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100 views of Oxford
none stated
Alfred Savage Ltd., Oxford
Hardcover pb, 25 x 19 cm., 28 pp., sepia photos. v/good.
Price: $12.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 12562 Bookseller: Facts and Fiction
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1066 The Year of the Three Battles
McLynn, Frank
ISBN: 9780316730327
Jonathan Cape UK 1998 1st Edition
Hardcover Minor soiling to page edges; light rubbing and bumping to board edges; JACKET: Moderate soiling to white jacket; small chipping and tearing to spine ends and corners; small surface tear to back of jacket. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall Very Good in Good dust jacket
Price: $35.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 11870 Bookseller: Retriever Books
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1603: A Turning Point in British History
Lee, Christopher
ISBN: 0747234086
Review January 2003
8vo softcover 368pp very good. In 1603 the Elizabethan era ended with the last Tudor monarch's death, and the Stuart dynasty began with the coronation of James I (formerly James VI of Scotland). Lee gives the political background by skillfully summarizing the past intrigues of the Tudor era. Drawing on chronicles, diaries and letters, Lee paints a lively picture of the society that the new king inherited. A condensed biography of James (the only son of Mary, Queen of Scots) details his birth, his mother's political intrigues and execution, and his schooling and marriage. A meandering middle section describes James's uncertain procession south from Scotland to his coronation in London. Vivid snapshots of the plague and of witch-hunting, a dense account of the demise of Walter Raleigh, an outline of London's theater world, a glimpse of Irish revolt and tales of early empire-building voyages make absorbing reading.
Price: $15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 46491 Bookseller: Dial a Book
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30 Days: A Month At The Heart Of Blair’s War
Peter Stothard
ISBN: 0007173210
Harper Collins Publishers London, Great Britain 2003 First Edition
Soft Cover 244 pages. Black and white photographs. For thirty extraordinary days, in March and April 2003, Tony blair defied street protests, party revolts, allied anger and government resignations in order to send British troops to Iraq to oust Saddam Hussein. Excellent
Price: $7.50 (AUD)
Book Number: 034750 Bookseller: Leura Books
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617 Squadron : The Dambusters at War
Tom Bennett
ISBN: 1852600411
Patrick Stephens Limited Great Britain 1987
Paperback 272pages. Although it was the Dam raids of 1943 that threw 617 squadron into history and legend. This squadron went on to complete many more precision attacks on vital targets in occupied Europe. 16 pages of black and white photographs, some foxing to the edges of pages. Good to Very Good
Price: $25.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 028371 Bookseller: Leura Books
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9 Poets
Edited By F. J. Allsopp and O. W. Hunt
ISBN: 0070200378
McGraw Hill Australia 1975 Reprint
Paperback 203 pages. An anthology for year 11. Very minor creasing along spine, edges and corners of cover. Very minor foxing to edge of pages, endpaper and titlepage. Good to Very Good
Price: $5.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 024785 Bookseller: Leura Books
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A Book Of Scotland
Harvey, George Rowntree
Adam and Charles Black London 1949 First Edition
4to - up to 12" tall - Quarto Hard Cover 890 g.; VIII, 216 pages, list of illustrations and photographs, index. Coloured illustrated frontispiece, showing The Island of Rum, from Arisaig by W. Smith, Junior. The text is illustrated with 30 coloured illustrated plates and 32 black-and-white photographs throughout the text. Sky blue coloured cloth covered boards with square cameo insert, in red, on the front panel and within the insert a silver Scottish heraldry Lion. Red insert to the backstrip and within that insert silver titles. Bumping to the backstrip edges, top book edge and rubbing to the book corners. Light fading to the book panels and browning to the text block edges. Browning and offset tanning to the endpapers and age toning of the internal text. Original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste-down. A book on Scotland from the 1940s. But not only a travel guide but a potted history of places visited, Scottish Society and of the arts within Scotland. Digital image available upon request to help assess condition. Travel Writing Good
Price: $14.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0108768 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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A Brand from the Burning; The Life of John Wesley
Hattersley, Roy
ISBN: 0316860204
Little Brown London 2002 First Edition
8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo Black Boards 855 g.; VIII, 456 pages, last five pages blank (intentionally), aknowledgements, author's note, notes and references and index. Illustrated endpapers showing John Wesley preaching to a sea of male faces. The text is illustrated with eight black-and-white contemporary illustrations between pages 216 and 217. Black coloured boards with metallic red titles to the backstrip. A small crease to the lower quarter of the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper with red background and gold and white titles to the front panel and white titles to the backstrip. A little rubbing and creasing to the top and bottom dustwrapper edges and fading to the backstrip. Author photograph to the rear fold over panel. The biography of John Wesley founder of the Methodist Church, leader of the Second Reformation and itinerant preacher. Though physically unprepossessing he was a man of irresistible dynamism and enthusiasm coming from his absolute belief that he was called to do Gods Work. He was however, a man not a saint, and he spent his life between duty and desire. Digital image available upon request to help assess condition. ***** PLEASE NOTE: This book weighs more than 1 kg [ 2.2 lbs ] packed, and extra postage will be requested for delivery outside of Australia. Biography Very Good
Price: $26.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0106852 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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A Child’s History Of England
Charles Dickens
Oxford University Press Great Britain
Dust Jacket Protected with New Plastic Covering Hard Cover c1950. The Fireside Dickens423 pages. With four illustrations. Previous owners name on front blank endpaper. Dust jacket price clipped and has a small piece missing on spine edge. Good
Price: $15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 014127 Bookseller: Leura Books
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A Christmas Story
Richard Burton
ISBN: 0393030342
W. W. Norton & Company USA 1991 First US Edition
Dust Jacket Protected with New Plastic Covering Hard Cover 41 pages. B/w photographs. Green cloth cover. Slight scuffing to dust jacket. Near Fine
Price: $7.50 (AUD)
Book Number: 021226 Bookseller: Leura Books
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A Classic of English Farming; Hodge and His Masters
Jefferies, Richard (Henry Williamson -- Editor]
Faber and Faber London 1948 Reprint
8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo Hard Cover 320 g.; (4) 5-340 pages, introduction by editor. Purple coloured cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping to the lower backstrip edge and book corners. Fading to the backstrip, commensurate with the loss of dustwrapper, and some faint rubs to the book panels. Browning to the text block edges. Browning and offset tanning to the endpapers and age toning of the internal text. Previous owners details to the top right-hand corner of the free front end paper. Plain text dustwrapper with dark cream coloured background with back and read titles to the front panel and back titles to the backstrip. Chipping to be dustwrapper corners and backstrip edges. Rubbing to the dustwrapper edges and dustwrapper panels and considerable browning of the backstrip. The lower 0.5 " of the backstrip is missing, there is a piece missing from the top backstrip measuring 1.75 " x 1.25 ", and a smaller hole is also present 3 inches from the bottom edge. There is a 2.5 " curving tear to the top left-hand corner of the rear dustwrapper panel. Clipping of the dustwrapper, front fold over, lower right-hand corner. The author, who died in 1887 at aged 37, wrote about mid-Victorian rural life in the county of Wiltshire detailing the lives of its labourers, small-holders, Parsons .... Digital image available upon request to help assess condition. History -- British Good
Price: $16.50 (AUD)
Book Number: 0110464 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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A Companion to Irish History, 1603-1921: From the Submission of Tyrone to Partition
Newman, Peter R.
ISBN: 081602572X
Facts on File Oxford, Britain 1991 First Edition
8 vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Hardcover 600 g; XII, 244 pages, includes six pages of maps, bibliography, chronology from 1601 -- 1921, sundry appendices, and arranged alphabetically in double column format. In original hardcover binding with colour illustrated dustjacket. The book shows no damage, the dustjacket has a short tear of approximately half an inch at the top of the rear fold over crease. In a -- Z format of the Companion examines the personalities, organisations, policies, legislation, battles, philosophies and beliefs which moulded the course of events during this turbulent 300 years of island's history: -- front fold over blurb History -- Ireland Very Good
Price: $22.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0227764 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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a complete Handbook to Hampton Court.
Summerley, Felix ( Sir Henry Cole KCB)
George Bell & Sons Covent Gardens 1878 New Edition
16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall Softcover 100 g; 128 pages, softcover binding, with thin illustrated yellow cover which is torn and chipped and rubbed and grubby. There is pasted to the inside cover and the verso of the frontispiece illustration a five panel by two panel folded map of district Railway in colour which shows no damage; and has on its verso various advertisements. The book proper is illustrated with black-and-white engravings. Foxing to the edges of the pages, and one page while entire does have a 3 inch tear across the middle. The book is suited to rebinding, with only the covers in need of restoration. A picture can be provided to help assess condition. Suburb -- Guide Ordinary
Price: $40.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0227784 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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A Concise Economic History of Britain - From The Earliest Times to A.D. 1750
Sir John Clapham
Cambridge University Press Cambridge, England 1949 First Edition
Dust jacket protected with New Plastic Covering Hard Cover 324 pages. Ex-libris sticker to front endpaper. Dust jacket has been price-clipped. Discolouration and wear to dust jacket with few small tears to edges and spine. Foxing to page edges. Good
Price: $15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 051666 Bookseller: Leura Books
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a concise economic history of Britain from 1750 To Recent Times
Court, W. H. B.
Cambridge University Press London 1958 Reprint
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Red Cloth X, 368 pages, index, index of references; illustrated dust jacket. Previous owner's details at the top left-hand corner of front end page, the dust jacket is chipped at each of the corners (8), and has a 0.75 "tear at the left-hand side of the top of the backstrip. There is a number stamped in red ink of the top left-hand side of the front panel. Otherwise the book is unmarked. This volume concerns the economic life of Britain from 1750 to the beginning of the war of 1939. economic History Good
Price: $25.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0209455 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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A Concise Economic History of Britain from the Earliest Times to 1750
Clapham, Sir John
Cambridge at the University Press London 1957 Reprint
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Red Cloth XVIII, 324 pages, indexed, original illustrated dust jacket; dust jacket slightly darkened on the backstrip, rubbed at the head and tail of the backstrip cover, front fold over "Price clipped" at both the top and bottom corner. Very slight darkening of the page edges, otherwise the body of the book is in very good order. "Economic History is the story of man's work, particularly in agriculture, trade, and manufacture. This book presents a panorama of work in Britain, as it increases in skill and complexity, through the ages that separate the hunters of the prehistoric forests from the beginnings of a modern highly organised industrial estate." History -- Economics Very Good
Price: $20.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0209444 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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A Concise History of The British Empire
Gerald S. Graham
Book Club Associates London, England 1972
Dust Jacket Protected with New Plastic Covering Hard Cover With 248 illustrations and 2 maps. 288 pages. Light foxing to page edges. Very Good
Price: $15.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 015742 Bookseller: Leura Books
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A Condensed Life of the Right Honourable Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill; Prime Minister of Great Britain, with Impressions Formed from a Study of His Literary Works and from Collateral Reading
Fletcher, J. W.
new century Press Pty. Ltd. Sydney 1941 First Australian Edition
12mo - up to 7 ¾" tall - Duodecimo Olive Cloth 160 g.; XII, 92 pages, preface by author. Olive coloured boards with black titles to the backstrip. Bumping, rubbing and discoloration to the head and to the heel of the backstrip and rubbing to the book corners. Shelf wear and foxing to the top and bottom edges. The front board is slightly bowed. Staining to the top right-hand corner of the front panel. Browning and foxing to the text block edges. Browning, offset tanning and foxing to the endpapers. Original bookseller's stamp to the lower right-hand corner of the front taste-down. Uniform browning to the internal pagers and very light foxing to the first few pages. Photographic dustwrapper, showing Winston Churchill, with black titles to the front panel and backstrip. Rubbing and chipping, with loss, to the dustwrapper corners and to the head and to the heel of the backstrip. Rubbing, creasing and chipping to the top edge of the front dustwrapper panel and rubbing and creasing to the other edges. Heavy rubbing and handling marks to both the front and back dustwrapper panels. Sun darkening of the backstrip along with some staining. The front fold over crease has almost completely come away from the rest of the dustwrapper of due to insect activity. Light browning, foxing and staining to the verso of the dustwrapper. A small book put out at the beginning of World War II, by an Australian, in admiration for Sir Winston Churchill. Digital image available upon request. Biography -- Politics Reasonable
Price: $18.00 (AUD)
Book Number: 0106339 Bookseller: Syber's Books
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A Cottage Hospital Grows Up - The Story of the Queen Victoria Hospital East Grinstead
E. J. Dennison
Anthony Blond Great Britain 1963 First Edition
Dust jacket protected with New Plastic Covering Hard Cover 224 pages. The Queen Victoria Hospital, famous for the work of the late Sir Archibald McIndoe and his team of plastic surgeons during WWII, stems from a country cottage with beds for seven patients founded over 100 years ago. B/w photo plates, including Frontispiece. Lightly foxed on page edges. Red board cover. Dust jacket price clipped, rubbed on edges with a few small closed tears - now protected by new plastic covering. Good
Price: $17.50 (AUD)
Book Number: 051822 Bookseller: Leura Books
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