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An Excess Of Love

By: Spellman, Cathy Cash

Price: £4.00

Publisher: BCA: 1986

Seller ID: 3721

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

695pp, complete illustrated dustjacket, a little faded to spine. A very clean copy. Two sisters in Ireland in the Easter Rising of 1916.
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Hearts Of Oak A Story Of Nelson And The Navy

By: Stables, Gordon

Price: £6.00

Publisher: John Shaw: 1111

Seller ID: 4598

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Gift label on flyleaf dated 1914. 183pp, red cloth covered boards with art nouveau design in blue and brown, some loss to top and bottom of spine. Colour frontispiece. A little offset staining to bottom of flyleaf and title page, otherwise internally clean. Children;'s adventure story - Tom joins the navy in Nelson's day.
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Form and Performance and Britten, Benjamin

By: Stein, Edwin

Price: £9.50

Publisher: Faber: 1962

Seller ID: 17290

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

183pp, dustjacket with loss to the spine. The name of the previous owner, the noted pianist and teacher Dame Fanny Waterman, in pencil to the flyleaf, a few of her pencil notes to the margins, otherwise internally clean. Foreword by Benjamin Britten, who was a friend of the author. An analysis of musical performance, the elements of musical sound and form, structure, movement and phrasing. The author was a friend and pupil of Arnold Schoenberg
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The Black Arrow

By: Stevenson, Robert Louis

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Collins ClearType Press: 1111

Seller ID: 3999

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Owner's name on flyleaf and date 1944,otherwise internally clean. Pocket sized book of 300pp with red leatherette boards with gilt title. Introduction by Rosaleen Masson. Frontispiece illustration. Set in the reign of Henry VI
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The Black Arrow

By: Stevenson, Robert Louis

Price: £3.25

Publisher: Dent: 1958

Seller ID: 11092

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Pocket sized book of 256pp with red cloth covered boards Frontispiece illustration of Richard III. Ex school library - so names to inner cover, sellotape marks, a couple of stamps otherwise a clean 'reading copy'. King's Treasuries of Literature edition.
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The Master of Ballantrae The Black Arrow

By: Stevenson, Robert Louis

Price: £3.50

Publisher: Dent: 1950

Seller ID: 13770

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Everyman edition. 381pp, red cloth covered boards, a little faded to spine. A clean copy. Two classic adventure stories.
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The Master of Ballantrae A Winter's Tale

By: Stevenson, Robert Louis

Price: £4.50

Publisher: Reader's Digest: 1995

Seller ID: 8598

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

The complete text of the 1888 edition, with the 1911 colour illustrations by Walter Paget and an Afterword by Nicholas Rankin on Stevenson in America. 224pp, black leatherette coverd boards with blue spine and gilt title. Colour and b + w illustrations. A very clean copy. Comes with a separate leaflet on Stevenson's life.
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The Prince and the Pilgrim

By: Stewart, Mary

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Hodder: 1995

Seller ID: 10817

ISBN: 0340649925

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

292pp. Complete dustjacket in removeable plastic sleeve. Ex library - flyleaf neatly removed, a couple of stamps, otherwise a clean 'reading copy'. Set in the times of King Arthur and the Holy Grail
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Hearts Of Gold

By: Stirling, Jessica

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Guild: 1988

Seller ID: 2500

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

480pp, complete illustrated dustjacket. A very clean copy. Elspeth is forced to leave home and work in a coal mine - set in Scotland in 1814.
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The Dark Pasture

By: Stirling, Jessica

Price: £2.00

Publisher: Pan: 1980

Seller ID: 8535

ISBN: 0330254715

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

378pp, illustrated covers a little rubbed to edges. A clean, tight copy. The final story in the saga of the Stalker family
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Creature Comforts

By: Stirling, Jessica

Price: £1.50

Publisher: Pan: 1987

Seller ID: 9256

ISBN: 0330297244

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

384pp, the edges browning a little with age, illustrated softback covers with a scrape mark to the front. Faint bookseller's stamp to flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. Elspeth's marriage
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Kit's Hill

By: Stubbs, Jean

Price: £1.50

Publisher: Pan: 1980

Seller ID: 9302

ISBN: 0330259555

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

286pp, browning a little with age, illustrated softback covers. A clean, tight Near Fine copy. The first of the Howarth books, set in Lancashire
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The Daisy Chain

By: Sully, Sue

Price: £2.00

Publisher: Knight: 2000

Seller ID: 10112

ISBN: 1840671912

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: As New

374pp, softback covers by Gary Blythe. A very clean, tight copy. Liz investigates her ancestor's life in the 1920s - and influences her own life
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Daughter of the Norsemen

By: Sylva, Ann

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Sylva: 1993

Seller ID: 13828

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

152pp, illustrated softback covers. A note to the reader handwritten by the author on the final page, otherwise very clean. A story for young people, set in Yorkshire in 1305.
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Time's Lost Hero

By: Tanton, Bruce

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Hodder: 1990

Seller ID: 7307

ISBN: 0340521767

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

102pp. Complete illustrated dustjacket by Joan Saint, a little rubbed to top of spine. One small mark to flyleaf, otherwise internally very clean. Time travel - A student finds himself at the siege of Ladysmith in the Boer War.
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The History Of Henry Esmond

By: Thackeray, W M

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Nelson: 1111

Seller ID: 4671

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Gift inscription on flyleaf dated 1942. Pocket sized. 556pp, green cloth covered boards. Internally very clean. Part of the Nelson's Classics series.
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The Luck of Barry Lyndon A Romance of The Last Century

By: Thackeray, William Makepeace

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Llandudno, A H Bunney: 1111

Seller ID: 15950

Binding: Printer Wrapper

Condition: Fair

Probably late nineteenth century. 277pp, dark red cloth covered boards with gilt title, marked and rubbed to the edges of the spine. The boards have been bound in upside down! Gutter strengthened with tape, but the text is clean - a good 'reading copy' . Printed by Richard King in London for sale by a bookseller of Mostyn Street Llandudno, and offered as a rare curiosity.
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The Illustrated Still Glides The Stream

By: Thompson, Flora

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Bracken Books Cresset Press: 1992

Seller ID: 13805

ISBN: 0091772249

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A tall, heavy book of 233pp. Complete dustjacket, a little faded to spine. Full page colour illustrations. Ex library - evidenced only by light mark on flyleaf where label removed and plain label to inner back board. The book is otherwise clean, with no stamps or other markings. Life in the fictional village of Restharrow in Oxfordshire, around 1897 - by the author of 'Lark Rise'.
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Where The Rivers Meet

By: Thorne, Nicola

Price: £1.50

Publisher: Granada Panther: 1985

Seller ID: 9404

ISBN: 0583130526

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

604pp, the edges browning a litttle wth age, illustrated softback covers by Nigel Chamberlain.Original owner's initial on flyleaf, otherwise a clean copy. Margaret transforms the family business.
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Merivel A Man of His Time

By: Tremain, Rose

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 2012

Seller ID: 15046

ISBN: 0701185201

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

341pp, complete illustrated dustjacket. Ribbon bookmark. A very clean copy. Merivel, the court physician to Charles II, travels to the French court.
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