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HITLER'S POPE: THE SECRET HISTORY OF PIUS XII
Written by John Cornwell.
Stock no. 2134026
Published by Penguin Books. Circa 2008. Very good condition.

This edition, with New Preface. Card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 9780143114000. Small nick to top edge of front cover; some cover edge creasing. Black mark to bottom outer page edges.

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MEDUSA'S GAZE: CASUISTRY AND CONSCIENCE IN THE RENAISSANCE
Written by Lowell Gallagher.
Stock no. 1819661
Published by Stanford University Press. 1st 1991. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Examining the central role of casuistry in Elizabethan religions, political, and literary culture. Black cloth boards, red title to spine. Colour frontis. ISBN: 0804718598. Some mottling to boards. Text block slightly grubby, contents clean. Black pictorial dustwrapper is scuffed to rear panel and some foxing to verso.

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HEIRS OF THE FISHERMAN
Written by John-Peter Pham.
Stock no. 2132947
Published by Oxford University Press. Circa 2004. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Behind the Scenes of Papal Death and Succession. Red cloth spine, with gilt title. Brown boards. ISBN: 0195178343. A little pencil annotation.

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ISLAM AND THE ARMY IN COLONIAL INDIA: SEPOY RELIGION IN THE SERVICE OF EMPIRE
Written by Nile Green.
Stock no. 1818887
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 2009. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

A ground-breaking study of the cultural world of the Muslim soldiers of colonial India. Set in Hyderabad in the mid nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the book focuses on the soldiers' relationships with the faqir holy men who protected them and the British officers they served. Black boards, silver title to spine. A few b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9780521898454.

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AKBAR THE GREATEST MOGUL
Written by S.M. Burke.
Stock no. 1818763
Published by Munshiram Manoharlal. 1st 1989. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Based mainly on accounts left behind by those who personally knew the emperor well, the result of several years of research. Insight into the character and achievements of the founding fathers of the celebrated Mogul dynasty in India. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine.

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THE END OF ANTIQUITY
Written by Jeremy K. Knight.
Stock no. 2130093
Published by Tempus. 1st 1999. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Archaeology, Society and Religion AD 235-700. B/w photos and diagrams. ISBN: 0752414488.

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ENGLISH HERITAGE BOOK OF SHRINES & SACRIFICE
Written by Ann Woodward.
Stock no. 1815775
Published by B.T. Batsford Ltd.. 1st 1992. Fine condition.

An analysis of Iron Age and Roman religious sites in Britain, concentrating on the evidence for the special buildings, shrines, and the various objects, alive, dead or symbolic which were offered up as sacrifices within them. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos & illustrations, a few colour plates. ISBN: 0713460849.

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METHODISM IN MAIDENHEAD 1829-1979
Written by Peter Hardiment.
Stock no. 2124205
Published by Barracuda Books. 1st 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. B/w photos. Includes a list of ministers. ISBN: 0860231119. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is faded to spine and edges, with some edge-creasing.

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A SUNDAY BOOK FOR CHILDREN
Written by Margaret Tempest. Illustrated by Margaret Tempest.
Stock no. 2124084
Published by Collins. 1st 1954. Almost very good condition.

Blue/white pictorial boards. Prayers for children. Colour illustrations. Text in script. 6.75 x 6". Bumping and wear to spine and corners; some chipping at edges. Scuffing to rear cover; front cover has a small area of surface paper damage. A little foxing internally.

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CAROLS
No author listed. Illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale.
Stock no. 1506935
Published by Alexander Moring Ltd.. circa 1945. Almost very good condition.

Dark red cloth with gilt title and onlay. 14 carols. 6 double page spread colour plates; 5 other colour plates. 43 pages. 10.25 x 8". Spine faded and bumped with wear to ends. A little wear to corners. Uneven fading to front and rear cover. Ink inscription to front endpaper. Tiny hole to front joint. One hinge cracked. Foxing to endpapers, prelims and page edges. Light page edge browning. All plates present.

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A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF THE INTERESTING PRIORY OF LLANTHONY NEAR GLOUCESTER
Written by John Clarke.
Stock no. 2122749
Published by George Bell. 1853. Fair condition.

With notices of its original foundation in Wales; also additional notices of contemporaneous buildings in Gloucester, and introductory remarks on the Monastic System. B/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Chipping and loss to top and tail of spine and down edges; where there are a few splits and chips. Front joint is partially cracked. Heavy foxing to prelims and some to plates, including b/w frontis. Edge-tear to margin of pages 55 - 60, also creasing. A reading copy.

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A LIST OF VICARS OF CHEPSTOW
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1608689
Published by Ivor Waters. 1st 1975. Slightly better than very good condition.

Red card wraps. 15 pages. ISBN: 095000796X. Staples rusted.

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