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Brittan, Nick
Motor Racing the International Way
No marks or inscriptions to contents. Apart from very minor marks to the covers, a clean, tight copy with bright boards and minor bumping to bottom corners. 120pp.
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O'Sullevan, Peter
Calling the Horses : A Racing Autobiography
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Price clipped dust jacket not marked or torn with light creasing to edges. 368pp. Autobiography of racing commentator Peter O'Sullevan.
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The Editors
Manchester
No marks or inscriptions. Slight creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with lettering and a coloured coat of arms on matt black covers and no bumping to corners. Scarce. 48pp. Comprehensive concise review of the City of Manchester, its industry, sport, shops, suburbs, transport etc. Includes a table giving bus and rail fares between the city and other places, eg. bus to Sheffield was 6s 9d and the train cost 22s 4d to Windermere. Undated but latest aircraft movements given for first half of 1950.
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Nichols, Richard
The Classic Corvette
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 96pp. Well illustrated study of the Chevrolet Corvette.
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Francis, Dick, Oaksey, Lord etc & Armfield, Hilary (editor)
150 Years of the Aintree Legend
No marks or inscriptions. Minor crease adjacent to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 79pp. The story of the Grand National and its course at Liverpool.
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Gliewe, Ramon
Welcome on Board : A Beginner's Guide to Sailing
Appears unread. Traces of foxing to end papers. No other marks or inscriptions. Tiny creases to upper front corner and rear lower corner of covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 126pp.
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Hughes, John; Watson, Peter
Long Live the National
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight creasing to a few page corners and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with rubbing to edges and signs of storage. 208pp. The Grand National, the supreme test for one man and his horse, has tugged at our emotions for nearly 150 years. Now some of the greatest modern names associated with the race have re-lived their dramatic moments in a unique collection of 27 stories.
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Hitchcock, Lieut-Col F. C.
Saddle Up : A Guide to Equitation and Stable Management Including Hints to Instructors (revised edition)
Previous owner's name to front end paper. Minor foxing to end paper and page edges. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with slightly sunned unmarked rear board and no bumping to corners. 286pp. Revised edition.
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McDiarmid, Mac
Classic Super Bikes from Around the World
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 96pp.
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Fern, Dave
The Donington Grands Prix
Book in virtually mint condition. 191pp. The full story of Donington Park in Derbyshire from its opening for motorcycle racing in 1931 though its Grands Prix years in the 1930s, its time as a military vehicle depot during the war years and its return to civilan ownership in the 1950s. Racing was eventually restored to the Park in 1977 and this book was produced to mark the Park's staging of a Formula One World Championship race in 1993.
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Gill, James
Bloodstock : Breeding Winners in Europe and America
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 319pp. A study of racehorse breeding starting with the importation of the first Arab and Barb stallions from the East. The author writes the history of the development and achievements of studs in the major breeding countries - Britain, Ireland, USA and France - with first-hand accounts of their work.
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Hill, Robert H. (editor)
The Year Book 1969
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards, slight rubbing to board edges and no bumping to corners. 416pp. A review of world events in 1968 including the assassination of both Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. Well illustrated.
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Lovesey, John ; Mason, Nicholas & Taylor, Edwin (editors)
The Sunday Times Sports Book
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light traces of handling and storage. 287pp. A selection of the best from The Sunday Times sports pages over more than a decade - sport through the eyes of some of the best writers and photographers in the world.
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Teutul, Paul; Teutul, Michael; Zimmerman, Keith; Zimmerman, Kent
Orange County Choppers : The Tale of the Teutuls
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn withy slight creasing to upper edge and minor indentation. 211pp. From the TV programme about the hard working and very real family who make custom chopper bikes based in Orange County, New York. Very scarce in the UK.
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Onselen, Charle Van
The Fox and the Flies : The Criminal World of the Whitechapel Murderer (Signed By Author)
Inscribed by author on dedication page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to very slightly arched spine. A very clean tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 646pp. The story of Joseph Silver who was a central character in London in the global market for commercial sex and white slavery for three turbulent decades before the First World War.
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Davenport, T. R. H.
South Africa : A Modern History
Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. 432pp. Covers the whole range of South African history from the late stone age to 1976, including separate chapters on the Mfecane and the Trek.
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Robertson, A. F.
The Dynamics of Productive Relationships : African Share Contracts in Comparative Perspective
Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, slight tanning mainly to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with fading to spine, minor creasing to upper edge and traces of storage. 321pp. This study covers four African cases of share contracts, in Ghana, Sudan, Lesotho and Senegambia.
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Taschen, Angelika (editor)
Tokyo Style : Icons
Book in near mint condition. 191pp. Japanese exteriors, interiors, design.
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Kent, J. S. (editor)
The Manchester Genealogist Vol 32 No 3
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 149-232pp. Journal of the Manchester, Lancashire, Bolton, Oldham and Anglo-Scottish Family History Societies, Irish Ancestry Group and the Computer Group.
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Kent, J. S. (editor)
The Manchester Genealogist Vol 32 No 4
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bump to upper corner. 235-305pp. Journal of the Manchester, Lancashire, Bolton, Oldham and Anglo-Scottish Family History Societies, Irish Ancestry Group and the Computer Group.
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Kent, J. S. (editor)
The Manchester Genealogist Vol 33 No 2
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bump to upper corner. 81-148pp. Journal of the Manchester, Lancashire, Bolton, Oldham and Anglo-Scottish Family History Societies, Irish Ancestry Group and the Computer Group.
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Kent, J. S. (editor)
The Manchester Genealogist Vol 33 No 3
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 149-228pp. Journal of the Manchester, Lancashire, Bolton, Oldham and Anglo-Scottish Family History Societies, Irish Ancestry Group and the Computer Group.
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Kent, J. S. (editor)
The Manchester Genealogist Vol 34 No 1
No marks or inscriptions. Faint crease to upper front corner. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 76pp. Journal of the Manchester, Lancashire, Bolton, Oldham and Anglo-Scottish Family History Societies, Irish Ancestry Group and the Computer Group.
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Kent, J. S. (editor)
The Manchester Genealogist Vol 34 No 2
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 77-156pp. Journal of the Manchester, Lancashire, Bolton, Oldham and Anglo-Scottish Family History Societies, Irish Ancestry Group and the Computer Group.
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Kent, J. S. (editor)
The Manchester Genealogist Vol 34 No 3
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 157-236pp. Journal of the Manchester, Lancashire, Bolton, Oldham and Anglo-Scottish Family History Societies, Irish Ancestry Group and the Computer Group.
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Kent, J. S. (editor)
The Manchester Genealogist Vol 35 No 1
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 68pp. Journal of the Manchester, Lancashire, Bolton, Oldham and Anglo-Scottish Family History Societies, Irish Ancestry Group and the Computer Group.
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Kent, J. S. (editor)
The Manchester Genealogist Vol 35 No 3
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 149-220pp. Journal of the Manchester, Lancashire, Bolton, Oldham and Anglo-Scottish Family History Societies, Irish Ancestry Group and the Computer Group.
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Kent, J. S. (editor)
The Manchester Genealogist Vol 36 No 1
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 84pp. Journal of the Manchester, Lancashire, Bolton, Oldham and Anglo-Scottish Family History Societies, Irish Ancestry Group and the Computer Group.
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Kent, J. S. (editor)
The Manchester Genealogist Vol 36 No 2
No marks or inscriptions. Small crease to lower corner of front cover. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 85-176pp. Journal of the Manchester, Lancashire, Bolton, Oldham and Anglo-Scottish Family History Societies, Irish Ancestry Group and the Computer Group.
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Kent, J. S. (editor)
The Manchester Genealogist Vol 36 No 3
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 177-260pp. Journal of the Manchester, Lancashire, Bolton, Oldham and Anglo-Scottish Family History Societies, Irish Ancestry Group and the Computer Group.
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Wall, Dr M. S. & Vaughan, Dr D. H.
The Manchester Genealogist Vol 43 No 4
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 305-400pp. Journal of the Manchester, Lancashire, Bolton, Oldham and Anglo-Scottish Family History Societies, Irish Ancestry Group and the Computer Group.
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Wall, Dr M. S. & Vaughan, Dr D. H.
The Manchester Genealogist Vol 44 No 2
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 97-192pp. Journal of the Manchester, Lancashire, Bolton, Oldham and Anglo-Scottish Family History Societies, Irish Ancestry Group and the Computer Group.
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Wall, Dr M. S. & Vaughan, Dr D. H.
The Manchester Genealogist Vol 44 No 4
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 289-384pp. Journal of the Manchester, Lancashire, Bolton, Oldham and Anglo-Scottish Family History Societies, Irish Ancestry Group and the Computer Group.
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Wall, Dr M. S.
The Manchester Genealogist Vol 45 No 1
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 96pp. Journal of the Manchester, Lancashire, Bolton, Oldham and Anglo-Scottish Family History Societies, Irish Ancestry Group and the Computer Group.
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Wall, Dr M. S.
The Manchester Genealogist Vol 45 No 2
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 97-192pp. Journal of the Manchester, Lancashire, Bolton, Oldham and Anglo-Scottish Family History Societies, Irish Ancestry Group and the Computer Group.
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Wall, Dr M. S.
The Manchester Genealogist Vol 45 No 3
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 193-288pp. Journal of the Manchester, Lancashire, Bolton, Oldham and Anglo-Scottish Family History Societies, Irish Ancestry Group and the Computer Group.
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Bridge, Antony
Theodora : Portrait in a Byzantine Landscape
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 194pp. The story of Theodora, born in the gutter in 520 AD, who rose to become a Byzantine Empress, a woman of rare distinction and an unforgettable human being.
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Bundy, Colin
The Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry
Previous owner's name/label to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. Small creases to cover corners, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. 276pp. Concentrating mainly of the years between 1870 and 1913, this study analyses how African agriculturalists responded to economic pressures and opportunities and goes on to show that response was inhibited and crushed by the intervention of politically more powerful groups, in particular white farmers and urban employers.
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Mare, G.
African Population Relocation in South Africa
Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with browned unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 110pp. A description of the first phase of apartheid, the forced resettlement of black South Africans away from their traditional homelands. The study includes the ideological motivation behind this. Mostly in English but some sections in Afrikans. Very scarce in the UK.
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Delius, Peter
The Land Belongs to Us: The Pedi Polity, the Boers, and the British in the Nineteenth-Century Transvaal
The original 1983 First Edition. Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanning to pages, signs of storage and no bumping to corners. 278pp. The history of the Pedi, less well known but of similar imprtance to the Zulus according Transvaal Africans, who were also bludgeoned into submission by the British in the 1870s.
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Mbeki, Govan;International Defence and Aid Fund
South Africa, the Peasants' Revolt
Previous owner's name to title pages. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to slightly faded spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny piece missing from original oversized corner and no bumping to corners. 157pp. Originally published twenty years earlier and written by Govan Mbeki who had now spent twenty years in prison on Robben Island along with Nelson Mandela, this books covers the revolt at the time of the establishment of the first bantustan in the Transkei in 1964.
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Transvaal Action Committee
Kwandebele - The Struggle Against 'Independence'
Previous owner's name to first page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight booklet with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 32pp. This publication was later incorporated into the book 'Popular Struggles in South Africa'. It sets out the fight by the blacks being forced into the bantustan of Kwandelebe in the Transvaal.
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The Editor
Botshabelo : Incorporation Now, Independence Next ?
No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight booklet with very slightly sunned unmarked boards. 58pp. The struggle of Botshabelo, South Africa's largest black settlement outside Soweto, at the time when there were reports that it would be incorporated into the tiny impoverished bantustan of Qwa Qwa more than 330 km away, and the understanadable concerns that the next step would be independence. Very scarce.
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Robertson, A. F.
Greed : Gut Feelings, Growth and History
Inscription on front end paper. No other marks to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. 277pp. How Western philosophy has left us confused about meanings of growth and how we might begin to remedy this situation.
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Van der Merwe, Hendrik W. & Charton, Nancy C. J. & Kotze, D. A. & Magnusson, Ake (editors)
African Perspectives on South Africa : Speeches, Articles & Documents
Previous owner's name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked very slightly rubbed boards, tanning to page edges and no bumping to corners. 612pp. A student's sourcebook of South African politics whith the five themes - Denunciation of Petty Apartheid, Black Consciousness, Sharing, Self-help and Non-Violence.
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Moya, Lily ; Palmer, Mabel ; Makhanya, Sibusisiwe & Marks, Shula (editor)
Not Either an Experimental Doll : The Separate Worlds of Three South African Women
Previous owner's name/label to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. Small crease to lower front corner, single crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 217pp. A first-hand account of the roots of apartheid and the hated Black education system in correspondence dated 1949 to 1951 between three South African women.
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Collen, Lindsey
Mutiny (Signed By Author)
Signed by author to title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 344pp. A haunting tale of three women in a prison cell for two on a tropical island in the Indian Ocean, their stories, recipes and the seeds of rebellion.
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Ngcobo, Ndumiso
Some of My Best Friends Are White : Subversive Thoughts from an Urban Zulu Warrior
Inscription on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 168pp. Throwing off any semblance of political correctness, this book takes an enlightened look at South Africa. Scarce.
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Bernstein, Hilda
The World That Was Ours : The Story of the Rivonia Trial
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, well-tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 309pp. The story of the trial in 1964 when Nelson Mandela was tried and imprisoned for life in South Africa.
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The Editor
Programa De Toros : Explanation of a Bull-Fight
No marks or inscriptions. Small crease to upper corner of front cover. Clean tight pages with slightly marked boards and no bumping to corners. Unpaginated. pp. Multi-lingual explanation (including English) of the 'sport' of bull-fighting with portraits of famous matadors.
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