BRUNO ALFIERI (EDITOR)

Ferrarissima Newseries 7

Milano, Automobilia. 2000, 1st Edition. Hard Cover, with dust jacket, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Numbered limited edition of 5000 of which this is number 2615. The rear panel of the dust jacket is a little scuffed. Text in English, Italian and French. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 158780

BRUNO ALFIERI (EDITOR)

Ferrarissima Newseries 10

Milano, Automobilia. 2001, 1st Edition. Hard Cover, with dust jacket, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Numbered limited edition of 5000 of which this is number 2507. There are a number of scratches on the rear panel of the dust jacket. Text in English, Italian and French. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 158782

MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM ALLEN & W. ALISTER WILLIAMS (EDITOR)

Crimean Letters from 41st (the Welch) Regiment 1854-56

Wrexham, Bridge Books. 2011, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9781844940721). Hard Cover, with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Includes a definitive list of all the men who served in the Crimean campaign with the 41st Regiment - 1854/56. New/New.

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Book number: 159366

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G. FREEMAN ALLEN

The Eastern Yesterday and Today

Shepperton, Ian Allan. 1982, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0711011850). Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 64 page booklet. Very Good.

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Book number: 156047

Keywords: 0711011850

LESLIE LEWIS ALLEN

The World's Show: Coincraft's Catalogue of Crystal Palace Medals and Tokens 1851-1936

London, Standard Catalogue Publishers for Coincraft. 2000, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9780952622895). Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Fine/Picture Boards.

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Book number: 159887

Catalogue: Used

Keywords: 9780952622895

ROBERT ALLRED

Mysteries of the Norman Conquest: Unravelling the Truth of the Battle of Hastings and the Events of 1066

Barnsley, Frontline Books. 2022. (ISBN: 9781399088039). Hardcover, with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, Recent challenges to the traditional site of the Battle of Hastings have led to a surge of interest in the events surrounding England's most famous battle. This, in turn, has increased speculation that the titanic struggle for the English crown in 1066 did not take place on the slopes of what is today Battle Abbey, with a number of highly plausible alternative locations being proposed. The time had clearly come to evaluate all these suggestions, and Robert Allred decided to take on that task. Taking nothing for granted, Robert hiked round the sites of the three battles of 1066 - Fulford, Stamford Bridge and Hastings. Armed with the medieval sources and much of the current literature, he set out to appraise the evidence and to draw his own unbiased conclusions. Following in the footsteps of the Viking warriors of Harald Hardrada, the knights of William of Normandy and the Anglo-Saxon soldiers of King Harold, the reader is taken on a journey from Yorkshire to the South Coast and down through the ages to re-examine what has been written about that momentous year - the intrigues, preparations and manoeuvres - which culminated on 14 October 1066, on a bloody hill somewhere in Sussex. Whether this will settle the debate over the site of the Battle of Hastings or prompt further investigations remains to be seen, but it will be a book which cannot be ignored and which the reader will be unable to put down!. New/New.

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Book number: 161727

Keywords: 9781399088039

PETER AMOS

Miles Aircraft the Early Years: The Story of F.G. Miles and His Aeroplanes 1925-1939

Leigh, Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. 2009, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9780851304106). Hard Cover, with dust jacket, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The dust jacket is a little edge worn. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 160255

Keywords: 9780851304106

ROSALIND ANDERSON

The Jacobite Rising of 1715 and the Murray Family: Brothers in Arms

Barnsley, Pen & Sword History. 2020, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9781526727619). Hard Cover, with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Based in Perthshire, the Murray family played an important role in all Jacobite rebellions, whether as rebels or supporters of the government. During the Great Rising of 1715, the head of the family the Duke of Atholl remained loyal to the Hanoverian government but three of his sons were Jacobites. Two of these brothers then went on to play major roles in the 1719 Rising and in the more famous '45. What led to their decision to commit to the Jacobite cause? A look at the earlier years of the Murrays at the end of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries sheds light on the family dynamics and helps explain how and why the brothers made the decisions they did. Traditionally the Murrays were thought to have perhaps made a conscious and pragmatic decision to have a foot in both camps, but the evidence presented here shows the brothers possessed a strong rebellious streak. Despite the heavily enforced regime of duty from their father and the Presbyterian piety of their mother, they refused to conform to their parents' wishes and in varying degrees chose of their own volition, a different path to that expected of them. Set against the backdrop of social unrest and anxiety over against English influence in Scotland, these choices had a significant impact on the history of the family and because of who that family was, a significant impact on the country. New/New.

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Book number: 160309

Keywords: 9781526727619

JUDITH ANDERSON

Wm. Duesbury Father and Son: Men of Industry

Judith Anderson. 1987, 1st Edition. Paperback, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Covers have a touch of edge wear and little discoloured. 32 page A4 booklet. Very Good.

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Book number: 160664

MALCOLM ANDREWS

Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings

Oxford, Oxford University Press. 2007. (ISBN: 9780199236206). Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The covers have a touch of edge wear. Signed with dedication on the title page. Charles Dickens had three professional careers: novelist, journalist and public Reader. That third career has seldom been given the serious attention it deserved. For the last 12 years of his life he toured Britain and America giving 2-hour readings from his work to audiences of over two thousand. These readings were highly dramatic performances in which Dickens's great gift for mimicry enabled him to represent the looks and voices of his characters, to the point where audiences forgot they were watching Charles Dickens. His novels came alive on the platform: at the end of a reading, it seemed to many that a whole society had broken up rather than that a solitary recitalist had concluded. This book tries to recreate, in greater detail than hitherto, the sense of how those readings were performed and how they were received, how Dickens devised his stage set and tailored his books to make them into performance scripts, how he conducted his reading tours all around the country and developed a quite extraordinary rapport with his listeners. No single study of this late career of Dickens has drawn to such an extent on contemporary witnesses to the readings as well as tried to assess in some depth the significance of what Dickens called 'this new expression of the meaning of my books'. 'I shall tear myself to pieces', he said as he waited eagerly to go on stage for his performance, and that is ironically what he did, in ways he perhaps had not quite intended: he fractured into dozens of different characters up there on the platform, and as he thus tore himself to pieces his health collapsed irretrievably under the pressures he put upon himself to achieve these masterly illusions. Very Good. Signed by Author.

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Book number: 160631

Keywords: 9780199236206

K. C. APPLEBY

Shildon-Newport in Retrospect: The Fore-Runner of Main Line Electrification

Downend, The Railway Correspondence and Travel Society. 2008. (ISBN: 0901115673). Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The North Eastern Railway was active in overhead electrification as early as 1913. The Shildon - Newport line was one of Britain's most intensively worked freight routes. Mr. Appleby has known the system for sixty years and he uses his detailed knowledge to bring alive this colourful story. New.

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Book number: 160286

Keywords: 0901115673

MASSIMO ARICO & CHRIS MEADOWS (EDITOR)

Ordnungspolzei Vol 1: Encyclopedia of the German Police Battalions September 1939 / July 1942

Stockholm, Leandoer & Ekholm. 2011, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9789185657995). Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Babi Yar, Rumbula and Stanislaviv-these are places where apocalyptic slaughters were perpetrated during summer 1941. From June 27, 1941, this war erased, like a hurricane, most of the Jewish communities in the Baltic area, in Galicia, in Belorussia, and in Ukraine, with hundreds of thousands of victims. But round-ups in the ghettos and the persecution of Jews were not the only tasks in which the Ordnungspolizei was involved. All along the eastern front, police units were steadily engaged in a fierce antipartisan warfare, as well as in security activities behind the lines and in the surveillance of prisoners of war. Each chapter deals with one of the 145 battalions, including the Series 200 and the esoteric territorial battalions. The text has 42 tables, and a bibliography with more than 200 volumes. There are 100 pictures, including 33 never-published pictures of the PB 72 in Slovenia, taken from the massive photo-album of a platoon leader of the 2/72. New/Picture Boards.

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Book number: 160786

Keywords: 9789185657995

MARK ASHFIELD

Ferrets, a Tin Whistle and Haircuts at Home

Croyde Productions. 2000, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0953918602). Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good.

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Book number: 154950

Keywords: 0953918602

'UMAR S. AL-ASHQAR

The Final Day Part 1: The Minor Resurrection What Happens After Death in the Light of the Qur'an and the Sunnah: Islamic Creed Series 5

Riyadh, International Islamic Publishing House. 2003, 2nd Edition. (ISBN: 9960672794). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good/Picture Boards.

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Book number: 157655

Keywords: 9960672794

EDWIN ASTILL (EDITOR)

The Great War Diaries of Brigadier General Alexander Johnston 1914-1917

Barnsley, Pen & Sword Military. 2007, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 1844155811). Hard Cover, with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Alexander Johnston went over to France in August 1914 as the signals officer for 7 Infantry Brigade. He went on to serve in that capacity with 3rd Division before becoming, in turn, Brigade Major, Commanding Officer 10th Battalion Cheshire Regiment and finally Officer Commanding 126 Infantry Brigade. Throughout, he proved himself to be a brave, resourceful and determined soldier. He was always close to the front line, yet his signals and staff duties gave him insights into the conduct of the war at higher levels. Therein lies the value of this diary. Many of the major engagements of the war are covered. He took part in Mons, Le Cateau and the subsequent retreat and advance to the Aisne. The diary provides valuable insights into the battle of La Bassee and the trench warfare of 1915. As a Brigade Major he was kept busy in 1916 with both holding the line (in the face of intensive enemy mining operations) and the Somme battle. By 1917, his work in command of 10th Cheshire Regiment showed positive results in the battalion's performance at Messines and gained him promotion to Brigadier General. Within days of taking command, he was up at the front line where he was badly wounded. But for the wound Johnston may well have gained even higher command and wider acclaim for his services. The diary is an important addition to the literature of the Great War. New/New.

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Book number: 156607

Keywords: 1844155811