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Vita's Other World: A Gardening Biography of Vita Sackville-West

Vita's Other World: A Gardening Biography of Vita Sackville-West

by Brown, Jane

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First Edition
Published
1985
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Hardcover
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9780670801633
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London: Viking, 1985. generally fine copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Alfie: The Life and Times of Alfie Byrne

Alfie: The Life and Times of Alfie Byrne

by White, Trevor

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First Edition
Published
2017
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Hardcover
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Dublin: Penguin, 2017. generally fine copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters

Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters

by Wilde, Oscar - Edited By Merlin Holland)

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First Thus
Published
2007
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Hardcover
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New York: Carroll and Graf, 2007. generally fine copy.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Memoir

Memoir

by McGahern, John

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First Edition
Published
2005
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Hardcover
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London: Faber & Faber, 2005. generally fine copy, no markings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Shadow of the Telescope - A Biography of John Herschel

The Shadow of the Telescope - A Biography of John Herschel

by Buttmann, Gunther

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First Edition
Published
1974
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Hardcover
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UK: Abacus, 1974. generally fine condition. Illustrated with photos and drawings. Translated from the German.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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At Five in the Afternoon - My Battle with Male Cancer

At Five in the Afternoon - My Battle with Male Cancer

by Murphy, Michael

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First Edition
Published
2009
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Paperback
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Ireland: Brandon, 2009. sound clean copy.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin

The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin

by Gauguin, Paul (trs. Van Wyck Brooks)

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Good
Edition
Reprint
Published
1930
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Hardcover
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London: Heinemann, 1930. In blue cloth binding of Travellers' Library series (which Heinemann had taken over from Cape), dustwrapper chipped at spine ends, but otherwise sound, book itself clean and sound, nice copy. First edition thus (previous publication was as a pricy limited edition).. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Richard Strauss: The Life Of A Non Hero

Richard Strauss: The Life Of A Non Hero

by Marek, George R.

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Good
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First Edition
Published
1967
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Hardcover
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London: Gollancz, 1967. dustwrapper edge-worn, book quite sound.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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A Reasonable Rebel, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A Reasonable Rebel, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

by Brinitzer, Carl

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Good
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First Edition
Published
1960
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Hardcover
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London: Allen & Unwin, 1960. sound clean copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Boswell's London Journal, 1762-3: now first published from the original Manuscript

Boswell's London Journal, 1762-3: now first published from the original Manuscript

by Boswell, James, (ed. Pottle, F. A.)

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Used - Good
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Edition
First Edition
Published
1950
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Hardcover
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New York: McGraw-Hil, 1950. Spine title faded, some corners worn, internally sound and clean.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Raven Seek Thy Brother

Raven Seek Thy Brother

by Maxwell, Gavin

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Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Published
1968
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Hardcover
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London: Longmans, 1968. edges a bit brown-spotted, else sound clean copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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George Romney and his Art

George Romney and his Art

by Gamlin, Hilda

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First Edition
Published
1894
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Hardcover
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London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1894. original green cloth, gilt on spine, blind-stamped on boards, some occasional mild foxing in text throughout, illustrated, nice copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Le "Tueur de Lions". The Life and Adventures of Jules Gérard, The 'Lion-Killer' Comprising His Ten Years' Campaigns Among the Lions of Northern Africa
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Le "Tueur de Lions". The Life and Adventures of Jules Gérard, The 'Lion-Killer' Comprising His Ten Years' Campaigns Among the Lions of Northern Africa

by Gérard, Jules

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First Edition
Published
1856
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Hardcover
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London: Lambert and Co., 1856. undated but 1856 first edition, in half green morocco and marbled paper on boards, mildly scuffed with age, with frontispiece and extra illustrated title page, endpapers with some discoloration, a few brown spots on outer couple of leaves. Aristocratic bookplate of previous owner pasted to front pastedown (I do not recognise it - photo available… Read more about this item
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The Story of My Life, with Her Letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher Ann Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy

The Story of My Life, with Her Letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher Ann Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy

by Keller, Helen

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Used - Good
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Edition
Fifth Edition.
Published
1909
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Hardcover
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. green cloth with some fading, front free endpaper torn out, a few pencilled marginal markings, newspaper photo of Keller and Polly Thompson dated 1946 tipped in on early blank.. Fifth Edition.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Split Focus : An Involvement in Two Decades

Split Focus : An Involvement in Two Decades

by Hopkinson, Peter

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Edition
Fifth Edition.
Published
1969
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Hardcover
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London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1969. sound clean copy, . Fifth Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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A Story Half Told - a Wartime Autobiography

A Story Half Told - a Wartime Autobiography

by Leslie, Anita

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Edition
Fifth Edition.
Published
1983
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Hardcover
ISBN
9780091512101
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London: Hutchinson, 1983. dustwrapper price-clipped, small tear at base of spine, no ownership inscriptions, illustrated. The author was daughter of Sir Shane Leslie, of Castle Leslie, Co Monaghan. The main focus of the book is on her work as an ambulance driver at the front during the battle for Alsace and into Germany.. Fifth Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.… Read more about this item
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Emerald and Nancy: Lady Cunard and Her Daughter

Emerald and Nancy: Lady Cunard and Her Daughter

by Fielding, Daphne

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Good
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Fifth Edition.
Published
1968
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Hardcover
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London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1968. dustwrapper with couple of small tears, a little foxing to text block edges and endpapers, else clean sound copy.. Fifth Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Toulouse-Lautrec

Toulouse-Lautrec

by Mack, Gerstle

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First Edition
Published
1938
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Hardcover
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1938. some foxing around text block edges, fold-out genealogy of Toulouse family damaged at foredge due to incorrect folding by previous owner, else generally fine throughout. Interesting association copy - gift inscription on endpaper signed by Sean O Faolain, dated 1938. I cannot decipher the name of the reciipient - see accompanying photo.. First Edition. Hard Cover.… Read more about this item
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Memoirs of Sir Edwin Landseer. A Sketch of The Life of The Artist, Illustrated With Reproductions of Twenty-four of His Most Popular Works
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Memoirs of Sir Edwin Landseer. A Sketch of The Life of The Artist, Illustrated With Reproductions of Twenty-four of His Most Popular Works

by Stephens, F G.

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Used - Good
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Edition
First Edition
Published
1874
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Hardcover
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London: George Bell, 1874. original green decorated bevel-edged cloth bumped and worn, text block edges all gilt, text block tight and generally clean and unfoxed. All 24 reproductions are present, with their tissue guards. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Quarto.
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Few Come Out - Recollections and Reflections of a Sometime Trader's Assistant in Nigeria and Dahomey 1924-1928

Few Come Out - Recollections and Reflections of a Sometime Trader's Assistant in Nigeria and Dahomey 1924-1928

by Clements, A.W.

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First Edition
Published
1956
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Hardcover
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UK: Privately Published, 1956. blue cloth sunned in spine area, otherwise clean sound copy. Inscribed on front endpaper "With best wishes from the author, 1964". Nicely-written memoir - I think it was modesty which caused the author to have only a few copies printed for his friends, rather than submit it for general publication.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very… Read more about this item
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