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The MGM Girls Behind the Velvet Curtain

By: Brown, Peter Harry and Brown, Pamela Ann

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Harrap: 1984

Seller ID: 13190

ISBN: 0245542205

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

288pp, complete dustjacket in a removeable protective plastic sleeve. 50 new b + w photographs from the MGM archives. Ex library - label removed from flyleaf, stamp to back of title page, the paper wrinkled but clean at the top edge - a good 'reading copy'. The real story of the lives of the glamorous but bullied female stars at Louis B Meyer's MGM studios - Harlow, Turner, Garbo, MacLaine, Reynolds, Garland, Taylor etc.
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Samuel Pepys The Years of Peril

By: Bryant, Arthur

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Collins: 1948

Seller ID: 367

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

New edition. 466 pp, blue cloth boards, b + w illustrations. A clean copy.
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Samuel Pepys The Saviour Of The Navy

By: Bryant, Arthur

Price: £2.50

Publisher: Collins Fontana: 1961

Seller ID: 4735

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

451pp, edges now a little browned with age. Illustrated softback covers. Frontispiece portrait. A very clean, tight Near Fine copy. The third volume in the biography of Samuel Pepys, the diarist of Restoration England.
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Augustus

By: Buchan, John

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: 1937

Seller ID: 10514

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

356pp. Green cloth covered boards. Fold out maps. Leeds Institute labels to flyleaf ansd inner board, a few spots of foxing to foredge. The story of the great Roman Emperor.
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Julius Caesar

By: Buchan, John

Price: £22.00

Publisher: Peter Davies: 1932

Seller ID: 13015

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

170p. Black cloth covered boards with gilt title on orange label. Frontispiece portrait. A clean copy. A biography of the Roman general and leader.
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A Lily of Old France Marie Leckzinska Queen of France And The Court Of Louis XV

By: Buckley, Eric Rede

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Witherby: 1926

Seller ID: 6240

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

216pp, blue cloth covered boards, a little rubbed to edges, with gilt decoration to spine. B + w portrait illustrations. One small hole to flyleaf, otherwise clean. The story of Queen Marie, the wife of Louis XV.
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Ken Oliver The Benign Bishop

By: Buglass, Dan

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Marlborough: 1994

Seller ID: 12583

ISBN: 1873919158

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

183pp, complete dustjacket. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. The biography of a remarkable jockey, farm, golfer, part-goer and auctioneer who co-founded the Doncaster Bloodstock Sales.
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William Cobbett Englishman

By: Burton, Anthony

Price: £3.50

Publisher: Aurum: 1977

Seller ID: 6930

ISBN: 1854105167

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

1st softback edition. Full size softback of 275pp, with b + w illustrations. A very clean copy. A biography of the radical political writer.
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Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches With Elucidations Volume Two

By: Carlyle, Thomas

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Dent: 1111

Seller ID: 10557

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Presumed first Everyman edition, circa 1910. Light blue cloth covered boards with a couple of small marks, with gilt flower ornament to the spine, which is a little rubbed to the top edge. Decorated title pages and endpapers. Internally clean. Volume 2 has Parts 5 to 7, covering 1649 to 1653 The Campaign in Ireland, The War in Scotland and the Little Parliament. Includes Lists of the mmebers of the Long Parliament and Eastern Association Committees.
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Robert Runcie The Reluctant Archbishop

By: Carpenter, Humphrey

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: 1996

Seller ID: 17395

ISBN: 0340571071

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

401pp, complete dustjacket. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. A biography of the archbishop from his Liverpool roots, his service in the Scots Guards in the Second World War, as bishop of St Albans, and his time as the Archbishop of Canterbury in a period of change - the ordination of women, the papal visit, the capture of Terry Waite, at odds with Mrs Thatcher over the Falklands War etc
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The Early Life Of Louis XIV 1638 1661

By: Carre, Henri

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Hutchinson: 1951

Seller ID: 1584

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1st UK edition, translated by Dorothy Bolton. 278 pp, black cloth boards, rubbed to edge of spine, Boots library sticker but no stamps etc. B + w illustrations.VG
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Lewis and Sybil

By: Casson, John

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Collins: 1972

Seller ID: 241

ISBN: 0002114887

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

352 pp, b + w photographs. Previous owner's initials on flyleaf, otherwise clean and VG+. A biography of Lewis Casson and Sybil Thorndike and their career in the theatre.
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Early Victorian Novelists

By: Cecil, David

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Penguin Pelican: 1948

Seller ID: 12741

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

253pp, the edges browning a little with age, blue and white paperback covers. Previous owner's name to flyleaf. otherwise clean and tight. A major study of Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, Mrs Gaskell, Trollope and George Eliot.
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The English Poets

By: Cecil, Lord David

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Collins: 1942

Seller ID: 8248

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

48pp, blue and white card covers, a little rubbed to edges. Many colour and b + w illustrations. Gift inscription, otherwise clean. Poets from Chaucer to Bridges - part of the Britain in Pictures series.
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Eugenie

By: Chapman, Hester W

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Cape: 1961

Seller ID: 3664

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

2nd imp. 504pp, illusteated dustjacket with one short closed tear to front, no loss. Internally very clean. The story of the wife of Napoleon III of France.
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Knight of the Burning Heart The Story of John Wesley

By: Church, Leslie F

Price: £5.50

Publisher: Epworth: 1943

Seller ID: 7497

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

3rd impression. 185pp, black boards, rather tattered dustjacket with a portion of loss to the back. Frontispiece portrait. Original owner's name on flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. COMES WITH 4 'Wesley' leaflets - 3 on the Bi-Centenary of Wesley's conversion in 1938, and the Address to Conference of 1937.
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Jennie Lady Randolph Churchill

By: Churchill, Peregrine and Mitchell, Julian

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Readers Union: 1975

Seller ID: 994

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

285 pp, dustjacket a little worn to edges. B + w photographs. A couple of spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean. Produced in association with the TV series.
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Ben Jonson of Westminster

By: Chute, Marchette

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Robert Hale: 1954

Seller ID: 31

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

380 pp, red cloth boards, priceclipped illustrated dustjacket with a portion of loss. Original owner's signature to back of flyleaf, otherwise internally clean
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Ben Jonson Of Westminster

By: Chute, Marchette

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Dutton: 1953

Seller ID: 4024

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

380pp, black cloth covered boards with gilt design. Endpaper map. A couple of small marks to spine, previous owner's name to flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. The story of the Elizabethan dramatist.
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Prelude to Parnassus Scenes from the Life of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin 1799 - 1837

By: Cleugh, James

Price: £10.50

Publisher: Arthur Barker: 1936

Seller ID: 13857

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

342pp, red cloth covered boards with a closed split to the edge of the spine. Frontispiece portrait. Ex reference library - bookplate to inner board, a couple of small stamps, flyleaf removed, otherwise internally clean. Fictionalised scenes from Pushkin's life.
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Category: Biography