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The Life of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells

By: 'A Layman' [Anderdon, John Lavicourt]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, William Pickering: 1851

Seller ID: 031879

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

viii 528pp, hardback, full black leather gilt, much rubbed, all edges gilt, black ribbon, frontis engraved portrait tissue-protected, guard some spotting, errata slip bound in, ex-cathedral library with usual stamps and labels, finely printed by Pickering, else good, Ken was a famous non-juror 031879
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Thomas Scott the Commentator: A Memoir of His Life

By: A. C. Downer

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Chas. J. Thynne: 1909

Seller ID: 056682

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

xiv 112pp hardback, blue cloth gilt, illustrated from photographs, including frontispiece portrait, ex-library with usual stamps and labels, spine faded 056682
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Life of the Right Reverend Samuel Wilberforce Lord Bishop of Oxford and Afterwards of Winchester

By: A. R. Ashwell; Reginald G. Wilberforce

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1882

Seller ID: 051833

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

hardback, blue cloth gilt, crests to front boards gilt, published 1880-1882 mixed set, vol I authored by Ashwell the succeeding vols by Wilberforce's son, volume one reprinted first edition, and vol II second edition, vols II and III printed 1882 xl 515, 8pp; xv 466, 4pp; xiii 483pp, frotispiece portraits and further plates, ex-library with usual stamps and labels, contemporary ownership signature to verso of frontispieces with ink leakage to frontiss 051833
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Worthy Dr Fuller

By: Addison, William

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd: 1951

Seller ID: 042047

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

xxi 298pp hardback, pale brown cloth gilt, frontis portrait one of 13 bw pates, in a spotted wrapper with edge tears 042047
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Desmond Tutu

By: Adler, Elisabeth

Price: £2.50

Publisher: Berlin, Union Verlag: 1984

Seller ID: 022606

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

series Reihe Christ in der Welt, 33pp small format, stapled with printed illustrated wrappers, bw illus, 022606
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The Prime Minister's Son: Stephen Gladstone, Rector of Hawarden

By: Aitken, Ros

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Chester, University of Chester Press: 2012

Seller ID: 028471

ISBN: 1908258012

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

xxi 286pp paperback bw illustrations, covers sl creased, else very good 028471
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A Dean's Apology, A Semi-Religious Autobiography

By: Alington, C. A.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1952

Seller ID: 034499

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

199pp hardback, red cloth gilt in wrapper, gilt title faded, bookplate to fep and obituary loosely inserted, Alington was sometime Dean of Durham, good in a fair rubbed and frayed wrapper 034499
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Mary Queen Of Scots: And The Murder Of Lord Darnley

By: Alison Weir

Price: £4.00

Publisher: London, BCA: 2003

Seller ID: 049130

ISBN: 0224060236

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

xvii 621pp paperback, little water staining to top inside edges etc, cover rubbed else good reading copy 049130
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Roland Allen: Pioneer, Priest and Prophet

By: Allen, Hubert J. B.

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Cincinnati, Forward Movement: 1985

Seller ID: 040099

ISBN: 088028157x

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

xv 230pp paperback, good 040099
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Reminiscences of Eton

By: An Etonian (Blake, H J. C.)

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Chichester, privately published: 1831

Seller ID: 043603

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

xiii 152pp hardback, 3g blue morocco gilt over marbled boards, armorial bookplate, neat ownership signature, crest to title page, few ms notes, leather rubbed, ms pencil note to rear ep reads 'Blake was born in 1791 he went to Eton at the age of 8..' scarce published anonymously by the author H J C Blake 043603
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Memoirs of Mr John Brown Junior, Late of Somerby Lincolnshire Principally Extracted from his Diary

By: Anderson, John

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Hamilton, Adams, and Co.: 1834

Seller ID: 045605

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

viii 162pp cloth covered boards printed label to front board rubbed, half-title part loose at hinge, ownership inscription to ffep with central hole, fair copy 045605
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Canon's Folly

By: Andrews, Martin

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Michael Joseph: 1974

Seller ID: 032719

ISBN: 0718112660

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

208pp hardback, black boards gilt in wrapper, an account of a ministry spent in parishes on the border of Devon and Cornwall, good in a good wrapper, foreword by A. L. Rowse, edges discoloured and wrapper sl rubbed else good 032719
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Prophet of Reunion: The Life of Paul of Graymoor

By: Angell, Charles & La Fontaine, Charles

Price: £9.00

Publisher: New York, Seabury Press: 1975

Seller ID: 040083

ISBN: 0816402817

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xi 223pp hardback, brown cloth black-lettered in wrapper, very good in a good but rubbed wrapper, signed by both authors to front free end paper 040083
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The Double Bond: The Life of Primo Levi

By: Angier, Carole

Price: £10.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2002

Seller ID: 056096

ISBN: 0374113157

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

928pp hardback, black cloth silver-lettered in wrapper, wrapper rubbed 056096
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Primo Levi : Tragedy of an Optimist

By: Anissimov, Myriam

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, Aurum Press: 1998

Seller ID: 026175

ISBN: 1854105035

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

x 452pp hardback, crossed out ownership signature to front free end paper else very good in a very good wrapper 026175
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Christian Biography: Life of the Rev. Edward Payson, Pastor of the second Church in Portland, United States of America

By: Anon

Price: £80.00

Publisher: London, Religious Tract Society: 1830

Seller ID: 031517

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

144pp abridged from the American edition, black calf spine gilt over rubbed marbled boards, tiny blank embossed heraldic stamp to upper margin of title page and ffep, edge tear ca 1.5cm to fore-edge of one leaf, else good, only one copy located on Copac, undated ca 1830 031517
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Christian Biography Life of Archbishop Usher

By: Anon.

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Religious Tract Society: 1850

Seller ID: 033625

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

72pp half black calf over marbled boards rubbed, embossed small heraldic crest to title page, good undated ca 1850 033625
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A Carmelite of the Sacred Heart, The Life of Mere Marie de Jesus, Foundress of the Carmel of Paray-le-Monial

By: Anon.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd: 1923

Seller ID: 035327

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

xii 171pp hardback, brown cloth gilt, frontis portrait, bookplate to ffep, slight spotting else very good, translated by M E Arendrup 035327
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Notice Biographique sur le R. P. Michel Neubert

By: Anon.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Rixheim, A. Sutter: 1884

Seller ID: 043254

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

50pp disbound paphlet, good 043254
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Spencer Leeson; Shepherd, Teacher, Friend: A Memoir by Some of his Friends

By: Anon.

Price: £7.00

Publisher: London, SPCK: 1958

Seller ID: 045545

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

x 149pp hardback, red cloth gilt in wrapper, with 9 bw plates including frontis portrait, Leeson was sometime bishop of Peterborough, good in a rubbed wrapper 045545
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Category: biography