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London: W. Nicholson & Sons, Limited. Not dated, c. early 1900s, slight lean, some edge-wear, a little bumping to corners, pages tanned. 397pp. With a full history of the discovery of the murder by a dream; Together with an account of the trial of William Corder. To which is added copies of fifty-four letters, in answer to his advertisement for a wife.. Hard Cover. Fair. more information

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Broughton in Furness, Cumbria, United Kingdom: Coordination Group Publications Ltd, 1998. Revision Guide. No Inscriptions. 108pp.. Soft Cover. Very Good. more information

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London: L. T. A. Robinson Limited. A little bumping to corners, slight lean. Dustwrapper has several large tears and chips to edge. Beautifully illustrated in colour and black-and-white.. Hard Cover. Good/Poor. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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1978. Boards a little grubby, minor wear to edges. 120pp. From the illustrated library of the bizarre and extraordinary.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Octopus Books Ltd, 1984. Possibly 1984 part of title page has been torn so the real date could be different, reading creasing along spine, edge wear, last page has bottom corner missing, a number of drawings and writings on the acknowledgements page and title page and on back cover inside. 192pp. This book vividly portrays two basic kinds of disasters. Firstly, the natural catastrphes such as earthquakes, floods and hurricanes, and secondly, the horrifying disasters caused by man's interaction with nature. Included in the second category are the London 'pea-souper' fogs which were responsible for thousands of deaths, the world's worst aircrash, and the Italian chemical explosion which released a lethal weed killer into the atmosphere, causing deaths and miscarriages years after the event. . Mass Market Paperback. Poor. more information

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London: Arrow, 1972. Adhesive price ticket on front cover, reading creasing along spine, pen line along bottom of book, edge wear. 288pp. A selection from The Lady's Realm of 1904-1905 with an introduction by Lady Georgina Coleridge. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. more information

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London: BBC Books, 2002. No Inscriptions, a little edge-wear, laminate beginning to peel from corner. 152pp. The all-in-one revision guide with everything you need for exam success.. Soft Cover. Very Good. more information

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London: Golden Pleasure Books Limited, 1962. Former owners name inscribed, edge-worn, a little bumping to corners. 113pp. Illustrated throughout in colour.. Hard Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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David Campbell Publishers, 1993. A little shelf-wear, lean to spine. 80pp. Listing famous birthdays, great events, diaries & letters, saints of the day, flower of the day, your star day relating to this date.. Hard Cover. Good. more information

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London: Frank Cass, 2003. A little creasing, pp 96 - 111. The American Far Right and 9/11 by Martin Durham.. Paper. Very Good. more information

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London: Frank Cass, 2003. pp 67 - 80. The Home and the Homeland: Gender and the British Extreme Right by Martin Durham.. Paper. Fine. more information

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Maidenhead: Purnell Books, 1974. Prize giving book-plate to former owner to fep, some shelf-wear, wear and nicks to corners. The colourful history of the British monarchy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Thames and Hudson, 1960. First Impression. No Inscriptions, a little shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, some edge-wear, small tear to corner. 449pp. A case history of intellectual resistance behind the iron curtain.. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. more information

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Collins. No published date, but date of 14-7-38 inscribed to fep, a little bumping and shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, worn with small tears, chips and nicks. 410pp. Number 74 in the Collins Pocket Classics series. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. more information

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Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Pelican, 1977. Some creasing and edge-wear. 415pp. This remarkable book assembles all that is known or can be deduced about the most shadowy period of British history since the Roman occupation and about its legendary hero.. Soft Cover. Good. more information

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Robert Tyndall Ltd, 1974. Usual library marks and stamps, library sale price to fep, some bumping to corners, shelf-worn, chipped to head of spine. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Readers Union, 1970. Some bumping and shelf-wear, a little foxing to edge. Dustwrapper worn to edge, small tears, fading to spine. 244pp. An introduction to the idea of the United States.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. more information

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London: Panther, 1970. Creasing to cover, some staining and edge-wear, pages tanned, small stamp to rear cover. 221pp. Patriots or pirates? Or a mixture of both? What kind of men were the famous 16th Century sea-captains who performed such prodigious feats of exploration, trade, battle and outright piracy? The author presents Drake's voyages in a new light by stressing the aggressive and predatory context of Elizabethan maritime expansion.. Mass Market Paperback. Fair. more information

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London: Collins, 1974. No Inscriptions, shelf-worn, spine-ends flattened, some staining to edge, pages tanning. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, creased and worn, nicks and chipe to edge. 340pp. The Second World War was the most massive and the most appalling military conflagration the world has ever known. It altered the balance of power, killed millions of people, destroyed much of the old Europe, and left behind a dramatic period of world history.. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. more information

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London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005. First Impression. Authors signature to title page, slight bump to edge, UNREAD. 272pp. The final word from our First World War soldiers.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. more information

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London: Cassell & Co, 2002. First Impression. No Inscriptions. 233pp inc index. The Truth Behind Bravo Two Zero. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. more information

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London: Cassell Military, 2002. NEW UNREAD Bravo Two Zero was the code name of the most famous SAS operation in recent times. It was a classic British story of glorious failure and bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. . First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. more information

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USA: Nelson Doubleday , Inc., 1967. A little marking to cover. 64pp. Illustrated. . Soft Cover. Very Good. more information

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Longleat Estate, The, 1957. A little edge-wear and surface scratching. Illustrated.. Hard Cover. Very Good. more information

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London: Futura, 1987. Some creasing and edge-wear, cover protected in plastic wrap. 335pp. In 1908 a three-year-old boy was enthroned as Emporer of China in the fabled Forbidden City in Peking. Pu Yi was China's Last Emporer; four years later he was deposed when China became a republic.. Mass Market Paperback. Fair. more information

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London: Pitkin Pictorials Ltd. No Inscriptions, some creasing. One of the Pitkin Pride of Britain books.. Soft Cover. Good. more information

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London: Treasure Press, 1984. Priced clipped, edge warn on cover. 168pp. . Hard Cover. Good. more information

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London: Chancellor Press, 2002. A little edge-wear. 192pp. Taking a penetrating look at the lives of men such as Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Joseph Stalin, Papa Doc, Adolf Hitler, Al Capone, the Kray Twins, Marquis de Sade, Vlad the Impaler, Attila the Hun, Ghengis Khan, Ivan the Terrible, Nero, Caligula, to name but a few.. Soft Cover. Very Good. more information

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London: Hamlyn, 1994. No Inscriptions, some edge-wear, remnants of adhesive sticker to front cover, some of the cover has been scrathed off when removing the sticker. 192pp. History is blighted by the deeds of many men - Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Joseph Stalin, Papa Doc, Adolf Hitler, Al Capone, The Kray Twins , Marquis de Sade, Vlad the Impaler, Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Ivan the Terrible, Nero, Caligula, to name but a few whose cruelty and violence have changed the face of the human race.. Soft Cover. Good. more information

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London: Harrap, 1963. First Impression. No Inscriptions, slight bump to base of spine. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, small tear at top of spine, and to a corner. 384pp. The story of America's early settlers and their struggles to overcome the staggering physical, religious, and political hazards which faced them.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London, 1980. Some shelf-wear. Dustwrapper has some wear and wrinkling to edge. 448pp. This is the book of the magnificent thirteen-part BBC television series The Ascent of Man, tracing our rise both as a species and as moulders of our own environment and future.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1966. Green boards, gilt titles to sun faded spine, bumped and shelf-worn, some staining, a little foxing. Bookplate to ffep with former owners name. 138pp. . Hard Cover. Fair. more information

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Derby, UK: Pilgrim Press Ltd, 1987. No Inscriptions, a little edge-wear. 24pp. . Soft Cover. Very Good. more information

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London: Collins, 1942. Red cloth, faded titles, bumped to corners, lower page edges unevenly cut, a little foxing, former owners name inscribed. 370pp. The British fight against the attempt of a revolutionary France to dominate the world lasted twenty-two years. It began in 1793 when men who had set eyes on Protector Richard Cromwell were still living, and ended in 1815 when others who were to know the youth of Adolf Hitler were already born. It saw the end of an old age and the beginning of a new.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. more information

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London: Collins, 1944. First Impression. No Inscriptions, minor shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, edge-worn, nicks to edge, chips to corners. 500pp. In the nine years of war between 1803 and 1812 the British people triumphed in turn over false appeasement, Napoleon's attempted invasion, his Grand Design at sea, his vaunted New Order and Continental blockade and his armies in Portugal and Spain.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. more information

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London: Reprint Society, The, 1955. Very slight lean, minor wear to corner and spine ends. Dustwrapper has minor wear to edge and corners. 413pp. The Story of England.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/Good. more information

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London, United Kingdom: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1994. First Impression. No Inscriptions. Dustwrapper not price-clipped. 479pp inc. index. In this fascinating sequel to his history of the English language, Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson takes an informed and affectionate look at the history of the United States from the perspective of popular culture and language.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by McCall, Bruce. more information

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London, 1974. Usual library marks and stamps, shelf-wear, a little bumped to corners. Dustwrapper in protective wrapper which has been stuck with sticky tape. 349pp. With a foreword by Sir Arthur Bryant. Here in one volume is the ideal work of historical reference which is at the same time an enthralling tale in its own right, to be read from cover to cover and then dipped into time and time again.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Fair/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Guild Publishing, 1985. No Inscriptions. 534pp. The time-span of this book is vast, stretching from the early second millennium B.C. to the fall of Rome. The period covered is half as long as recorded history. The scope too is immense, ranging through the lives of great men and women of all the civilisations which have contributed to the formation of the modern world: Sumeria, Babylonia, Assyria, Chaldea, Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome. It embraces the fields of art, science, medicine, mathematics, religion, warfare and many others.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. more information

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Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Pelican, 1970. Former owners name neatly inscribed, creased and edge-worn, tears to spine-ends, chip to head of spine. 592pp. A history of Soviet Russia from 1924-1926.. Soft Cover. Fair. more information

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Oxford: The Oakwood Press, 1993. A little surface scratching where adhesive price sticker has been scratched off at rear, some adhesive remnants remain, a little fading. 84pp. . Soft Cover. Very Good. more information

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London, United Kingdom: Flamingo, 1993. creasing on front and back of cover, shelf wear, corners creased, heavy reading creasing along spine, pages of book in very good condition. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Paper back. more information

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Bristol: Dempsey-Parr, 1999. First Impression. No Inscriptions, a little shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, some creasing and edge-wear, remnants of adhesive sticker to front. 320pp. Over 300 entries, fully illustrated and with full specifications.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Cassell, 1980. Some shelf-wear. Dustwrapper has some creasing. Reprint of the Fifth Edition. 344pp. Volume II The New World. . Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. more information

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Chichester: Phillimore & Co Ltd, 1999. UNREAD. Illustrated. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little surface scratching and rubbed to rear near spine. 100pp. Guildford, as a royal borough and county town, has received much attention, but this is the first attempt to explore the history of its tiny and almost totally overwhelmed neighbour.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Time-Life International, 1973. Bumped and worn to edge and corners, a little marking to boards, some foxing. 160pp. This book shows, during the time of the Neanderthals, 40,000 to 100,000 years ago, invention and discovery were beginning to be felt in a changing world, alternately gripped in the frost and thaw of the ice ages.. Hard Cover. Good. more information

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London: Pavilion Books Limited, 1986. A little wear to spine-ends. Dustwrapper a little worn to edge. 158pp. Messrs Cooper and Synge have assembled a yet more remarkable collection of strange and delightful tales of cricket played at exotic and unlikely venues, from Finland to the Falklands, from Tipperary to Korea.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Pan Books, 1956. Rebound with Maroon boards, gilt titles to spine, small marks to boards, pages tanned. 222pp. A stimulating introduction to the Mycenaean Age of Greece.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. more information

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Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1966. A little wear to edge and corners. 252pp. Describes, in text and pictures, separate 'worlds' which have been recovered for history.. Soft Cover. Good. more information

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Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1985. Laminated pictorial boards. No Inscriptions, a little shelf-wear. 208pp. The Complete Guide to Railway Preservation, Minor and Miniature Railways. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. more information

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