Bright, Rev J Franck

Maria Theresa.

Macmillan, 1897. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition. 224pp, dark blue cloth covered boards with a couple of small light marks. A couple of small spots of foxing to the flyleaf foredge, otherwise internally clean. The political work of the Empress Maria Theresa from the War of the Austrian Succession in 1740 to the co regency with Joseph in 1770. Part of the Foreign Statesman series... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 8543

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography, History, Austrian History

Brook, Donald

A Pageant Of English Actors.

Rockliff, 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover, Ex-Library, 286pp, red cloth boards, light damp marks to rear. B + w portraits of actors. Burbage, Garrick, Kean etc to Olivier. One red ink mark on foredge. Ex College library, so label to flyleaf and stamp to inner board, otherwise internally clean... Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 2264

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: actor, theatre, Garrick, Olivier

Brougham, Henry, Lord

Historical Sketches of Statesmen Who Fkourished In The Time of George III Series I Vol II.

Charles Knight, 1845. Soft Cover, 256pp, paper boards, the spine now strengthened by modern brown tape. Internally clean. Includes Pitt, Canning,, Wilberforce, Franklin, Empress Catherine etc. A good 'reading copy'.. Good.

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Book number: 10599

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Pitt, Frederic II, Empress Catherine, Canning

Brown, Jonathon

Johannes Brahms An Essential Guide to His Life and Work Classic FM Lifelines.

Pavilion, 1996. First Edition. Soft Cover, 105pp, illustrated card covers. A very clean, tight copy. Brahms's life, records, list of works and bibliography... Fine.

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Book number: 11476

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Composer, Biography, Music

Brown, Peter Harry and Brown, Pamela Ann

The MGM Girls Behind the Velvet Curtain.

Harrap, 1984. Hard Cover, Ex-Library, 288pp, complete dustjacket in a removeable protective plastic sleeve. 50 new b + w photographs from the MGM archives. Ex library - label removed from flyleaf, stamp to back of title page, the paper wrinkled but clean at the top edge - a good 'reading copy'. The real story of the lives of the glamorous but bullied female stars at Louis B Meyer's MGM studios - Harlow, Turner, Garbo, MacLaine, Reynolds, Garland, Taylor etc... Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 13190

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: MGM, Film, Film History, Film Star, Biography

Brown, Ivor

Shakespeare.

Reprint Society, 1951. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 383pp. Complete dustjacket with a couple of small scrape marks. Internally very clean. 'A coherent and sensible' account of Shakespeare's life and times. Comes with a short separate article by the author... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 5202

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: theatre, elizabethan drama, elizabethan stage

Brown, Ivor

Shakespeare.

Reprint Society, 1951. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 363pp, yellow cloth covered boards with black leather label. A clean copy. A readable biography, includes a family tree and a time line... Fine /No Jacket.

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Book number: 6152

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: theatre

Brown, Ivor

Shakespeare.

Collins, 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover, 352pp. Red cloth covered boards. Original owner's name on half-title page, otherwise a clean copy. A classic book on Shakespeare's life, and theatre practice... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 8586

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Play, Theatre

Bryant, Arthur

Samuel Pepys The Years of Peril.

Collins, 1948. Hard Cover, New edition. 466 pp, blue cloth boards, b + w illustrations. A clean copy... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 367

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: C17, history, navy

Bryant, Arthur

Samuel Pepys The Saviour Of The Navy.

Collins Fontana, 1961. Mass Market Paperback, 451pp, edges now a little browned with age. Illustrated softback covers. Frontispiece portrait. A very clean, tight Near Fine copy. The third volume in the biography of Samuel Pepys, the diarist of Restoration England... Very Good.

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Book number: 4735

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Stuart, navy, diarist, biography, Restoration

Buchan, John

Julius Caesar.

Peter Davies, 1932. First Edition. Hard Cover, 170p. Black cloth covered boards with gilt title on orange label. Frontispiece portrait. A clean copy. A biography of the Roman general and leader... Fine /No Jacket.

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Book number: 13015

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: History, Roman, Biography

Buchan, John

Sir Walter Ralegh The Stanhope Essay 1897.

B H Blackwell Oxford and Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co London, 1897. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition. 8vo. 78pp, still uncut. Brown cloth covered boards, now darkened and with a little bumping to the corners. A couple of small fox marks and some darkening to the flyleaves, otherwise internally very clean. Very rare, especially in an uncut and therefore unread state. Buchan won the Stanhope history prize, for students at Balliol College, in 1897. Scans on request... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 13009

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Adventure, Biography. History, Tudor History, explorer

Burton, Anthony

William Cobbett Englishman.

Aurum, 1977. Trade Paperback, 1st softback edition. Full size softback of 275pp, with b + w illustrations. A very clean copy. A biography of the radical political writer... Fine.

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Book number: 6930

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: biography, politics, newspaper, journalist

Casson, John

Lewis and Sybil.

Collins, 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover, 352 pp, b + w photographs. Previous owner's initials on flyleaf, otherwise clean and VG+. A biography of Lewis Casson and Sybil Thorndike and their career in the theatre... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 241

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: theatre, Sybil Thorndike, Gladys Cooper

Cecil, David

Early Victorian Novelists.

Penguin Pelican, 1948. Mass Market Paperback, 253pp, the edges browning a little with age, blue and white paperback covers. Previous owner's name to flyleaf. otherwise clean and tight. A major study of Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, Mrs Gaskell, Trollope and George Eliot... Very Good.

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Book number: 12741

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Dickens, Thackeray, Bronte, Gaskell, Literary Criticism