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Sparks, Jared.
The Life of George Washington.
Publisher: Alphons Durr, Leipzig;
Date of publication: 1859
£45.00
FIRST THUS. Published originally as the first volume in the 12 volume set “The Writings of Washington”, and here presented in an abridged form as a separate work. Octavo, pp. xii, 371, [1]. Brown h...
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Kirk, Rev. John.
The Mother of the Wesleys: A Biography.
Publisher: Jarrold & Sons, London;
Date of publication: 1866
£50.00
Fourth Edition. Octavo, pp. xxii, [2], 351, [9] catalogue. Portrait frontispiece of Mrs Wesley engraved by W.H.Gibbs. Publishers’ pebbled bottle-green cloth with bevelled boards, gilt titles and de...
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Williamson, Henry.
In the Woods.
Publisher: St Albert’s Press,
Date of publication: 1961
£20.00
FIRST EDITION, limited to 1000 copies. As usual, dated 1960 to title page though actual date of publication was January 1961 (and this date appears on the dust-jacket). Octavo, pp. [6], 54. Stiff t...
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Darlington, Thomas (editor).
Memoir of Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Publisher: R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh;
Date of publication: 1893
£50.00
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 82. Photographic portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Bottle green cloth with gilt titles and central vertical ruling to upper board; aeg. Spine tips and corners ver...
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Sisman, Adam.
John Le Carre: The Biography.
Publisher: Bloomsbury, London;
Date of publication: 2015
£110.00
SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xx, 652. Numerous monochrome photographic images to plates. Publishers’ black cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Very minor creas...
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Bestic, Alan.
The Girl Outside.
Publisher: Barrie and Rockliff, London;
Date of publication: 1959
£50.00
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp 238. Publishers’ dark blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth unobtrusively stained top edge. Top edge of leaves faintly damp...
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Greenwell, George Clementson.
The Autobiography of George Clementson Greenwell.
Publisher: Quarry Publishing Co (for Private Circulation) London;
Date of publication: 1899
£100.00
INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, privately printed. Octavo, pp. viii, 304. 6 plates including frontispiece photographic portrait of the Author. Original dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt ...
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Anon.
The World's Great Men [2 volume set].
Publisher: London Printing and Publishing Company Limited, London;
Date of publication: 1880
£200.00
Undated circa 1880. Small quarto, pp 204 & [205]-408. Illustrated with 101 captioned tissue-guarded steel-engraved plates of each subject together with a short biography of each. Half calf with 5 r...
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Duncan, James
KNIGHT OF RYHOPE
Publisher: Churchman Publishing Co. Ltd, London;
Date of publication: 1934
£25.00
Biography of Canon Percival Young Knight. Original green cloth with black-stamped titles. No publishing date given - c. 1934. Minor foxing to page edges & endpapers. Rear endpapers have had p...
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Moore, Thomas.
Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan [2 volume s...
Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London;
Date of publication: 1825
£75.00
THIRD EDITION, complete in 2 volumes. Octavo, pp viii, 543 & iv, 492. \portrait frontispiece and fold-out facsimile letter to Vol I. Half polished green calf with 4 raised bands, red labels with gi...
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Wordsworth, Christopher.
Memoirs of William Wordsworth, Poet-Laureate, DCI [2 volume set].
Publisher: Edward Moxon, London;
Date of publication: 1851
£400.00
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp xii, 457,[1] Volume I and viii, 524 vol II. Frontispiece portraits of William and Dora Wordsworth. Full vellum binding by Riviere & Son with red and black labels with gilt...
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The Life of John Mytton, Esq of Halston, Shropshire.
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons Ltd, London;
Date of publication: 1877
£60.00
No stated publication date [1877]. Revised edition. Octavo. xi, [1],234 pp. 16 colour plates by H Aikin and T J Rawlins as called for, including frontispiece with tissue guard. Book Condition: Good...
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