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Imprint: London, Robert Hale, 1979 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy which has a bump to one lower corner tip else very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket, by Biro, is also near Fine. The third volume in the Plantagenet Saga. Henry II was dead and his son Richard had come to the throne. He had vowed to win back Jerusalem for the Christian world and was ready to place his kingdom in jeopardy to fulfil that vow even though his treacherous brother John was casting covetous eyes on his crown. Text decorations by B.S. Biro. **** NOT EX LIB **** 20. Illustr.: Biro, B.S.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 007038. ISBN: 0709152833
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Imprint: London, Harper Collins, 2009 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy in an As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 487 pages. 150 years ago Britain was engaged in a war unpopular at home..... Thomas Kitson arrives at the battlefields of the Crimea as the London Courier's man on the ground. It is a dangerous place, full of the worst horrors of war; men are starving, disease is rife, supplies are scarce and, as the armies assemble for bloody conflict, the last thing the commanding officers want is a newspaperman getting in the way, asking difficult questions. But Kitson is determined to make his mark. Under the dubious tutelage of his flamboyant senior colleague Cracknell, and assisted by a young, idealistic illustrator, he sets about exposing the incompetence and corruption of those in control of the campaign. Then all three men are witness to an act of brutal treachery, and their atempts to redress injustice fall on deaf ears. Kitson returns to England, desperate to forget the atrocities of the Crimea and, fleeing to Manchester, he takes up the only position on offer, becoming a 'street philosopher', reporting on local news. But the past is catching up with him.... A1C. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: As New Stock number: 011008. ISBN: 9780007272433
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Imprint: London, The Religious Tract Society 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Black and gold titles and decoration with pictorial to front on green cloth boards which are clean and unmarked but with a crease to back which has affected the spine. Internally clean and unmarked. Fourth impression undated but decorative coloured prize label is dated 1919. First published in 1898. The author Kate Shirley Plant was a Victorian children's author and in this volume there are 11 short stories. SCARCE C3E. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 003592.
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Imprint: New York, W.W. Norton, 1984 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ clean, tight copy which has a touch of light foxing to top edge and is unmarked apart from some writing below the last page of index (not affecting the text) with dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, first printing. xiii + 523 pages. 104 illustrations. Professor Plantinga, Yale University Chairman of the Music Department, explores the origins of Romanticism, leading the reader through the maze of genres and geniuses that proliferated during the turbulent 19th century. Instrumental music, vocal music, and music drama are brilliantly described in their many national guises. Scattered throughout the book are detailed analyses of 20 seminal works, described in far greater detail than usual in a historical study. Illustrations and music abound, and an extraordinary bibliography of English language works, perhaps the most comprehensive available on all aspects of music in the Romantic era, is included. **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.93 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** **** NOT EX LIB **** 12. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 008036. ISBN: 0393951960
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Imprint: Michigan, Zondervan Publishing House, 2002 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. 237 pages. With a deft touch and down to earth humor the author offers a heartfelt response to the life and ministry of Jesus as presented in the Gospel of Mark. A unique perspective. R1. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 001468. ISBN: 0007130430
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Imprint: London, Chancellor Press, 1995 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine copy in pictorial laminated boards as dustjacket but with a prize bookplate to front endpaper. Dustjacket is Fine. xiv + 210 pages. 182 illustrations. Ina text closely interlinked with copious photographs and plans, Professor Platt examunes the functions of the castle in England and Wales on a chronological basis, as they overlapped or succeeded one another. 24. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 007719. ISBN: 1851529020
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Imprint: Newton Abbot, David and Charles, 1979 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine clean, tight and unmarked copy (Fine apart from a very thin line of fading to top of spine) with VG+ dustjacket which is priceclipped. This is the creator of 'Desert Island Discs' personal compilation of the best desert island literature; it is an entertaining account of the desert island in fact and fiction. Illustrated throughout. **** NOT EX LIB **** C3C. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 007675. ISBN: 0715374680
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Imprint: London, Apple Press, 1997 Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped (Would be Fine apart from bumping to lower corner tips). A large format volume lavishly colour illustrated. The ancient art of papermaking, begun in China in AD 105, is still thriving, and professional papermakers are creating objects of great beauty, complexity and uniqueness, and it is surprisingly simple to make your own paper using equipment that is for the most part ready to hand in the home. Producing your first sheet of paper is an unforgettable experience, and from there you can explore all the texture and variety that papermaking has to offer. Paper pulp is made from a astonishingly wide range of plants such as nettle, pampas grass and yucca, even fruit and vegetables such as onions, bananas and corn, and once the pulp has been made you can add other ingredients : embed it with feathers, petals, spices; emboss it with leaves or string - the possibilities are endless. **** NOT EX LIB **** **** A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.00 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** 25. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 007207. ISBN: 1850767831
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Imprint: London, Harrap, 1979 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Illustrated boards have minor marks but no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. 328 pages. 12 illustrations in colour, 17 line drawings and illustrated endpapers by Arthur Rackham. A large format volume. 25 tales from the master of hooror. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF OVER 1 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 21. Illustr.: Rackham, Arthur. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 011214. ISBN: 0245529535
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Imprint: New York, Henry Holt, 1995 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. A novel of Angie, who dreams of owning Lila, the white Arabian she's been riding for three years at Smitty's Good Luck Ranch, then thanks to an inheritance she has the chance to realise her dreams but must act fast, as the farrier's daughter, Sage also has her eye on the horse. A seamlessly woven tale of girls and horses and family relationships. C3D. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 003619. ISBN: 0805034927
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Imprint: London, Harvill Secker, 2007 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped.x + 323 pages. Map endpapers. Translated from the Russian by Arch Tait. Foreword by Jon Snow. A Russian Diary is the book that Anna Politkovskaya had recently completed when she was murdered in a contract killing in Moscow. Covering the period from the Russian parliamentary elections of December 2003 to the tragic aftermath of the Beslan school siege in late 2005, it is an unflinching record of the plight of millions of Russians and a pitiless report on the cynicism and corruption of Vladimir Putin's presidency. She interviews people whose lives have been devastated by Putin's policies, meets traumatised and dangerous veterans of the Chechen wars and a notorious Chechen warlord in his heavily fortified lair. A devastating portrait of contemporary Russia. D4D. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 008243. ISBN: 9781846551024
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Imprint: Oxford, W.H. Freeman, 1979 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG+ complete dustjacket. Professor Polkinghorne was elected to the Chair of Mathematical Physics in the University of Cambrifge in 1968 and has been engaged for 25 years on research into the theory of elementary particle physics, especially with the quark parton model. The book unfolds a tale which starts with the simple early days of the 1930's, through the tide of discovery which flowed from the giant machines constructed for accelerating particles, to the concern with the quark structure of matter. A fascinating account written for the layman as well as those with a specific scientific interest. Illustrated with photographs and diagrams. **** NOT EX LIB **** 1. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 005155. ISBN: 071671177X
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Imprint: London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1964 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG price clipped dustjacket. An investigation into the state of religion in Russia, arising out of the incident in which 32 Siberian Christians sought refuge in the American Embassy in Moscow in January 1963, in an unsuccessful attempt to escape Soviet persecution. The author travelled to Russia to investigate the and discovered it was symptomatic of a far wider suffering. R1. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 003348.
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Imprint: London, Fireside Press / W. Foulsham, 1955 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt titles on green cloth boards which have fading to spine, front lower edge and back top edge and a bump to lower front corner but no wear. Internally there is foxing to endpapers, closed edges and sporadically to some pages else clean, tight and unmarked. xix + 234 pages. Portrait frontispiece. A detailed analysis of Pope Pius XII and an anthology of the important Papal documents which present him as a great Pope and considers his many achievements. R4. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 007097.
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Imprint: London, Robert Hale, 1965 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Silver title on brown boards which have three small minor marks to front else clean and unmarked. Internally there is foxing to some early pages and to closed edges and to the margins of one page (where the dustjacket was tucked in) else clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has wear and foxing and fading to spine. Translated and arranged by Monsignor John G. Clancy. The pages of this significant volume by Pope Paul VI are culled from the writings, addresses, and letters of a lifetime, and present the wide-ranging and subtle preoccupations of the man. With profound insight, his words reveal the forces that assist or distract him in his life's mission. The great themes of modern life and of contemporary religious questing, the great preoccupations of the Catholic Church, are all stated here. R1. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Good Stock number: 007092.
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Imprint: London, Duncan Baird, 1999 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy in pictorial laminated boards with near Fine dustjacket as boards. A large format volume of 432 pages. Over 420 colour photographs and maps. The book distils the essence of the great work in beautifully illustrated commentaries on the major stories, places, characters and events in the Bible. In addition, the book provides an informative and detailed treatment of the life of Jesus, his teachings, his importance in history, and the early years of the Church. Professor Porter's authoritative and engaging essays focus on biblical narratives to illuminate their meanings and context. The substantial introduction brings together the latest scholarship on how the Bible was written, compiled and handed down from generation to generation, and discusses its far-reaching influence throughout history. With deft and profound scholarship, he looks at the biblical and other evidence to disentangle many of the mysteries and confusions surrounding the life of the historical Jesus. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 2.1 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 15. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 010055. ISBN: 9781904292890
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Imprint: Somerset, Haynes, 1990 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy in pictorial laminated covers with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format volume of 308 pages. Over 900 illustrations. When the Triumph Herald, Spitfire and Painstaking work with the project vehicles produce a truly comprehensive guide. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY BOOK OF 1.1 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST OUTSIDE THE UK 20. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 010913. ISBN: 0854295836
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Imprint: London, Hamish Hamilton, 1990 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good copy which has a small indentation to lower front board and a name and date to front endpaper else unmarked.. Dustjcket has fading to spine, a little wear to top edges and is not price-clipped. 303 pages. FIRST UK EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Translated frome the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. A marvellous Latin-American novel about the discovery of the Americas, which won the prestigious Romulo Gallegos Prize for the best novel written in Spanish over the previous five years. Set in Fifteenth Century Spain and the New World and focuses on the conquest of Latin-America and the abuse of its inhabitants by the Spanish in subsequent centuries. D4E. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 011460. ISBN: 0241129346
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Imprint: London, Victor Gollancz, 1958 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First UK edition. Gilt title on red boards. Very slightly faded spine, with just a few indentations to the front board. Internally there is handwritten to front pastedown 'Officers Mess Library, RAF Waterbeach' else clean, tight and unmarked. Val discovers a dishevelled body on the steps of the church with Hen a young girl. On the steps below they stumble on a cane which had been used to shatter the man's larynx. Jean Catherine Potts, an American author (1910-1999) was a celebrated detective fiction/crime mystery writer. B2B. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 011229.
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Imprint: London, Michael Joseph, 1974 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 191 pages. Margaret Powell's first visit to Europe was a cut-price package tour with Albert when they won 50 pounds on the football pools. Now she is a successful author, the world her oyster, and it seemed the right time to have a look at the Common Market. Albert decided to stay at home, but Toby and Michael (her escorts from Margaret Powell in America) took it in turns to try and keep up with her dynamic modern version of the Grand Tour. All over Europe Margaret made friends, spoke her mind and got others to speak theirs. 300. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 010038. ISBN: 0718113187
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Imprint: London, Hutchinson, 1987 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. First UK edition. x + 624 pages. 30 illustrations. As head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972, J. Edgar Hoover created a unique role for himself in American life - one that had never existed before, one that wil probably never exist again. Who was this man who engineered the notorious Palmer Raids at the age of 24; whose enemies ranged from John Dillinger to Martin Luther King; who reviled homosexuality, yet was often accused of it and kept files on his accusers; who was a law-and-order hero to one generation and a police-state villain to the next? Drawing on previously unknown personal documents, an exhaustive study of FBI files, and the Presidential papers of nine administrations, Powers presents a full-blooded portrait of the man behind the G-Man image, finding a personality more complex than Hoover's critics or defenders have brought to light. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.18 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 14. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 009935. ISBN: 0091725984
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Imprint: London, Booth-Clibborn, 1995 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy. A large format volume of 207 pages. The Graphic Edge continues the exploration of experimantal graphic design initiated by the ground-breaking survey 'Typography Now: The Next Wave' and forms an essential companion to that volume. It shows new work from the international cutting edge which is having a profound impact on the way forward-looking designers think about graphic design. The approaches shown, in more than 250 colour images, range from the cool and considered, to the raw and brutal; from densely layered constructions made fluid and expressive by the new digital tools, to an accessible conceptualism inspired by media artists investigating language and type. What links these designers is their search for a graphic language appropriate to changing times and their refusal to compromise or stand still. An essay by Rick Poynor, founding editor of Eye, the international review of graphic design, highlights essential themes and influences on the new work and discusses the ideas and approaches of key designers. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.85 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 5. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 009408. ISBN: 1873968698
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Imprint: London, Hutchinson, 1978 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A clean and unmarked copy apart from some light foxing to fore edge and to the margins of some pages with dustjacket which is not price clipped. Decorations by Douglas Hall. The second volume of the author's reminiscences from 1934 to 1963. Amusingly written it presents an inside view of hospital life from the recent past. **** NOT EX LIB **** 2. Illustr.: Hall, Douglas. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 008118. ISBN: 009133800X
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Imprint: New York, Grand Central, 2018 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a very small dent to lower front corner tip) with near Fine dustjacket with similar very small dent. First Edition, First Printing. 311 pages. Effective Engineering Solutions has been inexplicably shut down, and the head of the company, Eli Glinn, has all but vanished. Fresh off a diagnosis that gives him only months to live. Gideon Crew is contacted by one of his coworkers at EES, Manuel Garza, who tells him the two have mere hours to collect their belongings before the office closes forever. After years of dedicated service and several high-risk missions, theirs seems like the most ignoble of terminations - until Gideon and Garza happen upon an incredible discoery. After centuries of silence, a code-breaking machine at EES has cracked the long-awaited translation of a centuries-old stone tablet, the Phaistos Disk, that dates back to an otherwise completely unknown, ancient civilization. 14. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 010994. ISBN: 9781455525829
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Imprint: London, Doubleday, 2002 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xii + 532 pages. Diagram of the Lusitania endpapers. 76 photographs and numerous illustrations in the text. On 7 May 1915, the Lusitania, a passenger ship crossing the Atlantic sank with the loss of 1,200 lives - on board were some world famous figures including the multimillionaire Alfred Vanderbilt - she had been torpedoed by a German U-Boat. The book is the compelling story of its sinking, and the first book to look at the events in their full historical context. Using first hand accounts of the tragedy, the author brings the characters to life, recreating the splendour of the Cunard luxury liner as she set sail from New York and the horror of her final moments. Using British, American and German research, Diana Preston answers many of the unsolved, controversial questions surrounding the Lusitania: why didn't Cunard listen to warnings that the ship would be a target of the Germans? Was the ship sacrificed to bring the Americans into the war? What was really in the Lusitania's hold? Was the verdict of wilful murder, from the inquest held the day after the sinking, justified? Did the Kaiser's decision to cease unrestricted U-boat warfare in response to international outrage change the outcome of the First World War? **** NOT EX LIB **** **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.03 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** 12. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 008242. ISBN: 0385601735
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Imprint: London, George Routledge, 1886 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Red cloth spine with gilt and black title block and marbled red paper boards. Number 12 in Routledge's Pocket Library series. Preface by D. C. Moylan dated London, June 4, 1841and Life of the Author, 319 pages. Light wear to spine head and tail and extremities of boards, lacking front endpaper (although not Ex Lib copy). Internally very light foxing to preliminaries else clean and unmarked. **** SCARCE EARLY POCKET BOOK EDITION **** 11. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 000789.
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Imprint: London, Macmillan, 1993 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xiv + 192 pages. Foreword by David Suchet. The author has gathered together compelling evidence from people of all ages and experience who are convinced that they have benefited from the extraordinary intervention of angels in their lives. These personal accounts offer astonishingly consistent images of robust, physically strong beings, shimmering with light, who, after rendering assistance, usually disappear from sight very abruptly. R2. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 010312. ISBN: 0333587103
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Imprint: Yeovil, Somerset, Haynes, 2018 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. An As New unmarked copy. A large format volume of 160 pages fully illustrated with colour and black and white photographs and diagrams. More than just an aroplane, the Spitfire is an icon. More than 22,000 were built and the youngest survivor, a Seafire variant, first flew in 1947. Not only a workshop manual, it is crammed full of illuminating detail and history.. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Hard Cover Stock number: 011536. ISBN: 9781844254620
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Imprint: London, Collins, 1983 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A ery Good uninscribed copy with a touch of dust marking to top edge. Dustjacket is price clipped. The well known BBC correspondent, who has had many overseas assignments, retired in 1982, and this book is based on the thirteen television programmes in which he presents his essays on the tug of war between consience and circumstances in several fields of human activity. **** NOT EX LIB **** B2E. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 002673. ISBN: 0002155818
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Imprint: London, Home and Van Thal, 1945 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gilt title on brown cloth boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked with no previous owner inscriptions. A near Fine to Fine copy. Dustjacket has minor marks and a very small closed tear to lower front and is not price clipped. 32 pages. Second impression December 1945 (first was also 1945). In this pamphlet Priestley shared the common sentiment that Britain was obliged to be rebuilt after the war along socialist lines. 51. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 009269.
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Imprint: London, Sphere, 1971 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ unmarked copy. A lavishly illustrated work containing 44 colour plates. A history of the Prince Regent and his extraordinary lifestyle of excesses, extravagances of behaviou and personality, which with a novelist's insight, Priestley brings this ridiculous but engaging character to life. 13. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 004810.
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Imprint: London, Bloomsbury, 2005 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Near Fine unmarked copy which has a few marks to top edge with Fine dustjacket which is not price-clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 1721. George I is on the throne and Britain is just emerging as the world's leading commercial power. Handsome young Adam Hanaway arrives in Lisbon, where his uncle is a merchant, hoping to restore the family fortune, devastated the previous year by his father's speculations on the South Sea Bubble. But almost nothing turns out as Adam planned. His family's welcome is cool and his rise to the top thwarted by his uncle's treacherous head clerk Bartolomeu Gomes. Nor is Adam, with his gaudy clothes and his young-man swagger, an immediate success with his uncle's fellow merchants. Expelled from his uncle's firm, Adam must clear his name, win his love, and make his fortune. D4D. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 011456. ISBN: 9780747578765
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Imprint: London, Souvenir Press, 1978 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. xii + 272 pages Organised in three sections :- 1870-1925, 1930-1950 and 1951 - Today and Tomorrow. 19 short stories illustrated with contemporary line drawings and an interesting bibliography of stories and collections dealing with trains, train travel and travellers and train personnel. A rich anthology for railway enthusiasts and suspense addicts. Authors includeCharles Dickens, Mark Twain, Alfred Noyes, August Derleth, Ellery Queen, Robert Bloch, Georges Simenon. C3B. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 002530. ISBN: 0285623559
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Imprint: London, Mitchell Beazley, 1996 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First Softback edition. A Fine unmarked copy. The acclaimed floral designer is well known for her innovative designs and in this book creates an exciting new aesthetic for flowers, breaking the mould of conventional flower arranging with her dramatic use of raw materials. Stunningly photographed by Kevin Summers, it is a rich source of fresh and stylish ideas and a highly practical guide to create hundreds of artistic arrangements for every occasion. 3. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 003281. ISBN: 1857328183
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Imprint: Beijing, Foreign Languages Press, 1989 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with gold titles on red boards with Fine dustjacket. Silk page marker bound in. Translated from the Chinese by W.J.F. Jenner. Celebrated in Bertolucci's 'The Last Emperor', this is the last Chinese Emperor's autobiography from the last decadent days of the Ching court to his imprisonment by the Chinese People's Government and final release as an ordinary citizen. 57 illustrations, mostly photographic. A moving account and a detailed history of the period. L. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 003377. ISBN: 0835111598
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Imprint: London, Oxford University Press, 1924 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on blue cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is age darkening and light foxing to endpapers else clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket has age darkening and light wear to edges. Fore and lower edges uncut. Second impression revised. xv1 and 291 pages. Eight lectures comprising : The Counter-Reformation and the Doctrine of Grace; Religion in Britain from 1550 to 1689; Continental Protestantism from 1520 to 1700; The Roman Catholic Church from 1700 to 1854; Religion in Great Britain and America from1689 to 1815; Aspects of Lutheranism and Calvinism since 1700; The Eastern Orthodox Church; Aspects of Christian Thought since 1815. An excellent digest of a vast subject. R1. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 006185.
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Imprint: London, Anvil Press Poetry, 2002 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy. 256 pages. Edited by Peter Jay. Preface by Marina Walker. Sally Purcell (1944-1998) was a poet and translator who continued to live and work in Oxford after studying mediaeval and Modern French. This definitive edition contains all her published work and includes over 70 uncollected poems, often drawing on folklore and mediaeval sources. 50. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 008518. ISBN: 0856463388
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Imprint: Bath, Parragon, 1999 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy in pictorial laminated boards as dustjacket. Dustjacket is VG+. This lavishly illustrated book shows both the beginner and the more seasoned angler exactly how to master the skills and disciplines, while extra fact boxes are crammed with top tips and advice on how best to tackle up for individual species. A1A. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 007104. ISBN: 0752530887
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Imprint: London, The Bodley Head, 1988 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Gold title on green boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a little age toning to the page edges else very clean and unmarked. Dustjacket has a very small closed tear to front top corner and is price clipped. A large format volume of 168 pages. 104 coloured photographs by Kit Houghton. Nobody knows how many horses and ponies there are in Britain. They are everywhere, pulling ploughs or coaches, racing, jumping, performing, hunting, or just existing quietly in a field for the delight and comfort of their owners. The authors asked each of their subjects to choose one horse or pony, the best and dearest one, to talk about. Their text acompanied by Kit Houghton's photographs, gives a fascinating picture of the diversity and joy of horsemanship and of the relationships that grow between people and horses. Note: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.992 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 2. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 008695. ISBN: 0370311752
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Imprint: Geneva, Edito-Service 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title and ornate gold decoration on red leatherette boards. A Very Good + unmarked copy. Yellow page marker bound in. Uniform with The Greatest Masterpieces of Russian Literature Series. Translated by Natalie Duddington. With an introduction by Natalie Duddington. Original illustrations by Marek Rudnicki. Not dated but circa late 1960's / early 1970's. B2C. Illustr.: Marek Rudnicki. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 002742.
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Imprint: Enfield, Middlesex, Guinness Superlatives, 1980 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. The eighteenth title in the Guinness Facts and Feats series which details the superlatives of the subject with these facts interspersed with a wealth of fascinating information, reaching far beyond the scope of many reference works. It presents a most comprehensive guide, a worldwide gazetteer of summits divided into countries and ranges and appendices including a calendar of mountain events, lists of organisations and periodicals and comprehensive index. Copiously illustrated with many maps, line diagrams and colour and black and white photographs. 11. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 003571. ISBN: 0900424494
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Imprint: London, Johan H. Quanjer, 1964 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. Gilt title to spine on red boards. Front board has a thin white line (half inch long) some ink underlining not affecting the text nor detracting from the book's appeal, else clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is an INSCRIPTION BY AUTHOR dated March 1964 in English and Dutch to front endpaper and also the blind embossed private library stamp of JOHN R. SCHLESINGER ( ? Film Director ). Red endpapers. 89 pages. The Dutch author (1934-2001) was a new age philosopher and mystic who drew comparison with his ideas and that of Jesus, coined the term "Pneumatocracy" - the rule of the spirit in government which combines pollitics with spirituality, was influenced by Hermes Trismegistus and others and the Theosophists. After travelling to Canada and America, where he refined his philosophy, he moved to London where he became president of the UFO Society and was supported by his followers. **** A UNIQUE COPY **** **** NOT EX LIB **** A1C. Privately Printed. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 002236.
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Imprint: London, Victor Gollancz, 1951 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First UK edition. Black title on red cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is light foxing to endpapers and dust marked top edge else clean and unmarked. A novel by the American detective story writer (pseudonym of Frederic Dannay and his cousin Manfred B. Lee). The beautiful young Laurel Hill asks Ellery Queen to investigate a series of unusual anonymous gifts that have been received by her father, Leander Hill, half of Hill and Priam, Wholesale Jewellers. Roger Priam is Leander's partner, who uses a wheelchair. The latest gift, a dead dog with a mysterious note in a silver casket around its neck, has caused Leander to have a heart attack and die. Now Roger Priam (and his sultry wife Delia, who attracts Ellery like a carnivorous plant) has started to receive unusual anonymous gifts as well. The mysterious gifts include some poisoned tuna fish salad, a green alligator wallet, a burned book and a bundle of worthless stocks and bonds, all accompanied by cryptic and ominous notes, and it seems as though they date back to a mysterious and possibly violent incident in the past of both Hill and Priam that gets them started in the wholesale jewelry business. Ellery Queen works out the significance of the series of gifts and the link that connects the notes and arranges a dramatic surprise that traps the criminal. C3D. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Cloth. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 002015.
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Imprint: London, B. T. Batsford, 1926 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black titles on green cloth boards with pictorial of caveman to front. Boards are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a neat contemporary name and date to front endpaper else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. Dustjacket has a small chip to spine head and is not price clipped. Second edition revised. Uniform with the Everyday Life Series. Coloured frontispiece of Magdalenian cave painting and 72 illustrations by the authors. Fold out geological chart. A marvellous study of prehistoric life which is primarily aimed at the young but is suitable for adults. *** NOT EX LIB *** B2C. Illustr.: Quennell, Marjorie and C.H.B.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 003857.
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Imprint: London, James and James, 1990 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy (apart from a small inscription written on the small erratum slip) with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 172 pages on glossy paper with 14 colour plates. The founder of Charterhouse was a successful entrepreneur who had flourished in the open and competitive society of Tudor England. Such robustness has characterised the school from its birth in 1611 - the year Thomas Sutton established a foundation for 40 scholars and 80 brethren - and its emergence as one of Britain's leading public schools. This account of the growth, the achievements, and the vicissitudes, of Charterhouse draws on thorough research. D4B. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 010951. ISBN: 0907383203
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Imprint: London, Nisbet and Co, 1947 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on green cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with a touch of wear to spine head and tail and corner tips. Internally there is a small name to front pastedown and a small ink 'M3' to rear endpaper else very clean, tight and unmarked. x + 352 pages. Dustjacket has age darkening to spine and a repaired tear. First published in 1938. The main affirmations of the Christian Creed are examined by Professor Quick with a view to showing both how they originated from the revelation of which the Bible is the record, and what is the permanent significance which they express to an age so different as our own from that in which the New Testament was written. **** NOT EX LIB **** R1. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Good Stock number: 007829.
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Imprint: New York, Bantam, 2002 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING June 2002. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a small corner crease to one page) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Amanda Quick is the pseudonym of Jayne Ann Krentz and in this novel of mystery and romance, lovers and partners in crime investigators, Lavinia Lake and Tobias March, continue their new found relationship with a delicius mix of risky business, rising passion and murder. C3D. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 010834. ISBN: 0553802003
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Imprint: New York, Bantam, 2003 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING May 2003. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A thrilling venture into romance and mystery by the American author, whose real name is Jayne Ann Krentz, where an invitation to a country house party at Beaumont Castle provides a perfect solution to Tobias and Lavinia's most exasperating challenge, how to escape the chaos of London for a remote, relaxing and romantic retreat. Their plans are foiled when the weekend is interrupted by the appearance of a woman from Tobias's past, Aspasia Gray, hauntingly beautiful, her long deceased fiance, was a friend of Tobias as well as being an eccentric assassin. The mysterious bond between Tobias and Aspasia makes Lavinia uncomfortable, especially when she finds her in Tobias's bedchamber and events take a turn for the worse when someone appears to be imitating the dead fiance's killing methods. C3D. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 010835. ISBN: 0553802712
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Imprint: New York, Bantam, 2001 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING April 2001. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Amanda Quick is the pseudonym of Jayne Ann Krentz and in this tantalising novel of an enterprising woman who allies herself with a mysterious spy, where from the moment he burst into her antiquities shop in Rome, Lavinia Lake knew the stranger was nothing but trouble and he claimed he was in pursuit of a killer and swore he was only trying to save her. Yet no matter what he claimed, Lavinia was convinced he was bent instead on destroying her and when the self-described spy hustled her and her niece out of the shop and to England, Lavinia hoped that she would find a way to pay him back in full, not imagining the shocking circumstances under which they would meet again. C3D. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 010836. ISBN: 0553801880
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Imprint: London, Nisbet and Co, 1945 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Silver title on blue cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with just a touch of wear to spine tail. Internally there is a light blue stain to five later pages not obscuring the text else very clean, tight and unmarked. Prefatory memoir of Oliver Chase Quick by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Comprises: The Origin of Evil; The Christian Doctrine of Man; The Old Testament Preparation for the Atonement; The Fulfilment in the New Testament; From the Fathers to the Middle Ages; From the Reformers to the Liberal Protestants; The Christian Meaning of 'Sacrifice'; Christian Eschatology. R5. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 010777.
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