Biografia

Christina Rossetti.

THOMAS, FRANCES. · 1992 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Hanley Swan: The Self Publishing Association Limited, 1992. 1854211560. 1st edition."Probably the major woman poet of Victorian Britain, she is overshadowed by her more colourful brother Dante Gabriel. Yet most of us have read 'Goblin Market' and 'My Heart is Like a Singing Bi...

Cosmo Lang. Archbishop in War and Crisis.

BEAKEN, ROBERT. · 2012 · Chilton Books

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London: I.B.Tauris, 2012. 9781780763552. 1st edition. "The period 1928-1942 saw some of the greatest political and social upheavals in modern British history. Lang, as Arhcbishop of Canterbury, led the Church of England through this tumultuous period and was a pivotal influenc...

Mrs Gatty and Mrs Ewing.

MAXWELL, CHRISTABEL. · 1949 · Chilton Books

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London: Constable, 1949. 1st edition. "Margaret atty and Juliana Horatia Ewing were mother and daughter. Christabel Maxwell is a grand-daughter of Mrs Gatty and a niece of Mrs Ewing. This biography of two remarkable women, based on letters and diaries..stresses the partnership...

Diary of a Suffolk Nanny. 1896-1986.

HUNT, EDITH. · 1986 · Chilton Books

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Bury St Edmunds: Privately published, 1986. A condensed history of the long, full and useful life of Miss Edith Hunt when a children's nanny in the early decades of the twentieth century. An endearing picture of a young girl's life, devoted to the health and tender loving care...

Guides to Hidden Springs. A History of Christian Spirituality Through the Lives of some of its Witnesses.

GIBBARD, MARK. · 1979 · Chilton Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

London: SCM. Press, 1979. 0334005620. 1st ed. "In this new book the author looks for guidance from as far back as the psalmists and the New Testament..he is well known for his teaching and writing on prayer." Pp.94, label to inside front cover, blurred inkstamp to title page. ...

Woody Guthrie. A Life.

KLEIN, JOE. · 1981 · Chilton Books

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London: Faber and Faber, 1981. 0571117368. 1st British edition. "Joe Klein honours the legend but also paints a true portrait, warts and all, that is quite different from the autobiographical picture of 'Bound for Glory'.Klein's unique access to all of Guthrie's private papers...

Mrs Gatty and Mrs Ewing.

MAXWELL, CHRISTABEL. · 1949 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Constable, 1949. 1st edition. "Margaret atty and Juliana Horatia Ewing were mother and daughter. Christabel Maxwell is a grand-daughter of Mrs Gatty and a niece of Mrs Ewing. This biography of two remarkable women, based on letters and diaries..stresses the partnership...

Overbeck .

ATKINSON, J. BEAVINGTON . · 1882 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Crown Buildings, Fleet Street, 1882 . 0. A very good half leather binding. 8vo. 7.5" x 5.25" x 0.75". pp.xii./[2pp.]/pp.114 . Crimson spine and corners over marbled endpapers. Smooth spine with gilt banding and title. Bookplat...

"After April When May Follows".

LEE, REVEREND JOHN FODEN. · 1993 · Chilton Books

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Privately published, nd. (c.1993). A medley of memories and experiences entitled "The Devil on a Leather Thong" (a tribute to the author's mother), "The Apprentice - The Relic of St Boniface", and "The Magnolia Tree". Unpaginated. Blue stiff card covers with black spine. VG.

Order to View. (Signed)

CUTFORTH, RENé. · 1970 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

London: Faber and Faber, 1970. 0571091032. 3rd printing. A book of reminiscences. "Each chapter has a self-contained feeling which comes from the necessity to focus on an event or place..Witty and easy to read though his adventures are, they are not superficial. Order to View ...

Mapolisa. Some Reminiscences of a Rhodesian Policeman.

CRAVEN, DAVID. · 1998 · Chilton Books

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Roodepoort: Covos-Day, 1998. 062022522X. 1st edition. "Bloody multiple murders, Rhodes' Centenary, an overland-Africa trip,training in the embryonic PATU and the arrest of Aiden Diggeden, Rhodesia's arch-criminal - David Craven was there. Through all this unfold the often amus...

A Decade in Rhodesia.

BELL, ALICE ELSIE. · 2005 · Chilton Books

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London: Athena Press, 2005. 184401472X. The true story about a young English family of six, leaving post war Britain for the colonies, Southern Rhodesia, Africa, in the 1950s. Pp.138. Paperback. VG.

The World of John Secker 1716-95. Quaker Mariner.

HOPPER, ANDREW. · 2011 · Chilton Books

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Norwich: Norfolk Record Society, 2011. 9780955635748. Norfolk Record Society Volume LXXV for 2011. "The son of a Quaker miller from North Walsham, Secker's global sea-faring life took him not only across maritime Europe and North America, but also to Arabia, India, the South S...

Margaret Princess of Hungary.

S.M.C.[SISTER MARY CATHERINE ANDERSON]. · 1945 · Chilton Books

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Oxford: Blackfriars, 1945. First impression. "Margaret of Hungary (1242–1270) was a Dominican nun and the daughter of King Béla IV of Hungary and Maria Laskarina. She was the younger sister of Kinga of Poland (Kunegunda) and Yolanda of Poland and, through her father, the niece...

Popcorn to Rock 'N' Roll.

MOORE, S.K. · 2014 · Chilton Books

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Fillongley: Fillongley Publications, 2014. 9780951511671. Life and Death of a Pirate. First book in a trilogy of a biographical history that reads like a novel. "1946-1960 Post-war Britain, Reg and Dorothy Calvert marry and with little money, live in an old bus. Reg tries vari...

Leaves from the Diary and Journal of the Late Charles. J. Palmer, F.S.A.

PALMER, FREDERICK DANBY. (EDITOR). · 1892 · Chilton Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

Great Yarmouth: J.Buckle, 1892. Charles John Palmer, FSA (1 January 1805 – 1882) was an English lawyer, known as a historian of Great Yarmouth. 26cms x 21.5cms. Pp.vi/117, engraved portrait frontispiece + amorial crest to end, brown foliate endpapers a little toned to front fr...

Servant of Sahibs. A Book to be Read Aloud.

GHULAM RASSUL GALWAN. (AKSAKAL OF LEH). · 1923 · Chilton Books

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Cambridge: W.Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1923. 1st edition. Ghulam Rassul Galwan (1878-1925), was a Ladakhi explorer of Kashmiri descent, after whom the Galwan River is named. He was an acclaimed guide and caravan bashi (caravan manager), who accompanied numerous expeditions of Europea...

Nettleton and His Labours. The Memoir of Dr Asahel Nettleton. Remodelled in some parts by Andrew A. Bonar.

TYLER, BENNET. · 1975 · Chilton Books

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Edinburgh:Banner of Truth Trust,1975. 1st in this ed.(First published 1854). Pp.454,portrait frontis. Brown cloth. VG.

J.Berrnard Nicklin. A Life with God and the Pyramid.

KOPPEJAN, WILLEM A. AND VAN WOELDEREN, HELENE W. · 1971 · Chilton Books

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Glastonbury: Real Israel Press, 1971. Second edition. Contents includes: Part I: 1."A Shielded Nation" (Unpublished Pamphlet by .B.N, Set. 1966; 2.Memoirs of J.B.N. 3. "Miraculous Timing" Reprint of a Pamphlet by J.B.N, Nov. 1966. Part II: Appreciation by Friends. (Including F...

An Improbable Life. The Autobiography. (Signed).

MCDONALD, TREVOR. · 2019 · Chilton Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,016)

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2019. 9781474615532. 1st edition. "Sir Trevor recounts his personal experience of world events and interviews with globally famous - or notorious - figures..obtaining the first British television interview with Nelson Mandela; his reflections on ...