Biografia

My Life in Basuto Land. A Story of Missionary Enterprise in South Africa. (Translated from the French by J. Brierley).

CASALIS, EUGENE. · 1889 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London: The Religious Tract Society, 1889. The author sketches for us his early life in France, his spiritual education and development, and his pioneer work in South Africa. Pp.293/6(ads), grey floral endpapers. Blue cloth, gilt title to front and spine, slightly rubbed. Scar...

Walter Howard Frere. Bishop of Truro: A Memoir.

PHILLIPS, C.S. ET AL. · 1947 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London: Faber & Faber, 1947. 1st ed. "Walter Howard Frere (1863-1938), sometime Bishop of Truro, and a member of the Community of the Resurrection, was one of the greatest figures of the Anglican church this century..a portrait of the man, with studies, by those most qualified...

Charles H. Spurgeon: The Essex Lad Who Became the Prince of Preachers.

ALLEN, JAMES T. · 1931 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: Pickering & Inglis, nd.(c.1931). Memoirs of Mighty Men series. Pp.63, 8 b/w plates, gift message to fep. Illustrated boards, edges slightly rubbed. Scarce. VG.

We Do See Life ! Faith, Hope and Comedy in the "Underworld" of London.`

MORSE-BOYCOTT, DESMOND . · 1931 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

London: Skeffington & Son, Ltd. 34 Paternoster Row, 1931 . First edition. 8vo. pp.288 . Illustrated with 17 black & white pictures full-page plates (including the frontispiece), author's armorial bookplate signed and dated (1973) to inside front board, occasional light spottin...

Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

BRIDGE, HORATIO. · 1893 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: James R.Osgood, 1893. The author was a former Paymaster-General of the US Navy. Pp.16/223, b/w portrait frontis. + 7 further b/w plates, slight cracking to inner hinges but boards secure. Green cloth, gilt roundel to front,gilt title to spine, edges rubbed. G+.

A Missionary Pilgrimage.

RANSON, CHARLES W. · 1988 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Grand Rapids: William B Eerdmans, 1988. 0802803199. 1st ed. "In recording his career, Ranson offers warm - and sometimes frankly honest - insights into the people and events that figured prominently in the international ecumenical and mission community for nearly 50 years." Pp...

Surprised by Joy.

LEWIS, C.S. · 1978 · Chilton Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

Glasgow: Collins/Fount, 1978. 0006238157. Rep. "You can take it at two levels, as straight autobiography, or as a kind of spiritual thriller, a detective's probing of clue and motive that led up to his return to the Christianity he had lost in childhood."(Isabel Quigley, Sunda...

George Bell. Bishop of Chichester.

JASPER, RONALD C.D. · 1967 · Chilton Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London: Oxford University Press, 1967. 0. 1st ed. Biography of the Bishop of Chichester, George Bell. "His work in the Nazi and post-Nazi periods to support and succour Christians in Germany, and other sufferers from oppression and war, was indefatigable..His dramatic wartime ...

George Thomas. The Rt. Hon. Viscount Tonypandy. (Heroes of the Cross series).

SWIFT, CATHERINE. · 1990 · Chilton Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

London: Marshall Pickering, 1990. 0551020296. 1st ed. Memoir/profile of the former Speaker of the House of Commons, who was also a Methodist preacher. Pp.74, slight toning to pages. Pbk, minor scuffing to rear. G+.

Hawthorne and his Circle.

HAWTHORNE, JULIAN. · 1903 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

New York: Harper & Brothers,1903. 1st ed. Biography of the writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, by his son. Top edge gilt. Pp.22/372, b/w portrait frontis. + 15 further b/w plates, rough-cut page edges. Brown cloth, gilt decorated title to front, and gilt title to spine. VG.

Plus James: A Bishop Looks Back.

HOUSDEN, JAMES. · 1995 · Chilton Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

Melbourne: Anglican Media, 1995. 1875650679. Memoirs of the former Bishop of Rockhampton, Australia. Pp.186. Pbk. VG.

A Westminster Pilgrim. Being a Record of Service in Church, Cathedral, and Abbey, College, University, and Concert-Room with a Few Notes on Sport.

BRIDGE, SIR FREDERICK. · 0 · Chilton Books

£21.00 (€25.17 | $27.74 | ¥4,430)

London: Novello & Co,nd. Pp.18/363, 30 illustrations, 2 in colour, including frontis, inscription to fep, minor spotting to edges and endpapers. Brown cloth with gilt illustration of Westminster to front, gilt title to spine. VG.

T.S.Eliot. The Philosopher Poet.

DALE, ALZINA STONE. · 1988 · Chilton Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

Wheaton: Harold Shaw, 1988. 0877888329. "..through her study of T.S.Eliot, Alzina Stone Dale discovered 'an appealing, highly intelligent, shy, and serious-minded man, with a hidden fondness for friendship and fun, one who spoke in the voice of a major prophet'." Pp.209. Brown...

Defender of the Church of England. The Biography of Ronald Ralph Williams, Bishop of Leicester.

PEART-BINNS, JOHN S. · 1984 · Chilton Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.06 | ¥4,641)

Oxford: The Amate Press, 1984. 0947561080. 1st ed. "His early life, coming from a non-conformist background, his path to Ordination, work for the Church Missionary Society and then during the War, for the Ministry of Information are thoroughly explored as is his period as Prin...

Chalk and Churches.

TRICKER, ROY. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Ipswich: Brechinset Publications, 1986. 0947681655. "No ordinary 'church-crawler' this, but one whose life is bound by religion in three major facets - teaching, preaching and a long-standing interest in church buildings." Pp.67, 4 pages of b/w photo illustrations. Stiff card ...

Friend of the Frontier: The Story of Dr Theodore Pennell of North India.

SINKER, MARGARET. · 1947 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London: Highway Press, nd. (c.1947). Hardback. Biographical sketch of the Anglican missionary doctor. Pp.77, map endpapers, owners name to inner endpaper. Black, blue and tan illustrated boards, edges rubbed. VG.

William Wallace: A Scots Life.

TELFER, GLENN. · 1995 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Argyll: Argyll Publishing, 1995. 1874640467. 1st ed. Scots Legends series. ".the first serious biography, for younger and new readers in Scots, of one of the country's key historical figures." Text written in Scots dialect. Pp.95. Pbk. VG.

Thomas Cranmer.

MASON, ARTHUR JAMES. · 1898 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

London: Methuen, 1898. Leaders of Religion series. Biographical study of Archbishop Cranmer, an important figure in the English Reformation. Pp.12/203/40(ads), portrait frontispiece, tissue-guard browning, spotting to endpapers. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, edges slightly ...

Georgiana.

MASTERS, BRIAN. · 1999 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Allison & Busby, 1999. 0749002697. Rep. "Biography of Lady Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806). Pp.12/324, 6 pages of b/w illustrations. Pbk. VG.

The Red Air Fighter. (With preface and explanatory notes by C.G.Grey - editor of 'The Aeroplane' ).

RICHTHOFEN, MANFRED VON. · 1967 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Bath: Cedric Chivers, 1967. Reprint of the original 1918 edition, at the request of the London & Home Counties Branch of the Library Association. Ex Library. Auto biography of 'The Red Baron'. "'The Red Air Fighter' is the autobiography of the man who was probably Germany's gr...