Biografia

Marriott, the J. Willard Marriott Story

ROBERT O'BRIEN · 1979 · Marion Pitman Books

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

Salt Lake City, Deseret Book Company. 1979. Paperback. Book, 16 pages of illustrations. Front cover bit damaged; page edges brown, cover edges worn, spine creased. Good reading copy. Fairly Good/No Jacket.

The Doctor

ISABEL CAMERON · 1927 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Elgin, T. D. Davidson. 9999, Seventeenth Edn. Soft cover. Book, 78 pages. Portrait frontis, presumably of Dr. Lindsay, the minister who is the subject of the book. Reprinted by kind permission of the Editors of the United Free Church "Record" and of the "Sunday at Home." Photo...

A 'Mellstock Quire' Boy's Recollections of Thomas Hardy

W. G. L. PARSONS · 1960 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Wells, Somerset, W. G. L. Parsons. 9999, First. Soft cover. Book, 12 page booklet in yellow card covers, about the author's childhood in Dorchester and memories of Hardy. No date, 1960s. Staples slightly rusty, otherwise good condition. Frontispiece picture of Hardy's memorial...

Stars Appearing, Lives of Sixty-Eight Saints of the Anglican Calendar

SIBYL HARTON · 1954 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Hodder & Stoughton. 1954, First. Hardcover. Book, Hardback, spine bit dull. Dedicated to John Betjeman. Good/No Jacket.

The Life and Characters of Charles Dickens

H. C. DENT · 1930 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Queensway Press. 0, Not Known. Cloth. Book, Yellow cloth with red spine. Illus. drawings, some with initials EH - portraits, contemporary cartoons, etc. Foreword by Laton Blacklands. 508 pages. 1930s? Cloth bit worn, few spots of foxing. Good/No Jacket.

History, the Journal of the Historical Association

R. H. C. DAVIS (ED) · 1971 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, The Historical Association. 1971, First. Paperback, 6"x 8.5". Book, Vol. 56, No. 188, October 1971. William Thomas - John Stuart Mill and the uses of autobiography; G. Benecke - Ennoblement and Privilege in Early Modern Germany; Paul Dukes - Russia and the Eighteenth C...

Out of Silence

MARY SORRELL · 1969 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Hodder & Stoughton. 1969, First. Soft cover. Book, Story of a journalist who lost the use of words due to a brain haemorrhage and taught herself to speak and write again. Edges slightly brown. Very Good/No Jacket.

Margery Kempe, Genius and Mystic

KATHARINE CHOLMELEY · 1947 · Marion Pitman Books

£9.50 (€11.39 | $12.55 | ¥2,005)

London, Longmans, Green & Co. 1947, First Edition. Cloth. Book, V. slightly warped; endpapers bit damp stained; slight wear corners. Text clean & sound. D/w discoloured & torn spine ends & edges. Book about the 15th century Christian mystic. Good/Fair.

Agnes Weston, the Sailors' Friend

JENNIE CHAPPELL · 0 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Pickering & Inglis. 9999, Revised. Hardcover. Book, "Revised and brought up to date" "Memoir" series. Small 8vo. 7 b/w photographic plates. Life of founder of Royal Sailors' Rests at Devonport and Portsmouth. Colour pictorial d/w frayed at corners and spine ends. Very ...

The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes

JAMES SUTHERLAND (ED) · 1976 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Book Club Associates. 1976, Reprint. Hardcover. Book, D/w slightly faded. Good Plus/Good.

St. Teresa

MRS. CECIL CHESTERTON · 0 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Hodder & Stoughton. 9999, Not Known. Hardcover. Book, H & S People's Library. Dustwrapper darkened, worn at corners, 2 small closed tears on edge, small stain on back. Good/Fairly Good.

Mostly Joy, a bookman's story

THOMAS JOY · 1971 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Michael Joseph. 1971, First. Hardcover. Book, Very Good/Good.

Not Once, But Twice

DEREK WILLIAMS · 1987 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Hodder & Stoughton. 1987. Paperback. Book, "The Tim Dean Story" Editor of "Third Way" magazine cured twice of cancer. Good.

John Bunyan

HENRI A. TALON · 1956 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Longmans, Green & Co. for the British Council and the National Book League. 1956, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, Writers and their Work No. 73. Portrait frontis. Corners a little worn, slight creases a few pages. Decorated paper wrappers. Good/No Jacket.

Virginia Woolf

BERNARD BLACKSTONE · 1952 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Longmans, Green & Co. for the British Council and the National Book League. 1952, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, Supplement to British Book News: No. 33 on Writers and their Work. Portrait frontis. Small marks back cover, corners a little worn. Good Plus/No Jacket.

The Way of a Transgressor

NEGLEY FARSON · 1957 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Pan. 1957. Soft cover. Book, Autobiography of foreign correspondent. This edition abridged by the author. Spine worn, front joint split top & bottom, some creasing corners, figure felt-tipped on front. Page edges bit brown. Fairly Good/No Jacket.

The Threshold

DOROTHEA RUTHERFORD · 1955 · Marion Pitman Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London, Rupert Hart-Davis. 1955, First Thus. Hardcover. Book, Memoir of a childhood in Estonia at the turn of the century. Translated from the German by Moura Budberg and Tania Alexander. D/w little worn ends of spine, one v. small tear back lower edge. Very Good/Good.

Francis, a biography of the Saint of Assisi

MICHAEL DE LA BEDOYERE · 1976 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Fontana / Collins. 1976, First Thus. Soft cover. Book, Some discolouration of spine & parts of covers adjacent to spine; page edges bit brown. Good/No Jacket.

Lancer at Large

F. YEATS-BROWN · 1936 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Victor Gollancz. 1936, First ?. Hardcover. Book, Contains glossary. Spine dull, ends of spine & edges of boards bit worn; pages foxed in margins, prelims foxed; stamps British Union Bookshop & Library on endpapers, title & last page, also top & lower edges. Rear hinge ...

The Crime of Mary Stuart

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON · 1967 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Hutchinson. 1967, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 5 b/w plates. Cloth bit worn & marked, d/w frayed & torn on spine ends. Good/Fairly Good.