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London: Book Club Associates 1978 VG. Board corners and top and bottom spine edges slightly bumped, faint water marking to lower edge of back. Neat inscription on title page. Pages very clean, no obvious fault. Octavo, pp207. B&W illustrations on endpapers and at chapter headings by Gareth Floyd, map and diagram.

Heinemann London 1935 VG/VG (dj is bright but slightly spotted and a tad worn) FIRST EDITION A study of three disciples of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. On a summer afternoon in 1793 a young woman named Charlotte de Corday entered the room of the most formidable demagogue of the French Revolution, Marat, 'Friend of the People', and stabbed him as he lay in his bath of disinfectant eating a plate of sheep's brains...

Constable 1999 VG/VG. hardcovers. dj is not price- clipped. internally a lovely clean copy without inscriptions of marginalia.

Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000 Vg/Vg (clean bright dj . all pages present and tightly bound in. no inscriptions. not price-clipped. octavo First Edition. 188pp. Colour and black & white illustrations.Extensive bibliography.A stimulating & readable outline of art & its role in society in Roman Britain

Fords Howard and Hulbert New York/Waverley Book Co London 1913 Vg (no dj, transparent plastic wrapper over clean red cloth with gilt titles and small Olympic torch motif on spine, impressed torch pattern on front board, gilt tops to pages, dust mark underside of page edges,faint browning endpapers, else a good sound copy) octavo 453pp. Frontispiece and 2 title pages. Abraham; Joseph; Moses; Samuel; David; Solomon; Elijah; Isaiah; Jeremiah; Judas Maccabaeus; Saint Paul. 12 b/w plates.

Fords Howard and Hulbert New York/Waverley Book Co London 1912 Vg (no dj, clean red cloth with gilt titles and small Olympic torch motif on spine, very lightly faded top of spine, impressed torch pattern on front board, gilt tops to pages, one small stain outside page edges just encroaching on fore-edge of a few pages, faint browning endpapers, else a good sound copy) octavo 386pp. Colour frontispiece and 2 title pages. Governments and laws; The fine arts - architecture, sculpture, painting; Ancient scientific knowledge - astronomy, geography etc.; Material life of the ancients - mechanical and useful arts; The military art - weapons, engines, discipline; Cicero; Cleopatra; Pagan society. 10 b/w plates.

Evans Brothers London 1941 for Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs VG (no dj, clean dark blue cloth with gilt titles spine and front board, gilt dull on spine, contents very clean and tight and fold-out maps as tight as new) octavo 110pp. The official account of what happened 1939-1940 with 5 maps and 4 b/w plates.

Vicorian and Modern History Book Club Newton Abbot 1974 Vg/Vg (two 1/2" tears to clean unclipped dj, a very good clean bright tight copy with no marks or inscriptions,a couple of small spots top page edges) octavo 278pp. Authoritative account of the whole series of events from the partition of Germany during the last days of World War II, through the blockade of 1948, the Berlin Airlift, and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961.

Leo Cooper London 1970 VG/Vg (dj is a little worn at edges, part of front free endpaper missing) Octavo 208pp illustrated

New English Library Ltd, 1977 VG/VG. hardcovers. dj is not price- clipped. lovely clean copy without inscriptions of marginalia.

Collins, 2011 VG/VG. hardcovers. dj is price- clipped. lovely clean copy without inscriptions of marginalia.

Chapman Hall, 1965 VG/good. dj is tanned to edges, has some closed and taped splits and some tarnish marks. has done its job well though - volume beneath is clean and bright. in ternally lovely clean copy with out inscriptions or marginalia.

Almark Publishing, 1972 VG . no dj. softcovers. some rubs to ends of spine and a small crease to one corner of the rear panel. internally a lovely clean copy without inscriptions of marginalia.

Barracuda Books Ltd, 1985 VG/VG. hardcovers. dj is not price- clipped. lovely clean copy without inscriptions of marginalia. laid-in period postcard and a memeorial of burial form.

Arms & Armour Press, 1995 VG/VG. hardcovers. dj is unclipped. lovely clean copy without inscriptions of marginalia.

House of Heroes, 1994 VG/VG. hardcovers. dj is not price- clipped. internally a lovely clean copy without inscriptions of marginalia.

excelsior motor co ltd 1957 VG. card cover with 2 tarnish marks. no faults with book. no inscriptions. for standard and sports models - running and maintenance instructions illustrated throughout. Definitive work

Shakespeare Head Press Sydney 1972 Fine/VG (one tiny chip to dj else book and dj both no fault) octavo 213pp. The story of the first 35 years of Australia's colonial existence, and the trials and tribulations of the settlement from the first landing in 1788 to the departure of Governor Macquarie in 1822. Illustrations in b/w.

Longmans Green and Co London 1925 G (no dj, clean red cloth with black lettering, lightly worn head and tail of spine, just a little light spotting prelims, pages clean and binding firm, brown spotting outside page edges) The University of London Intermediate Source Books in History, Vol VI.

Yale University Press 1995 Fine/fine (book and dj both fault, contents clean tight and bright as new) octavo 444pp. Scholarly work based on documents and photographs from recently opened Russian archives and from Western collections. With b/w illustrations.