CLARK, RONALD W.

The Life of Bertrand Russell

London, Jonathan Cape and Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1975, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297770187). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine clean, tight and unmarked copy in blue cloth boards (Fine apart from a few spots of light foxing to top edge) with price clipped dustjacket. 766 pages. 63 illustrations. A definitive biography. The grandson of a Victorian Prime Minister, heir to an earldom yet for much of his life a scourge of the Establishment, Bertrand Russell was not only among the greatest philosophers of his time but a political activist who, when well into his nineties, displayed an energy that men half his age might envy. NOT EX LIB A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.24 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 13. Near Fine/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 007565

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Mots-clés: 0224011650, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Lady Constance Malleson, Ralph Schoenman, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Philosophers, Philosophy 0297770187

CONRAD, BARNABY

Fun While It Lasted

London, Michael Joseph. 1970, First Edition. (ISBN: 071810773x). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Conrad, Barnaby. First UK edition. A Very Good + unmarked copy with VG complete dustjacket. The author is a well known American who has worn many hats - a vice consul to Spain, amateur bullfighter, art teacher, author, secretary to Sinclair Lewis, socialite, raconteur, are just a few in his long life. He was acquainted with many famous people and this autobiography is replete with them and also with delightful drawings by the author. It begins at Sardi's in New York with a marvellously funny conversation with Noel Coward and Eva Gabor and ends with his collecting famous and infamous last words such as the poisoner William Palmer's, who just before his hanging asked 'is it safe'. D4E. Very Good/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 003475

Catalogue: Biography - American - General

Mots-clés: Biography, American, Amateur Bullfighter, Sinclair Lewis, Noel Coward, Eva Gabor, Sardi's New York 071810773x Conrad, Barnaby

CONTINI, MARY

Dear Olivia - an Italian Journey of Love and Courage

Edinburgh, Canongate. 2006, First Edition. (ISBN: 1841958441). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. In this fascinating follow up to the highly successful 'Dear Francesca', the author writes to her other daughter, Olivia, to tell the story of her grandparents, the humble Italian shepherds who emigrated to Edinburgh and helped transform Britain's food culture. A story of a family's journey from poverty in Southern italy to a new life in Scotland and a brilliant evocation of wartime experiences. Illustrated with contemporary photographs. A1E. Fine/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 005350

Catalogue: Biography - General

Mots-clés: Biography, Scotland, Edinburgh, Italian Immigrants, Food, War 1841958441

COOK, WILLIAM (EDITED BY)

Goodbye Again - the Definitive Peter Cook and Dudley Moore

London, Century. 2004, First Edition. (ISBN: 1844134008). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with a near Fine price clipped dustjacket. This collection of the comedy duo's works is a comprehensive compilation of the finest sketches that they wrote together, featuring transcripts of one night stands and including previously unpublished scripts for Not Only But Also, it promises to be a revelation even for Cook and Moore's most informed fans. It also charts the extraordinary friendship between the two and its almost telepathic intensity, which not only brought them together but also pulled them apart time after time until their eventual reconciliation. D4F. Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 004433

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Mots-clés: Biography, English Comedians, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore 1844134008

CORYN, MARJORIE

Enchanters of Men

London, The Naldrett Press. 1954, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dark green lettering on green boards which are unmarked apart from a small tear to base of spine. Internally there is light foxing to fore edge else clean, tight and unmarked. Dust jacket is torn and chipped with many repaired tears. Comprises biographies of Cleopatra, Anne Boleyn, Madame De Montespan, Nell Gwynne, Geramaine De Stael, Marie Waleska, Sophie Dawes, Lola Montez. B2B. Good/Poor.

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N° du livre: 000195

Catalogue: Biography - General

Mots-clés: Biography, Cleopatra, Anne Boleyn, Madame de Montespan, Nell Gwynne, Germaine de Stael, Marie Waleska, Sophie Dawes, Lola Montez

COWLES, FLEUR

Friends and Memories

New York, Reynal / William Morrow. 1978, First Edition. (ISBN: 0688612008). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on blue cloth spine with light blue paper boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear and just a touch fading to top. Internally there is a signature to front endpaper else clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is complete but has some small removals to bottom of front and a small closed tear to back G+. The American author was editor of Look and Flair magazines in the 1940's and 1950's and became acquainted with a number of White House occupants with her most valued friend being President Eisenhower, on whose behalf she attended the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth. Others in her memories are Winston Churchill, Pope John, Pablo Picasso, Marilyn Monroe et al. She moved to England in 1955 to seriously pursue her ambition as a painter and became a collected artist. 22 photographic illustrations. A very fascinating autobiography of an accomplished woman. 23. Very Good/Good.

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N° du livre: 002131

Catalogue: Biography - American - General

Mots-clés: Winston Churchill, Pope John, Marilyn Monroe, Pablo Picasso, President Eisenhower 0688612008

COWLES, VIRGINIA

The Rothschilds - a Family of Fortune

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1979. (ISBN: 0297765388). Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Large Gilt motif to front with gilt lettering on light brown cloth. Dustjacket depicts coat of arms to front and painting of early Rothschild family to rear. Dustjacket very slightly chipped and slightly faded at edges. The definitive biography of the dynasty written with the co-operation of many Rothschilds in England and France. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.15 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 15. Fine/Good.

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N° du livre: 000523

Catalogue: Biography - General

Mots-clés: Biography 0297765388

CRAGOE, ELIZABETH

Cowslips and Clover

London, Hamish Hamilton. 1977, First Edition. (ISBN: 0241897610). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on green boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean and unmarked. A near Fine copy. Dustjacket is VG+ and is not price clipped. The author's second book which is a delightful story of a Welsh farm, it's animals and her childhood and farming life before the Second World War. 1. Near Fine/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 001063

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Mots-clés: Welsh Farm, Penllwynplan, Penhallow, Farming, Rural Memoirs 0241897610

CRAIG, MARY

Kundun - a Biography of the Family of the Dalai Lama

London, Harper Collins. 1997. (ISBN: 0006278388). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine uninscribed copy with light age fading to page edges with complete dustjacket which is VG+. Second impression. 19 photographs. A warm and insightful biography of the family of the Dalai Lama who was plucked from his family at the age of two in Tibet in 1938 to become the most autonomous spiritual and political ruler of any nation in the world. His family had to cope with the huge changes as they learned to cope with their son's destiny and to appreciate their little Lhamo Dhondup as his holiness or Kundun, a re-incarnation of thirteen previous Dalai Lamas and later they would have to cope with the shadow of China's invasion in 1951 and exile to India. The author's previous book Tears of Blood in 1992 told of the Tibetan people's plight after China's invasion and at that time began her growing friendship with the Dalai Lama's family. NOT EX LIB L. Very Good/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 002954

Catalogue: Biography - General

Mots-clés: Dalai Lama, Tibet 0006278388

CUMMING, LAURA

On Chapel Sands - My Mother and Other Missing Persons

London, Chatto and Windus. 2019, First. (ISBN: 9781784742478). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 301 pages. Illustrations in the text. In the autumn of 1929, a small child was kidnapped from a Lincolnshire beach. Five agonising days went by before she was found in a nearby village. The child remembered nothing of these events and nobody ever spoke of them at home. It was another fifty years before she even learned of the kidnap. The girl became an artist and had a daughter, art writer Laura Cumming. Cumming grew up enthralled by her mother's strange tales of life in a seaside hamlet of the 1930s, and of the secrets and lies perpetuated by a whole community. So many puzzles remained to be solved. Cumming began with a few criss-crossing lives in this fraction of English coast - the postman, the grocer, the elusive baker - but soon her search spread right out across the globe as she discovered just how many lives were affected by what happened that day on the beach - including her own. On Chapel Sands is a book of mystery and memoir. Two narratives run through it: the mother's childhood tale; and Cumming's own pursuit of the truth. Humble objects light up the story: a pie dish, a carved box, an old Vick's jar. Letters, tickets, recipe books, even the particular slant of a copperplate hand give vital clues. And pictures of all kinds, from paintings to photographs, open up like doors to the truth. Above all, Cumming discovers how to look more closely at the family album - with its curious gaps and missing persons - finding crucial answers, captured in plain sight at the click of a shutter. Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 011518

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Mots-clés: Artist Parents, Mystery Memoir 9781784742478

DAVIES, HUNTER

Born 1900 - a Human History of the Twentieth Century - for Everyone Who Was There

London, Little Brown. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 0316644714). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. In this unique and fascinating book, Hunter Davies tells the life stories of 21 people who were born in 1900 - from all walks of life, all parts of the country, all occupations, all of whom have survived two world wars and experienced technological changes and new social attitudes. Included are a miner, a doctor, a factory worker, a West End actress, a Cambridge professor, and of course, the Queen Mother. At the same time he charts the progress of several institutions and inventions which also began in 1900. A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.83 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 22. Fine/Fine.

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N° du livre: 007410

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Mots-clés: English Social History, Queen Mother 0316644714

DAY, ROBIN

Day by Day - a Dose of My Own Hemlock

London, William Kimber. 1975, First Edition. (ISBN: 0718301544). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine uninscribed copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. 227 pages 16 photographs and 6 illustrations in the text. The veteran political interviewer presents a new slant on autobiography by presenting it as an interview of himself revealing frank answers to a host of qusetions detailing his long career in television. 20. Fine/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 002398

Catalogue: Biography - English - General

Mots-clés: Television, Politics 0718301544

DHONDY, FARRUKH

C.L. R. James - Cricket, the Caribbean and World Revolution

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 2001, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297646133). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xv + 190 pages. Cyril Lionel Robert James (1901-1989) will be remembered for as long as cricket is played anywhere in the world. He was an Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist theorist and essayist. His works are influential in various theoretical, social, and historiographical contexts. Farrukh Dhondy's biography traces James's long career and many reinventions, and assesses the contribution he made to Marxism, to the development of Black consciousness in Britain, and celebrates his love of cricket. Throughout the book, Dhondy draws on his friendship with James. 16. Fine/Fine.

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N° du livre: 009361

Catalogue: Biography - General

Mots-clés: Cricket, Marxism, Socialist Theorist, Caribbean, Afro-Nationalism 0297646133

DOERRY, MARTIN

My Wounded Heart - the Life of LILLI Jahn 1900-1944

London, Bloomsbury. 2004, First Edition. (ISBN: 0747570469). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good + unmarked copy with dustjacket which has some wear to top edge, some light marks to front and back and is not price clipped. Translated from the German by John Brownjohn. A powerful, inspiring and heart rending book and a tribute to an ordinary woman of extraordinary courage, and essential to our understanding of the reality of Hitler's Germany. Lilli Jahn was prolific letter writer who studied medicine at Cologne, who wooed and won her protestant and fellow medical student, Ernest Jahn, by letter and in 1926 they married but in 1933, when Hitler took power, everything changed. Her husband was put under pressure from local Nazis to separate and then divorce her, which he eventually did, leaving Lilli and her five children unprotected. She was arrested and sent to Breitenau labour camp, angry, but she could still write to her children and these letters survive. She died at Auschwitz in June 1944. Many photographs and maps and copies of documents. B2D. Very Good/Good.

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N° du livre: 003604

Catalogue: Biography - General

Mots-clés: Biography, Germany, Hitler, Ernest Jahn, Breitenau Labour Camp, Auschwitz 0747570469

FRENCH, DOLORES WITH LEE, LINDA

Working - My Life As a Prostitute

London, Victor Gollancz. 1989, First Edition. (ISBN: 0575045299). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket. First UK edition. The autobiographical account of her childhood, her role as a fundraiser, civil rights campaigner and at the age of 27 how she became a prostitute and loved the job. She has worked the famous windows in Amsterdam, the dangerous brothels of Puerto Rico, founded the prostitutes union HIRE (Hooking is for real), was appointed to the Mayor's task force on prostitution in Georgia, Atlanta and as a consultant on the Centers for Disease Control's study on prostitution and AIDS. She is married to a civil rights lawyer and still works as a prostitute. C3B. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 001552

Catalogue: Biography - American - General

Mots-clés: Brothels, Prostitution, Hookers, Amsterdam, Puerto Rico 0575045299