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Lectures and Essays: Second Series.
xliii 269p burgundy cloth, frontispiece with tissueguard, light library markings, text clean, ...
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Lucian: Charon and Piscator.
125p burgundy cloth with black lettering, a somewhat aged copy, but text clean and binding holding ...
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Plutarchus Vitae Parallelae. Volume 3.
xvii 432p terracotta cloth with black lettering and floral design, various library markings, text ...
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Old Friends at Cambridge and Elsewhere.
viii 397p original blue cloth firm and tight, gilt lettering to spine, very good, blindstamped ...
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Concise Dictionary of National Biography, Complete to 1921.
vii 1456p 142p blue cloth fresh and tight, library stamp, R E Balfour donation bookplate, very ...
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The Works of Horace Translated into English Verse with a Life and Notes by Sir Theodore Martin, KCB.
clxxxvii 186p, 405p two volumes in original cloth, markings from a London library, this set has ...
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Homer and Socrates. Translated from the French by A de Lamartine. With a Brief Biography.
93p original green cloth fresh with gilt lettering to front, this copy with some markings from a ...
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No Spaghetti for Breakfast.
231p red cloth, clean text, spine a bit pale, front hinge slightly weak, no tears, a good and ...
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Sods I have Cut on the Turf.
192p red cloth, unmarked pages, firm, name to endpaper, a good copy, clean
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Our Quixotic Robert Louis Stevenson. Noble Rascal, Expiring Wanderer, Arch Bohemian, Prince of Storytellers.
201p large format paperback, drawings by Shell Fisher, clean pages, firm, cover in very good ...
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The Cyropaedeia of Xenophon. Books 6, 7 and 8. With Notes.
167p 296p a very tight copy in the original green cloth, light library markings, blindstamped ...
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Ben-Gurion of Israel.
xii 273p hardback, loss to dustjacket's bottom edge, frontispiece, plates, clean pages, firm ...
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Story of a Life. Volume 5: Southern Adventure.
227p hardback, first printing, clean copy, very good
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Story of a Life. Volume 2: Slow Approach of Thunder.
256p hardback with red dustjacket, first printing, clean copy, very good, errata inserted
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Bernard Williams, 1929 - 2003. Provost, Knightsbridge Professor of Philosophy. Memoirs Prepared by Direction of the Council of King's College Cambridge.
64p paperback, college arms to front, frontispiece, plates, excellent copy, uncommon title
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The Double Stock. Its History and Behaviour.
22p offprint, grey paper cover, library stamp, very well preserved: Ever sporting stocks ...
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Studies in the Inheritance of Doubleness in Flower. 1: Petunia; Further Studies on the Inheritance of "Doubleness" and other Characters in Stocks.
two offprints 12p, 72p, with illustrations, library stamp, very well preserved
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From Churchill's Secret Circle to the BBC. The Biography of Lieutenant General Sir Ian Jacob.
xxxiii 304p hardback, a fresh copy, clean and firm, in excellent condition, like new
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Dearest Grandpapa. The Hamiltons at Elton Hall 1861 - 1868.
vii 95p plus maps, large format paperback, clean pages, firm, cover well preserved, a very good ...
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Hélène Deutsch: Une Vie de Psychanalyste.
440p thick paperback, burgundy card cover with wrapper, author inscription to half title, else as ...
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Wolf Man - Sixty Years Later: Conversations with Freud's Patient.
250p hardback with fresh dustjacket, excellent clean copy, no name or stamps, very good indeed
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The Past Ever Present.
47p slim paperback, a fresh copy, clean and firm, in very good condition, a scarce title
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Great Moments in Exploration.
128p hardback, clipped dustjacket in very good overall condition, illustrated, clean pages, firm, a ...
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With Livingstone in South Africa.
143p hardback, a fresh copy, clean, firm, illustrated by Harry Toothill, only slight wear to ...
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Wellington's Men. Some Soldier Autobiographies.
411p red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and blindstamp decoration to front, clean pages, firm, ...
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My Sister, My Spouse. A Biography of Lou Andreas-Salome.
320p hardback, purple dustjacket present, this is a much used copy which served time in a public ...
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Derrida and Autobiography.
xiv 194p large paperback, excellent clean copy, name in ink
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Story of a Life. Volume 1: Childhood and Schooldays.
283p hardback with black title table to spine, first printing, clean copy, very good
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The Serjeant-Major. The Biography of R.S.M. Ronald Brittain M.B.E.
191p hardback, clean pages, firm binding, dustjacket edges slightly worn, a very good copy overall
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Data for Biochemical Research.
299p dark blue cloth fresh and tight, gilt lettering to spine bright, excellent fresh copy of the ...
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Michael Faraday.
50p small format hardback, illustrated cover in excellent condition, early price mark, pages clean, ...
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Samuel Pepys.
50p small format hardback, illustrated cover in excellent condition, early price mark, pages clean, ...
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Sub-Lieutenant: A Personal Record of the War at Sea.
102p hardback, dustjacket present but small pieces missing, first edition, gift inscription dated ...
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The Reign of Nero.
144p hardback, gold cloth still fresh, frontispiece and illustrations by Eric Fraser, first ...
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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: His Revolutionary Mind, Life and Works.
x 304p hardback with somewhat worn dustjacket, a clean and tight copy, very good, first edition, ...
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Oncogenes and Growth Factors.
xvi 306p large format paperback, blue cover, very well preserved, a clean and tight copy
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America and Americans.
221p paperback, a fresh copy, clean pages, cover in excellent condition, clear protective sleeve ...
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Lasers in Biology and Medicine.
xi 463p hardback with fresh red dustjacket, clean and tight copy, never used, faint humidity line ...
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The History of Mary I. Queen of England as Found in the Public Records, Despatches of Ambassadors, in Original Private Letters and Other Contemporary Documents.
original blue cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine, inner hinges yielding but binding ...
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Houdini - The Man Who Walked Through Walls.
306p red boards, hardback, a clean copy, many plates, first printing, a hint aged, very good
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Cardinal Bernard Griffin. Archbishop of Westminster.
131p hardback, red cloth, portrait frontispiece, light library markings from a Cambridge college, a ...
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Chance and Design. Reminiscences of Science in Peace and War.
xi 412p large green paperback, pages and binding fresh, a very good copy
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The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. Volume 2: My Country Right or Left 1940 - 1943.
540p paperback, a fresh copy, clean firm binding, name stamp to inside cover, a very good copy
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Vanity of Duluoz. An Adventurous Education, 1935 - 46.
214p paperback, a fresh copy, clean pages, firm, cover protective by clear removable sleeve, name ...
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A Study of Cassius Dio.
xiv 239p hardback, clean and tight blue cloth binding, a fresh copy, college library bookplate and ...
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The Making of a Biochemist: 1: F G Hopkins' Construction of Dynamic Biochemistry; 2: The Construction of F G Hopkins' Reputation.
This is a set of two issues of Medical History (1996) containing one paper in two parts, cover a ...
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The Smell of Humans. A Memoir of the Holocaust in Hungary.
xxvi 173p paperback, clean pages, firm, cover edges worn, a very good copy overall
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Indian Sahib. Queen Victoria's Dear Abdul.
112p hardback, a fresh copy, clean, firm binding, dustjacket in very good condition, well preserved
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Stalin.
xii 114p paperback, clean pages, firm, cover in excellent condition, name to endpaper, very good
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The Amateur Emigrant.
x 172p paperback, name stamp to inside cover, clean pages, firm binding, label trace to back cover, ...
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