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Imprint: Chichester, Sussex, Phillimore, 1995 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is price clipped. Telford may be a new town, but it also contains a World Heritage Site. The book tells the story, in words and pictures, of the many towns and villages that were included in the newly created Telford, most of them of great antiquity, having been established long before the Domesday Book was compiled. A1F. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 010366. ISBN: 0850339553
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Imprint: London, Thomas Nelson 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Dark and light greeen pictorials of boy with book to front, girl with book to back and books on table to spine on green cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with only a touch of wear to spine head and tail. Pictorials are particularly bright. Internally there is a decorative prize bookplate to front pastedown and some foxing to some pages else clean and unmarked. Not dated but British Library has two editions, 1902 and 1908. The author is Evelyn Everett-Greene a popular and prolific Victorian novelist whose theme was always moral. A1C. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 002593.
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Imprint: Lewes, East Sussex, The Book Guild, 1993 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A compelling crime thriller which tells of a young couple, who turn detective after stumbling across a grisly accident on the way to the opera. They leave their safe, respectable worlds far behind when their investigations lead them to the criminal underworld of pornography, blackmail, gun toting thugs - and murder. Set in the London and Sussex of the 1960's. B2B. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 006104. ISBN: 0863327974
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Imprint: Chichester, Sussex, Phillimore, 1996 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy. A large format volume of xvi + 240 pages. 257 illustrations. Foreword by Lord Attenborough. Preface by Alan Readman. The centenary of cinema has inspired this first comprehensive account of film-making and cinema in West Sussex. The South Coast was popular with early film-makers and the county had links with such pioneers as William Dickson at Worthing, George Albert Smith at Southwick and Cecil Hepworth at Bognor. Their work is highlighted and that of the film studio at Shoreham, which produced a string of successful feature films. The book also provides a rare insight into the world of amateur cinematography with the remarkable story of the nationally-acclaimed Bognor Regis Film Society. The authors are able to draw on much new research, not least in their account of the origins of the cinema in the county and they trace the travelling showmen who brought the early moving pictures to public halls, pier pavilions and fairgrounds. They go on to describe in detail the history of all the 62 cinemas that have operated in West Sussex. Thes buildings range from short-lived early halls to the sumptuous cinemas of the 1930's and the hardy survivors of today. The text is illuminated by a rich selection of illustrations, many never previously published. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.19 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 20A. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 009870. ISBN: 1860770355
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Imprint: London, W.H. Allen, 1985 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. 240 pages. 38 illustrations. In a career that began in 1927, Rex Harrison made over 100 stage and screen appearances, being successful on Broadway and London's West End, while his film career was split between England and Hollywood. The film historian biographer analyses Rex Harrison's career with keen professional insight and lists all the actor's theatre, cinema and televison appearances. **** NOT EX LIB **** 21. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 008256. ISBN: 0491039018
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Imprint: Berkeley, University of California Press/Oakland Museum of California, 2004 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy. A large format volume of xii + 209 pages. Illustrated throughout. This intriguing book provides a rich variety of perspectives on the roles played by California and Californians during the watershed era of the Vietnam War. It examines the continuing legacy of that war and is particularly valuable for the light it casts on the contributions of the Vietnamese to California and the nation. Conceived in tandem with the Oakland Museum of California's innovative national touring exhibition of the same title. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.07 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 1. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 009184. ISBN: 0520242440
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Imprint: Marlborough, Wiltshire, The Crowood Press, 2007 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy. The book explains the technical principles through step-by-step instructions, moving from observation to simple aspects of drawing, and then to caricaturing the face feature by feature. Packed with over 160 original caricatures and numerous exercises, it is a unique book that will enable every artist to learn the art and to develop their own style. 20A. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 005725. ISBN: 9781861269515
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Imprint: London, Cadogan Guides, 2004 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. 183 pages. This book, written by Cadogan Guide authors, is an engrossing gallimaufry of history, absurd legends, antique curiosities, inventions, miscellany and trivia, collected from over 20 years of travel and research. Informative and highly entertaining. 300. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 008801. ISBN: 1860111327
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Imprint: Cambridge, Polity Press, 1995 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ unmarked copy with no inscriptions which has a little creasing to corner tips. xiii + 288 pages. Professor Falk has emerged as one of the outstanding thinkers concerned with the major global problems of the late 20th century. He contends that human society is caught between a capital-driven globalization and a territorially-rooted revival of tribalism and ultra-nationalism. The book focuses critically on global structures that are producing both new patterns of domination (north over South, rich over poor) and dangerous pressures on the carrying capacities of the planet. 50. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 009104. ISBN: 0745612288
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Imprint: London, Oxford University Press, 1964 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on red cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is an armorial book plate to front pastedown and a small name and date to front endpaper else very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket is complete and VG+. vi + 127 pages. Portrait frontispiece. Mandell Creighton (1843-1901) was historian and successively Bishop of Peterborough and Bishop of London. His life by his widow published in two volumes in 1904, has been ranked high among biographies but the mere bulk of this and his own works discourages present day readers. Yet he does not deserve such neglect, and the author has written this readable biography to show Creighton's character as a Christian and a historian; his thought on the Church of England and its position in the nation; his actions and his outlook as a bishop; and, the chief problem of his episcopate, ritual controversy; the booh ends with a summing-up. **** NOT EX LIB **** R1. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 007931.
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Imprint: Geneve, Éditions Labor, 1936 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Livre Très bon. 465 pages. Pages non ouvert. Table des Matières : Livre I - La Renaissance; Livre II - La Réforme dans les Pays de l'angue allemande; Livre III - La Réforme en France et en Suisse Française; Livre IV - L'Expansion protestante en Europe et le Redressement Catholique. R7. Book Condition: Très Bon. Binding: Couverture Souple. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 008837.
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Imprint: London, Piccadilly Press, 1992 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pictorial laminated boards which has a smll bump to lower corner tip with a small ink mark to front endpaper else clean and unmarked. The author continues his mission to 'deborify' those subjects which drove him mad at school resulting in a wealth of information embellished with cartoons drawn by him. An amusing catalogue of scientific achievement and inventions. A1D. Illustr.: Farman, John. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 005048. ISBN: 1853401269
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Imprint: Leominster, Herefordshire, Fowler Wright, 1980 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on green cloth boards which have some light marks to spine with no wear. Internally near Fine and unmarked. Dustjacket is near Fine. xii + 354 pages. Map of principal medieval monasteries in England following the Rule of Benedict to front endpapers and Map of principal medieval monasteries in Scotland following the Rule of Benedict to rear endpapers. Foreword by Cardinal Basil Hume. The book commemorates the fifteenth centenary of the birth of St. Benedict of Nursia (c.45 - c. 543), founder of Subiaco and Monte Cassino, patriarch of monks of the West and patron of Europe. Here are studies of monks and nuns who have attained holiness, or fame, or both, through following the Rule of St. Benedict, one of the most important influences in the making of Europe. These form an impressive procession, reaching from the sixth to the twentieth century, and include famous monastic figures as well as some known only to a few. R1. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 009485. ISBN: 0852440111
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Imprint: London, Peter Owen, 1995 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with gold title on green boards with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. 256 pages. 7 illustrations. The life and tragic death of Marie Antoinette have over the centuries assumed almost mythical proportions. During her lifetime she was the 'Austrian whore', accused of every imaginable sexual and political crime, and in the 19th century the guilt-ridden French tried to atone for their wrongs by reinventing her as a saint, pure and unsullied. Her love for her Swedish paramount, the chivalrous Count Axel Fersen, was glossed over or suppressed. In this book Evelyn Farr peels back layers of misinformation which have continued to obscure the fateful story of the Queen's great love affair. L. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 008571. ISBN: 0720609607
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Imprint: London, Ward, Lock 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Blind embossed decoration and coloured circular plate on front board, black title and decoration to spine on green cloth boards. Boards are very clean with only a small mark at head of spine and just a touch of wear to corner tips. Coloured frontispiece as front board. Decorative prize bookplate to front pastedown, internally there is light foxing to closed edges else very clean, tight and unmarked. A children's story for boys. A1C. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 000904.
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Imprint: London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 2001 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 234 pages. 25 illustrations. 2 maps. In this fascinating book, Gerald O'Farrell shows that Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon actually discovered Tutankhamun's tomb several years before they announced the find to the world. First they looted it, even destroying some artefacts to make it appear that robbers of old had entered the tomb, before re-sealing it and leading the world's media to the site to claim their place in history. And behind this shadowy tale lies another mystery. What happened to the papyri Carter and Carnarvon found in the tomb, which then swiftly disappeared? Would its contents have revealed information so shocking that the British authorities conspired to bury the truth? The book is not only a riveting story of skulduggery and conspiracy in the Valley of the Kings but uncovers tantalising evidence that the famous 'mummy's curse', far from being something mystical, could well have been a systematic way of disposing of those who were about to blow the cover on the opening and the explosive secrets of the tomb. D4B. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 011498. ISBN: 0283072938
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Imprint: London, Michael Joseph, 1994 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with a Very Good + dustjacket which is not price clipped. 246 pages. 35 photographs. Map endpapers. Daniel James Negley Farson (1927 - 1997) was a British writer and broadcaster, strongly identified with the early days of commercial television in the UK. He was the son of US war correspondent Negley Farson, the renowned fisherman, author and adventurer. Daniel Farson had a lifelong yearning to complete his father's 1929 attempt to cross the Klukhor Pass in the Caucasus on horseback. At the age of 64, 'abominably unhealthy', he determined to try. He envisaged a restful though jolly cuise down the Volga and an idyllic journey across the great mountain range. How wrong he was. L. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 011123. ISBN: 0718135881
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Imprint: London, Bloomsbury, 1990 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine price clipped dustjacket. An informative, entertaining and celebratory guide to art galleries and museums and the unexpected art that is displayed. Arranged by region with contact details, showing chosen paintings and a little of the history of the buildings. A supplement to the television art series Gallery which Farson devised and which was presented by George Melly. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.922 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** NOT EX LIB **** 22. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 003851. ISBN: 0747506051
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Imprint: Sagwan Press, 2018 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A facsimile copy of Doubleday, New York edition of the book (note the cover has the title as 'Last' instead of 'Lost'.. Caucasian Journey is a travel book written by the American foreign correspondent Negley Farson, describing his journey in the mountains of the western Caucasus in 1929. Farson undertook the journey in the company of Alexander Wicksteed, a writer and adventurer. It was not until two decades after their expedition that Farson sat down with his notes in order to write the book. Initially published by Evans Brothers in 1951, At one time considered one of North America’s most intrepid journalists, Farson is probably little known today to most readers under the age of 50. Farson was raised by his eccentric grandfather, the notorious Civil War General James Negley who ‘made other men look like mongrel dogs.’ With such a colourful family background, it should have come as no surprise that young Negley was not only expelled from college but immediately emigrated on to England.The excitement of the First World War soon lured him even further afield. The young student, now turned journalist, soon showed up in Russia and was present in Red Square the day the Bolshevik Revolution broke out. Farson went on to become one of the most renowned foreign correspondents of his day. He covered a host of varied and exciting world events including interviewing Gandhi in India, witnessing bank-robber John Dillinger’s naked body in the morgue just after he had been shot down by Hoover’s men, and meeting Hitler, who described Farson’s small blond son, Daniel, as a “good Aryan boy.A renowned fly-fisherman, Farson’s private life was just as turbulent as his journalism career. He partied with F. Scott Fitzgerald and supposedly out-drank Ernest Hemingway. 50. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 011125. ISBN: 978-1377000985
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Imprint: London, Evans Brothers, 1953 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on red cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a prize bookplate to half title page (curiously awarded for proficiency in French) else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket has some wear to edges and is not price clipped. Map endpapers and 17 illustrations. Uniform with 'The Window on the World' series of travel books. First published in 1952. The author, a great-grandson of early settlers in Victoria, who has travelled all over the huge continent, working as a gold miner, wharf labourer, seaman and cattle drover, grape picker on the Murray River, riding on camel patrol in Central Australia, traversing the Northern Territories and travelling into the Black Country with the flying Doctor. He covers Australia's history, geography, natural resources, agriculture and industry and provides a vivid and unforgettable picture of a vast, colourful and magnificent country. A fascinating early travelogue. B2C. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 005309.
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Imprint: London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1954 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Black title on red boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear but with fading to spine. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. 244 pages. An early Science Fiction novel by the English author (1891-1968), is a macabre and exciting story of posession of a human body by a super-soul and the ghastly fate that befalls the young medical student who attempts to control this superman, Nemo, is compelling. With editor's note by Angus Wilson. B2D. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 011228.
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Imprint: London, Macdonald and Janes, 1978 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A near Fine clean, tight and unmarked copy (Fine apart from a very small indentation to front lower edge) with VG+ dustjacket which is price clipped. The story of British and American troop entertainment during World War II, tracing the development of ENSA and USO Camp Shows Inc. - the two largest civilian entertainment agencies ever - and the rise of Service entertainment : the GI shows, Stars in Battledress, the RAF Gang Shows, Unit and Divisional concert parties. This is the story of the Hollywood stars, stars of stage, screen and radio, and the unknowns who took their talents to war, based on official records, personal reminiscences and contemporay accounts and photographs. Profusely illustrated. **** NOT EX LIB **** A1F. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 007355. ISBN: 0354042017
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Imprint: Lake District, The Fell and Rock Climbing Club, 1968 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Plastic coated cover which has light wrinkling. Internally clean and unmarked. 151 pages. Map endpapers. Coloured frontispiece. Drawings of the climbs with index marked and graded list of each climb, list of first ascents and general index. 11. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 009321.
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Imprint: London, Bloomsbury, 2013 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. First edition, First printing. When the first bombs fell on London in 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a battlefront. For most Londoners, the sirens, guns, planes and bombs heralded gruelling nights of sleeplessness, fear and loss. But for Graham Greene and some of his contemporaries, this was a bizarrely euphoric time when Londo became the setting for intense love affairs and surreal beauty. The book is a powerful wartime chronicle told through the eyes of five prominent writers: Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, Rose Macaulay, Hilde Spiel and Henry Yorke (writing as Henry Green). Volunteeringas ambulance drivers, fire-fighters and ARP wardens, these were the successors to the soldier poets of the First World War. Lara Feigel interweaves letters, diaries and fiction with official civil defence records and reveals the haunting, ecstatic, often wrenching stories that triumphed amid the mess of a war-torn world. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.94 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST D4B. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 009586. ISBN: 9781408830444
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Imprint: London, Doubleday, 1999 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 351 pages. A novel recounting the adventures of the wife of the fictional Lemuel Gulliver of Gulliver's Travels fame which is a tongue in cheek view of modern woman's answer to centuries of chauvinism. The author is an award winning poet and novelist and this is her sixth novel. L. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 001172. ISBN: 0385410514
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Imprint: Paris, Firmin Didot Fréres, 1853 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Avec 'Mémoire et Lettre sur les Occupations de l'Académie Française, Lettre sur les Anciens et les Modernes, Discours de Réception à l'Académie Française, Lettre à Louis XIV.' Titre l'or sur demi cuir. Tranches marbrées. Quelque rouseurs. Portrait frontispice. 572 pages. Très Bon etat. 1. Book Condition: Très Bon. Binding: Couverture Rigide. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 008443.
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Imprint: London, SPCK, 1958 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy. 80 pages. These lectures were originally given in Passiontide at St. Boniface College, Warminster, to the final year theological students of King's College, London. In many parish churches the Three Hours Service on Good Friday is based upon 'The Seven Words from the Cross', the one saying recorded in Mark and Matthew, the three in Luke, and the three in John being taken as the basis for a series of devotional addresses. The author points out that this method implies that the three main accounts of the Passion each give part of the story and need to be put together to obtain a more complete record of the events. He suggests that a more satisfactory way to conduct a service would be to follow one Gospel alone, and this is what he gives here in the Marcan account. **** NOT AN EX LIBRARY COPY **** R8. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 006960.
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Imprint: London, Hamlyn, 1988 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine uninscribed copy with Fine complete dustjacket. Contains a wealth of fascinating information about the way country folk used to live, seen through the eyes of the television series Emmerdale Farm characters. Illustrated with delightful drawings and paintings by Jon Jackson and photographs of Emmerdale characters. 3. Illustr.: Jon Jackson. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 002542. ISBN: 0600560120
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Imprint: London, Allen Lane Penguin Press, 1998 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ unmarked copy (near Fine apart from abrasion to lower margin of one page of introduction not affecting the text) and some minor marks to top edge with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xlv + 624 pages. First edition, first printing. 19 figures, 46 tables and 34 illustrations. More than any other event, the First World War defined the 20th century - it killed more than 9 million men, turned four great empires into a multitude of republics, its dire economic consequences condemned the world to its worst modern depression.nThe war spawned seven decades of Communist rule in Russia, mortgaged the British Empire, bled France dry, and thrust world economic power on an unready America. Yet the victor's stated objective of curbing German power was not achieved, the war ultimately made Germany a far more formidable threat, under the leadership of a decorated veteran of the trenches. In the book Professor Ferguson explodes the myths of 1914-18, arguing that the fatal conflict between Britain and Germany was far from inevitable and that it was Britain which needlessly turned a continental conflict into a world war. Having taken this fateful decision, Britain frittered away the enormous economic superiority which would have settled the war swiftly in her favour. PLEASE NOTE - THIS IS A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.28 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST. 4. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 010408. ISBN: 0713992468
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Imprint: London, SPCK, 1936 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Black title on green cloth boards have minor marks to front but no wear. Internally there is age darkening to endpapers and light foxing to closed edges else a clean, tight and unmarked copy. viii + 128 pages. Comprises: The Apocalyptic Background; The Historical Conditions; The Contents 1-11.19; The Contents 12-The End; The Date, The Authorship, and Modern Theories of the Composition; The Permanent Value of The Apocalypse. R1. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Good Stock number: 010120.
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Imprint: London, Little Brown, 2008 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Among the well-to-do families of Jeddah, Palestinian-born desert guide Nayir is an outsider, but when Nouf ash-Shrawi, the 16 year old daughter of a wealthy Saudi dynasty, disappears just before her arranged marriage, Nayir is the man the Shrawis trust to bring her home. Days later Nouf's battered body is found in a desert wadi, but Nouf's task is not over: he feels compelled to uncover the disturbing circumstances surrounding her death. D4C. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 007887. ISBN: 9780316027496
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Imprint: London, Constable, 1990 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine price clipped dustjacket. Constable Crime series. First published in 1970 this is the sixth of the prolific crime author's novels to be reprinted by Constable. Elizabeth Ferrars (1907-1995) is the pseudonym of Morna Doris MacTaggart Brown. The late Professor Garvie-Brown of Edinburgh, it transpired, had murdered seven wives, four bigamously, profiting by each marriage and regarded as a wonderful man by his colleagues. What were his descendants do about this and what particularly ought they do when the Professor's eighth wife, who astonishingly survived him, shows signs of developing a conscience and feels that his descendants should do something for a young man in London, who it has been discovered is the sole surviving grandson of one of his bigamous wives. Luke wants no help but his wealthy relations, a High Court Judge, a doctor and another professor are not sure that blackmail will not surface and Luke and a private detective are drawn into their lives and problems and to an eighth murder. A1B. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 003099. ISBN: 0094700605
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Imprint: London, Eyre & Spottiswoode and the Book Society, 1962 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. The book provides a clear and full introduction to some of the most important philosophical developments of the last quarter century, and presents a substantial defence of religious thought against positivist crtics. The rise of logical positivist philosophy and its later developments in linguistic analysis produced a radical criticism of theology. Dr. Ferre begins by giving an account of positivist and linguistic philosophy, its terms, methods, ideas and history, then, within the framework, he considers the position of theology and argues that it has a real claim to objective, not merely poetic truth. R1. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 006684.
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Imprint: London, The Bodley Head, 1989 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition, first published in USA in 1988. A very clean and unmarked copy VG+ with complete dustjacket VG+. An excellent and very readable work that outlines the story of man's interest in the cosmos, from Aristotle to the Big Bang, the Sumerian Magus atop his Ziggurat to a modern astronomer at his radio telescope, Kepler struggling for years to define the orbit of Mars, Galileo's house arrest for his theories, Herschel plumbing deep space in his studies of galaxies and much more. Illustrated throughout with a glossary, A Brief History of the Universe, Comprehensive Bibliography, notes and index. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.998 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST A1B. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 001443. ISBN: 0370313321
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Imprint: London, Fourth Estate, 1992 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The author tells of her work in encouraging badger watch groups un Britain and her campaigning on behalf of law reform and tougher penalties for badger baiters and in her idyllic 36 acres how she has created a wildlife sanctuary for badgers and foxes, aided and abetted by her cat Flo. The book also tells the story of Splinter, a stray fox cub who grows into a magnificent fox. 31 illustrations and map endpapers. D4F. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 005658. ISBN: 1872180043
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Imprint: London, Hurst and Blackett, 1924 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black title on green cloth boards which have a few small minor marks and a little wear to spine head and tail and corner tips. Internally clean and unmarked. A Good + copy. 302 pages. 13 illustrations. Translated from the French by Herbert Wilson. An historic romance, vividly presented with picturesque local detail, written without sacrificing historic accuracy. C3C. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 000398.
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Imprint: London, Aurum Press, 1992 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with a near Fine dustacket which is price clipped. 376 pages. Coloured map endpapers. An original and troubling account of the decline and fall of the world's second superpower and not since the harrowing accounts of the famines and purges of the Stalin era has so much new and damning information been brought together to expose the monumental brutality bhind the Soviet cause. The authors point out that the physical and human degradation was brought about by the force, not the failure, of the Communists' Utopian ambitions. Untrammelled power has produced an ecological and human disaster of biblical proportions, the consequences of which will be endured for generatins to come. The facts speak for themselves with 103 cities and a population of 70 million that suffer atmospheric pollution that exceeds safe levels by a factor of five, 75 % of surface water is contaminated by one or more pollutants, the rivers Volga and Don have been reduced to chemical sewers, two thirds of the Aral Sea has become an arid, sterile desert and the ecosystems of the Black and Caspian Seas may be damaged beyond repair. One lake near Chelyabinsk has been so polluted by waste from a military installation that it contained 24 times as much radioactive material as was released at Chernobyl. A most erudite work with map endpapers showing the problems and other maps in the text. 23. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 002067. ISBN: 1854102303
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Imprint: New York, P. F. Collier, 1902 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt fleur de lys decoration to spine with title on gold block on green cloth boards. Slight stain to lower front cover and creased back board, internally very clean, tight and unmarked. A Good+ copy. Translated by C. G. Compton with critical introduction by Henry Harland. Photogravure to frontispiece of author, tissue protected. Appendix of other portraits with descriptive notes by Octave Uzanne. A1B. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 000346.
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Imprint: London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ unmarked copy with age darkening to page edges with VG+ complete dustjacket. The book re-examines all the sensational details of the murders ascribed to Jack the Ripper, investigating the roles and reliability of the various policemen involved, analysing the evidence against all the suspects, and from an exhaustive search of original documents, the author has provided a convincing identification of Jack the Ripper. B2B. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 004805. ISBN: 0297791362
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Imprint: London, Hutchinson, 1905 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES. Gilt title and floral decoration to spine and blind embossed floral decoration to front with gilt facsimile signature of Fielding on green cloth boards. Boards are very clean and unmarked with just a trace of wear to spine corners. Internally some light foxing to endpapers and some of the plates else very clean and unmarked. 8 illustrations by George Cruikshank. A very attractive set of one of Fielding's classic novels in above average condition for it's age. **** NOT EX LIB **** B2A. Illustr.: George Cruikshank. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 002402.
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Imprint: London, Sinclair Stevenson, 1993 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is price-clipped. 326 pages. 12 maps and diagrams and 32 photographs. Map endpapers. On November 1992 Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dr. Michael Stroud set out from the Filchner Ice Shelf to attempt the first unassisted crossing of the Antarctic continent. It was to be a journey of epic proportions, and one that was to capture the imagination of the entire world. For 97 days the two men fought pain, starvation and snowblindness, dragging 500-pound sledges across the frozen roof of the world. They plunged into cavernous crevasses, struggled through bitter blizzards, and raced against the onset of ferocious winter. 13. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 011258. ISBN: 0856193756
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Imprint: Paris, Librairie Armand Colin, 1911 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Deuxième Édition. xv + 300 pages. Les bords de page vieillissent assombri. Tables des Matières; I - L'Âge de Dumas et d' Augier; II - Édouard Pailleron - Henry Becque - Le Naturalisme au Théâtre et la Comédie 'Rosse'; III - Le Théâtre Libre; IV - Autour des Théâtres - Les Artistes, Le Public, La Critique; V - La Comédie Nouvelle - Jules Lemaitre, Brieux, Henri Lavedan; VI - La Comédie Nouvelle 'suite) - Paul Hervieu, Maurice Donnay; VII - L'Évolution des Vieux Genres - Renaissance du Vers Dramatique: Jean Richepin et Edmond Rostand. B2B. Book Condition: Très Bon. Binding: Couverture Rigide. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 008634.
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Imprint: London, SCM Press, 1965 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ copy which has a small name and date to front endpaper and dust marking to top edge with VG+ dustjacket. xi + 428 pages + 4 pages of British book references. 2 maps. First British edition. This major work sums up the present state of knowledge of the historical Jesus, the work of Paul, the formation of Christianity and the background in Judaism. The material is presented and explained for students and laymen who seek an authoritative introduction to this field of study, but in the footnotes there is a wealth of suggestions for further reading, and on many points Dr. Filson's judgements will interest his fellow scholars. **** NOT EX LIB **** PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.87 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST R1. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 009512.
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Imprint: London, Max Reinhardt, 1955 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Dilver title on black boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally thre is an inscription to front endpaper, some light foxing to closed edges and a little to endpapers else clean and unmarked. Coloured pictorial dustjacket has some chipping at head of spine and is price clipped. A detective fiction and suspense novel by the American writer, featuring a continental rogue, bodies in the shrubbery, blondes, a brunette bound for Barbados, and a collection of thugs in a nightclub. B2B. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Good Stock number: 001242.
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Imprint: Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1977 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine copy in a complete dustjacket which has slight fading to spine. The heroic journey by the authors with their two children across 8,000 miles from Cape Town to Egypt using only public transport and any other means of conveyance. They encounter dramatic events, sickness, arrest, wild animals but experienced awe inspiring sights. A travelogue worthy of the great Victorian travellers. 16 pages of colour photographs. **** NOT EX LIB **** A1E. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 001180. ISBN: 020713510x
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Imprint: London, Duckworth, 1982 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine price clipped dustjacket. An account of the small Leicestershire village of Knapworth and how its 60 inhabitants faced up the the war. The grand manouevres of the Knapworth Home Guard were grand enough in their way, bu 'Operation Longstop' seemed merely to be bringing out the same old village muddle - in uniform, with added pomp and farce. Against the distant chances of a foreign invasion had to be set the grim certainty that the Bishop was coming down for evensong in October, to bless the churchyard wall, a wall that had not yet been built. Nor was Uncle Hugh, arrested as an enemy alien during the shooting season, behaving in any way beyond expectation. The author writes with zest and humour about his childhood family and neighbours, presenting the unforgettable village character of those days. **** NOT EX LIB **** 13. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 005082. ISBN: 0715616765
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Imprint: London, SPCK, 1996 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition. A Fine unmarked copy. The author explores the reality of mid-life and later as experienced by women, using their own stories, charting a path through the inevitable transitions and developing an inner life that will sustain. Here are spiritual resources for journey, for celebration and renewed commitment to life, as well as for times of loss. **** NOT EX LIB **** 203. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 005333. ISBN: 0281049343
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Imprint: London, SPCK, 1996 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition. A Fine unmarked copy. The author explores the reality of mid-life and later as experienced by women, using their own stories, charting a path through the inevitable transitions and developing an inner life that will sustain. Here are spiritual resources for journey, for celebration and renewed commitment to life, as well as for times of loss. **** NOT EX LIB **** 51. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 011202. ISBN: 0281049343
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Imprint: London, W.H. Allen, 1982 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First British edition. 368 pages. 69 illustrations. In this autobiography of the singer, Eddie Fisher tells the whole story of his remarkable life and career - a roller coaster ride from the slums of Philadelphia to the pinnacle of fame and fortune, a plunge into a nearly fatal drug addiction and, finally, a successful comeback through the love and encouragement of his family and friends. A teenage idol in the 1950's and a friend of the leading personalities of three decades in the worlds of politics, sports and show business, the book is filled with the famous. He was romantically involved with countless women, among them Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, and Ann Margaret, and in lavishly publicized affairs, he married and divorced Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, and Connie Stevens. **** NOT EX LIB **** **** NOT BOOK CLUB **** 12. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 008014. ISBN: 0491022654
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Imprint: London, George Allen and Unwin, 1979 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper 'With best wishes' but with no dedicatee. The author, the younger daughter of Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, was brought up in Australia during the war living on a sheep station in Victoria where she married. Returning to England she re-married and lived in Sussex with her husband John, Lord Fisher. They founded the Kilverstone Wild Life Park in Norfolk in 1973 as a Latin American Zoo. Illustrated. 159. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 000828. ISBN: 0049250159
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