Partington, Jim.
The Two-Up and Two-Downer (With a Taste for Honey): the Crowded Life of a Lancashire Lad
(Fabians Publishers, 1972).
Autobiography. Leftist reminiscences of self-made Lancashire man, born 1908, dedicated to Lord Brockway of ILP. "I attended meetings in Bradford [where] he showed me the Political Path I should follow. Although I have devoted much of my life to the acquisition of material possessions, I have never deviated from his Philosophy". Hardback. Very good in slightly worn and slightly chipped dustwrapper. xiv + 257pp. Order No. NSBK-A1550
Keywords: B000HBVSLC, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Lancashire, lads, boys, homes, houses, terraces, twentieth century, 20th, Jim Partington, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories
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Campbell, Kate, ed.
Critical Feminism: Argument in the Disciplines
(Open UP, 1992).
Paperback. Very good +. ix + 224pp. Order No. NSBK-C9005
Keywords: 9780335097579, feminism, feminists, history of ideas, twentieth century, 20th, academic, psychology, art, art history, social work, literary criticism, socialism, deconstruction, men, theory, practice
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Ottley, Lucy J.
A Preliminary Manual of Home Nursing:
(John Ambulance Association, 1959).
First illustrated edition. Small tear to title page. Paperback. Red / grey covers soiled and a little creased, else a good copy. 83pp. Order No. NSBK-A7269
Keywords: St. John Ambulance Association, first aid, health, social history, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, sickness, injured, injuries, caring for the sick, patients, advice books, nursing, nurses, care, 1950s, post war, post-war, bed-making, patients, diseases, treatments, bandaging
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Peake, Mervyn.
Titus Alone:
(Penguin, rpt., 1980).
Paperback. Spine creased and worn, otherwise good. 263pp. Order No. NSBK-A11901
Keywords: 0140030913, Mervyn Peake, Titus alone, twentieth century, 20th, satire, Gormenghast triology, Groan, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Skelton, Robin.
Begging the Dialect: Poems and Ballads
(OUP, 1960).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in faded dustwrapper. vii + 95pp. Order No. NSBK-A10055
Keywords: B0000CKL7B, poems, poetry, poets, Robin Skelton, ballads, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, literature, literary, dialects
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Taylor, Craig, translator. La Pucelle.
Joan of Arc: La Pucelle
(Manchester University Press, 2006).
Hardback. Fine. xii + 370pp. Order No. NSBK-C14624
Keywords: 9780719068461, Joan of Arc, Rouen, trial, trials, fifteenth century, 15th century, history, France, French, women, martyrs, early modern history, women's
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Burchell, Doris.
Miss Buss' Second School:
(Frances Mary Buss Foundation, 1971).
Intro by Edward Carpenter. Frontispiece signed by the author. Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled, slightly chipped dustwrapper. viii + 118pp. Order No. NSBK-C6367
Keywords: 9780950237800, education, women, history, women's education, Frances Mary Buss, school, schools, schooling, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, English, British, England, Britain, Camden School for Girls, Doris Burchell, girlhood, childhood, children, Miss Buss's schools, Edwardian, Edward Carpenter
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Mackenzie, Norman & Jeanne, eds.
The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Volume I: 1873 - 1892. Glitter Around and Darkness Within
(Virago, rpt, 1986).
Volume I only. Paperback. Edges slightly curled, otherwise good. xxii + 386pp. Order No. NSBK-C4262
Keywords: 0860688461, Beatrice Webb, socialism, socialist, socialists, Fabian, Fabians, Fabian socialism, women, history, diaries, diary, Victorian, Sidney Webb, Charles Booth, Margaret Harkness, Joseph Chamberlain, nineteenth century, Virago, Webbs
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Ostroff, Eugene.
Photographing The Frontier:
(Smithsonian Institution, 1976).
An exhibition researched and organized by Eugene Ostroff, Curator of Photography, National Museum of History and Technology. Developed and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1975-1978. Booklet. Covers soiled, otherwise good. 31pp. Order No. NSBK-A11145
Keywords: B000GKEHS0, photography, photographic, photos, cameras, frontier,US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, twentieth century, 20th, booklet
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Nicholson, Winifred. (Compiled by Andrew Nicholson).
Unknown Colour: Paintings, Letters, Writings by Winifred Nicholson
(Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 1987).
An extremely scarce title, for the collector. Very good, clean, tight copy. "Unknown Colour" by Andrew Nicholson, brings together all Winifred Nicholson's works for the first time and reproduces in colour the wide range of her paintings, conveying in words and images the essence of her art which is light, colour and radiance. Compiled by Andrew Nicholson. Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981), wife of Ben Nicholson, is particularly remembered for her exquisite flower studies - many of which were painted before a window. She often incorporated landscape elements from Cumberland, Cornwall and the South of France into her work. Also characteristic of her style was the abstract using an ellipse shape. Hardback. Top corner slightly bumped, otherwise very good+, clean bright copy. Dustwrapper also very good, though with light creasing at corners, & minor, almost imperceptible, scratches. 271pp. Order No. NSBK-C4620
Keywords: 0571149502, winifred nicholson, nicholson, nicholsons, winifred, flower tales, unknown, colour, watercolour, watercolours, art, artist, artists, painting, paintings, painter, painter, English, England, Britain, British, great, twentieth century, 20th century, female, woman, women, females, letters, design correspondence, history, women writers, women writer, cornwall, st ives, modern, modernist, modernists, modernism, modernistic, ben nicholson, impressionist, impressionists, impressionism, impressionistic, impressions, impression, writings, color, unknown color, unknown colours, unknown colors, colors, GB, British Modern, Modern British Art
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