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2nd Edition. Soft suede leather covered boards with gilt inlay design to front cover. Size 18x12x2cm. 373pp including index. Colour pictorial pastedowns. Mostly text, with b/w illustrations. CONDITION: Suede cover very worn but gilt still bright. Front gutter cracked. Binding poor. Some pages detached but present. Moderate foxing to prelims and edges. No inscriptions. Internal pages clean.
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The Painters of Florence from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century
by Julia Cartwright (Mrs ADY)
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Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live
by Marlene Zuk
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- 9780393081374
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Theories about how our ancestors lived - and why we should emulate them - are often based on pseudoscience and speculation rather than actual research. Taking us to the cutting edge of biology, she explains that evolution can work faster than was previously realised, meaning that we are not biologically the same as our caveman ancestors. Zuk shows how our visions of an ideal evolutionary past in which we ate, lived and reproduced as we were "meant to" can lead us astray and distract us from more interesting considerations of how we differ from our forebears. Along the way, she debunks the caveman diet, discusses whether we're really designed to run barefoot and considers modern-day courtship and child-rearing practices in the context of how our ancestors lived.
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Paperback, Pulp & Comic Collector Magazine Issue 6
by Maurice Flanagan
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Includes articles on W.E.Johns, Juvenile SF, Crime Noir authors, Tit bits SF comic, etc.
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Papers in African Prehistory
by J.D. Fage & R.A. Oliver (eds)
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Academic papers
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The Pathway: Fourth vol of The Flax of Dream
by Henry Williamson
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The fourth in the series Flax of Dream. Green cloth boards.
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Pendragon: The Definitive Account of the Origins of Arthur
by Steve; Lloyd, Scott Blake
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- 9780712631211
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This book reveals the raw truth behind the colourful legends about Arthur and his Round Table, his battles, his court and his death. Blake and Lloyd prove that Arthur was once a real Dark Age warlord with an extensive family and a band of fearsome warriors at his command. His life story was politicised and mythologised by the very forces who sought to suppress him. But - as Blake and Lloyd reveal - traces of the real Arthur still survive. Pendragon takes us on an adventure back to the time and ancient landscape in which Arthur actually ruled. En route, the authors explode many accepted yet flawed theories and redefine the boundaries of Dark Age Britain. They reveal Arthur's true legacy and restore a national treasure to its rightful owners. Ultimately, they return a leader to the lands that still bear his mark and solve one of the greatest mysteries of the last 600 years by laying him to rest in his true grave.
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The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010
by Selina Todd
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'There was nothing extraordinary about my childhood or background. And yet I looked in vain for any aspect of my family's story when I went to university to read history, and continued to search fruitlessly for it throughout the next decade. Eventually I realised I would have to write this history myself.'What was it really like to live through the twentieth century? In 1910 three-quarters of the population were working class, but their story has been ignored until now.Based on the first-person accounts of servants, factory workers, miners and housewives, award-winning historian Selina Todd reveals an unexpected Britain where cinema audiences shook their fists at footage of Winston Churchill, communities supported strikers and pools winners (like Viv Nicholson) refused to become respectable. Charting the rise of the working class, through two world wars to their fall in Thatcher's Britain and today, Todd tells their story for the first time, in their own words.Uncovering a…
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Perfect Plants Profiles of Special Plants for Your Garden
by Rosie Atkins
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- 9781592580545
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- 1592580548
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Large glossy book. Ideal gift for the gardener in your life. This is a new breed of plant book, written by a team of leading plant experts, botanists, nursery owners and plant hunters.
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Suskind
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- 9780141041155
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In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, and if his name has been forgotten today, it is certainly not because Grenouille fell short of those more famous blackguards when it came to arrogance, misanthropy, immorality, or, more succinctly, wickedness, but because his gifts and his sole ambition were restricted to a domain that leaves no traces in history: to the fleeting realm of scent . .
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A Pictorial History of Horror Stories: Two Hundred Years of Illustrations from the Pulp Magazines
by Peter Haining
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Large, glossy book filled with b/w and colour illustrations from magazines such as The Strand, Harper's Amazing Stories, Strange Tales and more. Ideal gift.
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The Poetical Works of James Montgomery of Sheffield
by James Montgomery and Editor
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With a Memoir which ends with a reference to his funeral. Six Engravings on Steel. First edition. Undated but published posthumously (c.1860). Black full leather, ornately blind stamped with gilt title block and design to front board. Raised bands to spine with ornate gilt design and title block. Full gilt-edged. Frontispiece and title page illustrations. Text block pages edged with red line design. 456pp. CONDITION: spine leather faded to brown but gilt bright. Corners and edges rubbed. Paper tape repair to front gutter. Foxing and some oily discolouration marks to prelims. Foxing to memoire pages and light foxing to the rest of the text block. Good, solid, handsome book.
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore: Edited, with a critical memoir
by William Michael Rossetti (ed)
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Burgundy leather covered boards; marbled pastedowns, end papers and page edges; frontispiece with tissue guard; pages ruled in red; size 18x13x3 cm; 595pp + several pages of ads. Spine has raised bands and inlaid design in gilt; pleasant, solid little book.
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Poirot Investigates
by Agatha Christie
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Classic crime fiction.
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Porius
by Theodore Francis Powys
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- 9781585673667
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Collectible copy of this great historical novel. A restored and unabridged edition of the author's historical work is set at the turn of the sixth century in a Roman fort in North Wales, where Porius, the son of the reigning prince, is aided by the magicians Merlin, Nineue, and Medrawd in a battle for cultural survival. Black cloth boards with brown spine. Stamp of elephant on front board. CONDITION: Used, fine. Dust jacket fine - covered in poly cover. Boards fine. Extremities of spine show light fading. Edges good - very light age discolouration. Internally very clean. No inscriptions. Binding fine. First edition thus.
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Porius
by Theodore Francis Powys
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Collectible copy of this great historical novel. A restored and unabridged edition of the author's historical work is set at the turn of the sixth century in a Roman fort in North Wales, where Porius, the son of the reigning prince, is aided by the magicians Merlin, Nineue, and Medrawd in a battle for cultural survival. Black cloth boards with brown spine. Stamp of elephant on front board. CONDITION: Used, fine. Dust jacket fine - covered in poly cover. Boards fine. Extremities of spine show light fading. Edges good - very light age discolouration. Internally very clean. No inscriptions. Binding fine. First edition thus.
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The Power of the Dead
by Henry Williamson
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Part of the A Chronicle of Sunlight series. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Green dust jacket. Condition
Used, very good. Edge wear to DJ. Light foxing to book edges and prelims. No inscriptions. Internally clean. Binding good.
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Practical Chemistry: The Theory and Practice of Electro-deposition; Photographic Art; The Chemistry of Food With a Chapter on its Adulterations; and The Chemistry of Artificial Illumination.
by George Gore, Marcus Sparling, John Scoffern
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First edition. No DJ issued. Marcus Sparling was Assistant to Roger Fenton, Esq. in taking the Crimea photographs. This book provides a rare insight into the chemical knowledge of the mid-eighteen hundreds, surrounding the new sciences of photography, food chemistry and street lighting. Marbled paper-covered boards with leather spine and corners and gilt raised bands to spine. Marbled end papers and edges. Illustrations and diagrams throughout. CONDITION: spine very worn, particularly at ends. Spine partially detached at top back. Moderate wear to boards. Very light foxing to prelims. Pastedowns bright. Title page bright. Occasional finger marks in text block but otherwise clean and well-bound.
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The Practical Potter: A Step-by-Step Handbook
by Josie Warshaw
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- 9781843099680
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Large glossy well illustrated book, showing the rudiments of practical pottery.
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Priest or Pagan
by John Rathbone Oliver
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A novel set against the background of the early understanding (or not) of the science or magic of medicine.First edition, 3rd printing, August 1933.
Hardback. Brown cloth boards.
No dust jacket. Slight bumping to spine ends. Slight skewing. Very clean internally. Binding good. No inscriptions.
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The Prisoner in the Mask
by Dennis Wheatley
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Story of the youth of the Duke de Richleau, set in Paris of the 1890s. With dust jacket, pictorial cloth boards (same illustration as DJ)
Illustrated pastedowns (officers making a toast)
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