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May I Talk to John Howard

Wilton, Jean B. · 1973 · Rainy Day Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Book Good Good Book has light wear, dust jacket wear is heavier. Signed by either Hobden or his wife.

Lady On A Pedestal

Gordon Bartsch · 2013 · Rainy Day Books

$112.50 (€102.07 | £85.15 | ¥17,959)

Book Very Good Very Good Epix Design Inc Slight bump to corners else a very clean tight copy. Dust jacket has slight shelf wear.

I Turned My Collar Round

James Insight · 1958 · Dodman Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,636)

London, Herbert Jenkins, 1st Edition, 3rd Printing, Entertaining and well-written memoir of a new curate in a post war London parish. All in VG internal order. Former owner's name neatly to fep. Smart black boards, but spine dulled and lightly marked. This is a charity sale fo...

Behind The Night Bell

F G Lawton · 1938 · Dodman Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,636)

London, Faber And Faber, 1st Edition, 2nd Printing, Second printing of first edition (both 1938). The experiences among the poor of a Black Country GP. Fascinating social history. Stock lightly toned, otherwise all in VG internal order. Fep has been removed. Black boards are r...

Hugh Roy Cullen: A Story of American Opportunity

KILMAN, ED; AND THEON WRIGHT · 1954 · Clausen Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1954. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Nick Eggenhoffer. Hardcover, Slightly cocked spine, textblock is clean and tight, mapped end papers; Bumping to the head and foot of the spine, gilt stamped illustration on the bottom of the front cover. Unc...

Samuel Johnson

WAIN, JOHN · 1974 · Clausen Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, The Viking Press. 1974, Book Club Edition. (ISBN: 0670616710). Quarter Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Plates. Hardcover, Textblock clean and very tight; All page edges are straight and sound. Bumped head and foot of spine, bumped corners; Unclipped dust jacket, li...

Portretten 1995: geschreven portretten van bv. Rabin / Allende / van Duin / Rieu ...etc.

red. voorwoord · 1995 · Kastenvol

€5.00 ($5.51 | £4.17 | ¥880)

Brabant Pers - tgv. van de jaarwisseling, 1995,124pp., 20 zw.w.foto's, 23,5x15cm., geb.hardcover, als nieuw.

SONG AT SEVENTY A Life In India 1905-43

Iris Portal · 2016 · Dodman Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

Exeter, Privately Printed, 1st Edition, Scarce memoir of life in India under the Raj by acclaimed biographer Portal and published posthumously. All in VG+, crisp, clean and bright order throughout. Smart pictorial covers. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (r...

A Hundred Eminent Congregationalists 1530-1924

Albert Peel · 1927 · Dodman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

London, The Independent Press, 1st Edition, Pen portraits of leading Congregationalists. Stock a little toned, but otherwise all in VG crisp and bright internal order. Blue cloth lightly marked and a little dulled with bright gilt titling to spine. This is a charity sale for F...

My Life in Publishing

LATHAM, HAROLD S.; INTRODUCTION BY STERLING NORTH · 1965 · Clausen Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, E.P. Dutton & Co. 1965, Second Printing. Cloth, 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Hardcover, Textblock very clean and tight; Binding edge worn and scuffed; Dust jacket edge and corner worn with some light surface soiling on back cover. 256p. Good/Good (in mylar).

Where the Wagon Led

Symons, R. D. · 1973 · Rainy Day Books

$19.00 (€17.24 | £14.38 | ¥3,033)

Book Good Good Doubleday Slight wear at corners of boards, else book is clean and tight. Dust jacket has heavy edge wear.

Letters to a Black Boy

Teague, Bob · 0 · Brookline Village Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,385)

New York, Walker, c1968. Hardcover. 211 p. 22 cm. Signed by the author for Audrey Wappler. Very good condition/good, Letters to a Black Boy addresses the challenges and complexities of growing up Black in America. Presented in the form of letters, the book offers guidance, ref...

Joseph Henry, His Life and Work

Coulson, Thomas · 1950 · Brookline Village Books

$86.00 (€78.03 | £65.10 | ¥13,729)

Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1950. Hardcover. 352 p. illus. ports. 24 cm. Very good condition/good, Signed by the author. A biography of Joseph Henry, one of the foremost American scientists of the 19th century. Henry was a pioneering physicist and the first Secretar...

Dad Was a Carpenter : A Father, a Son, and the Blueprints for a Meaningful Life

Kemp, Kenny · 2001 · Brookline Village Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

San Francisco, HarperSanFrancisco, c2001. First printing. Hardcover. 112 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Very good condition/good, Kenny Kemp's Dad Was a Carpenter holds historical significance as a memoir that reflects early 21st-century interest in familial relationships, personal legacy...

Autobiography of Lutfullah, a Mohamedan Gentleman; and His Transactions with His Fellow-Creatures: Interspersed with Remarks on the Habits, Customs, and Character of the People with Whom He Had to Deal

EASTWICK, EDWARD B. (EDITED BY) · 1857 · Clausen Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,964)

London, Smith, Elder, and Co. 1857, First Edition. Half Morocco Leather, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library Hardcover, Former copy of the Free Church of Scotland, Foreign Missions Office Reference Library; Has the usual library stamps and labels; owner's ink name, inscript...

The Heart of the Dales

Phinn, Gervase · 2008 · The Glass Key

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

London, Penguin, 2008. First printing of this edition. Paperback. First printing of this trade paperback edition. The fifth volume in the Dales series. Pp 379. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. Very Good .

OIL, LAND AND POLITICS The California Career Of Thomas Robert Baird Volume Two

W H Hutchinson · 1965 · Dodman Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,636)

Norman, University Of Oklahoma Press, 1st Edition, Volume two only. All in VG+, crisp, clean and bright order throughout. Attractive bookplate to front pastedown. Smart grey boards, with gilt on black tilting to spine, showing light edgewear only. 8vo, viii, 394pp, Very Good, ...

Confessions Of A China-Hand

Ronald Farquharson · 1950 · Dodman Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,636)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st Edition, Very good internal order in bright, clean d/j with a few nicks to edges and small loss to rear and top of spine. Neatly inscribed by author on title page. This is a charity sale on behalf of Friends of Morston Church (reg.1099831)., Ins...

BOSWELL'S JOHNSON The Lfe Of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell; Archibald Marshall · 1924 · Dodman Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

London, W Collins Sons & Co, 1st Edition, Boswell's Life Of Johnson abridged and arranged by Marshall in a effort to encourage people to actually read it. A couple of very minor spots to edge of block, but otherwise all is in VG, crisp, clean and bright internal order througho...

Dim Recollections [SIGNED]

Charles Mitchell · 2014 · Dodman Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

Wilby, Privately Published, 1st Edition, Excellently written (and professionally produced by Michael Russell) volume of memoirs including much on Suffolk, India, politics and the unspoilt Caribbean. Dedicated to title page and signed 'Charles'. All in fine internal order. Ligh...