The Strokesaver Guide to the Classic Courses of Great Britain & Ireland by Nick Edmund

The Strokesaver Guide to the Classic Courses of Great Britain & Ireland by Nick Edmund hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Little, Brown & Co., 1997, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs; Tables; Plans;

From the cover: "From the purple heather and stately pines of Sunningdale to the Lighthouse at Turnberry and the Swilken Burn at St Andrews; from 'The Dell' at Lahinch and 'Calamity' at Royal Portrush to 'The Maiden' of Royal St George's… The Strokesaver Guide to the Classic Courses of Great Britain & Ireland is the perfect gift for the travelling golfer.

Superbly illustrated with a wealth of striking photography, the book explores twenty-five of the finest golf courses in the British Isles. Author Nick Edmund describes the unique challenges, history and special character of the courses, while photographer Matthew Harris captures the beauty as well as the drama and subtleties of the greatest holes. Entertaining and evocative, their combined efforts have produced twenty-five memorable essays on golf in Great Britain and Ireland.

The words and pictures are supported throughout by the celebrated graphics of Strokesaver. Produced by state-of-the-art technology, including high-resolution aerial photography and infra-red measuring equipment, Strokesaver is acknowledged as the the world's foremost golf-course distance guide. This publication is the first to assemble such an in-depth collection of Strokesaver graphics.

Read about the many heroic deeds performed over the hallowed turf of the famous courses, be bewitched by their transcendent beauty and ever-changing moods and plot your own path to conquer their myriad challenges.

The Strokesaver Guide to the Classic Courses of Great Britain & Ireland is the golfer's ultimate literary companion."

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.

Blue boards with Silver titling to the Spine.
207 pages. 10¾" x 9".

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In Woods And Fields by Ruth Ainsworth

In Woods And Fields by Ruth Ainsworth hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Heinemann, 1967, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Number 1 in the series.

In the Look About You Books series.

Poor — in Good Dust Wrapper. Ex-library with usual marks, numerals to the spine, pocket to the pastedown, slip to the ffep, stamp to the reverse of the title page. Front flap has loss. Hinges showing between leaves 3 and 4. Text complete and clean.

Pictorial boards.
7½" x 6½".

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Greek Pottery Painting by Paolino Mingazzini

Greek Pottery Painting by Paolino Mingazzini hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Paul Hamlyn, 1969, Hardback in dust wrapper.

English translation of Ceramica greca, Fabbri, 1966. Illustrated by way of: Colour Plates [60];

From the cover: "Apart from the immediate aesthetic pleasure we derive from the sheer beauty of Greek vases, there is also the fascinating wealth of historical detail which can be seen if we take a closer look. Here are recorded incidents from the spiritual, intellectual and everyday life of this long-dead civilisation, from the amazing adventures of Hercules to the agony of a bereaved mother. The figures that feast and fight and mourn, vividly evoke the spirit of ancient Greece, and we can trace through the centuries the search for absolute beauty that was fundamental to Greek art."

In the Cameo series.

Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Heavily faded at the spine of the dust wrapper. Text complete, clean and tight.

Grey boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
157 pages. 7¾" x 5¼".

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The Bible As History by Werner Keller

The Bible As History by Werner Keller hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1957, Hardback in dust wrapper.

5th impression. [First Edition: 1956] Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Black & White Drawings; Diagrams; Maps; Fold-Out Maps [3]; Plans;

Good — in Poor Dust Wrapper. Edges of the dust wrapper somewhat frayed with many small chips and nicks, and loss to the top corner of the lower panel. Top edge of the text block tanned. Edges of the text block lightly soiled. Pages lightly age-tanned with spotting to start and finish.

Grey boards with Gilt titling to the Spine & Upper Board.
[XXIII] 429 pages. Index. Bibliography. 9" x 6".

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This Is My Song: A Biography of Petula Clark by Andrea Kon

This Is My Song: A Biography of Petula Clark by Andrea Kon hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Book Club Associates, 1983, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs;

From the cover: "Petula Clark must surely be the most enigmatic British pop star.

Since hitting the spotlight at the age often when she first captured the hearts of the wartime public across the world with a magical performance on the It's All Yours programme of the BBC's British Empire Service, she has appeared in more than thirty British and American films, cut millions of discs in a variety of languages and risen from being the pure English 'Our Pet' to becoming France's own 'Petulante Petula' and finally America's Queen of 'Downtown' and an internationally-acclaimed star.

Yet, until now, little has been known of the real person behind the headlines. Never before has she spoken of her true relationship with her father and of her battle to lose the 'little girl' image he so painstakingly manufactured around her. Nor of the two, true loves of her life which preceded her marriage to her French husband and manager, Claude Wolrf. Or of the mystery illness which has led to enormous speculation about her present health.

In this book and for the first time she tells, with her friends, the real and often sad story behind the public smile. How she saved Harry Belafonte from humiliation; why she has always loathed comparison with Julie Andrews; what she thinks of Fred Astaire, Peter O'Toole, John Lennon and Roddy Llewellyn and why she never did get to sing Charlie Chaplin's final song.

So many unanswered questions have always, surrounded this tiny lady whose name has become a household word. This book, complete with many unique photographs, attempts to answer them all."

Introduction by: Ross Clark

Good+ — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper with light fading to the spine. Pages lightly age-tanned, more heavily so at the margins.

Brown boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
256 pages. Index. 9½" x 6¼".

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Malta: Its Archaeology and History by John Samut Tagliaferro

Malta: Its Archaeology and History by John Samut Tagliaferro hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Plurigraf, 2000, Paperback.

Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs;

Ungraded.

128 pages. Bibliography. 10¾" x 8".

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A Richer Dust: Echoes from An Edwardian Album by Colin Gordon

A Richer Dust: Echoes from An Edwardian Album by Colin Gordon hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Book Club Associates, 1978, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Genealogical Tables;

From the cover: "The extraordinary story recounted in this book opens at a market junk-stall in Yorkshire with the discovery, quite by chance, of a family collection of several hundred Victorian and Edwardian photographic negatives. The pictures, with their magical glimpses of badminton, picnics, Japanese teas, fancy dress pageants and leisured summer days, provide a fascinating record of the leisured life of one family for over forty years from the year of Queen Victoria's Jubilee.

The pictures, however, do not stand alone, and in a lively text Colin Gordon relates his remarkable find and subsequent detective work to discover more about the photographer and his family. A slip of paper found with the negatives — reading, simply, 'Atkinson — Huby' — is the first clue in a trail of detection which unearths the saga of a self-made Victorian family, blossoming into real prosperity in Edwardian times and collapsing during the Depression.

The story, which takes us from Yorkshire to the West Country and abroad, emerges from an uncanny series of discoveries such as documents from the family's distant past buried in cupboards and cellars, and a silver medal which reflects the genteel atmosphere of an annual meeting of well-to-do photographers.

Finally, the story is told by those people who appeared as children in the photographs seventy years ago, who were friends and playmates of the Atkinsons or who served them at home. Although flamboyant and transient, the family world, shown here in words and pictures, echoes down to the present and suggests the life to be found in even the stiffest poses of all family albums."

Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper has been sealed in mylar which has become a little scuffed.

Brown boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
190 pages. 10" x 7½".

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Fisherman's Year: How, When and Where of Britain's Best Fishing by John Holden

Fisherman's Year: How, When and Where of Britain's Best Fishing by John Holden hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

The Crowood Press, 1987, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Colour Photographs;

From the cover: "Superbly illustrated in colour and black and white, Fisherman's Year shows how to make the most of the wealth of angling opportunities available in Great Britain.

With the emphasis on pleasure angling, John Holden demonstrates how a balance of beach, boat, river and stillwater fishing can bring a variety of challenges and plenty of fish for enthusiasts of all ages. Season by season, he identifies the locations and species promising the most rewarding sport throughout the year. Reservoir trout in spring, offshore bassing in summer, autumn beach fishing and winter pike and cod are all possibilities for anglers who may have limited time by the waterside.

With sound practical advice on tactics, tackle, baits and flies, Fisherman's Year is an invaluable guide to all-round angling success."

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Gently bruised at the head of the spine and the top corners of the boards with commensurate wear to the dust wrapper. Price Clipped. Previous owners' inscription to the first blank.

Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
160 pages. 10" x 7¾".

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Great Moments in British Sport by Edited by John Lovesey

Great Moments in British Sport by Edited by John Lovesey hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

H. F. & G. Witherby, 1993, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs;

From the cover: "Here, in words and photographs, are the moments in British sporting history that remain etched in the memory for ever, from the famous prize-fight between Tom Sayers and John Heenan in 1860 to Brian Clough's dramatic resignation in 1993. In between are such legendary achievements as Fred Perry's win in the 1934 Wimbledon singles final, England's heroic regaining of the Ashes under Len Hutton in 1953, the 1966 soccer World Cup triumph and the gold medals for Coe and Ovett in the 1980 Olympics.

Over a dozen different sports are featured, with each moment vividly evoked in either a contemporary or a modern account by a leading sports writer. With its sharp, stylish writing and dramatic photographs, Great Moments in British Sport is the perfect gift book for all sports fans."

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.

Red boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
192 pages. 10" x 7½".

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A Hawk In the Hand by Phillip Glasier

A Hawk In the Hand by Phillip Glasier hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Robinson Publishing, 1991, Hardback in dust wrapper.

2nd printing. [First Published: 1990] Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Colour Photographs; Chapter Headpieces;

From the cover: "In this highly entertaining autobiography, Phillip Glasier introduces us to many of the different animals and birds (not to mention a few of the people) who have enriched his extraordinary life. His is a world where it is not unusual to find a deer on the stairs or a baby barn owl waddling about the sofa. Equally deftly he tells of Mozart the Eagle Owl, who attended the Royal College of Music, his pioneer work breeding rare species in captivity, flying falcons for TV advertisements and travelling overland to Afghanistan.

Illustrated with more than 50 of his own photographs, A Hawk in the Hand displays Glasier's deep affinity with his birds, and his knowledge of their habits and needs. Whether describing a day out on the hills with Islay, the Harris Hawk or sharing the contents of his mailbag ("Dear Sir, I am 13, unmarried, and would like to be a falconer"), he absorbs the reader on every page of his exceptional life story."

Introduction by: Eric Hosking

Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper faded at the spine otherwise pleasant. Text complete, clean and tight.

Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
188 pages. 9½" x 6¼".

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Fire Engines and Fire-Fighting by David Burgess-Wise

Fire Engines and Fire-Fighting by David Burgess-Wise hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Octopus, 1977, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Facsimiles; Colour Photographs; Illustrated endpapers and blanks;

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.

Yellow boards with Red titling to the Spine.
128 pages. Index. 11¼" x 8½".

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Kennedy by Theodore C. Sorensen

Kennedy by Theodore C. Sorensen hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Konecky & Konecky, 1965, Hardback in dust wrapper.

First in this edition and, although dated 1965 is probably closer to being published in 1990 with the First Edition being that of HarperCollins, 1965.

From the cover: "In January, 1953, freshman Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts hired a 24-year-old Unitarian from Nebraska as his Number Two legislative assistant — on a trial basis. Despite the differences in their backgrounds, Sorensen in the eleven years that followed became known as Kennedy's "intellectual blood-bank," "top policy aide" and "alter ego".

Sorensen knew Kennedy the man, the Senator, the candidate and the President as no other associate did throughout these eleven years. He was with him during the key crises and turning points — including the spectacular race for the Vice Presidency at the 1956 convention, the launching of Kennedy's Presidential candidacy, the speech to the Protestant clergy of Houston, the TV debates with Nixon and election night at Hyannis Port.

The first appointment made by the new President was to name Ted Sorensen his Special Counsel. Sorensen relates the role of the White House staff and evaluates Kennedy's relations with his Cabinet and other appointees. He reveals Kennedy's errors on the Bay of Pigs, his attitudes toward the press and the Congress, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and his handling of Berlin and the Cuban missile crisis.

Three months to the day after Dallas, Sorensen left the White House to write the account of those eleven years that only he could write."

In the Leaders of Our Time series.

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Pages very gently age-tanned.

Blue Spine Strip with Grey boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
[VIII] 783 pages. Index. 9½" x 6¼".

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The Great Movie Stars: Volume 3 the Independent Years by David Shipman

The Great Movie Stars: Volume 3 the Independent Years by David Shipman hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Warner Books, 1993, Paperback.

Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs;

From the cover: "David Shipman's bestselling studies of movie stars through the ages make enthralling reading. In volume III, The Independent Years, he brings us right up to date with the players who command our attention today — both on and off the screen — and the state of the movie industry into the nineties.

Here are big-name actors who were stars in the seventies — and who are still breaking box-office records now; also those whose lustre has faded, and others who have been working their way steadily upwards — exceptional abilities waiting a while to be recognised, or talents who grow richer and deeper with the years. Among the stars of The Independent Years are: Alan Alda, Woody Alien, Kim Basinger, Cher, Gerard Depardieu, Jodie Foster, Rob Hoskins, Madonna, Steve Martin, Michelle Pfeiffer, Maggie Smith, Denzel Washington, Sigourney Weaver and Robin Williams.

For each artist there is a detailed career survey including the titles of all the star's films and an analysis of critical and financial success. Quotes from contemporary reviews, salary figures and contract facts are woven into the biographies, as well as details of the roles that were rejected and the films that never got made."

Good. Single reading crease to the spine. Leans slightly. A little faded at the spine. Lightly rubbed at the tips of the wrappers.

[XI] 281 pages. 9½" x 7½".

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A Sparrow's Flight: The Memoirs of Lord Hailsham of St. Marylebone by Quintin Hogg

A Sparrow's Flight: The Memoirs of Lord Hailsham of St. Marylebone by Quintin Hogg hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Collins, 1990, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs;

From the cover: "Lord Hailsham is one of Britain's best-known and most widely respected public figures. The appearance of his memoirs would, in any circumstances, be a publishing event, but is particularly so when their author is as fascinating and as revealing as he is in this sparkling book.

It is of course as the longest-serving Lord Chancellor of this century, an office he held with immense distinction, that Lord Hailsham is principally known. The book contains his reflections on the nature of that office and on what he achieved during his tenure of it. But before that, and throughout his career, he has played a leading role in both Houses of Parliament, from his election to the House of Commons in the famous Oxford by-election of 1938 through his successive appointments as First Lord of the Admiralty, Minister for Education, Leader of the House of Lords, Minister for Science and Technology, and Chairman of the Conservative Party. On all these, and on his parallel career at the Bar, he reflects with characteristic intelligence. Here for the first time he gives his views on education, on the reasons for the crudity of contemporary youth culture, and on the character and role of the middle classes, from which he is proud to have sprung.

It is, however, as a revelation of the personality of its author that this book differs from any recent politician's memoir. His memory of events and emotions has not been diminished by the passage of time. The formation of his mind by his classical and legal training (the legacies of which are evident on every page), of his character by his wartime experiences in the Army, and of his spiritual beliefs in part through the three great bereavements he has suffered, are presented to the reader with rare intimacy. The qualities he has displayed in his public life are revealed as the inevitable outcome of the private man: elements which in such a diverse and wide-ranging life might have become disparate or contradictory are unified by the integrity of their common source. 'Despite all the destruction and malevolence of the world, I do not believe in a malevolent deity. I do not believe in an irrational universe. I believe in goodness, truthfulness, loving kindness, beauty, generosity, loyalty. They all exist and are qualities which demand just as much explanation as malevolence, mendaciousness, cruelty, ugliness, meanness, and treachery'. The intellectual and moral command, the common sense, the kindness and the sense of humour of which a wide public as well as his colleagues has always been aware, appear in this unflinching book as the true characteristics of its author."

Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper with a light, vertical, crease running the height of the upper panel. Edges of the text block lightly tanned. Text complete, clean and tight.

Red boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
463 pages. Index. 9½" x 6¼".

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The Great Irish Famine: Words and Images from the Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, County Roscommon by Stephen J. Campbell

The Great Irish Famine: Words and Images from the Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, County Roscommon by Stephen J. Campbell hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

The Famine Museum, 1994, Paperback.

First in this, paperback, edition. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Colour Plates; Black & White Drawings;

Very Good.

96 pages. 10¼" x 8¼".

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The Backpacker's Manual by Cameron McNeish

The Backpacker's Manual by Cameron McNeish hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

The Oxford Illustrated Press, 1984, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Colour Photographs; Black & White Drawings; Colour Drawings; Maps; Tables;

Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper with a snag to the head of the spine.

Yellow boards with Gilt titling to the Spine & Upper Board.
159 pages. Index. Bibliography. 10½" x 7½".

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Everest the Hard Way by Sir Chris Bonington

Everest the Hard Way by Sir Chris Bonington hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1976, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Contains a glossary of terms. 2nd impression. [First Edition: 1976] Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Colour Photographs; Maps;

From the cover: "Before Chris Bonington and his team set out in August 1975, even their well-wishers gave them only a fifty-fifty chance of success. The South West Face of Everest had already defeated five expeditions, including one led by Bonington himself. But this time they advanced swiftly, the weather held and, through a combination of meticulous planning, superb teamwork and sheer climbing skill and endurance, four men were put on the summit — the hard way.

Chris Bonington's narrative celebrates the big moments, but also pauses to take in the responses of the newcomers on the walk in from Kathmandu; he shares the logistical problems involved in keeping a large expedition moving, and the very real psychological ones of balancing and pairing lead climbers and giving each a chance to make the route on the Face. He describes the constant avalanche threat which made the Western Cwm more dangerous than the ever treacherous Ice Fall, and explains how lowering the sites of Camps 4 and 5 solved a supply problem and kept the upward momentum for the attack on the Rock Band, that notorious 1,000 foot of sheer rock, starting at 27,000 feet, which had barred the way to the summit for all previous attempts.

In covering the vital moments of the expedition, the author has been able to draw on first-hand accounts by his fellow climbers. Hamish Maclnnes describes bridging a thirty-foot crevasse; Martin Boysen expresses the excitement and satisfaction of lead climbing; Tut Braithwaite and Nick Estcourt take the climb stance by stance through the Rock Band, Estcourt, without oxygen, leading the most difficult pitch on Everest and by so doing solving the access to the summit. Dougal Haston and Doug Scott, the first Britons to set foot on the top of Everest, trace their route to the summit, and describe how afterwards, oxygen less at 28,700 feet, they spent a "night out in China", bivouacking over the border ridge at the South Summit.

And Pete Boardman, the youngest climber in the party, retells his own ascent with the expedition chief Sherpa, Pertemba, and the agonising decision he was forced to make when the weather broke and climber-cameraman Mick Burke failed to return from the summit.

In following the day-by-day story of the whole expedition with frankness and clarity, Chris Bonington places events in an overall context and celebrates the achievement of a team that co-operated unstintingly to produce a triumphant success. The ample appendices bear witness to the work put into organising that success, and the magnificent colour photographs, tracing the story from the march in to the summit, make this a supremely beautiful book to look at, as well as a proud, exciting and fascinating story of a great achievement."

Good+ — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Edges of the dust wrapper somewhat rubbed and chipped, a little faded. Pages lightly age-tanned.

Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
239 pages. Index. 10¼" x 7¼".

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Stately Living: The Changing Face of Historic Houses by Anon.

Stately Living: The Changing Face of Historic Houses by Anon. hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

VisitBritain, 2007, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Published in association with the Historic Houses Association. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Colour Photographs;

From the cover: "Drawing on archive material and personal anecdote, Stately Living gives a first-hand insight into how life in Britain's historic houses has changed over the centuries.

This lively book has been written in collaboration with members of the Historic Houses Association and celebrates how the same sense of determination and enterprise that inspired the creation of these magnificent houses is now directed to using them as the focus for a range of businesses. With declining agricultural incomes and soaring maintenance costs, many families have to rely on a large measure of ingenuity and a small number of dedicated staff to ensure the conservation and survival of their historic homes.

Stately Living is illustrated throughout with evocative black and white images, full colour photographs and delightful line drawings."

In the Then & Now series.

Very Good+ — in Very Good+ Dust Wrapper.

Pictorial boards.
127 pages. 8" x 8".

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Upper North Tynedale: A Northumbrian Valley and Its People by Beryl Charlton

Upper North Tynedale: A Northumbrian Valley and Its People by Beryl Charlton hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Northumbrian Water, 1987, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Contains a glossary of terms. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Colour Photographs; Diagrams; Maps;

Introduction by: Michael Straker

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.

Beige boards with Gilt titling to the Spine & Upper Board.
191 pages. Index. Bibliography. 8¾" x 6".

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Portrait of Argyll and the Southern Hebrides by James Graham-Campbell

Portrait of Argyll and the Southern Hebrides by James Graham-Campbell hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Robert Hale, 1978, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Maps;

From the cover: "No part of Britain offers a wider variety of scenery than Argyll, and none is more beautiful. A hundred miles from north to south, and the same from its easternmost point to the western tip of Tiree, it is the second largest county in Scotland; its coastline measures over 1,000 miles, sometimes sheer and craggy as in parts of Kintyre, Mull and Ardnamurchan, sometimes low and sandy as on lona, the most famous of its thirty inhabited islands. Everywhere there is water and the ever-changing light that water brings. Loch Fyne is the longest sea loch in Scotland, and Loch Awe shares with Loch Ness the claim to be the longest inland loch; but it is the number — and again the variety — of little lochs that call for a lifetime of exploring.

If Argyll is a region of infinite gradations of light and colour, it is also memorable for the shape of its hills. They may lack some of the jagged fierceness of the Cuillins but again and again one is comforted with a skyline that is just as satisfying, enhanced by a gem-like foreground.

In these waters, and on these hills, the opportunities for the yachtsman, the fisherman, the climber, the walker, the lover of nature in all its forms, arc unrivalled. If there are no great cathedrals and no classical architecture to rival Edinburgh or Hopetoun House, there are countless castles, some still inhabited; and for exquisite workmanship, on a small scale, the carved crosses of lona and Kildalton are unique. The least prehistorically minded cannot but be moved by Dunadd, while for those who are interested there is a richness of antiquities within a five-mile radius of Kilmartin. In gardens, such as Cranae, Gigha, Colonsay, Benmore and Ardanaiseig, rhododendrons and azaleas are brought to their best by the mildness of the climate. Nor is Argyll less rich in legend and in history: Columba, the Lords of the Isles, Montrose and Colkitto and the men of Atholl, Dunavcrty and Glencoe and the Appin murder. This book not only places the old familiar stories, and others less familiar, in their geographical setting, but uses contemporary letters to describe what life was like for ordinary people in the less well known but formative eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."

Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Price Clipped. Heavily faded at the spine of the dust wrapper. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding. Top edge of the boards damp-stained with offset to the reverse of the dust wrapper. Text complete, clean and tight.

Green boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
191 pages. Index. Bibliography. 8¾" x 5½".

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The Penguin Encyclopedia of Ancient Civilizations by Edited by Arthur Cotterell

The Penguin Encyclopedia of Ancient Civilizations by Edited by Arthur Cotterell hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Penguin, 1988, Paperback.

First in this, paperback, edition. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Chronological Tables; Colour Photographs; Black & White Drawings; Maps [28]; Genealogical Tables; Plans;

From the cover: "The ancient civilizations of the world, the first social structures in which culture and religion were born, are the subject of this comprehensive, wide-ranging encyclopaedia.

The work of over thirty international experts, including Colin Renfrew, O. R. Gurney, Richard Leakey and many other leading academics in the field of ancient history, The Penguin Encyclopaedia of Ancient Civilizations provides a fascinating overview of the prehistoric world and a detailed analysis of separate ancient civilizations.

The art, architecture, language, mythology and chronology of early societies as diverse as ancient Egypt, Troy, India, West Asia, South America and Europe are fully discussed, and there is a special section of references for further reading. Structured to enable the reader to draw together contemporary events and to locate geographically connected civilizations, like those that flourished in Mesopotamia."

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9¾" x 7¼".

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Ancient Cyprus by Veronica Tatton-Brown

Ancient Cyprus by Veronica Tatton-Brown hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

British Museum Press, 1997, Paperback.

2nd edition. [First Published: 1987] Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Facsimiles; Chronological Tables; Colour Photographs; Maps;

From the cover: "The geographical position of Cyprus at the eastern end of the Mediterranean has always played a vital role in its history. As an island poised between the major civilisations of the ancient world — with Mesopotamia, Assyria and Persia to the east, Anatolia to the north, Egypt to the south and Greece and Rome to the west — Cyprus developed a unique and distinctive culture. From prehistoric times its art has displayed an originality and vitality that was to be its hallmark for some 9000 years.

This concise survey introduces the art and culture of ancient Cyprus from the time of the first human presence around 8800 bc to the end of the Roman period in the late fourth century ad. Fully revised and updated from the successful 1987 edition to include the latest archaeological discoveries, it is illustrated largely from the outstanding collections of Cypriot antiquities in the British Museum."

Very Good.

96 pages. Index. Bibliography. 9¾" x 7½".

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Ancient Greece and the Mediterranean by Michael Kerrigan

Ancient Greece and the Mediterranean by Michael Kerrigan hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

British Broadcasting Corporation [B.B.C./BBC], 2001, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Chronological Tables; Colour Photographs; Diagrams;

From the cover: "Ancient Greece occupied a strategic position as the central crossroads of the ancient world. It formed a meeting place between the hinterlands of a still undeveloped Europe and the great civilizations of Asia Minor and North Africa.

Ancient Greece and the Mediterranean brings alive this fascinating story, beginning with the Cretan civilization of the Minoans. The book recounts the rise of the Greeks and the fate of local warlords, who gradually gave way to an emerging 'middle class' of merchants, craftsmen and farmers. It goes on to relate the supreme test of the Greek spirit the wars with Persia, in which the Greeks saw off an invasion attempt by the mighty empire to the east.

Victory over the Persians ushered in the Golden Age of Athens. Presided over by the statesman Pericles, this era saw a stream of magnificent architectural projects. Pride, however came before a fall, with Athens's decline from glory and the rise of a northern, hitherto obscure Greek state — Macedon.

The Macedonian, Alexander the Great, blazed an extraordinary trail of conquests across the Near East and into India. His renown as a conqueror has endured to this day: it also ensured the widest possible scattering of Greek culture, which was ultimately the ancient Greeks' most important legacy to the history of civilization."

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.

Pictorial boards.
96 pages. Index. 9" x 7¾".

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The Virago Book of Wanderlust and Dreams by Edited by Lisa St Aubin De Terán

The Virago Book of Wanderlust and Dreams by Edited by Lisa St Aubin De Terán hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Virago, 1998, Hardback in dust wrapper.

From the cover: "In this haunting and unusual collection of writing about longings for flight, the yearnings are as varied as their dreamers. Some want to cross a desert or an ocean, some travel back into memory, some never leave home, some wait patiently for their life.

Including writers as diverse as Zora Neale Hurston, Elizabeth von Arnim, Karen Blixen, Angela Carter, Elaine Dundy, Janet Frame, Jessie Kesson, Shena Mackay, Dorothy Parker, Bernice Rubens, Elizabeth Smart, Romaine Brooks and Harriet Wilson, this imaginative and far-reaching anthology is dedicated to women who have had the courage to say 'yes' to life, whether that means daring to go, or daring to stay."

Good+ — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Gently bruised at the head of the spine and the top corners of the boards with commensurate wear to the dust wrapper. Price Clipped. Text complete, clean and tight.

Red boards with Silver titling to the Spine.
[XI] 280 pages. 9½" x 6¼".

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Keeper of Genesis: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind by Robert Bauval & Graham Hancock

Keeper of Genesis: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind by Robert Bauval & Graham Hancock hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Heinemann, 1996, Hardback in dust wrapper.

A Later Printing. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Diagrams; Astrological Charts; Maps; Plans;

From the cover: "Guardian of the ancient mysteries, the keeper of secrets… For thousands of years the Great Sphinx of Egypt has gazed towards the east, his eyes focused on eternity, reading a message in the stars that mankind has long forgotten. And today, as our civilisation stands poised at the end of a great cycle, it is a message that beckons insistently to be understood.

All the clues are in place. Geology and archeo-astronomy have already indicated that the lion-bodied Sphinx may be vastly older than Egyptologists currently believe, dating not from 2500 BC, but from 10,500 BC — the beginning of the astrological Age of Leo. We now know, too, that the three pyramids of Giza, standing on high ground half a mile to the west of the Sphinx, are not merely the tombs of megalomaniac Pharaohs but form a precise map of the three stars of Orion's belt in 15 million tons of solid stone.

So is somebody trying to tell us something? And, if so, what?

In Keeper of Genesis, Robert Bauval (author of The Orion Mystery) and Graham Hancock (author of Fingerprints of the Gods) present a tour de force of historical and scientific detective work, using sophisticated computer simulations of the ancient skies to crack the millennial code that the monuments transcribe, and set out a startling new theory concerning the enigmatic Pyramid Texts and other archaic Egyptian scriptures.

These texts serve as an ingenious treasure trail and, as the authors reveal in their shattering conclusion, a covert treasure hunt has been underway for the last twenty years at the pyramids and the Sphinx — a hunt bringing together senior Egyptologists, high government officials, wealthy funders, and a strange esoteric organisation lurking behind the scenes.

What are they looking for? What is contained in the rectangular chamber that seismic surveys have located in the bedrock far below the paws of the Sphinx? What lies behind the mysterious door recently discovered at the end of a previously unexplored shaft deep inside the Great Pyramid? And does mankind have a rendezvous with destiny — a rendezvous not in the future, but in the distant past, at a precise place and time?

The secrets can be kept no longer…"

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Edges of the text block lightly tanned.

Orange boards with Orange titling to the Spine.
362 pages. Index. Bibliography. 9½" x 6¼".

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The Birth of Venus: Love and Death in Florence by Sarah Dunant

The Birth of Venus: Love and Death in Florence by Sarah Dunant hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Little, Brown, 2003, Hardback in dust wrapper.

A Later Printing.

From the cover: "Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from Northern Europe to decorate the walls of the family chapel in their Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter's abilities.

She is drawn into the life of a city where the new freedoms of the mind rub shoulders with the old sins of the flesh. On the streets she discovers a stalking evil at large and witnesses the rise of the fundamentalist monk Savonarola. Alessandra and her native Florence are caught between the Medici state, with its luxury, learning and dazzling art, and the hell-fire of Savonarola and the violence of his followers. And through it all the painter — and his art — exerts an increasingly powerful and erotic pull.

The Birth of Venus is a tour de force from one of Britain's most innovative thriller writers. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsive story of love, art, religion and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a remarkable heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city."

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Price Clipped. Edges of the text block lightly tanned. Small scuff to the first blank. Text complete, clean and tight otherwise.

Orange boards with Black titling to the Spine.
412 pages. 8¼" x 5¼".

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Among the Elephants by Iain & Oria Douglas-Hamilton

Among the Elephants by Iain & Oria Douglas-Hamilton hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Collins & Harvill Press, 1978, Hardback in dust wrapper.

2nd printing. [First Published: 1975] Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Colour Photographs; Maps; Illustrated endpapers and blanks;

From the cover: "Since Elephant Bill burst on the public and became an immediate world best-seller, there have been many famous books about lions, chimpanzees and gorillas but there has been no other comparable story about the most spectacular of animals, the elephant. Now comes Among the Elephants which is an even more exciting personal adventure, on a larger scale, and illustrated by the most extensive range of elephant photographs ever to appear in one volume.

In 1965 lain Douglas-Hamilton eagerly accepted the challenge to solve the problem of four hundred and fifty African elephants confined in the small Lake Manyara National Park in Tanzania. For five years he lived among the elephants in a camp in the woodlands famed for their tree-climbing lions, some of them riianeaters. Day by day he taught himself to recognize the individual elephants and made the first systematic study of their behaviour in the wild. With other scientists he pioneered the radio-tracking of their movements, and recorded every minute of their daily lives. He watched the young bring up the babies and the old rush to the help of the stricken and dying. The great matriarch Boadicca, the four terrifying Toronc sisters and the gentle Virgo become as distinctive personalities to the reader as they did to him. In return the elephants threatened or ignored him; three times they transfixed his Land-Rover with their tusks; and in the end Virgo came to accept him and introduced her calf to him while remaining truly wild.

When Oria Rocco came to visit lain's camp she not only fell in love with Manyara and the elephants: she stayed to work with him and bore him a daughter. She took the superb photographs which are an essential element of the story and she contributed the five vivid chapters in Part Two. As Professor Niko Tinbergen writes in his Foreword: 'With her husband she has taken her place among the biographers of Africa's most imposing mammal'. Their book, one of the most unusual that has been written about man and animal, enables everyone to enjoy the intricate complexities of elephant society based on work that has been accepted by learned authorities as an original contribution to knowledge."

Introduction by: Niko Tinbergen

Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Gently faded at the spine of the price clipped dust wrapper. Text complete, clean and tight.

Blue boards with Silver titling to the Spine.
285 pages. Index. Bibliography. 9¾" x 6¾".

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Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman by Frances Stonor Saunders

Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman by Frances Stonor Saunders hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Faber & Faber, 2004, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Colour Photographs;

From the cover: "John Hawkwood was an Essex man who became the greatest mercenary in an age when soldiers of fortune flourished — an age that also witnessed the first stirrings of the Renaissance. This is the first book about him for more than a century. It seizes hold of the reader from the first page and brings a glittering chapter of history to vigorous life. It is full of the sensual, earthy pleasures and horrors of late medieval life — banqueting and starvation, sex and its violent renunciation, self-confidence and terrible fear.

When England made a peace treaty with the French in 1360, during a pause in the Hundred Years War, John Hawkwood, instead of going home, travelled south to Avignon, where the papacy was based during its exile from Rome. He and his fellow mercenaries held the pope to ransom and were paid off. Hawkwood then crossed the Alps into Italy and found himself in a promised land.

He made and lost fortunes extorting money from city states like Florence, Siena, and Milan, who were fighting vicious wars between themselves and against the popes. And yet he was given a state funeral by Florence, and is commemorated in a famous painting by Uccello that still hangs in the Florentine Duomo. This man of war husbanded his use of violence, but for all his caution he committed one of the most notorious massacres of his time in the pay of a merciless pope, an atrocity that still clouds his name. Hawkwood does full justice to its exciting and dangerous subject."

Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Pages lightly age-tanned.

Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
[XVIII] 366 pages. Index. Bibliography. 9½" x 6¼".

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A Small Place in Italy by Eric Newby

A Small Place in Italy by Eric Newby hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

HarperCollins, 1994, Hardback in dust wrapper.

From the cover: "In 1967, Eric Newby and his wife Wanda fulfilled a long-cherished ambition when they acquired I Castagni (otherwise The Chestnuts), a small and excessively ruined farmhouse in the foothills of the Apuan Alps on the borders of Liguria and northern Tuscany. They were the first foreigners to live in the area, and twenty-five years later they remained the only ones.

The house came with a tileless roof, a long-abandoned septic tank and a lavatory hidden in a dense plantation of canes in the open air. It also contained a wealth of indigenous wildlife: a large colony of cockroaches; a hornets' nest; an adder which shed its skin every year on a beam in the owners' bedroom; predatory mice the size of small cats who used red flannel from Eric Newby's favourite shirts to line their offsprings' nests; and, not least, a sitting tenant, Attilio — a minute, eccentric and very ancient man who had once built an aeroplane in which he had launched himself from a high place and crashed, hurting himself badly.

In this affectionate, humorous, often hilarious book, Eric Newby recounts how he and Wanda, who met in Italy in 1943 after he escaped from a POW camp, pulled I Castagni from the brink of collapse with the aid of the local esperti (skilled workmen). It describes their long-enduring friendship with the neighbouring contadini, who welcomed them — whether eating, drinking, harvesting grapes and olives, or hunting for fungus and wild asparagus — from the moment they arrived.

In Love and War in the Apennines, Eric Newby described the start of his love affair with Italy; in A Small Place in Italy, with his inimitable wry humour and eye for the quirks and oddities of human nature, he chronicles how it grew to maturity."

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper. Leans slightly. Price Clipped. Previous owners' inscription to the first blank.

Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
211 pages. 9½" x 6¼".

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Untold Stories by Alan Bennett

Untold Stories by Alan Bennett hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Faber & Faber, 2005, Hardback in dust wrapper.

7th impression. [First Edition: 2005]

From the cover: "This is a collection of Alan Bennett's prose. The title piece is a poignant family memoir with an account of the marriage of his parents, the lives and deaths of his aunts and the uncovering of a long-held family secret. Also included are essays, reviews, lectures and reminiscences.

Untold Stories is Alan Bennett's first collection of prose since Writing Home and takes in all his major writings over the last ten years. The title piece is a poignant family memoir with an account of the marriage of his parents, the lives and deaths of his aunts and the uncovering of a long-held family secret. Also included are his much celebrated diaries for the years 1996 to 2004, as well as essays, reviews, lectures and reminiscences ranging from childhood trips to the local cinema and a tour around Leeds Art Gallery to reflections on writing, honours and his Westminster Abbey eulogy for Thora Hird.

At times heartrending and at others extremely funny, Untold Stories is a matchless and unforgettable anthology."

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Gently bruised at the head of the spine and the top corners of the boards with commensurate wear to the dust wrapper. Price Clipped. Previous owners' inscription to the first blank. Text complete, clean and tight.

Green boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
658 pages. 9½" x 6¼".

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The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Viking, 1988, Hardback in dust wrapper.

10th impression. [First Edition: 1988]

From the cover: "Just before dawn one winter's morning a hijacked jumbo-jet blows apart high above the English Channel. Through the debris of limbs, drinks trolleys, memories, blankets and oxygen masks, two figures fall towards the sea without benefit of parachutes: Gibreel Farishta, India's legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices, self-made self and Anglophile supreme. Clinging to each other, singing rival songs, they plunge downward, and are finally washed up, alive, on the snow-covered sands of an English beach. A miracle; but an ambiguous one, because it soon becomes apparent that curious changes are coming over them. Gibreel seems to have acquired a halo, while, to Saladin's dismay, his legs grow hairier, his feet turn into hoofs, and there are bumps burgeoning at his temples.

So begins The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie's first novel for five years.

Gibreel and Saladin have been chosen (by whom?) as protagonists in the eternal wrestling match between Good and Evil. But which is which? Can demons be angelic? Can angels be devils in disguise? As the two men tumble through their tale, through time as well as space, towards their final confrontation, we are witnesses to a cycle of extraordinary stories, tales of love and passion, of betrayal and faith: the story of Ayesha, the butterfly-shrouded visionary who leads an Indian village on an impossible pilgrimage; of Allie, the mountain-climber haunted by a ghost who urges her to attempt the ultimate feat — a solo ascent of Everest; of murders, metamorphoses and riots in a London 'visible but unseen'; and, centrally, the story of Mahound, the Prophet of Jahilia, the city of sand — Mahound, the recipient of a revelation in which satanic verses mingle with divine.

In this great wheel of a book, where the past and the future chase each other furiously, Salman Rushdie takes us on an epic journey, a journey of tears and laughter, of wonderful stories and astonishing flights of the imagination, a journey towards the evil and the good that lie inseparably entwined within the hearts of women and of men."

Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Heavily faded at the spine of the dust wrapper with a little rubbing to the edges. Pages very gently age-tanned.

Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
346 pages. 9½" x 6¼".

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The Pastons: A Family in the Wars of the Roses by Edited by Richard Barber

The Pastons: A Family in the Wars of the Roses by Edited by Richard Barber hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

The Folio Society, 1981, Hardback in Slip Case.

Illustrated by way of: Colour Plates; Maps to the endpapers and blanks; Genealogical Tables;

From the cover: "Within three generations (1426 to 1485), and through the dark and dangerous years of the Wars of the Roses, the Pastons established themselves as a family of consequence, both in their native Norfolk and within court circles.

Ambitious and highly mobile — womenfolk as well as men — they kept in touch by correspondence, usually but not invariably through the medium of a clerk. These letters, a rare survival, break upon us across the centuries with the urgency, and sometimes the violence, of their preoccupations: defending property, fighting court cases, making the right alliances, and, on the domestic side, managing their estates, conducting their courtships, stocking their cupboards.

Selected and presented here with Richard Barber's invaluable linking narrative, they bring the middle ages triumphantly to life."

Very Good — in Very Good Slip Case.

Decorative boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
208 pages. 9" x 6¼".

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The Search For El Dorado by John Hemming

The Search For El Dorado by John Hemming hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Book Club Associates, 1978, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Facsimiles; Colour Photographs; Maps; Illustrated endpapers and blanks;

From the cover: "The lure of the sacred gold of the American Indians in Central and Southern America gripped the imagination of the early sixteenth-century European explorers.

When Cortes discovered and conquered the fabulous empire of the Aztecs in Mexico, and Pizarro then overthrew the even richer empire of the Incas in Peru, it seemed possible that there were other golden kingdoms to he conquered in the heart of South America.

The north of that continent was explored by a series of tough and brutal expeditions, some of which marched inland with purely geographical aims. Hut most were gold-rushes, lured onward by enticing reports from native tribes and forever seeing undiscovered rich lands.

In 1537 the Spanish lawyer Gonzalo Jimenez, de Quesada struck gold in his conquest of the rich kingdoms of the Muisca near modern Bogota. Within two years, two other great expeditions had converged on Bogota from Venezuela and from Pizarro's Peru. It was only after this epic meeting of three conquistadores that the legend of El Dorado took shape. The legend told of a native ruler who coated his naked body in gold dust in a ceremony on a sacred lake. In The Search for El Dorado, John Hemming investigates the objectives of each conquistador, to demonstrate when and where the El Dorado legend arose.

This book describes the nature of the conquistador, and tells from contemporary sources the appalling cruelty of these explorers, who preyed on the Indian tribes but who themselves suffered indescribable hardships.

Once the El Dorado legend had evolved, it became an obsession of successive adventurers. There was the handsome Gonzalo Pizarro, betrayed by Orellana in the first European descent of the Amazon River. The paranoid murderer and rebel Lope de Aguirre, the aged Antonio de Berrio and Sir Walter Ralegh, the epitome of an Elizabethan courtier, who tried to found a British empire in Guiana.

The Gold Museum at Bogota with nearly 25,000 objects provides the splendid backcloth to this story. The best of these objects, photographed in colour by Mario Carrieri, are here reproduced for the first time."

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.

Red boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
223 pages. Index. Bibliography. 10" x 7½".

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A Traveller In Rome by H. V. [Henry Vollam] Morton

A Traveller In Rome by H. V. [Henry Vollam] Morton hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Methuen, 1957, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Maps to the endpapers and blanks;

From the cover: "H. V. Morton writes of the Roman Forum: This wonderful graveyard, where the heart of the ancient world lies buried, can puzzle and repel many of its modern visitors: it can only become alive and understandable if one is able, in imagination, to restore the missing columns and re-gild the vanished roofs; to place the statues upon their plinths and to fill the narrow ways with a jostling, noisy crowd of human beings, smelling of pomade and garlic, each man pushing and shoving and living intensely in the moment, as still we do.

The impulse to restore the missing columns for his readers led the writer to the Rome of the Caesars and the Popes. The result is a book that will be of the greatest use and interest to those who are paying their first visit to Rome, as it will also delight those who already know the mother city of the Western World.

Readers of A Stranger in Spain, and of H. V. Morton's other books, will be aware that in addition to the history of Rome they will find in the present book much varied and often curious and out of the way information in this personal account of a Roman summer. The author turns the enquiring mind of a practised observer on many human aspects of the Roman scene. He tells how to wear a toga, the right way to read an ancient manuscript, the price of a Cardinal's hat, the technique of travelling in Roman omnibuses; at one moment he traces the last hours in the life of Julius Caesar and in a few pages he is feeding the stray cats in Trajan's Markel. His account of the Vatican City and its unique organisation, and his description of an audience with the Pope, and the recent excavations beneath St. Peter's, are among the many memorable pages in this fascinating book."

Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with a short tear to the head of the upper panel and slightly heavier fading to the spine. Edges of the text block lightly spotted. Previous owners' inscription to the first blank.

Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
432 pages. Index. 8¾" x 5½".

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Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation: Impressionist, Post-impressionist, and Early Modern by Albert C. [Coombs] Barnes

Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation: Impressionist, Post-impressionist, and Early Modern by Albert C. [Coombs] Barnes hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Alfred A. Knopf in association with Lincoln University Press, 1993, Paperback.

Illustrated by way of: Colour Plates; Black & White Plates;

Published to accompany an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D. C. , 2 May - 15 August 1993.

Very Good. Light reading creases to the spine. Text complete, clean and tight.

[XVII] 118 pages. Index. 11½" x 9¾".

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The Romance Of Northumberland by A. G. [Arthur Granville] Bradley

The Romance Of Northumberland by A. G. [Arthur Granville] Bradley hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Methuen & Co., 1933, Hardback.

5th edition. [First Published: May, 1908] Illustrated by way of: Colour Plates [16]; Black & White Plates [12]; Maps to the endpapers and blanks;

Good. A pleasant enough reading copy. Gently faded at the spine. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding. Edges of the textblock heavily tanned. Text complete, clean and tight but a little age-tanned.

Decorative Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
[X] 400 pages. Index. 9" x 5½".

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Rome and Her Empire by Barry Cunliffe

Rome and Her Empire by Barry Cunliffe hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

The Bodley Head, 1978, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Facsimiles; Chronological Tables [1]; Colour Photographs; Diagrams; Maps; Plans;

From the cover: "Written by a brilliant archaeologist, Rome And Her Empire is not only a visual feast, beautifully produced and illustrated with over 1000 photos and maps, but a uniquely fascinating account of one of the world's greatest historical periods.

Barry Cunliffe brings us closer to an understanding and appreciation of this great city, empire and civilisation which continues to influence and fascinate us today. Rather than a blow-by-blow account of politico-military history, he gives us a gradually unfolding vision of people and places — a world opening up, maintaining a delicately balanced existence for a short period, and finally fragmenting. rome and her empire captures the dynamic nature of this civilisation by alternating historical passages with analytical views of Roman life and is enlivened with quotations from contemporary Roman authors, such as Cicero, Seneca and Petronius, who seized the flavour and feeling of daily life.

Throughout, brilliant colour pictures by former Life magazine correspondent Brian Brake and other photographers offer startling views of Roman towns and monuments from the farthest corners of the empire. There are the rugged ruins of Hadrian's Wall, miles of aqueduct from Zagouan in North Africa, mosaics from Portugal, whole cities in present-day Syria and Jordan, and little-known ruins from the Danube provinces, along with maps, charts, tables, portraits and reconstructions from the more familiar sites in Rome itself.

From views of the Romans' baths and shops, their forums and temples, streets and slums and villas, odeons and amphitheatres, from their own accounts of their mores and tastes and feuds, from the historical record they left in stone, metal, paint, and a changed world map, the reader will acquire a memorable understanding — in human terms — of the splendour that was Rome."

Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Edges of the dust wrapper somewhat frayed with several short tears. Text complete, clean and tight.

Brown boards with Gilt titling to the Spine & Upper Board.
320 pages. Index. 12" x 9¾".

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Pompeii and Herculaneum: The Glory and the Grief by Marcel Brion

Pompeii and Herculaneum: The Glory and the Grief by Marcel Brion hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Paul Elek, 1978, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Contains a glossary of terms. 8th impression. [First Edition: 1960] Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Facsimiles; Colour Photographs; Illustrated endpapers and blanks; Plans; Maps;

From the cover: "POMPEII… a city dramatically obliterated by lava two thousand years ago; but miraculously not destroyed — simply entombed.

Marcel Brion, as historian, novelist and art critic brings to colourful life this bustling first century metropolis. The tremendous drama of the earthquake in 62 A. D. , and the tragedy of the holocaust 17 years later, are empathetically presented. Brion also recounts the painstaking task of removing the 'protective' layer of lava which revealed — as if a clock had abruptly stopped — this Greco-Roman city beneath.

Over 180 photographs, with many in colour, were taken especially for this book and include objects rarely, if ever seen, even by visitors to the archaeological museum in Naples.

You will be moved by the story of the horror which befell POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM and, reading this book, you will marvel at the magnificence they left behind."

Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Edges of the dust wrapper somewhat frayed at the spine ends and head of both panels. Text complete, clean and tight.

Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
240 pages. Index. Bibliography. 11" x 8".

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The Atlas of Past Worlds: A Comparative Chronology of Human History, 2000BC-AD1500 by John Manley

The Atlas of Past Worlds: A Comparative Chronology of Human History, 2000BC-AD1500 by John Manley hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Cassell, 1993, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Facsimiles; Colour Photographs; Black & White Drawings; Diagrams; Maps; Plans;

From the cover: "When the mighty stones at Stonehenge were being erected, what was happening in the rest of the world? What gods were the people of these different cultures worshipping? Two thousand years later, when the splendour of Pompeii was abruptly brought to an end, which other empires existed in the world? John Manley's fascinating, fresh approach to world history answers these and many other questions.

Using five distinct 'time slices', The Atlas of Past Worlds sets out to compare five separate cultures within each selected time span. By taking a total of twenty-five archaeological sites, each with a significant place in history, the author reveals what happened within different civilizations at key periods of human history.

Sites are selected from five geographical areas — Europe, western Asia, Africa, eastern Asia and Oceania, and the Americas — and the story unfolds in 2000 BC, a time when complex societies emerged in all five areas of the world. The story continues through the subsequent key periods of 1000 BC, AD 1 and AD 1000 and concludes with AD 1500, after which many indigenous societies were modified or disrupted by European voyages of discovery.

Each of the five slices of time concentrates on a central theme — religion; political, social and economic structures; empires; new directions; and cities — thereby giving us an insight into the diversity of human experience and achievement. This diversity is heightened by the inclusion of less-celebrated settlements, for example El Paraiso and Kalemba, as well as celebrated sites, such as Petra and Easter Island.

John Manley's unique combination of times and places provides unexpected conclusions, and this exciting and thought-provoking comparative approach to human history is outstandingly illustrated by over 250 maps, plans, reconstructions, drawings and colour photographs."

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Previous owners' inscription to the first blank.

Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
224 pages. Index. Bibliography. 11¼" x 8¾".

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Barbarian Europe by Philip Dixon

Barbarian Europe by Philip Dixon hits the £1 shelf in my shop.

Elsevier Phaidon, 1976, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Contains a glossary of terms. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Facsimiles; Chronological Tables; Colour Photographs; Black & White Drawings; Maps; Plans;

From the cover: "This book begins with a description of the closing years of the Roman Empire in the west and describes the course of the 5th-century barbarian migrations which dislocated Roman government and culture, principally in France, Spain, Britain and northern Italy. Using archaeological evidence to supplement written sources, the author traces the growth of the kingdoms of the Goths, Franks and Saxons, culminating in the age of Charlemagne, and shows how this early renaissance in Europe was broken down by the fresh barbarian movements of the Vikings. Four visual stories treat the legend of Arthur and the Britons, settlements and house building, the victory of the church, and the royal palaces."

In the Making of the Past series.

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Gently faded at the spine. Dust wrapper very slightly rubbed at the edges. Very light spotting to start and finish. Text complete, clean and tight otherwise.

Brown boards with White titling to the Spine.
151 pages. Index. 11¼" x 8½".

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