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Imprint: New York, Touchstone, 2002 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy. xvi + 414 pages. Illustrated throughout. Wihout Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis, we would not have jazz. Without Toni Morrison or Ralph Ellison, we would miss some of our greatest novels. Without Dr. King or Thurgood Marshall we would be deprived of political breakthroughs that affirm and strengthen our democracy. Here, two of the leading African-American scholars of our day, Henry Louis Gates, jr., and Cornel West, shows us why the 20th century was the African-American century, as they offer their personal picks of the African-Americans who did most to shape our world. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.88 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 11. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 009182. ISBN: 0684864150
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Imprint: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy apart from a small mark to the margin of one page with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. A story of adolescent friendship. Marie worked during weekends in a kiosk on the beach, but despite the bustle and entertainment surrounding her, she felt oddly left out. Life was going on, but she could never break into that magic circle that others entered freely, but for her the door stayed locked. It was the murder that eventually helped Marie to find the key to the lock. **** NOT EX LIB **** 165. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 007782. ISBN: 0192716352
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Imprint: Boston, Bullfinch Press, 2002 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format volmue of 160 pages. 60 black and white duotone photographs.The book is a riveting compilation of more than forty narratives and photographs drawn from interviews with former slaves conducted in the 1930's by the government's Works Progress Administration. From slave auctions to emancipation, the narratives trace the extraordinary experiences of life in perhaps the darkest period of America's history. Readers will shudder at the vivid accounts - told in the dialect of the former slaves - of the painstaking labor and abuse to which slaves were subjected, and the slave weddings, and other special occasions. y will be moved by the recollections of family life, 3. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 009173. ISBN: 0821228420
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Imprint: London, Oxford University Press, 1939 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on blue cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear and a gentle bump to one front corner tip and slight fading to spine. Internally there is a small name to front endpaper, some small marks to fore edge and a little creasing to some lower page corner tips, else a very clean, tight unmarked copy. Dustjacket has some chipping and age darkening to spine. x + 487 pages. The author, in his straightforward narrative of events and sure diagnosis of problems of this period, provides an essential background and an invaluable guide to the issues in the stage of world affairs. **** NOT EX LIB**** **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.0 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST **** A1D. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Good Stock number: 006850.
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Imprint: London, Constable, 1980 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy which has a quarter inch cut to the top margin of some early pages possibly by a manufacturing fault with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. 226 pages. 150 black and white and 16 colour illustrations. Portaiture began as we know it in Tudor times and the book spans three centuries from Holbein's great portrait of Henry VIII to Landseer's mournful Queen Victoria, seated on a pony held by John Brown. Most of the chief artists of any period - Hilliard, Lely, Kneller, Cooper, Zoffany, Van Loo, Ramsay, Gainsborough - were connected with the Court, and had a title such as 'The King's Limner' or 'Painter-in-Ordinary to the Queen', and a salary. This authoritative work provides a comprehensive history of court painting and the royal painters. 21. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 010352. ISBN: 0094618704
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Imprint: Paris, La Colombe, 1951 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Spine âge obscurci. Deuxième édition. 198 pages. Tables des Matières: Le Cadre et les Institutions - I - Composition du Lieu; II - Une Fondation Laborieuse; III - La Spiritualité Cistercienne; IV - Une Journée au Monastèr: Les Hommes - Deux Convers - Frère Cyprien Bourgain; Deux Religieux de Choeur - Le Père Jean Deymes, Le Père Benoit Bazin; Deux Abbés - Dom Bernard Bazin, Dom Vital Lehodey. R7. Book Condition: Bon. Binding: Couverture Souple. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 009041.
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Imprint: London, Jonathan Cape, 1955 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Silver title and motif on red boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear just a thin line of fading to spine head and tail. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has some wear to top edges and is not price clipped. 292 pages. The author, who lived in France from September 1944 onwards, first as a war correspondent and then as correspondent of British newspapers, has written the first well rounded study of the foundation of the Fourth Republic to appear in Britain. She has documented her personal experiences and subjective opinions with the thorough research of her previous academic years, resulting in a well sustained argument in favour of the immense effort made by the French to recover from the effects of defeat and German occupation. **** NOT EX LIB **** 15. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 008631.
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Imprint: New York, St. Martin's Press, 1997 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a few very minor spots to closed top edge with dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 276 pages. 23 photographs. The autobiography of America's 'Queen of Disco' - a story of riches and fame, despair, and finally salvation. It charts her meteoric rise to stardom in the 1970's with a string o hit records and the song that has immortalized her 'I Will Survive', which became a number one gold seller. D4F. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 011107. ISBN: 0312168691
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Imprint: London, Andre Deutsch, 1970 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine copy with a little foxing to closed edges with dustjacket which has some closed tears. Translated from the German by Colin Bearne and first published under the title ' Die Sexualitat Der Frau' in 1968. Uniform with the Library Of Sexual Behavious series of which this is volume 1, English Language edition edited by Professor Fernando Henriques. C3B. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 002522. ISBN: 0233961437
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Imprint: London, Egmont, 2004 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, first printing. ix + 403 pages. The book is a re-telling of the narrative given in the ancient Irish prose epic, Táin Bó Chuailgne or Cattle Raid of Cooley. This is the most famous and extensive of the legends of Cúchulainn and is the story of the war fought over the Brown Bull of Cooley (Cualgne). the story of two bulls of the Sidhe (the race of immortals). The bulls themselves were immortal and had been transformed from other forms and origins. First they were the swineherds of the gods Bodb (King of the Sidhe of Munster) and Ochne (King of the Sidhe of Connaught). The two swineherds were in rivalry with one another, changing shape in pursuit of their endless quarrel. They became ravens and battled for a year, then they changed to water creatures, then they changed to human champions and then finally into eels. One of these magical eels swam into the River Cruind in Cualgne in Ulster and was swallowed by a cow belonging to Daire of Cualgne. The other swam into the spring of Uaran Garad, in Connaught, where it was swallowed by a cow belonging to Queen Medb. From these origins were born two bulls, the Brown Bull of Ulster, and the White Horned Bull of Connaught. L. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 007755. ISBN: 1405212551
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Imprint: New York, Brentanos, 1922 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt crest and gilt titles and fleur de lys decoration on red cloth boards. A little wear to top of spine and a few minor marks to boards and dulling to spine. Internally clean, tight and unmarked with one previously unopened page badly opened but not affecting the text. Fore and lower edges uncut.15 Illustrations, 2 Maps and 4 Plans. xx and 413 pages. An interesting and well written work by an accomplished author on French history covering the period 1715 - 1799. **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.9 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** A1C. Book Condition: Good TEG. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 000013.
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Imprint: New York, Vantage Press, 1977 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stated First edition. The author a managing director of a large personnel agency in UK presents an insider's and irreverent view of recruitment and includes comic tales of training programs that don't train and applicants so unqualified they have to be read to be believed. Amusingly illustrated by Frank Dickens, creator of 'Bristow'. Illustrated dustjacket is chipped and "crinkled" but complete. 115. Illustr.: Frank Dickens. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fair Stock number: 000806. ISBN: 0533027799
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Imprint: London, Darton, Longman & Todd, 1978 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy. 123 pages. Translated by Dinah Livingstone. Pere Gelineau draws on 25 years of experience to show ways forward which will draw on the great traditions of liturgical worship and will enable our worship today to be available to the men and women of contemporary society. **** NOT AN EX LIBRARY COPY **** R8. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 006875. ISBN: 0232513775
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Imprint: Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1995 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. 90 pages. 7 illustrations. Introduction by Martha Gellhorn. Afterword by Sandra Spanier. Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998) was an American novelist, travel writer and journalist, considered to be one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century. Harriet Virginia Spencer Cowles (1912-1983), was a British journalist, writer and also a war correspondent. Written immediately after the Second Worl War, the play opened in London in June 1946 and in New York in January 1947. This romantic farce, published here for the first time, is set on the Italian front where two women war correspondents - smart, sexy, and famous for scooping their male competitors - struggle to balance their professional lives with their love lives. 21. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 008759. ISBN: 0803221541
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Imprint: New York, Paulist Press, 1998 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Ivy George grew up in India and continued her studies in the US where she teaches in Massachusetts. Margaret Masson was born in Zambia, later moving to Scotland, and teaches at St. John's College and Durham University. They met during teaching assignments in the US. The book allows us to eavesdrop on these college professors' fascinating letters about courtship, friendship, love and marriage, and how culture has shaped their understanding of each. A3C. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 007277. ISBN: 0809105004
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Imprint: New York, Harper Collins, 1994 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which has a little creasing to top edge. xv + 224 pages. Illustrations in the text. In this work, Nelson George turns a lifetime of movie-watching and an unexpected career in movie-making into a book that looks at the African-American screen image from both a historical and a personal viewpoint. Blackface blends stories and anecdotes about the actual experiences of going to, being in, and making movies today with the sharply edged cultural ctiticism that has made him one of America's most widely read and respected critics. 4. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 009442. ISBN: 0060171200
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Imprint: Basingstoke, United Kingdom, Macmillan, 2002 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy with near Fine dustjacket. An historical novel by the American author which presents a moving story based on the life of Mary Magdalene, of which little is known since her name first appeared in the Gospel of Mark. Well grounded in biblical and secular research. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.06 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST D4B. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 002028. ISBN: 1405005408
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Imprint: Cranbrook, Kent, Circle of Pens, 2006 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A murder mystery, based on an actual historical event, set in 1918 towards the end of the Great War, which explores the problems two Plymouth detectives encounter as they investigate an horrific murder. We follow them as they try to capture their suspect whilst engaged with the bureaucracy of the British War Office when Allied forces attempt to obstruct a U-boat haven during a raid on the German controlled Belgian harbours of Zeebrugge and Ostend. 4. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 006802. ISBN: 095524711X
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Imprint: London, B. T. Batsford, 1974 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy apart from a very small mark to top edge with near Fine price clipped dustjacket. Internally very clean, complete and unmarked. A pattern book with instructions for making Noah, his family and 42 different pairs of animals. The basic material is card, cheap strong and easily worked with the finished product sufficiently robust to withstand constant handling and the animals small enough to be picked up and comfortably held by small hands. A wonderful and inexpensive craft project. 112 pages and 78 line drawings. D4C. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 003638. ISBN: 0713427876
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Imprint: London, Lutterworth Press, 1960 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue titles and girl and horse motif on light blue boards which have some minor marks to back only, internally clean and unmarked. Coloured frontispiece and many illustrations in the text by Raynes. A children's story with the theme of horses by a children's author who specialised in books featuring ponies, riding and horses. B2C. Illustr.: Raynes. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 002434.
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Imprint: London, Pavilion, 1995 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gold title on red boards with complete coloured pictorial dustjacket. Contains a selection of animal imagery from the Bard's comedies, tragedies, history plays and poetry. A general introduction places the animals in the context of mythological beliefs and everyday life in sixteenth century England. The delightful coloured illustrations that illuminate the text are taken from an early Tudor pattern book housed in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. A truly delightful volume. 1. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 001413. ISBN: 1857935713
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Imprint: London, William Heinemann, 1950 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Silver title on green cloth boards which have a few minor marks but very clean with no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket is complete with some chipping to top and some wear. Translated by E.W. Dickes. An historical novel of an 18th century nobleman, he had known venal beauty in London and lost his good name, had sailed the Indian Ocean as a pirate, winning and losing fabulous jewels, had discovered perfect beauty, only to find it tainted with vice. For his niece it was otherwise, unhappily married in earliest youth, she fell in desparate love with a pupil of Tiepolo. The two intertwining stories purport to spring from an old manuscript discovered by the author. B2D. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Good Stock number: 004816.
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Imprint: London, George Allen and Unwin, 1984 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, First printing (printed in the United States). Sam Giancana was once the most powerful Mafia boss west of the Mississippi, the Chicago mafia's successor to Al Capone. Now 9 years after his gangland slaying, his daughter has made public the details of her father's life and the trauma of growing up under his iron rule - all the power, corruption, luxury, and violence that came with being a mafia princess. 23. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 006252. ISBN: 0049230778
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Imprint: London, B.T. Batsford, 1953 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ clean and tight copy in orange cloth boards with dustjacket which has a one inch closed tear to frony and a little wear to edges and is not price clipped. 258 pages. 98 illustrations including a coloured frontispiece of Salzburg. The poet, autobiographer and travel writer provides a compelling account of Austria and its history, with its many historic towns and cities, its scenery and its baroque buildings. The photographic illustrations are a feature of the book. **** NOT EX LIB **** B2B. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 007769.
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Imprint: Weikersheim, Magraf, 2002 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper with dedication 'With kindest thoughts' and 14 Oct. 03 but no dedication name. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ complete dustjacket. Born into a dysfunctional and impoverished Nottingham family in 1920, the author left school at the age of 15 with no qualifications to work as an errand boy for the local council. In 1939 he enlisted in the army and served throughout World War II in England and France. On leaving the Army he pursued his education, eventually achieving the highest academic awards and becoming a respected advisor to many governments including the UK, Republic of Ireland, Kenya, Malaysia, Sudan, Tanzania and Sri Lanka. A fascinating and inspiring autobiography spanning 70 years and three continents and of how one man overcame poverty, social deprivation and a poor education to eventually succeed in all he chose to do. 14 illustrations. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.97 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 12. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 006797. ISBN: 3823613693
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Imprint: London, Methuen, 1906 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on blue cloth boards which have minor marks and very little wear. Internally there is a small name to front pastedown, age darkening to endpapers, foxing to some pages and closed edges, sporadic marks to some pages, one page has a small removal to the top margin, else a clean tight copy. xv + 800 pages. The masterful explanation by the former Chaplain to the King and Bishop of Gloucester, Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson was first published in 1896/7. The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion are the historically defining statements of doctrines of the Anglican church with respect to the controversies of the English Reformation. PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.9 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST R4. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 010300.
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Imprint: London, University of London Press, 1961 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Silver title to spine with gold facsimile signature to front on blue boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear but with fading to spine and to a portion of top. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. 239 pages. Comprises: Foreword by R. Niklaus; Introduction in English; Les Caves du Vatican - text in French (Texte en Français) - I - Anthime Amand-Dubois, II - Julius de Baraglioul, III - Amédée Fleurissoire, IV - Le Milles-Pattes, V - Lafcadio; Notes; Chronology of the Life of Gide; Chronology of the Works of Gide; Selective bibliography. In Les Caves several serious problems are grafted onto the complicated plot: the freethinker Anthime and his ludicrous conversion, and especially the problem of the gratuitous act and human freedom as exemplified in Protos the chief fool and bandit, and his pupil Lafcadio. Disguised as a priest, Protos, the principal philosopher crook, convinces the Countess de Saint-Prix that the pope has been abducted and is kept confined in the Vatican cellars, while an impostor is on the papal throne. B2C. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 008565.
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Imprint: London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1979 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In collaboration with John Miller and John Powell. Silver title on brown cloth boards - a near Fine copy. Dustjacket has coloured photograph of Gielgud to front with photographs in black and white of some of his roles to rear and is near Fine.12 coloured plates and 111 black and white illustrations. A fascinating autobiography by undoubtedly one of the greatest actors of the twentieth century profusely illustrated with many photographs from his own collection. **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.9 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST **** 24. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 000524. ISBN: 0283985739
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Imprint: London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1975 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket. 253 pages. 12 colour plates and 112 black and white illustrations. In this book Sir John Gielgud tells the story of his life in the theatre, of the plays he starred in, and directed, of the actors and actresses he worked with - from Mrs. Patrick Campbell to Richard Burton - and of the theatres in which he has played - from New York to Rangoon. He also tells of the theatre he knew as a young man, the theatre that was run by the great actor/managers, men like Tree and du Maurier, and of the star actresses whose name alone could fill a theatre - Eleonora Duse, Sarah Bernhardt, and, of course, his own great-aunt, Ellen Terry. With the aid of many photographs from his own collection, he recounts not only his own life, but also a well documented history of the British theatre. **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.9 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST **** 24. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 010420. ISBN: 0283985739
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Imprint: Auckland, New Zealand, Rugby Press, 1991 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY ALEX WYLLIE on the title page with dedication. A Fine copy with a near Fine complete dustjacket. The author is a New Zealand sports writer and journalist who has transcribed 40 hours of interview with "Grizz" - Alex Wyllie - the New Zealand All Blacks rugby player and later coach. A very personal semi autobiography of the New Zealand legend profusely illustrated throughout with colour and black and white photographs. C3D. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 002144. ISBN: 0908630360
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Imprint: London, B.T. Batsford, 1985 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A near Fine copy with a gift inscription to front endpaper with VG+ dustjacket which has fading to spine and has been lightly taped to inside boards. 319 pages. Radio pictorial station chart endpapers. Foreword by Richard Murdoch. Over 1600 entries make up this, the first ever reference guide to the programmes, the entertainers, the dance bands, the comedy characters and the catchphrases that make up the Golden Age of Radio - or perhaps of the Wireless. Alphabetically arranged with over 180 illustrations, it is a nostalgic and vivid portrait of the pioneering days of broadcasting. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.03 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 14. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 007486. ISBN: 0713442344
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Imprint: London, George Routledge, 1899 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title with red figures on light brown cloth boards which have age darkening and a little wear to spine head and corner tips. Internally there is age darkening and foxing to endpapers and to the margins of some pages else a clean and tight copy. Top edge gilt. Fore edge uncut. Fourth edition November 1899 (first was December 1897). xii + 562 pages. Portrait frontispiece on card tissue protected. 350 illustrations by W.S. Gilbert. Several of the Bab Ballads appeared in the pages of 'Fun', magazine and later some were published in smaller selections and this volume, combining Songs of a Savoyard', has two hundred new drawings made for this volume. **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.9 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST **** **** NOT EX LIB **** 16. Illustr.: Gilbert, W.S.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 007700.
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Imprint: New York, St. Martin's Press, 1993 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. STATED FIRST US EDITION September 1993, FIRST PRINTING. A Fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. A Gothic tale of two sisters with a prosperous background and set in the early 20th century with one going to live with her aunts who she barely knows. The great War has shattered her aunts' lives and the lives of the people she meets and that there is another event, more personal, that overshadows their lives. D4E. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 002240. ISBN: 0312099355
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Imprint: London, The Connoisseur/Michael Joseph, 1967 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from dust marking to top edge) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 120 pages. 8 colour plates. 75 illustrations. The book reflects the variations of an art form that has developed stylistically from Pre-Reformation times to the present day. Despite the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the ravages of time, an enormous number of churches in Britain still own exceptionally fine plate. The author traces the evolution of Anglican plate from the 9th century Trewhiddle Chalice, the earliest extant piece of plate, through the secular designs of the Post-Reformation era and the 19th century Tractarian restoration of Pre-Reformation shapes to the simple and functional contemporary objects. R3. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 009514.
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Imprint: London, Bloomsbury, 1988 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First UK edition. A large format book of 210 pages. over 200 photographs. For seven decades with a dozen different partners, on the stage, on the screen, on television, Fred Astaire was the heart and soul of dance. He was perfection. He was lass. He was irresistible. But who was he behind the top hat and tails? Here he comes to life in the words of the people who knew him best and loved him the most. Even the Queen Mother, the Rajmata of Jaipur and Nancy Reagan consented to express their feelings about the legend. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.1 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST B2F. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 010856. ISBN: 0747503222
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Imprint: London, Brockhampton Press, 1996 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy in pictorial laminated boards with Fine dustjacket. Books were made by hand in Western Europe for a thousand years, from the earliest days of Christianity - when monks wrote and decorated Bibles for the glory of God in their wind-swept monasteries at the far margins of the known world - to the high Renaissance, when the world was at Europe's feet, and the printing press enabled Martin Luther and other agents of the Reformation to split Europe into opposing camps within one generation. Generations of artists and cultures influenced the art of the illuminated manuscripts and are among the world's greatest masterpieces. This fascinating and exquisitely illustrated book examines the decorative techniques which captured some of the most important chronicles of history. 20B. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 007852. ISBN: 1860191150
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Imprint: London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1991 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The author is winner of the Crime Writers Association's Gold Dagger Award and has been nominated three time for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Awwards. This is her eighth novel and marks the return of Det. Chief Inspector Maybridge. **** NOT EX LIB **** 24. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 001800. ISBN: 0340549998
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Imprint: London, Oliver & Boyd, 1962 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG+ complete dustjacket which has foxing to the reverse. A coloured photographic tour with descriptive text and history which celebrates England's most popular holiday area. 27 full size plates. A very well kept copy. A1A. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 004696.
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Imprint: Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, 1994 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine uninscribed copy whose only fault is slight bumping to lower corner tips. The book is based on the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop held in Bonas, France in 1991 and is uniform with the NATO ASI Series of which this is Series F: Computer and System Sciences, Volume 123. vii + 377 pages arranged in four parts :- Theme 1; Design Activities and Representations for Design; Theme 2: Code Representation and Manipulation; Theme 3: Technological Solutions; Theme 4 The Impact of Design Methods and New Programming. Appendices of references, author index and keyword index. **** A HEAVY VOLUME WHICH WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** 14. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 002988. ISBN: 3540576533
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Imprint: London, British Museum, 2013 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy in card covers. a large format book of 192 pages. Profusely iilustrated. Drawing on the British Museum's wide-ranging collection, this book provides a fascinating contextual survey of political art across Asia, covering the period 1900 to 1976. The author explores themes such as propaganda in daily life; heroes and villains; dissent; women and children; and revolutionary inspirations. Over 100 works of art from China, Japan, Vietnam, Korea, India and other countries are featured. Here are posters, prints, cartoons, calligraphy, ceramics, papercuts, textiles, panels and badges - powerful images to move hearts and minds. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY BOOK OF 1.2 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST A1A. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 010976. ISBN: 9780714124742
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Imprint: London, Simon and Schuster, 1987 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue title on brown cloth spine with blue boards which have a light line of fading to front else clean and unmarked. Internally very clean and unmarked. First UK edition. 615 pages. The author covers the Paranormal, Psi, Psychics, Astrology, Numerology, Tarot, I Ching, Palmistry, Graphology and Biorhythm. An illuminating insight into the paranormal which has a large bibliography and appendices of Organisations and Institutions, Courses and Other Study Opportunities in Parapsychology. Illustrations in the text. **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.98 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** 22. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 000625. ISBN: 0671648004
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Imprint: London, Atlantic Books, 2006 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine copy which has an inscription to half title page ' To dear Jimmy One of the gallant men who flew the 'lovely lady' with all good wishes for your 86th and many more' - David 29 Sept. 2007. else unmarked. Dustjacket is also Fine and not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 260 pages. 28 illustrations. The Supermarine Spitfire celebrated its 70th birthday in 2006 and the author - design writer, broadcaster and pilot - has written an elegant appreciation of one of Britain's most famous military aircraft and of the men and women who flew it. A1A. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 010982. ISBN: 9781843545279
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Imprint: London, Century, 2022 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New unmrked copy with As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition Fist Printing. Move fast, stay dark. These are the instructions sent to new operative Emma Makepeace. She's been assigned to track down a man wanted by the Russians and bring him in to MI6. It should be easy but the Russians have eyes everywhere. Emma knows that if spotted she and her target will be killed. What follows is a perilous chase through London's night-time streets. But in a city full of cameras where can you hide? Ava Glass is the pseudonym of Christi Daugherty. L. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: As New Stock number: 011492. ISBN: 9781529135886
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Imprint: Vancouver, New Star Books, 1990 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition First Printing. A Fine uninscribed copy with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. In spite of continued encroachment on their 22,000 square mile homelands by forest companies and non Indian settlers, little has changed in the Gitksan-Wet'suwet'en territories in British Columbia's northwest since the anthropologist Marius Barbeau wrote "It is still an Indian Country, effectively guarded, perhaps the last unconquered native stronghold of the red Man in North America". The native people have never surrendered jurisdiction over their lands, continuing to insist, in the face of governments and corporations that deny their very existence, that it is theirs to decide if, when, how and by whom their lands are to be exploited. Based on visits in 1988 and 1989 the author takes inside the Gitksan and We'suwet'en peoples' campaign for justice and recognition and how their struggle, which is taking place within Canada's legal system as well as on the land itself in a series of roadblocks. It interweaves the peoples' history, culture, beliefs and folklore presenting a rich blend of past and present. B2D. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 002961. ISBN: 0921586140
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Imprint: London, Hutchinson, 1998 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price-clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 324 pages. 22 illustrations. Facsimile letter of Swift to endpapers. Poet, polemicist, pamphleteer and wit, Swift is best known as the author of 'Gulliver's Travels'. In this biography, Victoria Glendinning investigates the main events and relationships of Swift's life and provides a portrait set in a tapestry of controversy and paradox. 13. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 011290. ISBN: 0091791960
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Imprint: London, Anthony Blond, 1960 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with gilt titles on red cloth boards, top edge red. Dustjacket is price clipped with a little wear and a repaired closed tear G+. A biography of Princess Margaret's husband, the photographer and commoner, as narrated to them by him. Their wedding was the first royal wedding to be televised, he later becoming the Earl of Snowdon, and this biography of course does not cover the acrimonious divorce of 1978. 44 illustrations and family tree. A1A. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Good Stock number: 004023.
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Imprint: London, Hamish Hamilton, 1985 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine copy (Fine apart from a very small mark to top edge) with a near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A novel of a man who leads a quiet life in a quietly frozen past and by the loss of his closest friend, a well known female barrister, by a senseless murder he is stirred into finding out what has happened. He finds that her murder was not a gratuitous crime and sees the motives multiply - money, passion, betrayal to finally vengeance. **** NOT EX LIB **** A1C. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 002048. ISBN: 0241115256
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Imprint: London, Cassell, 1980 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Very Good+ unmarked copy with complete dustjacket which has some fading and one small closed tear to back. From 1792 to 1815 Europe was wracked by a series of wars, first against revolutionary France and then the expansionist empire of Napoleon Bonaparte. The book deals with the way in which the armies and navies fought, how they were commanded, how they were supplied (or not) with food and ammunition, and how they communicated with each other. Major battles together with the twin sea battles of Algeciras are taken as the detailed examples. Specially commissioned maps and artwork and over 130 colour and black and white illustrations. **** NOT BOOK CLUB **** PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.9 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 23. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 004912. ISBN: 030430722X
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Imprint: London, Burke, 1988 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy in pictorial laminated boards. First UK edition. 99 pages. Illustrations and charts. Petrol, cleaning fluids, paint thinners - all are readily available - and are just a few of the household and commercial products that young people use to get high. Inhalants can damage the heart, kidneys and liver and can cause stupor, brain damage and 'sudden sniffing death'.This book educates readers on the potential hazards of this form of drug abuse. **** NOT EX LIB **** C3D. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 008761. ISBN: 0222012641
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Imprint: Paris, Perrin, 1919 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Il a été imprimé, de cet ouvrage, quinze exemplaires numérotés sur papier vergé pur fil des Papeteries Lafuma. Petit nom x 2. Quelques rousseurs. xi + 370 pages. Très Bon etat. 1. Book Condition: Très Bon. Binding: Couverture Rigide. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 008440.
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