Adriaensens, Rob

Streep 2 viert.

Belgium: IRIS, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Text in Dutch. Clean and tightly bound paperback original, no inscriptions, spine uncreased, appears little used. 82 pages, illustrations in the text. Very Good.

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Book number: 58262

Catalogue: Biography

Altounyan, Taqui

Chimes from a wooden bell A hundred years in the life of a Euro-Armenian family.

I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. 190 pages, epilogue. Obituary from the Daily Telegraph 5 July 1998 laid in. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 68042

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Armenia Arthur Ransome Swallows & Amazons Aleppo

Anon. [Grey, Lady Elizabeth]

William Earl of Stamford, 1850 - 1910.

Christophers, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean hardback book with no inscriptions, tightly bound in faded blue cloth with gilt titles and armorial crest, tanning to endpapers and fox-spotting at closed page edges. Appears little used. [viii] + 230 pages, 10 tissue-guarded plates, appendix, foldout genealogy at rear. Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 66006

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Local History Grey family Genealogical research Family History

Arthur, Sir George

Not worth reading.

Longmans Green & Co. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean, tightly bound hardback book with a gift inscription by the author, "From a poor scribbler of the past for a great artist of the present", on the front endpaper, in an unclipped dustjacket which is worn and much repaired, some loss at edges and on spine and water marked. xiv + 300 pages, 8 photos on plates, index. Fair in Poor dust jacket.

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Book number: 50343

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Victorian Age Lord Kitchener World War 1 Boer War

Aston, Tony

Redditch From the Chip Shop to the Batchley.

Redditch: Brewin Books, 2022. First Edition. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound paperback original, gift inscription by the author on the title page, spine uncreased, front cover rubbed at the foreedge. 162 pages, photos in the text; Signed by Author. Very Good.

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Book number: 68028

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Local History 20th century life Worcestershire

Ayling, Stanley

Edmund Burke: his life and opinions.

John Murray, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book, top page edges foxed, no inscriptions, in a bright price clipped dustjacket which is creased at the top edge. xx + 316 pages, illustrations on plates, chronology, notes, bibliography, index. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 66322

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: British politics Irish Writers Whigs Conservative Party

Ball, F. C

Tressell of Mugsborough.

Lawrence & Wishart, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book, endpapers tanned, no inscriptions, in a price clipped dustjacket which is chipped at the edges with minor loss at the top of the spine and front cover. 224 pages, photo frontispiece. Newspaper article dated 26/08/1970 concerning one of the murals by Robert Tressell in St Andrew's Church, Hastings, now in the local museum, laid in. Very Good in Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 69496

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Robert Tressell Ragged trousered philanthropists Hastings Working Class

Bamberger, Louis

Memories of sixty years in the timber and pianoforte trades.

Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in maroon cloth with gilt titles, boards bowed, cloth rubbed at corners and spine ends, no inscriptions. xviii + 270 pages, photos on plates, index. Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 61652

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Auto/biography Business history Edwardian age

Barrow, Andrew

Quentin & Philip: a double portrait.

Macmillan, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is rubbed at the edges. x + 560 pages, photos on plates, map endpapers, index. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 55437

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Eccentrics Naked Civil Servant Fitzrovia

Beckett, John with Aley, Sheila

Byron and Newstead: The aristocrat and the Abbey.

U. S. A.: University of Delaware Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book signed and dated by the author on the title page plus a compliment slip signed by the author pasted on half title page verso, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is a little rubbed at the edges. Appears little used. 346 pages, photos on plates, illustrations in the text, notes, bibliography, index ; Signed by Author. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 68224

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Lord Byron Biography Nottinghamshire Poets & poetry Estate management

Bell, Quentin

Virginia Woolf, a biography. 2 volumes in one.

Pimlico, 1996. Reprint. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound paperback original, no inscriptions, spine lightly creased, page edges age tanned. xxii + 216 + 314 pages, photos on plates, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Very Good.

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Book number: 66244

Catalogue: Biography

Birkett, Jennifer

Margaret Storm Jameson: a life.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. xviii + 442 pages, photos in the text, notes, bibliography, index. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 54645

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: English Literature Whitby PEN Socialism

Blair, Richard S.

A memoir of Billy Durrant, local preacher, bookseller, and poet. Compiled from his letters, journals, and poems.

Ralph Fenwick, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in red cloth with gilt titles and black decoration, cloth bumped at corners and slightly faded at spine, name, date and place (Bircham Newton) on front endpaper otherwise no inscriptions. 152 pages, remains of bookmark laid in. Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 67541

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Missionaries Christianity East Anglia Preaching

Bliss, Michael

Harvey Cushing: a life in surgery.

U. S. A.: Oxford University Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. xii + 592 pages, photos on plates, notes & sources, index. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 67080

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: American medicine Brian surgery Endocrinology History of medicine

Bloch, Michael

James Lees-Milne: the life.

John Murray, 2010. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound paperback, no inscriptions, spine uncreased, appears little used. 400 pages, photos on plates, notes, index. Very Good.

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Book number: 66867

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: National Trust Alvilde Lees-Milne John Betjeman Biography