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EDMUND CAMPION MEMORY AND TRANSCRIPTION
Written by Gerard Kilroy.
Stock no. 1609869
Published by Ashgate Publishing Company. 1st 2005. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. The death of Edmund Campion in 1581 marked a disjunction between printed untruth and private handwritten truth in early modern England. New views about Campion's literary, historical and cultural impact. ISBN: 0754652556. SIGNED by the author to title page (no dedication). Minor bumping to spine and corners. Wrapper slightly faded at spine.

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BRITAIN IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY
Written by A.D. Harvey.
Stock no. 1815118
Published by B.T. Batsford Ltd.. 1st 1978. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A detailed study of Britain during the opening years of the nineteenth century - the years of the struggle against Napoleon and the period which saw the final stages of the emergence of the two-party system in parliament. Red boards, gilt title to spine. 395 pages including index. ISBN: 0713410329. Light browning to endpapers. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned and lightly scuffed.

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THE CAROLINGIAN EMPIRE
Written by Heinrich Fichtenau.
Stock no. 1815113
Published by Basil Blackwell. 1968. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Studies in Mediaeval History No. 9. This book is more concerned with the strains and stresses in Carolingian society and the conflicts that arose from then than with a systematic enumeration of all the known details. Orange cloth boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0631053409. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Dustwrapper is grubby, has a closed tear to top front edge and remains of price label to rear flap.

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THE LAST KING OF POLAND
Written by Adam Zamoyski.
Stock no. 1815040
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st thus 1997. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The rich and enthralling story of a personal dream with all the elements of grand tragedy, while at the same time an important chronicle of the birth and death of liberalism in Poland and the establishment of Russian power in Europe. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates. ISBN: 029781821X. Text block a little grubby. Light pencil erasure to front endpaper. Pictorial dustwrapper has a few scuff marks.

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THOMAS JEFFERSON REPUTATION AND LEGACY
Written by Francis D. Cogliano.
Stock no. 1815000
Published by Edinburgh University Press. 1st 2006. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A major study of Jefferson's reputation concerned with Jefferson and history - both as something Jefferson made and something that he sought after. Black boards, gilt title to spine. ix and 276 pages including index. ISBN: 9780748624997. Scuffing to dustwrapper.

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COMANCHES: THE DESTRUCTION OF A PEOPLE
Written by T.R. Fehrenbach.
Stock no. 1814845
Published by Da Capo Press. 1st thus 1994. Very good condition.

Paperback edition of Comanches, originally published in 1974. The story of the most powerful of American Indian tribes, the Comanches (they called themselves the True Human Beings), who rode into modern history in a headlong collision with Western civilization. ISBN: 0306805863. Text block a little grubby, edges of covers lightly rubbed.

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DINUZULU: THE DEATH OF THE HOUSE OF SHAKA
Written by C.T. Binns.
Stock no. 1814844
Published by Longmans. 1st 1968. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

The story of the Dinuzulu, son of Cetshwayo king of the Zulu Kingdom 1873-1879. Dinuzulu and the final dissolution of the great military empire which the tyrant Shaka had founded. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Browning to text block and musty odour to contents. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine and edge-worn with tape repair.

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LEIGH REGISTER GUIDE
Written by M.J. Watts.
Stock no. 1814835
Published by Leigh And District Family History Society. 1st 1988. Very good condition.

Compiled by the Leigh and District Family History Society. Registers of Churches, Copies and their Whereabouts. Large format. Stiff paperwraps. ISBN: 1871247055.

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LANCASHIRE WORTHIES (2 VOLUMES)
Written by Francis Espinasse.
Stock no. 1814823
Published by Simpkin, Marshall & Co.. 1st 1874. Good condition.

Two volumes, second series first published date is 1877. People of note from Lancashire including Samuel Crompton who invented the spinning-mule. Red cloth boards with black & gilt titles. Bevelled edges. B/w frontis to volume one. Volume one top of spine is fraying with a little loss of cloth. Inscriptions in ink to prelims. Joints splitting and therefore binding fragile but holding. A few damp stains to margins.

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THROUGH MERRIE ENGLAND
Written by F.L. Stevens. Illustrated by Francis D. Bedford.
Stock no. 1208892
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1928. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Pageantry and Pastimes of the Village and the Town. Green boards, gilt titles and illustration to front and spine. Colour pictorial endpapers. Delightful colour plates and b/w text illustrations. Browning to edge of textblock with a few light foxspots to contents. A lovely bright copy in scarce original dark green wrapper which is slightly grubby to rear, rubbed at edges with slight loss and closed tear at corners and a small hole on rear panel, repaired with clear tape on verso.

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FROM SLAVERY TO CITIZENSHIP
Written by Richard Ennals.
Stock no. 1208880
Published by John Wiley & Sons. 1st 2007. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

'This book reminds us that slavery was not abolished in 1807 but continues in modern forms today'. Green boards, white title to spine. Contributions from Africa, America, Europe and Asia and from discourses in work organisation, occupational health, psychiatry and human rights. 417 pages includes index. ISBN: 9780470028322. SIGNED by author on title page.

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THE BATTLE OF THE BRIDGES
Written by Frank Van Lunteren.
Stock no. 1208869
Published by Casemate. 1st 2014. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

The 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Operation Market Garden. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 334 pages includes index. ISBN: 9781612002323.

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