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	The House of Seppelt: Being an Historical Record of the Life and Times of the Seppelt Family through four generations Adelaide: The advertiser printing office, 1951, First Edition . History of an Australian wine producing family. Illustrated with colour and mono plates. Hd , Near Fine . GBP 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 US$ 14.99 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 571044 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	FF 8282 (JEFFREY ARCHER) A Prison Diary Macmillan, 2002, First Edition 1st Printing . On Thursday 19 July 2001, after a perjury trial lasting seven weeks, Jeffrey Archer, former Chairman of the Conservative Party and all-round Jack-the-Lad, was sentenced to four years in jail. He was to spend the first twenty-two days and fourteen hours in HMP Belmarsh, a double A-Category high-security prison in South London, which houses some of Britain's most violent criminals. This is his daily record of the time he spent there. The wrapper, like the author's reputation, is somewhat crumpled.. Hardback with Dust Wrapper, Very Good/Good or better. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 457017 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ABRAHAM, GERALD Rimsky-Korsakov: A short biography Duckworth, 1945. Gift inscription on front endpaper. Spine sunned.. Hardback no Dust Wrapper , Good to Very Good. GBP 2.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 US$ 3.33 \| JP¥ 296] Book number: 609061 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ABRAHAM, GERALD (ED.) Schubert: A Symposium Lindsay Drummond, 1946, First Edition. Divided into five sections: Schubert the Man, by Otto Erich Deutsch; The Orchestral Music by Mosco Carner; The Chamber Music, by J A Westrup, The Piano Music, by Kathleen Dale, and The Songs, by Alec Robertson. 299pp + 44pp of musical examples. Hardback without dust wrapper. Good to Very Good. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 616112 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ABRAHAM, GERALD Tchaikovsky, a short Biography Duckworh, 1944, 1st. Hardback without dust wrapper , Very Good. GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 US$ 7.5 \| JP¥ 667] Book number: 198235 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ADAMS, GERRY Before the Dawn: An autobiography New York: William Morrow & Co, 1996, First US Edition. Illustrated with mono photographs. Hardback with Dust Wrapper, Fine/Near Fine. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 \| JP¥ 1186] Book number: 548260 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ADAMSON, JOY Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds The Reprint Society, 1961. Illustrated in mono. Hardback with Dust Wrapper, Very Good or Better/Very Good. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 524158 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ADIE, KATE The Kindness of Strangers Headline, 2002. Adie, who seems to have spent most of her journalistic career up to her neck in muck and bullets whilst covering some far-flung conflict, gives us an insight into the behind-the-scenes world of news broadcasting. Illustrated with colour and mono photographs. Hardback with Dust Wrapper, Near Fine/Very Good. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 \| JP¥ 1186] Book number: 569264 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ADIE, KATE The Kindness of Strangers Headline Publishing, 2002. The Autobiography of Kate Adie, fearless reporter and professional chronicler of the world's nastinesses. If you see Adie's face on the box. You know there's a war on somewhere. Illustrated with mono and colour Photographs. Hardback with Dust Wrapper, Fine/Near Fine (price clipped). GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 11.66 \| JP¥ 1037] Book number: 452039 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	AFTEL, MANDY Death Of A Rolling Stone : The Brian Stone Story Sidgwick & Jackson , 1982. Some overall wear. 208pp. Illustrated with mono photographs . Large Paperback , Very Good. GBP 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 US$ 15.83 \| JP¥ 1408] Book number: 626144 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	AGNES, HAMILTON, MARY J. Ramsay Macdonald Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1929, First Edition thus. 305 pp. Some overall wear. Previous owner's inscription on endpaper. Hardback without Dust Wrapper. Good. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 \| JP¥ 1186] Book number: 635097 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	AGNES, HAMILTON, MARY J. Ramsay Macdonald Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1929, First Edition thus. 305 pp. Some overall wear. Previous owner's inscription on endpaper. Hardback without Dust Wrapper. Good. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 \| JP¥ 1186] Book number: 635097 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	AINGER, ALFRED Charles Lamb - Macmillan and Co Ltd, 1909. English Men of Letters series. Minor shelf wear to spine ends and corners; slight foxing; owners name on front endpaper. Hardback no Dust Wrapper , Good . GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 457097 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ALAGIAH, GEORGE A Passage to Africa (SIGNED COPY.) Little, Brown, 2001, First Edition. Signed by author on title page. Alagiah mixes political insight with personal testimony to draw often harrowing pictures of modern Africa and its peoples. Hardback with dust wrapper. Fine/Near Fine. GBP 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 US$ 29.99 \| JP¥ 2668] Book number: 559006 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ALEXANDER, JOHN T. Catherine the Great : Life and Legend Oxford University Press , 1989, 1st US edition. Adulteress, usurper, murderess, tyrant, oppressor, hypocrite, egotist. Bad mother, nymphomaniac: these epithets have all been applied to Catherine, but it is sometimes forgotten that she was an extremely savvy ruler , a brilliant politician who held the throne of Russia for nearly thirty-five years. Alexander's meticululously researched biography examines both sides of this remarkable woman. With appendix showing Catherine's love notes, a bibliography and an index. In American style binding. Illustrated with mono photo plates . Hardback with dust wrapper. Near Fine/Very Good or better. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 442004 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ALI, MUHAMMAD WITH RICHARD DURHAM The Greatest - My Own Story Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1976. Wrapper has some wear to edges. Hardback with dust wrapper, Very Good or better/Good or better, Price Clipped. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 533325 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ALLAN, D G C William Shipley Founder of the Royal Society of Arts - A Biography with Documents Hutchinson, 1968, First Edition . Light shelf wear only. 240pp including genealogies, bibliography and iconography, various lists and tables, and an index.. With a tipped-in colour portrait of Shipley after William Hincks 1786, Seven mono plates, and various illustrations in the text.. Hardback with Dust Wapper. Fine./Very Good.. GBP 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 US$ 14.99 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 623114 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ALLAN, D G C William Shipley Founder of the Royal Society of Arts - A Biography with Documents Hutchinson, 1968, First Edition . Light shelf wear only. 240pp including genealogies, bibliography and iconography, various lists and tables, and an index.. With a tipped-in colour portrait of Shipley after William Hincks 1786, Seven mono plates, and various illustrations in the text.. Hardback with Dust Wapper. Fine./Very Good.. GBP 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 US$ 14.99 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 623114 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ALLILUYEVA, SVETLANA, TRANSLATED BY PAUL CHAVCHAVADSE Only One Year Hutchinson, 1969, First Edition . 415pp. How Stalin's daughter escaped from the Soviet Republic to freedom in the West/ . Hardback with Dust Wrapper. Very Good. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 657004 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ALLINGTON, C A A Dean's Apology - a semi-religious autobiography Faber and Faber , 1952, First Edition . Wrapper has edge wear . Owners inscription on endpaper. Hardback with dust wrapper. Very Good or better /Good. GBP 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 US$ 15.83 \| JP¥ 1408] Book number: 469021 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ALLISS, PETER Peter Alliss - An Autobiography Fontana, 1982. Very light shelf wear. Illustrated with mono photographs. Paperback, Near Fine. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 459250 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ANDERSEN, CHRISTOPHER Madonna Unauthorized Michael Joseph, 1991, First Edition. Minor puckering to top edge of wrapper. Otherwise a nice clean copy. Illustrated with mono photographs. Hardback with Dust Wrapper, Fine/Near Fine. GBP 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 US$ 15.83 \| JP¥ 1408] Book number: 555095 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ANDERSON, CHESTER G James Joyce Thames and Hudson , 1998. Thames and Hudson Literary Lives series. The author examines Joyce as a great modern writer, but also visits the places where he lived and worked, notably the city of Dublin, and shows how his environment is related to his literary output.. With 124 mono illustrations.. Large format paperback , AS NEW. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 556076 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ANDERSON, JANICE Marilyn Monroe: Quote Unquote Parragon, 1994. A brief biography, illustrated with the thoughts and words of the lady herself. Revealing. Illustrated with rarely seen colour and mono photographs. Hardback with pictorial cover & matching dust wrapper, Very Near Fine/Near Fine. GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 US$ 7.5 \| JP¥ 667] Book number: 578019 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	SUMMERS ANNE The Thursday Shop The Roundwood Press, 1969, First Edition. Ann Summers ( no - not that one!) had a village antique shop during and after WW2. Normal shelf wear; Slight foxing to page edges. Hardback with Dust Wrapper, Very Good or Better/Good (price clipped). GBP 22.50 [Appr.: EURO 25.25 US$ 37.49 \| JP¥ 3334] Book number: 459167 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.

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	The House of Seppelt: Being an Historical Record of the Life and Times of the Seppelt Family through four generations Adelaide: The advertiser printing office, 1951, First Edition . History of an Australian wine producing family. Illustrated with colour and mono plates. Hd , Near Fine . GBP 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 US$ 14.99 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 571044 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	FF 8282 (JEFFREY ARCHER) A Prison Diary Macmillan, 2002, First Edition 1st Printing . On Thursday 19 July 2001, after a perjury trial lasting seven weeks, Jeffrey Archer, former Chairman of the Conservative Party and all-round Jack-the-Lad, was sentenced to four years in jail. He was to spend the first twenty-two days and fourteen hours in HMP Belmarsh, a double A-Category high-security prison in South London, which houses some of Britain's most violent criminals. This is his daily record of the time he spent there. The wrapper, like the author's reputation, is somewhat crumpled.. Hardback with Dust Wrapper, Very Good/Good or better. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 457017 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ABRAHAM, GERALD Rimsky-Korsakov: A short biography Duckworth, 1945. Gift inscription on front endpaper. Spine sunned.. Hardback no Dust Wrapper , Good to Very Good. GBP 2.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 US$ 3.33 \| JP¥ 296] Book number: 609061 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ABRAHAM, GERALD (ED.) Schubert: A Symposium Lindsay Drummond, 1946, First Edition. Divided into five sections: Schubert the Man, by Otto Erich Deutsch; The Orchestral Music by Mosco Carner; The Chamber Music, by J A Westrup, The Piano Music, by Kathleen Dale, and The Songs, by Alec Robertson. 299pp + 44pp of musical examples. Hardback without dust wrapper. Good to Very Good. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 616112 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ABRAHAM, GERALD Tchaikovsky, a short Biography Duckworh, 1944, 1st. Hardback without dust wrapper , Very Good. GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 US$ 7.5 \| JP¥ 667] Book number: 198235 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ADAMS, GERRY Before the Dawn: An autobiography New York: William Morrow & Co, 1996, First US Edition. Illustrated with mono photographs. Hardback with Dust Wrapper, Fine/Near Fine. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 \| JP¥ 1186] Book number: 548260 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ADAMSON, JOY Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds The Reprint Society, 1961. Illustrated in mono. Hardback with Dust Wrapper, Very Good or Better/Very Good. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 524158 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ADIE, KATE The Kindness of Strangers Headline, 2002. Adie, who seems to have spent most of her journalistic career up to her neck in muck and bullets whilst covering some far-flung conflict, gives us an insight into the behind-the-scenes world of news broadcasting. Illustrated with colour and mono photographs. Hardback with Dust Wrapper, Near Fine/Very Good. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 \| JP¥ 1186] Book number: 569264 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ADIE, KATE The Kindness of Strangers Headline Publishing, 2002. The Autobiography of Kate Adie, fearless reporter and professional chronicler of the world's nastinesses. If you see Adie's face on the box. You know there's a war on somewhere. Illustrated with mono and colour Photographs. Hardback with Dust Wrapper, Fine/Near Fine (price clipped). GBP 7.00 [Appr.: EURO 8 US$ 11.66 \| JP¥ 1037] Book number: 452039 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	AFTEL, MANDY Death Of A Rolling Stone : The Brian Stone Story Sidgwick & Jackson , 1982. Some overall wear. 208pp. Illustrated with mono photographs . Large Paperback , Very Good. GBP 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 US$ 15.83 \| JP¥ 1408] Book number: 626144 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	AGNES, HAMILTON, MARY J. Ramsay Macdonald Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1929, First Edition thus. 305 pp. Some overall wear. Previous owner's inscription on endpaper. Hardback without Dust Wrapper. Good. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 \| JP¥ 1186] Book number: 635097 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	AGNES, HAMILTON, MARY J. Ramsay Macdonald Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1929, First Edition thus. 305 pp. Some overall wear. Previous owner's inscription on endpaper. Hardback without Dust Wrapper. Good. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 \| JP¥ 1186] Book number: 635097 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	AINGER, ALFRED Charles Lamb - Macmillan and Co Ltd, 1909. English Men of Letters series. Minor shelf wear to spine ends and corners; slight foxing; owners name on front endpaper. Hardback no Dust Wrapper , Good . GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 \| JP¥ 741] Book number: 457097 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ALAGIAH, GEORGE A Passage to Africa (SIGNED COPY.) Little, Brown, 2001, First Edition. Signed by author on title page. Alagiah mixes political insight with personal testimony to draw often harrowing pictures of modern Africa and its peoples. Hardback with dust wrapper. Fine/Near Fine. GBP 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 US$ 29.99 \| JP¥ 2668] Book number: 559006 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ALEXANDER, JOHN T. Catherine the Great : Life and Legend Oxford University Press , 1989, 1st US edition. Adulteress, usurper, murderess, tyrant, oppressor, hypocrite, egotist. Bad mother, nymphomaniac: these epithets have all been applied to Catherine, but it is sometimes forgotten that she was an extremely savvy ruler , a brilliant politician who held the throne of Russia for nearly thirty-five years. Alexander's meticululously researched biography examines both sides of this remarkable woman. With appendix showing Catherine's love notes, a bibliography and an index. In American style binding. Illustrated with mono photo plates . Hardback with dust wrapper. Near Fine/Very Good or better. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 442004 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ALI, MUHAMMAD WITH RICHARD DURHAM The Greatest - My Own Story Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1976. Wrapper has some wear to edges. Hardback with dust wrapper, Very Good or better/Good or better, Price Clipped. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 533325 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ALLAN, D G C William Shipley Founder of the Royal Society of Arts - A Biography with Documents Hutchinson, 1968, First Edition . Light shelf wear only. 240pp including genealogies, bibliography and iconography, various lists and tables, and an index.. With a tipped-in colour portrait of Shipley after William Hincks 1786, Seven mono plates, and various illustrations in the text.. Hardback with Dust Wapper. Fine./Very Good.. GBP 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 US$ 14.99 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 623114 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ALLAN, D G C William Shipley Founder of the Royal Society of Arts - A Biography with Documents Hutchinson, 1968, First Edition . Light shelf wear only. 240pp including genealogies, bibliography and iconography, various lists and tables, and an index.. With a tipped-in colour portrait of Shipley after William Hincks 1786, Seven mono plates, and various illustrations in the text.. Hardback with Dust Wapper. Fine./Very Good.. GBP 9.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 US$ 14.99 \| JP¥ 1334] Book number: 623114 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ALLILUYEVA, SVETLANA, TRANSLATED BY PAUL CHAVCHAVADSE Only One Year Hutchinson, 1969, First Edition . 415pp. How Stalin's daughter escaped from the Soviet Republic to freedom in the West/ . Hardback with Dust Wrapper. Very Good. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 657004 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ALLINGTON, C A A Dean's Apology - a semi-religious autobiography Faber and Faber , 1952, First Edition . Wrapper has edge wear . Owners inscription on endpaper. Hardback with dust wrapper. Very Good or better /Good. GBP 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 US$ 15.83 \| JP¥ 1408] Book number: 469021 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ALLISS, PETER Peter Alliss - An Autobiography Fontana, 1982. Very light shelf wear. Illustrated with mono photographs. Paperback, Near Fine. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 \| JP¥ 593] Book number: 459250 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ANDERSEN, CHRISTOPHER Madonna Unauthorized Michael Joseph, 1991, First Edition. Minor puckering to top edge of wrapper. Otherwise a nice clean copy. Illustrated with mono photographs. Hardback with Dust Wrapper, Fine/Near Fine. GBP 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 US$ 15.83 \| JP¥ 1408] Book number: 555095 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ANDERSON, CHESTER G James Joyce Thames and Hudson , 1998. Thames and Hudson Literary Lives series. The author examines Joyce as a great modern writer, but also visits the places where he lived and worked, notably the city of Dublin, and shows how his environment is related to his literary output.. With 124 mono illustrations.. Large format paperback , AS NEW. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 \| JP¥ 889] Book number: 556076 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	ANDERSON, JANICE Marilyn Monroe: Quote Unquote Parragon, 1994. A brief biography, illustrated with the thoughts and words of the lady herself. Revealing. Illustrated with rarely seen colour and mono photographs. Hardback with pictorial cover & matching dust wrapper, Very Near Fine/Near Fine. GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 US$ 7.5 \| JP¥ 667] Book number: 578019 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.
	SUMMERS ANNE The Thursday Shop The Roundwood Press, 1969, First Edition. Ann Summers ( no - not that one!) had a village antique shop during and after WW2. Normal shelf wear; Slight foxing to page edges. Hardback with Dust Wrapper, Very Good or Better/Good (price clipped). GBP 22.50 [Appr.: EURO 25.25 US$ 37.49 \| JP¥ 3334] Book number: 459167 Click here to order or inquire at Uncle Phil's Books.