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By: N/A
Price: £7.50
Publisher: London, Pitkin Pictorials: 1980
Seller ID: 036492
Condition: Very Good
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: £20.00
Publisher: London, W. H. Smith: 1946
Seller ID: 067046
Condition: Good
Published for private circulation by WHS, of which Hornby was a partner. Contributions from some of the many friends he made. Internally clean copy in paper wraps showing some shelf wear and light mottling - 48 pages. View more info
By: Abels, Jules
Price: £17.50
Publisher: London, The Bodley Head: 1966
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 043133
Condition: Very Good
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
ISBN: 1856197115
Condition: Very Good
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: Adam Reilly
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Lonfon, Andre Deutsch: 1978
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: 067694
ISBN: 0233969950
Condition: Near Fine
Looks at the life and work of the American actor, comedian, and stunt performer who appeared in nearly 200 silent comedy films.Clean, crisp hardback in unclipped jacket. 240 pages including index. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Prompt dispatch. View more info
By: Adams, Leigh
Price: £14.50
Publisher: London, Blake: 2004
Seller ID: 036962
ISBN: 1857825918
Condition: Near Fine
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
Condition: Near Fine
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
Condition: Very Good
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
ISBN: 0316855545
Condition: Very Good
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
ISBN: 9966757007
Condition: Near Fine
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
Condition: Very Good
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: Alldridge, John
Price: £12.50
Publisher: London, G. Bell & Sons: 1960
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 051761
Condition: Good
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
Condition: Very Good
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
Price: £40.00
Publisher: London, Elm Tree Books: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 067306
ISBN: 0241105900
Condition: Near Fine
Looks at the life and career of the larger than life personality whose name still carries authority among the British 'colony' in Hollywood and reverberates in the Long Room at Lords. Clean, bright copy in an unclipped d/w - 172 pages including index. 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
ISBN: 0271006730
Condition: Very Good
"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 dispatch. View more info
By: Allen, Paul
Price: £17.50
Publisher: London, Methuen: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 044549
ISBN: 0413731200
Condition: Good
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
Condition: Good
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
ISBN: 0091745330
Condition: Very Good
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
ISBN: 0805009590
Condition: Very Good
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
ISBN: 0671712098
Condition: Very Good
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
