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Lyceyy, Andrew
Rudyard Kipling
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 edge. 659pp. In-depth biography of writer Rudyard Kipling, the author of The Jungle Books.
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Melville, Lewis
Beau Brummell : His Life and Letters
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight pages with lightly marked/sunned boards, very sunned spine, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. 313pp. Biography of George Bryan (Beau) Brummell (1778-1940), an important figure in Regency England and an arbiter of men's fashion.
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Ash, Russell
Lord Leighton
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 with small crease to lower rear edge and minor traces of storage. Forty full-page colour plates with description on each opposite page plus concise biography over 9pp. A lavish work depicting the paintings of Frederick Leighton who dominated the Victorian art world becoming among the best known of both his age and our own.
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Collins, Joan
My Unapologetic Diaries
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 upper rear corner. 373pp. 'The uncensored and candid diaries of the actress, author, columnist, producer, entrepreneur and global celebrity Dame Joan Collins.'
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Prestwich, Pat F.
The Translation of Memories : Recollections of the Young Proust (Signed By Author)
Inscribed on front end paper from Pat. The inscription makes it obvious that this is the author. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked cream cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket clipped but not price clipped and not marked or torn or creased. 267pp. Marie Nordlinger came to Paris from Manchester in 1896 to stay with her cousin Reynaldo Hahn and there met his friend Marcel Proust, at that time an aspiring novelist. She translated into French the works of Ruskin for him and remained friends until his death thirty years later. This book recounts the relationship between these young people in fin-de-siecle Paris through an analysis of Marie's correspondence.
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Furbank, O N
E M Forster : A Life : Volume One : The Growth of the Novelist 1879-1914
Bookplate on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked olive cloth boards and tiny bump to lower rear corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor creasing to upper edge. 272pp. In this volume, the author takes us through Forster's childhood and adolescence, with its mixed family background of Bohemia and prim respectability. Forster experienced a year or two of bitter unhappiness at his public school, but found happiness and awakening in the tolerant atmosphere of Cambridge and a further 'revelation' in Italy.
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Sagar, Keith
The Life of DH Lawrence : An Illustrated Biography
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, clear silver lettering spine and front, very minor bunping around top of spine (otherwise fine) and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with creasing mainly to upper and lower edges and rear dust flap. 288pp. An authentic vivid biography of the literary legend who died in 1930 aged 44, drawing on the 5,500 Lawrence letters now available, and the many accounts of him by his relatives, friends and contemporaries - and extremely well illustrated.
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The Editor
Our Art - 24 South African Artists
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Crease across rear cover. Clean pages with slightly marked dusty covers. 143pp. Hole-punched pages bound with brown ribbon. Paintings and a little sculpture in colour and black & white of the work of twenty-four South African artists. Each set of works accompanied by concise biographies of the artist by different writers. Scarce in the UK.
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Meintjes, Johannes & Marincowitz, Pieter (introduction)
Meintjes : Lyrical Work (Signed By Author)
Flat signed by Johannes Meintjes to copyright page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked green cloth boards, very slight rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Sunned dust jacket not price clipped with a few small marks to front, small pieces missing from spine ends and some corners and two small tears to upper edge around spine. 50 full-page plates plus 26pp. Biography and work of South African artist Johannes Meintjes. Text in English and Afrikaans.
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Wilson, Ivy Crane (editor)
Hollywood Album : Seventh
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to very slightly sunned spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and tiny bump to lower front corner. 160pp. Concise biographies of all the stars from Hollywood with many full-page photographs in colour and in black & white. Undated ca 1953.
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Richter, Ludwig & Beer, Johannes (selected by)
Ludwig Richter : The End of Day
Name/date to reverse of frontispiece. 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 with tiny nicks to top of spine. 80pp. 'The end of the day'/closing time' telling the memoirs of a German painter Ludwig Richter accompanied by 16 coloured and 62 of his black & white paintings/drawings. 'The Blue Book' series. Scarce in the UK.
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Arnason, H. H.
The Sculptures of Houdon
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, foxing to top of page edges and minor bumping to some corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing to upper edge and general traces of storage. 294pp. The life and work of 18th century sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon. Very well illustrated with 144 full page plates, 208 photographs plus text on 134 pages. 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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Constantine, Learie
Cricket in the Sun
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, minor bump to top of spine, spine ends slightly rubbed and no bumping to corners. 131pp. Sir Learie Constantine's account of his life and cricketing career. With 28 photographic illustrations. 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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Ford, Trevor
I Lead the Attack
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very minor rub to lower front edge and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or creased with no fading to spine and with a small tear to lower front edge. 160pp. Trevor Ford (Wales and Cardiff City FC) tells of his rise to fame and how he was the costliest player in football in his day. Illustrated. 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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Manley, Delarivier ; Zelinsky, Katherine (editor)
The Adventures of Rivella
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, small bump to lower edge of front cover, tiny mark to lower fore-edge of last few pages and no bumping to corners. 178pp. A complex and partly autobiographical work by early 18th century female author Delarivier Manley. It throws light on a woman author's relations with publishers and is an important example of amatory fiction. 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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George, Joan
Stanley Spencer Remembered
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. 92pp. An anthology of people's memories of popular artist Stanley Spencer and a glimpse into mid 20th century social history and its effects on Cookham.
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Moorehead, Alan
A Late Education : Episodes in a Life
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with nicks to top of spine and sunning to front. 175pp. The story of a friendship that lasted from 1938 to 1952. One person was a pessimistic intellectual and musician. The other was Alan Moorehead, an unsophisticated Australian who wrote The White Nile, The Blue Nile and Gallipoli amonst other works.
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Wilkins, David (editor)
Schoolboy, Servant, GWR Apprentice : The Memoirs of Alfred Plumley 1880-1892
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. 160pp. Discovered after he died, this is Alfred Plumley's memoirs of his youth. Born in Someset in 1874, he went on to work as a Great Western Railway employee for forty-five years.
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Doyle, Rev. J.
Strawberry Hill
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, slight damp effect to lower edge of rear cover and no bumping to corners. 31pp. History and description of the properties known as Strawberry Hill, Twickenham and some biographical studies on Horace Walpole and on Francess, Countess Waldegrave. Scarce.
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Thomas, Geraint
The World of Cycling According to G (Signed By Author)
Signed 'To Jamie - Geraint Thomas' on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions - appears unread. 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. 373pp. Autobiography and the thoughts on cycling of multiple World Champion and Olympic Gold Medallist - Welshman Geraint Thomas - who later went on to win the Tour de France.
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Rushdie, Salman
Joseph Anton : a Memoir
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Very clean very tight pages with slightly finger (?) marked boards and bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight bumping to lower corners. Fore and lower page edges untrimmed. 636pp. Salman Rushdie's own account of the nine years he spent undercover using the name Joseph Anton in order to shield himself from the threat of the Fatwa issued by Ayatolla Khomeini following Rushdie's having written 'The Satanic Verses'. Scarce edition in the UK.
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Woolf, Virginia & Bell, Anne Oliver (editor)
The Diary of Virginia Woolf : Volume II : 1920-1924
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Unmarked art label on half-title page. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very minor creasing to edges and trace of sunning to spine. 371pp. The diarist's own progress as a writer and the Woolf's expanding circle of friends and interests are described with an immediacy, honesty and natural eloquence here. Scarce.
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Proust, Marcel & Kolb, Philip (editor)
Marcel Proust : Selected Letters Volume Two 1904-1909
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 and no fading to spine. 482pp. This volume of Proust's letters covers the crucial period leading up to his final discovery of his true vocation as a writer.
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Wilson, Sir Henry & Jeffery, Keith (editor)
The Military Correspondence of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson 1918-1922
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth gilt embossed boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with damp effect to reverse side of top edge (no effect on book) and very minor creasing to top edge. 438pp. Copies of letters held in the Imperial War Museum from the author's time as professional head of the British Army. They cover the end of the First World War, demobilisation, army re-building and other wide-ranging military commitments throughout the world.
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Jones, Robin
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 130pp. Beginning with a lengthy article on his father Marc, this study of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (who was cast in the same mould), gives a very well illustrated account of his life, his achievements - rail, ship, engineering, tunnels, bridges and more.
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Cooper, Artemis
Writing at the Kitchen Table : The Authorized Biography of Elizabeth David
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and extremely minor bumping to some corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with light rubbing to upper and lower edges and some corners. 364pp. The fascinating biography of cookery writer Elizabeth David. She started to cook Mediterranean food when she was stranded during the Second World War on a Greek Island in 1940-41.
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Staber, Margit & Weber, Gerhard (intro)
The Non-Objective World 1914-1955 - Die Gegenstandslose Welt
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, crease to sunned spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, light foxing to top of page edges, slight traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 191pp. Images and mini biographies from the 1973 Exhibition held in London and Austin, Texas with works by eighty-nine artists including Jean Arp, Barbara Hepworth, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore and Ben Nicholson. Text in English and German.
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The Editor
Frank Stella : A Retrospective Exhibition.
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright faintly foxed boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 32pp. Catalogue of the work of Frank Stella taken from the exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery London in 1970 and in New York and Amsterdam. Illustrations in colour and in black & white.
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Williams, Sir Kyffin
Kyffin
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. 46pp. The work of Welsh landscape painter Sir Kyffin Williams OBE RA, with illustrations of his paintings. All text in English and Welsh.
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Golding, J. and Green, C.
Leger and Purist Paris: The Tate Gallery 18 November 1970 - 24 January 1971
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight rub near top of spine and no bumping to corners. 108pp. Exhibition catalogue depicting the work and biography of Fernand Leger. Photographic illustrations mainly in black & white.
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Hoskyns, Barney
Across the Great Divide : The Band and America
No marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor bump to top of spine, slight tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. 439pp. Now considered the most influential American group of the late-1960s and early-1970s, The Band who became famous as Bob Dylan's backing band in 1965. recorded with him the 'basement tapes' songs. This book covers the period up to the end of the group and 'The Last Waltz' concert, captured in Martin Scorcese's film of the same name.
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Hilty, Greg
Alison Wilding: Immersion/Exposure
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, bump to top of spine and no bumping to other corners. 76pp. Catalogue from the Alison Wilding Exhibition at the Tate Gallery Liverpool in 1991. With coloured full-page images of her work plus associated sayings and an interview.
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Hill, Rosemary
God's Architect : Pugin & the Building of Romantic Britain
Neat inscription to title page. No other marks. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked maroon cloth boards, slight foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creasedwith minor traces of storage. 602pp. Biography of Augustus Pugin, one of Britain's greatest architects, who died insane in 1852 aged forty, having changed the face and the mind of British architecture.
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Crawford, Alan
C. R. Ashbee : Architect, Designer & Romantic Socialist
Name/date to half-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. 499pp. Charles Robert Ashbee was one of the most significant figures in British artistic and cultural life around the start of the 20th century - as an architect, designer and social reformer. Inspired by the anti-industrialism of John Ruskin and William Morris, he started a craft workshop in London's East End in 1888 before moving it out to the Cotswold town of Chipping Campden in 1902.
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Sattin, Anthony
The Young T. E. Lawrence
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, wrinkling to one page fore-edge and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with crease to rear dust flap. 316pp. Detailed study of Lawrence around his twenties, his early life and what led up to the man becoming known as Lawrence of Arabia.
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Crewe, The Marquess of
Lord Rosebery (Two Volumes)
Two volumes. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spines. Very clean very tight copies with bright unmarked boards, clear gilt lettering to spines and fronts, foxing to dusty page edges, rubbed spine ends and bumping to front corners of Vol I. 752pp. Two volume biography of Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Liberal Party politician who was British Prime Minister from 1894 to 1895.
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Hockney, David
Hockney on 'Art' : Conversations with Paul Joyce
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked blue cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little rubbing to upper and lower edges and minor traces of storage. 263pp. Based on a series of revealing interviews which took place over the years from 1982 between David Hockney and Paul Joyce, a film maker, photographer and artist, which allows the reader to share the thought processes and the working life of a great artist. Very well illustrated with David Hockney's art. A heavy book.
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Bramly, Serge
Leonardo : The Artist and the Man
No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 493pp. An in-depth study of the life and the work of Leonardo Da Vinci, artist and inventor in the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Mitchell, Hannah and Mitchell, Geoffrey (editor)
The Hard Way Up : Autobiography of Hannah Mitchell, Suffragette and Rebel
Ex-library book with usual marks and stamps. Front end paper missing. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean very tight copy with very slightly tape-marked boards, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. 260pp. Born in 1871 in Alport Dale in Derbyshire, Hannah Maria Webster left home for good in 1885, walking the seven miles to Glossop. She eventually became a Manchester City Councillor and Magistrate and played a very active role in Socialism and as a suffragette. The editor is her grandson. First Edition.
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Worth, Fred L. & Tamerius, Steve D.
All About Elvis : The King of Rock and Roll from A to Z
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, faint crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked slightly indented boards, tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. 409pp. The source book for Elvis fans everywhere. Opens with a short biography of the singer. 1000s of facts about Elvis and his songs and associates in alphabetic listings. Fairly scarce.
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Mair, Philip Beveridge
Shared Enthusiasm : The Story of Lord and Lady Beveridge
Ex library book with usual marks and stamps. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, front end paper missing and tiny bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 157pp. Biography of William Beveridge, the author of the Beveridge Report and his wife, by her son.
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Collier, Peter & Horowitz, David
The Kennedys
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and minor bump to lower front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a few tiny nicks to edges and corners. 565pp. The saga of America's Kennedy dynasty. Illustrated.
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Godden, Jon & Rumer
Two Under the Indian Sun
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked brown cloth boards, dusty page edges, minor rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with minor loss/tears to corners and very rubbed. 199pp. The authors wer seven and six in 1914 when they left their grandmother's London house to live with their parents in Bengal due to the outbreak of war. They spent five free and untrammelled years there and this is the story of that time seen through the eyes of the two children.
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Tetley, Brian
The Story of Mohamed Amin : Front-line Cameraman
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight rubbing to upper edge and traces of storage. 303pp. Mohamed Amin was the honoured press photographer who covered many of the important political world affairs over the 1960s to 1980s with much about Idi Amin. Foreword by Bob Geldof.
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Mirren, Helen
My Life in Words and Pictures
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. 301pp. Autobiographical account of actor Helen Mirren. Very well illustrated.
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Poulson, Christine
William Morris
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 sunning to spine and very tiny scratch to rear. 128pp. Biography of William Morris, his friendships, socialism, work and achievements in architecture, painting, textiles, wallpapers, poetry and furniture and influence on design.
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Booth, Cherie (Cherie Blair) & Haste, Cate
The Goldfish Bowl : Married to the Prime Minister 1955-1997 (Signed By Author)
Signed 'To Tom with love Cherie xxx' on title page. No other 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 light rubbing/creasing to upper edge. 321pp. Cherie Booth, Tony Blair's wife, tells the stories of seven previous Prime Minister's wives based on interviews, diaries, letters and the accounts of surviving spouses. Scarce signed in the UK.
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Cox, Brian
Putting the Rabbit in the Hat : My Autobiography
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. 374pp. Autobiography of actor Brian Cox, who recently starred in the smash hit Succession. Illustrated.
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Foot, David
Fragments of Idolatry - from 'Crusoe' to Kid Berg
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, the tiniest bumps to upper and lower front edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with creasing to upper edge and minor traces of storage. 176pp. Long-term sports writer David Foot picks out twelve sporting characters who have caught his imagination - eight cricketers, a boxer, an FA manager, a Welsh rugby coach and a fellow writer.
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Donoughue, Bernard
Downing Street Diary : With Harold Wilson in No. 10 (Signed By Author)
Inscribed to Tom and signed by Bernard on half-title page. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, slight tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing to upper edge and nick to upper front spine corner. 785pp. An intimate portrait of Prime Minister Harold Wilson from the diaries kept by the man he chose to found and run the Policy Unit at Number 10 Downing Street throughout Wilson's final premiership.
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