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London: Dent, 1951. . London: Dent, 1951. Hardback. Condition: Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 298pp including index, bibliography, chronological tables and 12 half tone plates. Text block tight but with occasional foxing. Protected dustwrapper is price clipped and has material missing from ends of spine. Book plate to front paste down. Read More

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London: United States Information Service, 1942. . London: United States Information Service, 1942. Soft cover. Very Good/----. About 11 x 8 inches. 44pp. 13 plates with 23 black and white photographs, maps and facsimile letters. Cover rubbed with a small amount of, probably, paint spatter. Text clean and tight with a little bumping to corners. Read More

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London: Quartet Books, 1978. Paperback. Very Good +. About 7.5 x 4.5 inches. 118pp. Appears unread but is tanned. Read More

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P&D Riley., 1998. Paperback. Ex-Library. About 8 x 8 inches. 32 pp. Ex reference library with stamps to title page, otherwise clean and bright.. Read More

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London: Allen & Unwin, 1985. Hardcover. Ex-Library/very good. About 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 311 pp inc index. Ex library copy with ffep removed and several stamps. The text block is clean and tight. The protected dust wrapper appears undamaged. Read More

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London: M. Dempsey, 1976. Paperback. Very Good. 128 pp. facsimile autograph on ffep with addition by fan. Read More

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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1896. . London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1896. Hardback. Very Good/----. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 204pp + 4 page catalogue of other titles by J. M. Barrie. Cover quite heavily bumped and the blue cloth has faded to straw on the spine. The uncut text block is very clean and fairly tight with no foxing. Read More

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London: Regency Press, 1988. Paperback. Ex-Library. About 7.5 x 5.5 inches. 120pp. Ex library. Without stamps to haf and reverse of title page this edition would be near fine. Read More

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London: Regency Press, 1988. Paperback. Ex-Library. About 7.5 x 5.5 inches. 120pp. Ex library Some pages soiled. Reading copy only. Read More

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London: Jarrolds, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/good +. About 8.5 x 6 inches. 223pp. Name to front paste down. Dust wrapper frayed with a half inch square loss at the head of the spine. To live free, to escape the routine life, and to sail one's own boat down the sun's track is the dream of many people. The author of The Journeying Moon really did it. A destroyer officer during the war, and subsequently, at the age of twenty-five, one of the youngest editors in Fleet Street, Ernle Bradford gave up his job, sold his possessions, and bought a boat. In her he voyaged through the French canals to Southern Italy and Greece, making for all the places which lie off the beaten track. He lived in Sicily among the fishermen for nearly a year, visited the Greek Islands, and at one period of his life spent only five days ashore in two and a half years. He describes working as a tunny-fisherman in Southern Sicily; exploring Sardinia and Corsica; working in a shipyard in the Balearics, and crossing the Atlantic three times under sail. He has cruised the West Indies; gone flying-fish fishing in the open boats of Barbados; raced from New York to Bermuda; and in 1956 alone covered 10,000 miles under sail. Ernle Bradford is not, in his own words, just "a muscle-bound extro-vert". He is also an international authority on antique jewellery, and the author of two textbooks on the subject. It is something of this strange dualism of character which makes The Journeying Moon unusual in the literature of the sea. Read More

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Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1996. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. About 9.5 x 6 inches. 320pp inc index. Clean bright and tight copy with just a tinge of age related colouring. The life o Bernard of Clairvaux. Read More

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London: Sheed & Ward, 1982. Paperback. Ex-Library. About 8 x 5 inches. 241pp inc index. Ex library. ffep removed. Title page stamped and clipped. The clean and tight text block is a little damp cockled and several of the plates have surface damage to margins. The cover has been lminated and is undamabed. Read More

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London: W.H. Allen, 1966. Second Impression. Hardcover. Ex-Library/near fine. About 9 x 6 inches. 190pp. Ex Liibrary. Ticket pocket and two stamps to front paste down. Stamp to title page. Some adhesive tape residue to front free end paper and half-title. Text block a little age toned but otherwise clean and tight. The protected dust wrapper is almost free from wear having just a small amount to corners. Read More

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London: Constable, 1965. . London: Constable, 1965. Hard cover. Very Good/No dust wrapper. Two Quiet Lives by David Cecil. Published in 1948 and reprinted in 1965, the author writes on the lives of Dorothy Osborne and Thomas Gray. I suggest that if you don't know these two people you should buy this book.The book is in generally good condition, the spine is faded and there are a couple of ink stains on the cover. Internally there are light pencil anotations otherwise it is clean and well cared for. Read More

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2002. Very Good. Read More

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London: Cassell, 1994. . London: Cassell, 1994. Soft cover. Near Fine/----. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 189pp inc index. "Collis presents colourful and candid biographies of individual women and particular partnerships including Queen Anne, Ethel Smyth, Eve Balfour and Selma Lagerlof. ISBN: 0304328510. Read More

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London: Macmillan, 1925. . London: Macmillan, 1925. 1st abridged edition. Hardback. Near Fine/----. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 404pp in index. Abridgement of the original two volume edition. Read More

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Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2001. Paperback. Very Good. Spine creased but text block clean, bright and tight with no markings. Read More

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London: Victor Gollancz, 1976. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Hard cover. Fine/Near Fine. About 9 x 5.5 inches. 288pp inc index. Sir Neville Cardus, born in Rusholme, Manchester presents his thoughts on cricket, music and music hall, all of which he about in "The Manchester Gaurdian" and other papers. With a forward by Yehudi Menuhin. Dust wrapper price clipped. ISBN: 0575021268. Read More

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London: Autolycas Publications, 1982. . London: Autolycas Publications, 1982. Soft cover. Near Fine/----. About 8.5 x 6 inches. 224pp. The factual story of Friedrich Frobel (1782-1852) in a dramatised form. ISBN: 0903413523. Read More

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London: Bookmarks, 1989. . London: Bookmarks, 1989. Paperback. Near Fine/----. About 8.5 x 5 inches. 220pp. ISBN: 0906224500. Autobiography. Read More

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London: Dennis Dobson, 1976. Paperback. Very Good +. About 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 244 pp inc index. Remainder mark to foot and ffep. Lightly creased spine, otherwise very clean and tight. Biography of Mary Moffat. Read More

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London: The Author, 1910. Paperback. Very Good +. Card cover. About 7.5 x 5 inches. iv 64pp and two sheets of ads for Dobells work. There is a red stain to front cover which is also faded. The untrimmed text block is clean and tight. The stitching shows no sign of deterioration. This is not a "print on demand". Read More

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London: Omnibus Press, 1982. Paperback. Good +. About 10 x 7 inches. 128pp. Includes discography. Cover is rubbed but contents clean and tight. Contains many black and white photo's and much biographical information. Read More

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Manchester: Centenary Publication, 1991. Paperback. Good +. About 8.5 x 11.5 inches. 27pp. A short biography of Ellen Wilkinson with photos. Cover a little creased and marked. Text clean but corners slightly thumbed. Read More

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London: Simpkin Marshall,, 1874. Hardcover. Fair. About 7.5 x 6 inches. 469pp 2pp advert. Green cloth embossed boards and backstrip appear to have been poorly reattached with a rubber based adhesive! The boards only show light wear and a short split to front hinge. Apart from some foxing to edges the text block is clean and tight. Frontis with tissue guard. Read More

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Hebden Bridge: Overdue Books, 1988. . Hebden Bridge: Overdue Books, 1988. Paper back. Very Good/----. About 8.5 x 6 inches. 114pp. ISBN: 0951168614. Read More

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Lincoln: The Friends of Lincoln Cathedral., 1959. Second Series No 1. Pamphlet. Very Good. About 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 32pp. Lincoln Minster Pamphlets. Light worm damage to front cover. Staples surface rust. Corners a little thumbed. Text clean and bright. Read More

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London: Heinemann, 1979. . London: Heinemann, 1979. Hard cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. About 9.5 x 6 inches. 315pp inc index. Points lightly bumped and wrapper a little rubbed and creased. Read More

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London: Robert Hale, 1942. . London: Robert Hale, 1942. 1st Reprint. Hard cover. Very Good/Good. About 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 287pp. Produced to war economy standards, the text block is a little limp and tanned as a result of the paper used. It is however tight and otherwise clean. The dust wrapper is frayed and chipped with major loss from the back. The book tells the story of the thre Soong sisters, one being the wife of Chiang Kai-shek, one a powerful financier and the third, the widow of the leader Sun Yat-sen. Read More

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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1974. . London: Hamish Hamilton, 1974. Hard cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. About 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 184pp. A Double Life describes the two careers of Sir William Hayter, first in the Diplomatic Service and later, in a postscript, as Warden of New College, Oxford; earlier chapters cover the preliminaries that led up to this dual career. Sir William's most important diplomatic post was as Ambassador in Moscow, but before that he saw service in Vienna, China, Washington and Paris, as well as several tours of duty in the Foreign Office and a brief spell in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War. He resigned from the service in 1958, at the age of 52, to become head of his former Oxford College. ISBN: 0241890403. Read More

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London: HMSO , 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 183 pp including index. The extraordinary flying career of Louis Strange spanned forty-seven years of active flight and many feats of daredevilry in over a hundred types of aircraft. A racing and stuntpilot in the pioneering age of flight; a pioneer of aerial combat and tactical bombing in the First World War; a prominent figure in civil aviation during the 1920s and 1930s; a living legend in the RAF during the Second World War and one of the few airmen to have been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in both world conflicts - Louis Strange is one of the unsung heroes of flight. He was described by the famed Robert Smith Barry, his friend and colleague of both world wars, as quite simply 'the bravest man in the world'. Flight in its earliest years implied rebellion against the accepted order of things, and amongst those aerial rebels one of the most joyous and constant was Louis Strange. To tackle his more challenging tasks throughout his career - such as the formation of a new Squadron in the First W orld War and the founding of the Parachute Training School in the Second - he threw away the rule book, cut through the 'red tape' and did the job his way, regardless of the wrath of offended authority. This disdain for officialdom and a zest for aerial adventure are conveyed in Strange's published and unpublished writings, on which the author draws liberally to complement his own fast-moving narrative. Peter Hearn's compelling book celebrates the rebellious spirit, the achievements and the amazing adventures of one of the most outstanding characters in aviation - in and out of the cockpit. ISBN 0112905005. Read More

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Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975. . Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975. Soft cover. Very Good. A little tanned. ISBN: 0140022392. Read More

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London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, ----. . London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, ----. Hard cover. Fine/Near Fine. About 9.5 x 6 inches. 242pp inc index. Top edge of wrapper creased. ISBN: 0297794582. Read More

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London:Amalgamated Press, 1910 & 1911. . London:Amalgamated Press, 1910 & 1911. Hard cover. Very Good/No Dust wrapper, Very Good/No Dust wrapper. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 704pp. Both volumes have some rubbing and fading to the red cloth boards, with some water marking. The contents of both are clean and tight. Some pages in vol 2 are slightly cockled. Read More

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London: Victor Gollancz, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/good +. About 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 384pp inc index. Dust-wrapper several short tears and small loss to points and top of spine. Text clean and tight. An absorbing and illuminating biography of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Read More

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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1988. . Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1988. Hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 319pp. Title and several following pages a little crumpled but not creased and with small pink stains. The life of John F. Kennedy. ISBN: 0316210897. Read More

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Stornoway: Stornoway Gazette, ----. . Stornoway: Stornoway Gazette, ----. Soft cover. Near Fine/----. About 8 x 6 inches. 193pp. White cover a little grubby. ISBN: 0903960060. Read More

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London: George Harrap, 1944. . London: George Harrap, 1944. Hard cover. Near Fine/No Dust Wrapper. About 9 x 6 inches. 256pp inc index. 24 colour plates and 82 black and white. Biography of Roosevelt. Read More

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New York: P. S. Eriksson, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. About 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 274 pp. A clean bright and tight copy with a slight lean and very minor shelf wear. Read More

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London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1968. . London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1968. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. About 9 x 6 inches. 397pp inc index. Lord Acton, best remembered for 'power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely!. Dust wrapper a little frayed and owners stamp to ffep. Read More

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London: Angus & Robertson, 1975. . London: Angus & Robertson, 1975. Hardback. Condition: Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 296 including index. Over 70 illustrations. JEAN MATRAT HAS WRITTEN A BIOGRAPHY of Maximilien Robespierre of unusual insight and clarity. He has scoured the voluminous correspondence between Maximilien and his sister Charlotte and exhaustively searched the archives of the Jacobin Club. His brilliant text illuminating Robespierre has been ably augmented by the numerous contemporary engravings which reveal the people and places as they appeared while the bloody drama of the French Revolution unrolled before the eyes of a horrified world. ISBN 0207954771. Read More

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Belfast: The Quota Press., 1946. Third edition. Hardcover. Good +/poor. About 7 x 4.5 inches. 122pp. Dust wrapper grubby with front fold completely detached. Several losses. Orange cloth boards a little grubby under DW losses but otherwise clean. Light bump to points. Text tight and generally clean. Read More

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London: Collins, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. London: Collins, 1943. Hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. About 9 x 6.5 inches. 47pp. 20 colour plates, 19 black and white illustrations. End sheets showing the start of some foxing. Dust wrapper, spine discoloured and corners rubbed. Read More

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Stockport: H.A.Owens., 1985. Paperback. Very Good +. About 8 x 6 inches. 121 pp. Cover a little rubbed and what may be the authors signature on the title page. Text block clean, tight and bright. A good few black and white photos some attributed, others perhaps by the author. The author relates his experiences in WW2. Read More

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Aylesbury: Shire Publications, 1973. Paperback. Good. About 8 x 6 inches. 48pp inc index. Cover worn. Birthday wishes inside front cover. Mark on title page text clean and tight. Read More

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London: Rockliff, 1952. Ex-Library. Ex Library. About 8.5 x 5 inches. 216 pp inc index. ffep removed, stamps to half-title and reverse of title page. Otherwise a clean and tight copy. Contains black and white photos. Read More

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Wakefield: : EP Publishing, , 1976. . Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. About 8 x 5 inches. 151pp. A comparison of the lives of Beau Nash and Beau Brummell. ISBN: . Read More

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London: Hutchinson, 1981. . London: Hutchinson, 1981. Hardback, Condition, Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 279pp with citations. In August 1940 the Duke and Duchess of Windsor arrived in Nassau, where the Duke was to take up his post as Governor of the Bahamas. They were still the most romantic couple in the world, he the handsome Prince of Wales who had won hearts wherever he had gone, she the woman for whose sake he had given up a crown. But in Washington and London the royal Governor and his wife were already under suspicion in official quarters. The pro-German sentiments he had expressed during the 1930's were already well-known and the contacts that the couple had had with German agents and sympathisers during their sojourn in France and Portugal after the Abdication had made it imperative that they be removed from the European scene as quickly as possible. Exile in the Bahamas was intended to keep the Duke and Duchess of Windsor out of harm's way. The King Over the Water tells for the first time the story of the years the Windsors spent in the Bahamas. During his governorship the Duke became closely involved with three men whose lives drew his into a network of scandal, political subversion, and, finally, murder. The three were Sir Harry Oakes, 'the richest baronet in the British Empire', Harold Christie, the land speculator, and Axel Wenner Gren, the mysterious Swedish millionaire who was active in the interests of Goering and Krupp. Only the entry of America into the Second World War prevented these men from completing a plan that would probably have brought the Duke's name into eternal disrepute. During those years the Duke struggled for minimal social reforms in the face of implacable opposition from the ruling oligarchy of white merchants and lawyers, and the Duchess threw herself into work for the poor and the sick, but the apparently idyllic life of the islands, in which black and white lived together in peaceful inequality, was to erupt in riot and looting. In the Duke of Windsor's little kingdom, the dream of a white man's Paradise was shattered for ever. Finally, in 1943, Sir Harry Oakes was horribly murdered. The Duke took personal charge of the investigation and a local adventurer, Alfred de Marigny, was arrested and charged. But the prosecution's case was disgracefully weak, de Marigny was acquitted, and the murder of Sir Harry Oakes has remained a mystery to this day. Michael Pye unravels the tangle of threads, social, financial and personal, that point to a possible solution, a dramatic solution that links the murder with the other machinations in which the Duke was involved. At the end of the war, the Duke and Duchess sailed for Europe, their magic faded, their glamour tarnished. The Duke was never again to hold an official position. The Windsor legend died finally in the Bahamas. ISBN 0091446600. Read More

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London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson,, 1979. Hardcover. Ex-Library/very good. About 9 x 6 inches. 335pp inc index. Shows little evidence of its sojourn in a library. A little foxing to text block edges but clean and tight. The dust wrapper is well protected. Read More

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