ALISON ADBURGHAM

A Radical Aristocrat: Sir William A.Molesworth of Pencarrow

Padstow, Tabb House. 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 090701884X) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.25 inches. 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. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 022314

Catalogue: Biography - Politics

Keywords: 19th Century, Biography, Politics, Peoples Rights Social History 090701884x

BALASCHEFF, MARIE & STEARNS, MARTHA GENUNG (EDITOR)

The Transplanting : A Narrative from the Letters of Marie Balascheff, A Russian Refugee in France

New York, The Macmillan Company. 1928, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8 x 5.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked maroon cloth boards, very slight rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Page fore-edges untrimmed. 251pp. Biographical account of the author, daughter of a Russian Charge d'Affairs who spent time in England and France after her family escaped the Russian Revolution. Whilst in England she met Queen Victoria a number of times. Photographic illustrations. Very Good.

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Book number: 027196

Catalogue: Biography - Politics

Keywords: Biography, France, Russia, 19th Century, Early 20th Social History

BLOW, RICHARD

American Son : A Portrait of John F. Kennedy, Jr.

New York, Henry Holt and Co. 2002, First Edition. (ISBN: 0805070516) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.25 inches. 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. 294pp. The last, defining years of John F Kennedy Jr, son of the American president, as seen by an editor who worked with him at George magazine. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 012111

Catalogue: Biography - Politics

Keywords: Presidents, Usa, America, Jacqueline Kennedy, Biography, 0805070516

BRADBROOK, BOHUSLAVA

Liberating Beauty Of Little Things : Decision, Adversity and Reckoning, Refugee's Journey from Prague to Cambridge (Signed By Author)

Brighton, England, The Alpha Press. 2000, First Edition. (ISBN: 1898595348) Soft Cover, 9 x 6 inches. Inscribed by the author on half-title page. Also a little ink highlighting in the margin of some pages. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 102pp. The author tells of her escape from Czechoslovakia to England at the height of the Gold War. She describes the hardships and life without basic freedoms under Communism. Very Good (+). Signed by Author.

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Book number: 020079

Catalogue: Biography - Politics

Keywords: Autobiography, Cold War Escape Social History 1898595348

CHENEY, GLENN ALAN

Gandhi

London, Franklin Watts. 1984. (ISBN: 0863131530) Hard Cover, 9.25 x 6 inches. Very faint marking to ffep. No other inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. 87pp. Biography of the man who won independance for India from the Britsh Empire. Very Good.

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Book number: 004468

Catalogue: Biography - Politics

Keywords: Asia_history, India, British Colony, Nehru, Jinnah, Biography 0863131530

CLAYBOURNE, ANNA

Gandhi : The Peaceful Revolutionary

London, Wayland Publishers. 2002. (ISBN: 0750239549) Hard Cover, 10.75 x 8.75 inches. Ex-library with minimal marks and stamps. In fact the book looks unread. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 48pp. Very Good (+).

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Book number: 002729

Catalogue: Biography - Politics

Keywords: Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 Literature India Juvenile 0750239549

GADNEY, REG

Kennedy

London, Macdonald & Co. 1983, First Edition. (ISBN: 0356097889) Hard Cover, 10 x 7.5 inches. 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 or creased with sunning to spine. 176pp. Biography of American President John Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 024037

Catalogue: Biography - Politics

Keywords: American President, 1963 Assassination, Jfk 0356097889

HOLMES, RICHARD

Wellington : The Iron Duke

London, HarperCollins Publishers/BBC. 1995, First Edition. (ISBN: 0007137486) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.25 inches. 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 rubbing to upper edge. 324pp. A biography, both on and off the battlefield if Britain's greatest-ever soldier. Illustrated. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 027893

Catalogue: Biography - Politics

Keywords: Wellington, Military, 19th Century, Biography Biography - Military 0007137486

INGHAM, BERNARD

Kill the Messenger

London, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. 1991, First Edition. (ISBN: 0002159449) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.25 inches. Signed on front end paper by Tom Pendry, then an MP and now Lord Pendry. 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. 408pp. Autobiography of Margaret Thatcher's Press Secretary for most of her years in office. First edition, second printing. Near Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 017635

Catalogue: Biography - Politics

Keywords: Thatcher Press Secretary, Hebden Bridge, Biography Journalism 0002159449

PURDY, ANTHONY AND SUTHERLAND, DOUGLAS

Burgess and MacLean

London, Secker & Warburg. 1963, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8 x 5.25 inches. 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. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 022289

Catalogue: Biography - Politics

Keywords: Diplomacy, Spying, Crime and Punishment

IRINA RATUSHINSKAYA

Grey is the Colour of Hope

London, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. 1988, First Edition. (ISBN: 0340416971) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased, with trace of label removal to front and sunning to spine. 286pp. The true story of the author's experience in the brutal conditions of a Soviet labour camp, to where she was sent on being arrested for her poetry aged twenty-eight. Near Fine/Very Good (+).

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Book number: 020632

Catalogue: Biography - Politics

Keywords: Ussr, Political Prisoner, Soviet Labour Camp, Autobiography Crime and Punishment 0340416971

REGINALD, 12TH EARL OF MEATH

Memories of the Nineteenth Century

London, John Murray. 1923, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8.75 x 5.75 inches. Stamp 'The Library of the Homes of S Barnabas' on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. Very clean very tight slightly foxed pages with unmarked boards, rubbing to spine ends, browned foxed page edges and bumping to lower front corner. 354pp. Autobiography of a diplomat born in London in 1841. A fascinating account of life in the 19th century and his many travels abroad. Illustrated with period photographs. Very Good (-)/No Jacket.

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Book number: 017834

Catalogue: Biography - Politics

Keywords: Diplomat, Autobiography,19th Century Biography - Travel

SUMMERS, ANTHONY; SWAN, ROBBYN

The Arrogance of Power : The Secret World of Richard Nixon

New York, Viking. 2000, First Edition. (ISBN: 0670871516) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and minor bumping to spine ends and upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little rubbing to upper edge and spine foot. 640pp. A compelling portrait of a politician whose one consistent and relentlessly pursued principle was to win - whatever the cost. Very Good (+)/Very Good (+).

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Book number: 013959

Catalogue: Biography - Politics

Keywords: Politics, Us President, Watergate, Biography 0670871516