BLISHEN EDWARD

This Right Soft Lot

London, Thames & Hudson. 1969, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. unclipped dust jacket, tidy used copy, fictionalised memoirs of teachings in the 1940s and '50s in Britain, 287pp, sequel to 'Roaring Boys'. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 007096

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Education Teaching Britain British 1950s Fifties Roaring Boys Memoirs

GOUDGE ELIZABETH

God So Loved the World, A Life of Christ

London, Hodder. 1951, Second Impression. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. price clipped DW minor edge wear with a few short edge tears, browning to the white parts of the wrapper, book clean SECOND IMPRESSION, 286pp. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 004513

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Christian Christianity Jesus Christ Biography Bible Biblical History Novel

SCHAZMANN PAUL-EMILE

The Bentincks the history of a European Family

London, Weidenfeld. 1976, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. boards rubbed to edges, book label to paste down, map end papers, a bit of tape residue from dw protector to end papers at bottom and top edges. DW is in a plastic cover and VG excepting a bit of sunning to spine. 262pp + plates, at blank tail of final page (index) are written some notes in ink. An influential Dutch family from the time of the Dutch Confederation in the fifteenth century, whose influenced continued in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries also. Includes genealogical tables etc. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 000217

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Holland Dutch Biography Bentinck

LINKLATER ERIC

The Man on My Back

London, MacMillan. 1941, reprint. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. price clipped dust jacket has some tears, some spotting of foxing, chipped at head, gift inscription to fep, clean copy with foxing to closed edges and on to some margins, vii 341pp, autobiography of Eric Linklater. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 011472

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Scottish Biography Autobiography Early Twentirth Century Travel Middle East Persia

SUMMERS ESSIE

The Essie Summers Story

Toronto, Mills and Boon. 1974, First Edition. (ISBN: 0919622054) Mass Market Paperback, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 grams) paperback edition autobiography of one of the best loved romance writers, age browned paper stock, mild wear to covers, 212pp. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 006955

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Romance Biography New Zealand Essie Summers Mills and Boon Paperback 0919622054

SUMMERS ESSIE

The Essie Summers Story

London, Mills and Boon. 1974, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) First edition autobiography of one of the best loved romance writers, unclipped DW light wear, seems slightly shorter thsan the book boards, 212pp. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 009016

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Romance Biography New Zealand

SUMMERS ESSIE

The Essie Summers Story

Toronto, Mills and Boon. 1974, First Edition. (ISBN: 0919622054) Mass Market Paperback, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 grams) paperback edition autobiography of one of the best loved romance writers, age browned paper stock, split at heel of spine, light soiling to wrappers, 212pp. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 009958

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Romance Biography New Zealand Essie Summers Mills and Boon Paperback 0919622054

SUMMERS ESSIE

The Essie Summers Story

Toronto, Mills and Boon. 1974, First Edition. (ISBN: 0919622054) Mass Market Paperback, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 grams) paperback edition autobiography of one of the best loved romance writers, age browned paper stock, pen initials to cover, name to first page, light soiling to wrappers, 212pp. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010082

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Romance Biography New Zealand Essie Summers Mills and Boon Paperback 0919622054

SUMMERS ESSIE

The Essie Summers Story

Toronto, Mills and Boon. 1974, First Edition. (ISBN: 0919622054) Mass Market Paperback, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 grams) paperback edition autobiography of one of the best loved romance writers, age browned paper stock, small pen name to title page, light soiling to wrappers, remainder stripe to closed bottom page edges, 212pp. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010736

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Romance Biography New Zealand Essie Summers Mills and Boon Paperback 0919622054

SUMMERS ESSIE

The Essie Summers Story SIGNED BY AUTHOR

Toronto, Mills and Boon. 1974, First Edition. (ISBN: 0919622054) Mass Market Paperback, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 grams) paperback edition autobiography of one of the best loved romance writers, age browned paper stock, SIGNED ON HALF-TITLE PAGE BY AUTHOR [Warmest regards | Essie Summers] 212pp. Good/No Jacket. Signed by Author.

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Book number: 010737

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Romance Biography New Zealand Essie Summers Mills and Boon Paperback 0919622054

BUTLER EWAN & GORDON YOUNG

Marshal Without Glory, The Troubled Life of Hermann Goering

London, Hodder. 1951, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. unclipped DW has peice missing at head of spine and onto front panel, rubbed and chipped to edges, book has heavy foxing to endapers, light foxing to closed edges, 287pp+ plates. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 008727

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: National Socialism Nsdap Nazi Hermann Goering Reichsmarshall Luftwaffe Second World War World War Two Fascism Biography

POLLARD ELIZA F

Florence Nightingale; The Wounded Soldiers Friend

London, S W Partridge & Co. reprint. Decorative Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. undated, states published just before her death, also prize plate from Gosford Street Baptist Church , Coventry, dated 1910 at fep, Title page is a little chipped to top edge, printed on wood pulp paper stock, with engravings throughout to illustrate, 166pp + 32pp adverts. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 013171

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Crimea Crimean War Military History Nursing Nurse Medical Florence Nightingale Biography Victorian

ANDREWS C F

Sadhu Sundar Singh, a Personal Memoir

London, Hodder. 1934, First Edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. light handling soiling to cloth, foxed closed top edges, ownership name dated 1934 to fep, 255pp + plates, first edition of this biography of the Indian Christian Missionary. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005236

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Christian Biography India Tibet

STRANGWAY A. H. FOX

Cecil Sharp

London, Oxford University Press. 1933, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. 234pp +plates and illustrations, music, biography. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 009047

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography History Sharp Family Music Tradition Song Folk Dance Morris Travel

DONALDSON FRANCES

P G Wodehouse the authorized biography

London, Weidenfeld. 1982, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297781057) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. excellent copy near fine excepting the faint ghost where a label has had sun action transferring its colour to a blank part of the DW,there is just faint fading of the wrapper proper, unclipped, a really VG+ VG+ copy. Includes exhaustive bibliographical index as well as transcripts of some of Wodehouses broadcasts for the Germans when he was interned during the war. 399pp + plates, a little dusty to the closed edges. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 012986

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Wodehouse Jeeves Bertie Wooster Biography British Humour 0297781057