Biography & Letters

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PUBLISHERRedline Books.
BINDINGBlack cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONVery good, just some minor wear to edges of boards. Printed pages and images remain clear and unmarked.
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A biography of the British golfer, who won nine major championships from the late 1800's to the early 1900's.

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PUBLISHERThe Tate Gallery
BINDINGSoft covers
BOOK CONDITIONCovers are worn around edges, with scuffing and some creasing. Spine faded. Some yellowing to outer leaves and page...

Published to accompany the retrospective exhibition of 2015, with foreword by Stephan Paisnel, and an appraisal of Plumb's life and work.

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PUBLISHERCharles Scribner's Sons, New York
BINDINGGreen cloth boards
BOOK CONDITIONBoards have general shelf wear, scuffing to spine, edges and corners. Some discolouration to block edges....

An authorised memoir and biography written at the request of The King George V and Queen Mary. The author was a well known journalist of his day who also wrote under the pen name "The Old Stager".

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PUBLISHERMenin House, Tommies Guides, Eastbourne.
BINDINGSoft cover.
BOOK CONDITIONVery good condition, just some minor signs of wear to edges of covers. 
DUST JACKETNo.
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A beautifully produced companion to the exhibition showing works from the last sixteen years of Turner's life.

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PUBLISHERJonathan Cape, London.
BINDINGMustard cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards are worn, with scuffing, fading and staining. Rear hinge is split, but otherwise binding feels secure. Some...

Part travelogue, part imagination, this unusual book takes the form of letters written during the summer of 1936.

A comprehensive biography of one of the principal "Founding Fathers" of the United States of America.

First published nearly seventy years after Gainsborough's burial, a detailed life of the most eminent of portrait artists.

A Life of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington from his birth in Ireland to his long military career during the Napoleonic Wars, culminating in the Battle of Waterloo; and his later years as a politician.

For the six years of WWII, Mollie Panter-Downes covered the war in her "Letter from London"  for The New Yorker magazine. These fortnightly reports are compiled here by New Yorker editor William Shawn.

Published to accompany the retrospective exhibition in Dublin, 1996-97. Biography and appraisal by Alistair Smith.

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PUBLISHERPutchamin Press, Indiana.
BINDINGGrey cloth boards with black illustration and lettering.
BOOK CONDITIONVery good, little handled.
DUST JACKETJust a little slight shelf wear to...

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PUBLISHERGeorge G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.
BINDING
Burgundy cloth boards with gilt crest and lettering.
BOOK CONDITIONBoards have some general shelf wear to edges,...

A life of Cardinal Manning followed by eulogies and verses from his memorial service.