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The University of Leeds Review 1969.

University of Leeds, 1969. Soft Cover, B + w illustrations. Includes articles on Pascal and Newman by J M Cameron, A H Hanson SOme Literature on Student Revolt, Brian Hogan on Criminal Liability without Fault and J P Roberts on ceramics... Fine.

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Book number: 5144

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Pascal, Newman, J M Cameron, J P Roberts, Ceramics, Crime

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Vincent Van Gogh Paintings and Drawings from the collection of the Vincent Van Gogh Foundation Amsterdam.

The Arts Council, 1968. First Edition. Soft Cover, 128pp, soft covers with an illustration by Van Gogh. Introduction, Vincent in England and the catalogue of the works in the exhibition, with useful biographical information and notes... Fine.

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Book number: 11011

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Painting, Art, Van Gogh

Aldrich, Richard Stoddard

Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs A.

Companion Book Club, 1956. Hard Cover, 320pp, blue cloth covered boards, faded to spine and edge, spots of foxing to edges of spine. B + w photographs. A couple of small spots of foxing to the foredge, otherwise a clean copy. A biography of the famous actress who starred with Noel Coward, Laurence Olivier etc. in Private Lives, by her husband... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 8505

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Actress, Noel Coward, Biography, Olivier, Theatre

Altick, Richard D

The Cowden Clarkes.

Oxford, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover, 268pp, dustjacket with a little loss. B + w illustrations. Internally clean. The story of a prominent Victorian literary couple - Cowden Clarke was a friend and influencer of Keats and a member of Leigh Hunt's circle, while Mary knew Mary Lamb and Mary Shelley, and became a prolific authoress and a member of the most famous of Dicken's amateur theatrical companies... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 8896

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography, victorian Literature, Leigh Hunt, Mary Lamb, Mary Shelley, Dickens , Keats

Appleman, Roy Edgar (ed) and Lincoln, Abraham

Abraham Lincoln From His Own Words and Contemporary Accounts.

Unites States Information Service, 1959. First Edition. Soft Cover, Large format. 44pp, softback covers. B + w maps and photographs. A couple of very light spots of foxing to Contents page, otherwise a very clean Near Fine copy. Produced to mark the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's birth... Very Good.

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Book number: 12688

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln, President, USA

Arundell, Dennis

The Story of Sadler's Wells 1683 1964.

Hamish Hamilton, 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover, Ex-Library, 306pp, complete dustjacket in removeable plastic sleeve. B + w illustrations. Ex library, with pocket on inner board and stamps on flyleaf and title page, otherwise clean, so sold as good reading copy. The history of one of the oldest English Theatres, and the actors and playwrights who worked there... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 5652

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: theatre, theatre history, actor, playwright

Atkins, John

George Orwell A Literary Study.

John Calder, 1954. First Edition. First edition. 347pp. Priceclipped dustjacket illustrated by Gross - Andre, with wear and a little loss to the edges. Previous owner's surname to the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. The first study and appreciation of Orwell - the author worked with Orwell over a number of years and knew him well... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 13822

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: English Literature, Orwell

Ayer, A J

Thomas Paine.

Faber and Faber, 1989. Mass Market Paperback, 195pp, the page edges browning a little with age. Illustrated soft card covers by Brian Grimwood. A very clean, tight copy. The life of the radical political writer and an exposition of his ideas... Fine.

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Book number: 5045

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: History, Radical, Political Theory

Baker, Michael

The Doyle Diary The Last Great Conan Doyle Mystery.

BCA, 1978. Book Club. Hard Cover, Long format. 91pp, cream boards with a couple of small marks, gilt title. Colour and b + w illustrations. Internally clean. The curious case of Charles Altamont Doyle the father of Conan Doyle... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 4868

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Sherlock Holmes

Bareham, Terence

George Crabbe.

Vision, 1977. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition. 245pp. The complete dustjacket with a portrait of Crabbe is a little faded to the spine and rubbed to the edges. Internally very clean. A biography and study of Crabbe in the religious and political context of his age, and as a moral poet above all... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 12324

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Poet, Biography, History, Literary Criticism

Barnes, Bertha

Daniel Boone.

Jefferson City, 1974. Soft Cover, Ill.: Darrell Isaacs. 4th printing. 29pp, softback covers. B + w illustrations by Darrell Isaacs. A clean copy. The story of the famous American pioneer... Fine.

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Book number: 5749

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Darrell Isaacs

Barnett, George L

Charles Lamb the Evolution of Elia.

Indiana University Press, 1964. First Edition. Soft Cover, 286pp, illustrated softback covers, a little rubbed to the edges of the spine. B + w frontispiece illustration. Notes written on the flyleaf, and to the the margins of one of the chapters, otherwise internally clean. A study of Lamb's development as a writer, and as an essayist... Good.

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Book number: 8773

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography, English Literature, Essayist , Literary Criticism

Barrie, J M

Margaret Ogilvy By Her Son.

Hodder, 1898. Hard Cover, '43rd Thousand'. 204pp, black cloth boards. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard. Hand cut foredge. A couple of light fox marks, not affecting text, otherwise clean... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 4486

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography, J M Barrie

Bates, Darrell

A Gust of Plumes A Biography of Lord Twining of Godalming and Tanganyika.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition. 319pp, illustrated dustjacket with a couple of closed tears to the edges. B + w illustrations. Endpaper maps. Internally very clean. A biography of Lord Twining, who saw service in Ireland in the 1920s before joining the Colonial Service and working in Uganda, Mauritius, St Lucia, as Governor of North Borneo, and for 9 years as Governor of Tanganyika... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 3142

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Tanganyika, African History, Irish History, Uganda, Colonial Service, St Lucia, Mauritius, Borneo

Bathurst, Bella

The Lighthouse Stevensons.

Flamingo, 1999. Mass Market Paperback, 284pp, illustrated softback covers. B + w illustrations. A clean, tight, unread copy. The story of the building of the Scottish lighthouses by the ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson... As New.

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Book number: 11380

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Lighthouse, Scotland, Robert Louis Stevenson