Ronald Allison and Sarah Riddell, eds

The Royal Encyclopedia

London, Macmillan, 1991. Hardcover. 632p. A hardcover book in near-fine condition with a like dustjacket. Corners mildly crinkled; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is price-clipped and mildly shelf-worn. An encyclopedia on the British royal family. Illustrated with lots of photographs, both color and black and white. Very Good .

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Book number: 185167

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Roy Anderson

The Markets and Fairs of England and Wales: A Buyer's and Browser's Guide

London, Bell & Hyman, 1985. Paperback. 175p. A softcover book in very good condition. Private library stamps inside covers and on half-title page. Otherwise clean and tight. .

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Book number: 171607

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John Arlott, ed

John Speed's England: A Coloured Facsimile of the Maps and Text from the Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, First Edition, 1611 (Part II)

London, Phoenix House Limited, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 11p essay and FACSIMILE of Book I, fol. 21-40 and alphabetical table of towns. A folio-size book bound in 3/4 green cloth with patterned boards. Very good condition overall. Edges rubbed, spine slightly ffaded, and corners barely bumped. Tiny nick in the cloth over the author's name. Interior unmarked and securely bound. Volume 2 only (of 4). Measures approx. 18.25" x 12.25.

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Book number: 176851

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Geoffrey Ashe

The Discovery of King Arthur

New York, Henry Holt and Company Inc, 1985. Paperback. 224p. A softcover book in near fine condition, save for sticker residue on the top left corner of the back cover and rubbing on the edges of the front and back covers. The text is clean and the binding tight. An investigation into the historical origins of and eventual identification of King Arthur. .

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Book number: 203031

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Geoofrey Ashe

The Quest for Arthur's Britain

New York, Frederick A. Praeger, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 282p. A hardcover book in near-fine condition with a like dustjacket. Bottom of spine bumped; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is barely shelf-worn; essentially intact. Illustrated with lots of photographs, mostly in black and white but a few in color. Very Good .

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Book number: 192407

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Mike Ashley

A Brief History of British Kings Ang Queens

New York, Carroll and Graf Publishers, 2002. 528p. A softcover book in near fine condition, save for a minor fold on the bottom left corner of the back cover. The text is clean and the binding tight. .

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Book number: 203065

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Louis Auchincloss

Persons of Consequence: Queen Victoria and Her Circle

New York, Random House, 1979. First American Edition. Hardcover. 208p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a good dustjacket. The book is clean and tight. The jacket has a few closed tears, one of which is held together with clear tape. Illustrated throughout. .

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Book number: 174697

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Nellie Slayton Aurner

Caxton: Mirrour of Fifteenth-Century Letters; a Study of the Literature of the First English Press

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 304p. Ex-library copy of an orange cloth hardcover book in good condition. Library mark on spine and sticker on back. Edges lightly rubbed and cloth very faintly soiled. Library check-out materials and stamps on endpapers. Additional stamps on title pages and edges of text block. Otherwise clean and tight. William Caxton (1422-1491) was an English printer credited with introducing the printing press to England. This study of early English publications contains black and white plates. .

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Book number: 143478

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Richard Avent

Cestyll Tywysogion Gwynedd / Castles of the Princes of Gwynedd

Cardiff, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. 41p. A staplebound softcover book in very good condition. Bottom corners slightly bent; otherwise clean and tight. Text in Welsh and English. Illustrated with numerous photographs. .

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Book number: 178872

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Dacre Balsdon

Oxford Life

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962. Second Edition. Hardcover. 288p. A hardcover book in acceptable condition with a like dustjacket. PAGES FALLING OUT near beginning and end, with the bulk of the pages in the middle still attached. The jacket is chipped and stained, but still in one piece. .

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Book number: 176837

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Sir Jonah Barrington

Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation

New York, D. & J. Sadlier, 1845. First American Edition. Leather. 472p. A hardcover book bound in full golden-brown leather. Fair condition; the leather is chipped along the edges and cracking vertically down the spine. Front hinge reinforced with archival tape. Wear to the edges of pages 275-280 (text unaffected). All pages heavily foxed, especially on and around the plates. Binding is a little weak, but still secure for normal handling. First American edition of Barrington's work discussing the period of Grattan's Parliament and idealizing the notion of Irish independence. .

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Book number: 173544

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William Beattie

Scotland Illustrated in a Series of Views Taken Expressly for This Work by Messrs. T. Allom, W.H. Bartlett, and H. M'Culloch, Volume II

London, George Virtue, 1838. Leather. 164p plus plates. A large hardcover book bound in 3/4 green leather with marbled boards and gilt foredges. Very good condition overall. Edges and boards visibly scuffed. Endpapers soiled all over. Occasional spotty stains in the margins, but otherwise, text clean and binding tight. Volume 2 only. Filled with lots of plates featuring beautiful black and white engravings. Measures approx. 11" x 8.75. Very Good .

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Book number: 184258

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John Beeler

Warfare in England: 1066-1189

New York, Barnes & Nobles Books, 1995. Hardcover. 493p. Hardcover book in like new condition in like dustjacket. A reinterpretation of the Battle of Hastings in light of recent scholarship, with special focus on battlefield strategy, the English warrior, and English kings and commanders as war makers. /as new.

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Book number: 126788

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E.F. Benson

Queen Victoria

New York, Longmans, Green and Co, 1935. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 406p. A red gilt cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Former owner stamped name on endpapers and title page but otherwise clean and tight. Contains black and white plates. .

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Book number: 161449

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John F. Benton, ed

Town Origins: The Evidence from Medieval England

Lexington, MA, D.C. Heath and Company, 1968. Paperback. 108p. A softcover book in very good condition. Pages tanned, and a few are creased. Otherwise clean and tight. From the PROBLEMS IN EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION series. .

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Book number: 202421

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