Collis, Louise:

Soldier In Paradise: The Life of Captain John Stedman 1744 - 1797.

London, Michael Joseph, 1965 1st Ed., hard cover green cloth bds, VG, in dust jacket, some edgewear/creasing, contents clean and tight, pp231, a nice sound reading copy. "The hero is Captain John Stedman, who volunteered in 1772 to join the relief force that went to quell the slave rebellion in Surinam, Dutch Guiana."

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Book number: 14517

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: history Captain John Stedman slave rebellion surinam Dutch Guiana 18th century Dutch Army Paramaribo love slave girl art William Blake

Como, James T. (Edited By):

C. S. Lewis At The Breakfast Table and Other Reminiscences.

London, Collins, 1980 Hard cover light tan paper bds with brown cloth to spine, almost VG, unclipped dust jacket, some fading, partic. to spine, prev. shop price label to upper wrap, v. small closed tear to tip of spine otherwise VG, contents fine and tight, pp299.

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Book number: 13200

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: C S Lewis Christian religious Leo Baker Alan Bede Griffiths Erik Routley Luke Rigby Derek Brewer John Wain Peter Bayley Adam Fox Gervase Matthew Richard W Ladborough Charles Wrong Jane Douglass 000216275X

Crabbe; Blunden, Edmund (Intro. by):

The Life of George Crabbe (by his son).

London, The Cresset Press, 1947 Hard cover blue cloth bds, gilt titles to spine and upper bd, light discol. to spine otherwise Good, in unclipped dust jacket, pieces missing, edgewear, rubbing, Poor, contents clean and tight, pp286, age-speckling to leading pge edge block, no inscriptions, names etc..

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Book number: 13961

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: George Crabbe life poetry poet verse rhyme Reverend physician poet Aldeburgh Suffolk

Dale, Antony:

James Wyatt.

Oxford, Basil Blackwood, 1956 1st Ed., hard cover red cloth bds, Good, unclipped dust jacket, completely enclosed in protective film, (not a lib. bk), small pieces missing at spine ends, closed tear to upper wrap top edge and rear at btm edge, no names, inscriptions etc..., b/w frontis. plate of James Wyatt, further b/w plates through text, contents fine and tight, fold-out family tree to rear, pp228.

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Book number: 15463

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: architect biography eighteenth century Robert Adam Gothic architecture revival cathedrals pantheon life memoir fame classical work Oxford Cambridge Lichfield Salisbury Hereford Durham cathedrals

Davies, Hunter (Ed. by):

I Knew Daisy Smuten.

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970 1st Ed., hard cover brown cloth bds, VG, unclipped dust jacket, VG+, two tiny rubs at top of spine, contents clean and tight, pp280.

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Book number: 14733

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Daisy Smuten photographer friends story life memoir biography writers journalists disappeared search 0297000845

Davies, Florence:

Tan Or Between The Gold And The Brown.

Kilmarnock, John Ritchie Ltd, no date Hard cover cream/yellow paper to bds, Good-, light gen. age-soiling, contents clean and tight, award label to ffep dated 1950, pp136, rep missing. "The true story of a little boy who was stolen by a caravan of gipsies and marvellously restored to his parents and home."

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Book number: 9818

Catalogue: biography

Keywords: Christian story kidnap gipsies biography boy stolen caravan

Dent, Alan illust. by Elizabeth Corsellis:

Burns In His Time.

London, Nelson, 1966 1st Ed., hard cover brown cloth bds, gilt lettering to spine, VG+, clipped but still priced dust jacket, VG, slightly age tanned in places, contents fine and tight, no names, inscriptions etc... includes a National Gallery colour postcard of Burns, includes the "Burns' Nicht" programme for the Huntingdon and District Caledonian Society 1975, pp162.

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Book number: 14971

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Robert Burns Robbie Burns Scottish poet verse Scotland Ayrshire eighteenth century Scot history times manners people criticism

Downer, Lesley:

Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Seduced The West.

London, Review, Headline Book Publishing, 2003 Hard Cover black cloth bds, VG, unclipped dust jacket, minor bumping to top edge, light crease to rear top corner, spine a little faded to blue, otherwise VG, contents clean and tight with b/w and colour plates, pp336.

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Book number: 13960

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Geisha Madame Sadayakko Japanese Japan actress theatre dance President McKinley Prince of Wales Picasso Gide Madame Butterfly culture life loves struggle mistress 0755310306

Ellenberger, Allan R.:

The Valentino Mystique: The Death and Afterlife of the Silent Film Idol.

USA, McFarland & Company Inc., 2005 Oversized Paperback, VG-, contnts clean and tight, small bump in leading pge edge block affecting last few pges, pp288.

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Book number: 11614

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Rudolf Valentino death afterlife silent film idol movies silver screen Hollywood last will and testament mourners life memoir homes biography Edoardo Ballerini Pink Powder Puffs 0786419504

Elsensohn, Sister M. Alfreda:

Polly Bemis: Idaho County's Most Romantic Chararcter.

Idaho, Idaho Corporation Of Benedictine Sisters, 1979 Signed by Author to Title 'Sister M Alfreda', pbk, Good, a little scuffing partic. at spine hinges, contents clean and tight, front hinge splitting but holding, pp48, small annotation by Sister Afreda on Epilogue pge, with many b/w photographic plates.

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Book number: 11062

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Idaho Polly Bemis life history memoir signed nurse social history America USA American death biography 000000000

Evans, Ivor B. N.:

Man of Power: The Life Story of Baron Rutherford of Nelson.

London, The Scientific Book Club, no date Hard cover yellow cloth bds, speckled and dusty at edges, pge edge blocks dusty, in Good- d/w, some edgewear, spine age-darkened, contents clean and tight, pp288.

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Book number: 10861

Catalogue: biography

Keywords: Baron Rutherford of Nelson Lord Rutherford biography atom splitting science Colonial New Zealand life memoir student Cambridge Professor Montreal human alpha particle Cavendish nucleus 0000

Evelyn, John:

The Life of Margaret Godolphin.

London, Alexander Moring Ltd, 1904 1st Ed., Hard cover blue paper bds with white paper to spine, red and black titles to spine, some staining of bds, Fair, blue dust jacket, faded, spine age-darkened, ends chipped, edgewear, staining to rear, small holes in centre of spine, contents clean and bright, pge edges rough cut - a bit dusty, tissue-protected b/w frontis., tissue loose, neat inscription dated Christmas 1904 to ffep, pp167.

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Book number: 14059

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Margaret Godolphin biography life Bishop Samuel Wilberforce life memoir John Holmes Wotton childhood thomas Blagge Duchess of York Anne Hyde Queen Catharine Maid of Honour Berkeley House history

Farrugia, Jean:

The Life & Work of Sir Rowland Hill 1795 - 1879. Sir Rowland Hill: Reformer Extraordinary 1795 - 1879.

London, National Postal Museum, 1979 Pbk, almost VG, a little rubbed at spine, stapled, contents clean and tight, pp21. Includes His Work for Educational Reform; His Personal Ambitions; His Work for Postal Reform; His Implementation of Uniform Penny Postage; His Work with the London & Brighton Railway Company; His Work as a Postal Official etc...

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Book number: 14578

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Sir Rowland Hill reformer post history life work memoir education Post Office reform Postal Reform Penny Postage London Brighton Railway Company

Firth, J. D'E.:

Rendall of Winchester: The Life and Witness of a Teacher.

London, Geoffrey Cumberlege Oxford University Press, 1954 Hard cover navy blue cloth bds, gilt titles to spine, VG, unclipped dust jacket, spine age-browned with wear to top edge, age discol. to rest of wrapper, front corners worn, contents clean and tight, pp273.

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Book number: 13912

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Winchester school M J Rendall headmaster teacher life memoir biography classics master vocation Rhodes Trustees East Suffolk education Victorian

Fox Bourne, H. R.:

Sir Philip Sidney: Type of English chivalry In The Elizabethan Age. Heroes of the Nations.

New York/London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904 Hard Cover red cloth bds, decorated with gilt line to upper bd and small insignia, 6 flat gilt bands to spine and gilt titles, Good, a little wear to spine tips, very minor small fade patches to spine base, upper bd and small mark to rear bd, tissue protected b/w frontis. of Sidney, contents fine and tight with b/w illustrations, pp386, prev. owner's label to front pastedown 'Mary Molesworth Cordelia Cator.'

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Book number: 14113

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Sir Philip Sidney biography Heroes of the Nations Evelyn Abbott English chivalry Elizabethan memoir life history historic figure sonnets Oxford schooling Frankfort Paris Queen Elizabeth court