Fishman, Jack

My Darling Clementine The Story of Lady Churchill.

Pan, 1964. Mass Market Paperback, Revised edition.381pp, the paper browning a little with age, illustrated softback covers. B + w photographs. A clean, tight copy. The biography of Winston Churchill's wife.. Very Good.

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Book number: 12092

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Churchill, WWII, Biography

Floyd, Juanita Helm

Women in the Life of Balzac.

Henry Holt, 1921. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition. 320pp, rough cut edges. Blue cloth coverd boards with impressed title. B + w illustrations. A very clean, near Fine copy. The story of Balzac's relations with the women he knew as relatives, literary friends, business and social friends and sentimental friends... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 8412

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography, Balzac, French Literature, Feminism

Foreman, Amanda

Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire.

Flamingo, 1999. Mass Market Paperback, 463pp. Colour and b + w illustrations. Light creases to spine, otherwise a clean Near Fine copy. The story of the eighteenth century duchess who ruled fashionable society.. Very Good.

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Book number: 12165

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography

Freeman, William

The Incredible De Foe.

Herbert Jenkins, 1950. First Edition. Hard Cover, 304pp, illustrated dustjacket with wear to the edges and a little loss. Frontispiece portrait and family tree. A couple of light spots of foxing to the foredge, otherwise internally clean. The adventurous life of Daniel De Foe, writer, traveller, spy and friend of King WIlliam... Very Good /Fair.

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Book number: 11609

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: History, Biography, Daniel De Foe

Fulford, Roger

Queen Victoria.

Collins, 1951. First Edition. Hard Cover, Ex-Library, 144pp, blue boards, faded to spine. B + w photographs. Ex college library, so stamp to title page and to flyleaf, which has pocket and remains of label, otherwise clean. A biography in the 'Brief Lives' series... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 2589

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: biography

Gadney, Reg

Constable And His World.

BCA, 1976. Hard Cover, 128pp, green boards, dustjacket with 2 short closed tears to bottom of spine, no loss. 121 illustrations in b + w. Internally clean. The life and world of the artist.. Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 2039

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: artist

Garrett, Martin

Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning.

British Library, First Edition. Soft Cover, Large format. 128pp, illustrated laminated card covers. Many colour and b + w illustrations. A very clean copy. A biography of the poets Elizabeth Barret Browning and Robert Browning - Part of the British Library Writer's Lives series... Fine.

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Book number: 11506

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography, Poet, Browning, Vistorian Literature, Poetry, English Literature

Gittings, Robert

Young Thomas Hardy.

Penguin, 1978. Mass Market Paperback, 368pp, browning with age, b + w photographs. The first volume of this readable biography of Thomas Hardy.. Very Good.

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Book number: 3108

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: poet, Dorchester, Wessex, Author, Biography

Gloag, John

Handel in London The Making of a Genius.

Macmillan, 2018. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition. A heavy book of 430pp. Complete illustrated dustjacket. Colour and b + w illustrations. A very clean copy. In 1712 the twenty seven year old Handel arrived in London where he was to spend the next four decades creating great music... Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 17399

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Handel, Biography, Music, History, History of Music, Opera

Gorman, Major J T

George VI King and Emperor.

W & G Foyle Ltd, 1937. Hard Cover, Special edition produced to be given to the children of York for the coronation of the king.56pp, blue boards with gilt York arms. B + w illustrations. Gift label and message from the Mayor. Internally clean... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 9090

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Royalty, King, York

Gorman, Major J T

George VI King and Emperor.

W & G Foyle Ltd, 1937. Hard Cover, Special edition produced to be given to the children of York for the coronation of the king.56pp, blue boards with gilt York arms, tissue dustjacket. B + w illustrations. Gift label. Internally clean... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 9817

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Royalty, King, York

Gridley, Roy E

Browning.

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover, 192pp, priceclipped dustjacket is otherwise complete. A clean copy. Part of the Routledge Author Guides series - a survey of Browning's life and work, showing how his poetry reflected changing modes of thought, feeling and expression in nineteenth century life... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 8898

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography, Poet, Browning, English Literature, Criticism , Victorian Literature

Grove, Valerie

Dear Dodie The Life of Dodie Smith.

Thorpe Ulverscroft, 1997. Hard Cover, Ex-Library, Large print edition. A heavy book of 712pp, with laminated hardback covers. B + w photographs. Ex library - a couple of stamps to flyleaf and title page, otherwise clean. A biography of the author of '101 Dalmatians' and 'Dear Octopus'... Very Good.

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Book number: 12408

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Large Print, Biography, Writer

Guedalla, Philip

The Duke.

Reprint Society, 1940. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 470pp, marroon cloth covered boards with leather label. Light marks to edges of boards, one mark to foredge, but internally very clean. A biography of the Duke of Wellington... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 4358

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Wellington, Wellesley

Guedalla, Philip

The Duke.

Hodder, 1937. Hard Cover, Uniform edition. 523pp. Cloth covered boards, a little sunned to spine. Frontispiece portrait, endpaper map. Original owner's name on flyleaf, otherwise a clean copy. A biography of the Duke of Wellington... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 8041

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography, Wellington