HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2006* Publisher: Thames & Hudson.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. Blind impressed logo to face. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to lower edge. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper, orange and black titles to face and white titles to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED but showing no shelf price. Minimal shelf wear to top edge and to head of spine, three very small tears. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (chestnut brown). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: A number of colour & b/w photos, line drawings and diagrams within text throughout.* Pages: 275 pp. text. xii pp., notes, bibliography, illustration credits & index at rear.* Description: In this lively, authoritative account of a crucial period in our country?s history, Guy de la Bédoyère the popular face of Romano-British archaeological studies puts the Roman conquest and occupation within the larger context of Romano-British society and how it functioned. With nearly 300 illustrations and dramatic aerial views of Roman sites, and brimming with the very latest research and discoveries, Roman Britain will delight and inform all those with an interest in this seminal epoch of British history.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st thus. with some minimal faults in a VG+ protected dust jacket.*

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Cry, the Beloved Country is a novel by South African author Alan Paton. It was first published in New York in 1948 by Charles Scribner's Sons and in London by Jonathan Cape; noted American publisher Bennett Cerf remarked at that year's meeting of the American Booksellers Association that there had been "only three novels published since the first of the year that were worth reading ... Cry, The Beloved Country, The Ides of March, and The Naked and the Dead.

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 2783
Title: Roman Britain: A New History
Author: Bédoyère, Guy de la
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - F/VG++/VG+
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Thus.
ISBN 10: 0500051402
ISBN 13: 9780500051405
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Place of Publication: London UK 288
Date Published: 2006-04-10
Size: 18.4 x 3.2 x 25.4 cm

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