BENNETT, DAPHNE

Queen Victoria's Children

London, Gollancz. 1980, First Edition. (ISBN: 0575026901) Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, Queen Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg produced nine children before his untimely death at the age of 42 in 1861. Dust jacket spine is sunned. Good/Good.

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Book number: 15180

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0575026901 Victoria Royal Royalty Children

BERLIN, SVEN

Dark Monarch, The - A Portrait from Within

London, Galley Press. 1962, First Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Berlin, Sven. Book, 204 pages. Rare first edition book, as it was withdrawn immediately after publication and destroyed, due to artists who believed themselves to be portrayed in the book taking libel action. After his war experiences reflected in 'I Am Lazarus', here in Dark Monarch, he shows the struggle to revive his sculptor & painter creativity. At this point in Cornwall, a phase of life, in which as he puts it, 'some of us seemed to be caught in the slip-stream of evil forces which often follow destruction'. Dustjacket is lightly scuffed but complete. Good/Good.

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Book number: 24086

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Berlin, Sven

BLOM, ERIC

Some Great Composers

London, Oxford University Press. 1944. Hardcover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book, 5 x 7.5"; 120pp; green cloth with gilt; dustwrapper slightly chipped to edges; contains sketches of the lives of the great composers, and not studies of their work critically considered.;. Good.

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Book number: 1066

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Music; Composers;

BLUMBERG, JANE

Byron and Shelley

London, Collins and Brown. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 1855851105) Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 1816 was "the year without a summer", when a volcanic eruption blotted out the sun, and it was also the season when a momentous friendship was forged. Byron, Shelley, Mary Shelley (who wrote "Frankenstein" in that year) and Claire Clairmont (Mary's step-sister, pregnant with Byron's child) were neighbours across the shores of Lake Geneva. Byron had just fled from England following the scandal surrounding his separation from his wife and rumours of incest with his half-sister, Augusta Leigh. This book charts the friendship between the flamboyant Byron and the youthful Shelley's and their friends and hangers-on, through Italy and England, through personal tragedies and passions, sex and scandal, wit and heartbreak - all accompanied by a prodigious and precocious outpouring of brilliant poetry which echoed the creative relationship between Byron and the Shelley's, and their shared view of the world, its follies and its hypocrisies. As New/As New.

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Book number: 13314

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 1855851105 Byron Shelley Writer Author Poet Poems Literature Biogrpahy

BOGARDE, DIRK

Backcloth

London, Penguin. 1987. (ISBN: 0140089675) Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book, 4.25 x 7"; 313 pages; paperback; illustrated; good;. Good.

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Book number: 11357

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0140089675 Bogarde; Actor; Theatre; Film; Biography;

BOGARDE, DIRK

Particular Friendship, A

London, Penguin. 1990. (ISBN: 0140126449) Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book, paperback; g/-. Good.

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Book number: 10928

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0140126449 Actor; Film; Star; Gossip; Biography; Theatre;

BRADFORD, SARAH

America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

London, Viking. 2000. (ISBN: 0670874221) Hardback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was and is an icon for women. Beautiful, exquisitely dressed, cultivated, gracious, a little mysterious and almost regal, she personifies the way we would like all our world leaders' wives to be. Sarah Bradford paints an extraordinary portrait of a woman riddled with contradictions: kind, considerate, proud, loyal and loving, yet also supremely selfish, manipulative and greedy. Drawing on remarkable new testimony from those closest to Jackie, "America's Queen" follows her from her rigid, bleak childhood to the glorious glamour and complication of life as Kennedy's wife, to the even more glamorous but ultimately poisonous marriage to Onassis, to the final serenity of her years as a New York publishing editor. The secrets of Onassis's will, Jackie's affairs, her extraordinary spending habits, her treachery to old friends - all of these are revealed together with her public life as the ultimate trophy wife. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 12608

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0670874221 Kennedy America Politics

BRADFORD, SARAH H.

Splendours and Miseries: Biography of Sacheverell Sitwell

Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd. 1994. (ISBN: 1856194701) Paperback, 4vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Book, 486 pages. No inscriptions. Pages tanned. Good.

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Book number: 27531

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 1856194701

BUCHAN, JOHN

Sir Walter Scott

London, Cassell. 1932, First Edition. Hardback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 6.5 x 9"; 387 pages; green cloth, marked, with gilt title to spine and gilt decoration to front board; front edge uncut; some shelf wear, but otherwise a good clean copy;. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 9245

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Scott; Biography; History;

BULLETT, GERALD

George Eliot - Her Life and Books

London, Collins. 1947. Hardback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 5.5 x 8.75"; 256pp; red cloth with gilt; bottom edge uncut; good reading copy;. Good Reading Copy.

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Book number: 2338

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography; Author; Books;

CAMPBELL, JAMES

Talking at the Gates - A Life of James Baldwin

London, Faber and Faber. 1992. (ISBN: 0571165168) Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 5 x 8"; 306pp; paperback; illustrated; unread copy;. Very Good.

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Book number: 5595

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0571165168 America; Writer; Biography; Modern Classics; Books;

CARLYLE,THOMAS

Life of John Sterling, The

London, Chapman & Hall. 1888. Hardback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book, 5 x 7"; 248pp; red cloth with gilt to spine and black to front; top edge dusty; contents clean;. Good/No Jacket - as issued.

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Book number: 1604

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography; Religion;

CARRINGTON, NOEL & RAE, JOCELYN

This Man's Father - A Pictorial Biography in Two Centuries

London, Oxford University Press. 1935. Hardback, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book, 9 x 11.5"; beige cloth with pink and blue; dustwrapper foxed, tear to top front edge without loss; contents good; Round the life-stories of Albert Augustus Toogood, mid-Victorian Londoner of substance, and of his son, now a man in his forties, this book has been written and arranged; b&w photographs throughout;. Good/Fair.

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Book number: 3052

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: London; Victorian; Photography; History;

CECIL, DAVID

Portrait of Jane Austen, A

London, Penguin. 1980. Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 6.5 x 9.25"; 208pp; large format paperback; illustrated; good clean copy;. Good.

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Book number: 5426

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Austen; Writer; Biography;

CECIL, LORD DAVID

Two Quiet Lives

London, Constable and Company. 1965, Reprint. (ISBN: 009452890X) Hardback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 194 pages. 'A book rare in our day.. an invaluable reminder of life's possibilities.' - Elizabeth Bowen. Good/Good - Priceclipped.

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Book number: 22885

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 009452890x History Biography Osborne Gray