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	ASQUITH, CYNTHIA.: Married to Tolstoy. London; Hutchinson, 1960.. VG/VG. First edition. Hardback, 8vo, blue cloth, 288 pages, b/w frontis illustration + 7 further plates, bibliography, index. Small bookplate on front endpaper. Very good clean condition in unclipped dustjacket, slightly worn at extremities, in protective clear sleeve. "The unhappy lonely wives of great men are the wives of whom posterity makes Xantippes" - diary of Countess Tolstoy. GBP 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 US$ 12.5 \| JP¥ 1111] Book number: 4140 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BACIGALUPA, DREW Journal of an Itinerant Artist Huntington, Indiana; Our Sunday Visitor, 1977. 1977, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Oatmeal cloth boards with brown motif, 176 pages, two-tone illustrationS. Essays which first appeared in the Santa Fe New Mexican Sunday magazine & written in the form of a monthly journal. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 5.45 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 US$ 9.08 \| JP¥ 808] Book number: 1779 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BATCHELOR, VIVIAN.: H.R.H.The Princess Margaret Gift Book Volume One. London; Pitkins, 1952.. Hardback, gilt stamped red "Duxeen" covers, 80 pages. Pictorial book with numerous b/w photographs. Prev.owner's inscrip. Boards dulled, corner worn, no dw. GBP 3.50 [Appr.: EURO 4 US$ 5.83 \| JP¥ 519] Book number: 1310 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BAWDEN, NINA In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography London, Virago. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 1853818712) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 175 pages, 27 b/w photo illustrations, serial number printed on bottom edge, no previous owner marks, unclipped dustjacket, VG+. Nina Bawden tells of her evacuation to Suffolk and Wales during World War Two, her years at Oxford, and writes a courageous account of her oldest son, Niki. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 5121 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BEGO, MARK Madonna: Blonde Ambition London, Plexus. 1992. (ISBN: 0859651894) Paperback, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. No previous ownership marks, bright condition, minor wear, x + 308 pages, black and white photo illustrations, discography, filmography etc, index. Very Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 6586 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BEVAN, BRYAN.: Robert Louis Stevenson: Poet and Teller of Tales. London; The Rubicon Press, 1993.. F. Softcover, 9 x 6 ins, x & 197 pages, 12 b/w plates, notes, bibliography, index. Fine, no previous owner name. Bryan Bevan, in this biography, reveals the man and the writer, intensely hard working, finding inspiration in his last phase in the South Seas, but forever nostalgic for his beloved Scotland. GBP 6.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 US$ 10.83 \| JP¥ 963] Book number: 3580 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BIHET, MOLLY A Child's War: The German Occupation of Guernsey As Seen Through Young Eyes St.Peter Port, Guernsey, Molly Bihet. 1998. (ISBN: 0951061909) Paperback, 12mo - over 6Â¾" - 7Â¾" tall. Reprint, signed by the author on title page, 80 pages, b/w illustrations. What was everyday life like for a child and her family during the occupation of the Channel Islands during the 1939 - 1945 war?. Very Good. Signed by Author. GBP 1.00 [Appr.: EURO 1.25 US$ 1.67 \| JP¥ 148] Book number: 5114 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BLUNKETT, DAVID (WITH ALEC MACCORMICK) On A Clear Day London, Michael O'Mara Books. 2002. (ISBN: 1843170078) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Updated edition, 256 pages, colour & b/w photo illustrations, index, no previous owner name, in bright unclipped dustjacket. David Blunkett talks candidly about the ups and downs he has experienced in life, the prejudices he has had to fight and his personal campaign for all blind people to to be treated as individuals. It is an inspirational, moving and often hilarious account of how one man and his dogs beat the system. Fine/Very Good. GBP 6.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 US$ 10.83 \| JP¥ 963] Book number: 4452 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BOLITHO, HECTOR.: A Century of British Monarchy: 1851-1951. London; Longmans Green, 1951.. VG. First edition. Hardback, 8vo, magenta cloth, gilt lettering at spine, xii & 274 pages, 2 plates in colour, 26 photogravure plates, decorations by Philip Gough. Neat previous owner name on front endpaper. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 4254 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BRADSHAW, JON Dreams That Money Can Buy : The Tragic Life of Libby Holman London, Jonathan Cape. 1985. (ISBN: 0224028464) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bright unclipped pictorial dustjacket, black cloth binding, no previous owner name, 431 pages, b/w photo illustrations, discography, bibliography, index; re-creates the rags-to-riches tragedy of this extraordinary woman, who at the end of the Roaring Twenties, achieved overnight stardom on Broadway; Dreams that Money Can Buy offers the portrait of a broad spectrum of American life in the Midwest, New York during Prohibition, the tobacco-plantation South, the early days of the Civil Rights movement, and the world of Broadway. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 6.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 US$ 10.83 \| JP¥ 963] Book number: 6797 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BRIDGLAND, FRED. FOREWORD BY EMMA NICOLSON Katiza's Journey London, sidgwick & Jackson. 1997. (ISBN: 0333727371) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. xx +299 pages, notes, index; fine condition in dustjacket. Katiza Cebekhulu left his home in Zululand in 1988 to go to Johannesburg. He was escaping a life of poverty, brutality and petty crime. But in Johannesburg, far from finding a salvation, he entered another brutal world. Fine/Fine. GBP 2.95 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 US$ 4.91 \| JP¥ 437] Book number: 1777 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BURNFORD, SHEILA The Fields of Noon London, Hodder & Stoughton. 1964. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. First UK edition, orange boards with gilt lettering & motif, 159 pages. Illustrations and wrapper design by Cecile Curtis. VG+ clean condition, no previous owner name, price-clipped dustjacket - some wear at spine ends. Autobiographical book by the author of "The Incredible Journey.". Very Good/Very Good. GBP 2.45 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 US$ 4.08 \| JP¥ 363] Book number: 4558 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BURNS, GEORGE; GOLDMAN, HAL Wisdom of the 90s London, Robson Books. 1992. (ISBN: 0860518132) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. No previous owner marks, red cloth, gilt title lettering, 190 pages, b/w photographs. Wise observations and sharp insights delivered with joie de vivre, laughter and a puff of a cigar by inimitable George Burns in his mid-90s. Fine/Fine. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 2593 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	CAMPBELL, LADY COLIN The Royal Marriages: Private Lives of The Queen and Her Children London, BCA. 1993, Book Club (BCA]. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Burgundy cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 250 pages, colour photo illustrations, index. No previous owner name, in bright pictorial dustjacket. Through her connections, Lady Colin Campbell gained an unrivalled insight into the lives of the senior members of the Royal Family. Fine/Fine. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 5017 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	CANTWELL, MARY Manhattan when I was Young New York, Penguin Books. 1996. (ISBN: 0140232230) Paperback, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. VG+, 214 pages. Mary Cantwell arrived in Manhattan one summer in the early 1950s with $80.00, a portable typewriter, a wardrobe of unsuitable clothes and a copy of the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Very Good. GBP 2.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 US$ 3.33 \| JP¥ 296] Book number: 1634 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	CARROLL, DAVID Leafing through Literature: Writers' Lives in Hertfordshire & Bedfordshire Dunstable, The Book Castle. 1992. (ISBN: 1871199018) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. x & 193 pages, map, b/w illustrations, bibliography, index; no previous owner name. John Bunyan, George Bernard Shaw, George Orwell, Beatrix Potter, Arnold Bennett, are just some of the many names to found in this informative book. There are some less familiar ones too: George Gascoigne of Cardington, for example, and Edward Young at Welwyn. However, from Sir Thomas More to Graham Greene, they all have one thing in common: a connection with Hertfordshire or Bedfordshire. Very Good. GBP 2.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 US$ 3.33 \| JP¥ 296] Book number: 4281 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BONHAM CARTER, VIOLET Winston Churchill As I Knew Him London, The Reprint Society. 1966. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Blue cloth, 496 pages, 12 b/w photo illustrations,, notes and references, list of printed sources, index. Alone of Winston Churchill's close friends, Lady Bonham Carter watched the long day of his political life from dawn to sunset and in this absorbing book presents a fascinating and striking study of him. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 2.50 [Appr.: EURO 3 US$ 4.17 \| JP¥ 370] Book number: 6465 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	CHILDS, EDMUND William Caxton: A Portrait in a Background London, Northwood Publications Limited. 1976. (ISBN: 0719825695) Paperback, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Pictorial cover, 190 pages, b/w illustrations and plates, list of background books, index; minor wear. As a businessman, Caxton avoided as much as possible becoming involved in the politics of his day, but the dynastic struggles between Lancaster and York distinctly influenced the economic situation and the fortunes of the mercantile class to which he belonged. Very Good. GBP 1.00 [Appr.: EURO 1.25 US$ 1.67 \| JP¥ 148] Book number: 6602 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	CLIFFORD, MAX; LEVIN, ANGELA Max Clifford: Read All About It London, Virgin. 2005. (ISBN: 1852272376) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Hardback, bright pictorial dustjacket, no previous ownership marks, 248 pages, b/w & colour photo illustrations, index. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand today's celebity culture. Fine/Fine. GBP 2.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 US$ 3.33 \| JP¥ 296] Book number: 6708 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	COOK, MARGARET A Slight and Delicate Creature: The Memoirs of Margaret Cook London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297842935) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. x & 307 pages, 48 photo illustrations in colour & b/w, index. No previous owner marks. A brave and no-holds-barred account of Margaret Cook's marriage that suddenly came to a dramatic and very public end. Margaret Cook writes of her childhood, her life with Robin Cook, how she juggled her own successful career in medicine with bringing up two sons and being the wife of a rising Labour politician. She looks ahead to a new, fulfilled, but very different life from what she expected when New Labour first came to power. Fine/Very Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 5145 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	COURTNEY, NICHOLAS.: Royal Children. London; J.M.Dent & Sons,1982.. F/VG. First edition. Hardback, 10.5 x 8 ins, black cloth, gilt lettering ton spine, 216 pages, numerous colour & b/w photographs, bibliography, index. Fine condition in near fine unclipped dustjacket. Jacket colour photograph of Charles and Diana and the infant Prince William. The story of the royal children of the last 150 years from Queen Victoria's childhood to the upbringing of members of the present British royal family. Using contemporary letters, diaries & photographs, the author enters into the hidden world of the royal nursery & schoolroom. GBP 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 US$ 12.5 \| JP¥ 1111] Book number: 4266 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	CROALL, JONATHAN Gielgud: A Theatrical Life 1904-2000 London, Methuen. 2000. (ISBN: 0413745600) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Very good condition in unclipped dustjacket, xii & 579 pages, 32 b/w plates, chronology, source notes, bibliography, index; entertaining, critical and widely researched biography of the great classical actor. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 3538 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	DALY, AUDREY.: Diana: Princess of Wales. Loughborough; Ladybird Books, 1997.. F. Laminated boards as issued, 6 x 4.5 ins, 26 pages, illustrated in colour throughout with photographs by Tim Graham. Fine condition. GBP 2.50 [Appr.: EURO 3 US$ 4.17 \| JP¥ 370] Book number: 3679 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	DAY, LILIAN Ninon: A Courtesan of Quality London, Jarrolds. 1958, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Seventeenth-century France with its splendour and extravagance is the background against which the author brings the much-loved courtesan to life. 280 pages, b/w illustrations, index, jacket design by Biro, dustjacket wear at top edge. Very Good/Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 6096 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	DEACON, RICHARD The Private Life of Mr.Gladstone London, Frederick Muller Limited. 1965, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Green cloth, 190 pages, 11 b/w photo illustrations, bibliography, index. Previous owner neat name, light marks to spine, otherwise a very clean reading copy. Gladstone was one of Britain's most illustrious Prime Ministers who bestrode the Victorian scene like a political evangelist. For more than forty years he devoted a great deal of his free time to the rescue of prostitutes. Good/No Jacket. GBP 2.50 [Appr.: EURO 3 US$ 4.17 \| JP¥ 370] Book number: 4957 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.

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	ASQUITH, CYNTHIA.: Married to Tolstoy. London; Hutchinson, 1960.. VG/VG. First edition. Hardback, 8vo, blue cloth, 288 pages, b/w frontis illustration + 7 further plates, bibliography, index. Small bookplate on front endpaper. Very good clean condition in unclipped dustjacket, slightly worn at extremities, in protective clear sleeve. "The unhappy lonely wives of great men are the wives of whom posterity makes Xantippes" - diary of Countess Tolstoy. GBP 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 US$ 12.5 \| JP¥ 1111] Book number: 4140 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BACIGALUPA, DREW Journal of an Itinerant Artist Huntington, Indiana; Our Sunday Visitor, 1977. 1977, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Oatmeal cloth boards with brown motif, 176 pages, two-tone illustrationS. Essays which first appeared in the Santa Fe New Mexican Sunday magazine & written in the form of a monthly journal. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 5.45 [Appr.: EURO 6.25 US$ 9.08 \| JP¥ 808] Book number: 1779 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BATCHELOR, VIVIAN.: H.R.H.The Princess Margaret Gift Book Volume One. London; Pitkins, 1952.. Hardback, gilt stamped red "Duxeen" covers, 80 pages. Pictorial book with numerous b/w photographs. Prev.owner's inscrip. Boards dulled, corner worn, no dw. GBP 3.50 [Appr.: EURO 4 US$ 5.83 \| JP¥ 519] Book number: 1310 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BAWDEN, NINA In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography London, Virago. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 1853818712) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 175 pages, 27 b/w photo illustrations, serial number printed on bottom edge, no previous owner marks, unclipped dustjacket, VG+. Nina Bawden tells of her evacuation to Suffolk and Wales during World War Two, her years at Oxford, and writes a courageous account of her oldest son, Niki. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 5121 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BEGO, MARK Madonna: Blonde Ambition London, Plexus. 1992. (ISBN: 0859651894) Paperback, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. No previous ownership marks, bright condition, minor wear, x + 308 pages, black and white photo illustrations, discography, filmography etc, index. Very Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 6586 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BEVAN, BRYAN.: Robert Louis Stevenson: Poet and Teller of Tales. London; The Rubicon Press, 1993.. F. Softcover, 9 x 6 ins, x & 197 pages, 12 b/w plates, notes, bibliography, index. Fine, no previous owner name. Bryan Bevan, in this biography, reveals the man and the writer, intensely hard working, finding inspiration in his last phase in the South Seas, but forever nostalgic for his beloved Scotland. GBP 6.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 US$ 10.83 \| JP¥ 963] Book number: 3580 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BIHET, MOLLY A Child's War: The German Occupation of Guernsey As Seen Through Young Eyes St.Peter Port, Guernsey, Molly Bihet. 1998. (ISBN: 0951061909) Paperback, 12mo - over 6Â¾" - 7Â¾" tall. Reprint, signed by the author on title page, 80 pages, b/w illustrations. What was everyday life like for a child and her family during the occupation of the Channel Islands during the 1939 - 1945 war?. Very Good. Signed by Author. GBP 1.00 [Appr.: EURO 1.25 US$ 1.67 \| JP¥ 148] Book number: 5114 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BLUNKETT, DAVID (WITH ALEC MACCORMICK) On A Clear Day London, Michael O'Mara Books. 2002. (ISBN: 1843170078) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Updated edition, 256 pages, colour & b/w photo illustrations, index, no previous owner name, in bright unclipped dustjacket. David Blunkett talks candidly about the ups and downs he has experienced in life, the prejudices he has had to fight and his personal campaign for all blind people to to be treated as individuals. It is an inspirational, moving and often hilarious account of how one man and his dogs beat the system. Fine/Very Good. GBP 6.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 US$ 10.83 \| JP¥ 963] Book number: 4452 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BOLITHO, HECTOR.: A Century of British Monarchy: 1851-1951. London; Longmans Green, 1951.. VG. First edition. Hardback, 8vo, magenta cloth, gilt lettering at spine, xii & 274 pages, 2 plates in colour, 26 photogravure plates, decorations by Philip Gough. Neat previous owner name on front endpaper. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 4254 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BRADSHAW, JON Dreams That Money Can Buy : The Tragic Life of Libby Holman London, Jonathan Cape. 1985. (ISBN: 0224028464) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bright unclipped pictorial dustjacket, black cloth binding, no previous owner name, 431 pages, b/w photo illustrations, discography, bibliography, index; re-creates the rags-to-riches tragedy of this extraordinary woman, who at the end of the Roaring Twenties, achieved overnight stardom on Broadway; Dreams that Money Can Buy offers the portrait of a broad spectrum of American life in the Midwest, New York during Prohibition, the tobacco-plantation South, the early days of the Civil Rights movement, and the world of Broadway. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 6.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.5 US$ 10.83 \| JP¥ 963] Book number: 6797 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BRIDGLAND, FRED. FOREWORD BY EMMA NICOLSON Katiza's Journey London, sidgwick & Jackson. 1997. (ISBN: 0333727371) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. xx +299 pages, notes, index; fine condition in dustjacket. Katiza Cebekhulu left his home in Zululand in 1988 to go to Johannesburg. He was escaping a life of poverty, brutality and petty crime. But in Johannesburg, far from finding a salvation, he entered another brutal world. Fine/Fine. GBP 2.95 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 US$ 4.91 \| JP¥ 437] Book number: 1777 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BURNFORD, SHEILA The Fields of Noon London, Hodder & Stoughton. 1964. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. First UK edition, orange boards with gilt lettering & motif, 159 pages. Illustrations and wrapper design by Cecile Curtis. VG+ clean condition, no previous owner name, price-clipped dustjacket - some wear at spine ends. Autobiographical book by the author of "The Incredible Journey.". Very Good/Very Good. GBP 2.45 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 US$ 4.08 \| JP¥ 363] Book number: 4558 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BURNS, GEORGE; GOLDMAN, HAL Wisdom of the 90s London, Robson Books. 1992. (ISBN: 0860518132) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. No previous owner marks, red cloth, gilt title lettering, 190 pages, b/w photographs. Wise observations and sharp insights delivered with joie de vivre, laughter and a puff of a cigar by inimitable George Burns in his mid-90s. Fine/Fine. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 2593 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	CAMPBELL, LADY COLIN The Royal Marriages: Private Lives of The Queen and Her Children London, BCA. 1993, Book Club (BCA]. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Burgundy cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 250 pages, colour photo illustrations, index. No previous owner name, in bright pictorial dustjacket. Through her connections, Lady Colin Campbell gained an unrivalled insight into the lives of the senior members of the Royal Family. Fine/Fine. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 5017 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	CANTWELL, MARY Manhattan when I was Young New York, Penguin Books. 1996. (ISBN: 0140232230) Paperback, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. VG+, 214 pages. Mary Cantwell arrived in Manhattan one summer in the early 1950s with $80.00, a portable typewriter, a wardrobe of unsuitable clothes and a copy of the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Very Good. GBP 2.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 US$ 3.33 \| JP¥ 296] Book number: 1634 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	CARROLL, DAVID Leafing through Literature: Writers' Lives in Hertfordshire & Bedfordshire Dunstable, The Book Castle. 1992. (ISBN: 1871199018) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. x & 193 pages, map, b/w illustrations, bibliography, index; no previous owner name. John Bunyan, George Bernard Shaw, George Orwell, Beatrix Potter, Arnold Bennett, are just some of the many names to found in this informative book. There are some less familiar ones too: George Gascoigne of Cardington, for example, and Edward Young at Welwyn. However, from Sir Thomas More to Graham Greene, they all have one thing in common: a connection with Hertfordshire or Bedfordshire. Very Good. GBP 2.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 US$ 3.33 \| JP¥ 296] Book number: 4281 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	BONHAM CARTER, VIOLET Winston Churchill As I Knew Him London, The Reprint Society. 1966. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Blue cloth, 496 pages, 12 b/w photo illustrations,, notes and references, list of printed sources, index. Alone of Winston Churchill's close friends, Lady Bonham Carter watched the long day of his political life from dawn to sunset and in this absorbing book presents a fascinating and striking study of him. Very Good/No Jacket. GBP 2.50 [Appr.: EURO 3 US$ 4.17 \| JP¥ 370] Book number: 6465 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	CHILDS, EDMUND William Caxton: A Portrait in a Background London, Northwood Publications Limited. 1976. (ISBN: 0719825695) Paperback, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Pictorial cover, 190 pages, b/w illustrations and plates, list of background books, index; minor wear. As a businessman, Caxton avoided as much as possible becoming involved in the politics of his day, but the dynastic struggles between Lancaster and York distinctly influenced the economic situation and the fortunes of the mercantile class to which he belonged. Very Good. GBP 1.00 [Appr.: EURO 1.25 US$ 1.67 \| JP¥ 148] Book number: 6602 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	CLIFFORD, MAX; LEVIN, ANGELA Max Clifford: Read All About It London, Virgin. 2005. (ISBN: 1852272376) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Hardback, bright pictorial dustjacket, no previous ownership marks, 248 pages, b/w & colour photo illustrations, index. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand today's celebity culture. Fine/Fine. GBP 2.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 US$ 3.33 \| JP¥ 296] Book number: 6708 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	COOK, MARGARET A Slight and Delicate Creature: The Memoirs of Margaret Cook London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297842935) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. x & 307 pages, 48 photo illustrations in colour & b/w, index. No previous owner marks. A brave and no-holds-barred account of Margaret Cook's marriage that suddenly came to a dramatic and very public end. Margaret Cook writes of her childhood, her life with Robin Cook, how she juggled her own successful career in medicine with bringing up two sons and being the wife of a rising Labour politician. She looks ahead to a new, fulfilled, but very different life from what she expected when New Labour first came to power. Fine/Very Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 5145 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	COURTNEY, NICHOLAS.: Royal Children. London; J.M.Dent & Sons,1982.. F/VG. First edition. Hardback, 10.5 x 8 ins, black cloth, gilt lettering ton spine, 216 pages, numerous colour & b/w photographs, bibliography, index. Fine condition in near fine unclipped dustjacket. Jacket colour photograph of Charles and Diana and the infant Prince William. The story of the royal children of the last 150 years from Queen Victoria's childhood to the upbringing of members of the present British royal family. Using contemporary letters, diaries & photographs, the author enters into the hidden world of the royal nursery & schoolroom. GBP 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 8.5 US$ 12.5 \| JP¥ 1111] Book number: 4266 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	CROALL, JONATHAN Gielgud: A Theatrical Life 1904-2000 London, Methuen. 2000. (ISBN: 0413745600) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Very good condition in unclipped dustjacket, xii & 579 pages, 32 b/w plates, chronology, source notes, bibliography, index; entertaining, critical and widely researched biography of the great classical actor. Very Good/Very Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 3538 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	DALY, AUDREY.: Diana: Princess of Wales. Loughborough; Ladybird Books, 1997.. F. Laminated boards as issued, 6 x 4.5 ins, 26 pages, illustrated in colour throughout with photographs by Tim Graham. Fine condition. GBP 2.50 [Appr.: EURO 3 US$ 4.17 \| JP¥ 370] Book number: 3679 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	DAY, LILIAN Ninon: A Courtesan of Quality London, Jarrolds. 1958, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Seventeenth-century France with its splendour and extravagance is the background against which the author brings the much-loved courtesan to life. 280 pages, b/w illustrations, index, jacket design by Biro, dustjacket wear at top edge. Very Good/Good. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 6096 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.
	DEACON, RICHARD The Private Life of Mr.Gladstone London, Frederick Muller Limited. 1965, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7Â¾" - 9Â¾" tall. Green cloth, 190 pages, 11 b/w photo illustrations, bibliography, index. Previous owner neat name, light marks to spine, otherwise a very clean reading copy. Gladstone was one of Britain's most illustrious Prime Ministers who bestrode the Victorian scene like a political evangelist. For more than forty years he devoted a great deal of his free time to the rescue of prostitutes. Good/No Jacket. GBP 2.50 [Appr.: EURO 3 US$ 4.17 \| JP¥ 370] Book number: 4957 Click here to order or inquire at Books with care.