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Nashville, TN, USA: Thomas Nelson, 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 204pp. Pink cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Very lightly bumped spine ends. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, light chipping to edges and creases, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. The author helps us understand the strengths and weaknesses of our personal style of leadership, then shows how to hone our skills to make the most of our abilities.

Chibi-shi, JP: Institure of Developing Economies, 2005. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xii, 362pp. Pictorial, laminated light card covers. 8vo. Light chipping to edges and wear to covers, shelf number label on spine. Lender's stamps, security device and markings inside covers, title and copyright pages. Gutter cracked at title page. Internally, neat, clean, bright and tight.

London, UK: Herbert Press, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. First English edition. 192pp. Orange cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Spine and cover edges sun faded. Previous owner's label on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket sun faded, has some minor shelf wear. Small 4to.

London, UK: Konemann, 1998. 1st Thus 1st Impression. Paperback. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 400pp. Laminated printed light card covers. Very light chipping to edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 12mo. Includes a picture of Herman Goring with an elk, .doing the Lambeth Walk and many, many more.

London, UK: Konemann, 1998. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Unpaginated. Laminated printed light card covers. Light chipping to edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 16mo.

London, UK: Oxford University Press, 1958. 5th or later 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Thirteenth edition. viii, 770pp. Dark blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine, many black and white diagrams. 8vo. A large and heavy volume requiring an additional charge for overseas delivery. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed and rounded. Internally very neat, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine heavily sun-faded and tanned, ends worn and clipped, <5cm closed tear at heel and rear joint, covers moderately soiled, some wear along edges and folds, chipping at corners, less than 3cm closed tear at bottom rear corner, not price-clipped; interior moderately tanned and lightly soiled. With chapters on flagellate protozoa, monocystis, ciliate protozoa, etc.

Oxford, UK: Oxford Press, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. xvi, 320pp, black and white photographic plates (inc. frontispiece). Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. 12mo. Spine ends lightly rubbed and rounded, slight wear to spine cover. Corners lightly rubbed and rounded. Text block edge lightly tanned with some light staining to fore edge. Free endpapers moderately tanned from edge of dust jacket. Two previous owner's names on front free end paper, some pencil markings on contents pages. Internally pages are lightly tanned, otherwise a neat clean, bright and tight volume. Grey clipped dust jacket with moderate sun-fading to spine, lightly soiled along edges, minor curling and chipping to top edge, small closed tear to front fore edge.

Boston, MA, USA: Houghton Mifflin Company and the Riverside Press Cabridge, 1913. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 180pp. Dark green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on front and spine. 12mo. Some light staining on boards. Spine ends rubbed with cloth wearing through; small closed tear at head. Corners moderately rubbed and rounded, <1cm section of cloth peeling on rear fore-edge. Top text block edge dusty. Some light pencil annotations throughout volume, otherwise, internally very neat, clean, bright and tight.

New York, NY, USA: Bonanza Books, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xiv, 306pp. Quarter bound in maroon cloth over grey paper-covered boards, silver titles on spine. Bumped spine ends. Slightly dusty top text block edge. Endpapers starting to tan. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has two closed tears on front, tanning to top edges, very light shelf wear, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. The author combines enormous experience as the author of several distinguished costume histories with her skill as a precise and evocative artist to trace the history of costume and costume accessories in detail from the earliest European civilizations onwards.

Ward, Lock & Co, 1946. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 286pp plus publisher's adverts bound in at rear. Bluey-green publisher's cloth boards (faded at edges, rounded on corners and spine ends, very slightly cocked). Lending sheet on front end paper, else no other library markings. Internally neat and clean, barring dusty edges. In its original, vintage dust jacket (rubbed and worn all over, cracking around folds, minor loss at crumbled spine ends). Dust jacket now in archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect & prolong the life of the jacket. It is not adhered to the book or to the jacket. Seventh book in Dornford Yate's Berry series.

London, UK: Ward, Lock & Co, 1958. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition. 286pp. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Bumped spine ends. Slightly cocked. Light foxing to endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear on rear, light chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price clipped. 8vo. Last in the line of the 'Berry' series as the authors' reminisce.

Ward, Lock & Co, 1943. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 252pp plus publisher's adverts at rear. 1st ed, 1st imp (true first). Blue cloth boards just a tad faded at edges. 12mo. Slightly shaken. In pictorial, slightly aged, dust jacket, chipped a little at edges with minor loss at head and heel of spine. Book covered in non-adhessive mylar wrap to archival level. Neat and nice bookplate inside the front cover.

Barton-Under-Needwood, UK: Wrens Park, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 256pp. Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Page margins starting to tan. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some light shelf wear, price unclipped. 8vo. Charts the author's tour of operational duty, raid-by-raid, over the last five months of 1944 amid the constant fear of injury and death.

Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press and Kent County Council, 1994. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. [8] 244pp, plus numerous monochrome plate illustrations. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Boards very slightly rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, lightly rubbed at edges. An examination of the changes in society from the mid 17th century to immediately prior to the first world war in Kent, focussing on the fields of the church and its parish work, the expansion of educational provision, the operation of the old and new poor laws and the impact of epidemics which led to the improvement of public sanitation and water supplies.

Bedfordshire, UK: Potton History Society & History of Potton Trust Fund, 1981. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 70pp stapled booklet in laminated card covers. 8vo. Covers very slightly rubbed on edges in places, a little spotting around spine. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight, barring tiny corner curl on title page. A collection of some 150 pictures and photographic images of Potton in Bedfordshire ranging roughly from the mid 19th to the mid 20th century, with brief historical introduction.

New York, NY, USA: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1953. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Yates, Raymond F. x, 210pp, illustrated throughout with black and white drawing and photographs. Quarter-bound in brown cloth over cream cloth-covered boards. 8vo. Lightly bumped spine ends, boards moderately soiled and foxed with corners rubbed; slightly cocked. Text block edges dusty, moderately tanned, endpapers tanned and foxed. Pastedowns scarred (likely from tape removal). Internally pages are slightly tanned at edges, otherwise a neat, clean, bright and tight volume.

Baltimore, MD, USA: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. 1st Edition . Soft cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 290pp. Laminated printed light card covers. In as new condition throughout. 8vo. Professor Yazawa examines the political and ideological clashes that accompanied the transformation of the country from a loose confederation of states to a more perfect union.

Toronto, Canada: Doubleday, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 400pp. Black cloth-covered boards, silver titles on spine. Bumped spine ends. Top edge sun tanning. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. A woman's memoirs of life growing up during the time of the Cultural Revolution, and her eventual defection to Canada.

London, UK: The Institute of Economic Affairs, 1986. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. viii, 160pp. Pictorial light card covers. Internally, neat, clean, bright and tight. 8vo. Collection of essays by leading economists which examine the Keynesian economic theories and how they have stood the test of time.

London, UK: Faber and Faber, 1946. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 160pp, three black and white maps; 68pp black and white photographic plates. Brown cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 4to. Sun-fading to top of front and rear boards and spine. Minor shelf wear to boardw. Bowing to front board. Very slight bumping to spine heel. Very slight foxing to front endpapers. Internally neat, clean, tight and bright.