Stringer Rowe, George:

The Life of John Hunt, Missionary to the Cannibals in Fiji.

London, T Woolmer, 1859 Hard Cover maroon dec. cloth bds, Good, decorations in black to upper bd and spine, gilt lettering to faded spine, bk leans, some rubbing to extrem.s, ffep missing, contents nice and tight, minor light age-marking, full pge black/white drawings, pp278 + adverts.

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Book number: 13566

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Reverend John Hunt missionary cannibals Fiji biography life birth boyhood conversion Christian Christianity call preachin student life mission Rewa Somosomo Viwa

Swaby, J. E.:

The Marshmen.

London, A. Brown & Sons, Ltd, 1962 1st Ed., Hard Cover blue cloth bds, a little discol. to upper bd otherwise VG, in VG dustwrapper, contents clean, bright and tight, pp 162. Tales of the Lincolnshire Marshes told by the Vicar of Barton-on-Humber, b/w frontis., neat name to ffep.

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Book number: 9888

Catalogue: biography

Keywords: Lincolnshire Marshes tales Vicar Barton-On-Humber marshmen smugglers Hothun John Kelk Richard Bolle John Marshall pauper monks Parish life biography biographies

Sykes, Christopher:

Orde Wingate.

London, Collins, 1959 1st Ed., hard cover deep pink cloth bds, spine faded otherwise Good+, no dust jacket, contents clean and tight with maps and b/w plates, pp575.

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Book number: 14222

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Orde Wingate biography birth life memoir marriage Bulford Sheffield Palestine Politics Ethiopia campaign Chindwin Irrawaddy Chindits

Tennant, Ivo Foreword by Clive Lloyd:

Frank Worrell: A Biography.

Cambridge, Lutterworth Press, 1987 1st Ed., Hard cover brown cloth bds, gilt lettering to spine, Nr Fine, clipped dust jacket, VG++, small amount of label residue to top corner, spine sl. faded, contents fine and tight, pp121, with b/w plates.

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Book number: 13174

Catalogue: biography

Keywords: Frank Worrell cricket biography West Indian Indies sport sportsman captain team batsman Barbados knight 0718826132

Tomalin, Ruth:

W. H. Hudson. Great Naturalists Series.

London, H. F. & G. Witherby Ltd, 1954 1st ED., Hard cover, green cloth bds, VG+, clipped d/w, protected in film (not ex-lib), Good+, a little wear/chipping at spine ends, contents clean and tight, no inscripts. etc..., pp148. The first full biography of this famous naturalist.

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Book number: 9391

Catalogue: biography

Keywords: naturalist biography Great Naturalists Series natural history boyhood bird collector Westbourne Park writer

Trevor-Roper, Hugh:

A Hidden Life: The Enigma of Sir Edmund Backhouse.

London, Macmillan London Ltd, 1976 1st Ed., hard cover blue mottled coloured bds, clipped dust jacket taped to bds from middle to rear, wear at spine base to bds and dust jacket, some scuffing to extrem.s of d/j otherwise Good, contents clean and tight, pp316, neat inscript. to ffep, a nice sound reading copy.

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Book number: 14190

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Sir Edmund Backhouse Bodleian Library biography scholar Peking memoirs Lord Rosebery Verlaine Dr Hoeppli 0333198832

Truscott, Peter:

Putin's Progress.

London, Simon & Schuster, 2004 1st Ed., Hard cover black cloth bds, 2 small shallow dents to leading edges, gilt titles to spine, VG, unclipped dust jacket, approx. 2" closed tear, taped inside (badly) otherwise Good, contents clean and tight with b/w photographic plates, pp370.

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Book number: 13956

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Vladimir Putin biography life Russia President KGB agent St Petersburg Chechen crisis Moscow Theatre Seige politics 0743240057

Tunney, Christopher:

Biographical Dictionary of World War II (2 Two).

London, J M Dent & Sons Ltd, 1972 1st Ed. hard cover light coloured bds, Good, gilt lettering to spine, clipped but still priced dust jacket, almost VG, light age-tanning in places, bk leans a little and rear bd slightly bowed, contents clean, bright and tight, pp216.

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Book number: 14705

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: World War II 2 two dictionary biography biographical military reference conflict people public second world war Lord Mountbatten Leopold Amery Harry Hopkins George Gifford Bernard Law Montgomery 0460038680

Tute, Warren:

The Felthams.

London, Cassell, 1950 1st Ed., Hard cover navy blue cloth bds, some mottling/staining to cloth but bds sound, Good-, no d/w, contents clean and tight, pp320, light foxing to ffep, neat name to front pastedown. A nice sound reading copy.

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Book number: 10737

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Felthams Admiral Sir Richard Feltham biography family letters life memoir Lady Feltham 0000

Various:

Childhood Memories In aid of Action Research for the Crippled Child. Introduced by Paddington Bear.

London, Michael O'Mara Books, 1989 1st Ed., hard cover blue cloth bds, gilt titles to spine, Near Fine, unclipped d/w, Near Fine, contents clean and tight, pp144. With contributions from, for example, Lord Aberconway; the Begum Aga Khan; Lady Anson; Jeffrey Archer; Dr Mary Archer; Pddy Ashdown; the Duke of Atholl; The Rev. W. V. Awdry; Kenneth Baker; Richard Baker; Dame Josephine Barnes; Ian Beer; Lynda Bellingham; Rachel Billington; Lord Birkett; Michael Bond; Roy Boulting; Katie Boyle; Gyles Brandreth; Raymond Briggs; Michael Buerk; Sir Robin Butler; Marti Caine; Simon Callow; Brian Cant; Harry Carpenter; Jonathan Cecil; Bobby Charlton; Paul Coia; Shirley Conran; Sir Terence Conran; John Conteh; Sue Cook; Catherine Cookson; Henry Cooper; Jilly Cooper; Peter Cushing; Ternece Cuneo; Roald Dahl; Tessa Dahl; Joanna David. Dame Daphne du Maurier etc...

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Book number: 12638

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: childhood memoires Paddington bear crippled child Robin Day Peter Duncan Rosalind Erskine Kenny Everett Ronald Ferguson Ranulph Fiennes Lord Forte Norman Fowler Martyn Goff Dulcie Gray Graham Greene 0948397799

Wedgwood, C. V.:

Thomas Wentworth First Earl of Strafford 1593 - 1641. A Revaluation.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1962 2nd Imp. hard cover blue cloth bds, black title block to spine, VG+, clipped but still priced dust jacket, now protected in film (not a lib. bk), VG, small label with prev. owners name to ffep, b/w frontis., contents fine and tight, pp415.

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Book number: 14540

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Thomas Wentworth earl strafford history life Yorkshireman House of Commons King Charles hated powerful biography Stuarts Wentworth Woodhouse MP Sheriff Yorkshire Lord President North Lord Mountnorris

Weiner, Margery:

The Parvenu Princesses: Elisa, Pauline and Caroline Bonaparte.

London, John Murray, 1964 1st Ed., SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR and inscribed on ffep "To my kind friends Albert and Dora De Luce with the affectionate good wishes of Margery Weiner April 30th 1964", Hard cover green cloth bds, red title block and gilt lettering to spine, some faded speckling to spine and a little to bds, otherwise Good, bk leans slightly, unclipped dust jacket, Fair, some closed tearing at spine and hinges, corners scuffed, spine ends have some wear, cover by Biro, contents nice and tight with b/w plates, pp274.

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Book number: 13312

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Napoleon Bonaparte Elisa Pauline Caroline Bonaparte Parvenu princesses Biro sisters biography Corsica arrogance beauty ambition Imperial society exile Joachim Murat love affairs controversy Borghese

Whitmore, Richard:

Mad Lucas: The Strange Story of Victorian England's most Famous Hermit.

North Hertfordshire District Council, 1983 1st Ed. hard cover brown cloth bds, gilt lettering to spine, VG+, in VG dust jacket, a little foxing to upper edges, contents clean and tight, very light age- yellowing to pge edges, pp73 + People, Places and Memorabilia from the time of James Lucas pp12.

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Book number: 14468

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Hertfordshire hermit recluse Victorian Mad James Lucas Redcoat's Green Hitchin nineteenth century Charles Dickens Copping journalist schizophrenic life memoir biography 0902755021

Marguerite His Wife (Marguerite Bennett):

My Arnold Bennett.

London, Ivor Nicholson & Watson Ltd, 1931 1st Ed., Hard cover green cloth bds, Good-, some marking/scuffing at extrems, spine age-browned, contents clean and tight, pp165, neat name to front pastedown, small brown spot to first few endpapers.

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Book number: 10169

Catalogue: biography

Keywords: Arnold Bennett biography life memoir novelist

Wilson, Richard (Ed.):

Macaulay's Essay On Robert Clive.

London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, no date Hard cover green cloth bds, spine completely split along front hinge and approx. 2" along rear hinge, slight rubbing in corners otherwise Good, no dust jacket, text pulling at front and rear hinges but holding, neat name/address in Belongs To and Form and School at top of front pastedown, text has some annotation to margins in places, occas. underlining, with exercises, questions, commentary and analysis to rear, pp191.

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Book number: 15205

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Macaulay Robert Clive study exercises questions commentary analysis biography essay India Lord Clive of India