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Imprint: London, Staples Press, 1951 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gold title on red cloth boards which have a small mark to spine, gentle bumping to corner tips and no wear. Internally there is light foxing to closed edges else clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has a small loss to spine centre, wear to edges, some tape repairs and marks to back and is not price clipped. Translated by E.W. Dickes and Francois Duchene. Madeleine Robert like so many of the post-war generation is faced with the task of building her life anew - a few clothes, the memory of the man she loved, her own scarred hands are her pathetic legacy; but with blind courage she struggles against overwhelming odds to recapture the happiness she once knew. In a world of sordid reality, of hectic gaiety, of black marketeers and ubiquitous American soldiery, Madeleine's story unfolds. B2B. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Good Stock number: 007608.
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Imprint: Paris, Librairie De Firmin-Didot, 1876 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Titre de l'or sur la couverture noir. Petit nom a l'avant page de garde.432 pages. Portrait frontispice. Table: Avant-propos - Dessein général de cet ouvrage; Les Époques; La Suite de la Religion; Les Empires. Très Bon Etat. 1. Book Condition: Très Bon. Binding: Couverture Rigide. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 008490.
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Imprint: London, Maclehose Press, 2018 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price-clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 296 pages. Translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch. Louise Boni, maverick chief inspector with the Black Forest crime squad, is struggling with her demons. Divorced at forty-two, she is haunted by the shadows of the past. Dreading yet another a dreary winter weekend alone, she receives a call from the departmental chief which signals the strangest assignment of her career - to trail a Japanese monk wandering through the snowy wasteland to the east of Freiburg, dressed only in sandals and a cowl. She sets off reluctantly, and by the time she catches up with him, she discovers that he is injured, and fearfully fleeing some unknown evil.. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 011485. ISBN: 9780857057662
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Imprint: London, Chapman Hall, 1926 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Translated by Eric Sutton with an introduction by Hugh Walpole. Limited edition of 1000 copies for England and America of which this is number 48. 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 to front pastedown. Comprises Introduction; The Queen of Golconda; Ah! If Only; The Dervish. 'Aline, Reine de Golconde' was first published in Paris in 1761, 'Ah! si...' and 'La Derviche' were published in 1810, but belong, as does their author, to the 18th century. Bound and printed at the Curwen Press. B2E. Book Condition: Very Good TEG. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 000098.
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Imprint: Paris, Editions Filipacchi, 1991 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. D'Isabelle Adjani à Rita Hayworth et de Jean-Paul Belmondo à Marlon Brando. 100 Stars irradient en pleine page et en pleine lumière - super-novas, californiennes, étoiles françaises, idoles latines ou scandinaves, sex-symbols, dieux et déesses d'un Olympe en trompe-l'oeil. Des photographes captent leur image. Des écrivains leur déclarent leur flamme: François Nourissier, Jean d'Ormesson, Régis Debray, Philippe Sollers, Patrick Grainville, Claude Mauriac, Didier Decoin, Patrick Modiano, Béatrix Beck, Daniel Boilanger. Le spectacle va commencer. UN GRAND LIVRE LOURD: EXTRA COÛT D'EXPÉDITION REQUIS A1F. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 010065. ISBN: 2850183636
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Imprint: Paris, Éditions Tardy, 1960 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Livres tres bon. 127 pages. Table Génerale: Préface; Abréviations; Les Thèmes Spirituels Classés par Mots; Guide de Pèlerin a Travers le Sanctoral Romain; Tables Synthétiques - Les Mots Distribués selon le Catéchisme National, Les Mots Distribués Selon L'Année Liturgique, Les Mots Distribués Selon les Thèmes Bibliques, Les Mots en Ordre Alphabétique. R10. Book Condition: Tres Bon. Binding: Couverture Souple. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 007748.
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Imprint: London, Rider, 1998 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with usual slight age darkening to page edges and a small indentation to top edge with near Fine dustjacket. The story of one of the century's greatest spiritual thinkers, the Benedictine monk, Bede Griffiths. At Oxford in the 1920's he became a close friend of C.S. Lewis and knew other members of the 'Inklings' group, was tormented, as a young man, by intense spiritual suffering in the search for his true path in life, becoming a monk in England and Scotland. In 1955 he went to India, where he built up a thriving spiritual community at Shantivanam in Tamil Nadu. Regarded by many as a prophet, a sage, a mystic, even a saint, he both loved the Church and was deeply critical of it, and was open to all paths by which people seek God, whether through the universal tradition known as the 'perennial philosophy', the Buddhist teaching of Dzogehen or esoteric practices such as the Tarot. His interests also encompassed New Age movements. **** NOT EX LIB **** R1. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 006137. ISBN: 0712674292
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Imprint: London, Robert Hale, 1938 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Red cloth boards have age darkening to spine, a little wear to spine head and tail and gentle bumping to lower corner tips. Internally there is age toning to closed edges else very clean, tight and unmarked. 320 pages. 12 illustrations including an unpublished photograph of Vaslaw Fomitch Nijinsky taken in his practice costume at Krasnoe Selo immediately after his graduation from the Imperial Russian Ballet School in 1908. Third impression April 1938 ( first was May 1937). Anatole Bourman entered the Russian Imperial Ballet School at the same time as Nijinsky and became one of his closest friends, and for many years followed his development and career, first as a member of the Imperial Ballet, and later as star of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. He tells the part of Nijinsky's story which other biographers have left untold - his youthful ambitions and defeats, his brilliant rise to fame, his exploits with other students, the almost incredible ill fortune which followed him from the first. The author gives his interpretation of Nijinsky's later career, which differs from the stories others have told. 16. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 009913.
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Imprint: Geneve, Éditions Labor, 1939 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Livre bon. 220 pages. 3eme edition. Table des Matières: Avant-propos; Marcel Bourquin par R. Wyler; Préface pat G. Berguer; I - Ministère D'Amour; II - Paroisse et Église; III - Ministére de la Parole; IV - Ministére de la Souffrance et de L'Intercession. R7. Book Condition: Bon. Binding: Couverture Souple. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 008855.
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Imprint: New York, John Wiley & Sons, 2000 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine uninscribed copy with Mercer Management Consulting card tipped in to front endpaper. Dustjacket is complete. The authors are Vice Presidents of Mercer Management Consulting and specialise in supply chain strategy. Value Nets introduces to you a new form of business design built around superb supply chain performance in the E-commerce world which will enable any company to do far more with the supply chain than control costs. Using numerous case studies that have adopted value net design such as Gateway, Cisco Systems, Cemex, Biogen, Zara and dozens more, the authors demonstrate how value nets bridge the gap between the executive culture of strategy and business re-invention and the operational world of procurement, manufacturing and logistics. C3D. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 002758. ISBN: 0471360090
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Imprint: London, Andre Deutsch, 2017 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New unmarked copy. 242 pages. 38 photographs. A century ago, power on farms was provided by one and a half million heavy horses. Today, heavy horses are a distant memory, except on Sillywrea Farm in Northumberland. It is the last farm in the country where all jobs requiring strength and power are still done by horses. John Dodd's family have lived at Sillywrea Farm for more than 150 years and horses have always been the source of power, now with their five huge Clydesdales. D4A. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 011509. ISBN: 9780233005119
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Imprint: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A new and unread copy still in publisher's shrink wrap cover but which has an ink mark to lower closed edge. 336 pages. Professor Bowker has headed a team of leading academics to provide an authoritative yet accessible introduction to world religions and creates an awareness of the major world events that formed religious history from the earliest times to the present day. The world faiths are placed into social, political and economic context. PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.4 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST R1. Book Condition: New. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 008870. ISBN: 052181037X
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Imprint: London, Mowbray, 1991 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine copy but with an inscription of name and date to front endpaper with near Fine dustjacket. Foreword by Robert Runcie. When Jane Bown left the WRNS and started on a photography course at Guildford, she took her first ever photograph - of a church door. Later when The Observer decided to follow Picture Post's example by taking photography seriously, she was recommended to David Astor and was taken on by Mechtild Nawiasky. Her first task was Bertrand Russell, and since then has photographed everyone in the news, and many of these photographs are in this book from eminent churchmen to Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Alongside them are the pictures from her own village, from her time spent in retreat, at family and village baptisms, weddings and funerals. R1. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 007272. ISBN: 0264672682
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Imprint: London, Macmillan, 1945 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on red cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear, gentle bumping to corner tips and some fading to spine. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked a Very Good+ copy. 247 pages. The book is a study of the literary epic in four of its chief examples, and especially of certain characteristics which seem to belong to this kind of poetry. Comprises; Some Characteristics of Literary Epic; Virgil and the Ideals of Rome; Camoes and the Epic of Portugal; Tasso and the Romance of Christian Chivalry; Milton and the Destiny of Man. 4. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 010446.
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Imprint: London, SPCK, 1939 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on brown cloth boards which have a few very small minor marks and fading to spine. Internally there are a few spots of light foxing to endpapers and to fore edge else very clean, tight and unmarked. vii + 380 pages. Aimed primarily at the newly ordained but also for those preparing for ordination. Comprises : The Importance of Study by Thomas Hannay; The Study of the Old Testament by S.L. Brown; The Study of the New Testament by L.J. Collins; The Study of the Fathers by W.J. Sparrow Simpson; The Study of Dogmatic Theology by Trevor Jalland; The Study of Moral Theology by Hubert S. Box; The Study of Spiritual Theology by Patrick Thompson; The Study of Canon Law by G.W.O. Addleshaw; The Study of Church History by Charles Smyth; The Study of Liturgiology by Henry de Candole; The Study of Philosophy by F.L. Cross; The Study of Sociology by V.A. Demant; The Study of Literature by Marcus Donovan. R1. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 010277.
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Imprint: London, Simon and Schuster, 2014 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page with no dedication. A near Fine unmarked copy which has age toning to page edges with near Fine dustjacket (Fine apart from a single quarter inch tear to top edge) which is not price clipped. x + 278 pages. 25 coloured photographs. In 2002 Geoffrey Boycott was diagnosed with cancer of the tongue. Having faced down the fastest bowlers during his career as one of England's greatest-ever batsmen, he now had to take on an even more daunting foe, one that he could not see and where he had to rely on others to help him take on the challenge. After he had recovered, Boycott emerged as a different man, with a new perspective on life. This book tells the story not only of his struggle with cancer, but also of his love for the game of cricket. 20. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 010943. ISBN: 9781471130021
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Imprint: New York, John Wiley & Sons, 2001 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good clean, tight and unmarked copy which has a small light stain to front and rear endpapers and a crease to rear endpaper with dustjacket which has a stain to the lower inside and is not price clipped. xiv + 418 pages. A valuable digest of clear and concise information which provides an unparalleled opportunity to sample the best thinking about what it takes to survive in the new global, high-tech, knowledge-intensive, and hyper-competitive world of business. Distilling the wisdom of 115 of the world's most successful business titans, it takes opinions one step further by linking and cross-linking ideas to show where the experts agree and disagree and how each guru's idea has evolved. **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.80 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST **** **** NOT EX LIB **** 23. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 007678. ISBN: 0471390852
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Imprint: London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1999 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine copy ) with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. An oblong format volume of 160 pages. Colour photographs throughout. Despite Henry VIII's decade of architectural destruction during the Dissolution, Britain has hundreds of surviving examples of monastic buildings, varying in size and scale from forlorn and crumbling fragments to the well-preserved majestic ruins such as Fountains, Lindisfarne, Glastonbury and Tintern. In addition, some of Britain's finest churches and cathedrals are monastic in origin, ehibiting the stunning craftsmanship associated with Romanesque and early medieval religious architecture. Complementing Derry Brabb's superb photography, his text examines the history of the monasteries. 2. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 010266. ISBN: 0297824953
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Imprint: Isle of Anglesey, Island, 2003 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine priceclipped dustjacket. 256 pages. 650 photographs and illustrations. The revised and updated edition. An ideal introductory reference work and the perfect advance teaching course, instruction manual and problem solver for the more experienced players. 14. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 007603. ISBN: 1861470819
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Imprint: London, Smith , Elder, 1906 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Photogravure portrait of Louis XIV to frontispiece tissue protected and 2 other portraits. Gilt titles to front and spine on salmon pink cloth boards. Slight nick of quarter inch to spine with a touch of light wear to spine head and tail and some fading. Internally there is some foxing to endpapers and frontispiece edges and closed edges else clean and unmarked. **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.84 KILO WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** A1B. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 000024.
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Imprint: London, Peter Garnett, 1948 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Red title on sand coloured cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is foxing to closed top edge else a clean and unmarked copy. First edition November, 1948. A murder thriller set around a successful Harley Street doctor who marries into an impoverished noble family. George Sava (1903-1996) was a British surgeon and prolific writer of Russian origin, described as a 'Russian exile', born George Alexis Milkomanov Milkomane on October 15, 1903. He wrote approximately 120 books under the pseudonyms George Sava, George Bankoff, George Borodin, George Braddon, Peter Conway, Alec Redwood, and others. B2B. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 011234.
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Imprint: London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1990 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Bernard Braden and his wife Barbara Kelly arrived in Britain from Canada in 1949 not realising that within months they would have captured the imagination and hearts of the British public. Barbara starred in 'The Male Animal' at the New Theatre, then Bernard appeared in 'A Streetcar Named Desire', directed by Laurence Olivier and starring Vivien Leigh. but it was on radio that their popular reputations were made. Fully illustrated throughout. **** NOT EX LIB **** B2D. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 007425. ISBN: 0340525274
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Imprint: London, Orion, 2015 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 392 pages. It all began with that awful business about my mother, Harriet.... Following Harriet's dramatic return home, Flavia de Luce finds herself expelled from the familiar confines of Bishop's Lacey and her beloved family home, Buckshaw, and 'packed off', as she puts it. to Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Canada - her mother's old boarding school. With its forbidding headmistress, intimidating teachers (one of whom is a convicted murderess) and bizarre rules, adapting to Miss Bodycote's is quite a challenge. But Flavia is soon on familiar ground, when, onher first night, a mummified body is dislodged from a chimney, and she is presented with a gruesome puzzle to solve. And the mystery of the withered corpse is only the beginning. Girlshave been disappearing from Miss Bodycote's with alarming regularity, leading Flavia to wonder not only how and why , but what exactly is the academy's true purpose, and why were her father and Aunt Felicity so keen for her to enrol? If Flavia is to avoid the same fate as the missing girls, she must enter a shadowy world where truth and lies seem interchangeable and no one can be trusted. And ultimately she must discover what exactly it means to be her mother's daughter.. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: As New Stock number: 011058. ISBN: 9781409149439
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Imprint: London, Orion, 2014 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 315 pages. The presumed death of Harriet de Luce in a mysterious mountaineering accident in Tibet while Flavia was only a baby cast a sombre shadow over the family, leaving Colonel de Luce a broken man and Flavia herself with no memories of her mother. Now, astonishingly, a specially commissioned train is bringing Harriet back to Buckshaw. But rather than putting the past finally to rest, Harriet's return is set to trigger a further series of bizarre and deadly events, as a most curious group of individuals converge on Buckshaw to pay their respects. For Flavia, a gruesome new crime to solve is only one of the mysteries confronting her, as she begins to unravel the shocking revelations of Harriet's past and in doing so discovers an extraordinary tale of espionage and betrayal that also seems to be the key to her own destiny.. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: As New Stock number: 011057. ISBN: 9781409114260
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Imprint: London, Profile, 2015 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 645 pages. 31 photographs and illustrations throughout in the text. Britain's railways have been a vital part of national life for nearly 200 years. Transforming lives and landscapes, they have left their mark on everything from timekeeping to tourism. As a self-contained world governed by distinctive rules and traditions, the network also exerts a fascination all its own. From the classical grandeur of Newcastle station to the ceaseless traffic of Clapham Junction, from the mysteries of Brunel's atmospheric railway to the lost routines of the great marshalling yards, Simon Bradley explores the world of Britain's railways, the evolution of the trains, and the changing experiences of passengers and workers. The Victorians' private compartments, railway rugs and footwarmers have made way for air-conditioned carriages with airline-type seating, but the railways remain a giant and diverse anthology of structures from every period, and parts of the system are the oldest in the world. Using fresh research, keen observation and a wealth of cultural references, Bradley weaves from this network a remarkable story of technological achievement, of architecture and engineering, of shifting social classes and gender relations, of safety and crime, of tourism and the changing world of work. The Railways shows us that to travel through Britain by train is to journey through time as well as space. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.15 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST L. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 011080. ISBN: 9781846682094
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Imprint: London, The Bodley Head, 1964 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on blue boards which has a small mark to front but no wear. Internally some age darkening to endpapers else clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has age darkening, a little wear to spine head and tail and is not price clipped. 286 pages. Frédéric O'Brady was born on December 11, 1903 in Budapest, Hungary as Frigyes Ábel and died on February 23, 2003 in Rochester, New York, USA. He is best defined as a French actor but also as a composer, a novelist, a polyglot, or a world-famous puppet master. In his long life he acted as a musical director to a team of Russian dwarfs, dubbed Peter Lorre's voice in French films, sold locomotives in Switzerland, fought against the Germans as a volunteer with the Foreign Legion, was imprisoned by Vichy for abetting British agents in Marseilles, became private secretary to the post-war Minister of the Interior, and at the age of 54 eloped with the star of the Folies Bergere. Dustjacket reverse has praise for him from Peter Ustinov, Orson Welles, Alexander King and Ionesco. C3C. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 010219.
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Imprint: London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1988 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine copy which has a gift inscription to front endpaper, a decorative bookplate to front pastedown and age toning to page edges else else clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket is near Fine and is not price clipped. viii + 533 pages. 79 illustrations. There are many other biographies of Richard Burton and what sets this original biography apart is that Melvyn Bragg has discovered and summed up a man hidden until now from all but one or two of his closest friends, and even to them a mystery. From unpublished letters and memoirs, from new interviews with those who have never spoken, above all from 350, words of Burton's notebooks never before seen, a portrait emerges of a man of multitudes, of vast qualities, immense flaws, wonderful ambitions, crippling melancholy and illnesses, something of a scholar, a fighter and a reckless warrior who lived the life of a legend from his beloved Wales. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.10 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 12. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 009469. ISBN: 0340405376
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Imprint: London, Collins Crime Club, 1991 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 'What do you do when your scientist husband, having disappeared on a visit to the States, returns home with his own mind, memory, personality, even voice, but a different body? Belinda Watson soon found the change lent a certain piquancy to marriage, after all she and Charles had been getting a bit bored. As for Andrew Taggart, the journalist investigating her husband's disappearance (and incidentally consoling her), she didn't mind kissing him goodbye. Then the new 'Charles Watson' is murdered and the innocent Taggart is arrested - can he prove his innocence? Who has framed him and why? **** NOT EX LIB **** L. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 007570. ISBN: 0002323281
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Imprint: London, John Murray, 2012 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY GYLES BRANDRETH on Title page with 'THE CADOGAN 25.X.12. (The Cadogan Hotel, Room 118 was frequently patronised by Oscar Wilde and was where his infamous arrest took place. It was also where Gyles Brandreth held his Oscar Wilde party on the anniversary of Wilde's birth and his book launch). A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. xxv + 325 pages. Second printing. It is 1897, Dieppe. Oscar Wilde, poet, playwright, novelist, raconteur and ex-convict, has fled the country after his release from Reading Gaol. Tonight he is sharing a drink and the story of his cruel imprisinment with a mysterious stranger. He has endured a harsh regime: the treadmill, solitary confinement, censored letters, no writing materials. Yet even in the midst of such deprivation, Oscar's astonishing detective powers remain undiminished - and when first a brutal warder and then the prison chaplain are found murdered, who else should the Governor turn to for help other than Reading Gaol's most celebrated inmate? L. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 009585. ISBN: 9781848542532
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Imprint: London, John Murray, 2009 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy in a dustjacket which has a little creasing to top edge and is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. xiv + 706 pages. 102 illustrations. A diary packed with famous names and extraordinary stories. It is also rich in incidental detail and wonderful obesrvation, providing a compelling record of five remarkable decades and a revealing, often hilarious and sometimes moving account of Brandreth's unusual life. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.2 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 011081. ISBN: 9781848543119
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Imprint: London, Cassell, 1980 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clopped. Map endpapers. An epic novel of the Aztecs, the conquistadors and the discovery and conquest of Mexico, told in counterpoint narrative by both Arturo Mondragon, a young Spanish foot soldier and the Amerind of high birth, Malinche. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.87 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST D4C. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 004365. ISBN: 0304306541
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Imprint: New York, Cambridge University Press, 1992 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A very clean, tight and unmarked copy VG+. Brandt is regarded as one of the most eminent and influential of contemporary moral philosophers and his work has been concerned with how to justify what is good or right, not by reliance on intuitions or theories about what moral words mean but by the explanation of moral psychology and the description of what it is to value something, or to think it immoral. The essays in the book span almost thirty years and include many classic pieces. **** NOTE THAT THIS IS AN ACTUAL BOOK HELD IN STOCK **** FAIRLY SCARCE B2E. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 001390. ISBN: 0521415071
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Imprint: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title and motif on blue cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is light foxing to fore and top edges else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket is VG and is not price clipped. Willy Brandt (1913-1992) was Vice Chancellor, Foreign Minister of West Germany and leader of the Social Democratic Party. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 and his legacy was his 'Ostpolitik' - a policy aimed at improving relations with East Germany, Poland, and the Soviet Union. This book is an imaginative, thought provoking, and urgent statement on world stability. ** Loosely included is an obituary from the Daily Telegraph ** **** NOT EX LIB **** A1E. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 008317. ISBN: 0030730406
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Imprint: London, Virgin Publishing, 2002 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Near Fine unmarked copy with VG+ complete dustjacket. An interesting biography of the comedienne, actress, writer, singer-songwriter, whose success is now in the fourth decade, which reveals the offstage Victoria and the events and experiences that have shaped her. 21 illustrations. *** NOT BOOK CLUB *** B2E. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 004092. ISBN: 1852279826
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Imprint: London, Headline, 2002 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK Edition, First Printing. An As New copy with an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. A further novel in the Jim Qwilleran Feline Whodunnit series. Columnist James Qwilleran is enjoying a brief holiday at the Nutcracker Inn, but his two Siamese, Koko, with extraordinary talents and a flair for mystery and Yum Yum, who prefer the comfort of home, beg to differ. The blissful tranquility is interrupted by the discovery of a body floating down the creek, a guest at the hotel, with gold nuggets in his possession. B2E. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: As New Stock number: 004093. ISBN: 0747270848
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Imprint: London, Faber & Faber, 2005 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. First edition, first printing. Combining anecdote with history, critical analysis with wit, the authors book is the first serious critical biography of the actor. Illustrated throughout. Filmography. 13. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 007318. ISBN: 057121682X
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Imprint: London, Hutchinson, 1989 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy with dustjacket which is price clipped and has a small stain to the reverse side. The editor of this wide ranging anthology has been collecting material for this book for 30 years, and has set the age limit of its authors at 16. George Orwell as an imperialist patriot, Virginia Woolf making fun of feminism and T.S. Eliot as the author of an adventure story set in the South Seas are some of the literary surprises. There are drawings by Bernard Shaw, David Jones and Anthony Powell as well as illustrated short stories by Wyndham Lewis and Evelyn Waugh, which have never appeared before. H.G. Wells's novel 'The Desert Daisy' is printed here in full and there is an extract from 'Folthy Lucre' by Beryl Bainbridge - both completed when they were 13 years old. Included also are unpublished poems by Katherine Mansfield, Robert Graves, Kathleen Raine and Thomas Keneally. **** NOT EX LIB **** 24. Illustr.: Shaw, George Bernard; Powell, Anthony; Jones, David; Waugh, Evelyn. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 006504. ISBN: 009174265X
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Imprint: London, Chatto and Windus / Hogarth Press, 1985 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to front endpaper with dedication (but no name) 'For one of the best and brightest' followed by a drawing of a star. A near Fine clean, tight and unmarked copy (Fine apart from light rubbing to front top edge) with dustjacket which is not price clipped. The book explores what it is like to be famous - winning an Oscar, making more money than you can imagine, becoming an Olympic champion, having your picture on the cover of Time magazine. The author has asked a galaxy of stars what fame means to them, and their views throw insight into their lives beneath the hype and the stardust. Illustrated with photographs. 12. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 007765. ISBN: 0701127899
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Imprint: London, Sage Publications, 2000 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy. xiii + 450 pages. This second edition is organised into four coherent sections: I - Considers the relationship between psychological theory and research methodology, from both a practical and ethical viewpoint. II - Explains how to collect data using the major types of research design. III - Offers an invaluable guide to the traditional techniques of data gathering in psychology, as well as featuring less common approaches and action research. IV - Covers the issue of data analysis, clearly explaining the logic of statistical testing and the relationship between methodology and statistics, avoiding over-complicated formulae. 13. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 009305. ISBN: 0761965912
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Imprint: London, Piatkus, 1998 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 216 pages. A controversial look at the evolution of mankind using discoveries made by spacecraft. The author links these to hi-tech artefacts millennia old, ancient civilisations,biblical descriptions and mythology. He concludes that our world may have been seeded by creatures from Mars 100 million years ago. 11 photographic illustrations. **** NOT BOOK CLUB **** 12. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 002009. ISBN: 0749918578
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Imprint: New York, Berkley Prime Crime, 2002 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjaket which is not price clipped. First US Edition First Printing. 340 pages. In the historic village of Fedborough Jude attends a dinner party for the new owners of Pelling House. But an uninvited guest - in the form of a mummified , armless and legless torso - has crashed the party. There's no telling how long the dead body has been in the cellar, or even who it once was. Intrigued with the new mystery on her hands Jude elicits Carole's help to solve the case - and hopefully snap Carole out of her growing depression from a recent failed relationship. Their detective work soon uncovers that Pelling House's previous owners include two divorced couples who harbor a lot of resentment and may be harboring some dark secrets as well. D4E. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Stock number: 011109. ISBN: 0425185028
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Imprint: New York, W.W. Norton, 2006 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The author (1914-2000) born Richard Patrick Russ, who later legally changed his name, was famous for his Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels. This novel, first published in 1962 but never published before in America, is of a prisoner of war in France, held captive by the Germans, who conducts a minute examination of his life to keep sane. Escaping from a blighted childhood and his widowed, alcoholic mother thanks to an artistic gift, his life as a painter in the 1930's is cruelly deprived and in order to eat, squanders his asset by becoming a forger, particularly of Utrillo. He is rescued by the love of a beautiful and wealthy woman, and it is the failure of this relationship, coupled with the outbreak of war, that propels him into the world of espionage. An unforgettable tale of art and espionage in World War II. **** NOT EX LIB **** L. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 004040. ISBN: 0393061876
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Imprint: Ottawa, The Convent Society, 1998 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New unmarked copy. Second edition 1998 (first was 1997). The author discusses the issues surrounding women in Apostolic ministry, through scripture, tradition, Sacramental theology, Christian unity, and social and political issues. R8. Book Condition: As New. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 005936. ISBN: 1895713102
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Imprint: London, Museum of the Moving Image, 1993 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A very Good unmarked copy. 184 pages. A varied and valuable collection of interviews about going to the pictures and working in cinemas during the boom years of film exhibition. It concentrates on reminiscences of the cinemas of Lambeth, Wandsworth, Southwark and adjacent areas providing vivid recollections of super cinemas like the Trocadero Elephant and Castle and Astorias at Brixton and Streatham as well as fleapits and old music halls. 14. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 010812. ISBN: 085170395X
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Imprint: London, Jonathan Cape, 1928 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Light blue title on darker blue cloth boards. Some very light marks to front and only a touch of wear to spine head and tail. Internally there is light foxing to closed edges and endpapers else clrean and unmarked. Overall a Good+ copy. 23 stories and appendice of The Year Book of the British and Irish Short Story, The Best British and Irish Short Stories - An Index, Articles on the Short Story, Volumes of Short Stories Published in Geat Britain and Ireland and Biographical Notices. Features early works by H.E. Bates, John Metcalfe, V.S. Pritchett, Elizabeth Bowen, Sean O Faolain, Lennox Robinson, Edward Sackville West et al. C3B. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: No Jacket Stock number: 011297.
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Imprint: London, Jarrolds, 1948 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Brown title on cream boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket has some wear and has some closed tears and is not price clipped. Map endpapers and 15 illustrations. The author a trained pianist as well as an authority on the History of Music, visited all the Renaissance castles, and the towns where early Italian music flourished, shortly before the War. The book not only gives the musical developments from the 15th to 18th centuries but also a picture of the artistic conditions and social life at the Renaissance Courts. **** NOT EX LIB **** B2C. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Good Stock number: 005758.
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Imprint: London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2006 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which has a small repaired closed tear and is not price clipped. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A novel of attachments, especially between a mother and daughter, who yearn for closeness but are also estranged. From her hospital bed in Dublin, the elderly Dilly awaits the visit of her daughter, Eleanora from London. The epochs of her life pass before her; emigrating to America in the 1920's, a romantic liaison she had there, the destiny that brought her back to Ireland, and her marriage into the stately Rusheen. She also retraces Eleanora's precipitate marriage to a foreigner, which alienated mother and daughter even more, and Dilly's heart-rending letters sent over the years in a determination to reclaim her daughter. **** NOT EX LIB **** 2. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Very Good Stock number: 011242. ISBN: 978029785132
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Imprint: London, HQ, 2017 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 499 pages. Genealogy charts. ‘A dangerous word, perhaps, for a woman. Power.’ From her first clandestine marriage, Joan of Kent’s reputation is one of beauty, rumour and scandal. Her royal blood makes her a desirable bride. Her ambition and passion make her a threat. Joan knows what she must do to protect her reputation the games to play, the men to marry. She will do anything to get what she wants: The Crown of England. A tale of ambition, treachery and desire, The Shadow Queen tells of a woman’s ascent through the court to command royal power alongside her young son, King Richard II. D4A. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 011517. ISBN: 9781848455078
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Imprint: London, Brockhampton Press, 1999 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a little foxing to closed edges) with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 352 pages. 121 Illustrations. Illuminating their mysteries, myths, sacred rituals, and hieroglyphic writings, Egyptiam Mummies brings the ancients to life. In an accessible and lively style, noted Egyptologist Bob Brier gives the complete historical context of ancient Egyptian culture and contemporary interpretation and synthesis of it. The most complete analysis of the art of mummification ever given. D4B. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 011500. ISBN: 1860199208
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Imprint: London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a little foxing to closed top edge) with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 264 pages. 33 illustrations. Three thousand years ago, Tutankhamen died mysteriously at the age of nineteen. Hastily, a commoner's tomb was readied for his burial, his body mummified, fabulous jewels and furniture gathered, the tomb sealed. Then silence. In the years that followed, almost every trace of the young king and his wife was literally erased. In 1922, the small tomb was uncovered; inside lay the most glorious royal Egyptian treasures ever unearthed, and Tutankhamen's place in history was restored. Bob Brier, a leading Egyptologist, uncovers what really happened to Tutankhamen and uses new forensic evidence to show that Tutankhamen was brutally murdered. 15. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Fine Stock number: 011499. ISBN: 0297841300
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