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The Year of the Jouncer.

By: GRAY, SIMON:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London Granta Books. 2006 1st.:

Seller ID: 85047

5.5 x 7.5 inches. In black covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper. (D/W Not price clipped. In protective plastic wrap). A very clean and tight copy. 282pp. The author gives an amusing account of a year in his life.
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Coda.

By: GRAY, Simon:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London Granta 2008 1st.:

Seller ID: 85050

5.5 x 8.0 inches. In brown cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper. (D/W Not price clipped. In protective plastic wrap). A very clean and tight copy. 251pp. The author describes a time of scans and consultations leading to a diagnosis and final prognosis.
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The Cry of a Gull journals 1923-48. Edited by Michael Adam, with a tribute to Alyse Gregory by Evelyn Hardy and Linocuts by Alan Richards.

By: GREGORY, Alyse:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Out of the Ark Press. 1973 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 84629

5.5 x 10.0 inches. In blue cloth covers with gilt to front and to white spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded and rubbed at ends. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 150pp. With b/w linocut illustrations in text and to endpapers. Facsimile verses to endpapers. The journals of the writer, editor, campaigner, Alyse Gregory. Includes a tribute by Evelyn Hardy and an afterword by Michael Adam.
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A Labrador Doctor. The Autobiography. Revised Popular Edition.

By: GRENFELL, Sir Wilfred Thomason:

Price: £6.00

Publisher: London. Hodder & Stoughton 1930 repr:

Seller ID: 76805

Hardback. Size approx 9 x 6 inches. In maroon cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine. In very good condition. Rubbing to edges and corners and ends of spine. Corners bumped, and slightly nicked. Spine faded, some minor marks to boards. Neat inscription to front endpaper, with two colour illustrations of Grenfell tipped in. Endpapers slightly darkened. Some foxing to title page. Else a very clean and tight copy. 333pp. 4 b&w photo plates.
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Lloyd George. The People’s Champion. 1902-1911.

By: GRIGG, JOHN:

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Eyre Methuen. 1978 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 73668

Size 6.5 x 9.5 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; small marks to spine. Slightly rubbed along top edge. Old small label to front fly leaf. Not price clipped). Small stain to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. 391pp. With b/w photographs. Second part of a biography of David Lloyd George. This volume covers his time in the Liberal government when he produced the ‘People’s Budget’ in 1909. With many of his speeches, and coverage of his personal life.
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Lloyd George. From Peace to War. 1912-1916.

By: GRIGG, JOHN:

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Methuen. 1985 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 73669

Size 6.5 x 9.5 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly rubbed at top end with small marks. Not price clipped). A clean and tight copy. 527pp. With b/w photographs. The third volume of the biography of David Lloyd George. This volume covers the turbulent period of financial scandal, personal relationships, Irish Home Rule, and the outbreak of the Great War, during which he became Prime Minister. A ‘warts and all’ biography up to the point of Lloyd George’s becoming PM ...
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Bonnet and Shawl. An Album.

By: GUEDALLA, PHILIP:

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton. 1929.:

Seller ID: 73852

Size 6.0 x 9.0 inches. In green cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. In very good condition. Spine slightly faded and bumped at top end. boards part faded. Mild foxing to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. 204pp. With b/w portrait plates. Contents: REAL: Jane Welsh Carlyle/ Catherine Gladstone/ Mary Arnold/ Mary Anne Disraeli/ Emily Tennyson/ Emily Palmerston. IDEAL: Lady Muriel James/ Sophia Swinburne/ Julie de Goncourt.
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Machiavelli and Renaissance Italy. Teach Yourself History. General editor A.L.Rowse.

By: HALE, J.R.:

Price: £2.00

Publisher: The English Universities Press Ltd. 1961 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 74050

Size 4.5 x 7.0 inches. In cream cloth covers with black lettering to spine. With dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Spine slightly darkened. Ink marks to front, back and fly leaves. Not price clipped). Ink marks in margins. Red ink notes to back endpapers. Else a clean and tight copy. 244pp. With maps. The life and work of Nicolo Machiavelli.
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Memoirs of Count Grammont. Translated by Horace Walpole. Wood Engravings by Wilfred Jones. Limited edition.

By: HAMILTON, Count ANTHONY:

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London. John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd. 1928.:

Seller ID: 73099

Size 6.75 x 9.75 inches. In maroon cloth boards with gilt to grey cloth spine. Top edge gilt. In very good condition. Spine slightly darkened. Mild foxing to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. 230pp. With wood engraved plates with titled tissue guards. Philibert, Comte de Grammont (1621 – 31 January 1707), was a French nobleman. This biography was written by Antoine Hamilton, his brother-in-law. He spent some time at the Court of King Charles II, where he married his wife and the most interesting part of the book contains an account of that king’s licentious court. With biographic...
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The Hardys of Barbon And some Other Westmorland Statesmen: Their Kith, Kin and Childer. With Association Letter.

By: HARDY, Charles Frederick:

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, Constable and Company, 1913 1st:

Seller ID: 80659

Hardback, 9 x 6 inches. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front. Top edges gilt. In very good condition. Some slight rubbing to corners of boards. Endpapers partially darkened. Neat inscription to front “Given to me by Norman Hardy, October 1934, R.B. Bengers.” With accompanying signed letter and postmarked envelope. A couple of tiny handling marks else a very clean and tight copy. 176pp. Illustrated with 8 B&W plates, including map and plan.
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Contributions Towards a Bibliography of The Taylors of Ongar and Stanford Rivers.

By: HARRIS, G.EDWARD:

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Crosby Lockwood. 1965:

Seller ID: 73763

Size 5.0 x 8.75 inches. In green hard card covers with gilt to black cloth spine and front. In near fine condition. Owners’ bookplate to front endpaper. Else a very clean and tight copy. 65pp. With b/w illustrations and fold out family tree at front. The Taylor family lived quietly and anonymously in the country in the 18th century, and although they knew some eminent men of letters, their own writing was less well known. This bibiliography has been started by a descendant.
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The Journal of John Wodehouse First Earl of Kimberley for 1862-1902. Camden Fifth Series, volume 9.

By: HAWKINS, ANGUS / POWELL, JOHN (eds):

Price: £5.00

Publisher: The Royal Historical Society. 1997 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 67335

Size 5.5 x 8.75 inches. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine. In near fine condition. A very clean and tight copy. 530pp. Extracts from the journal of John Wodehouse the English Liberal politician.
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The Grove Diaries The Rise and Fall of an English Family. 1809-1925. Signed copy.

By: HAWKINS, DESMOND;

Price: £38.00

Publisher: Dovecote Press. 1995 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 80019

Size 6.25 x 9.5 inches. In green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper. Signed by author on title page. A very clean and tight copy. 375pp. With b/w photographs and illustrations. The diaries of successive generations of the Grove family chart the rise of a Wiltshire/Dorset border family from county gentry to aristocratic Victorian grandees, before the much steeper trajectory of the family’s decline.
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Image for The Royal Family of England, Containing Remarks on the Principle of the Royal Succession. With a Genealogical Account of the Royal Family, and historical Sketches of the Principal Characters.

The Royal Family of England, Containing Remarks on the Principle of the Royal Succession. With a Genealogical Account of the Royal Family, and historical Sketches of the Principal Characters.

By: HAWLEY, Frederick:

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Charles H. Law, 1851:

Seller ID: 83944

Hardback, Sm. 8vo. 7 x4.5 inches. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine, blind embossed decorations to boards and spine. Pale yellow endpapers. In very good condition. Corners bumped ,some darkening to cloth, small chip to top ends of spine. Endpapers clean, neat inscription to top of title page “G. Milner 1862.” One or two very minor handling marks to pages else a very good clean and tight copy. 160pp.
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The Life and Reign of King Henry The Eighth. Written by the Right Honourable Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury.

By: HERBERT, Edward Lord:

Price: £500.00

Publisher: London, Printed by Mary Clark, for Ann Mearn, sold by Tho. Sawbridge, 1683:

Seller ID: 82855

Tall hardback, approx 11.5 x 8 inches. In full speckled calf leather binding, gilt lettering to light brown leather spine label, with raised banding and gilt decorations to spine. Red speckled page edges, plain endpapers. In very good condition. Some wear to cover, rubbing to extremities, top board corners chipped, corners of ends of spines chipped, som scratches and surface chips to rear board. Crack to front hinge with glue repair to front endpaper. Inscription to front endpaper “Robert Cooke, 1951” (Athelhampton House, Dorset.) Some minor rubbing to edges of title page with smal...
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Image for Some Materials Towards Memoirs of the Reign of King George II. Printed from a copy of the original manuscript in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle; and from the original manuscript at Ickworth. Edited by Romney Sedgwick. In Three Volumes.

Some Materials Towards Memoirs of the Reign of King George II. Printed from a copy of the original manuscript in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle; and from the original manuscript at Ickworth. Edited by Romney Sedgwick. In Three Volumes.

By: HERVEY, Lord John:

Price: £225.00

Publisher: London, Eyre and Spottiswoode Printers, 1931 Limited Numbered Edition 159/900.:

Seller ID: 84237

Three Volumes. Hardback, approx 9 x 6 inches. Beveled blue cloth covers with gilt lettering to spines and gilt crests to fronts. Top page edges gilt. In blue cloth covered hard slipcase. In very good conditions. With very good slipcase (SC faded around edges, some minor handling marks.) Spines faded and sunbleached. Some minor rubbing and handling marks to boards, small black ink mark to top front corner of vol.1. Some minor darkening to endpapers with a couple of minor spots to prelims, small neat inscription to endpaper of vol.1. “R. from J. Jan 1934.” Inside pages all very clean...
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Autobiography of Captain Harry Hier-Davies of London. Introduction by Myron C. Taylor.

By: HIER-DAVIES, Capt. Harry:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Eastbourne, Privately Printed, 1951 1st edition:

Seller ID: 84837

Hardback, tall 11 x 8.5 inches. Half bound with red cloth to spine and blue paper covered boards. In very good condition. Some minor fading to edges of boards, minor bumps to corners, small minor bump to cloth at top end of spine. Neat inscription to front endpaper “Frank O. Salisbury, One of The Three Musketeers, His Hon Myron C. Taylor, Capt. Harry Hier Davies, Dr. Frank O. Salisbury. June 1959.” Inside pages all very clean and tight throughout. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 179pp. Illustrated with B&W photo plates, some full-page.
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Betjeman, The Bonus of Laughter. SIGNED COPY.

By: HILLIER, BEVIS:

Price: £24.00

Publisher: London, John Murray, 2004 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 83535

Hardback, approx 9.5 x 6 inches. In dark blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper and jacket slip. In very good near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slight fading to spine, a couple of minor handling marks ,some creases and marks to jacket slip. Not price clipped). Authors signature to main title page. No other penned inscriptions or marks. Else a very clean and tight copy. 746pp. Illustrated with 36 B&W photographs and 14 colour illustrations. Third volume of Hillier’s biographical Betjeman trilogy.
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Margaret Hobhouse and Her Family By Her Son.

By: HOBHOUSE, Stephen;

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Private. The Stanhope Press. 1934 1st edition:

Seller ID: 74360

Size approx 5.5 x 9 inches. In dark blue/grey cloth covers with gilt to front and spine. In very good condition, Some minor rubbing to edges and corners of cover. Inside pages slightly faded else clean and tight. 292pp. With 8 b&w illustrations plus embellishments.
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Lytton Strachey. A Critical Biography. Two volumes in one slipcase. The Unknown Years 1880-1910; The Years of Achievement 1910-1032.

By: HOLROYD, MICHAEL:

Price: £38.00

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. New York. 1968 1st US edition.:

Seller ID: 85003

6.5 x 9.5 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine and front, Vol I, Silver gilt to spine and front, Vol II.. With illustrated dustwrapper. Patterned endpapers. In near fine condition with very good slipcase. Dustwrappers spines slightly darkened. Not price clipped. In protective plastic wrap. Else clean and tight copies. 2 volumes, 477, 754pp. With colour frontis and b/w photographs. Biography of the biographer Lytton Strachey. In two volumes together on one slipcase. First United States edition.
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