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The Wyvern Collection Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture and Metalwork
by Paul Williamson
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 2018
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780500021774
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- 1
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Ilminster, Somerset, GBR
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£85.00
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London .UK: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2018. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. This is the first in a series of definitive catalogues of one of the world's most important collections of medieval art. Composed of outstanding European sculptures of the medieval period, as well as some late antique and Byzantine pieces and related… Read more about this item Item Price
£85.00
An Act of Treachery
by Ann Widecombe
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 2002
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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£25.00
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London .UK: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This second novel by Ann Widdecombe is about the love of a French girl for a German officer in occupied France. There is an inscription on the title page. The text block is age tanned. The boards… Read more about this item Item Price
£25.00
Through the eyes of a Leopard. UMBULALA The Junglr Book from the Heart of Africa.
by Lena Godsall Bottriell
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Published
- 1998
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780952187103
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- 1
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Ilminster, Somerset, GBR
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£30.00
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Aylesbury. UK: Rex Natura Ltd, 1998. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 2nd Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Umbulala is a story about the African leopard and its relationship to the wild, its inhabitants and mores. Pronounced " oom-b-'lala " and lavishly illustrated throughout with line and pen drawings. There is an inscription on the front… Read more about this item Item Price
£30.00
Air Gunner; The Men Who Manned the Turrets
by Alan W. Cooper
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 2009
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781844158256
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- 1
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Ilminster, Somerset, GBR
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£30.00
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Barnsley. UK: Pen & Sword Aviation, 2009. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This is a history of Air Gunners, their equipment, training and service in the various RAF Commands in which they served. This book explains in great detail how and why the rank of air gunner was developed at the outset… Read more about this item Item Price
£30.00
Rise Up Women; The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes
by Diane Atkinson
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First edition/ 3rd Printing
- Published
- 2018
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781408844045
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- 1
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Ilminster, Somerset, GBR
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£30.00
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London .UK: Bloomesbury Publishing, 2018. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First edition/ 3rd Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In this book Diane Atkinson celebrates the lives of the women who answered the call to ' Rise Up; a richly diverse group that spanned the divides of class and country, women of all ages who were… Read more about this item Item Price
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Act of Oblivion
by Robert Harris
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 2022
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781529151763
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- 1
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Ilminster, Somerset, GBR
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£30.00
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London .UK: Hutchinson/Heinemann, 2022. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son -in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and wanted for the murder of Charles I. Act of Oblivion is an epic journey across continents, and a chase like no… Read more about this item Item Price
£30.00
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In Search of Martha Brown; the true story of the mysterious woman Thomas Hardy saw hanged
by Nicola Thorne
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 2000
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780953940202
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- 1
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Ilminster, Somerset, GBR
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£16.00
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Sturminster Newton. UK: The Dashwood Press, 2000. Book. Very Good. Perfect Binding. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Though born in obscurity and dying publicly on the scaffold for the brutal murder of her husband in 1856. She has long been an object of fascination to many people, not least being the young Thomas Hardy who witnessed… Read more about this item Item Price
£16.00
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Victorian and Edwardian Prisons
by Trevor May
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 2006
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780747806417
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- 1
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Ilminster, Somerset, GBR
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£16.00
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Princes Risborough.UK: Shire Publiocations, 2006. Book. Very Good. Saddle Stapled. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This book looks at the development of prison buildings, at life and labour of prisoners, and the position of prison officers. Attitudes to women and juvenile prisoners are also examined. The covers and text block are both square, tight and clean.… Read more about this item Item Price
£16.00
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Sutton Pocket Histories; The Anglo-Saxons
by Barbara Yorke
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Published
- 1999
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780750922203
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- 1
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Ilminster, Somerset, GBR
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£12.00
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Thrupp. Gloscestershire: Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1999. Book. Very Good. Perfect Binding. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This book reviews, in a concise and readable form, the main events of the period 400-1066, and the legacy left by the Anglo-Saxons to later centuries - the language, religion, settlements, and local boundaries of England. The covers and text… Read more about this item Item Price
£12.00
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China; An Epic Novel
by Edward Rutherford
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 2021
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781444787832
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- 1
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Ilminster, Somerset, GBR
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£22.00
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London .UK: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2021. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. CHINA is a feat of the imagination that will entertain and enthrall, and show us how the turmoil of the nineteenth Century led to modern China's revolution and rebirth. The boards, binding and text block are all square tight and… Read more about this item Item Price
£22.00
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Benjamin Jesty ; Dorset's Vaccination Pioneer
by Patrick J. Pead
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Published
- 2012
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780955156113
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- 1
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Ilminster, Somerset, GBR
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£18.00
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Chichester. UK: Timefile Books, 2012. Book. Very Good. Saddle Stapled. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This is the fascinating story of the Dorset farmer Benjamin Jesty, who devised and performed the first authentic and validated vaccinations in 1774 to protect his family against smallpox. This happened 22 years before Dr Edward Jenner began his own vaccination… Read more about this item Item Price
£18.00
Secret Wings of World War II; Nazi Technology and the Allied Arms Race.
by Lance Cole.
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 2015
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781473823440
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- 1
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Ilminster, Somerset, GBR
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£25.00
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Barnsley. UK: Pen & Sword Aviation, 2015. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. There are many myths and legends surrounding the advanced German areonautical technology of the Second World War. There are also facts and proven events. yet within these stories and behind these facts lie conspiracy theories and denials that seem to… Read more about this item Item Price
£25.00
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Travels with Herodotus
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Published
- 2007
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780713998481
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- 1
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Ilminster, Somerset, GBR
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£22.00
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London .UK: Allen Lane, 2007. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays - to India, China and Africa - with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket The boards, binding, text block and dust jacket are all square, tight and crisp,… Read more about this item Item Price
£22.00
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Victory 1981
by Alan Palmer
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1998
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780297841241
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ilminster, Somerset, GBR
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£20.00
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London .UK: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Victory 1918 examines the background to the Allied triumph and its aftermath. Might the Armistice in the forest of Compiegne have come sooner? May American intervention have one the war and compromised the peace? How near did Germany come to denouncing… Read more about this item Item Price
£20.00
When The Lamps Went Out; From Home Front to Battle Front Reporting the Great War 1914 - 1918
by Edited by Nigel Fountain
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 2014
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781783350414
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ilminster, Somerset, GBR
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£18.00
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London .UK: Guardian Books, 2014. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. This book is a panorama of a society during a cataclysm, recorded by people who were there, through victories and defeats; the women, the man and children who lived, loved ,defied , perished and survived in the war that did not end… Read more about this item Item Price
£18.00
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City of Laughter; Sex and Satire in Eighteen - Century London
by Vic Gatrell
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 2006
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781843543213
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ilminster, Somerset, GBR
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£28.00
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London .UK: Atlantic Books, 2006. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Vic Gatrell's offers new insights into the origins of modern attitude to sex, celebrity and ridicule. It also shows that the 1820s marked a crucial turning point in the history of British manners as - in anticipation of prim Victorian values -… Read more about this item Item Price
£28.00
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Mrs Luther and her Sisters; Women in the Reformation
by Derek Wilson
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 2016
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780745956350
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- 1
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Ilminster, Somerset, GBR
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£25.00
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L: Lion Books, 2016. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. It is a frequent complaint that women have been airbrushed out of history, their contributions forgotten, their voices silenced. In this superbly written book, historian Derek Wilson redresses the balance, showing how women were crucial to the Reformation. The boards,… Read more about this item Item Price
£25.00
Petrograd 1917; Witnesses to the Russian Revolution
by John Pinfold
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 2017
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781851244607
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- 1
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Ilminster, Somerset, GBR
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£22.00
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Oxford. UK: Bodleian Library, 2017. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Some of the most compelling and valuable accounts of the dramatic and chaotic events surrounding the Russian Revolution were recorded by eyewitnesses, many of whom were foreign nationals caught in Petrograd at the time. Accompanied by seventy contemporary illustrations, these first-hand accounts… Read more about this item Item Price
£22.00
Trust Me.
by John Updike
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st UK Edition
- Published
- 1987
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780233981345
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ilminster, Somerset, GBR
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£18.00
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London .UK: Andre' Deutsch Ltd, 1987. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The theme of trust, betrayed or fulfilled, runs through Updike's collection of short stories in this book. the boards text block and dust jacket are all square, tight and clean. Book price includes 2nd class postage in UK only.. Item Price
£18.00
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Da Vinci's Last Commission The most sensational detective story in the history of Art
by Fiona McLaren
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 2012
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781780571133
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- 1
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Ilminster, Somerset, GBR
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£22.00
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Edinburgh. Scotland: Mainstream Publishing, 2012. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Da Vinci's Last Commission is one of the most astonishing detective stories in the history of art. It is also a tale of the courage and tenacity of a woman who challenged the international art establishment, orthodox history and the Church in… Read more about this item Item Price
£22.00
