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By: Bayley, John
Price: £1.50
Publisher: Abacus: 2002
Seller ID: 16613
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
277pp, brown cloth covered boards. Internally very clean. Essays on Boswell, Scott,, Wyclif, Bunyan, Whitefield, Hawthorne, Crabb, Peacock, Hickey, 'Pamela' etc View more info
Price: £6.50
Publisher: Duckworth: 1910
Seller ID: 14507
326pp, blue cloth covered boards with a little wear to top of spine. Internally clean. First and second series of essays complete - includes, Pope, Dr Johnson, Burke, Lamb, Emerson etc View more info
By: Blackett, Monica
Price: £6.50
Publisher: Constable: 1973
Seller ID: 4075
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
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
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
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
Price: £6.00
Publisher: Eyre & Spottiswoode and Collins: 1965
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 10517
496pp, black cloth covered boards. B + w photographs. Internally very clean. and Near Fine. The author was the daughter of Asquith, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and a close friend of Churchill. View more info
By: Boothroyd, Basil
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Longman: 1971
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 8457
238pp, black boards with red label. Colour and b + w illustrations. Previous owner's name on flyleaf, otherwise a clean copy. A biography of the Queen's husband. View more info
By: Borland, R (ed)
Price: £22.00
Publisher: Selkirk, James Lewis: 1898
Seller ID: 2058
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 ma... View more info
By: Boswell, James
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Collins: 1111
Seller ID: 6512
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
'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
