Brown, Peter

The Keeping of Christmas England's Festive Tradition 1760 - 1840.

York Civic Trust, 2016. Soft Cover, 40pp, illustrated softback covers. Colour and b + w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy. The catalogue of an exhibition of displays of Christmas festivities at Fairfax House. a Georgian townhouse in York, from 3rd December 1992 to 6th January 1993... As New.

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Book number: 10763

Catalogue: History

Keywords: York, Exhibiiton, History, Christmas

Brown, Peter Harry and Brown, Pamela Ann

The MGM Girls Behind the Velvet Curtain.

Harrap, 1984. Hard Cover, Ex-Library, 288pp, complete dustjacket in a removeable protective plastic sleeve. 50 new b + w photographs from the MGM archives. Ex library - label removed from flyleaf, stamp to back of title page, the paper wrinkled but clean at the top edge - a good 'reading copy'. The real story of the lives of the glamorous but bullied female stars at Louis B Meyer's MGM studios - Harlow, Turner, Garbo, MacLaine, Reynolds, Garland, Taylor etc... Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 13190

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: MGM, Film, Film History, Film Star, Biography

Brown, Will

Peruvian Adventure.

Robert Hale, 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover, 191pp, b+ w photographs. Dustjacket a little rubbed to edges. A few small spots of foxing to foredge,otherwise internally clean. Medical students in search of mice in the Andes... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 22

Keywords: Peru, medical research, radiation, adventure, andes,student, cambridge

Brown, Robert

Science For All.

Cassell, Petter & Galpin, Hard Cover, A heavy book. Brown cloth boards with black decoration and gilt title, clean and VG. Coloured lithographic frontispiece and many engraved illustrations. Circa 1900 - includes an early article on Prof. Bell's telephone and the 'talking phonograph' has just been invented... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 8319

Catalogue: Geology

Keywords: Chemistry, Rock, Telephone, Tide, Sleep, Geyser, Nature, Geologypond, Animal, Milk

Brown, Ivor

Shakespeare.

Reprint Society, 1951. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 383pp. Complete dustjacket with a couple of small scrape marks. Internally very clean. 'A coherent and sensible' account of Shakespeare's life and times. Comes with a short separate article by the author... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 5202

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: theatre, elizabethan drama, elizabethan stage

Brown, Ivor

Shakespeare.

Reprint Society, 1951. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 363pp, yellow cloth covered boards with black leather label. A clean copy. A readable biography, includes a family tree and a time line... Fine /No Jacket.

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Book number: 6152

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: theatre

Brown, Ivor

Shakespeare.

Collins, 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover, 352pp. Red cloth covered boards. Original owner's name on half-title page, otherwise a clean copy. A classic book on Shakespeare's life, and theatre practice... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 8586

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Play, Theatre

Brown, Lizbie

Shoo - Fly.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover, 312pp, complete dustjacket. A short crease to the edge of the flyleaf, otherwise internally very clean. Another murder for Elizabeth Blair, set in Bath - a spoiled rich kid is murdered.. Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 11168

Catalogue: Crime

Keywords: Crime, Murder, Bath

Brown, J A C

The Social Psychology of Industry Human Relations in the Factory.

Penguin Pelican, 1965. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback, 310pp, the paper browning a little with age, blue and white softback covers a little rubbed to edges of spine. Internally clean. The social background of industry, morale, and the influence of industrial work on mental health and the community... Very Good.

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Book number: 14323

Keywords: Psychology, Social Psychology, Factory, human Resources

Browne, Janet

Ground Cover Plants.

Ward Lock, 1980. First Edition. Trade Paperback, 108pp, softback covers with light creases. Colour and b + w illustrations. Original owner has written the name of a plant in the index, otherwise clean... Very Good.

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Book number: 6760

Catalogue: Gardening

Keywords: shrub, grass

Browne, Edith and Williams, Jessie J

The World's Best Recipes.

Newnes, 1111. Hard Cover, Probably 1930s. 344pp, black cloth boards. B + w photographs, several taken in London restaurant kitchens of the day. A clean copy. 'One thousand dainty dishes as prepared by cooks of other lands.'.. Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 3342

Catalogue: Cookery

Keywords: cookery, restaurants

Browning

Poetry and The Drama Vol II The Ring and the Book.

Dent, 1938. Hard Cover, A reprint of the Everyman edition of 1911 with an Introduction and Notes by Charles W Hodell. 534pp. Olive green cloth covered boards, a little faded to the spine. Previous owner's name to the inner board, otherwise internally clean. A poem in blankverse, based on a 17th century Italian trial for murder, which established Browning's reputation.. Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 13500

Catalogue: Literature A - F

Keywords: Poetry, Browning, english Literature, Victorian Poetry

Brownrigg, Ronald

Come, See The Place.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1985. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback, 269pp, the edges browned with age, illustrated softback covers. Maps. A clean, tight copy. A Pilgrim Guide to the Holy Land... Fine.

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Book number: 9058

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Israel, Bible, Palestine

Le Brun, Alain

Khirokitia A Neolithic Site.

Nicosia, Bank of Cyprus, 1997. Soft Cover, English translation by Louise Steel. 64pp. Illustrated soft covers. Colour and b and white illustrations. A very clean, tight copy. A guide to the history, the excavations and the finds at the neolithic site in Cyprus... Fine.

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Book number: 8539

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Cyprus, History, Archaeology, Neolithic, Excavation

Brunhammer, Yvonne

The Nineteen Twenties Style.

Paul Hamlyn, 1969. Hard Cover, 159pp, the paper browning a very little with age. Complete illustrated dustjacket. 65 colour plates. A clean copy. An introduction to the architecture, dance, decorative arts, fashion and interior decoration of the 1920s. Originally published as Lo Stile 1925, and translated by Raymond Rudorff... Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 6764

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Art Deco, Le Corbusier, Bauhaus, Interior Decoration, History, Art History