Anglophile Nonfiction A-F from Anglophile Books

Harmondsworth, England: Penguin. Good+. c1942,1971. Reprint. Softcover; Mass Market PB. Spine and cover creases, covers have light edgewear and soil. Pages age browned but not brittle; interior pages clean, none loose. ; <B>Here is a brilliantly funny account of Monica Dickens' one year of nurse training. The book is full of cheerful impudence, an astute power… Read more about this item

NY: St Martin's Press. Very Good in Very Good dust wrapper. 1989. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Spine ends bumped, pages pale tan; no binding problems, pages clean. White dust wrapper flaps pale tan, dw edgeworn and lightly creased. ; <b>A moving and powerful autobiography of Group Captain Sir Hugh Dundas CBE, DSO, DFC, one of… Read more about this item

San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company. Very Good. c1994, 1995. First Paperback Edition. Softcover; Trade PB. No spine or cover creases, light edgewear and rubbing, a few smudges to page edges.; <b>'Misogynist, anti-Semite, misanthrope--Roald Dahl was reputed to be these as well as war hero, devoted father, and philanthropist.' This unauthorized biography is "an honest yet… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust wrapper. 2007. First British Edition. Hardcover. 254 pages. Spine ends very lightly bumped. Unclipped dust wrapper faintly edgeworn. A very nice copy of a lovely book.; <b>The companion to the BBC series, the author follows the footsteps of eight early and legendary explorers of Britain. From Gerald… Read more about this item

London: Virago Press. Very Good. 1985. Softcover; Trade PB. 390 pages. Light spine creases and edgewear, small skinned area on back cover, yellowed pages as is common with Virago Press editions; pages clean, none loose. ; <B>A collection of articles and reviews from publications such as the Manchester Guardian, the Daily Herald, and Time and… Read more about this item

London: Granta Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust wrapper. 2007. First British Edition. Hardcover. 274 pages. A new book with very faint edgewear to unclipped dust wrapper.; <b>In an effort to find out what the English really think, the author spent six months in postal code S66, 'the most typical postcode area in the country'. He… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good+ dust wrapper. 1977. Hardcover. 13 maps and 413 pages. Lovely navy blue cloth covered boards with gilt on spine. Spine ends faintly bumped, previous owner name and date on front pastedown. Pages light brown, edges darker; interior pages clean. Unclipped dust wrapper has $ on price indicating… Read more about this item

Toronto: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 319 pages. Spine ends lightly bumped, faint sunning to bottom edge, faint foxing top page edges. Unclipped dust wrapper has faint edgewear and very light scoring on back panel. A nice copy. ; <B>Between 1870 and 1914 one hundred American women married… Read more about this item

London: HMSO. Near Fine. 1995. Softcover; Trade PB. 154 pages. Very faint edgewear; book looks unread.; <B>Preface by Sir Harry Secombe; from the back cover "This series explores the vast changes that took place in people's lives over the first seventy years of this century through cuttings chosen from hundreds of newspapers, both national and regional, … Read more about this item

NY: Knopf. Very Good in Very Good+ dust wrapper. 2005. First US Edition. Hardcover. <b>Basis for the film "The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton". </b>; Spine ends bumped, one corner bumped revealing boards, a few page edges creased; pages clean and bright, no binding problems. Cream unclipped dust wrapper very lightly soiled, faint edgewear. A nice copy.;… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Near Fine. 1999. Softcover; Trade PB. 224 pages. A new book with faint edgewear.; <B>Sixteen essays on women writers of the liberal-left in the 1930s. Writers discussed include Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth Bowen, Vera Brittain, Katherine Burdekin, Nancy Cunard, Storm Jameson, Rosamond Lehmann, Naomi Mitchison, Jean Rhys, Stevi Smith, Sylvia Townsend Warner,… Read more about this item

London: Mitchell Beazley. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust wrapper. 2000. Hardcover. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 128 pages. A new book with a faintly edgeworn dust wrapper.; <b>Published in association with the Imperial War Museum using many previously unseen photographs and other archive material. This 'is the story of the everyday heroes and heroines… Read more about this item

NY: Atheneum. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper. 1966. First US Edition. Hardcover. 260 pages. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped, page edges faintly browned; interior pages clean, no binding problems. Unclipped dust wrapper lightly edgeworn, white flaps faintly yellowed. A nice copy. ; <b>This biography of the prolific writer (author of "Old Wives… Read more about this item

NY: Coward, Mccann & Geoghegan. Very Good in Very Good dust wrapper. 1975. Hardcover; Book Club Edition. <b>"The story of Lillie Langtry -- The Greatest International Beauty of Her Day" Lillie Langtry was the first acknowledged mistress of the Prince of Wales, Edward VII; their affair lasted three decades. One of the professional beauties… Read more about this item

London: Century. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper. 2004. First British Edition. Hardcover. 389 pages. Spine ends bumped, a few smudges on page edges. Unclipped dust wrapper has very light edgewear. A very nice copy.; <b>'Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are still commonly regarded as the greatest comic double act that Great Britain has ever produced.… Read more about this item

NY: St. Martin's Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust wrapper. 1973. First US Edition. Hardcover. 203 pages. Spine head very lightly bumped, page edges pale tan. A very nice copy indeed. Unclipped, white dust wrapper lightly yellowed and soiled. ; <b>'Julia Margaret Cameron, (1815-79) had an immense influence on nineteenth-century photography. Her portraits and tableaux-vivants (many… Read more about this item

London: Persephone Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust wrapper. c1975, 2003. Softcover; Trade PB. 339 pages. A new book with faint edgewear. Persephone editions have uniform grey covers and dust wrappers with lovely decorated endpapers unique to each title (see image).; <b>A very readable overview of twentieth century British women's lives written by a novelist historian.… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt. Very Good in Very Good+ dust wrapper. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. A nice copy. Remainder mark on top edge, spine ends lightly bumped, smudge on bottom page edges, publishing flaws resulted in bubbling or lifting on front and rear pastedowns. Unclipped dust wrapper is slightly edgeworn and rubbed. Oversized book will require additional… Read more about this item