PIERHAL, JEAN

Albert Schweitzer - the Life of a Great Man

London, Lutterworth Press. 1956, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First English Edition. Gold title on red cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. A VG+ copy. Dustjacket is price clipped. 35 photographs. An excellent personal biography of Schweitzer the man, who will last on beyond his writings, his music, his philosphy and even his famous hospital. A1E. Very Good/Very Good.

Goldring BooksVendeur professionnel

N° du livre: 004304

Catalogue: Biography - General

Mots-clés: Biography of Albert Schweitzer, Music, Religion, Philosophy, Medical Missionary

PINNEY, LUCY

A Country Wife - Farms, Families and Other Foolhardy Adventures

London, Ebury Press. 2004, First Edition. (ISBN: 009189185X). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 342 pags. First edition, first printing. When Lucy Pinney arrived in the lush Dorset countryside 30years ago she was newly married, very enthusiastic and charmingly naive. After a bucolic love-affair worthy of a Thomas Hardy novel, Lucy launched herself into pig keeping, cake baking and lamb rearing with gusto. But nothing had prepared her for the essential oddness and precariousness of rural life. The book is a funny, honest and affectionate memoir of a life spent learning to know and love the countryside and those who live off the land. NOT EX LIB 23. Fine/Fine.

Goldring BooksVendeur professionnel

N° du livre: 008368

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Mots-clés: Dorset Countryside, Rural Life, Farming, Autobiography 009189185x

VAN DER POST, LAURENS

About Blady - a Pattern out of Time

London, Chatto and Windus. 1991, First. (ISBN: 0701138025). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very good+ unmarked copy which has a very small indentation to front top edge and age toning to page edges. Dustjacket is VG+ and is not price clipped. 255 pages. In this absorbing autobiographical memoir, Blady is not so much the principal (although she has a crucial part to play) as the core symbol and catalyst. It is a true story of people, events, themes and relationships which together have formed a special pattern in Laurens van der Post's life. Unlike anything he has written before, it combines intuitive fantasy with a taut dramatic narrative as the story gathers pace to the climax of Blady's great race. Outwardly random occurrencesm from the writer's childhood in Africa to the death of his son from cancer, provide the framework for the searching exploration that follows - an exploration into fundamental aspects of the human spirit, its besetting ills and troubles, and the life-forces that keep it intact. B2A. Very Good/Very Good.

Goldring BooksVendeur professionnel

N° du livre: 010426

Catalogue: Biography - General

Mots-clés: Biography, African Authors 0701138025

VAN DER POST, LAURENS

A Walk with a White Bushman

London, Chatto & Windus / Hogarth Press. 1986, First Edition. (ISBN: 0701131683). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine copy apart from age fading to page edges and an inscription to front pastedown. Dustjacket is also near Fine and non-price clipped. In conversation with Jean-Marc Pottiez who initiated the book based on a series of spontaneous discussions where he draws from Sir Laurens a fluent, fascinating commentary on many key issues and people of our time. Not merely biographical but also a book full of ideas, insights, people and events. NOT EX LIB B2C. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Goldring BooksVendeur professionnel

N° du livre: 002418

Catalogue: Biography - General

Mots-clés: Travel, Biography 0701131683

POWERS, RICHARD GID

Secrecy and Power - the Life of J. Edgar Hoover

London, Hutchinson. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0091725984). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. First UK edition. x + 624 pages. 30 illustrations. As head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972, J. Edgar Hoover created a unique role for himself in American life - one that had never existed before, one that wil probably never exist again. Who was this man who engineered the notorious Palmer Raids at the age of 24; whose enemies ranged from John Dillinger to Martin Luther King; who reviled homosexuality, yet was often accused of it and kept files on his accusers; who was a law-and-order hero to one generation and a police-state villain to the next? Drawing on previously unknown personal documents, an exhaustive study of FBI files, and the Presidential papers of nine administrations, Powers presents a full-blooded portrait of the man behind the G-Man image, finding a personality more complex than Hoover's critics or defenders have brought to light. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.18 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 13. Fine/Very Good.

Goldring BooksVendeur professionnel

N° du livre: 009935

Catalogue: Biography - American - General

Mots-clés: Fbi, American Intelligence Agency 0091725984

PRENTIS, EVELYN

A Nurse in Action

London, Hutchinson. 1978, First Edition. (ISBN: 009133800X). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Hall, Douglas. A clean and unmarked copy apart from some light foxing to fore edge and to the margins of some pages with dustjacket which is not price clipped. Decorations by Douglas Hall. The second volume of the author's reminiscences from 1934 to 1963. Amusingly written it presents an inside view of hospital life from the recent past. NOT EX LIB 13. Very Good/Very Good.

Goldring BooksVendeur professionnel

N° du livre: 008118

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Mots-clés: Memoirs of Nursing, Nottingham 009133800x Hall, Douglas

SILVER, RACHEL AND BRANDENBURGER, CAROLINE

Establishment Wives

London, W.H. Allen. 1989, First Edition. (ISBN: 1852271418). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Generations of women have married his career at the same time as they marry the man, and this is particularly true of women who marry into the Establishment, and who are often seen as an extension of their husbands. In this unique collection of women's voices, the authors have drawn together 43 wives from fields as varied as the law, the arts, the foreign office and civil service, business and industry, medicine and politics, who discuss their lives with an appealing openness. Included are Lady Weymouth, Flavia de Gray, Lady Armstrong, Lady Conran, Julia Birling, Lady Howe, Lady Trethowan, Lady Grandy, Lady Jakobovits, Anne de Rothschild, Lady Dacre. Photographic illustrations. 23. Fine/Fine.

Goldring BooksVendeur professionnel

N° du livre: 007795

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Mots-clés: British Establishment, Lady Weymouth, Flavia de Gray, Lady Armstrong, Lady Conran, Julia Birling, Lady Howe, Lady Trethowan, Lady Grandy, Lady Jakobovits, Anne de Rothschild, Lady Dacre 1852271418

RASHIDOV, SHARAF R.

Leninism - the Banner of Liberation and Progress of Nations

Moscow, Novosti Press Agency. 1972, First. Soft Cover, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy. Text in English. 111 pages. Contents: Message to the Participants in the International Scientific Conference in Tashkent on October 16, 1972 by Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev; Message of the Participants in the Conference to Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev; Leninism - The Banner of Liberation and Progress of Nations by Sharaf Rashidov. Rashidov (1917-1983) was a Communist Party leader in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic and a CPSU Central Committee Politbureau candidate member between 1961 and 1983. In the Soviet Union his name became synonymous with corruption, nepotism and the Great Cotton Scandal of the late Brezhnev period. The Uzbek leadership falsified production records to have substantial funds transferred from Central Soviet funds to them and when this was discovered Rashidov committed suicide. 11. Very Good/No Jacket.

Goldring BooksVendeur professionnel

N° du livre: 010882

Catalogue: Biography - Russian - General

Mots-clés: Lenin, Sharaf Rashidov, Brezhnev,

RATTER, MAGNUS C.

Albert Schweitzer

London, The Lindsey Press. 1949, First Thus. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gilt title on blue cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with some fading to spine. Internally there is a contemporary inscription and date to front endpaper else clean and tight. Dustjacket is complete with a repaired tear to back and is plastic protected. This edition is a revision of the first edition of 1935, brought up to date and much enlarged, written with such clarity that the reader will understand Dr. Schweitzer's contribution to music, theology and ethics. B2B. Good/Very Good.

Goldring BooksVendeur professionnel

N° du livre: 004999

Catalogue: Biography - General

Mots-clés: Dr. Albert Schweitzer Biography, Theology, Music, Ethics

RHODES, TONY

Every Day Is Saturday

Lewes, East Sussex, The Book Guild. 2002, First Edition. (ISBN: 1857766040). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. The author's autobiography recounts life as boy in the 1930's, his start in the motor industry as an apprentice with Vauxhall and where he rose to become an engineer and manager. An inspiring story of determination and success in which he presents significant details that make the past come alive. C3C. Fine/Fine.

Goldring BooksVendeur professionnel

N° du livre: 005026

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Mots-clés: Biography, Motor Industry 1857766040

ROBERTS, NIGEL

C-Six - Ten Years As the Doctor of the Qe2

London, Sidgwick and Jackson. 1988. (ISBN: 0283996722). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR 'NIGEL ROBERTS QE2' without dedication. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from age darkening to page edges). English dustjacket is Fine and price clipped ALSO INCLUDED is the Japanese dustjacket which is also Signed twice on the inner front flap, once in gold ink with Yokohama '89, and a blind embossed stamp on inner front flap 'purchased on board the Queen Elizabeth 2'. The rear of the Japanese dustjacket shows the QE2, Concorde and 9 planes. xxix + 226 pages. 38 illustrations. First reprint November 1988 (first was September). The author was Chief Medical Officer on the QE2 and other great Cunard ships for 12 years, responsible for the health of almost 3,000 passengers and crew. C-Six is the C stairway on 6 deck, positioned, as most ships' hospitals are, directly on the waterline at the centre of the ship to afford maximum stability and comfort, hence ironically but appropriately the address of the world most prestigious sick bay. These memoirs contain, naturally, medical emergencies, tales such as dentistry on a celebrity drunk, stories of chronic seasickness, acute appendicitis, drownings and a coronary in the casino. There is a large social side to his duties as he hosts a table slightly lower down from the Captain's, and his anecdotes about passengers are both affectionate and amusing. It is also an insight into how the systems of such a ship spring into action whenever a medical crisis arises. L. Near Fine/Fine. Signed by Author.

Goldring BooksVendeur professionnel

N° du livre: 008206

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Mots-clés: Doctor of Qe2, Queen Elizabeth 2, Chief Medical Officer, Cunard Line 0283996722

KAY-ROBINSON, DENYS

The First Mrs Thomas Hardy

London, Macmillan. 1979, First Edition. (ISBN: 0333220072). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Brown title on brown boards which have a small rub mark to front. Internally a few marks to top edge else clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is complete with some stains to inside but not visible on outside and with a touch of light creasing to top. No biography of Thomas Hardy has yet included a serious attempt to discover what went wrong with his first marriage to Emma Lavinia Gifford, attributing it wholly to her fault. The present study the author has used every available clue, many of them uncovered for the first time by the author, in his quest to find the true character of Emma, of her feeling towards her husband and of the effects of both on his work. The result, unforeseen when the quest was begun, is a completely new theory of what happened to the Hardys' early love for one another and why. 20 photographic illustrations. 2. Very Good/Very Good.

Goldring BooksVendeur professionnel

N° du livre: 002899

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Mots-clés: 0333220072

ROLPH, C.H.

Further Particulars - Consequences of an Edwardian Boyhood

Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0192117904). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine copy with a Fine dustjacket. The author's second volume of memoirs that commences at the end of World War I to the present, in which he describes his 25 years with the City Police, leaving as a Chief Inspector, then his work as a freelance journalist, followed by 25 years on the editorial staff of the New Statesman. His colleagues on the paper were Kingsley Martin, Raymond Mortimer and V.S. Pritchett and his work and experiences at the BBC, as a broadcaster, brought him into contact with many others including Raymond Chandler, Geroges Simenon, Danny Kaye and Rebecca West. C3A. Fine/Fine.

Goldring BooksVendeur professionnel

N° du livre: 002485

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Mots-clés: 0192117904

ROPER, ROBERT

Nabokov in America - on the Road to Lolita

New York, Bloomsbury USA. 2015, First. (ISBN: 9780802743633). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A new unread copy with new dustjacket. First Edition, First Printing. 354 pages. Illustrations in the text. Map endpapers. The author of the immortal Lolita nd Pale Fire, born to a distinguished Russian family, represents for many the apotheosis of the high modernist artist: cultured, refined - as European as they come. But Vladimir Nabokov, who came to America to escape the Nazis, grew to think of his time there as the richest of his life. Here and his Jewish wife could live and breathe, here they raised a beloved son in safety and normalcy. Robert Roper fills out this period of Nabokov's life with charm and insight - covering Nabokov's friendship with Edmund Wilson, his time at Wellesley and Cornell, his long work at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. But the book finds its narrative heart in the writer's many summer sojourns in the wilds of the American West. The Nabokovs covered more than two hundred thousand miles by car as Vladimir indulged his most overwhelming passion - not for literature but for butterfly hunting. The book is also a love letter to American literature, tracing Nabokov's broad and ingenious embrace of it. Steeped in Russian, British, French and classical literature, he read prolifically among American writers or years. L. New/New.

Goldring BooksVendeur professionnel

N° du livre: 010178

Catalogue: Biography - Russian - General

Mots-clés: Vladimir Nabokov, America, Cornell University, Wellesley College, Edmund Wilson, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology 9780802743633

ROTHENBERG, FRITZ-GUENTHER

Doomed to Live - an Epitaph to a Great Love

Lewes, East Sussex, The Book Guild. 1991, First Edition. (ISBN: 0863326544). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The author was born in Danzig, where he practised as a barrister until Nazi persecution forced him to flee to England, arriving three weeks before the outbreak of war, where eventually he was released from internment and entered the catering business, rising to managerial status in the Grand Metropolitan chain. This biography tells of his marriage of convenience so that he can find domestic employment and his subsequent internment on the Isle of Man hastens the arrangement's failure and he begins to work towards a reunion with his wife and son, the family from whom the political situation in Germany had imposed his divorce. From his earliest days as a boy soldier at the end of the First World War to the present, life's harshest experiences have not daunted his stoical acceptance of hardship and his story is told with uncompromising honesty and fortitude. 3. Fine/Fine.

Goldring BooksVendeur professionnel

N° du livre: 005970

Catalogue: Biography - General

Mots-clés: Danzig, Isle of Man, War Memoirs, Grand Metropolitan 0863326544