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BIOGRAPHY, LETTERS & DIARIES

First edition. As new.

William Beckford: A Bibliography

Jon Millington

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£60

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First edition, in fine condition with a very good dust jacket with minimal shelf wear. The jacket is very slightly foxed here and there on the inside. Contains several b&w photographs of Ber... read more

Lord Berners: Composer, Writer, Painter

Peter Dickinson

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£25

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First edition. Fine condition; very good dust jacket, with minimal shelf wear.

Lord Berners: The Last Eccentric

Mark Amory

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£20

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First edition. As new.

Maurice Bowra: A Life

Leslie Mitchell

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£20

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First edition. As new.

John Bute: An Informal Portrait

Maldwin Drummond

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£15

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First edition, in fine condition with a very good jacket. Spine slightly sun-faded.

Friends of Promise: Cyril Connolly and the World of “HorizonR ...

Michael Sheldon

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£15

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First edition. A fine copy, with a fine dust jacket.

Alfred Gilbey: A Memoir By Some Friends

Mark Bence-Jones et al.

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£30

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The author's recollections of Denys Lasdun, Mariga Guinness, John Summerson, Henry Lamb and many others in Girouard's circle. First edition. A fine copy, with a fine dust jacket. Old John Sa... read more

Friendships

Mark Girouard

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£15

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First edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket - marred only by creases to the lower back of the jacket.

Tarantula’s Web: John Hayward, T.S.Eliot And Their Circle ...

John Smart

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£60

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The writer's last book, a collection of snippets and opinions, written to his great-niece. First edition. As new, with a pristine dust jacket, the book appears unread. Herbert, who spent hal... read more

Relations and Revelations: Advice to Jemima

David Herbert

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£35

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First edition, in fine condition with a fine dust jacket: almost as new.

View From Downshire Hill

Elizabeth Jenkins

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£50

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First edition. As new, with a fine dust jacket - only two tiny (almost imperceptible) scratches on front cover.

A Bookseller’s War

Heywood & Anne Hill

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£20

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First edition, signed by the author. Fine book with a fine dust jacket: almost as new. Susanna and Nicky Johnston's joint obituary from The Times enclosed.

John Fleming and Hugh Honour: Remembered by Susanna Johnston ...

Susanna Johnston

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£30

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First edition in as new condition with fine dust jacket.

Family Matters

John Jolliffe

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£25

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The Countess of Limerick served the Red Cross for 60 years, and was in charge of the London division during the Blitz. She continued as an important figure in the British Red Cross and in th... read more

A Form of Gratitude: The Life of Angela Limerick

Donald Lindsay

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£15

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First edition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket, with slightly faded spine.

The Letters of Edwin Lutyens to his Wife, Lady Emily ...

Clayre Percy

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First edition, in fine condition with a fine dust jacket: almost as new. The scandal arising from the case between Sir Charles Mordaunt and his wife Harriett Moncrieffe, which involved an ap... read more

The Warwickshire Scandal

Elizabeth Hamilton

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£15

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The last twenty-four years of Edith Olivier's life, sensitively presented and edited by her great-great niece. She was a close friend of Rex Whistler, Stephen Tennant et al. First edition. I... read more

Edith Olivier: From Her Journals, 1924-48

Penelope Middleboe

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£30

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First edition. As new.

Grass Seed In June

John Martin Robinson

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£25

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First edition. Fine condition, almost as new.

Good Moments: A Publishing Retrospective

Michael Russell

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£15

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Limited edition: one of 500 copies. Fine condition, almost as new with minimal shelf wear. A handsome biography from Tartarus of this relatively niche writer, now experiencing a modest but w... read more

Denton Welch, Writer and Artist

James Methuen-Campbell

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£55

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First edition in very good condition with a very good dust jacket; some minor foxing to dust jacket and page block.

Grand Dukes and Diamonds: The Wernhers of Luton Hoo ...

Raleigh Trevelyan

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First edition of these entertaining diaries by a most determined (then young) woman. Fine condition, almost as new, if not for pages having yellowed a little with age.

To War with Whitaker: Wartime Diaries of the Countess of Ranfurly, 193 ...

Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly
Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly

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First edition. Numbered copy (44) out of 250. Fine book, almost as new, with a fine dust jacket. Slight scuffing at the head of the jacket spine.

Christopher Logue: A Bibliography 1952-97

George Ramsden

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£90

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Fine copy in a fine dustjacket, with bookseller's label fixed to the lower inside cover (John Sandoe's).

The Art of Duncan Grant

Simon Watney

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£50

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Fine copy in a very good dustjacket; the jacket has a 1cm nick at the lower front corner.

Duncan Grant and the Bloomsbury Group: An Illustrated Biography ...

Douglas Blair Turnbaugh

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First edition. As new, with a pristine dust jacket. Minimal shelf wear.

Derek Hill

Bruce Arnold

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£60

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First edition, second printing in fine condition with a near-fine dust jacket. The jacket has a couple of small scratches and a minimal amount of shelf wear to top edge.

John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: Lives in Art

Frances Spalding

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£25

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First edition. As new.

Martin Travers, 1886-1948: An Appreciation

Rodney Warrener & Michael Yelton

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£30

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First edition. As new.

Beckford’s Fonthill

Robert J. Gemmett

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£35

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First edition, fine condition, with minimal shelf wear. Blue John Sandoe bookseller label inside front cover.

Echoing Voices: More Memories of a Country House Snooper ...

John Harris

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£35

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First edition in very good condition with a very good dust jacket. Some foxing to top of page block, as well as to inside of boards and inside of dust jacket. Some almost imperceptible foxin... read more

Nancy Lancaster

Robert Becker

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£25

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First edition. As new.

Humphrey Repton’s Memoirs

George Carter

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£50

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Blowing hot and cold: an intense look at the relationship between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, using previously unpublished letters and other sources to explore their closeness and their late... read more

Didion & Babitz

Lili Anolik

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£10.99

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'Augustine of Hippo'... but where is Hippo? One of the central Catholic saints was an Algerian Berber: this account argues for the importance of his origins.

Augustine the African

Catherine Conybeare

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Considered controversial, Benson's superb diaries were sealed on his death. This selection shows the novelist, poet, don and Eton master to have been an acute and waspish commentator. 2 vols... read more

The Benson Diary

A.C. Benson

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£60

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