Hough, Richard

Edward and Alexandra Their Private and Public Lives.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. Soft Cover, A large heavy book of 369p. Illustrated softback covers with light creases to the spine, which is a little faded. B + w photographs. Previous owner's name to the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. A biography of King Edward and his beautiful wife Alexandra, and how they were interdependent in their public duties and private life... Very Good.

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Book number: 8561

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Royal, Monarch, King Edward, Royalty. Biography

Hough, Richard

Mountbatten, Hero Of Our Time.

Weidenfeld, 1981. Hard Cover, 3rd impression. 290pp, priceclipped dustjacket is otherwise complete. B + w photographs. Endpaper family tree. A very clean copy. A biography of the Admiral and Viceroy of India... Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 3938

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: India, Admiral, Royal, Biography, Viceroy

Howarth, Patrick

George VI A New Biography.

Hutchinson, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition. A heavy book of 282pp. Priceclipped dustjacket, a little faded to the spine, is otherwise complete. B + w photographs. Gift inscription to the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. How George VI rose to the challenge of kingship, showing his powerful influence on events, both in the Second World War and in peacetime... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 8468

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Royal, King, Biography, House of Windsor, Monarch,world War II

Howe, P P

The Life of William Hazlitt.

Penguin, 1949. Mass Market Paperback, 1st Penguin edition, with an Introduction by Frank Swinnerton. 477pp, the edges browning a little with age, blue and white softback covers with one small paint mark to the back cover. Previous owner's name stamp on flyleaf, otherwise clean and VG. A classic biography of the English writer... Very Good.

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Book number: 7391

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: biography, writer, essayist, Frank Swinnerton

Hudson, Derek

The Forgotten King And Other Essays.

Constable, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover, Ex-Library, 287pp. Ex college reference library - stamps on foredge and title page, label on flyleaf, but never issued and otherwise clean. Includes Dick Turpin, Fanny Burney, Lunardi, Pre-Raphaelites and Eliza Cook... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 2573

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Dick Turpin, Fanny Burney, Lunardi, William IV, PreRaphaelites, Eliza Cook

Hughes, Mrs of Uffington and Hutchinson, Horace G (ed)

Letters and Recollections of Sir Walter Scott.

Smith Elder, 1904. First Edition. Ex-Library, 338pp. Red cloth covered boards, with a couple of marks. B + w portraits, and a sepia facsimile letter. Ex reference library - bookplate to inner cover, a couple of stamps, otherwise a clean' reading copy'... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 13849

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography

Hughes, Kathryn

The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton.

Fourth Estate, 2011. Mass Market Paperback, Ex-Library, A thick paperback of 525pp, the paper tanning a very little wirth age. Illustrated soft card covers in a removeable plastic sleeve. B + w illustrations. Ex library, evidenced only by a label inside the back cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy. A fascinating account of the short life of Mrs Isabella Beeton, the famous Victorian writer of cookery books, as she struggles with bankruptcy, sexual scandal and family feuds... Very Good.

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Book number: 9055

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography, History, history of Food, Cookery, English Cookery, Cook

Hutchins, Chris and Thompson, Peter

Athina The Last Onassis.

Smith Gryphon, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover, 249pp, complete dustjacket, a little faded to the spine. B + w photographs. Internally very clean. The story of Athina Onassis Roussel, the richest little girl in the world... As New /Fine.

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Book number: 8795

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Onassis

Hyde, H Montgomery

Norman Birkett The Life of Lord Birkett of Ulverston.

Hamish Hamilton, 1964. Hard Cover, 4th impression of the first edition. A heavy book of 638pp. Blue boards with a silver title, one corner a little bumped. Colour frontispiece portrait illustration and b + w photographs. Previous owner's name to the flyleaf, otherwise internally very clean. The life of the Methodist preacher who became a barrister and a judge, and was one of the judges at the Nuremberg Trials after WWII... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 5545

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Nuremberg Trial, WWII, Methodist, Methodism, judge, barrister

Irwin, Margaret

That Great Lucifer.

Reprint Society, 1961. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 350pp, yellow boards with light marks to edges, brown spine with blue label. B + w illustrations. One small mark to foredge, otherwise internally clean. The story of Sir Walter Ralegh... Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 2640

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Raleigh, tudors, sailor, explorer

Irwin, Margaret

That Great Lucifer A Portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh.

Reprint Society, 1961. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 350pp, yellow boards with brown spine and blue label. B + w illustrations. A few small spots of foxing to the edges, otherwise a clean copy. The story of the great Elizabethan courtier and adventurer.. Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 6391

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Virginia, tobacco, potato, Elizabeth I

Jameson, John Franklin and Donnan, Eizabeth Stock, Leo, F

An Historian's World Selections from the Correspondence of John Franklin Jameson.

The American Philosphical Society, 1956. First Edition. Hard Cover, A very large, very heavy book. 382pp. Dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt title. Frontispiece portrait. A few very small light spots of foxing to the foredge, otherwise internally clean. A selection of Dr Jameson's letters from 1880 to 1937, illuminating the many historical projects with which he was concerned during his time at the Carnegie Institute etc... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 17751

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: History, Letters, american History,

Jenkin, John (ed)

John Major Prime Minister.

Press Association Bloomsbury, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover, 204pp, complete dustjacket with small marks. B + w photographs. Gift inscription on flyleaf, otherwise very clean. The development of Major's political career, shown by the original newspaper articles.. Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 9656

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Politics, MP, PM

Jenkins, Alan C

The Naturalists Pioneers Of Natural History.

Hamish Hamilton, 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover, 200pp, complete dustjacket. Colour and b + w illustrations. One scrape mark to edge of flyleaf, otherwise as new. Man's investigation of his environment - Gilbert White, Waterton, Fabre etc.. Very Good /Fine.

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Book number: 2736

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: environment, Gilbert White, Fabre, Waterton

Jenkins, David and Rogers, Sue

Richard Burton A Brother Remembered.

Arrow, 1994. Mass Market Paperback, 254pp, softback covers witha scrape mark to the front where a label removed. B + w photographs. Internally clean and tight. A biography of the famous actor, by his brother.. Good.

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Book number: 9465

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Actor, Film Star