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England: The National Trust, 1987. Large paperback in excellent condition, nice gift copy, an illustrated tour of the house, includes an architectural history and a bibliography. Trade Paperback. Fine. Architecture. more information

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Gresham Books Limited, 2001. Hardcover, book and dustjacket are in excellent condition, looks new, nice gift copy, illustrations include a double-page end-paper plan of the grounds in color, "Since its foundation in 1900 Godstowe has been at the forefront of girls' education. With a distinguished tradition as the first British boarding preparatory school for girls it has continued to prosper and expand throughout the century...". ISBN: 0946095426. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Women's Studies. more information

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Long Acre, London: Odhams Press Limited. Publisher's "Britain Illustrated" series, 128 pages, nearly 150 black & white photos and a map, no copyright date, hardcover, book sunned at top/bottom edge, dustjacket has heavy rubbing at the folds and is price-clipped, protected in an archival mylar cover. Hard Cover. VG/Good. TRAVEL. more information

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London: Country Life Limited, 1951. Large format hardcover, beautiful black and white photographs and a map, book and dustjacket are in excellent condition. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover. NF/NF. ENGLAND PHOTOGRAPHY. more information

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London: Country Life Limited, 1953. Large format hardcover with dustjacket, great black and white photographs and a map, a superb copy of the first printing. 1st ed.. Hard Cover. Fine/NF. ENGLAND PHOTOGRAPHY. more information

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Nan A. Talese , 2001. Hardcover, first American printing (as indicated by the publisher's "1" in the number line on copyright page), this is a perfect copy, book and dustjacket are flawless, "the pinnacle of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant obsession with the eponymous city," 801 pages, illustrated in color and black & white and includes a double-page end-paper map, great gift copy. ISBN: 0385497709. 1st U.S. Ed.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. more information

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George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1937. Large format hardcover, first printing, precedes the U.S. edition, book is beautifully-preserved with some tanning to the blank end-papers being the only flaw, the dustjacket is quite nice-looking, the original price is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, the jacket has minor wear at the corners and a section of faint tanning on the front panel, this unique publication contains 32 pages of bright color maps and 32 pages of a gazeteer printed in two colors, "The maps and letterpress are the work of a well-known writer of geographical textbooks, who wrote this book to amuse his own children" . 1st ed.. Hardcover. NF/VG+. Geography Scotland. more information

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Hodder & Stoughton, 1980. Hardcover first printing, book and dustjacket are in excellent condition, nice gift copy, "The unravelling of their vast and much-intermarried family tree has revealed a lively and colourful social history". ISBN: 034022214X. 1st ed.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. SCOTLAND IRELAND GENEALOGY. more information

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Bracken Books, 1985. Reprinted from the original 1931 edition, a concise illustrated introduction to the principal towns of the country and their origins, legends, and notable historical events, hardcover with dustjacket, a beautiful copy, suitable for gift-giving. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. TRAVEL ENGLAND. more information

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Knopf, 1929. First American printing of this historical biography, illustrated, bibliography, a very clean tight copy, dustjacket has moderate edge-wear. 1st ed.. Hard Cover. NF/VG. BIOGRAPHY ENGLAND ROYALTY MONARCHY. more information

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Scribner, 1979. First American printing, hardcover with dustjacket, well-illustrated with photos, ".traces the lives of these eight very different Princesses.," owner name on inside of front cover is the only book blemish, dustjacket shows minor signs of use only and is protected in our removable mylar cover. ISBN: 0684161532. 1st ed.. Hard Cover. NF/NF. ROYALTY BIOGRAPHY. more information

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St. Martin's Press, 1976. Hardcover, book is flawless, dustjacket has a few short edge-tears, it's clean and bright with the original price present and a removable protective mylar cover included, first American printing, a study of "the rise and fall of the power and influence of ladies-in-waiting from the Middle Ages to the present day". 1st U.S. Ed.. Hard Cover. Fine/VG. more information

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University of Michigan Press. Complete set of two hardcover volumes, both are first printings, published in 1961 and 1962 respectively, both books are in excellent condition (they look new), both dustjackets have just a trace of rubbing as their only flaw, the original prices are present, a beautifully-preserved set of this history which covers from the conquest of Caesar to Harold Macmillan. 1st ed.. Hard Cover. Fine/NF. more information

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London, England: Pitkin Pictorials Ltd.. Large paperback, 24-pages, illustrations of the architecture accompanied by descriptive text, a clean, bright copy inside and out with minor wear along the spine being the only flaw, no copyright date but a 1960s publication. Trade Paperback. VG+. Religion. more information

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Little, Brown, 1912. Hardcover, no dustjacket, gold-decorated cloth binding, first American printing, 370 pages, "With twenty illustrations in colour by Walter Dexter, twenty in monotone, and forty-eight plans," cover has a few tiny points of wear but is nicely-preserved overall, there is a slight amount of foxing to the top portions of some of the pages but all of the text and illustrations are fine. 1st U.S. Ed.. Hardcover. VG. Wales Religion. more information

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The Folio Society, 1999. Hardcover with the original slipcase, beautiful binding, green, beige and black cloth lined and titled in gold gilt, black slipcase, later printing, this is an as new (flawless) copy, "A selection based upon existing contemporary portraits," illustrated. Hardcover. Fine/Fair Slipcase. more information

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Atheneum, 1983. Hardcover, first American printing, book and dustjacket are in excellent condition, clean and attractive inside and out, no significant flaws and includes the errata sheet, the original price is present, "Lucidly and scrupulously reconstructs the events of the dramatic year 1483. ISBN: 0689114095. 1st U.S. Ed.. Hardcover. NF/Fine. more information

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Viking, 1974. From actual diaries and memoirs Avery has created a picture of nineteenth-century England, illustrated throughout, decorative end-papers, notes and sources, index, first U.S. printing, hinges are slightly weak, dustjacket has moderate edge-wear. 1st ed.. Hardcover. VG/VG. VICTORIANA TRAVEL ENGLAND. more information

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Augustus M. Kelley, 1969. Transportation history, England, nicely illustrated with photographs, drawings, and maps, dustjacket is price-clipped, an exceptional copy overall, first American printing. 1st U.S. Ed.. Hard Cover. NF/VG+. TRANSPORTATION ENGLAND TRAVEL. more information

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Associated University Presses, Inc, 1996. Number 8 in this series of international volumes published yearly, contains essays and studies by critics and cultural historians, this volume considers the festive liturgy in the Thames valley parishes and biblical figures in the Corpus Christi plays- and extends to the closing of the theaters, hardcover, book and dustjacket are in excellent condition, nice gift copy. ISBN: 0838636411. Hardcover. NF/Fine. more information

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Longmans, Green & Co., 1936. Stated first edition, hardcover, burgundy cloth, no dustjacket, illustrated, blank front end-paper has been removed. 1st ed.. Hard Cover. VG-. more information

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Barnes & Noble Books, 1985. Hardcover, first American printing, book is flawless, dustjacket has some rubbing only, no other flaws, a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, "..addresses the critical period in the foundation of the first industrialized nation, highlighting the transition from a pre-industrial to an industrial economy in eighteenth-century England..". ISBN: 0389205842. 1st U.S. Ed.. Hard Cover. Fine/VG+. INDUSTRUAL REVOLUTION. more information

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Viking Press, 1965. Hardcover first printing with dustjacket, beautiful copy, book is flawless, black dustjacket shows some rubbing only, no other flaws, the original price (8.50) is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, "The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English nation made by sea or over-land to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the Earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres," 522 pages, includes a bibliography. 1st ed.. Hardcover. Fine/NF. more information

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Abrams, 1982. Hardcover first printing, ".an affectionate though not uncritical account of England and her people," texts by Robert Blake, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Quentin Bell, Asa Briggs, Kenneth Muir, and others, large format, 306 illustrations including 85 plates in full color, drawings, and maps, moderate scuffing to the dustjacket. ISBN: 0810908654. 1st ed.. Hardcover. NF/VG. TRAVEL. more information

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Louisiana State University Press, 1987. ".more than sensational murder- it's a view through the hangman's noose of a glittering era in English history," illustrated, book and dustjacket are in excellent condition, hardcover first printing. ISBN: 0807113719. 1st ed.. Hard Cover. Fine/NF. BIOGRAPHY. more information

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Little, Brown, 1975. Biography of the seventeenth-century king, illustrated, maps, notes, owner name, moderate edge-tanning, dustjacket has moderate surface & edge-wear, hardcover, first American printing. 1st U.S. Ed.. Hard Cover. VG/VG. ENGLAND ROYALTY MONARCHY BIOGRAPHY. more information

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Cornell University Press, 1988. Large paperback in AS NEW condition, "a significant contribution to studies seeking to reveal how the English in the nineteenth century created demeaning and often destructive images of Africa and the East, images that continue to haunt twentieth-century writing, films, and attitudes". ISBN: 0801497671. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine. Criticism. more information

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Pantheon Books, 1977. Large paperback, over 200 folktales, page-edges tanned. ISBN: 0394739930. Trade Paperback. VG. more information

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London: Virago Press Ltd., 1986. Large paperback, winner of the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize 1985, excellent condition. ISBN: 0860683613. Trade Paperback. NF. BLACK STUDIES WOMEN'S. more information

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London, England: Pitkin Pictorials Ltd.. Large paperback, 24 pages, nice photos and an architectural plan accompanied by descriptive text, minor rubbing along the spine is the only flaw to this atractive copy, no copyright date but a 1960s publication. Trade Paperback. VG+. Religion. more information

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London: A & C Black, 1975. Hardcover first printing, book is flawless, dustjacket is in excellent condition with no remarkable flaws, the original price is present, "Documents in Economic History" series. ISBN: 0713615249. 1st ed.. Hardcover. Fine/NF. Economics. more information

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London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. A history of this magnificent building, illustrated throughout in color with pen & wash drawings by Gentleman, beautiful copy, hardcover first printing, dustjacket is price-clipped. 1st ed.. Hard Cover. Fine/NF. RELIGION TRAVEL ARCHITECTURE GENERAL HISTORY ART. more information

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Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1972. Hardcover, first American printing, book is in excellent condition (looks new), dustjacket is quite attractive with minor signs of use only, the original price (7.95) is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, illustrated with photographs, maps, boat plans, and photographic end-papers. 1st U.S. Ed.. Hardcover. Fine/VG+. Maritime. more information

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Knopf, 1955. Hardcover first printing with dustjacket, "...this vivid portrait of Elizabeth I encompasses that extravagant, exuberant age to which she gave her name, as well as her personal life," book is in excellent condition with the former owner's name on the front end-paper being the only significant flaw, the dustjacket is slightly faded on the spine and has minor wear at the corners and along the folds, it is clean, the original price is present, and a professional mylar (removable) cover is included. 1st ed.. Hard Cover. NF/VG. Biography Royalty. more information

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London: Hutchinson & Co., 1968. Text and illustrations about one of the greatest treasures of Christendom, color tipped-in frontis & drawings by artist John Sergeant, dustjacket has a few short tears along top edge, archival mylar cover included. Revised. Hardcover. VG+/VG. ART CHRISTIANITY POETRY ARCHITECTURE ENGLAND. more information

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Taplinger Publishing, 1971. Hardcover, book and dustjacket are in excellent condition, book is as new except for the former owner's name-stamp on the inside front cover hidden by the dustjacket flap, the dustjacket is also as new except for very slight sunning to the spine which causes the color to have a slightly yellowish cast as opposed to the correct color of pale orange, the original price (6.50 is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, "First published in 1909, 'The People's Rights' distilled the brilliant ideas and rhetoric of many of Churchill's most important earlier speeches made when he was serving as Liberal President of the Board of Trade in Asquith's government," this is the first American printing. ISBN: 0800862783. 1st U.S. Ed.. Hardcover. NF/NF. more information

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John Winston, 1953. Very attractive copy of this "comprehensive survey of Briitish royalty," illustrated, hardcover first printing with dustjacket. 1st ed.. Hard Cover. NF/VG+. ROYALTY BIOGRAPHY. more information

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E.P. Dutton & Co., 1937. Hardcover, no dustjacket, the navy blue cloth binding has moderate scuffing but there are no other remarkable flaws to this copy, the interior is immaculate and features many attractive illustrations, 566 pages, this is the 7th edition. Hard Cover. VG+. more information

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Tan Books & Publishers, 1988. Large paperback, has a bookplate on the inside front cover and reading creases on the spine, the binding is tight and square and this copy is clean inside and out, "...the author of this book, is unabashedly pro-Catholic in this writing, showing that England was far better off before the Protestant 'Reformation' of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I than she was afterwords...written between 1824 and 1827 by an English Protestant". ISBN: 0895553538. Trade Paperback. VG. more information

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David & Charles, 1975. Hardcover first printing, book is flawless, dustjacket lightly rubbed, no other flaws, suitable for gift-giving, a history of the English people as seen through their family monuments, "they are readily accessible in countless parish churches.their elegant inscriptions provide contemporary records of social, political, and artistic changes.," illustrated with numerous black & white photos. ISBN: 0715367420. 1st ed.. Hard Cover. Fine/NF. GENERAL HISTORY. more information

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London: Mitchell Beazley, 1999. "The superb collection of evocative images in Beside the Seaside summons up the essence of the pleasure generation after generation has derived from being by the sea," large format, hardcover with dustjacket, both are flawless, published in England so these are British beaches, nice gift copy. ISBN: 184000164X. 1st ed.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. TRAVEL. more information

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Harper & Row, 1966. Large paperback, has a few small areas of surface-wear on the cover, contents are fine, binding is tight, an attractive copy overall, 529 pages, "the best book yet written on the Reformation in England under Henry VIII". Trade Paperback. VG. more information

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St. Martin's Press, 1975. Hardcover, book and dustjacket are in excellent condition, nice gift copy, "...an original and pioneering attempt to provide within a single volume a comprehensive yet readily accessible source-book of facts and figures on the Victorian period...full facts and figures on such diverse subjects as treaties and trade unions, elections and parliaments, churches and newspapers, armed forces and the Crown, the Empire and the economy". Hard Cover. Fine/NF. Reference. more information

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St. Martin's Press, 2000. Biography of one of England's most glamorous kings, illustrated, references, bibliography, hardcover with dustjacket, excellent condition. ISBN: 031222687X. 1st ed.. Hard Cover. NF/Fine. BIOGRAPHY. more information

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University Paperbacks, 1963. Large paperback, minor signs of use to the cover only, binding is tight and square, contents are fine, "designed as a handbook to Chaucer's poems". Trade Paperback. VG. Literature. more information

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Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., 1969. Hardcover, book has no significant flaws, dustjacket is price-clipped and slightly sunned on the spine, excellent condition overall, suitable for gift-giving, a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, "prepared by J.A.G. Barnes from the three-volume work by T.A. Coward (1867-1933), which has become one of the great classics of ornithological literature," 359 pages, many color plates. Hard Cover. Fine/NF. ORNITHOLOGY. more information

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NY: Macmillan, 1941. A tour of the city accompanied by 55 etchings and drawings by Joseph Pennell, hardcover, dustjacket is well- worn. Hardcover. VG/Fair. ART. more information

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London: Bracken Books, 1995. Large paperback, tiny remainder dot on bottom edge, clean copy inside and out. ISBN: 1858912555. Trade Paperback. NF. more information

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Cambridge University Press, 1986. Hardcover first printing with dustjacket, "Based on monumental research...will become the centerpiece of all future discussions of the economics of imperialism," after page 100, all pages have corner-creases at the bottom, no other book flaws, the dustjacket shows rubbing only, very clean, no chips or tears, a professional (removable) mylar cover is included. ISBN: 0521236118. 1st ed.. Hard Cover. VG+/VG+. Economics. more information

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London: Bodley Head, 1964. Traces the history of the city's growth and development, illustrated throughout with splendid drawings by Heather Copley and Christopher Chamberlain, the only flaw to this beautiful copy is a price-clipped dustjacket, hardcover first printing. 1st ed.. Hard Cover. Fine/NF. ENGLAND GENERAL HISTORY. more information

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