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By: N/A
Price: £7.50
Publisher: London, Pitkin Pictorials: 1980
Seller ID: 036492
Recounts the story of Alice Liddell daughter of the Dean of Christ Church and inspiration of the Alice books. A very good clean copy illustrated with colour and b.w. photographs. 32 pages. Next post UK dispatch. View more info
By: N/A
Price: £42.50
Publisher: London, Burns & Oates: 1917
Edition: Facsimile
Seller ID: 064861
A brief record of the Duke of Norfolk's sayings and doings. Undated circa 1917. Previous owner's name Joseph J. Hanson (of Hansom cab family) dated January 1918 on title page. Annotation related to Hansom's connection with the Duke of Norfolk on 4 pages of the book plus occasional pencil marks to margins. First Edition. 128 pages. Spine strip and board edges have faded and a couple of blemishes to boards. View more info
By: Abels, Jules
Price: £17.50
Publisher: London, The Bodley Head: 1966
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 043133
First complete biography for thirty years of the man who was the most powerful leader Ireland ever had. Brings fresh insight and immediacy to the story of Parnell, and the friends and enemies, public and private, who worked for or against him and grieved or rejoiced at his downfall. Clean, square hardback in an unclipped d/w showing light shelfwear - 408 pages including index. Next post dispatch. View more info
By: Ackroyd, Peter
Price: £12.50
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 028053
Brings us closer to a man who has remained an enigma for 500 years - a man of great spirituality and deep piety, yet also ambitious and who as Lord Chancellor dominated the court of Henry VIII. 435 pages. A clean, bright copy in very good jacket. View more info
By: Acton, Harold
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co Ltd: 1948
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 065587
Witty and vivid account of the author's first thirty-five years of his life from his boyhood among the international colony of dilettante in Florence before the First World War, to his maturity when he discovered his spiritual home in Peking before the old Chinese culture was destroyed. Between the two, he was one of the brilliant generation up at Oxford just after the war and afterwards moved to Paris where he knew many of the literary and artistic figures of the time. ... View more info
By: Adams, Leigh
Price: £14.50
Publisher: London, Blake: 2004
Seller ID: 036962
Offers a unique and subtly revealing portrait of the actor, including photographs from the sets of his films and also rare photographs taken by the actor himself. A clean, crisp copy in unclipped jacket. Appears unread. Illustrated with b.w. photographs. 223 pages. Next post UK dispatch View more info
By: Adler, Bill
Price: £7.50
Publisher: London, Guild: 1988
Seller ID: 011177
Clean, bright copy telling the story of one of America's favourite personalities. 125 pages. Prompt dispatch. View more info
By: Agate, James
Price: £10.50
Publisher: London, George G. Harrap: 1948
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 026877
A very good, clean copy in jacket which has been repaired internally with tape and shows minor loss. 269 pages including index. 16 illustrations in half-tone. Covering a year in the life of the drama critic James Agate, famous a man for his witticisms. View more info
By: Alagiah, George
Price: £17.50
Publisher: London, Little, Brown & Co: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 040748
Powerful, passionate, thought-provoking account - an autobiography not so much of George Alagiah, but of Africa itself. Good, tight hardback in an unclipped d/w and SIGNED across title page '' George Alagiah Oct '01'' Some light sunning to page edges - 286pp including index. Prompt dispatch. View more info
By: Aldrick, Judy
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Kenya, Old Africa Books: 2012
Seller ID: 066050
Biography of the American millionaire who fell in love with Kenya on a visit in 1904, bought a large estate and a mountain and poured his large fortune into his adopted country. Clean, crisp paperback which appears unread. 244 pages. Prompt dispatch. View more info
By: Alexander, Marc
Price: £10.50
Publisher: London, Mouth and Foot Painting Artists: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 051874
Looks at the life and career of one of the most remarkable men of the 20th century who overcame the loss of his arms through polio to become a professional artist and left a legacy of self-help and encouragement. Clean bright large format hardback in a d/w - 164 pages. Next post dispatch. View more info
By: Alexander, Peter
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1964
Seller ID: 021753
Clean, bright copy in an unclipped d/w. No. 252 of the Home University Library series. Authoritative introduction for the student to Shakespeare's genius. 271 pages including index. View more info
By: Alldridge, John
Price: £12.50
Publisher: London, G. Bell & Sons: 1960
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 051761
Serves as both a collection of real-life adventure stories and a career book as the author presents sides of journalism in 16 chapters on the work of newspapermen and women - special correspondents, crime reporters, photographers and special investigators. Previous owner's details stamped to ffep and last page else a good square copy in an unclipped d/w showing some shelfwear & tear and sunning to spine - 191 pages. View more info
Price: £37.50
Publisher: Georgetown, IL, USA, Faulstich Printing Co.: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 031528
An American's story of his time as a prisoner-of-war during World War 2 at the hands of the German army. A very good clean copy containing 114 pages. Prompt dispatch. View more info
By: Allen, M.D.
Price: £37.50
Publisher: University Park, PA, Pennsylvania State University Press: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 027170
"Deals with Lawrence's lifelong interest in the medieval world, especially medieval literature, and its considerable influence on his view of himself and of the Arabs with whom he fought in an archaic theatre of war, and hence his own literary production. " Clean, crisp copy in archival protected dustjacket. Slight bumping to edges of boards. No other discernible faults. 220 pages including index. A most attractive copy of this now hard-to-find title. Prompt... View more info
By: Allen, Paul
Price: £17.50
Publisher: London, Methuen: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 044549
SIGNED on the title page with the inscription "To Sheila with all good wishes Alan Ayckbourn and Paul Allen". Book has tear to jacket and indent to front board where it has been knocked. otherwise a clean, crisp hardback in unclipped dustwrapper. Illustrated with b/w photographs. 358 pages including index. Next post UK dispatch. View more info
By: Allies, Mary H.
Price: £50.00
Publisher: London, Burns Oates and Washbourne Ltd: 1924
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 061764
Biography of one of the Anglican churchmen who joined the Roman Catholic Church in the early period of the Oxford Movement, written by his daughter and SIGNED by her to the ffep with the inscription ''Eileen Fripp From Mary Allies In memoriam T.W.A.'' Internally clean copy with light signs of shelfwear to covers - 215 pages including index. Prompt dispatch. View more info
By: Amis, Kingsley
Price: £55.00
Publisher: London, Hutchinson: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 065659
Looks back on decades of friendships, as well as on the quick clashes and lively skirmishes which also punctuate Amis's personal and literary life. Bright, square copy which is SIGNED by the author to the title page. Dustjacket remains unclipped - 346 pages including index. Prompt dispatch. View more info
Price: £9.50
Publisher: New York, NY, USA, Henry Holt & Company: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 051706
Uncompromising, unauthorized, and often startling biography based on years of research and countless interviews - including conservations with Henry Fonda and with Jane herself. View more info
Price: £12.50
Publisher: London, Simon & Schuster: 1993
Seller ID: 052864
Riveting portrait based on years of research and countless interviews with friends, teachers, fellow musicians, family members, neighbours, industry insiders and lovers. Clean bright large volume hardback in an unclipped d/w - 438 pages including index. Next post dispatch. View more info
