
Autobiography
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, dusty top of page edges, lightly tanned pages and no bumping to corners. Lower page edges untrimmed. 288pp. Autobiography of the renowned cricket commentator and music critic from the slums of Manchester who achieved fame and recognition in the Long Room at Lord's and the musical festivals of Saltzburg.
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Norris, Gerald (editor)
William Dampier : Buccaneer Explorer
Book appears unread but neat owner label states 'read July 2002'. Book otherwise in fine condition. Slipcase in excellent condition. 268pp. The story of William Dampier, pirate, buccaneer, circumnavigator and the most remarkable seaman that England produced in the century and a half between Francis Drake and Captain Cook.
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Lauzun, Duc De (Armand Louis de Gontaut Biron)
Memoirs of the Duc De Lauzin
Label removal marks to top of front board and to front end papers. No other added marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to sunned spine. Very clean very tight pages with dusty boards, water spotting marks to rear, dusty page edges and minor bumping to upper corners. 253pp. A biography of an 18th century French soldier and politician.
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Palmer, Geoffrey & Lloyd, Noel
EF Benson As He Was
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked board, very minor foxing to top of page edges and a little bumping to some corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with slight creasing to upper edge. 208pp. Biography of writer EF (Fred) Bemson who wrote a hundred comic novels in the first half of the 20th century,
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Dwight, Eleanor
Edith Wharton : An Extraordinary Life
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. 296pp. An in-depth illustrated biography of American writer Edith Wharton, who was also an art scholar, the builder and decorator of stately mansions, landscape architect and gardener, heroic war worker, hostess of brilliant salons and an indefatigable tourist.
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Tytler, Harriet & Sattin, Anthony (editor) & Mason, Philip (intro)
An Engishwoman in India : The Memoirs of Harriet Tytler 1828-1858
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty page edges and slight bumping to some corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slightly sunned spine and a little faint creasing. 229pp. Born into an army family in India, she was present at the siege of Delhi, the most crucial encounter of the Indian Mutiny in 1857 and provides us with a compelling eye-witness account of this time. Her memoirs are also of childhood in India and England before the Mutiny.
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Juby, Kerry (editor)
In Other Words . . . David Bowie
No marks or inscriptions. Small crease to spine corner of lower rear edge, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 128pp. Biographical account of David Bowie and of the artist as seen by those really close to him - his wife and personal friends, associates in music, acting and business. With transcriptions of over thirty interviews from Kerry Juby's radio series of the same name. Very well illusttated.
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Adams, Max
Admiral Collingwood : Nelson's Own Hero
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. 333pp. The story of Admiral Lord Collingwood, Nelson's best friend and hero, renowned for his seamanship and giunnery, it was Admiral Collingwood who opened the Battle of Trafalgar where he was second in command to Nelson.
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Hutchings, Arthur
Mozart - The Man
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, sunning to upper edges, bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. 113pp. An in-depth, very well illustrated account of the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This volume concentrates on Mozart the man rather than the musician.
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Lieberson, Goddard (editor)
The Columbia Book of Musical Masterworks
Name/date to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. Very clean very tight pages with damp effect around lower edges of boards, dusty top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped with name/address stamp to front end paper and some overall wrinkling. The spine has been partly cut away to display the title when displayed on the bookshelf. 546pp. Mini biographies of 100 composers and their major works making up about 1000 musical masterpieces in every form.
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Cellini, Benvenuto & Macdonell, Anne (translator)
Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini; A Florentine Artist; Written by Himself
Name to front a end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, clear gilt lettering/embossing to spine and no bumping to corners. 368pp. The life of Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor, goldsmith and author who lived in Florentine from 1500 to 1571. Translated by Anne Macdonell.
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Schroer, Andreas; Hentschell, Oskar; Knorr, Michael
Private Elvis: Elvis in Germany - the Missing Years
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to end papers and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing/rubbing to upper edge. 160pp. A very well illustrated account of Elvis's years of military service from 1958 to 1960. Missing the CD.
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Barnes, Tess
Women of Substance (Signed By Author and other)
Inscribed by Tess opposite title page and signed by Sophie Grigson to her portrait. No other marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 112pp. With concise portrats of and interviews with fifty significant women of our time including politicians, artists, musicians, chefs etc. Each person is depicted in a coloured painting by the author.
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Danziger, James (editor)
Beaton
No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, very minor foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked with a few small repaired tears to edges. 256pp. Biography of Sir Cecil Beaton, photographer of the stars who began at the age of eleven, through his days in Hollywood and his war experiences and fashion photography. This is the most extensive collection of Beaton's work.
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Whitworth, G. T.
The Royds of Rochdale
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. 157pp. Fascinating social history of the Royd family, from the 14th century to date. The account begins in Soyland above Rishworth/Ripponden and covers many family members who settled elsewhere. The main emphasis is on Rochdale wher the family became one of the town's most prominent and wealthiest in the 18th and 19th centuries. Very well illustrated with photographs, maps and census details.
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Stepney, Alex
In Safe Keeping
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny scratch across top of page edges and no bumping to corners. 157pp. Autobiography of Alex Stepney, Manchester United goalkeeper. Illustrated.
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Gortner, C. W.
Marlene : A Novel of Marlene Dietrich
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black clothboards and a few minor bumps to edges/corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight rubbing/creasing to edges. 403pp. Historical novel describing the life of Marlene Dietrich.
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Quick, Diana
A Tug on the Thread : From the British Raj to the British Stage
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor bump to top of front cover and no bumping to corners. 317pp. Autobiography and family memoir of actor Diana Quick. This is also a social history of the British in India. Illustrated.
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Sand, George & Flaubert, Gustave & McKenzie, Aimee L. (translator)
The George Sand - Gustave Flaubert Letters
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean very tight pages with slightly dusty unmarked boards, sunning to spine, foxing to dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Spare new spine label tipped in at rear. 382pp. The intimate letters between French woman writer George Sand and Frence novelist Gustave Flaubert between 1863 and 1880. Tucked in are three British newspaper articles on George Sand from the 1920s, one a review of this book, one a discussion of her and Chopin from 1925 and one describing her in 1926 fifty years after her death.
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Young, Rob (compiler) and Rossi, Francis and Parfitt, Rick (editors)
Status Quo: The Official 40th Anniversary Edition
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. 287pp. A colourful and often humorous insight into the world of Status Quo and many of the characters associated with Rossi and Parfitt over their forty years in the rock band Status Quo. A heavy book.
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Schickel, Richard
Cary Grant : A Celebration
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. 192pp.
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Gauguin, Paul & Denvir, Bernard (selected by)
Paul Gauguin : The Search for Paradise
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 160pp. Paul Gauguin's letters from Brittany and the South Seas.
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Mlle. de Lespinasse; Comte de Guibert & Mills, E.H.F. (translator)
Love Letters of Mlle de Lespinasse to and from the Comte de Guilbert
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight pages with slightly grubby slightly marked boards, sunning to spine and upper rear edge and no bumping to corners. 553pp. Correspondence from 1773 to 1776 between Mlle de Lespinasse and the Comte de Guibert. Intro by EHF Mills over 33 pages and biographical index of persons mentioned in the letters over 31 pages.
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Holden, Anthony
The Man Who Wrote Mozart
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. 238pp. Biography of Abbe Lorenzo Da Ponte, poet, professor, womaniser and priest who was librettist of Mozart's three great operas.
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Askey, Arthur
Before Your Very Eyes - an Autobiography
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked vivid blue boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or creased with small tear to upper rear edge and lower front fore-edge and minor rubbing to top of spine. 191pp. Biography of comedian and entertainer Arthur Askey (Hello Playmates) whose career spanned over 50 years. Illustrated.
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Wright, Wilbur ; Giovanni, Jose ; Hyde, Anthony ; Huxley, Elspeth
Carter's Castle ; The Great Husky Race ; The Red Fox ; The Flame Trees of Thika
Small name label inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked brown faux leather/gilt boards, minor tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. 510pp. Four stories Carter's Castle ; The Great Husky Race ; The Red Fox and The Flame Trees of Thika of the Gods in Readers Digest Condensed Books format.
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Rolt, L. T. C.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel : A Biography
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked blue cloth boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 345pp. A well researched account of possibly the greatest engineer of the 19th century. It includes the conflict between Brunel and John Scott Russell over the Great Eastern which venture was directly responsible for Brunel's financial ruin and his early death at age of fifty-two.
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Norman, Philip
The Stones
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards, tanned pages and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with signs of storage. 373pp. An account of The Rolling Stones over their first two decades up to 1984, featuring Mick, Keith, Charlie and Brian. Illustrated.
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Mucha, Alphonse & Bridges, Ann (editor)
Alphonse Mucha : The Complete Graphic Works
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards and the faintest of bumps to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor sunning. Jacket now protected in fully-removable transparent sleeve. 192pp. The works of Alphonse Mucha from the 1890s when he was at the height of his fame and producing his panneaux decoratifs and his celebrated posters for the theatre and other outlets. His style became synonymous with Art Nouveau. With 163 illustrations in colour.
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Hayes, John
The Art of Graham Sutherland
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked matt black boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a little indenting mainly to front. 190pp. Biography of and over 160 reproductions from the paintings of the greatest English landscape painter of the 20th century and one of the greatest English portrait painters of all time.
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Whitfield, Sarah; Elderfield, John
Bonnard
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 creasing to upper and lower edges. 272pp. Catalogue from the Tate Exhibition of 1998. A concise biography of Pierre Bonnard followed by a discussion of his work. The catalogue continues with 113 of Bonnard's paintings in colour, mostly full-page plus many more smaller black & white examples.
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Day, Robin
Day By Day : A Dose of My Own Hemlock (Signed By Author)
Signed 'With best wishes from Robin Day' on title page. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red/black weave boards, very minor traces of foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with nicks, chips and small tears to upper and lower edges. 227pp. An interview with himself by Robin Day, the formidable TV interviewer who began in the 1950s and went on for another twenty years after the publication of this book.
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Trinder, Barrie
The Darbys of Coalbrookdale
No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to lower part of rear edge, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly sunned spine and no bumping to corners. 76pp. A straightforward and accurate account of the role of the Darby family in the industrial history of Shropshire. Illustrated.
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Birkin, Andrew
J M Barrie and the Lost Boys
No marks or inscriptions. Crease to lower fore-edge of rear cover, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 323pp. The story of novelist and playwright JM Barrie (who wrote Peter Pan), and his involvement with three young boys whom he encountered in Kensington Gardens. He and his wife were childless so he became their guardian when their father died.
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Vitaliev, Vitali
Dateline Freedom (Signed By Author)
Signed 'I V Vitaliev' to title page. No other 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 with minor traces of storage. Jacket now protected in fully-removable transparent sleeve. 210pp. An autobiographical account from Soviet satirist and investigative journalist Vitali Vitaliev, born in the Ukraine, went to live in Moscow, became a national hero for his investigations of criminals but who was forced to flee into Poland in 1990 just before this account was published. Scarce signed copy.
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Rosten, Norman
Marilyn : A Very Personal Story
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to top of page edges, a little tanning to some page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with light storage marking to very slightly sunned front and nick to upper front edge. 125pp. The real, the personal Marilyn, seen through the eyes of a friend, a poet with a poet's eye for detail who provides the truest and most touching portrait of Marilyn Monroe through the lkast seven years of her life.
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Hughes, John Scott
Told in the Watch Below
Inscription on front end paper. Clean very tight pages with unmarked boards, sunned upper and lower board edges, tanning to pages, a little foxing and no bumping to corners. Coloured frontispiece torn with tissue-guard re-attached to outer edge. All black & white illustrations present. Dust jacket not price clipped with small pieces missing from upper edge. Jacket now protected in fully-removable transparent sleeve. 187pp. About twenty individual reminiscences, experiences and yarns recounted in the frank and friendly mood appropriate to 'the watch below', all with the same inspiration of the love of ships and the spell of the sea. With sixteen full-page drawings and coloured frontispiece by well-known artist Donald Maxwell.
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Barrie, J. M.
Margaret Ogilvy By Her Son
Easily removable pencil details of possible interest left on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to very slightly sunned spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked dark blue bevelled cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Clear gilt lettering to spine, gilt top of page edges and other page edges untrimmed. Frontispiece tissue-guarded photograph of Marraget Ogilvy. 204pp. An account of his mother's life and character by writer JM Barrie. First Edition.
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Wragg, E. Joy
One Life Amid Many (Signed By Author)
Signed E. Joy Wragg on title page. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked mustard coloured cloth boards, very minor bumping to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped with some marking to covers, and nicks, chips and some creasing to upper and lower edges. 124pp. Autobiography of the Founder and First Principal of Sherrardswood School, Welwyn, Herts from 1928-1935. Sherradswood is currently an independent school with an excellent reputation. A scarce book.
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Hill, Graham with Ewart, Neil
Graham
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight rubbing to spine foot and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very slight rubbing to spine ends. 175pp. The life of motor racing World Champion Graham Hill. The last chapter written by his wife Bette Hill after his 1975 tragic accident. Well illustrated.
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Jacobs, David
Jacob's Ladder
Name/address to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very minor bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with a number of tears and repairs. 179pp. Autobiography of broadcaster David Jacobs who became the compere on Juke Box Jury in the 1960s.
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Lancaster, Osbert
With an Eye to the Future
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked yellow cloth boards, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with rubbing and creases and nicks/chips to corners. Jacket protected in fully-removable transparent sleeve. 156pp. The author tells the period of his life after prep school and up to the start of World War II. Filled with his humour and his drawings.
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Dopagne, Jacques
Miro
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very tiny bump to lower rear corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with faint creasing and nicks to upper edge. pp. Lengthy text plus 88 coloured plates of Miro's work.
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Neret, Gilles
Tamara de Lempicka, 1898-1980
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. 79pp. The life and art of artist painter Tamara de Lempicka who created most of her works in the first half of the 20th century.
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Marnat, Marcel
Klee
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with nick to upper front edge and traces of storage. 88 plates plus 34pp. An account of the life and work of Swiss artist Paul Klee.
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Watkinson, Ray
William Morris as Designer
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked cream cloth boards, tiniest amount of sunning to upper edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 90 plates plus 81pp. This study consider three aspects of William Morris, as an individual playing his part in a large development, as a working designer and as a theorist about art and its function in society. Well ilustrated.
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Shaw, Robin
Housman's Places
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 128pp. The ideal companion for those who would travel England and wish to know more of the life of A. E. Housman (1859-1936), classical scholar and poet and the author of the poems 'A Shropshire Lad'. Well illustrated.
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Melanotte, Alberta
Monet
Appears unread. Book in as new condition. 44 full-page plates plus 15pp. A concise biography of impressionist Claude Monet plus examples of his work in colour.
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Spears, Major-General Sir Edward
Fulfilment of a Mission : Syria and Lebanon 1941-1944
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked light blue cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn wth tiny crease to foot of slightly sunned spine. 311pp. Considered with Churchill as one of the twp outstanding soldier authors of the 20th century, Spears found himself at war not only with the Germans and the Vichy French but equally with the Free French and the Foreign Office ! In this work he describes his gradual disenchantment with the monster he had created - De Gaulle - who he had brought from France to England and virtually created him leader of the Free French.
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