Biografia

Last Changes Last Chances.

NEVINSON, H.W. · 1928 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: Nisbet & Co.Ltd, 1928. 1st edition. Third volume of memoirs, continuing on from the author's return from Berlin after the declaration of war on August 4th 1914 and ending in Palestine in 1926. Pp.xviii/361, black & white portrait frontispiece + 14 further black & white...

A Knight that Smote the Dragon or The Young People's Gough.

RAND, EDWARD A. · 1892 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

London: James Nisbet & Co, 1892. 1st edition. Young person's biography of the great Temperance orator, John B.Gough. "The life of Gough gives a summons to all to move upon that beastly, cruel enemy, Drink. If under the Dragon's foot today, do not any despair. In the strength o...

Rufus M. Jones. (Quaker Biographies series).

HOXIE JONES, MARY. · 1970 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Friends Home Service Committee, 1970. New edition. Includes a new preface by Edwin B.Bronner, Professor of History at Haverford College, Philadelphia..also a revised bibliography of Rufus Jones' writings, and a new portrait of him as a frontispiece. Pp.70, black & whit...

Ups and Downs. Diaries 1972-1975.

PARTRIDGE, FRANCES. · 2001 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001. 0297607170. 1st edition. "Frances Partridge is recognised as one of the great British diarists. She began writing her diaries at the start of the Second World War but only to publish them in her seventies." Frances Partridge was the last su...

Curator of the Dead. Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866). Doctor and Campaigner for Human Rights.

ROSE, MICHAEL. · 1981 · Chilton Books

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London: Peter Owen, 1981. 072060527X. 1st edition. "In 1837 Thomas Hodgkin stood on the threshold of a brilliant medical career. As Lecturer in Morbid Anatony and Curator of the Museum at Guy's Hospital Medical School, Hodgkin was recognised as the outstanding English patholog...

Freelancing. Adventures of a Poet.

WILLIAMS, HUGO. · 1995 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: Faber and Faber, 1995. 0571175759. Uncorrected Proof. "I had thought of calling the book 'All Over the Place', as the best description of its contents, One minute I'm in Central America with Judas Iscariot, the next I'm back at prep school. One minute I'm going out dre...

Life With Glorious John. A Portrait of Sir John Barbirolli.

BARBIROLLI, EVELYN. · 2002 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London: Robson Books, 2002. 1861054742. 1st edition. Biography of Sir John Barbirolli (1899-1970), former conductor with the Halle Ochestra, by his wife, the oboist Evelyn (nee Rothwell). "offers a unique insight into the life and mind of a celebrated conductor. Barbirolli's i...

Ulric Zwingle.

GOSSE, ROBERT WILKES. · 1892 · Chilton Books

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London: James Nisbet & Co, 1892. Lives That Speak series. Pp.160/publisher's ads to end, portrait frontispiece. Brown cloth, gilt title to front and spine, publisher's labels to front board. G+.

John Wesley. (Great English Churchmen series).

HUTTON, WILLIAM HOLDEN. · 1927 · Chilton Books

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.49 | ¥2,953)

London: Macmillan and Co.Ltd, 1927. 1st edition. "Though there have been among English religious leaders some who were certainly wiser, and perhaps better, men, there has never been one who made so great a mark upon the history of the country, and, it may be, even more, beyond...

Dominican Martyrs of Great Britain.

DEVAS, RAYMUND. · 1912 · Chilton Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London: Burns & Oates, 1912. A short account of three Dominicans who laid down their lives for the Faith in Great Britain, Father John Black, Venerable Robert Nutter, and Father David Joseph Kemeys, with an appendix on Venerable Arthur M'Geoghan and Venerable Gerald Dillon. Pp...

The Life of George Muller. (Heroes of the Faith series).

HARDING, WILLIAM H. · 1985 · Chilton Books

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New Jersey: Barbour & Company Inc, 1985. 091644113X. George Müller (1805-1898). "George Müller is noted for his care of orphans in England, his long evangelistic career, and above all, for his commitment to prayer." Pp.383/7(index), gift message to title page. Blue leatherette...

In My Blood: A Man in Trouble Lured to the Middle East and Africa by Cash and Soldiering.

WAGGETT, GREG. · 2007 · Chilton Books

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Haywards Heath: Oak Publishing, 2007. 9780955704703. 1st edition. "This book is about a man drawn into the world of private security and logistics after he is forced to quit his business..His fascinating and vivid accounts are written with verve and pace. They take you not jus...

Ebor: A History of the Archbishops of York. From Paulinus to Maclagan 627-1908.

TINDAL HART, A. · 1986 · Chilton Books

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York: William Sessions Limited/The Ebor Press, 1986. 1850720029. 1st edition. Pp.viii/188/8 pages containing 25 black & white plates to end, inscribed by the author "With all good wishes from the Author: A.Tindal Hart. St Valentine 1988" to half-title page. Paperback. VG.

The Life of John Knox.

MCCRIE, REV. THOMAS. · 1889 · Chilton Books

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London: Thomas Nelson, 1889. With Biographical Notices f the Principal Reformers, and Sketches of the Progress of Literature in Scotland, During a Great Part of the 16th Century. Pp.xii/294, small tear to top of front free endpaper. Green cloth, black title and portrait image ...

Discovering Dorothea. The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-Hunter Dorothea Bate.

SHINDLER, KAROLYN. (SIGNED). · 2005 · Chilton Books

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London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005. 0002571382. 1st edition. "In 1898, a 19 year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum in South Kensington and demanded a job. At the time, no women were employed there as scientists, but for the determined Dorothea Bate this was ...

A Gilded Vagabond.

HINDELL, KEITH. · 2012 · Chilton Books

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Brighton: Book Guild Publishing, 2012. 9781846246920. 1st edition. Chronicles the first 50 years of a rewarding life and reflects not only on the author's schools (he won a scholarship to Harrow) but on the army, the BBC, the United Nations and the United States, all seen thro...

The Adventures of a Manchurian. The Story of Lobsang Thondup.

MANGEOT, SYLVAIN. · 1974 · Chilton Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London: Collins, 1974. 0002160021. 1st edition. "Lobsang Thondup, a Manchurian who assumed a Tibetan name for reasons which are divulged at the end of the book, was obliged to join the Japanese Air Force. Later while still in his early twenties he held the rank of colonel, fir...

Joseph Garibaldi: Patriot and Soldier.

COWELL, R. CORLETT. · 1897 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London: Charles H.Kelly, 1897. 1st edition. Biography of the Italian general and politician. Garibaldi was a central figure in the Italian Risorgimento, since he personally commanded and fought in many military campaigns that led eventually to the formation of a unified Italy....

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

PARSONS, W.G.L. · 2005 · Chilton Books

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Wells: W.G.L.Parsons, nd.(c.2005). Previously published in the 'Monograph' series by J.Stevens-Cox, F.S.A, Toucan Press. Pp.12, black & white photo of the 10 feet high granite column close by Hardy's Birthplace at Higher Bockhampton erected to his memory by a few American admi...

Sir John Fastolfe. A Medieval 'Man of Property'.

CROSLAND, JESSIE. · 1970 · Chilton Books

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London: Peter Owen,1970. 1st edition. "Sir John Fastikfem wgi dued ub 1459, became one of the richest knights in England. He owned ninety-four manrs, including Caister Castle and Blickling Hall, both in Norfolk. He made a fortune out of ransoms and booty acquired during the la...