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1 The House of Seppelt: Being an Historical Record of the Life and Times of the Seppelt Family through four generations
Adelaide: The advertiser printing office 1951 First Edition Hd Near Fine  Illustrated with colour and mono plates 
History of an Australian wine producing family  571044 
Price: 8.10 GBP
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2 Took, Barry, with a foreword by Michael Palin. A Point Of View
Duckworth 1990 0715623486 / 9780715623480 First edition Large Hardeback with dust wrapper Very Good Plus Good Plus Illustrated with mono photographs and cartoons 
Wrapper worn along top edge. A n autobiography, but more important, and analysis of British humour by an expert practitioner.  603004 
Price: 10.80 GBP
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3 A Lady of the Court Life Of Queen Victoria
R E King Ltd 1901 Hardback without Dust Wrapper. Very Good. Illustrated with mono plates, being half-tone reproductions of art works and photographs. 
266 pp. A nice clean tight copy of this scarce title. Light shelf wear; endpapers and last page browned; spine a bit faded. . Light olive green boards with ornate art nouveau decoration in black, and gilt titles. 644030 
Price: 99.00 GBP
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4 A Member of the Congregation You Did It Unto Me: Mother Clare Fey Of The Poor Jesus Child
John. S.Burns and Sons 1954 Staple-Bound Card Covers Fine. Illustrated with mono photographs 
68 pp. 639062 
Price: 13.50 GBP
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5 Abraham, Gerald Rimsky-Korsakov: A short biography
Duckworth 1945 Hardback no Dust Wrapper Good to Very Good 
Gift inscription on front endpaper. Spine sunned.  609061 
Price: 4.00 GBP
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6 Abraham, Gerald Tchaikovsky, a short Biography
Duckworh 1944 1st Hardback without dust wrapper Very Good 
 198235 
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7 Abraham, Gerald (ed.) Schubert: A Symposium
Lindsay Drummond 1946 First Edition Hardback without dust wrapper. Good to Very Good 
Divided into five sections: Schubert the Man, by Otto Erich Deutsch; The Orchestral Music by Mosco Carner; The Chamber Music, by J A Westrup, The Piano Music, by Kathleen Dale, and The Songs, by Alec Robertson. 299pp + 44pp of musical examples  616112 
Price: 5.40 GBP
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8 Adams, Gerry Before the Dawn: An autobiography
New York: William Morrow & Co 1996 0688143121 / 9780688143121 First US Edition Hardback with Dust Wrapper Fine Near Fine Illustrated with mono photographs 
 548260 
Price: 7.20 GBP
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9 Adamson, Joy Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds
The Reprint Society 1961 Hardback with Dust Wrapper Very Good or Better Very Good Illustrated in mono 
 524158 
Price: 4.50 GBP
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10 Addleshaw Percy Sir Philip Sidney
Methuen & Co 1910 2nd Hardback no Dust wrapper Very Good With 12 mono plates 
Pages yellowing; some pencil underlining.  104274 
Price: 13.50 GBP
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11 Adie, Kate The Kindness of Strangers
Headline Publishing 2002 0755310721 / 9780755310722 Hardback with Dust Wrapper Fine Near Fine (price clipped) Illustrated with mono and colour Photographs 
The Autobiography of Kate Adie, fearless reporter and professional chronicler of the world's nastinesses. If you see Adie's face on the box. You know there's a war on somewhere  452039 
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12 Adie, Kate The Kindness of Strangers
Headline 2002 0755310721 / 9780755310722 Hardback with Dust Wrapper Near Fine Very Good Illustrated with colour and mono photographs 
Adie, who seems to have spent most of her journalistic career up to her neck in muck and bullets whilst covering some far-flung conflict, gives us an insight into the behind-the-scenes world of news broadcasting.  569264 
Price: 7.20 GBP
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13 Aftel, Mandy Death Of A Rolling Stone : The Brian Stone Story
Sidgwick & Jackson 1982 0283989459 / 9780283989452 Large Paperback Very Good. Illustrated with mono photographs 
Some overall wear. 208pp. 626144 
Price: 8.55 GBP
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14 Ainger, Alfred Charles Lamb -
Macmillan and Co Ltd 1909 Hardback no Dust Wrapper Good  
English Men of Letters series. Minor shelf wear to spine ends and corners; slight foxing; owners name on front endpaper  457097 
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15 Al-Nahi, Donya and Eugene Costello No One Takes My Children : The dramatic story of a Mother's determination to regain her kidnapped son and daughter.
Mainstream Publishing 2005 1840189630 / 9781840189636 First edition  Hardback with dust wrapper Near Fine Near Fine 
The author's quest to find her two children, snatched by her Iraqi ex-husband, culminating in his home town in post-Saddam Iraq.  603054 
Price: 9.00 GBP
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16 Alagiah, George A Passage to Africa (SIGNED COPY.)
Little, Brown 2001 0136855545 First Edition Hardback with dust wrapper. Fine Near Fine 
Signed by author on title page. Alagiah mixes political insight with personal testimony to draw often harrowing pictures of modern Africa and its peoples.  559006 
Price: 16.20 GBP
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17 Alexander, John The Two Stephensons: Pioneers of the Railway System.
S W Partridge No date given. [> 1913] Hardback without Dust Wrapper. Good. Illustrated in mono throughout text. 
Prize label dated 1913 on front endpaper. Some overall wear. Pages beginning to yellow. 176pp plus 32pp publisher's catalogue at rear. Blue buckram on board with gilt titles and black art nouveau decoration. A biography of George and Robert Stephenson. 671011 
Price: 54.00 GBP
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18 Alexander, John T. Catherine the Great : Life and Legend
Oxford University Press 1989 0195052366 / 9780195052367 1st US edition Hardback with dust wrapper. Near Fine Very Good or better Illustrated with mono photo plates 
Adulteress, usurper, murderess, tyrant, oppressor, hypocrite, egotist. Bad mother, nymphomaniac: these epithets have all been applied to Catherine, but it is sometimes forgotten that she was an extremely savvy ruler , a brilliant politician who held the throne of Russia for nearly thirty-five years. Alexander's meticululously researched biography examines both sides of this remarkable woman. With appendix showing Catherine's love notes, a bibliography and an index. In American style binding.  442004 
Price: 10.80 GBP
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19 Ali, Muhammad with Richard Durham The Greatest - My Own Story
Hart-Davis MacGibbon 1976 0246109440 / 9780246109446 Hardback with dust wrapper Very Good or better Good or better, Price Clipped 
Wrapper has some wear to edges.  533325 
Price: 5.40 GBP
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20 Allan, D G C William Shipley Founder of the Royal Society of Arts - A Biography with Documents
Hutchinson 1968 0090857003 / 9780090857005 First Edition Hardback with Dust Wapper. Fine. Very Good. With a tipped-in colour portrait of Shipley after William Hincks 1786, Seven mono plates, and various illustrations in the text., 
Light shelf wear only. 240pp including genealogies, bibliography and iconography, various lists and tables, and an index. 623114 
Price: 8.10 GBP
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