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The Piercebridge Formula: A Dramatic New View of Roman History by Raymond Selkirk (£88.00)Publisher: Patrick Stephens — 1983Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. Signed by the Author.[ISBN: 0850596211]Condition: Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Gently faded at the spine and slightly onto the panels of the dust wrapper. Upper board slightly dust-marked. Text complete, clean and tight. Description: Signed by the author on the title page — unverified and reflected as such in the lack of premium. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Facsimiles; Diagrams; Maps; Tables; Illustrated endpapers and blanks;
From the cover: “Though deceptively simple, the Piercebridge Formula will revolutionise our view of Roman Britain. Its implications are destined to influence archaeologists for many years to come. For what freelance pilot turned amateur archaeologist Raymond Selkirk has discovered is that the Roman Conquest of Britain was carried out by water transport and not by road as has been commonly supposed. His theory was proved at Piercebridge, on the River Tees, where, by a combination of brilliant aerial surveys and detective work on the ground, he found the archetypal water-supplied Roman site. For some time he had strongly suspected that waterways must be the answer, for how could ox-carts have travelled on Roman roads which often climbed gradients which would daunt a modern saloon car? Also, how could the oxen have carried any load at all when they would have needed all their strength merely to pull carts laden with fodder for themselves?
At Piercebridge it became clear that where a Roman road crosses a river, there is an excellent chance of finding a Roman site. This formula was then applied to other areas… and it worked! At one time the finding of an unknown site was a rarity but Selkirk and his team of enthusiasts produced remarkable results in a very short time. Yet the full effects of the Piercebridge Formula are only just starting to be felt, for what is true of Britain must logically apply to the whole Roman Empire. The prospects for further exploration are therefore tremendous and the author goes to great lengths to enlist the aid of his readers, both at home and abroad, in following up leads which will help to uncover further remains. Suspected sites are all named with exact locations and map references so that those with sufficient enthusiasm may continue this fascinating quest. The storm which this book will cause in archaeological circles has barely started, the search has only just begun.”Notes: Size: 9¾" x 6¾". Red boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 217 pages. Tags: romans great britain piercebridge durham antiquities aerial photography archaeology rome army transportation roman raymond selkirk 0850596211 first editions firsts printings 1st signed books author signatures inscriptions presentation copies copy
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Knights of the Black Cross: Hitler's Panzerwaffe and Its Leaders by Bryan Perrett (£58.50)Publisher: Robert Hale — 1986Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0709028067]Condition: Very Good — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Gently faded at the spine of the dust wrapper. Text complete, clean and tight. Description: Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Maps;
From the cover: “The German Armoured Corps — the Panzerwaffe — was instrumental in the mighty conquests of the Nazis between 1939 and 1942 and in the remaining years of the war it provided the very backbone of Germany’s defence. Although its strength never exceeded one-fifth of the German Army, the commitment of the Panzerwaffe’s officers to the traditional Annihilation Concept made an enormous impact on the Second World War, particularly on the Eastern Front. The titanic struggles which took place there, after the early victories in Poland, the West and the Balkans, demonstrated the German tank soldiers’ superior tactical abilities and provided the basis of Soviet war theories to this day.
Bryan Perrett’s meticulously researched and incisive account tells the story of this remarkable band of soldiers, the evolution of their tactics and the development of their superlative fighting vehicles. An authoritative study which will fascinate the military expert and general reader alike.”Notes: Size: 9½" x 6¼". 266 pages. Tags: germany heer armored troops history world war 1939-1945 tank warfare panzer divisions 1933-1945 military unit histories armed forces pre 1945 second armies armoured armour science bryan perrett 0709028067 first editions firsts printings 1st
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A Quiet Revolution by Frances Farrer (£47.00)Publisher: Rider — 2000Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 9780712605779]Condition: Very Good. Leading edges of text block spotted with further light spotting to the last few pages. A nice copy overall of an uncommon title.Description: Honesty. Truthfulness. Respect. Happiness. Peace. Responsibility. Love. These key concepts form part of a remarkable initiative at West Kidlington Primary School, north of Oxford, in the UK. Here a quiet revolution is in process: teaching children how to deal with complex situations from a position of strength and self-respect, and how to develop a stable inner world. This thought-provoking and inspiring book explains how a new framework for living has been woven into the entire ethos of the school and its pupils, how it has won praise from. inspectors and parents, and also had a beneficial effect on its league-table position. This book shows how parents, teachers, or anyone interested in supporting future generations - no matter where or from which spiritual perspective can learn from West Kidlington's blueprint for raising children into calm, happy, focused adults who are able to nurture their inherent creativity. First in this edition. An uncommon book.Notes: Size: Other / Oversized Paperback. 177 pages. Tags: Farrer teachers children creativity
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The Granada Theatres by Allen Eyles (£41.00)Publisher: Burgess Hill: The Cinema Theatre Association — 1998Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0-85170-680-0]Condition: Very Good. Description: Contains: Black & white photographs; Facsimiles; Colour photographs; Frontispiece; Title page vignette;
From the cover: “The Granada circuit was notable tor ft: many large cinemas with distinctive interiors by the Russian-born designer Theodore Komisarjevsky. Its more opulent buildings, like the celebrated Granadas at Tooting and Woolwich in Gothic idiom, have been aptly described as cathedrals of the movies.
The Granadas were always called “Theatres” rather than cinemas as almost all had full stage facilities that were often used for live shows. The Tooting and Woolwich Granadas have both been listed as buildings of outstanding architectural and social interest along with the lavish and only slightly less spectacular Granadas at Clapham Junction, Harrow, Kingston, Shrewsbury and Wal-thamstow. Although the Granada name has gone, many of the theatres survive as cinemas, bingo clubs and in other leisure uses, although some have simply been boarded up.
The history of the Granadas directly involves its dynamic and outspoken head, Sidney Bernstein. He gave the company an influence out of all proportion to its numerical strength through his adventurous design of cinemas, a flair for managing and
promoting the circuit, and the leadership he exercised in film exhibition matters generally.
This history covers individually the cinemas built and opened by the circuit in the 1930s at Dover, Walthamstow, Tooting, Maidstone, Shrewsbury, Bedford, Manchester (taken over by Gaumont), Wandsworth Road, Cheam, Woolwich, Greenwich, Harrow, Clapham Junction, Greenford, Welling, Slough, East Ham and Kingston. It also deals with older Bernstein cinemas, some rebuilt as modern Granadas; the Granadas that were proposed and never built; and the acquisition of numerous cinemas. There is a list of films given a special Granada release and of the famous pantomimes. Also featured are reminiscences by former Granada managers, projectionists and executives, a rich array of photographs (some in full colour), and press advertising.
This book is a companion volume to ABC The First Name in Entertainment (1993) and Gaumont British Cinemas (1996).”Notes: Size: 8" x 8½". 256 pages. Tags: bernstein sidney, granada cinemas, theatres history, motion picture theaters great britain, theater architecture, history cinemas, books written allen eyles, 0-85170-680-0
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Pegasus and The Arts by Edited by Claudia Brink & Wilhelm Hornbostel (£31.00)Publisher: Munchen: Deutscher Kunstverlag — 1993Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 3422061118]Condition: Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper, with a short closed tear to the head of the upper panel. Text complete, clean and tight. Description: Contains: Black & white photographs; Colour plates; Black & white plates; Colour frontispiece;
From the cover: “This volume, initially published in German to accompany the exhibition »Pegasus und die Kunste«, takes as its subject the many-sided history of the winged horse. It gathers together essays on the sources of the Pegasus myth in Antiquity, on astrology and on aspects of the artistic reception of the Pegasus motif from the 15th century to the 19th century. Pegasus, who came into being by springing from the severed neck of the snake-haired Medusa, is distinguished by two particular capacities, both of which have always exerted considerable fascination. Through physical strength and speed, he brought victory to both mythical heroes and earthly rulers; as the Muses’ steed, meanwhile, he possessed the gift of spurring the imagination of poets and artists. The selected examples — vase painting and sculpture from Antiquity, Renaissance and Baroque prints and paintings, works from the 19th century — offer new insights into the iconography of the winged horse and his particular significance for the arts.
This catalogue is a compendium of the iconography of Pegasus, and one that will prove indispensable for all those with an interest in this subject.”Notes: Size: 12" x 9". Black boards with White titling to the Spine. 286 pages. Tags: pegasus greek mythology art exhibitions, horses art exhibitions, art exhibitions, horses mythology exhibitions, art mythology exhibitions, pegasus art, pegasus iconography, mythology depictions, first edition books, books claudia brink wilhelm hornbostel
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Francesco's Venice: The Dramatic History of the World's Most Beautiful City by Francesco Da Mosto (£24.00)Publisher: London: BBC Books — 2004Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 0563521376]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Price Clipped. Description: Contains: Black & white photographs; Colour photographs; Photographic end papers & blanks;
From the cover: “Francesco’s Venice is the extraordinary story of the life of this intriguing city, told by a descendant of an old and distinguished Venetian family.
Francesco da Mosto’s ancestral history is inextricably intertwined with that of this amphibious city. Fiercely proud and protective of the rich cultural and architectural heritage of his birthplace, Francesco gives us a unique insight into the inner workings of one of the most beautiful cities in the world. He explores Venice’s remarkable history, from the fifth century when the first settlers retreated to the safety of the lagoon and began to create their homes on its tiny islands, through its glorious years as a successful maritime nation, adept at trade, exploration, diplomacy and protecting its independence, to the fragile city of the twenty-first century.
Venice’s history is a tale of warfare and conspiracies, of artistic excellence and ingenuity, of the battle of wills and of ideas, and of strength in the face of disaster, and Francesco vividly brings to life the places, events and people that have sculpted this living theatre through the ages. These include a colourful array of his own ancestors, such as the six da Mostos who were involved in the rise and fall of the ambitious and corrupt Doge Falier, and the young Alvise da Mosto, a courageous and determined explorer of the fifteenth century.
Beautifully illustrated with stunning images by John Parker of both the magnificent symbols of the city, including St Mark’s Basilica and the Doge’s Palace, and the more secluded corners, Francesco’s Venice celebrates the mesmerizing beauty and surprising strength of this unique city.”Notes: Illustrated by John Parker (Photos.). Size: 11¼" x 10". Black boards with Silver titling to the Spine. 216 pages. Tags: mosto john parker venice italy history travel writing social cultural art design styles europe 0563521376
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Hydraulic Tables, to Aid the Calculation of Water and Mill Power, Water Supply, and Drainage of Towns, and Improvement of Navigable Rivers by Nathaniel Beardmore (£22.00)Publisher: London: Waterlow & Sons — 1852Binding: Hardback Condition: Good. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding. Hinges weakening at the title page. Pages lightly age-tanned, more heavily at the fold outsDescription: Hydraulic Tables, to Aid the Calculation of Water and Mill Power, Water Supply, and Drainage of Towns, and Improvement of Navigable Rivers: Together with the Properties and Strength of Materials; Useful Numbers, and Logarithms, Also, Tide Tables for 1852, 1853, 1854; Tidal Constants; with Various Phenomena of Tidal Rivers; Illustrated by way of: Fold-out Charts [8]; Tables;Notes: Size: 8½" x 5". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine & Upper Board. [CVI] 92 pages. Tags: beardmore hydraulics tides tables hydrology properties strength materials numbers logarithms tide tidal constants phenomena rivers
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser (£21.00)Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson — 1992Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. Signed by the Author.[ISBN: 0297812424]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper with a light pull to the foot of the upper panel. Text complete, clean and tight. Description: Signed by the author on the first blank — unverified (a cursory search suggests authenticity) and reflected as such in the lack of premium.
From the cover: “Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived. So the six wives of Henry VIII — Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr -have become defined in a popular sense not so much by their lives as by the way these lives ended. In the same way their characters are popularly portrayed as female stereotypes: the Betrayed Wife, the Temptress, the Good Woman, the Ugly Sister, the Bad Girl and, finally, the Mother Figure.
But, as Antonia Fraser brilliantly and conclusively proves, they were rich and feisty characters. They may have been victims of Henry’s obsession with a male heir, but they were not willing victims. On the contrary, they exhibited remarkable degrees of spirit and defiance of which women living now might still be proud. They displayed considerable strength and intelligence at a time when their sex supposedly possessed little of either.
Antonia Fraser deals with each woman in turn with sympathy — the sympathy they deserve for having had the unenviable fate of being Henry’s wife. Inevitably there was great rivalry between them, so high were the stakes in the great game of marrying the King of England. There was jealousy too — the desperate jealousy of Queens who found themselves abandoned, but also the sexual jealousy of the King who discovered himself betrayed.
The story Antonia Fraser tells is romantic and cruel, funny and sad, dramatic and enthralling. This is historical biography at its very best.”Notes: Size: 9½" x 6¼". Red boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [IX] 479 pages. Tags: fraser 0297812424 henry viii king england monarchs relationships wives marriage queens britain marriages royalty nobility history 16th century kings rulers british historical political military renaissance
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Making Lifelong Learning Work: Learning Cities for a Learning Century by Norman Longworth (£20.50)Publisher: Kogan Page — 1999Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0749427272]Condition: Very Good. Description: First in this, paperback, edition. From the cover: “Lifelong learning is no longer merely a philosophy. As Norman Longworth shows in this lively and inspiring book, lifelong learning has now become a rapidly developing reality. Learning communities, where business and industry, schools, colleges, universities, professional organizations and local government co-operate and build a dynamic new environment to foster learning, are springing up throughout the world. The future for learning, from cradle to grave, is entering an exciting new phase.
Using many concrete examples of learning communities that are already adapting for the future, Norman Longworth also describes the circumstances under which lifelong learning can help cities, towns and regions to design and implement strategies for change. Packed with case studies and vital insights into the world of learning communities, the book provides a highly readable and thought-provoking glimpse of the future of learning within society and the city.
This book’s strength lies in its reliance on data and experience from leading-edge learning communities and a deep knowledge of the multi-faceted nature of lifelong learning. The future of learning is already here. Making Lifelong Learning Work distils the best global practices into workable local solutions and will make compelling and indispensable reading for every person, private or professional, in local government, education, industry and the community at large..”Notes: Size: Trade Paperback (9¼" x 6"). [XI] 227 pages. Tags: action adult and communities community community? continuing creation education educational further government growth higher learning lifelong linking making monitoring nation nations psychology revisited schools the wealth what work workplace
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Great Battles of World War I by Anthony Livesey (£19.00)Publisher: Greenwich Editions — 1996Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0862880793]Condition: Very Good. Lightly rubbed at the tips of the wrappers. Heavier art paper is slightly tacky in a couple of places. Text complete, clean and tight otherwise. Description: Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Diagrams; Maps; Plans;
From the cover: “18 of the Greatest Battles of World War I Come Alive as Never Before.
For the first time, breakthrough computer graphics re-create every detail of World War Fs most important battles. A team of experts has researched every aspect of every battle — from topography to troop strength — and using the computer’s latest capabilities has reconstructed the battlefields in vivid detail and analysed how the winners won and why.”Notes: Foreword or introduction by Major-General Sir Jeremy Moore. Size: 12" x 9¾". 200 pages. Tags: world war 1914-1918 campaigns military warfare conventional battles air fighting place the operations first aerial history 20th century anthony livesey major- sir jeremy moore 0862880793
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Letters to a young gymnast by Nadia Comaneci (£18.00)Publisher: New York: Basic Books — 2004Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 0465012760]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Price Clipped. Description: From the cover: “ If there were such a thing as an elder stateswoman in women’s gymnastics today, Nadia Comaneci would win that title as readily as she once won gold medals. Olga Korbut came before her, and many other medalists would follow, but none has ever been as dominant in winning the hearts of millions around the world. With grit and determination, Nadia Comaneci ushered in a new era for women’s sports, one where young girls could vault into the arena of super-stardom. Even today, almost thirty years after her greatest triumphs, you need only mention the word “Nadia” and gymnastics fans know instantly whom you are talking about.
In Letters to A Young Gymnast, Nadia shows us what it takes to achieve these heights. With inspiring and dramatic stories from her own experience, she tells us how the young girl that Bela Karolyi discovered in a Romanian elementary school found the inner strength to become a world-class athlete at such a young age. Now a woman of tremendous poise and self-assurance, Nadia offers up unique insights into the mind of a top competitor. From how to live on after you’ve realized your dream, to the necessity of a spirit forged with mettle, Nadia’s thoughts on athleticism and sacrifice are eye-opening and surprisingly challenging.”Notes: Jacket designed by Bradford Foltz. Size: 8¼" x 5¼". Grey Spine Strip with Lighter Grey boards with Silver titling to the Spine. [IX] 180 pages. Tags: comaneci 0465012760 women gymnastics female athletes romanian school gymnasts romania sports recreation
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The Christian Agnostic by Leslie D. [Dixon] Weatherhead (£16.00)Publisher: London: Hodder & Stoughton — 1965Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. Condition: Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with small tears to the spine ends and corners, heavier tanning to the spine. Leans. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding. Previous owners' inscription to the first blank. Pages lightly age-tanned. Description: 2nd impression. [First Edition: Same Year]
From the cover: “For many years Dr Weatherhead has had a concern for the growing number of thoughtful men and women who have either excluded themselves, or have felt excluded from the churches, because they could not accept the beliefs which some churches regard as essential to a Christian.
Many find church services dull, boring, and all but meaningless. They cannot maintain their intellectual integrity and at the same time accept what is taught. Yet they admire the spirit of Christ and believe that, as a way of life, Christianity holds the clue which the world must needs follow in order to find the way to well-being.
The word “agnostic” in the title is not to be taken to mean one who denies the existence of all phenomena save the material. The Christian agnostic is one who tries to meet the challenges of life in a Christian spirit, but who does not feel that the great truths about God, Church and man, about Providence, evil, sin, about survival, heaven and hell, can be neatly enclosed in the verbiage of orthodoxy.
The thoughtful layman often feels that the churches are more concerned to defend a hoary tradition than to restate Christian belief in the light of new insights and understanding. This restatement Dr Weatherhead attempts in this book, acknowledging that a wide agnosticism must be permitted.
Many so-called agnostics, he feels, are nearer to belief in the true God than are many conventional “believers” who believe in a bogey which does not exist and which they miscall God. Misunderstanding God they misunderstand His activities and therefore, in time of need, their religion is of little help to them.
The publication of this book marks the 50th anniversary of Dr Weatherhead’s entrance into the Methodist ministry. He has a wide, perhaps a unique, experience of the difficulties of thoughtful people, and this book, which frankly states his own considered opinions, will bring light and strength to his thousands of readers all over the world.”Notes: Size: 8¾" x 5¾". Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [XXI] 264 pages. Tags: christianity belief and doubt theology doctrinal polemics agnostics apologetics agnosticism leslie dixon weatherhead
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The Rise and Fall of Imperial Japan, 1894-1945 by Edited by S. L. Mayer (£16.00)Publisher: Bison Books — 1985Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 0861241428]Condition: Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper a little rubbed at the edges, short closed and tape-reinforced to the spine ends. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: Reprint. [First: 1984 thus, previously published as ‘The Japanese War Machine’ in 1976] Maps to the endpapers. Illustrated with photographs, in colour & black and white. From the cover: “In 1868, Japan emerged from feudalism and civil conflict as a comparatively undeveloped industrial state in an age of European imperialism in East Asia. Within a generation, Japan had risen to the ranks of the foremost industrial and military powers in the Western Pacific. A generation later, Japan had become the paramount power in East Asia, and her naval and air forces spread Japanese power across the Pacific. The formidable weapon built in the name of the Emperor swept across China and Manchuria; her air forces pummelled Pearl Harbor and Darwin; her armies marched to Singapore and the gates of India. Her navies seized some Aleutian islands and strafed the California coast. By 1942 the world had come to know the power of the most devastating force in the Pacific — the Japanese War Machine.
The force and power of the Japanese War Machine is told here by some of the world’s leading experts in guns, tanks, planes, and ships of World War II. The drama of Japan’s seizure of Manchuria, the take-over of the State by the Army, the invasion of China, the simultaneous attack on Malaya, Hawaii, the Philippines and the oil-rich Dutch East Indies is told in all the horror and shock the Japanese invader placed before Western eyes. The fall of Singapore and Hong Kong, the conquest of Burma and Indo-China took place within a hundred days. The flag of the Rising Sun ruled a maritime empire from the Russian border to the gates of Australia, from Burma to Midway.
But the strength of the Japanese War Machine depended on Japanese industrial power, which in the end, was no match for the United States and its Allies. The Japanese soldier, infused with the warrior code of Bushido fought hard and long in New Guinea’s jungles; as the struggle was brought closer to Japan’s home islands, the Japanese soldier fought on tenaciously in the Philippines and on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The air forces began suicide missions, thekamikaze, which drove into Allied aircraft, heroically and fanatically.. .but all too little, too late. The nuclear holocaust, which ended World War II, left a ruined Japan and a wrecked Japanese War Machine.
THE RISE AND FALL OF IMPERIAL JAPAN is the tragic and noble history of a gallant people led into a misguided war. The millions who suffered in Asia and the Pacific in the wake of the Japanese War Machine bear silent tribute to its folly.”Notes: Size: 12" x 8½". Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 255 pages. Tags: accord admiral agreement aircraft airfield aizaka akagi akatsuki akitsuki alamein aleutian alliance amagi ambassador amphibious anglo-japanese anti-comintern araki archipelago arima arisaka aritomo armada arsenal auchinleck aung baldwin baltic batavia battlecruisers battles battleships bernardino biak bilateral bismarck blarney blenheim bmw bose bougainville brooke-popham burma-siam camp cape carriers chandra changi changkufeng changsha chennault
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The Investor's Guide to Short Term Trading and Long Term Investing by Charles Vintcent (£15.50)Publisher: Financial Times/Prentice Hall — 1997Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 0273630571]Condition: Very Good - in Very Good DJ. DJ slightly ruffled at the edges. A nice copy.Description: From the author’s introduction: “Everyone who invests in shares does so with the object of making jmoney. Some are more successful than others. This book explains how to manage your own investments so that you get above average performance. It will show you how to find the shares which are suitable for your long-term investment objectives, as well as explaining how to find the shares which will give you a quick profit for your short-term trading. To be successful you need to be able to adopt totally different and separate philosophies and disciplines for short-term trading and long-term investing. This book will show you what is required in your approach to both. It will enable you to equip yourself with the essential knowledge to maximise your profits and set achievable targets for growth and it will demonstrate how to use IT to save you hours of time and help you pick winners.”Notes: Size: 9½" x 6¼". Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 237 pages. Tags: business/economic intermediaries price/earnings capitalisation risk-conscious privatisations price-earnings profit-taking stockbrokers’ high-yielders institutional tax-efficient split-capital shareholders’ opportunities constructing specialising stockbrokers index-linked compensation shareholders investments fundamental performance commissions alternative shareholder derivatives regulations self-select liabilities inheritance depositary industrial investors’ designated regulation indicators assessment securities investment reinvested formations strategies volatility short-term management financial ambitions investors prospects
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Willie Carson: The Illustrated Biography by Michael Seely (£15.50)Publisher: Headline — 1991Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0747204314]Condition: Very Good - in Good DJ. Edges of DJ somewhat ruffled, ¾" closed tear to the head of the upper panel, again to the foot of same. Gently bruised at head & tail of spine and corners. Text bright and tight.Description: From the cover: “Willie Carson remains one of the best known faces in British sport. The jockey’s extraordinary will to win has carried him to a fresh pinnacle of achievement and popularity. Just over 5 feet tall and weighing only 7st 10 Ibs stripped, the 49-year-old Stirling-born ‘pocket dynamo’ has been a byword for strength and determination for nearly thirty years. In this book, Seely gives an in-depth study of a remarkable character which, together with the many superb action photographs spanning his long career, make this a handsome tribute to Britain’s toughest and best loved jockey.”Notes: Size: 10" x 7½". Red boards with Silver titling to the Spine. 176 pages. Tags: jockey lester piggott dibidale yorkshire oaks irish oaks stable jockey dick hern champion jockey diamond stakes french legers niniski classics elizabeth diamond stakes newmarket grand national horses official form-bool ascot gold cup royal ascot.
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Napoleon's Soldiers: The Grand Armee of 1807 As Depicted in the Paintings of the Otto Manuscript by Guy C. Dempsey (£14.50)Publisher: London: Arms & Armour Press — 1994Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 1854092421]Condition: Very Good+ — in Very Good+ Dust Wrapper. Description: Illustrated by way of: Colour Plates;
From the cover: “The paintings in this handsome book represent one of the premier original sources available today for the study of Napoleonic military uniforms.
Taken from the Otto Manuscript, these watercolours afford a unique window on history that brings Napoleonic soldiers and uniforms into view in a way almost unprecedented for a pre-photographic era. Rather than stylised prints or lifeless salon artwork created long after the fact, these are the precise, vibrant record of an amateur artist’s first-hand observations, imbued with a spectacular intimacy as a result of the artist’s talent for faithfully reproducing even small details of dress and equipment.
Astonishingly, these priceless images have been virtually inaccessible to the public from the moment the paint dried. After first coming to modern notice when they were acquired earlier this century by Albert Depreaux, a French historian, they were copied during the Second World War, before the originals were sold to Anne S. K. Brown. They now reside in the collection that bears her name, at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
Never before reproduced in book form, the entire set of 98 gouache illustrations now forms the centrepiece of this illustrated commentary of the Otto Manuscript (so-called because it is said to have once been the property of a certain Major Otto of Baden). Guy Dempsey offers a critical assessment of the manuscript, thereby confirming its strength as a primary source of research information, before discussing each painting and comparing the information it provides with data available from other sources.
These delightful images are excellent works of art in themselves, but their historical significance makes it remarkable that they have remained unpublished for so long. Historians and students of warfare, military uniform and the Napoleonic era will join modellers, wargamers and re-enactment groups in welcoming the publication of this important sourcework; indeed, the book will undoubtedly become a core element of many military history libraries.”Notes: Size: 10" x 7¾". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 256 pages. Tags: france uniforms history 19th century garde imperiale military armies insignia european war defence operations battles campaigns
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The Wizard and the Warrior: Leading with Passion and Power by Lee G. Bolman; Terrence E. Deal; (£14.50)Publisher: Jossey-Bass — 2006Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0787974137]Condition: Very Good+ — in Very Good+ Dust Wrapper. Front flap has a light vertical crease otherwise a very well presented copy.Description: From the cover: “Why A Book About Wizards And Warriors as models for leadership? Because, as Peter Drucker once said, everything you learned is wrong — at best, it is misleading and insufficient. You typically learn in school, workshops, and seminars that if you can manage the work and serve the people, you have what it takes. It's not true. Maybe you have enough stuff to be a pretty good manager, but it takes a lot more to be a good leader. The Wizard and the Warrior gives leaders the insight and courage they need to take risks on behalf of values they cherish and the people they guide. Great leaders must act both as wizard, calling on imagination, creativity, meaning, and magic, and as warrior, mobilizing strength, courage, and willingness to fight as necessary to fulfil their mission.”Notes: Size: 9½" x 6¼". Blue boards with Silver titling to the Spine. 248 pages. Tags: problem-solving characteristics decision-making problem-solver organisational script-writing communication brainstorming transactional environmental effectiveness assertiveness non-franchise 9780787974138 presentations satisfaction presentation relationship productivity negotiations expectations consultative organization coordinating interviewing nervousness personality inefficient performance integration negotiation controlling persistence observation development improvement innovation delegation innovating successful efficiency delegators developing fallacious principles modulation initiative objections enthusiasm priorities life-cycle
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Theoretical Naval Architecture by Edward L. [Lewis] Attwood & Herbert S. [Staddon] Pengelly (revised By Alfred J. Sims) (£14.00)Publisher: London, New York, Toronto: Longmans, Green & Co. — 1953Binding: Hardback Condition: Good. A pleasant enough reading copy. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding which is a little marked in places, heavily to the spine. Malta Dockyard stamp to the first blank and foot of the text block. Pages lightly age-tanned. Description: Illustrated by way of: Graphs; Diagrams; Folding tables [3];Notes: Size: 8¾" x 5½". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [XII] 418 pages. Tags: naval architecture stability curves calculations trochoidal wave theory strength butt connections davits pillars derricks shaft brackets strains ships shearing force launching turning torques rudder horse-power resistance coefficients speed screw propulsion oscillation rolling pitching heaving vibration merchant ship problems
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Lal Bahaduk Shastri by C. P. Srivastava (£13.50)Publisher: Oxford University Press — 1995Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0195634993]Condition: Good+ - in Good+ DJ. Bruised at head of spine and corners with commensurate ruffling to the dustwrapper. Leans slightly. Edges of the textblock lightly tanned. Text complete, clean and tight but with a few pages lightly creased.Description: Prime Minister of India 1964-1966. Illustrated with black and white photographs. From the flap: “The life of Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904-66), India's second prime minister and successor to Jawaharlal Nehru, is the absorbing saga of a little man, who while suffering the rigours of poverty in early life, rose to political eminence on the strength of moral principle. When he died he left no land, no house, and no money. But he did leave behind an example which is morally inspiring. The author of this biography was Shastri's personal aide for several years. He was with Shastri until the last day of his life, in Tashkent. He collected a large number of original documents from the USA; he interviewed bureaucrats, politicians and diplomats who were associated with Shastri's life and career; he travelled in Shastri's footsteps within India and abroad; he consulted medical experts to ascertain the truth about Shastri's death.”Notes: Size: 9½" x 6¼". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 448 pages. Tags: india’s prime minister succession india’s relations with pakistan operation desert hawk india pakistan united nations tashkent kosygin krishnamachari nehru kamaraj president radhakrishnan nasser makarios trevor keelor chavan swaran singh cabinet minister uttar pradesh new delhi lucknow government lndia bombay servants the people society provincial leader parliamentary secretary cabinet minister chinese ultimatum operation grand slam operation gibraltar india’s relations with the usa india’s relations with the ussr indo-pak war peace negotiations political corruption kamaraj plan english-hindi national language controversy food scarcity hazratbal episode shrine kashmir diplomatic negotiations tightrope relations with china politicians diplomats bureaucrats
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Clipper Ship by Denys Burrows (£13.00)Publisher: Educational Press / Angus & Robertson — 1965Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper. Description: Illustrated by way of: Black & White Drawings;
From the cover: “This exciting adventure story of the nineteenth century is concerned with a ship — a tea-clipper on the Australia-China run; but even more so, it is concerned with the men and boys who sail in her.
The Dauntless is a dirty hulk when Captain Grey and his son, lan, first sight her, berthed listlessly at a wharf in Melbourne. The first member of the crew they meet as they go aboard — the Mate, Grogan, with his uncouth manners and jeering talk — doesn’t improve the picture.
Second Mate Jackson takes an instant dislike to “Apprentice Grey” and determines to make him break down, if he can. The Skipper refuses to interfere in case it looks like favouritism towards his son, and because the boy has to learn to stand on his own feet.
Captain Grey turns the Dauntless into a tight, well-run ship, but it takes a whole voyage and return to do it, a voyage full of adventure: man overboard in the Pacific, a kidnapping in China, and a typhoon on the trip back — not to mention the strange machinery crates found in the hold and the even stranger cargo discovered when the ship leaves Canton.”Notes: Illustrated by Graham Wade. Size: 8¾" x 5¾". Green boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 180 pages. Tags: boy who went sea life sailing ship hurricane sailors brave facing such danger true adventure strength his sprrit denys burrows graham wade first editions firsts printings 1st
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Did I Take the Right Turning? by George Donaldson (£13.00)Publisher: Edinburgh: The Pentland Press — 1999Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 1858216729]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.Description: Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; From the cover: “This is an engaging memoir, written in an understated, self-effacing style which makes for delightful reading. It covers some fascinating aspects of both military and civil aviation: the rush to build up to the strength of the RAF immediately before the war; the ‘Forgotten Air Force’ supporting the Chindits in Burma; the post-war years when large-scale air travel was in its infancy. All is told from a highly personal point of view, which makes this work thoroughly absorbing and offers some unique insights into aviation history.”Notes: Jacket designed by Geoff Hobbs. Size: 8½" x 6". Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [IX] 172 pages. Tags: donaldson 1858216729 raf military civil aviation chindits burma george air pilots britain
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More Indoor and Community Games by Sid G. Hedges (£13.00)Publisher: Methuen & Co. — 1937Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. Condition: Good - in Good DJ. DJ slightly ruffled along edges, some nicks and rubbing with slight loss. Book a little rubbed and very slightly grubby. Occasional "ticks" to the contents listing for each chapter, most in pencil but a few in pen.Description: Contains some 400 games of every type - Ice Breaking; Moving About; Boisterous; Spectator; Brain Test; Musical; Sitting Still; Race; Pencil and Paper; Surprise; Strength and Agility;Notes: Size: 7½" x 5". 144 pages.
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Run for Life by Sam Murphy (£13.00)Publisher: Kyle Cathie — 2004Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 1856264718]Condition: Very Good. Leans slightly otherwise a very well presented copy.Description: The Real Woman's Guide to Running. Illustrated with colour photographs. From the introduction: “The aim of this book is to provide you with the information, advice and inspiration you need to become the runner you want to be. There are no prescriptive schedules or rules to follow, because everyone’s life is different — and the only running programme you can truly stick to is one you create yourself. I’ve consulted experts,01ympic athletes, and runners of all levels of experience and ability to bring together the very latest research, the most diverse advice and the best expertise on how to get the most out of your running, whether it’s 5,15 or 50km (3,9 or 30 miles) a week.”Notes: Size: 9¼" x 7½". 175 pages. Tags: running how run how warm cool down stretch perfect running programme personal training choosing trainers essential running kit eating for runners running aids drinking good hydration preventing injuries cross-training beating burnout stay motivated marathon half-marathons races women’s running lowers blood pressure hdl cholesterol resting heart rate reducing daily fatigue pre-menstrual syndrome menopause muscle tone strength strengthen bones boost circulation banish depression energise
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Wall of Death: The Building of the Great Wall of China by Charles Görbing-King (£13.00)Publisher: Abelard-Schuman — 1973Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 020072052X]Condition: Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper faded at the spine, rubbed at head, tail and corners with some small nicks and closed tears. Mildly bumped at head & tail of spine and corners. Previous owners' inscription to the first blank. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: From the cover: “One of the man-made structures on the surface of the earth that could be seen by orbiting astronauts is the Great Wall of China, winding its serpentine way across 2000 miles of rugged territory. Built in less than fifteen years by command of the ‘Only First’ Emperor, Ch’in Shih Huang Ti, to keep out the Hsiung-nu barbarians, it cost the blood, strength and lives of millions of Chinese people — not without reason has it been called the longest graveyard in the world..”Notes: Illustrated by The Author. Size: 8¾" x 5¾". Grey boards with Red titling to the Spine. 127 pages. Tags: 020072052x great wall china juvenile literature shang period 16th 11th century western chou dynasty han disunity the three kingdoms later dynasties mongols over first republic ching charles görbing-king author editions firsts printings 1st
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Winston Churchill: The Flawed Genius of World War II by Christopher Catherwood (£13.00)Publisher: Berkley Caliber — 2009Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0425225720]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Front flap has a small crease otherwise a very well presented copy.Description: Illustrated with black and white photographs. From the cover: “Revered for his strength of character and his willful defiance of Nazi Germany when Britain stood alone against the Third Reich, Winston Churchill is cherished as one of World War IIs most heroic figures, not only within the United Kingdom but throughout the world. His legacy during one of the darkest eras in human history paints a portrait of the man as a wonderful, larger-than-life personality — a characterization that overshadows his faults and his foibles in those crucial years.
But those faults and foibles had a devastating legacy of their own.
Winston Churchill — The Flawed Genius of World War II examines the decisions and policies Churchill made in the vital months between June 1940 and December 1941 that hindered more than helped the Allied cause. From dispatching British troops to North Africa and Greece and establishing the Special Operations Executive, to his insistence on the Mediterranean’s importance to victory and ignoring George C. Marshall’s plan that would have won the war in 1943, Churchill’s directives not only extended the conflict, but also destabilized several regions that remain in chaos even at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
With profound insight into Churchill’s early colonial experiences as well as his first tenure as First Lord of the Admiralty, Christopher Catherwood offers an honest appraisal of his strategies in a unique and fascinating perspective that separates the myth from the man.”Notes: Size: 9½" x 6¼". White boards with Silver titling to the Spine. 326 pages. Tags: 1939-1945 and britain churchill foreign government great leadership military politics relations war winston world
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No Full Stops in India by Mark Tully (£12.50)Publisher: Viking Press — 1991Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 0670819190]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper has a light water mark to the reverse of the upper panel. Several small marks to the leading edge of the text block otherwise a very well presented copy. Description: 2nd impression. [First Edition: 1991] Illustrated with black and white photographs. From the flap: “In this book by the BBC’s universally admired India correspondent, the distillation of a lifetime’s knowledge and love of a country is told in a series of stories and travel tales, which yield no single India. Tully reveals to us its beauty and terrible poverty; its corruption and the strength and dignity of its poor; its yearning for modernity and the richness of its ancient cultures existing together in the largest democracy on earth, a democracy in constant turmoil, in need of constant renewal.”Notes: Jacket designed by Rajesh Bedi (Photo.). Size: 9½" x 6¼". Blue boards with Yellow titling to the Spine. 336 pages. Tags: india civilization asian middle eastern history asia south travel essays travelogues writing politics and government social life customs economic conditions description 20th century journals letters other prose works places peoples interest cultural studies literary collections science pictorials see also photography subjects themes regional pros mark tully 0670819190
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Stevie Smith: A Biography by Frances Spalding (£12.50)Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co. — 1989Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0393026728]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Leans slightly. Small address sticker to the first blank.Description: First U.S. Edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs. From the cover: “Born in Hull. But moved to London at the age of 3 and has lived in the same house ever since, wrote Stevie Smith when asked by an editor for a biographical note. The lack of external events in her life is to many people the best-known thing about her. Yet she was far from reclusive, as this brilliant new biography shows, and was actively involved in the social as well as intellectual life of literary London, with interruptions, from the early 1930s until her death in 1971.
Frances Spalding reveals and explores the intimate relationship between the course of Stevie Smith’s life and the evolution of her art, into which she has assimilated, not simply the events and emotions of her private life, but influences on her imagination of her wide and varied reading. The ambivalence of these influences on both form and content has inhibited serious discussion of her work, and it is the strength of this book that in its sensitive unravelling of that ambivalence it enables Stevie Smiths oeuvre to be seen as a whole. While showing that the life of the mind can be a valid subject for biography, it also shows that the external events of the poet’s life do in fact provide the subject of an absorbing and entertaining narrative.”Notes: Size: 9½" x 6¼". Blue boards with Orange titling to the Spine. [XVIII] 331 pages. Tags: 20th and autobiography biographies biography britain century covered criticism dates england english european from general great history irish kingdom literary literature poetry poets scottish smith stevie studies united welsh women
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The Fed: A History of the South Wales Miners in the Twentieth Century by Hywel Francis & David Smith (£12.50)Publisher: London: Lawrence & Wishart — 1980Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0853154899]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.Description: Illustrated with black and white photographs. From the cover: “From its foundation in 1898 ‘The Fed’ has remained the popular name for the South Wales Miners’ Federation (SWMF), which in 1945 became the South Wales Area of the National Union of Mine workers. The core of this full-length history is the momentous period from the General Strike of 1926 to the nationalization of the mines in January 1947, including the bitter intervening period of struggle in the twenties and thirties against unemployment at home and fascism abroad. To the treatment of the post Second World War period the authors have added a final chapter assessing the achievements and the problems of the nationalized industry, as well as the role of the miners in the upsurge of industrial militancy that characterized the sixties and seventies. Native Welsh themselves, both from the South Wales mining area, the authors show how ‘The Fed’ has derived its particular strength from being an organic part of the life of individual South Wales communities, and they vividly record the rich variety of working-class (especially rank-and-file) response to Union as well as governmental attitudes and actions.”Notes: 530 pages. Tags: mines mineral resources wales south history miners national union mineworkers federation trade unions closures collieries britain industrial coalfield coal mining social conditions government policy trade-unions coal-miners labour movements disputes
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Clear For Action by Capt. Kenneth Langmaid (£11.50)Publisher: Jarrolds — 1970Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. Condition: Good+ - in Good+ DJ. Dustwrapper a little rubbed at the edges, front flap creased and wrinkled. Edges of the textblock lightly spotted. Slight soiling to the first and last blanks and endpapers. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: The Royal Navy in Defence and in Attack. Illustrated with black and white photographs. From the flap: “Britain has been attacked or threatened with attack from seaward with greater ferocity and persistence than any other country in the world; persistence than any other country in the world; sequence of foreign invasions of this country from the earliest days and to indicate how the establishment and growth of British naval strength gradually controlled and then eliminated sea attack. The second part of the book shows how it was possible, owing to the same maritime superiority, to embark upon crushing strikes of overseas counter-invasions leading, in 1944, to the piercing of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall and to the liberation of Occupied Europe.”Notes: Size: 8¾" x 5¾". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 176 pages. Tags: invasions england north africa operation torch operation husky operation baytown operation avalanche overlord neptune operation dragoon english fire-ships great armada four days battle medway battle hogue trafalgar gallipoli narvik bay wrecked shipping dunkirk british destroyers landing craft h.m.s. warspite british history norman conquest napoleonic era sea-power battleships battle-cruisers sea-going armament royal navy
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Home Brewing by ANON (£11.50)Publisher: W. Foulsham & Co. — 1983Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0572012276]Condition: Very Good - in Very Good DJ. Heavily faded at the spine of the DJ. Text bright and tight.Description: From the flap: “Whether you are Just starting home brewing, or whether you are more advanced, Home Brewing will give you all the information you need to increase your skills in an easy-to-follow, practical format. It outlines the principles of brewing and types of beer, and gives details of ingredients and essential equipment, as well as more specialised equipment you may want to use later on. The complete brewing process is explained stage by stage, with colour photographs accompanying the text. Recipes are included for various types of beer including lager, bitter and stout, and there is a useful guide to experimentation for those wanting to brew a really individual beer.”Notes: Size: 9" x 8¼". 80 pages. Tags: acetic acid acidity add adjuncts aerobic affect aids ailments airlocks alcohol alcoholic ales alpha amateurs ambient ammonium amylase and apple appreciation aroma aromaticity artificial assessories attenuation bacteria bakers balance barley barrels basic beers beverages bines bitter bitterness black blending boiling bottles bottling bottom bracte bracteoles break brewer brewery brewing brown browning
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Quest for Number One by Robin Smith; John Crace; (£11.50)Publisher: Boxtree — 1993Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 1852837942]Condition: Very Good - in Very Good DJ. Gently bruised at head of spine and top corners with commensurate ruffling to the dustwrapper. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: Illustrated with black and white photographs. From the flap: “By his own admission, Robin Smith is not a naturally self-confident man. In this book he openly discusses his mental approach to the game, with all its strengths and weaknesses. He describes his psychological development — from a young boy who got up at 4.30 every morning to practise to Test batsman, and tells us how he is motivated, how he concentrates, and how he copes with fear. In the final chapters, Smith reviews in detail a Test match and a One-Day International innings, both of which provide a graphic illustration of all the ideas brought up in the book. With valuable insights from Dr. Graham Jones, Brian Mason, Mike Brearley, and David Gower, Robin Smith — Quest for Number One is not just a serious study, but a fascinating read for every cricket fan.”Notes: Foreword or introduction by Graham Gooch. Size: 9½" x 6¼". Black boards with Silver titling to the Spine. 25 pages. Tags: confidence motivation concentration anxiety failure test match one-day internotional game cricket test cricket’s premier batsmen english cricket loss form confusion spin mushtaq ahmed temperament mental strength psychological demands introvert harness character natural ability technique mental resilience psychological side mental problem causing technical fault sports psychologist causality mental preparation hypnotherapy arthur jackson brian mason personal motivation motivator the dressing-room
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Sharpe's Escape: Richard Sharpe and the Bussaco Campaign 1810 by Bernard Cornwell (£11.50)Publisher: London: HarperCollinsPublishers — 2004Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0007120133]Condition: Very Good+ — in Very Good+ Dust Wrapper. Description: Illustrated by way of: Maps;
From the cover: “It is 1810 and the French are making yet another attempt to invade Portugal. Facing them is a wasted land, stripped of food by Wellington’s orders, and Captain Richard Sharpe. But Sharpe is in trouble. His job as Captain of the Light Company is under threat and he has made a new enemy, a Portuguese criminal known as Ferragus. Sharpe, discarded by his regiment, wages a private war against Ferragus — a war fought through the burning, pillaged streets of Coimbra, Portugal’s ancient university city.
Sharpe’s enemies are numerous but on his side he has Sergeant Patrick Harper, the Portuguese officer Jorge Vincent and a prickly English governess, whose first aim is to clean up Sharpe’s language.
Sharpe’s Escape begins on the great, gaunt ridge of Bussaco where a joint British and Portuguese army meets the overwhelming strength of Marshall Massena’s crack troops. It finishes at Torres Vedras where the French hopes of occupying Portugal quickly die. This is a classic Sharpe novel, with Richard Sharpe in his finest form reunited with Patrick Harper, and facing enemies on every side.”Notes: Size: 9½" x 6¼". Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 350 pages. Tags: fiction novels literature stories story novella editions firsts first printings 1st sharpe richard fictitious soldiers peninsular war bussaco battle portugal historical adventure military action
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The Complete Book of Vampires by Leonard R.N. Ashley (£11.50)Publisher: Book Club Associates — 1999Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good+ - in Very Good+ DJ.Description: Illustrated.Notes: Size: 9½" x 6¼". Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 366 pages. Tags: vampire count alucard vovoid vlad the impaler bram stoker’s dracula superstition bloodsuckers predator dead body ghost spectre demon satan superhuman strength blood living persons live forever wolves bats graves
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The Time of My Life by Patrick Swayze & Lisa Niemi (£11.50)Publisher: Simon & Schuster — 2009Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 9781847376930]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.Description: 2ndn Impression. [First Edition: Same Year] Illustrated with colour photographs. In September 2009 movie star Patrick Swayze lost his long and bravely fought battle against pancreatic cancer. His was a life richly led and this memoir, completed just weeks before his death, is a testament to the strength and passion of this remarkable man. It was January 2008 when Patrick Swayze was given the worst news of his life. What he hoped was just a stomach ache was actually stage four pancreatic cancer. This book isn't just the story of Patrick's fight against cancer, it's the story of a remarkable life and career.Notes: Size: 9½" x 6¼". Purple boards with Silver titling to the Spine. 247 pages. Tags: actors actresses and arts autobiography biography cancer cinema entertainment film films generalc health individual marriage motion music pancreas patients patrick performers performing picture states swayze television theatre united video
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The Tina Turner Experience by Chris Welch (£11.50)Publisher: Virgin — 1994Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 9780863698163]Condition: Very Good. Wraps rubbed at the edges with a small, ½" square, scar to the top corner of the upper wrap.Description: Illustrated with colour and B&W photographs. As Tina Turner, the former Ms Bullock is now an entertainment superstar who has played almost every major venue, club, hall and theatre in the world. As part of the tremendous Ike and Tina Turner Show, she shimmied and belted out R&B hits like no other female performer, earning the respect and encouragement of a generation of British artists - both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones pleaded for her to tour with them. In the 1970s she gathered the strength to leave her cheating, beating man and became the world's premier pop icon and movie star - twenty years on, her popularity is as high as it has ever been.Notes: Size: 9¾" x 7½". 223 pages. Tags: tina turner R&B artists pop
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Their Finest Hour by Winston S. Churchill (£11.50)Publisher: Cassell & Co. — 1949Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. Condition: Good - in Poor DJ. Unlaminated DJ a little edgeworn and faded, heavily sunned at the spine, with loss at the head of the spine. Edges of the textblock lightly tanned.Description: Volume II.Notes: Size: 8½" x 5¾". Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. In the The Second World War series. 684 pages. Tags: the battle france dunkirk home defence the bordeaux armistice admiral darlan the french fleet operation sea lion battle britain blitz destroyers dakar vichy spain mussolini attacks gkeece lend-lease ocean peril merchant tonnage aircraft strength german advances battle arras may 21-22 western flank french army lnfantry divisions german invasion plan main fleets mediterranean
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Adolescence: The Survival Guide for Parents and Teenagers by Elizabeth Fenwick; Dr. Tony Smith; (£10.50)Publisher: Dorling Kindersley — 1998Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0751305456]Condition: Very Good. Lightly rubbed at the tips of the wraps. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: Illustrated with black and white photographs. From the cover: “The only book of its kind that helps both parents and teenagers survive the turbulent but exciting years of adolescence. Case studies and true-to-life dialogues examine real concerns and conflicts of parents and teenagers — from each point of view. Covers every aspect of adolescence sympathetically — the growth spurt, making friends and fitting in, increasing independence, rebelliousness, and major problems such as drugs and pregnancy.”Notes: Size: 9¼" x 6½". 285 pages. Tags: self-consciousness encephalomyelitis self-mutilation questionnaires responsibility relationships contraception disagreements vegetarianism conversations introduction independence step-parents intellectual recklessness unemployment adolescents obsessional discovering transmitted behavioural pot-smoking adolescence development suspension discipline single-sex disturbing friendship compromise university adolescent appearance depression complaints dependence milestones arguments emotional dialogues parenting rebellion sexuality pregnancy headaches motorbike histories adulthood teenagers mealtimes depressed
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Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry for 1962 Vol. LIX by Anon. (£10.50)Publisher: The Chemical Society — 1963Binding: Hardback Condition: Very Good. Leans slightly. Pages lightly age-tanned with slight spotting, heavier to the blanks.Description: Contents: General and Physical Chemistry • Inorganic Chemistry • Organic Chemistry • Biological Chemistry • Analytical Chemistry • CrystallographyNotes: Size: 8¾" x 5¾". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [VI] pages. Tags: acetic acetylene acidic acids activity aircraft alkali alkaline alkanes alkenes allotropes alloys alpha aluminium ammonia ammonium ampere amphoteric anhydrite anions anode antacids antimony argon arsenic atmospheric atomic avogadro's barium bases basic batteries beryllium bismuth bitumen blast bleach boiling bonds boron boyle bread breathing brine bromine bronze brownian bulbs cadmium caesium calcium
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Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry for 1963 Vol. LX by Anon. (£10.50)Publisher: The Chemical Society — 1964Binding: Hardback Condition: Very Good. Leans slightly.Description: Contents: General and Physical Chemistry • Inorganic Chemistry • Organic Chemistry • Biological Chemistry • Analytical Chemistry • CrystallographyNotes: Size: 8¾" x 5¾". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [VI] pages. Tags: acetic acetylene acidic acids activity aircraft alkali alkaline alkanes alkenes allotropes alloys alpha aluminium ammonia ammonium ampere amphoteric anhydrite anions anode antacids antimony argon arsenic atmospheric atomic avogadro's barium bases basic batteries beryllium bismuth bitumen blast bleach boiling bonds boron boyle bread breathing brine bromine bronze brownian bulbs cadmium caesium calcium
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Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry for 1964 Vol. LXI by Anon. (£10.50)Publisher: The Chemical Society — 1965Binding: Hardback Condition: Very Good. Leans slightly.Description: Contents: General and Physical Chemistry • Inorganic Chemistry • Organic Chemistry • Biological Chemistry • Analytical Chemistry • CrystallographyNotes: Size: 8¾" x 5¾". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [VI] pages. Tags: acetic acetylene acidic acids activity aircraft alkali alkaline alkanes alkenes allotropes alloys alpha aluminium ammonia ammonium ampere amphoteric anhydrite anions anode antacids antimony argon arsenic atmospheric atomic avogadro's barium bases basic batteries beryllium bismuth bitumen blast bleach boiling bonds boron boyle bread breathing brine bromine bronze brownian bulbs cadmium caesium calcium
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Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry for 1965 Vol. LXII by Anon. (£10.50)Publisher: The Chemical Society — 1966Binding: Hardback Condition: Very Good. Leans slightly.Description: Contents: General and Physical Chemistry • Inorganic Chemistry • Organic Chemistry • Biological Chemistry • Analytical Chemistry • CrystallographyNotes: Size: 8¾" x 5¾". Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [VI] pages. Tags: acetic acetylene acidic acids activity aircraft alkali alkaline alkanes alkenes allotropes alloys alpha aluminium ammonia ammonium ampere amphoteric anhydrite anions anode antacids antimony argon arsenic atmospheric atomic avogadro's barium bases basic batteries beryllium bismuth bitumen blast bleach boiling bonds boron boyle bread breathing brine bromine bronze brownian bulbs cadmium caesium calcium
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Artie Greengroin by Harry Brown (£10.50)Publisher: Secker & Warburg — 1945Binding: Hardback First Edition. Condition: Good. An adequate reading copy only. Heavily faded at the spine. Gently bruised at head & tail of spine and corners. Edges of the textblock lightly spotted.Description: From the introduction: “Artie was created in the grimly fabulous time when we were building up our strength in Britain in preparation for the invasion of Europe.”Notes: Size: 7½" x 5". Green boards with Red titling to the Spine. 150 pages. Tags: american soldier artie greengroin crude clumsy parade ground
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Banish Your Belly: The Ultimate Guide for Achieving a Lean, Strong Body: Now by Kenton Robinson (£10.50)Publisher: Rodale — 1997Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0875965016]Condition: Very Good. Upper wrap a little curled. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: Illustrated with black and white photographs. From the cover: “Every man wants to look better — to have a flatter belly, a more angular torso, better definition in the arms and legs. Being strong and lean means being healthy, having energy, feeling positive about the world. Inside you'll find the perfect blend of advice to guarantee that you reach your personal weight and strength goals. You'll discover more than 160 exercises custom-built for body shaping and weight loss, each featuring step-by-step photographs, ratings for difficulty, plus ‘Do It Better’ tips to keep things challenging for even the most accomplished athlete. You'11 also find customized workouts for your own personal fitness goals.”Notes: Size: 10¾" x 8½". 407 pages. Tags: robinson 0875965016 weight loss men health mind body exercise fitness
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Galileo's Daughter: A Drama Of Science, Faith And Love by Dava Sobel (£10.50)Publisher: Fourth Estate — 1999Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 1857028619]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.Description: From the cover: “Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was the foremost scientist of his day, the man Albert Einstein was to call ‘the father of modern physics — indeed of modern science altogether’. Though he never left the Italy of his birth, his inventions and discoveries were heralded around the world. His telescopes allowed him to reveal a new reality in the heavens and to publicly propound the astounding argument that the Earth actually moves around the Sun. For this belief he was brought before the Holy Office of the Inquisition, tried for heresy and threatened with torture. In contrast, his daughter, Virginia, became a cloistered nun. Born in 1600, she was thirteen when Galileo placed her in a convent near him in Florence, where she took the most appropriate name of Suor Maria Celeste. Galileo later said of her that she had an exquisite mind, and her intelligence and loving support proved to be her father’s greatest source of strength through his most difficult years.
Inspired by her long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter, which she has translated into English for the first time, Dava Sobel has written a book that brings Galileo to life as never before. A man who was compelled to explain the truths he discovered, he was a faithful Catholic devoted to family and, especially, to his daughter. Their voices, and those of others who touched their lives, echo down the centuries through letters and writings, which Sobel masterfully weaves into her narrative, building towards the crescendo of history’s most dramatic collision between science and religion. In the process, Dava Sobel illuminates an entire era, when the flamboyant Medici Grand Dukes became Galileo’s patrons, when the bubonic plague wreaked its terrible devastation and prayer was the most effective medicine, when the Thirty Years’ War tipped fortunes across Europe, and when one man fought, through his trial and betrayal by his former friend, Pope Urban VIII, to reconcile the Heaven he revered as a good Catholic with the heavens he revealed through his telescope. Galileo’s Daughter is an unforgettable story.”Notes: Size: 9½" x 6¼". 429 pages. Tags: galilei galileo 1564-1642 family maria celeste 1600-1634 correspondence virginia nuns italy biography astronomy astronomers religion and science history philosophy 1559-1789 dava sobel 1857028619 first editions firsts printings 1st
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Neely Jones and the Medusa Pool by M.K. Wren (£10.50)Publisher: Thomas Dunne — 1999Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 0312242239]Condition: Very Good - in Very Good+ DJ. A few pages have the top corners turned otherwise a very well presented copy.Description: From the cover: “M. K. Wren writes an exceptionally powerful and moving book about feisty sheriff-in-spite-of-herself Cornelia Faith Jones, who, with her inspiring strength and determination, will be sure to have readers rooting for her every step of the way.”Notes: Size: 8½" x 5¾". 131 pages.
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The Christian Ideal for Human Society by Alfred E. [Ernest] Garvie (£10.50)Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton — UndatedBinding: Hardback Condition: Poor. A copy for reading rather than admiring, generally shabby but text complete and acceptable. Gently faded at the spine. Edges of the text block lightly spotted. Tanning to the endpapers. Hinges weak at the title page. Text complete, clean and tight but a little age-tanned with light spotting to start and finish.Description: Presumed 1st Edition, circa 1932. From the preface: “This volume is a companion to my book, published five years ago, on The Christian Doctrine of the Godhead. As that dealt with Christian dogmatics, so this with Christian ethics. If health and strength be granted to me, I hope in the course of a few years to publish a third volume, which should have come first in order, on Christian apologetics, entitled The Christian Belief in God, with special reference to the study of religions, science, and philosophy. During twenty-seven years I have been lecturing on the History of Religions, the Philosophy of Religion, Christian Ethics, Sociology and Dogmatics; and in these works I am attempting to gather up the harvest of these years of study and reflection. A German theologian, thoroughly familiar with the theological books in English, remarked to me recently that what he missed was books on systematic theology. Whatever value the result may have, it is my purpose at least to present a system of Christian thought, life, and work.”Notes: Size: 8¾" x 5¾". Burgundy boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. In the System of Constructive Theology series. 477 pages. Tags: and application cardinal character christ christian church churches culture development diffusion fact factors faith formation from god graces human ideals judgment leisure moral personality philosophy preparation prophets redemption religion revelation standard subject the virtues
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When the Whistle Blows: The Story of the Footballers' Battalion in the Great War by Andrew Riddoch & John Kemp (£10.50)Publisher: Sparkford: Haynes Publishing — 2008Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. First Edition. [ISBN: 9781844256563]Condition: Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Description: Contains: Black & white photographs; Facsimiles; Chronological tables [1]; Maps; Tables; Plans;
From the cover: “When the Whistle Blows is the first book to tell the story of the 17th Battalion The Middlesex Regiment — the Footballers’ Battalion — and their experiences on the pitch and in the trenches of the Great War.
Following the outbreak of war in August 1914, a heated debate took place about the continuation of professional football during a time of national crisis. In response to claims that footballers were not ‘doing their bit’, William Joynson-Hicks MP raised the Footballers’ Battalion in December 1914 with some 35 professional players enlisting at the inaugural meeting in Fulham Town Hall. Professional footballers, with connections to over 70 present-day League clubs, lost little time in following their lead, the Battalion being brought up to strength by amateur players, officials and football fans eager to serve alongside their favourite players.
Based on extensive original research, Andrew Riddoch and John Kemp draw on many previously unpublished letters, personal accounts and photographs to paint a vivid portrait of a remarkable battalion that fought in some of the fiercest battles of the Great War. The result is a book that is a significant addition to the literature of football and that of the Great War.”Notes: Foreword or introduction by Richard Holmes. Size: 9½" x 6¼". Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [4] 336 pages. Tags: army middlesex regiment 1914-1918 regimental campaigns soccer players military western front sporting regiments battles first football association british united kingdom sports recreation 9781844256563
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Astrological Tarot by Georges Muchery (£9.50)Publisher: Bracken Books — 1989Binding: Hardback in a Dust Wrapper. [ISBN: 1851702547]Condition: Good+ — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Gently bruised at the spine ends and corners with commensurate ruffling to the dustwrapper. Edges of the text block lightly spotted. Text complete, clean and tight.Description: From the flap: “This examination of the Astrological Tarot shows how a study of the astral chart can be combined with divination by cards to provide very specific personal predictions. Unlike the more widely known tarot of seventy-eight cards, the astrological deck contains forty eight — three for each sign of the Zodiac and twelve Major cards representing the Ascendant, the Moon’s Nodes, the Part of Fortune and the Planets. For the practitioner, the student, or even the simply curious The Astrological Tarot offers an authoritative guide to the fascinating subject of telling the future through the stars and the cards.”Notes: Size: 9¼" x 6¼". Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 312 pages. Tags: correspondences fortune-telling tetragrammaton revolutionary interpreters theosophical rosicruciana piedmontese freemasonry uncertainty divination twenty-two mysterious gnosticism twenty-one temperance rectifying eleusinian fifty-four florentine astromancy lamblichus traditions bolognese cabalists minchiate alexander universal pentacles horoscope bonifacio mysteries symbolism mythology alighieri geognara alphabet magician etteilla designed dionysus aleister meanings baphomet readings paradise religion sceptres shekinah purposes mystical
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Batter My Heart by Christopher Leech (£9.50)Publisher: Merlin Books — 1985Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 086303215X]Condition: Good. Heavily faded at the spine. Edges of the text block lightly tanned. Previous owners' inscription to the first blank. Description: From the cover: “Down the ages, families have been sadly torn apart by strongly held religious beliefs, thus adding a constant urge to the quest for Christian Unity.
In :their small way, the brothers David and Christopher Leech and their family have shared the lesion given to the Body of Christ by a divided Church.
Born and bred in a family setting where ‘Reformed Catholic’ clerics abounded, St. Edmund’s School, Canterbury, was their common Alma Mater. David, already with a passion for the Church and the Classics, proceeded to Keble College, Oxford, from whence he embraced the Roman Catholic Faith. Later, he was trained for the Priesthood at the Seminary in Gozo, the tiny island off Malta, where he has remained ever since.
By contrast, Christopher, keeping his head down with equal attacliment amongst the more earthy pursuits of the playing field, at length was admitted to Lincoln Theological College, and was ordained in what is known, with a nice and typical touch of ambiguity, as ‘The Church of England’.
The pain of spiritual separation has always been present between the brothers. Throughout a lifetime of discussion, neither has changed his basic claim to be a Priest in the Catholic Church, though age and the increasing awareness of mortality have mellowed the passions of debate.
Divisions within the Church of England have done nothing to promote a rapprochement with Rome. Of late years, the split in the Roman hierarchy itself between the Traditionalists and the official teachings of the Papacy in the realms both of faith and morals, had added a grim and poignant irony — the unique authority of the Roman Catholic Church, for long its strength and glory, has appeared to be undermined. Far from exulting in this new ecclesiastical confusion, Christopher has grieved with his brother, a staunch Traditionalist.
Batter My Heart, for all its cruel darkness, highlights the essential oneness all Christians share in Christ. Our agreements far outweigh our divisions. It is a matter of thanksgiving and rejoicing that David and Christopher have united to present a volume, which, in its theological content, tries to present an objective and balanced view of the terrible dilemmas confronting Christians of the sixteenth century.
The brothers’ hope and prayer is that all readers may be led into that fullness of Truth which Christ wills for all mankind.”Notes: Size: 8¼" x 5¾". 336 pages. Tags: historical fiction english christopher leech 086303215x
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Daily Strength For Daily Needs: One Year of Biblical Inspirations by Victor M. Parachin (£9.50)Publisher: Liguori Publications — 1998Binding: Paperback [ISBN: 0764802348]Condition: Near Fine. Description: First in this, paperback, edition.
From the cover: “When facing success, trial, and tragedy, men and women :hroughout the ages have turned to the Bible for guidance, comfort, and daily strength.
This book gives you the opportunity to experience the Bible on a daily basis. Meditations from the Bible provide uplifting information and fresh inspiration — connecting you with the diverse themes found in Scripture.”
It includes:- An original inspirational narrative that relates the scriptural passage to a theme on practical living.
- An appropriate concluding prayer or a brief quotation from a wide variety of historical and contemporary authors.
Daily Strength for Daily Needs is a wealth of reassuring inspiration from the greatest Christian source of spirituality.Notes: Jacket designed by Christine Kraus. Size: 9" x 5¼". [V] 371 pages. Tags: devotional calendars religion catholicism christian life inspirational meditations bible readings selections victor parachin 0764802348
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