Bonfiglioli, Margaret

The Mortdecai ABC: a Bonfiglioli reader.

Viking, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book, pages age tanned, no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which has a minor crease at top of spine/back cover otherwise appears little used. xii + 400 pages, photos in the text, chronology. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 67819

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Kyril Bonfiglioli Humour Thriller fiction

Bristow, Adrian

George Smith: the children's friend.

Chester: Imogen, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound paperback original, no inscriptions, spine uncreased, appears little used. 182 pages, illustrations in the text, bibliography, index.. Very Good.

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N° du livre: 52330

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Coalville Local History Social Reform Primitive methodism Methodists

Brogan, Hugh (ed)

Signalling from Mars: the letters of Arthur Ransome.

Jonathan Cape, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. 378 pages, illustrations in the text. Newspaper cutting dated March 1997 reviewing the book laid in. Fine in Fine dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 68615

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Writer correspondance Russian Revolution Swallows & Amazons Tabitha Ransome

Brooke, Miranda

Wayward Daughter Sarah Churchill and her world.

Amberley Publishing, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is rubbed at the edges. 380 pages, photos in the text, bibliography, notes, index. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 68408

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Biography Winston Churchill Actress British Aristocracy

Browne, Douglas G.

Sir Travers Humphreys: a biography.

George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with neat name in pencil on front endpaper, in a priceclipped dustjacket which is rubbed and has water stain on back cover. 384 pages, photos on plates, index. Good in Fair dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 65414

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Crime & criminals Lawyers Barrister Oscar Wilde Judges

Buckle, Richard (ed.); Beaton, Cecil

Self portrait with friends: the selected diaries of Cecil Beaton 1926 - 1974.

Book Club Associates, 1980. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is nicked at the corners. xii + 436 pages, photos on plates, index. Very Good in Good dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 66565

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Photography British Aristocracy Hollywood Greta Garbo

Cadbury, M. Christabel

The story of a Nightingale nurse and kindred papers.

Headley Brothers, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in blue cloth with gilt titles, cloth has minor rubbing at spine ends, no inscriptions, in a glassine dust wrapper which is creased and chipped and has loss at the top edge. 40 pages, photo frontispiece. Good with no dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 70219

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Nursing Florence Nightingale Quakers Hospital matron

Cameron, Alick

Thomas Glass M. D., Physician of Georgian Exeter.

Tiverton: Devon Books, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with a gift inscription signed by Sandy Cameron on the half title page, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. 184 pages, illustrations on plates and in the text, index. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 67682

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Medical History 18th century Biography

Chambers, Roland

The last Englishman The double life of Arthur Ransome.

Faber and Faber, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. x + 390 pages, photos on plates, notes, bibliography, index. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 68041

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Russia Swallows & Amazons Lake District Spies & spying

Chappell, Connery

Two pleasures for your choosing: the world of William Crockford.

Falcon Press, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, has some fox-spotting to the closed page edges, in a priceclipped dustjacket which has a shallow chip at the head of the spine/front panel. 226 pages. Very Good in Good dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 53758

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Gambling Card Games Prize fighting Horse Racing

Charlton, L. E. O. (ed)

The recollections of a Northumbrian lady 1815-1866 being the memoirs of Barbara Chartlton (nee Tasburgh) Wife of William Henry Charlton of Hesleyside, Northumberland.

Harlow: Jonathan Cape, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in blue cloth with gilt titles, spine sunned, cloth has minor rubbing at spine ends & corners, name on front endpaper otherwise no inscriptions. 288 pages, frontispiece and 1 illustration on a plate. Good with no dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 68212

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Biographies Victorian Age Catholism Minor aristocracy

Clark, Ronald W.

J. B. S. The life and work of J. B. S. Haldane.

Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is rubbed at the edges. 286 pages, photos in the text, bibliography, index. Very Good in Good dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 67082

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: History of medicine Genetics Physiology

Coomes, David

Dorothy L. Sayers A careless rage for life.

Lion Publishing plc, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. 250 pages, photos on plates, bibliography, notes, index. Laid in is a Church Times cutting from 1975 of a review of Such a strange lady by Janet Hitchman. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 69354

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Biographies Lord Peter Wimsey Detective fiction Christianity

Coppock, J. C.

Some local men of mark in south Bucks: a series of biographical sketches reprinted from the 'South Bucks Standard'.

High Wycombe: South Bucks Standard, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in red cloth with red leather spine, gilt titles, boards bumped and rubbed at corners, small previous owners bookplate and a private library stamp on the front endpaper, and a stamp in the margin of page 49, but otherwise very good. iv + 100 pages, 25 full page engravings. Good with no dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 24489

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Local History Family History High Wycombe Buckinghamshire Beaconsfield Gerrards Cross

Crowther, J. G.

Famous American men of science.

Secker & Warburg, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in blue cloth with gilt titles, spine sunned, cloth rubbed at corners, name, place and date on front endpaper. 414 pages, photos on plates, bibliography, index. Good with no dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 58207

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Biography History of Science Benjamin Franklin Thomas Edison