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Life and Letters of H Taine Part Two 1853-1870

By: N/A

Price: £10.00

Publisher: LONDON, Archibald Constable & Co Limited: 1904

Seller ID: X009469

Condition: Very Good

Original red cloth with gilt titling, 330pp, prelims and fore edge of pages foxed.
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Biographical Dictionary of Scientists Engineers and Inventors

By: Abbott, David

Price: £10.00

Publisher: LONDON, Blond Educational: 1985

Seller ID: X011899

ISBN: 0584700040

Condition: VG

Original cloth and dustwrappe. 189pp, illustrated with drawings.
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Bill - The Sheik

By: Alice M Williamson

Price: £18.00

Publisher: New York, George H Duran Company: 1927

Seller ID: X004267

Condition: Very Good

Original orange cloth with black titling, cloth slightly marked, 293pp, internally a very clean copy.
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Graziella

By: Alphonse De Lamartine

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Paris, Le Livre Francais: 1926

Seller ID: X006965

Condition: Fine

Original blue half-calf and marbled boards, gilt titling to spine which has faded, xxiv/176pp, a limited edition of 500 copies of which this is No 131. Ink inscription to fep.
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The Military Life of John Duke of Marlborough

By: Archibald Alison

Price: £55.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, William Blackwood: 1848

Seller ID: X003054

Condition: Very Good

Brown blind stamped cloth with gilt titling to spine, which has slight damage to head, corners bumped, top edge of pages dusty, xxvi/504pp, illustrated with six maps/plans, internally clean with a few odd foxing spots
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John Thadeus Delane Editor of 'The Times' His Life and Correspondence 1817-1879 2 Volumes

By: Arthur Irwin Dasent

Price: £15.00

Publisher: LONDON, JOHN MURRAY: 1908

Seller ID: X009479

Condition: Very Good

Original green cloth with gilt titling and lining to spines, 328/376pp, with portraits and other illustrations, some foxing spots to fore-edges of both vols and the last pages of vol 1. There will be additional postage due to weight [1.8kg approx].
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No Time to Kill

By: Bark Evelyn

Price: £15.00

Publisher: ROBERT HALE: 1960

Seller ID: 015716

Condition: VG

Autobiography of this Britisg Red Cross Commissioner including her war service in the UK and Gerrmany. 192pp, illustrated. VG clean copy, some spotting to edges, in slightly edge worn dw. Signed by Author to title page.
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Reminiscences of Men and Manners During the Past Seventy Years

By: Bruce W S

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Aberdeen, Jas. G Bisset: 1929

Seller ID: X008822

Condition: VG

VG copy, a litle light scatter foxing, in original cloth with a VG dustwrapper, spine darkened. 308pp, with errata slip, the author was the senior Minister of Banff parish.
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Kitchener : Architect of Victory

By: Cassar George H

Price: £22.00

Publisher: William Kimber: 1977

Seller ID: 017381

ISBN: 0718303350

Condition: VG

Extensive biography of Lord Kitchener with emphasis on his role as Secretary of State for War at the start of WW1. 573pp, illustrated. VG clean copy in dust wrapper, old ownership label to front end-paper.
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The Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey the Great Cardinal of England

By: Cavendish George

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Chipping Camden, The Alcuin Press: 1930

Seller ID: X001696

Condition: VG

Original red buckram with dustwrapper which has some speckling to upper board, 192pp, No 141 of a limited edition of 350 copies.
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Ballerina : Portraits and Impressions of Nadia Nerina

By: Clement Crisp (Editor)

Price: £125.00

Publisher: LONDON, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1975

Seller ID: X007034

ISBN: 0297769510

Condition: Very Good

unpaginated, c150pp, largely illustrated. A interesting signed association copy - signed and inscribed to 'Dear Kathy and Bing [Crosby] with love Nadia. 15/9/75'. Included is a letter from Nadia Nerina of the same date thanking them 'for a superb dinner party.. made memorable by your informal singing'. Also another letter from 'Alan F' to William Tallon {better known as 'Backstairs Billy'} at Clarence House, it's footnote says 'she sent her biography to the Crosbys. They promptly gave it to me to give away'. ! VG copy in paper covered boards with cloth spine, hint of bumping to corners. Dust ...
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Memories

By: Clodd Edward

Price: £8.50

Publisher: London, Watts & Co: 1926

Seller ID: X008839

Condition: VG-

VG copy, a litle light spotting in slightly marked original red cloth with gilt titling, 288pp, illustrated with 13 portraits.
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This Time the World

By: Commander George Lincoln Rothwell

Price: £350.00

Publisher: New York, Parliament House: 1963

Seller ID: X004820

Condition: Very Good

Original cloth, 441pp, illustrated, the autobiography of Lincoln Rockwell, Commander, American Nazi Party of the World Union of National Socialists, known for his extreme anti-semitic and racist views.
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Froissart :The Chronicler of European Chivalry

By: Coulton G G

Price: £10.00

Publisher: LONDON, THE STUDIO LIMITED: 1930

Seller ID: X010195

Condition: Good

Original cloth and dustwrapper, cloth dusty and d/w browned, chipped and worn at edges and split along front outer hinge, 134pp, with 8 coloured plates and 75 half tone illustrations.
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The Life-History of Alexander Anderson ("Surfaceman")

By: Cuthbertson David

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Privately Printed:

Seller ID: 014356

Condition: VG-

Biography of the 19th Century Scottish Poet Alexander Anderson. 139pp, 4 portrait illustrations. VG copy in original green cloth, just a little worn on edges. Privately printed for the Author - undated but generally considered to be c.1929. Very scarce.
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Sky Fever

By: de Havilland Geofrey

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Wrens Park: 1999

Seller ID: 017054

ISBN: 0905778405

Condition: VG

The autobiography of the greatest British aircraft designer of the 20th century. 239pp, illustrated. VG clean copy in dust wrapper.
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The Lancashire Life of Bishop Fraser

By: Diggle John W

Price: £9.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington: 1891

Seller ID: X008975

Condition: VG

Original blue cloth with gilt titling, 565pp, with two illustrations, a very good + bright copy.
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Adelaide Ristori A Sketch of Her Life and Twenty Words Relative to Her Genius with an Analysis of the Tragedy of "Medea"

By: E Peron Hingston

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Thomas Hailes Lacy: 1856

Seller ID: X000750

Condition: Fair

Original decorated card covers, soiled around the edges. A rare early monograph on a famous Italian tragedienne.
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The Life and Correspondence of Major Cartwright 2 Vols

By: Ed F D Cartwright

Price: £195.00

Publisher: LONDON, Henry Colburn: 1826

Seller ID: X009824

Condition: Very Good

Newly rebound with blue paper covered boards and beige spines with title labels, 413/433pp, the subject of this biography was regarded as the patriach of parliamentary reform in the early years of the nineteenth century. There may be additional postage due to weight [1.7kg approx].
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Bamford's Passages in the Life of a Radical and Early Days 2 Volumes

By: Ed Henry Dunckley

Price: £12.00

Publisher: LONDON, T Fisher Unwin: 1893

Seller ID: X010572

Condition: Very Good

Original cloth with gilt and black titling, spines of both vols darkened, 268/348pp. There might be additional postage due to weight [1.5kg approx].
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The Life of Josiah Wedgwood from His Private Correspondence and Letters 2 Volumes

By: Eliza Meteyard

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Stoke-on-Trent, Joseph Wedgwood & Sons: 1980

Seller ID: X009096

Condition: Fine

2 volumes, original blue cloth with gilt titling and gilt and silver decoration, 504/643pp, illustrated, a limited facsimile edition of one thousand copies in celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Josiah Wedgwood. There will be additional postage due to weight [3.25kg approx]
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The Life of Mary Dudley Including an Account of Her Religious Engagements and Extracts from Her Letters

By: Elizabeth Dudley

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, The Author: 1825

Seller ID: X010054

Condition: Fine

Original full leather binding with gilt title on red label to spine, very slight rubbing to spine, 380pp, with an appendix containing some account of the illness and death of her daughter Hannah Dudley. Previous owner's name in ink to ffep, a fine and bright copy.
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Memoirs of Sir Edwin Landseer

By: F G Stephens

Price: £29.50

Publisher: LONDON, George Bell & Sons: 1874

Seller ID: X009532

Condition: VG-

Original green cloth with gilt titling and gilt decoration, bevelled edges, corners bumped, gutta percha binding beginning to loosen, 184pp, illustrated with reproductions of twenty-four of the artist's most popular works.
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John Fergusson 1727-1750 : An Ayshire Family of the Forty-five

By: Fergusson James

Price: £9.00

Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape: 1948

Seller ID: X008819

Condition: VG

VG copy in rather edge worn dw, 223pp, with 4 portrait illustrations.
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Passages from the Autobiography of a "Man of Kent"

By: Fitz-roy Stanley Reginald

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Whittingham & Wilkins: 1866

Seller ID: X008824

Condition: VG

Togther with Few Rough Pen-and-ink Sketches By the Same Hand on Some of the People he Has Met the Changes He Has Seen and the Places he Has Visited 1817-1865. Original green cloth with gilt titling and decoration, spine darkened, 401pp, printed for subscription only. A scarce title.
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Harry Ferguson : Inventor and Pioneer

By: Fraser Colin

Price: £19.00

Publisher: JOHN MURRAY: 1973

Seller ID: 016857

ISBN: 0719526604

Condition: VG

Biography of the great Ulster engineer and busnessman, best remebered for his iconic and revolutionary tractors. 294pp, illustrated. VG clean copy in dust wrapper
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The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon,with Selections from His Correspondence 3 Vols

By: Horace Twiss

Price: £80.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1844

Seller ID: X003052

Condition: Good

Original brown blind stamped cloth with gilt titling to spine, the tops of which on Vols 2 and 3 are slightly pulled, corners of all vols bumped, rough cut page edges dusty and darkened, 514/614/518pp, illustrated with three plates to each volume, tissue guarded but browned on the margins, some foxing and browning to endpapers, a good set. There will be additional postage due to weight.
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A Full Life

By: Horrocks Brian

Price: £50.00

Publisher: COLLINS: 1960

Seller ID: 015729

Condition: VG

Autobiography of Lt Gen Sir Brian Horrocks. 320pp, illustrated, VG copy in edge worn dust wrapper. Signed inscription from Horrocks to Joe Hoyle, the then Chairman of W H Smith. thanking him for the 'truely magnificent display', presumably in the W H Smiths' shop in London!
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Havelock Ellis Philosopher of Love

By: Houston Peterson

Price: £14.00

Publisher: LONDON, George Allen & Unwin Ltd:

Seller ID: X009618

Condition: Very Good

Beige cloth binding with brown label with gilt titling to spine, 432pp, with eight illustrations, undated but c 1926, a very clean copy. Ex-Wellcome library.
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The Walled Garden

By: Hugh Ross Williamson

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Michael Joseph: 1956

Seller ID: X004319

Condition: Very Good

Original cloth and dustwrapper, which has a faded spine, and some fading to front cover, 231pp, initialled inscription by the author to fep.
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