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Famous Folk of Bournemouth, Poole and Surrounding Area

By: EDWARDS, Elizabeth:

Price: £14.00

Publisher: Dorset, Natula Publications, 2006 1st:

Seller ID: 80799

Hardback, 8.5 x 6 inches. Glossy pictorial covers. In very good near fine condition. An excellent clean & tight copy. 150pp. Illustrated with B&W photo portraits.
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Big Jack. My Sporting Life. Signed copy.

By: ELLIOTT, JOHN:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Schwartz & Melbourne Books. 2003 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 62951

Tall 8vo. In dark blue cloth covers with silver to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Dark blue endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Not price clipped). Personal message signed by author to half title page. Else a very clean and tight copy. 299pp. With b/w and colour photographs. Autobiography of controversial Australian business man and polititian, John Elliott. Much of the book is taken up with his involvement in Australian Rules Football club, Carlton Football Club, and the ups and downs of his time with them.
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Furthur Reminiscences of a Local Yokel: Wareham 1960 to 1980. Volume 2.

By: ELMES, HUGH:

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Hugh Elmes. 2005 1st edition:

Seller ID: 63340

8vo. In decorated limp card covers. In very good condition. A couple of small marks to covers. Else a very clean and tight copy. 60pp. With b/w photographs. Second volume of a Dorset man’s autobiography.
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The Life of Llewelyn Powys.

By: ELWIN, MALCOLM:

Price: £8.00

Publisher: John Lane. The Bodley Head 1946 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 73957

Size 5.75 x 8.75 inches. In orange cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Mild foxing. Old repair to front with sticky tape. Top of spine reinforced inside. Price clipped). Mild foxing to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. 299pp. Frontis portrait and 7 other photo plates. The author believed that the attainment of personal hapiness was the true purpose of life.
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Image for Memoirs of John Evelyn, Esq. F.R.S. Author of the "Sylva", &c. &c. Comprising his diary, from the year 1641 to 1705-6, and a selection of his familiar letters, to which is subjoined The Private Correspondence between King Charles I. and Sir Edward Nicholas. Also between Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon, and Sir Richard Browne, Ambassador to the Court of France, in the Time of King Charles I, and the Usurpation. Edited from the Originall Mss. by William Bray. The Second Edition. In Two Volumes.

Memoirs of John Evelyn, Esq. F.R.S. Author of the "Sylva", &c. &c. Comprising his diary, from the year 1641 to 1705-6, and a selection of his familiar letters, to which is subjoined The Private Correspondence between King Charles I. and Sir Edward Nicholas. Also between Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon, and Sir Richard Browne, Ambassador to the Court of France, in the Time of King Charles I, and the Usurpation. Edited from the Originall Mss. by William Bray. The Second Edition. In Two Volumes.

By: EVELYN, John: BRAY, William:

Price: £295.00

Publisher: London, Henry Colburn, 1819 Second Edition:

Seller ID: 82582

2 Volumes. Tall Hardbacks, 12 x 9.5 inches. In light brown polished calf leather bindings, gilt paneled boards and gilt decorated spines, with floral detailing, raised banding and gilt lettering to leather spine labels. Marbled page edges and endpapers. In very good conditions. Corners slightly bumped and chipped, some rubbing and bumps to edges, some minor handling marks to boards. Professional repairs to spines on front hinges, rear hinges are slightly cracked. Some surface scuffs to rear board of v.1. No penned inscriptions. Inside pages overall very clean and bright, some slight darkening ...
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The Autobiography of Kingsley Fairbridge. With a Preface by The Right Hon. L. S. Amery and an Epilogue by The Hon. Sir Arthur Lawley.

By: FAIRBRIDGE -

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Oxford. University Press 1927 (1st.).:

Seller ID: 49614

Black cloth with paper label on spine. Name on front endpaper. Mostly very clean inside, there are small spots of foxing on margin of a few pages.Very good. Photogravure frontis.portrait of K. Fairbridge. Fold-out map of Mashonaland. 10 pp. / 188 pp. Spare title label tipped in at the end. Founder of the Fairbridge Farm Schools for poor British immigrant children in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. This is “the simple story of a boy’s adventures in the early days of Rhodesia, ending with a few brief reminiscences of his years as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford”.
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The Life and Work of St Paul With 16 Illustrations.

By: FARRAR, Frederic W.:

Price: £42.00

Publisher: London & Melbourne, Cassell and Company, 1910:

Seller ID: 81636

Hardback, approx 8.5 x 5 inches. In full tree-calf fine leather prize-binding by “Bickers & Son,” with raised banding, extensive gilt decoration and lettering to spine, decorative gilt paneled boards with school crest to front. Red page edging. Marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor fading and rubbing to spine and corners, a couple of minor handling marks else cover very clean and smart. Prize label to front endpaper “The Grammar School, Loughborough, R. Bailey, 1912.” Binders stamp “Bickers & Son, Leicester Sqr,” to verso corner of fr...
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Barefoot Journey. Illustrated by Rosemary Haughton.

By: FELICITY, Sister:

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Darton, Longman and Todd, 1961 1st edition:

Seller ID: 83797

Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Illustrated paper covered boards. In clear plastic dustwrap. In very good condition. Some slight darkening to top end of spine else cover very clean and bright. Some minor light foxing to title page and prelims, some minor spots to pages but mostly to outer page edges. Else a very clean and tight copy. 169pp. With B&W illustrations by Rosemary Haughton. A racy and somewhat shocking autobiography of a Nun.
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Who’s Who in the Middle Ages. From the Collapse of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance.

By: FINES, JOHN:

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books. New York. 1995:

Seller ID: 63846

Tall 8vo. In black hard card covers with silver to black cloth spine. With dustwrapper. In fine condition with fine dustwrapper (dw; Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 218pp. A dictionary of biography, each entry, in reality a short essay, offers not only an understanding of an individual, but insights into the process of change at work during this period. From Abelard to John Wyclif.
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Iain Macleod. Introduction by Lord Boyle of Handsworth. Signed copy.

By: FISHER, NIGEL:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Andre Deutsch. London. 1973 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 55978

In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. Orange endpapers. Presentation inscription in red ink plus author’s signature on half title page which also has small portrait silhouette of the subject. Mild foxing to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly rubbed around edges. Not price clipped). Corners and bottom of spine slightly bumped. Front top edge slightly faded. 352pp. With 11 b/w photographs 2 cartoons and a map. Biography of the Tory politician. Iain Macleod was resposible for decolonisation of many of the ...
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Daniel De Foe and Charles Churchill. Warren Hastings, Sir Roger De Coverly, Ferdinand I and Maximilian II of Austria. Five Volumes in One.

By: FORSTER, John: Macaulay, T.B.: RANKE, Prof. Leopold: GORDON, Lady Duff:

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1851-5:

Seller ID: 83641

Hardback, 7 x 5 inches. Full calf leather binding with decorative gilt paneled boards, raised banding and extensive gilt decoration to spine, with red leather label lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers and page edges. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing and small handling marks to boards, small rubbing to bottom of spine. Endpapers clean, neat penned inscription to top of title page “A. Sanders, 1855.” Some minor darkening to pages of “Roger De Coverley.” Else inside pages all clean and tight throughout. Else a very clean and tight copy. 149, 118, 106, 144 & 1...
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Lord Stuart of Rothesay. The Life and Times of Lord Stuart de Rothesay of Highcliffe Castle 1779-1845. SIGNED COPY.

By: FRANKLIN, ROBERT:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Images. Worcester. 1993 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 83527

Hardback, 9.5 x 6 inches. In red cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; some minor shelf rubbing. Not price clipped). Cloth clean, Authors signature to title page. Else a very clean and tight copy. 303pp. Illustrated with 15 b&w plates. Life and times of a nineteenth century diplomat.
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Mary Davies and the Manor of Ebury. With Eight Photogravure Plates and Thirty-One Other Illustrations. In Two Volumes.

By: GATTY, Charles T.:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Cassell and Company Ltd. 1921 1st:

Seller ID: 84227

Two Volumes. Hardback, tall 8vo, 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Navy blue cloth with gilt crest vignette to fronts and gilt lettering and crests to spines. In very good conditions. Some minor rubbing to corners and ends of spines, top corners on vol.2 slightly bumped, with small bump/split to cloth at bottom rear corner of spine. Some minor darkening to endpapers with a couple of minor spots to prelims, a couple of minor negligible spots to inside pages else pages very clean and tight throughout. Else very good clean and tight copies. 294 & 285pp. Illustrated with 8 B&W Photogravure Plates, and 31 ...
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Percy: Prelate and Poet With a Preface by Sir George Douglas, Bart. And 8 Illustrations.

By: GAUSSEN, Alice C. C.:

Price: £28.00

Publisher: London, Smith Elder & Co., 1908 1st:

Seller ID: 80658

Hardback, 8.5 x 6 inches. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and vignette to front. Plain endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor rubbing to corners, bump to top front corner. Some slight darkening to spine. Some light foxing to endpapers and prelims. Frontis engraving with some foxing to edges. Some light foxing to pages else a very clean and tight copy. 324pp. Illustrated with 8 b&w plates including an engraved frontis.
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A Portrait of Lady Hester. Engraved by Robert Gibbings. From Alexander William Kinglake’s Eothen.

By: GIBBINGS, ROBERT:

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Libanu Press, 1987 1st Ltd Numbered Ed. 295/300.:

Seller ID: 84464

Hardback, 10 x 6 inches. In later handmade leather binding, light and dark brown panelled leather to boards, with embossed and colour leather yacht design to front. Gilt decoration to spine, gilt lettering to leather labels on front. In very good condition. Some minor handling marks to cover. Later handmade binding. Endpapers clean, no penned inscriptions. Pages all very clean and tight throughout. Else a very good clean and tight copy. Numbered on last page. 31pp. Illustrated with B&W wood engravings by Robert Gibbings.
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Jonathan Swift.

By: GLENDINNING, VICTORIA:

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Hutchinson. London. 1998 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 73752

Size 6.25 x 9.5 inches. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly creased along top edge. Small indentations to back edge of spine. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 324pp. With b/w illustrations. The author examines the main events and relationships in Swift’s life.
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The Diaries of Absalom Watkin. A Manchester Man 1787-1861. SIGNED COPY.

By: GOFFIN, Magdalen:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Alan Sutton, 1993 1st edition:

Seller ID: 84008

Hardback, approx 9 x 6 inches. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In illustrated dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper (DW spine faded, minor mark to bottom end. In protective sleeve. Not price clipped.) Cloth clean and smart. Authors dedicatory inscription to front endpaper “To David with best wishes and in memory of a long family friendship, Magdalen Goffin, Silcocks, 12.5.07.” Inside pages clean and tight throughout. Else a very clean and tight copy. 390pp. 15 B&W illustrations. Watkin helped to write the famous Peterloo Protest and ...
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Stella Benson. A Biography.

By: GRANT, Joy;

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Macmillan London. 1987 1st edition:

Seller ID: 74573

Size approx 6.5 x 9.5 inches. In green cloth with gilt to spine. With original pictorial glossy dustwrapper. In very good condition. Pages slightly darkened/faded. Dustwrapper very good. Minor tear to bottom of rear endpaper. 339pp. With b&w illustrations.
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The Last Cigarette. The Smoking Diaries.

By: GRAY, SIMON:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London Granta Books. 2008 1st.:

Seller ID: 84989

5.5 x 7.5 inches. In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With decorated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper. (D/W Not price clipped. In protective plastic wrap). A very clean and tight copy. 312pp. The author, a playwright, reviews his life as he tries to give up the habit of over sixty years - smoking.
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The Smoking Diaries.

By: GRAY, SIMON:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London Granta Books. 2004 1st.:

Seller ID: 84990

5.5 x 7.5 inches. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine. With decorated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper. (D/W Not price clipped. In protective plastic wrap). A very clean and tight copy. 249pp. With b/w photograph at back. The author, a playwright, keeps a diary from the age of sixty five. More an account of his inner thoughts than daily events. He reflects on cigarettes, alcohol, triumphs, disasters, shame, adultery, friendship and love.
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