Biografia

A Portrait of Lord Nelson.

Warner, Oliver · 1959 · Hessay Books

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

Reprint Society, 1959. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 331pp, black boards with cream spine. B + w illustrations. One light mark to top of foredge, otherwise a clean copy. A biography of the great admiral... Very Good /No Jacket.

Shakespeare.

Brown, Ivor · 1951 · Hessay Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

Reprint Society, 1951. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 363pp, yellow cloth covered boards with black leather label. A clean copy. A readable biography, includes a family tree and a time line... Fine /No Jacket.

Charles Dickens.

Pope-Hennessy, Una · 1947 · Hessay Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

Reprint Society, 1947. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 496pp, brown cloth covered boards with leather label. B + w illustrations. Internally clean. A readable biography of the great novelist... Very Good /No Jacket.

Bernard Shaw His Life and Personality.

Pearson, Hesketh · 1948 · Hessay Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

Reprint Society, 1948. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 448pp, the edges browning with age, yellow cloth covered boards with black leather label. B + w photgraphs. Previous owner's name on flyleaf, label a little rubbed, otherwise a clean copy... Very Good /No Jacket.

Louis XIV.

Cronin, Vincent · 1965 · Hessay Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

Reprint Society, 1965. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 384pp, cream boards with blue label, a little sun darkened to spine. Family Tree. Internally clean. A readable biography of the C17 king of France... Fine /No Jacket.

Warren The Man The Court The Era.

Weaver, John D · 1968 · Hessay Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Gollancz, 1968. Hard Cover, 406 pp, red boards, priceclipped dustjacket is otherwise complete. B + w frontispiece portrait. A biography of the Chief Justice of the USA Supreme Court... Fine /Very Good.

Surgeon Extraordinary The Life of J B Murphy.

Davis, Loyal and Cronin, A J · 1938 · Hessay Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Harrap, 1938. Hard Cover, 1st reprint. Foreword by A J Cronin. 287pp, reddish brown cloth covered boards. Frontispiece portrait. A couple of small marks but generally clean. Readable biography of the man whose parents had emigrated from Ireland to Wisconsin in the 1840s to liv...

The True Story Of Captain John Smith.

Woods, Katharine Pearson · 1907 · Hessay Books

£9.50 (€11.39 | $12.55 | ¥2,004)

Doubelday, Page & Co, 1907. Hard Cover, 382pp, olive green cloth covered boards. Frontispiece portrait and B + w illustrations. Internally clean. The life and adventures of the famous governor of Virginia... Very Good /No Jacket.

The Queen.

Morrow, Ann · 1983 · Hessay Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

BCA, 1983. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 258pp, the paper browning a little with age. Complete dustjacket. Colour and b + w illustrations. Previous owner's name and address on flyleaf, otherwise clean. A portrait of the private person, by the former court correspondent of ...

Stanley An Adventurer Explored.

Hall, Richard · 1974 · Hessay Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

PBS Book Club, 1974. Hard Cover, 400 pp, b + w illustrations, endpaper maps. Dustjacket a little faded to spine and rubbed to edges with a scrape mark to the back. Internally very clean.. Fine /Very Good.

Daniel Boone.

Barnes, Bertha · 1974 · Hessay Books

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

Jefferson City, 1974. Soft Cover, Ill.: Darrell Isaacs. 4th printing. 29pp, softback covers. B + w illustrations by Darrell Isaacs. A clean copy. The story of the famous American pioneer... Fine.

The Story of Sadler's Wells 1683 1964.

Arundell, Dennis · 1965 · Hessay Books

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

Hamish Hamilton, 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover, Ex-Library, 306pp, complete dustjacket in removeable plastic sleeve. B + w illustrations. Ex library, with pocket on inner board and stamps on flyleaf and title page, otherwise clean, so sold as good reading copy. The history o...

Byron The Years Of Fame.

Quennell, Peter · 1943 · Hessay Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

Reprint Society, 1943. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 319pp, dark red cloth covered boards with leather label. B+ w illustrations. Previous owner's name to the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. An acclaimed biography, covering the years July 1811 to April 1816 - the peri...

Norman Birkett The Life of Lord Birkett of Ulverston.

Hyde, H Montgomery · 1964 · Hessay Books

£4.50 (€5.39 | $5.94 | ¥949)

Hamish Hamilton, 1964. Hard Cover, 4th impression of the first edition. A heavy book of 638pp. Blue boards with a silver title, one corner a little bumped. Colour frontispiece portrait illustration and b + w photographs. Previous owner's name to the flyleaf, otherwise internal...

The Powys Brothers A Biographical Appreciation.

Hopkins, Kenneth · 1972 · Hessay Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

Warrenhouse Press, 1972. Hard Cover, 275pp, complete dustjacket, a very little rubbed to the corners. B + w illustrations. Spots of foxing to the top edge, otherwise a very clean copy. A biography of the authors John Cowper Powys, Llewelyn Powys and Theodore Powys... Very Good...

Florence Nightingale 1820 - 1910.

Woodham Smith, Cecil · 1955 · Hessay Books

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

Penguin, 1955. Mass Market Paperback, First Penguin edition, revised and slightly abridged. 445pp, the paper browning with age. Orange and white softback covers. a little worn to the ends of the spine. Previous owners' names on flyleaf, otherwise internally clean and tight. A ...

Loving Letters From Ogden Nash a Family Album.

Nash, Ogden and Smith, Linell Nash · 1990 · Hessay Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Little, Brown, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition. A heavy book of 357pp. Illustrated dustjacket with a little wear to the top of the spine. B + w illustrations. Very faint small spots of foxing to the foredge, otherwise internally very clean. For 43 years from 192...

Shakespeare.

Brown, Ivor · 1951 · Hessay Books

£3.50 (€4.20 | $4.62 | ¥738)

Reprint Society, 1951. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 383pp. Complete dustjacket with a couple of small scrape marks. Internally very clean. 'A coherent and sensible' account of Shakespeare's life and times. Comes with a short separate article by the author... Fine /Very Good.

The Queen.

Morrow, Ann · 1983 · Hessay Books

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

BCA, 1983. Hard Cover, 258pp, complete dustjacket. Colour and b + w photographs. A very clean copy. What Queen Elizabeth II is really like and the contribution she makes by a long-standing court correspondent, anecdotes of royal tours etc... Fine /Fine.

The University of Leeds Review 1969.

- · 1969 · Hessay Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

University of Leeds, 1969. Soft Cover, B + w illustrations. Includes articles on Pascal and Newman by J M Cameron, A H Hanson SOme Literature on Student Revolt, Brian Hogan on Criminal Liability without Fault and J P Roberts on ceramics... Fine.