Biography & Letters

The true story of how three airmen of the US Navy survived in a raft for 34 days after their scout bomber crashed in to the Pacific.

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PUBLISHERLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London. Gilt block edges, lovely marbled endpapers.
BINDINGGreen leather boards with gilt lettering and decoration and embossed border pattern.

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PUBLISHERThe Dovecote Press.
BINDINGMid-blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine.
BOOK CONDITIONA little wear to very edges of boards. Printed pages and images remain...

Written and compiled by his Grandson, following the career of a typical infantry officer in the late-nineteenth century, through his letters home to his large family. Often stationed far from home across the Empire, Henry Cadogan rises to command the 1st Batallion, The Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Ill prepared for modern warfare, they are posted to Belgium in 1914.

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PUBLISHERMacmillan & Co. Ltd.
BINDINGNavy blue cloth boards with gilt lettering.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards have a little shelf wear to edges. Slight foxing to outer leaves,...

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PUBLISHERWard Lock & Co. Limited.
BINDINGPale blue cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are generally worn and faded at edges and spine. Some marks and discolouration. Browning...

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PUBLISHERSelwyn and Blount Limited, London.
BINDINGNavy blue cloth boards with gilt emblem and lettering.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are generally worn, with scuffing and bumping to edges....

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PUBLISHERThomas Holmes, London.
BINDINGGreen cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Gilt block edges. 
BOOK CONDITIONIn poor condition. Boards are very worn, with significant damage...

Subtitled Being a Record of Sundry Expeditions, New and Old, in Search of Buried Treasure. Accounts of true-life hunts for diamonds and gold; silver, precious stones and shipwrecks.

The diary kept whilst the author was accompanying Napoleon during part of his imprisonment on the island of St. Helena.

A History of the fifth Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards and its parent regiments, written by a former colonel.

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PUBLISHERSkeffington & Son, Ltd. London.
BINDINGFaded yellow / cream cloth boards with black lettering. 
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are generally worn and faded, with some staining to...

A fascinating account of the renowned travel writers journey through islands of the Caribbean in the late 1940's. 

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PUBLISHERChatto & Windus, London.
BINDINGSky blue cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are generally a little worn and faded at edges. Binding secure. some foxing and browning...

Written by a Vice-President of the London Zoological Society. Accounts of his world travels from Africa to Arabia, Norway to China in the early years of the Twentieth Century.

The memoires of a Captain in the Hampshire Regiment; from his service in India, the Middle East and the First World War.

A biography or Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, written some time after his death and presented as a memorial of his achievements and character.

A double biography of what have been called the first notable husband-and -wife partnership of modern history: Emperor Justinian and Theodora, daughter of a Syrian bear trainer.