GENERAL BIOGRAPHY from Chilton Books

Aldeburgh: The Aldeburgh Bookshop, 1997.. 1st edition. Outline of the life of "an intrepid Aldeburgh lady who, in the later 19th century, did so much to shape English society that - in the early 20th century - she could sit on Aldeburgh council and become its mayor, and that - in the later 20thcentury - it has become wholly… Read more about this item

Ryde, Isle of Wight: Greaves & Thomas, 2014.. 1st edition. "Donald McGill is the greatest and most famous British comic postcard artist of all time....The book explains how a man from a very straight-laced and highly respectable Victorian background virtually created and came to be associated with thr saucy seaside postcard. It describes his skirmishes with the censors and the… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1960.. 1st edition. A personal account of an individual African's experiences and impressions of the differences between East and South Africa in their contact with Westernisation. "Noni Jabavu's first book is a picture of the life lived by her Bantu people in South Africa, with its background of Boer and British settlement, its 'Apartheid',… Read more about this item

London: Atlantic Books, 2011.. 2nd impression. "A vivid depiction of the British government's handling of an unprecedented global financial catastrophe. Alistair Darling's knowledge and understanding provide a unique erspective on the events that rocked international capitalism." Pp.xiv/338, signed by the author to title page, 15 colour photo illustrations. Black boards, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

London: HarperCollins Entertainment, 2003.. Autobiography of the American climber, whose most famous climb was the first free ascent of The Nose on Yosemite's El Capitan - 3000 feet of vertical rock which she climbed in under 23 hours, without gear, and much of the time in darkness. Pp.xvi/270, 16 pages of colour photos + occasional black & white photos. Paperback,… Read more about this item

London: Little, Brown and Company, 2000.. 1st edition. An effective politician, a charismatic personality - The definitive biography of Mo Mowlam. Pp.xii/324, 16 pages of photos and illustrations, inscribed "To Peter - Hope you enjoy it! Mo Mowlam" to title page. Black boards, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

New York: E.P.Dutton and Company, 1907.. French hiistory looking at the lives of four women: - Madame Vigee Le Brun; La Marquise de Montagu; Madame Tallien; and Madame de Genlis. Pp.xxiv/485, frontispiece + 29 further sepia and black & white plates, cracking to inner hinges but holding, armorial bookplate (Polish?) to inside front board. Blue cloth, gilt decorated… Read more about this item

London: Chapman & Hall, 1922.. 2nd impression. Ulster born surgeon James Johnston Abraham's account of his experiences during the First World War when he served as medical officer with the Serbian, Egyptian and Portuguese armies, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He coped with inadequate supplies, outbreaks of typhoid, scarlet fever, recurrent fever, smallpox and a typhus epidemic.… Read more about this item

London: George G.Harrap & Co.Ltd, 1955.. 1st edition. The life-story of "The man with the loudest voice in the Army", who retired after thirty-eight years of continuous service, twenty-five of them as a warrant officer. He took part in many Royal occasions. He appeared, playing himself, in the film about the Guards Armoured Division, "They Were Not Divided". … Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1932.. 1st British edition, With an introduction by Booth Tarkington..Autobiography of Olga Konstantinovna Kleinmichel Woronoff. Her memories of childhood and experiences of life in Russia before the Revolution of 1917. She describes the deeply religious Russian Orthodox life of her aristocratic family and the frightening period of the Great War… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 2011.. 1st edition. "Lancelot Bown changed the face of eighteenth century England, designing country estates and mansions, moving hills and making flowing lakes and serpentine rivers, a magical world of green....Jane Brown paints an unforgettable picture of the man, his work, his happy domestic life, and his crowded world." Pp.xvi/384, 23 colour illustrations +… Read more about this item

London: BBC, 1983.. Joseph McPherson, a classical scholar with an Oxford degree in Natural Sciences, a linguist, athlete and determined individualist, arrived in Egypt in 1901. He fell in love with the country, its people and customs and stayed there until his death in 1946. During that time he wrote thousands of pages of letters home and this volume… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press, 1983.. Reprint with corrections and including the poem "A Bouquet for Tunbridge Wells" by the author's friend John Hall. . "A book about growing up in a prosperous community in the south-east of England in the twenties and thirties. It is a chronicle of largely harmless snobbery and pretensions; of the… Read more about this item

London: Secker & Warburg, 1947.. 1st edition. "This is the first biography to make use of the diary of Shelley's first sweetheart, Harriet Grove; a number of letters bearing on his wife; basic information on a domestic tragedy whose effects on his work during 1818 have been almost unknown; the full story of the "daughter" of Shelley and… Read more about this item

Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2003.. 1st edition. "The Soho dandy Julian Maclaren-Ross led an extraordinary life. Next to him, the conventional icons of :London bohemia, among them Francis Bacon and Jeffrey Bernard, appear models of stability and restraint....His earnings never matched his extravagant spending. More often than not pursued by a posse of bailiffs, he led a nomadic existence, flitting… Read more about this item

Thirsk: White Rose Books / Hutton Press Ltd, 2000.. 1st edition. "Bill Foggitt may not have achieved the international repute of James Herriot, who lived only a few miles from him, but this weather sage of North Yorkshire, whose quirky methods of forecasting relied on the mysterious behaviour of plants, insects, animals and birds, has fascinated millions, as well… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan & Co.Ltd, 1945.. 1st edition. With some account of William and Richard Martin. "In 1829 Jonathan Martin, brother of John Martin, the famous painter of "Belshazzar's Feast", became infamous by setting fire to York Minster.... In childhood his sister was murdered before his eyes; as a young man he was press-ganged for the Navy...and made… Read more about this item

London: The London Music Publishing Company, Limited, 1889.. 1st edition. Autobiography of the Victorian English operatic, oratorio and ballad tenor vocalist. Pp.viii/280/ 4 (publisher's catalogue), portrait frontispiece + further black & white plates, brown floral endpapers, owner's name to front free endpaper, cracking to inner front hinge but holding. Dark blue/green cloth, gilt titles to front and… Read more about this item

London: Art & Educational Publishers Ltd, 1949.. 1st edition. Biography of the Austrian tenor and film actor, by his wife. Pp.237, black & white frontispiece + 35 further photo illustrations, gift message (in German) to front free endpaper, 5cm marginal tear to last page of preface - not affecting text. Dark pink cloth, git title to spine dulled, spine… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1926.. 1st combined edition.Charles Ricketts binding. Contents: I. Reveries over Childhood and Youth (1914); II.The Trembling of the Veil 1922) - i.Four Years:1887-1891; ii.Ireland after Parnell; iii.Hodos Chameliontos; iv.The Tragic Generation; v.The Stirring of the Bones; Notes - I.The Hermetic Students; II.The Vision of an Archer. Pp.viii/477, portrait frontispiece photogravure + colour tipped-in… Read more about this item