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London: Andre Deutsch. Very Good+/Very Good+. 1976. First Edition. Hardback. 023396701X Illustrated with reproductions of Chinese line drawings. 254pp including Index. In these 17 pungent and scholarly essays the author argues with indisputable authority that the moment is long past when either East or West can afford their time-honoured ignorance of each other, More than ever, it is vital for us to understand the basic differences between our societies, to admit old mistakes, and try to avoid new ... more information

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London: George Philip. Very Good.. 1930. 9th Edition. Hardback. Well illustrated with numerous maps and line drawings, 224pp. This book is intended for children of about the ages of 11 or 12. It covers the whole world in broad outline and gives the framework into which all other subsequent studies can be fitted. It is full of pictures of human life, lived under many varying conditions. At the same time care has been taken that all essential geographical ideas are introduced and that practically al... more information

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Harvard University Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1980. First Edition. Hardback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 0674009754 Richly illustrated with drawings and photographs. 196pp including Bibliography and Index. In a splendid combination of text and illustrations, the author traces the evolution of birds, from their emergence in the Age of Reptiles to their endless variety today. His recounting of the spectacular discovery of the 'Archaeopteryx' fossil, the oldest relic of avian life, rep... more information

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Oxford: Clarendon Press. Very Good/Good++. 1981. First Edition. Hardback. 0198219256 Illustrated with some photographs and a map, 479pp including Further Reading and Index. This entirely new book replaces the 'Legacy of Greece' edited by Sir Richard Livingstone and published in 1921. This new appraisal brings all the information up to date and offers a different approach. Each contributor has had a free hand in selecting his emphases and in determining the structure of his chapter. The ori... more information

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Very Good.. 1987. First Edition. Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Beautifully illustrated in colour and black-and-white; with 1 fold-out map. vi + 114 pages including Notes and References. Chapters include: 'An Ancient Trade Route'; 'The Exigencies of War'; 'A Limited Defence Policy'; 'Railway Versus Canal'; and 'A Biographical Sketch' (of Robert Barrie, R.N.). Illustrated card covers, with a feint crease and a few feint markings. Inscription to front free endpaper, otherwise ... more information

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London: Collins. Very Good+/Very Good+. 1978. First Edition. Hardback. 0002194163 Illustrated with 10 fine line-drawings by Sir Peter Scott. 48pp. 75 years of wildlife conservation - Richard Fitter, one of Britain's best known naturalists, here traces the history of The Fauna Preservation Society (F.P.S.), its role in international conservation, its struggles and achievements, from 1903 to 1978. Dust-jacket has a small scratch to spine and very minor foxing spots to inner flaps; jacket is in loose ... more information

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London: Faber. Good.. 1960. First Edition Thus. Paperback. 132pp including Introduction, Notes and Index of Proper Names. Aristophanes wrote 'Lysistrata' in 412 B.C. and produced it early in the following year at the Lenaia, the great Athenian festival of Dionysos. It is the last of the 3 comedies which the poet devoted to the subject of the Peloponnesian War; and, in spite of its almost unexampled ribaldry, it has a sombre depth, an intensity of meaning, that we do not find in the other 2 plays, th... more information

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London: William Reeves. Very Good+.. 1928. Second Edition. Hardback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall No. 14 in the Music Story Series. This second edition is extended and corrected "with added material including the position of the flute to-day (1928), frontispiece of Lulli and his flautists, also corrections & revisions of the work." With 46 illustrations as well as many musical examples. xvi + 292 pages including Appendices, Bibliography and Index. Chapters includ... more information

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London: Martin Secker. Good+.. 1923. Reprint. Hardback. 104pp. With an Introductory Note by J.C. Squire. This present selection is sufficiently large and varied to illustrate both what James Elroy Flecker did and what, given a longer life, he might have done - the poems in this book represent every period of Flecker's maturity. Blue cloth boards with gilt, some very feint marks to boards, spine slightly faded. Front and rear free end papers browned, and small stain to rear end papers also sho... more information

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London: Blandford. Good+.. 1972. First Edition. Hardback. 0713705663 Well illustrated in colour and black-and-white. 104 pages including 'Map showing the location of pebbles' and Index. This book is addressed to the growing number of people who find fascination and pleasure in pebbles, gems and rocks. The text also lists some of the best locations in the British Isles for finding amethysts, cornelians, jaspers, serpentines and many other semi-precious pebbles which can be found around the coastline... more information

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New York: David McKay. Very Good/Very Good. 1977. Hardback. 0679002111 Illustrated edition with country map and city plans. Also colour and black-and-white photographs, and attractive line drawings. 319pp including English-Irish Vocabulary and Index. Includes a new section 'Ireland - Town by Town', an easy to use, alphabetical listing of hotels, restaurants and much other valuable practical information. Dust-jacket is price-clipped, and has tiny chip to top of spine repaired with archival ... more information

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London: Edward Arnold. Very Good+/Good++. 1951. First Edition. Hardback. This is a second collection from Mr. Forster's occasional papers of about 70 essays, articles, broadcasts, etc., nearly all of them composed since the publication of the first collection, 'Abinger Harvest', in 1936. In his 'Prefatory Note' the author writes 'The opening section, 'The Second Darkness', concentrates on the war which began for Great Britain in 1939... The second section, 'What I Believe', covers the same period as... more information

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Penguin. Good+.. 1972. Reprint. Paperback. 0140003118 This is the involved story of 2 sisters and a house and the family which occupies it. But hints about the plot do little justice to the subtle art with which the narrative is developed or to the delicate pattern of its composition. A Good+ copy. . ... more information

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London: Reprint Society. Very Good/Very Good. 1964. Reprint. Hardback. This is a work of subtlety and imagination, a brilliant account of a psychopathic obsession, a haunting, breath-taking thriller with serious moral overtones. For a first novel 'The Collector' is an astonishing and memorable 'tour de force'. Dust-jacket has minor foxing to inside, small pen mark on front panel, and some corners rubbed and repaired with archival tape; jacket is in loose protective cover. Minor foxi... more information

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London: Triad/Panther Books. Fair.. 1984. Reprint. Paperback. 058603403X 399 pages. In this brilliant novel, John Fowles has evoked in perfect detail the Victorian world of repressed sexuality and cruel hypocrisy. In the central figures of Charles Smithson and the ostracised Sarah Woodruff he has created two figures who, seeking to escape from the cant and tyranny of their age, achieve an epic and tragic stature. Film tie-in front cover. Stain and creasing to front cover and spine. Contents clean... more information

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London: Cape. Near Fine/Very Good++. 1980. First Edition. Hardback. Oblong 10.25" x 8.25" 0224016180 With the wonderfully atmospheric photographs by Barry Brukoff and the words of famous author John Fowles, Stonehenge is explored from every curious angle: the stone monument woven with light and sky lays down its challenge to our knowledge and our imagination as it has to generations before us. 128pp. Brown cloth boards with gilt, very slight rubbing to top/bottom of spine. Dust-jacket is ... more information

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London: Jonathan Cape. Very Good/Very Good. 1974. First Edition. Hardback. 0224010530 48pp including Bibliography. Illustrated with evocative black-and-white photographs by the Gibson family of the Scillies (off the coast of West Cornwall). Four generations of the Gibson family, starting with John Gibson in the 1860s, have recorded the last moments of the ships, great and small, beautiful and utilitarian, which have met their end on the treacherous shoals and rocks of the Scillies. This book is a s... more information

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London: Newnes. Very Good/Good+. 1965. 2nd Impression. Hardback. Illustrated with 21 super photographs by Beken & Son, Cowes; plus a number of text figures. Also with lithographed end-papers of the Clyde and the Solent. 174pp. This book is at one and the same time a practical instruction manual on how to handle sailing boats, and the personal testimony of the most outstanding yachtsman of our day and age. This book is rich in experience - the generous advice of a master helmsman. The pungent ... more information

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Promotional Reprint Company. Fine/Near Fine. 1989. Reprint. Hardback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 1856480445 Highly interesting and informative foreword by John Fowles, one of the most important writers of our time. 160pp including Map, Bibliography and Index. Really beautiful illustrations throughout by gifted artist Elaine Franks; her paintings and sketches capture the intense beauty of the wild. The Undercliff is a remarkable area of coastline in the southwest of England, between ... more information

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Promotional Reprint Company. Very Good+.. 1993. Reprint. Hardback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 1856480445 Highly interesting and informative foreword by John Fowles, one of the most important writers of our time. 160pp including Map, Bibliography and Index. Really beautiful illustrations throughout by gifted artist Elaine Franks; her paintings and sketches capture the intense beauty of the wild. The Undercliff is a remarkable area of coastline in the southwest of England, between Axm... more information

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