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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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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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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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Odd Man Out: The Autobiography of a 'Propaganda Novelist'

By: Goldring, Douglas

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1935

Seller ID: 016649

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

342pp, index, 4 plates. Brown boards, spine titling slightly worn, otherwise light only to boards; general foxing to contents, spotting to edges and adjacent page in places, corner creases to tips of a few pages, overall a Good tight copy without dustwrapper.
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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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Image for Sir Daniel Gooch: Memoirs and Diary. Transcribed from the Original Manuscript and Edited with an Introduction and Notes By Roger Burdett Wilson

Sir Daniel Gooch: Memoirs and Diary. Transcribed from the Original Manuscript and Edited with an Introduction and Notes By Roger Burdett Wilson

By: Gooch, Sir Daniel / Edited By Roger Burdett Wilson

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Newton Abbot, David & Charles: 1972

Seller ID: 030858

ISBN: 0715356097

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xxiv + 386pp, index, biographical index, appendix, chapter notes, 15 illustrations. Black boards, neat circular owner's stamped initial to front endpaper, foxing mainly to page edges, minor edge marks, overall a VG copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
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Masters of Architecture: Nicholas Hawksmoor

By: Goodhart-Rendel, HS

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Ernest Benn Ltd: 1924

Seller ID: 022705

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

28pp + frontispiece +34 black and white plates. Quarter-bound in black cloth spine over grey paper boards, a few minor bumps/rubs, general browning to boards, some foxing to contents, mainly endpapers, overall a VG copy in a possibly homemade dustwrapper (handwritten titling, a few edge tears).
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Rogue Male: Death and Seduction in World War II with Mister Major Geoff

By: Gordon-Creed, Geoffrey / Field, Roger

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Coronet: 2011

Seller ID: 020011

ISBN: 1444706330

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xi + 370pp, index, 8pp plates, map. Black boards, light ageing, crease to corner tips of a few pages, minor edge nick to 1 page, overall a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Rogue Male: Death and Seduction in World War II with Mister Major Geoff

By: Gordon-Creed, Geoffrey / Field, Roger

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Coronet: 2011

Seller ID: 020239

ISBN: 1444706330

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xi + 370pp, index, 8pp plates, map. Black boards, light ageing, overall a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Memories of a Stag Harbourer: A Record of Twenty-Eight Years with the Devon and Somerset Stag Hounds 1894 - 1921

By: Goss, Fred / Edited By H Campbell Thomson and with a Preface By Earl Fortescue

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Tiverton, Halsgrove: 2000

Seller ID: 021212

ISBN: 184114052X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

224pp, index, 9 photographs. Blue boards, very light ageing, twist to spine otherwise a VG copy in (slight edge creasing) dustwrapper. This is a second facsimile edition, published in 2000.
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Green Markers Ahead Skipper!

By: Gray, Gilbert

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Swindon, Newton Publishers: 1993

Seller ID: 022360

ISBN: 1872308112

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

xvi + 5 appendices, folding table to rear, bibliography, maps, illustrations. Softback, crease to base of front cover otherwise light wear only, a VG copy. The author's story, who had flown a tour of 34 operations as a Flight Engineer before his 20th birthday.
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Aeroaddict: The Story of One Man's Lifelong Love Affair with Aeroplanes

By: Gregory DFC, Doug

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Little Knoll Press: 2015

Seller ID: 031696

ISBN: 0992722004

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

183pp, index, illustrations. Softback, a VG copy.
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The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians

By: Hadlow, Janice

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, William Collins: 2014

Seller ID: 018347

ISBN: 0007165196

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xix + 684pp, index, bibliography, notes, 16pp colour plates, watercolour frontispiece, pictorial endpapers. Blue boards, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. Signed by author on title page, not attributed.
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Lucas Sithole, 1958 - 1979: A Pictorial Review of Africa's Major Black Sculptor

By: Haenggi, FF

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Johannesburg, Gallery 21: 1979

Seller ID: 022700

ISBN: 0620039825

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

236pp, chronological index of some major works, illustrated. Small softback, edge creasing/a few rubs to covers, reading creases to spine, a Good copy.
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Friends and Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905 - 1914

By: Hale, Keith (Editor)

Price: £12.50

Publisher: U.S.A., Yale University Press: 1998

Seller ID: 020439

ISBN: 0300070047

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xvi + 304pp, index, works consulted, illustrations, 31 plates, Black boards, light ageing only, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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The Road to Westminster and My Impressions of Parliament

By: Hales, HK (M.P. For Hanley (Stoke-on-Trent) 1931 - 1935) / with a Preface By GR Hall Caine M.P.

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Wright & Brown: 1936

Seller ID: 022413

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

96pp, frontispiece. Blue boards, photograph of Parliament to front board, gilt titling, spine dulled, corner creases to 1 page, foxing mainly to edges and endpapers, overall a VG copy. Signed and dated gift dedication from the author to front endpaper.
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Hogarth (Art & Ideas)

By: Hallett, Dr Mark

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Phaidon Press Ltd: 2000

Seller ID: 030971

ISBN: 0714838187

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

352pp, index, further reading, key dates, brief biographies, illustrations throughout, some in colour. Softback, a VG copy.
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Image for Publications of the Navy Records Society Vol. 121: The Keyes Papers: Volume II 1919 - 1938. Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes

Publications of the Navy Records Society Vol. 121: The Keyes Papers: Volume II 1919 - 1938. Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes

By: Halpern, Paul G. (Editor)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Published By George Allen & Unwin for the Navy Records Society: 1980

Seller ID: 030251

ISBN: 0049421654

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xiv + 468pp + 6pp adverts at rear, frontispiece, 2 maps. Pale blue boards, light ageing, a VG copy in a near VG (colour fading to spine, a few slight edge rubs, internally reinforced in 2 places) dustwrapper.
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Touch Wood!

By: Hamilton, Duncan / with Lionel Scott / Foreword By The Rt. Hon. The Earl Howe P.C., C.B.E.

Price: £60.00

Publisher: London, Barrie and Rockliff: 1960

Seller ID: 022030

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

ix + 229pp, indexes, 57 black and white plates, illustrated endpapers. Red boards, general foxing to contents, overall a VG copy in a Good (browning to edges, edge chipped with small losses, mainly to corners and spine head/tail, not price-clipped, to be supplied in a removeable protective sleeve) dustwrapper.
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Memorials of the Wars of the Roses: A Biographical Guide

By: Hampton, WE

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Upminster, Richard III Society: 1979

Seller ID: 022627

ISBN: 0904893030

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

283pp, index, bibliography, glossary, 16pp plates plus 4 other illustrations. Red boards, light wear only, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Variety is the Spice of Life: The Worlds of Eric Midwinter

By: Hardie, Jeremy / with a Foreword By John Wade

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Third Age Press: 2015

Seller ID: 021538

ISBN: 1898576459

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

348pp, index, illustrations. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy. Signed personalised gift dedication from the author to the title page.
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Mixed Memoirs: An Account of His Life and Business

By: Harris, Leslie G / Revised and Extended By Andrew D Harris

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Bromsgrove, L G Harris & Co Ltd: 2003

Seller ID: 030077

ISBN: 0954419308

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

296pp, photographs, some in colour. Softback, light wear, a VG copy. The story of Leslie Harris and his company, which became the UK's leading paint brush makers, based at Stoke Prior, near Bromsgrove.
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RBK (R B K): A Very Parfit Gentil Knight

By: Harris, Simon

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Norfolk, Rooke Publishing: 2004

Seller ID: 030138

ISBN: 095486400X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xxiv + 175pp, index, bibliography, plates, maps, illustrated endpapers. Green boards, VG in dustwrapper. Personalised gift dedication from the author to 1/2 title page. Ralph Kite rose to command a company of the 52nd Light Infantry on the Somme, he won the Military Cross before being mortally wounded.
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Farnborough Fiasco: A Test Pilot's Story

By: Harvey, Sqn Ldr RA

Price: £40.00

Publisher: R A Harvey: 1997

Seller ID: 031043

ISBN: 1873676964

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

226pp, index, 5 appendices, drawings, black and white photographs. Large format softback, rubs with loss to rear corners of spine head/tail otherwise light reading wear only, overall a Good tight copy. A test pilot's experiences at the Empire Test Pilot's School and Aerodynamics Flight at Farnborough, flown in 74 different aircraft types.
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The Amazing Hiram Maxim: An Intimate Biography

By: Hawkey, Arthur

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Kent, Spellmount Ltd: 2001

Seller ID: 022069

ISBN: 1862271410

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

174pp, index, sources, 21 illustrations. Black boards, light ageing and wear, a VG copy in (slightest colour fading to spine) dustwrapper. Biography of the prolific inventor, amongst whose inventions was the first truly automatic machine gun.
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Rembrandt Studies

By: Held, Julius Samuel

Price: £8.50

Publisher: USA, Princeton University Press: 1991

Seller ID: 031375

ISBN: 0691002827

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

xvi + 211 + plates (black and white), index, appendix. Softback, light reading wear, owner's name to front endpaper, light ageing, a VG copy.
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Descendants of the Reverend Thomas Higginson

By: Higginson, Thomas Boyd

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, The Research Publishing Company: 1958

Seller ID: 022587

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

64pp, index, frontispiece. Blue boards, gilt titling, foxing mainly to endpapers, a VG copy in (marks to rear panel) dustwrapper. Limited edition, this is No. 77/250. The Irish Higginsons of Ballinderry.
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The Art of Dora Carrington (Signed)

By: Hill, Jane (Foreword By Michael Holroyd)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Herbert Press Ltd: 1996

Seller ID: 019894

ISBN: 1871569826

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

144pp, index, chronology, notes, illustrations throughout, some in colour. Softback, light wear only, very slight fading to spine edge of front cover, a VG copy. Personalised gift dedication from the author to title page. Contents in 5 parts:- London 1910-1914; Hurstbourne Tarrant 1914-1917; Tidmarsh Mill 1917-1924; Ham Spray 1924-1932; Conclusion.
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Those Bentley Days

By: Hillstead, AFC / Foreword By WO Bentley

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 1953

Seller ID: 031511

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

196pp, index, 32 black and whites plates. Red cloth boards, twist to spine, slight fraying to spine, edge rubs, a few marks, general foxing to contents, overall a Good copy without dustwrapper.
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Debrett's People of Sussex

By: Hime, Juliet (Editor)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Debrett's Peerage Ltd: 1991

Seller ID: 021660

ISBN: 1870520076

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

165pp, commercial and professional listings plus other articles pertaining to Sussex. Green boards, light wear only, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Hot Man: The Life of Art Hodes (Music in American Life)

By: Hodes, Art / Hansen, Chadwick / Discography By Howard Rye

Price: £8.00

Publisher: USA, University of Illinois Press: 1992

Seller ID: 031321

ISBN: 0252017536

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xii + 164pp, index, discography, 29 illustrations. Black boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Cotswold Born 'n' Bred: My Life at Snowshill by Bob Hodge

By: Hodge, Bob

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Homepeace: 2005

Seller ID: 030915

ISBN: 0952169207

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: New

100pp, illustrated. A simple yet compelling narrative about everyday life in a Cotswold village. New book.
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The Cotswolds & Beyond

By: Hodge, Peter

Price: £19.99

Publisher: Pershore, Hughes & Company: 2019

Seller ID: EX0001

Binding: Softback

Condition: New

112pp, colour reproductions of Peter Hodge's work throughout. Landscape format softback, a new copy.
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Lest We Forget: Stories from World War 2 Veterans of the Worcestershire Regiment

By: Hodgkins, Dennis / Edited By Tracey Hodgkins

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Kingswinford, Geoffrey Publications: 2018

Seller ID: 031099

ISBN: 0992982685

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

168pp, 5 appendices, references, maps, illustrations. Softback, a VG copy.
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Ettore Sottsass, Jun.: Designer, Artist, Architect

By: Hoger, Hans / Sottsass, Ettore

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag: 1993

Seller ID: 031127

ISBN: 3803028019

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

239pp, selected exhibitions, bibliography, notes, drawings, illustrations, photographs, some in colour. Black boards, a VG copy in (colour fading to spine) dustwrapper.
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Halfway to Heaven: Skywriting, Gliding, Stunting

By: Hoinville, Fred

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Angus and Robertson: 1961

Seller ID: 030665

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xiii + 239pp, black and white photographs. Blue boards, foxing mainly to top edge of pages and endpapers, overall a VG copy in a Good+ (edge chipped/creased, small losses) dustwrapper. The author was killed in a glider crash shortly after this book was finished.
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Gerhard Fieseler: The Man Behind the Storch

By: Holden, Nigel

Price: £11.99

Publisher: Solihull, Helion and Company: 2017

Seller ID: 031533

ISBN: 1911512749

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

304pp, index, bibliography, 2 appendices, 24pp plates. Black boards, a new copy in dustwrapper. RRP £25.
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The Fight for Fordhall Farm: The Battle to Save a Way of Life

By: Hollins, Ben / Hollins, Charlotte/ Foreword By Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 2007

Seller ID: 030773

ISBN: 0340951249

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xi + 339pp, 16pp plates. Red cloth boards, light bumping to corners, browning to page edges, gift inscription to front endpaper, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Signed without dedication by both authors to title page. 2nd impression.
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Lucie Rie: A Survey of Her Life and Work

By: Houston, John (Editor)

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, Crafts Council: 1987

Seller ID: 030092

ISBN: 0903798565

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

96pp, bibliography, over 244 illustrations, some in colour. Grey boards, light wear only, a VG clean tight copy in (very slight spine fade) dustwrapper. Record of an exhibition of the designers work held in 1981-82. Photographs by David Cripps.
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Modern Movement

By: Howarth, Thomas

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd: 1952

Seller ID: 031445

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xxviii + 329pp + 96 plates, index, bibliography, chronology, 28 illustrations in text. Brown cloth boards, slight edge rubbing, general light ageing, overall a VG copy without dustwrapper.
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Two Years in Peking 1965-66. Book 2. Photographs, Documents and Teaching Materials

By: Hunt, Reginald

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Oxford, Hurusco Books: 2017

Seller ID: 021017

ISBN: 0956023525

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: New

xiv + 161pp, 23 appendices, list of books for reading and reference, 84pp colour and 8pp black and white photographs. Softback, a new book published in 2017. An historical glimpse of life as it was for foreigners and their families, employed by the Chinese Government, and working in China in the mid-1960s. This is the second of 2 volumes, and includes documents and teaching materials.
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Two Years in Peking 1965-66. Book 2. Photographs, Documents and Teaching Materials

By: Hunt, Reginald

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Oxford, Hurusco Books: 2017

Seller ID: 021018

ISBN: 0956023525

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: New

Two Years in Peking 1965-66. Book 1. Living and Teaching in Mao's China

By: Hunt, Reginald

Price: £14.00

Publisher: Oxford, Hurusco Books: 2016

Seller ID: 021609

ISBN: 0956023517

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: New

xii + 188pp, 14 appendices, list of books for reading and reference, 24pp full page black and white photographs. Softback, a new book published November 2016. An historical glimpse of life as it was for foreigners and their families, employed by the Chinese Government, and working in China in the mid-1960s.
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Two Years in Peking 1965-66. Book 1. Living and Teaching in Mao's China. Book 2. Photographs, Documents and Teaching Materials (2 Volume Set)

By: Hunt, Reginald

Price: £22.00

Publisher: Oxford, Hurusco Books: 2016

Seller ID: 021895

ISBN: 0956023517

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: New

Book 1: xii + 188pp, 14 appendices, list of books for reading and reference, 24pp full page black and white photographs. Softback, a new book published November 2016. An historical glimpse of life as it was for foreigners and their families, employed by the Chinese Government, and working in China in the mid-1960s. Book 2: xiv + 161pp, 23 appendices, list of books for reading and reference, 84pp colour and 8pp black and white photographs. Softback, a new book published in 2017. This is the second of 2 volumes, and includes documents and teaching materials.
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