Category: BIOGRAPHY, DIARIES and LETTERS

Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban 1633-1707. With a Portrait, 11 Halftone Illustrations by the Author, 16 Line Plates and 3 Diagrams.

Price: £75.00 GBP

Publisher: 1938

Seller ID: 91556

First edition. Methuen, London. 1938. Red cloth, gilt type to cream panel to spine. 216 pages. Index. Sl. mark to title panel on spine; previous owner's name to front free end-paper.
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Jew Made in England. SIGNED COPY TO GLORIA FERRIS AND RIVERS SCOTT OF THE SCOTT FERRIS ASSOCIATES (Literary Agency).

By: BLOND, Anthony.

Price: £40.00 GBP

Publisher: 2004

Seller ID: 86310

Timewell Press. London. 2004. DW. First edition. PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO GLORIA FERRIS AND RIVERS SCOTT of the Scott Rivers Literary Agency. No other inscriptions or dedications. Illustrated. Outer edges of pages foxed otherwise a clean and fresh copy in wrapper.
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Twelve Against the Gods. FIRST PENGUIN EDITION IN DW.

By: BOLITHO, William.

Price: £35.00 GBP

Publisher: Penguin Books. Harmondsworth. 1939

Seller ID: 91276

Penguin Books. First edition, thus. 1939. DW. Blue triband Penguin paperback, number 230. Pages browned otherwise a very clean and fresh copy in complete wrapper that is worn along spine.
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Lavengro.

By: BORROW, George.

Price: £10.00 GBP

Publisher: Home Library/Geo. Newnes, London. nd (c1920)

Seller ID: 40294

Small 8vo, dark red cloth boards, red faux morocco backstrip, gilt lettering and decorations to spine. Marbled end-papers. Introduction by Thomas Seccombe + 550pp. Index. Upper hinge slightly exposed opposite half-title page; pages sl. browned. From the "John O'London's Home Library" series published in association with what was the leading magazine of the British Empire from 1919 to the 1950s. VG
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The Romany Rye. A Sequel to "Lavengro".

By: BORROW, George.

Price: £20.00 GBP

Publisher: John Murray, London. 1907

Seller ID: 65281

Reprint. No DW. Green boards, gilt type. Gilt upper edge. 403pp + adverts. Illustrations. Boards a little marked and bumped. Endpapers browned and foxed. A little foxing throughout.
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Boswell's Life of Johnson.

By: BOSWELL, James.

Price: £25.00 GBP

Publisher: 1898

Seller ID: 84559

Macmillan, London. 1898. Half maroon morocco, over marbled boards. xxiii, 718pp. Marbled endpapers. "The Globe Edition". Hinge partially exposed at bottom of title page, and also at first page of main text. Spine a little rubbed, o/w a clean copy.
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The Life of Sir Stamford Raffles.

By: BOULGER, Demetrius Charles.

Price: £15.00 GBP

Publisher: 1999

Seller ID: 81538

Pepin Press, Amsterdam. 1999. First edition thus. Hardback with DW. Illustrated. 403pp. Reprint of 1897 edition. Spine somewhat warped. outer edges a little grubby, but o/w a clean copy.
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Boycott: The Life Behind the Word. The Life and Times in England and in Ireland and The Unusual Family Background of Charles Cunningham Boycott. (SIGNED).

By: BOYCOTT, Charles Arthur.

Price: £35.00 GBP

Publisher: 1997

Seller ID: 74651

Carbonel Press, Ludlow. 1997. First edition. DW. xii + 333 pages. Maps, b/w plates, index. SIGNED presentation copy from the author "Mary (?) with love from Charles A Boycott 22 November 1997". Wrapper spine sunned o/w a very clean and fresh copy.
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Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift. In a Series of Letters from . . . to his son, the Honourable Hamilton Boyle.

By: BOYLE, John Earl of Orrery.

Price: £65.00 GBP

Publisher: A. Millar, London. 1752

Seller ID: 32140

The Third Edition, Corrected. Full tan calf, raised bands with small gilt emblem repeated to compartments and gilt lettering to dark red title-piece to spine. Page edges speckled with red. 214pp + Index. Portrait engraving of Swift frontis. Extremities esp. spine ends rubbed. Lacks rear f.ep. Antique inscrip. to head of tp o/w internally crisp and clean. VG
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The Odd Couple: The Curious Friendship between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin.

By: BRADFORD, Richard.

Price: £8.95 GBP

Publisher: 2012

Seller ID: 91014

First edition. Robson Press, London. 2012. DW. 373 pages. B/w photograph plates. Index. Very clean and sound.
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The Passion of Ayn Rand.

By: BRANDEN, Barbara.

Price: £10.00 GBP

Publisher: 1987

Seller ID: 85160

W.H. Allen , London. 1987. UK First edition. Hardback with DW. 8vo. Discolouration at head of upper board. Minor foxing to upper edge. Previous owner's signature to front endpaper, together with some notes. Clean copy with wrapper.
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You Can't Catch Death. a Daughter's Memoir.

By: BRAUTIGAN, Ianthe.

Price: £12.00 GBP

Publisher: 2000

Seller ID: 88393

Rebel Inc. Scotland. 2000. First edition in the UK. Hardback with DW. Page edges a little grubby and browned. Overall a nice clean copy.
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A Life of Ones Own: Childhood and Youth.

By: BRENAN, Gerald.

Price: £10.00 GBP

Publisher: 1979

Seller ID: 88383

Cambridge University Press, UK. 1979. First edition thus. Paperback. Large 8vo. Illustrated. Spine is sunned. Covers are browned and creased with sticker remains. Page edges stained pink in places. A sound copy.
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W.B. Yeats and T. Sturge Moore. Their Correspondence 1901-1937.

By: BRIDGE, Ursula (Editor).

Price: £15.00 GBP

Publisher: 1953

Seller ID: 85514

Routeldge & Kegan Paul, London. 1953. First edition. Hardback, no DW. Black boards, contrasting label, gilt type. Frontis portrait and other illustrations. Minor marks to upper board, o/w a very clean and bright copy.
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Julia Ruth Briggs. 30 December 1943 - 16 August 2007. Supplement to Issue No. 27, January 2008, of the Virginia Woolf Bulletin of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain. Order of Service and Author's Bibliography.

By: BRIGGS, Julia Ruth. VIRGINIA WOOLF SOCIETY.

Price: £30.00 GBP

Publisher: Virgina Woolf Society of Great Britain. Oxford. 2008

Seller ID: 95019

Virgina Woolf Society of Great Britain. 2008. 32 page booklet with page of photographs at rear and author photo to front cover. Covers slightly soiled and rubbed otherwise a clean and sound copy.
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Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life.

By: BRIGGS, Julia.

Price: £15.00 GBP

Publisher: 2005

Seller ID: 89210

First edition. Allen Lane, London. 2005. Hardback with DW. B/w ills. 528 pages. Previous owner's name with date to front free end-paper o/w very clean and sound.
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The Third Rose. Gertrude Stein and Her World.

By: BRINNIN, John Malcolm.

Price: £6.95 GBP

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston. 1959

Seller ID: 47442

First edition. No DW. Original red cloth, gilt. Illustrated. Board extremities bumped and slightly faded. Previous owner's name stamp to front free endpaper o/w VG-.
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Private View: Four Portraits.

By: BROOKE, Jocelyn.

Price: £25.00 GBP

Publisher: 1954

Seller ID: 91475

First edition. James Barrie, London. 1954. NO DW. Maroon cloth, gilt type to spine. 178 pages. Ex- Boots Library but clean apart from their small green shield label to upper board. Spine dulled.
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Letters from America.

By: BROOKE, Rupert (Preface by Henry James).

Price: £25.00 GBP

Publisher: 1916

Seller ID: 77325

Sidgwick & Jackson, London. 1916. First Edition. Hardback, no DW. Original black buckram, worn and slightly faded, paper label to spine, rubbed with some loss. Portrait frontis. Boards rubbed and marked. Spare paper label at rear of book. Minor foxing to interior. A very clean and tight copy.
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A Legacy for the Ladies. Or, Characters of the Women of the Age. By the late Ingenious Mr. Thomas Brown. With a Comical View of London and Westminster: Or. The Merry Quack; where-in Physic is Rectified for Both the Beaus and Ladies. In Two Parts. The First Part by Mr. Tho. Brown: The Second Part by Mr. Edw. Ward, Author of the London-Spy, &c. To which is prefixt, The Character of Mr. Tho. Brown, and his Writings, Written by Dr. Drake.

By: BROWN, Thomas. WARD, Edward.

Price: £1,500.00 GBP

Publisher: J. Nutt. London. 1705

Seller ID: 61904

First edition. 8vo. Signatures. A1-8, b1-8, B1-N8. Collation: Title page, [ix] Dedication, [i] blank, xiv A Character of Mr. Thomas Browne..., [ii] contents, [iv] publisher's adverts, 192pp. Some slight worming to top inside corner, mostly in margin so hardly affecting text, small chip to top of title page professionally repaired. Handsomely and recently rebound in full speckled brown polished calf, ruled in blind, red leather lettering piece. New endpapers though retaining one original blank endpaper leaf at rear. A remarkably clean and fresh copy of this famous work by the man responsible f...
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Between Stone and Sky: Memoirs of a Waller.

By: BROWN, Whitney.

Price: £12.50 GBP

Publisher: 2018

Seller ID: 92282

First edition. Constable, London. 2018. Hardback with DW. 328 pages. Very clean and sound.
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Wool, War and Westminster. Front-line Memoirs of Sir Paul Bryan, DSO, MC.

By: BRYAN, Paul.

Price: £8.95 GBP

Publisher: Tom Donovan. 1993

Seller ID: 65584

DW. Map to front end paper. 312pp. Illustrations. Internally a very clean copy in wrapper that is slightly browned to outer edges. VG+/VG.
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Heloise and Abelard: A New Biography.

By: BURGE, James.

Price: £20.00 GBP

Publisher: 2003

Seller ID: 94766

First edition. HarperSanFrancisco, USA. 2003. Hardback with DW. xv + 319 pages. B/w plates. Index. Inscription to title-page o/w very clean and sound.
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Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones. With a new Introduction by John Christian. Volume I: 1833-1867. Volume II:1868-1898.

By: BURNE-JONES, Georgiana.

Price: £30.00 GBP

Publisher: 1993

Seller ID: 94835

Lund Humphries, London. 1993. Two volumes, hardback with DWs. xxv + 309 pages; 372 pages. Index. Occasional drawings, b/w plates each vol. Clean and sound, a nice set.
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My Friend, My Father.

By: BURNSHAW, Stanley. With an Introduction by Leon Edel.

Price: £10.00 GBP

Publisher: 1986

Seller ID: 76976

Oxford University press, Oxford. 1986. First Edition Paperback. Pages are browned and covers are a little soiled o/w a very good copy. SCARCE.
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Thomas and Jane. Selected letters from the Edinburgh University Library collection. (SIGNED).

By: CAMPBELL, Ian, edited by. [CARLYLE, Thomas and Jane.]

Price: £12.00 GBP

Publisher: 1980

Seller ID: 71146

Edinburgh University Library. 1980. SIGNED by the editor. Limited edition to 500 copies Illustrated. Original turquoise cloth gilt. Boards are partially sunned o/w near fine in protective melanine wrapper that has split along bottom of rear flap.
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Memoirs: The Tongue Set Free; The Torch in My Ear; The Play of the Eyes.

By: CANETTI, Elias.

Price: £30.00 GBP

Publisher: 1999

Seller ID: 89775

Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York. 1999. Hardback with DW. 834 pages. Barcode sticker to rear panel of wrapper; splash stains to upper board; o/w very clean and sound.
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Some Official Correspondence of . . . Edited, with notes by, Edward J. Stapleton. In Two Volumes.

By: CANNING, George.

Price: £50.00 GBP

Publisher: 1887

Seller ID: 85004

First edition. Longmans, Green and Co., London. 1887. (2 volumes). NO DW. Brown cloth, gilt type to spine. 394 pages + 24 pages publiser's list; 398 pages. Sl. wear to extremities.
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The Muses are Heard: An Account of the Porgy and Bess Visit to Leningrad.

By: CAPOTE, Truman.

Price: £35.00 GBP

Publisher: 1957

Seller ID: 87225

First edition UK. Heinemann, London. 1957. Red cloth, silver type to spine. No DW. Pale ring stains and some soiling to cloth of upper board; spine ends sl. rubbed.
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An Unlikely Prince. The Life and Times of Machiavelli.

By: CAPPONI, Niccolo.

Price: £8.50 GBP

Publisher: De Capo, Cambridge MA. 2010

Seller ID: 57741

DW. 334pp. B/w photographs. Index. Nr. Fine
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Category: BIOGRAPHY, DIARIES and LETTERS