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Read, Donald
The English Provinces c.1760-1960 : A Study in Influence
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with sunning to spine and slight rubbing to edges. 319pp. A study which explains how the English provinces reached a peak of independence and influence in the 19th century, and how this has lessened in the 20th century.
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The Editor
Forum for Modern Language Studies : Scottish Number : Vol III No 3 July 1967
Initials JCD to front cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 201-318pp Scottish language, Scottish Gaelic, Scottish Renaissance, Scottish literature, Scottish verse etc.
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Connell, Brian
The Plains of Abraham
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. 246pp. The military build-up to the American War of Independance in the 18th century and Wolfe's fight for Quebec. Illustrated.
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Thomas, Owen P.
Transformational Grammar and the Teacher of English
No marks or inscriptions. Tiny faint crease to upper corner of front cover, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 240pp. An in-depth work designed for the pupil and the teacher of English.
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Scragg, D.G.
A History of English Spelling
At first glance, the book appears in fine condition but some pages are highlighted in ink. No other 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 with minor traces of storage. 130pp. An outline history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxons adoption of the Roman alphabet to the present day, showing the respective influences of native French and Latin.
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Haas, William H.
Phono-graphic Translation (Mont Follick Series)
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased with slight sunning to spine. 94pp. A study on the basic relationship between spoken and written language. Mont Follick Series, Volume 2.
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Haas, William H.
Alphabets for English (Mont Follick Series)
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased with slight sunning to spine. 120pp. A study of English spelling, with discussions about its reform. Mont Follick Series, Volume 1.
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Thoms, W. J.
Early English Prose Romances II - Robin Hood (Limited Edition)
One of a Limited Edition of 500 copies. Bookplate dated 1906 inside front board. No marks or inscriptions to contents and no creasing to covers. Very clean very tight pages with slightly dusty and sunned but otherwise unmarked boards and minor rubbing to corners. Gilt embossed card boards with well sunned buckram spine also gilt lettered. Hand-made paper pages with untrimmed edges. 30pp. 'The Noble Birth and Gallant Atchievements of the Remarkable Outlaw Robin Hood Together with a True Account of the Merry & Extravagant Exploits he Play'd'.
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Thoms, W. J.
Early English Prose Romances I - Robert the Deuyll (Limited Edition)
One of a Limited Edition of 500 copies. Bookplate dated 1906 inside front board. No marks or inscriptions to contents and no creasing to covers. Very clean very tight pages with dusty and sunned but otherwise unmarked boards, foxed/tanned end papers and minor rubbing to corners and edges. Gilt embossed card boards with buckram spine also gilt lettered. Hand-made paper pages with untrimmed edges. 57pp. An early English romance about a Norman knight.
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Helm, Alex
The Rushcart and the North Western Morris
No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight booklet with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 14pp. A study of the Morris Dance in the North West of England and its connection to Rushcarting. It includes a list of places where Rushbearing took place with references plus the places where the Morris was practised in the North West. Extremely scarce.
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Whiteman, Robin & Talbot, Rob
Lakeland Landscapes
Inscription opposite half-title page. No other marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked with nicks/slight creasing to top of spine. 160pp. Superb photographical work on England's Lake District.
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Dorothy Sword Bishop
The City Mouse and the Country Mouse (Fables Bilingues)
Inscription in French. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to front cover, faint creasing to fore edge of last few pages. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 72pp. An illustrated children's story, told in French in one half of the book and in English in the other half. Scarce in the UK.
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Miller, Alice Duer
The White Cliffs
Small inscriptio/date inside front cover. No other marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with small mark to lower front edge and minor rubbing to corners. 41pp. A poem written in the depths of World War Two concerning a young American girls, who marries an Englishman, loses him in the Great War, bears his son and faces her new peril.
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Glover, A. J.
Enrich Your English
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. 102pp. A sel-help manual of exercises designed to build one's vocabulary in a variety of ways,
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Quennell, Peter & Hodge, Alan (editors)
History Today : July 1975
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on Kosciuszko - Polish Champion of American Independance - 18th century, Voyage of Admiral Cheng Ho - trading China to India and Africa - 15th century, English forests, Spaniard Diego de Landa in Mexico - 16th century, Survival of Don Quixote and the 16th century Spain it was based on, 19th centurry Russians in Central Asia and British Missions and the wives of Crimean War soldiers who served as cooks, laundresses and nurses plus book reviews and letters.
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Quennell, Peter & Hodge, Alan (editors)
History Today : November 1975
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. 67pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on Gordon and the Slave Trade, Roger Williams of Rhode Island and the English Civil War, George III and Life at Windsor - 18th century, Paulinus of Pella and the disintegration of Rome, Anatole France as a Politician, The Steelyard of London from medieval times to 1852 and Game and Poaching in Shakespeare's England plus book reviews and letters.
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John Dean (editor)
Book and Magazine Collector : No 89 August 1991
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with very slight tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. 147pp. This issue includes HG Wells, Jonathan Raban, Gerald Swan comics, Thomas Bewick, Curtis Warren, John Gardner, English ghost stories, Hugh Lofting, Doctor Dolittle.
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Bernstein, Theodore M.
The Careful Writer; a Modern Guide to English Usage
Name/date to both inside covers in bold felt tip. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to page edges, minor bumping to a few adjacent lower page corners and no bumping to cover corners. 487pp. A concise yet thorough handbook, covering more than 2,000 alphabetical entries the problems that give (or should give) a writer pause for thought before he sets words to paper - questions of use, meaning, grammar, punctuation, precision, logical structure, and colour.
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Quennell, Peter & Hodge, Alan (editors)
History Today : October 1978
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on George Ticknor 1791-1871 - an American man of letters, English visitors to Rome in the Middle Ages, John Cam Hobhouse (Lord Broughton) 1786-1869, the Nuraghi of Sardinia 1500-500 BC, Count Momplegard and the Garter 1592-1603, Henry Moule and cholera in Dorset - 19th century sanitary reform, the rise and fall of Mr Nicks - an East India Company servant in Madras, Aelfraed and Haranfot - Anglo-Saxon personal names plus book reviews and letters.
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Quennell, Peter (editor)
History Today : August 1979
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on Medieval Schools of England, Botanist Explorers of two continents, Margaret Fuller in Europe 1846-1850, Lord Derby of the Oaks, Woodes Rogers - privateer and pirate hunter, Smuggling in the War of 1812, Henry Crabb Robinson, the English Earthquake of 1580 plus book reviews and letters.
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Quennell, Peter (editor)
History Today : September 1979
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on Thomas Barnes and the Times 1817-1841, George Smith of Coalville, the Fall of the Noble House of Desmond 1579-1583, Sir Rowland Hill and Postal Reform, Gilbert Burnet - Bishop and Historian, The Martello Towers, the First English Lottery, Notes on Battlefields VI the Battle of Ramillies May 23, 1706 plus book reviews and letters.
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Flavell, Linda & Roger
Dictionary of Idioms and Their Origins
Appears unread. 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. 216pp. With over 400 phrases, tracing each one's source and history through the chronological use of examples.
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Quennell, Peter & Hodge, Alan (editors)
History Today : February 1977
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to rear and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on Commissioner Lin and Opium, William Augustus - Duke of Cumberland 1721-1765, American Loyalists in Canada, 'Madame' Elizabeth Charlotte of Orleans, The English in Padua 1222-1660, Northumberland House - London, The Norman who became Prince of Monaco plus book reviews and letters.
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Quennell, Peter & Hodge, Alan (editors)
History Today : November 1977
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on Cologne and the British 1918-1926, Feminists in Elizabethan England, Jacob Blumkin in Russia 1892-1929, the Mamluk Sultans 1250-1517, The Grosvenor Estate, the Colonial Robespierre - Victor Hugues on Guadeloupe 1794-98, an English Arctic Expedition 1553 plus book reviews and letters.
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Quennell, Peter & Hodge, Alan (editors)
History Today : December 1977
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Periodical magazine with feature articles on the Blockade of the Smugglers frpm 1817, Ashurnasirpal II and 9th century Assyria, English refugees at Geneva 1555-1559, Bossuet and Fenelon as tutors to French Royalty, Portrait of Lord Althorp 1782-1845, General Count Ignat'yev 1832-1908, the Plague and the Fire - 17th century reminiscences of William Taswell plus book reviews and letters.
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Taylor, Basil
Painting in England 1700 - 1850 : Collection of Mr & Mrs Paul Mellon (2 volumes)
Two volumes - paintings and descriptions. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. Two very clean very tight copies with bright unmarked boards, very minor foxing to end papers and page edges and minor bumping to upper rear corner of text volume. 231 +231 pp, Detailed examination of the collection of 18th and 19th century English art by Paul Mellon and his wife. Volume one includes a twenty page introduction followed by a listing of over 400 paintings and their description and provenance. Volume two comprises about 220 of the paintings displayed full-page, mostly black & white but a few in colour. A heavy set. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery.
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Nichol, John
English Composition
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to slightly rubbed spine. A very clean very tight copy with slightly marked boards and a little rubbing to corners. 128pp. Literature primer - or how to put words together in order to convey our thoughts to others.
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MANSION, J. E. (ed.).
HEATH'S STANDARD FRENCH AND ENGLISH DICTIONARY. 2 Volumes: Part One French - English, Part II English - French with Supplement (1962). Dictionnaire français- Anglais et anglais- Français, en 2 Tres Fort volumes)
Two large volumes hardcover in original blue cloth. Part one is French to English and has 912 pages; part two is English to French and has 1488 pages. very good set in original blue cloth gilt letters. dizionario dictionnaire francese-inglese, français- anglais. heavy would require extra shipping.for international orders
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Boatner, Maxine Tull; Makkai, Adam; Gates, John Edward
A Dictionay of American Idioms
pp-xiii-392.
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Gunn, Edward M., Jr. (editor)
Twentieth-Century Chinese Drama : An Anthology (Chinese Literature in Translation Ser.)
Paperback, out of print. 9.25 X 6 with 517 pp.
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Seierstad Asne
The Bookseller of Kabul
Hardback; pp. 245; 12mo; In the spring of 2002, journalist Asne Seierstad went to Afghanistan to live with a family for several months. Here she reveals her experiences, telling the story of Sultan Khan - who defied the authorities for 20 years to supply books to the people of Kabul - and his family. new/nuovo/neu/nouveau New DJ reprint ISBN: 0316726052
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GOLDSMITH Oliver
Le pasteur de Wakefield
Stock, Bibliothèque anglaise, 1946, 274 pp., broché, légères traces d'usage, état très correct.
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Levi, Peter
Shakespeare's Birthday
The lamentation of the dead has been a preoccupation in Peter Levi's recent poetry, as well as the subject of his inaugural lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry in 1984. Few poets of our time have found ways in which to compose such sustained meditations on matters of life and death as Peter Levi has done in these personal yet formal poems. "Shakespeare's Birthday" collects three laments - in memory of Charles Haldeman, Caryl Brahms and Alasdair Clayre - written since those included in "The Echoing Green" (1983), to which this forms a companion volume. 40p Book
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Wales, Tony
Sussex as She Wus Spoke : A Guide to the Sussex Dialect
A deligtful account of the local dialect and its humour. 112p. illus..bibliography. Book
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Cecil, David
A Portrait of Jane Austen
" He has combined biography, criticism and social history in a delightful narrative which all jane Austen's admirers will wish to enjoy" Second impression. 207pp. illus (some col) index Book
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Pemble, John
Miss Fane in India
Isabella fane, only daughter of gerneral Sir Henry Fane accomapnied her father to India on his appointment os Commander-in-Chief in 1835 and spent three years as his hostess. Her letters home and her journal ....are a fascinating record... containing a wealth of domestic and social detail, complete with intimate revelations about mosquito bites and boils, and entertainingly acid comments about some of her distinguished contemporaries. Book
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Sutherland,Douglas
The English Gentleman's Mistress
Hilarious send up of the hidden habits and lifestyle of British aristocracy. 75p. illus Book
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Sutherland,Douglas
The English Gentleman's Child
A gentle send up of the inherited habits and style of the offspring of the British upper classes 84p.illus Book
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Sutherland,Douglas
The English Gentleman's Child
A gentle send up of the inherited habits and style of the offspring of the British upper classes 84p.illus Book
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Sutherland,Douglas
The English Gentleman
A gentle send up of the inherited habits and style of the British upper classes 97p.illus Book
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Daiches, David & Flower, John
Literary Landscapes of the British Isles : A Narrative Atlas
A delightful literary excursion, carefully charted with words and maps to deepen our appreciation and understanding of both the literature and the landscape of the British Isles. The London of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dr. Johnson, Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf. Bath in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as seen through the eyes of Smollett, Jane Austen and Dickens. The Lake Poets, the Romantic Poets Abroad, Bronte Country, Hardy's Wessex. The Blackening of England, Scotland in Literature, the Dublin of Joyce and Yeats. Walking tours through Mrs. Dalloway and Ulysses. Plus a comprehensive Atlas and Gazetter section featuring information on more than 225 leading authors and more than 475 cities, towns and villages of the British Isles. Illustrated. 287p. illus maps Book
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Royle, Trevor
Precipitous City : The Story of Literary Edinburgh
Celebration of Edinburgh's literary evolution from the Renaissance Poets to the novelists and poets of the 20th century, the pubs and taverns and market-places - Edinburgh as reflected in the work of major Scottish writers. 210p. plates bibliography. index Book
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Hieatt, Constance B
Essentials of Old English Readings With Keyed Grammar and Vocabulary
90p. Clean crisp copy. Name of previous owner on rear endpaper else fine. Book
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Timpson, John
Timpson's English Villages
"In this enchanting book John Timpson has chosen his favourite English villages their part in English history, their beautiful churches and village greens, their colourful fairs and customs." Illustrated with photographs by Michael Stead. 192 p. index. Book
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Pepys, Samuel, Charkes II
King Charles Preserved : An Account of His Escape After the Battle of Worcester Dictated By the King Himself to Samuel Pepys.
Dictated by the King himself to Samuel Pepys; Illustrated by Maurice Bartlett. 44p.illus Book
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MacColl, Gail & Wallace, Carol McD.
To Marry an English Lord or, How Anglomania Really Got Started
This delightful account of how American heiresses in the post-Civil War era packed up their trunks and went husband-hunting in England demonstrates that our national infatuation with British aristocracy is nothing new. The young women had good looks and big bucks; the often debt-ridden Brits had titles, castles and a society that was "more stimulating and more permissive, more leisurely and more sophisticated than Old New York." MacColl and Wallace (editor of and contributor to, respectively, The Preppy Handbook ) chronicle the lives of the rich and famous on both sides of the ocean, dishing up spicy gossip, pithy social commentary (by 1910, "Society in America became more sure of itself. Social climbers no longer needed titles for legitimacy") and obscure historical tidbits (because they were almost never allowed to sit in Queen Victoria's presence, her ladies-in-waiting "habitually bought shoes a size too big since their feet swelled so badly"). The book also includes witty profiles of leading American ladies and their British lords, piquant period photographs and handy tips on proper etiquette, such as "Any man who reverses changes the direction in which he's spinning his partner during a waltz is a cad." 403p. illus. bubliography.index. Small crease of front cover, else fine Book
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Trollope, Anthony
Barchester Towers (Oxford World's Classics)
Barchester Towers, Trollope's most popular novel, is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Chronicles follow the intrigues of ambition and love in the cathedral town of Barchester. In this novel Trollope continues the story, begun in The Warden, of Mr. Harding and his daughter Eleanor, introducing that oily symbol of progress Mr. Slope, the hen-pecked Bishop Proudie and the amiable Stanhope family.Introduction by John Sutherland. Edited by Michael Sadleir and Frederick Page eat neat unmarked tight copy. Book
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Thorne, Tony
Jolly Wicked, Actually: The 100 Words That Make Us English
"A wonderfully entertaining compendium of the hundred words and phrases that have over the last century become the cornerstones of modern spoken English, and have been used - sometimes deliberately, but often inadvertently - to stake out the common identity that unites the English, to define what makes us who we are, and thus different from those beastly foreigners who lurk just off our shores. Despite attempts by politicians and writers, despite lessons in citizenship enshrined in the national curriculum, we have famously never been able to define for posterity precisely what Englishness is.[It] takes certain well-loved and crucial expressions such as sorry, nice, common, posh, cuppa, and chippy, explores their strange and wonderful origins, and demonstrates with wit and charm how they are emblems of an era or an attitude, of a heritage and of the traits and quirks essential to all our notions of Englishness. 345p. Book
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Dong-A
Tonga met'uro Yong Han, Han Yong sajon = Dong-A's Metro English-Korean Dictionary
Comprehensive dictionary. Includes a section with vocabulary and phrases for specific subject areas. Suitable for self-study, building vocabulary, and developing spelling and translations skills.Compact, comprehensive format.[1] English-Korean.910 pages [2] Korean-English 906 pages +map. Thumb indexed..Flexible cover protected inside a clear plastic sleeve and in a box. [Only 7 copies found in WorldCat] Book
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Hole. Christina
English Custom & Usage
Vintage copy of this excellent popular work on traditional English Folk customs and festivals Illustrated with prints & photographs . 152p plates bibliography index. Donor inscription on business card on ffep. Book
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