Buchan, John

The Thirty Nine Steps.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1111. Hard Cover, Proabably late 1920s. 254pp, red cloth covered boards with bespectacled head vignette, faded to the spine. Art deco decoration to the title page. The binding is shaky, but holding well. Previous owner's name to the inner board, otherwise internally clean. The classic adventure story... Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 10954

Catalogue: Literature A - F

Keywords: adventure, Scotland

Buchan, John

The Three Hostages.

Nelson, 1949. Hard Cover, 447pp. Red cloth covered boards, with gilt sunflower logo. Map. Small spots of foxing to the foredge, otherwise internally clean. A Richard Hannay adventure story, set in Scotland... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 8035

Catalogue: Literature A - F

Keywords: Adventure, Hannay

Buchan, John

The Watcher By The Threshold.

Brown Watson Ltd, 1111. Mass Market Paperback, Probably 1960s. 157pp, the paper browning with age, softback covers with an illustration of a screaming girl and a classical bust. is a little rubbed to the edges. Previous owner's name to the flyleaf, otherwise internally clean and tight. A rare edition. ' A weird and shuddering tale of the Scottish Backwoods'... Very Good.

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Book number: 14102

Catalogue: Literature A - F

Keywords: Adventure

Buchanan Taylor, W

Shake the Bottle.

Heath Cranton, 1946. Hard Cover, 4th impression of the First Edition. 221pp, purple cloth covered boards, a little faded to the spine and edges. B + w illustrations. Internally clean. Memoirs of a life as a sports reporter and drama critic - Isadora Duncan, Sacha Guitry, Joe Louis, Houdini, W C Fields, Bette Davies, James Cagney, Annie Oakley etc... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 464

Catalogue: Autobiography

Keywords: Variety, Theatre, Boxing, Sacha Guitry, Isadora, Houdini, Joe Louis W C Fields, Bette Davies

Buck, Anne M (Introduction)

The Gallery of English Costume Picture Book Number Seven Children's Costume.

Art Galleries Committee of The Corporation of Manchester, 1959. First Edition. Soft Cover, 31pp, decorated card covers. A clean copy. Short Introduction and 20 photographic plates of early children's clothing from c. 1800 onwards, with descriptions... Fine.

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Book number: 15442

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Dress, Costume, Historical Costume, Clothes, Children's Clothes

Buckeridge, Anthony

Jennings Follows A Clue.

Collins, 1967. Hard Cover, 255pp, the paper browning a little with age. Red boards with a little wear to the top of the spine. Internally clean. Classic childrens' school story - Jennings and Darbishire turn detective... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 1592

Catalogue: Literature A - F

Keywords: Children

Buckman, Peter

All For Love A Study in Soap Opera.

Secker & Warburg, 1984. First Edition. Hard Cover, 226pp, Complete illustrated dustjacket, a very little rubbed to the top edge. Internally very clean. An analysis of TV soap operas - the stock characters, the plots and how they are interwoven, the writers, the lives of the actors, direction, production, critics - and the viewing public... Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 12383

Catalogue: Theatre

Keywords: Television, Television Serials, TV

Buglass, Dan

Ken Oliver The Benign Bishop.

Marlborough, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover, 183pp, complete dustjacket. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. The biography of a remarkable jockey, farm, golfer, part-goer and auctioneer who co-founded the Doncaster Bloodstock Sales... As New /Fine.

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Book number: 12583

Catalogue: Countryside

Keywords: Racing, farming, Golf, Doncaster

Buhet, Gil

The Grand Catch.

Jonathan Cape and The Book Society, ND, 1111. Hard Cover, Early 1950s. Translated by Moura Budberg. 284 pp, dustjacket with a litttle edgewear. A couple of light foxmarks, otherwise internally clean. Sequel to The Honey Siege... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 1681

Catalogue: Literature A - F

Bullett, Gerald (ed)

Silver Poets of the Sixteenth Century Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Ralegh, Davies.

Dent, 1984. Mass Market Paperback, Everyman Edition. 428pp, including Introduction and Index. Previous owner's name to flyleaf, a few pencil notes, otherwise clean and tight... Good.

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Book number: 12843

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: English Literature, , Poetry, Raleigh, John Davies, Henry Howard, Philip Sidney

Bullock, Graham

Green Grades Can Information Save the Earth?.

MIT Press, 2017. First Edition. Soft Cover, 390pp, illustrated soft card covers withourt any creases. B + w illustrations A very clean, tight, probably unread, copy. Is the environmental information information on product labelling trustworthy?.. Fine.

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Book number: 13685

Keywords: Nature, Environment, Labelling, Eco, Climate Change, Consumerism

Bulmer, Robert

Essential Cyprus.

Automobile Association, 1991. First Edition. Soft Cover, Tall pocket sized book of 128pp, laminated illustrated covers faded to spine. Colour illustrations. A clean, tight copy. Practical guide to the whole island.. Very Good.

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Book number: 9618

Catalogue: Travel

Lytton Rt Hon Lord Bulwer

The Last of the Barons.

Ward Lock, 1111. Hard Cover, Probably late 19th century. Sunday School inscription on flyleaf dated 1911. 461pp, dark red cloth covered boards, with impressed design and gilt title. Engraved frontispiece illustration. Small dark spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise a clean copy. Set in the time of Edward IV and the Wars of the Roses... Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 14188

Catalogue: Historical Fiction

Keywords: Historical, Medieval

Bundock, Michael (ed) P D James et al

The New Rambler Journal of the Johnson Society of London 1997-1998.

Johnson Society of London, 1999. First Edition. Soft Cover, Tall format. 76pp, soft covers. A clean copy. Papers on Dr Fleeman's Bibliography, Sarah Fielding, Despair and its Antidotes, SJ and Politics, SJ and the Imagination, Goldsmith and SJ.. Fine.

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Book number: 11419

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Dr Johnson, Sarah Fielding, Cowper, Goldsmith, P D James

Bundock, Michael (ed) Frank Delaney et al

The New Rambler Journal of the Johnson Society of London 1998- 1999.

Johnson Society of London, 2000. First Edition. Soft Cover, Tall format. 74pp, soft covers. A clean copy. Papers on Johnson & Economics, the Devout Dr Johnson, C18 Readers, Fanny Burney, Charlotte Smith etc.. Fine.

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Book number: 11420

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Dr Johnson, Fanny Burney, David Hume, Charlotte Smith