MANGEOT, SYLVAIN.

The Adventures of a Manchurian. The Story of Lobsang Thondup.

London: Collins, 1974. 0002160021. 1st edition. "Lobsang Thondup, a Manchurian who assumed a Tibetan name for reasons which are divulged at the end of the book, was obliged to join the Japanese Air Force. Later while still in his early twenties he held the rank of colonel, first on one side and then on the other in the Chinese Revolution. But when his brother was arrested on a charge which he believed unjustified, he found the contstraints of Communism too great and made a hazardous journey to Tibet..Pp.281, 17 black & white photos + 2 maps and maps to endpapers, inscribed by the author "Douglas - apart from your present eminence - the very best radio producer I have ever encountered. Sylvain. August 1974" to page facing title page. Green cloth, dustwrapper has small edge losses and 4cm tear to rear but is now in a removable clear protective wrap. VG/Good.

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Book number: 41016

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Keywords: Sylvain Mangeot Signed Adventures Manchurian Lobsang Thondup Manchuria Tibet Bhutan Dhorji Paghmo Woman Living Buddha Communism Biography Far East 42147 General Biography

MANGNALL, RICHMAL.

Historical and Miscellaneous Questions, for The Use of Young People; with a selection of British and General Biography,etc, etc. By Richmal Mangnall. Fifteenth Edition, Corrected And Improved.

London: Printed For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row; And Hurst, Robinson, And Co, Cheapside, 1820 . 0. An interesting book with a very good local pedigree! A very good full leather binding. pp.2-8/pp.447/[1p.] . Brown calf. Corners and hinges carefully strengthened. Previous owners details in a contemporary hand to verso of the front board; top of title; and rear endpaper: "Charles Palmer Baldry, Alderton, Suffolk, Sept. 17, 1825". Front free-endpaper absent. Title lighly soiled. Colophon at the bottom of p.447: "Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode, Printers-Street, London." Clean English text throughout with good margins. Page edges rubbed and corners creased. ** "Richmal Mangnall (1769–1820) was an English schoolmistress and writer of a famous schoolbook. Richmal was born on 7 March 1769, probably in London. She was one of seven children of James Mangnall of Hollinhurst, Lancashire, and London, and Richmal, daughter of John Kay of Manchester to survive infancy. One brother, James, became a London solicitor, another, Kay, died in the East Indies in 1801. Her parents died about 1781, when she was adopted by an uncle, also John Kay, a Manchester solicitor. The first edition of her Historical and Miscellaneous Questions for the Use of Young People (1798) was printed privately and anonymously for use in the school. It was then taken up by the London publishing firm Longman, whose still anonymous 1800 edition was dedicated to John Kay. The book became generally known as Mangnall's Questions and was "the stand-by of generations of governesses and other teachers." It had appeared in 84 editions by 1857. Its "level, plain, humane" judgments have been associated with the Age of Enlightenment, and became more open to criticism in the Victorian age, although the catechism type of textbook remained dominant. The British Constitution met with her approval, as did her country's abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, but Wellington was rebuked for vanity and egotism, and Rabelais for lacking "that delicacy without which genius may sparkle for a moment, but can never shine with pure, undiminished lustre." - See Wikipedia . *** "Charles Palmer Baldry was born on December 3, 1815, in Baddingham, Suffolk. He had one son with Sophia in October 1860. He died in 1881 at the age of 66." - Family History Research.

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Book number: 43098

Catalogue: General Biography: : 19th Century

Keywords: Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown Mangnall Richmal Charles Palmer Baldry Alderton Suffolk 44447 General Biography: : 19th Century

MANKOWITZ, WOLF.

Mazeppa. The Lives, Loves and Legends of Adah Isaacs Menken.

London: Blond & Briggs Ltd, 1982. 1st ed. "In search of the true Menken, Wolf Mankowitz........retraces the remarkable lady's travels and adventures both real and unreal, fiction and fact...includes documents and autobiographical writings of Menkens's never published, an anthology of her poetic and prose works never before reprinted, and a remarkable collection of photography, drawings, cartoons and playbills." Pp.270, some b/w illustrations. Yellow boards, cloth spine, d/w minor edge chips. VG/G+.

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Keywords: Mankowitz Mazeppa Lives Loves Legends Adah Menken Bigraphy A8779 General Biography

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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Book number: 48915

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Keywords: Katherine Mansfield Collected Letters Correspomdents Davison Kimber Aiken Von Arnim Baker Barkas Beauchamp Bell Lowndes Bendall Bibesco Blunden Bowden Brady Brett Bright Galsworthy Harris 50375 General Biography

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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Book number: 48937

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Keywords: Marjoribanks Famous Trials Life Biography Sir Edward Marshall Hall Law 50401 General Biography

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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Book number: 44219

Catalogue: General Biography

Keywords: Thomas Martin Character Lord Bacon Life Works Biography Philosopher Philosophy Politics Science Empiricism 45615 General Biography

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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Book number: 45082

Catalogue: General Biography

Keywords: Martin Kingsley Signed Editor Autobiography New Statesman Nation World War II Low Spanish War Trotsky Anti Fascist 46555 General Biography

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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Book number: 49297

Catalogue: General Biography

Keywords: Mrs Philip Alice Martineau Reminiscences Hunting Horses Memoir Autobiography Flint Denbigh Hounds Sir Watkin Wynn New Forest Buckhounds Pytchley Ireland Duhallow Rotten Row America Coaching 51040 General Biography

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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Book number: 21338

Catalogue: General Biography

Keywords: Masefield Women Novelists Novel Austen Bronte Eliot Burney Gaskell A17243 General Biography

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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Book number: 40749

Catalogue: General Biography

Keywords: Massie Little Big Book True Stories Children Grace Darling Boy Holland Hole in Dyke Yarmouth Sarah Martin Dressmaker Prison Reform Coal Pit David Hughes Flora Macdonald John Travers Cornwell 41875 General Biography

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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Book number: 44788

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Keywords: Betty Massingham Gertrude Jekyll Lifelines Shire Gardening Garden Design 46281 General Biography

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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Book number: 31421

Catalogue: General Biography

Keywords: Masters Georgiana Duchess Devonshire Cavendish Biography 30953 General Biography

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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Book number: 27339

Catalogue: General Biography

Keywords: Masters Men Purpose Faraday Heinz Mendelssohn Radstock Maxwell Bliss Charrington Kelvin Montgomery Fleming Defoe Illustrated 38378 General Biography

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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Book number: 40785

Catalogue: General Biography

Keywords: Beauclerk Maurice Last Gentlemen Adventurers Coming Age Arctic Hudson Bay Company Canada Travel Fur Trader Baffin Island Innuit 35780 General Biography

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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Book number: 25685

Catalogue: General Biography

Keywords: Du Maurier Biography George Kicky Eugene Gyggy Isabella 22592 General Biography