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London: Victor Gollancz, 1994. Book in very good condition, just very slightly bumped at bottom spine edge, internally in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine slightly faded, title on spine is still bright. 185pp. With 12 full-page pencil drawings by Claudio Munoz. The author was the wife of the Administrator of Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk. She recalls what goes on behind the scene of stately homes. Restraining over-enthusiastic visitors (and their children) or frantically preparing for ... more information

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London: Collins, 1978. Book in very good condition, small light mark on front edge, no marks on pages, internally in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, two ½" closed tears at bottom front edge, top front edge slightly rubbed. 320pp, including bibliography and index. With 24 black-and-white photographs and 21 maps. The author took part in Wavell's campaigns in the desert and in the disastrous expedition to Greece in 1941. He was head of Monty's Operations staf... more information

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Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson , 1960. Book in very good condition, spine ends and front top outer edge very slightly bumped Pictorial endpapers. Dustjacket in good condition, two small tears at top spine edge, top edge slightly rubbed. viii, 238pp, including index. With frontispiece and 47 illustrations. From d/j flap - " There is history, literature, politics and drama, in this study of Elizabethan and Jacobean England and its way of way life. How was Shakespeare schooled? How did he eat, dri... more information

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London: Sampson Low, 1952. New impression. Book in very good condition, 1/4" tear at top of spine, very lightly tanned on free endpapers, internally in fine condition. Dustjacket - illustration by C.E. Brock - in very good condition, 1/4" closed tear at top of spine, back cover lightly dustmarked. Price clipped. 314pp.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. ... more information

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London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1989. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, top spine edge and back top edge slightly bumped. 180pp. With 18 black-and-white photographs. Dorothy Bishop became a nurse in London during the First World War. Her memoirs tell how a training nurse survived in the days before antibiotics and unions: when surgeons baptised babies before operating: when cockroaches in the ward were an everyday hazard, and nurses worked a fourteen-hour day for £8 a ye... more information

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London: John Baker, 1966. Book in very good condition, slightly bumped at bottom spine edge. Previous owner's inscription in ink on front free endpaper. Dustjacket in good condition, small piece missing at bottom of spine and tiny nicks at top of spine (see picture). Price clipped. 221pp, including bibliography and index. With frontispiece, ten illustrations and six line drawings in the text. This is a book of the laity - churchwardens, parish clerks, the congregation itself, who muddle through... more information

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London: Robson Books, 1993. Book in very good condition, bottom spine edge very slightly bumped. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine ends very slightly bumped. 141pp. With 20 humorous pencil drawings. From d/j flap - "The author provides not only good-humoured advice for all those golfers who know what it is like to have a bad day, but also a treasury of wit and anecdotes gleaned from bunkers and roughs the length and breath of the country.". First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. ... more information

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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2002. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, light shelf wear at top spine edge. 322pp, including index. With 34 colour and 37 black-and-white photographs. Television's favourite gardener, recalls his childhood days, leaving school at fifteen and he worked his way through nursery and college to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and then onto having his own gardening programmes. He has written a number of gardening books and he has written fou... more information

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Horsted Keynes, U.K: Selma Press, 1974. Book in very good condition, spine ends slightly bumped, the Appendices -33 pages at end of book - all the pages are slightly browned around edges, these pages are a facsimile of an Air Ministry Account of the Battle of Britain published in 1941 (reason for pages being browned), rest of pages are in fine condition, no faults. Dustjacket in good condition, cellotape along two-thirds of bottom and top edge, 1" closed tear at bottom back edge at side of sp... more information

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London: Hutchinson, 1980. Book in very good condition, has a few tiny marks at top edge, internally in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine ends, and bottom edge very slightly rubbed. Price clipped. 240pp. With 17 black-and-white photographs, and line drawings throughout the text by the author. The author begins with an account of his youth in Swansea. Trying to earn a living in the Depression, his days in the BBC before the war and as a BBC war correspondent. Then in the post-... more information

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David & Charles, 1985. Book in very good condition. Dustjacket in very good condition. 248 pp. Numerous line drawings by Susan and Sharon Collyer and also colour photographs of the flies. The book is divided into five sections: Dry Flies; Nymphs; Larvae and Pupae; Wet Flies; Lures and Salmon Flies. The book has the additional attraction of the way the author injects many of his own experiences that 'have filled his fishing days with such pleasure over the years'.. Hard Cover. ... more information

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London: Headline, 2006. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine ends slightly bumped, ¼" closed tear at bottom spine edge. 274pp. A thriller set in 2005 and the on the first day of illegal fox hunting. .. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. ... more information

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London: Orion, 2000. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, just slightly bumped at bottom spine edge. 230pp, including index. From d/j flap - "The author is well-known as the presenter of the TV show 'Countdown' He writes of his early days in journalism - a paper delivery boy - through his days at school at Giggleswick, where he sat at the feet of teacher Russell Harty, to Cambridge, then into TV. He tells how he escaped the Brighton Bomb, and the terrors of interviewing M... more information

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New York: William Morow, 1986. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, slightly browned along edges on back cover and along edges of inside flaps. 255pp, including bibliography and index. Appendix One: Chronology of Events - Appendix Two: The Last Communique. Foreword by Rt. Hon. Sir Bernard Braine. With numerous black-and-white photographs thoughout the book plus maps. Capturing the tension, turmoil, tragedy of the last days of the Third Reich in World War Two.. Reprint. Hard C... more information

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London: Orion, 2001. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good plus condition, just very slightly rubbed at back top outer corner edge 328pp. A novel set in modern-day Singapore, a successful society upheld by stern government and a respectful population, a young woman is about to break all the rules .. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. ... more information

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New York: Hippocrene Books, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover in fine condition, written on inside cover in biro "bought 4/7/98." Dustjacket in near fine condition, very slightly bumped at top spine edge, ¼" tear at back top outer edge. 336pp. From d/j flap - " Chronicles, day-by day, the situations which developed and the tactical combinations evolved for their successful solution. Amidst the noise of war, the story reveals the unflagging energy of experienced staff, the ability of ... more information

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Book in very good condition, bottom spine edge very slightly bumped. Dustjacket in fine condition. x, 304pp, including bibliography and index. With numerous black-and-white photographs in the text. Volpe was the only manager at the New York's Metropolitan Opera House to have risen through the ranks from apprentice carpenter to general manager. The behind-the-scenes look at more than forty years of highlights at the Met, successes, and day-to-day inner workings - ... more information

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Newton Abbot, U.K: David and Charles, 1993. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, slightly bumped at front top edge, top spine edge, and back top corner edge. 190pp, including index. With delightful watercolours, the frontispiece by Will Garfit, and 53 by Philip Murphy, plus 34 black-and-white photographs, and numerous engravings. From d/j flap - "The gamekeeper's commitment was total - 365 days a year and often a 24 hour day in all weathers. With the risk of injury or... more information

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London: Richard and Erika Coward, 1991. Reprint. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in fine condition. 314pp. Signed by the author ' To Martin, With best wishes, Richard Coward. Birmingham 8th November 1991.' (written in ink on front endpaper). One June day in 1975, Robert Creighton Stanton, a successful British dipolmat, was very pleased with his life, as he set off to help his son research their family tree. Until, that is, he stumbles across what appears to be his own death certificate . It is ... more information

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London: Heinemann, 1974. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine ends very slightly bumped. xiv, 234pp, including index. With colour frontispiece, 38 colour and 51 black-and-white photographs. This book was written for the RSPCA's 150th anniversary, its origins go back to a June evening in 1824, when a small group of people met in a London coffee-house. Their aim - a highly unfashionable one in those days - was to prevent the monstrous cruelties done to animals in ... more information

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