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London: Phillimore, 1982. 48pp. Imprint of three letters 'GBO' on the front free endpaper. Contents include: The Background to the Domesday Book - Learning about the origin and Form of the Domesday Survey - Domesday Book in Use - An Approach to a County Volume - Appendix - Sources. (8¼" x 5¾"w) (21cms x 14.5cms) approx. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. ... more information

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U.K: Moorland, 1974. Spine has faded but lettering is still bright. Previous owner's name and address on half-title page. A very good tight copy. 120pp, including Bibliography and Index. With frontispiece a Plan of Darley Abbey in 1852, and 67 black-and-white illustrations. Darley Abbey is in Derbyshire. The abbey survived for 401 years from 1137 to 1538 until it was axed by Henry VIII at the dissolution of the monasteries. (8¼"h x 5¾"w) (21cms x 15cms) approx.. Fir... more information

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London: Leo Cooper, 1995. Book in very good condition, slightly bumped at bottom spine edge, otherwise in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, bottom spine edge very slightly bumped. ix, 190pp, including index. With 14 black-and-white photographs. Through his letters Stokes gives an insight into his schooldays at Rugby and to the horrors of trench warfare on the Western Front. He was with the Royal Marines Light Infantry when he met with a tragic and untimely death on the Somme in Novemb... more information

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Ashbourne, U.K: Moorland, 1983. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine just very slightly faded, lettering is bright. Price clipped. 140pp, including index, plus 4 pages of advertisements. With 14 colour and 47 black-and-white photographs, plus 11 maps.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. ... more information

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London: Constable, 1973. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine slightly faded, lettering still bright, spine ends slightly bumped. Price clipped. xii, 360pp, including appendix and index. With frontispiece and 15 black-and-white photographs. The author was the younger brother of Field-Marshal Montgomery .. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. ... more information

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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine very slightly faded lettering still bright, bottom spine edge very slightly rubbed. 264pp, including index. With 18 black-and-white photographs. Biography of Jeffrey Archer, author and politician.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. ... more information

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London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1980. Book in very good condition, spine ends slightly bumped, otherwise in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine ends slightly bumped. 176pp, including index. With frontispiece, 30 black-and-white photographs, and 21 letters (copies). . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. ... more information

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London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover in near fine condition, very slightly bumped at spine ends, Dustjacket in near fine condition, slightly bumped along edges. xxxi, 383pp, including index. With 47 black-and-white photographs. The letters of Brian Johnston - (famous radio and television personality known as 'The Voice of Cricket'). From when he went into boarding school in 1920 until he was demobbed in 1945, he wrote a letter to his mother almost every week. The letters c... more information

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London: Andre Deutsch, 1985. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in in very good condition, spine very slightly faded. spine ends slightly bumped, ¼" tear at back top edge. 167pp. With numerous drawings in the text by the author. Henrietta, a heroine ( the author created for the Sketch during the Second World War) who wrote a series of humorous letters showing a woman's experience of the war. It purports to be wartime letters to a friend serving overseas, written by a doctor's ... more information

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London: David andCharles, 1977. Book in very good condition, just spine ends very slightly bumped. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine ends very slightly bumped. 159pp. With 7 black-and-white photographs. From d/j flap - "This first-hand account of an American volunteer bomber pilot in World War Two, tells of his experiences in thirty operational flights over Germany and Italy. The background is the arrival in England from Kansas City, his first impressions of wartime England, his traini... more information

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London: Fourth Estate, 1985. First edition. 229pp. Hardcover. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good+ condition, has biro mark at top front cover by spine (like a letter 'B' but with an extra curve). Fourteen stories Moore did not re-publish in books. The 'Introduction' discusses sources and possible influences on the histories of the stories and assesses the stories, their context, and their writer.. ... more information

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London: John Blake, 2000. Book in fine condition. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Dustjacket in very good condition, very slightly rubbed at top edge. xix, 191pp, plus 22 pages at back of book with copies of letters Reg and Ron Kray sent to the author. With 25 black-and-white photographs. The life of the Kray twins written by the wife of Ron Kray. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. ... more information

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Wolverhampton, U.K: Beacon Broadcasting, 1985. Book in very good condition, spine slightly faded, lettering still bright, has four small brownish marks inside front cover and bottom of title-page. 112pp. With black-and-white photographs on every page except two. A full-page pictorial map of the Black Country. A hundred years of pictorial history from the 1870s of the Black Country, an area bordering Birmingham, England.( Many of the photographs are of people. Contents include: Events - They also... more information

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Kingswood, U.K: Kaye and Ward, 1982. Book in very good condition, bottom spine edge slightly bumped. two very tiny white marks on front board. Page 206, has small light mark by front edge, all other pages are in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, spine faded but lettering is still bright. Spine ends, sides of spine and back outer corner edges are slightly creased. 240pp, including further reading and index. With 12 colour and 20 black-and-white photographs. From d/j flap - " The... more information

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London: Bantam Press, 1987. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket very good condition, just very slightly rubbed at top spine edge and top outer corner edges. 159pp. With numerous delightful colour drawings by Sir Henry Thornhill and over 30 black-and-white photographs. From d/j flap - " In 1914 Sir Henry Thornhill, a distinguished soldier-administrator of the British Raj, started sending illustrated cards to his two-year-old grandson, Teddy. The pictures featured the adventures of a number of ... more information

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London: Bantam Press, 1987. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket very good condition, just very slightly rubbed at top spine edge and top outer corner edges. 159pp. With numerous delightful colour drawings by Sir Henry Thornhill and over 30 black-and-white photographs. From d/j flap - " In 1914 Sir Henry Thornhill, a distinguished soldier-administrator of the British Raj, started sending illustrated cards to his two-year-old grandson, Teddy. The pictures featured the adventures of a number of ... more information

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London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975. Book in fine condition. Pictorial endpapers. Dustjacket in very good condition, only faults - spine slightly faded lettering still bright, top spine edge very slightly rubbed. 256pp, including index. With approximately 80 black-and-white and 13 colour illustrations, plus 3 colour double-page. The book portrays the remarkable part that both town and university have played in the history of the nation from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth century. (10"h x ... more information

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London: John Murray, 1981. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, ¼" closed tear at bottom front edge by spine. xi, 220pp, including Appendix: Lyttelton on Gladstone and Index. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. ... more information

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London: Chatto and Windus, 2000. Book in fine condition. Dustjacket in very good condition, top spine edge very slightly rubbed. 367pp, including bibliography and index. With 20 illustrations and 6 maps. Story of the longest missionary voyage ever undertaken, led by a Yorkshireman, George Bennett, and a vicar from the Isle of Wight, Daniel Tyerman. In 1821 they set off on a whaler bound for Tahiti. Other places they visited included New Zealand, Australia, the Orient, India and Mauritius. With near... more information

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Moreton-in-Marsh, U.K: Windrush Press, 1999. Three paperbacks all in fine condition - in slipcase which is in very good condition, spine on slipcase slightly faded. 'The Letters of Private Wheeler 1809-1828 has 287pp . With one illustration and one map. ISBN 0900075589 - 'The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier, Jakob Walter' has 170pp. With 17 illustrations in the text and two maps. ISBN 1900624052 - 'The Recollection of Rifleman Harris' has 131pp and one map. ISBN 0900075643. Size... more information

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