Rennard, T. A.

Robert Owen.

Exeter: A. Wheaton & Co. 1939. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Clean, tightly bound softback, stapled spine, covers rubbed at corners, but generally appears little used, no inscriptions. 48 pages, photo frontispiece, chronology. Very Good.

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N° du livre: 50325

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: New Lanark Industrial Revolution

Reynolds, Barbara (ed)

The letters of Dorothy L Sayers 1899 -1936: The making of a detective novelist.

Leicester: Sceptre, 1996. First Paperback Edition. Hardcover. Clean and tightly bound paperback, spine creased and lightly sunned, dint to front cover, pages age tanned, no inscriptions. 422 pages, photos on plates, index. Preface by P. D. James. Good.

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N° du livre: 69014

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Crime and mystery fiction Lord Peter Wimsey Detective fiction

Robinson, Kenneth

Wilkie Collins: a biography.

Davis-Poynter, 1974. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright dustjacket, clipped & repriced at £6.00 by the publishers. Appears little used. 316 pages, portrait frontispiece, bibliography, index. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 64755

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Victorian novels Novelists Charles Dickens

Roche, Caroline et al

Daphne Brooker 1927 - 2012: a celebration and memorial.

Kingston upon Thames: The Roche Family, 2012. First Edition. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound paperback original, card covers, crease to back bottom corner, no inscriptions, spine uncreased, appears little used. Unpaginated (40 pages), photos and illustrations in the text by Daphne Brooker. Very Good.

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N° du livre: 63629

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Fashion design Haute Couture Art Needlecraft

Rose, Norman

Harold Nicolson.

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, foxing to top page edges and minor rippling to photos, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. xvi + 384 pages, photos on plates, notes, bibliography, index. Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 66732

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: 20th century British Political history Sissinghurst Vita Sackville West Bloomsbury Group Winston Churchill

Sail, Lawrence

Sift memories of childhood.

Impress Books, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean, small format, tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. viii + 168 pages, colour frontispiece. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 68441

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Auto/biography Exeter Hellmut Sail

Sayers, Dorothy L.

Lord Peter Wimsey's casebook: Clouds of witness & Unnatural death.

Book Club Associates, 1975. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book, pages age tanned, no inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which is rubbed at the edges. 288 pages. Very Good in Good dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 69015

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Crime and mystery fiction Lord Peter Wimsey Detective fiction

Seller, Arthur Edmund

The best Seller.

Arthur Seller, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound, A5 format paperback original, stapled spine, glossy pictorial covers with a couple of marks, foxing on centre pages, signed by author. 28 pages, photos in the text. Undated but appears mid 1980s ; Signed by Author. Very Good.

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N° du livre: 68877

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Local History Leicestershire Funerals Memoirs Hinckley

Shewring, Walter (ed)

Letters of Eric Gill.

Jonathan Cape, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book, top edge of front board nibbled, no inscriptions, in an unclipped, grubby dustjacket which is creased and nibbled at the edges, with some loss at base of spine/front cover. 480 pages, 12 illustrations on plates, index. Fair in Poor dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 61149

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Biography Sculptor Calligraphy

Simpson, E. Blantyre

Robert Louis Stevenson's Edinburgh days.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. Third Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in faded red cloth with gilt titles and decoration, cloth rubbed and worn at edges, spine sunned, corners bumped, top page edges gilt, page edges rough cut, advance copy and bookseller stamps on front endpaper otherwise no inscriptions. 294 pages, tipped in photos on plates. Good with no dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 70261

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Scottish writers Biographies Kidnapped

Smiles, Samuel

Lives of Boulton and Watt. Principally from the original Soho MSS. Comprising also a history of the invention and introduction of the steam-engine.

John Murray, 1866. Second Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in marked blue cloth with gilt titles, spine has been repaired previously and has had new endpapers and minor repairs to page edges no inscriptions. xvi + 522 pages + 6 pages of publisher's adverts, illustrations in the text, frontispiece has minor damage and portrait of Boulton detachd but present, index. Cutting re Boulton's clock laid in. Heavy book so additional postage may be requested. Fair with no dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 68961

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Biographies Industrial Revolution Inventors Birmingham Engineering

Smith, Maxwell A.

Knight of the air: the life of Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1959. First British Edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book, remains of tape marks on endpapers and pastedowns page edges foxed, no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is rubbed at the edges and has tape marks on the foldovers. xvi + 228 pages, photo frontispiece, bibliography, index. Fair in Good dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 60684

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Biography Aviator Fighter pilots The Little Prince

Smith, Eleanor

Life's a circus.

Longmans, Green & Co. 1939. Reprint; Second Printing. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in red cloth with black titles, cloth has minor rubbing at corners, faint name/date on front pastedown otherwise no inscriptions. x + 294 pages, 16 illustrations on plates. Very Good with no dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 61952

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Gypsies Autobiography

Smythe, Ronald

Not one sparrow.

Bishop Auckland: Pentland Books, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound paperback original, spine uncreased, a little rubbed at corners, gift inscription by the author on the half title verso, appears little used. 232 pages, photos on plates ; Signed by Author. Very Good.

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N° du livre: 70132

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: Biographies Pat Smythe Church Of England Counselling Westminster Pastoral Foundation Clergymen

Spoto, Donald

The kindness of strangers: The life of Tennessee Williams.

The Bodley Head Ltd, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book page edges foxed, no inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which is sunned at the spine and cover edges, top edge creased. xx + 410 pages, photos on plates, notes, bibliography, index. Very Good in Good dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 57388

Catalogue: Biography

Mots-clés: American Drama 20th century playwight Auto/biography Homosexuality