BLACK, SHIRLEY TEMPLE

CHILD STAR. An Autobiography.

London. Headline, 1989, Autobiography of the child star Shirley Temple. 548 pages including filmography, & about 90 b./ w. photographs, (but they aren't numbered). 9½" x 6¼". Near fine, no inscription or marks. Near fine d./w. but its slightly rubbed on the back & slightly bumped on edges. Piced £14.95. ISBN 0747201439. 1989

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Book number: 3819

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Shirley Temple Hollywood child star films

BLACK, PENNY.

THE COMPLETE BOOK OF PRESSED FLOWERS.

London. Dorling Kindersley, 1991., The first paperback edition. The art of pressing flowers, leaves, seeds & grasses arranging them in attractive groupings. 120 pages including index. 11.25" x 8.5". Near fine, no marks or inscription. Near fine stiff card cover, priced on back £9.99. ISBN 0863187463. 1991

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Book number: 5789

Catalogue: Crafts

Keywords: flower pressed flowers craft hobby

BLACK, ANTONY.

COUNCIL AND COMMUNE. The Conciliar Movement and the Council of Basle.

London. Burns & Oates, 1979., The Concilliar movement and the Fifteenth Century heritage... important study of the General Council in the Church... historical study ... for the debate on authority, the papacy, the communal nature of Church & society." 253 pages. Cover & contents near fine, no inscription or marks. Near fine d./w. 22cm. x 14.5cm. ISBN 0860120775. 1979 ISBN: 0860120775

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Book number: 7827

Catalogue: Religion::Phllosophy

Keywords: Church Papacy Council of Basle Commune Segovia St. Paul Aquinas Van de Velde Tudeschi Rousseau

BLACK, PAULINE. (EDITOR.)

Nostalgic Wirral.

True North, 2000., Hardback. 104 pages. Black & white photographs on most pages, and memories of the Wirral in the 1940s, 50s & 60s. Laminated cover. 29.5cm. x 19.5cm. 2000

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Book number: 9703

Keywords: Wirral Bebington Birkenhead Ellesmere Port Heswall Hoylake

BLACKBURN, JULIA.

CHARLES WATERTON. Traveller and Conservationist.

London. Century / National Trust, 1991., Paperback. A 'National Trust Classic'. First published 1989 by Bodley Head. Biography of Charles Waterton, an eccentric conservationis, he travelled widely, collected animals & birds, & created a sanctuary for them on his estate. He knew Darwin, Audubon & Dickens, wrote books, & lived a very interesting life. Foreword by Gerald Durrell. 243 pages including chapter notes, bibliography & index. 16 b./w. photographs. 8.5" x 5.25". Contents clean, no inscription. Card cover, priced on back £5.95, no inscrition but edges & corners slightly worn, o./w. near fine. ISBN 0712647465. 1991

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Book number: 4862

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: conservation poison Audubon Walton Walton Hall Edmonstone taxidermy Stonyhurst College

BLACKER, MARYANNE (EDITOR.)

Chicken Cookbook, Plus duck, quail, turkey, goose & more.

Sidney, Australia. Australian Womens Weekly Home Library, 1991., Softback. 128 pages, illustrated with colour photographs throughout. Near fine, no inscription or marks, in near fine stiff card cover. !SBN 0949128376. 1991

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Book number: 8247

Catalogue: Cookery

Keywords: cooking recipes cookery food chicken poultry

BLACKMORE, R.D. (TEXT), AND BURTON, S.H. (SELECTION & COMMENTARY.)

THE LORNA DOONE TRAIL.Tracing the story of Jan Ridd & Lorna Doone in words & pictures.

Dulverton, Somerset. The Exmoor.Press, 1975., Softback. From the series "Microstudies". 64 pages. 26 full page b./w. photographs. End pages illustrated with maps of Exmoor and 'Doone Land'. 31cm. x 15cm. Near fine, no inscription or marks. Edges of spine on card cover slightly rubbed. Priced 75p. on back. ISBN 0900131195. 1975

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Book number: 6746

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Exmoor Lorna Doone Malmsmead Tiverton Dulverton Dunster Devon Exebridge Old Blundell's Jan Ridd

BLACKMORE, R. D.

LORNA DOONE. A ROMANCE OF EXMOOR.( In Slip case.)

London. The Folio Society, 2000., Reprint. Introduction by John Sutherland. 14 b./w. illustrations by David Rooney, I think in scraper-board. 552 pages. Contents near fine, no inscription or marks. Cloth cover is navy blue, illustrated in black & silver, & near fine. Slip case is near fine. 24cm. x 16cm. 2009

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Book number: 7545

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Exmoor Doone Devonshire Lorna Doone John Ridd

BLACKMORE, R. D.

LORNA DOONE. Illustrated Edition.

London. Collins,1964., Reprint of this classic book, illustrated with b./w. photographs of scenes associated with the story, this edition was first published 1953. Introduction by L. A.G. Strong. 560 pages, with 18 b./w. photographs. Red cloth cover, and contents are near fine, no inscription or marks. Near fine d./w. but edges & corners are slightly rubbed & worn. 19cm.x 11.5cm. 1964

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Book number: 9009

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Dunster Somerset Devonshire Oare Doone

BLACKMORE, R. D.

LORNA DOONE. Illustrated Edition.

London. Collins, 1963., A classic story first published 1869, set on the bleak moors of Exmoor, & the valleys around it This edition is illustrated with black & white photographs of moors, forests, hills & fields, the places thought to be connected to the book, using Blackmore's descriptions of the Devonshire & Somerset countryside. 560 pages with 18 b./w. photographs on 15 pages. 18.75cm. x 11.5cm. Corners of cover are slightly bumped, otherwise very good. Contents are near fine, no inscription or marks. D./w. is slightly rubbed on edges & corners otherwise very good, priced 8s. 6d. 1963

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Book number: 9239

Keywords: Lorna Doone Doone valley Exmoor Devonshire Somerset John Ridd

BLAIR, LAWRENCE AND BLAIR, LORNE.

Ring Of Fire . From the BBC Television Series.

London. Bantam Press, 1988., Voyage spanning ten years ..through the islands of the East." A television tie-in.."Lorne & Lawrence Blair & their journey of exploration in the volcanic Indonesian Archipeligo." 272 pages, 240 colour and black & white illustrations. Endpages illustrated with map of area. 27cm. x 27.5cm. Near fine, no inscription, in near fine cover. Near fine d./w. ISBN 0593013107. 1988

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Book number: 7472

Catalogue: Travel & Topography

Keywords: Indonesia Sumatra New Guinea Borneo Spice Islands Komodo dragons Java Bali

BLAIR, ANDREW. SIGNED COPY.

WIRRAL FIELDPATHS AND BYWAYS.

Liverpool. Philip, Son & Nephew Ltd., 1942., Softback. Signed by author "With best wishes from the author Andrew Blair, September 1943." Second edition. Revised. Foreword by Sir Lawrence Chubb. 34 rambles described. 123 pages, with folded map at end. Very good to near fine, beige coloured cover with front illustrated in blue & black. Priced 2/6 on front cover. 1942.

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Book number: 4838

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Chester Wirral Bidston Cheshire Neston Birkenhead Willaston Thingwall Thurstaston Barnston Hoylake Heswall Mollington Arrowe Park

BLAKE, WENDON (TEXT) & DE REYNA, RUDY.(PAINTINGS)

ACRYLIC PAINTING.

London. Pitman, 1979., Softback. "The Artist's Painting Library" series. How to paint in acrylics, different techniques, tools, composition etc. 28cm. x 21cm. 80 pages. 125 illustrations, 82 of them in colour. Back cover creased, o./w. near fine. ISBN 027301417X 1979

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Book number: 688

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: acrylic painting

BLAKE, GEORGE,

B. I. CENTENARY 1856 : 1856. The Story of the British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.

London. Collins, 1956., The B. I. Company was founded in 1856 as the Calcutta & Burmah Steam Navigation Company Ltd. to run a Mail Service between Calcutta and Rangoon. They started with 2 vessels but by 1922 they had 158, and were the largest Merchant fleet in the world. 272 pages including a list of the ships in the B. I. Fleet from 1856 to 1956, and index. Contents near fine, no inscription or marks. Navy-blue cover is very good but faintly damp stained along top edge. Very good d./w. except damp stain on back top edge, small tear front bottom edge, & 2cm. tear back bottom edge. 1956

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Book number: 7078

Keywords: British India Steam Navigation Company shipping Merchant Fleet Bombay Calcutta

BLAKE, CLAGETTE.

Charles Elliot R.N. 1801 -1875. A Servant of Britain Overseas.

London. Cleaver-Hume Press Ltd., 1960., Ex Library. Biography of Admiral Sir Charles Elliot. Born in Dresden of a Scottish father, he volunteered for the Navy in 1815. Among places he served in were Venezuela, China, Texas, Macao, he also became Governor of Bermuda, and later St. Helen's, spending most of his life overseas until his retirement. Pp. i - xv, 130 pages and 11 illustrations of paintings, engravings & maps. Publisher's thin transparent paper d./w, inside the main d./w., which is inside a plastic sleeve. Near fine except 'Sale 1995' is stamped in red on f.e.p., 2 small library stamps on back of title page, & remnants of old label on f.e.p. The d./w. is illustrated with a map of Texas c. 1840, and near fine except bottom edge has been folded under to fit inside library's protective sleeve. Where taped on the cover, there are 3 small marks. 10" x 7.75". 1960

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Book number: 1872

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Charles Elliot naval history Bermuda Texas Macoa biography