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Commander of the Karteria: Honoured in Greece. Unknown at Home. (Signed)

By: Abney-Hastings, Maurice

Price: £20.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Authorhouse: 2011

Seller ID: 019631

ISBN: 1456783203

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

v +262pp, index, 10pp illustrations, 3 appendices. Blue boards, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. Signed by the author on half title 'With very best wishes, Maurice Abney-Hastings'. Underneath is 11/500 with author's initials alongside, indicating that this is perhaps one of a limited edition. Included is a small pamphlet 'Karteria - The Story of the First Steam Paddle Ship used in Naval Warfare' by Dianne Williams.
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The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy

By: Agawa, Hiroyuki / Translated By John Bester

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Tokyo, Kodansha International Ltd: 1979

Seller ID: 031955

ISBN: 0870113550

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

397pp, index, chronology, 8pp plates. Blue cloth boards, light ageing only, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Huschke Von Hanstein: The Racing Baron

By: Aichele, Tobias / Kittler, Eberhard / Von Hanstein, Ursula / Translated By Peter L Albrecht

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Germany, Konemann: 1999

Seller ID: 030963

ISBN: 3829033206

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

288pp, photographs throughout, some in colour. Black boards, a VG copy in (minor rubs) dustwrapper.
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A Sound in the Sky: The Reminiscences of Geoffrey Alington

By: Alington, Geoffrey

Price: £8.50

Publisher: London, R.K. Hudson: 1994

Seller ID: 031728

ISBN: 0951204793

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

233pp, 40 illustrations. Softback, light reading wear, a VG copy. This is a book about flying, from the first engine-powered flight in 1903 until the last years of World War II.
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Beyond All This Fiddle. Essays 1955 - 1967

By: Alvarez, A

Price: £12.50

Publisher: London, Allen Lane: 1968

Seller ID: 031888

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xii + 555pp, not illustrated. Grey cloth boards, general light ageing to contents, a VG copy in a Good+ (slight edge chipping with small loss) dustwrapper.
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Here Lies: An Autobiography

By: Ambler, Eric

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson: 1985

Seller ID: 022707

ISBN: 0297785885

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

234pp, 13 illustrations. Blue boards, general light ageing, light wear, a VG copy in (small chip to one corner) dustwrapper.
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When I Was a Child

By: An Old Potter (Charles Shaw) / with an Introduction By Robert Spence Watson

Price: £75.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co: 1903

Seller ID: 021409

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

xv + 258pp, index, not illustrated. Red boards, rubs to spine head/tail. a few minor marks spine sunned, general foxing to contents, overall a Good copy without dustwrapper. Autobiography of the author, his life growing up in the Potteries.
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The Life and Work of Robert Gibbings

By: Andrews, Martin J

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Bicester, Primrose Hill Press Ltd: 2003

Seller ID: 021861

ISBN: 1901648311

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xii + 426pp, index, further reading, notes, 399 illustrations. Blue cloth boards, minor marks very slight lean to spine, overall a VG copy in (slight edge creasing) dustwrapper. This is the first book to be published on Robert Gibbings which encompasses his whole life and provides a context for his work and achievements. Many of the illustrations, of Gibbings' own work and those recording his life, are previously unpublished. Heavy book, UK at standard rate, overseas at cost.
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Seamarks and Landmarks: Being Leaves from the Log of Surgeon Captain O.W. Andrews C.B.E. R.N.

By: Andrews, Surgeon Captain OW

Price: £12.50

Publisher: London, Ernest Benn Ltd: 1927

Seller ID: 017484

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

359pp + x + folding chart at rear, illustrations, index, appendix. Gilt on blue boards, slight edge rubbing, slight dulling to spine, general light foxing only, mainly to endpapers, a Good+ solid tight copy without dustwrapper. Gift inscription from the author to his (un-named) god-daughter, dated March 1927, frontispiece of the author signed and dated February 1927.
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A Brief Sketch of the Life, Family and Labours of Edward Heneage Dering of Baddesley Clinton

By: Anon

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, Art and Book Company:

Seller ID: 021716

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

50pp, 8 plates (7 called for), all tissue guarded, errata slip, 2 relevant newspaper obituaries. White boards, edges browning, a few marks, patterned endpapers, general foxing to contents, creases to one tissue guard, some crinkling to pages. Overall a Good copy. Undated gift inscription from R Dering (Rebecca, formerly Ferrers, nee Orpen) to 'The Rev Bernard Grafton, In Memoriam of EHD'.
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Six Months in the West Indies, in 1825

By: Anonymous (Coleridge, Henry Nelson)

Price: £125.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1826

Seller ID: 022369a

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Good+

332pp, not illustrated. Half bound in calf over marbled boards, some edge rubbing, bookplate of Marmion Edw'd Ferrers, Baddesley Clinton, to front pastedown, general light ageing, overall a Good+ copy. Published anonymously, it was written by HN Coleridge (ref British Library).
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Raymond Mays' Magnificent Obsession

By: Apps, Bryan / Foreword By Raymond Mays

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Dorchester, Veloce Publishing Ltd: 2015

Seller ID: 031325

ISBN: 1845847865

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

208pp, index, illustrated throughout. Green boards, a new copy with light shelf wear, VG in dustwrapper.
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Raymond Mays' Magnificent Obsession

By: Apps, Bryan / Foreword By Raymond Mays

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Dorchester, Veloce Publishing Ltd: 2015

Seller ID: 031455

ISBN: 1845847865

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

208pp, index, illustrated throughout. Green boards, light wear only, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Thomas Gainsborough

By: Armstrong, Sir Walter

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Seeley & Co: 1905

Seller ID: 031086

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

88pp, index, 4 plates, 21 illustrations in text. Gilt on red cloth boards, twist to spine, top edge of pages gilt, slight corner rubbing, general light wear, light foxing to contents, a near VG copy.
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Spitfire Against the Odds: Memoirs of a Fighter Pilot

By: Ashman, RV

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Wellingborough, Patrick Stephens Ltd: 1989

Seller ID: 031653

ISBN: 1852602473

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

192pp, index, 16pp plates. Blue boards, general browning to pages, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Autobiography of the author who worked his way up to become a Spitfire pilot in 130 Squadron.
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The Battle and the Breeze: The Naval Reminiscences of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Edward Ashmore

By: Ashmore, Sir Edward / Grove, Eric (Editor)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Stroud, Sutton Publishing Ltd: 1997

Seller ID: 020086

ISBN: 0750912529

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

vi + 282pp, index, 32pp illustrations. Blue boards, light wear only, a VG copy in a Good+ (edge chipping with small loss, to be supplied in a removable protective sleeve) dustwrapper. Detail of life as an Officer and then in higher command in the post-war Royal Navy.
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The Richard III Society: A History. The First Fifty Years, a Personal Account

By: Awdry, George

Price: £20.00

Publisher: George Awdry: 1974

Seller ID: 021400

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

72pp, illustrations. Red card covers, a VG copy.
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A Sea Affair: An Autobiography

By: Baillie, Captain D.G.O.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson: 1957

Seller ID: 017357

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

290pp, index, 15pp plates. Blue boards, light ageing only, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper.
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One of the Damned: The Life and Times of Robert Tressell, Author of 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists'

By: Ball, F.C.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1973

Seller ID: 016651

ISBN: 0297766511

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

xiii + 266pp, index, appendix, 8pp plates. Brown boards, top edge red, light foxing mainly to endpapers and edges, minor edge marks, overall a near VG copy in VG dustwrapper. Uncommon
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First Wave: The True Story of Reg Payne, the Well-Known Veteran Wireless Operator in RAF Bomber Command During World War Two

By: Ballantyne, Kenneth

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Shropshire, Laundry Cottage Books: 2013

Seller ID: 022337

ISBN: 0955060168

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

301pp, black and white photographs. Softback, small rub to base of rear cover otherwise a VG copy. Flat signed by the author on title page.
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Another Dawn Another Dusk: The True Story of Warrant Officer Trevor Bowyer, DFC, ISM, a Veteran Rear Gunner in RAF Bomber Command During World War Two

By: Ballantyne, Kenneth

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Shropshire, Laundry Cottage Books: 2009

Seller ID: 031747

ISBN: 0955060133

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

336pp, black and white photographs. Softback, light reading wear only, a VG copy. Flat signed by the author on title page, with appropriate label to front.
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The Lighter Side of War

By: Ballyfrench, Morton

Price: £75.00

Publisher: London, The Century Press: 1909

Seller ID: 030703

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

215pp. Mauve boards, gilt titling, spine dulled, short tear/fraying to spine head, slight spine twist, competition prize plate to front pastedown, owner's details (dated 1914) to front endpaper, spotting to page edges, otherwise foxing mainly to endpapers. Occasional pencil marks, pencilled correction to 1 page, occasional corner crease. Overall a Good copy without dustwrapper. The author's record of the South African war, following his embarkation at Southampton in 1901. Extremely scarce, no record in the British Library.
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Granville Bantock: A Personal Portrait

By: Bantock, Myrrha

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, JM Dent & Sons Ltd: 1972

Seller ID: 021683

ISBN: 0460039717

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xi + 203pp, index, list of principal works, 16pp illustrations, music examples and line drawings in text, top edge of pages coloured green. Black boards, light ageing only, a VG copy in a near VG (small corner loss, price-clipped) dustwrapper.
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Mariano Fortuny

By: Barberis, Maurizio / Franzini, Claudio / Fuso, Silvio / Tosa, Marco

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Italy, Marsilio: 1999

Seller ID: 030416

ISBN: 8831774190

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

267pp, bibliography, illustrated catalogue, most in colour, plus other mainly black and white illustrations. Large format softback, light wear only, a VG copy. Italian text only.
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The Vicar of Morwenstow: Being a Life of Robert Stephen Hawker

By: Baring-Gould, S

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co: 1949

Seller ID: 022763

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

vii + 248pp. Red boards, light wear, general light ageing to contents, a VG copy in a Good (edge chipped with small loss mainly to spine head/tail, price-clipped) dustwrapper.
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Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

By: Bate, Jonathan

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Viking: 2008

Seller ID: 021815

ISBN: 0670914827

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xii + 500pp, index, references, illustrations. Black boards, light wear and ageing, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Great American Fighter Aces

By: Bauer, Dan

Price: £12.50

Publisher: USA, Motorbooks International: 1992

Seller ID: 031710

ISBN: 0879385855

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

192pp, index, black and white photographs. Large format softback, light edge wear and ageing only, slight spine fading, a VG copy. Features John Alison, Tom Blackburn, Marion Carl, Jerry Collinsworth, Perry Dahl, Joe Foss, Jim Goodson, David 'Tex' Hill, Jim Howard, Charles MacDonald, Tom McGuire and Edward 'Butch' O'Hare.
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Shakespeare in the Stratford Records

By: Bearman, Robert (Editor)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Stroud, Sutton Publishing Ltd: 1994

Seller ID: 021122

ISBN: 0750906324

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

viii + 88pp, index, sources and notes, appendix, illustrations. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy.
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25 (Twenty-Five) Years at Brooklands Track with the 'Railton Era'

By: Beauchamp, RH

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Regency Press (London & New York) Ltd: 1984

Seller ID: 022427

ISBN: 0721206190

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

102pp, 2 appendices, 32 illustrations. Brown boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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''From There to Here': The Art of Michael Buhler

By: Beaumont, Mary Rose / Mack, John / England, Jane

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Greece, Agra Publications: 2013

Seller ID: 031027

ISBN: 184822141X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

179pp, illustrated. Cream boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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Sun on My Wings

By: Bednall, Dundas

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Pembrokeshire, Paterchurch Publications: 1989

Seller ID: 018693

ISBN: 1870745027

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

140pp, index, references, illustrations. Softback, light reading wear, a VG copy. The author's career in the RAF during WW2 on Sunderland Flying Boats in the Mediterranean and later in Africa.
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The Honeysuckle and the Bee: The Story of a Musician

By: Bee, Janet (compiler)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Janet Bee: 1985

Seller ID: 016743

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

52pp, 27 illustrations. Softback, colour fading to spine and adjacent edges otherwise a VG clean tight copy. Biography of an organist, of local interest to Worcester and Malvern.
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Very Special Admiral: The Life of Admiral JH Godfrey, CB

By: Beesley, Patrick (Foreword By Captain SW Roskill)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Hamish Hamilton: 1980

Seller ID: 017398

ISBN: 0241103835

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xxv + 345pp, index, bibliography, 8pp illustrations, maps. Green boards, light ageing only, very slight spine twist, a VG clean tight copy in (slight spine fading) dustwrapper. Biography of John Godfrey who was appointed Director of Naval Intelligence in 1939.
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Ginger Lacey: Fighter Pilot. The Fast Moving Story of One Pilot's War

By: Bickers, Richard Townshend

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Blandford Press: 1988

Seller ID: 031658

ISBN: 0713720395

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

220pp, index, not illustrated. Blue boards, private library label to front pastedown, light ageing, a VG copy in (slight spine fading) dustwrapper.
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Dear Popsy: Collected Postcards of a Private Schoolboy to His Father

By: Bishop-Potter, E.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Andre Deutsch: 1984

Seller ID: 015756

ISBN: 0233976922

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

192pp, illustrated by Paul Cox. Cream boards, general slight browning to pages, otherwise a VG clean tight copy in (price-clipped, slight colour fading to spine) dustwrapper. Signed by author on front endpaper.
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Troepie: From Call-Up to Camps

By: Blake, Cameron

Price: £18.00

Publisher: South Africa, Zebra Press: 2009

Seller ID: 030040

ISBN: 1770220518

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

xvii + 310pp, bibliography, glossary, sources, 6 appendices, not illustrated. Softback, light browning to contents, light reading wear, slight fading to spine, a VG copy. National Service recollections by over 40 former conscripts.
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Faulkner: Conflict and Consent in Irish Politics

By: Bleakley, David

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Oxford, Mowbrays: 1974

Seller ID: 017128

ISBN: 026466227X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xi + 204pp, index, 5 appendices, references, 16pp plates. Blue boards, light wear only, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. Dated gift inscription to 'Lord Edmund-Davies' to the front endpaper, signed by the author.
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Modern Critical Views: Philip Roth

By: Bloom, Harold (Edited and with an Introduction by)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: USA, Chelsea House Publishers: 1986

Seller ID: 016661

ISBN: 0877546614

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

x + 188pp, index, bibliography, a collection of 14 essays. Maroon boards, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper.
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Hotspur. Henry Percy: Medieval Rebel

By: Boardman, A.W.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Stroud, Sutton Publishing Ltd: 2003

Seller ID: 021913

ISBN: 0750928786

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

x + 230pp, index, bibliography, notes, 8pp plates. Black boards, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Biography of the character immortalised by Shakespeare in Henry IV, his background, overbearing family and his rise to fame which brought him into direct conflict with the king.
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The Poems of Francis Thompson: A New Edition

By: Boardman, Brigid M (Editor)

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Continuum International Publishing Group: 2001

Seller ID: 030748

ISBN: 0826456103

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xxxviii + 513pp, indexes, biographical summary, frontispiece. Black boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Includes a sizeable number of previously unpublished poems.
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Publications of the Navy Records Society Volume LXXXII: Recollections of My Sea Life from 1808 to 1830

By: Boteler, Captain John Harvey / Bonner-Smith, David (Editor)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, The Navy Records Society: 1942

Seller ID: 018067

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xiii + 272pp, index, map. Quarter bound in blue buckram over grey boards, gilt banding and decoration, light wear, light foxing mainly to rough cut edges, a few pages uncut. Pencilled notes to rear endpaper, occasional pencil marks to text, easily removed but left for interest, overall a VG copy, no dustwrapper as issued.
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Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World 1600 - 1900

By: Bown, Stephen R.

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Conway: 2010

Seller ID: 031354

ISBN: 1844861147

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

314pp, index, maps, bibliography, timeline, illustrations. Black boards, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy in dustwrapper. The story of six key men:- Jan Pieterszoon Coen and the Dutch East India Company; Pieter Stuyvesant and the Dutch West India Company; Sir Robert Clive and the English East India Company; Aleksandr Baranov and the Russian American Company; Sir George Simpson and the Hudson's Bay Company; Cecil John Rhodes and the British South Africa Company.
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Pick Up a Pencil: The Work of Laurence Fish

By: Bray, Jean

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Gloucester, JDF & Associates Ltd: 2012

Seller ID: 030715

ISBN: 0956209297

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

144pp, colour illustrations throughout. Blue boards, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Personalised gift dedication from the author to front endpaper. Covers the work of Laurence Fish under various chapter headings, including coachwork design; blueprints and anti-sabotage; aircraft and industrial design; posters; graphic art and fine art.
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Picture a Country Vicarage

By: Brode, Anthony

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Elek Books: 1956

Seller ID: 016693

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

183pp. Brown boards, slight sunning to spine, general foxing with spotting to page edges, overall a Good clean copy in a Fair-to-Good (edge chipped with loss mainly to spine and adjacent top edge, to be supplied in a removeable protective sleeve) dustwrapper. Interesting dedicated gift inscription from the author to front pastedown.
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From Engine Room to Admiralty

By: Brown, Tommy

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Hampshire, Navigator Books: 1995

Seller ID: 022021

ISBN: 0902830570

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

vii + 308pp, illustrations. Card covers, a few reading creases, creases to corner tips of a few pages, overall a VG copy.
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Working the Wheel

By: Brundle, Martin / Hamilton, Maurice

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Ebury Press: 2004

Seller ID: 030977

ISBN: 009190062X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

296pp, 8pp colour plates, track circuits. Black boards, general light browning to pages, a VG copy in dustwrapper. Flat signed by Martin Brundle to title page.
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Thomas Merton: Poet, Prophet, Priest (Men of Spirit)

By: Bryant, Jennifer Fisher

Price: £10.00

Publisher: USA, William B Eerdmans Publishing Co: 1997

Seller ID: 019986

ISBN: 0802851401

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

viii + 207pp, index, bibliography, 16pp plates. Softback, light wear only, a VG copy.
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Christina Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric

By: Buckley, Veronica

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Fourth Estate: 2004

Seller ID: 031889

ISBN: 184115704X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

xv + 494pp, index, bibliography, notes, 16pp plates. Blue boards, small owner's label to front endpaper, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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A Pilot at Wimbledon: The Memoirs of Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Burnett GCB, DFC, AFC

By: Burnett, Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Hertfordshire, Blenheim Press Limited: 2009

Seller ID: 022082

ISBN: 1906302138

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

ix + 324pp, index, illustrations, some in colour. Softback, laminate lifting very slightly at page edges, light ageing and wear only, overall a VG copy. A distinguished career in the RAF, followed by 10 years as Chairman of the All England Club, Wimbledon.
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A Pilot at Wimbledon: The Memoirs of Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Burnett GCB, DFC, AFC

By: Burnett, Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian

Price: £16.00

Publisher: Hertfordshire, Blenheim Press Limited: 2009

Seller ID: 022083

ISBN: 1906302138

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Very Good

ix + 324pp, index, illustrations, some in colour. Softback, slight creasing to covers and a few pages, light ageing mainly to top edge of pages, overall a near VG copy. A distinguished career in the RAF, followed by 10 years as Chairman of the All England Club, Wimbledon.
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