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Verdi

By: Wechsberg, Joseph

Price: £9.50

Publisher: Arts Book Society Readers Union: 1974

Seller ID: 11747

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Large format. 255pp, complete dustjacket. 16 colour and 120 b + w illustrations. A clean copy. A biography of the composer.
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Montrose

By: Wedgwood, C V

Price: £2.50

Publisher: Fontana: 1961

Seller ID: 11633

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

158pp, the pages browning a little with age, softback covers. A tight, clean copy. The classic biography of the great Civil War general.
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Napoleon 1769 - 1827

By: Wheeler, Harold F B

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Harrap: 1921

Seller ID: 15438

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

New and enlarged edition. 319pp, red cloth covered boards with gilt title with a couple of small marks. Colour and b + w illustrations. Map. Internally clean. The life and career of Napoleon.
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Rembrandt

By: White, Christopher

Price: £3.50

Publisher: Thames and Hudson: 1984

Seller ID: 16844

ISBN: 0500201951

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

216pp, laminated illustrated softback covers without creases. 171 illustrations of which 16 are in colour. A clean, tight copy. A revealing study of Rembrandt's life and development as an artist.
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John Ruskin

By: Whitehouse, J Howard

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Oxford, The Ruskin Society and Friends of Brantwood: 1953

Seller ID: 12519

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

26pp, cream boards. Handmade paper with hand cut edges. Internally very clean. A study of Ruskin's life and thought, part of which was originally published in 'Great Democrats'.
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Fanfare For A Witch

By: Wilkins, Vaughan

Price: £3.50

Publisher: Reprint Society: 1954

Seller ID: 1300

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

286 pp, blue cloth boards with red leather label. Previous owner's name on inner board, a couple of spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean. The story of Frederick, Prince Of Wales.
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C S Lewis A Biography

By: Wilson, A N

Price: £2.50

Publisher: Flamingo: 1991

Seller ID: 11643

ISBN: 0006544282

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

334pp, softback covers, creased to spine. B + w illustrations. Internally clean and tight. The definitve biography of the author and academic.
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Betjeman

By: Wilson, A N

Price: £3.50

Publisher: Arrow: 2007

Seller ID: 14060

ISBN: 0099498375

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

375pp, softback covers, with light creases to spine. B + w illustrations. Internally clean and tight. Best- selling biography of the much loved poet and campaigner.
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Wilson's Historical Traditionary and Imaginative Tales of The Borders and of Scotland with an Illustrative Glossary Volume III

By: Wilson, John Mackay

Price: £32.50

Publisher: Ainsworth: 1837

Seller ID: 7056

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

This volume contains Numbers 105 to 156, which is dated Saturday October 28 1837. Blind stamped cloth covered boards with a loss to the bottom half of the spine. Internally clean. Interesting stories of scots life, including an account of the snowstorm of 1825, recollections of the poet Robert Ferguson and recollections of Robert Burns etc.
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Queen Elizabeth

By: Wilson, Mona

Price: £2.50

Publisher: Daily Express Publications: 1111

Seller ID: 15086

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Early 1930s. 152pp, brown paper covered leather look boards, a little rubbed to edges of spine. A couple of spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean. A biography of Elizabeth I.
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Hardy's Cottage Dorset

By: Winchcombe, Anna

Price: £4.50

Publisher: The National Trust: 1999

Seller ID: 11455

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: As New

15pp, illustrated soft covers. B + w illustrations. A clean copy. A guide to the cottage where Thomas Hardy was born at Bockhampton. Comes with a separate colour postcard of the cottage
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Days With Bernard Shaw

By: Winsten, Stephen

Price: £3.50

Publisher: Reader's Union: 1951

Seller ID: 1248

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

246 pp. B + w illustrations. A couple of short closed tears to dustjacket, no loss. Light foxing to foredge, otherwise clean. A biography of GBS
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Sir Richard Steele M P The Later Career

By: Winton, Calhoun

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Johns Hopkins Press: 1970

Seller ID: 14459

ISBN: 0801811627

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

265pp, complete dustjacket in removeable plastic cover. B + w illustrations. Ex library - stamp to title page, back flyleaf, and foredge, otherwise internally clean. Steele's career from the death of Queen Anne in 1714 to his own death in 1729.
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George Moore

By: Wolfe, Humbert

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Shaylor: 1931

Seller ID: 5922

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

152pp, brown cloth covered boards with impressed design and gilt title. Previous owner's name on flyleaf, a few tiny spots of foxing on foredge, otherwise clean. Part of the Modern Writers Series.
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Queen Victoria Her Life and Times 1819 1861

By: Woodham-Smith, Cecil

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Book Club Associates: 1973

Seller ID: 412

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

574 pp, purple cloth boards, b + w photographs. A readable account of Queen Victoria's early years, up to the death of Prince Albert.
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The True Story Of Captain John Smith

By: Woods, Katharine Pearson

Price: £9.50

Publisher: Doubelday, Page & Co: 1907

Seller ID: 5943

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

382pp, olive green cloth covered boards. Frontispiece portrait and B + w illustrations. Internally clean. The life and adventures of the famous governor of Virginia.
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The Journal with Other Writings of John Woolman

By: Woolman, John

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Dent: 1111

Seller ID: 16332

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Presumed first Everyman's Library edition, circa 1920. Introduction by Vida D Scudder. 250pp, grey cloth covered boards with gilt flower ornament to spine. Decorated endpapers and title pages. Internally clean. The Journal of the eigthteenth century Quaker leader.
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Jeremy Taylor A Sketch of His Life and Times with a Popular Exposition of his Works

By: Worley, George

Price: £14.50

Publisher: Longmans Green and Co: 1904

Seller ID: 13844

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

239pp, and publishers catalogue. Hand cut edges. Blue cloth covered boards. Frontispiece portrait with explanatory tissue guard. Ex reference library - bookplate to inner board, label removed from flyleaf, a couple of blind stamps, otherwise a clean 'reading copy'.
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The Hooded Hawk Or The Case Of Mr Boswell

By: Wyndham Lewis, D B

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Eyre: 1946

Seller ID: 1246

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

281 pp, endpaper maps, b + w illustrations. Blue cloth covered boards, faded to spine. A couple of light spots of foxing to foredge, internally clean. A biography of James Boswell, the great biographer of Dr Johnson.
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Sky Burial

By: Xinran

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 2004

Seller ID: 12538

ISBN: 0701176229

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

164pp, complete dustjacket. Map. A very clean copy. The story of Shu Wen's long search for her husband in Tibet.
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