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Imprint: LONDON.HarperCollinsPublishers,2018. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1.] FINE-/FINE-.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,wrap-around colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with embossed white and embossed gilt lettering to front+spine/backstrip,critics' white+gilt lettered reviews to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – a small closed tear internally sellotape repaired to front lower tip - but no other nicks,tears or splits present - book with a slight lean.Top+fore-edges clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages’ corner tips – appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher’s bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip,a b/w striped headband and immaculate/clean plain pale blue with a white figure of a wolf illustrated sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,3-333pp [paginated] includes Pts 1+2 comprising 5 and 6 chapters respectively; plus [unpaginated] note on author,place names, title page,a dedication,a contents list/table,b/w historical regional map,individual b/w vignetted Pts separator pages,and to the rear,3 pages publisher's advert for author's other titles and 4pp blanks. Visually the exterior appearance is still more than acceptable,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.Believed a low print run. THE LAST KINGDOM series is an historical novel series about the birth of England in the 9th & 10th Centuries. The protagonist of the series is Uhtred of Bebbanburg,born to a Saxon lord in Northumbria. He is captured as a child and adopted by a Danish warlord.The name of the fictional protagonist comes from the historical Uhtred the Bold,and Cornwell is a descendant of this family. The story begins with the conquest of all but one of the major Saxon kingdoms by the Danes, with Wessex,the last kingdom,nearly overrun. Alfred the Great,King of Wessex,rallies his forces and begins the long struggle to fulfill his ambition of uniting all English speakers in one realm.Uhtred,despite his inclinations otherwise,repeatedly fights and schemes to bring about Alfred's dream over the course of a long life. Uhtred of Bebbanburg has won back his ancestral home but,threatened from all sides by enemies both old and new,he doesn't have long to enjoy the victory. In Mercia,rebellion is in the air as King Edward tries to seize control.In Wessex,rival parties scramble to settle on the identity of the next king and across the country invading Norsemen continue their relentless raid. Uhtred,a legendary warrior,admired and sought as an ally,feared as an adversary finds himself once again torn between his two heritages: fighting on what he considers the wrong side, cursed by misfortune and tragedy and facing one of his most formidable enemies.Only the most astute cunning,the greatest loyalty and the most spectacular courage can save him. For decades,Uhtred has stood at the intersection between Pagan and Christian,between Saxon and Viking,between the old world he was born into and the new world being forged around him.The pressure on him as father,as politician and as warrior grows as never before. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja11361245. ISBN: 9780008183837.
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Imprint: LONDON.HarperCollinsPublisher,8th October,2015. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1.] NFINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,wrap-around, matt,colour pictorial artwork by Lee Gibbons/Tim Moon,illustrated dw/dj with author's capitalised,glossy,embossed white-lettered name to front of dw/dj and capitalised,bright,crisp, embossed gilt-lettered title; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered author+title as the front's and publisher’s white-lettered+ illustrated,name and colophon respectively,to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with continuation of front's illustration and 3 critics' gilt+white lettered reviews.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges with inevitable,age-acquired ageing/toning - top edges with a single small mark - else both all clear of further blemish and foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages’ corner tips – appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher’s bright,crisp,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/backstrip,a maroon headband,and immaculate plain maroon endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-298pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-3 comprising 6,4 and 3 chapters respectively,and a Historical Note; plus [unpaginated] half-title,Place Names,title page,a dedication,a contents list/table,a b/w map of Great Britain,individual b/w pennant illustrated Pts separator pages,and to the rear, 3pp author's other titles lists and 6pp blanks. Visually the exterior appearance is more than acceptable and even internally,is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the minimal faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite them,it really is still an exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of other detracting faults. The 9th historical novel in the 13 'The Saxon Stories' series; preceded by 'The Empty Throne' and followed by 'The Flame Bearer'. It is set in 10th-century Mercia,Northumbria, and Northern Ireland and continues to follow the fortunes of the fictional Uhtred of Bebbanburg. A fragile peace is about to be broken. . . King Alfred’s son Edward and formidable daughter,Æthelflaed,rule Wessex,Mercia and East Anglia. But all around the restless Northmen, eyeing the rich lands and wealthy churches,are mounting raids. Uhtred of Bebbanburg,the kingdoms’ greatest warrior,controls northern Mercia from the strongly fortified city of Chester. But forces are rising up against him. Northmen allied to the Irish,led by the fierce warrior Ragnall Ivarson,are soon joined by the Northumbrians, and their strength could prove overwhelming. Despite the gathering threat,both Edward and Æthelflaed are reluctant to move out of the safety of their fortifications.But with Uhtred’s own daughter married to Ivarson’s brother,who can be trusted? In the struggle between family and loyalty, between personal ambition and political committment,there will be no easy path. But a man with a warrior’s courage may be able to find it. Such a man is Uhtred,and this may be his finest hour. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1130724. ISBN: 9780007504077.
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Imprint: LONDON.WILLIAM COLLINS,2014. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 19 - 14 descending with a row below of 10 - 1 descending.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, colour pictorial paintings' details (From Closing the Gates at Hougoumont,1815,by Robert Gibbs,R.S.A. ,1903.) artwork illustrated front and (Cuirasseurs Charging the Highlanders at the Battle of Waterloo,1815 by Felix Philippoteaux, 1874),rear panels respectively with embossed gilt (lightly but minimally scraped)and glossy embossed white lettering to front panel and similar lettering to colour detail illustration from front painting,to spine/backstrip, colour illustrated rear panel with brown lettered prose extract.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present - both head+foot of spine/backstrip minisculey bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean without any blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – pristine,unread,apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original plain red cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine/backstrip, a red+yellow striped headband and immaculate monochrome repeated front+rear paintings illustrated sets of endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,5-352pp [paginated] includes a Foreword, a Preface,12 chapters and an Aftermath,55pp of various colour historical illustration reproductions includes 12 colour historical, topographical regional maps - one preceding each chapter,an afterword,acknowledgements,a bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] title page,contents list/table with colour painting illustration by J.M.W, Turner of 'The Field of Waterloo,from the Picton Tree',c.1833 as frntis to its reverse. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional, and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation. On the 18th June 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels.In the previous three days the French army had beaten the British at Quatre-Bras and the Prussians at Ligny.The Allies were in retreat.The blood-soaked battle of Waterloo would become a landmark in European history,to be examined over and again,not least because until the evening of the 18th,the French army was close to prevailing on the battlefield. Now,brought to life by the celebrated novelist Bernard Cornwell,this is the chronicle of the four days leading up to the actual battle and a thrilling hour-by-hour account of that fateful day.In his first work of non-fiction,Cornwell combines his storytelling skills with a meticulously researched history to give a riveting account of every dramatic moment,from Napoleon's escape from Elba to the smoke and gore of the battlefields.Through letters and diaries he also sheds new light on the private thoughts of Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington,as well as the ordinary officers and soldiers. Considered to be one of the best books on this famous battle,Cornwell is able to make clear and understandable a long,complex battle involving infantry,artillery,and cavalry,as well as the armies of several nations. Published to coincide with the bicentenary in 2015,'Waterloo' is a tense and gripping story of heroism and tragedy - and of the final battle that determined the fate of Europe. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only, unless indicated otherwise.** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja1000022. ISBN: 9780007539383.
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Imprint: UK.READING,BERKS.OSPREY,1974. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG+.Owner inscrptn.Protected dw/dj,slightly grubbed. Fore-edges some ageing and light spotting; contents solid and clean.UK,small 8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,176pp includes,b/w map,54 b/w photographs,a bibliography and index. The modern Chinese army has been in existence for 25 years and has been at war,somewhere,for most of that time.It is thus the most battle-hardened army in the world.Its four major campaigns have been in Tibet,Korea,India and the Russian confrontation in Mongolia - all on China's border. But so little is known of this army,from the echelons of command down to the fighting soldier,that most Westerners regard China as aggressively expansionist, and American generals can still be heard to claim that Chinese troops are no match for Western or Western-armed and trained forces - two views which Corr holds up for re-examination. China's military achievements in these campaigns have not before been considered together as a single developing story.Corr does so now against the background of China's political advancement. He presents both sides of each argument, and demonstrates that the Chinese attitude is usually racial rather than political: they are Chinese first and Communist second.He examines the internal political divisions of the People's Liberation Army, especially the 'Red versus expert' debate,culminating in the mysterious death in 1971 of Lin Piao. The book concludes with an up-to-date (1974) assessment of the Red Army's strength,potential,and political motivation.It is illustrated with 59 photographs and maps,and 2 charts present the military/political organisation of China,and the regional organisation of the P.L.A. Please contact seller,for correct,insured (where necessary) shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja1062. ISBN: 0850451620.
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Imprint: LONDON.FABER & FABER,1988. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. 15 full-page colour illus+colour chapter head+tail pieces by JUAN WIJNGAARD.(KATE GREENAWAY AWARD winner). Choice of 26 best loved fairy tales - ranging from GRIMM to PERRAULT,JOSEPH JACOBS and the elaborate fantasy of ARABIAN NIGHTS.Translated from the French version which introduced these tales to Europe. Please conact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja559. ISBN: 0571148547.
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Imprint: LONDON.FABER and FABER LIMITED,1988. UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Errol Le Cain, illustrated dw/dj panels,with black lettering to front panel; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,colour pictorial illustrated glazed boards - design repeated from dw/dj,and clean plain white endpapers.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn, 32pp [unpaginated and excluding feps - free endpapers] includes 13 full-page coloured illustrations which includes the illustrated dedication page,other coloured illustrations and border edge decorations on every page,plus colour illustrated title page,aforementioned dedication page with full-page,full-colour illustrated frntis to it's reverse. An increasingly and highly collected and prolific children's book illustrator,and an unusual item in Le Cain's bold style and will be an important and welcome addition to the canon for discerning collectors and fans alike. Errol John Le Cain (b.1941 d.1989.) Worked as Erroll Le Cain.Born in Singapore,son of a member of the police force.During his childhood,he travelled extensively in the Far East and lived for five years in India.He worked in Pearl & Dean advertising studios (1956-60),and on animated films and titles in the Richard Williams Studio (1960-67). Following that he worked freelance as a film,television and exhibition designer.As a book illustrator,Le Cain had developed a distinctive graphic style in which outline and pattern are dominant elements.He aimed to create bold,simple designs (retaining relevant detail) that can be dramatic or humorous,and adapts his style to the varying moods of the stories.He uses pan and ink,with gouache for colour work.He won the Kate Greenaway Medal with 'Hiawatha's Childhood' (UK,FABER, 1984) in 1985. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja664117. ISBN: 0571137628.
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Imprint: LONDON.CECIL WOOLF,1988. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Topolski pictorial decorated dw/dj with minimal shelf-wear and creasing to edges. Sage green paper-covered bds with stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and coloured pictorial decorated eps by Topolski.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,76pp includes intro by D.J. Enright,double-page illustrated title-page;4,4pp foldout 3-colour block illustrations again by Topolski and a source index to rear. Proust and Topolski:a collaboration of two consummate artists.In this highly attractive book,the writer and the illustrator join hands across more than sixty years to captivate the reader.Witty, exuberant, original and often provocative, Feliks Topolski's 4 four-page,fold-out coloured drawings brilliantly evoke Proust's world of elite Parisian society. The text in turn is fascinating in its own right. From some 4,000 pages of Proust's autobiographical novel,"A la Recherche du Temps Perdu",Odette and Ronald Cortie have skilfully selected and translated an absorbing anthology of Proust's reflections on life,love and literature. This enchanting book will not only delight the dedicated Proustian,but serve as an introduction to many who have been daunted by the masterpiece itself. Please contact seller,because of the light weight and value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja1076. ISBN: 0900821787.
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Imprint: UK.PAULTON,BRISTOL.St Michael/PURNELL BOOKS,1984. UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,colour illustrated pop-up,1st edn.[This issue exclusive to St. Michael (Marks & Spencer).] FINE+. No owner inscrptn and absence of publisher's printed price.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, glossy/glazed,wrap-around,colour pictorial artwork by Peter Campbell,paper-covered illustrated boards,with capitalised white,red, graduated red+orange,and pale blue lettering and other black letters to front board,faded capitalised lettered title and black lettered St. Michael to foot of same,rear board with red bordered,illustrator's capitalised,yellow-lettered name and other b/w lettering. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present. Contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound, colour pictorial artwork by Peter Campbell, illustrated scenarios with 2 pop-ups,several lift-the-flaps and 6 action pull tabs - all complete and working and without damage.UK,slim Qrto HB,no dw/dj,as issued,colour illustrated pop-ups,1st edn,4 double-paged (pastedowns included) paper engineered workings [unpaginated] and accompanied by story's text. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it’s age and nature, i.e. a child's ephemeral pop-up book.A really exceptional exemplary example for its completeness,cleanliness and brightness. Faceless monsters,vampire bats,and a sinister butler . . . . our friend and Superhero Dangermouse confronts and confounds every ghastly spook who ever lived in the pages of the FIRST ever Amazing Dangermouse Pop-Up. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1030622. ISBN: 036106411X.
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Imprint: UK,SAWTRY,CAMBRIDGESHIRE.DEDALUS LTD.,1999. UK,12mo paperback Original,1st edn. [Paperback/ softback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title. Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn, but paperback/softback originals are published prior to any other format,in the country of its origin and sometimes,even worldwide.] FINE-. No owner inscrptn and no price-removal from card cover.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,glossy, wrap-around black background with colour pictorial artwork by Antoni Tapies ('Homage to Garcia Lorca'),illustrated front card cover,with white-lettered title and white lettered Editor+ Translator names to lower edge,black spine/ backstrip without any reading creases and repeated similarly coloured+lettered title as front,but capitalised,white-lettered title and publisher's capitalised,white lettered+ illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with white-lettered synopsis to an all black background.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present and no reading creases to spine.Top edge with some thumbing to head of spine area and some other minimal,faint dust-soiling towards its fore-edge; fore-edge with some minimal,sporadic,random flecks/spots; contents though are bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - text body virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread,other than my own collation.UK, 12mo paperback Original,1st edn,11-359pp [paginated] includes 35 examples/stories of the fantsy genre by Spanish authors - each accompanied by a potted biography; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,potted biographies of the Editors,Acknowledgements - both with blank verso,a Contents list/table,an Introduction,and to the rear,4pp blanks. Visually the exterior appearance is more than acceptable,and particularly internally,the book is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 20+ year-old age and nature, i.e. an ephemeral p/back original. It is only the minor,minimal exterior faults described that prevents a slightly higher overall grading.Despite them,it really is still an exceptional,exemplary copy for its brightness and internal cleanliness and minor faults.A welcome and unusual addition to the specific canon of Spanish fantasy literature. 'The Dedalus Book of Spanish Fantasy' is an ambitious and wide-ranging collection of texts from the middle of the 19th century to the present day,by authors writing in Castilian, Basque,Catalan and Gallego. Only two of the stories have appeared in translation before and while some authors (Goytisolo, Atxaga, Mendoza and Javias Maria) might be known to an English-reading public, most of the authors have never previously been translated into English. The stories have been selected to give threader the frisson that one expects from the truly fantastic: from fabulous creatures and ghost stories to dopplegangers, from time travel to metamorphoses.The anthology is enriched by a wide variety of settings, characters, situations, themes and narrative modes which combine to roduce one of the most important collections of Spanish literature to appear in English. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,that stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1080423. ISBN: 1873982186.
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Imprint: LONDON.KYLE CATHIE LTD.,1992. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but owner's circular,embossed owner stamp to title page,and no price- clip to dw/dj.B/w subject portrait illustrated dw/dj,white+yellow lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners.Top two corners minisculely rubbed with reciprocal loss, head of spine/backstrip minimally bumped and creased.Top edge lightly dust-soiled; fore-edge brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight and near pristine - one dog-ear crease to page 245/6 corner - otherwise appears an unread copy? Bright, clean,publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-374pp [paginated] includes preface,a prologue,Pts 1-9,16pp b/w contemporary photographs,illus, drawings in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp88/9 and pp280/1 respectively,appendix, genealogical family tree charts, bibliography,notes on sources, acknowledgements and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, dedication and contents list/table. The first completely new biography of James Joyce for a generation: it will prove both controversial and essential. James Joyce left Dublin in 1904,when he was twenty-two,and for the next decade taught and worked in Pola,Trieste and Rome.He visited his native Dublin for the last time in 1912,leaving after an acrimonious dispute with a publisher and spending the rest of his life on the Continent.By the time he was thirty he had already had the vast majority of experiences on which his intensely autobigraphical literary output was based. Peter Costello,Joycean scholar and native Dubliner,draws on recently (then 1992) discovered or previously overlooked sources to show how Joyce's early life - his education,his relationship with his brothers and sisters,his youthful 'loss of faith',his first sexual experiences,his meeting with Nora Barnacle - shaped so much he was to write in later years.With the publication of his first writing in 1915 came immediate literary respect and fame in Europe and America.From then on he was always the centre of attention. But,as Petere Costello argues with conviction and passion,it was the earlier period of obscurity which provided Joyce with the material for 'Dubliners', 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man', 'Ulysses' and even the much later 'Finnegan's Wake' and was therefore the most significant and interesting period of his life.The theme of 'James Joyce: the Years of Growth' is the theme of of all Joyce's work - the transformation of raw life into art. The network of friendships surrounding Joyce's family,of which he was to make so much use in 'Ulysses',receives special attention. 'Ulysses' is very much a book about a city and a community,a community which was largely that of Joyce's father.Joyce as a writer owed a tremendous debt to his story-telling father. The majority of the characters in 'Ulysses' were friends of John Joyce,who contributed more than has been realised to the make-up of Leopold Bloom. By taking an historical rather than purely biographical approach,Peter Costello places Joyce firmly in the context of the Dublin of his youth, frequently refutes 'accepted fact' and discovers a new portrait of James Joyce. Please contact seller,because of the heavier weight of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note, stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded, after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja380311. ISBN: 1856260534.
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Imprint: LONDON,HODDER & STOUGHTON,2006. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1.] FINE/FINE-.Contempraneous familial gift presentation inscrptn to front's inner dw/dj flap which also has a price-clip.Bright,crisp, clean,matt,b/w photographic portraits of subject with capitalised, embossed,silver gilt-lettered title to front; a matt white spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+ lettered part-title, sub-title in capitalised,glossy black-lettering, other glossy black-lettered author name and publisher’s matt,capitalised, black-lettered name and black-lettered initialled colophon to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with subject's different b/w portrait photograph with subject's glossy,white-lettered quote.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges although inevitably toned,remain clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – virtually pristine with no dog-ear reading creases to any pages’ corners,would appear unread other than my own collation. Publisher’s bright,crisp,clean/unblemished, sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt-lettered spine/backstrip,a b/w striped headband,and subject's immaculate b/w performance's photographic illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-xvpp+1-447pp [paginated] includes Contents list/table,Editor's Introduction,31 interview(s) sections etc.,a Contributors list, Permissions and Lyric Credits and Acknowledgements; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages. Visually,the external appearance is exceptional more than acceptable,and particularly internally,is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it’s near 20 year-old age. It is only the minor faults described that prevent a slightly higher grading overall.Despite that,it really is still an exemplary example for it’s brightnesss, cleanliness and lack of any other or age-acquired detracting faults usually expected in a book of this age. Direct from the mouth of America's most celebrated street poet comes a rare and diverse collection of intimate interviews. 'Dylan on Dylan' features 31 of the most significant and revealing conversations with the singer,stretching over 40 years from the earliest days of his career in 1962 through to 2004.mong the highlights are the seminal 'Rolling Stone' interviews by Jann Wenner, Jonathan Cott, Kurt Loder and Mikal Gilmore,as well as fascinating conversations with,among other,Sam Shepard, Studs Terkel and Nat Hentoff. Through thee extraordinary interviews we watch as layers of fact and fiction fold around Dylan's life story.But we also sse the mask come off and glimpse something of his inner life.It is a mesmerising journey - one that brings us closer to Bob Dylan than ever before. Jonathan Coot is the author of 16 books, including 'Dylan',a biography.He has been a contributing editor of 'Rolling Stone' magazine since its inception and has written for the New York Times,Parabola,and the New Yorker. Please contact the seller,particularly ALL overseas buyers,for correct [insured or uninsured at own risk] shipping/P+p quotes BEFORE placing your order,especially if ordering any multiples. N.B. ALL buyers please note,stock(s') shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the order,especially if the item is offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1160524. ISBN: 0340923121.
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Imprint: LONDON.APPLE PUBLISHING,1969. UK,Qrto wraps,1st edn.NFINE.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj,card wraps as issued. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated colour photographic illustrated upper wrap. Profuse photographs,both b/w+colour, majority in colour,interview extracts, lyric extracts,all pages unpaginated. Since April 2013,again in this year too, the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So, please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja395311. ISBN: No ISBN.
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Imprint: UK.MARLBOROUGH.CROWOOD PRESS,1989. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clipped dw/dj.8vo,320pp includes statistical highlights,biblio,an index,b/w+colour illustrations.Foreword by Sir Leonard HUTTON.Photographs and picture research by KEN KELLY. For more than a century England and Australia have done battle on the cricket pitch - and since 1882 have fought for the Ashes.This confrontation has always been one of the sport's most compelling spectacles,producing many of the game's finest captains.This is the story of all 78 who have led their country in England-Australia Tests.In the ASHES CAPTAINS, Gerry COTTER,describes the eccentrics and the aristocrats,the gentlemen and the players,the geniuses and the forgotten men,who make up the 34 Australian and 44 English captains.From LILLYWHITE and GREGORY to BORDER and GATTING - taking in the BRADMAN's, BREARLEY's and CHAPPELL's - the author profiles each captain, supporting the analysis with statistics for every Ashes series and a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of the teams they led.Fully illustrated both with b/w photographs - including one each of every captain - and colour action shots, and is an invaluable pictorial record of 110 years of English-Australia Tests. Please contact seller,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja168. ISBN: 1852232099.
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Imprint: IRELAND.TIMOLEAGUE,WEST CORK.CELTIC PRESS,2006. IRELAND,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE. Wrapped+protected from day of issue/ purchase,so no owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy, white background with thumbnail colour photographic illustrated Celtic Chalice and Tara brooch to front and rear dw/dj panels respectively,with yellow,grey and brown lettering to either panel,a brown,yellow lettered and colour illustrated white spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore -edges bright and clean without any blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – pristine,unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain taupe cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked silver gilt lettering to spine/ backstrip and immaculate/clean plain white sets of endpapers.IRELAND,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-xipp+1-236pp [paginated] includes contents list/table with acknowledgements to verso of last page of same,credits - sources,text figures,colour plates and quotations, an introduction,6 chapters, profuse b/w illus,diagrams,maps,photographs etc interspersed throughout the text and the book,24pp colour illus+photographs in 1 block,between pp110/11,appendices (1-4),a bibliography and an Index; plus [unpaginated] blank,half-title+title pages, blank and to the rear another blank. Little is known about the Celts - the Keltoi - the blonde-haired,blue-eyed secret people of Europe.For hundreds of years scholars,baffled by strange carvings and Celtic treasures of gold,silver,precious glass and holy books,have tried to make sense of one of the world's most enignatic people.Some see their legacy as the 'works of Angels'.Others,entranced,claim their achievements imply access to technologies that surpass our own of today. Now Maurice Cotterell breaks the codes of the Celts as he tracks and trails them from their first appearance in the Taklamakan desert in China,across Europe,to ireland and lifts the veil of mystery.He shows that the Celts,like the Mayas,Peruvians, Egyptians and Chinese,understood the super-science of the Sun and the higher orders of spirituality and encoded their knowledge into their treasures for re-discovery in a future incarnation,should they fail to make it to heaven this time round. Secrets from the Temple of Inscriptions in Mexico and the Gateway of the Sun at Tiahuanaco,help the author to identify and locate the Holy Grail,the cup used by Jesus and his Disciples at the Last Supper.He discovers that the Grail actually radiates light,proving that the so-called Arthurian legends are,after all,based on fact. Finally,the secrets of the Grail are revealed - secrets that affect the destiny of us all. The author reveals how the cup passed to monks for safe-keeping,how it later inspired them to write the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Book of Kells,how they fled from Vikings - across the Irish Sea to the new monastery at kells - and how it found its way to the national Museum of Ireland where it rests,alongside Excalibur,today. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation. Uncommon as believed a low print run. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja997822. ISBN: 0951319590.
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Imprint: IRELAND.TIMOLEAGUE,WEST CORK.CELTIC PRESS,2006. IRELAND,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NMINT/NMINT. Wrapped+protected from day of issue/ purchase,so no owner insNMINT and no price -clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy, white background with thumbnail colour photographic illustrated Celtic Chalice and Tara brooch to front and rear dw/dj panels respectively,with yellow,grey and brown lettering to either panel,a brown, yellow lettered and colour illustrated white spine /backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without any blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners – pristine,unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain taupe cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt lettering to spine/backstrip and immaculate/clean plain white sets of endpapers.IRELAND,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-xipp+1-236pp [paginated] includes contents list/table with acknowledgements to verso of last page of same,credits - sources, text figures,colour plates and quotations, an introduction,6 chapters,profuse b/w illus,diagrams,maps,photographs etc interspersed throughout the text and the book,24pp colour illus+photographs in 1 block,between pp110/11,appendices (1-4),a bibliography and an Index; plus [unpaginated] blank,half-title+title pages, blank and to the rear another blank. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation. Uncommon,as believed a low print run. Little is known about the Celts - the Keltoi - the blonde-haired,blue-eyed secret people of Europe.For hundreds of years scholars,baffled by strange carvings and Celtic treasures of gold,silver, precious glass and holy books,have tried to make sense of one of the world's most enignatic people.Some see their legacy as the 'works of Angels'.Others,entranced,claim their achievements imply access to technologies that surpass our own of today. Now Maurice Cotterell breaks the codes of the Celts as he tracks and trails them from their first appearance in the Taklamakan desert in China,across Europe,to ireland and lifts the veil of mystery.He shows that the Celts,like the Mayas,Peruvians, Egyptians and Chinese,understood the super-science of the Sun and the higher orders of spirituality and encoded their knowledge into their treasures for re-discovery in a future incarnation,should they fail to make it to heaven this time round. Secrets from the Temple of Inscriptions in Mexico and the Gateway of the Sun at Tiahuanaco,help the author to identify and locate the Holy Grail,the cup used by Jesus and his Disciples at the Last Supper.He discovers that the Grail actually radiates light,proving that the so-called Arthurian legends are,after all,based on fact. Finally,the secrets of the Grail are revealed - secrets that affect the destiny of us all. The author reveals how the cup passed to monks for safe-keeping,how it later inspired them to write the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Book of Kells,how they fled from Vikings - across the Irish Sea to the new monastery at Kells - and how it found its way to the national Museum of Ireland where it rests,alongside Excalibur,today. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja997922. ISBN: 0951319590.
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Imprint: LONDON.HEADLINE BOOK PUBLISHING 2003. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.Ink familial gift presentation inscrptn to ffe (front free endpaper),and price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, wrap-around sepia photographic illustrated dw/dj,with bronze gilt raised letters to front panel and bronze+black letters to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks - though there is an internally sellotape repaired tiny snick,to foot of spine/backstrip's gutter edge to rear panel.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/toned but generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,solid and sound - only one dog-ear reading crease to pp25/6.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain dark green cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and near immaculate,plain white eps - ffe excepted for aforementioned gift inscrptn.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,v-xipp+1-298pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,credits, acknowledgements,5 chapters,profuse b/w maps/diagrams/illus/photographs (the majority) interspersed throughout the text and the book,16pp colour photographs in one block,between pp148/9,appendices(5),a biblio and an index.Plus [unpaginated], half-title+title pages and 10pp blanks at rear. Legend has it that in 210BC the first Emperor of unified China,Ch'in Shi Huangdi,decreed that after his death his body would be clothed in jade and cast adrift in a lake of mercury.The lake, within a pyramid,was to be protected by an everlasting army. Like Tutankhamun in Egypt,Lord Pacal in Mexico and Viracocha in Peru,Shi Huangdi taught the superscience of the sun and the higher orders of spirituality.They say that after he died he became a dragon and that he flew to the sun to live forever. In 1974,archaelogists discovered the first of more than 8,000 life-size terracotta warriors buried near the pyramid tomb of Shi Huangdi,confirming that the legend was more than myth.But why were the massive soldiers,each weighing more than half a tonne,buried there at all? Was it simply to guard the Emperor in the afterlife? With his knowledge of how and why the ancients encoded information into their treasures,super-sleuth engineer and scientist Maurice Cotterell decodes the long-lost secrets of China's terracotta army to reveal the farewell message of the first Emperor - the remarkable secrets of heaven,hell and immortality. In 1989 Maurice Cotterell found a way of calculating the duration of long-term magnetic reversals on the sun.Using this knowledge he was able to break the codes of ancient sun-worshipping civiisations - first the Mayas of central America,then those of Tutankhamun of Egypt and those of Viracocha in South America. His work,best described as 'adventure fact',brings together modern science, spirituality and ancient wisdom to unlock the secrets of the past,present and future. Please contact seller, for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded, after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included. Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja469714. ISBN: 0747271321.
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Imprint: LONDON.W.H.ALLEN/TARGET,1986. UK,12mo paperback 1st edn.MINT.As new,unread copy of this WILLIAM HARTNELL story.No.101,in the Doctor Who Library series - this is the first book in that series that became difficult to obtain,even with one of the larger print runs of the series with 55,000 copies.Cover by Andrew Skilleter.Blue neon logo,blue spine/backstrip with outline decal.Rather hard to find in MINT condition. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja595ba. ISBN: 0426201957.
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Imprint: LONDON.W.H.ALLEN/TARGET,1987. UK,12mo paperback 1st edn.A MINT copy of this scarce paperback novel of this WILLIAM HARTNELL story.No.120 in the Doctor WHO Library series. This book had a low print run of 30,000 and is now RARE in this condition.Cover by Tony Masero. Purple neon logo, dark pink spine/backstrip,with outline decal. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja359. ISBN: 0426202880.
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Imprint: LONDON.W.H.ALLEN/TARGET,1985. UK,12mo paperback,1st edn.[Paperback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but p/back originals are published prior to any other format.] NMINT.No.97 in the Doctor WHO Library series,featuring William Hartnell as the Doctor.Cover by Andrew Skilleter.Blue neon logo, pale yellow spine/backstrip with outline decal. One of the higher print runs of 65,000 copies.A superb bright,tight unread copy. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct (where necessary) shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja412. ISBN: 0426201701.
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Imprint: LONDON.W.H.ALLEN/TARGET,1987. UK,12mo paperback 1st edn.FINE.Unread copy,small crease rear bottom corner.Scarce novelisation of a William Hartnell adventure. No.120 in Doctor WHO Library series.Hard to find title as this book had a low print run and is scarce in this condition. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja1116c. ISBN: 0426202880.
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Imprint: LONDON.W.H.ALLEN,1986. UK,12mo p/back,1st edn.VG.No owner inscrptn, appears an unread copy - no spine/backstrip creases,but there is a slight leftwards slant to/of same.Minimal shelf-wear to edges,with light rubbing to length of both spine/backstrip edges - not excessive.Small,light crease to centre of upper wrap,with light diagonal creasing to top,rear corner of rear wrap. Pictorial colour artwork by Andrew Skilleter. Blue neon logo,with blue spine/backstrip with black outline decal and No.101 in the Doctor Who Library series. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and the value of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rjaz1564. ISBN: 0426201957.
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Imprint: UK.BIRMINGHAM.SIMPKIN,MARSHALL,HAMILTON,KENT & CO.,LTD.,1891. UK,16mo HB,no dw/dj(as issued?),SIGNED,1st edn.VG+.No owner inscrptn,but warm,neat hand-written ink,author's dated, dedication: 'To Miss Muriel Gardner:from the author,with all good wishes. Birmingham,June 1922.' to half-title page. Publisher's original dark blue cloth bds, generally bright and clean,with bright, crisp,stamped gilt design/vignette illustrated upper bd,bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters+decoration to slightly darkened spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear to edges.Head+foot of spine/ backstrip along with all corners, minisculely bumped with reciprocal rubbing,and black/dark blue chalk paper eps.Top edge gilt (teg),fore-edge slightly aged/toned with some minimal foxing/ spotting and untrimmed,as are the bottom edges too,contents bright,tight and clean. UK,16mo HB,no dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,2-154pp [paginated]+half-title,b/w vignette illustrated title page - same design repeated to upper bd - proem,contents list /table,2pp+b/w line illustrated Finis page,13 tissue-guarded,original etchings, themselves picture poems,numerous b/w line illustrated head+tail pieces and illuminated capitals to all these 76 verses,poems,songs,ballads etc.,3pp Press notices+opinions on the volume to rear. John Cotton,a Birmingham, Worcestershire man,was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, who wrote most of these poems+songs etc.,at different intervals during a busy career,and in the scant and broken leisure of business travel,having their origin in the shifty retirement of a railway carriage.Few poets are artists and thus able to illustrate their poems by pictures as in this volume - the etchings with both delicate and powerful effects,are of landscape,woodland and village scenes. Please contact seller,because of the weight and the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja27097.
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Imprint: LONDON.FREDERICK WARNE & CO. LTD.,1974. UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE. Previous owner's name,in childish hand to reverse of half-title page at top,left-hand corner,and price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,4-colour block (b/w and pink+tan),wrap-around artwork illustrated dw/dj, design repeated to bds; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges and corners - one small closed tear with crease to top,rear edge towards head of spine/backstrip.Light bumping with reciprocal creasing to head of spine/ backstrip of dw/dj and miniscule loss to foot of same - corners also minimally rubbed.Described hard,but fairly and honestly - reads worse than actually is!!! Top+fore-edges both slightly aged/toned with minimal sporadic foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Bright,clean, sharp-cornered illustrated bOARds with immaculate plain pinkish endpapers.UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,64pp [unpaginated] includes half-title+ title pages,a dedication,26 full-page, b/w line illustrated letter capitals and 7pp alphabetical,beastly compendium to rear. An ABC which invitingly educates as it fascinates both those too young to read and those too busy to bother.Detectable traces of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll,but essentially original Jonathon Coudrlle. The humorous yet poetical text deliberately doesn't explain everything pictured in the intricate illustrations,leaving some secrets lurking for the reader to discover for himself, while others are divulged in the compendium of contents at the end of the book. Or as the author would prefer to put it: A Beastly Collection does encourage ferocious guesswork.However I jest,keeping lots more names of pictured quite remarkable subjects totally unwritten.Very well,examine your zoo. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja409812. ISBN: 0723217572.
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Imprint: LONDON.MACMILLAN/Pan Macmillan,a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited,2013. UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,montage'd contemporary monochrome photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with bright,crisp,capitalised gilt-lettered part-title,and capitalised,grey-lettered remainder of same,similarly coloured+ lettered author name to front panel of dw/dj; white spine/backstrip with capitalised gilt-lettered part-title as front [CHURCHILL'S FIRST WAR],similarly coloured+lettered author name as the front's,publisher's capitalised,black-lettered and illustrated colophon to foot of same,rear panel with with contemporary b/w uniformed portrait of Winston Chuchill. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present. Top+fore-edges clean without foxing/spotting or other blemishes; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread other than my own collation.Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked bronzed gilt-lettered spine/backstrip,a b/w striped headband,and immaculate plain speckled light-grey endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn,xiv-xxipp +2-298pp [paginated] includes a Prologue,9 chapters,16pp of contemporary b/w photographs and contemporary b/w illustration reproductions in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp74/75 and pp202/03 respectively,Acknowledgements,Notes,a 4pp Bibliography,and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication [to John Keegan,a British military historian,lecturer,writer and journalist,Friend and Mentor],a Contents list/table - the latter two each with a blank reverse,3 regional b/w maps - The North-West Frontier of India, The Malakand Position and Chittral (India). Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a 10-year old book.It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of detracting faults. 'Churchill's First War' is a fascinating account of Winston Churchill's early military career fighting in the 1890 Afghan campaign, offering fresh and revealing parallels into today's war in Afghanistan. Just over a century ago British troops were fighting a vicious frontier war against Pashtun tribeman on the North West Frontier - the great-great-grandfathers of the Taliban and tribal insurgents in modern-day Afghanistan. Winston Churchill,then a young cavalry lieutenant,wrote a vivid account of what he saw during his first major campaign. 'The Story of the Malakand Field Force', published in 1898,was Churchill's first book and,a hundred years later,is required reading for military commanders on the ground, both British and American. In 'Churchill's First War',acclaimed author and foreign correspondent,Con Coughlin tells the story of that campaign,a story of high adventure and imperial success,which contains many lessons and warnings for today.Combining historical narrative,interviews with contemporary key players,and the journalist's eye for great color and analysis,'Churchill's First War' affords us a rare insight into both the nineteenth-century "Great Game" and the twenty-first-century conflict that has raged longer than World War II. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,that stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1085723. ISBN: 9780230758513.
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Imprint: LONDON.MACMILLAN,2013. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE+.As new - wrapped and protected from day of issue and purchase.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,subject's autobiographical monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj's front+ rear panels,with grey+gilt lettering to front panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original, plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,stamped bronze gilt letters to spine /backstrip,a b/w striped headband and immaculate speckled,pale grey endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xiv-xxipp+2-298pp [paginated] includes a prologue,9 chapters,16pp contemporary b/w illustrations and photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp74/5 and pp202/3 respectively,acknowledgements,notes,a bibliography and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, memoriam,contents list/table,and 3 single page b/w regional maps (North-West Frontier,Malakand and Chitral). Over a century ago British troops were fighting a vicious frontier war against Afghan tribesmen on the North-West Frontier - the great-great-grandfathers of the Taliban and tribal insurgents in modern day Afghanistan. Winston Churchill,then a young cavalry lieutenant,wrote a vivid account of what he saw during his first major campaign. 'The Story of the Malakand Field Force', published in 1898,was Churchill's first book and made his reputation as a writer - and as a soldier. More than 120 years later it is required reading for military commanders on the ground,both British and American. In 'Churchill's First War',acclaimed author and journalist Con Coughlin tells the story of that campaign,a story of high adventure and imperial success,which contains many lessons and warnings for today. Combining historical narrative,interviews with contemporary key players and the journalist's eye for colour and analysis 'Churchill's First War' is not only a dramatic piece of military history but affords us a rare insight into both the nineteenth-century 'Great Game' and the twenty-first-century conflict that has raged longer than the Second World War and taken more lives than the Falklands. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja617716. ISBN: 9780230758513.
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Imprint: LONDON.DOUBLEDAY/a division of Transworld Publishers,2000. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE-/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,subject/author b/w portrait photographic illustrated front of dw/dj with author's capitalised, black lettered name, black-lettered part title; spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered author name,title as the front's and publisher’s black-lettered name and black illustrated colophon respectively,to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with subject's mother's b/w portraait photograph and black-lettered attributed quotation.Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges with inevitable age-acquired ageing/toning but without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages’ corner tips – appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher’s bright,crisp,clean/unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine,a b/w striped headband,and immaculate plain beige endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn,1-294pp [paginated] includes a Preface,22 unnumbered but titled chapters relating to his mother's letters,16pp of subject's contemporary b/w biographical photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp86/87 and pp198/99 respectively; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,a Contents list/table and Acknowledgements. Author's debut book. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its near 25-year-old age.It is only the minimal faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite that, it really is still an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of detracting faults. A collection of letters between Tom Courtenay and his mother interwoven with a portrait of what was going on in his life at the same time, during the heady days of the early sixties when successful young working-class actors were coming to the fore for the first time. Tom Courtenay shot to fame in the early Sixties with a string of successful films - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner,Billy Liar and Dr Zhivago to name but a few.Since then he has worked mainly in the theatre,but has also starred in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich,created the part of Norman in 'The Dresser' on both stage and screen,performed solo in the brilliant Russian dissident play Moscow Stations in Edinburgh,London and New York, created the role of Serge in the original West End production of 'Art' and played King Lear at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.His latest film is Last Orders (then 2001).He was knighted in the 2001 New Year's Honours List. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja1130524. ISBN: 038560095X.
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Imprint: LONDON.REVIEW/HEADLINE BOOK PUBLISHING,2002. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,pale blue background with colour illustrations illustrated d/wj,with black and reddish- brown lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edge and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing - a tiny,tiny snick to foot of same.Both top+fore-edges slightly aged/toned - as usual/normal - but generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread? Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain navy blue cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate b/w map illustrated endpapers.Horizontal accidental tear (3/16ths") to pp163/4 edge and a tinier horizontal snick to pp187/8 page's edge too - basically,just a couple of the few faults the book has.Described hard but fairly and honestly - nowhere as bad as it reads or would seem! UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vi-xiipp+1-340pp [paginated] includes author's note,acknowledgements,prologue,13 chapters,8pp contemporary b/w+colour reproductions in one block,between pp164/5, other b/w illus/diagrams etc., interspersed throughout the text and the book,appendices (4),endnotes,a select bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and contents list/table. Few who hear the shipping forecast,with its familiar sequence of numbers denoting the expected force of the wind,know what lies behind the man who gave the world the Beaufort Scale.Yet the scale that immortalised Admiral Beaufort's name is just a small part of his full and fascinating life.His early career in the Navy runs the gamut of a Hornblower novel - shipwreck,prizes and near-death through drowning and wounds.Self-taught in the midshipman's berth,he rose to serve on the council of the Royal Society. During his 26-year tenure as Hydrographer to the Navy,Beaufort was also recognised as 'the authorised organ of scientific communication in England'.It was the high noon of British hydrography,where his surveyors charted the world's seas,such as the voyage of the 'Beagle' that was to bring about Darwin's radical theory of evolution.'As safe as an Admiralty Chart' became a byword for their accuracy under his direction. This fascinating biography of Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort (1774- 1857) shows a rich and varied life,from the world of adventure,scientific and antiquarian discovery,to polar exploration,meteorology, astronomy,cryptography and literature. Bestselling author Nicholas Courtney has drawn on Beaufort's original letters and journals,the official naval and hydrographic records,and the many learned societies of which he was a member,to reveal the public and private life of a 19thC hero. Please contact seller,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja546515. ISBN: 0747272107.
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Imprint: LONDON.FREDERICK WARNE & CO. LTD.,1975. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st reprint,1st thus edn.[Originally and first published in 3 volumes (included Supplementary Series III) between 1920-26 (UK).The last full edn of Coward's book,edited by Arnold Boyd,was published in 1950.This revised+ edited by Barnes edition,first published 1969.This is the first reprint of that edition.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,3/4 wrap-around colour photographic illustrated front+spine of dw/dj with white lettering to same,rear panel of dw/dj with publisher's advert for other titles in this Wayside and Woodland Series; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edges coloured,fore-edges lightly aged/toned as usual/normal but clean and without foxing /spotting; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound – no dog-ear reading creases to any pages’ corners – virtually pristine,appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher’s bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original,textured,plain dark brown cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt lettered upper board and spine/backstrip,upper board with bright, crisp,blocked silhouette of a Snipe(?) and plain white sets of endpapers with very minimal and marginal,sporadic foxing/ spotting.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st reprint,1st thus edn,viii-xvipp+2-359pp [paginated] includes Editor's Preface,an introduction, 19 sectins of Orders - from Gaviiformes (Divers) through to Passeriformes (Perching Birds),interspersed with profuse contemporary b/w photographs and colour paintings reproductions by Archibald Thorburn and others,an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title,Thorburn colour reproduction of 4 birds (ducks) illustrated frntis,title page,and single page contents list/table with blank reverse. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age, and nature,i.e a refernce book,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation. One of the great classics of ornithological literature. This edition of 'Birds of the British Isles and Their Eggs.' has been prepared by J. A. G. Barnes from th 3-volume work by T[homas] A[rthur] Coward (1867-1933).It was first published between 1920-26,and has been revised and brought up to date as the occasion demanded. Bird-watching has altered considerably in recent years with increased leisure time and greater mobility,enabling a new and enlarged following to the pastime,who,in turn,have added new information and knowledge,especially on distribution, migrations and behaviour of birds.The editor has incorporated as much of this new information as possible in this present edition,whila at the same time retaining the best writing and observations of the original author.By deleting unneccessary detail and ignoring extremely rare species,he has managed to distil the information conveniently into a single volume. The best colour plates from the earlier editions,mainly by Archibald Thorburn, probably the greatest British bird artist of living memory,are retained,and they have been augmented by Robert Gillmor's illustrations of new species.The b/w illustrations of the earlier editions have been completely replaced by an entirely new set of noyable picture by well-known bird photographers. All bird-watchers,whether they are experts or beginners,will find this a volume that they will treasure both as a reference book and as a book to read and enjoy. Please contact seller - a heavy tome,just over 1.2Kg unpackaged,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja983321. ISBN: 0723209995.
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Imprint: LONDON.METHUEN,1985. UK,8vo,HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean glossy laminated red background with b/w letters and b/w caricature of Coward,by Hirschfield,to upper wrap; dw/dj with negligible shelf- wear and creasing - no major nicks or tears present - and minimal bumping with reciprocal creasing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/toned - as usual/normal - but clean, contents bright,tight and clean apart from page edges lightly toning.Unblemished, plain dark-brown paper-covered bds with bright,crisp,stamped,gilt letters to spine /backstrip and immaculate plain white eps with no hint of off-set foxing from dw/dj's inner flaps. Renowned as a playwright and 'man of the theatre',Noel Coward was also an accomplished writer of prose fiction.When he compiled his Collected Short Stories in 1962,he still had a decade of writing ahead of him.During this time he published two more books of short stories,a genre he clearly warmed to in the last years of his life.That is why there can be this second volume of Collected Short Stories, published together for the first time and destined to sit beside the original volume (re-issued in 1983) to make a truly complete collection.This volume contains all seven of the later stories,'Pretty Polly Barlow','Me and the Girls','Mrs Capper's Birthday','Solali','Mrs Ebony', 'Penny Dreadful',and 'Bon Voyage',plus two early stories: 'The Wooden Madonna', omitted from the first collection and 'Theatre Party',appearing in print for the first time.These stories - some of them long enough to rank as short novels - will delight new readers and refresh fond memories for those who have already made their acquaintance. Please contact seller,becuse of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja2181. ISBN: 0413582000.
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Imprint: UK.BRIGHTON,PITCH PUBLISHING (Brighton) LTD.,2009. UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,dark green+white illustrated dw/dj,with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases - unread,apart from my own collation and then wrapped+protected from day of purchase.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-ornered, publisher's original,dark green cloth boards - no blocked lettering to boards or to the spine/backstrip.UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-175pp [paginated] includes foreword by Danny Salman (Argyle player 1990-2), authors' separate acknowledgements+intro, profuse facts,trivia etc.,with players' b/w portrait photographs interspersed through out the text and the book. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and smaller size of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja517115. ISBN: 9781905411405.
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Imprint: ARGYLE MEDIA PRODUCTIONS,2004. UK,8vo wraps,1st edn.FINE.No owner inscrptn, wraps unclipped,no reading creases to spine/ backstrip.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, colour photographic illustrated card wraps; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges, corners and spine/backstrip - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine.UK,sim 8vo wraps,1st edn,1-142pp [paginated] includes introduction,11 chapters,32pp of colour photographs,in 2 blocks of 16pp apiece,between pp31-46 and pp79-94 respectively,2pp at rear,for autographs (unused!) and acknowledgements. Argyle began and ended their 100th season with a party in which the number 90 featured: from director Michael Foot's 90th birthday bash on the eve of the opening Second Division match against Grimsby,to the 90 points secured by the last-day victory that sparked a weekend of celebrations. Such symmetry sandwiched a campaign which was far from so neat and tidy.Indeed,the season threatened to stall on the starting grid after a pre-season in which Argyle struggled to score, let alone win.By the end of August,after six games,the Pilgrims had not won a single match, were 15th in the table,and had no more interest in the Carling Cup.If anyone had suggested that this was the form of the team that would go on to win the title by seven points,you would have suggested,less than politely,that they were. . . . . well,having a laugh.Their eventual triumph masked some fraught and anxious moments. Relive them. . . .and the Pilgrim's progress towards the title in this, exclusive,official story of the 2003-04 campaign. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja34759. ISBN: 1905062001.
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Imprint: UK.PLYMOUTH,DEVON.ARGYLE MEDIA PRODUCTIONS,2004. UK,slim 8vo wraps,1st edn.FINE.No owner inscrptn,wraps unclipped,no reading creases to spine/backstrip.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated card wraps; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges,corners and spine/backstrip - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean, contents bright,tight and near pristine. UK,slim 8vo wraps,1-142pp [paginated] includes introduction,11 chapters,32pp of colour photographs in 2 blocks of 16pp apiece,between pp31-46 and pp79-94 respectively,2pp at rear for autographs (unused!) and acknowledgements. Argyle began and ended their 100th season with a party in which the number 90 featured: from director Michael Foot's 90th birthday bash on the eve of the opening Second Division match against Grimsby,to the 90 points secured by the last-day victory that sparked a weekend of celebrations.Such symmetry sandwiched a campaign which was far from so neat and tidy.Indeed,the season threatened to stall on the starting grid after a pre-season in which Argyle struggled to score,let alone win.By the end of August,after six games, the Pilgrims had not won a single match, were 15th in the table,and had no more interest in the Carling Cup.If anyone had suggested that this was the form of the team that would go on to win the title by seven points,you would have suggested,less than politely,that they were. . . . . well,having a laugh.Their eventual triumph masked some fraught and anxious moments. Relive them. . . . and the Pilgrim's progress towards the title in this, exclusive,official story of the 2003-04 campaign. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. ** Stock number: rja34749. ISBN: 9781905062003
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Imprint: LONDON.HODDER CHILDREN'S BOOKS,2018. UK,8vo wraps,uncorrected proof,1st thus.[Proof copies denote the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title.Often of limited availability,the text of a forthcoming book,is printed and bound in softcovers for use by the author, editors,proofreaders and some favoured reviewers.] NMINT.No owner inscrptn and no price removal to cover - absence of publisher's price.Bright,crisp,clean and sharp-cornered,matt,colour illustrated front cover with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners,no nicks or tears present - and no reading creases to spine/ backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,8vo wraps,p/back uncorrected proof original,1st edn thus,1-445pp [paginated] includes a prologue,Pts 1+2 and epilogues 1+2, b/w illustrations throughout - along with blank pages for further illustrations yet to be decided/included; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,double-page b/w illustration,double- page b/w map illustration,another double-page b/w illustration (Cormincrag Prison) and 6pp blanks at the rear of the book.Inserted/glued in at front - publisher's blurb colour illustrated, glossy card reveal of book's final,issued cover art. For undecorated printed wraps,with minimal publication data imprinted - the produced/ released number of copies would almost certainly be less than 500,and most probably would tend to be around 200 copies.For glossy pictorial illustrated wrappers,produced numbers are often higher than 200,but either have a scarcity to them.Often errors or earlier versions of text appear in these proofs.Versions where the text has changed considerably are obviously considered more desirable by their nature.] Sequel to the 'Wizards of Once' and continuing the magical adventure of Xar and Wish.The film rights have been acquired by DreamWorks Animation for a major motion picture.Book is due for publication 20th September 2018. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja811218. ISBN: 9781444941401.
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Imprint: UK.PLYMOUTH,DEVON.RYDINGS ASSOCIATES,2014. UK,small 8vo wraps,s/back Original,author SIGNED,1st edn.[Paperback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn, but p/back originals are published prior to any other format.] Near MINT.No owner inscrptn but author's blue inked, handwritten signature - without dedication - to title page and absence of publisher's price. Bright,crisp,clean and sharp-cornered,glossy, letter facsimile colour photographic reproduction illustrated covers with gilt coloured and black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - and no reading creases to spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound -pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,unread - apart from my own collation.UK,small 8vo wraps,p/back original, 1st edn,ii -vpp+1-351pp [paginated] includes copyright page,note on author with illus info to its verso,separate contents list/table,13 chapters includes a conclusion,a mixture of b/w+colour facsimile reproduction illustrations throughout the text and the book,a family tree chart and a bibliography; plus [unpaginated] author SIGNED title page. An intriguing self-researched and probably self-published European royalty related item. In paperback,with over 350 pages,this captivating mystery follows the author's investigation into five letters handwritten on headed-notepaper from four Royal residences, originally bought as a lot at an auction in the 1980s. The letters provide an intimate insight into the letter-writer's life with "the King and Queen" and other members of the British,Dutch and Russian Royal Families.The book is supported throughout by more than 80 colour and black & white images of Royalty,and people and places with Royal connections. The author's research has uncovered the dates when the letters were written (they were only partly dated,with the year always omitted). Their contents have also been correlated with events recorded in the Court Circular of the Times newspapers of the period.These investigations also led to the discovery of who wrote the letters (they were all unsigned) and the writer’s ancestral background,and to whom they were written. Although the letters are nearly a century old, there is an exciting twist connecting the letters to a sensational event which occurred 50 years after they were written. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja743217. ISBN: 9780992863708.
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Imprint: LONDON.CAPE,1975. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clipped dw/dj. Laminated,white upper wrap with red+black letters; b/w author portrait photograph to rear wrap with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to top edges having one small closed tear.Head+foot of spine/ backstrip minisculely bumped with minimal creasing.Top edge coloured,fore-edge clean; contents,bright,tight and near pristine.Generally clean,publisher's original,plain dark brown cloth bds with bright,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate,plain khaki eps. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-308pp includes half-title+title pages,contents+photograph lists,authoress introduction,19pp b/w contemporary photographs between pp211-232 and an index. Journalist,painter and inveterate world traveller,Fleur Cowles recaptures the quintessential moments of a life crowded with achievement and adventure.With her camera-eye for setting and detail and her exact recall of conversation and nuance, she is able to re-create an intimate evening with the Jouhnsons on the L.B.J. Ranch,a hazardous visit to Salvador Dali and an exchange of confidences with Gamal Abdel Nasser.Her acquaintance with an extraordinary number of White House occupants began when she was a consultant to the Famine Emergency Committee assisting Herbert Hoover.But her most valued friend in the Oval Office was President Eisenhower,who often sent her on personal diplomatic missions and it was as an ambassador that she attended the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth.Her account of the elaborate logistics and split-second timing that went into those royal occasions makes fascinating reading. After moving to England in 1955 she began to pursue seriously her ambitions as a painter.The invitation to exhibit in the Sao Paulo Biennale in 1965 marked her first international recognition and today her work is included in major collections all over the world.See also rja2038, rja2039 and rja2109,for examples of her illustrated books and artwork. Stock number: rja276. ISBN: 0224011405.
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Imprint: LONDON.HarperCollins Publishers,1996. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.Simultaneously issued UK,USA and Canada,1996.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£20.00) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,part- matt and part-glossy laminated,b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj,with black+ red lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges though lighly toned,bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain burgundy cloth bds with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate montage'd celebrities' portrait monochrome photographic illustrated eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,x-xxivpp+3-375pp [paginated] includes separate contents+illus lists/tables, acknowledgements,intro by Carlos Fuentes, author's preface,Pts I-XIII,16pp contemporary auto+biographical b/w photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece, between pp104/5 and pp232/3 respectively and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title page,publisher's advert for author's other published work,a colour portrait painting illustrated frntis,title page,a dedication,individual Pts separator pages and2pp blanks at rear. Few women - or men - have led such varied lives as Fleur Cowles.A highly distinguished journalist and editor of one of America's top magazines during the 1950s,'Flair',Fleur Cowles is best known today for the magic realism of her paintings - paintings peopled by jungle beasts,huge flowers and overgrown birds (see my book ID's rja2038,rja2039 for examples of her illustrated books and artwork) - and for her many famous friends. It is these who fill the pages of her marvellous book.She recalls picnicking with Cary Grant in Spain,the weekend Marilyn Monroe spent hiding in her Conneticut home,of her many trips as personal emissary for Eisenhower,of the time she spent in Argentina and her relationship with Evita Pron.She writes about her experiences on the Korean war front,about Carrington's bitter resignation when Argentina invaded the Falklands,and of his experiences in former Yugoslavia,and of Chris Patten's private thoughts on the future of Hong Kong.She includes many glimpses of her close friendship with Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.Others who appear in her book include Margot Fonteyn,Isak Dinesen,Grace Kelly,the Dali Lama,Harold Wilson,Haile Selassie,Gamal Abdel Nasser,Imelda Marcos, Harold Macmillan,Luciano Pavarotti,Charlie Chaplin,Coco Chanel,Ernest Hemingway and many more. Tough but never malicious,self-respecting but never self-serving,Fleur Cowles's book shares with us the unknown stories of the men and women who have shaped 20thC history. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja705117. ISBN: 0002556898.
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Imprint: LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON 1973. UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/VG.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,white background with colour pictorial family crest vignette illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with gilt,brown and black lettering,a 19thC Rothschild's familial colour painting illustrated rear panel of dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - some nicks and/or closed tears to some edges and corners.Front lower corner with a 1.25" closed tear,top front corner minimally rubbed with some miniscule loss,a couple of small closed tears/nicks to top rear edges of dw/dj.Both head+foot of spine/ backstrip of dw/dj minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - otherwise pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp- cornered,publisher's original tan cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt amorial design from family crest,to front board, and bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and repeated brown+cream family members' generational,portraits' photographs and/or illustrations to the eps.A light,indeterminate liquid stain to foot of spine/backstrip spreading part way along foot of front bd's edge,with another further small circular spot liquid stain just above it.Stain concomitant to dw/dj's interior and not visible externally.UK, Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-304pp [paginated] includes 13 chapters,profusely illustrated with contemporary b/w+colour illustrations,along with b/w+colour biographical photographs,double-page genealogical family tree,notes and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title page, title page with acknowledgements to it's recto,dedication with sources of illustrations credits to it's recto,and a contents list/table with a b/w scenic, street photographic frntis to it's recto. Little did Napoleon suspect,when he invaded the principality of Hesse-Cassel in the autumn of 1806,that his action would foster the establishment of an empire which not only would grow stronger as his own waned but control the strings of Europe for over a century (and beyond that time!). The empire had been founded by Mayer Amschel Rothschild,a tall,gentle Jew from the ghetto at Frankfurt,a second-hand dealer with an interest in old coins,five talented sons and a dynastic dream.By the early 1820s his dream had become reality and his name was on its way to becoming a household word,synonymous with immense wealth,shrewdness and power.Not only were his sons - Amschel,Salomon,Nathan,Carl and James - enobled by the Austrian Emperor, but they became the eminences grises behind the major political and economic moves in Europe,which they watched and controlled from their strategically placed banks in Frankfurt,Vienna,London,Naples and Paris. They provided Wellington's army in the Iberian peninsula with gold bullion and later lent the money with which the British bought shares in the Suez Canal. Yet their greatest concern throughout the 19thC was to maintain the status quo in Europe,for it was only by keeping the peace between France,Britain,Prussia and Austria that the Rothschild banks could flourish as a whole.And though the banks eventually dwindled to three,the family went on making history,breaking social records and dealing successfully in that most precious of Rothschild commodities: sons. Bankers,members of Parliament,Zionists, collectors,patrons of the arts,builders of grandiose houses,entertainers of royalty, scientists,sportsmen,playwrights,wine-growers and eccentrics,these latter-day Medicis were never less than magnificent, whether they sat for Delacroix and Ingre, like Baron James and his beautiful wife Betty,bought their daughter a gold harp, like Nathan,drove a team of zebras down Picadilly,like Lionel Walter,made the Palestinian desert bloom,like Baron Edmond,or designed ambulances and put jam into tubes for the soldiers at the front during the First World War,like Baron Henri. Virginia Cowles' history of a brilliant and dazzling family is illustrated with thirty-two pages of colour and over 120 b/w portraits,paintings,drawings, caricatures and photographs,many of which have never been reproduced before. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight and value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja622016. ISBN: 0297765388.
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Imprint: UK.HARPENDEN,HERTFORDSHIRE.KAMERA BOOKS/OLDCASTLE BOOKS.2017. UK,12mo p/back Original,1st edn.[Paperback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/ title.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but p/back originals are published prior to any other format.] NMINT.Wrapped+protected from day of issue/ purchase,so no owner inscrptn and no price removal from cover.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,card covers with a monochrome portrait photograph of Patrick McGoohan (the original TV series co-creator) to front with capitalised red+ white lettering and a partial,glossy number 6 superimposed over the portrait,red,white+ black lettered spine/backstrip which has no reading creases to it,rear cover with red+ white lettered preamble and critic's review.Negligible shelf-wear,no bumping, creasing to edges or corners - no nicks tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - unread, other than my own collation.UK,12mo p/back Original, 1st edn,9-206pp [paginated] includes 17 episodal chapters each with pertinent episode's b/w photographic still from the TV series as header,Decoding The Prisoner, an Epilogueacknowledgements and an Index; plus [unpaginated] title page,a dedication, contents list/table and individual episode/ chapter separator pages,and front+rear black free endpapers with white penny-farthing logo to their verso and recto respectively. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's nature, i.e. a paperback item,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/ state of preservation and presentation. McGoohan's absurdist espionage series,'The Prisoner' is probably the cultiest and most analysed show in British TV history.It aired on British TV (ITV) 1967-68 for a run of 17 episodes (out of a planned 36 - Sir Lew Grade refused to bankroll it further than those,either because it was over budget or because its drug references were proving too controversial.) The enormously puzzling TV series 'The Prisoner' has developed a rapt cult following,and has often been described as 'surreal' or 'Kafkaesque.' Alex Cox watched all the episodes of 'The Prisoner' on their first broadcast,at the ripe old age of thirteen.In 'I Am (Not) a Number.',Cox believes he provides the answers to all the questions which have engrossed and confounded viewers including: Who is Number 6? Who runs The Village? Who - or what - is Number 1? According to Cox, the key to understanding The Prisoner is to view the series in the order in which the episodes were made - and not in the re-arranged order of the UK or US television screenings.In this book he provides an innovative and controversial 'explanation' for what is perhaps the best,the most original,and certainly the most perplexing TV series of all time. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja1002022. ISBN: 9780857301758.
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Imprint: LONDON.HarperCollins Publishers,2019. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 - 11 ascending.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt grey background with colour pictorial diagramatic illustrated front panel with white white lettering,white letters to non-sunned,non faded,red spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked white ink letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain pale grey endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-ixpp+3-436pp[paginated] includes an introduction,Parts 1-7 comprising 3 sections/ chapters with national countries transitions to first 6 Pts,1 section to pt 7 (The Mixer),an epilogue,a bibliography,acknowledgements and an index; plus [unpaginated]half-title+ title pages,contents list/table,individual Pts separator pages and 2pp blanks at the rear. 'A wonderful overview of tactical development in European football' Matthew Syed,The Times. 'A fascinating assessment of football in 2019' Observer. An insightful,comprehensive and always entertaining appreciation of how European football has developed over the last three decades by the author of the much heralded The Mixer.Continental football has always cast a spell over the imagination.From the attacking flair of Real Madrid of the 50's to the defensive brilliance of the Italians in the 60's and onto the total football of the Dutch in the 70's,the European leagues have been where the game has most evolved and taken its biggest steps forward. And over the last three decades,since the rebranding of the Champions League in 1992,that pattern has continued unabated,with each major European footballing nation playing its part in how the game's tactics have developed.From the intelligent use of space displayed by the phenomenal Ajax team of the early 90's,to the dominance of the highly strategic Italian league in the late 90's and onto the technical wizardry of Barcelona's tiki-taka,the European game continues to reinvent the tactical dimension of the game,creating blueprints which both club and national teams around the world strive to follow. In 'Zonal Marking',Michael Cox brilliantly investigates and analyses the major leagues around Europe over specific time periods and demonstrates the impact each has made on how the game is now played.Highly entertaining and packed full of wonderful anecdotes,this is the first book of its kind to take an overview of modern European football,and lays bare just how much the international language of football can be shaped by a nation's unique identity. Please contact seller,because of the weight/ value of this item for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** UK,buyers note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded after order receipt and before order's despatch,especially if offered P/p included or free. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIR postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. 2/3rds of standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving long before the quoted 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja868820. ISBN: 9780008291167.
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Imprint: UK.PADSTOW,CORNWALL.TABB HOUSE,1984. UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with b/w lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Spine/ backstrip of dw/dj inevitably but lightly sunned/faded.Top edges lightly dust-soiled with minimal,sporadic foxing/spotting but still clean,fore-edges brighter and cleaner; contents bright,tight,clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original, plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3- 102pp [paginated] includes 6 chapters, contemporary b/w facsimile reproduction illustrations,2 b/w regional maps and b/w line illustrations throughout the text and the book,a bibliography; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, contents list/table with illustrations list to it's recto,an author foreword,list of author's other books,with b/w facsimile portrait reproduction to it's recto. A history and geography of what was for centuries one of Britain's biggest businesses.Opening with a general survey of the trade,it then describes the careers of a number of individual smugglers.The author has taken an exciting subject,and writes with an eye for those details that make history come alive.He lives near the north coast of Cornwall,where the legend of 'Cruel' Copinger led to eight years' research resulting in this book,which is illustrated from old prints and engravings,with sheet ballads of the period.There are also maps to enable the West Country reader to visit any of the numerous places mentioned that are connected with smuggling. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja614616. ISBN: 0907018327.
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Imprint: LONDON.HEINEMANN,1986. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Colour,wrap-around artwork by Russell Mills,illustrated dw/dj; plus red+white lettered,rectangular sticker (You can afford to make the journey!) to upper wrap; with minimal shelf wear to edges and no nicks or tears present and light,slight creasing to top edges.Top+fore-edges clean;,contents bright and near pristine. Black paper-covered boards with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and clean but lightly aged feps with rear endpapers brighter.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,includes ffe,half- title+ title pages,3-154pp,1pp blank. 'There and beyond is a seventh continent - seven peoples,seven masters,seven seas. And its business is trade and superstition' Pycletius,Histories,IV.3. Jim Crace has created in Continent a myth for our times.It is a seventh continent where past and present are discontinous, where custom and progress form a dangerous flux. The seven narratives combine to explore the irreconcilable forces implicit in all cultures - telling of a tribe 'on heat', of a calligrapher who loses his skill,of a runner pitched against a horseman,of a love story between a young girl and a soldier,and of a geologist's search for rare minerals.Author's uncommon debut novel.See also rja1793,rja1794,rja1800. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja1795. ISBN: 0434148245.
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Imprint: LONDON.VIKING,1994. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Colour,pictorial illustrated wrap-around dw/dj; with minimal shelf-wear with no nicks or tears and no creases to edges. Top+fore-edges clean; contents bright, tight and pristine.Charcoal paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain grey endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-275pp. Author's 4th novel.See also rja1793, rja1795,and rja1800. Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja1794. ISBN: 0670856967.
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Imprint: LONDON.VIKING,1994. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj,but a black ink DAMAGED stamp to bottom edge (a VIKING [publisher] custom - all the more strange, as there appears to be no faults at all to the book.).Colour pictorial illustrated wrap-around dw/dj; with minimal shelf-wear and creases to edges and corners lightly bumped.Top edge lightly dust-soiled,fore-edge clean; contents bright,tight and clean.Charcoal paper-covered boards with stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain grey endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-275pp. Author's 4th novel.See also rja1793, rja1794,and rja1795. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja1800. ISBN: 0670856967.
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Imprint: LONDON.VIKING,1994. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Colour,pictorial illustrated wrap-around dw/dj; with minimal shelf-wear with no nicks or tears and no creases to edges. Top+fore-edge clean; contents bright,tight and pristine.Charcoal paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain grey endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-275pp.Author's 4th novel.See also rja1794,rja1795, rja1800. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja1793. ISBN: 0670856967.
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Imprint: LONDON.ATLANTIC BOOKS,2006. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.[Complete number line 9 - 1 descending.] NFINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn but co-author (Ben Fogle) dedication,inscrptn and signature: 'To Julia,Daisy and Harry Best wishes Ben Fogle' to foot of title page and no price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,with black,brown and fluorescent silver gilt and grey+white lettering to respective front+rear panels; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.A light,small oblique crease to front top edge of dw/dj and a diagonal (accidental) crease to top corner of front inner flap of dw/dj.Top edges lightly grubbed and minimally spotted,fore-edges lightly thumb-grubbed but generally bright and clean; contents however,bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - near pristine - one dog-ear reading crease only - to p129/30's top corners.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain pale grey cloth bds with bright,crisp, stamped fluorescent silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain dark blue eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,co-author SIGNED (Ben Fogle's),1st edn,ix-xpp+1-277pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,a prologue,11 chapters and an epilogue,12 pages contemporary,autobiographical colour photographs in 3 blocks of 4pp apiece, between pp54/5,pp150/51 and pp246/47 respectively,plus [unpaginated] half- title,SIGNED title page,co-author's dedications,and a contents list/table. Described hard but honestly. When James Cracknell and Ben Fogle decided to compete in the Atlantic Rowing Race,they thought they knew what awaited them: a journey of nearly three thousand miles, stormy weather and colossal physical stress.But as the security of dry land became a distant memory,the full enormity of what they had committed themselves to became apparent: that they were surrounded by empty ocean on all sides,hundreds of miles from home,trapped together in a tiny space for every waking moment.Winning the race was clearly going to be the least of their worries. Forty-nine days later Cracknell and Fogle were the first pair of rowers to cross the finishing line.They had pushed themselves physically,psychologically and emotionally to the limit.They survived without water rations,lost the few clothes they had, capsized,hallucinated,wept,fought,played games,grew beards,nursed blisters and rowed a staggering 2,930 miles. 'The Crossing' is the extraordinarily honest account of James and Ben's epic race.From cooking in a force eight gale and rubbing cream into one another's blisters to swimming with whales and fearing the other had drowned,this unputdownable account takes the reader to the very heart of James and Ben's journey: a race that forced both men to face the truth about themselves. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja633416. ISBN: 184354511X.
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Imprint: UK.OXFORD.OUP,1990. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.8vo, 554pp includes biographies at rear. Collection of 33 stories from authors such as Anthony Berkeley, F.W Crofts, Carter Dickson, Edmund Crispin, Julian Symons, Michael Gilbert, P.D.James and Ruth Rendell, Michael Innes, Christianna Brand, Simon Brett amongst others. Please contact seller,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja1151. ISBN: 0192141872.
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Imprint: LONDON.ORION BOOKS,2008. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Book has a slight lean. It's fire season,and the hills of Los Angeles are burning.Fire Department personnel rush to evacuate the inhabitants, and find the days-old corpse of a middle-aged recluse who apparently committed suicide.Clutched in his lap is a photo album containing pictures of seven young women who have been murdered,each one taken only moments after they were killed. One murder per year for seven years,their bodies found in different parts of the city.LAPD homicide detectives had never connected the cases.But now with the discovery of the 'death album' these seven murders have been linked,and the news for Elvis Cole is bad . . . Only one suspect had been charged in any of those cases,that being for the murder of victim #4.LAPD and the LA County District Attorney had a recorded confession by the suspect and believed him to be the murderer. But,with evidence supplied by Elvis Cole, in the end he walked free.That suspect was the suicide now discovered in the fire, Lionel Byrd. Did Cole's action three years ago free a killer to commit further murders? Did Elvis cost more young women their lives? A Cole & Pike novel. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja535115. ISBN: 9780752891590.
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Imprint: LONDON.ORION BOOKS,2001. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels+ spine/backstrip with white+red lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/toned but generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,so appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain lilac cloth boards with bright, crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine /backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2-373pp [paginated] includes a prologue,Pts 1-5 comprising 29 chapters in total,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,individual Pts separator pages and 4pp blanks at the rear of the book. Author's 10th novel and a stand-alone thriller with a southern California setting. Jeff Talley was a good husband,a fine father,and a frontline negotiator with LAPD's SWAT unit.But the high-stress, unforgiving job took an unbearable toll. After he fails to prevent a despondent father from killing his wife and son and then himself,Talley hits bottom.His own marriage ends,he resigns from SWAT,and takes the chief-of-police job in a sleepy affluent commuter district far from the chaos and crime of Los Angeles.Maybe here he can escape his former life. But Talley's pursuit of a peaceful small- town existence is interrupted when three young men,fleeing the robbery of a mini- mart,burst into a house,and take the family hostage.Plunged back into the high-pressure world that he has desperately been trying to put behind him, Talley finds his nightmare has barely begun,because his just isn't any house.It belongs to a brilliant,white-collar criminal who launders money for L.A'.s renegade Mafia family. And the accountant's records of the incriminating moneytrail that lie within will put L.A.'s most lethal and volatile crime lord,Sonny Benza,behind bars for life.As Talley desperately tries to save the innocents inside,the full weight of Benza's wrath descends on him,putting Talley and his own family at risk.Soon,all involved are held hostage by fate and the only one capable of diffusing the crisis is the least stable of them all. Please contact seller,because of the weight and value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. UK,buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included or FREE. Available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. Stock number: rja696617. ISBN: 0752841823.
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Imprint: LONDON.VIKING,1996. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but author's neat, handwritten black ink signature - without dedication - to title page,and no price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,scenic colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - though there is a tiny,closed nick/tear to upper dw/dj's top,right-hand corner of front,upper panel.Head of dw/dj's spine/ backstrip minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top edges lightly but minimally dust-soiled,fore-edges also lightly aged; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - virtually pristine - with no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread? Bright, clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original, plain dark blue cloth bds with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white eps. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,viipp+4- 374pp [paginated] includes partial illustrations+maps list/table,7 chapters, 16pp of scenic,colour photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp117/19 and pp246/7 respectively,6 b/w maps interspersed throughout the text and the book,and an index.Plus [unpaginated], blank,author SIGNED title page,contents list/table,acknowledgements and partial illustrations list,double-page b/w map of author's route and chapter separator pages. Author's first book.Starting in Cape Finisterre in Spain and finishing in Istanbul,he records the travels he made on foot across the mountain ranges of Europe that included the Cantabrians,the Pyrenees,the Cevennes,the Alps,the Carpathians and the Balkans. Since April 2013,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured Shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja479114. ISBN: 0670868396.
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Imprint: UK.PLYMOUTH,DEVON.MACDONALD & EVANS LTD.,1980. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Light shelf-wear/crease to top+bottom dw/dj's edges,no tears present.Contents bright, tight and clean.8vo,290pp includes b/w illus+photographs,biblio and index. In this masterly survey of the theatrical history of Devon and Cornwall,Harvey Crane begins the story with what he believes may be the very origins of British theatre,the Cornish ordinalia,or word books,on which the peasant and clerical players of the 13thC based their popular presentations of biblical and religious themes.As the narrative moves on,the author has a wealth of characters to introduce - such as the rough,tough young man,black-haired and wit a wild eye,who trailed his wife and two children into Exeter looking for work on a cold December day in 1811: and thus the strange,almost demonic,power of Edmund Kean was charged into the British theatre of the early nineteenth century: or Miss Eliza Emma Couch,of Caroline Place, Stonehouse,who left her native Plymouth far behind when she climbed to the pinnacle of the Parisian demi-monde as Cora Pearl,poule de luxe of the Second Empire: or Plymouth-born Maria Foote,who acted Juliet in the Dock Theatre at the age of twelve and ended her full life as Countess of Harrington.Crane's wide sympathy and deep knowledge enable him to cover almost every aspect of the triumphs and disasters which mark the long struggle between the stern Puritanism of the South West and the pleasurable seductions of the stage:the successes and failures of the strolling players,the actor-managers,the speculative builders and the stars of successive generations of theatre-goers. The history is brought right up to the immediate present (1980),tracing the links between the West Country and the modern world of entertainment through such varied personalities as Agatha Christie,Paul Rogers,Danny La Rue and Angela Rippon. This is a book, not only for the actor, historian and student,but for all those who have the furtherance and well-being of the theatre at heart. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Stock number: rja1374.
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