Blair, Richard S.

A memoir of Billy Durrant, local preacher, bookseller, and poet. Compiled from his letters, journals, and poems.

Ralph Fenwick, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in red cloth with gilt titles and black decoration, cloth bumped at corners and slightly faded at spine, name, date and place (Bircham Newton) on front endpaper otherwise no inscriptions. 152 pages, remains of bookmark laid in. Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 67541

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Missionaries Christianity East Anglia Preaching

Bliss, Michael

Harvey Cushing: a life in surgery.

U. S. A.: Oxford University Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. xii + 592 pages, photos on plates, notes & sources, index. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 67080

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: American medicine Brian surgery Endocrinology History of medicine

Bloch, Michael

James Lees-Milne: the life.

John Murray, 2010. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound paperback, no inscriptions, spine uncreased, appears little used. 400 pages, photos on plates, notes, index. Very Good.

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Book number: 66867

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: National Trust Alvilde Lees-Milne John Betjeman Biography

Bonfiglioli, Margaret

The Mortdecai ABC: a Bonfiglioli reader.

Viking, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book, pages age tanned, no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which has a minor crease at top of spine/back cover otherwise appears little used. xii + 400 pages, photos in the text, chronology. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 67819

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Kyril Bonfiglioli Humour Thriller fiction

Bristow, Adrian

George Smith: the children's friend.

Chester: Imogen, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound paperback original, no inscriptions, spine uncreased, appears little used. 182 pages, illustrations in the text, bibliography, index.. Very Good.

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Book number: 52330

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Coalville Local History Social Reform Primitive methodism Methodists

Brogan, Hugh (ed)

Signalling from Mars: the letters of Arthur Ransome.

Jonathan Cape, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. 378 pages, illustrations in the text. Newspaper cutting dated March 1997 reviewing the book laid in. Fine in Fine dust jacket.

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Book number: 68615

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Writer correspondance Russian Revolution Swallows & Amazons Tabitha Ransome

Brooke, Miranda

Wayward Daughter Sarah Churchill and her world.

Amberley Publishing, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is rubbed at the edges. 380 pages, photos in the text, bibliography, notes, index. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 68408

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography Winston Churchill Actress British Aristocracy

Browne, Douglas G.

Sir Travers Humphreys: a biography.

George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with neat name in pencil on front endpaper, in a priceclipped dustjacket which is rubbed and has water stain on back cover. 384 pages, photos on plates, index. Good in Fair dust jacket.

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Book number: 65414

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Crime & criminals Lawyers Barrister Oscar Wilde Judges

Buckle, Richard (ed.); Beaton, Cecil

Self portrait with friends: the selected diaries of Cecil Beaton 1926 - 1974.

Book Club Associates, 1980. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is nicked at the corners. xii + 436 pages, photos on plates, index. Very Good in Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 66565

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Photography British Aristocracy Hollywood Greta Garbo

Cameron, Alick

Thomas Glass M. D., Physician of Georgian Exeter.

Tiverton: Devon Books, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with a gift inscription signed by Sandy Cameron on the half title page, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. 184 pages, illustrations on plates and in the text, index. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 67682

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Medical History 18th century Biography

Carney, Jessica

Who's there?: the life and career of William Hartnell.

Virgin Books, 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very clean, tightly bound hardback book with no marks or inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. x + 246 pages, photos on plates, filmography, play list, bibliography; Show jumping. Fine in Fine dust jacket.

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Book number: 50328

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Stage Actor Doctor Dr Who Film Star

Chambers, Roland

The last Englishman The double life of Arthur Ransome.

Faber and Faber, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. x + 390 pages, photos on plates, notes, bibliography, index. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 68041

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Russia Swallows & Amazons Lake District Spies & spying

Chappell, Connery

Two pleasures for your choosing: the world of William Crockford.

Falcon Press, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, has some fox-spotting to the closed page edges, in a priceclipped dustjacket which has a shallow chip at the head of the spine/front panel. 226 pages. Very Good in Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 53758

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Gambling Card Games Prize fighting Horse Racing

Charlton, L. E. O. (ed)

The recollections of a Northumbrian lady 1815-1866 being the memoirs of Barbara Chartlton (nee Tasburgh) Wife of William Henry Charlton of Hesleyside, Northumberland.

Harlow: Jonathan Cape, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in blue cloth with gilt titles, spine sunned, cloth has minor rubbing at spine ends & corners, name on front endpaper otherwise no inscriptions. 288 pages, frontispiece and 1 illustration on a plate. Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 68212

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biographies Victorian Age Catholism Minor aristocracy

Clark, David Lee

Charles Brockden Brown: pioneer voice of America.

U.S.A: Duke University Press, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Reading copy, an ex University library hardback with the usual stamps & stickers, no inscriptions, tightly bound in publishers orange cloth with gilt titles. xii + 364 pages, illustrations on plates, bibliography, index. Fair with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 63261

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: English Literature American Author