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A Gentleman of the Olden Time: Francois de Scepeaux, Sire de Vielleville 1509-1571 (Volume Two)
Coignet, C.
Richard Bentley & Son, 1887. First Edition
Hardcover (Embossed Cloth) Hardcover (Embossed Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. First Edition. History. This is the first UK edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Previous owner's signature in ink. Edges foxed and browned. Embossed cloth, covers and spine, beautifully preserved. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History. Inventory No: 7439. Very Good Condition
Price: 65.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 7439 Bookseller: Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
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City of the Plains - A History of Hastings
Boyd, M. B.
ISBN: 0864730225
Victoria University Press for The Hastings City Council, 1984. First Edition
Hardcover (Original Cloth) Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. First Edition. History. Signed by Author Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Edges browned slightly. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History. Signed by Author. ISBN: 0864730225 Inventory No: 6494. Very Good Condition
Price: 55.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 6494 Bookseller: Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
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The Life of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston 2 Vols
Bulwer, Sir Henry Lytton
Richard Bentley, 1870. Second Edition
Hardcover (Embossed Cloth) Hardcover (Embossed Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Second Edition. History. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Original spine missing, neatly taped with cloth binding tape. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Deckled edges (rough cut), browned. Both volumes have sustained considerable edgewear, while Vol. I's spine has lifted and been retaped. Text good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: History. Inventory No: 5931. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. Fair Condition
Price: 65.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 5931 Bookseller: Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
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Catherine the Great: Life and Legend
Alexander John T.
ISBN: 0195052366
Oxford University Press New York 1989 First Edition
Hard Cover 418 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. The woman who became catherine the Great led a life so full of varied activities in such exotic setings, amid so many dramatic events and memorable personalities, that it took on all the trappings of legend. Fine
Price: 15.43 (AUD)
Book Number: 026752 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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Thirty years with G.B.S.
Blanche Eliza Patch
Victor Gollancz Ltd London 1951 First Edition
Hard Cover 256 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page. Good
Price: 10.56 (AUD)
Book Number: 026747 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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Wisdom, Madness And Folly: The Making Of A Psychiatrist: 1927-1957.
Laing R. D.
ISBN: 0333370759
Macmillan London Ltd London 1985 First Edition
Hard Cover 146 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. Dr. Laing describes his childhood in Glascow, his sense of suffocation and how he felt deep programmed against living. As New
Price: 14.62 (AUD)
Book Number: 026745 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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Bernard Shaw And The Actresses: A Biography.
Peters Margot
ISBN: 0385
Doubleday And Co Inc New York 1980 First Edition
Hard Cover 461 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. 'Women' boasted Shaw,'never played an important part in my life'. Yet women exerted an enormous influence on him. Fine
Price: 15.43 (AUD)
Book Number: 026744 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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The Perfect Tribute: An Episode In The Life Of Abraham Lincoln.
Andrews Mary Raymond Shipman
Angus and Robertson Sydney 1939 First Edition
Hard Cover 44 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page. A story woven about Abraham Lincoln's famous oratory at the dedication of the national cemetery at Gettysburg. It is a perfect piece of literary art written with a tenderness of touch and delicacy of diction that make it one of the great little books of the world. Very Good
Price: 14.62 (AUD)
Book Number: 026733 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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Being Busted
Fielder Leslie A.
ISBN: 436155915
Martin Secker And Warburg Ltd London 1970 First Edition
Hard Cover 255 pages. Jacket is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page. For more than thirty years Dr. Fiedler has been one of the most contentious on the American literary and academic scene. His fame as a radical of high unorthodoxy is in fact world-wide.Now he tells,in a book that is as readable as it is important, of three occasions in his life when he fell foul of the police and the authorities. Fine
Price: 14.62 (AUD)
Book Number: 026721 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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Wainwright’s Beat: One Man’s Journey With A Police Force.
Wainwright John
ISBN: 0333435044
Macmillan London Ltd London 1987 First Edition
Hard Cover 245 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout, the only exception is a very small repair to jacket. Wainwright joined the West Riding of Yorkshire Constabulary in 1947 after his demobilisation from the RAF. Fine
Price: 14.62 (AUD)
Book Number: 026720 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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Sixty-Eight: The Year Of The Barricades
Caute David
ISBN: 0241121744
Hamish Hamilton London 1988 First Edition
Hard Cover 464 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. The year 1968 was the most turbulent since the end of World War II. The ruling establishments were challenged by demonstrations and barricades from Paris and Prague to Washington and Chicago, from Tokyo to rome and West Berlin. America's war in Vietnam united a generation in anger and disgust. Everywhere students were in the vanguard of revolt. Fine
Price: 23.56 (AUD)
Book Number: 026673 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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The New Villeneuve: A Life of Jacques Villeneuve
Collongs Timothy
ISBN: 0760304114
Motorbooks International Publi Osceola 1997 First Edition
Hard Cover 200 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout, the only exception is a small repair to back of jacket. Jacques, the son of the legendary Ferrari driver Gilles, proved in 1996 that he has all the hallmarks of a future formula one world drivers champion: in his first season as a Grand Prix driver, he finished as runner up to his Rothmans Williams Renault team mate Damon Hill. As New
Price: 14.62 (AUD)
Book Number: 026670 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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Secrets and Spies: The Harbin Files
Moustafine Mara
ISBN: 1740510917
Random House Australia P/L Milsons Point 2002 First Edition
Paperback 468 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout. With ther heartbreaking intimacy of a family album, this book unravels the complex historical forces which shaped a family's destiny. Harbin in North China was once the heart of a vibrant Russian community.In the mid 1930s the Japanese drove many Russians to seek refuge elsewhere. As New
Price: 10.56 (AUD)
Book Number: 026666 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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First Journey.
Churchill Winston S.
William Heinemann London 1964 First Edition
Hard Cover 225 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page. Grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, he piloted a single-engined Piper Comanche with a friend on an adventurous 20,000 mile journey over deserts, mountains and jungles which took them round the whole African continent. Very Good
Price: 18.68 (AUD)
Book Number: 026598 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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The Churchills
Fleming Kate
ISBN: 670222224
The Viking Press New York 1971 First Edition
Hard Cover 224 pages. Jacket is in Fair condition, there is some general wear, but still presentale. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page. Over two hundred years separate the two greatest members of the Churchill Family-John, Duke of marlborough, and Sir Winston -but their genius and achievements were extraordinarily similar. Both were bold and ambitious men, with a strong sense of public duty and a breadth of imagination that raised them head and shoulders above their contempories. Fine
Price: 14.62 (AUD)
Book Number: 026593 Bookseller: Marlowes Books
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Hostile Waters
Huchthausen Peter, Kurdin Igor, White R. Alan
ISBN: 0091802202
Hutchinson London 1997
Trade Paperback 303 pp. b/w photographs, crease on introduction page. On October 3, 1986: a nuclear disaster is poised to strike the United States. Only one man can stop it. A true story never revealed ... until now. MC 66590 F Very Good
Price: 20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 43818M Bookseller: Dee Why Books
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A Guide to Tuscany
Bentley James
ISBN: 0670802166
Viking England 1987 First Edition
8vo Hard Cover 254 pp. b/w photographs, d/j price-clipped on both corners Very Good
Price: 20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 43596 Bookseller: Dee Why Books
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The City Saints
Hughes M.V.
J.M Dent and Sons London 1932 First Edition
Crown 8vo Hard Cover 312 pp, with 45 illustrations by Herbert E. Weller, previous owner inscriptions on eps Very Good
Price: 30.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 43585 Bookseller: Dee Why Books
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Technology and the Raj: Western Technology and Technical Transfers to India, 1700-1947
Macleod, Roy; Kumar, Deepak
ISBN: 8170364663
Sage Publications New Delhi 1995
Hard Cover Explores various aspects of the history of technolgy and the history of European imperialism in South Asia in order to understand the relationship between technology and colonialism in British India. D/W spine sl. faded. Very Good
Price: 75.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 018078 Bookseller: Pamela Bakes at Page Two
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India: The Siege Within
Akbar, M.J.
ISBN: 0140075763
Penguin Group USA 1985 Reprint
Paperback Pages lightly tanned. Very Good
Price: 10.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 018062 Bookseller: Pamela Bakes at Page Two
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The English Social History 1066-1945
Hibbert, Christopher
ISBN: 0586084711
Paladin Books Great Britain 1988
Small Octavo (8vo), approx. 8" (200mm) tall. Trade Paperback Trade sized paperback, in a good condition overall. Solid, tight copy with some creasing to spine, minimal creasing to covers, some foxing on edges, inside covers & endpapers and lightly yellowed pages. Illustrated with colour and black & white photographs. We promptly respond to requests for more detailed description, scanned images, synopsis, on hand information. * Good
Price: 14.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 115075 Bookseller: BookSplendour
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Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair
Bossy, John
ISBN: 009914381X
Vintage Great Britain 1992
Small Octavo (8vo), approx. 8" (200mm) tall. Trade Paperback Trade sized paperback, in a near very good condition. Clean and tight copy with some creasing to covers & spine and lightly yellowed pages near edges. We answer questions and, if required, supply scanned images or further info, within 24 hours. * Very Good
Price: 9.50 (AUD)
Book Number: 115058 Bookseller: BookSplendour
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KOKODA
Fitzsimons Peter
ISBN: 0733619622
Hodder 2005 Reprint
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Paperback Very Good condition. An evocative overview of the Kokoda campaign, following perspectives of the Australian troops, the Japanese, and the local people. Very Good
Price: 28.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 007350 Bookseller: Little Lane Books
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