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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Blind Men and the Elephant by Bernth Lindfors
£5.00Africa World Press, Inc, 1999. First printing. 21.5cm by 14cm colour illustrated paperback with 200 pages. The full title is The Blind Men and the Elephant and other essays in biographical criticism and looks at the lives and works of writers including Chinua Achebe, Cyprian Ekwensi, Wole Soyinka and others. Condition: Slight edge-wear, flyer for…
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The Blue Coat Inheritance by Mike Matson 2012
£8.50The Blue Coat Inheritance by Mike Matson 2012 Volume One: The Eighteenth Century Blue Coat School. This paperback book measures 21cm by 15cm and has 240 pages. It is a first edition, published by M.C. Matson in 2012.This first volume about the 18th century Blue Coat School is subtitled Transition from Charity School to Grammar…
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The Cubist Epoch by Douglas Cooper Phaidon 1976
£8.50An examination of Cubism inside and beyond France featuring Braque, Picasso, Gris, Delaunay and more. Third impression published by Phaidon Press, six years after first edition. Paperback 24.5cm by 17.5cm, 320 pages, illustrated throughout with black and white and colour images. Condition: Spine sunned, cover edges a little worn, ownership bookplate inside front cover. Overall…
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The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
£3.00Fourth Estate, 1997. 22cm by 14cm black boards, 139 pages in illustrated dustwrapper. Condition: seemingly unread hardback book in price-clipped, slightly edge-worn dustwrapper.
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The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer 1993
£4.00The feminist classic first published in 1971, this is a paperback reprint by Flamingo in 1993. Book measures 20cm by 13cm with 397 printed pages. Condition: previously owned. Pages browned with age and some edge-wear to covers but contents clean and complete.
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The Interregnum The Quest for Settlement 1646-1660
£5.00The Interregnum The Quest for Settlement 1646-1660 edited by G.E. Aylmer revised reprint from Macmillan, 1979. This paperback book measures 21.5cm by 14cm and has 247 pages. It is a 1979 reprint of the revised edition which came out in 1974. The first edition was published in 1972. Each chapter has a different author including…
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The Life of Billy Purves Facsimile of 1875 edition
£5.00Published by Frank Graham, 6 Queen’s Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 2PL, 1982. 18cm by 12cm, 149 pages. Billy Purvis (1784-1853) was North East England’s famous jester and clown. This book, sub-titled “The extraordinary, witty and comical showman”, is a facsimile edition of the 1875 edition. Condition: white covers browned at edges with age, original…
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The Little Brown Nut Book by David Eno
£10.00The Juniper Press, 1979. First edition. Subtitled The sane man’s guide to cooking with nuts! with text and illustrations by David Eno and calligraphy by Jenny Ivermee. 14.5cm by 10.5cm, 30 pages brown card wraps. A delightful recipe book in praise of all kinds of nuts. Condition: slightly faded with sun to the edges of…
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The Observer’s Book of Birds by S. Vere Benson 1968
£8.00Frederick Warne, 1968. Third reprint of the 1965 Revised Edition. Brown boards, 14.5cm x 9cm, 223 pages with b&w plus colour illustrations throughout. Condition: Slightly faded and worn boards but clean contents in somewhat soiled, edge-worn, chipped and torn dustwrapper. See photos.
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The Tale of Driver Grope by Richard Ingrams and Ralph Steadman
£28.00Dobson, 1969. First edition. 29cm by 21cm blue boards illustrated throughout by Ralph Steadman. It might have been published by a children’s publisher but this is a title for adults to read, digest and act on. Richard “Private Eye” Ingrams wrote this messed up fairy tale of greed, capitalism, and environmental concerns. Ralph Steadman provided…
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The White Fish Industry by The White Fish Authority
£4.00Designed and Produced by Mather & Crowther Limited, [1960s]. Printed at The Curwen Press Limited, Plaistow, E13. 20cm by 15cm, 44 pages. Green glazed wraps. Front cover declares: “Issued by the White Fish Authority for use by Senior Pupils and Teaching Staff.” The Acknowledgements section begins: “The White Fish Authority wish to acknowledge the very…
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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Fifth Series 1986
£5.00Green cloth hardback 22cm by 14cm with 301 pages. Includes society President G.E. Aylmer’s Address entitled Collective Mentalities in mid Seventeenth-Century England: The Puritan Outlook. Condition: Minor shelf-wear to boards and spine but otherwise clean and bright.
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Victor Burgin Mari Mahr Mitra Tabrizian 1986 Photographers’ Gallery exhibition catalogue
£8.50PRESS & The Photographers’ Gallery. Published to accompany the exhibition Idle Times by Mari Mahr, Correct Distance by Mitra Tabrizian at the Photographers’ Gallery, London, January 1986. 21cm by 15cm white wraps 36 pages. Includes black and white images throughout plus article Diderot, Barthes, Hieroglyph by Victor Burgin written January 1985. Condition: Contents clean but…
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Wildfowl Management on Inland Waters, 1969
£10.00Wildfowl Management on Inland Waters booklet 3 produced by Eley Game Advisory Station, 1969. First published in 1969 this is book three in the Game Management Booklets produced by Eley Games Advisory Station of Fordingbridge, Hampshire for Eley Ammunition Division. This 21cm by 15cm booklet has 80 pages and includes information on hatching, rearing and…