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 code: FE170202
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Elizabeth Jane Howard. A Dangerous Innocence **signed first edition
Cooper, Artemis
Elizabeth Jane Howard. A Dangerous Innocence
London, John Murray, 2016
First edition, first printing. Fine in Fine dust jacket.
Signed by the author to the title page. Laid in is ticket for the signing event.
Biography of the author Elizabeth Jane Howard. Artemis Cooper interviewed her several times, talked to her family and friends and had access to all Howard's papers in the preparation of this book.
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 code: F174
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Ford, David Nash. Mid-Berkshire Town and Village Histories
Ford, David Nash
Mid-Berkshire Town and Village Histories
Wokingham, Nash Ford Publishing, 2020
First edition, paperback original. Fine as issued in colour-illustrated laminated wraps.
David Nash Ford's berkshirehistory.com is already a well-known resource for historians at home and abroad. This is the second book in the Berkshire History series, following East Berkshire Town and Village Histories.
(N.B. This book will be posted direct by the author, so will not be subject to the usual stated delays.)
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 code: F175
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Ford, David Nash. East Berkshire Town and Village Histories
Ford, David Nash
East Berkshire Town and Village Histories
Wokingham, Nash Ford Publishing, 2020
First edition, paperback original. Fine as issued in colour-illustrated laminated wraps.
David Nash Ford's berkshirehistory.com is already a well-known resource for historians at home and abroad. This is the first book in a projected series of books on Berkshire history.
(N.B. This book will be posted direct by the author, so will not be subject to the usual stated delays).
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 code: FE150221
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V. S. Pritchett. A Working Life **first edition**
Treglown, Jeremy
V. S. Pritchett. A Working Life
London, Chatto & Windus, 2005
First edition. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket.
Biography of V S Pritchett: journalist, author, critic, described as the finest short story writer of the 20th Century.
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 code: FE261015
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John Le Carre The Biography. First Edition
Adam Sisman
John Le Carre. The Biography.
London, Bloomsbury, 2015
First edition, first printing. Fine in Fine dust jacket.
Written with exclusive access to David Cornwell, friends and family and to his archives. Heavy book, may therefore be posted by second class mail within the UK.
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 code: FE170228
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Wordsworth and Coleridge in their Time **first edition**
Byatt, A. S.
Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time
London, Nelson, 1970
First edition. Fine in dark brown cloth boards with gilt titles to spine in Near Fine dust jacket with minor creasing at head of spine. No inscriptions, not price-clipped.
A. S. Byatt analyses the nature of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge at the time of great social, economic, political and literary change in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century England. Numerous monochrome illustrations.
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 code: FE170330
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Aubrey Beardsley, A Slave to Beauty **first edition**
Colvin, David
Aubrey Beardsley, A Slave to Beauty
London, Orion, 1998
First edition. Fine in very near Fine dust jacket.
Aubrey Beardsley was the most famous and notorious artist and illustrator of the fin de siècle. He was only 25 when he died of tuberculosis, but his work had a profound effect on his contemporaries, including Oscar Wilde.
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 code: FE150404
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A Very English Hero. The Making of Frank Thompson **first edition**
Conradi, Peter J.
A Very English Hero. The Making of Frank Thompson
London, Bloomsbury, 2012
First edition. Fine in Fine dust jacket.
Poet, war hero, intellectual idealist, lover of Iris Murdoch. Peter Conradi tracks his short life and heroic death as a member of the SOE in Bulgaria.
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 code: FE141201
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Life, Love and The Archers, recollections, prose & reviews **signed first edition**
Cope, Wendy
Life, Love and The Archers, recollections, prose & reviews
London, Two Roads, 2014
First edition. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Signed by the author to the title page.
Wendy Cope achieved instant fame with her first collection of poems Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis. This entertaining book comprises of writing drawn from published and unpublished work.
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 code: FE740
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The Fidel Castro Handbook **signed first edition**
Galloway, George
The Fidel Castro Handbook
London, MQ Publishing, 2006
Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with minor shelf wear (small format hardback).
Signed by the author.
The extraordinary life of Fidel Castro - from rural childhood, through guerilla struggle, to Cuban leader. Liberally illustrated with monochrome photographs.
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 code: G1762
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Greene, Graham. Reflections
Greene, Graham (introduced by Judith Adamson)
Reflections
UK, Reinhardt Books, 1990
First edition. Fine in Fine (slight fading to spine) dust jacket.
/selection of previously published travel reports, essays and reviews.
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 code: FE150930
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The Blue Touch Paper **signed first edition**
Hare, David
The Blue Touch Paper. A Memoir
London, Faber & Faber, 2015
First edition, first printing. Fine in Fine dust jacket.
Signed by the author to the title page. Ticket for the signing event loosely laid in.
Short-listed for the James Tait Black Memorial Biography Prize.
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 code: FE12705
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Amis & Son. Two Literary Generations **first edition**
Powell, Neil
Amis & Son. Two Literary Generations
London, Macmillan, 2008
Very Near Fine (minor shelf wear) in Fine dustjacket.
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 code: FE674
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Animal Pharm **first edition**
Purdey, Mark. Purdey Nigel, editor
Animal Pharm. One man's struggle to discover the truth about Mad Cow Disease and variant CJD.
Clairview Books, East Sussex, 2007.
Paperback original. Fine as issued in printed wraps.
The remarkable autobiography of Mark Purdey, an organic farmer from Somerset, who, convinced of the dangers of over-use of agricultural chemicals, achieved world-wide fame for the research which led him to challenge the orthodox line on the origins of Mad Cow Disease and variant CJD.
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 code: FE150222
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Bruce Chatwin **signed first edition**
Shakespeare, Nicholas
Bruce Chatwin
London, Harvill, 1999
First edition, first printing. Very Near Fine in Fine protected dust jacket. Signed by the author to the title page.
Bruce Chatwin was a Director at Sotheby's, Sunday Times journalist, socialite, author and explorer, but was seen by many as an enigmatic loner.
Nicholas Shakespeare was given exclusive access to Chatwin's notebooks, diaries and letters.
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 code: FE40512
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Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace. The Private Diary of A Victorian Lady **first edition**
Summerscale, Kate
Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace. The Private Diary of A Victorian Lady
London, Bloomsbury, 2012.
Fine in pale bue boards with gilt decoration and titles and without dustjacket as issued.
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 code: FE150218
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Thomas Hardy. The Time-Torn Man **signed first edition**
Tomalin, Claire
Thomas Hardy. The Time-Torn Man
London, Penguin Viking, 2006
First edition, first printing. Fine in Near Fine protected dust jacket with wraparound band depicting "Signed copy". Signed without dedication to title page. Fascinating biography of complex author and poet.
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 code: FE150220
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Eric Gill. Man of Flesh and Spirit **first edition**
Yorke, Malcolm
Eric Gill. Man of Flesh and Spirit
London, Constable & Company, 1981
First edition. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. No inscriptions and unclipped dust jacket.
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