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Letters of Horace Walpole , Earl of Orford to Sir Horace Mann, British Envoy At the Court of Tuscany. 3 Volumes

By: DOVER [ED]

Price: £55.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley: 1833

Seller ID: 73495

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

1st ed 1833, 3 volumes, sl foxing of prelims vol 1, frontis, bound in original grey buckram spines .blue boards, sl rubbed and marked, paper spine labels; Octavo
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The Pilgrim of Eternity Byron - A Conflict

By: DRINKWATER John

Price: £9.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1925

Seller ID: 73714

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xv+ 416pp, illustrated, bound in blue cloth, some foxing, spine sunned; Quarto
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A Prospect of Richmond

By: DUNBAR Janet

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, Harrap: 1966

Seller ID: 054470

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

ALS from the Author; 216pp,pp, illustrated, maps on endpapers, bound in green cloth with dustwrapper in protective covers. Loosely inserted is a letter from the Author ; Octavo
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A Field Guide to Narnia

By: DURIEZ Colin

Price: £6.99

Publisher: Stroud, Sutton Publishing: 2005

Seller ID: 052015

ISBN: 0750938765

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in New dust jacket

xi + 228 pp. Bibliography. illustrations., New book originally published at 20; Quarto
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The C. S. Lewis Encyclopedia A Comprehensive Guide to His Life Thoughts and Writing

By: DURIEZ Colin

Price: £4.99

Publisher: London, Azure: 2002

Seller ID: 052460

ISBN: 1902694260

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

240pp, fine softbakl, New book originally published at 16.95; Octavo
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Louis Jolliet Explorer of Rivers

By: Eifert, Virginia S

Price: £9.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd Mead and Co: 1961

Seller ID: 73829

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Xii + 242pp, with maps by James Macdonald, bound in grey cloth, no d/w; Octavo
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Portrait of a Pioneer A Biography of Howell Thomas Evans

By: EVANS Lyn

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Llandybie, Christopher Davies: 1982

Seller ID: 65605

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

189pp, illustrated, bound in maroon cloth with VG dustwrapper,; Octavo
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The Farington Diary 8 Volumes

By: FARINGTON Joseph, Grieg James [ed]

Price: £140.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co: 1928

Seller ID: 67675

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

8 volume set, pub lished 1922 to 1928, xx + 398pp, xxi + 330pp, xvii + 346pp, xiv + 291pp, xxii + 334pp, xviii + 296pp, xxii + 299pp, xxi + 311pp, illustrated,bound in original blue cloth/gilt, some volumes have original dorn and chipped dustwrappers, some stuck onto cloth.; Octavo
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Victorian Days in England Letters of an American Girl 1851 - 1852

By: FAY Anna Maria

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1923

Seller ID: 72284

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Xi + 240pp, frontis, original edition, 1923, bound in cream cloth spine/blue cloth covers with similar dustwrapper, in protective cover. Paper spine label, Some ephemera about launch of a facsimile edition. Ludlow interest; Large Octavo
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The Life and Times of Sir George Cornwall Lewis, Bart

By: FENN R W D and DUFF GORDON Sir Andrew

Price: £14.95

Publisher: Almeley Herefordshire, Logaston Press: 2005

Seller ID: 052632

ISBN: 1904396291

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

x + 374pp, illustrated, fine softback. Sir George was MP for Hereford, and after he lost his seat there was elected MP for New Radnor. A long awaited bigraphy of this Victorian politicain who was Chancellor, of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and War Minister. As in all his book, Dr Roy Fenn makes the characters and places come alive with his normal dry humour alongside well resaerched historical facts. An absolute winner !; Large Octavo
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Bonnard

By: FERMIGIER Andre

Price: £22.00

Publisher: London, Thames & Hudson: 1969

Seller ID: 67588

ISBN: 0810900416

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

160pp, illustrated, bound in grey cloth covers with dustwrapper; Folio
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Columbus on Himself

By: Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Folio Society: 1992

Seller ID: 77102

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

279pp, 10 colour illustrations, 13 monochrome illustrations, 4 maps, bound in decorated cloth with gilt letteing with VG+ slipcase; Large Octavo
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The Life of the Most Reverend Father in God John Tillotson, Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Compiled from the Minutes of the Rev Mr Young Late Dean of Salisbury with Many Curious Memoirs Communicated by the Late Rt Rev Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum. Defence of Archbishop Tiliotson and His Writings by M Le Clerc, 26pp, and Also the Works of Sir William Temple Bart London Printed Benj Motte London 1731,

By: Fh , Hutchinson, Francis

Price: £140.00

Publisher: London, Printed for E Curll at the Dial and Bible Against St Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet, W Taylor at the Ship in Paternoster Row, and J Osborn at the Oxford Arms in Lombard: 1717

Seller ID: 73292

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Compiled from the Minutes of the Rev Mr Young late Dean of Salisbury with Many Curious Memoirs communicated by the late Rt Rev Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum. 53pp, defence of Archbishop Tiliotson and his writings by M Le Clerc, 26pp, and also the Works of Sir William Temple Bart London printed Benj Motte London 1731, bound together in orignal full leather, sl rubbed and bumped, raised bands, attractive small decorations at chapter ends. ; Sm Folio
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The Story of Euclid

By: FRANKLAND W B

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, George Newnes: 1902

Seller ID: 68173

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

176pp, bound in bue decorated cloth ; 12mo 7" - 7" tall
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Dylan - the 9 Lives of Dylan Thomas

By: FRYER J

Price: £7.95

Publisher: Kyle Cathie: 1994

Seller ID: 054710

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

276pp, illustrated softback,; Octavo
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The Trial of Queen Caroline

By: FULFORD Roger

Price: £7.00

Publisher: London, Batsford: 1967

Seller ID: 72069

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

255pp, illustrated,bound in blue cloth, spine faded; Octavo
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Olive & Stepniak The Bloomsbury Diary of Olive Garnett 1893 - 1895

By: Garnett, Olive, Johnson, Barry C [Ed]

Price: £24.99

Publisher: Birmingham, Bartletts Press: 1993

Seller ID: 78664

ISBN: 0951711539

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

NEW Xx + 288 pp, illustrated, hardcover in green cloth, , gilt spine lettering, no d/w ; Octavo
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Mary Davies and the Manor of Ebury

By: GATTY Charles T

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, The Waverley Book Company: 1921

Seller ID: 60528

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

2 volume set, ix + 294pp, 285pp, illustrated by 31 plates, folding map, 8 aerial photographs, bound in rubbed blue cloth, gilt decoration on spine and front cover. Nice bright set; Octavo
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