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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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Robert Adam

By: Yarwood, Dorothy

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Dent: 1970

Seller ID: 8078

ISBN: 0460038249

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

221pp. 32 pages of b + w plates and 8 line drawings. A very clean copy. Influential biography of the architect and the man.
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Rommel

By: Young, Desmond

Price: £2.50

Publisher: Collins: 1950

Seller ID: 7702

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

288pp, brown cloth covered boards with gilt eagle. B + w photographs and maps. Gift inscription on flyleaf, one page strengthened to gutter, otherwise clean.
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Wicked Women of The Raj European Women Who Broke Society's Rules and Married Indian Princes

By: Younger, Coralie

Price: £2.50

Publisher: HarperCollins India: 2003

Seller ID: 16755

ISBN: 8172234546

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Fine

260pp, illustrated softback covers. B + w illustrations. A clean, tight copy. The story of 20 different European women who married Indian princes - and did not always live happily ever after.
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