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SPEECHES OF NOTE : a Celebration of the Old, New and Unspoken
by Usher, Shaun
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- First Edition
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- 2018
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$12.71
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London: Hutchinson, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Inxcludes: Virginia Woolf; Albert Einstein; Queen Elizabeth II; Nelson Madela and many more. 370 p.pages, 1.5 kilos, 10 1/4" tall. Small. light scratch on rear cover. No inscriptions. Weight, 1.5 kilos so shipping Outside UK will be extra. Item Price
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The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs
by Smith, William George ( Compiled By )
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- Near Very Good
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- 1979
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Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979. Cloth. Very Good/Near Very Good. Third Edition. Edited by F. P. Wilson. Introduction by Joanna Wilson. Text arranged in Double Columns. 930 p.pages, 1.5 kilos, 9 1/2" tall. No inscriptions. Jacket has a few very small scrapes at top of spine. Uncl.ipped. Weight 1.5 kilos so shipping Outside UK will be extra. Item Price
$15.26
THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
by Simpson, J. A. & Weiner, E. S.
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- Near Fine
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- Second
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- 2004
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- Blue cloth with gilt lettering and Clarendon Press design on spines
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SECOND EDITION, FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1989. COMPLETE 20 VOLUME SET.
Main Text Entries arranged in Triple Columns with Subject Words in bold type. Books are 12 1/4" Tall and about 2 1/2" thick.
Vol. I ( A - Bazouki ) has LXVII / 67 preliminary pages before the main A-Z text. Text includes Preface, Introduction (including translation of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Nouveau Petit Larousse Illustre Dictionnaire Encyclopedique ( French Text )
by Auge, Claude
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- 1936
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$31.79
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Paris: Librairie Larousse, 1936. Decorative Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. FRENCH TEXT. Deux Centieme Edition. " 6200 Gravures, 220 Planches et Tableaux, 140 Cartes. Well illustrated with full-Page Plates in B&W & Colour and many In-Text Illustrations. Text arranged in Double Columns. Orange cloth cover with Red, Brown & White picture of a grecian lady blowing a Dandelion on the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Nelson's World Gazetteer and Geographical Dictionary
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- 1941
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$11.44
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London: Nelson, 1941. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 2nd Edition. With Map Supplement by Bartholomew. Over 10,000 Seperate Entries. Guide to Pronunciation of Every Name. 573 Text Pages + 16 Pages of Colour Maps. (A little spotting to page edges but text is nice and clean.) Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Item Price
$11.44
The Pocket World Atlas and Gazetteer
by Bartholomew, John
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- Fair
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- 1958
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Edinburgh: John Bartholomew & Son Ltd, 1958. Decorative Cloth. Good/Fair. 128 Pages of Colour Maps and a 32 Page Gazetteer. Red cloth cover with Black lettering to front & spine and picture of the globe on the front. No inscriptions. Pages in very good, clean condition, colours bright. Small dent to bottom of front cover. Jacket not clipped,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lloyd's Calendar 1961
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- 1960
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$8.90
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LONDON: Lloyds, 1960. Cloth. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 738 Pages including Adverts. Pages slightly age darkened but in nice clean condition. Pages 697 & 699 are creased. Blue cloth cover withdull gilt lettering. Slight wear and a little loss of colour. Spine colour not faded. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Item Price
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The Royal Masonic Institute for Girls, Year Book 1962
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- 1962
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London: Royal Masonic Institution, 1962. Decorative Cloth. Very Good +/No Jacket. Green Cloth Cover with Masonic Mongram in Gilt on front. Frontis is a B&W Photo of C. H. Crews, Provincial Grand Master for Devonshire. Includes articles on the visit of Princess Alexandra of Kent and The Province of Devonshire, both Illustrated with B&W Photographs. No inscriptions, nice,… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Manual of Heraldry
by Pedrick, Gale
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London: T. Werner Laurie. Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. A popular introduction to the Origin, Significance & Uses of Armorial Bearings; A guide to the Forms and Regulations of the Art-Science of Blazonry and a Prelude to the influence of Heraldry upon Poetry, Art, Architecture & Literature." 291 Pages. Some foxing to first few pages, thereafter only a spot or… Read more about this item Item Price
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Historical and Miscellaneous Questions, for the Use of Young People. With a Section of British and General Biography
by Mangnall, Richmal
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- 1908
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$19.07
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London: Longmans Green and Co, 1908. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. New Impression 1908. Includes Ancient History, English History etc. 578 Pages. Dark Blue cloth cover with blind stamped to front and back and divisions to spine. Bright gilt lettering to spine. Page edges speckled brown. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Item Price
$19.07
New Zealand Official Year-Book 1934
by Compiled in the Statistics and Census Office of the Dominion of New Zealand
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- 1934
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$22.89
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New Zealand Government, 1934. Hardcover. Near Very Good/No Jacket. Cover is Buff/Grey Paper on Boards. original price 7/6. Some wear and a little darkened at spine. Black Lettering. 732 Pages in very good, clean condition. There is a Fold-Out map at the back in very good, crisp condition, colour bright. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall… Read more about this item Item Price
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Books in Print, USA, and Author-Title Series Index to the Publishers Trade List Annual. Volume 2, Titles
by Prakken, Sarah L
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- 1968
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New York: R. R. Bowker, 1968. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Covers Hardbounds, Paperbacks, Trade Books, textbooks, Adult Books & Juvenile Books. Huge volume, 1333 Pages + Directory of publishers. (Volume 1, Authors available, I can give a discount on the 2 books) Very heavy volume (2.5 Kilos) so postage will be extra Size: 4to - over 9¾" -… Read more about this item Item Price
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The New Standard Encyclopaedia & World Atlas
by J M Parrish
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- 1932
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Odham's Press Ltd, 1932. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Introduction By Rev. C. A. Alington, Headmaster of Eton. Frontispiece is a colour picture of Mona Lisa. 1352 Pages + 8 Pages of Colour Maps at the back. Brown Cloth cover has blind stamped ornament. Gilt Lines and Lettering to Spine are Bright. Illustrated with some B&W Photographs. A… Read more about this item Item Price
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Handbook of Belting, Conveyor and Elevator
by Goodyear
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- 1953
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$50.86
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Ohio: Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Inc, 1953. Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Full of Technical Information about Conveyor Belts. 341 Pages. Printed on good quality paper.Illustrated with B&W Photographs, Drawings and Tables. Pages in very good, condition. Previous owners name on endpaper. Only a little very light browning. Some wear to cover, mainly at corners and edges of spine.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Book of Knowledge: Complete Set of 8 Volumes
by Stowell, Gordon (Editor)
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$38.14
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The Waverley Book Company Limited 0. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. A Pictorial Treasury of Reading & Reference for Young and Old." With some 6,000 Illustrations. Over 700 of them in Colour and Gravure. Dark Red Cloth cover with imitation leather texture around spines and ochre textured cloth boards. Complete Set in 8 Volumes, Volume 8 has the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Van Nostrand's Practical Formulary
by MInrath, William R
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- 1958
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Princeton, New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand Company Inc, 1958. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Very useful Formulas including: Laquers, Paints, Enamel, Surface Treatment-Wood & Metals, Household Cleaning & Polishing, Photographic, Cosmetics, Food, Farm & Garden etc. Blue cloth cover with Yellow Lettering to front & spine. 336 Pages, 810g, 9 1/4" Tall. Slight edge wear to cover. No inscriptions… Read more about this item Item Price
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Whitaker's Almanac, 1958, Complete Edition (an Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1958)
by Whitaker, Joseph
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- 1958
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- Quarter Cloth
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London: Whitaker, 1958. Quarter Cloth. Very Good +/No Jacket. Photographs include Royal visits, World Boy Scout Jamboree, Cutty Sark and Mayflower II, Prince Phillip at the BBC, Ibbotson's world record for the Mile, Arend-Roland Comet. 1190 Pages + Publisher's adverts. Red cloth spine with leather texture & gilt lettering. Green cloth covered boards with calendar and gilt lettering… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE AMERICAN PEOPLES ENCYCLOPEDIA ( Complete Set of 20 Volumes Including the Atlas Volume )
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- 1962
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- Full-Leather
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$76.28
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New York: Grolier Incorporated, 1962. Full-Leather. Very Good +. Complete Set of 20 Volumes including volunme 20, the Atlas Volume. Maroon cloth covers with Gilt Decoration and Lettering on spines. Blind Embossed Decoration and Central Monogram on fronts. Textr arranged in Double Colums. Well illustrated with Full-Page and In-Text Photos, Drawings etc. No inscriptions, very nice, clean condition.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The British Encyclopedia, Illustrated: Complete 10 Volume Set + Complete 2 Volume British Dictionary
by Norwood, Cyril (Introduction by)
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- Used - Near Very Good
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- 1933
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- Imitation Leather
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$44.50
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London: Odhams Press Ltd, 1933. Imitation Leather. Near Very Good/No Jacket. Complete Set in 10 Volumes, Also the matching 2 Volume set of the British Dictionary. A - Z format. Prepared under the General Editorship of J. M. Parrish. Many In-Text illustrations. Text arranged in Double Columns. Subject Words in Bold Capitals. All with Brown Cloth Covers having… Read more about this item Item Price
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Atlas of the Bible ( in Original Slipcase )
by Grollenberg, L.H.
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- Slipcase
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- 1957
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- Hardcover
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$20.34
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London: Nelson, 1957. Translated & Edited by Joyce M. H. Reid. Well Illustrated with many B&W Photos and Colour Maps. Concise & Interesting Text. Cream cloth cover with Gilt lettering to spine. 163 Pages, 14" Tall. Nice presentation inscription pasted on half title page, dated 1959. Small faint stain at bottom of cover and a little fading at spine. Pages… Read more about this item Item Price
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