CHILTON BOOKS: General Biography
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MANSFIELD, KATHERINE. / DAVISON, CLAIRE AND KIMBER, GERRI (EDITORS).
The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield. (Volume I.Letters to Correspondents A-J).
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. 9781474445443. Organised by recipient rather than chronologically, Volume One covers letters to correspondents A-J. "The letters offer a detailed exposé of Mansfield's life: from exile and emigration, intimacy and betrayal, and the traumas of wae and disease, to nature and the environment, and fashions and food...Letter writing is an essential part of her literary production; many letters are as finely written and crafted as the stories.." Pp.xxviii/660. Grey boards. Scarce. VG.
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MARJORIBANKS, EDWARD.
Famous Trials of Marshall Hall.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1951. Penguin No,778. A condensation of The Life of Sir Edward Marshall Hall. Pp.405, pages toned. Paperback, toned to spine with minor edge wear and small chips to top of spine. G+.** "Sir Edward Marshall Hall, KC (1858–1927) was an English barrister who had a formidable reputation as an orator. He successfully defended many people accused of notorious murders and became known as "The Great Defender".".(wiki).
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MARTIN, THOMAS.
Character of Lord Bacon: His Life and Works.
London: A. Maxwell, Law Bookseller to His Majesty, 1835. 1st edition. 16.5 cms x 11cms x 2.5cms. Pp.ix/367, roundel portrait to title page, slight toning to pages mainly to preliminaries, small closed tear to base of title page, new endpapers. Rebound in dark pink cloth, black title label to spine. Scarce. VG.
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MARTIN, KINGSLEY.
Editor. A Volume of Autobiography 1931-1945.
London: Hutchinson, 1968. 1st edition. "At thirty-three - without a job or prospect of one - Kingsley Martin fled the complacency and frustration of Manchester in 1930 and returned to find his fortune in London. Unexpectantly waiting for him was the empty editorial chair of the New Statesman and Nation, and a career in moulding (and shocking) opinion and influencing events which few editors of any country or period could hope to rival: by the end of the Second World War his paper was a national institution." Pp.xiv/340, black & white photo frontispiece + 8 further illustrations and 5 line drawings by Low, typed and signed letter from Kingsley Martin pasted to inside front board, gift message pasted to front free endpaper. Green cloth, dustwrapper has edge wear but is now in a removable clear protective wrap. G+/G+.
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MARTINEAU, MRS PHILIP.
Reminiscences of Hunting and Horses.
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1930. 1st edition. By a Fox-Hunting Woman. Pp.xii/148, colour frontispiece, 25 black & white plates + vignette pencil illustrations by Major Richard Archer-Houblon, owner's details to front free endpaper, toning to endpapers. Red cloth, gilt title to spine, spine faded. Good.
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MASEFIELD, MURIEL.
Women Novelists from Fanny Burney to George Eliot.
London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson, Ltd, 1934. 1st ed. "These studies of women novelists have been grouped together not only on account of the writers sex, but because they represent the development of the natural English novel of life and manners, and provide an incomparable panorama of a century of English society, from 1778 to 1876." Pp.224. Blue cloth, slightly rubbed spine. G+.
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MASSIE, ALICE.
A Little Book of True Stories.
London: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, 1929. The Little Big Books series. 14cms x 11cms x 1.5cms. Stories include: Grace Darling; The Boy Who Saved Holland; The Little Dressmaker (Sarah Martin); The Story of a Coal-Pit Boy (David Hughes); Flora Macdonald; and Jack Cornwell. Pp.60, colour frontispiecee + occasional black & white illustrations, front endpaper with gift message is toned, some cracking to internal hinges but holding. Colour illustrated boards, edges rubbed. Good.
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MASSINGHAM, BETTY.
Gertrude Jekyll 1843-1932. (Lifelines 37).
Princes Risborough: Shire Publications Ltd, 1980. 0852633041. An illustrated life of Gertrude Jekyll a major figure in the development of garden design. Pp.48, many black & white photos and illustrations, owner's label to lower corner of title page. Illustrated green card covers. VG.
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MASTERS, BRIAN.
Georgiana.
London: Allison & Busby, 1999. 0749002697. Rep. "Biography of Lady Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806). Pp.12/324, 6 pages of b/w illustrations. Pbk. VG.
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MASTERS, PETER.
Men of Purpose.
Worthing: Henry E. Walter Ltd, 1973. "Eleven great lives - four of the greatest scientists of all time rub shoulders with industrialist Henry Heinz, composer Mendelssohn, and others." Pp.143, portrait frontispiece + 24 b/w illustrations. Paperback. VG.
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MAURICE, EDWARD BEAUCLERK.
The Last of the Gentlemen Adventurers. Coming of Age in the Arctic.
London: Fourth Estate, 2004. 0007171633. 1st edition. "This is a great book about life at remote bases in Canada's far north as seen by a young English boy who went there by himself to see the world and got more than he could ever have bargained for." (Sir Ranulph Fiennes). Pp.392, map to front free endpaper and copy of the author's agreement with The Hudson Bay Company to rear endpapers. Navy blue cloth, dustwrapper has removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG.
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DU MAURIER, DAPHNE.
The Du Mauriers.
Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1949. A biography. Pp 315, slight toning to pages, slight spotting to verso front cover. P/b, slight creasing and scuffing to spine, slight spotting to front cover. G+.
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MAXWELL, CHRISTABEL.
Mrs Gatty and Mrs Ewing.
London: Constable, 1949. 1st edition. "Margaret atty and Juliana Horatia Ewing were mother and daughter. Christabel Maxwell is a grand-daughter of Mrs Gatty and a niece of Mrs Ewing. This biography of two remarkable women, based on letters and diaries..stresses the partnership between mother and daughter, the criticism and advice given by the former while she lived, and the extent to which Mrs Ewing - after Mrs Gatty's death - expanded and worked on er mother's ideas." Pp.256, colour frontispiece + 6 sepia plates, spotting to closed page edges occasionally encroaching onto margins, author's name to front free endpaper. Light blue cloth, dustwrapper spotted to spine and edges with small edge tears and chips. G/G.
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MAXWELL, CHRISTABEL.
Mrs Gatty and Mrs Ewing.
London: Constable, 1949. 1st edition. "Margaret atty and Juliana Horatia Ewing were mother and daughter. Christabel Maxwell is a grand-daughter of Mrs Gatty and a niece of Mrs Ewing. This biography of two remarkable women, based on letters and diaries..stresses the partnership between mother and daughter, the criticism and advice given by the former while she lived, and the extent to which Mrs Ewing - after Mrs Gatty's death - expanded and worked on er mother's ideas." Pp.256, colour frontispiece + 6 sepia plates, inscribed by the author together with a handwritten letter tipped-in to front free endpaper. Light blue cloth, dustwrapper has water-staining to rear and edge tears and chips with loss to top 2.5cms of spine but is in a removable clear protective wrap. G/G-.
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MAYS, SPIKE.
Fall Out The Officers. (signed).
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1969. 1st edition. Second volume of autobiography. "Spike Mays has recreated the 'world of the other ranks' between the wars. his acute and humorous eye reveals affectionately but honestly a world of toughness and discipline on parade, and hard-drinking, hard-swearing rumbustiousness off.." Pp.xii/224, black & white portrait frontispiece + 4 further black white plates, inscribed by the author to half-title page. Blue cloth, dustwrapper has chippedloss to top of spine but is in a removable clear protective wrap. VG/G+.
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