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The Confessions of an Also-Ran

Ashley,Peter · 1987 · Richard Thornton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Farming Press This is a Fine Copy of this Book in publisher's black cloth with silver title letttering to spine,in a Near Fine Dust-Jacket with no chips or tears to the outer edges of the d/j.Not price clipped and this copy has No previous ownership inscriptions present.Firm b...

Gladys Cooper

Morley,Sheridan · 1979 · Richard Thornton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Heinemann This is a Very Good Copy of this book in a Very Good Dust-Jacket.Not price clipped,with no previous inscriptions present.Not price clipped and this copy has a firm binding with no hinge weakness or leaning or rolling to spine.8vo 313pp First Edition Very Good Very G...

The Privilege Of His Company Noel Coward Remembered

Marchant,William · 1975 · Richard Thornton Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

Weidenfeld and Nicolson This is a Near Fine Copy of this book in Publisher's blue cloth with silver title lettering to spine,in a Very Good Dust-Jacket,with one tape repair running along the top edge of the upper cover.Not price clipped and this copy has no previous inscriptio...

The Pleasant Years

Roberts,Cecil · 1974 · Richard Thornton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)

Hodder & Stoughton This is a Fine Copy of this Book in a Very Good+ Dust-Jacket.Not price clipped and this copy has no previous ownership inscriptions present.This book is the fifth and final volume of this Autobiographical life of Cecil Roberts,and this quarter of a century 1...

Great Scot: The Life of Sean Connery

Hunter,John · 1993 · Richard Thornton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,476)

Ted Smart This is a Fine Copy of this Book in a Fine Dust-Jacket.Not price clipped,and the book contains no previous ownership inscriptions.Lovely clean copy 8vo 189pp Reprint Fine Fine Reprint 8vo - over 5¾" - 7¾" Tall

The Tarnished Crown: Crisis In The House of Windsor

Holden,Anthony (Signed Copy) · 1993 · Richard Thornton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

Bantam Press This is a Fine Copy of this book in a Fine Dust-Jacket,not price clipped.This is a rare signed presentation copy.This copy having been given to Broadcaster and Writer Richard Littlejohn after Holden had appeared on his daily LBC show to discuss this book on the Mo...

Donald Campbell. An Informal Biography. (signed).

YOUNG-JAMES, DOUGLAS. · 1968 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London: Neville Spearman, 1968. 1st edition. "The author was a personal friend of both Sir Malcolm and Donald Campbell..quotations from some sixty letters are given with permission," Pp.159, 9 photo illustrations + 2 maps and pedigree of Campbell of Tain, Co.Ross to end, signe...

Eugenie Sellers Strong. Portrait of an Archaeologist.

DYSON, STEPHEN L. · 2004 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

London: Duckworth, 2004. 0715632191. 1st edition. "Eugenie Sellers Strong was a pioneer: she was among the first women in England to receive a university education and, after leaving Cambridge, went on to become a professional archaeologist..She enjoyed close friendships with ...

The Lois Wilson Story. When Love is Not Enough. A Biography of the Co-founder of Al-Anon.

BORCHETT, WILLIAM G. · 2005 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

Center City, Minnesota: Hazelden, 2005. 1592853285. The little-known story of Lois Burnham Wilson, cofounder of Al-Anon and wife of Alcohol Anonymous (AA) cofounder Bill W. "From her privileged childhood in turn-of-the-century New York City, to her unexpected but exhilarating ...

Female Pipings in Eden.

SMYTH, ETHEL. · 1933 · Chilton Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,635)

London: Peter Davies Limited, 1933. 1st edition First printing. Autobiographical work by English composer and member of the women\'s suffrage movement, Dame Ethel Smyth. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and operas. ...

Above the Sand Heads

Ladner, T. Ellis · 1979 · Rainy Day Books

$10.50 (€9.53 | £7.95 | ¥1,676)

Book Good. Edna G. Ladner Canada Light overall wear, name on first page.

Ursa Major A Study of Dr Johnson and His Friends.

Vulliamy, C E · 1946 · Hessay Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,476)

Michael Joseph, 1946. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition. 340pp. Red cloth covered boards with silver title, a very little rubbed to the ends of the spine. Colour frontispiece illustration. Internally very clean. Dr Johnson\'s life among his friends - Mrs Thrale, Boswell...

Samuel Johnson English Men of Letters.

Stephen, Leslie · 1909 · Hessay Books

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Macmillan, 1909. Hard Cover, Pocket edition. 200pp. Dark green cloth covered boards with impressed design and gilt title. A corner neatly cut from the top of the front flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. Part of the English Men of Letters series. A biography of Dr Samuel John...

Queer Saint. The Cultured Life of Peter Watson...

CLARK, ADRIAN AND DRONFIELD, JEREMY. · 2015 · Chilton Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,654)

London: John Blake / Metro, 2015. 9781784186005. The Cultured Life of Peter Watson who Shook Twentieth-Century Art and Shocked High Society. "When Peter Watson was murdered in his bath by a jealous boyfriend in 1956, the art world lost one of its wealthiest, most influential p...

Lafcadio Hearn. A biography.

EDWARD THOMAS. · 1912 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

Constable 'Modern Biographies' series, London, 1st Edition, First Edition, second issue, with a leaf of advertisements tipped-in before the half-title but otherwise identical to the first issue (which was itself preceded by the American issue, published six days earlier). Smal...

Julia. A Portrait by Herself.

JULIA STRACHEY. Frances Partridge. · 1983 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

Little Brown, Boston, 1st Edition, The first American edition (first printing). 8vo. 308pp. Quarter-cloth with paper-covered sides, lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with twenty-one captioned black and white photographs. A very good copy in very slightly rubbed price-...

The Milliner\'s Apprentice Girlhood in Edwardian Yorkshire.

Wheeler, Hazel · 1997 · Hessay Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Sutton, 1997. First Edition. Soft Cover, 122pp. Illustrated card covers. Many b + w illustrations. A very clean copy. The story of the author\'s mother\'s family, living in Boroughbridge in Yorkshire -.local people, school. Easter and Christmas, Barnaby Fair, working in a mill...

Sudden Endings

PACKER, VIN · 1964 · John Thompson Books

CA$8.00 (€5.09 | $5.61 | £4.25 | ¥895)

Uniited States, Fawcett. 1964, 1st Printing. Paperback. Solid with creases on the spine and the covers show light wear. Good- Very Good.

On Giant\'s Shoulders

WALLACE, MARJORIE & MICHAEL ROBSON · 1977 · John Thompson Books

CA$7.00 (€4.45 | $4.91 | £3.72 | ¥784)

British, Corgi. 1977, 1st Printing. (ISBN: 0-552-10472-8) Paperback. Solid with light wear on the covers and a 3/8" by 3/8" chunk missing on the top right corner of the back cover. The previous owner\'s name is on the first inside page in pencil. Good +.

The Astors

Cowles, Virginia · 1979 · The Glass Key

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First US edition. Hardcover. First impression. 4to (255 x 185mm). Pp 256inc. 16pp colour plates illustrated in b&w throughout. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy in an unclipped dust jacket...