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Exploring The Past

By: Bailey, K V

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Studio Vista: 1965

Seller ID: 1862

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

80pp, red cloth boards, priceclipped dustjacket with slight wear to edges. Line drawings. Gift inscription on flyleaf, otherwise clean.
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Francis Towne 1739/40 - 1816 and John White Abbott 1763 - 1851 Paintings and Watercolours from the Exeter Museums and Art Gallery

By: Baker, C Jane and Simon, Jacob

Price: £10.50

Publisher: Greater London Council: 1973

Seller ID: 16248

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated softback covers. Foreword, short biographical entries on both artists and catalogue entries of the Exhibition held at Marble Hill House in 1973. 43 b + w illustrations of all the exhibits. A clean copy.
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William Caslon 1693 - 1766 Man of Letters The Ancestry, Life and Connections of England's Foremost Letter-Engraver and Type-Founder

By: Ball, Johnson

Price: £17.50

Publisher: Roundwood: 1973

Seller ID: 16225

ISBN: 0900093137

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

A large, heavy book of 484pp. Illustrated dustjacket with a portion of loss to the front edge, in a removeable protective plastic jacket. Colour frontispiece and b + w illustrations. A couple of tiny spots of foxing to the top edge, otherwise internally very clean. The life and work of the celebrated type-cutter - Caslon type was used for the Declaration of Independence.
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The Autobiography of Samuel Bamford Early Days Together with An Account of The Arrest Etc.

By: Bamford, Samuel and Chaloner, W H

Price: £28.50

Publisher: Frank Cass: 1967

Seller ID: 15984

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

New Edition. Editied and with an Introduction by W H Chaloner. 363pp, green cloth covered boards with gilt title. Frontispiece portrait. A very clean copy. The first volume of the autobiography of the 19th century Radical.
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The Unsinkable Mrs Brown

By: Bancroft, Caroline

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Johnson Books: 2015

Seller ID: 16160

ISBN: 0933472250

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: As New

45pp, illustrated laminated softback covers. Many b + w illustrations. A very clean copy. The colourful career of Mrs Molly Brown, the red haired Irish girl who rose from waitress in Leadville to being the grandest of Society dames - and survived the sinking of The Titanic.
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Here For Good The Methodist Story In The Manchester Area

By: Banks, John

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Manchester & Stockport District, 1997:

Seller ID: 4485

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

36 pp, softback covers, b + w illustrations. Preface by Rev David Willie. One small scrape mark to cover, otherwise Fine, as new. The story of Methodism in Manchester over the last 250 years.
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Nunnington Hall North Yorkshire

By: Barber, Andrew

Price: £3.50

Publisher: National Trust: 2000

Seller ID: 8503

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

Revised edition. 32pp, card covers. Many colour illustrations. The story of the country house and its contents.
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How It All Began Up The High Street

By: Baren, Maurice

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Michael O'Mara: 1996

Seller ID: 12176

ISBN: 1854796674

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

Large softback of 144pp, with illustrated laminated covers.Many b + w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy. The history of 42 famous shops, banks and businesses.
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Discovering Costume

By: Barfoot, Audrey

Price: £5.00

Publisher: University of London: 1961

Seller ID: 6640

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1st reprint. 128pp, complete dustjacket in plastic cover. Colour and b + w illustrations. Protective cover attached with sellotape, otherwise very clean. English costume from Saxon times to 1929.
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The Brontes

By: Barker, Juliet

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Phoenix: 2001

Seller ID: 17326

ISBN: 1842125877

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A very heavy paperback of 1003pp. Illustrated card covers with a couple of light creases to the spine. B + w illustrations. An affectionate gift inscription SIGNED by the author to the noted pianist and teacher Dame Fanny Waterman on the title page, othewise a clean, tight, copy. The definitive biography and guide to the life and work of Charlotte, Emily, Anne and Branwell Bronte.
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A Year's Housekeeping in South Africa

By: Barker, Lady

Price: £36.00

Publisher: Macmillan: 1877

Seller ID: 16820

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

335pp. illustrated blue cloth covered boards, rubbed to the edges and front. Engraved frontispiece and 8 drawn illustrations. Previous owners' name and stamps to the flyleaves and one of the margins, a light mark to the margin of two pages, otherwise internally clean. Life in South Africa in 1875 - 1876.
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The Romans

By: Barrow, R H

Price: £1.00

Publisher: Penguin Pelican: 1951

Seller ID: 10344

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

224pp, the edges browning a little with age, blue and white softback covers. Original owner's name to front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Rome's achievement and contribution to Western civilization
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The Romans

By: Barrow, R H

Price: £1.30

Publisher: Penguin Pelican: 1949

Seller ID: 12071

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

224pp, the edges browning a little with age. Blue and white softback covers. A Pelican book. A clean, tight copy. Ancient Rome's achievement and her contribution to western civilization.
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The Romans

By: Barrow, R H

Price: £1.40

Publisher: Penguin Pelican: 1961

Seller ID: 17237

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

224pp, the paper browning a little with age, illustrated blue and white softback covers with no creases. Map. A clean, tight copy. The essence of the character of Rome, her achievements and contribution to Western civilization
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Rosa Luxemburg A Reappraisal

By: Basso, Lelio

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Andre Deutsch: 1975

Seller ID: 16025

ISBN: 0233966382

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

First English editon, translated by Douglas Parmee. 183pp, with a complete dustjacket. A very clean copy. The life and thought of the socialist who played a leading role in the German and Polish movements before the 1917 - 19 revolutionary years.
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The English Inn

By: Batchelor, Denzil

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Batsford: 1964

Seller ID: 8

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

192 pp, red cloth boards. Dustjacket with tears to top edge and a small portion of loss. Numerous photographs in black and white. Ex library, with neat stamp, otherwise clean.
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Jane Austen and the English Landscape

By: Batey, Mavis

Price: £16.50

Publisher: Barn Elms: 1996

Seller ID: 16974

ISBN: 1899551025

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Large format. 135pp, complete illustrated dustjacket, a little faded to the spine. Colour and b + w illustrations. Original owner's name to the flyleaf, otherwise internally very clean. The real and fictional landscapes in Jane Austen's work, and the ideas behind the response of her characters to landscape, reflecting contemporary 'taste and feeling' - sensibility, the gothic etc..
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The Lighthouse Stevensons

By: Bathurst, Bella

Price: £3.00

Publisher: Flamingo: 1999

Seller ID: 11380

ISBN: 0006530761

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: As New

284pp, illustrated softback covers. B + w illustrations. A clean, tight, unread copy. The story of the building of the Scottish lighthouses by the ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Mrs Gladstone The Portrait of A Marriage

By: Battiscombe, Georgina

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Constable: 1956

Seller ID: 6239

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

251pp, dustjacket with wear to edges and a portion of loss to the top of the spine. Colour frontispiece portrait. A few light spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean.
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The Presidents In American History

By: Beard, Charles A and Beard, Walter

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Messner: 1969

Seller ID: 1176

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

30th printing. 199pp, dustjacket, worn to edges and repaired. B + w illustrations. Flyleaf attached to front board and 2 small library stamps blacked out on title page, otherwise internally clean.
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