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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Near Fine. 2007. Softcover; Trade PB. A new book received with faint edgewear and a few smudges on textblock edges. Includes bibliographical references and an index.; <B>Not just a few elite scientists, but Londoners from all walks of life--lawyers, prisoners, midwives, merchants--participated in the scientific community of Elizabethan times<p>Deborah E.… Read more about this item

NY: St Martin's Press. Very Good in Very Good dust wrapper. 1989. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Spine ends bumped, pages pale tan; no binding problems, pages clean. White dust wrapper flaps pale tan, dw edgeworn and lightly creased. ; <b>A moving and powerful autobiography of Group Captain Sir Hugh Dundas CBE, DSO, DFC, one of… Read more about this item

London: Granta Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust wrapper. 2007. First British Edition. Hardcover. 274 pages. A new book with very faint edgewear to unclipped dust wrapper.; <b>In an effort to find out what the English really think, the author spent six months in postal code S66, 'the most typical postcode area in the country'. He… Read more about this item

London: Constable. Very Good+. c1982,1999. Third Edition. Softcover; Trade PB. 368 pages. A nice copy with very light edgewear and rubbing and a small black dot on bottom edge.; <b>'The final resting places of illustrious men and women exercise a mysterious attraction to the traveller, and in this book the burial sites of over 350 prominent figures… Read more about this item

Bath, UK: Palazzo Editions. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper. c1935, 2008. Second Printing. Hardcover. 160 pages. A new book received with light colour loss to tiny areas on board edges and very faint edgewear to dust wrapper.; <b>Illustrated with wonderful period black & wwhite photographs and delightful drawings by Anna K. Zinkeisen. Originally published in… Read more about this item

Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Pub.. Very Good. c1995,1996. First Paperback Edition. Softcover; Trade PB. 231 pages. No spine creases, faint cover creases and rubbing, slight edgewear. A few smudges to page edges; interior pages clean and bright, none loose.; "The women who wed Henry VIII are remembered mainly for the ways their royal marriages ended: divorced, beheaded, died,… Read more about this item

Toronto: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 319 pages. Spine ends lightly bumped, faint sunning to bottom edge, faint foxing top page edges. Unclipped dust wrapper has faint edgewear and very light scoring on back panel. A nice copy. ; <B>Between 1870 and 1914 one hundred American women married… Read more about this item

London: HMSO. Near Fine. 1995. Softcover; Trade PB. 154 pages. Very faint edgewear; book looks unread.; <B>Preface by Sir Harry Secombe; from the back cover "This series explores the vast changes that took place in people's lives over the first seventy years of this century through cuttings chosen from hundreds of newspapers, both national and regional, … Read more about this item

Oxford: Helicon Press. Very Good+. c1976, 1995. Softcover. 350 pages. Bump on spine side edge, no spine or cover creases, faint edgewear, pages yellowed, edges smudged; looks unread. ; <b>"A listing of folk customs and practices, both past and present, in the British Isles. Covers events around the country such as April Noddy Day, the Furry Dance… Read more about this item

NY: Thames and Hudson. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust wrapper. 1980. Hardcover. 208 pages. Teal green boards, gilt decoration on front cover and spine bright, spine ends and bottom corners very lightly bumped, no binding problems, pages clean and bright. Previous owner embossed circle on front free endpaper and half title page. Dust wrapper very lightly… Read more about this item

NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Good+ in Very Good- dust wrapper. 1984. First US Edition. Hardcover. 342 pages. Spine ends lightly bumped, corners bumped revealing boards on two corners; no binding problems. Red remainder mark on top page edge, page edges pale yellow, bottom edge of last 40 pages rippled; interior pages clean. Unclipped dust wrapper edgeworn with… Read more about this item

Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing. Near Fine. c1979, 1998. Revised Edition. Softcover; Trade PB. 182 pages. A new book with faint edgewear.; <b>'This is a revised and updated edition of Alison Plowden's classic study of the dominant women of the Tudor era. The women of the royal family are the central characters in this book - royal women… Read more about this item

London: Mitchell Beazley. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust wrapper. 2000. Hardcover. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 128 pages. A new book with a faintly edgeworn dust wrapper.; <b>Published in association with the Imperial War Museum using many previously unseen photographs and other archive material. This 'is the story of the everyday heroes and heroines… Read more about this item

NY: Coward, Mccann & Geoghegan. Very Good in Very Good dust wrapper. 1975. Hardcover; Book Club Edition. <b>"The story of Lillie Langtry -- The Greatest International Beauty of Her Day" Lillie Langtry was the first acknowledged mistress of the Prince of Wales, Edward VII; their affair lasted three decades. One of the professional beauties… Read more about this item

New York: St Martin's Press. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust wrapper. 1997. Third Printing. Hardcover. 338 pages. Spine ends bumped; a very nice copy indeed. Unclipped dust wrapper faintly edgeworn. ; <B>A dual biography of the last mistress of King Edward VII who believed that discretion was everything and her daughter, Violet Trefusis, who was willing… Read more about this item

New York: Free Press. Very Good in Very Good+ dust wrapper. 1998. First US Edition. Hardcover. Bumped spine ends and corners, tiny smudge on front free endpaper; no remainder mark. Price clipped dust wrapper very lightly edgeworn. A nice copy.; <B>The author's memories of working in the SOE are interspersed with anecdotes (many humorous) of his… Read more about this item

NY: Henry Holt and Co.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust wrapper 1997. First US Edition. Hardcover. Spine tail faintly bumped. Unclipped dust wrapper faintly rubbed and edgeworn. A very nice copy indeed. ; <b>From the dust wrapper: 'Celebrated and maligned with equal vigor, the Bloomsbury Group is the best-documented artistic coterie in twentieth-century literature. The novelists… Read more about this item

London: Mitchell Beazley. Very Good+ 2001. Hardcover. Monochrome; 144 pages; A new book with faint wear to corners. Pictorial cover, no dust wrapper as issued.; <B>'A fascinating collection of entries and photographs, offering us an insight into the society and world of ordinary Victorian men and women. Witness medical treatments through a patient's entries; a clergyman's… Read more about this item

London: Persephone Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust wrapper. c1975, 2003. Softcover; Trade PB. 339 pages. A new book with faint edgewear. Persephone editions have uniform grey covers and dust wrappers with lovely decorated endpapers unique to each title (see image).; <b>A very readable overview of twentieth century British women's lives written by a novelist historian.… Read more about this item

NY: Watson- Guptill Publishing. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust wrapper. 2001. First US Edition. Hardcover. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 192 pages. A new book with faint edgewear to dust wrapper. ; <b>The semi-secret Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a fiery group of young artists, designers and thinkers, led by the charismatic figure of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. … Read more about this item