Letters And Papers Of Admiral Of The Fleet Sir Thos. Byam Martin G.C.B., Vol.II ; Hamilton, Richard Vesey (ed): London, Navy Records Society, 1898, First Edition. Hardback, half blue buckram on  cream buckram boards, no dustwrapper as published, gilt lettering on spine and gilt round motif on front board. 8vo, pages xvi + 416,  index, Admiral Hamilton edited three volumes of Byam Martin's papers which were issued out of sequence. A gifted Admiral of the Fleet, statesman, diplomat and administrator. This volume covers the period 1808 to 1813 (the Napoleonic War period) and was the first to be published Book Fair+, white buckram  heavily soiled,  heavy rubs and fraying to spine ends, one plate loosening with wear to fore-edge, some other plates have edge stains front and rear, inner rear hinge weakening with cracked endpaper and mull showing . Text block tight. Vol. 12 of the Naval Records Society publications. These earlier Navy Records publications are becoming hard to find.  Shipping weight over 1 kg. Will incur extra postage cost

Ref  100879:   £25.00    (Also under Naval History)

The Milne Papers: The Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander Milne, Bt., K.C.B. (1806-1896) – Volume I 1820-1896: Beeler, John F. (ed) : Aldershot; Ashgate Publishing for Navy Records Society, 2004. Hardcover, in blue cloth, no d (as issued). ISBN  0754650634. xviii + 857pp (inc society lists). “Not once during 60 years of naval service did Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alexander Milne, Bt., K.C.B. hear British guns fired in anger, yet on the basis of talents and abilities ideally suited to the century of the Pax Britannica, he numbers among the greatest officers of the post-Napoleonic-era Royal Navy. Milne was the pre-eminent naval administrator in the Victorian period, perhaps of the years 1815-1900 - although both Sir Thomas Byam Martin and Sir George Cockburn compete for this distinction - serving as a Junior Lord for almost twelve straight years during the late 1840s and 1850s, as First Naval Lord from 1866 to 1868, and again from 1872 to 1876, when he retired from the Service. This collection is drawn principally from two sources: the Milne Papers deposited in the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, and the Admiralty Papers in the Public Records Office”. Book Near Fine with minor shelf marks, minor marks to block edges.

Ref 100686:   £44.00   (Also under Naval History)

THE LIFE OF AUGUSTUS VISCOUNT KEPPEL, Admiral Of The White, And First Lord Of The Admiralty In 1782-3 (2 Volume set); KEPPEL, The Hon & Rev Thomas : London, Henry Colburn, 1842. 1st edn. 2 vols in half leather, tooled with gilt decorations on marbled boards. 8vo, spine leathers chipped and rubbed and 2 spine labels missing, outer hinges have cracks, inner hinges cracked after free endpapers but boards holding firm on the cords, all edges marbled. Frontis portrait and tissue guard in vol I browned and foxed, internally tight with very occasional spot but generally clean. Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, (1725 – 1786), was a British admiral who held sea commands during the Seven Years' War and the War of American Independence. During the final years of the latter conflict he served as First Lord of the Admiralty. He joined the navy at age ten, sailed around the world, was shipwrecked, battled pirates and fought the French and Spanish as well as the Americans in the Revolutionary War. An incredible story of adventure, war and politics. A scarce and important historical and Naval biography. A sound pair.

Ref 100625:   £175.00    (Also under Naval History)

THE LIFE OF GEORGE LORD ANSON, Admiral of the Fleet, Vice-Admiral of Great Britain and First Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty previous to and during the Seven Years War: BARROW, (Sir John) : London, John Murray, 1839, First Edition. Full leather, blue calf fully decorated in gilt upper and lower boards, 4 raised bands on spine, gilt title in one compartment, gilt decoration in other 4 compartments, all edges gilt. Sound firm book, leather rubbed around edges and light surface rubbing, outer hinges sound and not cracked. Armorial bookplate of B. Jones-Bateman Pentre Maur on front pastedown. Tissue guarded engraved portrait frontis, 484 pages, tight and generally clean. George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697 – 1762)   was a British Admiral and a wealthy aristocrat, noted for his circumnavigation of the globe. He entered the navy in February 1712, and by rapid steps became lieutenant in 1716, commander in 1722, and post-captain in 1724. In this rank, he served twice on the North American station as captain of the HMS Scarborough and of Squirrel from 1724 to 1730 and from 1733 to 1735. In 1737 he gained the command of the ship of the line, Centurion (60 guns). In 1740, on the eve of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748), he became commander (with the rank of commodore) of the squadron sent to attack Spanish possessions in South America. In 1747, Anson commanded the fleet that defeated the French Admiral de la Jonquière at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre, capturing seven French merchantmen, four ships of the line, and two frigates. In consequence, Anson became very popular and was promoted to Vice Admiral and elevated to the peerage as Baron Anson of Soberton. Anson subsequently continued his naval career with distinction as an administrator, becoming First Lord of the Admiralty (1757–1762). Nice solid copy of this naval biography and a respectable looking addition to the bookshelf.

Ref   100626:   £160.00      (Also under Naval History)

The Letters of Robert Blake Together with Supplementary Documents; Blake, Robert /  Powell, J (ed): London, Navy Records Society, 1937. Hardback, half blue buckram on  cream buckram boards, no dustwrapper as issued, gilt lettering on spine and gilt round motif on front board. 8vo, xxii + 501pp, index, b&w frontis. .  Book Very Good, slight soil marks to white buckram, slight sunning to spine, spotting to block edges, internally tight and clean.  Vol. 76 of the Naval Records Society publications. Scarce book

Ref  100651:   £35.00     (Also under Naval History)

THE KEYES PAPERS - Selection from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Baron Keyes of Zeebrugge (3 volumes); Halpern, P.G. (editor) : London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd for Navy Records Society.  Volume I 1914-1918, published 1972, Volume II 1919-1938 published 1980, Volume III 1939-1945 published 1981. All hardcover in blue cloth, shades of blue vary with volume II much lighter (as issued) 8vo, pages xxiv + 398, xiv +468,  xiv + 398, b&w frontis to each, maps including folding. “The vast collection of papers - no less than 125 cartons - are now in the archives at Cambridge. Drawing on these documents the editor throws fresh light on the Dover Barrage, the brilliant raid on Zeebrugge, and on other naval actions during the First World War off the coast of Belgium, at the Dardanelles, and elsewhere. They also provide an insight into naval policy and thinking between the wars, and Lord Keyes"s private life and his contribution during WWII. The "Keyes" papers form an essential study of the war at sea 1914-1918, especially with regard to the Dover Patrol. A brave and brilliant leader in action, Keyes was a troublesome officer in peacetime and always at odds with the Admiralty - the classic "Angry Admiral". This side of his character is evident in volumes II and III” . Book I is Good with cover marks, light scuffs, gutter opening at title page, internally tight with light toning at page margins. Volumes II & II are Very Good, tight and clean and look unread. Vols 117, 121, 122 of the Naval Records Society publications.

Ref  100680:   £48.00            (Also under Naval History)

LETTERS AND PAPERS OF PROFESSOR SIR JOHN KNOX LAUGHTON 1830-1915 ; LAMBERT, Andrew [Editor]: Aldershot; Ashgate Publishing, 2002. Hardcover, in blue cloth, no d (as issued). ISBN  0754608220. Book Near Fine with minor shelf marks. xiii + 380pp, b&w portrait frontispiece.  “Laughton began the process of creating the modern study of naval history, ensuring that it had an educational role in British universities and naval colleges and a central place in the development of naval tactics, doctrine, and strategic thought”. Vol. 143 of the Naval Records Society publications

Ref 100670:   £18.00           (Also under Naval History)

The Life & Times of Horatio Hornblower; Parkinson, C. Northcote: London. Michael Joseph. 1970. 1st edition, Hardcover, grey cloth, no dj.  304pp. 8vo. Plates & line drawings. Book Very Good, slight bumps, few spots on fore-efge, internally tight and clean. Hornblower, whose name was subsequently used by the writer C.S.Forester for the central character in the twelve books covering the adventures of Admiral Lord Hornblower, was in reality a real Admiral who lived until 1857. Based on the author's meticulous research, this fascinating book traces the true background of the real Hornblower.

Ref  100873:  £8.00              (Also under Naval History)

ADMIRAL LORD MOUNTEVANS : ADVENTUROUS LIFE: London, Hutchinson & Co., 1952 Reprint. Hardcover in dj. 8vo, 259pp, b&w frontis plus further 31 b&w photos. Good book, name inside cover, internally tight and clean. Jacket Good, clipped, edge creasing and chips, now in protective wrap. Autobiography of Evans of the Broke, Admiral Lord Mountevans, KCB, DSO LLD, famous in naval history and Antarctic exploration as a leading member of Scott”s last great expedition to the South Pole

Ref 106584 :  £16.00     (Also under Naval History)

A SAILOR'S ODYSSEY The Autobiography of Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope;  Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope : London, Hutchinson, 1952 reprint. Hardcover, blue cloth, no dj. 8vo, 715pp, b&w illustrations, Book Good. Staining to covers. Internally tight and clean.  Very acceptable low-cost reference copy

Ref 106271 : £8.00               (Also under Naval History)

GEOFFREY BROOM'S WAR ; Letters and P.O.W. Diaries ;  BROOM, Barbara, Compiled By : Edinburgh: Pentland Press, 1993, , 1^st ed. Hardcover,  blue cloth, in dj. ISBN 1858210089. 8vo, 238pp, b&w photos. Covers Broom"s life from the time he joined the Navy at the age of twenty, to his release from a prisoner of war camp at the end of the war. Fine unread book. Near Fine jacket, not clipped, bookseller”s small label on flap

Ref  101401:  £10.00

A MERCHANT SEAMAN'S SURVIVAL An Autobiography; Sweeney, Edward J : Margate: Privately published by E. J. Sweeney. 1999. Hardcover, pictorial laminated boards, no jacket issued. ISBN 0953662403. Inscribed by author on ffep, inscription reads “To L. G. Greenhough With my best wishes, Edward J. Sweeney”. 288pp with b/w photos & maps. An escape story of World War II.. Book Near Fine

Ref  101403:  £25

Henry And Mary Ponsonby, Life At The Court Of Queen Victoria; Kuhn, William M.: London: Duckworth, 2002. Hardcover, Cloth in dj. ISBN 0715630652. Book has had title page neatly removed, a pity since otherwise book looks fine and unread. Jacket is Near Fine, unclipped, no tears, small edge crinkles. 8vo, 302pp, 16 pp of plates. This is the story of Henry and Mary Ponsonby, two of the most important courtiers who attended Queen Victoria. Both came from proud but impoverished families who relied on their salaries from serving the Queen to survive. They met and married at court. They raised their family in Windsor Castle. They lived and died in the corridors where prime ministers and princes passed. Henry served as the queen's private secretary for a quarter of a century [1870-1895] and his wife collaborated with him in his work. They saw the funny side of life lived in palaces and castles - their cheerful irreverence particularly appealed to Nancy Mitford, who told Evelyn Waugh after reading their son Fritz Ponsonby's recollections that there was a shriek on every page! Illustrated with b&w photographs and sketches.

Ref  17266:  £7.50

HUSSAR GENERAL The Life Of Blucher, Man of Waterloo; Parkinson, Roger : Hertfordshire, Wordsworth Editions Ltd 2001. Paperback. ISBN 1840222530. 264pp. As well as telling the full story of Waterloo and Blucher"s part in it, this book details a career which spanned the entire Napoleonic era. No other general clashed so many times with Bonaparte, and Blucher"s life epitomizes the excitement and horror of this fascinating yet bloody period. New unread book

Ref  102966 : £6.00   (Also under History)

QUEEN VICTORIA Her Life And Times Volume 1 1819-1861: Woodham-Smith, Cecil:  London, BCA, 1973. Book Club Edition. Hardcover, purple cloth, in dj.  574pp. Book Club edition. A very good copy in dustwrapper. Very Good copy, minor bumps to extremities, small nudge to corner of block affecting few page corners. Jacket Good,, edge wear and rubs.

Ref  100090:   £3.50

METTERNICH Councillor Of Europe:  Palmer, Alan: London, History Book Club. 1972. Hardcover in dj. 405pp, b&w illustrations throughout. Following the fall of Napoleon until his own fall in 1848 the Austrian Chancellor Metternich guided the fortune of Europe, he was a master of diplomacy and his influence spread far beyond the Habsburg Empire. Book has spine lean, internally clean and tight. Jacket Good, edge crinkles and curls. A very acceptable low cost reference copy

Ref 103339 : £4.00

The Diaries ; Allingham, William : London, The Folio Society, 1990. Hardcover, green cloth ornately decorated in gilt, in green slip case. 351pp, illustrated with 16 black and white photograph plates. Allingham (1824-1889) was a minor poet but as a diarist his comments are well expressed and contain much fine observation. Edited by H. Allingham and D. Radford. Introduction by John Julius Norwich. Book Near Fine, slight bump to spine tip, slip case Very good, minor shelf rubs and minor bumps. A lovely book set Bulmer on Hebrides Antique Laid paper. Usual superb Folio edition.

Ref  101075 ; £10.00        (Also under Folios)

The Earlier Smyths Of Ashton Court - From Their Letters 1545 -1741;  Bantock, Anton: Somerset, The Malago Society, 1982. Paperback Pictorial Card Covers. ISBN 0950781304. Very Good book, light cover marks and indents, tight and clean internally. 270pp, illustrated throughout. LOW SHIPPING RATES ON THIS BOOK.

Ref  18396:  £4.75

The Scandalous Life of King Carol; Cartland, Barbara: London, Muller, 1957, 1^st   ed. 13x20cm. 223p. frontisp. 16 illus. Bound in red cloth gilt, A Good+ book, no dj. Small bumps to cover corners and spine ends, small rubs to spine ends, internally tight and clean, no inscriptions. Scarce book

Ref  16733: £17.50

Isaac Newton - The Last Sorcerer; White, Michael: London, Fourth Estate, 1997. Hardcover, black cloth, in dj. ISBN 1857024168. Previous owner's book plate and inscription on ffep and minor marks on top edge else book would be fine.. Jacket Very Good, not clipped, no tears, minor edge crinkles. Re-interprets the voluminous contemporary evidence, including Newton's original works, to reveal in all his contradictions a man whose image has been protected and falsified for almost three hundred years.

Ref  19247:   £9.00

George Eliot - Her Life And Books; Bullett, Gerald :London; Collins; 1947, 1^st ed. Hardcover, red cloth, in dj. 256, b&w plates, lower edge untrimmed. Book very Good, minor bumps and rubs to cover extremities, name and address on ffep, tight and clean. Jacket Fair, not clipped, darkened and soiled small tears, edge wear and chips at covers and spine ends. Nice low cost copy.

Ref  19855:  £4.50

World Within World -The Autobiography Of Stephen Spender ; Spender, Stephen;  London, Hamish Hamilton, 1951, 1^st ed. Hardcover, light blue cloth, no dj. Book Good only. Spine sunned, rubs to corners and spine ends. Internally tight and clean.  Portrait of the poet among the Bloomsbury set. Includes sketches of and references to such notables as W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Virginia Woolf, and others; also notable for the reprinted introductory poem "Darkness and Light". Very acceptable low cost reading copy

Ref  19863:  £5.00

HUGH THOMSON , HIS ART, HIS LETTERS, HIS HUMOUR AND HIS CHARM; Spielmann, M.H., and Jerrold, Walter : London, A & C Black, London, 1931 First edition. Hardcover in original red cloth. No dj. Very Good book, spine slightly sunned, gift inscription dated 1934 inside cover. Internally tight and clean. 269pp, 12 superb colour plates, 16 b&w plates, 93 in-text illustrations, illustrated end-papers. Describes his early years in Ireland, his work for The English Illustrated Magazine, his later work and includes Bibliography of his Printed Work, Exhibitions, index. Plates all bright and clean with captioned tissue guards. Lovely solid copy of this delightful book

Ref 104991 : £40.00

The Field of Sighing; Cameron, Donald : London, Country Book Club, 1968. Hardcover, brown cloth, in dj. 201pp. Book Very good. Jacket Fair, spine sunned, small tear at flap corner, edge wear.

Ref 102435 : £4.00

RHODES OF AFRICA; Gross, Felix, London, Cassell, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover, blue cloth. 8vo, 433pp, 22 b&w photos. Book Fair, covers shabby with small stains, gift inscription on ffep, occasional spot otherwise tight and clean. Biography of Cecil Rhodes who opened up much of Southern Africa to colonial expansion in the late nineteenth century. Sound, low-cost book 

Ref  19771:   £6.00

OF FRIGATES & FILLIES; Poynder, Charles : UK, Nautical Pub.1994 1^st ed.. Hardcover, blue Cloth, in dj. ISBN 0952299704. . 8vo, 203 pages b/w photos. Charles Poynder found himself serving in the famous cruiser Kenya, as part of a Malta convoy. It was then he first saw action; shortly after the ship took part in the raid on Vaagso (Norway). He later served on another cruiser London and in two destroyers Eggesford and Musketeer. He ended the war based at Subic Bay and took part in the Japanese surrender of Hong Kong. His other lifelong passion was horses and he often rode out for the Queen Mother"s trainer Peter Cazelet. Book VG, very slight bumps to cover extremities and edges,  internally tight and clean, looks unread. Jacket VG, not clipped, no tear, slight edge crinkles.

Ref  101357:  £7.50

Politics of Paradise: A Vindication of Byron; Foot, Michael: London, Collins, 1988 reprint. Hard Cover. ISBN  0002172550. Fine book in Near Fine unclipped jacket, fade to spine and slight surface shelf rubs. New analysis of the freedom-loving political faith of the most admired and the most vilified artist of his age

Ref  16881:   £8.00

BERTHA VON SUTTNER AND THE STRUGGLE TO AVERT THE WORLD WAR; Playne, Caroline E.: London, Allen & Unwin, 1936, First edition. Hardcover, cloth, no dj.  8vo, Pp. 248. Book Good, covers a little marked and spine fade. Some spotting to endpapers, pre-lims and end pages and very occasional spot throughout, otherwise book is tight and clean. Biography of Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914) was an Austrian novelist and pacifist. Her novels reflected her concern for the position of women. She was a secretary to Alfred Nobel and her pacifist novel Die Waffen, influenced him to found his Peace Prize. She founded the Austrian Society of Peace Lovers and was the first woman recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Nice low cost copy

Ref  19764:  £9.00

John Constable 1776-1837; The Man and His Mistress; Fraser, John Lloyd : Newton Abbot: Readers Union, 1976. Hardcover in dj. 253pp, b&w illustrations. Vry Good book, pages  lightly toning at margins. Good jacket, soling on rear rubs ans wear at front fold, now in wrap. The sub title to this biography is not a reference to some little known secret of the artists life. Landscape is my mistress, he declared when he first appreciated his native Suffolk countryside.

Ref 103672 : £4.00

John Ruskin; Evans, Joan: London Jonathan Cape 1954, 1st edition. Hardcover, gold-stamped purple cloth, no dj. Book Very Good, tight and clean. 447 pgs, index. Illustrated by b/w photo plates.

Ref  16873:  £9.50

Kate Greenaway; Spielmann, M. H. and Layard, G. S.: London, Adam and Charles Black, 1905, 1st.  Original blue cloth decorated with red lines and green plant stems. Gold gilt printing on upper cover and spine. The standard reference work for this artist, with much essential material, including a comparison of wood block printed plates vs. photo-offset. 53 colour illustrations (inc endpapers) all colour plates with titled tissue guards, 34 b&w plates, plus a further 56 b&w in-text drawings. 301 pages, top edge gilt. The biography places extensive reliance on the correspondence with long time friend, John Ruskin. Spine and covers faded with stains. There are very old damp stains to lower and upper page margins throughout, now dry and not encroaching on text area or on printed parts of plates. Pastedowns cracked at inner hinge. Book tight. Because of stains can only be sold as a super reading copy, but all the marvellous plates are present and intact, many copies on sale have lost a few plates.

Ref  15394:  £35.00  

CAROLINE NORTON; Acland, Alice : London: Constable, 1948, First Edition. Hardcover, Blue Cloth, no dj. 8vo, 236pp, 5 plates. Very Good copy, light rubs to covers, edge spotting and slight marks, internally tight and clean. Caroline Norton was something of an early feminist. She was more responsible than anyone else for passing the Infants" Custody Bill and the 1857 Bill for the Reform of the Marriage and Divorce Laws. She lived 1808 – 1877. Nice sound low cost copy

Ref 19777:  £5.00

The Croker Papers 1808-1857; Pool, Bernard (Ed.): London: Batsford, 1967, First Thus, Cloth. Hardcover in dj. Very Good/Very Good.. 8vo, 277pp, b&w illustrations.  First published in 1884 the papers give an account of the principle political happenings, the behind-the-scenes discussions and the gossip[ of the first half of the nineteenth century, including a record of the  sayings and opinions of Croker’s intimate friend the Duke of Wellington. Few  spots on fore-edge. Internally tight and clean. Jacket not clipped, slight edge creases and very minor tears now in protective mylar wrap. Very nice copy of this valuable work.

Ref  16493:  £11.50

KARL MARX His Life and Environment;  Berlin, Isaiah : London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd. 1939 Hardcover,  12mo. 256pp  + ads. The Home University Library series. First edition of author's first book: a biographical study of the revolutionary political theorist. Book Fair only, no dj. Sound firm book but light blue cloth covers soiled and stained, spine sunned, hinges sound and not cracked, name on ffep, some creasing to pre-lims, a few loight pencil markings to text but pages generally clean. Sound tight copy of this first edition

Ref  100120:  £8.00

Reputations ; Hart, Captain Basil H. Liddell :London: John Murray, 1928, 1^st  ed. Hardcover, red cloth. This is sold as a Reading Copy only. Covers split at hinges and re-pasted, fraying at spine ends, cloth faded soiled and rubbed, block edges soiled, inner hinges splitting ffep removed. Internally gutters pulling slightly at places but generally is tight and generally clean, a few pages have small lower edge creases where block has been nudged. All maps present and intact and fold-out maps are not damaged. A study of ten men integrally involved in the First World War, written with the benefit of ten years distance from the events discussed, Joffre, von Falkenhayn, Gallieni, Haig, Foch, Ludendorff, Petain, Allenby, Littett and Pershing. Would re-bind well if needed but sold strictly as a reading and reference copy. 600gm

Ref  100064:  £10.00       (Also under History)

MUSSOLINI ; Ridley, Jasper : London, Constable,  1997. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0094763704. Book Fine unread book in Near Fine jacket. 430pp, b&w photos. Describes his upbringing in the violent society of 19th century Italy and the revolutionary traditions of Italian Socialism; his suspension from school for attacking other boys with knives; his imprisonment in Switzerland as an Anarchist tramp. He founded the Fascist Party, and ordered his squads to burn down the party offices of the Communists and Socialists during 4 years of virtual civil war. Becoming Prime Minister and dictator after the March on Rome, he showed his true colours as an empire-builder and eventually a racist and persecutor of the Jews.

Ref 103236 : £12.00

Captain Scott ; Fiennes, Ranulph: London, Hodder & Stopughton, 2003, 3^rd imp. Hardcover, white cloth, no dj. ISBN 0340826975. Unread book with no jacket, white cloth has few small marks and stains and a scuff along front lower spine edge. Internally tight and clean and bright. xiii, 508pp. 74 colour and b/w photographs on plates. A new and definitive biography of Captain Robert Scott, describing his final tragic journey to the South Pole, and tracing the way his reputation has since been attacked and his achievements distorted. Written by the author who has been described as " the world"s greatest living explorer". Nice low cost, hardcover, reference copy.

Ref 103416 : £5.00

My Darling Pussy - The Letters of Lloyd George and Frances Stevenson, 1913-41; Taylor, A.J.P:   London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975, 1^st ed. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0297770179. Book Very Good, small edge marks, internally  tight and clean and bright. Jacket Very Good, no clipped, couple of small edge tears, now in protective mylar wrap.

Ref  19194:   £6.50

TEMPESTUOUS JOURNEY: LLOYD GEORGE: HIS LIFE AND TIMES; Owen, Frank : London: Hutchinson & Co, 1954 reprint. Hardcover in dj. 8vo, 784pp, b&w photos. Good book, minor bumps at spine ends and edges, name on ffep, internally tight and clean. Jacket Fair, small tears edge wear and holes and crumples 2 cm loss at spine end.

Ref 107718 : £4.00

Twenty-Five Years 1892- 1916 (2 Volumes); Grey, Viscount Of Fallodon, K.G.: London,  Hodder & Stoughton, 1925 5^th impression. 2 volume hardback set in dustjackets. Pp xxx + 342, xi + 329, b&w plates. Memoirs, including of foreign policy up to the beginning of World War I. Books Very Good, slight block edge marks, occasional mark to page, tight and generally clean. Jackets Good, spines heavily sunned, soiled

Ref 103906 ; £17.50

GREY OF FALLODON: Being The Life Of Sir Edward Grey Afterwards Viscount Grey Of Fallodon; Trevelyan, George MaCaulay : London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1937 First Edition. Hardcover, red cloth, in dj. 393 pages, 16 b&w plates, map. Very Good Book, few edge marks, name inside cover, internally tight and clean. All outer and inner hinges firm and a nice solid copy. Jacket Fair, not clipped, edge wear with small losses at spine head, corners and top edge. A biography about a man of two different worlds: on one side the Government politician and on the other a talented naturalist who was the author of "The Cottage Book".

Ref 103968 ; £8.00

Memories & Reflections 1852-1927 (2 Volumes); The Earl of Oxford and Asquith : London, Cassell & Co. 1928 First Edition. 2 hardback volumes, black cloth. in dustjackets. Top edges gilt. Pages xvii + 284, vii + 288. 16 plates and large folding map. Books Very Good, solid. Few spots to block edges and prtelims, internally tight and clean. Jackets Good, spine sunned and darkened, edge rubs and chips. Liberal politician H. H. Asquith. He was Home Secretary from 1892 to 1895, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1905 to 1908, Leader of the Liberal Party from 1908 to 1926 and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. Nice solid set.

Ref 103907 : £25.00

RECOLLECTIONS (Complete in 2 Volumes); Morley, John Viscount : London, Macmillian, 1917 reprint. 2 hardback volumes in maroon cloth. Ex-library books. Sold as reference copies only. Labels on rear pastedown, remains of labels on fronts, bindings shaken with weak inner hinges with endpapers cracked. Internally clean. Reading copies only

Ref 103909 : £8.00

THE EARLY CHURCHILLS An English Family; Rowse, A. L.: New York, Dorset Press, 1990. Hardcover, black cloth spine on rd boards, in dj. ISBN 0880295872. 8vo, 378pp. Slight marks to bloack edges else book is Near Fine. Jacket Very Good, no tears. Slight edge crinkles.The remarkable Churchill family - from its rise from Dorset beginnings up to the death of the redoubtable Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough. Includes accounts of the original Sir Winston Churchill - the Cavalier Colonel, his daughter Arabella, her son the Duke of Berwick, Marlborough's sailor-brother Admiral Churchill and General Charles Churchill who commanded the infantry at Blenheim

Ref  19682:  £8.00

MY EARLY LIFE : A Roving Commission: Churchill, Winston S.: London, Macmillan & Co Limited, 1941 reprint. Hardcover, blue cloth, no dj. 8vo, 392pp, b&w illustrations and maps, including fold-out. Good book, slight bumps to board corners and spine ends. Internally tight and clean, no names

Ref 107107 : £15.00

CHURCHILL THE RISE TO FAILURE 1874-1915: Morgan, Ted : London: Triad/Panther, 1984. Paperback. ISBN 0586057625. 8vo, 672pp, b&w photos. Good book, minor cover creases edge soiling, name on prelim, internally tight and clean with light toning at margins. Biography of the early years of Churchill - although many now think of Churchill as a supreme statesman and Prime Minister his life, so closely woven with the world events going on around him, enjoyed definite peaks and troughs to his career; this book looks at the first forty years of his life and ends in a time when he seemed to be finished.

Ref 107537 : £4.50

Mr. Churchill : A Portrait; Philip Guedalla : London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1941, 1^st ed. Hardcover, green cloth gilt, in dj. 7.5in x 5in, 347pp. Good+ book, bumps to covers, tight and solid with few spots to prelims. Jacket Good+, not clipped, spine darkened, few spots, in wrap. A biography of the wartime leader published in the darkest days of World War 2.

|Ref  19702:  £6.00

WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Volume 1 YOUTH 1874 – 1900; Churchill, Randolph S.:  London, United Kingdom, 1966 1st ed. Hardcover, red cloth in dj. The first volume of the definitive biography of Churchill. 608pp, 8 maps and 50 b/w photographs. Fold out family trees in rear. Very Good book, slight edge spotting, internally tight and clean. Jacket Good+, not clipped, slight edge rubs. Weight 1.2 kg

Ref 104112 : £7.00

WINSTON S. CHURCHILL VOLUME II Companion Part 3 1911-1914: Churchill, Randolph S.: London, United Kingdom, 1969 1st ed. Ex-library. Hardcover, red cloth in dj. 678pp. The companion volumes to the fine eight volume biography of Churchill contained additional documentation, letters, and personal notes supporting the main volumes. Very Good book, minor bumps and rubs to board extremities, internally tight and clean. Remains of label on ffep, embossed stamp on title page and stamps on copyright page. Internally tight and clean. Jacket Good+, clipped, slight edge rubs, catalogue number on spine.. Weight 1.4 kg

Ref 104114 : £7.00

CHURCHILL HIS LIFE AND TIMES; Thomson, Malcolm: London, Odhams, 1965. Special Memorial Edition. Hardcover, red rexine covered boards. 8vo, 480pp including Index. Numerous illustrations. Very Good+ unread book, internally clean and bright.

Ref 103334 : £5.00

CHURCHILL : A Biography; Jenkins, Roy : London, Pan, 2002. Thick paperback. ISBN 0330488058. 1001 pages, colour and b&w illustrations. The most celebrated Prime Minister of the twentieth century and arguably the most renowned British Prime Minister ever, Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history. But, though he was at the forefront of the political scene for almost sixty years, were it not for the Second World War he might be remembered as nothing more than a minor player in the dramas of British government. In this brilliant account Roy Jenkins analyses Churchill's exceptional character in all its strengths and attendant weaknesses. Shortlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. ".. Very Good book, tight and clean.

Ref 103426 : £4.00

Winston Churchill As I Knew Him;  Carter, Violet Bonham:  London: Reprint Society, 1966. Hardcover in dj. Very Good book, some spotting and browning to top edge, internally tight and clean. Jacket Good, rubbibg around edges and spine. A study and biography of Winston Churchill written by his personal friend.

Ref  17420:   £5.00

CHURCHILL BY HIS CONTEMPORARIES; Eade, Charles (editor): London, Hutchinson & Co. 1953, First Edition. Blue Cloth Gilt with dust jacket. 8vo. 528pp. frontis plus 12 b/w illustrations. A collection of biographical accounts by his contemporaries at different stages of his life, from school, the services, the press, the arts, politics, foreign statesmen, etc, with 39 contributors including Compton Mackenzie, Paul Reynaud, Eisenhower, Bernard Shaw, Eleanor Roosevelt, Malcolm Muggeridge, etc. Book Very Good, slight bumps to corners, reading crease along spine, no names, small date and marks on half title page, internally tight and clean. Jacket Fair, spine heavily faded, loss at spine head, edge creasing and chips., now in protective wrap.

Ref 105350 : £8.00

CHURCHILL BY HIS CONTEMPORARIES; Eade, Charles (editor): London, Reprint Society, 1955. Hardcover, cloth, no dj. Hardcover, cream cloth, blue spine labels. 368pp, frontis portrait. and 12pp half tone photo illustrations. A collection of biographical accounts by his contemporaries at different stages of his life, from school, the services, the press, the arts, politics, foreign statesmen, etc, with 39 contributors including Compton Mackenzie, Paul Reynaud, Eisenhower, Bernard Shaw, Eleanor Roosevelt, Malcolm Muggeridge, etc. Very Good copy, some soiling to cloth, internally tight and clean

Ref 102850 ; £5.50

CHURCHILL: THE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL 1940/65 : Lord Moran: London, Constable, 1966. Hardcover, no dj.  The author, Lord Moran, became Churchill's doctor just as WW2 had begun. He had already written an earlier book which explored the effects of the strains and danger of war on human beings. With this book he studies the effect of prolonged stress on a single individual and recounts how Churchill faced up to and absorbed the strain not only of the War Years but also of the years which followed when he was struggling with declining political influence and the handicaps of old age. This is an epic story, full of sensitivity. It keeps fresh the memory of a titanic figure who embodied the soul of the nation. 829pp, 2 appendixes. 21 b/w illustrations. Frontispiece portrait of the bust of Churchill by Oscar Nemon. Index.. The book is in very good condition, minor rubs at corners and spine ends, few spots on block edges, internally tight and clean, no names or inscriptions. Weight 1.75 kg

Ref 104832 : £7.50

CHURCHILL THE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL 1940-1965; Moran, Lord: London, Heron Books, 1965. Maroon imitation leather, decorated in gilt. Decorated endpapers. 829 pages, illustrated. Very Good unread book. Small repaired tear on prelim. From the diaries of Churchill's doctor. An Attractive book

Ref 105531 : £7.00

CHURCHILL THE MAN OF THE CENTURY; A Pictorial Biography; Ferrier,Neil (Editor):  London: Purnell & Sons Ltd. 1965. Hard Cover. No Jacket. Published shortly after Winston Churchill"s death this pictorial biography covers his incredible career from his early schoolboy days up until 1963 where he was made an honorary citizen of the United States. A retrospective look at a larger than life individual who had such an impact on the British nation and indeed the rest of the Western world.60pp. Many b/w photos throughout. Good book, first couple of pages have small margin stains, small bubbles in front pastedown endpaper. Internally tight.

Ref 104249 : £4.00

MEN ON TRIAL: Howard, Peter : London, Blandford Press, 1945 First Edition. Hardcover, light blue cloth, no dj. Fair book, spine and board margins faded, light bumps, flimsy (war standard) boards a little curled, gift inscription inside cover, internally tight and clean. Written as a memorial for his brother, missing after Arnhem, and who had great hopes of political changes after the war. A series of thumbnail portraits and hopes of a selection of politicians including Churchill, Atlee, Bevin, Beaverbrook, Morrison, Eden, Shinwell, Cranborne, Stafford Cripps, Quinton Hogg, etc.

Ref 107348 : £4.00

CROSSMAN, RICHARD: THE DIARIES OF A CABINET MINISTER, VOLUMES ONE, TWO AND THREE: London, BCA, 1977, 1977 and 1978. Three volumes in jackets comprising the complete biography. All volumes Very Good, no names or inscriptions, slight edge marks, internally tight and clean. All Jackets VG

Ref 105546 : £25.00

Crossman, Richard: The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, Volume ONE. London,   Hamish Hamilton, 1977, reprint. Cover the period from 1964 to 1966, Minister Of Housing, and chart the career as well as the politics of the government of the time .Illustrations.  Very Good book, small stain on green cloth front cover, internally tight with  light toning. Jacket Very good, not clipped, no tears, faded at spine and slightly on front margins, slight edge rubs,

Ref  16848:   £6.50

THE CROSSMAN DIARIES: Selections from the Diaries of a Cabinet Minister 1964-1970; Crossman, Richard (ed. Anthony Howard) : London. Hamish Hamilton and Jonathan Cape. 1979. First edition in this edited and condensed version of the diaries kept by Richard Crossman, which were originally published in three very thick volumes. 688pp, illustrated in b&w. Introduction by  Anthony Howard Three gift inscriptions on ffep, internally tight and clean. Very Good solid book. Jacket VG, clipped.

Ref 105547 : £8.00

Enoch Powell: Principle in Politics; Lewis, Roy : London: Cassell, 1979 First edition. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0304300721. 8vo, xv + 272pp. Roy Lewis sets out to answer many of the questions that surround a man who has been an important but enigmatic part of British politics. “Why in 1968 did he say immigration might lead to civil war, when he ignored it at the general election of 1964? Why is membership of the EEC fatal to Britain, when he advocated it in 1962?” This comprehensive study of Powell the politician and Powell the thinker. Very Good book, no names, internally tight and clean. Jacket Good, no clipped, rubs at spine ends and corners.

Ref  106784 : £8.50

Denis Healey; The Time of My Life:  London, Michael Joseph 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0718131142 . Ex-Senior politician reflects on life and politics. Near Fine with small gift inscription on ffep and some spotting and marks on block edges. Very Good jacket, not clipped, no tears edge crinkles and rubs. Heavy book. Postage at cost.

Ref  16498:  £7.50

Denis Healey; The Time of My Life:  London, Penguin 1990. Paperback. ISBN 0140113703 . Ex-Senior politician reflects on life and politics. 607pp, photo illustrations. Very Good used book.  

Ref 105266 : £2.00

Denis Healey: MY SECRET PLANET;  London, BCA, 1992. Book Club Edition. Hardcover in dj. 8vo, 345pp. Very Good book, name on ffep. Internally tight and clean. Jacket Good, edge crumples. The author looks at the literary influences that have shaped his life as an economist and politician.

Ref 106765 :  £6.00

Baldwin, The Unexpected Prime Minister;  Hyde, H. Montgomery:  London, Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1973, first edition. Hardcover, no dj. 9.5x6.5. 616pp. frontis, 53 b/w photos. For fourteen years after unexpectedly becoming Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin proved to be the most potent political influence in Britain, spending three terms in office. This cast fascinating light on his parliamentary and personal life. Book Very Good, , light marks to black cloth covers, gift inscription on ffep, slight soil marks to block edges, tight and clean internally. No jacket. Heavy book. Postage at cost.

Ref  16500:  £9.50

BALDWIN; Jenkins, Roy : London, Collins, 1988. Paperback. ISBN 000215093X. 8vo, 204pp, b&w photos. Biographical appendix provides notes on all the leading characters of the period. Baldwin"s political life included both the General Strike and the Abdication. Very Good  book, corner nudges, very slight bow to book from fore-edge, internally tight and clean.

Ref 104225 : £14.00

Tony Crosland; Crosland, Susan: London; Cape; 1982, 1^st ed. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 022401787X. Biography of the Labour polician by his wife. 4322pp, b&w photos. Book Very Good+, slight corner nudges, internally fine. Jacket Very Good, not clipped, no tears, slight edge crinkles and spine faded.

Ref  16494:  £7.50

A Life At The Centre;  Jenkins, Roy: London, Macmillan & Co, 1991, 1^st ed.  Hard Cover in dj. ISBN 0333551648. This is the absorbing story of a man who combined a wide social and literary life with a political panache that nearly made him Prime Minister. 658 pages. Book very dlight damage. 2cm split to lower backstrip and matching split in jacket spine. Else book would be Near Fine. Jacket not clipped  with edge crinkles. Nice low cost copy

Ref  16507:   £6.50

BUTLER, R.A. An English Life;  Cosgrave, Patrick: London, Quartet, 1981 First Edition. Hardcover ISBN  0704322587. Fine. Jacket Very Good++, unclipped, no tears, slight edge creases. Biography of one of the most enigmatic and influential of twentieth century politicians

Ref  16882:  £7.50

Reflect On Things Past, The Memoirs of Lord Carrington: Lord Carrington: London,  Collins, 1988, 1^st ed. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 000217667X. Very Good+ book with slight bumps to cover corners and spine tail and slight spotting to block edges, internally tight and clean. Jacket Very Good, unclipped with edge creases

Ref  16508:  £7.00

MACMILLAN 1894-1956, Volume I of the Official Biography; Horne, Alistair: London. Macmillan, 1988, 1^st ed. ISBN 0333276914. Very Good book, tight and clean, no inscriptions. Jacket Very Good, clipped, fade to spine, slight surface rubs to gloss, slight edge crinkles, no tears

Ref  18402:   £7.50

MACMILLAN 1894-1956 Volume I of the Official Biography & MACMILLAN 1957-1986 Volume II of the Official Biography  (2 volumes); Horne, Alistair: London. Macmillan, 1990 & 1991. Heavy paperbacks. Vol I 533 pages, Vol II 742 pages, both with b.w. illustrations. ISBN 0333498097 &  0333498100. Both in Very Good condition, tight clean and square. Vol I has small scratch on rear cover, both have very minor cover indents. Sold as pair. Heavy set. Postage at cost

Ref  16509:   £12.00

WINDS OF CHANGE 1914-1939; Macmillan, Harold : London, Macmillan & Co Ltd. 1966 First Edition., Hardcover, red cloth, in dj. 8vo, 664pp, b&w photos.. A memoir and history of the early part of the 20th century, covering World War I, the great depression and the events leading up to the outbreak of World War II. Very Good book, signature on title page hard to decipher, internally tight and clean. Jacket Good, not clipped, no serious tears but somewhat crumpled. Nice solid low cost copy.

Ref 103965 : £5.00

TIDES OF FORTUNE 1945-1955 ; Macmillan, Harold : London, Macmillan & Co Ltd. 1969 First Edition., Hardcover, red cloth, in dj. 8vo, 729pp, b&w photos and cartoons. Volume three of Macmillan's six volume autobiography. This volume covers the early post war years of Cold War, attempts at European Unity, and the coming to terms with the cost in finance and power of victory in the Second World War. Very Good book, gift inscription on prelim, internally tight and clean. Jacket Good, clipped, small tears at spine tips repaired on reverse, rubs and crumples at edges and spine ends. Nice solid low cost copy.

Ref 103964 : £5.00

"R.A.B." Study Of A Statesman; Sparrow, Gerald : London: Odhams, 1965, First edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth, in dj. 356pp, illustrated with black and white photographs. R.A. Butler who twice found himself the favourite in the race for the Premiership and twice saw the glittering prize elude his grasp. He served as deputy for two very dissimilar Prime Ministers Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan. Book good, small scratch to cloth on front, internally tight and clean. Jacket Good, clipped, small hole in front, rubs. Nice low cost copy

Ref  18775:  £5.00

A SPARROW'S FLIGHT: The Memoirs of Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone; Hailsham, Lord : London, Collins, 1990 First Edition. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0002155451. 463pp, b&w photos. Very Good book, no names or inscription, tight and clean. Jacket Very Good, clipped, no tears. Sparkling autobiography of the longest-serving Lord Chancellor of the twentieth century, containing his reflections on the nature of that office and on what he achieved during the tenure of it.

Ref 105948 : £9.00

Memoirs;  Grimond, Jo: London, Heinemann, 1979, 1st ed. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0434306002. Jo Grimond Leader of the Parliamentary Liberal Party (1956 - 1967). 316 Pages. Illustrated with B&W plates. Maroon cloth, gilt titles on spine. Very Good in Very Good unclipped jacket with edges creases.

Ref  16491:  £5.75

THE DOWNING STREET YEARS; Thatcher, Margaret : London, HarperCollins, 1993. Large paperback. ISBN 0002550490. 8vo, 914pp, colour and b&w photos. A brilliant first-hand portrayal of the events and personalities of her years in power. Riveting acounts of critical moments, three election victories, the Falklands, the miners' strike, the Brighton bomb, the Westland affair, battles with foreign federalists and politicians at home. Very Good unread book, light shelf rubs and nudges

Ref 105933 : £7.00

MARGARET THATCHER : A Personal and Political Biography: Lewis, Russell : London, Routledge And Kegan Paul, 1975 First Ed. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0710082835. 8vo, 164pp, b/w photos. Very good book, name on ffeo, tight and clean. Jacket VG, no tears, not clipped. As a man who knew her the best, Russell Lewis gives an interesting insight into the life of Britain”s first female prime minister before she won the vote.

Ref 106794 :  £7.00

Betty Boothroyd - The Autobiography; Boothroyd, Betty: London, Century, 2001, 1st ed. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0712679480. 8vo,338pp, colour and b&w photos. Book Near Fine. Very Good clipped jacket, slight surface indents

Ref  18817:  £6.50

BETTY BOOTHROYD The Autobiography: Boothroyd, Betty : London, Century 2001 2nd imp. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0712679480. 8vo,338pp, colour and b&w photos. Book Near Fine. Very Good jacket, not clipped slight surface indents. Story of a highly respected lady, who swapped a showbiz career (she was one of the Tiller Girls) for a life in politics, eventually becoming Speaker of the House of Commons.

Ref 106737 :  £6.00

IAIN MACLEOD ; Fisher, Nigel : London. Andre Deutsch. 1973, 2^nd imp. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0233963243. 352pp, b&w photos. An affectionate and illuminating biography which describes the complex character and outstanding gifts of one of the most interesting figures to achieve political prominence since the war, describing circumstances and qualities which made him a man of courage, compassion and idealism. Book Very Good, tight and clean. Jacket VG, clipped, minor edge rubs.

Ref 105236 :   £7.00

Iain Macleod. A Biography;  Shepherd, Robert: London, Pimlico, 1995.  Large Paperback. ISBN 0712674608. 608 pages, black and white plates.  Book Very Good.  Reading creases to spine, small creases at cover corners, shallow indents on covers, internally tight and clean. Large book. Postage at cost

Ref  16473:  £7.50

LUCKY GEORGE Memoirs of an Anti-Politician; Walden, George: London, Alan Lane, 1999, First Edition. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0713993162. Near Finer book, no names. Very Good clipped jacket, no tears, slight edge crinkles. Political autobiography in the widest sense. Caustic about almost everyone, including himself, whether writing about Saddam Hussein, Margaret Thatcher, life on board the Royal Yacht or the Smoking Room of the house of Commons. Stylish, witty and wonderfully entertaining.

Ref 103461 : £8.00

LIFE OF THE PARTY: The Biography of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman; Ogden, Christopher : Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1994. First edition 4th printing. Hardcover in dj ISBN 0316633763. 8vo, 504pp, b&w photos. Very Good+  book, minor bumps at spine ends, bookplate on ffep, internally tight and clean. Jacket VG, not clipped no tears.. Before being appointed by Clinton as US ambassador to Paris in 1993 Pamela Harriman had an international reputation as courtesan of the century. Eldest child of an English Baron, she has had three husbands and many male admirers, claims to have met Adolf Hitler, married Randolph Churchill, had wartime affairs with powerful men such as Averill Harriman, Edward Murrow and top British and American generals, after the war had liaisons with wealthy playboys Aly Khan, Gianni Agnelli and Elie de Rothschild. Christopher Ogden was appointed by Pamela Harriman to ghost her autobiography. The arrangement was abandoned, and this unauthorized biography is the result.

Ref 106736 :  £6.00

Love In Five Temperaments; Herold, J. Christopher: London, Hamish Hamilton, 1961 1st ed. Hardback, 292pp, illustrated, Very Good / no dj. Slight dust spotting to top edge. Inside clean and tight. Literary portraits of five eighteenth century Frenchwomen none of them too well known, but each remarkable in her own way.

Ref  13199:  £6.00

The Dream King, Ludwig II of Bavaria;  Blunt ,Wilfrid:  London, BCA 1973.Book very Good with slight corner bumps in Fair jacket with edge and corner rubs, chips and small tears. ""Ludwig II of Bavaria"". With a chapter on Ludwig and the Arts by Dr Michael Petzet. Numerous illustrations (many colour). Grey top edge, 264 pages.

Ref  13353;    £7.50

The Regent And His Daughter; Creston, Dormer: London: Thornton Butterworth 1932 . 1st edition.  With 16 sepia plates. Princess Charlotte, daughter of George IV, was the wife of Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. A Good book, no dj. Spine bumped and chipped to surface, boards a little rubbed and bumped, soiling to front and rear endpapers, slight toning and the occasional throughout, edge repair to one page. Tight all plates intact and a good low cost reference copy. 320 pp.
Ref  11821;     £5.00  

Wellington, The Years of the Sword;  Longford, Elizabeth: London,  The Literary Guild, 1970. Second Impression, ISBN 0297179179: Cloth Binding: Boards, Fine/Good. Wellington is the archetype of the stern silent Englishman dedicated to his duty. His posthumous nickname 'The Iron Duke' was hard earned on the battlefields of the Peninsular War. Yet, though he was remarkably free from the contradictions so often discovered in the very great, he had all the subtlety and variety of genius. Jacket has edge crinkles and small missing piece (2cm) at top edge front hinge. 8vo, 548 pages,, 24 pages of illustration, 10 maps and printed endpapers. Heavy book. Postage at cost

Ref  13352;   £10.00  

Wellington - The Years of the Sword; Longford, Elizabeth: London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969, First Edition. Hardcover, red cloth, no dj; ISBN 0297179179. 548pp. 56 illustrations. Very Good. Gift inscription on ffep. Slight bumps to spine ends, internally tight and clean. Wellington is the archetype of the stern silent Englishman dedicated to his duty. His posthumous nickname 'The Iron Duke' was hard earned on the battlefields of the Peninsular War. Yet, though he was remarkably free from the contradictions so often discovered in the very great, he had all the subtlety and variety of genius. Heavy book, will incur extra postage costs

Ref  19217:  £8.00

THE DUKE ; Guedalla, Philip London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1937, a 1st thus in-the Uniform Edition of the works of Philip Guedalla,. Hardcover, tan cloth embossed green letters to front black letters to spine, in dj. 523pp, maps to endpapers. Book Very Food, small bumps at extremities, small marks to block edges, internally tight and clean. Jacket Fair, chips and small tears at spine ends now strengthened with archival tape, corners worn, spine darkened. Biography of the Duke of Wellington.

Ref 103940 : £5.50

The Duke; Guedalla, Philip:  London, The Reprint Society 1940. Hardbound, in Very Good condition.  Maroon cloth covers slightly marked, slight fade to spine, name and date 1940 on fep.. Spotting on endpapers, prelims and on edges and occasional spot on pages throughout mainly on margins. Tight. Biography of the Duke of Wellington, portrait frontis

Ref  14199:   £4.00

QUEEN VICTORIA; Strachey, Lytton : London, Chatto & Windus, June 1921 1^st edition 4^th impression. Hardcover. Navy boards, bumped and rubbed at corners and spine ends, paper spine label. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. Cut edges of text block and endpapers foxed, occasional spot internally No names or inscriptions.

Ref 103958 : £5.00

Strachey, Lytton; Five Victorians, Queen Victoria, General Gordon, Florence Nightingale, Cardinal Manning, Dr Arnold of Rugby: London, The Reprint Society, 1942.  Hardcover, no dj. green cloth, red title label. Book Very Good. marks to covers slight bumps and rubs to extremities. Book still tight and clean

Ref  16611:  £5.00

OLIVER CROMWELL: Buchan, John : London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1967 reprint. Hardcover, no dj. 8vo, 554pp, frontispiece, 10 coloured maps. Good book, spine sunned, name and date 1973 on ffep, internally tight and clean.

Ref 107052 : £8.00

Oliver Cromwell; Buchan, John: London, The Reprint Society, 1941.  Hardcover, no dj. blue cloth, black title label. Book Very Good, marks to covers slight bumps and rubs to extremities. Book still tight and clean

Ref  16612:  £5.00

THE RIGHT HON. BENJAMIN DISRAELI, EARL OF BEACONSFIELD K.G. AND HIS TIMES (2 volumes bound in 5 Divisions): Ewald, Alexander Charles : London: William Mackenzie, 1882. Complete 2 volume set bound into 5 divisions. In  original blue cloth decorated in gilt, armorial shield and decoration on fronts, gilt decorations to spine. All edges gilt. Pp 600 + 598 running pagination across the 5 books, 30 photogravure plates with guards bound together in the front of each division. Books a little shabby on outside, covers stained to varying degrees, corners and spine ends rubbed. Small splits the cloth at spine tips, a couple of inner joints weakening with endpapers cracked, all boards firmly attached. Slight spotting to prelims and plate margins. Internally tight and generally clean. A great historical reference work on this important period in Victorian history. Low cost set. Weight 4.6 kg. Will incur extra postage cost.

Ref 107709 : £60.00      (Also under History)

Disraeli, A Picture of the Victorian Age;  Maurois, Andre: London, John Lane The Bodley Head. 1927, First Edition. Cloth. Pp 334, 2 pages of adverts. Engraved portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Plus a b&w photograph of Lord Beaconsfield. Translated by Hamish Miles. Good book / no dj. Book has red covers, faded to spine, some staining and fading front and rear, small bumps to corners, spine ends bumped with very small splits in cloth at spine tail, name on fep. Internally tight and clean.

Ref  14136:   £14.00

Buccaneer, Admiral Sir Henry Morgan; Allen, H. R.: London, Arthur Baker, 1976, First.  Very God book in Fair dj: Book has small indent on cover,  tight and clean and bright. Jacket  is a bit ragged with a number of tears now patched on reverse and with rubs and creases and chips to edges This is the biography of Admiral Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer. The author, a descant of Sir Henry, describes the buccaneer's extraordinary exploits and paints a vivid picture of the roving seaman's life. B&w illustrations

Ref  14109:   £7.50

BERNADOTTE A Biography ; Wencker-Wildberg, Friedrich :  London, Jarrolds, 1936, First Edition. Hardcover, dark green cloth. 8vo, 317pp, b&w frontis and 15 other plates. Translated from the German by Kenneth Kirkness. Book Very Good, minor bumps to board corners, slight fade to gilt on spine, name on ffep, minor spots to block edges and rear pages, otherwise tight and clean.

Ref  101693:  £13.00

Schumann and the Romantic Age; Brion, Marcel: London, Collins, 1956, 1^st ed. Hardcover in dj. Translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury. Biography of Robert Schumann 1810-1856) and his times. "Schumann may be regarded as one of the finest and most characteristic products, not only of romantic music, but of (German) romanticism itself". 375 pages, four plates. A list of recommended recordings from The Record Guide by Edward Sackville-West and Desmond Shawe-Taylor. Book Very good with gift inscription on fep, intwernally tight and clean. Jacket with drawing of Schumann in black line on green paper is Good+, clipped, spine darkening, some soiling on rear, edge rubs and small edge tears. A nice sound copy

Ref  15836:   £8.50

Studies Of Great Composers; Parry C Hubert H: London: Routledge (no date). Twentieth edition. in green cloth covers without dust wrapper. In Very Good condition. Slight rubs to corners and spine ends, top edge spotted and marked, endpapers spotted, name and gift inscription on ffep, internally tight and clean. 376pp, Line drawn frontis.

Ref  17847:   £7.00

Joh. Seb.  Bach; Schallenberg, Dr E. W.: Stockholm, The Continental Book Co, nd. Hardcover, decorative paper covered boards.10.25in x 7.75in, 63pp, b&w illustrations. Book Very Good, slight bumps and rubs to corners and spine ends, slight cover marks and  bow, internally tight and clean

Ref  15840:  £7.00         (Also under Music)

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH; van Loon, Hendrik Willem : London, George G. Harrap, 1944 reprint. Hardcover in dj. Good book, no names or inscriptions. Jacket Fair, rubbed with edge wear, small loss and minor tears

Ref 104964 : £4.00

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: The Story of His Life and Work; Roseberry, Eric : London, Boosey and Hawkes, 1960. Paperback in white card covers with black titles. In the Great masters series. Highly informative, condensed history with illustrations. 46 pages including covers. Very good copy, minor soiling to cover, internally tight and clean. A scarce publication

Ref 103448 : £2.00

BEETHOVEN His Spiritual Development; Sullivan, J W N : London, Allen & Unwin, 1975 reprint. Paperback. ISBN 0047800135.12mo, 127pp, Very good book, name J W N Sullivan written on title page, perhaps a facsimile of genuine signature. Internally tight and clean

Ref 106136 : £3.00

Bach;  Williams,  C. F. Abdy; London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910, Hardcover, red cloth, no dj. Book sold as reading copy only. A sound tight book  and clean internally, but with discolouration (damp?) stains on spine and rear.. Name on ffep. Gilt decoration  on front and spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, few foxing spots to some pages. 223pp, frontis plus 8further b&w plates, music scores in text. Very acceptable low cost reading copy.

Ref  100100:  £5.00

George Frideric Handel, His Personality And His Times; Flower, Norman: London, Cassell & Co,  1946, 4^th ed.  Small hardcover, 7in x 4.5in, 324pp.  Cloth covers, Very Good, slight bumps and rubs to corners and spine ends, slight  fade and marks on spine. Internally tight and clean

Ref  15846:   £5.00

HANDEL (The Master Musicians Series): Williams, C .F. Abdy: London, J.M. Dent & Sons 1944. New series edited by Eric Blom. Hardcover, cloth, in dj. 12mo, 276pp, illustrated with photographs, facsimiles, and musical examples. Ex private library. Stamp of “Aros Seamen’s Club, Greenock” on title page. Otherwise book in Good condition, name on ffep, top edge  internally tight and clean. Jacket Fair, slightly soiled, edge wear. A superb easy to read critical biography, ideal for those who want to get to the heart of the composer”s style.

Ref 106069 : £5.00

DVORAK (The Master Musicians Series): Robertson, Alec: London, J.M. Dent & Sons 1945. New series edited by Eric Blom. Hardcover, cloth, in dj. 12mo, 234pp, illustrated with photographs, facsimiles, and musical examples. Ex private library. Stamp of "Aros Seamen's Club, Greenock" on title page. Otherwise book in Good condition, name inside cover, internally tight and clean. Jacket Fair, slightly soiled, edge wear and creases. A superb easy to read critical biography, ideal for those who want to get to the heart of the composer"s style.

Ref 106070; £5.00

BACH (The Master Musicians Series): Williams, C .F. Abdy: London, J.M. Dent & Sons 1944. New series edited by Eric Blom. Hardcover, cloth, in dj. 12mo, 241pp, illustrated with photographs, facsimiles, and musical examples. Ex private library. Stamp of "Aros Seamen's Club, Greenock" on ffep. Otherwise book in Good condition, initials inside cover, internally tight and clean. Jacket Fair, slightly soiled, edge wear, small tears repaired on reverse with tape. A superb easy to read critical biography, ideal for those who want to get to the heart of the composer"s style

Ref 106071; £5.00

SCHUBERT (The Master Musicians Series): Hutchings, Arthur: London, J.M. Dent & Sons 1945. New series edited by Eric Blom. Hardcover, cloth, in dj. 12mo, 233pp, illustrated with photographs, facsimiles, and musical examples. Ex private library. Stamp of "Aros Seamen's Club, Greenock" on title page. Otherwise book in Good condition, name inside cover, internally tight and clean. Jacket Fair, slightly soiled, chips at spine head repaired with tape, small tears also repaired. A superb easy to read critical biography, ideal for those who want to get to the heart of the composer"s style.

Ref 106072; £5.00

Tchaikovsky; Weinstock, Herbert : London, Cassell & Co, 1946. Hardcover, black cloth, no dj, 388pp, 8 half-tone plates. Good copy with rubs and small bumps to cover corners, edges and spine ends. Internally tight and clean with very light toning at margins. Very acceptable low cost copy.

Ref 100559:   £3.50

The World of George Washington;  Ketchum, Richard M. New York, American Heritage Publishing Co., 1974. Hardcover, pale blue cloth spine on maroon boards, in dj. ISBN 0070344094. Folio 13.5in x 10.5in, 275pp plus index, colour and b&w illustrations throughout.  Book Very Good. Internally tight clean and bright, no names or inscriptions. Jacket Very Good, not clipped, minor edge splits and rubs. The Definitive Biography with many contemporary Paintings, Documents, Maps and Memorabilia Drawings, etc., shown together for the first time. Very Heavy book.

Ref  19415:  £8.00

The Letters of Queen Victoria - A selection from Her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861, published by authority of His Majesty the King (3 vols); Queen Victoria:  London, John Murray, 1908. Vol I 1837-1843, Vol II. 1844-1853, Vol III. 1854-1861. Edited. by Arthur Christopher Benson. and Viscount Esher. 7.5in x5in, 512pp, 472pp and 520pp. B&w frontis to each volume. Condition Good only. Red cloth covers, minor bumps and rubs to cover extremities, faded around margins and darkened on spines, minor soiling of cloth. Some marks to block edges. Card picture of Victoria stuck on free endpaper of vol I, prelims of vol I creased. Volume III gutters opening at title page and between penultimate and last page of volume III and closed with archive tape at rear point. Other than these problems the books are tight and sound. These letters have been selected to bring out the development of the Queen's character and disposition, and to give typical instances of her methods in dealing with political and social matters - to produce in fact a book for British citizens and British subjects. The development of the Queen's character is clearly indicated in the papers. We see one of highly vigorous and active temperament, of strong affections and with a deep sense of responsibility, placed at an early age, and after a quiet girlhood, in a position the greatness of which it is impossible to exaggerate.  

Ref  17594:   £15.00

Monteverdi, Creator Of Modern Music; Schrade, Leo: London, Victor Gollancz, 1951. Hardcover, Fair book no dj.  384 pp. Spine backstrip has had a hard time, faded almost colourless with rubs and snags to cloth. Internally book is Very Good indeed, tight and clean and bright. A nice low cost reference book

Ref  15847:   £4.50         (Also under Music)

The Spiritual Lives Of The Great Composers; Kavanough, Patrick: Tennessee, Sparrow Press, 1992. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0917143086.Black cloth, Gilt title to front board and spine. Near Fine book in very Good unclipped, untorn jacket. Tight and clean and bright internally, looks unopened.

Ref  15848:   £6.00

A Day With Charles Francois Gounod; Byron, May: London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [c1920?]. Hardcover, paper covered boards with laid-on colour portrait illustration. 48pp, 5  full colour plates. reading Copy only. Cover backstrip re-pasted with small losses, internally tight and clean.. In the "Days With The Great Composers" series.        

Ref100110:  £3.50

Charles Lamb – His Homes And Haunts ( The Pilgrim Books series) ; Bensusan, S. L. : London, T. C. & E. C. Jack, no date [c1910?]. Hardcover, paper covered boards with laid-on portrait illustration. 81pp, 16 b&w plates. Very Good copy, small bumps to cover extremities, small rubs,  name on ffep. tight and clean.. In the “Pilgrim Books” series

Ref 102814:  £8.00

DEATH OF A LEGEND: The True Story of Bonny Prince Charlie: de Polnay, Peter:  London,  Hamish Hamilton, 1952, First Edition. Hardcover in dj. 8vo 265pp, b&w illustrations. Very Good book, slight rubs at board extremities, internally tight and clean, no names. Jacket Fair, small tears, edge chips and rubs and slight edge losses. Biography of Charles Edward Stuart - Bonny Prince Charlie - especially. those phases of his career that have remained in the shadows and the Prince”s hidden personal life between 1749 and 1766

Ref  106897 : £5.00

William Shakespeare – His Homes And Haunts ( The Pilgrim Books series) ; Bensusan, S. L. : London, T. C. & E. C. Jack, no date [c1910?]. Hardcover, paper covered boards with laid-on portrait illustration. 87pp, 16 b&w plates. Very Good copy, small bumps to cover extremities, small chip at spine head, small rubs,  tight and clean.. In the “Pilgrim Books” series

Ref 102815:  £8.00

The Life And Death Of Mozart; Levey, Michael:London, Cardinal, 1973. Paperback. ISBN 0351171789. 301pp, illustrated with b&w plates.. Book Good,  reading creases and rubs to spine, nudges to cover corners and slight cover creases, rubs to cover edges. Internally tight and clean with slight toning to page margins.

Ref  15857:  £4.00

JOSEPH HAYDN His Life In Contemporary Pictures; Collected and Supplied With A Commentary And An Iconography Of Authentic Haydn Pictures; Somfai, Laszlo : London: Faber & Faber, 1969 Hardcover, red cloth, in dj. 11.75 x 8.25 inches, 244pp, over 400 imaginatively selected illustrations introduce the reader to the composer’s career, his friends, the circle of people amongst whom he moved, the buildings and towns where he lived. Book Very Good, tight clean and bright. Jacket Good+, not clipped, edge wear with chips at spine ends.

Ref  100943:  £20.00

FOUR MUSICIANS Sketches Of Handel, Haydn, Bach, Mozart; Thomson, Beatrice Leslie; London: Sheldon Press, 1929. Hardcover 17 cm, 124 pp. Hardcover in blue cloth. Good, small bumps to cover corners and spine ends, minor cover marks and rubs, internally tight and clean. Well written short biographies of the composers, illustrated with plates.

Ref  19966:  £5.50

Monarch of All I Survey - Sir Charles Rey Bechuanaland diaries 1929-37; Parsons Neil & Crowther Michael Eds. Gaborone: The Botswana Society, London, James Currey 1988, 1^st,. 282 pages including notes and index. Brown cloth A candid record of eight years of triumph and frustration in the reform and development of an African colony, photographs, end-paper map, book as new in Near Fine dj (very minor edge creases)

Ref 10941;  £45.00

On My Home Ground; Moffat, Gwen: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1968 First. Blue Boards / dj. Gilt Titles. VG+/VG. 8vo. 256pp with  b&w photos. Frontis  photo of author on Milestone Buttress. Book has spotting to block edges and slight fore-edge mark else near fine. Jacket unclipped, very minor splits to lower edge and slight edge creasing  This is an uncommon title.

Ref  15544: £24.00   (Also under Travel)

AUGUSTUS JOHN A BIOGRAPHY - Volume I The Years Of Innocence, Volume II The Years Of Experience  (2 volume set): Holroyd, Michael : London, William Heinemann, 1974 & 1975. 2 hardcover books in tan cloth, no djs. ISBN 0434345741 & 434345806. 8vo, 415 + 263 pp, 51 b&w illustrations,, illustrated endpapers. Books Good,  slight bumps to cover extremities, surface rubs at spine ends, gift inscriptions on ffeps. Few faded spots on covers, a solid sound reading set

Ref  100970:  £12.00

PERSONAL DIARY OF ADMIRAL THE LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN;  Supreme Allied Commander, South-East Asia, 1943-1946: Ziegler , Philip (editor) : London, Collins, 1988. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0002176076. xiv-357 pp., illustrated with b&w photos. Near Fine book. Jacket VG, clipped, slight edge crinkles. Originally much surprised to be offered the post of Supreme Allied Commander, Mountbatten was soon getting on with the job. Frank, revealing and sometimes alarmingly honest, these diaries pull no punches and spare no reputations.

Ref 104719 : £9.50

LOUIS & VICTORIA. THE FIRST MOUNTBATTENS; Hough, Richard : London., Hutchinson., 1974. First edition. Hardcover in dj. Blue cloth, gilt coat of arms on front. ISBN 0091211603. 8vo, 424pp, 50 sepia toned illustrations, genealogy tables on endpapers. Very good book, no names or inscriptions, internally tight and clean. Jacket Good, not clipped, edge rubs, chips at spine ends, now in protective wrap

Ref  106906 : £7.50

Mountbatten; Ziegler, Philip; London,  Guild Publishing. 1985.  Hard Cover. Huge biography of Lord Louis Mountbatten, 786 pages. 48pp half tone ills., the life of Mountbatten including 218pp on the period 1939-46, covering HMS Kelly, Combined Operations and Supreme Command. Endpapers show Family Tree.  Book Near Fine with pages toning at margins in very good jacket, rubs at corners and edge crinkles.
Ref:  12196 : £7.50

Mountbatten; Ziegler, Philip; London, Guild Publishing. 1985. Hard Cover. Huge biography of Lord Louis Mountbatten, 786 pages. 48pp half tone illustrations., the life of Mountbatten including 218pp on the period 1939-46, covering HMS Kelly, Combined Operations and Supreme Command. Endpapers show Family Tree. Book Near Fine with pages toning at margins in very good jacket, no tears small creases

Ref  16022:  £7.50

DIARIES OF LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN 1920-1922; Tours With The Prince Of Wales: Ziegler, Philip: London, Collins, 1987, 1^st ed. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0002176084.  315 pages with index, maps, b/w photos. The diaries of Louis Montbatten, young naval officer, aged nineteen, who accompanied his cousin the Prince of Wales on a royal tour of New Zealand and Australia. Near Fine unmarked copy in VG clipped jacket

Ref  102264 : £7.00

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LORD MOUNTBATTEN : Terraine, John : London, Hutchinson 1968 First Ed. Hardcover in dj. 8vo, 197pp, b&w photos. Very Good book, minor rubs and bumps to corners and spine ends, endpapers browned, internally tight and clean. Jacket Fair to Good, edge wear, small tear repaired on reverse, slight soiling. Biography of Lord Louis Mountbatten of Burma, with a foreword written by himself. The book tells his life story from his birth to his untimely murder at the hands of the Irish Republican Army. His mother was Queen Victoria’s granddaughter and he was christened Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, but all his life he was known as Dickie. His interesting and varied life included a career in the Royal Navy, and he became First Sea Lord, retiring from active service in 1965 as Chief of Defence Staff. Many of the photographs are from the family album and narrative sections have been written by John Terraine, military historian and author.

Ref 106861 : £5.00

EDWINA Countess Mountbatten of Burma: Hough, Richard London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983 First edition. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0297782843. 8vo, 239pp, index. B&W photos. "One of the most remarkable women of her time, and married to one of its outstanding men, Edwina Mountbatten was an undisputed leader of society and the 'Prince of Wales set'. Very good book, gift inscription on ffep, internally tight and clean. Jacket Good, not clipped, minor split at flap fold, crinkles.

Ref 106731 : £6.00

EDWINA MOUNTBATTEN A Life Of Her Own; Morgan, Janet : London, Fontana, 1992. Paperback. ISBN 0006377874. 8vo, 509pp, b&w photo illustrations. Good used book, reading creases on spine covers creased and rubbed at edges. Comprehensive and well-told biography of Edwina Ashley, who in 1922 married Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin to the Prince of Wales

Ref 104878 : £5.00

My life and Work, Ford Henry - in Collaboration with Samuel Crowther: London; William Heinemann Ltd; 1923. No d / w, .Good. Light browning to page borders. Red cloth covers with gilt titles on cover and spine. Covers marked with a number of small stains. Book very slightly bowed. A fascinating account from a man who introduced mass-production techniques into manufacturing.

Ref:  14636: £15.00  

THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S LETTERS TO HIS CHILDREN;  Bishop , Joseph Bucklin (ed): London, John Murray, 1919, 1^st UK. Hardcover, green cloth. Boards a little marked, spine faded small bumps and rubs at  extremities, slight spotting on edges, slight spotting on endpapers and first and last pages, generally a tight clean book. Fore edge untrimmed. 8vo; 240 pages; Frontispiece of Roosevelt with his children.

Ref  19735:    £6.00

Somerset And All The Maughams; Maugham, Robin; London, Longmans Heinemann, 1966, 1st. Hardcover, 9in x 6.25in,  pp.[xiv]+274; twelve double sided half-tone plates; believed to have been rebound expertly in blue buckram, with gilt titling on spine pine; red and yellow head- and tail- bands; Fine copy / no dj. Two-page family tree. The story of the Maugham family as written by Robin Maugham, a nephew of Somerset Maugham. A nice looking copy.

Ref  11763:    £8.00

A History of the Twentieth Century, Volume I : 1900-1933; Gilbert, Martin: London, Harper Collins, 1997, 1^st thus.  Pictorial Soft Cover. ISBN: 0002158671. Very Good/No Jacket. Unread book, no creases to spine, slight corner and edge nudges and slight cover indents picked up in storage. 8vo 927 pages. . Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. Volume one of Martin gilbert's comprehensive history of the twentieth century. Very heavy paperback 1.7kg.

Ref  14945:   £10.00

Raj, The Making and Unmaking of British India: James, Lawrence: London: TSP, 1998. Trade Paperback. ISBN  0316640727. Very Good, reading creases to spine, sloght bumps and rubs to tips. Internally clean tight and square. 722pp illustrated

Ref  14944:  £7.00

A Monkey Among Crocodiles, The Disastrous Life of Mrs Georgina Weldon; Thompson, Brian: London: Harper Collins, 2000, 1st Edition. Hardcover, black cloth, in dj. Near Fine book in Very Good+ jacket, not clipped, no tears, slight edge crinkles. A Victorian lady called Mrs Georgina Weldon, one of the great unsung English eccentrics. An amazing story

Ref  19274:   £6.70

That Untravelled World, An Autobiography; Shipton, Eric: Hodder & Stoughton.1969, 1^st edition. Hardback / no dj. 286 pages, 8vo., green cloth title in gilt down spine, maps on end papers,very good, very slight rubs to extremities and lower edge, name and date 1969 on fep. A low cost copy of this scarce book.

Ref  11551;      £12.00 

A Profound Secret; May Gaskell, Her Daughter Amy and Edward Burne-Jones; Dimbleby, Josceline : London, Doubleday, 2004 1st Edition. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0385603231.Near Fine unread book. Very Good jacket, slight edge crumples. A chance encounter at a summer party sent Josceline Dimbleby on a quest to uncover a mystery in her own family"s past. There she saw a beautiful dark portrait by the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones of her great-aunt Amy Gaskell, and she undertook to find out more her, Burne-Jones and a turbulent period in English history.

Ref 103090 :  £10.00

Autobiography; Cardus, Neville. London, Collins, 1947, 1^st.  8.75in x 6in, 288pp, cloth hardcover, no dw.    Frontis,  b/w plates. Famous for his sport commentary and criticism, this is the life story of Neville Cardus. Beginning with his childhood in the slums of Manchester, to his apartment in Sydney, Australia, successful and much travelled, here is the autobiography of this interesting personality. Fair, bumps to corners and spine ends, some stains to covers, inscription dated 1947 on fep, very slight toning to page margins. A good reading copy

Ref  11018:   £7.00

Hurrah for the Life of a Sailor! Fifty Years in the Royal Navy; Kennedy, Vice-Admiral Sir William: Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1901 Fifth Impression. Hard back binding in publisher's original deep navy cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine, ship decoration, H.M.S. Rodney in gilt to upper board. 8vo 9" x 6" xii, 356 [pp]. 23 full-page monochrome illustrations, with 24 other illustrations and maps in the text. Lower block edge trimmed, others untrimmed. Book is Good+, bumps to cover corners and spine ends, hinges are sound, binding a little shaken and gutters are just opening in places but book remains sound and clean. Includes the Crimean War and several chapters on war with China. A nice copy

Ref  16794:  £24.00

Churchill, Winston S.; Great Contemporaries: London, The Reprint Society, 1941.  Hardcover, no dj. beige cloth, black title label. 344pp,  illustrated with b&w plates.  Essays on Great Men of the age, including an interesting chapter on Churchill’s view on Hitler, written in 1937 before the Second World War. Very Good, light rubs to board extremities.  Book tight and clean. Nice low cost hardcover copy.  Small book. Low shipping rates

Ref  16663:  £6.00

Alan Moorehead;  Pocock, Tom: London,  The Bodley Head, 1990, 1st edition UK hardback. ISBN 0370312619.A fine copy in a near fine dustjacket. A biography of the celebrated writer, war correspondent and travel writer for the New Yorker. "Alan Moorehead was lionised as the literary man of action: the most celebrated war correspondent of the Second World War; writer of The New Yorker; pioneer publicist of wildlife conservation. Then, at the height of his success, his writing suddenly stopped and when, seventeen years later, his death was announced, he seemed a heroic figure from the past". Illustrated with b&w photos.

Ref  13015:   £13.50

The World of Michelangelo 1475-1564; Coughlan, Robert:  Netherlands, Time-Life Intl., 1972. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket (as issued),12.25in x 9.25in, 202 pages, illustrated throughout in colour and b&w., pictorial cover, pictorial endpapers. A study of the life and times of Michelangelo. A lovely book. Large book. Postage at cost.

Ref  12991;   £6.00

Marshall, Sir William; Memories of Four Fronts. London: Ernest Benn Ltd. 1929 Green Cloth, Gilt Lettering. Ex-library book Covers worn and bumped with darkeneing to spine, stamps and labels on endpaper and prelims. Contents good, 640pp, portrait frontis plus 17 further b&w plates, in-text plans and fold-out map in rear. Slight opening at gutters in places and slight corner bumps to pages. No loose pages, all plates present, fold-out map intact. An interesting account of the war zones in WWI from the Western Front, to Gallipoli, Macedonia and Mesopotamia (inc. Basra, Kut, Baghdad and Mosul). Much on the Gallipoli campaign & the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force of which he was appointed commander in chief on Maude's death. A nice solid reference copy of this book, now becoming scarce

Ref  17641:  £15.00

FAMOUS BRITISH GENERALS: Parker, Barrett (ed.): London, Nicholson & Watson, 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover in dj. 8vo, xiii, 242pp, 9 plates, maps. Nine British Generals including Cromwell, Marlborough, Kitchener, Haig, Wavell and Montgomery described in essays by such authors as Fortescue, Fuller, Liddell Hart and Churchill. Very Good books, small bumps at board corners, small marks to cloth, name on ffep, internally tight and clean. Jacket Fair, spine sunned, lower part of front flap torn away roughly (perhaps to remove price?), edge chips at spine ends

Ref 105349 : £7.00

The Memoirs Of Field-Marshal The Viscount Montgomery Of Alamein, K.G.; Montgomery Of Alamein:  London, Collins, 1958 First Edition. Hardcover, red cloth in dj. 8vo, 574pp, b&w photo illustrations, maps. Very Good book, coloured top edge faded, minor marks to block edges, small bumps at extremities, internally tight and clean. Jacket Good, not clipped, top edge wear with minor splits at tips and minor chips at spine head, minor soiling.

Ref  101783:  £4.50

The Memoirs Of Field-Marshal The Viscount Montgomery Of Alamein, K.G.; Montgomery Of Alamein:  London, The Companion Book Club, 1960. Hardcover, no dj. Very Good book with black cloth covers with red title panel at spine lettered in gilt. With b&w photos. Small marks to covers, internally tight and clean. A nice easy to read biography

Ref  13989:  £4.00

Monty, Master of the Battlefield 1942-1944;  Hamilton, Nigel: London, Hamish Hamilton, 1983, First Edition,. 8vo Hardcover. ISBN 0241111048.  863 pages with numerous photographic plates and maps; cloth, gilt back. Near Fine book in Very Good jacket with slight edge crinkles. Second volume of Hamilton's masterly three-volume biography Heavy Book

Ref  14881:   £17.50

Ike & Monty, Generals at War; Gelb, Norman: London, Constable, 1994. Hardcover, ISBN 0094739609. Biographical account of the turbulent relationship between the two generals determined the fate of the Allied effort to liberate Europe in WWII.  Fine in Very Good jacket, not clipped no tears edge creases. 8vo. 480pp, illustrated in b&w

Ref  14943:  £9.00    (Also listed under History)

MONTGOMERY; HIS LIFE IN PICTURES; Musgrave, Victor : London. Sagall Press. 1947. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover in dj.  4to, 216pp, 213 b/w photographs throughout with captions. Very good book, minor bumps to board extremities. Fair jacket, small losses at corners and spine ends, edge creases, not clipped, now in protective wrap. A fascinating photo biography.

Ref 103741 : £11.00

TANKS, ADVANCE!: Normandy to the Netherlands, 1944; Tout, Ken : London, UK Grafton Books 1989. Paperback . ISBN 0586203214. 12mo, 267pp. Very Good book, minor cover edge rubs, internally tight and clean. 'In this sequel to his masterly and highly acclaimed Tank! Only twenty years old but already a lance-corporal commanding a tank in the 1st Northants Yeomanry, Ken Tout landed in Normandy on D-Day +9 and endured almost continuous fighting until October. He survived the ever-present threat of death.

Ref 106111 : £3.50

ACCIDENTAL AGENT; Goldsmith, John:  London : Leo Cooper, 1971, 1^st ed. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0850520371. Very Good book, no names, tight and clean. Jacket with full wrap-around design by Putzu, Good, not clipped, edge crinkles and minor rubs, laminate lifted. 192pp, b&w illustrations. Breathtaking story of John Goldsmith”s adventures as an SOE agent in France during the Second World War which leaves any spy novel at the post

Ref 105247 : £18.00

Memoirs of an ASP (Signed copy); Young-James, Douglas : London. Neville Spearman, 1965, 1st Edition. Hardcover, blue cloth, in dj. A presentation copy from personal library of Derek C. Davis, the author of books on glass, and INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on ffep, inscription reads "To Derek from the author Douglas Young-James”. Book Near Fine, slight darkening of cloth at spine foot and lower margins, internally tight and clean. Jacket Very Good, newspaper ad clipping for book inside flap, no tears, edge crinkling, now in protective wrap. 128 pages, 12 photos on plates. Memoirs of an RAF officer who spent twenty five years with the RAF servicing in India, Singapore, Japan and Egypt, includes chapters on Sir Malcolm Campbell and Donald Campbell.

Ref  100191:  £8.50

Williams, Eric; THE WOODEN HORSE: London, The Reprint Society, 1950.  Hardcover, in dj. Red cloth, black title label. The classic prisoner-of-war escape story. Book Very Good, tight and clean. Jacket Good, edge rubs and darkening at rear. Nice low cost hardcover copy.

Ref 107000 : £5.00

Williams, Eric; The Wooden Horse: London, The Reprint Society, 1950.  Hardcover, no dj. redcloth, black title label. The classic prisoner-of-war escape story. Book Very Good, spine fade. Book still tight and clean

Ref  16613:  £5.00

Queen Elizabeth : A Life of The Queen Mother; Mortimer , Penelope: London, Viking, 1986,  First Edition. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0670810657. The Queen Mother as seen in the authors controversial, witty and highly readable biography, in which she delves behind the fairytale public image to reveal the reality of the woman who has become a legend in her lifetime. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering, family trees on endpapers 288pp, b&w illustrations. Book is Fine in Very Good unclipped untorn jacket.

Ref  19153:   £5.00

The Queen Mother; Morrow, Ann: Leicester,  Charnwood, 1985.  LARGE PRINT FOR EASY READING. Hardcover, pictorial boards. ISBN  0708982573. Complete and Unabridged. 390pp, illustrated with colour and black-and-white photo. Very Good, light corner bumps, tight and clean

Ref  19154:   £7.00

PERSONA GRANADA Some memories of Sidney Bernstein and the early days of Independent Television; Forman, Denis:  London, Andre Deutsch 1997. 1^st ed. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0233989870. 333pp. Hardback. Illustrated with b&w photos. Book Fine in Near Fine unclipped jacket, now in protective wrap. Charts the history of Granada with abundant wit and a refreshing candour

Ref  17406:   £11.00

PERSONA GRANADA Some memories of Sidney Bernstein and the early days of Independent Television; Forman, Denis:  London, Andre Deutsch 1997. 1^st ed. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0233989870. 333pp. Hardback. Illustrated with b&w photos. Book Very good, slight edge nudge affects couple of pages with slight edge creases and small block edge marks else would be fine in Very Good+ unclipped jacket, now in protective wrap. Charts the history of Granada with abundant wit and a refreshing candour

Ref  17407:   £9.50

PERSONA GRANADA Some memories of Sidney Bernstein and the early days of Independent Television; Forman, Denis:  London, Andre Deutsch 1997. 1^st ed. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0233989870. 333pp. Hardback. Illustrated with b&w photos. Book Very good, slight edge nudge affects couple of pages with very slight edge creases and small block edge marks else would be fine in Very Good unclipped jacket, small tear at rear spine edge strengthened on reverse with archive tape and minor edge wear. Charts the history of Granada with abundant wit and a refreshing candour

Ref  17408:   £8.50

HIRST AND RHODES ; THOMSON, A. A.   London, Pavilion, 1986. Paperback. ISBN 1851450246. 8vo, 211pp, photos.  Very Good book, small indents on cover. Double biography of the two legendary cricketers of Yorkshire.   

Ref 106007 :  £2.00

Jack Hobbs; Mason, Ronald:  London, Pavilion, 1988. Paperback. ISBN 1851452079. 8vo, 212pp, photos.  Very Good book. Biography of Jack Hobbs, the first cricketing knight

Ref 103092 :  £2.00

From The Pavilion End; Bird, Dickie: London, Arthur Barker, 1988 Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0213169614. SIGNED by Dickie Bird on half title page. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 160p illustrated by Larry. Third collection of cricketing memoirs from " the most famous cricket umpire in the world. Pages toning at margins.

Ref  19105:  £7.50

Dickie Bird; My Autobiography: Bird, Dickie : London, Coronet, 1998. Mass market paperback. ISBN 0340684585. Good used book, cover creases, internally tight and clean. 479pp, colour and b&w photos

Ref 103083 :  £2.00

An Evening With Johnners ; Brian Johnston. London: BCA 1996. 8vo. 147pp. pages illustrated with cartoon line drawings and a section of colour photographs Book & cover in v.fine condition. Memories and anecdotes from the life of the broadcaster as told by the master raconteur himself.

Ref: 10081: £2.50

Sort Of A Cricket Person; E. W. Swanton. London, Collins 1st edition 1972 pp.318; numerous b/w photographs; index plates of cricketing . 8vo boards.  Autobiography of Jim Swanton well known cricket writer and commentator. Ex library book. Removed library sticker on fep, several library stamps, shelf wear, dustwrapper protected by library clear wrap. A fair reading copy.

Ref: 10077: £2.00

C. T. Studd - Cricketer And Pioneer; Norman P. Grubb. Lutterworth Press, 1944, 12^th impression. Black cloth hardback, a few stains, with light blue/horizontal titles. Approx 7.6" x 5.3" x 1.0" (195x135x25mm).Inner front hinge pulling but binding still tight, otherwise a good copy without dustwrapper. The biography of C. T. Studd the nineteenth century cricketer and missionary.

Ref: 10133: £4.00

Botham; Eagar, Patrick: Tadworth, Kingswood Press 1985. Hardcover, brown cloth, in dj. ISBN 0434980633. Book Fine in very Good jacket, not clipped, no tears, edge crinkles. . Biography of Ian Botham, cricketing phenomenon. With colour and b/w photos

Ref  17586:  £5.50

BEING FREDDIE My Story So Far; Flintoff, Andrew : London, Hodder and Stoughton, 2005 First Edition. Hardcover, red cloth, in dj. ISBN 0340896280. Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff is one of the most exciting cricketers in the world, and has gained more and more notoriety through the last few years. This book marks his story so far in his own words, taking us up to and including the summer of 2005. Freddie highlights the moments and matches in his career that helped him dramatically on his way forward, and reveals what it is like to play for one of the most successful England cricket teams in recent times. Fine unread book in Near fine jacket

Ref 103055 : £8.00

BESTIE A Portrait Of A Legend; Lovejoy, Joe: London, Pan, 1999. Mass market paperback. ISBN 0330367501. Authorized biography of George Best. Very Good book, small cover corner creases, internally tight and clean.

Ref 103087 :  £2.00

MARGOT : A Life of the Countess of Oxford and Asquith; Bennett, Daphne: London: Victor Gollancz, 1984 First Edition. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0575032790. 8vo, 442pp, b&w photos. Very good book, slight edge spotting, internally tight and clean, no names or inscriptions. Jacket VG, clipped, no tears edge crinkles. A fascinating biography which draws upon letters as well as Margot's own writings which has enabled the author to catch the full flavour of her unique personality.  

Ref 106823 :   £10.00

The Churchill Years 1874-1965; The Times: London, The Reprint Society, 1966. Book Club edition.  Large Folio hardback in dj. 13in x 9.75in, 264 pages. Over 330 superb photographs in b/w and full colour. An unsurpassed record in words and pictures, This inspiring volume chronicles ninety of the most momentous years of British and of world history - the life span of the greatest Englishman of his time, Sir Winston Churchill. It is a book of an epoch, perhaps of a century; no other volume of text and pictures has presented with such dramatic effect, such grandeur and completeness, the life and times of "The Great Deliverer", whose renown, in the words of The Times, "is assured so long as the story of these lands is told”. Book is Near Fine with slight top edge spotting in Very Good jacket with slight edge rubs, crinkles and very small chips. Heavy book. Postage at cost

Ref  15902:  £15.00

Winston Churchill;  Longford, Elizabeth: London; BCA, 1974. Book Club Edition. Authorised by the Winston Churchill Foundation. Hardcover in dj. 11.25in x 8.75in, 224pp. Illustrated with colour and b&w photos throughout. VG in VG d/w. with minor edge wear and small (8mm) split at rear upper spine tip. Nice sound book. Heavy. Postage at cost

Ref  15901:  £8.00

Winston Churchill; Longford, Elizabeth: London, Granada, 1978. Mass Market Paperback. ISBN 0586045260. An authorized biography. Fair book only. Creases and rubs to covers, corners curling. Internally tight and clean. Illustrated with colour and b&w photos. An acceptable reading copy. Small book. Low postage rates

Ref  15774:  £1.40

Churchill Digest - Reprinted fron the Reader's Digest; Reader's Digest Association, 1965.  Paperback, 7.5in x 5.5in, 64pp, b&w photos, Anecdotes and extracts from the life of Churchill very good copy. Foreword by Lord Attlee. Slight cover creases. Internally tight and unread. Small book. Low postage rates

Ref  16133:   £5.00

RETROSPECT  The Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Viscount Simon, G.C.S.I., G.C.V.O.:  Simon, Viscount : London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 1952 First Edition. Hardcover, black cloth, in dj. 8vo, 327 pages with b/w photos, appendices and index. Very Good book, gift inscription and name on ffep. Internally tight and clean. Jacket Fair, edge tears and rubs, small losses at spine tips and corners, small tape repairs to reverse. One of the great political memoirs of the first half of the 20thC by a man who was twice Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Ref 103945 : £7.00

LORD HAILSHAM A Life; Lewis, Geoffrey :London, Pimlico, 1998. Large trade paperback. ISBN 0712666257. 8vo, 403pp, b&w photos. Very Good book, tight, clean and square. “A splendid biography, fair, amusing and at times, moving”. 600gm

Ref  100431:  £5.00

Clark, Alan; Diaries: London, Phoenix, 1994. Mass Market Paperback. ISBN 1857991427.  Very Good unread book, small cover edge and surface rubs picked up on shelf. “malicious, lecherous and self-pitying, and they are enormous fun” Covers two parliaments.

Ref  18409:   £2.50

Clark, Alan; Diaries: London, Phoenix, 1997. Mass Market Paperback. ISBN 1857991427.  Very Good used book.  "malicious, lecherous and self-pitying, and they are enormous fun" Covers two parliaments.

Ref 105267 : £2.00

Clark, Alan; THE LAST DIARIES In And Out Of The Wilderness : London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2002. Paperback. ISBN 0297607146. 8vo, 405pp. colour photos. Final self-revealing chronicle of Alan Clark's highly eventful life and times. One politician always rode above hyperventilating moral indignation--Alan Clark, whatever his faults (and he would be the first to admit they were legion), he  was never a hypocrite. Unread book with rear cover crease, slight corner curls and edge marks, all picked up on the shelf.

Ref 103098 : £5.00

Hattersley, Roy; A Yorkshire Boyhood: London, Chatto & Windus, 1983. First. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0701126132. Autobiography of childhood and youth, with wit eloquence and candour . Book Near Fine, jacket Very Good, not clipped, slight spine fade and edge crinkles.

Ref  18017:  £11.50

Gormley, Joe; Battered Cherub: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982 First Edition. Hard Cover in dj . ISBN: 0241107547. Very Good book, lightly bumped cover corners, pagers toning at margins as always with this edition. Jacket Very Good, not clipped, slight shelf rub to glossy surface. Tight and clean with no inscriptions

Ref 18386:  £5.50

Shinwell, Manny; Lead With The Left, My First Ninety-Six Years: London: Cassell Ltd. 1981, First Edition. Hardcover in dj,  ISBN: 0304304972   Cloth. Very Good in Very Good dj. Jacket not clipped, no tears edge curl and slight cover indents. xi + 202pp. 8pp b & w photographs. A very clean and tidy copy with no inscriptions.

Ref  16210:   £7.50

Williams, Emlyn; George - An Early Autobiography: London, Hamish Hamilton, 1961. 3rd Impression. Hardcover in dj.  x + 461pp.  Very Good book in Fair jacket. Jacket was taped along its edges, probably from new and although tape now peeled off left brown stains along edges and small marks on endpapers from back of tape. Jacket now in wrap. Original green boards and red cloth spine. Some marks to block edges, internally tight and clean. autobiography of the playwright and actor from his early years of childhood and adolescence in rural Wales, three years at Christ Church, Oxford until the start of his stage career in 1927.

Ref  16214:   £6.00

A White House Diary; Johnson, Lady Bird : London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970 First UK. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0297003372. 8vo, 806pp, b&w photos. Very Good book, , slight bumps at board extremities, no names, internally tight and clean. Jacket Fair to Good, not clipped, edge wear and curl.

Ref 106780 :  £5.00

Verandah, Some episodes in the Crown colonies 1867-1889; Pope-Hennessy, James: London: Century Publishing, 1984. Large Trade Paperback. ISBN 0712604014. Very Good used book, reading creases on the spine, small cover creases and indents, very slight lean. Internally tight and clean. In The Century Lives And Letters series. Pictorial card covers, 313pp, index.

Ref  17859:  £5.00

Marilyn Monroe. Quote Unquote. Janice Anderson. Bristol, Parragon, 1994. 1st edition. 8.0" x 10.2" x 0.6" (205x260x15mm-OCTAVO-8vo). 80 pp.  “Of all the beautiful women who have become " screen goddesses" , Marilyn Monroe is the only one whose image remains instantly recognizable to people throughout the world .More than just a gorgeous blonde with a seductive pout and an hour glass figure, Marilyn had a delicious innocence that was seen most clearly in photographs and on screen. That combination of worldliness and naivete comes to life here .This book features Marilyn Monroe's thoughts on wealth and fame , beauty and ageing , the men in her work and the men that she loved .Her comments appear alongside the story of her life and a rich collection of photographs , including studio portraits , film stills and candid shots .This is a fitting tribute to the ultimate celluloid sex symbol”. Very good in very good dustwrapper (a few small indentations in dw and cover possibly due to its being used as a rest for writing upon, edge crease in dw). Internally as new. Large Landscape Laminated illustrated boards. Many Colour and black & white photos.Cinema biography

Ref: 14637: £5.50

MARILYN : NORMA JEANE: Steinem, Gloria with Photographs by Barris, George : London;: Penguin Books, 1987. First Paperback Edition. ISBN 0140108637. 4to, 182pp, colour and b&w photos. A biography of Marilyn Monroe, illustrated with 16 pages of colour photographs from a session she did just 3 weeks before her death. Very Good unread book, minor cover edge rubs from shelf, tight and clean

Ref 106839 :  £5.00

Bette Davis, A Celebration; Walker, Alexander: London, Bloomsbury, 1995. Large format hardback, ISBN: 1-85471-492-9192pp packed with superb photographs illustrating and  describing the Grand Dame of Hollywood and her career and who has made over 90 films. Pictorial laminated boards matching  dustjacket. Book as new in very Good jacket with slight edge crinkles. Heavy book. Postage at cost

Ref  13663;   £8.00

Milton [English Men of Letters series]; Pattison, Mark : London, Macmillan, 1913 reprint. Hardcover, red cloth. Book Fair, covers marked, all hinges sound, name address on ffep, gutters opening at a couple of signatures but stitching holding firm. Internally clean. 227pp, index. A very acceptable low cost reading copy.

Ref 19909: £3.00

George Meredith [English Men of Letters series]; Priestley, J.B.: London, Macmillan, 1927 reprint. Hardcover, red cloth. Book Good, covers marked and old stain around margins , all hinges sound, old stain around front endpaper margins. Internally tight and clean. 204pp, index. Top edge trimmed and coloured red, others untrimmed. A firm low cost reading copy.

Ref 19945: £5.00

CONAN DOYLE His Life and Art; Pearson, Hesketh : London. Methuen & Co, 1943 First edition. Hardcover, brown boards. 8vo, 193pp, 7 b&w photo plates.Good book, wartime economy edition, boards bumped at corners and spine ends. Foxing spots on edges, endpapers and prelims and occasional faint spots throughout, name on ffep. More than any writer of his time Conan Doyle represented the average man; and at the present moment, when a new world is about to be created by and for the average man, his character and career are particularly worthy of study.

Ref 104896 : £7.50

WILLIAM TEMPLE Archbishop Of Canterbury His Life And Letters; Iremonger, F. A. : London, Oxford University Press, 1949 Third impression. Hardcover,  dark blue cloth, no dj. 8vo, 663pp, b&w illustrations. Book Very Good, slight bumps to cover extremities, small rub marks on rear ,block edges slightly spotted, internally tight and clean. A firm sound copy. Interesting biography of the man who led the Anglican Church through WWII. Shipping weight 1.2kg.

Ref 19905:  £4.00

Whitelaw, William; The Whitelaw Memoirs: London, Aurum Press, 1989. 1st edition, 240x160 mm, 280pp, Book Fine in Very Good dw. Telling the story of a family man and senior politician, and also of the action at the political hub of this generation's Britain.

Ref  12783:   £6.95

Boothby - Recollections Of A Rebel; Boothby: London, Hutchinson, 1978, 1^st ed, Hardcover, blue cloth, in dj. ISBN 0091348307.  These are the extraordinary memoirs of an extraordinary man - and of a career spanning more than half a century of close and sometimes stormy associations with most of the key figures in politics and many in the arts and media. Book Very Good, slight edge spotting, internally tight clean and bright. Jacket Very Good, not clipped, no tears, slight edge crinkles. 272pp, 17 b/w photos plus colour frontispiece. 648g.

Ref  18851:   £6.00

QUEEN MARY 1867-1953; Pope-Hennessy, James : London, George Allen and Unwin, 1959, First Edition. Hardcover, blue cloth, no dj. 8vo, 685pp, 32 b&w photos. 3 folding genealogical tables and folding  map, these are on flimsy paper, no tears but with little creasing at corners. Very Good, tight and clean

Ref 105719 : £7.00

QUEEN MARY 1867-1953; Pope-Hennessy, James : London, George Allen and Unwin, 1959, First Edition. Hardcover, blue cloth, no dj. 8vo, 685pp, 32 b&w photos. 3 folding genealogical tables and folding  map, these are on flimsy paper, no tears but with little creasing at folds. Good, minor cover marks, internally tight and clean. Weight 1.4 kg,

Ref 106621 : £6.50

Fifty Years With Mountbatten - A Personal Memoir By His Valet And Butler; Smith, Charles: London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1980, 1^st ed. Hardcover, brown cloth, in dj. ISBN 0283986778. Book Very Good, slight edge spotting, internally tight clean and bright. Jacket Very Good, not clipped, no tears. Charles Smith was with Lord Mountbatten at some of the most historic moments of our century - wherever his unique combination of charm and authority were placed at the service of his country. But he was also essential to Lord and Lady Mountbatten's home life - responsible for running Broadlands, their beautiful estate, where famous guests included the crowned heads of Europe, Queen Mary and King George VI, the Prince of Wales and Wallis Simpson, and a host of celebrities from Mahatma Gandhi to Charlie Chaplin. Charles Smith watched Princess Elizabeth play there as a child and saw her return for a honeymoon with Prince Phillip. Later still, Prince Charles became a frequent visitor and generous friend.

Ref  18852:  £4.50

Armand Hammer; Hammer Witness To History: Uk, Simon & Schuster. 1987. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN 0-671-65458-6. A Very Good hardback with very slight lean and slight staining on block edges in a Good jacket with edge crinkles and rubs to extremities. The memoir of a remarkable man whose influence on the history of the 20^th century can never be exaggerated, and yet who was virtually unknown by the public at large. Illustrated with b&w photos
Ref  12787:   £6.00

Madame Sadayakko, The Geisha Who Seduced The West; Downer, Lesley:  London, Review 2003. First edition 8vo 336 pages illustrated with maps, colour and b&w photographs. Biography of Japan's most notorious geisha, and its first international superstar. Fine black cloth hard back with Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions or marks.

Ref  16931:  £8.00

Armand Hammer; Hammer Witness To History: London, Coronet. 1988. Mass market paperback. ISBN 034042446X. A  Good paperback with usual reading creases to spine, corner creases and edge rubs. Inside tight with slight toning to page margins. The memoir of a remarkable man whose influence on the history of the 20^th century can never be exaggerated, and yet who was virtually unknown by the public at large. Illustrated with b&w photos. Large paperback 752 pages
Ref  12788:   £2.00

ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER  A Twentieth Century Life; Forbes, Grania:  London, United Kingdom: Pavilion, 1999. Hardcover, blue boards, in dj. ISBN 1862052093. 12 x 8.5 inches, 192pp, illustrated in colour and b&w with over 200specially researched photographs. Glossy paper throughout. A lavish celebration of Britain's most beloved Royal, offering a fascinating look at the events of 20th-century Britain as well as an endearing portrait of the Queen Mother herself. Book Very Good, small bumps at board corners, tight and clean and bright, no names or inscriptions. Jacket VG, no tears

Ref 103963 : £9.00          (Also listed under History)

Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother;  Keay, Douglas:  IPC Magazines Ltd, London, soft covers, 11 inches by 8.5 wide, 158 pages including 3 page outline of world events during the then 80 years of the queen mothers life, coluor and black and white photos. Book has many early photos of the queen mother plus many later photos and very interesting text on her life. Paper covers have colour photo of queen mother on front cover, covers are slightly creased at otherwise book condition is good. Photography/Photo Essays

Ref  10786:     £4.00         (Also listed under History)

The Queen Mother, A Biography; Longford, Elizabeth: London, Granada Publishing,  1981.  Illustrated Wraps.  10in x 7.25in, 185 pp. With index, colour and b&w photos throughout. Near Fine, very slight corner bumps and creases. Internally fine without inscriptions or dedications; lavishly illustrated; a very attractive copy.  ISBN: 0586056033

Ref  11237:  £5.00                     (Also under History)

MARIE CURIE; Reid, Robert.:  London. Camair Press, 1984 revised edition. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0950962805. 349pp, b&w illustrations. This biography gives a portrait of Marie Curie very different from the traditional image of a plaster saint. With authority and sympathy, Robert Reid tells the real story of a woman of passion whose scientific creation, in the last of her life's bitter ironies, ended by killing her. Very Good book, tight and clean, no names. Jacket VG, no tears.

Ref 104745 : £6.50

Madame Curie; Curie, Eve: London, The Reprint Society, 1942. Hardcover, no dj. black cloth, brown title label. 386pp. Very Good, light rubs to board extremities, marks to covers,  book tight and clean. Nice low cost hardcover copy. 

Ref  18745:  £4.00

Madame Curie; Curie, Eve: London, The Reprint Society, 1942. Hardcover, no dj. black cloth, brown title label. 386pp. Very Good, light rubs to board extremities, small stain spots on pastedowns, rear inner hinge weakening else book tight and clean. Different paper used in first part of book, edges and pages toned more than latter part Nice low cost hardcover copy. 

Ref  16671:  £4.00

RUDYARD KIPLING The Man, His Work And His World; Gross, John (ed): London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0297995391. 10 x 7.5 inches, 178pp, illustrated in colour and b&w. Very Good+ book. Jacket Good, small edge tears and creases, now in protective wrap. A handsome book, well illustrated, and with contributions from a number of authors, including James Morris, Philip French, Colin MacInnes and many others.

Ref 104481 : £7.00

The Real Hornblower - The Life and Times of Admiral Sir James Gordon; Perrett, Bryan: London: Arms and Armour, 1998. ISBN1854094068. Fine book on Fine unclipped dustjacket, now protected in mylar wrap. In telling the largely unknown story of Admiral Gordon's active service career, Perrett has produced a book that will be appreciated by the thousands of readers who have enjoyed the adventures of Horatio Hornblower and his successors. It will also be welcomed by those interested in the naval warfare of the Napoleonic period, while those who enjoy biographies will find an absorbing literary and historical detective story. Very likely the man upon whom Forester based his naval hero's adventures. Certainly the parallels are there for all to see.

Ref 13130:   £12.00

RIDER HAGGARD AND THE LOST EMPIRE; Pocock, Tom : London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1993 1st Edition.  Hardcover, in dj. ISBN 0297813080. A Biography. 8vo, black & white photographs, bibliography, notes, index, 263pp. Haggard was perceptive, often accurate, in his prophecies of our own times. Single-handed, he tried to create a British Empire that could withstand the tumult to come. Very Good book, minor bumps to spine ends, rear pastedown has scuffs where something has been stuck and removed, internally tight and clean. Jacket VG, not clipped, edge rubs, small creases, no tears.

Ref 102414 : £8.00

Graves, Robert; Lawrence And The Arabs:  London, Jonathan Cape, 1927, 3^rd imp in year of publication. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Good condition. 288 pages, 28 illustrations, photos, portraits and maps. A full and intimate account of Lawrence's life and adventures. The author, a personal friend of Lawrence, had his permission to write this biography as a discouragement to possible misleading and inaccurate ones. He had also the advice and assistance of many of those who were with Lawrence during the Arab campaign. Slight cover corner and spine end bumps and rubs, cover soiling and marks. Internally tight and clean, all plates intact and bright. A very nice reference copy

Ref  18059:   £8.00

MOUNTBATTEN Eighty Years in Pictures; Mountbatten: London, MacMillan, 1979, 1st ed.   Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0333265580. 10in x 7.5in, 224 pages, Photographs picked by Earl Mountbatten showing his life & career. Born 1900, great-grandson of Queen Victoria, last Viceroy of India. Photos & text, index, with a foreword by Mountbatten. Very Good book, tight and clean, no names,  in Very Good jacket, not clipped, no tears, slight edge crumples

Ref 106913 :  £8.00

Mountbatten - Eighty Years in Pictures; Mountbatten: London, MacMillan, 1979, 1^st ed.   Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0333265580. 10in x 7.5in, 224 pages, Photographs picked by Earl Mountbatten showing his life & career. Born 1900, great-grandson of Queen Victoria, last Viceroy of India. Photos & text, index, with a foreword by Mountbatten. Very Good book in Very Good jacket, not clipped, no tears

Ref  18271:    £8.00

MOUNTBATTEN Eighty Years in Pictures; Mountbatten: London, MacMillan, 1979, 1st ed.   Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0333265580. 10in x 7.5in, 224 pages, Photographs picked by Earl Mountbatten showing his life & career. Born 1900, great-grandson of Queen Victoria, last Viceroy of India. Photos & text, index, with a foreword by Mountbatten. Very Good book in Good jacket, not clipped, small tear and creases on front repaired with tape on reverse

Ref 103937 : £6.00

Mountbatten - Eighty Years in Pictures; Mountbatten: London, BCA, 1980.  Book Club edition. Hardcover in dj. 10in x 7.5in, 224 pages, Photographs picked by Earl Mountbatten showing his life & career. Born 1900, great-grandson of Queen Victoria, last Viceroy of India. Photos & text, index, with a foreword by Mountbatten. Very Good book in  Very Good jacket

Ref  15084:  £8.00

MOUNTBATTEN Eighty Years in Pictures; Mountbatten: London, BCA, 1979.  Book Club edition. Hardcover in dj. 10in x 7.5in, 224 pages, Photographs picked by Earl Mountbatten showing his life & career. Born 1900, great-grandson of Queen Victoria, last Viceroy of India. Photos & text, index, with a foreword by Mountbatten. Very Good book in Very Good jacket

Ref 106687 : £6.00

Mountbatten - Eighty Years in Pictures; Mountbatten: London,  Macmillan, 1981.  Large paperback, 9.75in x 7.25in, 224 pages, Photographs picked by Earl Mountbatten showing his life & career. Born 1900, great-grandson of Queen Victoria, last  Viceroy of India. photos & text, index, with a foreword by Mountbatten Very Good paperback , slight usage creases on covers, slight curl on corners.

Ref  11132:   £4.50

Ryan, Chris; The One That Got Away, The True Hero Of The Bravo Two Zero Mission Tells His Own Story:  London, Century. 1995, First Edition.  Hardcover in dj ISBN: 0712676163.  8vo, 241pp, colour photos. Black cloth with gilt, book Near Fine. Jacket Very good, not clipped, no tears, slight edge crinkles. The SAS mission conducted behind Iraqi lines is one of the most famous stories of courage and survival in modern warfare.

Ref  17805:  £7.00

Ryan, Chris; THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY The True Hero Of The Bravo Two Zero Mission Tells His Own Story:  London, Century. 1995, First Edition.  Hardcover in dj ISBN: 0712676163.  8vo, 241pp, colour photos. Black cloth with gilt, book Very Good. Jacket Very good,  clipped, no tears, slight edge crinkles. The SAS mission conducted behind Iraqi lines is one of the most famous stories of courage and survival in modern warfare.

Ref 106449 :  £5.50

A Churchill Family Album; Soames, Mary; London: Allen Lane, 1982, 1st edition. ISBN 0713914637. A fine hardback copy in a Very Good clipped dust jacket with slight surface shelf rubs.11in x 8.75in, colour frontispiece and 429 black & white photographs. A personal anthology selected by daughter of Winston and Clementine, covering 1874 up to 1967.Much of the material in this book is drawn from her own albums and collections of photographs: The Mary Soames Collection. Other has come from The Baroness Spencer-Churchill Collection; The Broadwater Collection, and the Churchill College Press Photograph Collection.

Ref  13407:  £10.00

Anne Portrait of a Princess; Campbell, Judith: Cassell, London, 1970, First Edition. Hardcover.  Near Fine in Very Good clipped dj.  DJ 0304935891. A very nice copy. 4to; 96 pages. The first authoritative portrait of Princess Anne. Photos in colour. Here are the events, joys and sorrows of childhood and life at school forming Princess Anne's strong character.

Ref  11239:   £6.00

A Blessed Girl, Memoirs Of A Victorian Childhood Chronicled In An Exchange Of Letters 1887-1896; Lutyens, Lady Emily: London,  Rupert Hart-David, 1953 2^nd imp. Hardcover, Green cloth, no dj. Ex Boots Private Library Book, Impressed Boots stamp on front cover and small n top of backstrip, otherwise no stamps or labels. Book is Good+ with small rubs to cover corners and spine tips, some marks to covers and block edges. Internally tight and reasonably clean. Portrait frontispiece and six forther black-and-white portraits throughout. Very low cost reading copy.

Ref  17107:  £5.00

Daughters Of Britannia, The Lives And Times Of Diplomatic Wives; Hickman, Katie: London, Flamingo, 2000. Paperback. ISBN 000638780. A mixture of poignant biography and marvellously entertaining social history, illustrated with b&w photos. Very Good book, slight nudges to corners, yight and clean

Ref 14054: £2.75   Also listed under History

Sunnylea, A 1920's Childhood Remembered; Metcalfe, Jean: London, Michael Joseph 1980, 1st edition. Hardback in dustwrapper, 9.75in x 8.5in, 61pp, colour illustrations by the author. A collection of pictorial & written memories of childhood in the nineteen twenties. Jean Metcalfe, for many years the popular presenter of Two-Way Family Favourites, says in her Introduction to Sunnylea: "Looking back has been like lifting the front off an old doll's house and finding that all the smells and sounds and sensations of long ago are still there waiting to be taken out and recognised. But,of course, someone who is fifty years older notices the cobwebs and shadowy corners more than the child did. Hindsight keeps reminding me that the faded photograph people living in Sunnylea's safe circle were not dolls with happy smiles forever fixed on their faces. Now that they are gone,I remember them all with love." The delicate and beautifully imagined watercolours in this book were originally painted for Jean Metcalfe's future grandchildren. This collection of pictorial and written memories of her childhood in the 1920's marvellously evokes many small details remembered from her first seven years. Sunnylea is a book of pure and utter enchantment.Book Fine, wrapper Very Good condition (clipped, slight edge creases and minor tears).
Ref  11043:  £6.00

Oscar Wilde; Ellmann, Richard:  London, Hamish Hamilton, 1987, reprint. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0241123925. 8vo, 632pp, 63 b&w illustrations. A major biography of 'Wilde', covering his life from start to finish. Good+ book, very slight lean, small bumps at spine ends and minor small split in cloth at spine tall, small curls and nudges at corners of some pages, no names, tight and clean.

Ref 103460 : £6.00

Winston Churchill;  Pelling, Henry: London: Book Club Associates, 1974. ISBN: 0333124995. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good, jacket has very slight edge rubs and crinkles. 8vo, 724 pages. Illustration plates. A full-scale single volume biography that encompasses the whole of Churchill's 90-year span: journalist, politician, soldier, painter, war leader. Pelling shows us both the public and the private man. Heavy book. Postage at cost
Ref  13347:   £7.50

ENTER A GOLDFISH Memoirs of an Irish Actor, Young and Old; Liammoir, Micheal Mac : London: Thames and Hudson, 1977. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0500011818. The "lightly fictionalized" memoirs of the co-founder of the Dublin Gate Theatre, encountering Noel Coward, Sarah Bernhardt, Beerbohm Tree etc. Book Near Fine, light bumps at spine bottom. Jacket, VG, not clipped, no tears, spine fade.

Ref 102421 : £7.00

John Barbirolli; Reid, Charles: London, Hamish Hamilton, 1971, first edition. ISBN 0241018196.  A biography.  xvii, 446pp, 17 b&w illustrations, octavo, original aqua blue cloth, gilt lettering, full colour pictorial d.j., Fine Book in Near Fine dj with edge curl, not clipped.

Ref 13813:  £12.50

Malcolm Sargent. A Biography; Reid, Charles: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1970. 6th imp. ISBN 0241913100. xiv + 491 pp. 18 plates + frontis. Blue cloth, photo portrait d/w. Book Fine in Very Good dj , not clipped, edge curl and small tear repaired with adhesive tape

Ref 13814:  £10.00

Ivor, The Story Of An Achievement; Macqueen-Pope, W.; London, W H Allen, 1951, 1st.. A biography of Ivor Novello. Profuse b/w photos throughout. 932g. The author was not only Ivor Novello's publicity manager, he was also one of his greatest personal friends, and has resisted the temptation of the biographer to deify his subject. Here then is Ivor, a dual personality to whom the illusion of the theatre was real life, shrewd business man and dream merchant, but above all, a creative artist who won fabulous success entirely by his own efforts, and contributed a glowing chapter to the ageless story of the British theatre. Book Very Good with rubs to cover edges and extremities and name on fep, in Fair dj with edge wear, chips small tears and some loss. Inside book is some loose press cuttings

Ref  13816:   £9.00

IVOR: The Story Of An Achievement: Macqueen-Pope W.:  London, Hutchinson, 1954 Second edition. Hardcover in dj. 8vo, 317pp, b&w photos. The author was not only Ivor Novello's publicity manager, he was also one of his greatest personal friends, and has resisted the temptation of the biographer to deify his subject. Here then is Ivor, a dual personality to whom the illusion of the theatre was real life, shrewd business man and dream merchant, but above all, a creative artist who won fabulous success entirely by his own efforts, and contributed a glowing chapter to the ageless story of the British theatre. Very God book, inscription on ffep, internally tight and clean. Jacket VG, not clipped, minor rubs

Ref 106804 :  £7.00

SEASONS OF MY LIFE The Story of a Solitary Daleswoman: Hauxwell, Hannah: Cockcroft, Barry: London, Century 1989 reprint. Hardcover in dj. IABN 0712624805. 8vo, 166pp, b&w photos. This is the story of Hannah Hauxwell''s life at Low Birk Hatt Farm in the remote community of Baldersdale. And she builds a fascinating and detailed picture not just of her own family and neighbours but a way of life now vanished in a dale which, in Hannah''s youth, supported a school, a chapel and a public house - none of which survives today. Near Fine book. Jacket VG, not clipped, small edge nick from rear.

Ref 106792 :  £9.00

Hauxwell, Hannah. with Cockcroft Barry; Daughter Of The Dales, The World Of Hannah Hauxwell; London, Guild Publishing, 1990. Hardcover in dj. Book club edition. Grey cloth, 159pp, colour and b&w photos. The sequel to Seasons Of My Life. Very Good book, slight cover corner bumps, internally fine, tight and clean. Jacket Very Good.

Ref  18917:  £5.00

Around Foxton - Memories Of An Edwardian Childhood; Dallaston, Sarah. Wymeswold, Loughborough: Heart of Albion Press, 1991 First Edition, Card Cover. Fine. A4. 33pp with b/w illustns. Born in 1904, Sarah Dallaston (nee Durran) came to live as a six year old in the bottom cottage on the canal at Foxton Locks. Later she moved to Clipston, Bunker's Hill, Saddington, Stoneygate, Glen Gorse and Braunstone.

Ref:  10916:   £6.50                         (Also listed under History)

Housman, Laurence; Happy and Glorious - A Dramatic Biography: London: Reprint Society, 1943 Cloth. Good, no jacket. 480pp with delightful illustrations throughout by E.H. Shepard (of Pooh fame). This is the biography of Queen Victoria from 1837 when she is still a Princess to 1900 when she is an old lady nearing the end of her reign. The story is told in the form of dialogue as in a play. Red cloth covers faded at spine. Internally tight and reasonably clean

Ref 106984 :   £5.00

Housman, Laurence; Happy and Glorious - A Dramatic Biography: London: Reprint Society, 1943 Cloth. Good, no jacket. 480pp with delightful illustrations throughout by E.H. Shepard (of Pooh fame). This is the biography of Queen Victoria from 1837 when she is still a Princess to 1900 when she is an old lady nearing the end of her reign. The story is told in the form of dialogue as in a play. Red cloth covers slightly faded at spine, name on fep, slight spotting to edges and endpapers. Internally tight and reasonably clean

Ref  14265:   £5.00

Housman, Laurence; Happy And Glorious: London, The Reprint Society, 1943.Illustarted by  Ernest H Shepard.  Hardcover, no dj.  Red cloth,  black title label. Very Good., slight bumps to extremities, spine fade.  Book still tight and clean internally. Nice low cost hardcover copy

Ref  16586:  £4.00

An Englishman's Year; Massingham, H.J.: London, Collins,.1st, 1948. 317pp. 8.75" X 6". Numerous black and white illustrations. Gilt lettering to spine. Cloth binding. An illustrated journal and record of the author’s impressions, agricultural, literary, horticultural, cultural and political as he travelled within Kent and other counties, and also in S.W. Ireland where he lived, during the period between Oct. 1946 to Sept. 1947. Emphasis is placed on country life. Book Good, some slight rubbing and bumps to corners and spine ends, in Fair dw, complete but some creasing along edges with minor tears and few small missing pieces on edges. Book tight and clean internally

Ref   11140:  £7.50          (Also listed under Countryside)

Joseph Stalin; Hayes, David & Gregory, F H: Hove UK, Wayland Publishers, 1977. First Edition. Ex Library book with marks on fep where label has been peeled off and and stamps on title page and rear endpapers, else boo is very good in a very good dw protected in a wrap. General biography of Stalin, many b/w illustrations; 96 pages.

Ref 13039:   £3.00

O'Callaghan, Sean; The Informer, The Real Life Story of One Man's War Against Terrorism: London: Bantam Press, 1998, 1^st ed. Hbk in d/w Very Good in Very Good sj. Book has name and date on prelim else would be Fine, jacket has edge crinkles, no tears not clipped. 340pp

Ref  12757:   £8.50

Durrell, Gerald;  Beasts In My Belfry.: London, BCA, 1974. Book Club Edition. Book; VG, with page toning. Dj; VGwith slight edge wear. 8in x 5.5in, 189 pages. Contains line drawings throughout by Edward Mortelmans.  The story of a boy whose only ambition in life was to study animals. He filled his home with them until his family could take no more and the only solution for him was to work in a zoo. This is a humorous account of his life at Whipsnade Zoo
ref  12901;  £5.50  

And It's Goodnight From Him; The Autobiography of the Two Ronnies; Corbett, Ronnie : London, Michael Joseph, 2006 First Edition. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0718149645. New book, jacket has very slight edge crinkles from shelf.

Ref 103089 :  £10.00

Milligan, Spike; Monty His Part In My Victory: Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1978. Mass market paperback. ISBN 0140045031. The continuing Milligan’s  war biography. Good book. Internally tight and clean.

Ref  100993:  £2.00

Milligan, Spike; Goodbye Soldier: London, Penguin, 1986: Mass market Paperback. ISBN 0140103384. Sixth volume of war memoirs. Illustrated with b&w photos. Very Good used book. Tight and clean. Small book. Low shipping rates.

Ref  16790:   £2.00

Eric And Ernie The Autobiography Of Morecambe And Wise; Holman, Dennis: London, W H Allen, 1973. Very Good book with gift inscription on fep in Very Good dw clipped with edge crinkling, no tears. 8vo, 213pp. To most people Eric and Ernie are just a very, very funny television comedy act - slick, hilarious and not to be missed. Few know of the struggle Morecambe and Wise went through to reach the top. Their autobiography tells this story. With b/w photographs.
Ref  12843;   £7.50

Wisdom, Norman with Bernard Bale: 'Cos I'm a Fool: Derby, Breedon Books, 1996. 1st edition. Hardback in dj. ISBN 1859830501. Book Very Good+, slight bumps to cover corners and spine ends, internally fine, tight clean bright. Jacket Very Good, not clipped, no tears, edge crinkles and surface rucks on rear, now in protective wrap. The second volume of memoirs by the well-known comic actor Norman Wisdom. 253pp, 32pp b&w photographic illustrations. black boards, no inscriptions, contents unblemished.

Ref  17395:  £15.00

Colonel Sir Mike Ansell; Soldier On:  London, Peter Davies, 1973, 1st ed.  Very Good. Fair wrapper. ISBN 0432005862.  Previous owner’s book label on ffep, slight cover edge rubs. Inside tight and clean, Jacket not clipped, edge wear and creases, small edge tears reinforced on reverse with archive tape, slight loss at lower edge. 180pp,  8vo, illustrated. Autobiography. A fascinating look at a unique individual, Colonel Sir Michael Ansell was a decorated Second World war hero who was blinded in 1940. This valiant individual has had a tremendous career always believing people should "soldier on" and get on with life. His life certainly reflects that adage, he was an active fisherman and most active as a member and president of the British Equestrian federation. An excellent read.

Ref  17412:   £6.50

Colonel Sir Mike Ansell; Soldier On:  London, Peter Davies, 1973, reprint. Very Good / no wrapper, slight edge and spine end bumps and gift inscription. Inside tight and clean, 180pp,  8vo, illustrated. Autobiography. A fascinating look at a unique individual, Colonel Sir Michael Ansell was a decorated Second World war hero who was blinded in 1940. This valiant individual has had a tremendous career always believing people should "soldier on" and get on with life. His life certainly reflects that adage, he was an active fisherman and most active as a member and president of the British Equestrian federation. An excellent read.

Ref  13173;   £5.00

Man of Everest, the Autobiography of Tenzing; Ullman, James Ramsey :  London: George G Harrap, 1955 A good hbk copy / no d/w. 8vo. 320pp, illustrated in b/w. Ex Boots library with sticker on front cover and remains of label on rear pastedown, Covers are rubbed along edges and slightly marked, corners are slightly bumped, some spotting to block edges. A Good tight copy, clean internally,

Ref  13835:  £5.00

Morecambe And Wise, You Can’t See The Join;  Novick, Jeremy: Bath, Chivers Press. 1998. Large Print edition. Story of Britain’s most fondly remembered comedy duo. This book traces the long, hilarious, sometimes touching trail from the early days of the Liverpool Empire to the living rooms of over twenty million people. Good in Good dj. Book has gift inscription on fep, stains to fep and edge and occasional marks on pages. Dj is in mylar overwrap.

Ref  11742;   £3.50

McCourt, Frank;  Angela's Ashes, A Memoir Of A Childhood: London,  Flamingo, 1997. Mass Market Paperback. ISBN 000649840X. Very Good. Used book, usual reading creases to spine very slight corner nudges. Inside tight and clean.
Ref  13179:   £2.25

McCourt, Frank;  Angela's Ashes, A Memoir Of A Childhood: London,  Flamingo, 1997. Mass Market Paperback. ISBN 000649840X. Very Good. Used book, usual reading creases to spine, corner creases and slight cover surface creases. Inside tight and clean.

Ref  13955:   £2.00

Catherine Cookson Country - Her Pictorial Memoir; Cookson, Catherine: London,  Heinemann, 1986. 1^st ed. Hardcover, cream cloth, in dj. ISBN 0434142549. Book Near Fine in Very God clipped jacket. A history of both urban and rural Tyneside, from one of its most celebrated inhabitants. 192pp Profusely illustrated with historic photographs of Tyneside, the setting for her novels

Ref  19094:   £8.00

On Safari, The Story Of My Life; Denis, Armand: London, The Companion Book Club, 1964, 1^st thus.  Cloth.   Fine book in Very Good++ dustjacket, jacket has very slight edge crinkles and slight marks on spine, not clipped.  Autobiography of the author who has produced many films about wildlife and primitive people in remote parts of the world.  Illustrated. A lovely example of this 1960’s book club with a super paper jacket illustrated by Robert Micklewright, book as clean and bright as the day it was sold.

Ref  13386:   £12.50    

MY TURN : THE MEMOIRS OF NANCY REAGAN; Nancy Reagan with William Novak : New York : Random House, 1989. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0394563689. 8vo, 384pp, b&w photos. Very Good book, minor edge marks and nudges, bookplate and name on ffep, tight and clean. Jacket VG, not clipped, no tears. “During our White House years I said almost nothing about how I really felt regarding the controversies that swirled around me. But now those years are over, and it's my turn to describe what happened." This is the memoir of one of the most fascinating, controversial, and enigmatic first ladies in American history.

Ref 106733 : £6.00

Nancy Reagan The Unauthorised Biography; Kelley, Kitty: London, Bantam, 1992. ISBN 0 553 40424 5. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good condition.703 pages with b&w photographs. The complete biography of US President Ronald Reagan's wife by the scandalmeister Kelley, her early life and film career, her role in the California governor's mansion while her husband was governor there, her later position as the First Lady, filled with many little known interesting salacious details, rumors, and facts about herself and her husband; contains list of films and television programs starred in by Nancy (whilst Nancy Davis) prior to her marriage to the handsome Hollywood actor, numerous glossy illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.

Ref  12133;  £2.00

John Graham of Claverhouse, Bonnie Dundee, for King and Conscience; Linklater, Magnus. & Hesketh, Christian: Edinburgh: Canongate, 1989. Large paperback. Near Fine. 244pp with illustrations. Internally tight and clean. Penetrates the myth romanticised by Scott and vilified by Macaulay to reveal the life and career of a supremely efficient and disciplined soldier who ended his days as a rebel commander at the head of a ragged clan army in the hills of northern Scotland

Reff 16735;  £12.50

1,000 Great Lives; Plantagenet Somerset Fry: London: Hamlyn, 1980, 5^th imp. ISBN: 0600344118. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall,320 pages. Illustrated in colour and b&w, index. Very Good, name on fep.

Ref  13165:  £6.00

Waddington, Bill with Stafford Hildred; The Importance Of Being Percy: London Boxtree, 1992, ISBN 18528319228   Paperback. Good.  The Bill Waddington Story, television actor.  Some b&w photos. Slight corner crease, name on fep, signature on half title page which may be author Bill Waddington (difficult to decipher)

Ref  12502:   £2.00

Simpson John; A Mad World, My Masters -Tales From A Traveller's Life: London: Pan, 2001. Soft Cover. ISBN 0330355678. Very Good unread book, slight corner nudges, couple og pages have corner and edge creases picked up on shelf. Tight and clean. John Simpson’s second volume of autobiographical writing.

Ref  18408:   £3.50

Hulton, Nika; The Witch; London, Springwood Books, 1977. ISBN 0905947053. Small hardcover in jacket, Fine/Very Good. Entertaining recollections of the early twenties in Paris.

Ref  12586;   £5.00

Sir Alec Douglas-Home; Young, Kenneth : London, Dent, 1970. First edition. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0460038990. 282pp, b&w illustrations. Biography written with the subject”s co-operation and is based in part on conversations between the Douglas Home and the author. This is a perceptive study of Sir Alex and his rise into politics. Very Good book, slight bumps at spine ends, gift inscription on ffep, internally tight and clean. Jacket Good+, not clipped, rubs at spine ends and edge crinkles.

Ref 105275 : £8.00  

Home, Lord; The Way The Wind Blows - An Autobiography: UK, Collins, 1977 reprint. Hardcover, in dj. ISBN 0002119978.   Very Good book, tight and clean. Jacket VG, not clipped, slight spine fade, edge crinkles. 320pp, b&w photos.

Ref 103938 : £5.00

Home, Lord; The Way The Wind Blows – An Autobiography: UK, Fontana, 1976.  Market Paperback. ISBN 0006353266.  Unread book. Very Good. Spine and covers darkening, few spots on spine. Internally tight and clean. Illustrated with b&w photos. Small book. Low postage rates.

Ref  15793:   £2.00

HITLER: A STUDY IN TYRANNY ; Bullock, Alan: London, Odhams Press Limited. 1959, 4^th revised impression. Hardcover, no dj. 776pp, b&w photos. Good book, spine sunned, cover stains, edge marks, binding slightly wobbly but tight and internally clean. Low cost reference copy of this first complete life of Hitler.

Ref 105660 : £3.50

Hitler; Walther, Herbert  (ed): Greenwich CT, Bison Books, 1984, reprint.. ISBN 0861241339. Near Fine  with couple of very small top edge marks in Very Good dj with slight edge creases. Large book 12.25in x  9.5in, 256 pages, predominantly photographs in colour and b&w. A photo biography of Hitler from early life through to the rise to power and the final fall. A very informative book in unusually good condition (dust jackets often have tears on these large folios), tight and clean. Large book. Postage at cost.

Ref 13245;   £11.50

Hitler, The Man And The Myth: Manvell, Roger & Fraenkel, Heinrich: London, Grafton, 1978. Mass Market Paperback. ISBN 0261669079. A chilling insight into the mind of the man who became the twentieth century’s darkest evil genius. Book Very Good, slight cover corner nudges, tight and clean. Illustrated with b&w photos.

Ref  16355:  £2.50            (Also under History)

Lowndes, Mrs Belloc; The Merry Wives of Westminster: London,  Macmillan & Co. 1946, 1^st. Red hardback cloth cover, no jacket. Bumps to corners, some marks to covers, slight spotting to edges. Illustrated with b&w plates. Overall a Very Good tight clean copy.

Ref  13833;   £7.00

Long Ago When I Was Young; Nesbit, E. - Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone: London, MacDonald, 1974, First Thus. The item is in Very good condition without dustwrapper. Burgundy cloth, gilt title to spine. Lengthy introduction by Noel Streatfeild. B/w line drawings. 127 pages. Very slight bumps to cover corners and edges, small scuff on fep where small label has been removed (perhaps bookseller’s price label). Inside very clean and bright (looks inread). Re-issue of this fragment of an autobiography by author E. Nesbit, first published in 1966. Super Ardizzone illustrations.

Ref 13049:   £11.50

Nyiri, Janos; Battlefields and Playgrounds: London, Macmillan 1989 1st UK ed. Hardback, Very Good book with some  rubs along cover edges in a Very Good dustwrapper. Translated from the Hungarian by William Brandon and the author. An Autobiographical novel of WW2

Ref   13929:   £9.00

DIARY OF A WREN 1940-1945 War Years In The Women's Royal Naval Service; Deacon, Audrey  : Spennymoor UK, The Memoir Club, 2001. Hardcover, blue Cloth, in dj. ISBN 1841040320. 8vo. pp xv, 168. Frontis and 6 illustrations. War time memoirs. Book Fine in Near Fine jacket, bookseller"s name and address label on front flap, no tears, slight edge crumples.

Ref  101354:  £20.00   (Also under Naval History)

Braddon, Russel; Cheshire V.C.: London, The Companion Book Club, nd. Hardcover in dj. Very Good book with blue cloth covers with red title panel at spine lettered in gilt in Good dj with edge wear, small edge trears and chips, spine darkening, not clipped. The usual patterned paper jacket in light blue. The story of the wartime hero. With b&w photos

Ref  13865:   £5.00

Boldness Be My Friend: Pape, Richard:  London, The Companion Book Club, 1954.. Hardcover, no dj. Very Good book with orange cloth covers with black title panel lettered in gilt at spine, some marking to covers. The PoW and escape story.  With b&w photos and map endpapers

Ref  13876:   £5.00

The School in Our Village; Goldman .J.M, Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone: London: Batsford, 1957, 1^st. Cloth. Very Good, no dj. Some fading to spine an cover margins, otherwise a tight clean fine book. 136 pages with many super Ardizzone illustrations.

Ref  13050:   £15.00

McCarthy, John and Morrell, Jill; Some Other Rainbow: London, Corgi, 1994, ISBN 055213953X. Mass Market Paperback. The story of the kidnapping of John Morrell and the fight of Jill Morrell to secure his release. Very Good. Used book, usual reading creases on spine, slight creases to corners, and slight indents on covers. Tight.

Ref  12653 ; £2.00

The Man-Eaters of Tsavo; Patterson, Lieut-Col J. H.: Macmillan London 1930, Small book,  7in x 4.5in,  pp xv + 351, illustrated. Red cloth, gilt. VG, no dustjacket., Book Good,  bumps and rubs to cover corners and spine ends, covers  stained and marked, inscription on fep, stains to couple of pages, tight and clean otherwise and generally good. Small book. Low postage rates

Ref  15993:   £15.00 

Maxwell; Haines, Joe: London: Macdonald, 1988 Cloth. Fine/Very Good, jacket has edge crinkles and slight rubs. First Edition. 8vo. A definitive biography written before his extraordinary and mysterious death, this details Maxwell's upbringing from poverty in Czechoslovakia to incredible wealth in England. 524pp with many plates. ISBN: 0356171728

Ref  12763:   £7.50

Maxwell. The Outsider; Bower, Tom: London, BCA, 1992. Book Club Edition. Hardcover.  Black cloth, Near Fine with slight fore-edge  nudge to couple of pages in Very Good jacket, no tears , slight edge rubs and crinkles. Weight over 1kg. Postage at cost

Ref  16883:  £5.00

Giles, A Life in Cartoons; Tory, Peter: London, Headline Book Publishing, 1992, 1^st ed.  Hard Cover in dj.  ISBN 0747206783. Landscape format, 8.5in (tall) x 10.25in, 192pp. Very Good book in Very Good jacket, clipped with slight edge crinkles and slight surface indents. The authorised biography of Britain's leading cartoonist, with a selection of Giles' favourite cartoons.

Ref  17580:  £10.00

Martin O’Neil The Biography; Montgomery, Alex: London, Virgin, 2004. Paperback. ISBN  0753508087.  284pp, b&w photos. Very Good book, tight and clean.

Ref 103068 : £2.00

Up The Down Escalator, An Autobiography;  Worsnip, Glynn: London, Michael Joseph 1990, 1st. ISBN 0718134184. The autobiography of the TV personality who was diagnosed as suffering from cerebeller ataxia, a progressive brain disease. Very good condition with dustwrapper. 231pp. B/w plates.

Ref  12765:   £7.00

Clements Julie: My Life With Flowers: London, Cassell, 1993, 1st edition. Memoirs of this British Flower Arranger. 27 colour photos. Julia Clements has spent a lifetime introducing the joy of flowers to women all over the world. This is her story, of how she brought flower arranging to audiences who had, like herself, lost everything in the 1939- 45 war, and who took to it en masse.  Very Good with very slight lean else would be fine in VG dustjacket with slight edge crinkling ISBN 0304342467.

Ref  12789:  £3.75

Bourne, Leila; Dear World: UK, Merlin, 1990, 1st. ISBN 0863035051. Trade Paperback. Fine Unread book. Couple of very slight shelf bumps. Small book.

Ref  12803:    £3.00

Phathanothai, Sirin with Peck, James; The Dragon's Pearl, Growing Up Among China's Elite; London; Simon & Schuster; 1994, 1^st. ISBN ; 0671712144. 336 pages; black cloth with gilt titles. Book Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper. Illustrated.
Ref  12882:   £10.00

Pilgrim, Ruri; Fish of the Seto Inland Sea, Three Generations of a Japanese Family: London, HarperCollins, 1999, 1^st edition.  Hardcover  ISBN: 0002570874. 316pp Book is Fine with very faint edge marks in a Very Good unclipped jacket with very slight edge crinkles.

Ref  13517:  £7.50

Hyde, Douglas; I Believed: London, The Reprint Society, 1952.  Hardcover, no dj. red cloth, black title label. Very Good,  marks to covers Book still tight and clean internallyThe autobiography oh a former British communist. Nice low cost hardcover copy

Ref  16591:  £4.50

While There's Still Lead In My Pencil, His Own Story of More Than 60 Years Drawing A Wage In Fleet Street;  Ullyett, Roy With Norman Giller:  London, Andre Deutsch, 1998 1st edition. ISBN  0233994211. Roy Ullyett has been a hugely popular newspaper cartoonist for over sixty years and in While There's Still Lead In My Pencil he recounts the fascinating adventures he has experienced in Fleet Street and beyond. 8vo. Hardback. 217 pages, fully illustrated. Original publishers black boards, gilt. A fine copy in a Near Fine dustwrapper.
Ref  13518:   £7.50

George Sand,  A Biography Of The First Modern, Liberated Woman; Gerson, Noel B.: London,. Robert Hale, 1973, 1^st ed. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 070913987X. Book Very Good, purple cloth, bolck edges spotted and marked, internally tight and clean. Jacket Good+, not clipped, darkening at margins with edge curl and crinkles, small edge tears reinforced on reverse with archival tape, few small marks. 271 pp, 20 b&w illustrations.

Ref  17851:  £15.00

A Child in the Forest; Foley, Winifred: London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1974. ISBN 0563126051. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Gift inscriptiuon inside cover, abrasion to half title page with small hole, otherwise fine. Dj slight crinkles to edges and slight surface creases. The life of the twenties has been celebrated often enough from the top of the economic pyramid, this is a voice - all the more welcome for being rare - from the bottom. It keeps the sharp particularity of childhood memories - great-aunt, growing old, having her laying-out clothes laundered once a year, Dad, tired after his shift and grimy with pit dust performing a clog dance in the path or standing on his head to amuse his children. For although Winifred Foley's father was a miner, the village was surrounded by the oaks of the Forest of Dean. The contrast between the beauty of the setting and the poverty of the village, between the humanity and love which went into her upbringing and the harshness of conditions that made hunger a common experience marks the book. It is Winifred Foley's own zest for life that runs through her story, as she tells without a trace of self-pity of one child raised in a loving home who had to leave that warm security for a job where she was the all-purpose labour-saving device - a living-in-maid. For girls like her, there was no other alternative. The story is remarkable for its honesty, and for the author's gift of re-creating times and people long dead with an incisive precision: it also proves how extraordinarily interesting an ordinary life can be.

Ref  13655:    £6.50

Carcaterra, Lorenzo; Sleepers: London, Arrow Books, 1995, 1st edition. Hardcover in dj, ISBN 0712676120. Book Near Fine in very Good jacket. Pages lightly toning as in all these edition and jacket has edge crinkles. Four friends made a mistake that changed their lives forever.

Ref 13682: £6.50

The Greenwood Hat : Being a Memoir of James Anon 1885-1887; Barrie, J.M.: London, Peter Davies. 1937, first trade edition. Very good condition with no wrapper. Hardback in navy cloth with gilt title, 285pp, portrait frontispiece & other illustrations in b&w. Very Good with light toning and occasional spotting, top edge darkened and slightly marked, front pastedown slightly marked. Fifty copies privately printed in 1930, the whole reset and first published, November 1937. A series of newspaper articles together with memories which comprise an autobiography of Barrie’s early days. Interesting and amusing anecdotes.

Ref  13687:   £6.00

Duke; A Portrait of Duke Ellington; Jewell, Derek: London Elm Tree Books, 1977 reprint. 192pp. Octavo. Detailed biography of Edward Kennedy Ellington - the Duke. Illustrated with b&w photos. Book Very Good in VG dj unclipped with slight edge and corner wear and slight surface creasing

Ref  13745:   £10.00

A SOLITARY WOMAN: A LIFE OF VIOLET TREFUSIS: Sharpe, Henrietta : London: Constable, 1981, First edition. Hardcover, no dj. 8vo. pp. [x], 205. Portrait frontispiece. 23 pp. illustrations. The biography of Violet Trefusis who became notorious for her love affair with Vita Sackville-West. Original grey cloth, gilt lettered spine . Very Good book, gift inscription on ffep. tight and clean. Scarce

Ref 105542 : £17.00

An Invisible Friendship. An Exchange Of Letters 1957-1979; Grenfell, Joyce & Moore, Katherine: London,  Macmillan, 1981, 1st edition. ISBN 0333322363.  A complete record of their correspondence. Very Good book in Very Good clipped jacket with slight edge crinkles and minor creases.

Ref  13696:   £8.00

Gertrude Lawrence As “Mrs A”, An intimate  Biography Of The Great Star; Aldrich, Richard Stoddard:  London, The Companion Book Club, 1956. Hardcover,  no dj.  Good book with grey cloth covers with blue title panel at spine lettered in gilt. Spine fade, few marks on covers and spotting on spine. Tight and clean internally. Illustrated with b&w photos

Ref  14381:   £5.00

INGRID BERGMAN (with photographs from the Kobal Collection); Taylor, John. Russell : London, Elm Tree Books. 1983. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0241111064. Ex-library, Scuffs on ffep from removal of labels, and also on copyright page, internally tight and clean, 4to, 128pp, A tribute in words and pictures to one of Hollywood's most beautiful and talented stars, a celebration of the enigma that was Ingrid Bergman. Superb b&w portraits and studies of Ingrid Bergman from the Kobal Collection. Jacket VG in library protective wrap. Needs a little airing

Ref 105110 : £5.00

JACK OF ALL TRADES : Warner Jack : London, W. H. Allen, 1975, First Edition. Hardcover in dj. 8vo, 226pp, b&w photos. Jack Waters had his talents encouraged by his father within a comedy atmosphere provided by his sisters Elsie and Doris who became film stars in their own right as Gert and Daisy. Sidetracked into the motor racing world where he became a Brooklands competitor he returned to acting by joining the Garrison Theatre, the wartime radio show. Here he records his forty years in show business, his films of The Huggett family, The Blue Lamp, radio adaptations, Royal Command Performances and of course George Dixon in Dixon of Dock Green. Here is not merely the account of a remarkable achievement but also an intimate and evocative diary of the times. Near Fine book, bright and clean in Very Good unclipped jacket.

Ref 107472 : £7.00

ANNA NEAGLE SAY’S “THERE’S ALWAYS TOMORROW”: An Autobiography: Anna Neagle : London, W. H. Allen, 1974, First Edition. Hardcover in dj. ISBN: 0491019419. 8vo, 235pp, b&w photos. Anna Neagle became a legend in British films for her extraordinary portrayals of characters as diverse as Queen Victoria, Nell Gwynn, Odette and Amy Johnson. On stage, she chalked up 2,047 performances of “Charlie Girl” at the London Aldelphi Theatre (which was followed by a record-breaking Australasian tour). She was created Dame of the British Empire in 1969, the first British film actress to be so honoured. Very Good book, half-title page slight edge wear, no names, clean and bright. Very Good unclipped jacket.

Ref 107473 : £10.00

CONFESSIONS OF A HAPPY MAN: Linklater, Art : Surrey, The World’s Work, 1962. Hardcover in dj. 8vo, 250pp + ads, b&w photos. Very Good book,  slight foxing to upper edge, internally tight clean and bright, no names. Jacket VG, not clipped, slight edge rubs. Scarce title.

Ref 107474 : £12.00

LEWIS MUMFORD A LIFE ; Miller, Donald L.: New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989, 1st Edition. Hard Cover, black cloth spine on paper covered boards. ISBN 1555842445. 8vo, 628pp, b&w photos. Excellent in depth look into the life and career of "Lewis Mumford" described as the last of the great humanists, who made tremendous contributions to the fields of History, Philosophy, Literary, Art and Architectural criticism. Book Very Good+, name on ffep, tight and clean. No jacket.

Ref 101797 : £6.50

NIVEN'S HOLLYWOOD: Hutchinson, Tom : London, BCA, 1984. Hardcover in dj. 4to, 192pp, b&w photos throughout. Very good book, pages toning at margins, tight and clean. Jacket VG, no tears, slight yellowing at margins. An extraordinary glimpse into the Hollywood that David Niven knew. Niven”s collection of photographs throughout. Introduction by Peter Ustinov.

Ref 107673 : £7.00

Ken & Em – The Biography Of Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thomson; Shuttleworth, Ian:  London, Headline, 1995. Mass Market Paperback . ISBN 0747247188. Very Good. Reading creases on spine, Small cover creases. Internally tight and clean.  344pp, index, b&w photos. Small book. Low shipping rates.

Ref  16989:   £2.00

Ian Messiter; My Life And Other Games: London, Fourth Estate 1990. 243pp. Hardback in dj. ISBN 1872180612. 243PP Illustrated with b&w photos. Fine in Near Fine jacket. "celebrates fifty years in broadcasting, from the BBC's primitive early days when turntables were so huge and slow they had to be push-started. to the high-tech presenter world of TV computer graphics." Ian Messiter devised games shows such as Just a Minute, Hoax, Quick Fire, Fair Deal, Many a Slip, Dealing with Daniels, and Petticoat Line, and as a producer he worked on such radio classics as ITMA and Twenty Questions

Ref  16686: £9.00

SCOUSE MOUSE or I never got over it: An Autobiography:  Melly, George: London Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1984 1st Edition. Hard Cover in dj. ISBN 0297782770. 8vo, 208pp, endpaper maps. Very Good book, small edge marks, internally tight and clean, no names. Jacket VG, not clipped, no tears. The third volume of jazz singer George Melly”s amazing autobiography covers his Liverpudlian childhood during the 1930s

Ref 106855 :  £8.00

Diana, Her True Story; Morton, Andrew: London, Michael O’Mara, 1992, 1^st ed.  Hardcover in dw, ISBN 1854791915. Following many books about Diana this onme is claimed to be based on facts published for the first time. Illustrated with private photographs made available only for this book.  Book is Near Fine, wrapper is Very Good, unclipped with minor edge crinkles and slight surface indents.

Ref  13743;   £7.50

Diana, Her True Story; Morton, Andrew: London, Michael O'Mara, 1992, 1st ed.  Hardcover, laminated pictorial boards, in dw, ISBN 1854791915. 165pp, colour and b&w phots. Following many books about Diana this one is claimed to be based on facts published for the first time. Illustrated with private photographs made available only for this book.  Book is Near Fine, wrapper is Very Good, unclipped with minor edge crinkles and slight surface indents.

Ref 104278 : £6.00

Diana, Her True Story; Morton, Andrew: London, Michael O'Mara, 1992, 1st ed.  Hardcover, blue cloth, in dw, ISBN 1854791915. 165pp, colour and b&w photos. Following many books about Diana this one is claimed to be based on facts published for the first time. Illustrated with private photographs made available only for this book.  Book is Near Fine, wrapper is Very Good, unclipped with minor edge crinkles.

Ref 105003 : £6.00

Diana, Her New Life; Morton, Andrew: London, Michael O’Mara, 1994, 1^st ed.  Hardcover in dw, ISBN 1854797476. Follow on to Diana Her True Story, exposing the intrigue and in-fighting behind the royal crisis following her separation from Charles. Book is Near Fine,  wrapper is  Very Good, clipped and has minor edge crinkles.

Ref  13742;   £7.50

Diana, Her New Life; Morton, Andrew: London, Michael O'Mara, 1994, 1st ed.  Hardcover in dw, ISBN 1854797476. Follow on to Diana Her True Story, exposing the intrigue and in-fighting behind the royal crisis following her separation from Charles. Book is Very Good, corner cut from ffep and date written on ffep, tight and clean.. Wrapper is  Very Good, not clipped.

Ref 104312 : £6.00

Diana, Her New Life; Morton, Andrew: New York, Simon & Schuster, 1994, 1^st US.  Hardcover in dw, ISBN 0684800098. Follow on to Diana Her True Story, exposing the intrigue and in-fighting behind the royal crisis following her separation from Charles. Book has slight soiling to covers and slight bumps to extremities, wrapper is unclipped and has minor edge wear and corner bumps.

Ref  13741;   £6.50

Reeves, Christopher;  Still Me: London, Arrow, 1999. Paperback. ISBN 0099257289. “Moving, wise, passionate and gripping autobiography”. 328pp, b&w photos.  Very Good used book. LOW SHIPPING RATES ON THIS BOOK

Ref  18658:  £2.50

Joyce Grenfell Requests The Pleasure;  Grenfell, Joyce: London, MacMillan. 1976, 1^st ed. ISBN 0333194284. Hardcover in dj. Book Fine in Very Good jacket with slight edge curl. With 72 b/w illustrations + revue clips printed on end papers. A funny, yet touching autobiography by the actress who starred in the St Trinian's films, wrote for Punch magazine, performed during World War II and had a one-woman show, describing her transfer to showbusiness from journalism and telling of the many famous names she worked with and knew socially.

Ref  14039:   £7.50

Joyce Grenfell Requests The Pleasure;  Grenfell, Joyce: London, MacMillan. 1976, 1st ed. ISBN 0333194284. Hardcover in dj. Book Very Good, gift inscription on ffep, internally tight and clean. Jacket VG, clipped, front flap creased. With 72 b/w illustrations  end papers illustrated with revue clips. A funny, yet touching autobiography by the actress who starred in the St Trinian's films, wrote for Punch magazine, performed during World War II and had a one-woman show, describing her transfer to showbusiness from journalism and telling of the many famous names she worked with and knew socially.

Ref 103935 : £5.00

Grenfell, Joyce; In Pleasant Places: London, Macmillan, 1979, 1^st ed.  ISBN 0333272889. Sequel to Joyce Grenfell Request the Pleasure Hardcover in dj. Fine book in Very Good jacket with edge curl. This second volume of her memoirs describes Joyce Grenfell's entertaining career all over the world - her Broadway debut and television appearance with Elvis, her Command Performance for the Queen, her eccentric old friends, and her own delightful reflections on life. Illustrated with B/W photos.

Ref  14038:   £7.50.

Tommy Handley ; Kavanagh, Ted : London,  Hodder and Stoughton, 1950 reprint. Hardcover in dj. Hard back, green cloth covers with black titles, in dj. 255 pp. 33 pp of photographs. Good book, gift inscription on ffep, block edges spotted, internally tight and clean. Jacket Good, not clipped, edge chips and rubs

Ref 102322 : £4.00

Feel : Robbie Williams; Heath, Chris : London, Ebury Press, 2004, 3^rd imp. Hardcover in dj ISBN 009189753X. The second book from Robbie Williams. Spanning his childhood through the Take That years to his current status as music icon, Williams talks frankly and humorously, telling the truth about his extraordinary life. Written over two years with Heath, the acclaimed music writer for "Rolling Stone". Book and Jacket VG+. Very small fore-edge marks, tight and clean.

Ref 104528 : £5.00

Essex, Davis; A Charmed Life: London, Orion,  2002. Mass market paperback. ISBN 0752849581. The autobiography of David Essex.  296pp, b&w photos. Very Good used book. Internally tight and clean

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Nicholson, Nora; Chameleon’s Dish: London,  Paul Elek, 1973, 1^st ed. Hardcover in dj.. ISBN 0236154966. Autobiography of actress Nora Nicholson, fotreword by Sir John Gielgud, 170 pages, with b&w photographs. Front free endpaper removed elde bok is Very Good in VG jacket with edge crinkles and rubs down fold over edges.

Ref  14077:    £5.00

The Illustrated Hancock; Wilzut Roger (Commentary): London, MacDonald; Queen Anne Press. 1986. 1st UK edition  ISBN 0356123669.  Hardback cloth 11.75 x 8.75 inches with 190 pages. Illustrated throughout. Slight bumps to corners. Internally tight and clean and bright. In Very Good unclipped jacket with edge curl and small edge creases. Tony Hancock was an instinctive comedian who, in collaboration with his writers, raised the more naturalistic type of broadcast comedy to new heights. This is a photographic record of his unique career.
Ref  14358:  £12.50

Tony Hancock; Oakes, Philip: London, Woburn-Futura,, 1975: Mass Market Paperback. ISBN 0713001380. In The Entertainers Series edited by Philip Oakes. Near Fine unread book, 96  pp. Illustrated with photographs. Slight cover indents and slight cover corner nudges and curl  

Ref  15420:   £2.00

MARKOVA Her Life and Art; Dolin, Anton : London, White Lion Publishers, 1973, First Ed. Hardcover in dj. 294pp, b&w illustrations. Very Good book, gift inscription on ffep, tight and clean. Good jacket. Edge wear

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Ivor Novello Man Of The Theatre; Noble, Peter.: London, The Falcon Press 1951 2nd edition. 8vo. 306pp with 33 photographs and a foreword by Noel Coward. Original black publishers cloth, gilt. A little rubbing to spine ends. Boards slightly marked, name and date on fep. Jacket is Fair, not clipped with faded spine, fraying and spine ends and small edge tears and wear. Tight clean and bright internally. In his life Ivor Novello brought happiness to more people than any other man of the theatre. Peter Noble knew and admired Novello for many years, and his book is not only an account of a fabulous career but a warm study of personality containing many revealing glimpses of the British stage over the past half-century.
Ref  14356:   £9.00

Noel; Castle, Charles: London, Abacus, 1974. Paperback. ISBN 0349104824. Good+ condition. Cover edge rubs, small cover creases and corner nudges, block edge marks. Biography of Noel Coward, acting, writing, socialising, humour: it is all there. 272pp, b&w illustrations.

Ref  17848:   £3.50

OVER MY SHOULDER : AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Jessie Matthews ; as told to Muriel Burgess: London : W. H. Allen 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0491015720. 8vo, 240pp, b&w photos. Good book, ffep has been partially cut away, minor edge spotting, internally tight and clean. Jacket Good, not clipped, minor edge wear

Ref 107471 : £7.00  

Anna Pavlova; Kerensky, Olga: London, Hamish Hamilton, 1973, 1^st.  With an introduction by Sir Frederick Ashton. ISBN 241023645. 8vo. 160 pp. illus. in b&w. cloth, Book Very Good with sli9ghtly bumped corners in Very good jacket  with edge crinkles and curl, not clipped.
Ref 14082:   £8.00

BROKEN MUSIC : A Memoir;  Sting : London; Simon & Schuster;. 2003 First edition. Hardcover in dj. ISBN 0743231848. 337pp. Autobiographic account of Sting's early life, leading up to his success as leader and singer of The Police.. Fine copy, looks unread, Near Fine clipped jacket

Ref 103111 : £4.00

Portrait Of A Bad Man – The Life And Death Of Ronald Chesney;  Tullett,Tom: London, Evans 1956 1st GB edition. 196 pages. Illus. Black cloth, Very Good book in poor dj, not clipped with small edge tears , edge wear and soiling. This is the story of Ronald Chesney, international smuggler and murderer whose sinister tentacles stretched from Britain right across Europe to Tangier and the Middle East.

Ref  14371:   £7.50