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A.L. Rowse's journals extend over the greater part of the 20th century. Born in 1903, the son of a poor, virtually illiterate Cornish china-clay worker, he became one of the...

Author: A.L. RowseBinding: HardbackPublished: St. Martin's Press, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThe Byrons and Trevanions by A.L. Rowse chronicles the intricate histories of two distinguished Cornish families,...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Top corner torn neatly. Pages otherwise clean. A richly personal work of autobiography and cultural memoir,...

Author: A.L. RowseBinding: HardbackPublished: Methuen, London , 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsGlimpses Of The Great by A.L. Rowse presents a unique collection of personal recollections, offering intimate...

As historian and polemicist, Rowse was deeply involved in many of the key debates of the mid-century. He combined Marxist historiography and keen English patriotism, support for modernism with deep...

Author: Al RowseBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsA.L. Rowse's A Man Of The Thirties presents a compelling autobiographical account of life...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew dynasties have shaped the course...

Author: A.L. RowseBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account chronicles the enduring legacy of Windsor Castle In The History Of The...

Author: A L Rowse, John HedgecoeBinding: HardbackPublished: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Price clipped inside dust jacket, very light tanning along spineThis...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling biography chronicles the life and times of the Bard, William Shakespeare, offering a meticulous account of...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA masterwork of popular history, A. L. Rowse's The Tower of London: In the History of the Nation chronicles nearly...

Author: A. L. RowseBinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Cape, 1957Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Jonathan CapeA. L. Rowse's The Spirit Of English History presents a compelling...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly detailed work of Tudor biography and social history, this study chronicles the intertwined lives of Sir Walter Ralegh...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsHeritage of Britain by A L Rowse explores the rich cultural and historical legacy of Britain through its landscapes, architecture,...

Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2919 A wide-ranging memoir and biography box — major literary lives of Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and Archibald MacLeish; Naipaul's India: A Million Mutinies...

Author: John Betjeman And A.L. RowseBinding: HardbackPublished: London; Batsford;, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsVictorian And Edwardian Cornwall From Old Photographs presents a captivating...

Author: A.L. RowseBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames & Hudson, 1975Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Excellent edition with price clipped DJThis volume offers a comprehensive biographical study of Jonathan...

Not since A.L. Rowse published his memoir On Historians has such a witty and perceptive memoir been published by a celebrated historian. Captain Professor constitutes the memoir of one of...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped, torn with minor damage. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact. Few figures in world literature cast as long a shadow...

Diana speaks. Gods answer. Aedlynn strikes. Enemies fall. In the realm where gods dance with mortals, Diana's prayers wield unimaginable power. But when a deadly sickness threatens to consume her,...

' I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration ' PHILIP PULLMAN 'Entrancing ... a creative manifesto' TELEGRAPH 'Mesmerising ... vibrating with life and curiosity' OBSERVER In this...

Secondhand History & Biography Bargain Book Box SP2941 From the courts of Henry VIII to the Burma Railway, from the Congress of Berlin to the Elizabethan stage — this box...