Biography & Letters

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. 
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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...

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PUBLISHERJohn Murray, London.
BINDINGTan cloth boards with red title patch on spine and gilt lettering. Mauve tinted top block edge.
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PUBLISHERHarper & Brothers Publishers.
BINDINGBlue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine.
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Part travelogue, part imagination, this unusual book takes the form of letters written during the summer of 1936.

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PUBLISHERJohn Murray, London.
BINDINGHalf bound with leather spine and corners and marbled boards. gilt lettering and decoration to banded spine. Marbled block edges and endpapers.
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PUBLISHERMacmillan and Co. Ltd, London.
BINDINGQuarter bound blue paper covered boards and oatmeal cloth spine.
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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.

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PUBLISHEROxford University Press.
BINDINGBright green cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONA little shelf wear to edges and corners. Printed pages and images remain clear with very few...

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PUBLISHERShepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd.
BINDINGRed cloth boards with gilt lettering.
BOOK CONDITIONGood, just a little wear to edges of boards. Slight browning / foxing to endpapers...

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.