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Alice's Adventures in Oxford

By: N/A

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Pitkin Pictorials: 1980

Seller ID: 036492

Binding: Soft Cover

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.
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C.H. St.J. Hornby : 25 June 1867 - 26 April 1946 - An Anthology of Appreciations

By: N/A

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, W. H. Smith: 1946

Seller ID: 067046

Binding: Paper Wraps

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.
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Colin David Kennard DSO - Wartime Correspondence 1940 - 1946

By: N/A

Price: £47.50

Publisher: Privately Published: 2015

Seller ID: 068475

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

Wartime letters, written mainly to his mother, which give a powerful impression of a young, but typically naive, idealistic man of 21 who at the beginning of the war was eager to do his bit but by the end was battle hardened and had seen too much destruction and futility. Clean, crisp hardback which appears unread. 182 pages. Prompt dispatch,
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The Parnell Tragedy

By: Abels, Jules

Price: £17.50

Publisher: London, The Bodley Head: 1966

Seller ID: 043133

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Blake - SIGNED COPY

By: Ackroyd, Peter

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, Sinclair Stevenson: 1995

Seller ID: 068984

ISBN: 1856192784

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

SIGNED 'Peter Ackroyd' in black ink on the half-title. Dicloses the true nature of Blake's life and art, tracing his progression from early childhood in a Dissenting household through his apprenticeship as an engraver and his studies at the newly formed Royal Academy Schools, to his full maturity when he produced the masterpieces upon which his reputation rests. A very good clean hardback in unclipped dustwrapper which shows signs of light shelfwear/surface scratches. 399 pages. Illsutrated with both b.w. & colour pictures. Next post UK dispatch.
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The Life of Thomas More

By: Ackroyd, Peter

Price: £12.50

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1998

Seller ID: 028053

ISBN: 1856197115

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Roundhead General : The Campaigns of Sir William Waller

By: Adair, John

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Stroud, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing Ltd: 1997

Seller ID: 068244

ISBN: 0750913126

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

New edition of the author's highly acclaimed biography, fully revised, updated and re-illustrated with photographs and campaign maps. Looks at the life and times of the commander of a Parliamentarian army who for over two years counted Oliver Cromwell as one of his subordinates. Clean, square hardback in an unclipped d/w showing lightest signs of shelf with sunning to spine - 310 pages including index. Prompt dispatch.
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James Dean: Portrait of Cool

By: Adams, Leigh

Price: £14.50

Publisher: London, Blake: 2004

Seller ID: 036962

ISBN: 1857825918

Binding: Hard Cover

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
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The Cosby Wit, His Life & Humour

By: Adler, Bill

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Guild: 1988

Seller ID: 011177

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Clean, bright copy telling the story of one of America's favourite personalities. 125 pages. Prompt dispatch.
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Ego 8, Continuing the Autobiography of James Agate

By: Agate, James

Price: £10.50

Publisher: London, George G. Harrap: 1948

Seller ID: 026877

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Heroes and Contemporaries (SIGNED COPY)

By: Aitken, Jonathan

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Continuum: 2006

Seller ID: 068528

ISBN: 0826478336

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

A book of profiles written with the author's personal insights, anecdotes and judgments on fascinating public figures he encountered in life's journey. Clean, bright copy which is SIGNED by the author to the ffep with the inscription ''To Anthony Best Wishes Jonathan Aitkin''. Rear of d/w shows lightest 'crumpling' - 254 pages. Prompt dispatch. 068528.
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A Passage to Africa (SIGNED COPY)

By: Alagiah, George

Price: £17.50

Publisher: London, Little, Brown & Co: 2001

Seller ID: 040748

ISBN: 0316855545

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Northrup - The Life of William Northrup McMillan

By: Aldrick, Judy

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Kenya, Old Africa Books: 2012

Seller ID: 066050

ISBN: 9966757007

Binding: Soft Cover

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.
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A.E. Stegmann : The Life and Art of a Remarkable Artist

By: Alexander, Marc

Price: £10.50

Publisher: London, Mouth and Foot Painting Artists: 2000

Seller ID: 051874

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Price of Freedom

By: Allen, Charles F.

Price: £37.50

Publisher: Georgetown, IL, USA, Faulstich Printing Co.: 1987

Seller ID: 031528

Binding: Paper Back

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.
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The Mediaevalism of Lawrence of Arabia

By: Allen, M.D.

Price: £37.50

Publisher: University Park, PA, Pennsylvania State University Press: 1989

Seller ID: 027170

ISBN: 0271006730

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Alan Ayckbourn - Grinning at the Edge (SIGNED COPY)

By: Allen, Paul

Price: £17.50

Publisher: London, Methuen: 2001

Seller ID: 044549

ISBN: 0413731200

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Thomas William Allies (SIGNED COPY)

By: Allies, Mary H.

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, Burns Oates and Washbourne Ltd: 1924

Seller ID: 061764

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Memoirs (SIGNED COPY)

By: Amis, Kingsley

Price: £55.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson: 1991

Seller ID: 065659

ISBN: 0091745330

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Citizen Jane : The Turbulent Life of Jane Fonda

By: Andersen, Christopher

Price: £9.50

Publisher: New York, NY, USA, Henry Holt & Company: 1990

Seller ID: 051706

ISBN: 0805009590

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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