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SOUTHEAST ENGLAND. BEAUTIFUL BRITAIN SERIES.

By: Automobile Association.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Reader's Digest: 1987

Seller ID: 22823

ISBN: 0861455185

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

160 pp, 4to (11/14" H). Map endpapers. Colour photographs. "Breathtaking views, fascinating stories, archaeological treasures, links with famous characters - whether in the countryside or a town or village, around every corner you come face to face with Britain's heritage. All of these - and more - are to be found in this authoritative guidebook- part of a new regional series from the AA - which captures the spirit of the best and most interesting features of Southeast England. Local legends, literary, historical and architectural facts - together with items of natural history and geo...
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BRITANNIA: A JOURNAL OF ROMANO-BRITISH AND KINDRED STUDIES. VOLUME 9 1978. (VOLUME IX - 1978.)

By: Baatz, Dietwulf; Barrett, A.A.; Birley, Eric; Buckland, Paul; Castle, Stephen A.; Hanson, W.S.; Jackson, D.A.; Ambrose, T.M.; Jarrett, Michael G.; Johnson, Stephen; McPeake, J.C.; Moore, C.N.; McWhirr, Alan; Viner, David; Miller, M.; St Joseph, J.,

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, London, 1978.:

Seller ID: 20039

525 pp + 32 b&w plates at rear, large 8vo (9 11/16" H), soft cover. B&w maps, plans, drawings, diagrams, graphs, tables, (some fold-out) + photographic plates. Contents: Notes for Contibutors; Editorial; Recent Finds of Ancient Artillery; Knowle dge of the Literary Classics in Roman Britain; The Adherence of Britain to Vespasian; A First-Century Shield from Doncaster, Yorkshire; Amphorae from Brockley Hill, 1975; The Organisation of Roman Military Timber-Supply; Excavations at Wake r l e y , N o r thants, 1972-75; The Case of the Redundant Official; Excavations at Hayton Roman Fort, 1...
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THE BEATLES' ENGLAND: THERE ARE PLACES I'LL REMEMBER.

By: Bacon, David and Maslov, Norman.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: San Francisco, 910 Press: 1982

Seller ID: 24999

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

139 pp, square 8vo (8 1/2" H x 8 1/2" D). B&w and colour photographs. "(A) photo-history of the places in the Beatles' lives and songs. From Liverpool to London to Hamburg, this book takes a unique look at the Beatles' homeland. Each page combines photographs of the Beatles with views of their actual British haunts. (It) is an informative and humorous look behind the Beatles' sites - with addresses included. An in-hand guide or entertaining reference book." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - small crease at top edge of rear cover - migrate...
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THE SECRET ROOMS: A TRUE GOTHIC MYSTERY.

By: Bailey, Catherine.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Viking: 2012

Seller ID: 29018

ISBN: 0670917559

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

466 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs, floor plans, map, family tree. "At 6 a.m. on 21 April 1940 John, the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying on a makeshift bed in a dank, cramped suite of rooms in the servants' quarters of his own home, Belvoir Castle. For weeks, as his health deteriorated, his family, his servants - even the King's doctor - had pleaded with him to come out, but he had refused. After his death, his son and heir, Charles, the 10th Duke of Rutland, ordered that the rooms be locked up and they remained untouc...
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MAPLEDURHAM CHURCH AND VILLAGE.

By: Baker, J.H.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: William Smith, Reading: 1970

Seller ID: 20082

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

47 pp, 8 7/16" H. B&w photographs, maps. Contents: List of Illustrations; Foreword; Prefatory Note; Mapledurham Village; The Two Manors; Mapledurham Church - Position - Exterior - Interior; The Closed Aisle - date of building; Monuments. The Font - Old Brasses formerly in the Church; The Church Windows. Present Day. Original Windows; Records of Two Antiquaries: (1) The Bardolf Aisle. (2) The Chancel and Nave; Additions, Renovations, Restorations; The Bells; The Church Plate; The Church Registers and Records; The Churchyard - New Entrance Gates - Tombs and Tombstones; The Mass Dial; ...
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THE HISTORY OF SCARBOROUGH, FROM THE EARLIEST DATE.

By: Baker, Joseph Brogden.

Price: $130.00 USD

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green: 1882

Seller ID: 29847

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

527 pp, 10" H. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering/decoration, black banding on spine/front board, black endpapers. B&w illustrations (some fold-out). ***Please note: the illustration titled "Drawbridge of the Castle" is missing.*** Section headings: Introduction; Charters; The Castle; Siege of the Town; Religious Houses and Ancient Churches; St. Mary's; Modern Churches; Governing Body of the Borough; Parliamentary History of the Borough; Corporate History; Charities and Public Schools; Markets, Fairs, and Commerce; Harbour and Shipping; Recreations and Amusements; Biography; ...
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THE EMPIRE IS MARCHING: A STUDY OF THE MILITARY EFFORT OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 1800-1945.

By: Barclay, Glen St. J.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1976

Seller ID: 25467

ISBN: 0297771256

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

276 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w plates. "(A) study of the military strength of Britain and her Empire during the Boer War, First World War and Second World War. Dr Barclay evaluates the contributions of Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, and the changing roles played by the colonies during times of crisis. He explains British attitudes to colonial troops - Australian indiscipline and New Zealand thoroughness - and the lack of diplomacy on the part of British military leaders when dealing with their colonial counterparts. After the South Africa War the British government sh...
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THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS AND THE SPREAD OF LEARNING, 1478-1978: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY.

By: Barker, Nicholas. Preface by Charles Ryskamp.

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press: 1978

Seller ID: 28393

ISBN: 0199510865

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

69 pp, + large b&w plate section (photographs, reproductions), 11 7/8" H. Dark blue cloth with gold lettering on spine, gold crest on front board. "(C)elebrates the quincentenary of the introduction of printing at Oxford with a pictorial history of its subsequent progress, illustrated by the books, documents, and pictures which are its tangible record. The story, although it properly begins with the arrival of Theodoric Rood and the first learned and educational books that he printed, stretches back to the early thirteenth century when scribes, illuminators, and binders of books wer...
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THE FAMILY HISTORY PROJECT: GREAT GREAT STORIES FROM THE NATION'S FAMILY TREE. (THE 50 WINNING ENTRIES PLUS THE BEST OF THE REST.)

By: Barratt, Nick, introduction.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Richmond, National Archives: 2004

Seller ID: 21369

ISBN: 1903365759

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

196 pp, large 8vo (9 3/16" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions. "The History Channel launched The Family History Project in September 2003 with the belief that every family has a great story to tell. The nation was invited to share the tales of its ancestors. The thousands of entries revealed a wealth of human experience, from grand achievement to everyday life, love and loss. Here we reproduce the favourites, illustrated with photographs from home archives. Well-known family historian Nick Barratt provides research tips for those inspired to research their o...
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THE RIVER OF LONDON.

By: Belloc, Hilaire.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, T.N. Foulis: 1912

Seller ID: 30372

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

145 pp + publisher's catalogue, 7 7/8" H. Green cloth faded to brownish hue, gilt lettering on spine and front board, top edge faded gilt. 16 colour plates, including frontispiece, all mouned on gray stock, with tissue guards except for "Greenwich" which is a double spread - all present. Several pages as yet unopened. Chapter headings: Introduction; The Approach Up River; London, The First Crossing on the Thames; London, the Port of the Thames; London and the Lower Thames in Warfare. A bookstore's small label on front pastedown, very light browning to pages in margins, one tiss...
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MADAME TUSSAUD: A LIFE IN WAX.

By: Berridge, Kate.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, HarperCollins: 2006

Seller ID: 30116

ISBN: 0002008122

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

352 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. "When she died in London at the age of ninety, a survivor of one of the most tumultuous epochs in history, Madame Tussaud had travelled far from her inauspicious beginnings in Strasbourg as the daughter of a common soldier and a housekeeper. Moving to Paris as a child, Marie climbed through the ranks of French society as the protegee of charmismatic showman artist Philippe Curtius, and witnessed the French Revolution in all its grisly detail. She survived the Terror and moved to London, where she struggled to find a foothold amidst the desperate c...
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THE INVASION OF CANADA, 1812-1813.

By: Berton, Pierre.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1980

Seller ID: 30458

ISBN: 0771012357

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

363 pp, 9 3/4" H. Pictorial endpapers, maps/battle plans. Blue (faux?) leather spine with gilt lettering & decoration, gray boards with blue decoration on front board. "This first edition copy - is one of a limited number (unspecified) which have been specially bound and slipcased" from the copyright page. " To America's leaders in 1812, an invasion of Canada seemed the best way to bloody John Bull's nose. It would, as Thomas Jefferson confidently predicted, be 'a mere matter of marching'. How could a nation of eight million fail to subdue a struggling colony of 300,000? Yet,...
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COURT LADY AND COUNTRY WIFE. ROYAL PRIVILEGE AND CIVIL WAR: TWO NOBLE SISTERS IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND.

By: Betcherman, Lita-Rose.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, HarperCollins / Phyllis Bruce: 2005

Seller ID: 30321

ISBN: 0002007894

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

384 pp, 9 1/4" H. "The lives of two dazzling aristocratic sisters, Lucy and Dorothy Percy, present a perfect window into the world of political unrest and social intrigue of seventeenth-century English society. Their breeding, beauty, and cunning made them among the most influential women of their time. Born during the reign of Elizabeth I, the Percy sisters came to prominence at the court of Charles I. Lucy, the Countess of Carlisle - the 'court lady' - dominated the royal scene thanks to her position at the center of power. Her beauty, captured in magnificent Van Dyck portraits, and...
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THE STORY OF ULVERSTON: A SHORT HISTORY. BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE PEOPLE OF ULVERSTON, AND THE GROWTH OF THE TOWN.

By: Birkett, Henry F.

Price: $95.00 USD

Publisher: Titus Wilson & Son, Kendal, 1949.:

Seller ID: 20263

183 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w illustrations - photographs, reproductions. "....(brings) together for the first time the many references to Ulverston in the local books of the last two-hundred years. With them there is muc h new and hitherto unpublished information, the whole being skilfully wrought into a continuous story. In it the growth of the town during eight-hundred years is traced, and the life of its people, their work and pleasure, their high-momen t s a n d t h eir troubles, revealed. The author feels he has written a social history, one that n...
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR.

By: Bishop, James. Foreword by Lord Blake.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Angus & Robertson: 1982

Seller ID: 27673

ISBN: 0207148260

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

144 pp, 10 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w reproductions of photographs, drawings, advertisements. "The First World War, which claimed the lives of so many men on the battlefields of the Western Front, also profoundly affected the character and everyday life of the nation at home. It was the first 'total war' and the whole country contributed to the war effort. The unrelenting demands of the trenches eventually forced the Government to introduce conscription while, for those left behind, the state intervened more and more in the lives of its citizens. Hardships increased: f...
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THE PROVISIONAL IRA.

By: Bishop, Patrick and Mallie, Eamonn.

Price: $27.50 USD

Publisher: London, Heinemann: 1987

Seller ID: 18771

ISBN: 0434074101

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

374 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). "Nearly twenty years after the present wave of conflict began in Northern Ireland, the Provisional IRA is still an active destabilising force within the United Kingdom. Yet despite the huge loss of life and the consequent political distortions and upheavals it has created, remarkably little is known about it. This authoritiative new book, the first full-length study to be undertaken since the Troubles began in 1969, examines the IRA in depth, analysing its leaders, its objectives and structure. Aided by numerous, unusually frank interviews with the men w...
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1584-1984.

By: Black, M.H. Foreword by Geoffrey Cass.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 1984

Seller ID: 28429

ISBN: 0521264731

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

343 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. "In 1984 the Press celebrates four hundred years of continuous printing and publishing, and this history gives a readable and not-too-formal introduction to that unique record. It is the story of the development of the printing and publishing arm of the University of Cambridge, from the medieval system of resident stationers who dealt in manuscripts to the present large printing and publishing house which produces computer software and audio cassette tapes as well as books (mostly now computer-set). The narrative is given its proper setting in t...
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PRIVATE WORDS: LETTERS AND DIARIES FROM THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

By: Blythe, Ronald, ed.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: London, Viking: 1991

Seller ID: 23312

ISBN: 0670832049

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

310 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H). "The Second World War was, among other things, a great 'reading and writing' war. There was a passion for books of all kinds, and also a remarkable outpouring of personal writing in the form of letters and diaries. The latter were actually forbidden in the services because they might fall into enemy hands, but this did not prevent them from being kept in startling quantities. The young especially, whether on the Home Front or fighting abroad, became extraordinary self-examiners and communicators, finding all kinds of outlets for what was happening to the...
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AKENFIELD: PORTRAIT OF AN ENGLISH VILLAGE.

By: Blythe, Ronald.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: London, Folio Society: 2002

Seller ID: 29266

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

328 pp, 9 7/8" H. Bound in quarter cloth, with paper sides printed and blocked with a design by the artist. Dark brown slipcase. This edition follows the text of the first Allen Lane edition of 1969, incorporating minor emendations made to the 1972 reprint. B&w illustrations. Chapter headings: The Survivors; God; The Ringing Men; To Be A Farmer's Boy?; Good Service; The Forge; The Wheel-wright; The Craftsmen; The School; The Agricultural Training Centre; Officers and Gentlemen; The Orchard Men; Four Ladies; The Young Men; The Law; Limitations; The Vet; Not by Bread Alone; The Norther...
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BRITANNIA: A JOURNAL OF ROMANO-BRITISH AND KINDRED STUDIES. VOLUME 8 1977. (VOLUME VIII - 1977.)

By: Bogaers, J.E.; Boon, George C.; Casey, P.J.; Crummy, Philip; Davies, Jeffrey L.; Davies, R.W.; Hind, J.G.F.; Kennedy, David; Knowles, A.K.; Lloyd-Morgan, G.; Miles, Henrietta; Money, J.H.; Peacock, D.P.S.; Phillips, Bernard, Walters, Bryn; et al.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, London, 1977.:

Seller ID: 20038

523 pp + 29 b&w plates at rear, large 8vo (9 11/16" H), soft cover. B&w maps, plans, drawings, tables, (some fold-out) + photographic plates. Contents: Notes for Contibutors; Editorial; Tile stamps from Lincoln (Lindum) and the 'Legio V Alaudae'; Gold-in-Glass Beads from the Ancient World; Carausius and Allectus - Rulers of Gaul?; Colchester: the Roman Fortress and the development of the Colonia; Roman Arrowheads from Dinorben and the 'Sagittarii' of the Roman Army; Ateco of Old Ca r l i s l e ; t he 'Genounian' Part of Britain; the 'ala I' and 'cohors I Britannica'; The Roman Settleme...
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Category: British History