Biografia

Through the Woodsmoke.

PERKINS, JIM. · 2008 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Privately published, 2008. The Story of (the Other Bits of) My Life. "After graduating in mathematics and physics, Jim Perkins worked for 38 years in research, industrial training and teaching. He spends his retirement working for pensioners and writing". Pp.138, occasional bl...

The Weald of Youth.

SASSOON, SIEGFRIED. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Faber and Faber, 1986. 0571139620. "Second volume of Siegfried Sassoon's autobiography, the sequel to The Old Century, covering the years between 1909 and the Great War. He looks back frankly and amusedly at his charmed life as an innocent but resilient young poet and ...

Shaw - "The Chucker-Out". A Biographical Exposition and Critique and a Companion Volume to "Shaw the Villager".

CHAPPELOW, ALLAN. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1983. Reprint. "Surely the most thorough and detailed examination of Shaw's political, moral, and social views yet made by any biographer.." (Vera Brittain, foreword). Pp.xx/558, photo portait frontispiece + 14 further photos and other pictu...

Shaw The Villager and Human Being.

CHAPPELOW, ALLAN. · 1961 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London: Charles Skilton Ltd, 1961. 1st edition. A Biographical Symposium. "This fascinating series of intimate, authentic and amusing impressions and reminiscences by those well-qualified to speak from their very close and unbiased association with Bernard Shaw" shows a human ...

Anna Comnena: A Study.

BUCKLER, GEORGINA. · 1929 · Chilton Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London: Oxford University Press, 1929. 1st edition. Anna Comnena is considered to be the first woman historian. This book studies Anna as a personality, with her hopes of succession to her father Alexios, her marriage, self-pity, court life, and her feelings about aristocracy ...

The Life Story and Experiences of a Phrenologist. (with thirty illustrations).

SEVERN, J. MILLOTT. · 1929 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Brighton: J.M.Severn/Westminster Press, 1929. 1st edition. "Derbyshire’s celebrated ‘Professor of Phrenology’ Joseph Millott Severn (1860-1942) - a former Codnor pitboy-turned-professor who read the ‘bumps’ on the heads of Sir Winston Churchill and Sir Ernest Shackleton."(Derb...

Haeckel. His Life and Work. (With Thirteen Illustrations).

BOLSCHE, WILHELM. · 1906 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: T.Fisher Unwin, 1906. 1st edition. With Introduction and Supplementart Chapter by the Translator, Joseph McCabe. Pp.336, colour portrait frontispiece + 12 black & white plates, occasional spotting. Red cloth, gilt title to spine, wear to top and tail of spine. Good.** ...

Madame de Maintenon. By Emily Bowles.

BOWLES, EMILY . · 1888 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1 Paternoster Square, 1888 . 0. First edition. In a very good original binding. pp.24/pp.339/[1p.]/pp.43 - Adverts/[5pp. - Adverts] . Dark blue-green cloth over bevelled boards. Bright gilt titles to front board and spine. Edges lightly rubbed....

Sketches of the Life of the Very Rev. Felix De Andreis, First Superior of the Congregation of the Mission in the United States and Vicar-General of the Diocese of New Orleans...

ROSATI, JOSEPH / SEMERIA, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. · 1861 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Baltimore: Kelly, Hedian & Piet, 1861. Translated by Francis Burlando. "With a Sketch of the Progress of the Catholic Religion in the United States, from the Beginning of the Present Century to the Year 1860". Ex convent library. Pp.276, engraved portrait frontispiece, armoria...

Life of Blessed Madeleine Sophie Barat. Foundress of the Society of the Sacred Heart 1779-1865.

CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART ROEHAMPTON. · 1908 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

Roehampton, 1908. Second edition. 14cms x 11.5cms. Pp.126, toning to endpapers, cracking to inside rear hinge but holding. Cream cloth, gilt title to front, boards slightly soiled. G+.

Dr Johnson. A Great Englishman.

HARMSWORTH, CECIL. · 1923 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: Dr Johnson's House, nd.(c.1923). Reprinted from the Lichfield Mercury, 21st September 1923. An Address to the Johnson Society Delivered at Lichfield, 15th September, 1923. Pp.16, Black & white frontispiece and vignette illustration to end, deckled edges.Grey card cover...

The White Squadron.

DESANA, DOROTHY. · 1961 · Chilton Books

£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,215)

London: The Adventurer's Club, 1961. "Forty men and a girl made up the White Squadron, which battled against the ruthless Arab drug and slave traffickers in the remote areas of the Sahara and Libyan deserts..When she was seventeen years old, the author ran away from school in ...

The Life of the Rev. Thos. Collins.

COLEY, REV.SAMUEL. · 1870 · Chilton Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,016)

London: Wesleyan-Methodist Bookroom/ Kelly, nd.(1870). 0. 2nd edition. Rev. Thomas Collins (1810-1864). Pp.492, engraved portrait frontispiece, toning to endpapers. Blue pebbled cloth, gilt title to spine, publisher's name to base of spine is Kelly, bumps to corners. G+.

Gordon and the Sudan.

ALLEN, BERNARD. · 1931 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

London: Macmillan and Co Limited, 1931. 1st edition. Classic biography of the military hero General Gordon, who died in the Siege of Khartoum. Pp.xii/485/2(publisher's ads), black & white portrait frontispiece + 27 further illustrations and maps, 1cm marginal tear to pp.309/31...

Musical Reminiscences: Past and Present.

SPARK, DR WILLIAM. · 1892 · Chilton Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.Ltd, 1892. 1st edition. Pp.viii/316/5(catalogue), portrait frontispiece + 14 illustrations, owner's inkstamp (John Holgate) to title page and inner front endpaper, occasional light spotting. Red cloth, gilt title to front and spin...

The Soul's Triumph amid the Body's Wreck: A Memoir of John Carter.

DAMPIER, WILLIAM JAMES. · 1875 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co, 1875. A New Edition. "John Carter (31 July 1815 – 21 May 1850) was an English silk weaver and artist, who, after an accident left him paralysed from below the neck, learnt to draw, paint and write by holding the pencil, pen or brush in his mouth...

B.R.Haydon and His Friends.

PASTON, GEORGE. · 1905 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: James NIsbet & Co.Ltd, 1905. 1st edition. Pp.vi/306, engraved portrait frontispiece + 6 further illustrations. Green cloth, gilt title to front and spine, publisher's label (File Copy) to front board. G+. "Benjamin Robert Haydon (26 January 1786 – 22 June 1846) was an ...

The Marquis of Salisbury.

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

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London: James Nisbet & Co, 1892. 1st edition. Lives That Speak series. Pp.xii/235/8(publisher's catalogue), engraved portrait frontispiece, very clean and tight. Brown cloth, gilt title to front and spine, publisher's label to lower front board. VG.

Luther and the Cardinal. A Historic-Biographical Tale. (Given in English by Julie Sutter).

SUTTER, JULIE/ STEIN, ARMIN [NIETSCHMANN, HERMANN OTTO]. · 1890 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: The Religious Tract Society, nd (c.1890). . An adaptation from the German of Pastor Hermann Otto Nietschmann of Halle. "The story embodies Luther's struggle with the most powerful of his adversaries, the Elector Archbishop Cardinal Albrecht of Mainz, Primate of all Ger...

Portraits of Nobel Laureates in Peace. (with photographs).

WINTTERLE, JOHN AND CRAMER, RICHARD S. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Abelard-Schuman, 1971. 0200716786. Short memoirs of 53 Nobel Peace Prize winners. Ex convent college library. Pp.x/246, 53 black & white photo portraits, convent library stamps to front endpapers and title page, scuffing to front free endpaper. Black cloth. G+.