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Africa 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 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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£8.50
An 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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Fourth 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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£15.00
1st edition hardback book published by Leicester University Press, 1979. Greencloth hardback book measuring 22cm by 14cm with 208 pages with top edge of pages red in dustwrapper. The book catalogues all known pre-Conquest documents relating to land ownership in the counties of Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Oxfordshire and Surrey. Condition: Book has slightly…
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The 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 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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Published 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 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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Frederick 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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Oxford World’s Classics, [1990s]. 18.5cm by 11.5cm paperback with colour illustrated wraps, 174 pages. Edited with an Introduction by Adam Phillips. Condition: Some edge-wear to covers and pages uniformly browned at edges. Appears unread.
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£28.00
Dobson, 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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Designed 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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Green 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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£8.50
PRESS & 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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British Broadcasting Corporation, 1975. First edition. Paperback 17.5cm by 11cm, 175 pages with 8 pages of black and white photos. Tie-in with the BBC Radio 2 series set in Hampstead which ran from 1969 to 1980. Condition: covers a little edge-worn, pages uniformly browned with age.
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Wildfowl 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…