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London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1950 red cloth gilt signture to cover, blue and gilt panel to spine, DW not clipped and VG. only faults are a small patch upper corner DW surface lifted when a label removed, and tail of spine has been damp with offsetting of red to the inside of the DW and a small patch discoloured to the cloth and tiny bit to the gutter at the front endpaper. DW a little rubbed to extremities. 283pp. Biography by his brother of A . J. A. Symons and his various roles as a collector, dandy, calligrapher, biographer and bon vivant.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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A.J.A. Symons his life and speculations
by SYMONS Julian
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The Aga Khans
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Kingswood: Worlds Work, 1984 excellent copy in unclipped DW, 399pp +plates, history and biography of the Aga Khans, leaders of the Ismaili sect of Islam. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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Aldous Huxley a Biography Volume One 1894-1939
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1973 pale green wrappers with printed title and PROOF COPY, also in pen [please return to Collins Christchurch. jointly published by Chatto and Collins, spine is faded, minor spots of foxing to covers. xv 396pp + plates, small area of soiling to closed fore edge. some foxing to top edges of the plates. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Galley/Proof.
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Alexander the God
by DRUON Maurice
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London: Rupert Hart Davis, 1960 book spine lean otherwise VG, DW unclipped, small splits at spine ends, a few waterspots to spine (very small). stunning colour picture DW. Told in first person by Aristander the aide to Alexander. Includes a map and chronology and notes. 319pp. Historical fiction biography of Alexander the Great, man and god.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Graham Oakley. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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Alice James, a Biography
by STROUSE Jean
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1980 xvi 367pp + plates, the sister of William and Henry James revealed through her journals and letters. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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The Apologie and Treatise of Ambroise Pare, Containing the Voyages Made Into Divers Places with Many of His Writings Upon Surgery
by PARE Ambroise Edited By Geoffrey Keynes
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New York: Dover, 1968 very tidy, quality paper sewn into stiff wrappers, xxiv 227pp facsimile of 1952 edition. First Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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Arnold Bennett, a Biography
by POUND Reginald
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London: Heinemann, 1952 dust jacket price clipped, sunned spine, short edge tears or chips, x 385pp + plates, spotted or dusty closed edges. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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Arthur Koestler
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London: Neville Spearman, 1956 unclipped DW heavily sun faded to spine, some minor edge tears, book clean excepting heavily foxed free end papers (only), 224pp. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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Arthur Ruppin Memoirs Diaries Letters
by BEIN Alex
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London: Weidenfeld, 1971 VG hardback in a good DW with edge wear including some tears and chipping as well as the front fold in being 'curled' and creased. DW is price clipped but generally complete. 332pp + plates. Arthur Ruppin opened the Palestine Office of the Zionist Organization in Jaffa in 1908. The foremost authority on the sociology of the Jews, encouraged the kibbutz, moshav and moshav shitufi. First professor of sociology at the Hebrew University.Held central position in World Zionist Organization. First part are his memoirs followed by selections from his letters and diaries. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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Arthur Symons, a Critical Biography
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London: The Unicorn Press, 1963 price clipped DW under plastic sleeve with some tape rust etc., library stamps etc but still tidy, 333pp + plates. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ex-Library.
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At Rest Among the Mighty Dead, Travels of a Tramp
by CALLAGHAN Tom
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Newcastle: Newcastle Upon Tyne City Libraries & Arts, 1994 gift inscriptions to half title otherwise tidy copy, 144pp reminiscences of a british tramp in first half of the twentieth century. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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Aubrey's Brief Lives, edited from the Original Manuscripts and with a Life of John Aubrey
by DICK Oliver Lawson
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London: Secker, 1971 unclipped DW with a few short clean edge tears, slight foxing to closed edges, tidy, cx 342pp + plates small rectangular adhesive ghost from label at tail of title page. reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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The Austen Chamberlain Diary Letters
by CHAMBERLAIN Austen
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London: Cambridge University Press, 1995 edited by Robert C. Self, near fine, lacks DW viii 548pp 'The correspondence of Sir Austen Chamberlain with his sisters Hilda and Ida, 1916-1937'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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An Autobiography
by TROLLOPE Anthony
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London: Oxford University Press, 1950 ex library with call number to spine,and stamps to prelims and closed fore edge, Autobiography by Trollope now first published in this form in The Oxfrod Trollope Crown Edition, xxvi 411pp+ plates. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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The Autobiography of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-1798 ( 2 Vols in 1 )
by TONE Theobald Wolfe
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Dublin: Maunsel (1500 gram rate) heavy book will incur some extra shipping cost, 2 volumes issued in one, undated approx 1910, green cloth rubbed to edges, front hinge loose, starts at title page, paste down has prize plate dated 1919, age browned paper stock, 430pp + plates, edited by R. Barry O'Brien, autobiography of the famous early Irish Patriot and Freedom Fighter. Reissue. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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An Autobiography Volume One 1 (of 2)
by TROLLOPE Anthony
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London: William Blackwood, 1883 red cloth with title and authors printed siganture to upper board, spine faded, light soiling to cloth, slight lean to spine, corners lightly bumped, pencil name and date to half title [M. Colborne-Veel |ChCh 1899] ink inscription to reverse of half title [W S Robeson | from his | affectionate Mother | Aug 1884], small area of faint water mark to top corner of the portrait frontis, tissue guard intact, xi 259pp original chocolate endpapers, half of the two volume second edition, minor age relatred spotting to the occasional page. Second Edition. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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Away from it All
by KIDNEY Dorothy Boone
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New Jersey: A S Barnes, 1972 price clipped dust jacket is tidy but has some watermarks to top corners along fold etc, book clean, 200pp, wilderness homesteading in the Allagash Country of Maine, written in 1969. reprint. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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Baden-Powell
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London: Hutchinson, 1984 A quintessential British Hero, up there with Gordon and Lawrence. Life number one the Hero of Mafeking, Life number two the Chief Scout of the World. Much on his Indian and African military service as well as his Scouting organisation. 670pp Heavy may incur extra shipping. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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Barbed Wire and Footlights, Seven Stalags to Freedom
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Braunton: Merlin Books, 1988 soft cover, light dust soiling, 124pp. Autobiography of Frank Taylor, born 22nd of February 1921 at Kirkhill, Coldingham, Berwickshire, Scotland. Educated at the Edinburgh Academy and trained for the stage at the Scottish School of Drama, under the direction of Miss Sybil Attwell. He made his professional debut as the Second Page in Richard of Bordeaux at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, on the 26th of September, 1938. At the outbreak of the Second World War he joined the RAF, serving 5 years, and as a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner served on two Squadrons, 608, and 217, before being shot down and taken prisoner in February, 1942. After an attempted escape and incarceration in no fewer than seven POW camps he was liberated on the 2nd of May, 1945 by the British 2nd Armys 11th Armoured Division. On demobilization he was engaged as an Assistant Stage Manager at the Mercury Theatre, London, under the direction of E. Martin Browne. As an actor, and singer training under…
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Bare-Faced Messiah , the True Story of L Ron Hubbard
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London: Michael Joseph, 1987 price clipped dustwrapper has small (tiny) area nicked to surface of spine showing as white, otherwise VG, 390pp + plates, in depth biography of the founder of Scientology and his various escapades before and after making himself famous through Dianetics and Scientology, includes detailed account of his ionvolvement with Ordo Templi Orientis members of Agape Lodge in 1950s Californai and his fracas with Jack Parsons etc. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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