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London: The Sunday Times, 1963 An excellent introduction to India and its people. Revised English edition. 160pp. . Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Odhams Press Limited, 1948 The purpose of this book is to show how the British way of life is a compound of ingredients derived from the cultures of many races and many peoples, and how in art, in architecture and the planning of towns and villages, even in the very pattern of rural life, the debt which the present owes to the past is immense and almost incalculable. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Chatto and Windus, 1939 Articles, verse, cartoons and drawings selected from the issues of Punch appearing between 1st July 1938 and 30th June 1939. 248pp. Covers a little soiled and shelfworn. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Victoria and Albert Musuem, 1982 Exhibition catalogue, well illustrated some in colour. 176 pages. . Soft Cover. Fine. 270mm Tall. more information

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London: The Daily Telegraph, 1908 Covers have numerous heavy fingermarks and soiling. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1948 From the archives of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Fading to spine and top of covers. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London and Manchester: Allied Newspapers Limited Numerous illustrations. Not dated. 256 pages. Foxing on pastedowns. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 245mm Tall. more information

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Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1959 The Visit of Nikita Khrushchov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, to the United States in September 1959. 405pp. 30 photographs in section at the end. Covers have light foxing at top front and some browning overall. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London, 1949 102pp. With numerous photographs. Front cover heavily stained. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Bury St. Edmunds Borough Council, 1973 Official guide to Bury St. Edmunds. 151pp. Illustrations and advertisements.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 250mm Tall. more information

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London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1947 A preliminary account of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial written by Mr R. L. S. Bruce-Mitford, Assistant Keeper in the Department of British Antiquities. Spine has two tears along edges; browning to covers. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Continental Illinois Corporation, 1978 A history of Blackfirars published to commemorate the arrival there of Continental Illinois Corporation - the bank that was 'too big to fail'. Did of course, in 1984. Not many lessons learnt from that then. However, a nice short history of the area, 35pp. Covers a little creased and soiled. . Soft Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Syon House Estate, 1950 With 4 plates and 2 endpaper maps in colour. 22 illustrations in monochrome. 47pp. Wear to cover edges, top/tail of spine. . Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Society of Jewellery Historians, 1989 99 pages. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: The Sunday Times, 1963 An excellent introduction to Germany and its people. Revised English edition. 176pp. Water stains on lower right corners of pages.. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Cambridge:at the University Press, 1934 783pp Spine bumped top/tail. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1905 Some browning to pastedowns, and some foxing on following six pages. Wear to top/tail of spine and corners bumped. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1872 With one hundred engravings. 338 pages. Gilt title and decoration on spine, black and gilt decoration on front cover. Foxing on title page, free endpapers and frontispiece, also on page edges; school presentation label of 1873 on front free endpaper; cover corners a little bumped and worn as is top/tail of spine.. Decorative Boards. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Walsall: Eridu Books, 1996 'A comprehensive and irrefutable proof of the flesh-and-blood gods who created us'. 467 pages. Dedication from author on front free endpaper. Dust jacket with only slight shelfwear.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 250mm Tall. more information

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London: John Murray, 1960 Starts with the Dolphin tales of the Greeks and Romans; then with description of the dolphin today; Polynesian legends, and the true story of a famous dolphin Pelorus Jack. Dust jacket not price clipped, has creases at top of spine. Inscription by previous owner on front free . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Thorn, Erik. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001 A true-crime story of forgery, deceit and ambition that had all London and its press talking in 1775. 16 pages of illustrations. 346pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Athens: Ekdotike Athenon, 1985 80pp. Delphi is part of a series of editions presenting the treasures in the museums of Greece and introducing the history of Greek art. . Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Not dated. 383 pages. Front free endpaper crudely cut out. Fading to spine, General shelfwear and light soiling to covers. . Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 190mm Tall. more information

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Hastings: F. J. Parsons Ltd , 1955 Signed by author copy No 363 of limited edtion of 500. 433pp. Light foxing to page edges. Previous owners small label on front pastedown. Heavy book. Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: I.B.Tauris, 2000 British rule in the Central Africa protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland covered little more than seven decades, and at the time of independence in 1964 there were a few officers who had served in their administrations for nealry half that period. Glyn Jones was one of them. This book sets out, by studying Jones's life, in the first part to examine a fairly typical successful colonial adminstrative service career and, in the second part, to examine an unusually successful and remarkable continuation of that career. With three maps and sixteen illustrations. 352 pages. Blue cloth covers with gilt title on spine and front cover. Cover corners a little bumped. Two small marks on back cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: I.B.Tauris, 1998 Roy Armitage's service in the colonies spanned a remarkabel periods of change. It covered half the interwar years, including the depression and the rise of fascism. It covered the deprivations and worries of the Second World War. It encompassed the early postwar period with colonial emphasis on economic development, and the ealry stirrings of nationalist political advance. It spanned, also, the 1950s and early 1960s as those stirrings became turbulent and as Britain's retreat from empire became clearer and its pace quickened. With five maps and eight plates. 414 pages. Three small marks on front cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Collins, 1950 A study of thirteen splendidly villainous people of the past. With eight illustrations. 256pp. Red cloth covers. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd, 1961 Account of the voyages of Captain James Cook and his death at fifty-one on the beach at Hawaii. A very interesting, detailed account. And printed on very nice paper too. 485pp. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: B.T.Batsford Ltd, 1963 A history and selection of English Inns with 34 photographs. Light wear to edges of dust jacket, tear and creases on back. Light foxing to pastedowns of book, binding sound, text pages clean. 192 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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The Longleat Estate, 1967 The history of Longleat. With 6 colour plates and 25 black-and-white illustrations. Light edgewear to covers. . Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: Cassell and Company, 1919 With 27 chapters, index, 7 illustrations, one map of Italy in 1821 and two sketch-maps in text. 283pp. Previous owner's label on inside front cover, light wear to top/base of spine, corners a little bumped.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1956 With 24 illustrations. 447pp. Pastedowns a little browned. All photographs have stain along top edge and lower corner. Page edges soiled. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Frederick Muller, 1964 'Love in Germany reveals the Teutonic influences on England's Romantic Revivalists which will be of value to the student of the period, but it will also be read for its quietly amusing quality; seldom has the absurd behaviour of distinguished persons in the throes of passion been so effectively deflated.' Translated from the French by James Cleugh. Dust jacket in clear cover, flaps taped in places to pastedowns. . First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Collins, 1957 Archaeological history confined, roughly, to the northern half of Europe. With 32 plates.448pp. Some soiling to black cloth covers and light soiling to page edges.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Routledge, 1994 In this fully revised and updated pamphlet, Martin Blinkhorn explains the significance of the man, the movement and the regime which dominated Italian life between 1922 and the Second World War. 64pp.. Second Edition. Pictorial Cover. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: George Newnes Limited, 1900 A study of English cathedrals.. With 180 illustrations from photographs. 314pp. School presentation plate on front pastedown. Frontispiece illustration and title page browned, frontispiece tissue-guard loose. Wear to cover corners and top/tail/edge of spine.. Second and Revised. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Toronto: George J. McLeod Ltd., 1950 The study of assassination as a political tool. Slight wear to cover corners and top/tail of spine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus, 2007 A history of the first settlers in North America. 445pp. Hinge cracked at last page of index. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 240mm Tall. more information

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London: Faber & Faber, 1950 With 54 illustrations. 200pp. Browning to pastedowns. Small dedication label of previous owner on front free endpaper. Dust jacket worn around edges and down sides of spine, with surface wear to back and front.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London, New York: Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd, 1889 619pp. Inscription by previous owner on half-title page. Front pastedown hinge cracked. Title on spine soiled and worn at top.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1926 With fifty plates, seventeen maps. 717pp. Front free endpaper hinge cracked. Wear to cover edges and corners, soiling to page edges. Some light marks on front cover. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Granada, 1980 The story of the Crusades. Numerous photos and illustrations. 314pp. Previous owner's name stamp on pastedown and title page. Light creasing to edges of dust jacket.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996 An examination of the 'sense of ending' at the end of centuries and its influence in history. In seven chapters, The 1390's to The 1990's, each by different historians. 248 pages. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Thame: BCA Publications, 1975 A personal choice fairly representative of the parish churches which can be found in the northern section of the county. The drawings are accompanied by notes offering an indication of what the reader may expect to find upon visiting the churches. Covers with only a very little edgewear, small tear to front cover next base of spine.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Dedham: C. A. Brooks , 1983 Copy No. 112 of one hundred and twenty five copies incorporating a coloured frontispiece. . Hard Cover. Very Good. 250mm Tall. more information

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London: Book Club Associates, 1970 An account of the dark side of history of the American West. An uncomfortable read for anyone who thought the 'cowboys and indians' version of the wild west was the truth. With 49 illustrations. 487 pages. Dust jacket has a little wear to edges, small tear and creasing at lower back corner. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 240mm Tall. more information

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London: Collins, 1945 499pp. Slight edgewear and soiling to dust jacket. Signed by previous owner on front free endpaper. . Second Impression. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Society of Jewellery Historians, 1985 96 pages. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: William Nicholson And Sons Gilt title and decoration on front cover and spine. No date. 368pp. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Edinburgh: Paul Harris, 1983 A definitive history of colour printing techniques containing detailed descriptions of chromo-lithography, photo-mechanical processes, colour etching, xylography, Le Blon, Baxter and other topics. 280pp. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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