Titles starting with S from David Spenceley Books

Windsor, Berkshire: Oxley and Son, 1975 Booklet with pictorial card cover, stitched two wires. size: 210x155mm. 76 pages plus frontispiece (cold) and 4 pages of colour, remaining test illustrated in b/w. With historical introduction programme and exhibition catalogue Very Good, clean and bright throughout, some corner bumps. ISBN: 0-901072-23-0. Contians three valuable essays: Historical Background (J R Lander) Collge of St George (Anne K B Evans) Architecture of St George's Chapel (Peter Kidson)... more information

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Windsor, Berkshire: Oxley and Son, 1975 Booklet with pictorial card cover, stitched two wires. size: 210x155mm. 76 pages plus frontispiece (cold) and 4 pages of colour, remaining test illustrated in b/w. With historical introduction programme and exhibition catalogue Very Good, clean and bright throughout, some corner bumps. ISBN: 0-901072-23-0. Contians three valuable essays: Historical Background (J R Lander) Collge of St George (Anne K B Evans) Architecture of St George's Chapel (Peter Kidson)... more information

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London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003 Hardback in green, black to spine, in full colour portrait jacket. Size: octavo (225x135mm. x,210 pages with notes and list of sources. This is a brief life of Therese Martin, Carmelite Nun. She died in 1897 aged 24, by 1899 her grave had to be put under guard to protect it from pilgrims, on 17 May 1925 she was beatified and in 1997 Pope John Paul II declared her a Doctor of the Church. Condition is Fine in a Very Good jacket now in a protective sleeve. ... more information

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London: Pitkin Pictorials, 1971 Pride of Britain series Booklet with pictorial card cover. Wire stitched. Size: small quarto (228x177mm). 24 pages plus cover, text illustrated throughout much of it in colour. Very Good. Archbishop Thomas Becket was martyred in 1170.... more information

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London: Pitkin Pictorials, 1969 Pride of Britain series Booklet with pictorial card cover. Wire stitched. Size: small quarto (228x177mm). 24 pages plus cover, text illustrated throughout. Very Good. Archbishop Thomas Becket was martyred in 1170.... more information

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Bourne End, Buckinghamshire: Spur Books, 1978 Hardback in black, gilt to spine, in two colour pictorial jacket. Size: 225x160mm. 160 pages illustrated in b/w. With biographical notes and index. This is a narrative history saints and their emblems with an a to z of potted biographies of saints. Book is quite Good though jacket is less so being bumped, rubbed and torn, but still whole. Jacket now in a protective sleeve. ... more information

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Pickering, North Yorkshire: Parsh of St Peter and St Paul, no date Pamphletof 8 pages, size 212x143mm. Reprints a course of addresses given to the children of the Parish during Lent, 1938. Clean condition.... more information

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London. Pitkin Pictorials, 1976 series Pride of Britain Booklet with pictorial card cover. Wire stitched. Size: square octavo (228x178mm). 24 pages plus cover, illustrated throughout. With ground plan. Very Good contents clean and bright. Piece of related ephemera laid in. ISBN: 0-85372-217-X.... more information

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Reading: Spire Books, 2009 Hardback in green, gilt to spine, with printed endpapers, in pictorial jacket. Size: 285x220mm. 88 pages illustrated throughout, with architectural descriptions. ISBN: 978-1-904965-19-0. Reproduces 40 watercolours each accompanied by a page of notes on the setting and the architecture.... more information

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London: The National Trust, eighth edition 1975 Paperback in full colour pictorial card cover, wire stitched. Size: 210x150mm. 40 pages plus 8 pages of b/w pictures. With a plan of the house. Good, but name and address label on front cover. Guide to the interior, exterior of the house plus notes on the Parker family who developed Saltram.... more information

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London: The National Trust, eighth edition 1967 Paperback in green card cover, wire stitched. Size: 210x155mm. 32 pages plus 8 pages of b/w pictures. Very Good, no trace of previous owner. Guide to the history and architecture of the house with notes on the Parker family who developed Saltram.... more information

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London: Guild Publishing (bca), 1989 Hardback in orange, gilt to spine, with printed endpapers, in full colour jacket. Size: 254x195mm. 174 pages illustrated throughout much of it in colour. With bibliography and index. Subtitled: The Book of the Daimyo. Very Good near Fine in Very Good jacket. The Samurai were the military elite of Early Modern Japan, the Daimyo were the elite of the Samurai. Turnbull is an expert on Japan of this period.... more information

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London: Guild Publishing (bca), 1988 Hardback in black, gilt to spine, with printed endpapers, in full colour pictorial jacket. Size: large octavo (250x194mm). 160 pages illustrated throughout in colour. With bibliography and index. Fine in Very Good jacket. Although a Book Club edition of a popular subject, Turnbull remains the leading British expert on the Samuri.... more information

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Sandringham, Norfolk: English Life Publications / Rector & Churchwardens, 1998 Booklet with pictorial card cover. Wire stitched. Size: A4 (297x210mm). 24 pages plus cover, text illustrated throughout in colour. With list of Rectors. Fine handles like new, with related piece of ephemera laid in. ISBN: 0-85101-330-9. St Mary Magdalene at Sandringham is the church on the Royal Estate in Norfolk.... more information

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London: Faber & Faber, 1936 Hardback in blue, gilt to spine, there is NO jacket. Size: 190x125mm. 346 pages. Clean and Bright Working Copy. Discusses the same subjects which tax wise minds today in our much changed but no different schhooling environment... more information

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London: Collins, 1967 Hardback in green, black (label) and gilt to spine, top edge tinted, with printed endpapers, in two-colour jacket. Size: 234x155mm. 352 pages plus 32 pages of b/w pictures. With genealogy, bibliography, references and index. Very Good in a dusty but Good jacket. The wife of John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough onetime friend and confident of Queen Anne.... more information

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Sark: Gateway Publishing, 1988 Booklet with pictorial card cover. Wire stitched. Size: octavo (244x175mm). 32 pages plus cover, illustrated throughout in colour and with a folding map of the island. New Book. ... more information

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London: Dent, reprint 1929 (1908) Everyman's Library 278 Hardback in ochre gilt to spine, top edge tinted with printed endpapers, there is NO jacket. Size: 175x110mm. xx,474 pages with introduction by Hudson. Clean Reading Copy. Some boards dusty, outer hinges tender but internally clean. Subtitled: on heroes and hero-worship and the heroic in history... more information

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Reading: Spire Books, second edition 2008 Trade Paperback in pictorial card cover. Size: 165x240mm. 118 pages illustrated throughout including colour. With notes and bibliography. New book. ISBN: 978-1-904965-18-3. The Sarum Use for the organisation of music and liturgy, the management and finance of the cathedral was widely copied in Norman cathedrals. At the Reformation its liturgical content became the basis of the English Book of Common Prayer.... more information

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Sydney, NSW: Sydney University Press, 1967 series Stuart Historical Studies. Hardback in terracotta, gilt to spine, top edge tinted, in two-colour on grey jacket. Octavo. Size: 220x135mm. [x],300 pages plus frontispiece. With sources and index. Subtitled: the political career from 1640 to 1691 of Philip, Fourth Lord Wharton. A Puritan Peer during the English Civil War and Restoration Wharton's papers provide information on events in parliament at a time before parliamentary reporting became routine. Sp... more information

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