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Fighting Back: A Memoir of Jewish Resistance in World War II
by WERNER, HAROLD
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First.
- Published
- 1989
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- Hardback
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$15.25
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New York: Columbia University Press, 1989. First. . Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Edited by Mark Werner with a foreword by Martin Gilbert. Dustwrapper and boards bumped at edges otherwise very good. Dedication written in ink to previous owner on ffep. Size: 6 x 9.5 Inches
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Children's Games with Things : Marbles, Fivestones, Throwing and Catching, Gambling, Hopscotch, Chucking and Pitching, Ball-Bouncing, Skipping, Tops and Tipcat
by OPIE, IONA & PETER
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1997
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780192159632
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- 1
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London, London, GBR
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$19.06
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Oxford: Oxford Univeristy Press, 1997. Blackboards, unclipped dw, 350pp. Very good clean and tight.. 1st Edition. Hardback in Dustwrapper. Very Good/Very Good. Item Price
$19.06
The Singing Game
by OPIE, IONA & PETER
- Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Published
- 1985
- Binding
- Hardback in Dustwrapper
- ISBN
- 9780192115621
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- 1
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London, London, GBR
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$10.80
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Oxford: Oxford Univeristy Press, 1985. 1st Edition. . Hardback in Dustwrapper. Very Good-/Good+. Black boards, unclipped dw, 521pp. Dw a little bumped at some edges. Pages inside very slightly tanned at edges but clean and tight.
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$10.80
Billericay About 1910
by THOMAS, JESSIE A.
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- Used - Good
- Published
- 1976
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- Paper Covers
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$12.71
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Billericay: J.A. Thomas, 1976. Paper Covers. Good. Paper covers, unpaginated. Local history of the Essex town, written as an extended poem and apparently rpivately published. Cover a little tanned and scuffed but good clean and tight.
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$12.71
The Blackmoor Papers: The Life and Travels of a Country Squire in the Middle Years of the 18th Century.
by MARDIN, SAMUEL BLACKMOOR
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Published
- 1998
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- Hardback
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- 1
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London, London, GBR
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$12.71
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Abercych, Pembrokeshire: Brigantine Books, 1998. First Edition. . Hardback. Very Good/Good+. Translated from the Flemish and edited by William Blackmoor Mardin. Number 65 of limited 1000 copies signed by author. Dark green leatherette boards with gilt lettering to front and spine. Dust jacket scuffed and creased at edges and spine. Small dent to top of boards, but contents… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE DOLLAR GAP : Six Special Articles and a Controversial Series of Letters to the Editor Reprinted from The Times on the Crisis Facing Great Britain
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- Used - Good
- Published
- 1949
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- Paper Covers
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London, London, GBR
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$9.53
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London: The Times Publishing Co, 1949. Paper Covers. Good. Paper covers, 51pp. The crisis caused as the Marshall Plan finished. Externally a little dusty and tanned but good+ tight copy. Size: 9.5 x 6 Inches
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$9.53
The Queen's Reign and Its Commemoration: a Literary and Political review of the Period - the story of the Victorian Transformation 1837-1897
by BESANT, Walter
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- Used - Good-
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- Hardback
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London, London, GBR
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$11.44
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London: The Werner Company. Hardback. Good-. Red boards, corners and spine bumped and rubbed. Spine edges frayed and damp mark to rear board. Hinges are very fragile and loose, but pages inside are very beautiful with many black and white plates. Text block is tight in itself despite boards being loose. Size: 10 x 12 Inches Approx
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America : The Story of a Free People
by NEVINS, ALLAN and HENRY STEELE COMMAGER
- Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- 1st Thus.
- Published
- 1942
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- Hardback in Dustwrapper
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Oxford: Clarendon Press/OUP, 1942. 1st Thus. . Hardback in Dustwrapper. Good+/Good. Black boards, unclupped dw, 463pp. Dw bumped and creased at some edges with a few tiny nicks and chips at top of spine and front bottom corner. Book itself has tiny faint spot of foxing on front enfdpaper but good+ clean and tight.
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$12.71
Selling Your Father's Bones : The Epic Fate of the American West
by SCHOFIELD, BRIAN
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Published
- 2008
- Binding
- Hardback in Dustwrapper
- ISBN
- 9780007242924
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- 1
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London, London, GBR
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$4.45
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London: Harper Press, 2008. 1st Edition. . Hardback in Dustwrapper. Very Good/Very Good. Blue boards, unclipped dw, 414pp. Very good, clean and unmarked.
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$4.45
The Revolutionary Spirit Preceding the French Revolution
by ROCQUAIN, FELIX (ed. And Trans. J. D. Hunting )
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- Used - Good
- Published
- 1891
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- Hardback
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$19.06
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London: SWan Sonnerschein & Co., 1891. Hardback. Good. Red boards, 186pp. Intro by Prof. Huxley. Externally a little scuffed in places, faded along top edge of rear board, bumped and a little worn at spine ends. Inside, rear free ep has a few page numbers neatly listed. Otherwise clean tight copy. Good.
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$19.06
Amazon Frontier : The Defeat of the Brazilian Indians
by HEMMING, JOHN
- Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Published
- 1987
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- Hardback in Dustwrapper
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- 1
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London, London, GBR
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$12.71
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London: Macmillan, 1987. 1st Edition. . Hardback in Dustwrapper. Good+/Good+. Green boards, unclipped dw, 647pp. Account of post-colonialism in Brazil. Dw has normal shelf wear. Book has a few spots of scattered foxing to fore-edge of pages, visible externally only. Good+ tight and otherwise unmarked. NB Please note this is a heavy book and may need extra postage.… Read more about this item Item Price
$12.71
France Since Waterloo
by GRINTON BERRY, W.
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- Used - Good
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- 1st Edition.
- Published
- 1908
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- Hardback
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London, London, GBR
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$7.62
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London: Methuen, 1908. 1st Edition. . Hardback. Good. Blue boards gilt title and border. 382pp, 30pp publisher's list. Neat ink names to 1st pastedown and 1st fep. Back penultimate hinge sightly cracked but tight good clean copy.
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$7.62
Dynasties of the World : a Chronological and Genealogical Handbook
by MORBY, JOHN E.
- Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Published
- 1989
- Binding
- Hardback in Dustwrapper
- ISBN
- 9780192158727
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- 1
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$8.89
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Oxford and New York: Oxford Univeristy Press, 1989. 1st Edition. . Hardback in Dustwrapper. Good+/Good+. Blue cloth, unclipped dw, 254pp. Backgrounds to more than 600 dynasties around the world from Ancient Egypt to present day. Oxford University Press's own library copy with 'Reading Copy' label mounted with sellotape to 1st free endpaper, discolouring the paper underneath in the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Coltivazione e Governo Del Lino Marzuolo Con Dodici Tavole in Rame
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- Used
- Published
- 1792
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- Hardback
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$825.89
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Vicenza: For Domenico Bardella, 1792. Hardback. Leather spine with 5 raised bands, gilt title label. Marbled boards. 80pp plus 12 fold-out engravings. Text in Italian. A treatise on the production of flax. Externally spine leather bumped and a little worn at ends and on raised bands. Corners bumped and worn. Inside, pastedowns and pages a little creased, faint scattered… Read more about this item Item Price
$825.89
The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs
by FROST, THOMAS
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- Used
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- Hardback
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$196.94
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1874: Tinsley Brothers London. Hardback. Blue embossed boards with black border and floral framing and gilt design to front board and gilt title and design to spine. 388pp. Tracing the history of fairs and amusements through to the late 19th century, at a point where they were becoming extinct. Externally scuffed and worn at corners and spine. Inside, solicitor's… Read more about this item Item Price
$196.94
Native New Yorkers : The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York
by PRITCHARD, EVAN T.
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Published
- 2002
- Binding
- Hardback with Dustwrapper
- ISBN
- 9781571781079
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- 1
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$15.88
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Tulsa, San Francisco: Council Oak Books, 2002. 1st Edition. . Hardback with Dustwrapper. Very Good/Very Good. Unclipped dw, 490pp. Review copy apparently unread. Some very minor shelfwear, otherwise very good.
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$15.88
Clerks and Craftsmen in China and the West : Lectures and Addresses on the History of Science and Technology
by NEEDHAM, JOSEPH
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- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1970
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$22.87
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Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press, 1970. Maroon cloth boards in unclipped dustwrapper, 470pp. 2 small brown marks to both sides of free endpapers, apparently caused by contact with sellotape which is securing removeable plastic covering to dustwrapper. Otherwise clean and unmarked vg copy. Please note this is a heavy book and may need extra postage- please contact us directly… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Victorian Home
by DUTTON, RALPH
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- Used
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Published
- 1954
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London, London, GBR
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$8.26
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London: B. T. Batsford, 1954. 1st Edition. . Red cloth boards with illustrated dustwrapper. Colour frontispiece and numerous b&w contemporary illustrations throughout. 206 pages. Dustwrapper price-clipped & a little worn at some edges. Very good copy.
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$8.26
London Street Arabs
by STANLEY, MRS. (alias Dorothy Tennant)
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- Used
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Published
- 1890
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- Hardcover
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$15.25
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London, Paris and Melbourne: Cassell, 1890. 7.5 x 10 inches. Beige boards with green spine.aeg. Introduction by the artist is fascinating in its condescension, including tips on how to encourage street-children to pose for drawings. Numerous b&w illust. that originally accompanied stories in The Quiver, Little Folks etc. Boards grubby and worn, water stain to title page and… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Evacuees
by JOHNSON, B.S. (editor)
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Edition
- 3rd Edition.
- Published
- 1969
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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London, London, GBR
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$19.06
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London: Victor Gollancz, 1969. 3rd Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Dark blue boards with gilt title to spine, dustwrapper. 288 pp. Collection of first-hand accounts of those evacuated as children during the Second World War, incl. Michael Aspel, Mel Calman, Willis Hall, Jonathan Miller, Alan Sillitoe etc with 12pp intro by B.S.Johnson. B&w photo endpapers. Dustwrapper bumped at… Read more about this item Item Price
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