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Imprint: Cologne, Taschen, 2001 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy. 190 pages. English, French and German text. Between 1897 and 1927, Eugène Atget recorded the imprint of history as no other photographer has done. Tracing the daily changes in the face of the city was not only his profession, but also his vocation. Virtually unnoticed in his time, today he is recognised as one of the most important photographers in the history of the art. 50. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 009330. ISBN: 3822855499
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Imprint: London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 2000 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. There is a Signature to half title page which is in fact a printed facsimile (although there are many sellers who claim that it is a genuine signature). A clean and unmarked copy VG+. The notorious gangster's recollection of all of his years in prison. Convicted of murder, extortion, fraud and grievous bodily harm in 1968 with his brother Ron. A frank account of love, friendship, intrigue, betrayal, treachery, violence, laughter and tears. 4. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 001364. ISBN: 0283173195
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Imprint: New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1980 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on brown leatherette boards which are clean and unmarked. Internally very clean and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket is complete with some edgewear. Professor Kubler covers the diverse properties of wood and the many uses and applications including violin making. Illustrated with photographs drawings and diagrams. **** NOT EX LIB **** A1C. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 005172. ISBN: 0471053902
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Imprint: London, Sheed and Ward, 1964 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A clean, tight and unmarked copy. xiv + 335 pages. The book is an important study of Catholic and Protestant attitudes on such subjects as scripture and tradition, the Church and sacraments, and which emphasises the seriousness of the growing ecumenical movement and has contributions from renowned theologians. **** NOT AN EX LIBRARY COPY **** R8. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 010633.
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Imprint: London, Collins, 1977 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy apart from a small name to front pastedown with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. 720 pages. Translated by Edward Quinn. Why should one be a Christian? Is there something more to being Christian than to being human? Just what does it mean to be a Christian and what does it mean to be a Christian now? Hans Kung, the leading theologian, looks at these questions and out of a lifetime of study suggests the answers. He regards the book as his magnum opus, and that his intent is to clarify and challenge Christian faith and life at a time when the churches have lost rather than gained credibility. A seminal work that is addressed to Christians and atheists, Gnostics and agnostics, pietists and positivists, lukewarm and zealous Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox. **** A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.3 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** R1. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 010268. ISBN: 0002156105
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Imprint: London, Collins, 1977 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a little dust marking to top edge) with Near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 720 pages. Translated by Edward Quinn. Why should one be a Christian? Is there something more to being Christian than to being human? Just what does it mean to be a Christian and what does it mean to be a Christian now? Hans Kung, the leading theologian, looks at these questions and out of a lifetime of study suggests the answers. He regards the book as his magnum opus, and that his intent is to clarify and challenge Christian faith and life at a time when the churches have lost rather than gained credibility. A seminal work that is addressed to Christians and atheists, Gnostics and agnostics, pietists and positivists, lukewarm and zealous Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox. **** A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.3 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** R1. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 010269. ISBN: 0002156105
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Imprint: London, Sheed and Ward, 1962 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A clean and unmarked copy. xii + 307 pages. Translated by Cecily Hastings. 1. The Ecumenical Task of the Church; 2. The Permanent Neceeity of Renewal in the Church; 3. The Framework for Catholic Renewal; 4. Renewal of the Church Past and Present; 5. Yje Ecumenical Council and Reunion. **** NOT AN EX LIBRARY COPY **** R8. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 010704.
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Imprint: London, Collins, 1972 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy which has age darkening to page edges. 93 pages. Translated from the German by John Cumming. This is an attempt by one of the world's leading theologians to answer in an unswervingly Christian way a question that each year attracts greater urgency, and which is a concern of many a thinking Christian. He offer a thorough, sensitive, and convincing statement of the current problems, and of the possible answers as he sees them now in the light of the gospel, of historical development, and of the present situation. R11. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 010738.
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Imprint: Prague, Artia, 1954 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Gilt title on cloth boards which have foxing to front and fading to spine but no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. Map endpapers. Internally a Very Good+ copy. A large format volume, unpaginated, profusely illustrated with stunning photographs of the caves with their unique stalactites and stalagmites and fascinating geological structures. Note: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.325 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 27. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 008664.
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Imprint: New York, Crown Publishers, 1983 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A clean and unmarked copy with a slightly dustmarked top with complete dustjacket which has a little wear at tail and a small tear at spine top. The amazing new theory of handwriting that shows how you can change your personality by changing your handwriting. Foreword by Psychiatrist Seth Fielding. 3. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Good Stock number: 001604. ISBN: 051754928x
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Imprint: London, Evans Brothers, 1980 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy in pictorial laminated boards. 74 pages. Illustrations by Doug Panton. In the tradition of great children's classics, The Violin-Maker's Gift will enchant children and adults of all ages. Set in the French Pyrenees, it is a finely crafted tale of a simple violin-maker, Gaspard L'Innocent, who twice rescues a very special and magical bird and discovers the value of a gift that turns him into a legend. 166. Illustr.: Panton, Doug. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 009713. ISBN: 0237455218
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Imprint: New York, Artabras, 1993 Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. An As New copy in laminated boards with AS New dustjacket. A large format volume of 279 pages. Nearly 400 superb reproductions. Two hundred years ago, the doors of the Louvre opened to the public for the very first time. The palace of the French kings had been transformed into a museum that today stretches over an enormous architectural ensemble right in the heart of Paris. The royal collections first assembled by Francis I in the 16th century were later transferred to the Louvre palace, and this prestigious core was further enriched with artistic treasures during the Revolutionary period. The collections have been growing ever since. This magnificent book provides a grand tour of the Louvre's unparalleled collection and highlights the extraordinary range of artistic traditions that have found their place in this museum. L NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.71 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: As New Stock number: 008768. ISBN: 0896600378
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Imprint: London, Scolar Press, 1982 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Translated by Alan Sheridan. Silver lettering on Burgundy red cloth boards. Thick dustjacket has a very small tear else near Fine. Portrait of the Abbe Jean-Baptiste Castor Fabre to frontispiece. 608 pages A scholarly work examining the Occitan novel Jean-L'Ont-Pris by the Abbe Jean-Baptiste Castor Fabre (1727-1783) and the text in relation to the culture of the Midi during the ancien regime. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.12 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 21. Private Press. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 000267. ISBN: 0807610380
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Imprint: London, Abelard-Schuman, 1966 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Silver title on brown boards which are unmarked with no wear just a gentle bump to front lower corner tip. Internally there is age toning to endpapers and to closed edges else clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has foxing to reverse, repaired closed tears and is price clipped. 192 pages. 9 illustrations. Throughout history, boys of many nations have found themselves involved in battles of the armed forces, and it is to their credit that they have come through these ordeals with courage and endurance. The author was himself a soldier as a boy - and as a man - and knows too much about war to find in it anything glorious. He feels however that the boys who fought so bravely in combat deserve to have their names and exploits recorded. He has delved deeply into history and into records to uncover some astonishing stories of gallantry, skill and audacity on the part of boys. Here are teenage winners of the highest decorations for bravery - the Victoria Cross, the Congressional Medal of Honour, the Legion d'Honneur, the Iron Cross. On sea, land and in the air, youthful heroes accomplished deeds that verge on the incredible. C3B. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Good Stock number: 009709.
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Imprint: Stroud, Gloucestershie, Budding, 1997 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ unmarked copy which has some light spots to fore edge and a few pages with gentle creasing to top corner with dustjacket which has a repaired closed tear and is not price clipped. ix + 214 pages. 31 illustrations. A forceful and probing analysis of the British generals' leadership in the First World War. For too long, Dr. John Laffin maintains, the military reputation has not been critically enough examined, and he asks how those responsible for such catastrophic defeats were able to retain their commands. Haig, whose army suffered 60, 000 casualtie on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, was still in command after five months more fighting and another 400,000 casualties. By the war's end the numbers of dead ran into millions - doggedly brave British Empire soldiers who. Dr. Laffin believes, were killed, wounded or broken by commanders who were vain, egocentic or incompetent. But the generals, who blamed the dead and junior in rank, cannot be excused on the grounds that there was 'nothing else that they could do'. Even now, after that 'Great War for Civilization', this book raises questions that are uncomfortable. Dr. Laffin draws on the memories and writings of those who took part and quotes the judgements of other military historians to provide a lucid analysis of just what went wrong in the generals' leadership and how it resulted in such appalling and tragic losses. 21. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Good Stock number: 009986. ISBN: 1840150114
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Imprint: London, Blandford Press, 1996 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The authors have spent more than ten years travelling in China, exploring and filming their television documentaries of the country's beautiful wild places and the many creatures those habitats support. In this significant book they record, region by region, the status of a wide range of species and habitats and the work that is being done to research their ecology and to preserve and protect them. Beautifully illustrated with original photographs, it is a vital celebration of China's unique natural heritage. **** A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.1 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST **** 25. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 007788. ISBN: 0713723726
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Imprint: London, Pitkins, 1954 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on grey boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally there is age toning to endpapers else unmarked. Dustjacket has some chipping and is not price-clipped. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 250 carefully chosen photographs. The period August 1953 to August 1954 has, indeed, been a bountiful one for the Queen, her husband and her children. The Royal Tour of the Commonwealth was an unparalleled success. Miss Laird tells of the development of the children whilst their parents were away. 15. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 011476.
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Imprint: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1946 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paper title label on blue cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a small contemporary label with name and date to front pastedown else clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket is also VG+ with age darkening to spine and is not price clipped. Also loosely included is the original receipt of January 16, 1947. The late John Laird, Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Aberdeen, chose for the purpose of this book to read certain renowned works of English Literature with a professional eye upon the philosophy of the authors, as far as that could be deduced from the book in hand. Some of his chosen authors can be said to have invited this approach - Bridges, Shelley, Pope for instance, and possibly Hardy. But others - Dickens, Browning, Sterne, for example - scarcely expected, while they were writing, to be closely questioned in a matter in which they were often so vague. Wordsworth, perhaps, was not unwilling, and Isaac Watts might have had arguments to advance; but how would Shakespeare receive the question? Laird, in his first essay seeks to uncover Shakespeare's attitude to war and government, in another essay he analyses Robinson Crusoe's primitive philosophy, whilst with Sterne his search for a philosophy goes almost unrewarded. B2E. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 007492.
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Imprint: London, Macmillan Children's Books, 2005 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A Fine uninscribed copy with near Fine complete dustjacket which has a sticker advertising a free compass to front (but no form present). The New Zealand born award winning children's author has written a rip roaring, heart stopping adventure set in the Napoleonic Wars, in which in Edinburgh, a father and his son, John Barr, flee for their lives after being accused of murder. They become separated at the waterside and John is forced into joining the navy, on board the mighty HMS Fearless, where he soon finds that the ship hides many secrets. His new knowledge thrusts him into the heart of a covert operation and he must go ashore into hostile French territory. C3C. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 003008. ISBN: 1405048905
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Imprint: London, Pinter Publishers, 1989 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine uninscribed copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. A comprehensive overview of the security relationship between Germany and France, especially since 1982. The rapprochement of the two states on security policy is a critical component of the effort to Europeanize the Western Alliance. The study is divided into two major parts, the first assesses the strategic environment from the French and German perspectives and the second provides what the revitalization of the security dialogues has meant in real terms. A1B. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 002572. ISBN: 086187014x
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Imprint: London, Allison and Busby, 2005 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A Fine unread copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. An historical novel by the author (pseudonym of Dinah Lampitt) of the John Rawlings Georgian mystery series. Set in Boston, Massachusetts in 1775, where the lives of Thomas Gage, the British governor of Massachusetts, his wife Margaret, together with their black slave, Sara, become inexorably intertwined. Having risen through the army, Thomas has known many battles but the War of Independence is different, as there are personal passions and beliefs involved and being a British governor with an American wife means that allegiances are sharply divided. Thomas seeks solace through teaching the pretty Sara, the simple pleasures of reading and writing but conflict, heartbreak and death are close at hand, threatening to engulf all involved, C3A. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 003803. ISBN: 0749082208
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Imprint: London, Church House, 2000 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy. x + 124 pages. The book is hands-on guide to the the Common Worship Marriage service, including the new form of Thanksgiving for Marriage. It offers straightforward and realistic ideas about how to use the service in your church, and balances practical tips with theological grounding in a way that will enable parishes to make the most of the opportunities of Common Worship as a whole. **** NOT AN EX LIBRARY COPY **** R8. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 009603. ISBN: 0715120042
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Imprint: London, Hodder and Stoughton, 2003 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First UK edition, first printing. 'The Art of Happiness' has become the classic guide to the Dalai Lama's enlightened approach to living - illuminating the profound principles and perceptive wisdom of this greatest, most revered spiritual leader. Now for the first time since that revolutionary book, His Holiness has teamed up with psychiatrist Howard Cutler to resume the discussion about what makes life meaningful. L. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 008223. ISBN: 0340831197
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Imprint: London, The Religious Tract Society, 1887 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gilt titles and ornate gilt decoration on tan cloth boards. Boards are generally very clean with only some very light marks to front and a little wear to spine head and tail with some slight dulling. Internally the front hinge is cracked, there is light foxing to endpapers and closed edges else clean and unmarked. Overall a Good + copy with gilt to front especially bright. Not dated but this edition is cited by The British Library as 1887. 384 pages. Illustrated with plates and chapter headings and tails. Previously published under the author's maiden name of Ruth Buck it is a moral tale with a christian background. A1B. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 002007.
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Imprint: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1933 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title to spine on red cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with just a little wear to spine head and tail and to lower corner tips. Internally there is a small name and year to front endpaper, some remnats of tape to endpapers and just a few marks also to endpapers else very clean, tight and unmarked. xii + 357 pages. Third edition (first was 1912). The book had its origins in a course of lectures given for a number of years in the Manchester University, but has received various additions and developments. The present volume differs from many academical manuals in the prominence given to geometrical methods, and in particular to those of Graphical Statics. Chapters on: Theory of Vectors; Statics of a Particle; Plane Kinematics of a Rigid Body; Plane Statics; Graphical Statics; Theory of Frames; Work and Energy; Analytical Statics; Theory of Mass-Systems; Flexible Chains; Laws of Fluid Pressure; Equilibrium of Floating Bodies; General Conditions of Equilibrium of a Fluid; Equilibrium of Gaseous Fluids; Capillarity; Strains and Stresses; Extension of Bars; Flexure and Torsion of Bars; Stresses in Cylindrical and Spherical Shells. 309. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 009375.
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Imprint: London, The Faith Press, 1961 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good unmarked copy. 62 pages. The author is an experimental scientist at Oxford and also an Anglican layman. In this book he has brought together his thoughts on the similarities between science and religion. He sees both as disciplines to be learned, or crafts to be studied, rather than as bodies of knowledge and cure-alls for the evils of the world. **** NOT AN EX LIBRARY COPY **** R8. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 011326.
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Imprint: London, The Sumner Press, 1967 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A near Fine clean, tight and unmarked copy which has a touch of light foxing to front card cover. 109 pages. Comprises : Making a Meditation; The Knowledge of God; Meditations on -The Childhood of Jesus; The Ministry of Jesus; The Passion; The Resurrection; Prayers. **** NOT AN EX LIBRARY COPY **** R7. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 006984.
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Imprint: London, Harper Collins, 1992 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a very small amount of wear to lower spine edge) with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. A large format volume of xvi + 344 page and 58 illustrations. First edition, First printing. In the book Lucinda Lambton has gathered together a wealth of anecdotes and verse, obituaries and elegies about the dignity and loyalty, intelligence and idiosyncracy of every kind of animal ever harboured, cherished, revered or put to use by humankind. As well as the expected horses, dogs, cats and canaries there are to be found wombats, alligators, rats, fleas, lions, spiders, boars and armadillos. In many cases the owners of these animals are as entertaining as their creature companions: such as Frank Buckland who went riding with his bear round Oxford, the Rev. Rosslyn Courtney Bruce who successfully bred green mice, or Walter Rothschild, who sped up Piccadilly in a trap drawn by zebras. Illudstrated throughout with drawings and paintings both beautiful and bizarre. Note: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.23 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 22. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 008637. ISBN: 0002177234
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Imprint: London, A.R. Mowbray, 1966 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on red boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a name and year to front endpaper, the odd foxing mark to the margin of a few pages and to fore and top edge else a clean, tight and unmarked copy. 112 pages. G.W.H. Lampe was Ely Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge and D.M. MacKinnon was Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge. Comprising: How this Dialogue Began; An Easter Sermon; The Television Discussion; Easter - A Statement; The Resurrection - A Meditation; Good Friday and Easter - An Interpretation; A Rejoinder; Further Reflections. **** NOT EX LIB **** R1. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Good Stock number: 009599.
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Imprint: London, Faber & Faber, 2002 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. A novel of Hong Kong, 'Heung Gong - Fragrant Harbour', of four people whose intertwined lives span Asia's last 70 years, the complacency of colonial life in the 1930's, the horrors of the Japanese occupation. the post war boom, the growth of the Triads and the handover of Hong Kong. The author's third novel. D4E. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 004584. ISBN: 0571201768
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Imprint: London, Stainer & Bell, 1976 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine uninscribed copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. The autobiography of a man who has been stage struck since the age of six when he saw his first pantomime at the Theatre Royal, Kilburn in 1897. Arriving from Vienna in 1895, 'Charley' immediately contracted diptheria and was packed off to hospital, emerging six weeks later restored to health and with a fluent Cockney and provides a memorable account of his early life. Although an avid theatre goer and already writing novels in his teens, it was not until 1925, at the age of thirty four, that he gate crashed into the theatrical world and enjoyed a long career as theatre manager, drama director for the Arts Council and theatre critic. We are told of his encounters with Tyrone Guthrie, Marie Rambert, Lewis Casson, Sybil Thorndike, et al and also see Bernard Shaw at work. 11. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 002971. ISBN: 0852493363
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Imprint: London, Robert Hale, 1979 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with price clipped dustjacket which has a small repaired closed tear. Drawing on a variety of memoirs and other sources the author presents a rounded portrait of a very popular personality, showing how her ancestry and upbringing prepared her for the role she was called on to play when, finally she agreed to marry the Duke of York. He also shows how 'the smiling Duchess' transformed a shy, introverted and stammering Duke into a confident and popular King George VI. 60 illustrations. **** NOT EX LIB **** 12. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 004904. ISBN: 0709176481
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Imprint: Dublin, Clonmore and Reynolds, 1953 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. A clean and unmarked copy with card covers which have old tape repairs to tears alongside spine and inner front flap, and age darkening to covers. Robert Langeac (1877-1947) is the nom-de-plume of Father Augustine Delage, priest of St. Sulpice, who was, for many years professor of Dogmatic Theology at the Grand Seminary of Limoges. One who has lived the experiences of the interior life describes it here with freshness and simplicity. The atmosphere of profound recollection and payer, coupled with an artless simplicity and spontaneity of expression, gives this little book a character of authenticity. SCARCE **** NOT AN EX LIBRARY COPY **** R8. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 010789.
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Imprint: London, A.R. Mowbray, 1947 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy. 63 pages. Illustrations by Francis Stephens. Foreword by The Lord Bishop of St. Albans. This book is written for children and there are plenty of picturesso that the smallest can follow the movements in the Service even if they are too young to read. When they can read the words they will be able to take a full part in the worship of the Church. R1. Illustr.: Stephens, Francis. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 010102.
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Imprint: London, Geoffrey Chapman, 1967 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a corner crease to one page) with near Fine dustjacket.Translated from the French by John C. Guinness. Revised edition of April 1967 (first was also 1967). Foreword by Leo J. Trese. While the title of 'spiritual director' has gone out of favour, the office it describes has never been more important or more challenging. Every priest who hears confessions or guides Catholics, whether in their personal growth in holiness or in the embodiment of religion in their social life, knows the importance of the work of counselling. Father Laplace, from his years as a confessor and pastor, has written a book specifically aimed at helping priests fulfil the important directive role. R1. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 006490.
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Imprint: London, Virago, 2003 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 303 pages. In January 2000 the actress collapsed with what was eventually diagnosed as a burst middle cerebral artery aneurysm. She was one of the lucky ones, as many do not survive, let alone live intelligently and well again, once they have suffered cerebral haemorrhage. In the long haul back to life 'nearly dying was the easy bit'. A few friendships became casualties; family relationships had to be redefined; and her work as an actress took a severe battering. Her moving account of her ordeal is darkly funny and honest. B2E. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 010432. ISBN: 1860499775
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Imprint: London, Macmillan, 1980 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. ix + 201 pages. Second impression (first was 1977). The book surveys the social and intellectual changes in Europe that encouraged a determinist view of Man in 19th century Realism. It examines the growing attention that thinkers of the time paid to environment and heredity as shaping forces: and it indicates how the social consequences of the French and Industrial Revolutions made writers aware that they were living in a rapidly shifting society. The book compares the responses of the better known Realists to these developments - notably Stendhal, Balzac, Büchner, Mrs. Gaskell, Flaubert, George Eliot, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Zola, Ibsen, Fontane and Chekhov. **** NOT EX LIB **** B2B. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 008399. ISBN: 0333141555
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Imprint: London, Phoenix House, 1955 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on red cloth boards which have a faded spine else clean. Internally there is a small contemporary name and date to front endpaper, light foxing to closed edges else clean and unmarked. 27 plates including coloured frontispiece and 21 line drawings. A fascinating work on underwater exploration from history to the present with the author's ideas for the future. From 17th century diving bells to an experimental thermal power station in Abidjan in the Ivory coast. **** NOT EX LIB **** B2B. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 001620.
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Imprint: London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1987 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked coy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 192 pages. 84 illustrations. From Palm to Pine offers a new approach to one of England's greatest writers, Rudyard Kipling. Kipling travelled extensively and his poetry, stories, novels and leters are imbued with the sights and sounds of East and West. Here Marghanita Laski re-creates Kipling's life, and in particular his world - one dominated by the British Empire - showing how he viewed it and reflected it in his writing. A1A. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 010984. ISBN: 0283994223
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Imprint: New York, Richard Marek, 1979 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on black cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is light foxing to closed edges else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket has a little creasing and is not price clipped. A definitive and critical analysis of the extraordinary rise of James Earl Carter, Jr. - better known as 'Jimmy', to the Presidency of the United States. **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.82 KILO WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** 21. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 007224. ISBN: 039990042X
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Imprint: London, Robert Hale, 1989 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which has a wrap around pictorial and a small mark to iiner front flap and is not price clipped. 65 illustrations by Bill Wright and 1 map. An evocative and carefully researched guide to Devon - 'The English Riviera' - portraying the contrasts of picturesque villages, seaside resorts and the landscape of Dartmoor, all enhanced by the charming line drawings. **** NOT EX LIB **** 3. Illustr.: Wright, Bill. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 006546. ISBN: 0709038232
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Imprint: New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 1999 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine copy in laminated boards with a small name to front pastedown. xxii + 480 pages + 27 pages of International Case Studies; 4 pages of appendices; 22 pages of references; 3 page name index; 3 page organizations index; 6 page subject index. The text presents real business examples, both American and foreign, and relates them to MIS and management through a discussion on the importance of integrating organization and technology. **** A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.5 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** 20A. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 007552. ISBN: 0130819735
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Imprint: London, Viking, 2002 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xxx + 284 pages. 17 illustrations and 4 maps. Renaissance Venice had a convent on every canal front, and nuns loomed large in the city's daily life. Far from being places of religious devotion, the convents were often little more than dumping grounds for unmarried women from the upper ranks of Venetian society. Supported by their private incomes, the nuns ate, dressed and behaved as gentlewomen, followed the latest fashions in hairstyles, wore high heeled clogs and gold embroidered stockings, gave parties for their relatives, and schemed to influence the running of the city's affairs. But at the beginning of the 16th century this pleasant lifestyle came under threat, as the Protestant Reformation unfolded throughout Europe, the Catholic Church took fright and set about reforming its own institutions. Convents, traditionally viewed as places of vice and sexual corruption, were at the top of the list. R1. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 008160. ISBN: 0670896357
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Imprint: London, Conway Maritime Press, 1989 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which has a little wear to lower edges and a little creasing to top edge and is price clipped. A large format volume of 332 pages. Illustrated throughout with contemporary illustrations and maps. Foreword by Patrick O'Brian. The author is one of the world's leading authorities on the sailing navy and has produced a book which is truly encyclopaedic in its scope and at the same time eminently readable. Derived from considerable original research, the book is the first single-volume to cover in such depth this vast and complex subject, and give a clear and authentic picture of the Senior Service as a whole. An important resource for the naval historian. NOTE : A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.88 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 25. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 008738. ISBN: 0851775217
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Imprint: London, Orion Business Books, 1998 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The book is about the creative communication company, St. Luke's, that through sheer inventiveness has chosen to change the very 'DNA' of business, by turning its back on just about every aspect of conventional business life. It is about a company seeking to make work more enriching, challenging, interesting and rewarding for everyone in it. It is a model corporation for the 21st century. 23. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 007766. ISBN: 0752813951
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Imprint: London, Robert Hale, 1989 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with a Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A novel by the American author of a missionary priest who smuggles two men out of Venezuela aboard his fishing boat and precipitates an international scandal. A special oprations expert is called in to penetrate the Caribbean island of Corunna, recently turned Marxist by a revolution. His team is made up of a black ex Green Beret high on speed, an alcoholic lesbian operator and a burnt out CIA agent. A fast paced action story. C3D. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 001773. ISBN: 0709035950
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Imprint: London, Adam and Charles Black, 1979 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format volume of ix + 102 pages. Illustrated with photographs of Anthony Dowell by Anthony Crickmay. The principles of classical dance are often imperfectly understood and badly taught, partly because the French terms employed are interpreted very loosely. This statement of the principles and description of the consequent rules are timely and will be important to all dancers and choreographers - also to balletgoers. A proper understanding is the ground for fine classical technique, and for some effective departures from it. This book also provides a magnificent record of practice at the Royal Ballet School under the direction of Ninette de Valois. Joan Lawson, herself of the Royal Ballet School, has been fortunate in having the co-operation of Anthony Dowell, whose classical technique is unsurpassed, and of Anthony Crickmay, one of the world's leading dance photographers. **** NOT EX LIB **** B2F. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 009835. ISBN: 0713619406
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Imprint: London, Pavilion, 1996 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, First printing. A large format volume of 192 pages. Already a success on Broadway, in 1954 Newman began his film career - disastrously - as Basil the slave in The Silver Chalice. Yet before long he was considered not only a fine actor but also the sexiest man in films. Determined to control his career, he broke away from the studio system that dictated what roles he could take and, with astute choices of scripts and directors, established a screen presence that has remained popular and respected. The films that he has directed and that star Joanne Woodward, his wife of 38 years are concerned with ordinary people attempting to make sense of their lives. This most unordinary man, besides his remarkable achievements on the stage and in cinema, has won four national amateur race car titles, devoted himself to political activism and started Newman's Own, the non-profit gourmet food business that has so far given away 70 million dollars to worthy causes. Drawing on interviews with Newman and others who have worked with him, and with the help of over 100 photographs, Eric Lax looks at this extraordinary life and reveals the man behind the enduring screen image. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.2 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 25. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 009409. ISBN: 0857937309
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Imprint: Roma, Herder and Herder, 1958 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Molto buona copia. 178 Pagine, 25 fotografie. Con vita di roncalli andrea da il saluto di commiato al trentesimo anno di quotidiano lavoro giornalistico in Vaticano. Con questo libro ecco per la prima volta la biografia d'un papa regnante, scritta senza frasi sonore ed enfatiche. R7. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 011120.
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Imprint: London, Viking, 2019 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy with an As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 282 pages. Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie. Nat is not only a spy, he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age: the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all. Agent Running in the Field is a chilling portrait of our time, now heartbreaking, now darkly humorous, told to us with unflagging tension by the greatest chronicler of our age. 15. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: As New Stock number: 011515. ISBN: 9780241401231
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