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Richard Meinertzhagen


Soldier, Scientist & Spy

COCKER, MARK

Softcover octavo (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Mandarin Paperbacks 1990

KEYWORDS: specials Mark Cocker biography history espionage

$110.00
1s24a/14

Mountjoy 1563 - 1606: The Last Elizabethan Deputy


JONES, FREDERICK, M.

Ex library, scarce, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 232pp, illus, VG (usu library markings)

PUBLISHER: Clonmore & Reynolds/ Burns Oates & Washbourne 1958

KEYWORDS: Frederick M Jones Lord Mountjoy Lord Deputy biography history Essex Cecil Hugh O'Neill Christopher Blount Charles Blount religion religious history

$40.00
1t15d/13

The Page of James the Fifth of Scotland


Anon & S. A. C. (Trans)

Ex library, first edition, octavo, red cloth boards with silver lettering to spine & gilt motif to front board, 258pp, VG (usu library markings, plastic-covered boards, browning to eps, foxing to page edges, occasional foxing to pages)

PUBLISHER: R & T Washbourne 1900

KEYWORDS: James V Fifth Scotland Scottish history regency biography

$35.00
1t18a/3

Plutarch: Alexander: A Commentary


HAMILTON, J. R.

super octavo, dark blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, lxix + 231pp, VG+ (small stain spot to rear board, v.slight tanning to eps) in d/w, VG- (tanning to spine, soiling spots to front & rear, sellotape stains to inside, foxing to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1969

KEYWORDS: JR Hamilson Plutarch Alexander Macedonia biography history classics

$55.00
1t30a/20

Land, Sea, and Air: Reminiscences of Mark Kerr


KERR, MARK

First UK edition, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece with tissue guard, x + 406pp, illus + folding chart, VG (heavy fading to spine, moderate fading to boards, light bruising to spine extrems, inscription in ink to fep, heavy tanning to some pages esp prelims, moderate foxing elsewhere)

PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green & Co 1927

KEYWORDS: Mark Kerr memoir reminiscence history biography travel nautical air exploration expedition

$12.00
xxere60310

St. Francis and The Song of the Brotherhood


DOYLE, ERIC

Ex-library softcover super octavo (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Seabury Press 1981

KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Eric Doyle biography history Francis of Assisi religion theology

$14.00
xxesa60438

Father McShane of Maryknoll


Missioner in South China

WALSH, JAMES EDWARD

Ex-library hardcover octavo (VG) in d/w (VG-) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Dial Press Inc., 1932

KEYWORDS: ex-library specials James Edward Walsh religion religious history biography missionary journeys China

$25.00
1u28b/7

The Marilyn Encyclopedia


VICTOR, ADAM

Quarto, illus black light card covers, frontispiece, ix + 342pp, illus, fine

PUBLISHER: Overlook Press 1999

KEYWORDS: Adam Victor Marilyn Monroe biography photographic record photographs films reference encyclopaedia

$14.50
xxesb60510

Wild Flower Hunter


SAMUEL, H. J.

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Constabe & Co 1961

KEYWORDS: specials HJ Samuel Ellis Rowan biography botany wild flowers Australia New Zealand America drawings

$55.00
1u5a/3

Molitor: Ebeniste from the Ancien Regime to the Bourbon Restoration


with a complete catalogue of the furniture

LEBEN, ULRICH

Quarto, dark brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, 248pp, illus, VG+ (tiny stain to front board, small ding to front board upper edge). Otherwise condition is 'fine'. In d/w, VG+ (slight creasing to edges, brusing to rear upper corner)

PUBLISHER: Philip Wilson Publishers 1992

KEYWORDS: Ulrich Leben Bernard Molitor cabinet-making furniture woodwork ebeniste fashion biography catalogue

$40.00
1u5a/35

The Makers of Australasia: The Explorers of Australia and their Life-Work


FAVENC, ERNEST & HIGHT, JAMES (ed)

Super octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering in red decorative panels to spine & front board, frontispiece, xiv + 303pp, illus, VG (slight soiling spots to boards, bruising to spine extrems, inscription in ink to fep, light tanning to eps, v slight foxing)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe & Tombs 1908

KEYWORDS: Ernest Favenc James Hight Australia explorers biography histor George Evans John Oxley Hamilton Hume Allan Cunningham Charles Sturt Thomas Mitchell Eyre Burke Grtey expeditions exploration

$12.00
xxesb60522

Waiting for the Sun


The harrowing story of a peasant boy in occupied Tibet

CRAIG, MARY

Softcover octavo (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 1999

KEYWORDS: specials Mary Craig biography memoir history Tibet occupation China refugee exile

$15.00
xxesc60554

Late for Tea at the Deer Palace


The Lost Dreas of my Iraqi Family

CHALABI, TAMARA

Softcover octavo (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: HarperPress 2011

KEYWORDS: specials Tamara Chalabi biography multigenerational memoir Iraq chronology

$9.00
xxesd60608

An Impossible Woman


The Memories of Dottoressa Moor

GREENE, GRAHAM (ED.)

Ex-library First edition hardcover super octavo (VG-) in d/w (VG-) ; weak spine ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Bodley Head 1975

KEYWORDS: ex-library first edition specials Graham Greene biography Dottoressa Moor nineteenth century Doctor in Caprese

$19.50
xxesd60614

Cardinal Manning


From the French of Francis de Pressense

DE PRESSENSE, FRANCIS; INGALL, E. (TRANS.)

Ex-library hardcover octavo (VG-) lacks d/w ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: William Heinemann 1897

KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Francis de Pressense E Ingall biography religion Cardinal Manning nineteenth century Church

$9.50
xxesd60656

Thatcher's Gold


The Life and Times of Mark Thatcher

HALLORAN, PAUL & HILLINGSWORTH, MARK

Paperback (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Pocket Books 1997

KEYWORDS: specials Paul Halloran Mark Hollingsworth biography Mark Thatcher

$24.50
xxesd60659

Behind the Mask


The Life of Vita Sackville-West

DENNSION, MATTHEW

Hardcover imperial octavo (VG+) in d/w (VG+) lacks title page ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Publishers 2014

KEYWORDS: specials Matthew Dennison biography Vita Sackville-West

$25.00
xxese60674

The Life and Letters of Sister of Sister St. Francis Xavier (Irma Le Fer de La Motte)


Of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana

DE LA CORBINIERE, CLEMENTINE

Ex-library Hardcover imperial octavo (VG-) lacks d/w ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: B. Herder Book Co. 1917

KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Clementine de la Corbiniere biography Sister St Francis Xavier religion religious literature

$10.00
xxese60685

The Greatest of the Borgias


YEO, MARGARET

Ex-library hardcover super octavo (VG) lacks d/w ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Bruce Publishing Company 1952

KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Margaret Yeo biography religious history St. Francis Borgia

$14.00
xxese60703

The Life of Mother Mary Potter


Foundress of the Congregation of the Little Company of Mary

HEALY, EVE

Ex-library hardcover octavo (VG) lacks d/w ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least imperial copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Shed & Ward 1935

KEYWORDS: ex-library specials Eve Healy religion religious biography Mother Mary Potter

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