SUTHERLAND, HALLIDAY

The Arches of the Years

London, Geoffrey Bles. 1933, First Edition. Hardcover, 230mm Tall, 8vo. Book, 293 pages. Gilt title on spine. Slight fading to spine. Top page edges dusty and a bit soiled. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003428

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: Autobiography;

TAYLOR, ANDREW

God's Fugitive: The Life of Charles Montagu Doughty

London, HarperCollins. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 0002558157) Hardcover, 240mm Tall. Book, Biography of the Arabian explorer. Over twenty illustrations. With Index. Black cloth covers, gilt title on spine. Light browning on page edges. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004748

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: 0002558157 Biography; Mohammed Aly; Mohammed En Nejumy; Medain Salih; Mohammed Ibn Rashid; T.E. Lawrence; Lawrence of Arabia; Zeyd; Abdullah Es Siruan; Royal Geographical Society;

THOMAS, DONALD

Swinburne: The Poet in His World

New York, Oxford University Press. 1979, First American Edition. (ISBN: 0195201361) Hardcover, 225mm Tall, 8vo. Book, Biography of the rather eccentric Algernon Charles Swinburne. With 16 illustrations. 256 pages Dust jacket has shelfwear with small scuffmark at top of front. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 004040

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: 0195201361 Biography; Charles Baudelaire; Poet; Edmund Gosse; Richard Monckton Milnes; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Marquis de Sade; Alfred Tennyson; Watts-Dunton;

TIMPSON, JOHN

Today and Yesterday

London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1976, First Edition. (ISBN: 0049270087) Hardcover, 225mm Tall, 8vo. Book, Autobiography of the late John Timpson, presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4. 158 pages. Dust jacket rubbed and a little creased on top edges; not price clipped. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 001969

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: 0049270087 Autobiography, National Service, Jack de Manio, Douglas Cameron, Robert Robinson, Queen Mother, Godfrey Talbot, Marshall Stewart, Peter Woon, Bbc, Today Programme,

TREVELYAN, GEORGE OTTO

The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1880, New Edition. Hardcover, 180mm Tall, 12mo. Book, Penciled dedication on piece of paper attached with pin to free endpaper, dated 1881. Paginated Vol.1 xiii, 483. Vol II viii, 490, 12. Light foxing on prelims of both volumes. Top edges greyed with dustmarks. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 6081

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

TYNAN, KENNETH

The Sound of Two Hands Clapping

London, Jonathan Cape. 1975, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0224011839) Hardcover, 225mm Tall, 8vo. Book, Kenneth Tynan's personal description of personalities and performers including Noel Coward, Lenny Bruce, Nicol Williamson, Roman Polanski and others. 256 pages. Brown cloth covers. Company library stamp with written numbers at base of front free endpaper. Tape marks on front pastedown and edges of dust jacket, and top edge of front cover. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 003893

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: 0224011839 Biography; Theatre; Performing Arts; Nicol Williamson; Eric Morecambe; Polanski; Antonio Ordonez; Olivier; Ethel Merman;

URQUHART, THOMAS

The Admirable Urquhart: Selected writings. Edited and introduced by Richard Boston

London, Gordon Fraser. 1975, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0900406402) Hardcover, 255mm Tall, 4to. Book, Biography of Sir Thomas Urquhart (1611-1660) translator of Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel. 205 pages. Previous owner's name and date at top corner of front free endpaper plus bookplate in centre of ffe. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 7835

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: 0900406402 the Trissotetras, the Universal Language, Logopandecteision, the Admirable Crichtoun,

VALLENTIN, ANTONINA

Einstein: A Biography

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1954, 1st Edition. Hardcover, 220mm Tall, 8vo. Book, Biography of the great scientist Albert Einstein, (1879-1955) published in time for his 75th birthday. The author knew Einstein and his family for many years. 219 pages. Dust jacket a little soiled and darkened on spine with tear on joint of back cover. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 7595

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: Albert Einstein,

VANZYPE, GUSTAVE

Jan Vermeer De Delft

Bruxelles et Paris, Librairie Nationale D'Art et D'Histoire. 1921, Nouvelle Édition. Half-Leather, 365mm Tall. Book, All about Jan Vermeer the Dutch painter 1632-1675. With 37 plates, 76 pages. Heavy book. Very Good.

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Book number: 8380

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: Jan Vermeer, Dutch Painters, Dutch Baroque Period, Art & Design

WADE, E. K.

The Piper of Pax: The Life Story of Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.B.

London, C. Arthur Pearson. 1931, 2nd Edition. Hardcover, 190mm Tall, 12mo. Book, 189 pages. Includes line illustrations by Lord Baden-Powell and photographs. Light foxing to title page and following two pages. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 7831

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: Scouts, Pigsticking, Zululand, Baden-Powell in India, Charterhouse, the Cape, Swaziland, Malta, Ashanti, Boer War, Mafeking, the South African War,

WALKER, FRED. M

Ships and Shipbuilders: Pioneers of Design and Construction

Barnsley, Seaforth Publishing. 2010, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9781848320727) Hardcover, 255mm Tall, 4to. Book, The chronological lives and work of >130 people who influenced ship design and shipbuilding world wide. 240 pages. Index. Well illustrated. Black cloth covers with silver title on spine. Would have been a fine copy without the small brown stain on page edges. Dust jacket very good with slight shelfwear. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 7834

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: 9781848320727 Sailing Craft, Container Ships, Yachts, Brunel, E.J. Reed, James Watt, John Scott Russell,

WALLAS, GRAHAM

The Life of Francis Place 1771-1854

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1908, Re-Issue. Hardcover, 225mm Tall, 8vo. Book, Includes Index. x, 415 pages. Frontispiece illustration. Name and date on front pastedown. Browning to front/back free endpaper. Foxing on prelim, title page, page edges and occasional text pages. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 7954

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: Benthamites, Westminster Politics 1807-1815, Charing Cross Library, First Reform Campaign, Chartism,

WALLIS, MIECZYSLAW

Canaletto: The Painter of Warsaw

Warsaw, Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy. 1954, 1st Edition. Hardcover, 300mm Tall, 4to. Book, Canaletto's views of Warsaw, many of which were used as reference in the rebuilding of Warsaw after the Second World War. 37 pages. 118 black and white plates, 4 colour plates. Heavy browning to pastedowns and free endpapers. Light wear to cover extremities. Dust jacket has small loss at lower edge of front, some tears to edges and light wear to edges. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 7414

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: Canaletto, Bernardo Belotto, Warsaw, Art & Design

WARD, MAISIE

Robert Browning and His World: Two Robert Brownings? (1861-1889)

London, Cassell. 1969, First Edition. Hardcover, 220mm Tall, 8vo. Book, Second volume of Maisie Ward's biography of Robert Browning. Index. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 003797

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: Biography; Tennyson; Lady Ashburton; Julia Wedgwood; G.K. Chesterton; Thomas Carlyle; Frederick Furnivall; Henry James; Joseph Milsand; Swinburne;

WHITTERIDGE, GWENETH

William Harvey and the circulation of the blood

London, Macdonald. 1971, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 035602699x) Hardcover, 240mm Tall; 8vo. Book, A biography of the English physician and scientist William Harvey. With 8 plates. 269 pages, Index. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 7513

Catalogue: Biography and Autobiography

Keywords: 035602699x Blood, Aristotle, Pulmonary Transit of Blood, Pre-Harveian Views on Blood, Arteries, Realdus Columbus, Hieronymus Fabricius, University of Padua, Veins, Jean Riolan,