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John Betjeman and Lycett Green, Candida (ed)
John Betjeman Letters Volume One 1926 - 1951.
Methuen, 1994. Hard Cover, A heavy book of 584pp, the paper now tanning with age. Complete dustjacket. B + w photographs. Ribbon bookmark. A clean copy. Edited and with an Introoduction by the poet's daughter, this first volume of letters covers the years from 1929 to 1951, from university days to the staff of the Architectural Revue, as editor of the Shell Guides, and his time as press attache in Dublin in the Second World War... Very Good /Fine.
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Book number: 9828
GBP 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 12.81 | JP¥ 1863]
Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Correspondence, Letters, Poet

 
Johnson, Lionel
The Art of Thomas Hardy To Which Is Added a Chapter on the Poetry By J E Barton and A Bibliography By John Lane Together With a New Portrait By Vernon Hill and the Etched Portrait By William Strang.
John Lane Bodley Head, 1923. Hard Cover, The 'New edition' of the first biography of Hardy of 1894, with additions. 357pp, green cloth covered boards. Original owner's name to flyleaf, one short pen note to margin, otherwise internally clean... Very Good /No Jacket.
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Book number: 12248
GBP 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 20.5 US$ 23.6 | JP¥ 3432]
Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Biography, Hardy,

 
Johnson, Alan Campbell
Viscount Halifax A Biography.
Robert Hale, 1941. First Edition. Hard Cover, A heavy book of 575 pp. Blue cloth boards, a little worn to edges, b + w photographs. Previous owner's name on inner board otherwise internally clean... Very Good /No Jacket.
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Book number: 499
GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 6 US$ 6.74 | JP¥ 981]
Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: politicians

 
Joseph, Richard
Michael Joseph Master of Words.
Ashford Press Publishing, 1986. Hard Cover, 238 pp, complete dustjacket. B+ w illustrations. A biography of the literary agent, author and publisher. Foreword by Monica Dickens... As New /Fine.
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Book number: 237
GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 US$ 5.39 | JP¥ 784]
Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: biography, publishers. Monica Dickens

 
Kassindja, Fauziya and Bashir, Layli Miller
Do They Hear You When You Cry.
Bantam, 1998. Hard Cover, 518pp. Map. One woman who defied the tribal customs of Togo and fought for her freedom in the West... As New /Fine.
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Book number: 2268
GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 6.07 | JP¥ 882]
Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Togo, feminism, africa

 
Kay, Ernest
Pragmatic Premier An Intimate Portrait Of Harold Wilson.
Leslie Frewin, 1967. First Edition. Hard Cover, 239pp. B + w photographs. Priceclipped dustjacket with a little loss. Gift inscription on flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. The author was a friend of the UK Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, for over 21 years... Very Good /Very Good.
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Book number: 3606
GBP 5.50 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 US$ 7.42 | JP¥ 1079]
Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: biography, politics, politicians, labour

 
Keay, Douglas
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
IPC Magazines, 1980. First Edition. Soft Cover, Tall format. 158pp. Many colour and b + w photographs. Price cut from corner of title page, otherwise a clean copy. 'A celebration of 80 glorious years'... Very Good.
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Book number: 8471
GBP 3.50 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 US$ 4.72 | JP¥ 686]
Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Royalty, Queen

 
Kebbel, T E
Life of George Crabbe.
Walter Scott, 1888. First Edition. Hard Cover, Ex-Library, 157pp and Bibliography. Red cloth covered boards. Ex reference library - bookplate to inner board, a couple of blind stamps, otherwise internally clean. A biography of the poet, part of the 'Great Writers' series... Very Good /No Jacket.
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Book number: 13856
GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.25 US$ 8.09 | JP¥ 1177]
Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Poet, Biography

 
Kelly, Helena
Jane Austen The Secret Radical.
Icon, 2017. Soft Cover, 337pp. Illustrated soft covers without creases. B + w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy. A radical view of Jane Austen as a passionate woman living in an age of revolution and writing about feminism, slavery, the poor, the power of the Church etc... Fine.
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Book number: 16968
GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 US$ 6.07 | JP¥ 882]
Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Jane Austen, Eighteenth Century, Social History, History

 
Kendall, Alan
The Life Of Beethoven.
Hamlyn, 1978. Hard Cover, Large format. 144pp, red boards, dustjacket with one closed tear, no loss. Numerous colour and b + w photographs. Internally clean. Includes a catalogue of Beethoven's Works... Fine /Very Good.
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Book number: 2676
GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 7.25 US$ 8.09 | JP¥ 1177]
Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: music, composer, biography

 
Kingsley, Charles and Kingsley Mrs (ed)
Charles Kingsley His Letters and Memories of His LIfe Edited By His Wife.
Kegan Paul Trench & Co, 1885. Hard Cover, Abridged condensed one volume edition, containing new material. 364pp, handsome marbled boards with leather spine decorated in gilt. Engraved portrait. Marbled endpapers and edges. A few light spots of foxing, othewrwise internally clean... Very Good.
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Book number: 13506
GBP 8.50 [Appr.: EURO 10 US$ 11.46 | JP¥ 1667]
Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Biography, Author

 
Knox, James
Robert Byron.
John Murray, 2004. Soft Cover, 493pp, the paper tanning a little with age. Illustrated soft covers. B + w illustrations. A clean, tight copy. A biography of the great traveller and rediscoverer of the art of Byzantium who wrote 'The Station', about Mount Athos, and 'The Road to Oxiana'... Very Good.
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Book number: 8661
GBP 6.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 US$ 8.77 | JP¥ 1275]
Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Biography, Travel, Byzantine, India, Tibet, Architectural History, History, WWII

 
Lamborn, E A G and Harrison, G B
Shakespeare The Man and His Stage.
Oxford, 1923. First Edition. Hard Cover, 128pp, brown cloth covered boards. B + w illustrations. A clean copy. The life, times, theatre and plays of Shakespeare... Very Good /No Jacket.
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Book number: 12993
GBP 5.50 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 US$ 7.42 | JP¥ 1079]
Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Elizabethan Theatre, Theatre, Shakespeare

 
Lane, Margaret
The Bronte Story.
Fontana, 1973. Mass Market Paperback, Ill.: Joan Hassall. 315pp, the edges browning with age. B + w illustrations. A clean copy. A reconsideration of Mrs Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte... Very Good.
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Book number: 8493
GBP 2.50 [Appr.: EURO 3 US$ 3.37 | JP¥ 490]
Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Mrs Gaskell

 
Lane, Margaret
Purely For Pleasure.
Hamish Hamilton, 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover, 234pp, dustjacket a little rubbed to edges. Previous owner's name on flyleaf, a few light spots of foxing to foredge, othewise clean. Essays on Austen, Johnson, Dickens, Mrs Gaskell, Beatrix Pottrer etc... Very Good /Very Good.
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Book number: 11489
GBP 6.50 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 US$ 8.77 | JP¥ 1275]
Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Bronte, Gaskell, Dickens, Biography, Dr Johnson, Austen, Beatrix Potter

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