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PERSONALITIES AND POWERS
London Hamish Hamilton 1955 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good
Book in very good condition, spine ends very slightly bumped, internally in fine condition. Dustjacket in good condition, spine tanned, front cover has some every light marks, ½" closed tear at top and bottom of spine, outer corner edges and spine ends slightly rubbed. vii, 157pp. Amongst the subjects dealt with are - Monarchy and the Party System, King George III, Collective Historical Research, Diplomacy between the Wars, certain aspects of Hitler's life and the part played by the Germany Army in the politics of the Weimar Republic and of the Third Reich.
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VOLTAIRE. Oeuvres choisies. (Prose et Vers)
Paris Librairie de L'Art Hard Cover Good
. Book not dated, has 1907 written in ink on front free endpaper. Endpapers tanned. Spine ends are slightly rubbed, outer corner edges slightly bumped. A few of the pages have some foxing, otherwise pages are bright and clean. A good tight copy. Previous owner's name and date on front free endpaper. Book is written in French. 390pp. With 37 engravings. Bibliothéque littéraire de la famille. Publiée sous la direction de M.F. Homme. Agrégé de l'Université . (9½"h x 6½"w) (24cms x 16cms ) approx.
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A STROLLER
CHADDESLEY CORBETT
Worcester, U.K Herald Printers 1932 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good.
Spine ends and outer corner edges very slightly rubbed. Some foxing on edges, but no foxing on pages, which are clean and bright no tears or marks. Back spine edge is rubbed. A very good tight copy. Bookseller's bookplate and small gold address label inside front board. 116pp plus Index. Chaddesley Corbett is near Kidderminster in the County of Worcestershire. This account of Chaddesley Corbett was contributed by "A Stroller" to the columns of "The Worcester Herald." (7½"h x 5"w) (19cms x 13cms) approx.
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ADAMS, Richard
THE GIRL IN THE SWING
London Allen Lane 1980 0713914076 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good
Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine ends very slightly bumped. Price clipped. 397pp. Adam's fourth major novel set in the Berkshire countryside in the 1960s - a passionate love affair - lan Desland and antique dealer in the country town of Newbury, is a victim of psychic experiences. On a business visit to Copenhagen he meets Karin Forster, a German girl........
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ADAMSON, J.H. and H.F. Folland
SIR HARRY VANE. His Life and Times 1613-1662
London Bodley head 1973 0370102789 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
Book in very good condition, spine ends very slightly bumped. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine ends, top and bottom front edges and outer corner edge very slightly rubbed. xi, 498pp, including bibliography and index. With frontispiece and black-and-white photographs. From d/j flap - " Vane began his career as a courtier under Charles I, and in his early twenties was elected Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He returned to London and sat in most Parliaments until the Restoration. During the Revolution, he was considered, next to Cromwell, the most powerful man in England.
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ALBUTT, Roy
THE STAINED GLASS WINDOWS OF A J DAVIES of the Bromsgrove Worcestershire Guild
Pershore, U.K Roy Albutt 2005 0954356616 First Edition Soft Cover Fine Signed by Author
Softcover in fine condition. Signed by the author on the title page. xiv, 141pp, including Bibliography and Index. With 48 coloured illustrations. The life and works of Bromsgrove artist-craftsman Archibald John Davies. In 1906 he established a stained glass studio in the premises of the Bromsgrove Guild in Worcestershire and worked there until his death in 1953. Davies' designs, studio personnel, commissions and patronage are discussed. A gazetteer gives details of 240 of his windows found in Britain. Appendices include details of the Bromsgrove Guild, Davies signatures, the Toc H lamp casket, and other art works by Davies. (9½"h x 6" w) (24cms x 17cms) approx.
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ALBUTT, Roy
STAINED GLASS WINDOWS OF BROMSGROVE AND REDDITCH, WORCESTERSHIRE
Pershore, U.k R. Albutt 2002 0954356608 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good.
Very slightly rubbed at spine ends, otherwise in fine condition. ix, 118pp, included Bibliography. With 24 coloured photographs of stained windows. A survey of forty-two churches and chapels. It begins with a brief history of the development of stained glass followed by the processes involved for their creation, installation and dedication. The author writes in detail about some of the windows in each building, giving special attention to local makers A. J. Davies and A.E. and P.E. Lemmon. all of the windows in the church survey - over 250 - are included in a gazetteer. In the Appendices are details of the makers and designers of the windows, some of their marks, the subjects depicted and lists of the individuals commemorated. (9½"h x 6¾"w) (24cms x 17cms) approx.
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ALCOCK, N.W
OLD TITLE DEEDS. A Guide for Local and Family Historians
Chichester, U.K Phillimore 1986 0850335930 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good
Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, just very slightly rubbed at bottom outer corner edges. 91pp, including Glossary of Deed Terms - Subject Index - Index of Persons and Places. With 14 black-and-white photographs which include a copy of a medieval conveyance. The author uses examples to illustrate the uses and value of deeds ranging from 13th-century families, 15th-century fishmongers' shops and 17th-century friendships, to 19th-century cottages and factories. There is a comprehensive and detailed discussion of every type of deed in turn, explaining how to extract the historical evidence. Covering deeds from feoffments and quitclaims to bonds and reconveyances, as well as fines, recoveries and court rolls. The full text of many are included, as illustrations, together with a glossary. (10"h x 7½"w) (25cms x 19cms) approx.
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ALDERSON, Frederick
THE INLAND RESORTS AND SPAS OF BRITAIN
Newton Abbot, U.K David and Charles 1973 0715360485 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
Book in very good condition, spine ends slightly bumped, and tiny dent at back top edge, internally in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine ends slightly rubbed, and tiny tear at back top edge. Price clipped. 192pp, including Select Bibliography and Index. With 14 black-and-white photographs, 4 full-page and13 pencil drawings in text, and 1 map. From d/j flap - "To rediscover the inland resorts - spas, the 'wells'. the forest, mountain, health and pleasure resorts. To 'take the waters' became the recognised way for the eighteenth-century rich to soothe their ailments, and Bath, Harrogate and Tunbridge Wells remain among the best laid-out and most individual towns in Britain. There was also spa-lets, all the small towns and villages boasted of the currative powers of their water. All the main fashionable resorts are mentioned, with their builders, patrons, regimen and specialities; some smaller forgotten favourites are added, and there is a Gazetteer of Britain's inland resorts and what can be seen in them."
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ALEXANDER, David:
HUSH-A-BYE MURDER.
London T.V. Boardman 1958 First Edition Hard Cover Good Good
190pp. Book in good condition, outer pages are tanned, and a little foxing on some of the pages, but still a good tight copy. Dustjacket in good condition, has 2" tear on back cover by spine, the tear contiues across spine. Top spine edge is cracked with very small piece missing, and corner edges have minute pieces missing. 190pp. Bart Hardin's attempt to shield a radio actress from a smear campaign, finds him alone with a corpse of a famous columnist. W.H. Smith's Library bookplate inside front board.
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ALEXANDER, Marc
CANVASES OF COURAGE. A Gallery of Art Inspired by Triumph over Adversity
Churt, U.K Leader Books 1991 0907159028 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good
Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine ends very slightly rubbed. 183pp. With 97 very attractive colour paintings, four of them are double-page on very good quality paper, and two pages of colour photographs of the artists. - All the artists belong to the Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists which is world-wide. Every artist due to a disability paints with their mouth or foot. The association came into being in 1956 through a disabled German artist Arnulf Erich Stegmann. (12"h x 8"w) (30.5cms x 21cms) approx.
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ALLAN, Dr. A.N. and Dr. M.G. Fitzgerald (edited by)
HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF MEDICINE IN THE WEST MIDLANDS. Volume Two
U.K P. Drinkwater 1984 First Edition Hard Cover Fine. No Jacket
This was a softcover which has been rebound. viii, 92pp. With frontispiece, 10 half-tone plates, 5 text figures, and 1 map. From 'Foreword - " The historical sketches are based on presentations in the West Midlands Physicians Association between 1974 and 1983. Included are short biographies which are drawn from a number of sources. Some are autobiographical while others have been contributed by friends and colleagues.(9"h x 7½"w) (23cms x 19cms) approx.
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ALLEN, J.S (signed)
A HISTORY OF HORSELEY, TIPTON. Two centuries of Engineering Progress. Signed
Ashbourne, U.K Landmark 2000 1901522903 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine Signed by Author
Author's signature on the half-title page. 176pp. With numerous black-and-white photographs throughout the book. The Horseley family estate was purchased in 1792 by three entrepreneurs to develop coal mining. They extended the canals to provide transport, and then moved into iron making around 1808 and started manufacturing marine steam engines and iron boats in about 1817. Next came cast iron bridges in 1816 with a swing bridge in East India Docks, London, and many more bridges over the following years for the canal railway systems and for countries overseas. In 1992 the company closed down. (10"h x 7"w) (25.5cms x 18cms) approx.
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ALLEN, Jamie
SEEING RED. China's Uncompromising Takeover of Hong Kong
Singapore Butterworth-Heinmann 1997 9810080832 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good
Book in very good condition, spine ends very slightly bumped. Dustjacket in good condition, 1½" closed tear by top front edge, light creases by tear, top front edge and outer corner edges very slightly rubbed. xxi, 328pp, including Notes and Index. With 2 maps. From d/j flap - " The book tracks the progress of China's hard-nosed takeover strategy since the signing of the Sino-British Joint Declaration in December 1984. It examines the Basic Law from the perspective of China's political imperatives, and describes the steady advance of mainland Chinese business interests in the colony."
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ALLEN, Marion E. (Abstracted and edited by)
WILLS OF THE ARCHDEACONRY OF SUFFOLK 1625-1626
U.K Suffolk Records Society/Boyde Press 1995 0851156444 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good
Book in fine condition, with map of the parishes of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk on the endpapers. Dustjacket in very good condition, ¼" closed tear at back top edge, top of spine slightly rubbed with a small nick. xiv, 283pp, including Glossary. Containing abstracts of over four hundred wills proved in the court of the Archdeacon of Suffolk. The court's jurisdiction covered the eastern half of the county, an area rich in farming and industrial parishes, market towns and coastal ports. The contents have been indexed by testator, other people mentioned (mainly legatees and witnesses), occupation, place and subject. (9½"h x 6¼"w) (24cms x 16cms) approx.
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ALLEN, Peter
ONE MORE RIVER. The Rhine Crossings of 1945
London J.M. Dent 1980 0460043781 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good
Book in very good condition, spine ends very slightly bumped, otherwise in fine condition. Dustjacket in good condition, 1" closed tear by front top spine edge Spine ends, top edge and outer corner edges are rubbed.. 326pp, including Bibliography and Index. With 31 black-and-white photographs. The battle for the Rhineland, and the subsequent crossing of the Rhine in march 1945 by American, British and Canadian troops, saw some of the most desperately fought campaigns of all. First-hand accounts and archival material give the most detailed account of the closing stages of the war in Europe.
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ALLETZHAUSER, Albert
QUAKE
London: Bloomsbury, 1997
First Edition. Hardcover in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good+ condition, only faults very slightly rubbed at top and bottom back edge. 385pp. Novel. An earthquake hits Tokyo during the morning rush hour. Reporter Hiroko Fujita is unharmed amid the horrific scenes of death and destruction.
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ALLISS, Peter with Michael Hobbs
PETER ALLISS' MOST MEMORABLE GOLF
London Stanley Paul 1986 0091660505 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Roy Ullyett
Book in very good condition spine ends slightly bumped. Dustjacket very good condition, spine ends slightly bumped. iii, 146pp. With 23 black-and-white photographs and 8 drawings by Roy Ullyett. The author recalls the highlights of his own playing career - including the Ryder Cup matches and his tussle with the legendary Arnold Palmer in 1961, and also shares his memories of some of the greatest moments in international golf.
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ALLISS, Peter:
PETER ALLISS. An Autobiography.
London Collins 1981 0 00 216292X First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
Book in very good condition. Dustjacket in very good condition. Price clipped. 192pp. Illustrated. Alliss writes about his personal life and golf. He describes the world behind the TV cameras at the major championships and analyzes the superstars of his time - Hogan, Nicklaus, Ballesteros and others.
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AMIS, Kingsley:
THE BIOGRAPHER'S MOUSTACHE.
London Flamingo 1995 0 00 225330 5 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
282pp. This novel mercilessly exposes a literary world of pretension and vanity while poignantly revealing the potential for love across the social divide. Dustjacket and book in fine condition.
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AMPHLETT, John
A SHORT HISTORY OF CLENT
Oxford, U.K Parker 1890 First Edition Hard Cover Good.
Front board has a few light marks on it. Spine ends and outer corner edges are bumped. Some of the pages are rough-cut at front and bottom edges. Webbing is showing at hinge between pages 80 and 81, but there is no looseness. At the front edge some of the rough-cut pages are browned just along the edge, and some have nicks along the front edge. Foxing on the endpapers, and some of the pages have a little foxing. Neat annotations in ink by front edge on a few of the pages. Pasted inside front board are two bookseller's label. Front free endpaper has a small piece of browned newspaper cutting pasted. Family trees in ink and pencil on either side of the Index title-page. On back of last index page dates and names written in ink, opposite is a pasted page of the same. On one of the publisher's books page is pasted a piece of paper again with date and information written in ink. On back endpapers written information in ink. Previous owner's name on half-title page and on back of this page are dates and names in ink. A good tight book. Plus a small booklet "John Amphlett of Clent. An Appreciation by John Humphreys. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Worcestershire Naturalists Club 1918." 12pp. With photo of John Amphlett. Book size (7¾"h x 5¼"w) (19.5cms x 13.5cms) approx.
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ANDERSEN, Christopher
CITIZEN JANE. The turbulent life of Jane Fonda
New York: Henry Holt, 1990 Hard Cover
First Edition. Hardcover in near fine condition, spine ends slightly bumped, very tiny dent at top of pages 272 to 300pp. Dustjacket in near fine condition, spine ends very slightly bumped. 389pp, including Film Chronology, Work for Television, Theatre Chronology. Bibliography and Index. With 47 black-and-white photographs.
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ANDERSON, Charles R
THE GRUNTS
California Presidio Press 1984 089141003 1 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
Fifth printing. Book in very good plus condition, spine ends very slightly bumped, internally in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine ends very slightly rubbed. xiv, 204pp. With illustrations at the start of each chapter by Cornelius Cole Smith, Jnr. This is a true story of what happened to one Marine company during one 58-day operation. It is the story of the individual infantryman, the grunt, who bore the brunt of the fighting in the Vietnam War. Price clipped. Dustjacket and book in very good condition.
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ANDERSON, John Corbet
SHROPSHIRE: ITS EARLY HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES. Comprising a Description of the important British and Roman Remains in that County: Its Saxon and Danish Reminiscences: The Domesday Survey of Shropshire
London Willis and Sotheran 1864 First Edition Hard Cover Good.
Leather-bound, with 5 bands on spine. Gilt edged. Stamped in gilt on front board at top edge by spine "Adderly Library. Marlborough College." On front free endpaper its stamped "Marlborough College Library. Reading Room" and also written in ink "Sold to Brynton 1986." Spine sides and edges are rubbed also spine ends (see picture). Webbing is showing a little at hinge inside front board, but the book is still tight, no looseness. Some of the pages have foxing, otherwise the pages are very clean and bright, most of the full-page illustrations also have foxing. Two labels pasted on the inside front board are pasted one over the other. A really good tight copy. viii, 491pp, including Subscriber's List, Index of Places and General Index. With 60 pages of drawings on wood, some pages have two drawings on them , plus numerous drawings on wood in the text. Also includes the history of its Forest, Towns, Manors, Abbeys, Churches, Castles and Great Baronial Houses. (9¾"h x 6½"w) (25cms x 17cms) approx.
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ANDERSON, P. Howard:
THE EAST MIDLANDS. Regional Railway Handbook No.1.
U.K David St. John Thomas,/David Charles 1986 0 946537 35 6 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
First edition. 208pp. Illustrated with numerous photographs plus maps. A thorough survey of Inter-City, Provincial Sector and Railfreight activity in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire. There is also a chapter on the best places for observation and photography. With a reference section dealing with opening dates and also major closures. Dustjacket and book in very good condition.
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ANDERSON, Verily
THE LAST OF THE ECCENTRICS. A Life of Rosslyn Bruce
London Hodder and Stoughton 1972 0340154896 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Signed by Author
Author's signature and date on title page. Book in very good condition, tiny black mark at top edge, internally in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, very slightly rubbed at bottom spine edge and top outer corner front edge, front inside flap has a full length crease caused by being folded in half. 320pp, including index. Rosslyn Bruce was an English country parson, a great character, and animal lover who would have birds, and beasts about him in the most unlikely circumstances. He was ordained in 1898 and filled churches (standing room only) throughout U.K, in Europe and in the U.S.A. The author is his daughter.
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ANDREWS, Allen:
THE PROSECUTOR.
London George G. Harrap 1968 Fifth Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
Book in very good condition. Previous owner's inscription written in ink on front endpaper. Dustjacket in very good condition, 2 very small tears, top of spine very slightly rubbed, and a few feint marks on back cover. Price clipped. 232pp. With 13 illustrations. Mervyn Phippen Pugh was Prosecuting Solicitor to the City of Birmingham, U.K. from 1924 to 1958. As the only permanent local Agent for the Director of Public Prosecutions, he directed the handling among his 110,000 cases, of 100 prosecutions for murder, from the preliminary hearing to the Assize judgement. Previous owner's inscription written in ink on front endpaper.
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ANDREWS, William (edited by)
HISTORIC BYWAYS AND HIGHWAYS OF OLD ENGLAND
London William Andrews 1900 First Edition Hard Cover Good
Book in good condition, with gilt top edge. Spine ends and outer corner edges slightly bumped, most pages are rough-cut at front edge. Endpapers to front and back boards have light foxing. A few of the pages have one or two spots of foxing, but most are clean and bright.. Page 19 has ½" tear at front edge. Page 137 has two small tears at top edge, and pages 136 to 139 have a small area dark spotted area at top edge. A good tight copy. 269pp, including index. With 5 full-pages illustrations, and also illustrations in text. Studies of social and domestic England, by various contributors. Included are William Andrews, Robert Gibbs, Thomas Frost, Edward Lamplough etc. Contents include: The Gibbetts of Northumberland - House marks and signs in the Olden Time - Chaucer and the medieval Inn - Castle Buildings - Facts about Falconry - Parish Passports - Salter's Coffee-House and Museum at Chelsea - The Maypole - An old time Survey of England - Archery in the Olden Time - The Highwaymen of Hounslow Heath, etc. (9"h x 6"w) (22.5cms x 15cms) approx
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ANON
TRANSACTIONS OF THE WORCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Third Series. Vol.9
U.K Alan Sutton 1984 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good.
Tiny crease at the bottom of front outer corner edge, otherwise in fine condition. 120pp, including Obituary Notices - Annual Report for 1982 and 1983 - Rules of the Society. Contents: A Thirteenth-Century Pilgrim's Ampulla from Worcester - The Old Pit, Upwich, Droitwich - A Note on the Former Barrel Vault in the Choir of St John the Baptist, Halesowen - Late Thirteenth-Century Building at Halesowen - The Parish Registers and Poor Law Records of Powick, 1663-1841 - Nunnery and Perry Woods, Worcester Historical Ecology and Land Use Changes - The Victorians look at their Churches - The Navigation of the River Severn, 1750-1950 - Two Victorian Sculptors James and William Forsyth. (9½"h x 7¼"w) (24.5cms x 18.5cms) approx.
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Anon
ENGLAND'S TRIUMPH. A MORE EXACT HISTORY OF HIS MAJESTIES ESCAPE AFTER THE BATTLE OF WORCESTER
London 1660 First Edition Hard Cover Good
Full Leather. Rebound spine with five raised bands. Leather boards have decorated pattern along edges and a gilt line around edges. Boards are rubbed around edges. Hinge is showing inside front and back boards, but the book is still very tight, no looseness. Pages are browned. A few of the pages have light smudge marks on them (finger marks?). Some foxing on front endpapers and title-page, and a few of the pages have some foxing. A few pages have annotations, a line (faded by age to light brown) by the text at front edge, On page 26 and 27 the titles and page numbers are partly missing. Pages 83 and 85 have a small tear at front edge. Page 95 has the word Physician crossed out and the word Chaplain written next to it. Page 114 has a very tiny hole. Marbled endpapers. Endpaper inside front board has marks where a label has been removed. A good book for it's journey of 350 years. Preface has four-and-a-half pages, plus 128pp. Continuation of the title - With a Chronological Discourse of His Straits and dangerous Adventures into France, and His Removes from place to place till His return into England, with the most Remarkable Memorials since, to this present September, 1660. On title page - Printed by F.G. for Nathaniel Brook, and are to be sold at the Angel in Cornhill, 1660. Kings Charles II escape from Worcester during the Civil War. (6½"h x 4"w) (16.5cms x 10.5cms) approx.
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ANON
A GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN GRECIAN, ROMAN, ITALIAN, AND GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. Fifth edition enlarged. Vol.I -Text. Vol.II in Two Parts: Part I - Plates and Part II - Plates
London John Henry Parker 1850 Fifth edition Hard Cover Very Good
Half-leather. Fifth edition enlarged. All three volumes are dark-red half leather bound. All have been repaired at sometime with new endpapers and frontispiece has also been repaired, some foxing on most of the pages. Most of the full-page illustrations have some foxing by edges of page, a few have some foxing on the actual illustration. Vol. I: 3" repaired tear starting at front edge going inwards on page 435, and a repaired tear on page 523 near bottom edge which goes right across page. Vol. II: Part II - A few of the pages have a small nick at front edge. All volumes have bookseller’s label inside front board (2½"w x3"h). All three are very good tight copies. Vol.I - xi, 528pp, plus 47 Index pages. Part I: has 103 pages of text with woodcuts in the text plus 105 pages of plates. Part II - 156 pages of plates (no pages of text). Vol. II - Part I and Part II: have seventeen hundred woodcuts including 12 in colour. All three volumes are (8¾"h x 6"w) (22cms x 15cms) approx. Heavy set.
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ANON
A HANDBOOK OF EMPIRE TIMBERS
London HMSO 1945 Reprint Hard Cover Very Good
Revised edition. Hardcover in very good condition, front and back free endpapers have two marks where cellotape has been removed by top and bottom outer corners, internally pages are in fine condition. vii, 142pp, including Appendices - Kiln Schedules - Mechanical Properties of Empire Timbers and Specifications for the Teeth of Circular Saws. Includes - The Weights of Timbers- Shrinkage Figures -Bending Properties - The Strength Properties of Timber - Resistance to Attack by Wood-Destroying Fungi - Insect Attack and Susceptibility to Marine Borers - Classification of Empire Timbers in order of Permeability and Woodworking Qualities. - Hardwoods and Softwoods (9¾"h x 6"w) (25cms x 5.5cms). Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Forest Products Research.
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ANON
THE STORTFORDIAN 1921 - 1923
U.K. First Edition Hard Cover Very Good
Spine slightly faded, title in gilt on spine not faded. Some foxing on endpapers, and on edges, but only the odd spot of foxing on pages which are clean and bright, no tears or marks, just a hint of light browning at top of pages. 8 - school magazines rebound. The Stortfordian School, Hertfordshire magazines from July, 1921 (No.104) to December, 1923 (No.111). With black-and-white photographs.
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Anon
WORKING TIMETABLES OF PASSENGER AND GOODS TRAINS . 1st June to 30th September 1909. London and South Western Railway. Main Line and Central Districts
London Ian Allan Reprint Hard Cover Very Good Poor
Facsimile of the original tables of the London and South Western Railway for June to September 1909. Book in very good condition, top outer corner edges slightly bumped, otherwise in fine condition. Dustjacket in poor condition, 1½" repaired tear at top edge and ½" tear at front bottom outer edge, rubbed along spine sides and along edges, spine ends each have small piece missing also at outer corner edges, back cover a little rubbed in places (see picture). 576pp. The timetables cover the lines between Waterloo, Southampton and Weymouth, Plymouth, Portsmouth, the complex London suburban network and many branches. It includes speed limits, engine restrictions, regulations for working mixed trains and other operating data. (9"h x 6¼"w) (21.5cms x16cms)
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ANON
OFFICIAL HANDBOOK AND SOUVENIR TO THE MASONIC BAZAAR BLACKPOOL (ADELAIDE STREET) 23rd, 24th, 25th and 26th September, 1903
U.K 1903 First Edition Hard Cover Good
Gilt edged. Boards have marks on them (see picture), slightly rubbed at spine ends, endpapers are partly tanned, a few of the pages are very lightly tanned at the bottom edge, and a few of the pages also have a light narrow stain by front edge, otherwise pages are clean and bright. A good tight copy. 104pp. With black-and white photographs of the some of Freemasons, and there are 10 Lodges which include the members names. There are also full-page advertisements, some of the advertisements of the stalls at the Bazaar have photographs of the people running them. Includes - Dates of Remarkable Occurrences in Masonry from A.D.287 to 1901, and there are 8 pages about the history of the Freemasons. (9½"h x 6½"w) (24.5cms x 16.5cms) approx.
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ANON
WHO'S WHO IN HEREFORDSHIRE
Hereford, U.K Wilson and Philips 1933 Limited edition Hard Cover Good.
Limited edition No.116. Free endpapers are browned on one side, one or two spots of foxing on just a few of the pages. . Page 29 has small piece missing at front edge, some of the pages are rough-cut. Boards are in fair condition, spine ends and outer corner edges are rubbed, boards have some marks on them (see picture). A good tight copy. 144pp. (10¼"h x 6½"w (26cms x 16.5cms) approx.
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Anon
BIRMINGHAM ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS FOR THE YEAR 1916. No.185. Birmingham and Midland Institute
U.K 1917 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good
Book has been rebound. Front board has some foxing. The free endpapers to title-page have a small light brown stain by the top inside edge. About 4 pages have one or two spots of foxing. Bookseller's label pasted inside front board. A very good tight book. 89pp. With 19 black-and-white illustrations and one map. Contents: Ancient Bridges, Fords and Ferries - Worcestershire Low Side Windows - Street Names, Birmingham - Notes at Open Meeting: Ancient Stone Roods, Assyrian Seals and Tablets, African Flints, and Local Finds - Proceedings of the Society 1915-16 - List of Officers - Annual Reports and Accounts. (9"h x 6"w) approx.
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ANON
COUNTRY RAMBLES. Round Kidderminster
Kidderminster, U.K G.T. Cheshire Soft Cover Fair
Not dated c. 1920s. Boards are marked, rubbed at spine ends and outer corner edges, small piece missing by top spine edge. Bottom of back endpapers have water? stain at bottom edge. Foxing at front edge and a few of the pages have a tiny spot or two of foxing at front edge. Some marks near top edge on pages 102, 103, 110 and 111, otherwise pages are clean and bright. . Hinge is showing a little between pages 176 and 177, but the book is still a good tight copy. Copies of two maps (originals are missing), one has been pasted into the book, the other is loose. With 4 full-page and other pencil drawings in the text. Includes Arley Kings- Belbroughton, Cleobury and Titterstone, Hermitages, Kinlet Church, Ribbesford, Wolverley, etc. (7½"h x 5"w) (19cms x 12.5cms) approx.
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ANON
A BRIEF TREATISE ON VARIOUS AILMENTS AND THEIR TREATMENT BY NATURE'S REMEDIES
U.K Hard Cover Good.
Not dated but c.1890s. Book in good condition, spine has a piece missing and rubbed in places. The book is stapled, and at the centre of the book there are brown marks by the staples. Pages are clean and bright, no tears or marks. Previous owner's name and address inside front board. 48pp. With 21 drawings of flowers and a portrait of Gladstone. Natural cures for Sciatica, Blood Diseases, Falling Hair, Kidneys, and Bladder, and more.
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ARCHER, Fred
UNDER THE PARISH LANTERN
London Hodder and Stoughton 1969 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good
Book in very good condition, bottom spine edge slightly bumped, page 32 has 1½" light brown mark at bottom edge. Dustjacket in good condition, only faults - spine ends and corner edges slightly rubbed, 5" neat closed tear on back cover. 169pp. The author's life during the First World War and just after, spent near Bredon Hill in the Cotswolds.
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ARCT, Squadron Leader B
PRISONER OF WAR. My Secret Journal. Stalag Luft I. Germany 1944-45
Oxford, U.K Past Times 1995 Reprint Hard Cover Fine By Author
138pp, plus 36 pages not numbered. With numerous coloured drawings throughout the book by the author, plus some maps. The author was born in Poland. In 1940 he to England and trained as a fighter pilot. In 1943, with a group of Polish pilots, he volunteered to go to North Africa where he and the others fought alongside the British 145 Squadron. In 1944 he was promoted to Squadron Leader of 316 Squadron. In September of 1944, during a flight over Holland, his plane caught fire and he was forced to bale out. He was captured and taken to Stalag Luft I prisoner of war camp. It was during the seven months in this camp that he wrote what he called his ‘Log Book’ Prisoner of War. The journal was done by Arct purely to amuse his fellow inmates and to provide release and relaxation for himself. During his war service he received two important Polish decorations for bravery in the field, the Virtuti Militari and the Krzyz Walecznych, the latter four times.
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ARLOTT, John (Selected and Introduced by):
THE COLOURED COUNTIES. Poems of Places in England and Wales
London J.M. Dent 1988 0 460 07005 3 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in fine condition. xvi, 312pp. From odd out-of-the-way spots to grimy beloved towns, the reader can visit landmarks throughout the length and breadth of the country. Presenting a picture of the towns, villages and landscape of England and Wales, as seen through the eyes of over 200 writers included among them are;- Chaucer, Byron, Wordsworth, Betjeman, Houseman.
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ARLOTT, John. Selected and introduced by
THE COLOURED COUNTIES. Poems of Places in England and Wales
London J.M. Dent 1988 0460070053 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
Book in very good condition, bottom spine edge very slightly bumped, otherwise the book is in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine ends very slightly bumped. xvi, 312pp. From odd out-of-the-way spots to grimy beloved towns, the reader can visit landmarks throughout the length and breadth of the country. Presenting a picture of the towns, villages and landscape of England and Wales, as seen through the eyes of over 200 writers included among them are;- Chaucer, Byron, Wordsworth, Betjeman, Houseman.
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ARMSTRONG, Robin
SPLIT-CANE AND SABLE. A book of Fish, Men and Nature
London J.M. Dent 1988 0460047450 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
Book in very good condition. Previous owner's name and address inside front board. Dustjacket in very good condition, just a hint the top of spine is bumped. viii, 145pp, including index. With 20 attractive full-colour illustrations by the author, and many pencil drawings in the text. From d/j/ flap - "The purchase , when the author was a young lad, of a brightly painted float on a market stall led him to the delights of rural life in some of the loveliest parts of Britain. His journey from a young lad in London to the streams of upland Dartmoor. On the way he talks of Kentish carp and Dungeness cod; of Sussex bass and Scottish herring; of the pleasures of collecting classic tackle; of the mystery and majesty of salmon; of the peace of the Kennet, and about the colourful characters he meets on his travels. (9½"h and 6½"w) (24cms x 17cms).
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ARMSTRONG, Robin
THE PAINTED STREAM. A River Warden's Life
London Bellew 1985 0460047027 First Edition Hard Cover Fine. Very Good Author
Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition. Some foxing inside dustjacket cover, but definitely no foxing on the front of the dustjacket or on the book. 160pp, including Notes on the Paintings. With frontispiece, double-page map of the area, 26 full-page watercolours and 7 in the text of really delightful pictures of the fish and wildlife, plus numerous pencil sketches by the author whose job is to look after two of the most beautiful small rivers in England, the Tavy and the Walkham in Devon. Robin's often amusing accounts of tracking down and foiling the poachers who prey on the lucrative fish. His job allows him to pursue his other career as a wildlife artist. The pictures and text describe life and incident along the rivers, and the local characters he meets. Superbly illustrated. A really lovely book for anyone who loves fishing and nature. (11¾"h x 7½"w) (28.5cms x 18.5cms) approx.
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ARNO, Peter
MAN IN THE SHOWER
London Robert Hale First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Fair
Not dated c. 1944? Book in very good condition, boards very slightly faded along tip of top and bottom edges, spine ends slightly bumped, some foxing on endpapers, rest of the pages are in fine condition. Dustjacket in fair condition, with three repaired tears and small pieces missing at spine ends, along back top edge, and front bottom outer corner edge (see picture), name 'Arthur Lloyd' written in green on front cover. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Pages are not numbered. With frontispiece and 115 full-page cartoons by the author. (11½"h x 8¾"w) (29cms x 22.5cms) approx.
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ARTHUR, Max
MEN OF THE RED BERET. Airborne Forces 1940-1990
London Hutchinson 1990 009173934 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good
Book in fine condition. Previous owner's name in biro inside front board. Dustjacket in very good condition, three light creases at bottom back edge, top edge very slightly rubbed. xviii, 430pp, including a Brief History of British Airborne Forces and Index. With 42 black-and-white photographs, and 22 maps. From d/j flap - "In 1990 the Airborne Forces celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. From over 150 interviews the author has compiled a fascinating history of the Airborne Forces and the parachute Regiment, including all their major operations."
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ARTHUR, Max
THERE SHALL BE WINGS. The RAF: 1918 to the Present
London Hodder and Stoughton 1993 034058761X First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good
Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good plus condition, top spine edge and top outer corner edges very slightly rubbed. xiv, 412pp, including index. With 20 black-and-white photographs. The history of the Royal Air Force, which ranges from the RFC pilot of a SE5 on the Western Front in 1918 to the first Hercules to land in Sarajevo in 1992. Covering the aircrews who flew against the German advance into France and in the Battle of Britain, and includes an account front the highest scoring survivor of the battle. From interviews with over 150 members of the Royal Air Force. April 1993 marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the birth of the Royal Air Force.
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ARTHUR, Max
THE TRUE GLORY. The Royal Navy: 1914-1939
London Hodder and Stoughton 1996 0340623012 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
Book and dustjacket in very good condition, both very slightly bumped at spine ends. xii, 292pp, including Chronology of Naval Events 1914-1939 and Index. With 29 black-and-white photographs. The author interviewed survivors of the First World War Royal Navy - Jutland, Gallipoli, Zeebrugge, Q ships, K boats and flying in the RNAS. Vivid accounts from the men who fought at Jutland, and from two privates of the Royal Naval Division who tell of the horrors of trench fighting at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. A Royal Marine officer reveals details of the mutiny of his men during the 1919 North Russian campaign against the Bolsheviks. There is action in China. The book ends at the start of the Second World War with the sinking of the Royal Oak and the heroic fight by the Exeter, Ajax and Achilles at the Battle of the River Plate.
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ASHCROFT, Frances:
LIFE AT THE EXTREMES. The Science of Survival.
London HarperCollins 2000 0 00 255946 3 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
Book and dustjacket in fine condition. xxi, 326pp. With 82 black and white illustrations. The author weaves real-life stories with the latest scientific findings to explain what happens to the human body under extreme conditions. Why are astonauts unable to stand without fainting when they return to Earth? Why do divers get the bends but sperm whales don't? and 'Why don't penguin's feet get frostbite?' .
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ASHDOWN, Charles H.
BRITISH CASTLES
London Adam and Charles Black 1911 First Edition Hard Cover Good
Boards are rubbed at spine ends and outer corner edges. Endpapers are browned. Bookplate of Francis Brunel Hawes inside front board. Some foxing only on half-title page and last page, and with a little foxing on title-page. All the rest of the pages are in fine condition. Webbing showing in places where paper has torn along hinges inside front and back boards. Book is still a good tight copy, there is no looseness. xx, 208pp, including index. With 32 full-page very attractive colour illustrations and 37 line drawings in the text of plans and diagrams. The Contents include: Natural Fortresses Strengthened - Fortified Hill Tops - Simple Artificial Enclosures - The Motte and Bailey Castle - The Shell Keep - The Rectangular Keep - The Cylindrical Keep - The Concentric Castle- The Castles of Scotland - The Siege and Defence of a Medieval Castle. (9¼"h x 7"w) (24cms x 17.5cms) approx.
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ASHDOWN, Dulcie M.:
ROYAL PARAMOURS.
London Robert Hale 1979 0 7091 7151 X First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good
Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition. Price clipped. 192pp. With 24 illustrations. The mistresses of King Charles II, Edward V11, Bonnie Prince Charles and many others.
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ASHLEY, Maurice:
CHARLES I AND OLIVER CROMWELL. A Study in Contrasts and Comparisons.
London Methuen, London. 1987. 1987 0 413 16270 2. First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
Book and dustjacket in fine condition. Price clipped. 243pp. King Charles I and Cromwell were the great protagonists in the English Civil War and its aftermath. The author re-examines their military methods, their approaches to religion, diplomatic manoeuvres, domestic policies and the manner in which they handled their parliments.
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ATTENBOROUGH, John:
THE PRIEST'S STORY.
London Hodder and Stoughton 1984 0 340 34935 2 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
192pp. Novel. It was chance that caused Richard Eveleigh to break a cycle journey in Ockenham - a small farming village near Canterbury, chiefly notable for an ancient church and a great house in which the same family has lived for many generations.
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ATTWOOD, Margaret
ALIAS GRACE
London Bloomsbury 1996 0 7475 2787 3 Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
Book in fine condition, small label inside front board. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine ends very slightly rubbed. Price cliiped. 470pp. One illustration. Novel set in Victorian London. 470pp. With one illustration.
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AUBREY, Philip
THE DEFEAT OF JAMES STUART'S ARMADA 1692
Leicester University Press, 1979
First edition. 194pp, including bibliography, general index, and index of ships' names. With 9 illustrations and 7 maps, and map on endpapers. Hardcover in near fine condition, endpapers partly slightly tanned. Price clipped. Dustjacket in near fine condition, slightly bumped at top spine edge. The battles of Barfleur and the Hogue, which saved England from invasion in 1692 by a Franco-Irish army already assembled in Normandy and from the danger of a second civil war had Jacobite sympathizers been given a rallying point.
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AUSTIN, Alfred
HAUNTS OF ANCIENT PEACE
London Adam and Charles Black 1908 Hard Cover Very Good Agnes Locke
Half-Leather. A very good tight copy . Spine decoration in gilt, with five raised bands. Some foxing of half title-page, and the odd spot or two of foxing on a few of the pages, most pages are clean and bright. Very slightly rubbed at outer corners. Page 121 has 1" tear near top front edge. Opposite page 12 small light mark near bottom edge on illustration page, illustration not effected, Front edge of pages are rough-cut. Illustration opposite page 20 has crease at bottom front edge, does not effect picture. On the front endpaper "Edgehill Girls' College Prize" label dated Oct.8.1918. Presented to Phyllis S. Braddick.'. 169pp. With colour frontispiece, and 19 attractive colour illustrations by Agnes Locke. (9"h x 6½"w( (23cms x 16.5cms). approx.
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AYMAR, Brandt (edited by)
MEN AT SEA. The Best Sea Stories of All Time
London Barry and Jenkins 1989 0712621687 Hard Cover Fine Very Good
First U.K. edition. Hardcover in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine ends very slightly rubbed, and 2" slanting crease on back cover starting at front bottom edge. A classic collection of sixty-three of the world's greatest sea stories. Writers include, Robert Daley, Herman Wouk, Jules Verne, Daniel Defoe, Alistair MacLean and Ernest Hingway. Covering the adventures of Odysseus to the navies of the twentieth century.
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AYRE, Leslie
THE PROMS. The Story of the Grandest Music Festival in the World
London Leslie Frewin 1968 Second Impression Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
Book in very good+ condition, a few spots of foxing on front edge, no foxing on pages, internally in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, top spine edge and top edge slightly rubbed. Price clipped. vii, 215pp. With 18 black and white photographs. A foreword by Sir Adrian Boult. Also includes a record of all the Prom seasons, showing the year in which each artist made his or her debut.
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BAILEY, Brian
CHURCHYARDS OF ENGLAND AND WALES
London Robert Hale 1987 0709029489 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good
Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good plus condition, top spine edge and top outer corner edges very slightly bumped. With 107 photographs and drawings. of which 18 are in colour. 240pp, including Appendix: Some notable burials in English and Welsh churchyards, List of Sources and Index. From d/j flap - " Looking at the origin and history of churchyards, the legends surrounding many of them, the extraordinary paraphernalia to be found there, some of their traditions and rituals, and of course, their notable burials and inscriptions. Many churchyards have macabre happenings and pagan associations. (9"h x 8"w) (23.5cms x 20cms) approx.
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BAKER, Michael (edited by)
PICTURES IN THE POST. The illustrated letters of Sir Henry Thornhill to his grandchildren
London Bantam Press 1987 059301250X First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good
Book in fine condition. Dustjacket very good condition, just very slightly rubbed at top spine edge and top outer corner edges. 159pp. With numerous delightful colour drawings by Sir Henry Thornhill and over 30 black-and-white photographs. From d/j flap - " In 1914 Sir Henry Thornhill, a distinguished soldier-administrator of the British Raj, started sending illustrated cards to his two-year-old grandson, Teddy. The pictures featured the adventures of a number of animals, principally Mr. Hare and an elephant called Hathi. Sir Henry continued to write once a week over many years to Teddy and his three younger sisters. As each child reached the age of five, the picture cards became letters colourfully embellished with drawings of birds and animals, insects and fishes, as well as all manner of new inventions from the great era of pioneering technology that followed World War One. In all there are some 800 items of correspondence, the best of which appear in this book." (7¾"h x 10½"w) (20cms x 26.5cms) approx.
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BAKER, Michael (edited by)
PICTURES IN THE POST. The illustrated letters of Sir Henry Thornhill to his grandchildren
London Bantam Press 1987 059301250X First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good
Book in fine condition. Dustjacket very good condition, just very slightly rubbed at top spine edge and top outer corner edges. 159pp. With numerous delightful colour drawings by Sir Henry Thornhill and over 30 black-and-white photographs. From d/j flap - " In 1914 Sir Henry Thornhill, a distinguished soldier-administrator of the British Raj, started sending illustrated cards to his two-year-old grandson, Teddy. The pictures featured the adventures of a number of animals, principally Mr. Hare and an elephant called Hathi. Sir Henry continued to write once a week over many years to Teddy and his three younger sisters. As each child reached the age of five, the picture cards became letters colourfully embellished with drawings of birds and animals, insects and fishes, as well as all manner of new inventions from the great era of pioneering technology that followed World War One. In all there were some 800 items of correspondence, the best of which appear in this book." (7¾"h x 10½"w) (20cms x 26.5cms) approx.
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BAKEWELL, Joan
THE CENTRE OF THE BED
London Hodder and Stoughton 2003 0340823100 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good
Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, just slightly rubbed at back top and bottom edge. xiv, 322pp, including index. With 43 black-and-white photographs. Joan Bakewell was one of the first women journalists on British television. She creates a strong sense of atmosphere of the eras she has witnessed, from the austerity of the 1950s to the radicalism of the 1960s.
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BALDICK, Robert (Edited, translated and introduced by):
PAGES FROM THE GONCOURT JOURNAL.
U.K Oxford University Press 1962 Hard Cover Good Good
First U.K.edition. Book and dustjacket in good condition, a little cracked along spine ends, cracked line by front spine edge and front edge, back cover a little marked (as if rubbed along dusty shelf). xxii, 434pp. With 8 illustrations. The first entry in the Journal was in 1851, when both brothers - Edmond and Jules saw the publication of their first novel. They wrote of their converstions with great writers, life in Paris during the Second Empire, give descriptions of slums, palaces, brothels, drawing rooms, and critical judgement on works of art and literature, and about men and women in every class of society.
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BALDWIN, Mark
SIMON EVANS. His life and later work
Cleobury Mortimer, U.K M and M Baldwin 1992 0947712178 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good
Softcover with very light mark on back cover, and two small marks on front cover, otherwise in fine condition. 64pp. With 13 black-and-white photographs. Simon Evans lived in Cleobury Mortimer and was the local postman, but was also known as an author, poet and broadcaster. The author analyses Evan's published work. a number of Evans' articles, never before collected into a book are included, together with a few pieces which were published for the first time in this book. (8¼"h x 5¾"w) (21cms x 15cm s) approx.
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BALL, Johnson
WILLIAM CASLON 1693-1766. The ancestry, life and connections of England's foremost letter-engraver and type-founder
Kineton, U.K Roundwood Press 1973 First Edition Hard Cover Good Fair
Author's signature and date "16th May 1973" on front free endpaper. Book in good condition, boards lightly marked. Internally in fine condition. Dustjacket in fair condition, piece missing at bottom edge, with repaired tears and edgewear (see picture). xxviii, 494pp, including Appendices, Bibliography and Personal Names and Place-Names Indexes. With colour frontispiece, 88 black-and-white illustrations of which 54 are title-pages of books, 17 figures in the text, 11 lists of Pedigrees. Tracing Caslon's ancestry from his birth in Halesowen, Worcestershire, his apprenticeship, and his move to London where he made tools for book-binders and silver-smiths, before he became a letter-cutter. The author also reviews the book trade and its related craftsmen, artists, engravers, calligraphers, and explains the terminology of printing and type-founding. Shows Caslon's technical achievements by illustrations, with commentary, and, discusses the merits of Caslon's type-faces from the viewpoint of an artist- calligrapher-historian. (9½"h x 6½") (24cms x 16.5cms) approx.
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BALLARD, Robert D. and Tony Chiu
BRIGHT SHARK
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1992
First Edition. Hardcover in fine condition. Dustjacket in fine condition. 377pp. Novel. From d/j flap - ' When a wrecked Israeli submarine - mysteriously lost after the Six Day War - is discovered by an American geological research vessel in a deep trench fifty miles west of Crete, a long-buried enigma is about to be solved.'
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BALLINGER, Adam
THE QUIET SOLDIER
London Chapmans 1992 1855926067 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Good
Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in good condition, very slightly rubbed at spine ends. 236pp. The author writes about his time with the Special Air Service.
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BAR-ZOHAR, Michael
HITLER'S JEWISH SPY. The most extraordinary true spy story of World War II
London Sidgwick & Jackson 1985 028399293X First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
Book in very good plus condition, spine ends slightly bumped, internally in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine ends very slightly bumped. Price clipped. 228pp, including index. With illustrations. Paul Ernst Fackenheim is the only Jew to have been released from a concentration camp during WWII. His First World War service, when he won the Iron Cross, his acknowledged patriotism, and his Jewish blood, made him a suitable candidate to spy on the British in Palestine.
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BARBER, Richard:
EARL SPENCER. SAINT OR SINNER?
London Andre Deutsch 1998 0 233 99 360 6 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
Book in very good condition, smal black mark on front edge, does not effect inside pages. Dustjacket in very good condtion, top edge very slightly bumped. viii, 213pp. With 21 colour and 2 black and white photographs. Earl Spencer the brother of Princess Diana - the book follows his life from his childhood at Althorp, through his parents marriage break-up, and Princes Diana's funeral.
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BARBER, Robert
KIDDERMINSTER. The Second Selection. Images of England
Stroud, U.K Tempus 2002 0752426192 First Edition Soft Cover Fine.
128pp. With numerous black-and-white photographs. This is the author's second book on Kidderminster, includes - the Fire Brigade, the history of the town's companies, Brinton's Carpets, T. & A .Naylor, The Castle Motor Company and the Sugar Factory, Swan Centre and Rowland Hill shopping precinct, the town centre re-development, the Ring Road, and the 700 year-old Caldwall Tower. (9½"h x 6"w) (24.5cms x 17.5cms) approx.
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BARBER, Robert. Compiled by
KIDDERMINSTER. Images of England
Stroud, U.K Tempus 1999 0752416839 Reprint Soft Cover Fine.
128pp. With more than 200 black-and-white photographs of inhabitants at work and taking part in leisure activities, and a section has been devoted to the flood of 1955 that wreaked such havoc. The history of Kidderminster is examined by looking at the changes that can be seen in local shops and businesses. showing the changes by photographs of the premises, the employers and the employed that worked there. Tower. (9½"h x 6"w) (24.5cms x 17.5cms) approx. .
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BARBOUR, Philip L.
THE THREE WORLDS OF CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH. Adenturer, Colonist and Promoter
London Macmillan 1964 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good
Book in very good condition, spine ends slightly bumped. Dustjacket in good condition, spine a little faded, back cover has marks (dust?), sides and ends of spine and side of front edge are rubbed. Price clipped. xix, 553pp. With 16 black-and-white illustrations and 6 maps. John Smith was born in obscurity in Lincolnshire in 1580, was a colonist, adventurer and promoter - became a soldier of fortune on the continent. He then became actively interested in England's new ventures across the Atlantic. In 1606 he sailed with the first Jamestown settlers, and kept the settlement together through Indian raids, and famine. He became one of the prime movers in the founding of the New England colonies. He was captured by pirates and shipwrecked off the New England coast, and in 1616 he published a map of the coast. Smith was also famous for capturing the affections of Pocahontas and was saved from being clubbed to death. He also published the first practical handbook for seaman in the English language.
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BARCLAY, Brigadier C.N
ARMISTICE 1918
London J.M. Dent 1968 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good
Book in very good condition, spine ends just very slightly bumped, small white label on front free endpaper. Dustjacket in good condition, slightly rubbed at spine sides and at spine ends. Price clipped. xviii,155pp, including Index. With 16 black-and-white photographs and 7 maps. Appendices include: The 'Fourteen Points - The Armistice Agreement with Germany - The Peace Treaty between the Associated Powers and Germany.
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BARKER, Raffaella
HENS DANCING
Review, 1999 Hard Cover Fine Fine
First edition. Hardcover in fine condition. Dustjacket in fine condition. 344pp, pictorial endpapers. When Venetia Summers' husband leaves her for his masseuse, suddenly she finds herself a single mother of three, her every ounce of wit and resource called into play as she strives to hold together her newly lopsided family.
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BARLING, Elizabeth
BIRTH OF A NATURE RESERVE
Lincoln, U.K Royal Society for Nature Conservation 1982 0902484036 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
Book in very good condition, just very slightly bumped at top spine edge, light mark at top of front endpaper where pencilled writing has been rubbed out. Dustjacket in very good condition, top of spine very slightly bumped. 194pp. With 53 illustrations, 2 maps, and map of Ravenshill Reserve on endpapers. This is the story of the ups and downs the author encountered when trying to turn her muddy Worcestershire woodland into a Nature Reserve.
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BARNARD, E.A.B. (edited by)
TRANSACTIONS OF THE WORCESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FOR 1932. Vol. IX
U.K Printed by the Society of Ebenezer Baylis and Son 1933 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good.
The book has two small nicks at front edge of back cover, spine a little tanned. The pages are bright and clean. A very good tight copy. xi, 118pp, List of members, and Index. With frontispiece and numerous illustrations throughout the book, 11 of them are of Bewdley. There are 20 pages on Bewdley and its Industries. Also included are: Worcestershire Scratch Dials - Anglo-Saxon Sundial at Pirton - Sanctus Bell at Fladbury -Church Bells of Worcestershire - Rouses of Rous Lench - History of Clifton-on-Teme - Some Old Worcestershire Churches and Parochial Chapels. (8½"h x 5½"w) (21.5cms x 14cms) approx.
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BARNARD, Robert
A TALENT TO DECEIVE. An Appreciation of Agatha Christie
London Collins 1980 0002161907 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good
Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine slightly faded, lettering still clear and bright. 203pp, including Appendices: Bibliography - Short Story Index - Secondary Sources - Annotated List of Christie Titles - The Christie Films. The Bibliography includes novels written under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.
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BARNES, B. S.
THIS RIGHTEOUS WAR
Huddersfield, U.K Richard Netherwood 1990 1872955002 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Very Good
Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, top of spine very slightly rubbed. 172pp, including Appendices: Appendix One: Victoria Cross Awards - Appendix Two: War Graves - Appendix Three - The Schlieffen Plan, and Bibliography. With 66 black-and-white photographs, and 6 maps. This is the story of one town's efforts and sacrifice during the First World War and the part played by the Hull Pals of the East Yorkshire Regiment. (9¾"h x 7"w) (24.5cms x 17.5cms) approx.
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BARNES, B. S.
THIS RIGHTEOUS WAR
Huddersfield, U.K Richard Netherwood 1990 1872955002 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
Book in very good plus condition, only fault, slightly rubbed at corners of bottom spine edge, otherwise in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, has tiny piece missing at back top edge (see picture). 172pp, including Appendices: Appendix One: Victoria Cross Awards - Appendix Two: War Graves - Appendix Three - The Schlieffen Plan, and Bibliography. With 66 black-and-white photographs, and 6 maps. This is the story of one town's efforts and sacrifice during the First World War and the part played by the Hull Pals of the East Yorkshire Regiment. (9¾"h x 7"w) (24.5cms x 17.5cms) approx.
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BARNES, James J
FREE TRADE IN BOOKS. A Study of the London Book Trade since 1800
U.K Oxford University Press 1964 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
Book in very good condition, bottom of spine slightly bumped and ¼" tear at front edge on front free endpaper, otherwise internally in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine very slightly faded, lettering still bright. Price clipped. ix, 198pp. A study of Victorian bookselling and publishing with special emphasis on book trade organisation and resale price maintenance after 1800.
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BARNES, Stanley
THE BIRMINGHAM HOSPITALS CENTRE
Birmingham, U.K Stanford and Mann 1952 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good
Book in very good condition, just slightly bumped by top outer corner edge, otherwise in fine condition. Illustrated front board. The Coat-of-Arms of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital ion colour on the dustjacket and front board. Dustjacket in very good condition, five tiny nicks at top spine edge, top outer corner edges very slightly rubbed. xxi, 144pp, including Index. With frontispiece, 6 illustrations, diagram layout of wards, and two-page folding map (the site of the Hospitals Centre 1930). From 'Foreword' How some far-sighted and public-spirited individuals, realised there was a need for a large and modern general hospital as a centre, and secondly, that it should be a teaching hospital, and that a well-equipped medical school should be close by. The author tells of the origin of this scheme, of the troubles met and overcome, and of the formation of the 'Hospitals Centre'. He also tells of the completion so far as practicable of the great modern hospital now called the 'Queen Elizabeth'; of the Nuffield Nurses' Home; and of the Medical School. (9¼"h x 7"h) (24cms x 18.5cms) approx.
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BARTLETT, C.P.O. Squadron Leader DSC. Edited by his son Nick Bartlett
IN THE TEETH OF THE WIND. Memoirs of the Royal Naval Air Service in the First World War
London Leo Cooper 1994 0850523184 Reprint Hard Cover Fine Fine
Revised edition. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in fine condition. 159pp, including Index. With 30 black-and-white photographs, 1 map, and diagram of the Gnome and Le Rhone 110 HP rotary engine. Philip Bartlett's account of a pilot's life in the dawn of aerial warfare and, as history, of the first use of the bomber in war by the Navy's aircraft. He flew 101 missions, with attacks on the U-boat bases to bombing the German Gothas as they prepared to raid London, and then to the support of Haig's drive to the coast which ended in the mud at Passchendale. In March 1918 his squadron finds itself directly in the path of Ludendorff's massive thrust, which broke the British 5th Army and nearly decided the War. Attacked by Richthofen's aces, No. 5 Squadron RNAS flew continuous and desperate missions against the advancing troops .
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BASTIN, Harold
PLANTS WITHOUT FLOWERS. Hutchinson's Nature Library
London: Hutchinson, 1955
First Edition. Hardcover in near fine condition, few spots of foxing at top and front edge, just a hint of foxing on front outer edge of pages up to xi, all other pages have no foxing and are clean and bright, also page xi has small ¼" tear at outer edge. Dustjacket in near fine condition, very slightly rubbed at bottom of spine. xi, 146pp, including bibliography and index. With colour frontispiece and 20 pages of black-and-white photographs. From d/j flap - 'Tracing the evolutionary ascent of flowerless plants through algae or seaweeds, fungi and mosses to the ferns, horse-tails and club mosses. Also lichens and slime-fungus, and describes in detail various moulds and mildews that work havoc in our fields, orchards and gardens, and indicates clearly the distinctive differences between edible and poisonous toadstools
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BATES, H.E
A LOVE OF FLOWERS
London Michael Joseph 1971 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Pauline Ellison
Book in very good condition, mark on front endpaper has been rubbed out. Dustjacket in very good condition, price on inside flap has biro lines through it. 160pp. With numerous delightful pencil drawings by Pauline Ellison. Bates describes the flowers he grows in his garden and gives advice, and embraces the entire garden year, from the first winter crocuses in December to the last glimpse of roses in November.
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BATES, H.E.
THE VANISHED WORLD. An Autobiography. Volume One
London Michael Joseph 1969 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good John Ward
Book in very good condition, spine ends slightly bumped, Pictorial endpapers. Dustjacket in good condition, lightly tanned along top, side edges and spine, slightly rubbed at top edge and bottom of spine. 189pp. With 11 full-page and numerous pencil drawings in the text. In this first volume of his autobiography H.E. Bates tells of his life from 1908 when he first went to school, to the year 1926, when he was twenty, and his first novel, 'The Two Sisters, was published.
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BATES, H.E.
THE BLOSSOMING WORLD. An Autobiography. Volume Two
London Michael Joseph 1971 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Good John Ward
Book in fine condition. Pictorial endpapers. Dustjacket in good condition, only fault slightly tanned on spine and along top edge. 182pp. With 4 full-page and numerous pencil drawings in the text by John Ward. This second volume takes up H.E. Bates' life from 1926, when he published his first novel "The Two Sisters"
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