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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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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: £39.00

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. l
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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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"The Busiest Man in England" - A Life of Joseph Paxton, Gardener, Architect & Victorian Visionary

By: Colquhoun, Kate

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, David R.Godine: 2006

Seller ID: 007011

ISBN: 1567923011

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First US edition. Pale green paper-covered boards with title in gilt on maroon cloth spine. Condition: Fine, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fine, with just a hint of shelfwear. 303pp. Several b/w and colour illustrations. In this biography, the author depicts Paxton, his circle, and his times. Drawing on personal papers and historical archives, she gives the reader ot only Paxton the public man but also the private one - the father, husband and friend.
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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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Katherine Mansfield - Life and Stories

By: Friis, Anne

Price: £19.00

Publisher: Copenhagen, Denmark, Einar Munksgaard: 1946

Seller ID: 006907

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Text is in English. Pale beige wrapper with title in red on front cover. Condition: Good, with general light shelfwear and soiling to wrappers. Light sunning and creasing to spine. Binding sound, no inscriptions. 183pp. B/w frontispiece portrait of Mansfield.
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The Life of George Cadbury

By: Gardiner, A.G.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Cassell and Company: 1923

Seller ID: 007034

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

No dustjacket. Blue hardcover with title in black on spine and front cover. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound. Previous owners name neatly written in pencil at top of front endpaper. 308pp. B/w frontispiece photographic portrait of George Cadbury and numerous b/w illustrations in text by Clive Gardiner.
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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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High Adventure

By: Hillary, Edmund

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Hodder and Stoughton: 1955

Seller ID: 006852

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Blue hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Light browning to endpapers from dustjacket flaps. Dustjacket condition: Fair, generally shelfworn and lightly soiled and sunned, with some small tears and chips missing. Not price-clipped. 224pp. 31 b/w plates. This is the climbing autobiography up to 1955 of the mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary (1919-2008) with the Everest expedition of 1953 as its climax.
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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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Smoking Kills - The Revolutionary Life of Richard Doll

By: Keating, Conrad

Price: £9.00

Publisher: Oxford, Signal Books: 2014

Seller ID: 006984

ISBN: 1909930040

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Softcover. Condition:Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers. Very small coffee mark to base of textblock, not affecting text in any way.Previous owners name neatly printed at top of half-title.495pp. Several b/w photographic illustrations. This book is "an excellent account of the life and work of a clinical epidemiologist whose science had a major effect in the development of preventative mediciine in the second half of the twentieth century".
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Speke and the discovery of the source of the Nile

By: Maitland, Alexander

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Constable & Co.Ltd.: 1971

Seller ID: 006917

ISBN: 0094574308

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Pale grey hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Top edge of textblock lightly foxed. Binding sound. Inscribed by the author to Elspeth Huxley on title page. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear and light sunning to spine. Not price-clipped. 244pp. 12 b/w illustrations plus b/w frontispiece. This book was the first full length portrait John Hanning Speke (1827-1864) whose great achievement was the discovery in 1862 of the main source of the White Nile in the lake which he named Lake Victoria Nyanza.
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West with the Night

By: Markham, Beryl

Price: £85.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1942

Seller ID: 006934

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

NB: No dustjacket. Jade green cloth with title in black on spine and front cover. First edition, early printing with 1942 on the reverse of the title page (see image). Condition: Good, with general light shelfwear and some soiling to covers. Slight lean to spine. Binding sound, no inscriptions.294pp.
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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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Pillars of the Establishment

By: Thynn, Alexander

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson: 1980

Seller ID: 006871

ISBN: 0091419808

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Purple hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with general light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound. Previous owners bookplate on front endpaper. The bookplate has caused some light cronkling to the front endpaper. Signed and inscribed to the previous owner by Lord Bath on the title page. Dustjacket condition: Fair to good, generally lightly shelfworn, with sunning to spine and some watersplashes to corners (not afecting book itself.) Not price-clipped. 283pp.
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Silence Will Speak - A Study of the Life of Denys Finch Hatton and his relationship with Karen Blixen

By: Trzebinski, Errol

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann Ltd.: 1977

Seller ID: 006918

ISBN: 0434795003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Maroon hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear and light sunning to spine. Not price-clipped. 348pp. Many b/w illustrations. This book is a thorough and fascinating study of Denys Finch Hatton (1887-1931), who lived in the vanished world of private laws which was East Africa in the 1920s.
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Oscar from Africa - The Biography of Oscar Ferris Watkins 1877-1943

By: Watkins, Elizabeth

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, The Radcliffe Press: 1995

Seller ID: 006913

ISBN: 1850439486

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Brown hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound. Inscribed by the author to Elspeth Huxley (who wrote the foreword for the book) on front endpaper, and dated April 1995. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with sunning to spine and just a hint of shelfwear. 266pp. Twelve b/w plates and two b/w maps. Oscar Watkins strove unceasingly to protect the interests of the African peoples in East Africa, particularly Kenya. This biography by his daugter provides him with in the words of Elspeth Husley "an eloquent and fitting memorial"
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