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Mrs Gladstone The Portrait of A Marriage

By: Battiscombe, Georgina

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Constable: 1956

Seller ID: 6239

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

251pp, dustjacket with wear to edges and a portion of loss to the top of the spine. Colour frontispiece portrait. A few light spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean.
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Iris A Memoir of Iris Murdoch

By: Bayley, John

Price: £1.50

Publisher: Abacus: 2002

Seller ID: 16613

ISBN: 0349114293

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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.
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The Presidents In American History

By: Beard, Charles A and Beard, Walter

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Messner: 1969

Seller ID: 1176

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Benjamin Franklin A Biographical Sketch

By: Becker, Carl L

Price: £4.50

Publisher: Cornell: 1946

Seller ID: 2302

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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The Independent on Sunday Book of Interviews Volume 2 Women

By: Bedell, Geraldine and Lambert, Angela and Picardie, Justine et al

Price: £2.50

Publisher: Independent News & Media: 2008

Seller ID: 16515

Binding: Soft Cover

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
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Virginia Woolf Vol I

By: Bell, Quentin

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Paladin: 1976

Seller ID: 3734

ISBN: 05886083537

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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.
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The Teeth of the Dragon

By: Belmer, Roy

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Epworth: 1964

Seller ID: 323

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Johnson Agonistes and Other Essays

By: Bertrand H Bronson

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Cambridge: 1946

Seller ID: 16496

Binding: Hard Cover

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'.
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The Indomitable Mrs Trollope

By: Bigland, Eileen

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Barrie & Jenkins: 1970

Seller ID: 4061

ISBN: 0214652467

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Two Royal Brothers

By: Binner, Ina

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Hale: 1975

Seller ID: 8478

ISBN: 0709147295

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Et Cetera A Collection

By: Birrell, Augustine

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Chatto: 1930

Seller ID: 14501

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

277pp, brown cloth covered boards. Internally very clean. Essays on Boswell, Scott,, Wyclif, Bunyan, Whitefield, Hawthorne, Crabb, Peacock, Hickey, 'Pamela' etc
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The Mark Of The Maker A Portrait Of Helen Waddell

By: Blackett, Monica

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Constable: 1973

Seller ID: 4075

ISBN: 094591008

Binding: Hard Cover

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'.
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Mozart

By: Blom, Eric

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Dent: 1946

Seller ID: 5242

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Mozart

By: Blom, Eric

Price: £3.50

Publisher: Dent: 1978

Seller ID: 16142

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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John Keats

By: Blunden, Edmund

Price: £4.50

Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co: 1954

Seller ID: 11452

Binding: Soft Cover

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.
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James Hogg The Ettrick Shepherd Memorial Volume

By: Borland, R (ed)

Price: £22.00

Publisher: Selkirk, James Lewis: 1898

Seller ID: 2058

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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The Life of Samuel Johnson

By: Boswell, James

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Collins: 1111

Seller ID: 6512

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Boswell's Life of Johnson Illustrated Volume One

By: Boswell, James

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Office of the National Illustrated Library:

Seller ID: 11575

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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The Life of Samuel Johnson Volume the Fourth

By: Boswell, James

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Oxford: 1826

Seller ID: 11577

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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The Life of Samuel Johnson LLD Volume One

By: Boswell, James

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Dent: 1907

Seller ID: 7405

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Category: Biography