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Baldick, Robert
The Life of J.-K. Huysmans
Hardcover; first edition; no dust jacket. Former library copy with usual stamps and stickers. Boards are lightly marked front and rear; spine ends and corners are rubbed and chipped; binding is loose at title page, half-title page and frontispiece are completely loose, but still present. Lower page block has an ink stain which has bled through from pages 375 - 425, does not impact text. Page block face has a mark effecting first 40 pages, also does not impact text. There are some light pencil markings in the margins, but text remains clear throughout. AD Used
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Parker, Derek
Casanova
Hardcover; first edition; unclipped dust jacket. Page block and edges of pages lightly tanned and with a few faint marks, otherwise like new condition. AD Used
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Lauryssens, Stan
DALI and I: Exposing the Dark Circus of the International Art Market
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Board spine head bumped, light wear to jacket edges and light mark to jacket front, no other notable flaws. AD Used
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Sweetman, David
The Love of Many Things: A Life of Vincent Van Gogh
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Light marks to upper page block and some minor wear to jacket edges. Tanning to edges of pages. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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McLellan, David
Karl Marx: His Life and Thought
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Very good condition. Wear and nicks to edges of jacket. 1cm tear to jacket rear at upper leading corner and a smaller tear at spine head. Shelf-marks to jacket and spine is a little cocked. Marks to page block, but internally pages are clean and text is clear throughout. TA Used
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Williamson, Anne
Henry Williamson: Tarka and the Last Romantic
Paperback. Minor indentations on rear cover; a few small marks on page block. Interior remains clean and all content is clear. A very good copy. TS Used
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Williams, Jane (ed.)
Tambimuttu: Bridge Between Two Worlds
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket; from a limited run of 1000 copies. Minor edgewear to jacket and page block lightly tanned. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Dominick, Raymond H.
Wilhelm Liebknecht and the Founding of the German Social Democratic Party
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Spine slightly cocked, faint marks to page block, previous owner's name penned to FEP. Jacket tanned at spine and lightly worn at edges with a 2 cm tear to upper edge at flap. Page are clean, text is clear and spine is tight. AD Used
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Marsiske, Hans-Arthur
Wider Die Umsonstfresser: Der Handwerkercommunist Wilhelm Weitling
Paperback in very good condition; text in German. Covers are faded with minor edgewear and slight bow to front cover. Previous owner's name penned to inside front cover and some very light pencil marks to margins. AD Used
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Masters, John
The Road Past Mandalay: A Personal Narrative
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Boards are foxed and worn at edges, bumped at spine ends. Front paste down is tanned and lifting slightly. Jacket is worn at edges, including some small tears and chipped at spine ends. Lightly tanned on inside of jacket. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. AD Used
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Nicholl, Charles
The Fruit Palace
Hardcover; first edition; unclipped dust jacket; newspaper clipping review laid in. Foxing to page block head, small pen mark to page block face and score to page block foot. Light edgewear to jacket. Spine is tight, pages are clean and text is clear. AD Used
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Jardin, Pascal; Stewart, Jean (transl.)
Vichy Boyhood: An Inside View of the PETAIN Regime
Hardcover, first UK edition; clipped dust jacket; translated from the original French by Jean Stewart. Tanning and foxing to page block; jacket has tanned edges and spine. Pages are clean, text is clear and spine is tight. AD Used
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Basso, Lelio; PARMEE, Douglas (transl.)
Rosa Luxemburg: A Reappraisal
Hardcover; first UK edition, translated from the original Italian by Douglas Parmee; unclipped dust jacket. Jacket is lightly shelfworn with a small nicks to the rear flap hinge and front cover; pen mark to the inner front flap. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Chambers, Stan
KTLA's News at Ten: 60 Years with Stan Chambers
Paperback. Superficial scuff marks and minor edgewear on covers. Page block has a few light marks. Contents are sound, clean, clear. BW Used
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Wasserman, Jacob; Paul, Eden (transl.); Paul, Cedar (transl.)
Bula Matari: Stanley, Conqueror of a Continent
Hardcover without dust jacket; map printed end papers; b&w illustrations. Board edges rubbed, spine ends chipped and corners bumped. Rear spine hinge is split; marks to both front and rear boards. Small scuff to leading corner of FEP, all other pages are clean and free from any blemishes. AD Used
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Fox, James
White Mischief
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. (Jacket in good condition) Spine very slightly cocked. Jacket is scuffed along edges, including a 3cm tears to rear lower edge, and 2cm tear to front upper edge, crease to rear flap edge. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. AD Used
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Holroyd, Michael
Lytton Strackey: The New Biography
Hardcover; unclipped dust jacket; first edition, first impression; very good condition. Jacket has light edgewear; page block has 2 pen marks; front board is lightly marked and dented along lower edge; board spine ends are bumped. Pages are clean, text is clear and spine is tight. AD Used
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Latham, Aaron
Crazy Sundays: F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket with design by Diane Large. Jacket is edgeworn and rubbed with a 3cm tear to upper leading corner. Light tanning to jacket flaps and to jacket inside. Page block face faintly marked. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Fitzmaurice, Lord Edmond
The Life of Sir William Petty 1623-1687: One of the First Fellows of the Royal Society, Sometime Secretary to Henry Cromwell, Maker of the 'Down Survey' of Ireland, Author of 'Political Arithmetic'
Hardcover with green cloth boards with gilt decoration to front, no dust jacket. Tissue protected frontispiece and potrait; full-colour fold-out map of Ireland; rough cut page block. Board edges and corners are rubbed, light score to front board and cloth puckered slightly to rear board. Light foxing to end papers. Pages are clean throughout and spine is tight. AD Used
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Sachs, Harvey
Arthur Rubinstein: A Life
Paperback in good condition. Signed by author on title page; includes a discography compiled and edited by Donald Manildi. Creases to spine, front cover hinge and rear cover lower leading corner. Small tear to rear cover at lower edge and light edgewear to both covers. Pages clean and text is clear throughout. AD Used
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Lucas, John
Thomas Beecham: An Obsession with Music
Paperback with faint mark to page block foot and very slight wear to edges. Very good condition. AD Used
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Edel, Leon
Henry James: The Master 1901-1916
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, good condition. Jacket is tanned at spine and quite worn at extremities, mark to rear cover and pen marks to spine and front cover. Front board bowed, spine creased, all edges and corners rubbed. Pencilled marginalia and notes to REP by previous owner. Does not impede text. AD Used
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Holmes, Richard
Coleridge: Early Visions
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Board corners are bumped, page block faintly marked and jacket is lightly edgeworn. Spine is tight, pages are clean and text is clear throughout. AD Used
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Heard, Barry
Well Done, Those Men: Memoirs of a Vietnam Veteran
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket with sticker to rear cover. Faint marks to page block head, otherwise unblemished and in like new condition. AD Used
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Stark, Freya; Moorehead, Caroline (ed.)
Letters: Volume Seven, Some Talk of Alexander, 1952-59
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Faint mark to page block head, very minor wear and minor tanning to dust jacket upper edge and small score to jacket front. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Stark, Freya; Moorehead, Caroline (ed.)
Letters: Volume VIII, Traveller's Epilogue, 1960-80
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. DJ is tanned on inside edges, otherwise like new condition. AD Used
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Lewis, Jeremy
Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket with very small nick to front cover at lower edge. Otherwise, no notable flaws. AD Used
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Fehsenfeld, Martha Dow; Overbeck, Lois More (eds.)
The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1929-1940
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Light scoring to DJ and minor bump to rear upper corner. Otherwise, like new condition. AD Used
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Elliott, Geoffrey
I Spy: The Secret Life of a British Agent
Hardcover; first edition; signed by author; unclipped dust jacket. Author is son of the spy. Page block tanned and pen mark on half-title page, no other notable flaws. AD Used
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Norwich, John Julius
Trying to Please
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, flat signed by author on title page. Minor edgewear to DJ, otherwise like new condition. AD Used
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Blacker, Barnaby (ed.)
The Adventures and Inventions of Stewart Blacker: Soldier, Aviator, Weapons Inventor
Paperback with light crease to rear lower corner and mild edgewear to covers. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Gordon, Iain
Soldier of the Raj: The Life of Richard Purvis 1789-1868: Soldier, Sailor and Parson
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. Faint marks to page block and score to jacket front. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Du Pont De Nemours
L'enfance Et La Jeunesse De Du Pont De Nemours
Hardcover bound in quarter leather with 5 raised bands to spine and gilt lettering. Marbled endpapers and marbled page block, no dust jacket. Text in French. Signed by author and dedicated to a cousin on half-title page. Front board is sunned at upper edge with a small mark across the middle. Light rubbing to board edges. Hinge break at title page and light foxing to some internal pages. Spine is tight and pages are clean and clear throughout. AD Used
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Du Pont, B.G.
Du Pont De Nemours 1739-1817: Volumes I & II
Two volumes in blue leather bindings with gilt lettering and compartments. Color frontispieces and marbled endpapers. B&W plates and foldouts. Vol I: iv, 179 pp.; vol. 2: 235 pp. Gilt top edge. A biography of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817), a French writer, statesman, and economist who immigrated to the United States during the French Revolution. Board edges are worn and endpapers are tanned. Very clean and tight otherwise. AD Used
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Du Pont, B.G.
Lives of Victor and Josephine Du Pont
Hardcover bound in blue leather with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. From a limited run of 300 copies. Marbled endpapers and silk marker ribbon, page block head in gilt. Colour frontispiece, plates, portraits (some color) facsimiles 23 cm. Hinge break at pate 48, page block tanned and some light foxing. Text is clean and clear throughout. AD Used
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Du Pont, B.G. (compiled by)
Life of ELEUTHERE IRENEE Du Pont from Contemporary Correspondence 1778-1791, Volume I
Hardcover without dust jacket, from a limited run of 250 copies. Page block head in gilt, mapped endpapers, full colour frontispiece tipped in. Foxing to pages 93-97. Board's edges are lightly rubbed and faded, spine is lightly marked. Tight and clean throughout. AD Used
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Du Pont, B.G. (trans.)
Life of ELEUTHERE IRENEE Du Pont from Contemporary Correspondence 1792-1794, Volume Two
Hardcover without dust jacket; from a limited run of 250; page block head in gilt, mapped endpapers. Boards are worn at corners and faded at edges. Few faint marks to spine. Pages are clean, text is clear and spine is tight. AD Used
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Du Pont, B.G. (trans.)
Life of ELEUTHERE IRENEE Du Pont from Contemporary Correspondence 1794-1796, Volume Three
Hardcover without dust jacket; from a limited run of 250; page block head in gilt, mapped endpapers. Boards are worn at corners and faded at edges. Few faint marks to spine and page block; a few pages have light foxing internally. Pages are clean, text is clear and spine is tight. AD Used
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Du Pont, B.G. (trans.)
Life of ELEUTHERE IRENEE Du Pont from Contemporary Correspondence 1796-1799, Volume Four
Hardcover without dust jacket; from a limited run of 250; page block head in gilt, mapped endpapers. Boards are worn at corners and faded at edges. Few faint marks to spine and page block, minor foxing. Pages are clean, text is clear and spine is tight. AD Used
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Du Pont, B.G. (trans.)
Life of ELEUTHERE IRENEE Du Pont from Contemporary Correspondence 1804-1807, Volume Seven
Hardcover without dust jacket; from a limited run of 250; page block head in gilt, fold-out frontispiece by Charles Dalmas. Boards are worn at corners and faded at edges, white mark to rear board. Few faint marks to spine and page block. Pages are clean, text is clear and spine is tight. AD Used
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Du Pont, B.G. (trans.)
Life of ELEUTHERE IRENEE Du Pont from Contemporary Correspondence 1807-1811, Volume Eight
Hardcover without dust jacket; from a limited run of 250; page block head in gilt, frontispiece. Boards are worn at corners and faded at edges. Few faint marks to spine and page block. Pages are clean, text is clear and spine is tight. AD Used
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Du Pont, B.G. (trans.)
Life of ELEUTHERE IRENEE Du Pont from Contemporary Correspondence 1811-1814, Volume Nine
Hardcover without dust jacket; from a limited run of 250; page block head in gilt, frontispiece. Boards are rubbed and faded at edges. Few faint marks to spine and page block, brown marks to FEP. Pages are clean, text is clear and spine is tight. AD Used
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Du Pont, B.G. (trans.)
Life of ELEUTHERE IRENEE Du Pont from Contempoary Correspondence 1814-1819, Volume Ten
Hardcover without dust jacket; from a limited run of 250; page block head in gilt, frontispiece. Boards are rubbed and faded at edges and corners. Few faint marks to spine and page block, some light foxing. Pages are clean, text is clear and spine is tight. AD Used
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Du Pont, B.G. (trans.)
Life of ELEUTHERE IRENEE Du Pont from Contemporary Correspondence 1819-1834, Volume Eleven
Hardcover without dust jacket; from a limited run of 250; page block head in gilt, frontispiece and 7 further plates. Boards are rubbed and faded at edges and corners, slight bump to spine head. Few faint marks to spine and page block. Pages are clean, text is clear and spine is tight. AD Used
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Du Pont, B.G. (compiled by)
Life of ELEUTHERE IRENEE Du Pont from Contemporary Correspondence 1778-1834, Index
Hardcover without dust jacket; from a limited run of 250; page block head in gilt. Boards are rubbed and faded at edges and corners. Few faint marks to spine, front board and page block. Pages are clean, text is clear and spine is tight. AD Used
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Cuny, Hilaire; Evans, Patrick (transl.)
Ivan Pavlov: The Man and His Theories (Profiles in Science)
Hardcover, first edition, in unclipped dust jacket. Foxing to page block head and tanned endpapers. DJ is tanned and has a plastic cover, tape of which has left marks on FEP and REP. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Butler, Rohan
Choiseul: Volume 1, Father and Son 1719-1754
Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Jacket is sunned at spine and edgeworn. Crease to lower leading corner of first 19 pages, foxing to page block head, remaining page block faintly marked. Spine is tight, pages and text are clear throughout. AD Used
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Braun, Hanna
Weeds Don't Perish: Memoirs of a Defiant Old Woman
Hardcover with printed boards, no dust jacket. Boards bumped at upper corners and small scratch to front lower edge. Otherwise, like new condition. AD Used
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Kapp, Yvonne; Brinson, Charmaine (ed.); Lewis, Betty (ed.)
Time Will Tell: Memoirs
Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Jacket has minor edgewear and a crease to rear inner flap. No other notable flaws. AD Used
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Thompson, F.M.L. (ed.); the British Academy
Proceedings of the British Academy Vol. 115: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, I
Hard cover in very good condition; red cloth boards unmarked; contents clean, bright, sound. Used
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