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THE SIEGE AND FALL OF TROY
Written by Robert Graves; Lawrence Norfolk. Illustrated by Grahame Baker.
Stock no. 1326770
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2005. Slightly better than very good condition.

Introduced by Lawrence Norfolk. Green cloth rear board and spine with gilt title. Front board has pictorial paper covering. Green endpapers are maps. Full page colour plates. Minimal rubbing to corners of book. Contained in green slipcase.

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MEDIEVAL WOMEN
Written by Eileen Power; Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie; Maxine Berg; M.M. Postan.
Stock no. 1326769
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2001. Slightly better than very good condition.

Cream mottled boards with colour illustration to front and gilt title to spine. Colour illustrations. Edited by Postan, foreword by Ladurie, introduced by Berg. A fine copy in red slipcase which has a few tiny marks to one panel.

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MASS-OBSERVATION BRITAIN IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Written by Sandra Koa Wing.
Stock no. 1326768
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2007. Slightly better than very good condition.

Red-cloth with silver titles and pictorial front board. B/w photos. Book is fine. Grey slipcase is faded at edges with a few tiny marks.

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THE ROSETTA STONE
Written by Robert Sole; Dominique Valbelle; W.V Davies; Neil Macgregor.
Stock no. 1326767
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2006. Slightly better than very good condition.

The Decipherment of the Hieroglyphs. Preface by Neil MacGregor. Pictorial paper boards, black title to spine. Cream endpapers. Colour & b/w illustrations. Spine of book is slightly faded. Brown slipcase has a couple of small marks.

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THE SIEGE OF STALINGRAD
No author listed.
Stock no. 1827254
Published by Communist Party Of Great Britain. Circa 1943. Almost very good condition.

This is the Epic Story of the Siege of Stalingrad Told in Photographs, Words and Maps from August 23rd, 1942, to February 3rd, 1943. Small square format. White pictorial paperwraps. Staple binding. B/w photos throughout. 51 numbered pages. Covers grubby, small pieces of paper stuck to rear cover. Contents clean.

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THE EFFECTS OF THE ATOMIC BOMBS AT HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI: REPORT OF THE BRITISH MISSION TO JAPAN
No author listed.
Stock no. 1827253
Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1st 1946. Very good condition.

On August 6th, 1945, an American Super-Fortress flying at 30,000 feet dropped a single atomic bomb over the Japanese mercantile city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second atomic bomb was dropped over the industrial city of Nagasaki. The British Mission which spent the month of November, 1945, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki gives this report which tells what as seen and what could be learnt three months after the bombing. Cream paperwraps with blue title to front. Staple binding. 21 pages plus b/w photos. Covers a little grubby, corners a little worn/creased. Contents clean.

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HEDGES (NN 58)
Written by E. Pollard; M.D. Hooper; Norman W Moore.
Stock no. 1827240
Published by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.. 1975. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist series. Green cloth. A succinct and readable book covering all aspects of hedgerows in Britain, their purpose and history, dating methods, flora and wildlife. 256 pages includes index. Numerous plates, text figures and tables. ISBN: 0002113406. Early reprint. Very minor mottling to boards. Text block browned and lightly foxed. A few minor marks to endpapers. Pencil erasure mark to front endpaper. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is grubby to rear panel.

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GLAMORGAN HISTORIAN VOLUME ONE
Written by Stewart Williams.
Stock no. 1326666
Published by D. Brown & Sons Limited. 1st 1963. Very good condition in a poor dustwrapper.

5.5" x 8.75". Red cloth covers with gilt lettering. 201 pages. Folding map to rear of book. Bringing together the researches of many. Spine and corners bumped with light crack to top corner tip of front cover. Foxing to textblock. Remains of a price-cut wrapper with tears and substantial loss.

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WIND IN THE WIRES A GOLDEN ERA OF FLIGHT 1909-1939
Written by Mike Vines.
Stock no. 1326662
Published by Airlife Publishing Ltd. 1997. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Black boards, gilt title to spine.Colour photos. ISBN: 1853102296. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is just a little edge creased.

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HEROES
Written by Lucy Hughes-Hallett.
Stock no. 1827202
Published by Fourth Estate. 1st 2004. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Saviours, Traitors and Supermen. Beginning beneath the walls of Troy, ending in 1930s Europe when the cult of the hero was turning politically lethal, this is a book about mortality and dictatorship, about money and sorcery, about seduction and mass-hysteria. The author explores the ancient but still politically potent phenomenon of hero-worship through the careers of eight extraordinary men. Black boards, gilt title to spine. Illustrations and photos. ISBN: 1857026802. SIGNED by the author (no dedication) to title page. Page browning throughout. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scratched to rear panel.

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THERMOPYLAE
Written by Chris Carey.
Stock no. 1827198
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2021. Nearly fine condition.

Green cloth with gilt titles, yellow & grey printed pictorial paper sides. B/w photos and maps. Colour illustrations. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is wrapped in original glassine paper from Folio Society (small edge-tears present).

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BRITAIN AND THE MAKING OF ARGENTINA
Written by Gordon Bridger.
Stock no. 1827195
Published by Wit Press. 1st 2013. Fine condition.

By 1914 Argentina had become one of the worlds largest trading nations. It was principally British technology, British capital, British management, combined with massive immigration from Souther Europe, which converted Argentina from an economic backwater into the wealthiest country in South America. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w photos, illustrations & maps. ISBN: 9781845646844. SIGNED by the author to half-title page (dated). A fine copy.

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