Smith, Janet Adam

John Buchan A Biography.

Hart Davis, 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover, Ill.:. First edition. A heavy book of 524pp. Black cloth covered boards with gilt title. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. A biography of the author of The 39 Steps, who became the Governor General of Canada... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 4031

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: John Buchan, Canadian History

Southey, Robert

The Life of Nelson.

Amalgamated Press, 1905. Hard Cover, 334pp, blue cloth covered boards with impressed design, gilded to spine. Flyleaf neatly removed, otherwise clean. A biography of Admiral Nelson. Part of the 'Harmsworth Library' edition of classics... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 6454

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Nelson, Navy, Napoleonic Wars, History

Spalding, Frances

Stevie Smith A Critical Biography.

Faber, 1990. Mass Market Paperback, 331pp, illustrated softback coverswith one small scrape mark to the front. B + w photographs. Internally clean and tight. The relationship of Stevie Smith's life and the evolution of her work... Very Good.

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Book number: 11480

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Poet, Biography

Strawn, Arthur

The Golden Adventures of Balboa Discoverer of the Pacific.

Bodley Head, 1929. First Edition. Hard Cover, Ex-Library, 341pp, rebound in library binding with leather spine and brown cloth covered boards. B + w illustrations. Ex library - labels to flyleaf etc. A couple of small marginal marks -a good 'reading copy' only. A biography of the C16th explorer of the Americas... Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 13202

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: San Salvador, Explorer

Thayer, W M

From Log Cabin To White House Life Of James A Garfield.

Ward, Lock, 1111. Hard Cover, Late 19th century. 351 pp, red cloth boards, worn to edges and with one closed tear to edge of spine, with design of art nouveau flowers to front. Floral vignettes to head of each chapter. occasional marks but generally clean, though 'well read'. The story of the President of the USA.. Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 1895

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: biography, presidents

Thomas, Bob

I Got Rythm! The Ethel Merman Story.

Putnam, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover, 239pp, complete dustjacket has one short closed tear to the back. B + w photographs. Internally very clean. A biography of the Queen of Broadway... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 6338

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: musical, singer, film, Broadway

Thomson, George Malcolm

The First Churchill The Life of John 1st Duke of Marlborough.

Secker & Warburg, 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover, 337pp. Complete illustrated dustjacket, a little faded to the spine. A clean copy. The life of the courtier, soldier and victor of Blenheim... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 12621

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography, Marlborough, Blenheim

Thornton, R D

James Currie the Entire Stranger and Robert Burns.

Oliver & Boyd, 1963. First Edition. Hard Cover, Ill.:. A heavy book of 459pp. Dustjacket designed by Stuart Barrie with wear to the ends of the spine, now in a removeable protective jacket. Colour and b + w illustrations. Internally very clean. A biography of the first editor of Robert Burns, and the events in the last ten years of Burn's life which led to his appointement. Currie escaped from Virginia during the American Revolution, was a distinguished physician, and fought for the abolition of the slave trade... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 4168

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Robert Burns, Biography, History, Slave Trade

Thwaite, Ann

Edmund Gosse A Literary Landscape.

Oxford, 1985. Mass Market Paperback, 570pp, illustrated softback covers. B + w illustrations. A clean, tight copy. A biography of the author of 'Father and Son', and his circle... Fine.

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Book number: 13179

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography, Writer, Tennyson

Tindall, Gillian

Rosamond Lehmann An Appreciation.

Chatto & Windus, 1985. Mass Market Paperback, 201pp, the paper tanning a very little with age. Softback covers with a portrait, with no creases. A very clean, tight Near Fine copy. How the writer's life was transmuted into fiction, and evoking the themes and images that give her writing its resonance... Very Good.

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Book number: 13972

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography, Novelist

Titley, Chris

Joseph Rowntree.

Shire Publications, 2013. First Edition. Soft Cover, 64pp. Ilustrated card covers. Many colour and b + w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy. A biography of the Quaker businessman who built up a global chocolate business and built New Earswick village for his workers... Fine.

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Book number: 13061

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography, York, New Earswitck, Quaker, Chocolate, Model Village

Topolski, Feliks

Portrait of G. B. S..

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946. First Edition. Hard Cover, Ill.: Feliks Topolski. Introduction by Hesketh Pearson, colour frontispiece and b + w plates of George Bernard Shaw by Topolski. Dustjacket with loss to the top of the spine and a couple of closed tears. Internally clean. No. 635 of a limited edition of 1,000.. Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 10939

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: George Bernard Shaw, Drawing

Tracey, Herbert (ed)

The British Labour Party Its History, Growth Policy and Leaders Vol III Biographies.

Caxton, 1948. Hard Cover, A heavy book of 347pp, marroon cloth covered boards. B + w photographs. A very clean, Near Fine copy. Biographies of the founders and leaders of the Labour Party, written by Bevan, Callaghan, Gaitskell etc.. Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 11070

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Labour Party, Politician

Turnell, Martin

The Classical Moment Studies Of Corneille Moliere and Racine.

Hamish Hamilton, 1973. Hard Cover, 255pp, softback covers a little sun darkened. Internally clean and tight. Literary criticism - including the biographical and historical background of the three dramatists, and the literary judgements passed on them... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 11528

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: French Literature, Literary Criticism, Moliere, Corneille, Racine , French Theatre

Turner, Paul

The Life of Thomas Hardy A Critical Biography.

Blackwell, 2001. Soft Cover, 326pp, softback covers with a portrait of Hardy. A very clean, tight copy. A useful study of Hardy's work examined in relation to his life, and reading... Fine.

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Book number: 14451

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography, Hardy, Literary Criticism, Author