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The Life of William Barnes, Poet and Philologist

By: Baxter, Lucy (Leader Scott)

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London and New York, Macmillan and Co.: 1887

Seller ID: 006298

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Navy blue cloth with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers and light bumping to top and bottom of spine and cover corners. Previous owners name neatly written in ink on front pastedown and front endpapers. Light browning to endpapers. 358pp. pllus 2pp. publishers list. Tissue-guarded frontispiece photographic portrait of William Barnes.The author was born in Dorchester, the third daughter of William Barnes, by his wife Julia Miles. The book provides a sympathetic portrait of Barnes (22 February 1801 - 7 October 1886) who was an English writer, poet, Church of ...
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James Lees-Milne - The Life

By: Bloch, Michael

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 2009

Seller ID: 006816

ISBN: 0719560349

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Black hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, with light shelfwear to covers. Previous owners name and a date neatly written at top of front endpaper. ustjacket condition: Very good, with light shelfwear. Not price-clipped. 400pp. Several b/w photographic illustrations. This is the biography of James Lees-Milne (1908-97), remembered for his work for the National Trust, and for his vivid and entertaining diaries.
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Pitt Rivers: The life and archaeological work of Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers

By: Bowden, Mark

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1991

Seller ID: 005464

ISBN: 0521400775

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Black hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, with light shelfwear to covers. Inscription to previous owner on front endpaper. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with light shelfwear. 182pp. 60 b/w illustrations. A flamboyant polymath, General Augustus Heny Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827-1900) was influential in at least four fields during his lifetime: military training, anthropology, archaeology and public education. This thoroughly researched biography of a controversial man describes his career, character and motivation.
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Poetic Justice

By: Campbell Lyle, Anna

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Francestown, Typographeum: 1986

Seller ID: 003374

ISBN: 0930126173

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Red cloth with titles in black within paper label on spine. (Tipped-in spare paper label to rear). Hand-set, printed letterpress, bound by R. T. Risk. Condition: Very good with a couple of small faint splashmarks to front cover. Binding sound, text clean. Inscription to previous owner on fep. Limited edition of 150 copies. 153pp. 6 b/w plates. Anna Lyle's beautifully produced biography of her father, the poet Roy Campbell. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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My Days and Dreams Being Autobiographical Notes

By: Carpenter, Edward.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin: 1918

Seller ID: 005183

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

Third edition. (first published June 1916). Grey cloth with title in black on front cover and spine. Condition: Fair, covers are generally shelfworn with splashmarks to front cover and spine. General foxing to text and textblock edges. Browning to endpapers. Inscription to previous owner on front endpaper dated 1921. 342pp. 15 b/w photographic plates plus frontispiece. One plate missing (there should be 16) - an image of Edward Carpenter in his porch. Good reading copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Bloomsbury: A House of Lions

By: Edel, Leon

Price: £14.00

Publisher: London, The Hogarth Press Ltd.: 1979

Seller ID: 006461

ISBN: 070120463X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dark brown hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good,with just a hint of shelfwear to covers. Inscription to previous owner and the previous owners name on front free endpaper. Binding sound. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear, and light foxing to rear of jacket. Not price-clipped. 288pp. 11 b/w illustrations, inc.frontispiece. In this book, the author tells the story of the nine main characters of the Bloomsbury set: Vigrinia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keynes, Desmond MacCarthy, Roger Fry, Clive Bell, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.
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The Familiar Faces - the Third Part of an Autobiography by David Garnett

By: Garnett, David

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1962

Seller ID: 006681

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Terracotta colour cloth with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with light shelfwear. Price-clipped. 221pp. 11 b/w illustrations (inc.frontispiece)
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Carrington - A Life of Dora Carrington - 1893-1932

By: Gerzina, Gretchen

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1989

Seller ID: 006755

ISBN: 0719546885

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Blue hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with light shelfwear. Not price-clipped. 342pp. Many b/w illustrations.
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Dylan Thomas and the Bohemians: The Photographs of Nora Summers

By: Harries, Robert (ed.)

Price: £22.00

Publisher: Cardigan, Wales, Parthian Books: 2014

Seller ID: 006698

ISBN: 1909844985

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dark red hardcover with title in silver on spine. Condition: Fine, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fine, with just a hint of shelfwear. 215pp. Many b/w and occasional colour illustrations. Nora Summers was responsible for some of the iconic images of Dylan Thomas but not much has been written about her life, which was bucolic and populated by bohemians. Part biography, part photobook, this volume draws from the personal archives, both physical and memorial, of Gabriel Summers, Nora's grandson, with contributions from Jeff Towns, a leading writer on the life and work of Dy...
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Lady Elizabeth and the Grosvenors: Life in a Whig Family 1822-1839

By: Huxley, Gervas

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1965

Seller ID: 006291

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Olive green hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Some light foxing to fore-edge of textblock. Inscribed by the author to his aunt (Vera) on the front endpaper. Also loosely inserted is a letter from the author to his aunt. Dustjacket condition: Fair, generally shelfworn with some creasing to front cover of jacket. Not price-clipped. 187pp. 8 b/w illustrations plus frontispiece. This book by Gervas Huxley (cousin of Aldous and Julian and husband of Elspeth) which paints a picture of life in one of the wealthiest of the great ruling Whig familie...
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Terry Neill - Revelations of a Football Manager

By: Neill, Terry

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Sidgwick & Jackson: 1985

Seller ID: 006821

ISBN: 0283992220

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Black hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear. Not price-clipped. 191pp. Many b/w photographic illustrations.
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A Man of the Field

By: Sheardown, Frank

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Brookland, Kent, Huddlesford Publications: 1988

Seller ID: 006463

ISBN: 0907827098

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Black hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear to covers. Signed by the author on title page. The front endpaper also bears the name Huxley (this book came from the collection of the late writer on Africa, Elspeth Huxley). Dustjacket condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear. 159pp. Several b/w photographic illustrations. In this book the author describes his life as a settler in Kenya during the period after World War II and the granting of independence, dividing his time between farming and hunting, and a way of life gone forever.
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Memoirs of an Egotist

By: Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Turnstile Press: 1949

Seller ID: 006662

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Text is in English throughout. Translated from the French by T.W.Earp.Pale green cloth with title in olive green on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound. Previous owners name on front endpaper (George Millar, an SOE). Light foxing to endpapers. Dustjacket condition: Good, with general light shelfwear. Not price-clipped. 143pp.
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Sigmund Freud - His Personality, His Teaching and His School

By: Wittels, Fritz (translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul)

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd.: 1924

Seller ID: 006350

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dark green hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with some light scuffing to covers and some light bumping to head and tail of spine, otherwise in very good shape. Light browning to endpapers. Note in pencil by previous owner to rear pastedown. 287pp.
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