Biografia

A Rage to Live. A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton.

LOVELL, MARY S. · 1998 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

London: Little, Brown and Company, 1998. 0316643858. 1st edition. "Frequently descibed within his own lifetime as 'the most interesting figure of the nineteenth century', Sir Richard Burton has been the subject of numerous biographies. Remarkably, however, 'A Rage to Live' is ...

The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn.

HEARN, LAFCADIO / BISLAND, ELIZABETH (EDITOR). · 1910 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London: Constable & Co.Limited, 1910. 1st edition. "Lafcadio Hearn, also called (from 1895) Koizumi Yakumo, (1850, Levkás, Ionian Islands, Greece—1904, Okubo, Japan), writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West." (Britannica)....

A Tapestry of Toil.

MORSE-BOYCOTT, REVD. DESMOND. · 1970 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: The Faith Press, 1970. 1st edition. "Cold-shouldered by the Establishment and suspected as an Anglican-Papalist, he has never gone over to Rome and opposes current departures from the Book of Common Prayer. Unhelped and on occasions censured by Bishops he has felt the ...

'Don't You Start!' A Reflection on Relationships.

MOSS, VICTOR C. · 2001 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Privately published, nd.(c.2001). "This is both a charming and insightful memoir of one man's life and relationships and a broader reflection on the life - both spiritual and social - of mankind. Recollections of childhood outings and incidents in the life of a clergyman combi...

The Man Who Loves Giants. An Artist Among Elephants and Engines. (Signed).

SHEPHERD, DAVID. · 1975 · Chilton Books

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`Newton Abbott: David & Charles, 1975. 0715370529. 1st edition. Life story of David Shepherd, regarded by many as being the world's leading wildlife artist, particularly of elephants, and who has raised thousands of pounds for wildlife conservation. For his hobby, David again ...

Fall Out The Officers. (signed).

MAYS, SPIKE. · 1969 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1969. 1st edition. Second volume of autobiography. "Spike Mays has recreated the 'world of the other ranks' between the wars. his acute and humorous eye reveals affectionately but honestly a world of toughness and discipline on parade, and hard-dri...

Chance Witness. An Outsider's Life in Politics. (Signed).

PARRIS, MATTHEW. · 2002 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Viking, 2002. 0670894400. 1st edition. "Matthew Parris is part participant, part bystander. He observes. In this candid autobiography, he describes what it was like to be so close to the centre yet remain an outsider. He writes about his extraordinarily itinerant child...

Passages from the Life of a Philosopher: The Autobiography of Charles Babbage.

CAMPBELL-KELLY, MARTIN. · 1991 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: Pickering & Chatto, 1991. 1851960406. "Charles Babbage is most often described as the father of the computer, inventing machines for calculating complex formulae which remain masterpieces of invention and technological genius. But his energy and innovative creativity w...

The Elgins 1766-1917. A Tale of Aristocrats, Proconsuls and Their Wives.

CHECKLAND, SYDNEY. · 1988 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988. 0080363954. 1st edition. "Based on the Elgin archives, which the present Earl of Elgin placed at the disposal of the author, whose extensive research took him as far afield as Canada and Japan." 25.5cms x 19cms. Pp.xiv/303, signed by ...

Familiar To All. William Lilly and Astrology in the Seventeenth Century.

PARKER, DEREK. · 1975 · Chilton Books

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London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. 022401112X. 1st edition. "A colourful picture of the social life of the time and of astrology's last great stand as a science. In an age ripe with catastrophic forebodings, Lilly watched at close quarters the majority of Londoners flee from epidemi...

A Complete Parish Priest. Peter Green (1871-1961).

SARGEANT, FRANK P. · 2011 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London:The Anglo-Catholic History Society, 2011. 9780956056511. No.13 in a series of occasional papers. Peter Green was Rector of St Philip's Salford, Canon Residentiary of Manchester 1911-1951. Evangelist and Writer. This book published in conjunction with the fiftieth annimv...

The Life and Times of Po Chü-i 772-846 A.D.

WALEY, ARTHUR. · 1951 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1951. 2nd impression. "Mr Waley here gives the biographical background to the many poems of Po Chü-i that he has translated in previous books, and traces the connection between his literary career and the disturbed political life of the time.....

Recollections of Pattison.

TOLLEMACHE, REV. LIONEL A. · 1885 · Chilton Books

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London: C.F.Hodgson & Son, 1885. Printed for private circulation. Reprinted with additions from the "Journal of Education" for June, 1885. Memoir of Mark Pattison (1813 – 1884) English author and Church of England priest. He served as Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. Pp.85, ...

John Calvin. A Pilgrim's Life.

SELDERHUIS, HERMAN J. · 2009 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Nottingham: IVP, 2009. 9781844743759. "A fresh and invigorating look at the human person behind all the caricatures, the faithful servant of Christ who saw his life as being lived in the providence of God - a God whose ways he often did not understand..A fully human Calvin who...

An Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis. Betsy Cadwaladyr: A Balaclava Nurse.

WILLIAMS, JANE. (YSGAFELL). (EDITOR). · 1987 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Cardiff: Honno, 1987. 1870206002. With a new introduction by Deirdre Beddoe. "Betsy Cadwaladyr, as she was otherwise known, was a dynamic character and this facet of her personality is admirably conveyed in this account of her travels as a companion and ladies' maid, occupatio...

Jeremy Taylor By W. J. Brown, B.D. late Scholar, Exhibitioner and Priestman, University of London, King's College, Director of Religious Education in the Diocese of Wakefield, Canon of Wakefield Cathedral.

`BROWN, W. J. - [ SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR + LETTER ]. · 1925 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London: Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge,1925. 0. Signed 1st Edition. Plus later dedicaton from the author and a letter complaing about the scarcity of his book in 1954! A sketch of Taylor's life and times, together with an account of some of his more important theolo...

Recollections of my Youth.

RENAN, ERNEST. · 1892 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: Chapman and Hall, 1892. Second edition. Translated by C.B.Pitman and Revised by Madam Renan. Pp.xxiv/360/40(publisher's catalogue), slight toning to pages, owner's name to recto front endpaper. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, edges rubbed and wear to top and tail of s...

The Life of Friedrich Nietzsche. (Translated by J.M.Hone).

HALEVY, DANIEL. · 1911 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1911. "In Halevy's book, founded on that of Madame Forster-Nietzsche, we have a portrait of him in the intimacies of his life and thought. It exhibits him as better than his gospel, a hundred times better than most of those disturbers of civilization w...

Going to the Wars. (signed).

HASTINGS, MAX. · 2000 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: Macmillan, 2000. 0333771044. Reprint. "Max Hastings grew up with romantic dreams of a life amongst warriors. But after an embarrassing false start as a parachute soldier in 1963, he became a journalist and a war correspondent instead. Before he was thirty he had report...

City of Human Memories.

MOUBRAY, GUY DE. · 2005 · Chilton Books

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Stanhope: The Memoir Club, 2005. 1841041289. 1st edition. "Guy de Moubray has had a most unusual and varied life..His time at Oxford resulted in long-standing friendships with such eminent names as Sandy Wilson, Kenneth Tynan and Anthony Crosland. The core working years of his...