WEAVER, ALF WITH ASHTON, ROBERT

The First Rock 'n' Roll Bodyguard

London, Sanctuary. 2001, First Edition. (ISBN: 1860743285). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. The author was for more than 35 years the hired muscle to the biggest rock stars from the Beatles to Madonna, Led Zeppelin to Frank Sinatra, who fended off the paparazzi, madmen, drug dealers and kept groupies to manageable levels and here reveals the story of his life in the business. 15. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 003035

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Keywords: 1860743285

ALLEN, CHARLES

The Prisoner of Kathmandu - Brian Hodgson in Nepal 1820-1843

London, Haus. 2015, First. (ISBN: 9781910376119). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 288 pages. 34 colour plates and numerous illustrations in the text. Posted to Kathmandu in 1820 as a junior political officer, Brian Hodgson found himself isolated and trapped in a fiercely xenophobic mountain kingdom that seemed bent on making war on the all-powerful British East India Company. For 23 years he struggled to keep the two sides apart. His legacy survives in the lasting peace and friendship between Britan and Nepal. At the heart of this biography is the Orientalist movement driven by the European Enlightenment, which inspired Hodgson and others to devote themselves to the exploration of Asian culture, leading Hodgson to study Tibetan and Nepalese Buddhism, and much else besides. A1B. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 010955

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Keywords: Nepal, British East India Company, Himalayas, Buddhism 9781910376119

ANDERSEN, CHRISTOPHER

The Good Son - J.F. K. Jr and the Mother He Loved

New York, Gallery Books. 2014, First. (ISBN: 9781476775562). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Very Good+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 352 pages. 4 photographs. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.(1960-1999) and heir to his father's charming good looks and relentless ambition, ultimately inherited JFK's tragic legacy too when he died in a plane crash piloted by himself in July 1999. Christopher Andersen explores the unique connection between the extraordinary son who captivated America and the beautiful and mysterious mother who molded him into a man.Like many parents and their children, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and JFK jr. shared an intense, tender and often tempestuous bond. Andersen reveals how mother and son influenced, challenged, and supported each other through good times and bad, unveiling startling new details about the family we thought we already knew. B2D. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 010958

Catalogue: Biography - American - General

Keywords: John Fitzgeral Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 9781476775562

ANDERSON, ERICA

Albert Schweitzer's Gift of Friendship

London, Robert Hale. 1966, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket. This is the heartwarming story of an extended friendship with Schweitzer and his staff as told in the first person by the noted photographer, Erica Anderson. She visited Lambarene to make the film about Schweitzer's life and work that was seven years in production, and that won an oscar for best documentary in 1958. Since that time she visited regularly and by the time of Schweitzes' death had made 18 trips, and the book is rich in glimpses into the personality of Dr. Schweitzer. NOT EX LIB C3A. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 004545

Catalogue: Biography - General

Keywords: Biography, Lambarene

SOLT, ANDREW AND EGAN, SAM

Imagine : John Lennon

London, Bloomsbury. 1998, First. (ISBN: 0747501882). Hard Cover, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Gold title on black quarter cloth with grey boards which have a blind embossed motif of John Lennon and his facsimile signature. A minor bump to top front corner tip else a very clean, tight and unmarked copy with no former ownership marks - a near ine copy. Dustjacket has light rubbing and is not price clipped - VG+. 255 pages in a large format. 'Forward' by Yoko Ono and preface by David Wolper. More than a tribute to John Lennon's art, the book emerged from a dazzling proposal by Yoko Ono to David Wolper, in which she offered to open Lennon's personal archives - a treasury of rare film footage, photographs and writings - to create his definitive film biography. Lennon's life unfolds in more than 250 photographs, two thirds in colour and duotone, many never before published. There are spectacular shots from the foremost rock photographers, including Annie Leibovitz, Ethan Russell, Allan Tannenbaum, Robert Freeman, Jim Marshall, Bob Gruen and Ken Regan. The text is drawn from the film of the book's script and features excerpts from new interviews with those closest to Lennon, including one with his aunt Mimi, who raised him and who has resisted talking to the press. A most lavish work on one of the cultural legends of the 20th century. A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.52 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH WILL REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST 25. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 010376

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Keywords: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Annie Leibovitz, Allan Tannenbaum, Ethan Russell, Cynthia Lennon, Julian Lennon, Sean Lennon, the Beatles 0747501882

ANONYMOUS

Memoirs of the Court of Sweden and Denmark - During the Reigns of Christian VII of Denmark and Gustavus III and IV of Sweden

London, The Grolier Society. 1904, Limited. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Mercier, Mongin, Gaupil, Toussaint, Decisy. Private Press, SCARCE EDITION DE LUXE LIMITED TO 1,000 COPIES. COMPLETE TWO VOLUME SET. Uniform with the Secret Court Memoirs series. Green cloth boards with paper title label which is age darkened else very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a decorative bookplate of Partridges and monogram to front endpaper, and age darkening to endpapers else very clean, tight and unmarked. Uniform with The Secret Court Memoirs series.Title page and etchings on Japan paper. Printed on Grolier watermarked quality paper. 12 very beautiful Original etchings / engravings, tissue protected - Queen Juliana Maria-Original Etching by Mercier, Christian VII-Photo-etching after painting in Versailles Gallery, Queen Matilda-Etched by Mercier from painting by Le Brun, Count Rantzeau-Photo-etching after painting by Alaux, Reception at Royal Palace of Fredericksborg, Copenhagen - Etched by Mongrin from painting by Poirson, Sophia Livernet - Photogravure by Gaupil after painting by Vely, Frederika Dorothea of Sweden - Photogravure from painting by Donau, Gustavus III - Photo-etching from a painting, The Danish Fleet - Etching by Toussaint, The Quay at Stockholm - Etched by Decisy from painting by Lansyer, Gustavus IV - Photo-etching after engraving by Pass. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY SET OF 1.74 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 4. Very Good TEG/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000305

Catalogue: Biography - General

Keywords: Court Memoirs, Gustavus III and IV, Christian VII, Sweden, Count Rantzau, Queen Matilda, Frederika Dorothea Mercier, Mongin, Gaupil, Toussaint, Decisy

BAKEWELL, JOAN

The Centre of the Bed

London, Hodder and Stoughton. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 0340823100). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, first impression. xiv + 322 pages. 47 illustrations. In this searching and intimate autobiography, Joan Bakewell retraces the paths she has taken and reveals what lay behind the public image and the choices she made. Recreating her working-class roots, she vividly depicts her childhood in Stockport and the impact of the war, and relives her escape from the tensions at home to Cambridge University, where she was part of the stellar generation that included Peter Hall, Frederic Raphael and Claire Tomalin. She describes what it was like to make her BBC television debut during the Cuban missile crisis; to be the only woman on 'Late Night Line Up', with its eclectic roster of guests; and to be dubbed 'the thinking man's crumpet'. Here, too, is how it felt to see her affair with Harold Pinter transmuted into his play 'Betrayal'. B2D. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 008477

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Keywords: Harold Pinter, 'Thinking Man's Crumpet', Late Night Line Up, Stockport 0340823100

BARDAKCI, MURAT

Neslishah - the Last Ottoman Princess

Cairo, The American University Press in Cairo. 2017, First. (ISBN: 9789774168376). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy. 313 pages. 107 photographs. Twice a princess, twice exiled, Neslishah Sultan had an eventful life. When she was born in Istanbul in 1921, cannons were fired in the four corners of the Ottoman Empire, commemorative coins were issued in her name, and her birth was recorded in the official register of the palace. After all, she was an imperial princess and the granddaughter of Sultan Vahiddedin. But she was the last member of the imperial family to be accorded such honors: in 1922 Vahiddedin was deposed and exiled, replaced as caliph-but not as sultan-by his brother (and Neslishah's other grandfather) Abdulmecid; in 1924 Abdulmecid was also removed from office, and the entire imperial family, including three-year-old Neslishah, were sent into exile. Sixteen years later on her marriage to Prince Abdel Moneim, the son of the last khedive of Egypt, she became a princess of the Egyptian royal family. And when in 1952 her husband was appointed regent for Egypt's infant king, she took her place at the peak of Egyptian society as the country's first lady, until the abolition of the monarchy the following year. Exile followed once more, this time from Egypt, after the royal couple faced charges of treason. Eventually Neslishah was allowed to return to the city of her birth, where she died at the age of 91 in 2012. Based on original documents and extensive personal interviews, this account of one woman's extraordinary life is also the story of the end of two powerful dynasties thirty years apart. L. As New/As New.

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Book number: 010950

Catalogue: Biography - General

Keywords: Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Turkey, Prince Abdel Moneim, King Farouk 9789774168376

BARNES, JOHN (SIR)

Footsteps on the Backstairs

Norwich, Michael Russell. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 0859551865). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 176 pages. The author describes his life as the son of a Bishop of the Church of England, scholar of Winchester and Trinity, Cambridge, wartime soldier and member of the Diplomatic Service for thirty years. He recalls the public figures he has served and the memorable and happier moments of his life. A1E. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 001330

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Keywords: Diplomatic Service, Trinity Cambridge 0859551865

BARRADAS, ACA´CIO (EDITOR)

Agostinho Neto - Uma Vida Sem Tréguas 1922-1979

Lisboa, Seguros & Pensoes. 2005, First Edition. (ISBN: 9729979103). Soft Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Um retrato biográfico do primeiro Presidente de Angola, António Agostinho Neto (1922-1979), completado por testemunhos inéditos de familiares e amigos, dão forma à obra 'Uma Vida Sem Tréguas', organizada pelo jornalista Acácio Barradas. GRANDE LIVRO PESADO 1.2 KILO - CUSTO DE TRANSPORTE EXIGIDO NECESSÁRIO 1. Near Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 009278

Catalogue: Biography - General

Keywords: Agostinho Neto, Angola 9729979103

PENROSE, BARRIE AND FREEMAN, SIMON

Conspiracy of Silence - the Secret Life of Anthony Blunt

London, Grafton Books. 1986, First Edition. (ISBN: 0246122005). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a few marks to top edge) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xix + 588 pages. 64 illustrations. Throughout the Second World War and the Cold War which followed, Britain's Secret Service was compromised by a group of privileged, Cambridge-educated Englishmen who consistently betrayed their country by working for Stalin's Russia. Two Sunday Times writers have investigated the astonishing story of Anthony Blunt and his accomplices, who included Burgess, Maclean and Philby. Their book shows how deeply the Blunt network penetrated the British Establishment on behalf of the Russians. Anthony Blunt, Keeper of the Queen's Pictures, friend of the royal family, Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, was born in Bournemouth in 1907, the son of an Anglican clergyman. This solid middle-class background made him an unlikely agent, but at Cambridge, after meeting Guy Burges, a fellow member of the Apostles (the university's elite intellectual society), Blunt became a communist and Russian spy. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.155 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 23. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 009928

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Keywords: Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt, Russian Spies, Cambridge Apostles 0246122005

BAYLIS, TREVOR

Clock This - My Life As an Inventor

London, Headline. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 0747273812). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition, First printing. A Near Fine uninscribed copy with a small remnant of label to front endpaper with near Fine price clipped dustjacket. The author is the inventor of the clockwork radio which revolutionised the lives of millions, particularly in Africa, inspired by a television documentary on AIDS in Africa. He has spent his life inventing and he crusades for the introduction of inventing in the national curriculum in schools. 49 photographs. D4B. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 003225

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Keywords: Biography, English Inventors, Clockwork Radio 0747273812

BELLAMY, DAVID

Jolly Green Giant - the Autobiography of David J. Bellamy, Obe, Hon Fls, an Englishman

London, Century. 2002, First. (ISBN: 0712683593). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from age toning to top edge and page edges) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, First printing. xi + 398 pages. 40 illustrations. Here for the first time and in his own infectious style, David Bellamy tells the story of how he came to be one of Britain's best-loved botanists, campaigner and broadcasters. He tells of his many great loves from sports cars to ballet but also of his more serious concerns, with his reputation for being outspoken and undeterred in the face of big enterprises and corporations revealed in his battles and campaigns leading, at one point, to imprisonment. C3D. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 010407

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Keywords: Botanist, Environment Campaigner 0712683593

BELTON, NEIL

The Good Listener - Helen Bamber : A Life Against Cruelty

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297819046). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ copy which has a little white marking to lower front board from the reverse of the dustjacket otherwise very clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is complete with a little creasing. Helen Bamber was sent to Belsen in 1945 to work with survivors of the camp, aged just 20, and since her life has been involved with the worst side of the last half century. In 1985 at the age of 60 she set up an organisation devoted to helping victims of torture the Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.83 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST C3C. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 004617

Catalogue: Biography - General

Keywords: Biography, Belsen, Amnesty International 0297819046

BENNETT, ALAN

The Lady in the Van - the Complete Edition - Adapted from the Original Stage Play

London, Faber and Faber. 2015, First. (ISBN: 9780571326204). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy with As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. The play starring Maggie Smith and directed by Nicholas Hytner received great acclaim. It is a bittersweet comic diary of the years in which a lethally dotty and very smelly old bat parked her unroadworthy vehicle in Alan Bennett's Camden garden, thereby providing him with a roughly equal amount of good journalistic copy and guilty landlordly irritation. D4A. As New/As New.

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Book number: 011034

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Keywords: 9780571326204