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Writing at the Kitchen Table: The Authorized Biography of Elizabeth David

By: Cooper, Artemis

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Michael Joseph: 1999

Seller ID: 057139

ISBN: 0718142241

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

384pp hardback, black boards gilt in wrapper, bw plates, faint ownership signature 057139
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Black Tom: Arnold of Rugby, The Myth and the Man

By: Copley, Terence

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Continuum: 2002

Seller ID: 038070

ISBN: 0826467059

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

xix 299pp paperback, very good 038070
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Somerset Maugham, A Biographical and Critical Study

By: Cordell, Richard

Price: £7.00

Publisher: London, Heinemann: 1961

Seller ID: 041280

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xi 250pp hardback, black cloth gilt inn wrapper, illustrated with 13 bw plates including frontis portrait, edges sl spotted, signature to ffep, wrapper torn with loss over top of spine 041280
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Gilbert the Man Who Was G. K. Chesterton

By: Coren, Michael

Price: £5.50

Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape: 1989

Seller ID: 022089

ISBN: 0224025074

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

hardback, very good in a similar wrapper, price to flap of wrapper crossed out 022089
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Seminary Boy : A Memoir

By: Cornwell, John

Price: £9.00

Publisher: London, Fourth Estate: 2006

Seller ID: 042042

ISBN: 0007232438

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

339pp hardback, illustrated, very good in a very good wrapper, an account of Cornwell's time as a schoolboy and ordinand at the schhol and seminary of Cotton College Staffordshire 042042
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Seminary Boy: A Memoir

By: Cornwell, John

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Doubleday Religion: 2006

Seller ID: 055807

ISBN: 0385514867

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

336pp hardback, blue two-tone boards gilt in wrapper, bw plates, account of Cornwell's time at junior seminary at Cotton College in Staffordshire 055807
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The Life of John William Colenso, Bishop of Natal

By: Cox, George W.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, W. Ridgway: 1888

Seller ID: 046844

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

2 vols set, xiii 708;vi 723pp hardback, black library cloth gilt, ex-library with usual stamps and labels, frontis portrait to vol II, vol I lacks ffep and possibly portrait, few loose leaves frayed at fore-edges, working copies only 046844
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Bismarck

By: Crankshaw, Edward

Price: £4.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan: 1981

Seller ID: 030170

ISBN: 0333183649

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

451pp hardback, brown boards gilt, with many bw plates, large ownership signature and neat light underlining to a few early pages, fair in a good sl rubbed wrapper 030170
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It's a Long Way from Penny Apples

By: Cullen, Bill

Price: £2.50

Publisher: London, Hodder Paperback: 2003

Seller ID: 038278

ISBN: 0340826533

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

480pp paperback, very good 038278
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Federico Confalonieri

By: D'Ancona, Alessandro

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Milano, Fratelli Treves: 1898

Seller ID: 031924

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

xix 478pp, hardback, frontis portrait, printed wrappers laid to boards, wrappers and spine faded, soft pencil annotation to rear end-paper, , edges sl toned, some spotting to prelims else good 031924
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Walter Farquhar Hook, Vicar of Leeds, his Work for the Church and the Town 1837-1848

By: Dalton, H. W.

Price: £4.50

Publisher: Leeds, Thoresby Society: 1991

Seller ID: 033860

ISBN: 0900741252

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

79pp printed card covers, ownership signature, very good, being Thoresby Society vol LXIII 134, pp 27-79, nd ca 1991 033860
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Oliver Franks : Founding Father

By: Danchev, Alex

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press: 1993

Seller ID: 030201

ISBN: 0198215770

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xvi 234pp hardback, black boards gilt in wrapper, frontis portrait, very good in a good wrapper 030201
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Wilson Carlile: The Laughing Cavalier of Christ

By: Dark, Sidney

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, James Clarke & Co Ltd: 1944

Seller ID: 031060

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

188pp hardback, orange boards black-lettered, bw illustrations, war economy production, good 031060
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Archbishop Davidson and the English Church

By: Dark, Sidney

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, Philip Allan & Co Ltd: 1929

Seller ID: 034480

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

ix 249pp hardback, , blue cloth gilt, frontis portrait, bookplate to front paste-down, good 034480
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Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh, 1745

By: David Hume (Mossner, Ernest C. & Price, John V. eds)

Price: £5.50

Publisher: Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press: 1967

Seller ID: 048517

ISBN: 0852240031

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

42pp hardback, blue cloth spine gilt over blue boards gilt in price-clipped wrapper, very good in a very good wrapper 048517
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The Life of John Milton Narrated in Connexion with the Political , Ecclesiastical and Literary History of His Time

By: David Masson

Price: £250.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co: 1881

Seller ID: 057383

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

7 vols set, vol I 1881, 834pp with three plates; vol II 1894 608pp; vol III 1896 729pp; vol. IV first edn 1877 642pp; vol. V first edn 1877 707pp; vol. VI first edn 1880 840pp frontispiece portrait; vol. VII 1894 first edn index volume 242pp, all bound in matching dark blue publisher's cloth gilt, frontispiece portraits to two volumes, ex-library with usual stamps and labels, tear to top of backstrip of one volume, else a good serviceable set bindings tight and sound 057383
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