PASTON, GEORGE.

B.R.Haydon and His Friends.

London: James NIsbet & Co.Ltd, 1905. 1st edition. Pp.vi/306, engraved portrait frontispiece + 6 further illustrations. Green cloth, gilt title to front and spine, publisher's label (File Copy) to front board. G+. "Benjamin Robert Haydon (26 January 1786 – 22 June 1846) was an English painter who specialised in grand historical pictures, although he also painted a few contemporary subjects and portraits. His commercial success was damaged by his often tactless dealings with patrons, and by the enormous scale on which he preferred to work. He was troubled by financial problems throughout his life, which led to several periods of imprisonment for debt. He committed suicide in 1846. He gave lectures on art, and kept extensive diaries that were published after his death". (wiki).

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Book number: 43174

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PEARSON, HESKETH.

Beerbohm Tree.

London: Columbus Books. 1988. "No actor has been accorded a finer memorial than this biography. Makes us aware of his professional achievements, and reveals a character who was both endearing and infuriating to his friends. He had no foes!". Pp 248. 16 b/w illustrations. P/b. Illustrated cover. VG.

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Book number: 15267

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PEARSON, HESKETH.

Gilbert and Sullivan. A Biography.

Middx.: Penguin, 1950. 1st Penguin ed. Biography of Gilbert and Sullivan. Pp. 251/5(ads). Toning to pages. P/b. G.

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Book number: 7291

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Keywords: Pearson Gilbert Sullivan Biography Music 19635 General Biography

PERKINS, JIM.

Through the Woodsmoke.

Privately published, 2008. The Story of (the Other Bits of) My Life. "After graduating in mathematics and physics, Jim Perkins worked for 38 years in research, industrial training and teaching. He spends his retirement working for pensioners and writing". Pp.138, occasional black & white photos. Paperback. VG.

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Book number: 43950

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Keywords: Jim Perkins Autobiography Through the Woodsmoke Memoirs Birmingham Family Church Scouts School 45315 General Biography

POTTER, JENNIFER.

Strange Blooms. The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants.

London: Atlantic Books, 2006. 1843543346. "In seventeenth-century Britain, a new breed of 'curious' gardeners was pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were stealing into Europe from East and West. The man responsible for introducing many if these plants to Britain was John Tradescant..His fabulous collection of curiousities and rare plants known as Tradescant's Ark, became Britain's first public museum. When Tradescant died, his son returned from plant-hunting in Virginia to inherit his father's collection and position as keeper of the royal vines, garderns and silkworms at Oatlands Palace." Pp.xxix/464, 18 black & white plates and 7 colour plates, plus many illustrations in the text. Green cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

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POWELL, J.R.

Robert Blake. General-at-Sea.

London: Collins, 1972. 1st ed. "Besides its value as a biography it provides a lucid and original account of that crucible of sailing-ship tactics, the first Dutch War." Pp. 352, portrait frontis, 15 b/w illustrations + 21 maps and plans. Green cloth, gilt title to spine, portrait illustrated d/w has small corner rubbings. VG/G+.

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Book number: 23772

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Keywords: Powell Robert Blake General at Sea 17th Century Navy Dutch War Illustrated 20022 General Biography

POWER, WILLIAM.

Prince Charlie.

London & Edinburgh: T.N.Foulis, 1912. 1st edition. Story of Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie). Top edge gilt. Pp.169/2(ads for other publications), tipped-in colour frontispiece oval portrait + 22 further tipped-in plates (15 in colour and 7 black & white). Brown cloth, gilt title to front and spine. G+.

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Book number: 42948

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Keywords: Power Prince Charlie Charles Edward Stuart Bonnie Prince Charlie Scotland Scottish History Biography 32185 General Biography

PREMINGER, ERIK LEE.

Gypsy and Me: At Home and On the Road with Gypsy Rose Lee.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1985. 1st ed. Biography. "Erik Lee Preminger's mother was for years the most famous striptease artiste in the world, but it was not simply her unconventional profession which gave him a story so conspicuously worth telling." 24cms. x 16.3cms. Pp 277, frontis, 37 b/w illustrations, slight toning to pages. Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine, portrait illustrated d/w. G+/G+.

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Book number: 29164

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PRICE, NANCY.

Each In His Own Way. (signed).

London: Frederick Muller Limited, 1960. 1st edition. Personalities I Have Valued, Selected From My Album Of Memories. "This distinguished actress and authoress is equally at home in the sophisticated world of the theatre and in the quiet country lanes among the country people and animals she loves..They range from the flamboyance of the great Mrs Patrick Campbell, with whom Nancy Price acted and whom she knew well, to the friendship of tramps, a sewerman and a Sussex wattle-maker; from the poet Lord Dunsany to the feathered friends in whom personality is as clear and delightful as it is in their human counterparts." Pp.188, wood-cut frontispiece + 3 further wood-cuts by William Wood, 14 pages of black & white photos and other illustrations, inscribed by the author to half-title page, gift message to front free endpaper, occasional minor spotting mainly affecting closed page edges. Green cloth, dustwrapper rubbed and creased with small edge tears and minor edge losses. Good/Fair.** "Nancy Price, CBE (3 February 1880 – 31 March 1970), was an English actress on stage and screen, author and theatre director. Her acting career began in a repertory theatre company before progressing to the London stage, silent films, talkies and finally television. In addition to appearing on stage she became involved in theatre production and was a founder of the People's Theatre." (wiki).

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Book number: 45503

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PURVES, LIBBY.

Holy Smoke. Religion and Roots: A Personal Memoir.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1998. 0340721510. 1st ed. "This book is neither journalism nor fiction, but a meditative segment of autobiography." Pp. 200, 16 b/w illustrations, signed by the author to title page. Maroon cloth, d/w . VG/VG.

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Book number: 15362

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PYM, BARBARA./ HOLT, HAZEL AND PYM, HILARY. (EDITORS).

A Very Private Eye. The Diaries, Letters and Notebooks of Barbara Pym.

London: Macmillan, 1984. 0333349954. 1st edition. Biography of the novelist Barbara Pym. "This book, selected from her diaries, notebooks and letters over a period of forty-eight years, from her Oxford days in the early thirties to her death in January 1980, is a unique autobiography." Pp.xviii/358, 12 pages of black & white photo illustrations, gift message to front free endpaper. Cream spine with brown paper covered boards, dustwrapper sunned to spine and with chipped tears to top and tail of spine and corner tips. VG/Good.

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Book number: 49987

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QUICK, DIANA. (SIGNED).

A Tug On The Thread. From The British Raj to the British Stage. A Family Memoir. Diana Quick .

London: Virago Press, 2009 . 9781860498442. A very good signed first edition with the original illustrated dustwrapper. pp.316 + map; family tree; and 16pp. of black & white pictures. Illustrated dustwrapper, lightly rubbe and bumped. Red cloth covered boards, corners bumped. Dark blue titles to spine. Illustrated endpaper. Neat inscription to title page: "For Danae With all good wishes and thankyou for the glorious roses. Diana Quick 13-vi-09." Very clean throughout. Diana Marilyn Quick (born 23 November 1946) - a highly intelligent actress - has written a most original and compelling family memoir which defies categorisation. It is certainly not a straightforward autobiography; it is, as the blurb says, 'part detective story, part door into an actor's world'.. Written with grace, candour and unflagging curiosity, it takes the form of double journey: both interior, into the roots of Diana Quick's stage vocation, and exterior, into the hidden lives of her forebears. Her ancestors had spent several generations in India. Via dogged interviews, travels and research, from Bengal to Punjab to Surrey, Quick finds a confused Anglo-Indian clan never quite sure of where they stood in terms of race or class. (Matriarch "Lucky" Johnstone began as Lakshmi.) This luminous book draws the poison from their secrets, tracing a long, absorbing saga of "defiant denial and fear of discovery". - See Book Review by Boyd Tonkin, 18/06/10, Independent Newspaper.

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Book number: 42040

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READ, TOM (PSEUDONYM OF ROWLAND C. STRATFORD).

Dreams of Success.

London: Minerva Press, 1998. 1st ed. "Tom Read's extraordinarily rich and varied story of his experiences as an articled clerk and later his own boss as a Chartered Accountant in the 1960's. Trembling clients, totalitarian taxmen, mods and rockers, shoplifters, swimming pools and dance competitions - they're all gist to the mill of Tom's not so quiet life in the quiet town of Hayford". Pp 397, inscribed by author (Rowland) to front free endpaper. Paperback. VG.

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Book number: 24367

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REDGRAVE, LYNN.

Diet for Life. How I Lost Weight and Learned to Stay Slim.

London: Michael Joseph, 1992. 1st British ed. "Diet for Life is about more than weight loss, it is a compelling account of one woman's courageous journey to self-acceptance and appreciation." Pp. 11/306, 39 b/w photographs. Red cloth, gilt title to spine, portrait illustrated d/w. VG/G+.

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Book number: 16533

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Keywords: Redgrave Diet for Life How I Lost Weight Learned Stay Slim Weightwatchers Recipes Illustrated A10780 General Biography

REEVES, J. SIMS.

My Jubilee or Fifty Years of Artistic Life.

London: The London Music Publishing Company, Limited, 1889. 1st edition. Autobiography of the Victorian English operatic, oratorio and ballad tenor vocalist. Pp.viii/280/ 4 (publisher's catalogue), portrait frontispiece + further black & white plates, brown floral endpapers, owner's name to front free endpaper, cracking to inner front hinge but holding. Dark blue/green cloth, gilt titles to front and spine, spine faded and worn to edges, wear to top and tail of spine and bumps to corners. Good.

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Book number: 50195

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Keywords: Sims Reeves Jubilee Fifty Years Artistic Life Autobiography Music Singer Tenor Opera Concert Ballads Chystal Palace 51708 General Biography