Category: biography

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

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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Recollections and Appreciations

By: A,. S. Peake; Wilbert F. Howard

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, Epworth : 1938

Seller ID: 063111

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

231pp hardback, brown cloth gilt in a chipped price-clipped wrapper, some light spotting 063111
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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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Worthy Dr Fuller

By: Addison, William

Price: £7.00

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

Seller ID: 057582

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xxi 298pp hardback, pale brown cloth gilt, frontis portrait one of 13 bw pates, in a spotted wrapper with edge tears 057582
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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-13: 9781908258014

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

xxi 286pp paperback bw illustrations, covers sl creased, else very good 028471
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Thomas Young Natural Philosopher 1773 - 1829

By: Alex Wood; Frank Oldham

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press : 1954

Seller ID: 059255

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

xx 355pp hardback in chipped wrapper, yellow cloth with contrasting blue title panel to spine gilt, bw plates including frontispiece portrait ex-library with usual stamps and labels, 059255
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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-13: 9780224060233

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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Thomas More: History and Providence

By: Alistair Fox

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Oxford, Basil Blackwell : 1985

Seller ID: 061289

ISBN-13: 9780631141686

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

xi 271pp paperback, good 061289
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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-13: 9780880281577

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

xv 230pp paperback, good 040099
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Alan Ayckbourn: Grinning at the edge : a Biography

By: Allen, Paul

Price: £70.00

Publisher: London, Methuen : 2001

Seller ID: 056895

ISBN-13: 9780413731203

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

337pp hardback, blue boards gilt in wrapper, very good in a very good wrapper, signed by BOTH the author Paul Allen and Alan Ayckbourn to title page 056895
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The Magic Mirror: Thoughts and Reflections on Cecil Collins

By: Allitt, John Stewart

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Temenos Academy : 2010

Seller ID: 064082

ISBN-13: 9780956407801

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

75pp paperback, very good 064082
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Plague Year 2020: One Woman's Lockdown Journal

By: Alma Servant

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Manchester, privately published : 2020

Seller ID: 064027

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

178pp card covers, ringbound 064027
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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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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-13: 9780816402816

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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