Biography - English - General from Goldring Books

London: J.M. Dent, 1954. Gilt title on green cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is light foxing to fore and lower closed edges (top edge stained green), the name cliff in small letters to front endpaper else a very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket has age marks and chipping.… Read more

London: Harper Collins, 2009. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition First Impression. vii + 312 pages. 31 illustrations. Photographic endpapers. Born Vera Welch in 1917, Dame Vera Lynn's career began at just seven years old when she sang professionally in East End Working Men's Clubs. A successful… Read more

Belfast: Appletree Press, 2005. An As New copy in pictorial laminated boards in an As New dustjacket. First Edition, First Printing. 206 pages. An affectionate look at two very different lives lived in tandem but intertwined by country house life on the Ards Peninsula in County Down. Castle Ward (now held by The National Trust) and Ballywhite House… Read more

London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1990. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format volume of 224 pages. Illustrated throughout. In the book the author vividly evokes the small, everyday pleasures of a close family life in Victorian London: joyful Christmases, blissful holidays in Cornwall, escapades with her brothers, schooldays… Read more

London: Century, 2010. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from some age toning to part of lower closed edge) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. xi + 289 pages. 19 illustrations. Ronnie Barker was one of our most respected and best loved comedy actors and here, in this fascinating… Read more

London: Profile, 2019. An As New unmarked copy with an As New dustjacket. First Edition, First Printing. 231 pages. 27 illustrations. One November day in 1958, the celebrated historian Hugh Trevor-Roper received a curious letter. It was an appeal for help, written on behalf of a postgraduate student at Magdalen College, who complained that he was being… Read more

London: Faber and Faber, 2015. An As New copy with As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. The play starring Maggie Smith and directed by Nicholas Hytner received great acclaim. It is a bittersweet comic diary of the years in which a lethally dotty and very smelly old bat parked her unroadworthy vehicle… Read more

Richmon, North Yorkshire: Aztec, 1986. A near Fine unmarked copy. 130 pages. When the Stacey family returned to Wensleydale on leave from India where their father was a Major in the Indian Army, they did not know that the outbreak of the Second World War would necessitate their remaining in the dale for a lon, long time. The three little… Read more

London: Harper Collins, 2005. A near Fine Copy (Fine apart from evidence of a pencilled price erasure to front endpaper) in a near Fine Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition First Printing. 390 pages. 47 illustrations. In 1898, a 19 year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum in South Kensington and demanded a job.… Read more

London: Haus, 2015. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 288 pages. 34 colour plates and numerous illustrations in the text. Posted to Kathmandu in 1820 as a junior political officer, Brian Hodgson found himself isolated and trapped in a fiercely xenophobic mountain kingdom that seemed bent on making war on the all-powerful British… Read more

Norwich: Michael Russell, 2005. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped and has fading to spine. 272 pages. 38 illustrations. Frank Fletcher was one of the towering headmasters of his day. Master of Marlborough at 33 and the first layman to head a major public school. For 20 years he was Headmaster of Charterhouse… Read more

London: Simon and Schuster, 2014. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page with no dedication. A near Fine unmarked copy which has age toning to page edges with near Fine dustjacket (Fine apart from a single quarter inch tear to top edge) which is not price clipped. x + 278 pages. 25 coloured photographs. In 2002… Read more

London: Century, 2002. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from age toning to top edge and page edges) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, First printing. xi + 398 pages. 40 illustrations. Here for the first time and in his own infectious style, David Bellamy tells the story of how he came to… Read more

London: Bloomsbury, 1998. Gold title on black quarter cloth with grey boards which have a blind embossed motif of John Lennon and his facsimile signature. A minor bump to top front corner tip else a very clean, tight and unmarked copy with no former ownership marks - a near ine copy. Dustjacket has light rubbing and is not price clipped… Read more

London: Chameleon, 1998. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format volume of 143 pages. Profusely illustrated. Foreword by David Jason. Ronnie Barker was undoubtedly one of the most successful British comedians ever. He was also, by common consent, one of the greatest comedic actors of his generation. What was less known… Read more

London: Grafton Books, 1986. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a few marks to top edge) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xix + 588 pages. 64 illustrations. Throughout the Second World War and the Cold War which followed, Britain's Secret Service was compromised by a group of privileged, Cambridge-educated Englishmen who consistently betrayed… Read more

London: Victor Gollancz, 1993. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 272 pages. 43 photographs. The writer, fashion guru, painter, poet-performer and media personality recounts her life story in which nothing is held back, witty, sexy, totally honest and reveals a funny, talented and generous woman. 43 photographs. 301. First Edition.… Read more

London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1986. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. x + 235 pages. 32 illustrations. Charles Forte was born at four in the morning at the height of a violent thunderstorm in a remote hill-top village in Italy. He developed breathing problems, and looked like leaving the world before the morning… Read more

London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xviii + 340 pages. 30 illustrations. When Una Troubridge (1887-1963) died at the age of 76 part of the inscription she had instructed her executors to put on her coffin read: Una Vincenzo Troubridge, The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. It is clear that Una… Read more

London: Collins Willow, 2003. A near Fine copy which has a small mark to the margin of one page with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, First printing. 336 pages. 48 illustrations. Written by the only journalist to have ridden on the road with Barry Sheene and featuring interviews with fellow riders, team bosses… Read more