SCANNELL, VERNON.

Drums of Morning. Growing Up in the Thirties.

London: Robson Books Ltd, 1992. 1st ed. "With Drums of Morning Vernon Scannell completes his autobiographical trilogy, recalling his childhood and early manhood, culminating in his joining the army in 1940." Pp. 200. Red cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w. VG/VG.

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SCHARLIEB, DR MARY.

Reminiscences.

London: Williams and Norgate, 1924. 1st edition. Memoir of the pioneering female physician and gynaecologist, Dr Mary Scharlieb (1845-1930), who was the first woman to be elected to the honorary visiting staff of a hospital in Britain and one of the most distinguished women in medicine of her generation. Pp.xii/239, portrait frontispiece, gift message "To Mother from Alfred, in memory of Dr Mary Scharlieb's visit to Blylingate House, Beccles to address the members of the Suffolk Medicine Society, July 11 1924" to front free endpaper, foxing to endpapers and occasionally throughout. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, gilt initials roundel to fornt board, wear to top and tail of spine. Good.

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Book number: 49439

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Keywords: Dr Mary Scharlieb Reminiscences Pioneer Female Physician Gynaecologist India London Memoir Autobiography Medicine 51179 General Biography

SCHOLES, PERCY A.

The Life and Activities of Sir John Hawkins. Musician, Magistrate and Friend of Johnson.

London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1953. 1st edition. Sir John Hawkins (1719-1789) seems to have been " a man of considerable public spirit and certainly a hard and conscientious worker. What he reallly lacked, perhaps, was a sense of humanity (of being a unit in the suffering human family) and a sense of humor - for it is rare to hear of Hawkins making a joke?" Pp.xiv/287, black & white portrait frontispiece + 11 further pages of black & white plates. Light blue cloth,striped decoration to spine has faint spotting. VG.

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Book number: 45186

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Keywords: Percy Scholes Life Activities Sir John Hawkins Musician Magistrate Samuel Johnson Biography History Music Burney Ivy Lane Club 46660 General Biography

SEVERN, J. MILLOTT.

The Life Story and Experiences of a Phrenologist. (with thirty illustrations).

Brighton: J.M.Severn/Westminster Press, 1929. 1st edition. "Derbyshire’s celebrated ‘Professor of Phrenology’ Joseph Millott Severn (1860-1942) - a former Codnor pitboy-turned-professor who read the ‘bumps’ on the heads of Sir Winston Churchill and Sir Ernest Shackleton."(DerbshireLife). Pp.xx/505, black & white portrait frontispiece and further black & white illustrations throughout, cracking to inner rear board and repair to split to lower spine. Good.

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Book number: 43891

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Keywords: Millott Severn Life Story Experiences Phrenologist Illustrated Biography Phrenology Bumps on Head Esoteric 45227 General Biography

SHEPHERD, DAVID.

The Man Who Loves Giants. An Artist Among Elephants and Engines. (Signed).

`Newton Abbott: David & Charles, 1975. 0715370529. 1st edition. Life story of David Shepherd, regarded by many as being the world's leading wildlife artist, particularly of elephants, and who has raised thousands of pounds for wildlife conservation. For his hobby, David again thinks big, owning a collection of mammoth steam locomotives in working order and has a full-scale steam railway open to the public, which also raises money for wildlife. Pp164, 9 colour + black & white and photos and illustrations throughout, signed by the author to title page, owner's initials to front free endpaper. Blue cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

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Book number: 46441

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Keywords: David Shepherd Signed Man Who Loves Loved Giants Artist Elephants Engines Wildlife Painter Steam Locomotives Railway Cranmore Conservation Tiger Portraits Landscapes 48019 General Biography

SHERRINGTON, SIR CHARLES.

The Endeavour of Jean Fernel.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1946. With a List of the Editions of his Writings. "Fernel began as a scholar reading humane letters, and did not choose medicine as a career until he was thirty. Behind him was the world of the middle ages of contented antiquity worship, and before him the discovery and open-mindedness of the Renaissance." Pp.x/223, 27 black & white illustrations, maps to endpapers, small bookseller's label (Thorntons & son, Oxford) to inside front paste-down. Green cloth, top and lower edges of boards sunned, dustwrapper rubbed with some edge wear but in a removable clear protective wrap. G+/G+.

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Book number: 45718

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Keywords: Sherrington Endeavour Jean Fernel Renaissance Medicine Humanity Biography 47260 General Biography

SHINDLER, KAROLYN. (SIGNED).

Discovering Dorothea. The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-Hunter Dorothea Bate.

London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005. 0002571382. 1st edition. "In 1898, a 19 year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum in South Kensington and demanded a job. At the time, no women were employed there as scientists, but for the determined Dorothea Bate this was the first step in an extraordinary career as a pioneering explorer and fossil-hunter and the beginning of an association with the Museum that was to last for more than fifty years." Pp.x/390, 16 black & white photo illustrations + 4 maps, inscribed by the author "To dear Douglas with the fondest of memories. Love Karolyn" to the title page. Blue cloth, dustwrapper has crease to top front edge and small tear to top front corner but is now in a removable clear protective wrap. VG/G+.

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Book number: 41040

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Keywords: Karolyn Shindler Signed Discovering Dorothea Life Pioneering Fossil Hunter Dorothea Bate Archaeology Palaeontology Natural History Museum Travelbiography Cyprus Crete Majorca Menorca Palestine 42174 General Biography

SIEGAL, ARANKA.

Upon the Head of the Goat. A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1982. 1st British ed. "This is a book that should be read by all those who are interested in the Holocaust and what it did to young and old." Pp. 214/Afterword. Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w. VG/G+.

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Book number: 18639

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Keywords: Siegal Upon Head Goat Childhood Hungary 1939-1944 Holocaust Biography A13918 General Biography

SINCLAIR, DAVID.

Edgar Allan Poe.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1977. 1st ed. "This major new biography clearly and sympathetically reveals the tortured personality of a man to whom everything was a matter of love and death." Pp. 272, 15 b/w illustrations. Red cloth, gilt title to spine, portrait illustrated d/w has mark to rear fly. VG/VG.

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Book number: 15622

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Keywords: Sinclair Edgar Allan Poe Biography Illustrated A9830 General Biography

SINCLAIR, UPTON.

Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox.

Los Angeles: Published by the Author, 1933. Third printing, with addition of index (May 1933). "No melodrama that I have been able to invent in my thirty years of inventing has been more packed with crimes and betrayals, perils and escapes, than the story of William Fox. No thriller among the 750 feature pictures which Fox himself produced during twenty-five years as a producer was ever so perfectly constructed, with its humble hero battling his way to power, its polished villains, conspirators of high estate, each with a carnation in his buttonhole; its complications of intrigue, its mysteries, some of them never solved to this day, its cruel suffering and its grand climax - the hero escaping with the greater part of his fortune, and the villains dragged down to ruin by the judgment of an implacable Providence".(Prologue). Pp.xviii/395/1(publisher's catalogue), black & white portrait photo, slight toning to pages.Orange cloth with black titles to front and spine, `slight sunning to spine. VG.

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Keywords: Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox Film Producer Motion Pictures Biography Wealth Power Legal Action Business Businessman Wall Street 48544 General Biography

SINKER, MARGARET.

Friend of the Frontier: The Story of Dr Theodore Pennell of North India.

London: Highway Press, nd. (c.1947). Hardback. Biographical sketch of the Anglican missionary doctor. Pp.77, map endpapers, owners name to inner endpaper. Black, blue and tan illustrated boards, edges rubbed. VG.

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Book number: 31666

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Keywords: Sinker Friend Frontier Dr Theodore Pennell North India Jahan Khan Alam Gul North West Frontier Afghanistan Border Missionary Doctor 31240 General Biography

SKINNER, CORNELIA OTIS.

Life with Lindsay and Crouse.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1976. 1st ed. The story of the friendship that created 'The Sound of Music'. 'Life with Father', Call Me Madam', and many other hits. Pp. 14/242, 28 b/w photographs. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, portrait illustrated d/w slightly creased and rubbed. VG/G+.

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Keywords: Skinner Life with Lindsay and Crouse Biography Sound of Music Life with Father Call Me Madam Illustrated A9990 General Biography

SMITH, PAT.

From Hemel Hempstead to Stowmarket the Long Way Round. (Via India and Africa).

Needham Market: Gipping Press, 2014. My Life so far From 1924 to 1983. Pp.176, occasional black & white photo illustrations, inscribed by the author ("Best wishes. Pat") to title page. Paperback. VG.

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Book number: 49107

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Keywords: Pat Smith Signed Hemel Hempstead Stowmarket Long Way Round India Africa Biography Poems Wartime Ww2 Rhodesia 50596 General Biography

SMITH, SUSY. (ED).

My Country Childhood.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1999. 2nd.ed. "A roam through childhood memories of life in the countryside by some of our most influential writers, actors, journalists and film celebrities; selected from Country Living Magazine." Pp. 215. Some b/w illustrations. Page edges slightly toned. P/b. Illustrated cover. VG.

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Book number: 12162

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SMITH, K.E.

William Cowper: A Reappraisal.

Olney: The Cowper and Newton Museum, 2001. 0951457012. 1st edition. "Although it cannot pretend even to sketch out all of the significant events of his life, it does seek to set the writings in the context of his biography and of his inner development. For this reason his boyhood, the crises of his adult life, the significance of his years at Olney and key relationships such as that with Mary Unwin are all touched on." Pp.91. Paperback. VG.

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