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Anstey, F Voces Populi - Second Series Longmans, Green & Co 1892 1st edition. Floral cloth & faux vellum, VG. iv+156pp, b/w frontis & 25 b/w illustrations by J Bernard Partridge, faux vellum grubby, otherwise a nice copy. A collection of Anstey's essays & humourous pieces, reprinted from the pages of Punch. Price:
12.00 GBP
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Anthony, Piers Crewel Lye Orbit 1988 3rd impression. Paperback, F. 3093pp, a nice fine copy. Jordan was a ghost in Castle Roogna. Once he had been a valiant knight, but he had been betrayed & his bones scattered. This was a shame as he could recover from any injury. If enough of his body could be reassembled... Price:
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Apperson, G L [editor] Gleanings After Time - Chapters In Social And Domestic History Elliot Stock 1907 1st edition. Cloth gilt, VG. x+230pp, 29 b/w illustrations, cloth rubbed, Ex-Library with blind stamp to rear cover & bookplates, ink stamps to a few pages, reserve stock so a good clean copy internally A collection of diverse articles on English & American Social history. Articles include the Tabard Inn - History of the House - Early Breach of Promise Cases - Witchcraft - French Protestant Settlers in America - America First Parliament - Clocks. Price:
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Archer, R L Secondary Education In The Nineteenth Century Cambridge University Press 1921 1st edition. Cloth, VG. xiv+363pp, index, some pencil marginalia, a good reading copy in slightly rubbed cloth. Volume V in the Contributions To The History Of Education Series. A study of the beginings of Proper education for Children in the Victorian Age. An age demonised by Dickens. Price:
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Arciniegas, Germán [editor] The Green Continent - A Comprehensive View Of Latin America By Its Leading Writers Editions Poetry, London 1947 1st English edition. Cloth, dj, VG/G. 483pp, paper yellowed, dustjacket chipped & torn with some loss, especially at the spine, edges bumped, a good copy. A collection of 34 extracts from South American authors describing the Landscape, History, Arts & People of the Continent. Price:
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Ardener, Edwin Divorce And Fertility - An African Study Oxford University Press - Nigerian Institiue Of Social And Economic Research 1962 1st edition. Paperback, G. xvi+171pp, occasional pencil annotation & a list in pencil on the first blank page raising questions about the valididty of some of the content of the book, covers rather gubby, a good copy. Socioloogical study of the Bakweri people of the Cameroon, a tribe which has a very high divorce rate & very low fertility rates. The study trys to assertain why. Price:
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Ariosto, Ludovico & Waldman, Guido [translator] Orlando Furioso Oxford University Press 1974 1st edition. Paperback, VG. xviii+630pp, index, covers a little yellowd, a nice copy. English prose translation of Ariosto's 16th century Itlaian romantic epic which was first published in complete form in 1532. The poem is set against the backdrop of the war between Charlemagne & the Saracens. It remains a highly influential work. Price:
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Aristophanes Lysistrata - The Acharnians - The Clouds Penguin nd c 1999 reprint Paperback, F. 255pp, text unmarked, a fine copy. Three of Aristophanes' plays, an anti war comedy in Lysistrata, A plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta in the Acharnians and a satire on the philosophy of the day in the Clouds. Translation by Alan H Sommerstein. Price:
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Arkell, Reginald Richard Jeffries And His Countryside Herbert Jenkins 1946 reprint. Cloth, dj, VG/VG. 192pp, b/w frontis, endpaper maps, 4pp b/w plates. dustjacket a little worn & creased, boards faded as usual, a nice copy. Biography of Richard Jefferies [ 1848 - 1887 ] who grew up in the small village of Coate, on the Downs near Swindon in Wiltsihre. His fiction & writings on country matters much influenced by his days on the North Downs & countryside around his childhood home. Price:
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Armstrong, Anthony Two Legs And Four Methuen 1930 1st edition. Gilt cloth, VG+. 142pp, b/w frontis, 11 b/w illustrations by Rene Bull, a nice copy with a large ink inscription on the front pastedown, corners bumped. A childrens story about dogs & children. Uncommon. Price:
10.00 GBP
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Armstrong, H C Grey Steel - J C Smuts, A Study In Arrogance Arthur Barker Ltd 1937 2nd impression. Cloth, VG. 406pp, b/w frontis, 1 b/w plate, endpaper maps, 4 b/w maps, 6 text illustrations, index, spine sunned & rubbed at the head, cloth worn at the corners, a nice copy. Unbiased biography of Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts [ 1870 - 1950 ] who was a leading figure in World Politics in the interwar years. He can be credited with the founding of the League of Nations, he was the only person to sign the Declaratiosn of Peace for both World Wars, was an early anti apartheid campaigner & was one of five members of the British War Cabinet who were responsible for the formation of the Royal Air Force. Price:
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Armstrong, Walter Velazquez - A Study Of His Life And Art [comprising] Part I - The Life Of Velazquez [with] Part II - The Art Of Velazquez Seeley & Co 1987 1st edition. Cloth, VG. 104+104pp, frontis to each part, total of 6 plates, 55 b/w illustrations, index to each part, slight foxing to the preliminary pages & margins of the plates, cloth a little rubbed. A nice copy. Two parts in one. Part of the "Portfolio Monograph" series, a basic overview of the art of the Spanish painter, Price:
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Armstrong, Warren Saltwater Tramp Jarrolds nd c 1945 1st edition. Cloth, G. 148pp, b/w frontis, 14pp b/w plates, a fair copy, cloth rubbed, wartime paper browned. Biography of a Merchant seaman, including chapters on Whaling. Price:
3.25 GBP
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Arnet, Edward The Book Of Zurich Artemis Publishing Company 1959 2nd edition. Cloth, dj, VG/VG. 70pp, 64 b/w plates, b/w illustrations, spine browned, slight tobacco smell, otherwise a nice copy. Well designed [by Hans Kasser] book on the arts & history of Zurich. Price:
6.00 GBP
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Aron, Raymond Progress And Disillusion - The Dialectics Of Modern Society Frederick A Praeger 1968 1st edition. Cloth, dj, VG/G. xviii+230pp, index, edges of the dustjacket rubbed, boards a little bowed, a good copy. What makes Social Order? What are the tensions between social reality & social ideal? The author looks at social equality betwen the individual & institutions, hierarchy, individual rights & the conflicts arising from modern society & the changes brought to bear upon traditional values. Price:
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Aron, Robert De Gaulle Triumphant - The Liberation of France August 1944 - May 1945 Putnam 1964 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/F. vi+360pp, index, a fine copy in a near fine dustjacket. The binding does not have any lettering on the spine. Account of the defeat of the Germans in France & the months of fighting which followed. The Allies having a difficult time stopping the Germans wantonly destroying what they had lost & the French having trouble stopping the Communist Party taking over the Towns which were liberated. Price:
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Aronson, Theo Napoleon And Josephine - A Love Story John Murray 1990 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/VG+. xii+317pp, 16pp b/w plates, index, a nice fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Detailed biography of the love affair & marriage - an attraction of opposites - between Napoleon & Josephine. His complex sexuality and her infidelity making for an interesting pairing. Price:
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Asfour, Amal & Williamson, Paul [ Gainsborough, Thomas ] Gainsborough's Vision Liverpool University Press 1999 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/F. xvi+325pp, 185 colour & b/w illustrations, index, a nice fine copy. New. Study of Gainsborough's painting which reveals that the style, themes and ideas of Gainsborough's images constitute expressions of the intellectual culture of the period. His art works is studied in the context of his peers, from all walks of intellectual life in the 18th century. Price:
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Ashe, Geoffrey The Ancient Wisdom - A Quest For The Source Of Mystic Knowledge Macmillan 1977 1st edition . Cloth, dj, F/VG. 232pp, 8pp b/w plates, 12 b/w illustrations, index, spine sunned a little otherwise a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. Study of the roots of Celtic, Arthurian & Theosophical knowledge - did all occult knowledge spring for one source? What is Ancient Knowledge & where did it come from? The author travels from Somerset to Tunguska to discover the truth. Price:
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Ashley, Maurice The Life And Times Of King John Weidenfeld & Nicolson - Book Club Associates 1972 1st edition. CLoth, dj, VG/VG. 224pp, 16pp colour &100 b/w illustrations, index, paper beginning to yellow, otherwise a nice copy in a slightly rubbed dustjacket. General history of King John & his reign. Price:
6.50 GBP
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Ashley, Mike Starlight Man - The Extraordinary Life Of Algernon Blackwood Constable 2001 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/F. xviii+395pp, 12pp b/w plates, index, a nice fine copy. New. Biography of Blackwood, who was one of the greatest writers of supernatural fiction in the 20th century. A great traveller, First World War spy, member of the Golden Dawn and popular broadcaster. His private life was, like his fiction, cloaked in secrecy and mystery. Price:
10.00 GBP
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Ashley, Mike Starlight Man - The Extraordinary Life Of Algernon Blackwood Constable 2001 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/F. xviii+395pp, 12pp b/w plates, index, a nice fine copy. New. Biography of Blackwood, who was one of the greatest writers of supernatural fiction in the 20th century. A great traveller, First World War spy, member of the Golden Dawn and popular broadcaster. His private life was, like his fiction, cloaked in secrecy & mystery. Price:
10.00 GBP
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Ashley, Thorold Sir Tristram Ward Lock & Co 1898 1st edition. Cloth, VG. 320pp+12pp publishrs adverts, b/w frontis, spine lettering a little faded & cloth rubbed, a nice copy. Bookplate of the Priory Circulating Library on the psatedown. Uncommon romantic fiction set in the home counties. Price:
20.00 GBP
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Ashton, Dore [ La Noue, Terence ] Terence La Noue Hudson Hills Press, New York 1992 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/F, 167pp, 132 colour & 18 b/w illustrations, 2 gatefolds, index, a nice fine copy. New. Well illustrated monograph on the American abstract artist La Noue who produces paintings often on complicated surfaces which have been built up from layers of canvas, acrylic & pigment. Price:
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Ashton, Geoffrey - Burnim, Kalman A & Wilton, Andrew [editors] Pictures In The Garrick Club. A Catalogue Of The Paintings, Watercolours And Sculpture Garrick Club - Unicorn Press 1997 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/VG. lxiv+570pp, 48pp colour plates, several hundered b/w illustrations, index, a fine copy in a slightly bumped & edge worn dustjacket. Monumental catalogue of the 1000+ works of art which comprise the Garrick Club collection of theatrical works of art. As such the portraits of actors & characters from the stage make the collection a major reference for the study of the history of the theatre. Particularly the Georgian period, from 1760 - 1830 , from which period the collection is particularly strong with paintings by Zoffany, Reynolds & Lawrence. Price:
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Ashton, Helen Return To Cheltenham Collins 1958 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/VG++. 255pp, a nice copy, reduced price sticker on inner flap of dustjacket, browning to the rear panel, otherwise a fine copy. Fiction set in Ireland & Cheltenham Price:
3.00 GBP
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Ashton, S R & Killingray, David British Documents On The End Of Empire Series B Volume 6 - The West Indies HMSO - The Stationary Office 1999 1st edition. Laminated boards, F. civ+750pp, index, a fine copy. New. Monumental collection of Official Documents from the Colonial Office, F & CO, and similar British Government Bodies charting the move to Independence for The West Indies. The book covers the period from 1948 - 1966 & 256 documents are included. The book highlights - that Independence for single islands was not considered until 1959 - West Indian immigration to the UK - regional issues such as Defence & the US base on Trinidad etc etc. Price:
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Ashton, Steve The Ridges Of Snowdonia Cicerone Press 1985 1st edition. Laminated paperback, F. 248pp, illustrated endpapers, many b/w ilustrations, a fine copy. Good guide to the many ridges of the mountains of North Wales which covers the Carneddau, Glyders, Snowdon, Moelwyns, Nantlle, Rhinogs, Cader Idris & Arans. Also included is the 'complete traverse of all 14 3000' peaks. Price:
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Ashton, Steve Rock Climbing Crowood Press 1987 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/F. 159pp, 139 figs & illustrations, 8pp colour plates, index, a nice fine copy, bookplate on fep. good introductory guide to the sport of Rock Climbing, by a well respected climber. Price:
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Ashton, Steve Rock Climbing Crowood 1987 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/F. 159pp, 8pp colour plates, 139 b/w illustrations, index, a nice fine copy. Good guide for those wishing to take up Rock Climbing. Well illustrated hands on teaching guide. Price:
8.50 GBP
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Ashton, T S & Sayers, R S [editors] Papers In English Monetary History Oxford University Press 1964 3rd impression. Cloth, dj, G/G. vi+167pp, index, Ex-Library, with a few stamps & makrs to the endpapers where stickers have been removed, dustjacket has at one time been covered with plastic, this has been removed which has also removed some of the printing. A colelction of 11 papers on monetary history & policy from British history covering the 18th & 19th centuries. Price:
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Ashtor, Eliyahu The Medieval Near East - Social And Economic Studies Variorum Reprints 1978 1st edition. Cloth, VG. ii+362pp, [ although each paper retains its original pagination ] cloth a little rubbed, otherwise a fine copy. A collection of 12 papers collected from various journals [ and thus with various typefaces ] upon the social & economic history of the middle east in medieval times. 9 papers are in FRENCH, 1 in ITALIAN & 2 in ENGLISH. Price:
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Association Of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers Handbook Of Automobiles 1925 - 1926 Dover Publications 1970 2nd edition. Paperback, VG. 418pp, 385 b/w illustrations, spine a little worn, a nice copy. Facsimile reprint fo the 1925 ALAM's handbook which illustrated the cars available from American Motor Manufacturers. Includes 116 cars, 62 trucks, 6 taxicabs & 9 buses. All the great names are included, from $540 Durants to $10000 Mcfarlans, with Studebaker, Stutz, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Lincoln inbetween. Price:
8.00 GBP
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Astley Cooper, C J - Peascod, W - Rossiter, A P Rock Climbing Guides To The English Lake District - Great Gable, Green Gable, Kirkfell, Yewbarrow, Buckbarrow Fell & Rock Climbing Club 1948 2nd edition. Cloth, G. ix+129pp, b/w topo diagrams, index, Ex-Library [Westminster Public] with several stamps & bookplate, a fair copy. Climbing guide to the central & western area of the Lakes. Look like you have been climbing for years. Discover old long forgotton climbs. Impress your climbing buddies down the pub after a day on the crags. Price:
5.25 GBP
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Atherton, M J & Burnett, A D Hong Kong Rocks The Urban Council, Hong Kong 1986 1st edition. Paperback, F. iv+147pp, colour geological map, b/w map, 6 text figs, 100 colour illustrations, SIGNED by the author [ Atherton ] on the title page, a fine copy. Geoloogical guide to Hong Kong with the principal rocks to be found there shown in colour. Price:
10.00 GBP
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Atkinson, Eleanor Greyfriars Bobby Puffin 1965 2nd impression. Paperback, VG. 219pp, paper browned, otherwise a nice copy. Puffin book PS166. In pictorial covers, this is the tale of the little Scottie dog who would not leave his masters grave. All true too. Price:
2.50 GBP
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Atterbury, Francis A Sermon Preach'd Before The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor, The Aldermen, Sheriffs And Governours of The Several Hospitals Of The City Of London In St Bridgets Church On Easter Tuesday, April 15, 1707 London, printed by E P for Jonah Bower, at the Rose in Ludgate Street, near the West End of St Paul's Church 1707 1st edition. Disbound, VG. [i]+28pp, half title soiled, slight trimming to the last few pages just catching the page numbers, otherwise a nice copy. Atterbury [1662 - 1732] Bishop of Rochester,supporter of the Jacobites, imprisoned in the Tower in 1717 & bannished from England. The Sermon is on Matthew 25:40, 'Verily I say unto you; in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my Brethren, ye have done it to me'. Price:
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Austen, Jane & Brock, C E [illustrator] Northanger Abbey William Glaisher 1921 1st thus, Cloth, VG. viii+206pp, colour frontis & 22 colour plates by Brock, spine a little dulled, otherwise a fine copy. Uncommon & charming edition of Austen's classic novel. It was the first of her novels to be completed for publication, but was not finally on sale to the public until 1817. in the simplest of terms it is a parody of the Gothic Novel. Price:
30.00 GBP
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Austin, A B [editor] An Angler's Anthology Country Life Ltd 1930 1st 8vo edition. Cloth, VG. xviii+168pp, spine faded, otherwise a fine copy. Comprehensive collection of verse & prose all about fly fishing & angling. This edition does not contain the illustrations found in the 4to edition. Price:
16.00 GBP
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Austin, Dobson & Partridge, Bernard [Illustrator] Proverbs In Porcelain To Which Is Added Au Revoir - A Dramatic Vignette Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co 1893 1st illustrated edition. Decorated cloth gilt, VG+. 113pp, all edges gilt, b/w frontis & 23 plates by Partridge, a nice near fine copy, gilt design on upper cover bright. A collection of Poems, nicely illustrated. Price:
12.80 GBP
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Austin, Paul Britten 1812 The Great Retreat Greenhill Books 1996 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/VG. 464pp, 24pp b/w plates, index, a nice fine copy in an edge bumped dustjacket. Account of Napoleons disasterous retreat from Russia, from diaries & journals of those who survived. Price:
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Austin, Paul Britten 1812 Napoleon In Moscow Greenhill Books 1995 1st edition. Cloth dj, F/F. 264pp, 16pp b/w plates, 2 b/w maps, index, a nice fine as new copy. Account of Napoleons march to Moscow - 300,000 men set out, only 100,000 reached the city. One of the greatest military disasters in history was in the making. The author has used original diaries in his telling the story. Price:
10.00 GBP
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Avebury, Lord The Origin Of Civilisation And The Primitive Condition Of Man - mental And Social Condition Of Savages Longman Green & Co 1902 6th edition, revised. Cloth, G+. xxiv+577pp+42pp publishers catalogue, b/w frontis, 4 b/w plates, 20 text figs, index, Ex Library copy with occasional ink stamp, tear with loss to the half title where a card holder has been removed, a good copy, the binding attractive. Broad survey of the religion of Prehistory based on a careful study of the primitive pagan religions of the World, still practices by Indigenous peoples. Price:
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Avery, Derek Georgian And Regency Architecture Chaucer Press 2003 1st edition. Illustrated boards, dj, F/F. 144pp, illustrated in colour & b/w throughout, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. New. Good overview of the architectural style of the 18th century which saw the Classical revival on a grand scale. The book also contains a useful list of the main architects & the buildings they designed. Price:
12.50 GBP
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Avery, Derek Victorian And Edwardian Architecture Chaucer Press 2003 1st edition. Illustrated boards, dj, F/F. 144pp, illustrated in colour & b/w throughout, a fine copy in a fine dustjacket. New. Good overview of the architectural style of the 19th & early 20th centuries which saw the revival of many architectural styles, the railway boom & much municipal & civil architecture on a grand scale. The book also contains a useful list of the main architects & the buildings they designed. Price:
12.50 GBP
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Awad, Mohamed Hashim [editor] Socio Economic Change In The Sudan University Of Khartoum, Graduate College Publications 1983 1st edition. Paperback, F. 139pp, index, a fine copy. A collection of 9 essays which chart the changes in the Economy of the Sudan & the prospects this will bring for the country. As the title would suggest the essays considerthe social aspects of the economy. Covers the period 1973 - 1983. Price:
10.00 GBP
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