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Biography

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Biography

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1 A Tribute to the Life and Work of John Carmel Heenan, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster 1963 - 1975
Catholic Information Services 1976 Paperback Very Good No Jacket 
Booklet format, tight binding, clean pages - very good. 
Price: 5.61 GBP
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2 "Reliable sources" The Life and explorations in South Africa of David Livingstone LL.D
London James Blackwood & Co Very Good 
No date,but previous owner inscription has date of 1892. Attractive decorated binding in good condition - bottle green cloth with gilt titling, frontispiece portrait, foldout map, b/w illustrations, clean pages, overall v.good. No named author, but "compiled from reliable sources". 324pp. 
Price: 27.49 GBP
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3 Acland, Alice Caroline Norton
London Constable 1948 First Edition Very Good Good 
Dustwrapper is good - small piece missing, excellent binding, clean pages, coloured portrait - frontispiece, illustrations through text, overall very good. 
Price: 5.05 GBP
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4 Adams, Barry Anthony and Maggie Barker - Lives in Tandem
Suffolk E B Adams 0952877406 / 9780952877400 Very Good Signed by Author
Privately published paperback, inscription by the author "Professor Leslie de Quesne - with many thanks for your contribution to this book - Barry Adams". Very good condition, tight binding, clean pages, small mark to rear cover, otherwise v.good. 
Price: 6.73 GBP
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5 Alhaji Mahmudu Koki (Editor Skinner, Neil) Kano Malam
Nigeria Ahamdu Bello University Press 1977 First Edition Paperback Very Good 
Paperback in v.good condition, tight binding, clean pages, signed by the translator/editor "to an old friend with best wishes, Neil Skinner". Autobiographical account that sheds light on life in Nigeria - through the period of British colonial rule and the Nigerian Civil War 
Price: 10.00 GBP
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6 Allan, D. G. William Shipley : Founder of the Royal Society of Arts
London Scolar 1979 0859674843 / 9780859674843 Paperback Very Good 
A reprint, with corrections, of the 1968 edition, very good paperback, tight binding, clean pages. 
Price: 3.60 GBP
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7 Alpha of the Plough Leaves in the Wind (The Wayfarer's Libary)
London J M Dent and Sons Quarter-Leather Very Good 
No date, blue fluted cloth binding with leather spine, and gilt titling, attractive edition, with frontsipiece illustration and two-tone title page. Pages clean, overall v.good. 
Price: 3.60 GBP
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8 Armitage, Angus The World of Copernicus (Originally Titled "Sun stand Thou Still")
E P Publishing 1951 0854097376 / 9780854097371 
Good paperback, a few marks and pencillings (minor). 
Price: 1.10 GBP
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9 Arnold, Ralph The Unhappy Countess and Her Grandson John Bowes
London Constable 1993 0094681805 / 9780094681804 Paperback Very Good 
Tight binding, clean pages, overall v.good. 
Price: 4.62 GBP
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10 Atkins, David The Reluctant Major
Pulborough Toat Press 1986 0951106309 / 9780951106303 First Edition Hardcover Fair Good 
Dustwrapper is v.good, binding also good, internally, pages clean, but marred by several library stamps etc. Overall condition is good, considering it is ex-library. "This is a light-hearted story of failure" (Autobiography of a military man based in India.) 
Price: 4.05 GBP
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11 Ayling, Stanley George the Third
London Collins 1972 0002114127 / 9780002114127 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Very Good 
Very good dustwrapper, small sellotape repair at corner, binding v.good, illustrated, 510pp, substantial biography, overall very good. 
Price: 4.50 GBP
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12 Bagehot, Walter (Editor Richard Holt Hutton) Biographical Studies
London Longmans Green and Co 1914 
Handsome binding, "Silver Library" with gilt sailing ship to spine, pages clean, and prev. owner has inserted an article on Bagehot published by Times Literary Supplement. 
Price: 6.73 GBP
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13 Baker, Carlos Ernest Hemingway - a Life Story
London The Literary Guild 1969 Hardcover Very Good Good 
Dustwrapper creased, but intact, binding v.good, pages clean, illustrated, 702pp, draws on previously unavailable sources, such as Hemingway's diaries, letters and unpublished works. 
Price: 7.20 GBP
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14 Baker, Michael Our Three Selves : Life of Radclyffe Hall
London GMP Publishers 1986 0854490426 / 9780854490424 Paperback Very Good 
Very good paperback, tight binding, clean pages. 
Price: 1.98 GBP
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15 Basson, A H David Hume
London Penguin 1958 
Very good paperback, tight binding, clean pages. Incudes and article on Hume by Antony Flew, published in the Listener in 1961, which prev. owner has tucked inside. 
Price: 2.24 GBP
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16 Beerbohm, Max Mainly on the Air
London Heinemann 1946 First Edition Hardcover Fair 
Spine very faded, and binding a little worn, but overall decent condition with clean pages. 
Price: 1.80 GBP
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17 Belfort, Jordan The Wolf of Wall Street
Sydney Australia Hachette 2008 Very Good 
Excellent paperback, tight binding, clean pages. 
Price: 8.42 GBP
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18 Bellow, Saul To Jerusalem and Back - a Personal Account
London Alison Press / Secker and Warburg 1976 First Edition Very Good Hard Cover 
Very good green cloth binding, prev. owner inscription, clean pages, (182pp), overall very good. 
Price: 3.96 GBP
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19 Bennett, Benjamin Was Justice Done? The Scissors Murder
Cape Town Howard Timmins 1975 First Edition Very Good Good 
Dustwrapper has closed tear to front, but basically intact, binding good (couple of minor marks), pages clean, overall v.good. 
Price: 10.10 GBP
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20 Benson, A C Walter Pater
London Macmillan 1906 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 
V good binding, spine tips torn slightly (not serious), gilt topped pages are clean, overall good to v. good. 
Price: 3.93 GBP
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