Search Results: Biography - miscellaneous from Godley Books

The Author, 2015. Flat signed by author to title page. No other marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to front cover, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 226pp. A biography of a very full life, including his time in the RAF and as a journalist. Illustrated.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8.5 x 5.5 inches.

London: Faber and Faber, 1932. No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. Clean pages in a tight binding with browning to end papers, clean, very faintly marked boards and minor bumping to corners. Top page edges dusty, front and bottom page edges rough cut and dusty. 288pp. Social history of Batth in Somerset in the 18th century, including Beau Nash. First edition, second impression.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 9 x 6 inches.

London: Hutchinson & Co, 1924. No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Very clean very tight pages with lightly marked/sunned boards, very sunned spine, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. 313pp. Biography of George Bryan (Beau) Brummell (1778-1940), an important figure in Regency England and an arbiter of men's fashion.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good (+)/No Jacket. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.

London: George G. Harrap & Co Ltd, 1921. Prize plate inside front board dated 1921. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean crisp very tight copy with slightly dusty boards and page edges and very minor bumping to corners. 191pp. Including Napolean, Mozart, Humphry Davy, Sir Walter Scott, Benjamin Franklin, Byron etc.. Hard Cover. Good (+)/No Jacket. Illus. by Patten Wilson and Chris Ambler. 7.5 x 5.25 inches.

London: Harrap, 1989. This book contains Bronx Primitive and A Wider World, now in one volume. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing to upper edge. 303pp. This book captures the immigrant neighbourhood of the Bronx in New York during the Depression years of the 1920s, told by the author, daughter of Polish Jewish immigrants who was brought up in a tenement block. It covers her life from the age of four when they arrived in the USA up to the threshold of womanhood with all its uncertainties and triumphs.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.

London: Blake Publishing, 2000. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, two small indents to front and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with very faint creasing to upper edge. 239pp. Autobiography of one of the hardest men in Britain, bouncer, bodyguard (to Harold Wilson), West Ham supporter and who once saved the life of Frank Bruno when four skinheads attacked him with knives.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.

London: Pavilion Books Ltd, 1985. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with rubbing to upper edge and signs of storage. 174pp. Autobiography of fashion model Marie Helvin, including her life with photographer David Bailey. A wealth of photographs of her, many taken by Bailey.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by David Bailey (photographs). 11 x 7.75 inches.

London: Longmans, Green & Roberts, 1860. Very minor foxing to a few pages. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A clean tight copy with slightly marked boards, label removal to front, dusty uncut page edges and minor bumping to corners. 434pp. Biographies of ten statesmen and one woman. From the Personal Library of the late Emeritus Professor Peter Townsend of Bristol University and the London School of Economics, Founding Professor of the University of Essex and founder of the Child Poverty Action Group. We are also selling a large number of other books from Professor Townsend's Collection including many of his signed and authored works.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 7.75 x 5.25 inches.

Wellington, Somerset: Ryelands Publishing, 2009. Signed by author to title page. No other marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked maroon cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with a little indenting and slight traces of storage. 184pp. The author's life growing up on a Cotswold farm during the fifteen years after the Second World War when life was so like the 1930s and before the huge changes in the 1960s. There is a strong element of horses throughout as the young Marion's mother trained the Badminton Horse Trials winner.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.

Clapham, North Yorkshire: Dalesman Books, 1978. No inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight traces of handling and no bumping to corners. The book is probably unread. 80pp. Over two dozen pen portraits of Derbyshire personalities who, for one reason or another, have been remembered beyond their own day and generation. They include canal engineer James Brindley, Derby artist Joseph Wright and Minstrel of the Peak William Newton. . Paperback. Near Fine. 8 x 5.25 inches.

London: Macmillan, 2011. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with slight marking to rear near foot of spine. 418pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.

Berlin: Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 1938. No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright blue coth boards with gilt lettering, verytiny mark to lower front edgeunmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 371pp. The story of Elizabeth Patterson, an American beauty at the start of the 19th century who was briefly married to Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia and youngest brother of Napoleon I. the All text in German.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (+)/No Jacket. 8 x 5.25 inches.

London: W H Allen, 1971. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and the tiniest of bumps to upper corners. Dust jacket price clipped with no marking, small repairs to spine ends and slight rubbing to edges. 200pp.. Hard Cover. Very Good (+)/Near Very Good. 9.5 x 6.25 inches.

London: The Cargate Press, 1946. Prize plate inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. 184pp. True stories of real people - David Jones, C E Tyndale-Biscoe, Henry Martyn, William Jackson, Sam Pollard and Clifford Harris.. Hard Cover. Near Fine. 7.25 x 5 inches.

Munchen: Verlag R. Piper & Co, 1933. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked coarse linen cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Very clear lettering/embossing to front and spine. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with a little rubbing to upper and lower edges and sunning to spine. Housed in a slightly sunned plain card slipcase in very good condition with some very minor bumping. 339pp. Edward VII of Great Britain and his time. Illustrated. All text in German. Scarce in the UK.. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 9.75 x 6.75 inches.

London: Gall and Inglis, 1887. Presentation plate inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked bevelled edge boards, very slight rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. The very attractive front cover and spine are gilt, red and pale blue floral embossing on green and all page edges are gilt. All the examples of gilt are very bright and the page edges very glossy. 224pp. Christianity and morality intertwine this story of Amos Lawrence, a businessman with the Protestant ethic who was born around 1790 and died in 1852. Undated but date on presentation plate of 1887.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 7 x 4.75 inches.

Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1835. Name/date to front end paper. No other added marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. Clean very tight foxed pages with unmarked boards, rubbed leather corners and board edges. Ribbed leather spine with one compartment of spine strip missing although title present and intact. Front board hinge a little fragile. 412pp. Family crest bookplate inside front board of Alderman Dakin who was Lord Mayor-elect of London in 1870. Biographical memoir of Charles Lamb (14 pages) followed by over 70 short articles being memoirs, events, philosphy etc. Tucked in is an internet article on the Dakin family, history and motto which is to be found on the family crest.. Half-Leather. Good. 8.5 x 5.25 inches.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1998. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 104pp. The moving story of the lives of his parents, told in cartoons in the inimitable style of Raymond Briggs, writer of The Snowman.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 9.25 x 6,25.

London: W & R Chambers Ltd, 1900. Tech school presentation plate inside front board. No other added marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to sunned spine. A well read copy with dull unmarked boards, dusty page edges, one loose soiled page and no bumping to corners. ca 500pp. Nineteen biographical sketches including James Watt, Nelson, George Stephenson, Earl of Dundonald, Louis Napoleon, Cook, George Washington, Sir Walter Scott, Peter the Great, Columbus, William Penn and Alexander Selkirk. Undated ca 1900 (from presentation plate).. Hard Cover. Fair. 7 x 5 inches.

London: Bloomsbury Circus, 2015. Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked white cloth boards, slight bumping to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Matt black dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to upper edge. 243pp. The author's memoirs of how the effect of light slowly took over her life until at best, she could only venture outside at dawn or dusk.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8.75 x 5.5 inches.