COOKSON, CATNERINE.

My Land of the North. Memories of a Northern Childhood.

London: Headline, 1999. 0747274444. Revised edition. "Catherine Cookson's own account of her harsh upbringing in the industrial North East, and the effect that its poverty, exploitation and bigotry had on her life and her writing." 24.5cms x 21cms. Pp.224, illustrated throughout with colour and black & white photos. Blue cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

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COWELL, HENRY J.

John Winthrop: A Seventeenth Century Puritan Romance.

Colchester: Benham and Company Limited, 1949. 0. The Story of the Life and Work of John Winthrop of Groton, Suffolk, First Governor of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, and his Wife Margaret Winthrop, daughter of Sir John Tyndal of Great Maplestead, Essex. Pp.31, portrait frontispiece + 1 further black & white plate, minor creasing to lower page corners. Paperback. G+.

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Book number: 38120

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Keywords: Henry Cowell John Winthrop 17th Century Puritan Romance Groton Suffolk Great Maplestead Essex Governor Massachusetts 39057 General Biography

COWELL, R. CORLETT.

Joseph Garibaldi: Patriot and Soldier.

London: Charles H.Kelly, 1897. 1st edition. Biography of the Italian general and politician. Garibaldi was a central figure in the Italian Risorgimento, since he personally commanded and fought in many military campaigns that led eventually to the formation of a unified Italy. He has been called the "Hero of Two Worlds" because of his military enterprises in Brazil, Uruguay and Europe. Pp.125/32(ads for other publications), portrait frontispiece + 12 further black & white illustrations, spotting to endpapers. Blue decorated cloth, gilt title to front and spine, edges slightly rubbed. G+.

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Keywords: Cowell Corlett Joseph Garibaldi Patriot Soldier Italy Italian Risorgimento Red Shirts Biography Exile Sicily Naples Caprera Aspromonte Nice Mazzini Brazil Anita Victor Emmanuel History 42120 General Biography

CRATHORNE, NANCY.

Tennant's Stalk: The Story of The Tennants of the Glen. (Completed by Katharine Elliot of Harwood & James Dugdale).

London: Macmillan, 1973. 1st edition. " 'Stalks', or tall chimneys were the trademark of the chemical industry in the last century. 'Tennant's Stalk' in Glasgow was the tallest in the world and symbolised the achievements of an enterprising and fascinating family." Pp.xviii/256/6(index), 27 photo illustrations + 3 figure illustrations, illustrated endpapers. Brown cloth, dustwrapper has general edge wear and a 1.5cm tear to top of rear cover by spine but now has a removable clear protective wrap. Scarce. VG/G+.

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Book number: 42093

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Keywords: Crathorne Tennants Stalk Glen Glasgow Family History Industry St Rollox Works Bleach Chemical Engineering Auld Glen 43375 General Biography

CRAVEN, DAVID.

Mapolisa. Some Reminiscences of a Rhodesian Policeman.

Roodepoort: Covos-Day, 1998. 062022522X. 1st edition. "Bloody multiple murders, Rhodes' Centenary, an overland-Africa trip,training in the embryonic PATU and the arrest of Aiden Diggeden, Rhodesia's arch-criminal - David Craven was there. Through all this unfold the often amusing, often amusing, often tragic stories of a policeman just getting on with his job in the best traditions of the Force." Pp.xii/174, many black & white photo illustrations. Paperback. VG.

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Book number: 48254

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Keywords: Craven Mapolisa Rhodesian Policeman Autobiography Salisbury Bulawayo Rhodes Police Cid Umtali Aiden Diggeden Donnington Western Commonage Uki Counter-Insurgency Patu Bsap 49709 General Biography

CRAWFORD, DAN.

Back to the Long Grass. My Link with Livingstone.

London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, nd. (c.1922). Pp.373, 33 black & white photo illustrations + 3 maps, toning to endpapers, pencil notations to rear endpapers. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, slight wear to top and tail of spine. G+. **Daniel "Dan" Crawford (1870 – 1926), also known as 'Konga Vantu', was a Scottish missionary of the Plymouth Brethren in central-southern Africa..he did much to travel around the Luapula valley founding and encouraging other outposts of the Garenganze Evangelical Mission. He studied African languages and sought to understand African customs and traditional rule, and was a frequent visitor to chiefs such as Mwata Kazembe. When the latter rebelled against and was defeated by the British, Crawford and his mission colleagues had a role in persuading the chief to accept the inevitable and to achieve a working relationship with the colonial authorities. He wrote two influential books, of which one, Thinking Black was recommended reading for those Europeans who wanted to work in partnership with, rather than over, Africans. "Back to the Long Grass" is a sequel to that book.

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Book number: 40901

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Keywords: Dan Crawford Back Long Grass Links Livingstone Africa Missionary Christianity Luapula River Katanga History Biography 42034 General Biography

CRAWFORD, DAN.

Back to the Long Grass - My Link with Livingstone.

London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, nd. (c.1922). Daniel "Dan" Crawford (1870 – 1926), also known as 'Konga Vantu', was a Scottish missionary of the Plymouth Brethren in central-southern Africa. Pp.373, 33 black & white photos and illustrations +3 maps, toning to endpapers, inner front hinge cracking but holding firm. Black cloth, gilt title to spinem minor edge wear. G+." As well as being involved in translation work with several of the local tribal languages, he was an original thinker and was exceptionally well-read. In many ways he was far ahead of his time, as his books (Thinking Black and Back to the Long Grass) show very clearly. His approach to others was summed up in his words, "I am de-nationalized - a brother to all men; Arab, African, Mongol, Aryan, Jew; seeing in the Incarnation a link that binds us up with all men". This attitude led him to an identification with the Africans and their culture that was not generally welcomed by his European associates at the time and when this is linked with the difficulties caused by his own character, it is perhaps not surprising that few found him an easy person with whom to work and few workers remained for long at the mission at Luanza in his lifetime."(Dict. African Christian Biography).

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Book number: 41030

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Keywords: Dan Crawford Back Long Grass David Livingstone Africa Christian Missionary Luapula River Vatwa Lobster Arabs Black Dark Continent Kazembe Slavery 42034 General Biography

CRAWFORD,ARCHIBALD.

Public Speaking. A Popular Autobiographical Guide based on Thirty Years of Platform Work.

London:Sir Isaac Pitman,1935. 1st ed. Pp.8/250/2+32(ads),portrait frontis,small booksellers label(Andrew C.Glover,Truro) to verso front board. Red cloth, gilt title to front and spine, spine and inner edges sunned. G+.

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CRESSWELL, MICHAEL.

An Unworldly Weather Man. The Highs and Lows of Bill Foggitt.

Thirsk: White Rose Books / Hutton Press Ltd, 2000. 1902709071. 1st edition. "Bill Foggitt may not have achieved the international repute of James Herriot, who lived only a few miles from him, but this weather sage of North Yorkshire, whose quirky methods of forecasting relied on the mysterious behaviour of plants, insects, animals and birds, has fascinated millions, as well as baffling experts with their multi-million pound technology." Pp.128, many colour and black & white photo illustrations. Paperback, two or three small (pencil?) indentations to front. VG.

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Book number: 50219

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Keywords: Cresswell Unworldly Weather Man Bill Foggitt Biography Yorkshire Weather Forecasting Lore Plants Insects Animals Birds Nature 51731 General Biography

CROSLAND, JESSIE.

Sir John Fastolfe. A Medieval 'Man of Property'.

London: Peter Owen,1970. 1st edition. "Sir John Fastikfem wgi dued ub 1459, became one of the richest knights in England. He owned ninety-four manrs, including Caister Castle and Blickling Hall, both in Norfolk. He made a fortune out of ransoms and booty acquired during the later part of the Hundred Years War..Chroniclers and playwrights have not been kind to Fastolfe; the confusion between his name and that of Shakespeare's character, Sir John Falstaff, still continues..Yet the personality of Falstofe, the discreet, sober and watchful lord of the manor, is shown to be in complete contrast to Shakespeare's 'villainous, abominable misleader of youth'." Pp.77, black & white photos and illustrations. Red cloth, dustwrapperslightly rubbed with small tear to top edge. VG/G+.

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Keywords: Crosland Sir John Fastolfe Falstaff Medieval Man Property Caister Castle Blickling Hall Ireland France Biography History Stepson Stephen Scrope 42079 General Biography

CUNNINGHAM, SIR HENRY STEWART.

Lord Bowen. A Biographical Sketch.

Printed for Private Circulation, 1896 0. 8vo. 22.5cm x 18.8cm [9" x 7.5"] . pp.4/pp.256 . A very good original quarter leather binding. Maroon morocco spine with gilt titles, over green cloth covered boards ( a little rubbed ). Rough-cut (deckeled) page edges. Light spotting to endpapers. Dedication to front free-endpaper: "Mrs. Stephen Spring Rice, with the Author's kind regards, 20 April 1896." Title in red & black. Clean text throughout on quality watermarked handmade paper. A very good copy of a scarce book. "Charles Synge Christopher Bowen, Baron Bowen (January 1, 1835 – April 10, 1894) was an English judge. He was born at Woolaston in Gloucestershire, his father, the Rev. Christopher Bowen, originally of Hollymount, County Mayo, being then curate of the parish. He was educated at Lille, Blackheath and Rugby schools, leaving the latter in 1853 with a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford. There, he made good the promise of his earlier youth, winning the principal classical scholarships and prizes of his time. He was made a Fellow of Balliol in 1858. From Oxford, Bowen went to London, where he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1861, and while studying law he wrote regularly for the Saturday Review, and also later for The Spectator. For a time he had little success at the bar, and came near to exchanging it for the career of a college tutor, but he was persuaded by his friends to persevere. Soon after he had begun to make his mark he was briefed against the claimant in the famous Tichborne Case. Bowen's services to his leader, Sir John Coleridge, helped to procure for him the appointment of junior counsel to the treasury when Sir John had passed, as he did while the trial proceeded, from the office of Solicitor General to that of Attorney-General; and from this time his practice became a very large one. The strain, however, of the Tichborne trials had been great, so that his physical health became unequal to the tasks which his zeal for work imposed upon it, and in 1879 his acceptance of a position as a High Court judge in the Queen's Bench division, on the retirement of Mr Justice Mellor, gave him the opportunity of comparative rest. The character of Charles Bowen's intellect hardly qualified him for some of the duties of a puisne judge; but it was otherwise when, in 1882, in succession to Lord Justice Holker, he was raised to the Court of Appeal. As a Lord Justice of Appeal, he was conspicuous for his learning, his industry and his courtesy to all who appeared before him; and in spite of failing health he sat regularly until August 1893, when, on the retirement of Lord Hannen, he was made a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, and a life peer with the title Baron Bowen, of Colwood in the County of Sussex. By this time, however, his health had finally broken down; he never sat as a law lord to hear appeals, and he gave but one vote as a peer, while his last public service consisted in presiding over the commission which sat in October 1893 to inquire into the Featherstone riots. Lord Bowen was regarded with great affection by all who knew him either professionally or privately. He had a polished and graceful wit, of which many instances might be given, although such anecdotes lose force in print. For example, when it was suggested on the occasion of an address to Queen Victoria, to be presented by her judges, that a passage in it, "conscious as we are of our shortcomings," suggested too great humility, he proposed the emendation "conscious as we are of one another's shortcomings"; and on another occasion he defined a jurist as "a person who knows a little about the laws of every country except his own". Lord Bowen's judicial reputation will rest upon the series of judgments delivered by him in the court of appeal, which are remarkable for their lucid interpretation of legal principles as applied to the facts and business of life. Of Lord Bowen's literary works besides those already indicated may be mentioned his translation of Virgil's Eclogues, and Aeneid, books i.-vi, and his pamphlet, The Alabama Claim and Arbitration considered from a Legal Point of View. Lord Bowen married in 1862 Emily Frances, eldest daughter of the engineer James Meadows Rendel, by whom he had two sons and a daughter. His daughter, Ethel Kate Bowen married Josiah Wedgwood IV (later 1st Baron Wedgwood) of the pottery dynasty." - See Wikipedia.

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CUTFORTH, RENé.

Order to View. (Signed)

London: Faber and Faber, 1970. 0571091032. 3rd printing. A book of reminiscences. "Each chapter has a self-contained feeling which comes from the necessity to focus on an event or place..Witty and easy to read though his adventures are, they are not superficial. Order to View is one man's record of four low, dishonest decades. It's both valuable social history and good literature." (New Statesman). Pp.222, inscribed by the author "Paul, best wishes. René Cutforth" [prob. Artist and author Paul Hogarth] to front free endppaper, small spot to closed fore-edge not affectinng pages inside. Maroon cloth, dustwrapper has minor edge wear but is in a removable clear protective wrap. Plus: black and white photograph of the author and a handwriitten letter from his widow, Sheila, loosley enclosed, as well as a one page handwritten summary of his life. VG/VG.** "René Cutforth (1909 -1984) was a British journalist, television and radio broadcaster and writer. His first job was a clerk with the Midland Bank. In World War II he saw active service as a commissioned officer with the British Army in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and fought in the Western Desert Campaign, where he was taken prisoner of war in 1941, spending the remainder of the war in prisoner of war camps in Italy and Germany. He joined the British Broadcasting Corporation on return to England in 1946, and became a well known broadcaster and travelled the world as a BBC correspondent. He reported on the Korean War. During his television broadcast career he wrote and produced several documentary series, including, Bird's Eye View (a televisual study of the British Isles from the air), and The British Empire - Echoes of Britannia's Rule . Reviewing one of Cutforth's television programmes entitled The Forties Revisited, the critic Clive James wrote in The Observer: "Cutforth is that rare thing, a front man with background. Fitzrovia and Soho weigh heavily on his eyelids. His voice sounds like tea-chests full of books being shifted about."..He died in his 76th year at Great Maplestead, in the county of Essex on 1 April 1984." (wiki).

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DALE, ALZINA STONE.

T.S.Eliot. The Philosopher Poet.

Wheaton: Harold Shaw, 1988. 0877888329. "..through her study of T.S.Eliot, Alzina Stone Dale discovered 'an appealing, highly intelligent, shy, and serious-minded man, with a hidden fondness for friendship and fun, one who spoke in the voice of a major prophet'." Pp.209. Brown cloth, d/w slightly rubbed with sunning to spine. VG/G+.

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Book number: 31943

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Keywords: Stone Dale T S Eliot Philosopher Poet Biography Poetry Literature Religion Spirituality 31706 General Biography

DAMPIER, WILLIAM JAMES.

The Soul's Triumph amid the Body's Wreck: A Memoir of John Carter.

London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1875. A New Edition. "John Carter (31 July 1815 – 21 May 1850) was an English silk weaver and artist, who, after an accident left him paralysed from below the neck, learnt to draw, paint and write by holding the pencil, pen or brush in his mouth. His outstanding ability drew much public interest, with accounts of his life and favourable reviews of his work appearing in the press both at home, the United States and elsewhere".(wiki). 26cms x 18.5cms. Pp.xxii/64, frontispiece + 27 plates of illustrations by John Carter to end. Red cloth, gilt title to front and spine, slight sunning to spine. VG.

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Keywords: Dampier Souls Triumph Bodys Wreck Memoir Life John Carter Mouth Painter Coggeshall Essex Art 47140 General Biography

DARLING, ALISTAIR.

Back From The Brink. 1,000 Days at Number 11. (Signed).

London: Atlantic Books, 2011. 9780857892799. 2nd impression. "A vivid depiction of the British government's handling of an unprecedented global financial catastrophe. Alistair Darling's knowledge and understanding provide a unique erspective on the events that rocked international capitalism." Pp.xiv/338, signed by the author to title page, 15 colour photo illustrations. Black boards, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

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Keywords: Alistair Darling Signed Back from Brink Chancellor Treasury Northern Rock Lehman Brothers Barclays Politics International Finance Labour Government Gordon Brown New Labour 52323 General Biography