Ainsworth, Harrison

Windsor Castle.

Nelson, 1111. Hard Cover, Gift inscription on inner board dated 1942, otherwise a clean copy. Pocket sized. 378pp, blue cloth covered boards. A reissue of the 1843 classic novel... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 4567

Catalogue: Literature A - F

Airne, C W

The Story of the Isle of Man Vol.2 1406 to Modern Times.

Norris, 1964. First Edition. Soft Cover, Ill.: D M Harrison and M Ost. Volume 2 has pp 82 - 184, from 1406 to after WWII, illustrated card covers with light crease to one corner. B + w illustrations. A few light spots of foxing to title page, otherwise clean... Very Good.

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Book number: 11028

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Isle of Man, Manx

Aksakoff, Serghei

Years of Childhoods.

Oxford, 1951. Hard Cover, Pocket size World's Classics edition. 446pp, blue cloth covered boards, a little rubbed to edges. Internally very clean. Translated by J D Duff. An autobiograpphy of childhood in Russia, to the age of 10... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 13321

Catalogue: Literature A - F

Keywords: Russian Literature, Autobiography, Memoirs

Akurgal, Prof Dr Ekrem

Ancient Civilizations and Ruins of Turkey.

NET, 2001. Hard Cover, Revised and enlarged 9th edition. Text in English. A heavy book of 367pp, plus Glossary, Bibliography and Index. B + w illustrations in the text and an end section of 112 colour and b + w photographs. Light bookseller's stamp to the flyleaf, otherwise a very clean copy. A guide to the archaeological ruins of Turkey from prehistoric times to the end of the Roman era.... Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 9009

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Turkey, Archaeology, History, Greek History, Turkish History

Alagiah, George

A Passage to Africa.

Timewarner, 2002. Mass Market Paperback, 292pp, illustrated softback covers with one light crease to spine. B + w photographs. A clean, tight copy. Personal testimony and political insight from the BBC's Africa correspondent... Fine.

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Book number: 12616

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Ceylon, Ghana, Africa, BBC

Alcock, Leslie

By South Cadbury Is That Camelot Excavations at Cadbury Castle 1966 - 70.

Thames and Hudson, 1972. Soft Cover, Large format. First paperback edition. Preface by Sir Mortimer Wheeler. 224pp, the paper tanning a very little with age. 15 colour plates and many b + w illustrations. A clean, tight copy. Excavations at Cadbury Castle, leading to the discovery of buildings of the time of King Arthur... Very Good.

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Book number: 9870

Catalogue: History

Keywords: King Arthur, Cadbury, Archaeology, History, Somerset, Iron Age

Alcott, Louisa M

Little Men Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys.

Sampson Low Marston and Co, 1111. Hard Cover, Circa 1920. 'New and Cheaper' edition with an Introduction by Mrs C C Cairns. 292pp, the paper partially tanning with age. Red cloth covered boards with a vignette of The Alcott House to the front is a very little rubbed to the edges. B + w frontispiece illustration. A few spots of foxing to the foredge, a Sunday School prize label dated 1925 to the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. One of the sequels to Little Women... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 12332

Catalogue: Literature A - F

Keywords: Children

Aldington, Richard

Soft Answers.

Penguin, 1949. Mass Market Paperback, 1st Penguin edition. 247pp, orange and white softback covers. A small portion of loss to the front cover, otherwise clean and G+. 5 stories... Good.

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Book number: 7393

Catalogue: Literature A - F

Keywords: short stories

Aldrich, Richard Stoddard

Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs A.

Companion Book Club, 1956. Hard Cover, 320pp, blue cloth covered boards, faded to spine and edge, spots of foxing to edges of spine. B + w photographs. A couple of small spots of foxing to the foredge, otherwise a clean copy. A biography of the famous actress who starred with Noel Coward, Laurence Olivier etc. in Private Lives, by her husband... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 8505

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Actress, Noel Coward, Biography, Olivier, Theatre

Alexander, Patrick

Show Me A Hero.

Macmillan, 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover, 271pp, dustjacket with a portion of loss to the front, and tears to the back. Internally very clean. A bullion robbery in the 1980s, and a confrontation with the secret police... Fine /Good.

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Book number: 2540

Catalogue: Literature A - F

Alexis, Andre

The Night Piece.

Bloomsbury, 1999. Mass Market Paperback, 229pp, illustrated soft covers. One tiny pin hole to flyleaf, otherwise a very clean, tight copy. Sinister stories, set in Trinidads and Canada... Fine.

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Book number: 13948

Catalogue: Literature A - F

Keywords: Short Stories, Trinidad, Canada

Ali, Syed A and Friedman, Gerald M (eds)

Diagenesis of Sandstones.

AAPG, 1977. Soft Cover, 239pp,softback covers, b + w illustrations. A clean, Near FIne copy. Selected papers reprinted from AAPG Bulletin. Cementing materials in Sandstones, pore-space reduction in sandstones, porosity of quartzose sandstone, lower cretaceous sandstone reservoirs, Israel etc... Very Good.

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Book number: 5066

Catalogue: Geology

Keywords: geology, petroleum Geology, Sandstone, Israel

Alington, C A

A Short Guide To Durham Cathedral.

Durham, Veitch, Soft Cover, Post 1933. Staped white paper covers. An 8-page guide to the cathedral, with a b and w frontispiece illustration... Very Good.

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Book number: 8286

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Cathedral, Guide, Durham, Travel

Allan, William and Brown, Christopher G et al

The Journal of Hellenic Studies Volume 126 2006.

The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 2006. First Edition. Soft Cover, Large format. 235pp. Beige soft covers. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. Includes - Divine justice and cosmic order in early Greek epic, Pindar on Archilochus, Xenophon's Cyropaedia and military reform in Sparta, Melody..in ancient Greek musical instruments, Xenophon and the alternative to realist foreign policy, the competence of theatre audiences in fifth and fourth century Athens and Mixed choruses and marriage songs a new interpretation of the third stasimon of the Hippolytos... Fine.

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Book number: 17857

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: Pindar, Archilochus, Xenophon, Greek History, Greek Theatre, Greek Music

Allason-Jones, Lindsay

Roman Jet in the Yorkshire Museum.

Yorkshire Museum, 1996. First Edition. Soft Cover, Large format. 55pp, illustrated laminated softback covers. Colour and b + w illustrations. A New copy. An Introduction on the jet industry in Roman Britain and an illustrated catalogue of the jet in the Yorkshire Museum... As New.

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Book number: 13567

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Roman, Classical, Jet, Jewellery