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Ngaio Marsh: Her Life in Crime

By: Drayton, Joanne

Price: £20.00

Publisher: New Zealand, HarperCollins: 2008

Seller ID: 032044

ISBN: 1869506359

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

320pp, notes, bibliography, 8pp plates. Tan boards, light ageing to contents, dated owner's name to front endpaper, blue page marked, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Harry's War: The Great War Diary of Harry Drinkwater

By: Drinkwater, Harry / Edited By Jon Cooksey and David Griffiths

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Ebury Press: 2013

Seller ID: 032413

ISBN: 0091957214

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xix + 395pp, index, illustrations. Black boards, light wear, general browning to pages, overall a VG copy in a near VG (slight edge chipping with small loss) dustwrapper.
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In Pursuit of Perfection

By: Duke, Geoff

Price: £14.00

Publisher: London, Osprey Publishing: 1989

Seller ID: 032465

ISBN: 0850458382

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

192pp, black and white photographs throughout. Black boards, 'Christmas 1991' to front endpaper otherwise light wear only, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Branch Line to Burma

By: Durnford, John / Foreword By Admiral of the Fleet The Earl Mountbatten of Burma

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Macdonald: 1958

Seller ID: 030085

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

207pp, map. Green boards, very slightly sprung, foxing mainly to edges, a near VG copy in a Good (edge chipped with small loss mainly to spine head, nor price-clipped) dustwrapper (designed by Toothill). The personal story of a young Artillery officer, serving with a Scottish yeomanry regiment, who spent 3 years of his life enduring and surviving life as a prisoner-of-war.
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Paintings of Tresco

By: Dyer, Ted / Heather, Lesly

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Falmouth, Beside the Wave Publishing: 2002

Seller ID: 031090

ISBN: 0952211629

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

48pp, colour illustrations. Softback, a VG copy.
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Kismet: A Flight Engineer's Story

By: Edgar M Childs D.F.M. (Jumbo)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Em Childs: 2001

Seller ID: 022389

Binding: Booklet

Condition: Very Good

29pp. Booklet, reproduction quality not the best, in VG condition. Signed 'Best Wishes, EM Childs' to verso of front cover. Memoirs of a Flight Engineer on Lancasters in WW2, in the Pathfinder Force.
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Colin Reid Glass Sculpture

By: Edited By Clare Beck and Kathleen Slater, Essays By Jennifer Hawkins Opie and Diane C Wright, Foreword By Adrian Sassoon

Price: £60.00

Publisher: Surrey, Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd: 2013

Seller ID: 031848

ISBN: 1848221371

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

144pp, index, biography, illustrations, some in colour. Black boards, light wear and ageing, a VG copy in (slight edge rubbing) dustwrapper.
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Innovation and Conservation: Ernest Edward Cook and His Country Estates

By: Edited By EJT Collins, AK Giles and JGK Malleson

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Reading, University of Reading: 1989

Seller ID: 031798

ISBN: 0704907089

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

172pp, 18 tables, 48 plates. Softback, corner creasing to lower front of rear cover and adjacent pages, near VG copy.
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Image for A Special Flame: The Music of Elgar and Vaughan Williams. Based on the Proceedings of an International Symposium Jointly Organised By The Elgar and RVW Societies

A Special Flame: The Music of Elgar and Vaughan Williams. Based on the Proceedings of an International Symposium Jointly Organised By The Elgar and RVW Societies

By: Edited By John Norris and Andrew Neil / Articles By: Kennedy, Michael / Fereman, Lewis / Anderson, Robert / Lucas, Claire-Louise / Darnborough, Jonathan / Adams, Byron / Pope, Michael / Cobbe, Hugh / McGuire, Charles / Connock, Stephen

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Hertfordshire, Elgar Editions: 2004

Seller ID: 031519

ISBN: 0953708292

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

vi + 186pp, index, references, a collection of 11 articles. Red cloth boards, gilt titling and decoration, a VG copy, no dustwrapper, presumably as issued.
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Michael Graves: Buildings and Projects 1982 - 1989

By: Edited By Karen Vogel Nichols, Patrick J Burke and Caroline Hancock. Essays By Robert Maxwell and Christian Norberg-Schulz

Price: £20.00

Publisher: USA, Architecture Design and Technology Press: 1990

Seller ID: 031114

ISBN: 1854545531

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

351pp, fully illustrated with photographs, drawings and plans, some in colour. Brown boards, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. Heavy book, UK at standard rate, overseas at cost.
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Andrew Marvell: Essays on the Tercentenary of His Death

By: Edited By RL Brett

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press: 1979

Seller ID: 022748

ISBN: 0197134351

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

vii + 128pp, index, notes. Black boards, light wear and ageing, pencilled annotation, a near VG copy in a VG (slight spine fading) dustwrapper. A collection of 4 essays.
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Managing a Legend: Stirling Moss, Ken Gregory and the British Racing Partnership

By: Edwards, Robert / Foreword By Martin Brundle

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Yeovil, Haynes / Foulis: 1997

Seller ID: 031466

ISBN: 0854299882

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

368pp, index, bibliography, 2 appendices, illustrations. Green boards, bumping to upper corner and spine head (4mm nick), light ageing to contents, a near VG copy in (slight spine fading) dustwrapper.
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Tamworth's Forgotten Hero; Samuel Parkes VC

By: Elkin, Peter

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Cheshire, Wonderworks Studios Limited: 2004

Seller ID: 030742

ISBN: 0952876078

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

155pp, illustrations. Blue boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Personalised gift dedication from the author to 1/2 title plus a letter and signed compliments slip. The story of the second man in the British Army to be awarded the Victoria Cross, at The Charge of the Light Brigade.
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Tudor Secretary: Sir William Petre at Court and Home

By: Emmison, FG

Price: £10.00

Publisher: USA, Harvard University Press: 1961

Seller ID: 032767

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

xx + 364pp, index, references, appendices, illustrations. Black boards, foxing mainly to endpapers and edges, a few marks, some pencilled annotation with notes to rear endpaper, overall a Good copy in edge chipping with small loss, spine faded, piece missing from lower edge of rear panel) dustwrapper. A solid working copy.
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Hank Williams: The Biography

By: Escott, Colin (With George Merritt and William MacEwen)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Little Brown & Co: 1994

Seller ID: 019351

ISBN: 0316249866

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xii + 307pp, index, discography, sources, map, 16pp plates. Quarter-bound in black over tan boards, light wear only, a VG clean tight copy in (colour fading to spine) dustwrapper.
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The Last Days of Patton

By: Farago, Ladislas

Price: £10.00

Publisher: USA, Westholme Publishing, U.S.: 2011

Seller ID: 031894

ISBN: 1594161380

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

xv + 319pp, index. Softback, a VG copy, possibly unread
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Haw-Haw: The Tragedy of William & Margaret Joyce

By: Farndale, Nigel

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan: 2005

Seller ID: 032744

ISBN: 0333989929

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

ix + 374pp, index, bibliography, chronology, 31 plates. Brown boards, general light browning to pages, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Studies in Jazz Series No.31: Stride!: Fats, Jimmy, Lion, Lamb and All the Other Ticklers

By: Fell, John L / Vinding, Terkild

Price: £30.00

Publisher: USA, Scarecrow Press: 1999

Seller ID: 022728

ISBN: 0810835630

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xvi + 237pp, index, bibliography, 5 appendices. Black boards, VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Speer: The Final Verdict

By: Fest, Joachim / Translated By Ewald Osers and Alexandra Dring

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson: 2001

Seller ID: 032838

ISBN: 0297646168

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

x + 417pp, index, bibliography, notes. Green boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Biography of Hitler's Armaments Minister.
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Barbara Hepworth: A Life of Forms

By: Festing, Sally

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Viking: 1995

Seller ID: 022221

ISBN: 0670843032

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xxiii + 343pp, index, bibliography, references, 69 illustrations. Black boards, slight ageing to contents, a VG copy in (slight edge creasing, minor surface loss to one edge) dustwrapper.
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Over the Bones or Fifty Years at The Bell Inn

By: Figgures, Molly

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Shipston-on-Stour, Mr P Drinkwater (Publisher): 1978

Seller ID: 031924

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

v + 39pp, 3 appendices, illustrations. Illustrated card covers, gift inscription to verso of front cover, slight edge creasing to oversize covers, a near VG copy.
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Nina Fowler: Works. Curated By James Birch

By: Foreword By Barry Miles

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Dadiani Fine Art: 2014

Seller ID: 021483

Binding: Booklet

Condition: Very Good

36pp, illustrated catalogue, some in colour. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy. Catalogue produced for an exhibition 25 November 2014 - 31 January 2015.
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Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike

By: Fotheringham, William

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Yellow Jersey Press: 2012

Seller ID: 018193

ISBN: 0224074482

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xii + 308pp, index, bibliography, 16pp photographs. Pictorial boards, light ageing to contents, overall a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper.
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The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust: A Personal Memoir

By: Fox, Levi

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust & Jarrold Publishing: 1997

Seller ID: 022674

ISBN: 0711710015

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

ix + 358pp, index, sources, black and white illustrations. Black boards, minor edge marks, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Signed personalised dedication from the author to front endpaper, loose signed slip of paper, plus a signed photograph with gift dedication to verso.
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The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust: A Personal Memoir

By: Fox, Levi

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust & Jarrold Publishing: 1997

Seller ID: 022761

ISBN: 0711710015

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

ix + 358pp, index, sources, black and white illustrations. Black boards, minor edge marks, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Flat signed by the author to front endpaper.
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The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust: A Personal Memoir

By: Fox, Levi

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust & Jarrold Publishing: 1997

Seller ID: 032752

ISBN: 0711710015

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

ix + 358pp, index, sources, black and white illustrations. Black boards, minor edge marks, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Grandad's Air Force

By: Franckeiss, Michael

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Ilfracombe, Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd: 1998

Seller ID: 032547

ISBN: 0722331886

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

88pp, black and white photographs. Softback, a VG copy. An account of the author's National Service experiences in the RAF, starting in 1951.
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The War Diaries of Neville Duke DSO, OBE, DFC (Two Bars), AFC, Czech Military Cross 1941 - 1944

By: Franks, Norman (Editor) / Duke, Neville

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Grub Street: 1995

Seller ID: 032143

ISBN: 1898697167

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

vi + 218pp, index, 5 appendices, 16pp photographs. Blue boards, slight bumping to upper front corners, light ageing only, a VG copy in (slight spine fading) dustwrapper.
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The War Diaries of Neville Duke DSO, OBE, DFC (Two Bars), AFC, Czech Military Cross 1941 - 1944

By: Franks, Norman (Editor) / Duke, Neville

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Grub Street: 1995

Seller ID: 032347

ISBN: 1898697167

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

vi + 218pp, index, 5 appendices, 16pp photographs. Blue boards, slight bumping to upper front corners, light ageing only, a VG copy in (slight spine fading, small rub in one place) dustwrapper.
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King

By: Fraser, Antonia

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson: 2006

Seller ID: 032049

ISBN: 0297829971

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xxviii + 388pp, index, sources, notes, 32pp colour plates, family trees to endpapers. Red boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Flat signed by the author on title page.
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Dartmouth History Research Group Paper 12: A Wrens-Eye View of Wartime Dartmouth

By: Freeman, Ray (Compiler)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Dartmouth, Dartmouth History Research Group: 1994

Seller ID: 031972

ISBN: 1899011013

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

32pp, illustrations. Large format softback, previous owner's label to bottom of front cover, reading wear, overall a near VG copy. Flat signed by compiler to verso of front cover.
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Richard Florsheim: The Artist and His Art

By: Freundlich, August L

Price: £12.50

Publisher: USA, AS Barnes and Co Inc: 1976

Seller ID: 031482

ISBN: 0498016366

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

63pp + plates, some colour, catalogue, bibliography, 2 appendices. Blue boards, slight edge fading, light ageing, a VG copy in a Good (edge chipped, rubs, minor loss) dustwrapper.
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Lawrence Durrell and the Alexandria Quartet: Art for Love's Sake

By: Friedman, Alan Warren

Price: £20.00

Publisher: USA, University of Oklahoma Press: 1970

Seller ID: 022407

ISBN: 0806108711

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xxv + 222pp, index, bibliography, appendix. Mauve boards, light ageing and wear only, a VG copy in (colour fading to spine and edges) dustwrapper.
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With Gun and Gown: The Autobiography of a Soldier and Scholar

By: Friskney, Norman

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Cirencester, Memoirs Publishing: 2013

Seller ID: 019987

ISBN: 1861510098

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

191pp, 7pp illustrations. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy.
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''My Dear Victorious Stod': A Biography of A. E. Stoddart

By: Frith, David / Foreword By John Arlott

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Surrey, Lutterworth Press: 1977

Seller ID: 022800

ISBN: 0718870174

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

199pp, index, sources, 25 illustrations. Brown boards, foxing mainly to top edge of pages, VG in dustwrapper.
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I Took Chances: From Windjammer to Comet Jet: The Autobiography of Percy Norman Furber

By: Furber, Percy Norman

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Leicester, Edgar Backus: 1954

Seller ID: 017974

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xii + 301pp, index, 64 illustrations. Gilt on green boards, some foxing mainly to edges and endpapers otherwise a VG clean tight copy in a Good (edge chipped, loss mainly to spine head, now in removeable protective sleeve) dustwrapper. Signed compliments plate from the author to front pastedown.
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Famous Magicians of the World

By: Furst, Arnold

Price: £15.00

Publisher: USA, The Genii Publishing Company: 1957

Seller ID: 017276

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

50pp, illustrated, 2pp in colour (border of corresponding other half of colour page present, but appears unused and for fixing purposes only). Large softback, general light browning, otherwise a VG copy. Signed and numbered by the author to verso of cover, this is No.684. Features Dante, Ormond McGill, Lee Grabel, Kalanag, Sorcar, Fu Manchu, Blackstone, Richiardi Jr., Chang. and Virgil.
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Sisley

By: Gale, Iain

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Studio Editions: 1992

Seller ID: 032153

ISBN: 185170857X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

144pp, 139 illustrations, most in colour, chronology, notes. Black boards, a VG copy in (slight edge chipping, minor loss) dustwrapper.
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Oakwood Reminiscence Series RS7: Cleaner to Controller Volume 2: Further Reminiscences of the GWR at Taunton

By: Gardner, W. J.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Usk, The Oakwood Press: 2000

Seller ID: 030972

ISBN: 0853615683

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

176pp, 4 appendices, black and white photographs. Softback, an excellent copy.
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Goya: Life and Work (Evergreen Series)

By: Gassier, Pierre / Wilson, Juliet / Lachenal, Francois

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Germany, Taschen GmbH: 1994

Seller ID: 032514

ISBN: 3822890480

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

400pp, indexes, bibliography, 8 appendices, illustrated throughout, much in colour. Black boards, large format hardback, slight edge marking, light wear and ageing, a VG copy in a near VG (closed edge tears, slight creasing) dustwrapper. Heavy book, UK at standard rate, overseas may require extra shipping.
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Firing Days: Reminiscences of a Great Western Fireman

By: Gasson, Harold

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford Publishing Co.: 1978

Seller ID: 032792

ISBN: 0902888250

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

113pp, black and white photographs, illustrations. Softback, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy.
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William De Morgan

By: Gaunt, William / Clayton-Stamm, M.D.E.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Studio Vista: 1971

Seller ID: 032092

ISBN: 0289701414

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

176pp, index, bibliography, marks on De Morgan pottery and tiles, 144 illustrations, 24 in full colour. Green boards, light wear, light ageing to contents, a VG copy in a Fair-to-Good (closed tears, edge losses, now in removeable protective sleeve) dustwrapper.
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Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis

By: Gedminas, Antanas / Gudynas, Pranas / Kuzminskis, Jonas / Stauskas, Petras

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Vilnius, Vaga: 1983

Seller ID: 020417

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

31pp + 429 illustrations, many in colour, some folding. 4pp biography in Lithuanian / Russian / English / French / German. Yellow cloth boards, bumping to edges in 2 places, gift inscription to 1/2 title, overall a VG copy in (slight edge browning) dustwrapper. A study of the Lithuanian painter and composer MK Ciurlionis, 1875 - 1911. Edition not stated.
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The Thomas Hardy Journal Volumes I - IV 1985 - 1988

By: Gibson, James (Editor)

Price: £30.00

Publisher: The Thomas Hardy Society Ltd: 1985

Seller ID: 017290

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

12 booklets bound in green boards, gilt titling to spine. Covers bound in, an excellent clean tight set of the first 12 issues from Volume I No.1 January 1985 to Volume IV No,3 October 1988. Very light ageing to edges only.
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Eric Gill: The Engravings

By: Gill, Eric / Skelton, Christopher (Editor)

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, The Herbert Press: 1990

Seller ID: 021753

ISBN: 0879238534

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

478pp, index, bibliography, 993 engravings illustrated, some in colour, featuring the whole range of Gill's work, from his religious subjects to his erotic fantasies, from his tiny pressmark for the Curwen Press, to his designs for the sumptuous editions of The Four Gospels and The Canterbury Tales. The whole is based on the limited edition, 'The Engravings of Eric Gill', by the same author, published in 1983. Green boards, blind-stamped illustration to front, gilt titling to spine, minor edge mark, overall a VG copy in (red titling very slightly faded to spine) dustwrapper. Very heavy book, U...
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Croydon to Concorde

By: Gillman, Captain RE

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, John Murray Publishers Ltd: 1980

Seller ID: 031744

ISBN: 071953741X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xii + 230pp, index, 51 black and white photographs. Blue boards, from a smoker's collection so slight aroma, browning mainly to edges, a VG copy in dustwrapper. The author's experiences flying a huge range of aircraft, from biplanes to Concorde.
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A Connecticut Yankee in the 8th Gurkha Rifles: A Burma Memoir

By: Gilmore, Scott / with Patrick Davis

Price: £15.00

Publisher: USA, Brassey's: 1995

Seller ID: 032450

ISBN: 0028811062

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xviii + 4pp maps + 279pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendix, 16pp plates. Quarter-bound in red buckram over green boards, light ageing, date to front endpaper, a VG copy in (colour fading to spine) dustwrapper.
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The Light Dragoon: The Story of Private George Farmer 11th Light Dragoons 1808 - 1836

By: Gleig, GR

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Uckfield, Naval & Military Press Ltd:

Seller ID: 032627

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

252pp, facsimile reprint of 1850 1st edition. Card covers, a VG copy.
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Raffles and the Golden Opportunity

By: Glendinning, Victoria

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Profile Books: 2012

Seller ID: 032272

ISBN: 1846686032

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xviii + 349pp, index, 40 illustrations, bibliography, endnotes. Black boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Biography of the man who founded Singapore.
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T.E. Lawrence, Richard Aldington and the Death of Heroes

By: Gonzalez-Gerth, Miguel

Price: £20.00

Publisher: USA, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center: 1994

Seller ID: 030745

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

52pp, notes, illustrations. Softback, a few edge rubs, reading creases, overall a near VG copy.
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