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Begat by David Crystal
£4.00Oxford University Press, 2010. First edition. 22cm by 14cm blue boards in illustrated wrapper, 327 pages. Sub-titled “The King James Bible and the English Language.” Condition: minimal shelf-wear to board edges and wrapper. Appears unread.
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Bod’s New Leaf by Alison and Lo Cole
£5.00Contender Entertainment, 2003. 16cm by 16.5cm white illustrated boards. In 2002 and 2003 Contender published Bod’s Way and Bod’s New Leaf , written by Alison Cole and illustrated by Lo Cole. The books revived their parents’ much-loved creation – the book and TV character Bod. The books explore the quirky world of Bod and his…
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Bod’s Present by Michael and Joanne Cole
£7.00Methuen and Co, 1982. Reprint paperback. 14cm by 13cm small format storybook with colour images throughout. A Magnet Book. Husband and wife Michael and Joanne Cole’s Bod first appeared in book form in 1965 before transformation into children’s TV hit in the following decade. Features Bod on a snowy Christmas Eve, taking a present to…
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Bod’s Present by Michael and Joanne Cole 1975
£10.00Methuen and Co, 1975. First paperback edition. 14cm by 13cm small format storybook with colour and black and white images throughout. Husband and wife Michael and Joanne Cole’s Bod first appeared in book form in 1965 before transformation into children’s TV hit in the following decade. This first paperback edition came a decade after the…
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Bod’s Present by Michael and Joanne Cole First edition 1965
£18.00Methuen and Co, 1965. First edition. Hardback 16cm by 13cm small format storybook with colour and black and white images throughout. Husband and wife Michael and Joanne Cole’s Bod first appeared in book form in 1965 before transformation into children’s TV hit in the following decade. Bod on BBC followed the Coles’ classic Fingerbobs and…
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Bugles For Beiderbecke by Charles H. Wareing & George Garlick
£10.00A Jazz Book Club Production, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1960. Gold decorated green boards 19cm by 12.5cm, 333 pages in turquoise illustrated wrapper. Number 22 in the series and this book is all about Bix Beiderbecke. Condition: Book tight with minimal bumping to spine ends and pages uniformly browned with age in edge-worn dustwrapper (some…
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Clangers Annual 1971 by Postgate and Firmin
£22.00Odhams, 1970. 31cm x 22.5cm, colour photo boards illustrated throughout with colour and black and white images. Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin gave us Noggin the Nog, Pogles Wood, Ivor the Engine, Bagpuss and The Clangers. This beautiful TV tie-in shows you how to make a felt Clanger toy. A friend of ours was lucky…
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Corvus A Life with Birds by Esther Woolfson
£3.00Granta, 2008. 20cm by 13cm, 337 pages. Illustrated by Helen Macdonald. The back cover describes this as a “beguiling blend of memoir and natural history…” Condition: Minimal shelf-wear and pages a little browned with ages. Appears unread.
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Cycling Accessories Price List Ron Kitching Ltd, Harrogate
£10.00Price list for Ron Kitching Ltd, Cycling Centre, Harrogate. Printed by Walker Parker (Keighley) Ltd. Devonshire House, West Lane, Keighley. Undated but presumably printed in the 1960s as the prices are pre-decimal. 22cm by 14cm pink wraps, 48 pages featuring British Hub, Campagnolo, Milremo, Reg, Vittoria and more. Condition: Staples on spine rusted and fading…
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Days of Yore A History of Masham and district compiled by Susan Cuncliffe-Lister
£10.00Published by Susan Cunliffe-Lister, 1978. 23cm x 15cm, 213 pages, b&w photos, illustrations and maps throughout. A history of North Yorkshire’s Masham from Early Britons up to 1970s. There is an unsent, unused postcard of Masham’s Market Place laid in. Condition: clean contents but covers somewhat worn and yellowed with age plus page edges browned.
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Dickens at Doughty Street by John Greaves 1975
£8.00Elm Tree Books, 1975. First edition. Paperback 21.5cm by 14cm, 197 pages with black and white photos and a Foreword by Monica Dickens. The author was at the time of writing, Honorary Secretary of the Dickens Fellowship. This book details the time Charles Dickens and his wife Kate spent in 48 Doughty Street in Bloomsbury,…
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Dolls’ Houses by Caroline Goodfellow
£8.50Published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO), London, 1976. Victoria & Albert Museum Small Colour Book 10. 15cm by 12.5cm 12 page booklet in colour card covers. Condition: slight soiling to covers but contents clean.
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Dying by John Hinton
£2.50Penguin, 1967. A Pelican Original. 13cm by 11cm, 208 pages. Title page has the following quote: “Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye,” La Rochefoucauld 1613-80. Condition: Covers creased and edge-worn, pages browned with age.
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Enlightenment by Roy Porter
£3.00Penguin, 2001. Reprint. 20cm by 13cm, 727 pages. Sub-titled: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World and described by one reviewer as “A sparkling compendium of eighteenth-century ideas-in-action….” Condition: Minor edge-wear to corners of wraps and page edges are uniformly browned/yellowed with age. Looks unread.
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Eve Was Framed by Helena Kennedy
£3.00Vintage, 1993. 19.5cm by 13cm colour illustrated wraps, 285 pages. Sub-titled ” Women and British Justice” this is an impassioned exposé of British justice by then barrister and Queen’s Counsel and now Baroness and Labour member of the House of Lords, Helena Kennedy. Condition: Covers slightly edge-worn and pages unifromly browned with age.
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Film Theory Goes To The Movies ed. Collins, Radner, Collins Routledge 1993
£8.00Routledge, 1993. First UK edition edited by Jim Collins, Hilary Radner and Ava Preacher Collins. 23cm by 15.5cm, 295 pages. Includes “provocative analyses of such popular films as The Silence of the Lambs, Dances with Wolves, Terminator II, Pretty Woman…” and more. Condition: Very Good indeed clean copy with minimal wear to edges.
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Five Stories About Michael Portillo Remembered by James Johnston
£10.0014.5cm by 10.5cm black and white stapled booklet, 12 pages. Privately printed. Illustrated by Emily Ross. I picked up this booklet in The Left Luggage Room, a bar on Monkseaton Metro Station in North East England in 2018 or 2019. Condition: one tiny beer stain on front cover.
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Full House by M.J. Farrell (Molly Keane)
£4.00Virago Press, 1988. Reprint. Virago Modern Classic Number 232. 20cm by 13cm 320 pages. Irish writer. Virago Modern Classics. Condition: page edges uniformly browned plus distinctive lush green cover edges a little worn with creasing towards spine on front cover. Very Good.
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Gilbert and Sullian The Savoy Operas
£3.00Macmillan, 1967. A Macmillan Papermac. Sub-titled: “The Complete Text of the Gilbert and Sullivan Operas as Originally Produced in the Years 1875-1896 by Sir W.S. Gilbert.” Lyrics only. This is not a music score. 18cm by 11cm, coloured illustrated covers, 660 pages. Condition: edge-wear to covers and page edges, fly-leaf/possibly half-title page torn out.
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Glastonbury or The English Jerusalem by Rev C Marson 1925
£8.00Glastonbury or The English Jerusalem by Rev C.L. Marson.Third edition, 1925 published by The George Gregory Bookstore, Bath. Subtitled The Historic Guide to the English Jerusalem with sketches by H.S. Stewart and other illustrations. Bluecloth hardback 18.5cm by 12.5cm, 106 pages.The author’s Preface begins “In presenting a short outline of a splendid subject, the writer…
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Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves by Sarah B. Pomeroy
£4.00Pimlico, 1994. UK paperback. 21.5cm by 13.5cm, 265 pages. Sub-titled “Women in Classical Antiquity,” Mary Beard describes this as “The classic, groundbreaking account of women’s lives in Greece and Rome…” Condition: Crease to front cover plus slight edge-wear to covers and browning with age to pages.
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Granta 101, Spring 2008
£3.00The Magazine of New Writing edited by Jason Cowley and featuring Hilary Mantel, Annie Proulx, Douglas Coupland and more.21cm by 14.5cm 286 pages. Condition: Miniscule shelf-wear. Appears unread. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask for more details.
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Granta 53, Spring 1996
£3.00A paperback magazine of new writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue’s theme is News and features Zoe Heller, Gordon Burn, Fintan O’Toole and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 256 pages. Condition: Crease down front cover and covers slightly yellowed with age. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask…
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Granta 54, Summer 1996
£3.00A Paperback magazine of new writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled The Best of Young American Novelists and features Jonathan Franzen, Jeffrey Eugenides, Fae Myenne Ng, Mona Simpson and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 320 pages. Condition: A few pages to the rear of the book have creasing to the bottom corner plus…
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Granta 56, Winter 1996
£3.00A Paperback Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled: What Happened to Us? Britain’s Valedictory Realism and features John Banville on Anthony Blunt plus Hilary Mantel, Hanif Kureishi, Philip Hensher, Fintan O’Toole and more.21cm by 14.5cm 254 pages. Condition: A Very Good clean copy. N.B. We have more copies of…
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Granta 72, Winter 2000
£3.00The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack and featuring Richard Ford, Olga Tokarczuk, Nik Cohn, A.L. Kennedy and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 254 pages. Condition: Clean contents but crease the spine of front cover. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask for more details.
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Granta 73, Spring 2001
£3.00The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled Necessary Journeys and features Ian McEwan on Dunkirk plus Decca Aitkenhead, Dayanita Singh, Isabel Hilton plus the untold story of how the FBI pursued James Baldwin. 21cm by 14.5cm 256 pages. Condition: edge-wear to covers and page edges. N.B. We have more…
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Granta 80 Winter 2002
£3.00The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled The Group: Pictures from Previous Lives and features Geoff Dyer, Luke Harding, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul Theroux and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 254 pages. Condition: Minimal edge-wear and slight curling to the front cover. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in…
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Granta 82, Summer 2003
£3.00The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled Life’s Like That and features Simon Gray, Lynn Barber and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 254 pages. Condition: some shelf-wear. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask for more details.
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Granta 84, Winter 2003
£3.00The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. This issue is titled Over There How America Sees The World and features Edmund White, James Kelman, Paul Theroux, Studs Terkel, Gary Shteyngart and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 256 pages. Condition: Minimal edge-wear with a couple of Granta leaflets laid in. N.B. We have more copies…
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Granta 89, Spring 2005 The Factory
£3.00The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack and featuring Isabel Hilton, Luc Sante, Tessa Hadley plus a rare interview with James Joyce. 21cm by 14.5cm 256 pages. Condition: very clean and tight. Appears unread. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask for more details.
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Granta 94, Summer 2006
£3.00The Magazine of New Writing edited by Ian Jack. Travel writing special featuring John Burnside, Michel Faber, Tessa Hadley and more. 21cm by 14.5cm 256 pages. Condition: Clean contents but slight wear and creasing to covers. N.B. We have more copies of Granta in stock but as yet uncatalogued. Ask for more details.
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Hatching Game Birds’ Eggs in Incubators 1966
£10.00Hatching Game Birds’ Eggs in Incubators booklet 11b, produced by Eley Game Advisory Station, 1966. First published in 1961, this is a revised edition from Autumn 1966. It is book 11b in the Game Management Booklets produced by Eley Games Advisory Station of Fordingbridge, Hampshire for Eley Ammunition Division.. This 21cm by 15cm booklet comprises…
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Images of a Nightingale by Susan Coventry 1990
£5.00First paperback edition published by Beauclerk Publishing in 1990. The author’s memoir of training at Florence Nightingale’s training school for nurses at St Thomas’s Hospital in Lambeth, London in the 1950s. The nurses were known as Nightingales. A paperback measuring 20.5cm by 14cm with 182 pages. Condition: There is some wear and soiling to page…
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Inventing Leonardo by A. Richard Turner 1995
£10.00Subtitled “The Anatomy of a Legend,” this is a stimulating book on the life, art and legacy of Leonardo Da Vinci by a Professor of Fine Arts. First UK edition published by Papermac in 1995. 23.5cm x 17.5cm, 268 pages, with black and white illustrations. Condition: Some wear and soiling with age to covers and…
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James Hawker’s Journal: A Victorian Poacher
£3.00Oxford University Press, First paperback issue, 1978. Edited and Introduced by Garth Christian. Illustrated by Lynton Lamb. 19.5 cm by 13cm colour illustrated wraps, 113 pages. Condition: Sunning to cover edges and some spotting to page edges.
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Jung by Anthony Storr
£3.00Fontana, 1986. Reprint paperback, 19.5cm by 13cm, 124 pages. Fontana Modern Masters series. Editor: Frank Kermode. Condition: Some wear and creasing with use to covers, pages uniformly browned with age, previous owner has turned over a few page corners and left a neat ink signature on the fly-leaf.
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Leonard McComb Drawings Painting Sculpture catalogue 1983
£15.00Catalogue of UK touring exhibition 1983-84 organised by the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford and the Arts Council of Great Britain. 27cm by 22cm grey wraps, 85 pages, includes colour and black and white photos of McComb’s work plus a piece on the artist by Richard Morphet. The exhibition visited London, Oxford, Sussex, Manchester and…
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Lewis Carroll’s Ripon by Maurice Taylor
£5.00Did you know Lewis Carroll visited Ripon during sixteen of his creative years? This pamphlet “attempts to put that into context.” Printed by Ripon Cathedral, 2005. Reprint of 1998 first edition. 21cm by 14.5cm , 16 pages, illustrated throughout with mostly b&w photos and illustrations. Condition: Clean contents but some wear to spine and slight…
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Madness A Brief History by Roy Porter
£3.50Oxford University Press, 2002. 17cm by 12cm illustrated wraps, 239 pages. Oliver Sacks described this as “ delightfully easy to read, witty, and small enough to fit in one’s pocket…” Condition: Minimal shelf-wear.
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Mainly for Teenagers by Dave and Susan Foster 1960
£5.00Vintage moral instruction manual from the 1960s. Published at the start of the Swinging Sixties this book by husband and wife team Dave and Susan attempt to guide teenagers through tricky years to adulthood. Chapter titles include “Babes With Bibles”, “Where Are You?” and “This Thing Called Love!” Published by Oliphants Limited in 1960 this…
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Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
£3.50Penguin, 2000. Reprint Penguin Modern Classics. 19.5cm by 13cm illustrated wraps, 288 pages. Introduction by Paul Bailey who writes of this novel: “a timeless masterpiece…every page is informed by her profound scholarship…” Condition: Slight shelf-wear with light browning with age to page edges. Appears unread.
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Nogbad Comes Back! by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin 1972
£15.00Kaye & Ward, 1972. First edition thus of this paperback reprint of title first published in hardback in 1966. Edmund Ward ‘Starting to Read’ Books Number 4. 19cm by 15cm, 47 pages. Noggin is a kind king, married to kind queen Nooka but Nogbad the Bad is unkind. Condition: Bottom edge has a dent and…
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Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Tyne and Wear Museums Edited by Sonia Roe 2008
£30.00First paperback edition, 2008. Published by The Public Catalogue Foundation. 28.5cm by 23cm, 368 pages, illustrated throughout with 2,500 of colour photos of paintings from the Tyne and Wear Museums Service, many of which have never been illustrated in print before. The Public Catalogue Foundation was set up to record the nation’s entire collection of…
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Pieter Bruegel and the fall of the art historian by John White
£8.00University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1980. 21cm by 15cm cream wraps, 28 pages with eight black and white plates. The 56th Charlton Lecture on Art delivered in the University of Newcastle on the 30th November 1978 by John White , Durning- Lawrence Professor of the History of Art at University College, London. The Charlton Lecture…
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Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson 1990
£4.00Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990. Son Nigel wrote this biog of his parents Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville West. First published in1973 this 19.5cm x 13cm 216 page paperback features still from the 1990 TV series starring Janet McTeer as Vita. Condition: Previous owner has written her name and a couple of numbers on the final…
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Present Lives Future Becoming by Cosmo Pieterse and George Hallett 1974
£35.00Sub-titled: A South African Landscape in words and pictures, this collection of poetry, prose and photos is by eminent South African playwright, poet, literary critc, Pieterse and fellow South African, George Hallett, known for his work during Apartheid and the country’s early democracy. First edition. Hickey Press, Surrey, 1974. 29.5cm x 21cm, 90 pages illustrated…
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Rat City Poems from Northern Ireland by Mike Jenkins
£15.00Edge Press, Barry, Wales, 1979. Published in a limited edition of 300 copies. 21cm by 14.5cm, 22 pages. Jenkins is a Welsh poet born in 1953 and has been published for over 40 years. This pamphlet is one of his earliest. Jenkins is also the father of Plaid Cymru politician Bethan Sayed and the journalist…
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Rebel Males: Clift, Brando and Dean by Graham McCann
£5.00Hamish Hamilton, 1991. First edition examining the life, career and legacy of Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando and James Dean. 23.5cm by 15.5cm. 214 pages. Condition: Some creasing to spine and edge-wear to covers. Clearly been read but clean contents.
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Recherches botaniques et zoologiques effectuées, en 1926 et 1927
£10.00Rouen, 1926. 25cm by 17cm, printed pages numbered from 140 to 203 with four black and white plates. Full title: Recherches botaniques et zoologiques effectuées, en 1926 et 1927 dans le cirque d’Espingo et la partie supérieure du val du port de Vénasque (canton de Bagneres-de-Luchon, Haute-Garonne). Stamped with the “Society For British Entomology” throughout….
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Russell Cotes Art Gallery and Museum Bournemouth Souvenir
£5.00Clarke & Sherwell, Gravure Printers, [1956]. 21.5cm by 14.5cm, 48 pages. Includes 70 illustrations (photogravure images) of works of art added to the permanent collection between 1933 and 1956. Includes work by Harold Knight, Madeline Wells and Dorothea Sharp. Condition: Wear to spine and some browning to covers.
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Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara & Other Writings by Tim Robinson
£5.00The Liliput Press, Dublin, 1996. First paperback edition. 21.5cm by 13.5cm, 217 pages. “In these fourteen related works we witness a great writer, artist and cartographer united with his subject, conveying the vivid experiences of a quarter-century of exploring and mapping the Aran Islands, the Burren and Connemara.” Condition: Covers a little edge-worn and some…
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Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax An Illustrated History ofthe Board of Trade 1786-1986 by Susan Foreman
£8.00This book blends British commercial and social history spanning two hundred years with the story of the UK Board of Trade. It is illustrated with contemporary cartoons, portraits and photographs and mentions the Board’s many distinguished presidents including Gladstone, Lloyd George and Winston Churchill. The book measures 21cm x 20cm, has 153 pages and is…
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Strix magazine No. 3 Spring 2018
£5.00Poetry and Short Fiction magazine edited by Ian Harker and Andrew Lambeth and printed in Leeds, 2018. 29.5cm by 15cm brown card wraps. Features Glyn Edwards, Tom Kelly, Jane Burn, Joe Williams, Jayne Shipley and more. Condition: Minimal edge-wear to covers. Near Fine.
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Strix magazine No. 5 Autumn 2018
£5.00Poetry and Short Fiction magazine printed in Leeds, 2018. 29.5cm by 15cm brown card wraps. Features Jane Burn, Joe Williams, Ian Harker, Arji Manuelpillai and more. Condition: Covers slightly soiled and edge-worn.
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Strix magazine No. 6 Winter/Spring 2019
£5.00Poetry and Short Fiction magazine edited by SJ Bradley, Ian Harker and Andrew Lambeth and printed in Leeds. 29.5cm by 15cm brown card wraps. Features Jane Burn, Joe Williams, Lydia Harris, Avril Joy and more. Condition: Minimal edge-wear to covers. Near Fine.
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Surprise of Your Life by Eamonn Andrews INSCRIBED to Bob Holness 1978
£40.00“Dah, Dah, Dah, Daaah!” went the opening bars of This Is Your Life’s theme tune. When those notes started up it was after Eamonn Andrews had taken off the false moustache/preposterous “disguise” and, er, revealed himself to the celebrity he was about to spend the next half hour embarrasing with guests and biographical details. This…
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Tacitus Agricola, Clarendon Press 1953
£10.00Tacitus Agricola edited by H Furneaux Roman history book. Second edition published Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1953. The title page reads “Cornelii Taciti de Vita Agricolae edited by H. Furneaux Second Edition Revised and Largely Rewritten by J.G.C. Anderson with contributions by the late Professor F Haverfield.” This hardback book measures 19cm by 13cm…
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Tangles and Starbursts Living with Dementia by Sharon Bailey and Julia Darling
£8.50Alzheimer’s Society North Tyneside Branch, 2001. First edition. Oblong 21cm by 15cm illustrated wraps. A book of photographs by Sharon Bailey with text edited by the late, great North East-based writer, Julia Darling who died in 2005. A moving collection of oral testimonies of living with dementia edited by Darling, accompanied by Bailey’s photos. Produced…
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The Birth Rug by Iain Sinclair
£30.00Albion Village Press, 1973 in an edition of 200. Blue and silver wraps and blue pages filled with poetry and images, 21.5cm by 14.5cm. From the library of the late poet, publisher and editor Richard Caddell (1949-2003) Condition: There are brown marks on spine plus front and rear wraps from sunning but contents clean an…