Biography - English - General from Goldring Books
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On Chapel Sands - My Mother and Other Missing Persons
by Cumming, Laura
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- Used - Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First
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- 2019
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- Hardcover
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- 9781784742478
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London: Chatto and Windus, 2019. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 301 pages. Illustrations in the text. In the autumn of 1929, a small child was kidnapped from a Lincolnshire beach. Five agonising days went by before she was found in a nearby village. The child remembered nothing… Read more about this item Item Price
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Daughters of Britannia - The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wies
by Hickman, Katie
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- Used - Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First
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- 1999
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- Hardcover
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- 9780002557146
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, GBR
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London: Harper Collins, 1999. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is price-clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 323 pages. 27 illustrations. Map endpapers. Accompanying their spouses in the most extraordinary, tough, sometimes terrifying circumstances, this book is an account of the courageous and unusual women who have been the backbone of the foreign service. Women… Read more about this item Item Price
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Daughter of the Dales - The World of Hannah Hauxwell
by Hauxwell, Hannah with Cockcroft, Barry
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- As New
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- As New
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- 1990
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- Hardcover
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- 9780712645003
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London: Century, 1990. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price-clipped. 159 pages. 66 illustrations and a family tree. Almost two decades ago Hannah Hauxwell emerged out of a snowstorm in an award-winning television documentary called 'Too Long a Winter'. She created an explosion of public interest. This maiden lady, a totally… Read more about this item Item Price
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On The Life, Writings, and Genius of Akenside with Some Account of His Friends
by Bucke, Charles
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket
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- First
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- 1832
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- Hardcover
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, GBR
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NZ$316.82
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London: James Cochrane, 1832. Leather spine and quarter tips on marbled boards which are worn . Front board is detached. Internally there is a name to front pastedown and some foxing to early and later pages and some minor marks but generally this copy is very clean, tight and unmarked. FIRST EDITION. 312 pages. Portrait frontispiece. Contemporary name… Read more about this item Item Price
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Faraday The Life
by Hamilton, James
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First
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- 2002
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- Hardcover
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- 9780002570824
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, GBR
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London: Harper Collins, 2002. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from age toning to closed edges) with Dustjacket which is price clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 465 pages, 39 illustrations and 1 map. Michael Faraday is one of the giants of the history of science. No less remarkable than his discoveries in electricity, magnetism and other fields… Read more about this item Item Price
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One Step Beyond (SIGNED COPY)
by Moon, Chris
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
- Edition
- First
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- 1999
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780333740514
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- 1
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, GBR
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NZ$42.24
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London: Macmillan, 1999. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine Dustjacket which is not price-clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. SIGNED to title page with 'Bestest' with no dedication and dated 1 December 2000. 388 pages, 29 illustrations. Ex soldier Chris Moon missed the challenge of military life and applied to join the mine-clearance programme organised by… Read more about this item Item Price
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Livingstone the Liberator - A Study of a Dynamic Personality
by Macnair, James I.
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket
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- 1944
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- Hardcover
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, GBR
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London: Collins, 1944. Gilt title on black cloth boards which are clean with just minor light marks but no wear. Internally there is a neat contemporary inscription and date to front pastedown, a blind embossed address to front endpaper and some light foxing to closed and some page edges else clean, tight and unmarked. 384 pages with 16 illustrations… Read more about this item Item Price
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Some Sunny Day - My Autobiography
by Lynn, Dame Vera
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First
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- 2009
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- Hardcover
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- 9780007318155
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, GBR
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NZ$31.68
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London: Harper Collins, 2009. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. vii + 312 pages. 31 illustrations. Photographic endpapers. Born Vera Welch in 1917, Dame Vera Lynn's career began at just seven years old when she sang professionally in East End Working Men's Clubs. A… Read more about this item Item Price
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Parallel Lives
by Jones, Davina
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- As New
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- As New
- Edition
- First
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- 2005
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- Hardcover
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- 9780862819637
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Belfast: Appletree Press, 2005. An As New copy in pictorial laminated boards in an As New dustjacket. First Edition, First Printing. 206 pages. An affectionate look at two very different lives lived in tandem but intertwined by country house life on the Ards Peninsula in County Down. Castle Ward (now held by The National Trust) and Ballywhite House… Read more about this item Item Price
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Remembering Ronnie Barker
by Webber, Richard
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First
- Published
- 2010
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- Hardcover
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- 9781846057120
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, GBR
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London: Century, 2010. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from some age toning to part of lower closed edge) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. xi + 289 pages. 19 illustrations. Ronnie Barker was one of our most respected and best loved comedy actors and here, in this fascinating… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Professor and the Parson - A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking
by Sisman, Adam
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- As New
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- As New
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- First
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- 2019
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781788162111
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, GBR
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London: Profile, 2019. An As New unmarked copy with an As New dustjacket. First Edition, First Printing. 231 pages. 27 illustrations. One November day in 1958, the celebrated historian Hugh Trevor-Roper received a curious letter. It was an appeal for help, written on behalf of a postgraduate student at Magdalen College, who complained that he was being… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Lady in the Van - The Complete Edition - Adapted from the Original Stage Play
by Bennett, Alan
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- As New
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- As New
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- First
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- 2015
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- Hardcover
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- 9780571326204
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London: Faber and Faber, 2015. An As New copy with As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. The play starring Maggie Smith and directed by Nicholas Hytner received great acclaim. It is a bittersweet comic diary of the years in which a lethally dotty and very smelly old bat parked her unroadworthy vehicle… Read more about this item Item Price
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The India Boys
by Elliott, Helen J.
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- Used - Near Fine
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- No Jacket
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- First
- Published
- 1986
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- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780951107416
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Richmon, North Yorkshire: Aztec, 1986. A near Fine unmarked copy. 130 pages. When the Stacey family returned to Wensleydale on leave from India where their father was a Major in the Indian Army, they did not know that the outbreak of the Second World War would necessitate their remaining in the dale for a long long time. The three little… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Prisoner of Kathmandu - Brian Hodgson in Nepal 1820-1843
by Allen, Charles
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First
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- 2015
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- Hardcover
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- 9781910376119
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, GBR
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NZ$52.80
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London: Haus, 2015. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 288 pages. 34 colour plates and numerous illustrations in the text. Posted to Kathmandu in 1820 as a junior political officer, Brian Hodgson found himself isolated and trapped in a fiercely xenophobic mountain kingdom that seemed bent on making war on the all-powerful British… Read more about this item Item Price
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Frank Fletcher - 1870-1954 - A Formidable Headmaster
by Witheridge, John
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- Used - Fine
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- Very Good
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- First
- Published
- 2005
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- Hardcover
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- 9780859552929
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, GBR
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NZ$38.02
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Norwich: Michael Russell, 2005. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped and has fading to spine. 272 pages. 38 illustrations. Frank Fletcher was one of the towering headmasters of his day. Master of Marlborough at 33 and the first layman to head a major public school. For 20 years he was Headmaster of Charterhouse… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Corridor of Certainty - My Life Beyond Cricket
by Boycott, Geoffrey
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- 2014
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- Hardcover
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- 9781471130021
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NZ$42.24
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London: Simon and Schuster, 2014. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page with no dedication. A near Fine unmarked copy which has age toning to page edges with near Fine dustjacket (Fine apart from a single quarter inch tear to top edge) which is not price clipped. x + 278 pages. 25 coloured photographs. In 2002… Read more about this item Item Price
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Jolly Green Giant - The Autobiography of David J. Bellamy, OBE, Hon FLS, An Englishman
by Bellamy, David
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
- Edition
- First
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- 2002
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- Hardcover
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- 9780712683593
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, GBR
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NZ$21.12
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London: Century, 2002. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from age toning to top edge and page edges) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, First printing. xi + 398 pages. 40 illustrations. Here for the first time and in his own infectious style, David Bellamy tells the story of how he came to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Imagine : John Lennon
by Solt, Andrew and Egan, Sam
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1998
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780747501886
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, GBR
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NZ$52.80
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London: Bloomsbury, 1998. Gold title on black quarter cloth with grey boards which have a blind embossed motif of John Lennon and his facsimile signature. A minor bump to top front corner tip else a very clean, tight and unmarked copy with no former ownership marks - a near ine copy. Dustjacket has light rubbing and is not price clipped… Read more about this item Item Price
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Ronnie Barker - The Authorised Biography
by McCabe, Bob
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1998
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780233993829
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, GBR
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London: Chameleon, 1998. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format volume of 143 pages. Profusely illustrated. Foreword by David Jason. Ronnie Barker was undoubtedly one of the most successful British comedians ever. He was also, by common consent, one of the greatest comedic actors of his generation. What was less known… Read more about this item Item Price
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Conspiracy of Silence - The Secret Life of Anthony Blunt
by Penrose, Barrie and Freeman, Simon
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1986
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780246122001
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- 1
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London: Grafton Books, 1986. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a few marks to top edge) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xix + 588 pages. 64 illustrations. Throughout the Second World War and the Cold War which followed, Britain's Secret Service was compromised by a group of privileged, Cambridge-educated Englishmen who consistently betrayed… Read more about this item Item Price
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