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By: Bayley, John
Price: £1.50
Publisher: Abacus: 2002
Seller ID: 16613
ISBN: 0349114293
Condition: Fine
294pp, paper browning a very little with age, illustrated softback covers with a photograph of Iris Murdoch. Complete dustjacket with a photograph of Judi Dench from the film. B + w photographs. A very clean, tight copy. A biography of the novelist and philosopher, by her husband. View more info
By: Beard, Charles A and Beard, Walter
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Messner: 1969
Seller ID: 1176
Condition: Very Good
30th printing. 199pp, dustjacket, worn to edges and repaired. B + w illustrations. Flyleaf attached to front board and 2 small library stamps blacked out on title page, otherwise internally clean. View more info
By: Becker, Carl L
Price: £4.50
Publisher: Cornell: 1946
Seller ID: 2302
Condition: Very Good
Reproduced from Dictionary Of American Biography, with new prefatory note. 49pp, blue cloth boards. Faint stamp on title page and pocket on inner board, otherwise internally very clean. View more info
By: Bedell, Geraldine and Lambert, Angela and Picardie, Justine et al
Price: £2.50
Publisher: Independent News & Media: 2008
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16515
Condition: Very Good
128pp, softback covers. A clean, tight copy. An anthology of interviews from two decades with famous women - Paula Yates, Kate Moss, Imelda Marcos, Ninette de Valois, Zadie Smith, Susie Orbach, Yoko Ono, Cerys Matthews, Fenella Fielding, Doreen Lawrence etc View more info
By: Bell, Quentin
Price: £3.00
Publisher: Paladin: 1976
Seller ID: 3734
ISBN: 05886083537
Condition: Very Good
228pp, the edges browning a little with age. B + w photographs. A clean, tight copy. The first part of the biography by her nephew, covers 1882 -1912. View more info
By: Belmer, Roy
Price: £6.00
Publisher: Epworth: 1964
Seller ID: 323
Condition: Fine
188 pp, green cloth boards, b + w photographs in text. The incredible story of the survival of Annie James, a New Zealand nurse in communist China. View more info
Price: £12.00
Publisher: Cambridge: 1946
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16496
Condition: Fine
156pp, complete dustjacket sun darkened to the edges and spine. Internally very clean. Three essays on Johnson Agonistes, Boswell's Boswell and Johnson's 'Irene' , originally printed in 'The University of California Publications in English'. View more info
By: Bigland, Eileen
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Barrie & Jenkins: 1970
Seller ID: 4061
ISBN: 0214652467
Condition: Very Good
219pp, dustjacket with a little wear to top of spine. Previous owner's name on flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. A biography of Frances Trollope, the novelist, and mother of Anthony Trollope. View more info
By: Binner, Ina
Price: £18.00
Publisher: Hale: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 8478
ISBN: 0709147295
Condition: Fine
183pp. Complete dustjacket by Nicholas Day, faded to spine. Gift inscription from the author on flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. Princes Harry and Charles Stuart, and Walter Raleigh. View more info
Price: £6.50
Publisher: Chatto: 1930
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14501
Condition: Very Good
277pp, brown cloth covered boards. Internally very clean. Essays on Boswell, Scott,, Wyclif, Bunyan, Whitefield, Hawthorne, Crabb, Peacock, Hickey, 'Pamela' etc View more info
By: Blackett, Monica
Price: £6.50
Publisher: Constable: 1973
Seller ID: 4075
ISBN: 094591008
Condition: Very Good
1st reprint, same year as 1st edition. 256pp, priceclipped dustjacket with one short closed tear. B + w illustrations. Previous owner's name on flyleaf and title page, otherwise internally very clean. A biography of the author of 'Peter Abelard'. View more info
By: Blom, Eric
Price: £3.00
Publisher: Dent: 1946
Seller ID: 5242
Condition: Very Good
5th impression, with corrections. 388pp, dustjacket with wear to edges. B + w illustrations. A couple of very small spots of foxing to foredge, previous owner's bookplate on inner board, otherwise internally clean. A biography of Mozart and his contemporaries, with a useful calendar and list of works. One of the Master Musicians series. View more info
By: Blom, Eric
Price: £3.50
Publisher: Dent: 1978
Seller ID: 16142
Condition: Fine
A reprint of the second revised edition. 388pp, priceclipped dustjacket with wear to enda of spine. 8 pages of b + w illustrations, and music in the text. Internally clean. A classic biography of Mozart and his contemporaries, with a calendar and list of works. One of the Master Musicians series. View more info
By: Blunden, Edmund
Price: £4.50
Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co: 1954
Seller ID: 11452
Condition: Very Good
Revised edition, produced for the British Council and the National Book League. 40pp, softback covers. Portrait. Internally clean. A biography and appreciation of Keats' work, by a fellow poet. View more info
By: Borland, R (ed)
Price: £22.00
Publisher: Selkirk, James Lewis: 1898
Seller ID: 2058
Condition: Very Good
Being the speeches delivered on the occasion of the Unveiling of the Memorial erected to commemorate the birthplace of James Hogg The Ettrick Shepherd at Ettrickhall on 28th June 1898. 81 pp, green cloth covered boards. B + w photographs of the event and portraits. An extra sepia photograph tipped in of St Mary's Loch from Tibbie Shiels boat pier. Pencil marginalia show that the book was originally owned by the brother in law of Mr R Richardson of Gattonside House and make occasional identifications. View more info
By: Boswell, James
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Collins: 1111
Seller ID: 6512
Condition: Very Good
Probably 1930s. Pocket sized. 637pp in dark red cloth covered boards, faded to spine. Frontispiece portrait and sepia illustrations. Original owner's name on flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. View more info
By: Boswell, James
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Office of the National Illustrated Library:
Seller ID: 11575
Condition: Good
'10th thousand' - probably late 19th century. 291pp,green cloth covered boards with impressed design, faded gilt to spine. Many engraved ilustrations. Occasional marks, but mainly clean. Vol I contains Chapters I to XIV - to 1765. View more info
By: Boswell, James
Price: £18.00
Publisher: Oxford: 1826
Seller ID: 11577
Condition: Very Good
Oxford English Classics edition. Large size. 428pp, including index to all four volumes.Original paper coverd boards with paper label, front gutter now weak. Hand cut edges, hand made paper. Previous owner's name on flyleaf, light spots of foxing, otherwise internally clean. Vol 4 covers from 1780. View more info
By: Boswell, James
Price: £3.00
Publisher: Dent: 1907
Seller ID: 7405
Condition: Very Good
Everyman edition. The first volume of two. 638pp, light blue cloth covered boards, now a little darkened with age, with gilt ornament to spine. Decorated title pages and endpapers. Includes Introduction and Chronological Table. This volume goes to 1776, when Dr Johnson was aged 67. View more info
By: Boswell, James and Bailey, John (ed)
Price: £2.50
Publisher: Nelson: 1932
Seller ID: 16510
Condition: Very Good
Edited and with an Introduction by John Bailey. 256pp with blue cloth covered boards with gilt title. Frontispiece illustration. School ownership stamps to innner board, a couple of small foxmarks to foredge, otherwise internally clean. 195 extracts from Boswell's Life of Dr Samuel Johnson - part of the Teaching of English series. View more info
