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This section of the Hall of Books website is devoted to biography, autobiography, memoirs, diaries, letters and other similar items. Further categories will be created as a our inventory develops.
Tenth edition hardback, 1902, with no jacket. In overall good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - boards a touch faded to spine and rubbed to edges. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; toning to page-ends but text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. View More...
"Undated hardback in the Gall & Inglis Elvan Series, c. 1899 (dated prize plate to front pastedown), with decorated illustrated boards and no jacket as published. In overall good used condition with only minor signs of handling and storage - boards slightly marked, edges rubbed and corners rounded. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions - prize-plate to front pastedown dated 1899; toning to page-ends but text bright and clear throughout. Includes biographies on Dr. Arnold, Dr. Chalmers, Robert Hall, John Foster, Thomas Clarkson, Sir Thomas F... View More...
Undated hardback, circa 1900, with no dust jacket. In overall very good good condition - red cloth boards, with gilt and black decorative titles to spine and front, are a little soiled and spine tanned, spine head and tail slightly rubbed. Binding tight and square, no annotations or inscriptions - ffep has been cut to remove previous owner's details; page-ends and prelims lightly tanned but text and illustrations clean and clear throughout. Four books in one binding - frontispiece plates of the subject at the beginning of each book still retain tissue-paper guards. An excellent copy from a pr... View More...
First edition hardback with an introduction by John Davies, 2004, in an unclipped jacket. In overall near fine used condition with only slight signs of age, handling and storage. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears almost unread; no annotations or inscriptions; text bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. View More...
Limited edition (500 copies) paperback, 1974, in overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no annotation or inscriptions; text and poetry facsimile bright clear throughout. Not an old library book. View More...
"First paperback edition, 1994, in overall near fine used condition with only slight signs of handling and storage. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions - trace of old price to half-title page; text, map and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Photograph available." View More...
"First American edition hardback, 1973, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - light rubbing to edges. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; text bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Photograph available." View More...
"New edition hardback including 27 new plates, 1941, with unclipped jacket. In overall good condition - dj is generally worn and chipped with creasing to spine; original beige cloth boards, with brown titles to spine and front, are slightly tanned to edges and spine tail bumped. Binding tight - the page containing plate no. 93 has a slight printing defect to page-edge where a small section has not been trimmed and stands proud, becoming worn - plate completely unaffected. No annotations - tiny gift inscription to bottom-edge of rear ffep dated 1942; text and plates (120 plates in total, includ... View More...
"First UK edition hardback, 1991, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good condition with only minor signs of handling and storage - dj a little rubbed to edges. Internally very clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. From a private collection, not an old library book. Photograph available." View More...
"First UK paperback edition, 2004, in overall very good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - crease to rear cover lh lower corner. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no annotations or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Photograph available." View More...
"First US edition hardback, 1945, with unclipped jacket. In overall good used condition in a fair dj with minor signs of age, handling and storage - dj complete but tatty to edges (now protected); blue cloth boards slightly rubbed. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read; no annotations - brief gift inscription to ffep dated 1948; light tanning to page-ends but text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. " View More...
"Omnibus Press hardback edition in the Illustrated Lives Of The Great Composers series, 1989, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of handling and storage - dj slightly rubbed to edges with a couple of nicks at at spine head; black cloth boards clean and crisp. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Photograph available." View More...
"US edition hardback, 1948, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of handling and storage - dj lightly shelfworn. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; pages slightly toned, text clean and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Photograph available." View More...
"First Mayflower-Dell edition paperback (no.7023), 1965, in overall good-to-very good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - rubbing to edges and faint crease to front cover. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; tanning to page-ends but text bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Photograph available." View More...
"Revised edition hardback, 1974, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good to near fine used condition with only slight signs of age, handling and storage. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; slight toning to page-ends but text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Photograph available." View More...
"First UK edition hardback, 1986, with unclipped jacket. In overall near fine condition with only slight signs of handling and storage - dj faded to spine. Internally very clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; text and illustrations clean and clear throughout. From a private collection, not an old library book." View More...
"First UK paperback edition, 2010, in overall very good used condition with only minor signs of handling and storage. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read, gift inscription to half-title page and one or two neglibible annotations in the text; text bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Photograph available." View More...
"First edition first printing hardback, 1975, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - dj spine slightly faded. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Photograph available." View More...
"First edition hardback, 1930, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good condition, dj is chipped and creased to edges, spine tanned and small label to spine; original red cloth boards, with gilt titles to spine, are clean and crisp. Binding tight, no annotations or inscriptions, text and plates clean and bright throughout. Frontispiece of Jeanne-Marie Philipon from a contemporary portrait retains its tissue-paper guard. This is a particulalry clean and tidy copy from a private collection, not ex-library." View More...
"First UK edition hardback, 1987, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good to near fine condition - dj is protected in removable clear film. Binding tight, no annotations or inscriptions, text clean and clear throughout. Includes two period photographic postcards of James Dean." View More...
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