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Imprint: London, Little Brown, 2002 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a small mark to lower closed edge) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A novel set in Berlin in 1945, where in Potsdam on the outskirts of the city, Churchill, Stalin and Truman are meeting to map out the future, but as the leaders arrive for a celebratory banquet, a body is washed up on the shore of the conference grounds. What is a US soldier doing in a Russian quarter with a pouch full of Occupation marks and a bullet hole in his chest? For journalist Jake Geismar, part of the American press corps, the murder of Lieutenant Tully is the story he is looking for, where he can use his crime investigation skills. Jake has another reason to stay in Berlin as he wants to find his former lover, Lena Brandt, and his investigations reveal that Tully was responsible for Lena's husband Emil, an eminent German scientist. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.88 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 21. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 004087. ISBN: 0316851965
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Imprint: New York, Simon & Schuster Books For Young People, 1995 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition, First printing. A Fine copy with manment centre stamp to front endpaper with complete dustjacket. A groundbreaking book from the author of 'Change Masters' which shows how businesses and communities can harness global market forces and make them work to their advantage. In the economy of the 21st century success will only come to those companies, large and small, whose goods and services meet world class standards and can compete in the global marketplace. B2A. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 002535. ISBN: 0684811294
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Imprint: Lausanne, Éditions Rencontre, 1967 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Une copie fine banalisée. 440 pages. Marque-page liée dans. Préface de Maurice Nadeau. 42 auteurs. B2C. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 009068.
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Imprint: New York, Doubleday, 1999 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING November 1999. A near Fine unmarked copy which has a gift inscription written on a sticker to front endpaper else Fine with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. xi + 850 pages. 68 illustrations. The distinguished Professor of English literature's acclaimed and definitive biography of the novelist, cultural critic, essayist, historian, comic satirist, image maker, provocateur, actor, and brilliant American icon that is Gore Vidal. Kaplan had complete access to Vidal's papers, letters, and private photographs, as well as television and newsreel footage and was guaranteed a free hand by Vidal to write as he saw fit. The result is a lively, witty, and textured life of a literary colossus. PLEASE NOTE - A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.29 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 4. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 010258. ISBN: 9780385477031
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Imprint: New York, Simon and Schuster, 1974 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Silver title and decoration on black cloth boards with complete pictorial dustjacket. A near Fine copy with near Fine dustjacket. A fascinating detailed biography of the American investigative journalist who was the scourge of Theodore Roosevelt and politicians. The work by the Pulitzer Prize winning author was praised by John Kenneth Galbraith and is a masterly biography and an insight into America of the time and also Europe where Steffens travelled. 30 photographic illustrations. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.83 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 2. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 001858. ISBN: 0671215922
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Imprint: London, Studio Vista, 1994 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. A large format volume of 135 pages. Mastering tonal value is one of the first steps in improving your paintings. In this book you will learn by example from 20 excellent artists who show you how to makes lights and darks work in your paintings in all mediums. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.89 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST B2F. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 009475. ISBN: 0289801117
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Imprint: Boston, Mass, Charles E. Tuttle, 1999 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. The author is a long time resident of Japan, well known for her work in textiles and in this book presents a photographic tour of exquisite homes in the Tokyo area, focusing on original and attractive uses of Japanese antiques and folk crafts. More than 300 beautiful photographs by Shin Kimura. **** A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.2 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** 3. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 003845. ISBN: 0804816115
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Imprint: California, Michael Wiese, 1992 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy. xix + 294 pages. 300 diagram illustrations by the author. The book is a staging and blocking guide with 24 basic variations covering many dialogue and dramatic situations. Unique to this approach is the practical evaluation of each staging strategy from the production point of view. The book includes interviews with well-known professionals who comment on the practical aspects of production. 23. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 009403. ISBN: 0941188140
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Imprint: California, Michael Wiese, 1991 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy. xi + 366 pages. Photo and diagram illustrations. A complete catalogue of visual techniques and their stylistic implications for both the filmmaker and videomaker - 'a text book' which enables working filmmakers (as well as screenwriters and others) to expand their stylistic knowledge. Includes over 75 illustrations, photographs and original storyboards from Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, Hitchcock's The Birds, and Welles' Citizen Kane. A HEAVY VOLUME WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 23. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 009415. ISBN: 0941188108
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Imprint: London, Acropolis Books, 1994 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with pictorial laminated boards with VG dustjacket which has a small closed tear. A large format volume of 288 pages. Over 350 colour pictures. New Revised edition. No group of painters or period of art history has inspired as much fascination and admiration, or has been celebrated as the Impressionist school which flourished, centred in France, from 1874-1886. The book tells the story of these revolutionary painters and the dramatic times that shaped their vision. The first section - A History of Impressionism - examines the artistic trends which led away from the classical schools of painting and the French landscape tradition in the early part of the 19th century to the realist art of Courbet and on to the shocking debut of Manet in 1863. The second section - The Life and Works - considers the most important individuals in the history of Impressionism - including Pissarro, Manet, Renoir, Sisley, Bazille, Morisot and Casatt - drawing out from their biographical details the passions that linked them together as a functioning group and that ultimately pulled them apart. **** NOT EX LIB **** **** A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.9 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** 1. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 008215. ISBN: 0873762623
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Imprint: Jackson, Mississippi, University Press of Mississippi, 2001 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy. xxix + 171 pages. Steven Soderbergh's cinema-making star blazed with Sex, Lies and Videotape, sputtered with The Underneath, and flared again with Erin Brockovich and Traffic. Charting this writer-director-producer's surprising career, these conversations with Soderbergh reveal him to be as self-effacing and light-hearted in his later, more established years as he was when he was starting out. Unfazed by the glitz and power of Hollywood and unafraid to get his hands dirty and pick up the camera himself, he remains at heart a truly independent filmmaker. 50. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 009421. ISBN: 1578064295
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Imprint: Kettering, Northants, Index / Granada, 1994 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy in pictorial laminated boards with Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. Britain's best-loved drama serial has held its television audience in thrall for over 3 decades.The full story of everything that has happened in Coronation Street, both fact and fiction, since Granada Television launched the programme in 1960, is told here along with biographies of the characters. More than 200 photographs, from the earliest days right up to date, illustrate the text. 2. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 007635.
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Imprint: Newton Abbot, David and Charles, 1972 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. FIRST EDITION. 275 pages. 21 plates, endpapers and 8 sketches by E.H. New circa 1900 and 19 maps and plans including one large fold out map (which is in Fine condition). This is the first comprehensive survey of the Thomas Hardy country to be published for over 50 years. It is a completely new ppreciation based on a fresh study of the evidence to be found in Hardy's works and onextensive research among diaries, letters, estate records and topographical writings, backed up by the author's own examination of every site and his questioning of local inhabitants, especially the old. 1. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hr. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 011260. ISBN: 0715354167
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Imprint: London, Macmillan, 1979 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Brown title on brown boards which have a small rub mark to front. Internally a few marks to top edge else clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is complete with some stains to inside but not visible on outside and with a touch of light creasing to top. No biography of Thomas Hardy has yet included a serious attempt to discover what went wrong with his first marriage to Emma Lavinia Gifford, attributing it wholly to her fault. The present study the author has used every available clue, many of them uncovered for the first time by the author, in his quest to find the true character of Emma, of her feeling towards her husband and of the effects of both on his work. The result, unforeseen when the quest was begun, is a completely new theory of what happened to the Hardys' early love for one another and why. 20 photographic illustrations. 2. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 002899. ISBN: 0333220072
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Imprint: London, W.H. Allen, 1989 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition. A Very Good+ clean and unmarked copy which has a touch of foxing / dust marking to closed top edge with VG+ complete dustjacket. The first biography of the Hollywood actor and his legendary family who whilst noted as an actor also co-produced One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. 15 photographs. C3D. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 004994. ISBN: 0491032196
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Imprint: London, Ward, Lock, 1968 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. The author, a skilled mountain climber, author and cameraman, combined these three talents to venture into the most remote areas of the Himalayas, aided by a team of hardened Sherpa porters, to capture on film the breathtaking beauty of these mountains. Kazami spent months in his quest and many of the 110 photographs are the result of days of waiting on inhospitable and dangerous vantage points for a break in the blizzards. Includes a track of the author's journey and a map of the Himalayas. C3B. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 007562. ISBN: 0706310861
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Imprint: London, Harper Collins, 2005 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, first printing. xvi + 396 pages. 31 illustrations. The award winning journalist's memoir is the account of an extraordinary journey, a story about bearing witness to horror but also confronting the ghosts within. At its heart is the story of a son's journey in search of his father and the reconciliation that is possible even after death. Keane's life as a leading war reporter is all that we imagine: journeys across landscapes traumatised by death and hunger, encounters with some of the most evil figures of the last half-century. Life in such vulnerable areas of the globe is emotionally draining, but can be illuminated with astonishing moments of camaraderie and human bravery, and so this is also a memoir of the human connections. C3B. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 008258. ISBN: 0007176929
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Imprint: London, Viking, 2000 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. The acclaimed foreign correspondent set out on on a journey through Britain for the BBC, although born in London he has never lived there until recently, having spent years covering the world's conflicts. In his travels in 1999 he discovered a world of poverty, exclusion and alienation. A shocking but sometimes uplifting work, he reports on the courage and lack of self pity of those he encountered and considers the changing ways of life and notes that in August 1999 a Scottish shipyard with 1,200 workers was sold for 2.4 million pounds which was the price for a large house in Islington, spiritual home of New Labour. B2A. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 002497. ISBN: 0670888397
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Imprint: London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Very Good + unmarked copy with VG+ complete dustjacket which is protected by a plastic cover. Agatha Christie was not only the biggest selling writer of detective stories the world has ever known and a creator of mysteries that have delightedly baffled millions, indisputedly the 'First Lady of Crime', but she was mystery herself. A mystery in that she eschewed personal publicity for most of her long life. The crime novelist Keating has assembled a dozen distinguished writers from both sides of the Atlantic to throw light on this mystery and the approaches are various - penetrating, affectionate, enthusiastic, analytical, funny even critical. Numerous illustrations highlight many fascinating aspects of Agatha Christie's career. A1A. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 004213. ISBN: 0297772953
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Imprint: London, Macmillan, 1996 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Detective Sergeant Jack Stallworthy has been accepting backhanders for most of his career. Lily, the pretty wife he deeply loves, dreams of retirement on the paradise island of Ko Samui but Jack will happily settle for a bungalow in Devon. Until, that is, influential businessman Emslie Warnaby offers him Ko Samui on a plate. Or, rather, first class air tickets plus the deeds of ownership to the Calm Seas Hotel. All Jack has to do in return is to steal an incriminating file from the Fraud Investigation office at police headquarters - which is, he discovers, as secure as Fort Knox. As Warnaby's deadline grows ever nearer - and Lily ever more impatient for her life in paradise - Jack plunges deeper and deeper into crime. And soon there is no going back. S. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 010898. ISBN: 033364994x
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Imprint: London, Macmillan, 2003 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, First Printing. The Crime Writers Association Cartier Diamond Dagger winning author's murder mystery, featuring Harriet Martens of the Greater Birchester Police, who is tasked with finding the murderer of a charismatic youth, known as the Boy Preacher, a crime of thirty years ago. Using the latest DNA techniques she finds that laboratory tests fail to meet the expectations of her Chief Constable and must see what past investigators have missed. However some suspects have died and she has to ferret out their motives and the lies they have left behind them and also those of the suspects still alive, including the city's distinguished ex-undersherrif, a dragon of a head teacher and a wily car dealer. **** NOT EX LIB **** D4A. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 003318. ISBN: 1405033444
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Imprint: London, Darton, Longman and Todd, 1960 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from some foxing to top edge). xviii + 492 pages. 56 illustrations. 11 maps and map endpapers. To enter the thought world of the people who produced the Bible, we must study the life situations in which their convictions came to them, and out of which they responded to those convictions. Their ideas cannot be studied in isolation from their sphere of life, nor is there any point in trying to reconstruct their history without recognising the power of faith that helped shape it. Comprises: The Community Emerges; The Community and its Convictions; The Conduct of Jesus' Ministry; The Content of Jesus' Teaching; The Crisis in Jesus' Ministry; The Life of the Earliest Community; Paul the Pioneer; Mission to Europe; The Message for Gentiles; The Death of Paul and the End of the Church of Jerusalem; The Community in Conflict; The Community Organises; The Community in Rapprochement with the World; The Hope of the Community. R2. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 010310.
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Imprint: London, Barrie and Jenkins, 1989 Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which has a small closed tear. 176 pages (though they are not paginated).Picture Post represented a new kind of British journalism when it was launched by its founder, Edward Hulton, under the editorship of Stefan Lorant and Tom Hopkinson in October 1938. Subtitled Hulton's National Weekly, it quickly became a national institution. Authoritative, international in perspective, objective, idealistic, witty but not trivial, it achieved the status of a unique chronicle of its time. Established authors of the calibre of Rebecca West, Cyril Connolly and Somerset Maugham contributed; but what gave Picture Post its special journalistic character was the way in which the photographs, with their distinctive captions, dominated the reporting. On its demise in June 1957, there was nothing in journalism to take its place. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY BOOK OF 1.2 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST 11. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 011316. ISBN: 0712620583
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Imprint: London, Faber & Faber, 1959 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on red boards, very clean and unmarked. Internally a little foxing to front endpaper and fore edge with W. H. Smith private library bookplate to front pastedown, else very clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is VG+ and is in the original protector. A novel by the foremost Greek poetry translator and American Professor at Princeton. This is his first novel which won the Rome Prize for literature. It tells of a business man, the son of an American missionary, who returns to the Greek village where he grew up to claim his inheritance; and discovers what his inheritance is - in the course of a few nightmare days that overturn his life - precisely what his inheritance is. Piece by piece the past takes shape and the true relationship of the characters he has known since boyhood is revealed. 206. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 000989.
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Imprint: London, Doubleday, 2004 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. The author is a writer and poet who spent four years' in captivity in Beirut. His fascination with Alaska began as a small boy and after a short trip to Fairbanks several years ago he resolved to return and in 2003 he returned to experience all that this land could offer. Particularly fascinating is his meeting with survivalist and his encounters with Eskimos. 21 coloured photographs. A1B. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 003524. ISBN: 0385603061
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Imprint: Singapore, Media Masters, 2005 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked in card covers. 198 pages. Photo illustrations throughout. Ousted! is the first book entirely dedicated to the climactic story of Singapore's expulsion from the federation of Malaysia. Patrick Keith recorded the verbal warfare that raged from day one of merger and saw, from a grandstand seat, the inevitability of the volatile union's dramatic destruction. Although he enjoyed an amiable, personal association with the Malaysian leader, Tunku Abdul Rahman, it has always been his wish to chronicle the chaotic political gyrations of that era without editorializing. He saw the need to give deserving space to the three key players involved - the Tunku, Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew and Malaysian Chinese Association President, Tan Siew Sin. The book deals, even-handedly, with the realities of racial politics - a subject that has, all these years, been considered 'too delicate', 'too sensitive' or, 'too controversial'. It has been written for all citizens on both sides of the Causeway and for history buffs worldwide. 51. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 009349. ISBN: 9810538650
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Imprint: Netherlands, Rebo, 1998 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy in pictorial laminated boards, as dustjacket, with VG+ dustjacket which is price clipped. 286 pages. 790 coloured photographs. An up-to-date guide, the result of 20 years of photographing mushrooms, with the species listed according to their Latin names, and each chapter deals with one order, making it easy to reference. An extended index of English and Latin names allows you to quickly find the entry for any mushroom described. **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.92 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST **** 13. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 007116. ISBN: 9036615984
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Imprint: London, SCM Press, 1969 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy which has a touch of light foxing to top edge with unclipped dustjacket which has a little wear to top edge. Translated from the German by Margaret Kohl. Miracles occupy a prominent place in the Bible and great importance has been attached to them throughout Christian history. Must Christians believe in miracles ?, Do they still happen ?, Can they be proved ?, Do they have the significance that Christians attach to them ? The authors survey the the discussion of the miraculous from biblical times to the present, by theologians, philosophers and scientists, from Augustine and Spinoza to C.S. Lewis and Bruce Marshall, Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr. **** NOT EX LIB **** R1. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 006332. ISBN: 0334010195
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Imprint: Grand Rapids, Michigan, Inspirio, 2003 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy in padded pictorial boards with gilt edges and page marker bound in. When 'A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23' was first published over 30 years ago, it captured the attention of the reading audience, and Phillip Keller was a man who truly understood the meaning of the psalm. Keller, like the psalm writer David, had been a shepherd himself, and had lived among his sheep. His reflections invite us to feel the tender hand of the Good Shepherd resting upon your head as he cares for you. R1. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 010787. ISBN: 0310988705
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Imprint: Köniz, Kunstwoche Köniz, 1976 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VON ARTHUR LOOSLI SIGNIERT - Dieser Band trägt die Nummer 115. Bild- und Textbeilage zusammengestellt von Arthur Loosli. Dieses Buch wurde herausgegeben von den Veranstaltern der Kunstwoche Köniz anlässlich der Aufführung des Zyklus 'Unter Sternen' am 16. November 1976 in Köniz, durch Arthur Loosli Bass-Bariton und Franz Kienberger Klavier. Arthur Loosli (1926-2021) schweizerischer Illustrator und ex-Internationaler Bass/Bariton Sänger. 15. Illustr.: Loosli, Arthur. Book Condition: Fein. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 008779.
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Imprint: Oxford, Lion, 2000 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy in laminated boards. On 17th June 1999 Cardinal George Basil Hume died aged 76. This book, in tribute to him, is as the title suggests a spiritual companion on the journey to the creator and follows the seasons of the Christian year. **** NOT EX LIB **** R1. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 005701. ISBN: 0745950078
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Imprint: London, Macmillan, 1993 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine uninscribed copy with Fine complete dustjacket. In 1991-2 the author travelled through every country touched by the Gulf War and was an eyewitness to the aerial bombardment of Baghdad, the Scud attacks on Israel, the foray across the desert into Kuwait and the war's aftermath in Kurdestan. His dispatches home were unrivalled in their originality, insightfulness and brilliant observation and were awarded the National Magazine and the Overseas Press Club awards. The book focuses on the people and places as well as the war itself and his narrative captures the moral ambiguity and human tragedy of modern war. *** NOT EX LIB *** L. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 002941. ISBN: 0333604962
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Imprint: London, HarperCollins, 2019 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy with an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. 304 pages. Colour photographs throughout. Angela has worked with The Queen and walked the corridors of the Royal household for 25 years, initially as Her Majesty's Senior Dresser then latterly as Her Majesty's Personal Advisor and Curator (The Queen's Jewellery, Insignias and Wardrobe) and In-house Designer. As the first person in history to hold this title, she shares a uniquely close working relationship with The Queen. **** PLEASE NOTE - A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.2 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST **** L. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: As New Stock number: 011513. ISBN: 9780008368364
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Imprint: London, Hodder and Stoughton, 2021 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New unmarked copy with an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 389 pages. Ava Kirilova has reached the very top of her profession. After years and years of hard graft, pain and sacrifice as part of the London Russian Ballet Company, allowing nothing else to distract her, she is finally the poster girl for Swan Lake. Even Mr K - her father, and the intense, terrifying director of the company - can find no fault. Ava has pushed herself ahead of countless other talented, hardworking girls, and they are all watching her now. But there is someone who really wants to see Ava fall . . D4A. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: As New Stock number: 011524. ISBN: 9781473680838
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Imprint: London, Paul Elek, 1974 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ unmarked copy which has light foxing to closed edges with dustjacket which is not price clipped. Uniform with the Novelists and Their World series. The author sets out to establish Muriel Spark's theory of the novel by examining her own remarks on fiction and noting the influences upon her thinking about literature. Her novels are next analysed in chronological order, each chapter tracing a separate stage of her development towards a richly austere and highly economic mode of fiction. A lucid and sensitive study. **** NOT EX LIB **** C3B. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 005405. ISBN: 0236310569
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Imprint: London, Martin Dunitz, 1983 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format volume of 240 pages lavishly illustrated with over 350 photographs and diagrams. Straightforwardly written by one of the world's most respected nautical authors, this comprehensive and authoritative book provides all the practical information the cruising man or woman needs in order to perfect this art. This is the definitive guide for every yachtsman who wants to get the most from his cruising. **** NOT EX LIB **** **** A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.2 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST ****. A1F. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 008466. ISBN: 0906348439
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Imprint: London, A. and C. Black, 1914 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gilt title and blind embossed decoration on blue cloth boards which have age darkening to spine and a little wear to spine head and tail and corner tips. Internally there is age darkening to endpapers and top edge else very clean, tight and unmarked. 207 pages. First published in 1910. A concise short history comprising : Early Days; Normans and Angevins; Medieval Struggles; Wycliffe; The Cry for Reform; Political Reformation; Changes in Public Worship; Gradual Settlement; A House Divided; Restoration and Revolution; Foreign Kings and Their Ways; The Methodists; New Life Within the Church. R5. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 010319.
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Imprint: London, Sceptre, 2002 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Set in Sydney in 1942 - the year of the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and the surprise attack on Pearl Harbour by Japanese midget submarines. Despite the hordes of American soldiers making their presence felt, Australia seems doomed to be invaded by the Japanese. Through the eyes of Father Frank Darragh, an impessionable young priest, we see into the hearts of a people fearing the end of life as they know it, doing things they would never dream of in peacetime and challenging the church's teachings. Bringing wartime Australia strikingly to life, the Australian author delivers a thought provoking novel about conscience and courage, love and lost innocence. D4B. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 007708. ISBN: 0340624736
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Imprint: New York, National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian Institution/Holt Rhinehart and Winston, 1979 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A clean, tight and unmarked copy apart from a neat name and date to half title page and light foxint to fore edge and which has a light crease to front cover. xv + 288 pages. Illustrated throughout. Introduction by Alistair Cooke. The book offers a richly illustrated and highly entertaining account of American expatriates who, over a span of almost two centuries, lived in and left an indelible mark on England. Although such personalities as James McNeill Whistler, Henry James, John James Audubon, T.S. Eliot and Robert Fulton were born on this side of the Atlantic, most of their creative energies were expended on foreign soil. The ten chapters each deal with a group of individuals - for example, Benjamin West and his followers, Ezra pound and his literary circle, some colourful American heiresses who married into the Briish peerage. 13. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 008720. ISBN: 0030428564
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Imprint: Eastbourne, Our Lady of Ransom Catholic Church, 2001 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page with dedication 'To Jane'. 197 pages. 43 illustrations. The history of the Catholic church of Our Lady of Ransom, from St. Lewinna to the centenary of the church. R6. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 010099.
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Imprint: London, Hutchinson, 1956 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on green boards which have mark to front and light bumping to two corner tips but no wear. Internally the front and rear hinges are cracked but still tight else a clean unmarked copy. 376 pages. 132 illustrations. Line drawings by the author; photographs by the author, his wife and others. A comprehensive work on sea anging A1D. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 011448.
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Imprint: Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1995 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A clean and unmarked copy. ix + 146 pages. Susan Sontag has been a major figure in American intellectual life for over 30 years. Her provocative and exacting writings, engaging a wide range of aesthetic, cultural and political issues, have been the basis of a highly public and controversial ntellectual career. This study provides a critical introduction to her essays and fiction, illustrating how her work is shaped by her role as a public intellectual within the New York tradition. 51. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 008685. ISBN: 0719037867
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Imprint: London, Harper Collins, 1991 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS MICHAEL OF KENT (Marie Christine née Baroness Marie Christine Agnes Hedwig Ida von Reibnitz) to title page with dedication 'To Cicily'. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. Genealogical chart endpapers. xxx + 370 pages. 67 illustrations. In the book Princess Michael vividly recounts the stories of five very different women, each of whom became a celebrated, or notorious, royal courtesan. Diane de Poitiers, the beautiful paramour of Henri II of France; Nell Gwynn, the favourite of Charles II; Madame de Pompadour, the elegant chatelaine of Louis XV; Marie Walewska, the idealistic and patriotic young Polish woman who became the mistress of Napoleon in the hope of saving her country; Lola Montez, the flamboyant, outrageous and dazzling Irish beauty who reinvented herself as a Spanish aristocrat and won the heart of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.1 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST **** B2D. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 006804. ISBN: 0002239116
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Imprint: London, Macdonald, 1945 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Dark blue title on light blue cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with fading to spine. Internally there is foxing to closed edges else clean, tight and unmarked with no inscriptions. A novel set in West Cumbria of murder and suspense. C3D. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 004319.
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Imprint: Shrewsbury, Fenwick, 2006 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not priceclipped. 192 pages. 59 illustrations. Nigel Kenyon blends his autobiographical adventure with family history, which ably illustrates a hereditary line of talent emanating from an upmarket background. Sex, religion, money and politics all feature in varying degrees, and intermingle with tales of serious commercial and charitable endeavour. He is still equally at home on tennis and racket courts, as he is singing in senior classical choirs or participating in countryside activities....not to mention pursuit of the ladies, through endless flirting, romances and two short-lived marriages. C3B. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 008233. ISBN: 095541900X
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Imprint: London, John Murray, 1948 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Red titles on blue boards which are clean and unmarked with fading to spine. Internally there is a small name to front pastedown and age darkening to endpapers else very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has some wear to edges. Any work on Biblical Chronology by so high an authority as Sir Frederic Kenyon must command attention and respect. In this little book he briefly and clearly restates the present position on the subject in view of recent discoveries and which was based on a lecture he delivered before the University of London in November 1947. R5. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Good Stock number: 010782.
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Imprint: Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2008 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with no inscriptions. 328 pages. Since 2001, two dominant worldviews have clashed in the global arena: a neoconservative nightmare of an insidious Islamic terrorist threat to civilized life, and a jihadist myth of martyrdom through the slaughter of infidels. Across the airwaves and on the ground, an ill-defined and uncontrollable war has raged between these two opposing scenarios. Deadly images and threats - from the televised beheading of Western hostages to graphic photographs of tortured prisoners at Guantamo, from the destruction wrought by suicide bombers to civilian deaths at the hands of American occupation forces in Iraq - have polarized populations on both sides of the divide. Yet, as noted Middle East scholar and commentator Gilles Kepel demonstrates, President Bush's War on Terror masks a complex political agenda in the Middle East - enforcing democracy, accessing Iraqi oil, securing Israel, and seeking regime change in Iran. The books sounds the alarm to the West and to Islam that both of these narratives are bankrupt and in a bold vision of an 'integrated civilization' he offers a way out of this destructive dialectic. L. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 009105. ISBN: 9780674031388
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Imprint: Edinburgh, Lomond Books, 1978 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. Published for the Scottish Railway Preservation Society. The West Highland Railway and the Callander and Oban Railway, traversing the mountains, lochs and glens of Scotland's Western Highlands, provided some of the finest areas for steam locomotive photography. Magnificent photographs with short narratives on each locomotive. 2. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 003315. ISBN: 0851533310
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Imprint: London, Century, 2017 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine Dustjcket which is not price-clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 204 pages. When the bones of a young woman, Kitty Sinn, who went missing without trace in Thailand, are discovered in the grounds of a school just outside London, an enduring mystery takes on a whole new twist. Kitty's boyfriend at the time, and the man who reported her missing, comes forward and tells DI Ry Mason of the Met's Homicide Command that he knows what happened to Kitty and who killed her. But soon he is shot dead. Now, the only link to Kitty lies 500 miles away in the Bordeaux countryside where a middle-aged teacher, Charlotte Curtis, lives alone. But Charlotte is in terrible danger because she possesses a single piece of information that will blow Kitty's case wide open. Only two people know how to find her. One is private detective Tina Boyd, and the other is a man who wants her dead as quickly as possible...... D4D. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 011209. ISBN: 9781780894539
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Imprint: London, Michael Joseph, 2007 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. xiv + 314 pages. 62 photographs. In the bleak, early days of the Second World War Britain stood alone against the terror of Hitler's all-conquering Third Reich. Our future and the future of the free world hung in the balance; our defence rested in the hands of the men flying the Spitfires and Hurricanes of Royal Air Force Fighter Command - They were Churchill's Few. A powerful human tale of courage and sacrifice based on diaries, first-hand accounts and new interviews with veterans. 12. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: As New Stock number: 011070. ISBN: 9780718147464
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