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The Diaries of Sofia Tolstaya

Sofia Tolstoy; Cathy Porter (trs); O A Golinenko, S A Rozanova, B M Shumova, I A Pokrovskaya, N I Azarova (eds) · 1985 · Dodman Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, First English language edition. Translation by Cathy Porter, with an introduction by Professor R. F. Christian. Block interior is VG+ with some light dust spotting to exterior top of block. Smart black boards have crisp gilt ti...

Charles Dickens And His World

J B Priestley · 1978 · Dodman Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,637)

London, Thames & Hudson, 1st Edition, 2nd Printing, Block is in VG condition bar one or two corner creases and toning towards page edges. No inscriptions. Smart brown boards have bright gilt titling to spine and gilt Thames & Hudson logo to front. Clipped d/j is in VG order w...

THE MARSHALL STORY A Century Of Wheels And Wings [SIGNED]

Sir Arthur Marshall · 1994 · Dodman Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Sparkford, Patrick Stephens, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, With a foreword by Sir Peter Masefield. Inscribed and signed greeting from Marshall to title page and a typed and signed letter to recipient from Marshall (1994) is taped to dedication page. 2007 newspaper clipping of Ma...

Parson Extraordinary

Ursula Bloom · 1963 · Dodman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, The Quality Book Club, Book Club edition in VG neat, crisp and clean internal order. Former owner's name stamped to fep with another crossed out. Maroon boards have bright gilt titling on yellow panel to spine. Spine has a vertical crease with a little bumping to ends....

FROM RABBI TO BISHOP The Biography Of The Right Reverand Michael Solomon Alexander, Bishop In Jerusalem

Muriel W Corey · 1959 · Dodman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Church Missions To Jews, 1st Edition, ND. 1959 (WorldCat). Text is in VG neat, clean and bright internal order with some light spotting to block exterior and card covers. Light blue card covers have dark blue titling and illustration to front with VG unclipped d/j fixe...

YORKSHIRE ANECDOTES; Or, Remarkable Incidents In The Lives Of Celebrated Yorkshire Men And Woman

R Y Taylor · 1883 · Dodman Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,637)

London, Whittaker & Co., 1st Edition, "Compiled from various sources and arranged in alphabetical order; with brief biographical particulars; and a copious index." Text is in good internal order with occasional light pencil notation. Green floral print endpapers to front and ...

BLACK AND BEAUTIFUL A Life In Safari Land

Marius Forte · 1938 · Dodman Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London, Robert Hale, 1st Edition, First UK edition of this remarkable autobiographical narrative of the author's life through three periods in Africa, 1901-09, 1917-20 and 1932-35. "And it has a moral, a burning message to the civilized world at large that the white man is tre...

YOU'VE HAD YOUR TIME Being The Second Part Of The Confessions Of Anthony Burgess [SIGNED]

Anthony Burgess · 1990 · Dodman Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London, Heinemann, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, Burgess' signature inscribed to title page. All in neat VG internal condition, with stock well toned and lightly dust-spotted to top of block. Dark red boards are VG with bright gilt titling to spine and very light bumping. D/j sho...

The Life Of Graham Greene Volume One 1904 - 1939

Norman Sherry · 1989 · Dodman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, Block is in near fine internal order with just some minor marking to exterior edges. No inscriptions. Black boards are clean and smart with crisp gilt titling to spine. D/j is unclipped with price sticker to the foot of front i...

The Story Of Henry V

L Du Garde Peach · 1962 · Dodman Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,637)

Loughborough, Wills & Hepworth, 1st Edition, Nice, bright, three colour map to front and rear pastedowns. Neat and tidy interior with minor spotting and signs of pencilled name to title page but otherwise VG. Beige boards have light bumping to foot at front and sharp blue titl...

Facing Up [SIGNED]

Bear Grylls · 2000 · Dodman Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,637)

London, Macmillan, 1st Edition, 3rd Printing, Third printing of first edition. D/j is clipped with light creasing at top of spine. Dark blue boards lightly marked to rear with some surface wear to front, and a little crushing to top and bottom of spine. Upper board leads a lit...

Memoir Of Bishop Mackenzie

Harvey Goodwin · 1864 · Dodman Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Cambridge, Deighton, Bell, And Co, 1st Edition, First edition, complete with frontispiece, fold-out maps and coloured lithographs, though part of fold-out view of Lake Shirwa is missing. Otherwise and bar light toning to stock, all is in VG, clean and bright internal order. No...

TOSHER ELLIOT (Lt-Col Walter Robert Elliot MC)

His Friends And Family · 1964 · Dodman Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Privately Published, Memorial volume to military man and initiator of numerous international welfare initiatives. Presentation copy to Brigadier B Chichell Cooke "with every good wish from Tosher's family" and signed by G B Ellliot to half title. Stock toned, but otherwise all...

WHIRLPOOL HEIGHTS The Dream-House On The Niagara River

Julia Cruikshank · 1915 · Dodman Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, George Allen & Unwin, 1st Edition, Charmingly written account of life in a barn by Niagara Falls, and the Edwardian 'dream house' that was never built. Not that Cruikshank minds, taking delight in the solitude and natural surroundings of her acre by the whirlpool and t...

August Strindberg

Martin Lamm · 1971 · Dodman Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

New York, Benjamin Blom, 1st Edition, First English language edition, translated from the 1948 Swedish imprint by Harry G Carlson. Stock toned and lightly spotted to block edges, moreso to top, but pages are clean and bright internally. No inscriptions. Light shelfwear to deco...

OOTLIN A Memoir [SIGNED]

Jenni Fagan · 2024 · Dodman Books

£17.50 (€20.98 | $23.12 | ¥3,692)

London, Hutchinson Heinemann, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, Well regarded memoir, signed by Fagan to title page. All in VG+, crisp, clean and bright internal order. Smart green boards showing very light shelfwear only, with bright gilt titling to spine. Upper board leads slightly...

The American Ideal

Arthur Bryant · 1936 · Dodman Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London, Longmans, Green And Co, 1st Edition, Biographies of leading Americans. A few minor spots to block edge, but these rarely intruding on to pages which are otherwise in VG clean and bright order. No inscriptions. Light wear and a little marking to red cloth, dulled to spi...

Paths Of Happiness

Lord Mottistone (General Jack Seely) · 1938 · Dodman Books

£17.50 (€20.98 | $23.12 | ¥3,692)

London, Hodder And Stoughton, 1st Edition, Memoir focused on finding happiness in all of life's activities, often, in Mottistone's experience, involving horses. Light toning to stock, but otherwise all in VG internal order. Colour plates showing well. No inscriptions. Light we...

Whereas I Was Blind

Ian Fraser · 1942 · Dodman Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st Edition, Fascinating and well written memoir from Fraser, blinded in the First World War, subsequently MP, Governor of the BBC, successful businessman and life peer. Stock lightly toned with minor spotting to edge of block and endpapers, but oth...

HELL'S CARTOGRAPHERS Some Personal Histories Of Science Fiction Writers

Brian W Aldiss; Harry Harrison (eds) · 1975 · Dodman Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1st Edition, Autobiographical musings from Alfred Bester, Damon Knight, Frederik Pohl, Robert Silverberg, and the editors Harrison and Aldiss. Some minor marking to edge of block, but internally all is in VG order. No inscriptions. G+ unclipped...