SMITH MAURICE A

The Car: Its History, how it works, Motor Sport

London, Sundial Publications. 1979, First Edition. (ISBN: 0904230864) Hard Cover, 11.25 x 8.75 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 faint creasing to upper edge and minor traces of storage. 252pp. A comprehensive study on the motor car including its history and development, its engineering aspects, types of cars, motor racing and car clubs. Very well illustrated. Very Good (+)/Very Good.

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Book number: 023315

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Cars, Motors, History, Road Transport, Car Racing, Transport - Road 0904230864

AARTSEN, GERALD

George Adamski : A Herald for the Space Brothers

Amsterdam, Biblioteca-GA Publications. 2010, First Edition. (ISBN: 9081549510) Soft Cover, 8 x 5.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 146pp. George Adamski was the most famous of all 'contactees' from the late 1940s whose claims are of having photographed UFOs and met their occupants. This account focuses on Adamski's mission of informing humanity of our spiritual nature and the need to take responsibility for planet Earth. Fine.

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Book number: 026323

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: Ufos, Contactee, Interplanetary Contact, Mythology 9081549510

ABBATE, FRANCESCO; EVANS, ELIZABETH

Precolumbian Art of North America and Mexico

London, Octopus Books. 1972, First Edition. (ISBN: 0706400305) Hard Cover, 7.5 x 5.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with fading to spine and rear margin. 159pp. This study describes all the most artistic developments which distinguished the early cultures such as the Arctic Eskimo, the desert Navajo and the jungle Maya after the first Americans crossed the Bering Sea some 20-25,000 years ago. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 008358

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Jungla Maya, Desert Navajo, Arctic Eskimo, Palenque, History Arts - General / Style / Ornament Arts - Graphic / Painting / Drawing 0706400305

ABBOTT, CLAUDE COLLEER

Early Mediaeval French Lyrics

London, Oxford University Press/Constable & Co. 1932, First Edition. Hard Cover, 9 x 5.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly sunned spine, gilt top of page edges and minor bump to lower front corner. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped but well rubbed to chipped and nicked edges and small enclosed tear to sunned spine. 242pp. Nearly ninety lyrics of France in the 12th and 13th centuries, ranging from the beginnings to Rutebeuf. All are translated from the original French. An introductory essay attempts to trace the development of the early French lyric. Very Good (+)/Fair.

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Book number: 017816

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Poems, Poetry, France, 12th Century, 13th Century Literature / Authors / Poetry

ABRAHAM, GERALD

The Concise Oxford History of Music

Newton Abbott, Readers Union. 1979. Hard Cover, 10 x 6.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked maroon cloth boards, slight foxing to page edges and minor bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor creasing to upper and lower edges and sunning to spine. 968pp. Detailed study of music from its first recoded emergence in Sumer and Egypt to the death of Stravinsky. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 020954

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Music, History Performing Arts - Music

ACTON, EDWARD

Rethinking the Russian Revolution

London, Arnold. 1998. (ISBN: 0713165308) Soft Cover, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. Faint crease to lower front spine edge, none to rear cover or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 229pp. An introduction to the momentous events of 1917 in Russia and an analysis of the controversy, examining the orthodox Soviet view, the liberal view long dominant in the West and the minority 'libertarian' view of the far Left. Very Good (+).

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Book number: 025658

Catalogue: History

Keywords: History, Bolsheviks, 1917, Russia, Revolution Military 0713165308

ADAMS, TONY & TEBBUT, MELANIE & WILSON, JOHN (EDITORS)

Manchester Region History Review Vol XV 2001

Manchester, Manchester Centre for Regional History. 2001. Paperback, 11.75 x 8.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked covers and no bumping to corners. 88pp. Subjects covered include the Manchester and Salford Reformatory, the Co-operative Movement and Food Adulteration in 19th Century, Building of Barton High-level Bridge, Manchester Liberalism and the Unionist Secession, Salford in Regional Film Making. Fine.

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Book number: 015635

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Local History, Social; History, Manchester

ADENEY, MARTIN

The Motor Makers : The Turbulent History of Britain's Car Industry

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (London). 1988, First Edition. (ISBN: 0002177870) Hard Cover, 8.75 x 5.75 inches. Ex library book with usual marks and stamps. Creasing to spine with rubbing around spine foot. A clean very tight copy with tape marks around spine foot boards, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Well handled dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight rubbing to upper edge. 377pp. A comprehensive history of the British car industry up to the late 1980s from its beginnings before the First World War. Good (-)/Good.

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Book number: 024066

Catalogue: Company and Union History

Keywords: Britain, Business, Manufacturing, Motoring, Cars, Marques, Engineering, History Transport - Road Business 0002177870

ADKINS, LESLEY AND ROY

The Keys to Egypt : The Race to Read the Hieroglyphs

London, HarperCollins. 2001. (ISBN: 0006531458) Soft Cover, 7.75 x 5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 335pp. The race to achieve fame and fortune for the first people to decipher Egypt''s hieroglyphs. Fine.

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Book number: 027831

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Language 0006531458

ADKINS, LESLEY AND ROY

The War for All the Oceans : From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo

London, Little, Brown. 2006, First Edition. (ISBN: 0316728373) Hard Cover, 9.5 x 6.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and very tiny bump to lower front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very slight rubbing to upper and lower edges. 534pp. A detailed study of the years of naval warfare that set the balance of power in Europe and established the foundation of Britain's empire. Illustrated. Near Fine/Very Good (+).

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Book number: 027936

Catalogue: History

Keywords: History, Military, Military Transport - Water 0316728373

MARJORIE AGOSIN

Women of Smoke: Latin American Women in Literature in Life

Ontario, Williams-Wallace Publishing. 1989. (ISBN: 0887950752) Soft Cover, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Address and inscription inside front cover. No other marks and very slight creasing to covers. Mainly clean tight pages with very slightly marked boards and a little rubbing to corners. 109pp. Essays of the ives of ordinary and extraordinary Latin American women from the remote regions of Southern Chile to the Guatemalan forest. They tell of the tortures from the time of Pinochet and the women artists who defied this authoritarian regime. Good.

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Book number: 018612

Catalogue: Social History

Keywords: South American Women, Social History Gender Studies 0887950752

W. AINSWORTH

The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest

Bolton, Lancashire, Aurora Publishing. 1994. (ISBN: 1859260381) Soft Cover, 8.25 x 5.25 inches. Appears unread No marks or inscriptions. Tiny crease/bump to lower corner No creasing to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 492pp. A story based on Lancashire's dark past in the early 17th century and set in the Forest of Pendle. Near Fine.

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Book number: 020153

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Lancashire, Social History, 17th Century Social History 1859260381

AINSWORTH, CYRIL

A Prospect of Old Clitheroe

Chorley, Lancs, Countryside Publications Ltd. 1985, First Edition. (ISBN: 0861571797) Soft Cover, 7.75 x 8.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of storage to covers and no bumping to corners. Scarce. 48pp. A series of captioned photographs of Clitheroe in Lancashire mainly from around the start of the 20th century and some much older drawings of the area. Very Good.

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Book number: 027156

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Local History, Lancashire 0861571797

THE EDITORS OF LA PRENSA OF BUENOS AIRES

Defence of Freedom

London, T.v. Boardman & Co Ltd. 1952, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8 x 5.5 inches. Foxing to page edges and end papser. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked navy cloth boards, minor bump to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped with a few small repairs, nicks and chips to edges and foxing to rear. 315pp. The story of La Prensa, the greatest Spanish language newspaper in the world and in particular the events which took place in the early 1940s when the Peron Government of Argentina began to change from its previous democratic ways. First British Edition. Very Good (+)/Good.

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Book number: 009921

Catalogue: History

Keywords: The Press, Journalism, Newspaper, Argentina, History Politics and Current Affairs Journalism

EURIPIDES & ALDINGTON, RICHARD (TRANSLATOR)

Alcestis

London, Chatto & Windus. 1930. Card Covers, 7.5 x 5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with some tears to very sunned spine and small nicks to edges. 72pp. Greek tragedy from Euripides in the 5th century BC. Very Good (+)/Good.

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Book number: 019449

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Epic Verse, Ancient Greece, Literature / Authors / Poetry Mythology