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Texas: Greenleaf Book Group, 1955. First edition. Fine/fine. Through expert storytelling, Scott illuminates basic business concepts with unconventional linkages from explaining what African cattle and medieval heraldry can teach us about branding to discovering the keys to market differentiation by examining a coral reef. cloth cover,veryclean;tight;signed First Edition AB31

Edinburgh: The Porpoise Press, 1934. First printing. Very Good. The author provides an account of the political relations between England and Scotland during a hundred years (between the middle of the seventeenth and the middle of the eighteenth centuries), and this biography provides the necessary middle link between Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, and John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale. It places a wholly honest man of simple character between two men who were not so honest and quite as certainly not so ingenuous. It forms the last volume of the trilogy, Red boards with writing to spine. Some fading to spine. Owner bookplate inside front board. Some foxing to first blank pages but internally clean. Binding tight. AB53

London: j m dent, 1969. Very Good/very good. This is the first memoir of Eliot to be published afer his death. Its a very personal one, recalling the poet as a complete man of letters and a considerable religous thinker. Orange boards with writing to spine. Nice clean pages and tight binding. Owner inscription in ink. Dj not price clipped, some minor shelf wear bumping and rubbing. First Edition AB67

London: Orion, 1999. First published. Fine/fine. A wonderful life story of the man who we all new from , Letter from America on Radio 4. Brown boards with writing to spine. Price clipped dj. Some bumping and shelfwear. Nice tight binding and clean pages. Heavy book so p&p to be adjusted accordingly. First Edition AB35

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1994. First edition. Fine/fine. Probably the most famous anti war novel ever, it looks at the realities of the First World War through the eyes of Paul Baumer who is 19 years old when he joins the German ranks anmd is killed just before the armistice, at a point when he has just managed to come to terms with the idea that peace might come after all. All quiet on the western front has sold more copies in more languages than any other work of german literature, it was first translated into english ion 1929 and burned publicly by the Nazis in 1933 as 'defeatist'. Green boards with gold writing to spine. Dustjacket has minor shelf wear. First Edition AB10

London: Faber and Faber, 2007. Very Good/very good. This is the story of how her family for one year tried to feed themselves animals and vegetables whose provenance they really knew, and how it changed their life. Brown boards with gold writing to the spine. Dj slight shelf wear and bumping to the top. Nice tight binding and clean pages. First Edition AB22

London: Chatto and Windus, 1994. Third impression. Hardback. Good/Goos. The story of the four Lennox sisters Black boards with title to spine. Tight binding and clean pages.Dj mylar covered and price clipped. Shelf wear. Heavy book so post and packing to be adjusted accordingly. Third impression AB82

London: Andre Deutsch, 1983. Very Good/very good. George Mikes and Arthur Koestler were friends for some 30 years. They first met at arthurs instigation to talk about hungarian literature and then became good friends. Black boards with writing to spine. Dj not price clipped. nice clean pages and tight binding. MInor shelf wear, and rubbing to Dj. First Edition AB68

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1987. Fine/fine. A fascinating new picture to Queen Victorias last years as we read about her Doctor. Black boards with writing to spine. Dj minor bumps to corners. Nice tight binding and clean pages. First Edition AB58

Headline, 2004. First published. Very Good/very good. The autobiography of britains greatest ever golfer. Black boards with writing to spine. Dj rubbed and slight bumping. Shelfwear. Nice tight binding and clean pages. First Edition AB23

London: Oxford university press, 1962. Very Good. He was a writer of songs and madrigals in the 1500's.He is now one of the most intimately known personalities of any elizabethan man of music, art or letters. We follow his career from the time he left oxford through his early life as a serving man until he rose to master of music for matthew parker the archbishop of canterbury. Blue boards with writing to spine. Tight binding and clean pages. Some shelfwear.5 illustrations.A list of his 1571 songs. AB61

London: J.M.Dent, 1990. Second edition. Paperback. Very Good. In this introductory volume the author presents as coherent account as possible of Bachs life and works in the light of current knowledge 41 Music examples;12 pages of photographs and 8 line illustrations; including a family tree and map;clean;tight slight chipping to bottom back cover. AB33

London: Michael Joseph, 1978. First edition. As New/near fine. Superstar and sex symbol, this free loving lady has been hailed and accused as pathfinder for the permissive society and honoured as her country's most marketable export. not clipped;clean;tight, black and white photographs First Edition AB40

London: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1963. First edition. Very Good/good. An account of the unusual relationship between a father and son, in a childhood where fact and fiction were inextricably mingled, like the colours in a Neapolitian ice cream. tight ;not clipped;bumping to top of spine on cover;torn dj front;tear to dj at back First Edition AB36

London: Fontana, 1960. First printing. Paperback. Good. This book is in every way a masterpiece. As a study in animal behaviour it has great importance, as an example of near perfect relation between man and animal it is unique. black and white photographs, shelf wear. AB33

middlesex: frederick warne, 1986. Very Good/very good. The story of the storyteller and artist. Brown boards with writing to spine. Very nice condition. Clean pages and tight binding. owner bookplate.Dj pric clipped, minor bumping and rubbing. Heavy book so post and packing to be adjusted accordingly. First Edition AB67

London: W H Allen, 1975. Very Good/good. A story covering five fascinating decades of show business. Brown boards with writing to spine. some shelf wear. Dj some bumping and shelfwear. Price clipped. Clean pages and tight binding. First Edition AB61

London: Faber and Faber, 2008. First published. Very Good/very good. This is a story of a man who foreshadowed the Nazis in his combination of mysticism and genocidal violence and he explains Ungerns strange religous beliefs and the culture of Mongolia of which the adventurer became for a brief period the absolute ruler. Brown boards with writing to spine. Minor shelf wear. Tight binding and clean pages. Not price clipped. First Edition AB66

John Murray Publishers, 1999. First edition. Fine/fine. A canadian born glasgow businessman, he entered politics in 1900 and within four years was in Balfours government. By 1911 he headed the conservative party and in the 12 years that followed he reunited and reorganised it, follwing its 3 successive defeats, and prepared it for the century of electoral success that lay ahead. Green boards with gold writing to spine, nice tight binding and clean pages. Dustjacket slight shelfwear at the top. First Edition AB12

New York: farrar straus and giroux, 1969. First printing. Very Good/very good. A narrative of the rise and fall and rise again of a familys fortunes and a series of vivd portraits of eccentrics and neer do wells of fabulous successes and pathetic failures et. etc.... red boards with writing to spine and cover with embossed eagle.some bumping and rubbing.clean pages and tight binding. the edges are foxed. signed by the author and inscribed to cousin ursie from jack and with love from the authors mother, maude who was a bouvier.dj creased and shelf worn and rubbed. heavy book so post and packing to be adjusted accordingly. First Edition AB73