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$120.00
1y16/14

William Hogarth: A Freemason's Harlot


BELL, JEREMY

Quarto, illus light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, 223pp, illus, FINE (in removable plastic protective cover)

PUBLISHER: Kendall Tavern Press 2017

KEYWORDS: masonic freemasons freemasonry culture history rituals literature illustrated biography memoir William Hogarth art symbolism

$12.50
xxqgh145864

Francis Chichester


LESLIE, ANITA

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Hutchinson / Hodder & Stoughton 1975

KEYWORDS: biography seaman new zealand australia francis chichester

$10.00
xxqgi145882

Ragamuffin King: Henry IV of France called The Great


DOORLY, ELEANOR & LLOYD, KATHARINE (illus)

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1948

KEYWORDS: history france king henry biography

$10.00
xxqgj145927

Mary Queen of Scots


FRASER, ANTONIA

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Methuen 1985

KEYWORDS: biography mary queen of scots

$650.00
1y18/19

Bentley: The 1938/1939 Overdrive Cars


FRANKEL, MERVYN & STRANG, IAN

SIGNED by both authors, quarto, green heavy card boards, gilt lettering to spine, 256pp, illus, Near FINE (v light foxing to top page edges), in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, v sl chafing to covers)

PUBLISHER: Academy Books 1994

KEYWORDS: SIGNED cars Bentley motor history engineering illustrated memoir biography Derby

$12.00
xxqgj145950

Alexander the Corrector: The Tormented Genius who Unwrote the Bible


KEAY, JULIA

Octavo softcover (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Harper Perennial 2005

KEYWORDS: Biography Alexander Cruden Cruden's Concordance bible asylum

$17.50
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The Last Kaiser: A biography of William II German Emperor and King of Prussia


WHITTLE, TYLER

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Purnell Book Services 1977

KEYWORDS: Biography Kaiser William Germany Emperor Third Reich

$55.00
1y19/27

The Life of St Vincent de Paul


BEDFORD, HENRY

Lacks fep, small octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp decoration to boards & spine, frontispiece, xxvi + 216pp + 8pp adverts, VG- (moderate creasing & light staining/chipping to spine & extrems, light staining to boards, moderate bruising & light fraying to board corners, heavy tanning to page edges, fep missing, moderate scuffing/soiling to eps, cracks to full length of gutters)

PUBLISHER: Burns and Lambert 1856

KEYWORDS: StVincent de Paul biography memoir religion saints Christianity theology

$19.50
xxrah146135

The Early Years of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort


GREY, CHARLES

Super octavo hardcover (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Smith, Elder and Co 1867

KEYWORDS: prince consort albert charles grey biography queen victoria

$10.00
xxrah146150

King of Fools


PARKER, JOHN

Octavo softcover (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Futura 1988

KEYWORDS: john parker biography nonfiction duke of windsor prince of wales illustrated

$17.50
xxrai146186

Thomas More


SARGENT, DANIEL

Octavo hardcover (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Sheed & Ward 1934

KEYWORDS: christianity catholicism biography thomas more historical daniel sargent

$9.50
xxrai146192

Born for Friendship: The Spirit of Sir Thomas More


BASSET, BERNARD

Ex-library, 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Burns & Oates 1965

KEYWORDS: thomas more biography reformation roman catholicism bernard basset

$12.00
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Nigel Tranter, Scotland's Storyteller


BRADFIELD, RAY

lacks fep, imperial 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 cost

PUBLISHER: B&W 1999

KEYWORDS: biography Nigel Tranter Scotland

$15.00
xxgdg146307

Out of the Box: the Highs and Lows of a Champion Smuggler


MCSORLEY, JULIE & MCSORLEY, MARCUS

octavo softcover (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Roaring Forties 2015

KEYWORDS: biography Reg Spiers smuggler smuggling athlete athletics crime drug running drugs

$14.00
xxrai146327

Eugene V. Debs: Spokesman for Labor and Socialism


BROMMEL, BERNARD J.

Octavo softcover (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Charles H Kerr 1978

KEYWORDS: Biography Debs union railroad socialist

$12.00
xxrai146342

Crazy Sundays: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood


LATHAM, AARON

First edition ex library 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Secker and Warburg 1972

KEYWORDS: Biography F Scott Fitzgerald Hollywood

$14.00
xxrai146343

The Curse of the Misbegotten: A Tale of the House of O'Neill


BOWEN, CROSWELL

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 cost

PUBLISHER: Rupert Hart-Davis 1960

KEYWORDS: Biography Eugene O'Neill

$55.00
1y20/48

Archangels & Archaeology: J. S. M. Ward's Kingdom of the Wise


GINN, GEOFFREY

Super octavo, illus glossy boards, white lettering to spine & boards, xiv + 318pp, illus, Near FINE (v sl chafing to boards)

PUBLISHER: Sussex Academic Press 2012

KEYWORDS: biography memoir J S M Ward history spirituality antiquities freemasonry freemasons religion

$45.00
1y21/34

Partisan


CAFFIN, JAMES

FIRST EDITION, octavo, light orange buckram boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, 186pp, illus, VG- (light scuffing to spine extrems & board corners, moderate warping to front board, moderate tanning to page edges & eps, moderate insect damage to eps & prelims) in d/w, tatty (heavychipping to edges with some loss, heavy chafing to covers, light insect damage to front flap, light tanning)

PUBLISHER: Collins 1945 approx.

KEYWORDS: New Zealand military history biography memoir John Denvir medal for valour war hero first edition

$40.00
1y22/35

Pharaoh's Fool


DISHER, MAURICE, WILLSON

first edition; super octavo; grey buckram cloth boards; black lettering on spine; frontis; viii+252pp, illus; VG+ (sl. rubbing to covers; sl. bruising to cover extrems; sl. staining to spine edges; sl. tanning to eps & page edges) in d/w VG- (in plastic cover, mod. tanning, soiling & foxing; a few v. small closed tears which have been sealed with sellotape; price clipped)

PUBLISHER: Heinemann 1957

KEYWORDS: first edition biography Giovanni Belzoni Regency period Egyptology engineering tombs pyramids

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