AINSWORTH, WILLIAM HARRISON

The Manchester Rebels : A New Illustrated Edition

Bury, Lancs, Printwise Publications. 1992. (ISBN: 1872226299) Paperback, 8.25 x 5.75 inches. Book appears in unread condition, virtually mint. 384pp. This is a novel originally published in 1873, set around the last attempt by The Stuarts in 1745 to regain the Throne of England and the importance Lancashire and Manchester had on those events. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. As New.

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Book number: 011926

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 1745, Stuarts, History, England, Lancashire Local History 1872226299

ALBRAND, MARTHA

Zurich/AZ 900

London, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. 1975, First Edition. (ISBN: 034018910X) Hard Cover, 8.75 x 5.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with creasing to dust flaps. 213pp. Medical science thriller set in Switzerland. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 017111

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction 034018910x

ALDINGTON, RICHARD (TRANSLATOR)

French Comedies of the XVIIIth Century

London, George Routledge & Sons Ltd. 1925. Hard Cover, 7.5 x 5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to slightly sunned spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked light maroon cloth boards, creasing to title page, tanning/foxing to page edges, sudty top of page edges and some bumping to corners. 347pp. Translated from the French, the four plays are The Residuary Legatee by Regnard, Turcaret or the Financier by Lesage, The Game of Love and Chance by Marivaux and The Conceited Count by Destouches. Undated ca 1925. Good (+)/No Jacket.

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Book number: 016626

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Plays, Theatre, France, 1700s, Performing Arts - Theatre

ALDISS, BRIAN

Ruins (A Hutchinson novella)

London, Hutchinson. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0091678609) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Ill.: Salim Patell. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. 85pp. A novella about a man's travels from aimlessness into destruction and then into survival and hope. In a departure from SF by acclaimed science fiction writer Brian Aldiss. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 023503

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction 0091678609 Salim Patell

ALDRIDGE, JENNIFER AND TREGORRAN, JOHN

Ambridge, an English Village Through the Ages

Methuen Publishing Ltd. 1981, First Edition. (ISBN: 0413483509) Hard Cover, 10 x 7.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight trace of dust to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 150pp. The story of Ambridges from the set of the BBC's The Archers, 'told' by two of the cast. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 018805

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Archers, Bbc Fiction Performing Arts - Radio 0413483509

ALLBEURY, TED

Consequence of Fear

London, BCA. 1979. Hard Cover, 8.75 x 5.5 inches. Inscription on front end paper. No other marks. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with faint creasing to upper front edge. 190pp. Espionage novel set around the Soviet Union and nuclear matters. Near Fine/Very Good (+).

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Book number: 017072

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction,

ALTHER, LISA

Kinflicks

London, Chatto & Windus. 1976, First Edition. (ISBN: 0701121912) Hard Cover, 8.75 x 5.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, lightly tanned pages and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing and traces of storage. 503pp. A powerful novel of coming of age and the mortality of a parent. The author's first. Very Good/Very Good (-).

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Book number: 022599

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction. Coming of Age, 0701121912

AMIS, KINGSLEY

The Old Devils

London, Hutchinson. 1986, Uncorrected Proof. (ISBN: 0091637902) Soft Cover, 8.5 x 5.25 inches. Ink note to one page. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. Creasing to covers. Clean very tight pages with slightly stained boards, dusty fingered page edges and no bumping to corners. 294pp. Uncorrected Proof of Kingsley Amis novel. Good (-).

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Book number: 017266

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction 0091637902

KINGSLEY AMIS

I Want it Now

London, Jonathan Cape Ltd. 1968, First Edition. (ISBN: 0224615335) Hard Cover, 7.75 x 5.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions to contents. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, rubbing to top of page edges (book otherwise near fine) and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased wit minor traces of storage. 255pp. Kingsley Amis's funniest novel since Lucky Jim as Ronnie Appleyard gets entangled with an heiress, and the ensuing events illuminate with accuracy and wit the precarious role of honesty in a success-addicted age. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 021579

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction 0224615335

ANDERSON, PATRICK

White House

London, Companion Book Club. 1979. Hard Cover, 7.5 x 5 inches. Small neat name label to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked leatherette boards, slight browning to page edges and no bumping to corners. 351pp. Near Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 008263

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction

AUNT ANNIE (PSEUDONYM OF ANNIE SYKES)

The Mistress of Herondale

London, Seeley, Jackson and Halliday. 1866, First Edition. Hard Cover, 7.25 x 5 inches. Name/address on reverse of half-title page. Light stain, no loss of text to five adjacent pages. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean tight pages with bright green bevelled boards/gilt lettering, slight label mark to rear, two ink marks to top of dusty page edges, hinges shaken and no bumping to corners. 390pp. 'A sketch of life among the hills.' The author is attributed to also being the author of 'The Mountain Refuge', which book has as author Aunt Annie, a psuedonym of Annie Sykes. Extremely scarce. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 021534

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction, Girls School, 19th Century

MARTIN O'BRIEN; LEE CHILD; JOHN GROGAN; JEFFERY ARCHER

Reader's Digest Select Editions; Jacquot and the Angel, the Hard Way, Marley and Me, False Impression

Reader's Digest. 2006. (ISBN: 0276441060) Hard Cover, 8.5 x 6 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 573pp. Four books in one - Jacquot and the Angel by Martin O'Brien, the Hard Way by Lee Child, Marley and Me by John Groga, False Impression by Jeffrey Archer. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 024961

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction 0276441060

ARISTOPHANES

The Plays of Aristophanes (2 Volumes)

London, J. M. Dent and sons Ltd. 1949. Hard Cover, 7 x 4.5 inches. Volumes 1 & 2. Both have tape marks and name to the end papers from previous owner's old cellophane wrappers. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spines. Two very clean very tight copies with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Only Vol 1 has a dust jacket. This has similarly tape marked dust flaps, Total of 509pp. The plays are The Acharnians, The Knights, The Birds, The Peace, The Frogs, The Trial of Euripides, The Clouds and The Wasps. Intro by John P Maine (vol 1) and John Hookham Frere (vol 2). Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 026100

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction, Theatre, Ancient Greece, the Acharnians, the Knights, the Birds, the Peace, the Frogs, the Trial of Euripides, the Clouds and the Wasps. Performing Arts - Theatre

ARMSTRONG, THOMAS

A Ring Has No End

London, Cassell & Co Ltd. 1958. Hard Cover, 8 x 5.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked navy cloth boards, a little foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with small tears/crease to upper rear corners. 410pp. A story of the flamboant aristocracy of Tsarist Russia - the rise and fall of the great House of Kaivanov. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 023257

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction, Historical History

ASHER, NEAL

The Departure (Owner Novel 1)

London, Tor. 2011, First Edition. (ISBN: 0230708730) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny nick to lower edge of two pages and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing to upper and lower edges and traces of storage. 498pp. The first in The Owner series of science fiction novels. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 023744

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Science Fiction Science / Engineering / Maths 0230708730