BULLOCK GEORGE

Marie Corelli the life and death of a Best-Seller

London, Constable. 1940, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ex-Library, poorly rebound ex-library copy, original blue cloth boards with blind stamped Corelli signature. Worn through at corners with library cloth pasted over at spine with typed title and white pen shelf mark. stamps and labels etc to endpapers, gutter opened at frontis, frontis has small colour painting of Corelli in a gondola, in the blank space below this is a library stamp. also stamps to title page and copyright page. signatures are loosening, good as a reading or binding copy. Scarce biography of one of the Victorian era's greatest selling writers who touched on many metaphysical or new age themes in her writings. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 013055

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Occult New Age Fiction Biography Marie Corelli Mysticism

SANTAYANA GEORGE

The Middle Span, Volume 2, Persons and Places

New York, Scribners. 1945, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. clipped DW chipped to edges with some loss, some old watermarking to verso of DW, minor paper residue offset to cloth, closed fore edge spotted, tidy enough copy, 187pp + frontis. port. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 010047

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Spanish Philosophy Early Twentieth Century George Santayana First Edition Ethics Morals Biography

HUGHES GERVASE

Dvorak, His Life and Music

London, Cassell. 1967, First Edition. Buckram, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. price clipped dust jacket split at corners, handling soiled, owner details to fep, otherwise tidy copy, 247pp + frontis which is slightly foxed, closed edges lightly foxed. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 007150

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Antonin Dvorak Composer Musician Classical Music Biography

LIAS GODFREY

I Survived

London, Evans. 1954, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. price clipped DW lightly foxed and with some edge wear and short tears or chips, 224pp+ plates, the author has taken down the story of 'Pepi' an Austrian captured and interned by the Russians for ten years during and after the Second World War. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 008728

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Second World War Austrian Pow Prisoner of War Gulag Russian Slave Labour Camp Pepi

BOSWELL GORDON

The Book of Boswell, Autobiography of a Gypsy

Harmondsworth, Penguin. 1973, First Thus. (ISBN: 0140035567) Mass Market Paperback, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) worn wrappers, name stamp to first page and inside rear wrapper, paper browned, 202pp + plates, a traditional (ie Romany) English gypsy recounts his life. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 006792

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Gypsy Gipsy Gipsie Romany English England British Biography Traveller Tinker 0140035567