Lee, Hermione

Penelope Fitzgerald a Life.

Knopf, 2015. Hard Cover, Reprint of the first American edition. A heavy book of 489pp. Complete dustjacket. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. An intimate biography and critical survey of one of the most quietly brilliant authors of the 20th century... Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 9012

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography, Author, Literary Criticism, English Literature

Lee, Hermione

Penelope Fitzgerald A Life.

Chatto & Windus, 2013. Hard Cover, A heavy book of 508pp. Complete dustjacket. B + w illustrations A very clean copy. An acclaimed biography of one of the most quietly brilliant authors of the 20th century. Comes with 6 newspaper reviews... Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 9771

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography, Literary Criticism, English Literature

Leslie, Doris

Polonaise.

Book Club, 1944. Hard Cover, 247pp, red cloth boards. A little faded to spine. Internally very clean. The story of Chopin... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 8271

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Chopin, Biography, Music

Lucas, Victor

Tolstoy In London.

Evans, 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover, Tall format. 111pp, complete illustrated dustjacket. Endpaper maps and sepia illustrations. A clean copy. A fascinating account of Tolstoy's visit to study educational methods in London in 1861... Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 7230

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Matthew Arnold, education, Victorian, school, Russian literature

Lytton, Earl Of and Barrie, J M

Antony.

Peter Davies, 1936. Hard Cover, 5th impression. 368 pp, blue cloth boards, a little rubbed to edges of spine, sepia photographs. Previous owner's name to flyleaf, light foxing to foredge anfd title pages, otherwise internally clean. A biography of Viscount Knebworth, who was killed in a plane crash, written by his father and with a Foreword by J M Barrie... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 1009

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: J M Barrie

Macartney, C A

Maria Theresa and the House of Austria.

English Universities Press, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition. 168pp. Complete illustrated dustjacket. Endpaper maps. The light stamp of a school to the flyleaf, otherwise a very clean copy. A biography of the Austrian Empress 1717 - 1780. One of the 'Men and Their Times' series... Very Good /Fine.

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Book number: 12763

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Hapsburg, Austria, History

Macdowall, H C

Henry of Guise and Other Portraits Agrippa D'Aubigne and Catherine of Navarre.

Macmillan, 1898. First Edition. Hard Cover, 344pp, red cloth covered boards, a little bumped to corners. Original owner's name on flyleaf, otherwise clean. 3 biographical portraits of Henry of Guise, Agrippa D'Aubigne and Catherine of Navarre. Rare... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 6256

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Guise, D'Aubigne, Navarre, French History

MacGillivray, J Alexander

Minotaur Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth.

Jonanthan Cape, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition. 373pp, the paper now browning a little with age. Complete illustrated dustjacket. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. The story of the discovery of Knossos and the Minoan civilization by Sir Arthur Evans. Comes with two reviews of the book, from the Literary Review and The Independent.... Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 11406

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Crete, Minoan, Archaeology, Biography, History

Mackay, James

I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight A Life of John Paul Jones.

Mainstream, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover, 320pp, dustjacket with one closed tear to top edge. B + w illustrations. Internally very clean. A biography of John Paul Jones, the American Revolutionary sea captain... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 12357

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography, American Revolution, Navy

Maddox, Brenda

The Married Man A Life of D H Lawrence.

Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994. Soft Cover, A big, heavy paperback of 652pp. the page edges tanning a little with age. Illustrated soft covers with a couple of small scrapes, with a photograph of Lawrence and Frieda, B + w illustrations. Previous owner's name to the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean and tight. A biography of D H Lawrence, examining the contradictions in his life and work... Very Good.

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Book number: 7952

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography, D H Lawrence, English Literature

Magnus, Philip

Gladstone A Biography.

John Murray, 1970. Soft Cover, Reprint of the corrected edition. 482pp, illustrated softback covers with light creases to spine. B + w illustrations. Internally clean and tight. A readable assessment of the many sides of Gladstone's character and career... Very Good.

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Book number: 8131

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Prime Minister, Liberal, Victorian, Parliament

Major, Norma

Joan Sutherland.

Futura, 1991. Mass Market Paperback, Introduction by Dame Joan Sutherland. 256pp, the edges browning a little with age. Illustrated softback covers with a couple of creases to spine. B + w photographs. Internally clean and tight. A biography of the famous opera singer. Includes discography... Very Good.

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Book number: 13411

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Opera, Singer, Biography, Theatre

Manton, Jo

The Story Of Albert Schweitzer.

Methuen, 1955. Hard Cover, Ill.: Astrid Walford. 1st reprint. B + w illustrations by Astrid Walford. 176 pp, cream boards, illustrated dustjacket with edgewear. Internally very clean... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 1403

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Astrid Walford

Markus, Julia

Dared and Done The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.

Bloomsbury, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition. A heavy book of 382pp. Priceclipped illustrated dustjacket is otherwise complete. B + w illustrations. Previous owner's name to the flyleaf, otherwise a very clean copy. A biography of the two poets shedding new light on their work - exploring their Creole background, their friendships with Tennyson, Thackeray, Rossetti, George Sand etc, Elizabeth's depression, her reliance on morphine, obsession with spititualism etc... Very Good /Fine.

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Book number: 13782

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Poetry, victorian Literarture, Spiritualism

Marlowe, Derek

Nancy Astor The Lady From Virginia.

Penguin, 1982. Mass Market Paperback, 292pp, cover with photo of Lisa Harrow from the TV series. A very clean copy. The story of the first woman in Parliament, feminist and Christian Scientist... Very Good.

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Book number: 8361

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography, Virginia, MP, Parliament, Politics, Christian Scientist, Feminism