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Imprint: London, Cassell, 1978 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ copy which has an inscription to front endpaper and minor bumps to lower corner tips with VG dustjacket which is not price-clipped. 524 pages. For 25 years Nicholas Monsarrat has lived with a dream: a dream to stretch a novelist's imagination to the limit - of one man living the hazardous life of a British seaman through four centuries of our mariyime history - from the Spanish Armada until today. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.9 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST D4A. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 011269. ISBN: 0304296090
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Imprint: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Harry N. Abrams, 1984 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with gold title and blind embossed Vatican crest on red cloth boards with Fine dustjacket. Message by John PaulII and foreword by Philippe de Montebello, James N. Wood and Ian McKibbin White. Produced to accompany three exhibitions in New York, San Francisco and Chicago in 1983/4. This large format volume comprises : Map of Vatican City State, The Vatican Museums, Old Saint Peter's, The Fabbrica of Saint Peter's, The Apostolic Palaces, The Belvedere, The Treasury of Saint Peter's, New Saint Petr's and Baroque Rome, The Library Museums, Museo Pio-Clementino, Pinacoteca, Museo Gregoriano Egizio, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, The Collections of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Museo Pio Cristiano, Pontificio Museo Missionario-Etnologico, Collezione D'Arte Religiosa Moderna. Magnificently illustrated with 272 iilustartions including 161 colour plates and map. Complete list of pontiffs and extensive bibliographies. **** A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.3 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** L. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 005594. ISBN: 0810917106
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Imprint: London, Simon and Schuster, 2014 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 389 pages. A family rocked by tragedy, a love that lives through time, a story that will stay in your heart....Dorset, 1932:Grace Hamblin is growing up on a beautiful rural estate. The only child of the beekeeper, she knows her place and her future - until her father dies unexpectedly and leaves her bereft and alone. Alone, that is, except for the man she loves, whom she knows she can never have. Massachusetts, 1973:Grace's beautiful, impetuous daughter Trixie Valentine is in love. Jasper is wild and romantic, a singer in a band on the brink of stardom. Then tragedy strikes and he must return to his home in England, promising to come back to Trixie one day, if only she will wait for him...Weighed down by memories, unaware of the secrets that bind them, both mother and daughter are searching for lost love. To find what they are longing for they must confront the past, and unravel the lies told long ago.... 21. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: As New Stock number: 011078. ISBN: 9781471100994
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Imprint: New York, Montfort Publications, 2001 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy which has a small name and date to half title page. xii + 185 pages. The book is divided into two parts: 1)True devotion to our Lady in general, 2) The perfect true devotion or holy slavery. R17. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 008281. ISBN: 0910984506
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Imprint: London, Michael Joseph, 1971 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First UK edition. 227 pages. 36 illustrations. In 1932 Carlotta Monti met the Great One on a back lot at Paramount. Eyeing her hula costume, he flicked away his cigar 'merely a precaaaution' he asided, 'I don't want to start a grass fire.' For the next fourteen years, Carlotta was 'Woody's mistress, sharing his bed and bar in a series of rented houses. She witnessed his bickering with directors and studios, his exuberant pranks and verbal pyrotechnics. She was present as 'Uncle Willy' played host to Edgar Bergen, John Barrymore, and other wits and Hollywood greats, until the very end of his tragic battle with alcohol. An intimate memoir of one of Hollywood's most outrageous personalities. **** NOT EX LIB **** 300. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 009854. ISBN: 0718112032
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Imprint: New York, Harper & Row, 1989 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. This is the journal of of a man who, after having flown more than 3 million miles to most of the world's exotic places, left a Christian career at its peak to begin an inner journey towards self-discovery, to him the most exotic destination of all. His premise is life happens on a path that Jesus called 'the strait and narrow' and is basically a journey into constant new discoveries. Using the Sermon on the Mount as his road map, he encountered truths that challenged many of his traditional beliefs.Stan Mooneyhan was a former president of World Vision and special assistant to Billy Graham. R4. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 005041. ISBN: 006065922X
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Imprint: London, Viking, 2000 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, first printing. vi + 376 pages. 13 colourd illustrations. Lord Hervey was one of the most controversial figures of the Georgian age, the consummate courtier, strikingly handsome, elegant and witty, the favourite of the Queen and right-hand man to Walpole, confidant of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Yet for all his hard-won public fame, there was scandalous side. He certainly was a rake (rumour has it that he shared a mistress with the Prince of Wales), but such behaviour was quite normal among the 18th century aristocracy, less unusual, however, was his 10 year affair with another man. From the outset, Hervey was fascinated by Stephen Fox, his delightfully witty letters reveal the depth of their passion for one another, and the lengths to which they were driven in order to escape detection. Finally, theirs became an 'open secret', one of many factors that contributed to his downfall. 12. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 007752. ISBN: 067087986X
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Imprint: London, Victor Gollancz, 2000 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not pice-clipped. 215 pages. Translated from the French by Rory Mulholland. Chartres, 1145. Ten years earlier, a fire believed to be deliberate, destroyed the town and the culprit has still not been traced. The Chevalier Galeran de Lesnevan, summoned by the Count of Blois to investigate a new mystery, uses the opportunity to visit his old friend Audouard, a master glazier, in Chartres on the way. When a murdered body is discovered in the river, a series of events leads Galeran to believe that the perpetrator of the fire is still at large in the area. While hundreds of master craftsmen, artisans and workers painstakingly rebuild the cathedral for the glory of God, he lives among them in an attempt to solve the mystery. A compelling and atmospheric story of bloody revenge. 1. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 011215. ISBN: 0575068205
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Imprint: London, Hutchinson, 1908 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt signature of author to front and gilt title on red cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with just a touch of wear to spine head and corners. Internally there is the armorial bookplate of C Gerald Agnew and one other book plate to front pastedown, foxing to page edges else clean and unmarked. 346 pages. Photogravure of Mary and Catherine Horneck to frontispiece and 16 other portraits. Comprises 13 chapters on Georgian theatrical life and times including Fanny Burney, Elizabeth Gunning, Oliver Goldsmith, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Richard Brinsley Sheridan et al. A fascinating account. 4. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 000400.
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Imprint: London, Cassell, 1990 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. An As New Copy with an As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. a large format book of 128 pages. Patrick Moore, one of the astronomers who provided maps of the moon in the period before probes were launched, has provided commentaries for television and radio from the very beginning; as one who has been personally involved, he has had access to all of the pictorial material. For the first time, this book brings together the most striking views of these other worlds and also describes what we have found out. The book is also a tribute to the amazing skill of the technicians who have masterminded the missions. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.86 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST B2F. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: As New Stock number: 010995. ISBN: 0304318957
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Imprint: Newton Abbot, David and Charles, 1991 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. 207 pages. Profusely illustrated. Why are we fascinated by a starlit sky? With this single question, Sir Patrick Moore sets out on a journey of exploration and investigation which takes the reader to the edge of the universe and back in a typically unconventional introduction to the subject of astronomy. Aimed principally at the newcomer to astronomy, but with enough new information and insight to satisfy the more experienced practitioner. PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.95 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 23. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 010070. ISBN: 0715398636
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Imprint: New York, Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 1991 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy.A large format volume of 208 pages. There are few Americans who would not recognize Charles Morre's most famous photographs. His images of police dogs and fire hoses being turned on demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 became instant symbols, in America and abroad, of the black struggle for equality. This book brings together the most significant pictures of the Civil Rights Movement in the South from 1958 to 1965. Charles Moore, an Alabama native who understood people on both sides of the struggle, came away from events with the pictures best able to tell the story. His heralded action photographs from the University of Mississippi, Birmingham, Selma, and rural Mississippi are at the heart of the book, but there is much more. He also photographed civil rights workers in storefronts and church basements. He covered Martin Luther King, Jr., in Montgomery long before he was known nationally, and he photographed the white opposition, including George Wallace and the Ku Klux Klan. The accompanying text is written by journalist Michael Durham, who worked with Moore on some of his most important stories. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.05 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 13A. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 009189. ISBN: 1556702027
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Imprint: London, Butterworths, 1998 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Laminated boards have some abrasion marks to front and wear to one corner tip but internally very clean and unmarked. The handbook provides a practical working tool for advising owner-managers on company law, which is a separate area of advice from the balance of interests between shareholders and directors on which current company law concentrates, and one which demands a clear understanding. It examines the key legal issues arising from formation, structure and administration of a business and provides a wide range of precedents including resolutions, articles and shareholder agreements. 22. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 004932. ISBN: 0406895961
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Imprint: London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on black cloth boards which have small marks to lower edge but no wear. Internally there is foxing to fore edge, a name and date to front endpaper else clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has a small repaired closed tear and light wear to edges. xiii + 436 pages. 23 half-tone illustrations. Over a million and a quarter people lead the monastic and other forms of the religious life in the Western world - Benedictines, Trappists, Franciscans, Dominicans, Jesuits and members of many other orders and institutes. Their lives are still largely based on St. Augustine's doctrine of perfection, still regulated for the most part by a medieval timetable. For a Cistercian nun this means that the day begins when a bell rings in her dormitory at 2.45 a.m. to summon her to the Night Office. Only by living for a time in a monastery is it really possible to grasp the startling difference between that existence and life as the rest of us know it. For the first time in 1,400 years there are signs of a dramatic change in the direction, the structure and the justification of the religious life. In this deeply sympathetic survey of the religious life in the modern world Geoffrey Moorhouse describes the daily life of monks, nuns and other religious; the effects of authority and the demands of obedience. He explores the meaning and purpose of prayer, and of a vocation that leads men and women to renounce the prospect of marriage, to abandon all private possessions and submit to rigid rules of conduct for the rest of their lives. **** NOT EX LIB **** R1. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 009519. ISBN: 029717679X
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Imprint: London, George Newnes, 1949 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Gilt titles on dark blue cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there are small marks where a protector has been removed from front pastedown and some light foxing to endpapers. Internally clean and unmarked as coated paper has been used for the text and the illustrations. 152 photographic illustrations. 168 pages in nine chapters plus index. A comprehensive work devoted to pet photography detailing technique, photographic information and lighting details. The photographs are a particular feature. 4. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 001458.
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Imprint: London, Robert Hale, 1991 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A VG+ copy with a small name (Pam) to front endpaper with complete dustjacket. A novel of Antoine Lagache, a brilliant painter and successful financier, vice president of the prosperous family firm of beauty products but, unknown to him, he has three daughters, the result of a world cruise twenty years ago when he left one girl pregnant in Mexico, another in Bombay and a third in Japan. His mother is obsessed with continuing the family and has secretly brought the girls to Paris, adopts them, gives them a strict education and intoduces them to the family firm. It is not until Antoine returns to Paris to visit his dying aunt that he learns the truth of the three girls. The last novel by the South African born author and actress Helga Moray Clayton (1917-1996). SCARCE 154. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 004567. ISBN: 0709042663
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Imprint: London, Robert Hale, 1978 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A clean and unmarked copy in a complete pictorial dustjacket. An epic tale of an indomitable and beautiful Irish woman who falls in love with a visiting South African, a famous Kaffir fighter at the time of the Voortrekkers. She goes as a pioneer to the Dark Continent and the story relates her life set against the backdrop of South Africa and Rhodesia, the discovery of diamonds and gold and the birth of a nation. A fine historical novel by the South African born author and actress Helga Moray Clayton (1917-1996). 154. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 001321. ISBN: 070916727x
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Imprint: London, Hutchinson, 1990 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarkd copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. For several years David Moreau has beguiled listeners to BBC Radio 4 with alarmingly funny autobiographical sketches. In his autobiography he relates his bizarre escapades, from an African infancy to his role as a budding captain of industry. His education in England lived up to the most flamboyant fantasies of those who seek to abolish the public schools. **** NOT EX LIB **** A1C. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 008500. ISBN: 0091739233
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Imprint: Warsaw, Radwan, 1995 Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. TEXT IN ENGLISH, GERMAN AND POLISH. A Fine copy with an inscription to half title page with VG+ dustjacket. Unpaginated. Illustrated endpapers. Slowo Wstepne - Introduction - Vorwort by Aleksander Gieysztor. Published by arrangement with the Warsaw Culture Foundation. A large format, lavish coloured photographic tour of Warsaw's historic past - its architecture, landscapes, genre scenes and its people together with its history. **** A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.32 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST **** 25. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 007727. ISBN: 8390100746
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Imprint: London, Forbes Robertson, 1952 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Blue title and skull motif on red cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear but slightly faded spine. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. A 'chiller thriller' featuring the debut of Ricky Straight, a private detective, and the Countess Myanzik who hires him to retrieve her family crest stolen by a worthless family member. The author was a popular English thriller writer in the 1950's both here and in Canada. C3E. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 001987.
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Imprint: London, Jonathan Cape, 1980 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The biography of William Somerset Maugham which was approved by by his literary executor Spencer Curtis Brown. A thoroughly researched large work which covers the entire life - as prolific playwright, world traveller, one time spy in Russia, World War II propagandist and intimate of many from the Duke of Windsor to Aleister Crowley. A Very Good copy with dustjacket which is shelf worn with chipping to head and tail of spine although complete. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.25 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST B2D. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fair Stock number: 000608. ISBN: 0224018132
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Imprint: London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1951 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good unmarked copy with dustjacket which has two repaired closed tears to front and is not price clipped. A story of adventure, physical and spiritual set around a boy's club in the West of England but it's implications stretch beyond that world to the basic problems of human conduct. SCARCE B2A. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Good Stock number: 003626.
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Imprint: London, Chatto & Windus / Hogarth Press, 1987 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. In the book friends, family and food weave in and out of the author's stories of her travels and culinary experiences - risotto cooked by an Italian on the run in London, a last supper for an unfaithful American husband. Her recipes, which grow out of her stories, are of familiar and unfamiliar dishes developed to suit her own highly developed tastes. Illustrations by Patrick Hughes. C3D. Illustr.: Hughes, Patrick. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 005353. ISBN: 0701132302
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Imprint: London, Hodder and Stoughton, 2001 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. xvii + 510 pages. 51 illustrations. In a career spanning almost eighty years on stage, screen, radio and television, he effectively reinvented Shakespeare for the modern stage; he was the first great Hamlet of our time; wih his brother Val he virtually created BBC radio drama; decades before the founding of the National Theatre or the RSC, he pioneered the idea of a resident classical company in London's West End. He made stars of Alec Guinness and Paul Scofield as well as hundreds of other actors, directors and designers; from Peter Brook to Peter Greenaway, he worked with all the revolutionary artists of his time. The great-nephew of Ellen Terry, Sir John was the bridge from the 19th to the 20th century, and was the founder and last survivor of a group of classical actors - Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Michael Redgrave, Peggy Ashcroft, Sybil Thorndike and Edith Evans - such as the world had never seen and will never see again. 12 years before his death, John Gielgud invited Sheridan Morley to become his only authorised biographer. NOTE - A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.95 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 24. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 010419. ISBN: 034068039
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Imprint: London, Collins, 1945 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Very Good+ copy which has a name and 'Royal Academy' to front endpaper and a little light foxingto endpapers else very clean, tight and unmarked. 71 pages. 48 plates. The author has lived and worked in the Soviet Union. She describes the performances of famous old ballets by the new generation of dancers and the creation of new ballets. She describes new dancers, their technique and their personalities, and makes them and the work they are doing vivid through a remarkable collection of photographs taken in action. B2A. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 009847.
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Imprint: London, Chapman Hall, 1926 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Translated by H.B.V. with an introduction by Augustus John. Limited edition of 1000 copies for England and America of which this is number 65. Gilt title on light brown cloth boards with decorative paper sides. Fore and lower edges uncut. Top edge gilt. Age darkening to endpapers else very clean, tight and unmarked. Uniform with XVIII Century French Romances edited by Vyvyan Holland. Book Plate of Ralph Dickinson inside front cover. First published in Paris under the rubric 'A Agra' in 1746, this text is made from the edition of 1751. Bound and printed at the Curwen Press. B2E. Book Condition: Very Good TEG. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 000102.
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Imprint: New York, Oxford University Press, 1992 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The authors are two distinguished scientists and science writers and here examine what modern biology can contribute to the debate and who are sensitive to the myriad ethical and religious arguments beyond the realm of science that swirl around abortion. They focus on one crucial question - when does a foetus acquire 'humanness' and argue that this begins with the possession of a highly developed cerebral cortex. Reviewing the latest advances in molecular biology, evolutionary biology, embryology, neurophysiology and neonatology, fields which all bear on this question. 107. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 003616. ISBN: 0195079272
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Imprint: London, Harper Collins, 2007 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from small bumps to lower corner tips with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The bag wasn't just drifting gently along, it was turning of its own accord. There was something inside it, squeaking and squealing in terror. Patrick didn't think about it. He shrugged off his school bag and leapt into the canal. For Best Mate, being rescued from drowning as a young puppy is only the start of his adventures. D4B. Illustr.: Forman, Michael. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 011257. ISBN: 9780007230570
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Imprint: London, Jonathan Cape, 1979 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. Doctor Morris relates his personal history of his early animal days before he wrote his best selling books on animal and human behaviour, with his television appearances as presenter of the popular 'Zootime' and his work at London's Regent Park Zoo. He recalls his childhood, his academic journey and as curator of mammals his encounters with the giant pandas presented by Kruschev. A charming and fascinating biography. *** NOT BOOK CLUB *** C3B. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 002425. ISBN: 0224017381
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Imprint: London, Harper Collins, 1999 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a thin quarter inch biro 'v' mark to top edge) with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First UK edition, first printing. xx + 874 pages. Illustrations in the text. The authorized biography of President Ronald Reagan, written with complete interpretative freedom, whilst he was still president. During 13 years of archival research and interviews with Reagan, his family, friends, admirers and enemies, Morris studied his subject with a closeness and dispassion, not to mention alternations of amusement, horror and amazed respect. **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.2 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** 14. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 008183. ISBN: 0002177099
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Imprint: London, Bishopsgate Press, 1985 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine clean, tight and unmarked copy with dustjacket which has a large repaired closed tear to front and a small repaired closed tear to back. Johnny Morris has been broadcasting continuously since 1946, has travelled the world and met many animals in jungles and zoos, and many will remember his television appearances. The stories in this book relate some of his experiences with a variety of different animals during his broadcasts and bring home to us how very like us they are. Delightfully illustrated by Sylvia Gainsford. **** NOT EX LIB **** 1. Illustr.: Gainsford, Sylvia. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Good Stock number: 007672. ISBN: 0900873663
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Imprint: London, ZAFFRE, 2023 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. A novel, based on a true story. 1942. Singapore is falling to the Japanese Army. English musician Norah Chambers places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe. As the island burns, Australian nurse Nesta James joins the terrified cargo of people, including the heartbroken Norah, crammed aboard the HMS Vyner Brooke. After only two days at sea, the ship is bombarded and sunk. Nesta and Norah reach the beaches of Indonesia only to be captured and held in one of the notorious Japanese POW camps, places of starvation and brutality. But even here joy can be found, in music, where Norah's 'voice orchestra' transports the internees from squalor into light. The friendships they build with the dozens of other women in the camps will give them the hope, strength and camaraderie they need in order to stay alive.. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 011535. ISBN: 9781786582218
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Imprint: Leicester, Edmund Ward 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Black title on red boards which are clean and unmarked with bumping to lower corner tips. Internally very clean and unmarked. A Good+ copy, not dated but probably 1950/1960's. A childrens story set in a girl's boarding school. C3E. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 001266.
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Imprint: Lewes, East Sussex, The Book Guild, 2001 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 778 pages. There are rich pickings for spies in post-war Germany, and maverick intelligence officer Johnny Marlowe is determined to bring in as much information as he can for the elite group within MI6 that he works for. Johnny's methods are unorthodox, but they work. His experience tells him that women make the best agents, so he slowly gathers together a group of attractive and intelligent German girls, whom he places in positions where they can collect the cream of information without arousing suspicions. And Johnny keeps them supplied with what they need most: food, work, sex and security. Very early on he realises that his targets are Russians as well as Germans, and with the help of his talented team of ladies, he is soon on the trail of undercover Nazis, Russian double-agents, and cross-border runners. With an element of fun as well as danger, the spy game for Jonny's 'joes' is full of surprises. **** NOT EX LIB **** A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.47 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 25. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 008667. ISBN: 185776580X
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Imprint: London, Phaidon Press, 1971 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with gold title on blue cloth boards with quality paper and with Fine complete dustjacket. First published in 1951. A history of Windsor Castle by the former Royal Librarian, who lived within the castle for thirty years, and who is the leading expert on its history, presented in a swift and masterly narrative, it traces the its development through nine centuries of royal occupation. Over 80 illustrations. A1E. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 004645.
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Imprint: London, Hutchinson, 1950 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Black title on cream cloth boards which has a small mark to front but no wear. Internally there is a small name to front pastedown, age darkening to endpapers and foxing to top edge else clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has chipping and a repaired tear along the spine edge. Professor Mortimer provides a discussion of the general pre-suppositions and ideas which underlie the Christian ethical teaching, treating of such subjects as conscience, the concepts of sin and virtue, and the relation between morality and religion. The book also attempts to explain the traditional Christian attitude towards certain particular matters of conduct; for example, marriage and divorce, gambling, and the rights and duties of private property. R5. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fair Stock number: 010342.
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Imprint: London, Longmans, Green and Co, 1902 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gilt title and blind embossed cross on blue cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with age darkening to spine and just a touch of wear to spine head and tail. Internally there is foxing to many pages else a clean, tight copy. A Good+ copy. First Edition. xx + 321 pages. The seminal work on the Apostles', Nicene and Athanasian creeds. FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS ARE BECOMING SCARCE R5. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 010320.
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Imprint: London, Dacre Press, 1955 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Card covers have some foxing but no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. 78 pages. This little book is an amplification of some short articles written for the Exeter Diocesan Leaflet and form the substance of the book. irst published in 1951. Comprises: Introduction; Regular Communion; Attendance at Public Worship; Fasting; Dues and Alms; Marriage Laws; A Quiet Conscience. **** NOT AN EX LIBRARY COPY **** R8. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 010109.
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Imprint: London, Adam and Charles Black, 1947 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on red cloth boards which have two minor marks to front else clean with no wear. Internally there is a small name to front pastedown and a strip of age darkening to endpapers else very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has age darkening, chipping some wear and loss . The purpose of this book by Canon Mortimer is to provide a simple introduction to moral theology, its methods and technical terms, for those in training for Orders, and for the clergy, especially the younger clergy. It is hoped that the book may provide a starting point for an Anglican manual of moral theology, of which none so far exists. **** NOT EX LIB **** R1. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fair Stock number: 006666.
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Imprint: London, Adam and Charles Black, 1947 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on red cloth boards which have no wear. Internally there is some foxing to endpapers else very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has age darkening, some wear and foxing and is not price clipped. The purpose of this book by Canon Mortimer is to provide a simple introduction to moral theology, its methods and technical terms, for those in training for Orders, and for the clergy, especially the younger clergy. It is hoped that the book may provide a starting point for an Anglican manual of moral theology, of which none so far exists. **** NOT EX LIB **** R1. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Good Stock number: 010166.
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Imprint: London, Secker and Warburg, 1960 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Silver title on blue boards, spine faded, a Boots label to front but generally clean and unmarked. Internally darkened endpapers and some foxing to closed edges else clean, tight and unmarked. A story of a passenger ship before the Second World War, it's interesting passengers and it's sinking later by a German submarine. A1C. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 011233.
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Imprint: London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1979 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Very Good+ unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket. Joe Keeton is a hypnotist who over 25 years has conducted 8,000 regressions and has lectured on ESP and who does not charge for regressions. The book covers the phenomenon and experience of regression with 7 subjects who relived history, one regressing back to her life as Nell Gwynn. INCLUDES two 33 1/3 rpm records of men and women experiencing the past and introduction by the author (unscratched) **** NOT BOOK CLUB **** **** NOT EX LIB **** 172. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 000661. ISBN: 0283985488
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Imprint: London, Longmans, Green, 1948 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gold title on red cloth boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally there is light foxing to endpapers and to closed edges else a clean, tight and unmarked copy. Dustjacket is age darkened and is not price clipped. xi + 197 pages. The book examines the Lord's Prayer in three main aspects of its relation to the Bible. The author takes first the evidence for supposing that Christ, in teaching the disciples the Prayer - so far as possible - to a share in his own prayer-life. Secondly, he relates the Prayer to the teaching of Christ, explaining the precise meaning which the disciples came to attach to its words and phrases. Thirdly, he discusses the important question of how far the Lord's Prayer affected the minds and character of the disciples and the Primitive Church, and how far it contributed to their understanding of the Gospel. R1. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 010153.
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Imprint: London, Chatto and Windus, 1986 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Near Fine unmarked copy apart from a small mark to front board and usual age toning o page edges with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xi + 388 pages. 42 illustrations. Few families have had more colourful or more pervasive an influence on the arts than the Lamberts - or led more blighted, self-destructive lives. George Lambert, the son of a Baltimore railway engineer, was born in St. Petersburg, grew up in the outback, served as a war artist in Palestine and Gallipoli, and established himself as Australia's lesding painter. Immortalised by Anthony Powell in 'A Dance to the Music of Time'. His son Constant was the first English composer to be commissioned by Diaghilev, a founder of the Sadler's Wells Ballet, a champon of jazz, the quintessential Fitzrovian and Edith Sitwell's collaborator on 'Facade'. Kit Lambert, the 'Svengali of rock and roll', managed The Who, started Britain's first successful independent record label, ruined his life with heroin and, it was rumoured, was eventually murdered. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.84 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 21. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 009925. ISBN: 0701127317
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Imprint: London, Chatto and Windus, 1986 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Near Fine unmarked copy apart from usual age toning o page edges with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xi + 388 pages. 42 illustrations. Few families have had more colourful or more pervasive an influence on the arts than the Lamberts - or led more blighted, self-destructive lives. George Lambert, the son of a Baltimore railway engineer, was born in St. Petersburg, grew up in the outback, served as a war artist in Palestine and Gallipoli, and established himself as Australia's lesding painter. Immortalised by Anthony Powell in 'A Dance to the Music of Time'. His son Constant was the first English composer to be commissioned by Diaghilev, a founder of the Sadler's Wells Ballet, a champon of jazz, the quintessential Fitzrovian and Edith Sitwell's collaborator on 'Facade'. Kit Lambert, the 'Svengali of rock and roll', managed The Who, started Britain's first successful independent record label, ruined his life with heroin and, it was rumoured, was eventually murdered. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.84 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 21. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 010418. ISBN: 0701127317
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Imprint: London, George Routledge and Sons, 1889 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. COMPLETE SET OF THREE VOLUMES. Gilt titles on brown cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is age toning to endpapers and margins else unmarked. Slight cracking to the rear hinge of Vol. I. Author's copyright edition. A Very Good+ set. Vol. I - xv + 485 pages, Vol. II - xi + 527 pages, Vol. III - viii + 518 pages. John Lothrop Motley (1814-1877) was an American author, diplomat and historian. This large work was first published in 1856. D4B. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 011461.
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Imprint: London, Adam and Charles Black, 1966 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a small name to front endpaper) with VG dustjacket. Uniform with Black's New Testament Commentaries series. xii + 252 pages. This companion or introductory volume in the series looks at the New Testament in the light thrown on the earliest days of the Christian Church by the large body of research in recent years on the first period of Christianity and the immediately preceding times. Professor Moule provides an up-to-date, comprehensive volume of the Church from which our New Testament came. **** NOT EX LIB **** R1. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 008969.
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Imprint: Nice, Bay Vista, 1996 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Livre Très Bon 55 pages. Très joli livre illustre de nombreuses photos de Francois Mouriès. Textes Txomin Laxalt. 3. Book Condition: Très Bon. Binding: Couverture Souple. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 009277. ISBN: 2951072104
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Imprint: London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from age toning to endpapers) in green cloth boards with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. ix + 230 pages + 14 page list of books in the International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction series. Newspaper cutting of the book review in the 'New Society' loosely included. Contributions to the theory of organisations have come from many sides: psychology, social psychology, sociology, political science, economics, and business administration. The output of written work is so vast that a newcomer will experience difficulty in making sense of the points of view expressed in organisational writings. The present study will help students orient themselves in relation to this literature. Theorists discussed include Marx, Weber and Michels. **** NOT EX LIB **** A1B. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 008546. ISBN: 071003492X
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Imprint: London, Macdonald, 1988 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy which has usual age darkening to page edges with dustjacket which is not price clipped. First UK edition. Map of Parc National Des Volcans, Rwanda to front endpaper and schematic of Karisoke Research Center to rear endpaper. 31 illustrations. Deep in the mist shrouded Virunga volcano country of Central Africa live some of the rarest, most intriguing animals on earth: the mountain gorillas. Handpicked by the eminent anthropologist Louis Leakey to head a long term study of the primates, Dian Fossey came to Africa in 1966 in search of the great, dark, luminous-eyed apes, and gained their trust, becoming their champion. She was sadly murdered in 1985, and the author has created a full portrait of the passionate naturalist based on Fossey's correspondence, intimate journals and interviews. **** NOT EX LIB **** 21. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 007796. ISBN: 035617106X
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