Biografia

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 ...

Selective Memory. An Autobiography.

WHITEHORN, KATHARINE. · 2008 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Virago, 2008. 9781844082391. Autobiography of the journalist Katharine Whitehorn - star columnist at the Observer for over thirty years. Pp.xiv/269, 4 pages of black & white photo illustrations, inscribed by the author to title page "Linda [Blandford] -blessings on ya ...

Flotsam's Follies. The Autobiography of B.C.Hilliam. "Flotsam".

HILLIAM, B.C. · 1948 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

London: Arthur Barron Limited, 1948. 1st edition. Pp.xv177, black & white portrait photo frontispiece + 10 further black & white plates, slight toning to pages, owner's name to front free endpaper. Black cloth, title to spine dulled. G+.** "Bentley Collingwood Hilliam (1890–19...

A Book of Empire Heroes.

JOHNSTON, SIR HARRY (EDITOR). · 1934 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London: Collins' Clear-Type Press, nd. (c.1934). Collins Boys Library of Famous Men. Contents: I.David Livingstone; II.Sir Henry M. Stanley; III.Sir William Francis Butler; IV.John McDouall Stuart; V.Sir Richard F.Burton; VI.Sir Francis E. Younghusband; VII.James Chapman; VIII...

Life of David Garrick. From Original Family Papers, and Numerous Published and Unpublished Sources.

FITZGERALD, PERCY. · 1899 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.Ltd, 1899. New and Revised Edition, Containing Additional Important Matter. Biography of the celebrated 18th century English actor, playwright and theatre manager. Pp.xvi/480, frontispiece, occasional minor light spotting, owner's...

Looking for a Bluebird. (Penguin 673).

WECHSBERG, JOSEPH. · 1948 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1948. Complete Unabridged. Joseph Wechsberg, a contributor to The New Yorker, "has been secretary to a Czech M.P, a ship's musician, a croupier, a beer salesman and - oddest trade of all - a professional 'claquer' at the Vienna State Opera." Pp.220, occ...

Lord Shaftesbury. (Men with a Mission).

ELLIS, REV. JAMES J. · 1892 · Chilton Books

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.27 | ¥6,751)

London: James Nisbet & Co, 1892. 1st edition. Biography of the British politician, philanthropist and social reformer. One of a series of popular biographies "Men with a Mission" by Rev. James J.Ellis. Pp.90/10(publisher's catalogue), portrait frontispiece, toning to endpapers...

Louis Charles Casartelli. A Bishop in Peace and War.

BROADLEY, MARTIN JOHN. · 2006 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Manchester: Koinonia, 2006. 9780860880356. 1st edition. "Explores the life and times of Louis Charles Casartelli from the perspectives of citizen, educationalist, scholar, and churchman. Much against his will, Casartelli became the fourth bishop of Salford in 1903." Pp.x/301, ...

Strategist for the Spirit. Leslie Hunter, Bishop of Sheffield 1939-1962.

HEWITT, GORDON. (EDITOR). · 1985 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Oxford: Becket Publications, 1985. 0728900211. 1st.ed. "This book tells the story of the life and work of Leslie Hunter, who died in 1983." Pp. 8/200, slight toning to pages. Paperback. G+.

Living the Gospel.

HOPE, DAVID. (FOREWORD BY LORD RUNCIE.) · 1993 · Chilton Books

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

London: Darton, Longman and Todd. 1993. 1st.ed. "Always forthright and refreshingly down-to-earth, Dr. Hope communicates his love of the gospel and his commitment to serving God's Church whatever challenges lie ahead." Pp. 8/131. P/b. portrait cover. VG.

The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple.

MOORE SMITH, G.C. · 1968 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. "Written by a girl to her loveer between the end of 1652 and the autumn of 1654. They are addressed to a man who himself became known as a master of English prose and as a statesman and patriot of outstanding ability and honesty." Pp.lii/331. Dar...

Valiant Men of God. Volume 2.

BURTON, DORIS. · 1967 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Langley: St Paul Editions, 1967. 1st editon. "A collection of short but thrilling biographies of five famous priests who, beset by peril, persecution and seemingly insurmountable difficulties, wrought great achievements and suffered even to death as true heroes of God." Conten...

A Manual of the Lives of the Popes from St Peter to Pius IX. For the Use of Students.

EARLE, JOHN CHARLES. · 1866 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London: Richardson & Son, 1866. 1st edition. "The object of the biographical notices in this series is to present a summary of the principal events in each Pontificate..to draw as faithful a portrait as possible of each Pontiff, to trace the rise and fall of several heresies w...

Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox.

SINCLAIR, UPTON. · 1933 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Los Angeles: Published by the Author, 1933. Third printing, with addition of index (May 1933). "No melodrama that I have been able to invent in my thirty years of inventing has been more packed with crimes and betrayals, perils and escapes, than the story of William Fox. No th...

Life and Letters of Madame Swetchine.

FALLOUX, COUNT DE / PRESTON, MISS H.W. (TRANSLATOR). · 1867 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1867. 1st edition. "Anne Sophie Swetchine (née Sofia Petrovna Soymonova), 1782 – 1857), known as Madame Swetchine, was a Russian mystic, born in Moscow, and famous for her salon in Paris. Coming from Russian Orthodoxy, in 1815 she became a Catholic, l...

Life of Don Bosco. Founder of the Salesian Society.

MARTIN, LADY. · 1890 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

London: Burns & Oates Limited, nd. (c.1890). Translated from the French of J.M.Villefranche. Second edition. Pp.viii/342, portrait frontispiece, armorial bookplate Convcvent of the Immaculate Conception O.S.F. Bocking Essex to inside front cover,minor spotting to closed page e...

The Life of Blessed Julie Billiart, Foundress of the Institute of Sisters of Notre Dame, by a Member of the Same Society.

CLARE, FATHER JAMES. (EDITOR). · 1909 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Edinburgh and London: Sands and Company, 1909. "Julie Billiart (1751 — 1816) was a French religious leader, social worker, educator of poor children, and Catholic saint, who founded and was the first Superior General of the Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur." ...

Edwardian Excursions. From the Diaries of A.C.Benson 1898-1904.

BENSON, A.C./ NEWSOME, DAVID (EDITOR). · 1981 · Chilton Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London: John Murray, 1981. 071953769X. 1st edition. "This selection from the first few years is a marvellous evocation of Edwardian Britain, a series of twelve period pieces mixing London and the countryside, Imperial, viceregal and episcopal splendour with the private pleasur...

Letters of Walter Pater.

EVANS, LAWRENCE. · 1970 · Chilton Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. 1st edition. Walter Pater's "letters, here collected for the first time, shed new light on an especially elusive personality, and furnish significant details concerning the literary career of a major Victorian writer." Pp.xlviii/182, black & whit...

My Life. An Attempt at an Autobiography.

TROTSKY, LEON. · 2000 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

New York: Pathfinder, 2000. 0873481445. "Written in the first year of Trotsky's exile in Turkey, My Life tells the story of the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, and of the struggle to consolidate the young workers and peasants government. I recounts the fight to defend th...