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The Pattern of Maugham - A Critical Portrait (SIGNED COPY)

Hamish Hamilton, London
8vo in green faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 278pp, colour frontispiece, bibliog, index etc. Inscribed and signed by Anthony Curtis on the front blank fly-leaf and dated by him 27 - xii - 1973
A well preserved FINE very clean and tight copy in a near FINE Dust Jacket (tiny nick to top edge of spine panel and flap fold corner tips)
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George Herbert (Writers and Their Work No. 152)

British Council / Natinal Book League / Longmans, Green, London
8vo in stiff paper wraps, 36pp
Covers faintly tanned else VERY GOOD+, a well preserved clean and tight copy
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King's Cross Kid - A London Childhood between the Wars

Bloomsbury, London
8vo in red faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 237pp, plus plates
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Fortress Israel - the Inside Story of the Military Elite Who Run the Country - and Why They Can't Make Peace

Portobello, London
8vo Paperback. 562pp, plates, index etc
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Noel Coward and His Friends

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London
Thick, heavy 4to. in colour printed stiff glossy card covers, 216pp, numerous illustrations in text, etc
VERY GOOD+, a well preserved clean and tight copy (covers a little tanned, few spots of slight shelf rub cover edges)
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Napoleon's Last Will and Testament - A Facsimile Edition of the Original Document, Together with its Codicils, Appended Inventories, Letters and Instructions, Preserved in the French National Archives

Paddington Press, London
Large 4to. in colour printed stiff glossy card covers, 112pp
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William of Malmesbury and the Ethics of History

Boydell Press, Woodbridge
Large 8vo in colour printed thick boards, 291pp, bibliography, index
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Through Jungle, Bush and Forest

Andrew Melrose, London
Large 8vo in green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 288pp, 32pp plates, index. Autobiography of the rail engineer and bridge builder
VERY GOOD (name on fly-leaf, some mild foxing to leaves else a clean and tight copy)
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Keats

Faber & Faber, London
Thick, heavy 8vo. In black faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 636pp, plates, bibliography, index etc
An extremely well preserved almost AS NEW unread copy ( thin sliver of slight creasing to bottom edge of spine) in a spine sunned but otherwise AS NEW dust jacket. An excellent copy
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India Under Curzon and After

Heinemann, London
Thick, heavy large 8vo. in blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, 495pp, portrait frontispiece, 3 full page plates with tissue guards, coloured folding map at rear, index.
An extremely well preserved FINE very clean, bright and tight copy (tiny creases and very slight shelf rub to cover corner tips, foxing to first few pages, mild tanning to leaves). An excellent copy
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The Life of Nelson - the Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain Volume II / Vol 2

Sampson Low, Marston & Co, London
Volume 2 (of 2) only. Thick, heavy 8vo. in blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ships design to front cover, top edge gilt. 427pp, frontispiece, 8 full page plates, 10 maps (some folding), index, publishers ads at rear.
VERY GOOD+, a well preserved clean and tight copy (mild shelf rub to ape and cover corner tips, page-block edges tanned)
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Nelson's Battles - the Art of Victory in the Age of Sail

Caxton, London
Heavy 4to. in colour printed boards, 224pp, numerous illustrations in text, bibliography, index etc
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The Victory of Seapower - Winning the Napoleonic War 1806 - 1814

Chatham Publishing / National Maritime Museum, London
Extra Large 4to. in green faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 192pp, numerous illustrations in text, index etc
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The Campaign of Trafalgar 1803 - 1805

Chatham Publishing / National Maritime Museum, London
Extra Large 4to. in green faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 192pp, numerous illustrations in text, index etc
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The Naval War of 1812

Chatham Publishing / National Maritime Museum, London
Extra Large 4to. in blue faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 192pp, numerous illustrations in text, index etc
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Fleet Battle Blockade - the French Revolutionary War 1793 - 1797

Chatham Publishing / National Maritime Museum, London
Extra Large 4to. in blue faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 192pp, numerous illustrations in text, index etc
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The 50-gun Ship

Chatham Publishing, London
Extra Large 4to. in red faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 128pp, numerous illustrations in text, bibliography, index, large folding plan in rear pocket.
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John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom - A Quaker in the British Empire

University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia
8vo in tan cloth, black lettering to spine. 292pp, plates, index etc
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Natalie and Romaine

Quercus, London
8vo Paperback.
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Armored Ships (alt spelling Armoured Ships)

Conway, London
Heavy Square 4to in blue faux cloth, silver lettering to spine and front cover, 180pp, colour plates, bibliography, index etc
VERY GOOD, a very clean and tight copy (end-papers strengthened or repaired with wide paper tape at centre-folds, slight shelf rub to cover bottom edges) in an AS NEW Dust Jacket
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Oscar Wilde

Hamlyn, London
Large 4to. in rust red faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 144pp, plates, index etc
A well preserved FINE very clean and tight copy in a near FINE price-clipped Dust Jacket (slightly creased and nicked at head of spine panel and top corner tip of front flap fold, looks almost as new in its protector)
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Becoming Queen (SIGNED COPY)

Hutchinson, London
Large 8vo in red faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 414pp, plates in colour and b/w, bibliography, index etc. Signed by author on the title-page (no other inscriptions)
An extremely well preserved almost AS NEW unread copy ( thin sliver of very slight creasing to spine ends, hint of tanning to leaves) in an AS NEW Dust Jacket
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Balzac et la Revolution Francaise (Maison de Balzac, Paris 13 Octobre 1988 - 13 Janvier 1989)

Paris Musees
4to in colour printed stiff glossy card covers, 158pp, colour plates, illustrations in text, etc. Text in French
An extremely well preserved AS NEW unread or barely read copy (covers faintly tanned, small ink date on blank last leaf)
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Home Fires - A North London Suburb At War (Hornsey Historical Society Bulletin No 33)

Hornsey Historical Society, London
8vo in photo illustrated stiff glossy card covers, 48pp, plates, map, illustrations in text, large folding map of bomb damage in Hornsey at rear
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The Letters of Lewis Carroll (Complete Set) Volume I ca. 1837 - 1885 / Volume II 1886 - 1898

Macmillan, London
2 volumes, both 8vo in navy blue cloth, silver lettering to spine, 1245pp in all, frontispieces, index etc
Both volumes are in VERY GOOD clean and tight condition with no significant flaws
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Citizen Lord - Edward Fitzgerald 1763 - 1798

Chatto & Windus, London
8vo in black faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 335pp, plates, index etc
A well preserved FINE copy (thin sliver of creasing to top edge of spine, tiny creases to top cover corner tips, page-block edges slightly dusty) in a FINE Dust Jacket (looks as new in its protector)
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William Cobbett: Englishman - A Biography

Aurum Press, London
8vo in black faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 275pp, plates, index etc
A well preserved FINE copy (page-block edges slightly dusty) in an FINE Dust Jacket (looks new in its protector)
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Jesse Hartley - Dock Engineer to the Port of Liverpool 1824 - 60

National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, Liverpool
Landscape 4to in co stiff glossy card covers, 60pp, plates in colour and b/w, etc
An extremely well preserved almost AS NEW very clean and tight copy (small and very mild flat crease to bottom corner tip of front cover)
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Charles Babbage and His Calculating Engines

Science Museum, London Paperback Book Condition - Brand New in Stock Bookseller Inventory # Zk0901805459
Landscape 4to in colour printed stiff glossy card covers, 48pp, colour plates, etc
An extremely well preserved almost AS NEW copy (inscription on verso of front cover)
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The Life of Thomas Chatterton - Including His Unpublished Poems and Correspondence

Hamilton, Adams, & Co, London
8vo in a very nice 20th century binding of glazed black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt rule to spine ends, grey end-papers, steel engraved portrait frontispiece, 336pp
Page-block edges and a few leaves very slightly tanned else FINE, a well preserved clean and tight copy in a nice modern cloth binding
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