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	BERTRAM, ANTHONY., Paul Nash... London:, Faber & Faber., First edition. Cloth. Condition: Book: In Dust Jacket. This is the first substantial and comprehensive book to appear in which all aspects of Nash's whole work are critically discussed and his biography is presented in detail. Inludes 53 plates, 2 in colour. 336.p. in total. Fine, DJ slightly damaged around the corners. GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 US$ 49.83 \| JP¥ 4402] Book number: 9748 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.
	BREIT, HARVEY; LOWRY, MARGERIE BONNER (EDITORS., The selected Letters of Malcolm Lowry... London:, Jonathan Cape,, 1967.. First edition. Hard Cover. Condition: Book: Fine copy in fine dustwrapper. Frontis, 209pp. GBP 27.00 [Appr.: EURO 30 US$ 44.85 \| JP¥ 3962] Book number: 9860 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.
	FARNAN, DOROTHY J., AUDEN IN LOVE... New York:, Simon & Schuster,, 1984.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Book: In Dust Jacket. First Edition. Auden and Chester Kallman, written by Kallman's father's wife, who taught English at a school in the Bronx. Illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, small bookplate on front pastedo wn, fine in dustwrapper with short edge tears and crease at lower corner of rear panel. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.93 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 853 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.
	DAVID GARNETT., THE WHITE/GARNETT LETTERS... London:, Jonathan Cape Ltd,, 1968.. First edition. Hard Cover. Condition: Book: Fine in Fine DJ. The friendship between T.H.White and David Garnett flourished in the long and amusing letters they wrote to each other over almost thirty years. Their remarkable cerrespondence, therefore, contains the essence of a rapport that lasted until White's death in 1964. These letters are witty and eloquent on a range of topics from tosnils to taxasion, hawking to history, ants, books and the personalities of the day. 318.p. in total. GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 US$ 24.92 \| JP¥ 2201] Book number: 8526 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.
	HILLIER, BEVIS., John Betjeman New Fame, New Love... London:, John Murray,, 2002.. First edition. Hardcover. Condition: Book: Fine in Fine DJ. "A model of biography, and fascinatingly documented" , "Utterly compelling" With 32 pages of photographs Inscibed by the author, octavo, 736 pages. GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 US$ 49.83 \| JP¥ 4402] Book number: 11442 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.
	MACCARTHY, MARY., A Nineteenth Century Childhood... London:, Heinemann,, 1924.. First edition. Original Cloth. Condition: With the bookplate of Dudley Carew, designed by Evelyn Waugh, 118pp, 8vo. Spine very faded otherwise nice bright copy. GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 US$ 49.83 \| JP¥ 4402] Book number: 9564 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.
	QUENNELL, PETER., JOHN RUSKIN, The Portrait of a Prophet... London:, Collins,, 1949.. First edition. Hard Cover. Condition: Book: In Dust Jacket. Illustrated, dustwrapper designed by Barnett Freedman, 320pp, 8tvo. very nice copy in frayed dustwrapper. GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 US$ 24.92 \| JP¥ 2201] Book number: 2481 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.
	ROCKEFELLER, PEGGY MCGRATH., A Life Reflected [Subtitle]: Selected Letters from 1944 - 1996... Portland:, Privately published,, 1969.. First edition. Cloth. Condition: Book: Fine copy in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed on the title page by the author, with a letter signed by David Rockefeller laid in, 218pp. GBP 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 166.5 US$ 249.15 \| JP¥ 22011] Book number: 9942 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.
	DENNIS ROMANO., THE LIKENESS OF VENICE [Subtitle]: A Life of Doge Francesco Foscari 1373 - 1457... USA:, Yale University press,, 2007.. First edition. Hard Cover. Condition: Book: Fine in Fine DJ. Dennis Romano reconstructs Foscari's life through careful reading of extant govermental records and chronicle sources. He also uses architectural monuments bulit by Foscari and his heirs as critical interpretive keys for unlocking the personality and policies of the doge. With this biography Romano clears away long standing myths, fills in previously unknown details about Foscari's triumphs and ordeals, and allows to emerge the first intimate portrait of this singular doge. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. 468.p. in total. GBP 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 17.75 US$ 26.58 \| JP¥ 2348] Book number: 8842 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.
	SHONFIELD, ZUZANNA., The Precariously Privileged [Subtitle]: A Professional Family in Victorian London... London:, Oxford University Press., First edition. Hard Cover. Condition: Book: Fine copy in fine dustwrapper. 16pp of photographs, 266pp. GBP 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 20 US$ 29.9 \| JP¥ 2641] Book number: 9347 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.
	STREATFEILD, NOEL., BEYOND THE VICARAGE... London:, Collins And Harvill Press,, 1971.. First edition. Condition: Third volume of the author's autobiographic trilogy covered her life as a writer, fine copy in a price clipped dustwrapper designed by Charles Mozley GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 US$ 49.83 \| JP¥ 4402] Book number: 2671 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.
	VIOLET, ULTRA., Famous for 15 Minutes, My Years with andy Warhol... London:, Methuen,, 1989.. First UK edition. Hard Cover. Condition: Book: In Dust Jacket. 32pp of black and white photographs, 274pp, 8tvo. small inscription, fine copy in fine dustwrapper. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.25 US$ 33.22 \| JP¥ 2935] Book number: 9859 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.
	WALKER, ANNABEL., Aurel Stein Pioneer of the Silk Road... London:, John Murray,, 1995.. First edition. Hard Cover. Condition: Book: Fine in Fine DJ. Illustrated with some b/w plates, tells the remarkable story of the shy outsider whose lifetime of single-minded dedication revealed to the world the glories of the Silk Road, octavo, 393pp GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 US$ 49.83 \| JP¥ 4402] Book number: 11848 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.

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	BERTRAM, ANTHONY., Paul Nash... London:, Faber & Faber., First edition. Cloth. Condition: Book: In Dust Jacket. This is the first substantial and comprehensive book to appear in which all aspects of Nash's whole work are critically discussed and his biography is presented in detail. Inludes 53 plates, 2 in colour. 336.p. in total. Fine, DJ slightly damaged around the corners. GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 US$ 49.83 \| JP¥ 4402] Book number: 9748 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.
	BREIT, HARVEY; LOWRY, MARGERIE BONNER (EDITORS., The selected Letters of Malcolm Lowry... London:, Jonathan Cape,, 1967.. First edition. Hard Cover. Condition: Book: Fine copy in fine dustwrapper. Frontis, 209pp. GBP 27.00 [Appr.: EURO 30 US$ 44.85 \| JP¥ 3962] Book number: 9860 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.
	FARNAN, DOROTHY J., AUDEN IN LOVE... New York:, Simon & Schuster,, 1984.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Book: In Dust Jacket. First Edition. Auden and Chester Kallman, written by Kallman's father's wife, who taught English at a school in the Bronx. Illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, small bookplate on front pastedo wn, fine in dustwrapper with short edge tears and crease at lower corner of rear panel. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.93 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 853 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.
	DAVID GARNETT., THE WHITE/GARNETT LETTERS... London:, Jonathan Cape Ltd,, 1968.. First edition. Hard Cover. Condition: Book: Fine in Fine DJ. The friendship between T.H.White and David Garnett flourished in the long and amusing letters they wrote to each other over almost thirty years. Their remarkable cerrespondence, therefore, contains the essence of a rapport that lasted until White's death in 1964. These letters are witty and eloquent on a range of topics from tosnils to taxasion, hawking to history, ants, books and the personalities of the day. 318.p. in total. GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 US$ 24.92 \| JP¥ 2201] Book number: 8526 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.
	HILLIER, BEVIS., John Betjeman New Fame, New Love... London:, John Murray,, 2002.. First edition. Hardcover. Condition: Book: Fine in Fine DJ. "A model of biography, and fascinatingly documented" , "Utterly compelling" With 32 pages of photographs Inscibed by the author, octavo, 736 pages. GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 US$ 49.83 \| JP¥ 4402] Book number: 11442 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.
	MACCARTHY, MARY., A Nineteenth Century Childhood... London:, Heinemann,, 1924.. First edition. Original Cloth. Condition: With the bookplate of Dudley Carew, designed by Evelyn Waugh, 118pp, 8vo. Spine very faded otherwise nice bright copy. GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 US$ 49.83 \| JP¥ 4402] Book number: 9564 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.
	QUENNELL, PETER., JOHN RUSKIN, The Portrait of a Prophet... London:, Collins,, 1949.. First edition. Hard Cover. Condition: Book: In Dust Jacket. Illustrated, dustwrapper designed by Barnett Freedman, 320pp, 8tvo. very nice copy in frayed dustwrapper. GBP 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 US$ 24.92 \| JP¥ 2201] Book number: 2481 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.
	ROCKEFELLER, PEGGY MCGRATH., A Life Reflected [Subtitle]: Selected Letters from 1944 - 1996... Portland:, Privately published,, 1969.. First edition. Cloth. Condition: Book: Fine copy in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed on the title page by the author, with a letter signed by David Rockefeller laid in, 218pp. GBP 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 166.5 US$ 249.15 \| JP¥ 22011] Book number: 9942 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.
	DENNIS ROMANO., THE LIKENESS OF VENICE [Subtitle]: A Life of Doge Francesco Foscari 1373 - 1457... USA:, Yale University press,, 2007.. First edition. Hard Cover. Condition: Book: Fine in Fine DJ. Dennis Romano reconstructs Foscari's life through careful reading of extant govermental records and chronicle sources. He also uses architectural monuments bulit by Foscari and his heirs as critical interpretive keys for unlocking the personality and policies of the doge. With this biography Romano clears away long standing myths, fills in previously unknown details about Foscari's triumphs and ordeals, and allows to emerge the first intimate portrait of this singular doge. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. 468.p. in total. GBP 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 17.75 US$ 26.58 \| JP¥ 2348] Book number: 8842 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.
	SHONFIELD, ZUZANNA., The Precariously Privileged [Subtitle]: A Professional Family in Victorian London... London:, Oxford University Press., First edition. Hard Cover. Condition: Book: Fine copy in fine dustwrapper. 16pp of photographs, 266pp. GBP 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 20 US$ 29.9 \| JP¥ 2641] Book number: 9347 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.
	STREATFEILD, NOEL., BEYOND THE VICARAGE... London:, Collins And Harvill Press,, 1971.. First edition. Condition: Third volume of the author's autobiographic trilogy covered her life as a writer, fine copy in a price clipped dustwrapper designed by Charles Mozley GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 US$ 49.83 \| JP¥ 4402] Book number: 2671 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.
	VIOLET, ULTRA., Famous for 15 Minutes, My Years with andy Warhol... London:, Methuen,, 1989.. First UK edition. Hard Cover. Condition: Book: In Dust Jacket. 32pp of black and white photographs, 274pp, 8tvo. small inscription, fine copy in fine dustwrapper. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.25 US$ 33.22 \| JP¥ 2935] Book number: 9859 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.
	WALKER, ANNABEL., Aurel Stein Pioneer of the Silk Road... London:, John Murray,, 1995.. First edition. Hard Cover. Condition: Book: Fine in Fine DJ. Illustrated with some b/w plates, tells the remarkable story of the shy outsider whose lifetime of single-minded dedication revealed to the world the glories of the Silk Road, octavo, 393pp GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 US$ 49.83 \| JP¥ 4402] Book number: 11848 Click here to order or inquire at Amwell Book Company.