Biography & Letters

Produced as a tribute to the typographer and calligrapher Stanley Morison on his sixtieth birthday

S.H. Skaife

£18.00

A Naturalist Remembers (Signed Copy)

The memoires of Dr Skaife from his life in South Africa as a scientist, teacher and broadcaster.

Clara Boyle

A Servant of the Empire: A Memoir of Harry Boyle

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PUBLISHERMethuen & Co. Ltd, London.
BINDINGGreen cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards have some general shelf wear, scuffing at edges and some scratches. Printed pages and images...

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W. Somerset Maugham

£200.00

A Writers Notebook (Signed)

Selections from notebooks Somerset Maugham kept from the age of 18 in 1892 until 1949. Partly autobiographical, including observations, confidences and jottings.

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Hugo Von Waldeyer-Hartz

Admiral Von Hipper

A biography of Admiral Franz Von Hipper of the German Imperial Navy, and his part in WWI.

Robert Collis

African Encounter: A Doctor in Nigeria

An account of the authors travels and experiences in Nigeria as the country moved towards independence, whilst working as a paediatrician.

Hans Schroder

An Airman Remembers

The memoires of a German soldier and later airman and air intelligence officer during WW1.

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Paul Henry RHA

£40.00

An Irish Portrait

One of the best known of Irish Landscape painters, especially for his works depicting the wild terrain of the west of the country in a post-impressionist style. The author describes the huge influence his years in the West had on his work. He also writes of his early life in London and Paris at the end of the 1900's, and the often famous friends he met there.

Jack Hampshire

£30.00

Apprenticeship in Steam: The Memoirs of a General Engineer

The autobiography of a steam engineer, born in Cowes in 1898, including service through both world wars.

Clare Sheridan

£30.00

Arab Interlude

Continuing of the Author's earlier autobiography "Nuda Veritas," and detailing the eight years she lived in the Sahara with native Arab peoples.

Cecil Beaton

£110.00

Ashcombe: The Story of a Fifteen Year Lease

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PUBLISHERB.T. Batsford Ltd.
BINDINGRusset cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards have general shelf wear and fading at edges. Foxing to outer leaves and block edges, although printed...

George Paston

At John Murray's 1843-1892, Records of a Literary Circle

A history of the literary circle that formed around the publisher John Murray, including Gladstone, Salisbury, Livingstone, Borrow and Isabella Bird.

Charles Kingsley

At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies

A vivid account of Charles Kingsley's long anticipated voyage through the islands of the Caribbean.

Obafemi Awolowo

£80.00

Awo: The Autobiography of Chief Obafemi Awolowo

Published in the year of Independence, the autobiography of the Nigerian political thinker and leader "Awo".

Barbara Hepworth

Barbara Hepworth: A Pictorial Autobiography

Tony Birks and Cornelia Wingfield Digby

A vivid and entertaining autobiography by the remarkable pioneering sculptor.

£30.00

Bernard Leach, Hamada & Their Circle, From The Wingfield Digby Collection

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PUBLISHERPhaidon, Christies. Oxford.
BINDING
Soft cover.
BOOK CONDITIONGood, just a little wear to very edges of covers, and a few faint scratches to gloss...

T. Barrow, Editor

Bernard Leach: Essays in Appreciation