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Penguin Viking, 2001. Hard covers, dust jacket. As new/As new. Nearly new, with beautiful gold-lettered dust jacket. Deservedly a best seller, the book is strongest on Smith's early career and rather glosses over his impact on the N. Yorkshire coastal town of Scarborough, where he helped create what can only be described as the ultimate Geological Museum gallery, the Rotunda. xiv, 338 pp. ... more information

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Faber & Faber, London, 1961. Paper covered editions. Paper covers. V.g/ No Jacket . Internally fine p/b, some dust staining at edges, cover protected by self-adhesive plastic film which has shrunk somewhat exposing strip of a formerly sticky substance. IIlustrated with 11 pages of monochrome photographs and numerous text figures. This above-average general introduction to geology, well designed as one would expect from Faber, is aimed at the first-year undergraduate (always hoping there are still some... more information

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Heinemann, 1988. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g. /V.g. Inscribed by the author. Alan Hill spent his entire career with Heinemann, for whom he launched Heinemann Educational Books. Publisher's autobiographies can be rather grim, but this one is different: Hill has a dry sense of humour and his description of a Japanese massage session on pp. 325 - 6, during which he encountered Max Reinhardt of Bodley Head in a hot bath, is a scream: "I emerged feeling twenty years younger" (but ... more information

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Blackie, n.d. (first published 1915 but this appears to be a reprint). Hard covers, no wrapper. V.g/No Jacket. V.g., spine sl. soiled. 352 pp. ... more information

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Cassell, 1965. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g/V.g. V.g./v.g., sl. edge wear to wrapper, dust speckled at edge. Semiautobiographical novel by this under-rated writer whose wartime career is mirrored by the exploits of the third-person narrator. [7], 520 pp. ... more information

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Princeton University Press, 1999. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. As new/As new. Biographical essays on the people who populated Einstein's world in Germany during his early career prior to emigrating to the USA. ix, 335 pp. ... more information

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Harper Collins, New Delhi, 1999. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine /Fine. An insider's view by a former joint director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (India's top police department). Having arrested Indira Gandhi on corruption charges, his career included a stint with the Border Security Force. Heavy going in places, but a fascinating insight into the politics of corruption. x, 286, (1) pp. ... more information

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Collins, 1987. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g/V.g. Inscribed by the author on title page; price clipped. An account of Red Ken's political career from the time he joined the Labour Party at the age of 23 up to the point where the abolition of the Greater London Council temporarily deprived him of his political platform. Highly original, not least for his insights into the legal battles surrounding the 'fares fair' policy on transport subsidies, which still reverberate today. 367 pp... more information

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Garden Book Club, 1976. Book club edition, first published in 1975. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g. /V.g. A critical assessment, concise biography and inventory of the work of Percy Cane, whose career spanned the second world war and involved some prestigious commissions in France and Ethiopia as well as work for many private clients in the UK. His work was highly distinctive, combining elements of the Arts & Crafts and wild garden traditions. (8), 192 pp., well illustrated. ... more information

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David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1968. 2nd edition (first publ. 1950 by Bannisdale Press). Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g/v.g. V.g. in d.w. which is considerably abraded in places, now in protective transparent sleeve; sm. damp mark at base of spine, not affecting text. The author was a pioneering geologist, whose anti-war stance placed his career in considerable jeopardy. His achievements in developing accurate methods of correlating coal seams through spore analysis were of huge economic benefit to the... more information

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Merrell Holberton, London, 1998. Art of Nature. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g/Good. Dust jacket with small tear at back, slightly curled at top edge at back, otherwise fine. The author presents a selection of Abbot's natural history paintings, which are preserved in London's Natural History Museum, and presents a revealing biography. Although Abbot's career overlapped with that of Audubon he is much less well known. He supplied collectors with both specimens and drawings, and having left Engla... more information

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Phaidon, 1990. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. V.g/V.g. A mid-career snapshot of the artist's work. Winner of the John Moores competition at Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery in 1985, the artist certainly exhibits versatility. Rather classy black end papers decorated with black reflective ink, reminiscent of one of the 2004 prize-winners at the same competition.Bar-coded price sticker on rear side of dust jacket, otherwise very good. ... more information

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