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By: Bowden, Mark
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1991
Seller ID: 005464
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 ed... View more info
Price: £45.00
Publisher: Francestown, Typographeum: 1986
Edition: Limited.
Seller ID: 003374
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 View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin: 1918
Seller ID: 005183
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. ... View more info
By: Fey, Venn
Price: £25.00
Publisher: New York, Vantage Press: 1982
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 006187
Maroon hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers and light foxing to endpapers. Some light foing to fore-edges of textblock and very occasionally within book. Dustjacket condition: Good, with general light shelfwear and light foxing to inner jacket flaps. 103pp. Several b/w illustrations. Loosely inserted is a short handwritten letter dated 1991 from the illustrator, Beth Fey to the African travel writer Elspeth Huxley (whose ... View more info
By: Graves, Robert and Hart, Liddell
Price: £22.00
Publisher: London, Cassell and Company: 1963
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 005398
Brown cloth with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. There are a couple of marks to fore-edge of textblock, and a light crease to the rear endpaper. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with light shelfwear and light soiling to spine and rear cover of dustjacket. Not price-clipped. 260pp. Robert Graves and Basil Liddell Hart wrote the only two authorised biographies of T E Lawrence during his lifetime. After Lawrence's de... View more info
By: Huxley, Gervas
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, Chatto & Windus: 1961
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 006059
Red cloth with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers. Inscribed by the author to his son, Charles Huxley and dated April 1961 on front endpaper.Dustjacket condition: Fair to good, generally lightly shelfworn and lightly soiled with a few small tears. Not price-clipped. 205pp. 16 b/w plates (inc.frontispiece). This biography tells the story of Lady Denman, one of the most notable British women of the early 20th century. Motivate... View more info
By: Lawrence, T.E.
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape: 1955
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004213
First trade edtition. Navy blue hardcover with title in dulled gilt to spine and R.A.F. wings logo blindstamped at top of front cover. Condition: Very good, light foxing to endpapers, no inscriptions. Binding sound. Some foxing to pages 14 and 15. Dustjacket condition: Good, with general light sunning, light soiling and shelfwear. Not price-clipped. An entertaining but subjective account of Lawrence's life in the R.A.F. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall View more info
