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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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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: 021896

ISBN: 0956023517

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: New

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: 021898

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: 021899

ISBN: 0956023517

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: 021901

ISBN: 0956023517

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: New

My Falkland Days

By: Hunt, Rex

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Newton Abbot, David & Charles: 1992

Seller ID: 022644

ISBN: 0715390872

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

488pp, index, notes, map, 8pp plates. Blue boards, VG in dustwrapper. Personalised gift dedication from the author to title page.
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The Flight of the Starling: The Story of Scottish Pioneer Aviator Captain Eric Starling F.R.Met.S, M.R.Ae.S.

By: Hutchison, Iain

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Scotland, Kea Publishing: 1992

Seller ID: 030541

ISBN: 095189580X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good+

171pp, bibliography, black and white photographs. Softback, mark to rear cover, general light edge rubbing, overall a Good+ copy.
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Many a Slip

By: Ingleby-Mackenzie, Colin (Captain of Hampshire C.C.C.)

Price: £12.50

Publisher: London, Oldbourne Book Co Ltd: 1962

Seller ID: 030236

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

190pp, 8pp plates. Blue boards, light foxing mainly to endpapers, a VG copy in a Good+ (edge chipped with small losses, not price-clipped, slight fading to spine) dustwrapper.
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Catalogue 49: William Evans of Bristol (1809 - 1858). For an Exhibition Tuesday 10 November to Saturday 28 November 1987

By: Introduction By Francis Greenacre / Foreword By Martyn Gregory

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Martyn Gregory: 1987

Seller ID: 031769

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

66pp, footnote, illustrated catalogue, some in colour. Softback, a VG copy.
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Julius Bissier 1893 - 1965: An Exhibition from the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

By: Introduction By Werner Schmalenbach / Essay 'Julius Bissier' By Peter Cannon-Brookes

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, The Arts Council: 1977

Seller ID: 031088

ISBN: 0728701243

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

60pp, bibliography, chronology, catalogue, colour plates. Softback, light reading wear and ageing, a VG copy.
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The Memories and Writings of a London Railwayman: A Tribute to Harold Vernon Borley (1895 - 1989)

By: Jackson, Alan A (Editor) / Borley, Harold V

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Mold, Railway & Canal Historical Society: 1993

Seller ID: 020832

ISBN: 0901461164

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

159pp, index, appendix, black and white photographs. Softback, light reading wear, a VG copy. HV Borley published his book 'Chronology of London Railways' seven years prior to his death, after extensive research and recording the history of the railways of London and its environs over many years.
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Julian Taylor: De Metamorphose, En Metamorphose

By: Jean Dutourd from the French Academy (Preface)

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Paris, Galerie 26: 2001

Seller ID: 017532

ISBN: 291329006X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

132pp, bibliography, biographical elements, fully illustrated in colour, covering houses, lighthouses, still lifes, landscapes and seascapes. Large hardback, pictorial boards, a VG clean tight copy in slipcase.
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Vases and Volcanoes: Sir William Hamilton and His Collection

By: Jenkins, Ian / Sloan, Kim

Price: £22.00

Publisher: London, British Museum Press: 1996

Seller ID: 031470

ISBN: 0714117668

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

320pp, index, bibliography, chronology, illustrations throughout, some in colour. Large format softback, light wear only, a VG copy. The 6 essays in this book discuss all aspects of the life and career of Sir William Hamilton (1730 - 1803), plus some 200 items formerly in his possession are fully described and illustrated.
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Willie Tolbert: A Memoir

By: Johns, William Allen / Foreword By Virginius Dabney

Price: £10.00

Publisher: USA, The Deitz Press Inc: 1971

Seller ID: 022746

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

xvi + 63pp, sources, 7 illustrations. Red boards, gilt titling, light ageing, gift inscription to rear pastedown, overall a near VG copy in a Good+ (edge chips/rubs with small loss) dustwrapper. Personalised gift dedication from the author to front endpaper.
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A House by the Shore: Twelve Years in the Hebrides

By: Johnson, Alison

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz: 1987

Seller ID: 018853

ISBN: 0575038683

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

215pp, illustrations by Christine Dodd. Black boards, light ageing only, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. Signed by the author on the title page, with a personalised dedication beneath. Life as a schoolteacher on the Isle of Harris.
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Oxford Historical Monographs. Duke Richard of York 1411 - 1460

By: Johnson, PA

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press: 1988

Seller ID: 021184

ISBN: 0198229461

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xii + 270pp, index, bibliography, 3 appendices. Blue boards, light ageing only, a VG copy in (slightest spine fading) dustwrapper. This first biography of Richard, third Duke of York, examines the political opposition of a great landlord to Henry VI's regime.
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Nine Rivers from Jordan: The Chronicle of a Journey and a Search

By: Johnston, Denis

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Derek Verschoyle: 1953

Seller ID: 022823

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

458pp, glossary. Blue boards, slight twist to spine, spine dulled, minor marks, foxing mainly to endpapers and edges, a Good+ copy, no dustwrapper.
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Eccentrics

By: Jolliffe, John

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd: 2001

Seller ID: 031252

ISBN: 0715630504

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

184pp, 8pp plates. Black boards, slight bumping to lower corners, VG in dustwrapper. Personalities featured are Charles and Richard Sibthorpe; Charles Waterton; Aubrey and Auberon Herbert; John Christie of Glyndebourne; William Beckford; William Blake; Sir George Sitwell; Lady Hester Stanhope; Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear; Victoria Woodhull Martin; Sir Iain Moncreiffe and Sir Humphry Wakefield.
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Telford in the Dee Valley

By: Jones, CDR / Parry, D

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Wales, Clwyd County Council: 1989

Seller ID: 031537

ISBN: 0904449564

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

34pp, maps, photographs, illustrations. Softback, creasing to corners otherwise light wear, a near VG copy.
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Raphael

By: Jones, Roger / Penny, Nicholas

Price: £15.00

Publisher: USA, Yale University Press: 1983

Seller ID: 030997

ISBN: 0300030614

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

256pp, index, notes, 273 illustrations, many in colour. Blue boards, light wear only, minor marks to page edges, overall a VG copy in (price-clipped, edge chips, minor loss) dustwrapper.
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Don Kenyon: His Own Man

By: Jones, Tim / Foreword By Phil Neale.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Stratford-upon-Avon, Amberley Publishing: 2015

Seller ID: 030043

ISBN: 1445647567

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

160pp, bibliography, black and white photographs. Softback, light reading wear, a VG copy. 'With my Very Best Wishes, Tim Jones. February 2016' to title page.
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Beau Brummell: The Ultimate Dandy

By: Kelly, Ian

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 2005

Seller ID: 022145

ISBN: 0340836989

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xiii + 578pp, index, appendix, bibliography, 76 illustrations, some in colour. Black boards, slight browning to pages, a VG copy in a near VG (sunning to spine, crease/closed short edge tear to rear panel) dustwrapper. Personalised gift dedication from the author to title page.
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How Lucky I Was: 35 Missions in a Lancaster Bomber

By: Kimlin, Rex

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Australia, Chambers & Associates Pty, Limited: 2012

Seller ID: 022122

ISBN: 0987376411

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

262pp, glossary, illustrations. Softback, a VG copy.
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The Artist Marcos Duprat and the Invention of Truth

By: Klintowitz, Jacob

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Raizes: 1985

Seller ID: 020216

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

100pp, illustrations throughout, many in colour. Laminated boards, light wear only, a VG copy in a Good+ (closed edge tears, now in removeable protective sleeve) dustwrapper. Text in Spanish and English.
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First Lines: The Gripping Letters, Stories and First-hand Accounts of Four Staffordshire Regiment Men Serving in the Trenches of WW1

By: Knibb, Joss Musgrove

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Gazelle Press Limited: 2014

Seller ID: 021288

ISBN: 0993057403

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

107pp, illustrations and photographs, some in colour. Softback, an excellent clean tight copy. This book contains the letters of:- Sergeant Sydney Norton of Tamworth; Sergeant James Stevenson of Stoke-on-Trent; An Account by Captain Reginald Armes of the 1914 Christmas Truce; The First-hand Account of Second-Lieutenant Alfred Bull of Lichfield.
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T.E. Lawrence's Irish Ancestry and Relationship to Sir Walter Raleigh

By: Knight, Ronald D.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Weymouth, Ronald D Knight: 2000

Seller ID: 030781

ISBN: 0903769913

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good+

153pp, bibliography, 8pp plates, map. Softback, corner creasing/edge rubs to covers, minor marks, contents VG. Overall a Good+ copy.
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Tor Gundersen: Works - Werke

By: Kratz, Monika

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Belgium, Stichting Kunstboek Bvba: 2002

Seller ID: 030049

ISBN: 905856066X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

144pp, photographs by Svein-Erik Toraasen. Black boards, large format hardback, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Text in German/English/Japanese. The work of the Norwegian florist, Tor Gundersen.
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Descents of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys

By: Krissdottir, Morine

Price: £22.00

Publisher: London, Overlook Duckworth: 2007

Seller ID: 022155

ISBN: 1585679178

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

480pp, index, notes, illustrations. Quarter-bound in blue over blue boards, light ageing only, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David after the Terror

By: Lajer-Burcharth, Ewa

Price: £25.00

Publisher: USA, Yale University Press: 1999

Seller ID: 030241

ISBN: 0300074212

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

x + 374pp, index, bibliography, notes, 155 illustrations plus 11 colour plates. Tan boards, small edge bump, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Anthony Fry: New Work

By: Lambirth, Andrew

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Browse & Darby: 1991

Seller ID: 020405

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

24pp, 11 colour plates, produced for an exhibition 23 May - 22 June 1991. Blue card covers, a few rubs, otherwise a VG copy.
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Sylvia Plath: New Views on the Poetry

By: Lane, Gary (Editor)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: USA, The Johns Hopkins University Press: 1979

Seller ID: 021180

ISBN: 0801821797

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xiv + 266pp, indexes, bibliography, chapter notes. A collection of 13 essays. Red boards, general browning to pages, overall a VG copy in (slight edge chipping, slight spine fading) dustwrapper.
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Dugdale Society Occasional Papers No.28: The Godly Magistrate: The Private Philosophy and Public Life of Sir John Newdigate, 1571 - 1610

By: Larminie, VM

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Stratford-upon-Avon, The Dugdale Society: 1982

Seller ID: 021819

ISBN: 0852200587

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

34pp. Card covers, an excellent, probably unread copy.
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Art Tatum: A Guide to His Recorded Music

By: Laubich, Arnold / Spencer, Ray

Price: £20.00

Publisher: USA, The Scarecrow Press: 1982

Seller ID: 022783

ISBN: 0810815826

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

xxviii + 330pp, 4 appendices, chronological discography. Gilt on maroon cloth boards, light ageing, some light pencilled annotation to discography, and notes to rear endpaper, a near VG copy, no dustwrapper.
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Edith Wharton

By: Lee, Hermione

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 2007

Seller ID: 018412

ISBN: 0701166657

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

x + 853pp, index, bibliography, notes, 24pp illustrations. Grey boards, light wear only, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. Gift dedication from the author to title page. 3rd impression of the first edition. Heavy book, extra shipping may be required to non-UK address.
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People and Places: Country House Donors and the National Trust

By: Lees-Milne, James

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, John Murray Publishers Ltd: 1992

Seller ID: 030013

ISBN: 0719551455

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

viii + 232pp, index, 23 plates. Green boards, slight ageing to contents, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Memories of Banbury: An Illustrated Record of an Oxfordshire Childhood

By: Lester, Marjory Winifred

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Marjory Lester: 1986

Seller ID: 031530

ISBN: 0951212702

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

96pp, map, colour illustrations. Blue boards, landscape format, light ageing, a VG copy in (colour fading to spine) dustwrapper. Signed on title page by the author with the additional words 'In memory of a stimulating afternoon'. Limited edition of 3000 copies.
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Horace: A Life

By: Levi, Peter

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd: 1997

Seller ID: 031349

ISBN: 0715627554

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

270pp, index, appendix, Green boards, minor marks, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Selected Poems

By: Lewis, C Day / Edited and Introduced By Jill Balcon

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Enitharmon Press: 2004

Seller ID: 030772

ISBN: 1904634117

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

216pp, list of subscribers, bibliography. Black boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Includes a signed letter from Jill Balcon, former wife of Cecil Day Lewis.
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Heroes of Science: Mechanicians

By: Lewis, TC

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, SPCK: 1884

Seller ID: 022595

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

xiv + 340pp, not illustrated. Full brown leather binding, 5 raised bands to spine, gilt decoration and lining, gilt motto 'Palmam Qui Mervit Ferat' to front board. Spine dulled, light edge rubbing. Marbled page edges, presentation bookplate to front pastedown, from Amersham Hall School, dated 1891. General light foxing, a VG copy . Biographies of James Watt, George Stephenson, Sir Richard Arkwright, Samuel Crompton, Henry Maudsley, Joseph Clement, James Nasmyth, Sir Joseph Whitworth and Charles Babbage, plus a chapter on the first steam engine.
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Rescuing Horace Walpole

By: Lewis, Wilmarth S

Price: £18.00

Publisher: USA, Yale University Press: 1979

Seller ID: 031228

ISBN: 0300022786

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

viii + 251pp, index, illustrations, Blue boards, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy in (short edge nicks) dustwrapper. 2nd printing.
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Jozef Kollar

By: Lichnerova, Rut

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Slovakia, ROPA: 1996

Seller ID: 017633

ISBN: 809675680X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

136pp, bibliography, 80 colour plates, notes, illustrations. Red boards, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. Dual Slovak/English text.
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Letters from the Peninsula, 1808 - 1812

By: Lieut.-Gen Sir William Warre C.B., K.T.S., Edited By His Nephew The Rev. Edmond Warre D.D., C.B., M.V.O., With Added Comments By William A Warre, His Great-Great Nephew

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Kent, Spellmount Publishers Ltd: 1999

Seller ID: 019011

ISBN: 1862270376

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xxiii + 231pp, 17 appendices, bibliography, notes, 17 plates, 3 maps, chronology. Red boards, slight bumping to upper corners, slight ageing to contents, overall a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper.
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Forgotten General: Life of Andrew Thorne

By: Lindsay, Donald

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Wiltshire, Michael Russell Publishing Ltd: 1987

Seller ID: 021888

ISBN: 0859551377

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

viii + 223pp, index, 8pp plates plus frontispiece. Blue boards, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy in (slight spine fading) dustwrapper.
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Josep Maria Jujol: Catalan Architect and Colleague of Gaudi

By: Llinas, Jose / Sarra, Jordi

Price: £11.50

Publisher: Germany, Taschen GmbH: 2007

Seller ID: 031084

ISBN: 3822844063

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

158pp, chronology, fully illustrated, mainly in colour. Gold coloured boards, light wear only, a VG copy in dustwrapper. The work the Catalonian architect of Josep Maria Jujol (1879 - 1949). Text in German/English/French.
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An Epitome of the Twenty-five (25) Lords of Kemes AD 1087-1914

By: Lloyd, Katharine H

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Carmarthen, W Spurrell & Son: 1930

Seller ID: R22995

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

104pp, 23 b+w plates, 5 colour plates. Purple bevelled boards, sunning (fading) to spine and adjacent edges, gilt titling and decoration, top edge gilt, other edges rough-cut, owners annotation to 1/2 title, otherwise VG clean tight copy.
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1895 - 1995: Un Siecle de Grands Pilotes Français (3 Volume Set in Slipcase)

By: Louche, Maurice / Preface By Juan-Manuel Fangio

Price: £150.00

Publisher: France, Editions Maurice Louche: 1995

Seller ID: 030999

ISBN: 2950073832

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

3 volume set in slipcase. Volume 1: A-E. 301pp. Volume 2: F-P. 299pp. Volume 3: R-Z. 273pp. All 3 volumes: indexes, photographs throughout, some in colour plus a bibliography in volume 3. All in maroon cloth boards, spines slightly colour dulled, white spine titling has faded (no evidence of rubbing) on all 3 volumes, contents VG, so noted fault apart these are a VG set. All housed in a pictorial slipcase, a few light bumps/rubs. Overall a VG set. French text only. Very heavy, approx 7kg, UK at standard rate, overseas at cost.
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