Winton, Calhoun

Sir Richard Steele M P The Later Career.

Johns Hopkins Press, 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover, Ex-Library, 265pp, complete dustjacket in removeable plastic cover. B + w illustrations. Ex library - stamp to title page, back flyleaf, and foredge, otherwise internally clean. Steele's career from the death of Queen Anne in 1714 to his own death in 1729... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 14459

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography, Spectator, Georgian

Woodham-Smith, Cecil

Florence Nightingale.

Reprint Society, 1952. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 450pp, including the Index. Brown cloth covered boards with black leather label. Series dustjacket with wear to the edges and a couple of marks. B + w illustrations. Internally clean. A biography of the founder of the nursing profession, in the Crimean War.. Very Good /Fair.

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Book number: 1327

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: nursing, crimean war, Biography, History

Woodham Smith, Cecil

Florence Nightingale 1820 - 1910.

Penguin, 1955. Mass Market Paperback, First Penguin edition, revised and slightly abridged. 445pp, the paper browning with age. Orange and white softback covers. a little worn to the ends of the spine. Previous owners' names on flyleaf, otherwise internally clean and tight. A classic biography of tne founder of the profession of nursing... Very Good.

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Book number: 5413

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography, Crimea, Nursing , History

Woodham-Smith, Cecil

Queen Victoria Her Life and Times 1819 1861.

Book Club Associates, 1973. Book Club. Hard Cover, 574 pp, purple cloth boards, b + w photographs. A readable account of Queen Victoria's early years, up to the death of Prince Albert... Fine /No Jacket.

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Book number: 412

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: History, royalty, Prince Albert, Lord Melbourne

Woods, Katharine Pearson

The True Story Of Captain John Smith.

Doubelday, Page & Co, 1907. Hard Cover, 382pp, olive green cloth covered boards. Frontispiece portrait and B + w illustrations. Internally clean. The life and adventures of the famous governor of Virginia... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 5943

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Virginia, Pocahontas

Wyndham Lewis, D B

The Hooded Hawk Or The Case Of Mr Boswell.

Eyre, 1946. First Edition. Hard Cover, 281 pp, endpaper maps, b + w illustrations. Blue cloth covered boards, faded to spine. A couple of light spots of foxing to foredge, internally clean. A biography of James Boswell, the great biographer of Dr Johnson... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 1246

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Boswell, Johnson, biography

Plato and Xenophon

Socratic Discourses.

Dent, 1940. Hard Cover, Everyman edition, with an Introduction by A D Lindsay. 364pp,complete series dustjacket, a very little worn to the ends of the spine. Internally clean. Xenophon's Memorabilia, Apology and Symposium and Plato's Lysis, Protagoras, Euthyphro, Apology and Crito... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 10185

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Greek, Classics, Philosophy, Socrates

Young, Desmond

Rommel.

Collins, 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover, 288pp, brown cloth covered boards with gilt eagle. B + w photographs and maps. Gift inscription on flyleaf, one page strengthened to gutter, otherwise clean... Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 7702

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: WWII, German Army, Desert War, Biography, War, General