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Palmer, Robert & Shanahan, Mary
The Rolling Stones
No marks or inscriptions. Small, very minor creases to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 253pp. Excellent well illustrated study of the Rolling Stones.
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Pickles, Hilda
Crooked Sixpences Among the Chalk : Seventy-Five Years of Schooling (in Tyneside & Cumbria)
No 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. 192pp. The author's time as pupil, teacher and co-opted Education Commitee member in the north of England from the 1920s.
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Cathcart, Helen
The Duchess of Kent
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and the tiniest of bumps to upper corners. Dust jacket price clipped with no marking, small repairs to spine ends and slight rubbing to edges. 200pp.
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Henderson, Ernest
The World of Mr Sheraton : How $1,000 Became $400 Million
Small water mark to lower edge, no effect on text. No other marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very small creases to a few page corners and no bumping to corners. 237pp.
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Fitzgeorge-Parker, Tim
Jockeys of the Seventies
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 176pp. A series of short biographies and racing histories of a number of prominent jockeys from the 1970s, starting with Lester Piggott.
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Zeidler, Birgit
Claude Monet : Life and Work
Appears unread. Neat inscription on half 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. 95pp.
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The Editor
Manchester Memoirs : Special Commemorative Dalton Edition : Vol 142 2003-2004
Book in mint unread condition. 155pp. Special edition of Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society Journal to commemorate the bicentenary of John Dalton's famous paper entitled 'New Theory of Chemical Philosophy' in which he described his table of Atomic Weights and revolutionised chemistry.
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Mosey, Don
Fred, Then and Now
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 with minor traces of storage. 196pp. Biography of the Yorkshire and England cricketer, one of the fastest bowlers ever and the first man to take 300 Test wickets.
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Hook, Walter Farquhar
Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury : New Series Volume I - Reformation Period (Volume VI)
Previous owner's bookplate inside front board. Very small number of faint notes in pencil. Foxing to a few pages. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to very lightly rubbed unmarked covers. Slight browning to pages and rubbing to corners and spine ends. 509pp.
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Hook, Walter Farquhar
Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury : New Series Volume II - Reformation Period (Volume VII)
Previous owner's bookplate inside front board. Foxing to a very few pages. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. No marking to covers with slight browning to pages and rubbing to corners and spine ends. Publisher's adverts plus 419pp.
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Hook, Walter Farquhar
Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury : New Series Volume III - Reformation Period (Volume VIII)
Previous owner's bookplate inside front board. Foxing to a very few pages. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. No marking to covers with slight browning to pages and rubbing to corners and spine ends. 447pp.
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Hook, Walter Farquhar
Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury : New Series Volume IV - Reformation Period (Volume IX)
'From the author' written on half-title page. Previous owner's bookplate inside front board. Foxing to a very few pages. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to slightly rubbed covers. No marking to covers with slight browning to pages and minor rubbing to corners and spine ends. 592pp.
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Vines, Alice Gilmore
Neither Fire Nor Steel: Sir Christopher Hatton
Previous owner's place and date to front end paper and minor foxing to top of page edges. 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 torn or creased with small mark to faded spine and tiny nick to lower rear edge.
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Bowyer, Alison
Delia Smith : The Biography
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 with very minor traces of storage. 243pp. Biography of the cookery writer. Press Release tucked in. 243pp.
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Sinyard, Neil
The Films of Woody Allen
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 slight traces of handling and storage. 96pp. 'In this lavishly illustrated volume, containing over 130 carefully chosen pictures in black and white and colour, Woody Allen emerges as one of America's most talented and best-loved humorists as well as one of its finest film-makers.'
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Goodwin, Cliff
To Be a Lady : Biography of Catherine Cookson
Neat inscription on front end paper. No other marks. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight browning to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn with minor traces of handling. 326pp. 'First complete biography of one of Britain's best selling and best read writers - from a crowded, confusing home in East Jarrow -.as amazing and compulsive as any of her best sellers'. This biography was published despite the efforts of Catherine Cookson herself to forbid any biography to be produced.
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Bruno, Frank; Giller, Norman
Frank Bruno : From Zero to Hero
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 torn or creased with small damp mark to lower rear edge, no effect on book. 194pp.
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Vaughan, Roger
Herbert Von Karajan
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, very faint crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, yellowing to page edges and no bumping to corners. 282pp.
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Flippo, Chet (text) and Evans, Mike (editor)
Graceland
No 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. 256pp. The story of Elvis's home and of himself.
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Leigh, John
Bobby Johnstone : The Passing of an Age
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked very slightly indented boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight indenting to front. 223pp. The story of footballer Bobby Johnstone, born in Selkirk, who starred with Hibernian, Manchester City and Oldham Athletic before returning to Hibernian.
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Stanley, David E. with Coffee, Frank
The Elvis Encyclopedia : Special Commemorative Edition
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 with publisher's marks to upper rear edge and minor traces of storage. 287pp. A comprehensive study of Elvis Presley.
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Britt, Stan
Sinatra : A Celebration
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 160pp. A celebration of the life and work of Frank Sinatra.
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Weir, Simon
Police Annual 1982
No marks or inscriptions. Not price clipped. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very slight rubbing to upper front cover. 47pp.
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Elvy, Rev John M.
Recollections of Th 'Owd Church After Forty Years Experience (Signed By Author)
Fond inscription by the author on reverse of the preface. Pages very foxed. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 31pp. History of Manchester Cathedral and its officials from 1863 including the author in whose time it was transformed from a humble Parish Church to a Cathedral. Very scarce with signature.
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Gehring
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1792
Previous owner's neat 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 green cloth boards, very minor rubbing to spine and no bumping to corners. 131pp. Undated but ca 1930s.
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Various
Eagle Omnibus Number Two (2)
Prize plate inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. 184pp. True stories of real people - David Jones, C E Tyndale-Biscoe, Henry Martyn, William Jackson, Sam Pollard and Clifford Harris.
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Davidson, Noel
Only the Best Will Do : The Eddie Stobart Story
Book in unread mint condition. 199pp. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. The fascinating story, dilligently researched and grippingly told of the founder and owner of the transport firm seen everywhere on our roads today.
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Higham, Charles
Charles Laughton : An Intimate Biography
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of storage. Protected in a removable plastic sleeve. 239pp. Biography of the actor, much of it based on his wife Elsa Lanchester Laughton's story of her life with him.
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Grey, Zane ; Reiger, George (editor)
Zane Grey :Outdoorsman
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped with small piece missing from front/top of spine corner, stain to front and a number of small tears to edges. 349pp. Western fiction writer Zane Grey was an early conservationist and here are given fascinating tales of some of his own exploits as an outdoorsman with his hunting and fishing trips. Produced to celebrate the centenary of his birth. Illustrated.
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Daniels, G. W.
George Unwin : A Memorial Lecture
Foxing to some pages. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean pages in a tight binding with well-sunned slightly marked boards, spine slightly rubbed and also nicked at top and no bumping to corners. 46pp. George Unwin (1870-1925) was Professor of Commerce and Administration at the University of Manchester and a pioneer in economic and business history. His chair was the first of its kind in Britain. Tissue-guarded frontispiece photograph of Unwin. Very scarce.
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Dalton, David & Cayen, Ron
James Dean : American Icon
Presentation plate inside front cover. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing to upper edge and minor traces of handling. 285pp. Well illustrated story of the actor.
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Giuliano, Geoffrey; Giuliano, Brenda; Black, Deborah Lynn
The Illustrated Eric Clapton
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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Adler, Steven with Spagnola, Lawrence
My Appetite for Destruction : Sex, and Drugs, and Guns n' Roses
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 creased with large piece missing from rear and rear dust flap. 286pp. The story of rock band Guns N' Roses.
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Gallimore, Sylvie
Wind Beneath My Wings (Signed By Author)
Inscribed by author on front end paper. No other 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. Photographs plus 248pp. An amazing story of courage and bravery about the author's son, struck down by a debilitating illness and who suffered a serious criminal assault in Bristol.
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Bennett, Andrew
Katherine Mansfield
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 98pp. Biography of writer Katherine Mansfield in the 'Writers and Their Work' series.
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Poynder, Charles
Of Frigates and Fillies (Signed By Author)
Signed by author on dedication page. No other 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 nick to upper rear corner and slight creasing to edges. 203pp.
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Withers, Percy
A Buried Life : Personal Recollections of A. E. Housman
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. Lower and vertical page edges uncut and dusty. Dust jacket not price clipped but foxed and with nicks and small tears and repaired at foot of sunned spine. or marked or torn or creased. 133pp. An intimate biography of poet AE Housman by one of the few people who knew him well as the man and not just a poet.
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Spada, James; Swenson, Karen
Judy and Liza
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, trace of foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to upper edge and traces of storage. 216pp. Joint biography of two beautiful and talented women actors and singers, Liza Minelli and Judy Garland.
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Garton, Monica
Don't Bother Me Now, I'm Fighting a War (Signed By Author)
Appears unread. Neat inscription from the author on front end paper. No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with very minor mark to rear, slight rubbing to front cover and no bumping to corners. 127pp. The author describes her life in Burton-on-Trent against 2 World Wars and discusses the problems of seemingly never-ending wars. Very scarce.
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Griffiths, Bill
Growing up in Manchester : The First 10 Years 1924 to 1934
Book in mint unread condition. 146pp. Autobiography and social history from Moss Side, Manchester in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Wynn, Ron
Tina : The Tina Turner Story
Appears unread. Book in near mint condition. 158pp. Biography of Tina Turnar - the musical phenomenon of the 1980s. Very well illustrated.
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Colbeck, Maurice
My Yorkshire Life
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 with traces of storage. 144pp. Autobiography of the man who was editor of Yorkshire Life for over thirty years.
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Sheridan, Jim
Leave the Fighting to McGuigan : Official Biography of Barry McGuigan
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very faint trace of foxing to vertical page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor indenting and slight creasing/rubbing to upper edge. 216pp. Biography of boxing featherweight World Champion Barry McGuigan.
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Morgan, Ted
Churchill : The Rise to Failure 1874-1915
No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to covers, faint crease to arched spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 672pp. Biography of the early years of Winston Churchill as his career seemed doomed to failure.
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Thomson, Malcom
Churchill His Life and Times : Special Memorial Edition
Trace of label removal to corner of front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards, slight fading to spine and bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with sunning to spine. 480pp. Special Memorial Edition.
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Page, H. A.
Leaders of Men
Minor label removal marks inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean very tight copy with dusty decorated bevelled-edge boards, browning to page margins and no bumping to corners. Gilt edges all round. 398pp. Illustrated. Biographies of nine good men including Prince Albert Consort to Queen Victoria. Undated but latest date referred to in text appears to be 1879. Twelfth edition.
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Gadney, Reg
Kennedy
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, faint traces of foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with very minor traces of handling. 176pp. Detailed study of President Kennedy of America. Well illustrated.
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Massinberd, Hugh (editor)
The Daily Telegraph Second Book of Obituaries : Heroes and Advenrurers
Small label with previous owner's family shield and name inside front board. Book otherwise in as new condition. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of handling. 351p. Second set of obituaries taken from the Dailt Telegraph's obituaries column, this time looking at those considered heroes and adventurers.
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Millar, Ian; Millar, Margaret; Millar, David; Millar, John
The Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists
No 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. 387pp. Authoritative reference guide to the world's leading scientists past and present. Biographical details and clear descriptions of scientific contributions. Explanations of named scientific laws, units and effects. Illustrated to enhance clarity of information.
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Blow, Richard
American Son : A Portrait of John F. Kennedy, Jr.
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. 294pp. The last, defining years of John F Kennedy Jr, son of the American president, as seen by an editor who worked with him at George magazine.
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