HOLTHUSEN, HANS EGON

Eduard Mörike in Selbstzeugnissen Und Bilddokumenten

Hamburg, Rowohlt. 1971, Another Edition. (ISBN: 3499501759) Paperback, 190mm Tall, 12mo. Book, Text in German, well illustrated. 180 pages. Slight browning to page edges. Good.

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Book number: 003309

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: 3499501759 Biography; Hartlaub; Johann; Goethe; Ludwig; Amandus; Bauer; Mahrlen; Rau;

HONAN, PARK

Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy

New York, Oxford University Press. 2005, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0198186959) Hardcover, 240mm Tall; 8vo. Book, Biography of Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593). With 33 illustrations. xv,421 pages. Includes Index. Dedication by author on half-title page, recipient's (SC) bookplate on front free endpaper. Some pencil annotations in the text. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 7742

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: 0198186959 Corpus Christi College, Tamburlaine, Doctor Faustus,

HOPE, ALICE

Princess Margaret

London, Frederick Muller. 1955, First Edition. Hardcover, 200mm Tall, 8vo. Book, They called her Margaret Rose - the little Princess who was born in a four-poster bed at Glamis Castle in Scotland as a thunderstorm racked the skies on the night of August 21 1930 - the first Royal baby to be born north of the Border since the birth of Charles I at Dunfermline in 1600. With 20 illustrations, 165 pages. Blue cloth covers. Covers lightly soiled, text pages and photographs clean, binding sound. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000305

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: Biography; Townsend; Buckingham Palace; Windsor,

HOPKINS, KENNETH

The Corruption of a Poet

London, James Barrie. 1954, First Edition. Hardcover, 225mm Tall, 8vo. Book, Anyone who could be fired from sixteen jobs in twenty-five years can't be all bad. 236 pages. Dark blue cloth covers, darkened at top of spine. Some browning to pastedowns and to pages 104/105 from old newspaper cutting. Inscription by previous owner on front free endpaper. Dust jacket has losses at top back edge and base of spine, and also shows soiling; now in mylar cover. Good/Poor.

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Book number: 002256

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: Autobiography;

HUTCHINS, W. T. (EDITOR)

Real Adventure

London, Longmans Green & Co. 1948, Another Edition. Hardcover, 170mm Tall, 16mo. Book, Stories of real life adventure. Small dark mark at base of front cover and a lesser mark on base page edges. 174 pages. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002568

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: Hilaire Belloc; Shackleton; Captain Scott; Mary Kingsley; Percy Fitzpatrick;

IRVINE, WILLIAM

Apes Angels & Victorians. A Joint Biography of Darwin & Huxley

London, Readers Union. 1956, Another Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 4 pages of illustrations 278 pages. Slight soiling to covers. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003280

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: Biography, Theory of Evolution, the Beagle, Darwin, Huxley,

IRVING, WASHINGTON

The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

London, John Murray. 1831, Another Edition. Full-Leather, 150mm Tall, 16mo. Book, 357 Pages. Two fold-out maps. Gilt ruled decoration to covers. Foxing on prelims and title page and maps. Inscriptions on pre-title pages. Wear to cover surfaces and extremities, cracked down joints of spine. Fair.

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Book number: 005234

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: Biography, America, Court of Castile, Salamanca, Hispaniola, New World, la Navidad, Papal Bull of Partition, Trinidad, Roldan,

JACOB, J. WALTER

Jacques Offenbach in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten

Hamburg, Rowohlt. 1969, Another Edition. Paperback, 190mm Tall, 12mo. Book, Text in German, well illustrated. Very Good.

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Book number: 003312

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: Biography; Halevy; Meyerbeer; Meilhac; Hortense; Schneider;

JAMES, ROBERT RHODES

Bob Boothby. A Portrait

London, Hodder & Stoughton. 1991, First Edition. (ISBN: 0340491183) Hardcover, 240mm Tall; 8vo. Book, All Boothby's public and private papers were entrusted to the author, as Boothby wanted an honest and objective biography based on facts and not on gossip or innuendo, of which he had so often been the victim. Boothby genuinely wanted a 'warts and all' biography and this is it. 476 pages. Index. Black cloth covers, gilt title on spine. Inscription by previous owner on front free endpaper. Dust jacket price clipped. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 000534

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: 0340491183 Biography; Leopold Amery; Stanley Baldwin; Beaverbrook; Neville Chamberlain; Winston Churchill; House of Commons; Conservative Party; Czechoslovakia; East Aberdeenshire; Anthony Eden; Adolf Hitler; Compton Mackenzie; Harold Macmillan; Oswald Mo

JERROLD, WALTER

Douglas Jerrold and 'Punch'

London, Macmillan and Co. 1910, First Edition. Hardcover, 230mm Tall, 8vo. Book, 447 pages. Index. Bookplate of Robert Washington Oates on front pastedown. Embossed address, The Wakes, Selborne, at top of title page, and embossed stamp 'presentation copy' at base of title page. Blue cloth covers with gilt title and decoration on spine. Covers marked and soiled with wear to top/tail of spine and cover corners. Good.

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Book number: 005201

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: Biography, Punch Magazine,

ST JOHN, BAYLE (TRANSLATOR)

The Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon on the Reign of Louis XIV and the Regency Volume II

London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co. 1891, Fifth Edition. Hardcover, 220mm Tall, 8vo. Book, Translated from the French by Bayle St. John. 381 pages. Wear to top/tail of spine and cover corners. Front pastedown gutter cracked. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 7177

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: Duc D'Orleans; Duc de Bourgogne; Pere la Chaise; D'Avaux; Villars; Louis Xv; Versailles; King of Spain; Louis Xiv;

JONES, EWART

Germans Under My Bed

London, Arthur Barker Limited. 1957, First Edition Reprinted. Hardcover, 220mm Tall, 8vo. Book, Not a Jeremy Clarkson nightmare but the story of the Second World War escape attempts of the young Ewart Jones. November reprint. 221 pages. Dust jacket has loss at top/tail of spine and top front corner. Very Good/Poor.

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Book number: 004621

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: Autobiography; World War Two; Ww2; Wwii; World War Two

KARVE, D. D. (SELECTED AND TRANSLATED BY)

The New Brahmans. Five Maharashtrian Families

Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press. 1963, First Edition. Hardcover, 235mm Tall, 8vo. Book, Autobiographies and writings of members of three of the most numerous and important of the dozen or so Brahman castes of Maharashtra. Light mark on front cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002345

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: Biography; Karve; Sardesai; Kolhatkar; Katagade; Hadhav; Trimbak; Patwardhan; Autobiography; Maharashtra; Brahman; Caste;

KITCHIN, GEORGE

Sir Roger L'Estrange: A Contribution to the History of the Press in the Seventeenth Century

New York, Augustus M. Kelley. 1971, Another Edition. Hardcover, 225mm Tall, 8vo. Book, 440 pages. Index. With 11 full page plates. Green cloth covers. Gilt title on front cover and spine. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005182

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: Biography, Popish Plot, Mearne, Whigs, Rye House Plot, the Press, Cromwell, the Observator, Frank Smith,

KRALIK, HEINRICH

Richard Strauss: Weltbürger der Musik

München, Wollzeilen Verlag Wein. 1963, Another Edition. Hardcover, 235mm Tall, 8vo. Book, With Index. Grey cloth covers. Text in German. Dedication on front free endpaper. Dust jacket has wear and a tear on top edge with small loss at top and tail of spine;. Very Good/Fair.

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Book number: 5505

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: Biography; Richard Strauss; Music; Richard Wagner; Brahms; Beethoven; Hans Von Bülow; Bulow; Hugo Von Hofmannsthal; Joseph Gregor;