The Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel

The Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1990, Hardback in dust wrapper.

5th impression.

From the cover: "The Plains of Passage is the long-awaited fourth volume in Jean M. Auel's epic series, Earth's Children. Eagerly requested since the publication of The Mammoth Hunters in 1985, it tells the story of Ayla and Jondalar's epic journey across the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe.

To the hunter-gatherers of their world — who have never seen tame animals — Ayla and Jondalar appear enigmatic and frightening. The mystery surrounding the woman, who speaks with a strange accent and talks to animals with their own sounds, is heightened by her uncanny control of a large, powerful wolf. The tall, yellow-haired man who rides by her side is also held in awe, not only for the magnificent stallion he commands but also for his skill as a maker of stone tools and for the new weapon he devised that makes hunting less perilous.

In the course of their cross-continental odyssey, Ayla and Jondalar encounter both savage enemies and brave friends. Together they learn that the vast and unknown world can be difficult and dangerous, but breathtakingly beautiful and enlightening as well. All their pains and pleasures bring them closer to their ultimate destination, for the orphaned Ayla and the wandering Jondalar must reach that place on Earth they can call home."

Good+ — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper is damp-stained on the reverse with a little offset to the boards. Gently bruised at the spine ends and corners with commensurate wear to the dust wrapper. Leans. Text complete, clean and tight but a little age-tanned.

Orange boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
[VIII] 724 pages. 9½" x 6¼".

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Ada's Rules: A Sexy Skinny Novel by Alice Randall

Ada's Rules: A Sexy Skinny Novel by Alice Randall lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Bloomsbury, 2012, Paperback.

Uncorrected book proof.

From the cover: "Ada Howard, the wife of the preacher at Nashville's Full Love Baptist Tabernacle, has a whole lot of people to take care of. There's her husband, of course, and the flock that comes with him, plus the kids at the day care where she works, two grown daughters, and two ailing, wayward parents. It's no wonder she can't find time to take care of herself. And her husband's been so busy lately she's suspicious some other woman may be taking care of him…

Then it comes: the announcement of her twenty-five-year college reunion in twelve months' time, signed with a wink by her old campus flame. It sets Ada thinking about the thrills of young love lost, and the hundred or so pounds gained since her college days, and she decides it's high time to change her body, and her life. So she starts laying down some rules. The first rule is: Don't Keep Doing What You've Always Been Doing. And so begins her unforgettable journey on the way to less weight and more love…"



Very Good. Lower wrapper is a little worn at the edges with a nick to the leading edge. Text complete, clean and tight.

343 pages. Trade Paperback (9¼" x 6").

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The History of the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie by Trevor Hickman

The History of the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie by Trevor Hickman lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Sutton Publishing, 2005, Paperback.

2nd (revised) edition, 1st printing, [First Published: 1997] Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Facsimiles; Maps [1];

From the cover: "IN 1831, Edward Adcock began wholesaling his 'Melton Mowbray pork pie' in London. He made use of the daily Leeds to London stagecoach to convey his pies to the city centre. In 1840 Enoch Evans set up a rival business, and the fame of the pork pie began to spread. The opening of the Nottingham to Peterborough railway in 1847, and the building of Melton Mowbray station, further encouraged the pie's development. A number of specialist bakehouses were commissioned, and one of these specialists was John Dickinson. In the late 1840s, Dickinson started making pies close to the station in Melton Mowbray. In 1851 he leased a shop for the business on Nottingham Street, and there the Melton Mowbray pork pie is still made today. This book is highly illustrated with a fine collection of

photographs, and offers the reader a fascinating record of the people and places associated with the development and production of this famous foodstuff."

Near Fine.

158 pages. 9¾" x 6¾".

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Wolf of the Plains by Conn Iggulden

Wolf of the Plains by Conn Iggulden lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

HarperCollins, 2007, Hardback in dust wrapper.

2nd printing.

From the cover: "Temujin, the second son of the khan of the Wolves tribe, was only eleven when his father died in an ambush. His family were thrown out of the tribe and left alone, without food or shelter, to starve to death on the harsh Mongolian plains

It was a rough introduction to his life, to a sudden adult world, but Ternujin survived, learning to combat natural and human threats. He gathered other outsiders to him, creating a new tribal identity. It was during some of his worst times that the image of uniting the warring tribes and bringing the silver people together came to him. He will become the khan of the sea of grass, Genghis."

In the Conqueror series.

Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Heavily rubbed at the top edge of the dust wrapper with fraying at one corner and slight scuffing to the top of the boards. Pages lightly age-tanned.

Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
458 pages. 9½" x 6¼".

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The Complete Encyclopedia of Chinese Cooking by Kenneth Lo

The Complete Encyclopedia of Chinese Cooking by Kenneth Lo lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Ivy Leaf, 1991, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs; Illustrated endpapers and blanks;

From the cover: "Eminent Chinese cookery writers from different culinary regions of China have got together to write this authoritative encyclopaedia for everyone who enjoys Chinese food. The encyclopaedia is packed with excellent advice on using the specialist ingredients, compiling Chinese menus and selecting drinks to accompany Chinese food. Comprehensive instructions are given for the special cooking techniques, together with helpful step-by-step photographs. The fascinating Chinese festivals are described and recipes are given for the famous festival dishes. Over 200 superb colour photographs and 250 authentic recipes capture all the flavour, texture and diversity of the different Chinese cuisines. From the elegant Peking Duck and other culinary creations of the north, we travel eastwards to the seafood specialities of Shanghai and Fukien. We traverse west to the spicy delights of Szechuan, then south to the sophisticated Cantonese cuisine, renowned for its excellence.

The encyclopaedia also features lists of the top Chinese restaurants in major cities of the world, and suppliers of Chinese ingredients and equipment."

Introduction by: Grace Zia

Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Gently faded at the spine of the dust wrapper otherwise a very well presented copy.

Pictorial boards.
224 pages. Index. 12" x 8¾".

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Joyce Cary: Liberal Principles by Cornelia Cook

Joyce Cary: Liberal Principles by Cornelia Cook lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Vision and Barnes & Noble, 1981, Hardback in dust wrapper.

From the cover: "Joyce Cary is celebrated as a creator of memorable characters and as a novelist in whose hands the worlds of art, politics and religion come vividly to life. While offering a detailed critique of Cary's novels, this book argues that Cary's main achievement as a writer — an achievement which should designate him as a major figure among modern writers — is the realization of a lively, significant fiction with a serious liberal bias.

Cary's liberalism — examined here in the context of its historical and theoretic background — not only provided his novels' themes and elements of their subject-matter, but also provoked a distinctive method of fiction. A thematic emphasis on education, liberty and the relationship between personal happiness and social progress pervades the novels, where the history of political liberalism in Britain recurs as a subject. Cary's emphasis on character and his commitment to the free expression of conflicting opinions in fiction led him to the tour de force of his trilogies, where the juxtaposition of the varied viewpoints of self-revealing characters challenges the reader's judgements while widening his experience.

With the aid of the vast body of Cary's manuscript drafts, notebooks and letters, this book fully charts the development of his fiction. It establishes the consistency and importance of Cary's liberal principles in shaping that fiction, and sensitively records the challenges and contradictions inherent in the position of an Edwardian liberal novelist in the mid-twentieth century."

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

Brown boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
242 pages. Index. Bibliography. 8¾" x 5¾".

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Give Me Liberty: America's Colonial Heritage by Franklin Folsom

Give Me Liberty: America's Colonial Heritage by Franklin Folsom lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Rand McNally & Company, 1974, Hardback in dust wrapper.

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

From the cover: "Give Me Liberty is a new kind of book about the creation of the United States. It brings together dozens of true stories about events that led up to 1776. It highlights the bumptious colonial people who demanded increased freedom in order to fulfil themselves. And it is a guidebook to visitable places connected with significant but often forgotten episodes in the two centuries of strenuous living that led up to the Declaration of Independence.

Here you will meet and see in a new light old friends such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. You will also meet women who dared to think for themselves and to speak out for freedom at a time when women ordinarily had no voice: Anne Hutchinson and Mary Dyer, religious martyrs… Mercy Warren, writer… courageous women printers. Here, too, are many firm men who sought liberty: Indian heroes Pontiac, Metacom, Pope, who led their people toward national liberation… slaves who risked all to throw off their bonds… James Oglethorpe, whose extraordinary vision led to the creation of a colony in the Georgia wilderness where people from many faraway places came together, people who had little in common beyond a yearning to be untrammelled in their efforts to earn a living and to choose their own life-style… James Otis, who bravely and brilliantly insisted that a man's house should be his castle, safe from unwarranted search by arbitrary authorities.

As the nation reflects on its 200 years of self-government, the still visible things connected with our exciting past take on special interest. Each chapter in the book lists places to see — homes, forts, churches, gardens, inns, identifiable sites where colonials reached out for something new and better.

Give Me Liberty is a book of adventure, of exploration, of enthusiasm for the creativity which is part of our heritage. It is a statement of faith that people who seek democracy can achieve great things. To readers of today it offers a solid footing in the hopes of yesterday from which to push toward realization of their hopes for tomorrow."

Very Good — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper which is a little faded. Edges of the text block lightly spotted. Previous owners' inscription to the first blank.

Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine & Upper Board.
[X] 230 pages. Index. Bibliography. 12" x 9¼".

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Geisha of Gion by Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown

Geisha of Gion by Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Simon & Schuster, 2002, Hardback in dust wrapper.

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

From the cover: "For more than four decades, Mineko Iwasaki has lived within the confines of powerful but invisible constraints. Bound by an ancient, unwritten code -'by the robes of tradition and the sanctity of our exclusive calling' — she and thousands of other women over the course of three centuries of Japanese history have shielded their extraordinary lives from public view. In Geisha of Gion, Mineko is the first Japanese geisha to shed light on the fascinating and arcane geisha tradition.

Captivating and poignant, Mineko's book captures her earliest memories, beginning with her move to the geisha house at the tender age of four and her initiation into the profession that she would perfect. As we follow Mineko's gradual blossoming over the years from 'Little Princess' to the brightest of stars, we learn all about the intricate training and rigid education system by which girls become geishas, the specific duties and performances required of the women and the extraordinarily vast foundation of wealth upon which geisha culture rests. Filled with moments of great strength and delicate beauty, Geisha of Gion is a brave and luminous revelation."

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

Black boards with Silver titling to the Spine.
[IX] 334 pages. 8¾" x 5½".

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Timpson's Towns of England and Wales: Oddities and Curiosities by John Timpson

Timpson's Towns of England and Wales: Oddities and Curiosities by John Timpson lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Jarrold, 1989, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs; Maps;

From the cover: "John Timpson is a past master of searching out the unusual, the eccentric and the bizarre. In Timpson's England he explored those lesser-known curiosities which epitomise the variety of English culture.

Timpson's Towns is a further 'look beyond the obvious' at the lesser-known features of towns in England and Wales. In the book, John Timpson unearths another collection of fascinating and surprising items — the civic crest in County Durham which commemorates a monkey hanged by townspeople as a French spy; the public gardens in Yorkshire created over the mass grave of cholera victims; the bridge in Mid-Glamorgan which was built with holes in the brickwork to stop it falling down — and the castle in Dyfed which has its own Wogan…

The book is written in John's unique, immensely readable style, and is illustrated with specially-commissioned colour photography and line illustrations. There are handy reference maps for the more adventurous reader.

In a climate where so many town centres are being radically altered and developed, Timpson's Towns shows there are still corners which retain their original character and charm."

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper very slightly rubbed at the edges and a little sunned at the spine. Text complete, clean and tight.

Green boards with Gilt titling to the Spine & Upper Board.
256 pages. Index. 9¾" x 8".

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Shelters of Stone by Jean M. Auel

Shelters of Stone by Jean M. Auel lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Hodder & Stoughton, 2002, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Maps to the endpapers and blanks;

From the cover: "After their epic journey across Europe, Ayla and Jondalar have reached his home, the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old stone age settlement in the region known today as south-west France. Jondalar's family greet him warmly, but they are initially wary of the beautiful young woman he has brought back, with her strange accent and her tame wolf and horses.

Ayla has much to learn from the Zelandonii and-much to teach them. She is intrigued by their clothes, their crafts, and their home, and wants to learn their customs and the ways they live, so she will fit in. She is delighted when she meets Zelandoni, the spiritual leader of her people, a fellow healer with whom she can share medicinal skills and knowledge. The Zelandonii are surprised to learn she was found and raised by the Clan, the ones that they call flatheads and think of as animals, and are sceptical when she tells them they are people.

After the rigours and dangers that have characterised her extraordinary life so far, Ayla yearns for peace and tranquillity, to be Jondalar's mate and to have children. But her unique spiritual gifts cannot be ignored, and even as she gives birth to her eagerly-awaited child, she is coming to accept that she has a greater role to play in the destiny of the Zelandonii."

In the Earth's Children series.

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper.

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

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Baudolino by Umberto Eco

Baudolino by Umberto Eco lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Secker & Warburg, 2002, Hardback in dust wrapper.

From the cover: "It is April, 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors, and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story. Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino has two major gifts — a talent for learning foreign languages and skill in telling lies. One day, when still a boy, he met a foreign commander in the woods, charming him with his quick wit and lively mind. The commander — who proves to be the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa — adopts Baudolino and sends him to the university in Paris, where he makes a number of fearless, adventurous friends.

Spurred on by myths and their own reveries, this merry band sets out in search of Prester John, a legendary priest-king who was said to rule over a vast kingdom in the East — a phantasmagorical land of strange creatures with eyes on their shoulders and mouths on their stomachs, of eunuchs, unicorns, and lovely maidens."

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. Pages very gently age-tanned.

Purple boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
521 pages. 9½" x 6¼".

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The Major Enigma by Penny Junor

The Major Enigma by Penny Junor lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Michael Joseph, 1993, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs;

From the cover: "The Major Enigma, is the first biography of the Prime Minister that has been written since the General Election and the first to reveal the truth about a leader who is still misunderstood by many. Penny Junor, author of the acclaimed biography of Margaret Thatcher, has written a fascinating account of the John Major phenomenon, the story of an ordinary man who realized his dream to become Prime Minister.

John Major's climb to power is an extraordinary story. From humble beginnings in Brixton, with little education and few qualifications, and with no established career behind him, he was selected by Huntingdon at the age of thirty-three and was elected to Parliament in the General Election of 1979. Despite the competition from a bumper intake of talent, John Major rose through the ranks of the party during the Thatcher years with meteoric speed, outstripping his peers and elders.

Based on personal interviews with political colleagues -past and present — friends and foes and with the Prime Minister himself, this book will discover how he made it when all the odds were stacked against him — was it brilliance, luck, cunning or simply the knack of being in the right place at the right time? Described as charismatic by his friends and nakedly ambitious by his enemies, the book reveals what sort of Prime Minister John Major is, how he handles power and how he differs from his predecessor. Penny Junor looks at John Major's vision for the future of Britain and how he proposes to realize it, and assesses the importance of media presentation to any political leader into the 1990s.

Whatever your views on the Prime Minister, this book reveals with verve and fascinating detail the John Major nobody knows."

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Gently bruised at the spine ends and corners with commensurate wear to the dust wrapper. Text complete, clean and tight.

Black boards with Silver titling to the Spine.
324 pages. Index. 9½" x 6¼".

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Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by PAUL THEROUX

Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town by PAUL THEROUX lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Hamish Hamilton, 2002, Hardback in dust wrapper.

2nd impression. Illustrated by way of: Maps;

From the cover: "Paul Theroux sets off for Cape Town from Cairo — the hard way. Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, Theroux visits some of the most beautiful landscapes on earth, and some of the most dangerous. It is a journey of discovery and of rediscovery — of the unknown and the unexpected, but also of people and places he knew as a young and optimistic teacher forty years before. Safari in Swahili simply means 'journey', and this is the ultimate safari.

It is Theroux in his element — a trip where chance encounter is everything, where departure and arrival times are an irrelevance, and where contentment can be found balancing on the top of a truck in the middle of nowhere. "

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

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

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The Naked Chef by Jamie Oliver

The Naked Chef by Jamie Oliver lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Michael Joseph, 1999, Hardback in dust wrapper.

A Later Printing. Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs;

From the cover: "JAMIE OLIVER is Britain's most talented, exciting and unpretentious young chef. Charismatic, streetwise and passionate about food, Jamie started cooking when he was eight and has worked with many of the biggest names in British cooking.

In THE NAKED CHEF, Jamie has applied his 'strip it bare then make it work principle'to all his meals — from salads to roasts, desserts to pastas — and has created a foolproof repertoire of simple, feisty and delicious recipes which combine bold flavours with fresh ingredients. At the same time he avoids culinary jargon and any complicated, time-consuming process that isn't justified by the end results. This is a book that will appeal to everyone: from those who want great, modern food but who also want to keep things simple, to those who want to prepare fantastic meals but don't have the time to spend all night cooking.

THE NAKED CHEF is all about giving people confidence and getting them to feel at ease in the kitchen, and the meals Jamie makes are ones that anyone — even a kitchenphobe — can make themselves and will be as delicious when cooked at home as they are mouthwatering on the screen."

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.

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

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This People's Navy: The Making of American Sea Power by Kenneth J. Hagan

This People's Navy: The Making of American Sea Power by Kenneth J. Hagan lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

The Free Press, 1991, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs;

From the cover: "For more than two centuries, the United States Navy has played an integral role not only in the military defence of the nation's freedom, but in diplomatic, commercial, and scientific affairs as well. In this wide-ranging history of the navy — the first authoritative account of the service published since World War II — Annapolis professor Kenneth Hagan presents the whole sweep of the American naval experience from its origins in the wooden Continental Navy to contemporary projections for the service's high-tech mission in the twenty-first century.

Drawing on a vast store of original sources, including memoirs, congressional testimony, and government documents, Hagan analyzes how the American navy has evolved in peace and war and what considerations — military, economic, and political — have shaped its development. He shows how naval strategists, from the very start, have split over whether to adopt a "continental navy" modelled on the fleets of European powers and geared to commerce raiding, or an "insular navy" for full-scale fleet engagements modelled on that of Great Britain.

Countering Alfred Thayer Mahan's advocacy of a predominantly large warship navy, Hagan demonstrates the limited use in wartime of big gun ships. He shows this to have been the case in the Battle of the Atlantic against German U-boats, as well as in the Vietnam conflict in the interdiction of enemy troop movement and shipping. Bringing us to the brink of the twenty-first century, he makes clear that these two strategic traditions afford distinctly divergent futures for America's navy in a transformed world order.

Setting down the story of a great military and social institution, the United States Navy, Hagan never loses sight of the men who shaped naval policy or those who have carried it out through a distinguished and incomparable two-hundred-year history. This People's Navy is a long overdue account of the making and triumph of American sea power."

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.

Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
[XIII] 434 pages. Index. Bibliography. 9½" x 6¼".

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A Marriage of Convenience: Relations Between Mexico and the United States a Twentieth Century Fund Report by Sidney Weintraub

A Marriage of Convenience: Relations Between Mexico and the United States a Twentieth Century Fund Report by Sidney Weintraub lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Oxford University Press, 1991, Paperback.

First in this, paperback, edition.

From the cover: "The relationship between Mexico and the United States has never been an easy one. In this comprehensive account of recent developments in this unsteady alliance, Sidney Weintraub helps dispel any doubt about each country's importance to the other — and hence the importance of relations based on mutual respect and a realistic assessment of each other's needs.

Weintraub shows how a long catalogue of misunderstandings has exacerbated substantive problems of trade, foreign debt, industrial development, unemployment and migration, drug trafficking, and environmental despoliation. The chapters on relations at the border and on migration patterns between the two countries make particularly clear that cultural and economic integration have grown rapidly, often in spite of official policies in both countries designed to keep this from happening, and point to a future of more rather than less interdependence.

Today, as Mexico and the United States take their first tentative steps toward what would be a truly historic free-trade agreement, this book provides a solid framework for discussion of how best to negotiate the increasing — and crucial — integration."

Very Good.

[XI] 270 pages. Index. Bibliography. Trade Paperback (9¼" x 6").

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Setting the Mould: The United States and Britain, 1945-50 by Robin Edmonds

Setting the Mould: The United States and Britain, 1945-50 by Robin Edmonds lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

W. W. Norton & Co., 1986, Hardback in dust wrapper.

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

From the cover: "During the six years from the Yalta Conference to the dark hours of the Korean War at the end of 1950, the "special relationship" between the United States and Britain figured in virtually all the decisions that shaped the political structure of the world today.

In this superbly written volume, Robin Edmonds, a distinguished member of the British Foreign Service and shrewd commentator on postwar history, assesses from both sides the dramatic sequence of events and the men who sought to direct them on each side of the Atlantic — the Potsdam Conference, the dropping of the atomic bomb, the Communist takeover in Eastern Europe, the Berlin Blockade, the forming of NATO, financial and economic crises in the reconstruction of Europe, as well as efforts to deal with Mao's coming to power in China and the struggle to create a Jewish state in the Middle East.

Setting the Mould, already hailed as "an insiders view of the special relationship", exploits much primary material that has not previously appeared in print, including papers that were meant to be "collected and burned" but nonetheless survived."

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper a little age-tanned. Text complete, clean and tight.

Red Spine Strip with Pink boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
[XXX] 349 pages. Index. Bibliography. 9½" x 6¼".

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All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-45 by Max Hastings

All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-45 by Max Hastings lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

HarperPress, 2011, Hardback in dust wrapper.

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

From the cover: ""This is a study of the greatest and most terrible event in history, which shows its impact upon hundreds of millions of people around the world — soldiers, sailors and airmen; British housewives and Indian peasants; SS killers and the citizens of Leningrad, some of whom resorted to cannibalism during the city's two-year siege; Japanese suicide pilots and American carrier crews.

Reflecting Max Hastings's thirty-five years of research on the Second World War, All Hell Let Loose describes the course of events during the war, but focuses chiefly upon human experience, which varied immensely from campaign to campaign, continent to continent. Hastings emphasises the Russian front, where more than ninety per cent of all German soldiers who perished met their fate. He argues that, while Hitler's army often fought its battles brilliantly well, the Nazis conducted their war effort with 'stunning incompetence'. He suggests that the Royal Navy and US Navy were their countries' outstanding fighting services, while the industrial contribution of the United States was much more important to Allied victory than that of the US Army.

The book ranges across a vast canvas, from the agony of Poland amid the September 1939 Nazi invasion, to the 1943 Bengal famine, in which at least a million people died under British rule — and British neglect. Among many vignettes, there are the RAF's legendary raid on the Ruhr dams, the horrors of Arctic convoys, desert tank combat, jungle clashes. Some of Hastings's insights and judgements will surprise students of the conflict, while there are vivid descriptions of the tragedies and triumphs of a host of ordinary people, in uniform and out of it. 'The cliché is profoundly true', he says. 'The world between 1939 and 1945 saw some human beings plumb the depths of baseness, while others scaled the heights of courage and nobility'.

This is 'everyman's story'. It is an attempt to answer the question: 'What was the Second World War like?', and also an overview of the big picture. Max Hastings employs the technique which has made many of his previous books best-sellers, combining top-down analysis and bottom-up testimony to explore the meaning of this vast conflict both for its participants and for posterity."

Poor — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper. Extensive marginalia and underlining to the last few chapters.

Grey boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
[XX] 748 pages. Index. Bibliography. 9½" x 6¼".

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Of Men and Manners: The Englishman and His World by Katherine Feldberg

Of Men and Manners: The Englishman and His World by Katherine Feldberg lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

University of Miami Press, 1970, Hardback in dust wrapper.

First in this edition. Originally published as Wie der Engldänder sich und die Welt sieht, 1965, Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung GmbH. , Munich.

From the cover: "The effect of the Channel, first and foremost, is to make it difficult and unpleasant to get into this country, and equally difficult and unpleasant to get out. Consequently, Britain has never been a pleasure resort. The only people who cross the Channel in large numbers for pleasure are the British themselves, who, having no other road by which to go anywhere, have in desperation hardened themselves to the idea, and have even come to take a perverse pride and pleasure in the asperities of the Dover-Calais passage.

This bit of insight into the effect of British geography on the British character was written by Dorothy Sayers, a witty and sensitive writer who has a great deal more to say about the English in "The Gulf Stream and the Channel," which appears in this book. She is only one of the many excellent writers whose clever and insightful comments on the British people are contained in Of Men and Manners. The glittering roster of contributors includes G. K. Chesterton, Winston Churchill, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, J. B. Priestly, George Bernard Shaw, Aldous Huxley, E. M. Forster, John Galsworthy, Joseph Conrad, A. A. Milne, and many others.

Katherine Feldberg, the compiler, has done a superb job of selecting writings that cover a wide range of English thinking on every conceivable subject. History, politics, sex, the weather, social conventions, literature-all are discussed and explored here in delightful fashion. Of Men and Manners is the perfect book for any non-British reader who desires an entertaining and enlightening look at the English character."

Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper. Heavily faded at the spine with a small sticker scar. Text complete, clean and tight, but with a "file copy" stamp to the first blank.

Orange boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
[XII] 240 pages. 8¾" x 5¾".

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The Garden State by Gary Krist

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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988, Hardback in dust wrapper.

From the cover: "Gary Krist's turf is New Jersey. His characters are families — fathers, mothers, children, grandmothers, caught in the pains of divorce, remarriage, growing up, and Alzheimer's.

There is Josh, a 17-year-old who juggles relations between his stylish Teaneck real estate agent mother, the mother's garage mechanic husband who once tried to tip his dentist, and his father, a gentle man with ambiguous sexual desires. There is Mark, a high-school student whose first free-lance writing assignment is a eulogy for one Louella Schwartzkopf, who lived the last ten years of her life with Rose, a much-hated parrot, at a retirement home in Engle-wood. And there is Ralph, defiantly attached to his 82-year-old grandmother, who lives in the family's refinished basement and sends Ralph out every day to buy a quart of milk to add to her growing collection. All this to the noise of traffic on Route 4, which if you have the right ears "almost sounds like a brook in the backyard". Wisely, deftly, wittily, Krist captures the rough texture of life and of reaching for love. A major young talent. "

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper slightly tanned on the reverse. Pages lightly age-tanned.

Green Spine Strip with Grey boards with Silver titling to the Spine.
178 pages. 8½" x 5¾".

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Hotels with Empty Rooms by Harriett Gilbert

Hotels with Empty Rooms by Harriett Gilbert lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1973, Hardback in dust wrapper.

From the cover: "Graham Winter had come to the quiet family hotel in Brittany to paint. He was fifty, fairly successful and at an emotional junction in his life. The girl appeared at the hotel quite suddenly. It wasn't an obvious choice for someone so young but then there was nothing very obvious about the girl, except that she had something to hide. Curiousity, attraction or simply an elusive outline in the eye' of a painter? Graham Winter couldn't begin to find out until he knew the girl's secret. And when that happened, it neither shocked nor surprised him. It should have done, because the girl was a boy and the boy was wanted for murder.

From a very talented young novelist, an intriguing and contemporary psychological thriller."

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Leans slightly.

Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
142 pages. 8" x 5¼".

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Little Dictionary Of Drink by Julian Jeffs

Little Dictionary Of Drink by Julian Jeffs lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Pelham Books, 1974, Hardback in dust wrapper.

This edition specially produced for William Grant and Sons.

From the cover: "Julian Jeff's interest in wine began almost in the cradle, for his father and grandfather both had notable cellars. His interest crystallized in 1956 when (although officially reading for some professional examinations) he went to visit the sherry country and was so fascinated by what he saw that he went to work for a leading shipper. He lived in Jerez for eight months, which gave him the opportunity to watch every stage in the preparation of sherry, and his book on the subject, which was first published in 1961, has become established as a classic. In 1962 it was awarded the international prize of the Office International de la Vigne et du Vin.

His interests, though, had always embraced the other wines, and for many years he has devoted all his spare time to travelling around the vineyards of Europe, learning as much as possible about wine in all its aspects. In 1971 he published a new edition of Sherry and another large book The Wines of Europe. From 1965 to 1967 he was editor of Wine and Food and has published many articles, particularly in House and Garden and in Vogue.

The Little Dictionary of Drink is a book for intelligent drinkers — no matter what their drink, for all the more usual ones are here and some of the less usual ones as well. It answers the questions that are asked daily, and provides all the information needed to give a new dimension and pleasure to the enjoyment of good drink."

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

Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
144 pages. 8¾" x 5½".

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An Independent Man: The Autobiography by Eddie Jordan

An Independent Man: The Autobiography by Eddie Jordan lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Orion, 2007, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs; Illustrated endpapers and blanks;

From the cover: "Eddie Jordan has been involved in motor sport at every level, from grass roots to the very top in Formula 1. His team, with its vivid yellow colour scheme, became synonymous with a renegade culture that injected fun into the sport at the same as challenging for the world championship.

Jordan was known as the rock'n'roll team — an appropriate title since Eddie Jordan's interests stretch far beyond the high-octane world of grand prix racing. This book is not simply about Jordan's 35 years in motor sport. Racing does provide the central core but, along the way, Jordan's story embraces the loves of his life: sport, music, doing deals, meeting people, having fun — enjoying the 'craic', as they say in his native Ireland.

Having sold his team, Jordan is in the perfect position to finally reveal everything about some of Formula 1's more intriguing and infamous events. He tells the story about discovering Michael Schumacher, only to have Bernie Ecclestone lend a hand in having the future champion snatched from beneath Jordan's nose. He describes his dealings with Ayrton Senna, Damon Hill, Johnny Herbert, Jean Alesi and Martin Brundle. He gives the inside line on Ecclestone, Flavio Briatore and the host of characters who provide F1 with its headlines outside sport.

These wonderful anecdotes, told only as Eddie Jordan can, are complemented by his thoughts on football, horse racing, golf, Ireland and its music and values, life beyond Formula 1, his venture into television and his work with sick and disadvantaged children. It is all part of a rich and colourful story which has never been told before."

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. Text complete, clean and tight.

Black boards with Yellow titling to the Spine.
[VI] 407 pages. Index. 9½" x 6¼".

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Meteors and Meteorites: Origins and Observations by Martin Beech

Meteors and Meteorites: Origins and Observations by Martin Beech lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

The Crowood Press, 2006, Paperback.

Contains a glossary of terms. First in this, paperback, edition. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Charts; Graphs; Diagrams; Tables;

From the cover: "The Earth is bombarded both day and night by meteoroids and meteorites. These wayward bodies – small fragments derived fro ageing comets and the collisions between asteroids — are observed in the Earth's upper atmosphere as meteors (shooting stars) and brilliant fireballs. Written with the amateur astronomer in mind – including those do not wish to travel beyond the confines of their own back garden this book is about the observation and origin of these transient objects, the minutiae of the solar system."

Packed with step-by-step instructions, practical projects, photographs and diagrams, the book provides essential guidance and advice on:

• Visual observation and analysis of data
• Gathering scientifically useful data
• Seeking out and identifying meteors
• Photographing meteor trails and video-recording mete6roid impact flashes upon the Moon
• Fireball detection systems and designs for meteor detection systems using radio receivers
• Starting a micrometeorite collection

Very Good.

157 pages. Index. Bibliography. 9¼" x 6½".

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Seven Essays by George Sampson

Seven Essays by George Sampson lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Cambridge at The University Press, 1947, Hardback in dust wrapper.

From the cover: "Mr Sampson is not altogether a comfortable essayist — he may be read in bed, but even there he will unsettle his readers' fixed ideas, make them interrupt, question, dispute with him. There is no mistaking what he means, for his plea on behalf of clear, masculine language is admirably supported by his practice; but sometimes what he means (as he well knows) is disturbing. His constant topics in these seven chapters are literature, education, and music, about all of which he feels deeply and writes urgently, though with a light touch. He is aware of the character of the age upon which we have entered, and is jealous to bring into it the threatened aesthetic values. His life-long passion has been on behalf of a true notion of education. This book will certainly stimulate all teachers and schoolmasters, even though it is directed more widely. Behind the variety is conviction: that the spiritual values are supreme and supremely rewarding; and that there can be no such thing as a sacrifice for truth."

Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with heavy sunning to the spine and price clipped. Boards and spine a little tanned. Text complete, clean and tight but a little age-tanned.

Green boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
[VII] 231 pages. 8" x 5¼".

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Danse Macabre by Frederic Mullally

Danse Macabre by Frederic Mullally lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Secker & Warburg, 1959, Hardback in dust wrapper.

4th impression. [First Edition: September, 1959]

From the cover: "It was at a London party that Bob Sullivan, top-line journalist who had just resigned his current Fleet Street job, first heard of Marianne. It was a few days later that young Brian Harper persuaded him to set out on a journey so that he could write the full story of the 19-year-old French girl's life — and death. But it was not till much later, when he found that his luggage had been ransacked in his couchette on the Naples-Barcelona Express that Sullivan became convinced she had been murdered — and that he was likely to be murdered too.

By that time he had learned too much about Marianne to withdraw — from Marie-Louise, the French girl who had been her friend in Paris; from Webster, the English painter in love with her on the Cote d'Azur; from Franky, the Jamaican woman with whom she had lived in Rome. He could sense her beauty, her wild eroticism, the blind devotion she could inspire, the scandals she could cause. To Sullivan she was becoming an obsession. As he pursued her trail he was to learn much more, in an apartment house in Barcelona, from the Canadian novelist on the island of Ibiza. But nothing could have prepared him for the final denouement in the eerie house in the Moorish quarter of Tangier.

In his first novel Mr. Mullally has attempted a difficult task — to create a full-length portrait out of the recollections of others. Marianne grows as we read about her until she comes to dominate the book. It is this which makes DANSE MACABRE much more than a thrill-packed story filled with well observed characters. The cafe society of the pleasure resorts of Europe is its background, the enigma of a girl who could never come to terms with herself or with life its compelling theme."

Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with heavier tanning to the spine. Edges of the text block lightly spotted. Text complete, clean and tight but a little age-tanned.

Black boards with Silver titling to the Spine.
288 pages. 8" x 5¼".

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Black as Night by Daniel D. Nern

Black as Night by Daniel D. Nern lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Beacon Press (Boston), 1958, Hardback in dust wrapper.

From the cover: "This is a powerful and violent novel of present-day Atlanta and Detroit. The drama is played out against a background of explosive tension brought about because a family of Negroes has the intelligence to realize the degradation they suffer, under white supremacy, and the ambition to do everything in their power to rise above it. Maw Winter expects Earl to become a writer — he is always burrowing into books in his free time. She sees Willie as a lawyer — he is studying hard when not working with pick and shovel. Daisy works as a maid. She is very light, with blue eyes; a girl of extraordinary beauty. Uncle Jack gets jobs wherever he can. The two young brothers are in school. Meanwhile they all live in a Georgia shack: brown cardboard tacked up over the cracks in the ceiling and only a wood-stove to cook on. Each one puts his earnings into a Mazola can: the family is going to move North, to Detroit, just as soon as there's enough money. Then they'll live in a pretty white cottage…

The first violence in the story is completely wanton — almost accidental. Nobody could have foreseen it, or avoided it once the series of events started. Here the strong personalities show their differences: Willie can see no way out but vengeance; the more brutal, the better. His twin, Earl, realizes, as Maw does, that it is the Jim Crow system which is to blame, as much as any particular individuals.

Willie learns to hate, and then he lives to hate; and what he hates — all the more bitterly because he is helpless — is the injustice of the social system: "sowbelly for the nigger and a poke bonnet for his wife; lean, red meat for the white man and a Paris hat for his wife…"The poison of Willie's thoughts drives him to the violence and the killing which his need for revenge demands. But of course, instead of solving any problems, this action only creates more…"

Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded with light rippling and heavier tanning to the spine. Pages lightly age-tanned. Agents promotional sticker to the first blank.

Blue boards with White titling to the Spine.
261 pages. 8¼"x 5¾".

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Maine Memories by Elizabeth Coatsworth

Maine Memories by Elizabeth Coatsworth lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

The Stephen Greene Press (Vermont), 1968, Hardback in dust wrapper.

From the cover: "MAINE MEMORIES is made up of fifty-four vignettes of life in the seacoast-and-farming community around Damariscotta where Elizabeth Coatsworth has lived for the past three decades.

Deftly, and with an affection as crisp or gentle or wry as the real people and incidents she portrays, Miss Coatsworth tells of snowbound days in a remote farmhouse, of wildlife in woods and lake, of local Indians and legends, of neighbours who plough with oxen, of gallant and tough-minded seafarers.

In this collection she combines the best parts of two earlier books, with a good many changes and new chapters added, and all distilling the essence of a nearly vanished way of life."

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust Wrapper a little faded otherwise a very well presented copy.

Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
[IX] 165 pages. 8¼" x 5¾".

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Encounters in History by Pieter Geyl

Encounters in History by Pieter Geyl lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Collins, 1963, Hardback in dust wrapper.

From the cover: "Both as a great historian and a great European, Professor Geyl has never flinched from an encounter. In both capacities he has been the lifelong champion of clear thinking, sound learning and intellectual honesty, ready to take on all comers, however powerful or popular, who threaten or belittle the qualities that nourish and ennoble Western civilisation. It is no coincidence that the man who was sent to Buchenwald for his outspoken opposition to Nazism should be the most formidable living critic of those theories of history, whether Marxist or mystical, which, by their irrational methods or arbitrary premises, deny meaning to the concepts of personal freedom and personal responsibility that sustain the traditions of the West.

This original collection of sixteen historical essays displays the rich variety of talents at Professor Geyl's command: close and illuminating analysis in "Shakespeare as a Historian" and "French Historians For and Against the Revolution"; profound insight into the nature and character of Western history in "The Idea of Liberty in History" and, most relevant to our present preoccupation with the Common Market, "The Historical Background of the Idea of European Unity". Above all, there is a splendid array of those brilliant, incisive studies of other historians of which the author has shown his mastery in his earlier books, Napoleon For and Against and Debates with Historians. Amongst those considered or reconsidered in this volume are Motley, Huizinga, Barraclough, Butterfield and Toynbee.

Finally, in this book more perhaps than in any of his others, the author admits us to the workshop of his mind. In the essay "Looking Back" and in certain passages of the Reflections of a European, we can learn something of the development of one who, as a historian and as a writer of English prose, is a thorough master of his craft."

Very Good — in Good+ Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper which is a little faded. Text complete, clean and tight.

Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
448 pages. Index. 8" x 5¼".

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Eugene Aram: A Tale by Lord Lytton [Edward Bulwer Lytton]

Eugene Aram: A Tale by Lord Lytton [Edward Bulwer Lytton] lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Walter Scott, 1883, Hardback.

Good. A pleasant enough reading copy. Heavily bruised at the head, tail and corners of the boards with slight fraying. Shaken with now fragile hinges and one gather starting to detach. Bookseller sticker to the pastedown. Edges of the textblock heavily tanned. Pages lightly age-tanned.

Brown Decorative boards with Gilt titling to the Spine & Upper Board.
[VII] 336 [14] pages. 7½" x 5".

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Running On Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It by Peter G. Peterson

Running On Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It by Peter G. Peterson lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New York), 2004, Hardback in dust wrapper.

From the cover: "When George W. Bush came into office in 2001, the ten-year budget balance was officially projected to be at a surplus of $5. 6 trillion. But after three big tax cuts, the bursting of the stock-market bubble, and the devastating effects of 9/11 on the economy, the surplus has evaporated, and the deficit is expected to grow to $5 trillion over the next decade. America was once the greatest creditor to nations around the globe; it is now the largest debtor in the world. And the domestic deficit is only half the story. Given our $500 billion trade deficit and our anaemic savings rate, we depend on an unprecedented $2 billion of foreign capital every working day. If foreign confidence were to wane, this could lead to a dreaded hard landing.

President Bush says that the deficit is just "numbers on paper". Vice President Cheney claims that Reagan proved "deficits don't matter". Peter G Peterson — a lifelong Republican, chairman of The Blackstone Group, and former secretary of commerce under Nixon — shatters the myths with hard facts and a harrowing view of the twin deficits' real impact. Republicans and Democrats alike have mortgaged America's future through reckless tax cuts, out-of-control spending, and Enron-style accounting in Congress. And the situation will only get worse as the Baby Boom generation begins to retire, making unprecedented demands on entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare. Despite what Bush says, we are on a path that could end in economic meltdown, and we simply cannot grow out of the deficit.

In Running on Empty, Peterson takes us behind the politicians' smoke-and-mirror games, and forcefully explains what we must do to rescue the future of our country."

Very Good+ — in Very Good+ Dust Wrapper.

Blue Spine Strip with Red boards with White titling to the Spine.
[XXVIII] 242 pages. 8½" x 5¾".

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Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times by Thomas Hauser with the co-operation of Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times by Thomas Hauser with the co-operation of Muhammad Ali lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Robson Books, 1991, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs;

From the cover: "He is still one of the most recognizable men on earth. Thirty years after he burst upon the scene as a gold medal winner at the Rome Olympics, Muhammad Ali remains a magical figure, known and loved throughout the world.

Ali brought unprecedented speed and grace to his sport, and his charm and wit changed forever what the world expects a champion to be. His accomplishments in the ring were the stuff of legend — two fights with Sonny Liston, when he proclaimed himself "the greatest" and proved he was; three epic wars against Joe Frazier; the stunning victory over George Foreman in Zaire; and, late in his career, the brutal beating he absorbed at the hands of Larry Holmes. But there was always far more to Muhammad Ali than what took place in a boxing ring.

Ali's life and career have been played out as much on the front page as the sports page. His early embrace of the "Black Muslim" movement and his insistence on being called Muhammad Ali instead of his "slave name", Cassius Clay, heralded a new era in black pride. His refusal to be inducted into the US Army ("I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong") anticipated the growing anti-war movement of the 1960s. And his willingness to stage his fights in such far-flung locales as Kinshasa, Manila and Kuala Lumpur signalled a shift away from superpower dominance towards a growing awareness of the importance of the Third World.

Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times is the first comprehensive and honest portrait of this extraordinary man. In the words of over 200 of Ali's family members, associates, opponents, friends, enemies and others who have known him best, the real Ali emerges: deeply religious, mercurial, kind, generous, a showman in and out of the ring.

There has never been a world figure like Muhammad Ali. And there has never been a biography to match his accomplishments — until now."

Introduction by: Hugh McIlvanney

Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. A little rubbing to the edges of the dust wrapper with a short, closed, tear to the bottom corner of the upper panel. Price Clipped. Text complete, clean and tight.

Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
544 pages. Index. Bibliography. 9½" x 6¼".

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Good Times! by Justin Lee Collins

Good Times! by Justin Lee Collins lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Ebury Press, 2009, Hardback in dust wrapper.

2nd impression. [First Edition: 2009]

From the cover: "My name is Justin Lee Collins. You can call me JLC. Or Justin or Just. I don't mind. Really, you can call me anything you like. Welcome to my book. It's the story of how I've had so many good times I can barely believe it, because along the way there were so many bad times. I'm not going to moan about the bad times, don't you worry. I can laugh about them now. Hopefully we can laugh about them together and learn something about ourselves along the way…

Justin Lee Collins is now one of the most instantly recognisable faces in Britain -mainly because of his excessively hairy head and beardy face. But it wasn't always like this. He was once clean-shaven. And worked in Marks and Spencers' Bristol branch — where they ended up compiling a special dossier on him. Yet from as early as he can remember, all Justin wanted to do was entertain people.

This is the hilariously funny yet brutally honest tale of the constant hurdles that Justin had to overcome on the path to fame, and how he stumbled over pretty much all of them. From his humiliating early attempts to woo girls, through his difficult days in retail, Justin endured plenty of bad times before the good ones came along. From singing 'Delilah' dressed entirely in orange at Papillon's nightclub aged 16 to duetting on national TV with Sir Tom Jones himself nearly 20 years later, this is the heart-warming and entirely uncensored account of how one loveable bloke from Bristol somehow made all his dreams come true."

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.

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

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Britain, Rome's Most Northerly Province: A History of Roman Britain, A.D. 43-A.D. 450 by G. M. [Gladys May] Durant

Britain, Rome's Most Northerly Province: A History of Roman Britain, A.D. 43-A.D. 450 by G. M. [Gladys May] Durant lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Readers Union, 1969, Hardback in dust wrapper.

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

Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded. Edges of the text block lightly spotted. Text complete, clean and tight but a little age-tanned.

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

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Different Country, Same State: On the Road with James Blunt by Peter Hardy

Different Country, Same State: On the Road with James Blunt by Peter Hardy lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Headline Review, 2010, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Colour Photographs;

From the cover: "213 performances

58 countries

15 months.

James Blunt's 'All the Lost Souls' international tour was one of the greatest pop marathons of all time. Journalist and family friend Peter Hardy joined James and his band on their exhilarating and exhausting journey around the world, hoping to discover the man behind the music. From the tour bus to the dressing rooms, from the stage to the after-show parties, travelling with James gave 'Weird Uncle Peter' an access-all-areas pass to his life on tour.

A warts-and-all account of lost guitars, adoring fans, ludicrous bar bills and very, very late nights, this is an honest, amusing and insightful look at the mad world of celebrity and the inside story of James himself, both in front of the crowds and behind closed doors.

Different Country, Same State is a frank exploration of one man's journey, his passion for music and his passion for life."

Very Good+ — in Very Good+ Dust Wrapper.

Black boards with White titling to the Spine.
308 pages. 9½" x 6¼".

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Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Headline, 2003, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs;

From the cover: "Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candour, humour and passion about her upbringing in suburban middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student activist to controversial First Lady. Living History is her revealing memoir of life through the White House years. It is also her chronicle of living history with Bill Clinton, a thirty-year adventure in love and politics that survives personal betrayal, relentless partisan investigations, and constant public scrutiny.

Hillary Rodham Clinton came of age during a time of tumultuous social and political change in America. Like many women of her generation, she grew up with choices and opportunities unknown to her mother or grandmother. She charted her own course through unexplored terrain -responding to the changing times and her own internal compass — and became an emblem for some and a lightning rod for others. Wife, mother, lawyer, advocate, and international icon, she has lived through America's great political wars, from Watergate to Whitewater.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is the only First Lady to play a major role in shaping domestic legislation; she travelled tirelessly around the country to champion health care, expand economic and educational opportunity and promote the needs of children and families, and she criss-crossed the globe on behalf of women's rights, human rights and democracy. She redefined the position of First Lady, and helped save the presidency from an unconstitutional, politically motivated impeachment. Intimate, powerful and inspiring, Living History captures the essence of one of the most remarkable women of our time and the challenging process by which she came to define herself and find her own voice — as a woman and as a formidable figure in American politics."

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Light bruise to the tail of the spine of both book and dust wrapper. Text complete, clean and tight. A pleasant copy overall.

Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
[XI] 562 pages. Index. 9½" x 6¼".

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Lone Star: A History Of Texas And The Texans Update Edition by T. R. Fehrenbach

Lone Star: A History Of Texas And The Texans Update Edition by T. R. Fehrenbach lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Da Capo Press, 2000, Paperback.

Illustrated by way of: Maps;

From the cover: "Here is an up-to-the-moment history of the Lone Star state, together with an insider's look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped Texas from the very beginning. Never before has the story been told with more vitality and immediacy. Fehrenbach re-creates the Texas saga from prehistory to the Spanish and French invasions to the heyday of the cotton and cattle empires. He dramatically describes the emergence of Texas as a republic, the vote for secession before the Civil War, and the state's readmission to the Union after the War. In the twentieth century oil would emerge as an important economic resource, and the state would experience significant social change. But Texas would remain unmistakably Texas, because Texans 'have been made different by the crucible of history; they think and act in different ways, according to the history that shaped their hearts and minds'."

Good. A pleasant enough reading copy. Light reading creases to the spine. Notably rubbed at the outside edges of the covers and spine. Leans. Top corner of the upper wrapper and first few leaves dog-eared. Text complete, clean and tight.

[XVI] 767 pages. Index. Bibliography. Trade Paperback (9¼" x 6").

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The Bible in History: How Writers Create a Past by Thomas L. Thompson

The Bible in History: How Writers Create a Past by Thomas L. Thompson lands on the |> SALE <| shelves in my shop.

Jonathan Cape, 1999, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Illustrated by way of: Genealogical Tables;

From the cover: "For the last century, archaeologists, historians and biblical scholars have believed that the stories of the Bible describe real historical events, such as the Exodus, the Kingdom of David and the Exile. But in the last two decades this understanding has been radically challenged: it is generally accepted today that there is very little archaeological or historical evidence that confirms the stories of the Bible.

In this lucid and fascinating book, Professor Thompson — who has been at the forefront of the international debate for many years — shows that we misunderstand the Bible if we read it as history, a modern concept completely incompatible with the world-view of antiquity. Combining literary criticism of biblical texts and detailed analysis of ancient history, he shows that we have to look at the Bible as a body of literature that reflects the philosophical and moral views of its authors. By examining the social and political forces at work in the Middle East during the period that saw the Bible's texts composed, Thomas Thompson puts the Bible in its historical context and sheds new light on the relationship between the Old Testament and the New, Judaism and Greek philosophy, Yahweh and Christ.

Controversial and accessible, The Bible in History is the first book to bring this complex and scholarly debate to the attention of a wider audience. By taking the Bible seriously as a collection of literature that reflects the world and the experience of its authors, Thompson challenges us to re-interpret the Bible and its relevance for today — because, as he puts it, 'it is only as history that the Bible doesn't make sense'."

Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Pages lightly age-tanned. Hinge strained at the title page.

Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine.
[XIX] 412 pages. Index. Bibliography. 9½" x 6¼".

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