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By: Baxter, Lucy (Leader Scott)
Price: £50.00
Publisher: London and New York, Macmillan and Co.: 1887
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 006298
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 ... View more info
By: Bowden, Mark
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1991
Seller ID: 005464
ISBN: 0521400775
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. View more info
Price: £40.00
Publisher: Francestown, Typographeum: 1986
Edition: Limited.
Seller ID: 003374
ISBN: 0930126173
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 View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin: 1918
Seller ID: 005183
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 View more info
By: Edel, Leon
Price: £14.00
Publisher: London, The Hogarth Press Ltd.: 1979
Seller ID: 006461
ISBN: 070120463x
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. View more info
By: Huxley, Gervas
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, Chatto & Windus: 1961
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 006059
Condition: Very Good
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. Motivated by a concern for justice, especially in the cause of women, Lady Denman was chosen in 1916 to be the head of the Women's In... View more info
By: Huxley, Gervas
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1965
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 006291
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... View more info
By: Lawrence, T.E.
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape: 1955
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004213
Condition: Very Good
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
By: Manville, Bill
Price: £75.00
Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce: 1960
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 006323
Condition: Good
Black hardcover with title in white on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Light browning to endpapers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fair, generally shelfworn with some small chips and tears (including an apprxoimately 1/2 inch chip missing to base of spine of dustjacket), some light soiling and foxing. Not price-clipped. 124pp. The book was designed by Alexey Brodovitch and is augmented with b/w photographic images by David Attie. View more info
By: Sheardown, Frank
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Brookland, Kent, Huddlesford Publications: 1988
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 006463
ISBN: 0907827098
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. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape & Chatto and Windus: 1967
Seller ID: 006303
Condition: Very Good
Red cloth with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, with just a faint hint of shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear. Price-clipped. 352pp. 25 b/w illustrations. In this book, at once affectionate and detached, Sylvia Townsend Warner reveals a man of humour and vivid imagination. She was one of the writers T H White most admired. They never met, yet through her careful research into the legacy of his journals, diaries and letters and her conversations with those who knew him best, she reaches an intimate understa... View more info
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
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. View more info
