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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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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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Golden Balls: The Story of Wolves' Hat-trick Heroes

By: Gordos, Steve / Corbett, Clive

Price: £20.00

Publisher: West Midlands, Geoffrey Publications: 2018

Seller ID: 032393

ISBN: 9781999671983

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

406pp, photographs. Black boards, dustwrapper, new book. Covers the period from 1886 to 2018, and 190 hat-tricks by 86 players, including Ray Crawford, John Richards, Steve Bull, Chris Iwelumo.
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Oakwood Library of Railway History OL145: Edward Thompson of the LNER

By: Grafton, Peter

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Usk, The Oakwood Press: 2007

Seller ID: 032354

ISBN: 0853616728I

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

152pp, index, bibliography, 4 appendices, black and white photographs, drawings, technical data. Softback, a VG copy.
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Oakwood Library of Railway History OL145: Edward Thompson of the LNER

By: Grafton, Peter

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Usk, The Oakwood Press: 2007

Seller ID: 032478

ISBN: 0853616728I

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

152pp, index, bibliography, 4 appendices, black and white photographs, drawings, technical data. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy.
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Edward Thompson of the L.N.E.R

By: Grafton, Peter

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Yorkshire, Kestrel Books: 1971

Seller ID: 032613

ISBN: 0950029599

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

139pp, appendices, 68 illustrations. Green cloth boards, twist to spine, light ageing, a VG copy in (slight edge rubbing/creasing) dustwrapper.
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Jurgen Schrempp and the Making of an Auto Dynasty. The Story of the Man Behind Daimler-Chrysler

By: Grasslin, Jurgen

Price: £15.00

Publisher: USA, McGraw-Hill: 2000

Seller ID: 032629

ISBN: 0071351329

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xxviii + 210pp, index. Black boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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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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The Jim Russell Story

By: Greenway, Norman

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Middlesex, Transport Bookman Publications: 1999

Seller ID: 031829

ISBN: 0851840582

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

200pp, black and white photographs. Blue boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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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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Life of Napoleon

By: Griffiths, Major Arthur

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Gibbings & Company: 1914

Seller ID: 031998

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xvi + 436pp, 2 tipped-in colour plates plus black and white plates, as called for. Modern rebind in maroon leatherette boards, short split to spine edge in one place, new endpapers, light foxing to contents, top edge gilt, other edges rough cut, overall a VG copy.
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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 Autobiography of 'The Card'

By: Hales, HK (Donor of the Atlantic Blue Riband Trophy)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co: 1936

Seller ID: 032400

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

x + 308pp, illustrations as called for. Red boards, spine slightly faded, spine head frayed with small loss, general foxing, overall a Good copy in a Fair-to-Good (internally reinforced, edge chipped with generally small losses, small piece missing from bottom edge of front, spine browned) dustwrapper. Undated, assumed 1936 1st edition (ref: British Library).
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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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A Fearful Freedom. The Story of One Man's Survival Behind the Lines in Japanese Occupied Malaya 1942 - 1945

By: Hamond, Robert

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Leo Cooper: 1984

Seller ID: 032470

ISBN: 0436190818

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

181pp, bibliography, appendix, maps, 4pp plates, .Green boards, from a smoker's collection so slight aroma, browning mainly to edges and endpapers, a VG copy in (slight edge browning, minor corner crease to flyleaf) dustwrapper. The amazing survival story of the author who evaded the Japanese after the battle for Malaya.
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Striving Towards Wholeness

By: Hannah, Barbara

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd: 1972

Seller ID: 032002

ISBN: 0041500415

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

x + 316pp, bibliography. Blue boards, slight edge fading, general light ageing, top edge of pages blue (small bleed onto fore-edge), overall a VG copy in a near VG (spine fading) 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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Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz

By: Harding, Thomas

Price: £12.50

Publisher: London, William Heinemann Ltd: 2013

Seller ID: 032743

ISBN: 0434022365

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xix + 348pp, index, bibliography, notes, family trees, 8pp plates, illustrations in text, pictorial endpapers. Black boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper, which retains the publisher's wrap-around, with John Le Carre's review line.
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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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John C Brain: Confederate Privateer

By: Hay, David

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Sussex, Book Guild Publishing Ltd: 1989

Seller ID: 032510

ISBN: 0863323782

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

178pp. Blue boards, general light browning to pages, a VG copy in (spine colour faded) dustwrapper. Historical novel based on letters and contemporary newspapers.
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The British Field Marshals 1763 - 1997. A Biographical Dictionary

By: Heathcote, T. A. (With a Foreword By General Sir Charles Guthrie, Chief of the Defence Staff)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: South Yorkshire, Leo Cooper: 1999

Seller ID: 031893

ISBN: 0850526965

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xvi + 368pp, index, bibliography, 5 tables. Red boards, light ageing only, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper.
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The British Admirals of the Fleet 1734 - 1995: A Biographical Dictionary

By: Heathcote, TA / With a Foreword By Admiral Sir Michael Boyce

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Barnsley, Leo Cooper: 2002

Seller ID: 032415

ISBN: 0850528356

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xiii + 338pp, index, bibliography, catalogue of the ships, seniority list of the admirals of the fleet, 18 plates. Blue boards, light ageing, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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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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Childhood, Youth & Exile Being Parts I & II of 'My Past and Thoughts'

By: Herzen, Alexander / Translated By JD Duff / Introduction By Colin Ward

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 1983

Seller ID: 032691

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

303pp, 13pp plates plus frontispiece. Orange boards in Almoline cloth blocked with a symbolic design, slight colour fading to spine, light ageing, a VG copy in (minor marks) slipcase. Text is from the 1980 OUP edition.
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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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Lewin of Greenwich: The Authorised Biography of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Lewin

By: Hill, Richard / Foreword By H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Cassell & Co: 2000

Seller ID: 031941

ISBN: 0304353299

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

443pp, index, notes, 16pp plates, maps. Blue boards, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy in dustwrapper. The authorised biography of Lewin of Greenwich, Chief of Defence Staff during the Falklands war, and the most important and influential figure in post-war history of the British Royal Navy and Britain's defence policy.
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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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Edwardian Pre Raphaelites, The Art of John and Mary Young Hunter

By: Hobart, Alan & Hobart, Mary (Foreword)

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Pyms Gallery: 2000

Seller ID: 032076

ISBN: 0952501732

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

120pp, index, bibliography, chronology, illustrations, many in colour and some folding. Red cloth boards, a VG copy in (slight edge wear) 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. Signed by the author, 'Best Wishes, Peter Hodge' to title page.
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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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By: Hughes, Geoffrey

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Usk, The Oakwood Press: 2004

Seller ID: 032199

ISBN: 0853615799

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

216pp, index, bibliography, 6 appendices, black and white photographs, drawings. Card covers, light wear only, a VG copy.
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