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London England: John Murray, 1993. trade Paperback. Couple of small marks to front cover. This completely re-set third edition icnorporates: Revisions throughout, brining content into line with current knowledge and approaches. Amended and additional diagrams. Three new sections, Essential Chemistry, Cells and Cell Division. Updated terminology. Attractive new page layouts, improving ease of use. An expanded index. References to further sources. Illustrated. 142 pp.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). 3rd Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Trade Paperback.

London England / New York: J. M. Dent/E. P. Dutton. Hardback. Slight foxing to end inside covers. Slight marks to cloth. Slight shelf wear to top and bottom edge of spine and corners of cloth. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. 331 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Very Good. Cloth. Reprint. 1928.

London England: Hutchinson. Near Fine/Very Good. 1990. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0091743060 Hardback Hardback First Edition First print excellent bright tight copy .London: Hutchinson. 1990. 276pp.in removable Mylar Cover [+ viiipp. plates], index. Translated by Jeffrey C. Kinkley. The autobiography of one of China's most acclaimed writers - known for his journalism, fictions, and work as a translator. Ch'ien worked during WWII as a war correspondent, and during his later years as a fiction writer and editor, translated Shakepeare, Fielding, Ibsen and others. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) .

U S A: Inti Publishing, 1997. Paperback. Highlighting to some pages. Crease to corner front cover. The truth of the matter is that many of the OLD RULES we've been taught don't apply today. That's why we have to break them. On the other hand, there are some NEW RULES that people must follow if they are serious about living their dreams. This book will empower you to Design Your Own Destiny by teaching you which 10 rules you must break....and which 10 rules you must make....if you want to think - and live - like a yacht owner in a paddle boat world. 172 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.

London England: Harper Perennial, 2005. Paperback A fun, witty, sexy, page-turning novel written by a real-life, high-priced Manhattan call girl. This is the diary of Nancy Chan, busy career girl, in her thirties, newly engaged and trying to balance job and romance. But Nancy is a high-class call girl, a fact her banker fiance, Matt does not know (he thinks she's a copy editor) and Nancy wants to keep it that way. With one foot in the bedrooms of her rich and demanding clients and one in the world of her fiance and his family, Nancy... ( We carry a wide selection of titles in sci fi fantasy and horror, The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.

London, United Kingdom: HarperPerennial, 2005. Nancy is an exclusive member of Manhattan's lucrative demimonde, where loyal and generous patrons keep her in designer outfits in return for the best tailor-made sex in town. Nancy has a natural gift for the erotic arts, a great apartment and a gaggle of glamorous girlfriends. She always thought she had it made - until now. 271 pp.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . 1st UK Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.

Great Britain: Ted Smart, 2000. prev owners name and message inside(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). 1st Ted Smart Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.

London England: HarperCollins Entertainment. Hardcover Grumpy Old Men on Holiday Following the phenomenal success of Grumpy Old Men, the quintessential grumpy old man, David Quantick, has taken a well-deserved holiday. But no matter where you go, there is always something to moan about. You're stuck behind endless caravans on the M4, waiting for a non-existent filthy train, hanging around looking at crap luggage in an airport. Is it going to be worth the effort? Of course is b****y well isn't. David Quantick here explores everything that makes the rest of the world different -- and therefore worse -- than Britain and lets us know exactly why it is safer to stay at home than to become grumpy old men on holiday. The indispensable guide to the grumpy old xenophobe in us all.,,, . Very Good. Cloth. Reprint. 2005.

Great Britain: Harper Collins, 2000. Paperback .(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Seventh Impression. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.

London England: Octopus. Paperback. There are many countries the world over which employ the services of secret policemen who write their own rules. Beatings, torture and blackmail are their persuasive tools; conformity, submissiveness and silence are what they work to ensyure. These men are examined in carefully investigated detail within this frank account. As in the author's previous bestseller, The World's Elite Forces, numerous details of organization, techniques, weaponry, training and internal structure are given, together with graphic first-hand accounts told by survivors. This book makes compulsive reading for all those who have evern wondered just how long, how elastic and how vicious the unseen arm of the law can be. Illustrated. 160 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Paperback… Read More

London England: Guild Publishing. Very Good/Very Good. 1985. Revised Third Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardback Hardcover The dreaded Waffen SS, obeying a warrior code adopted from the samurai, saw themselves as modern teutonic knights,their victims often saw them in a different light this book deals with there harsh training recruitment the rise of the SS the relationship between the Waffen SS and the concentration camps, and extermination squads, and the actual military campaigns. With new sections on SS records and documentation, plus a new appendix on the Britische Freikorps, several new photographs and a great dead of supplementary information culled from sources around the world since the book first appeared, this new edition is an even better reference source than ever. Illustrated. 161(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First… Read More

London, England: Virago, 1988. Else Rainer was thirteen when she called the police to come and rescue her mother from the violence of her desperate father. Two years later both parents were dead, victims of a murder suicide played out before Else's appalled and uncomprehending eyes. Now at thirty, she is attempting to reconstruct the past and her own pain. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good./fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.

London England: Victor Gollancz, 1949. Hardcover. There Was an Old Woman. Tiney tear to edge of title page. Browning to pages through age. Slightly sunned spine. Red cloth with green lettering. 175 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) . 4th Impression. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall Duodecimo. Hardback.

Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Crime, 1963. Slight browning to edges of pages through age. Murder certainly was no pastime for a gentleman. Nasty fellows with big guns and sad childhoods had given it a bad name. It was time for murder to polish its public image. The way he saw it, murder should be more cordial. Our impeccable killer knew his victims intimately. He wrote them flawless, haunting letters of warning. And he even sent then farewell cards. Engraved, of course. All in all, he did away with murder's most unsavory aspects. Except for one. The corpse. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . 1st Penguin Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback.

London England: Victor Gollancz, 1949. Hardcover. The Spanish Cape Mystery. Slight browning to edges of pages through age. Slightly sunned spine. Red cloth with gilt lettering. 319 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) . 2nd Impression. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall Duodecimo. Hardback.

London England: Picador Pan Books, 1994. Paperback. Crease to corner back cover.6. If You're Talking to Me, Your Career Must Be in Trouble : Movies, Mayhem and Malice.If you're a fan of informed viciousness - and who isn't? - you will love this book."light ceased corners - Dave Barry 267pp.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.

London England: Secker & Warburg, 1960. Hardback. Heinemann Staff Library written to inside front cover. Light stain to top edge of pages. Slight foxing to end inside covers and edge. Blue cloth with silver lettering. Michael Renoir is a man in his thirties, recently promoted to a position of responsible authority at Damezan, in Languedoc, where on a vast plateau a nuclear power plant is in the process of construction. Such is the confidence of his team in one another, their enthusiasm, their unity in their belief that they are 'the men of the future' that he trusts all confusion of ideas, all friction will be avoided. 320 pp. ( We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). 1st English Translation Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hadrback.

London England: The Cresset Library , 1987. Four Portraits : Quinnells biographical study of Boswell, Gibbon, Sterne and Wilkes by Peter Quennell makes compulsive reading 256pp.We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.

Great Britain: Spring Books, 1966. Mayhew's dramatic interviews with society's enemies and outcasts - the reverse side of the coin of Victorian prosperity. 427 pp. Wear and tear to D/J.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). Sixth Impression. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.

London England: Book Club Associates, 1974. Hardback. Byron. Slight foxing to end inside covers and edge. Slight mark to top front cover. Light green cloth with gilt lettering. Frontispiece. 459 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Revised. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.