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Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality


EO, UMBERTO & WEAVER, WILLIAM (Trans)

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Vintage 1998

KEYWORDS: history philosophy literature prose Umberto Eco

$12.50
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Churchill, an Unruly Life


ROSE, NORMAN

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Touchstone Books 1998

KEYWORDS: Winston Churchill British prime ministers history biography biographies memoir

$17.50
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Eagles: Dark Desert Highway


WALL, MICK

Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Trapeze 2023

KEYWORDS: music history bands musicians The Eagles biography biographies memoir Mick Wall

$38.50
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The Persian War, in Herodotus and Other Ancient Voices


SHEPHERD, WILLIAM

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Osprey / Bloomsbury 2019

KEYWORDS: ancient history antiquity wars Persia Persian war classic historians Herodotus Greek Greece battles

$19.50
xx101pol204697

Quid Pro Quo: What the Romans Really Gave the English Language


JONES, PETER

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Atlantic Books 2016

KEYWORDS: ancient history language Rome Roman education philosophy education literature linguistics

$25.00
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Roadies: The Secret History of Australian Rock'n'Roll


COUPE, STUART

SIGNED & INSCRIBED, super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hachette 2018

KEYWORDS: signed Australian rock history bands music musicians roadies anecdotes industry

$17.50
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How Words Get Good: The Story of Making a Book


LEE, REBECCA

Octavo hardcover (Near FINE) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Profile Books 2022

KEYWORDS: literature history literary books writing

$32.50
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Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1929-1932


LINDBERGH, ANNE MORROW

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1973

KEYWORDS: diary diaries journals letters correspondence Anne Morrow Lindbergh literature literary aviation flight history

$22.50
xx101pol204704

Cheddar Gorge: A Book of English Cheeses


SQUIRE, JOHN (Ed) & SHEPARD, ERNEST H (Illus)

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2018

KEYWORDS: English cheese cheeses anecdotes history culinary dairy culture

$25.00
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The Templars


READ, PIERS PAUL

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1999

KEYWORDS: knights templar history crusades soldiers religion religious orders military

$15.00
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Old Soldiers Never Die


RICHARDS, Private FRANK

Sm octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Antony Rowe (Printer) N/D (Modern Copy)

KEYWORDS: military history ww1 first 1st world war one i 1 the great war soldiers autobiography autobiographies memoir Private Frank Richards

$17.50
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The Thousand Plan: The Story of the First Thousand Bomber Raid on Cologne


BARKER, RALPH

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Chatto & Windus 1965

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 bombing raids Cologne

$22.50
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The Gurkhas


JAMES, HAROLD & SHEIL-SMALL, DENIS

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Macdonald & Co 1965

KEYWORDS: military history Gurkhas soldiers gurkha British Army Nepalese

$32.50
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Signal Catastrophe: The Story of the Disastrous Retreat from Kabul 1842


MACRORY, PATRICK

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1966

KEYWORDS: military history Afghan war British army battles Kabul defeats

$15.00
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The man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were Made


WATSON, BRUCE

Octavo softcover (VG-) minor water staining; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Penguin 2003

KEYWORDS: A C Gilbert biography biographies memoir toys history childhood memorabilia

$15.00
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All for a Shilling a Day


FEATHERSTONE, DONALD F

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Jarrolds 1966

KEYWORDS: military history recruitment army 19th nineteenth century

$10.00
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The Frolik Defection: The Memoirs of an Intelligence Agent


FROLIK, JOSEF

Scruffy paperback (G+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Corgi Books 1976

KEYWORDS: espionage history Josef Frolik intelligence agents defection autobiography autobiographies memoir Czech

$450.00
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The Angler's Vade Mecum, containing a Descriptive Account of the Water Flies, Seasons, and th Kind of Weather that Brings them Most on the Water


CARROLL, W

Crown 8vo, half-bound in black leather double roll-tooled in gilt & green/black marbled bds, gilt panel spine lettered in one panel & decorated in five, teg, fore & bottom edges sl deckled, marbled eps, frontis., viii + 128 pp., 11 plates to rear, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds, light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, light tanning & soiling to pg edges, light tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, bookplate to front pastedown, annotation in pencil to tp).,

PUBLISHER: Archibald Constable and Co. 1818

KEYWORDS: W Carroll angling angler fish fly fishing literature fisher fisherman fishermen flies vade mecum 19th century history trout salmon

$45.00
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Fly-Fishing: Some New Arts and Mysteries


MOTTRAM, J C

Crown 8vo, half-bound in blue leather double roll-tooled in blind & blue cl bds, gilt panel spine lettered in two panels & decorated in four, marbled eps, xiii + 272 pp., illus., VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds, minor bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, light tanning & soiling to pg edges, light tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals).,

PUBLISHER: The Field & Queen [c. 1915]

KEYWORDS: J C Mottram angling angler fish fly fishing literature fisher fisherman fishermen flies 20th century history trout salmon

$100.00
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An Open Creel


SHERINGHAM, H T

Crown 8vo, red cl bds, double roll-tool border to bds in blind, spine & front board lettered & illus. in gilt, teg, bottom edge deckled, xii + 305 pp. + 31 pp. advts., VG (light scuffing & soiling to bds, moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, light soiling & tanning to pg edges & eps/prelims/terminals, bookplate & prev bookseller's stick to front pastedown, prev bookseller's sticker to rear pastedown).,

PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1910

KEYWORDS: H T Sheringham angling angler fish fly fishing literature fisher fisherman fishermen flies vade mecum 20th century history trout salmon

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