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HUGH MILLER the Cromarty Stonemason
by Waterston, Charles D.
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- Used - Good
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- Third Edition
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- 1973
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- Soft cover
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Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, GBR
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SGD 3.45
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National Trust for Scotland, 1973 pp 32. Illustrated with photographs and engravings. Pictorial grey card covers with some yellow markings on the back and inside rear cover. Inscription in bottom margin of rear page. Otherwise a good clean copy. Item Price
SGD 3.45
MICHELE BARBI'S LIFE OF DANTE
by Ruggiers, Paul G. (Translated and Edited by)
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- First Paperback Edition
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- 1960
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- Paperback
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SGD 8.62
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Barkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1960 pp x152 including notes, cover and spine darkened. Water mark at top spine corner and thin red ink line on front. A few marginal notes and underlining mostly in pencil. Item Price
SGD 8.62
THE DUTIFUL EDITH CAVELL
by Boston, Noel
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- Soft cover
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Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, GBR
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Norwich: Dean and Chapter of Norwich Cathedral 16 page booklet with frontis portrait of Nurse Cavell. In pale blue paper wrappers with patches of fading at rear stapled edge. Otherwise very Good. Item Price
SGD 8.62
ANY FINE SATURDAY
by Ivimey, Alan
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- Used - Very Good
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- Good
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- First In Book Form
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- 1948
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- Hardcover
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Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, GBR
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SGD 6.03
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London: Golden Galley Press Ltd., 1948 pp 171. Illustrated with photographs. Cream coloured boards. Very Good in good protected dustjacket with chips and edge tears. Item Price
SGD 6.03
JOHN MARTIN, PAINTER His Life and Times
by Pendered, Mary L
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- First Edition
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- 1923
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- Hardcover
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Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, GBR
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SGD 34.48
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London: Hurst and Blackett, 1923 pp 318 including index and appendices with 20 illustrations and a folding map of the great Metropolitan Connecting Railway and Public Walk by John Martin Sep 1845. Blue cloth, gilt faded to grey at spine with lesser fading around front edges and top rear edge. Some mild internal spotting. Good. Item Price
SGD 34.48
NOT WITHOUT HONOUR The Life and Writings of Olive Schreiner
by Buchanan-Gould, Vera
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SGD 6.81
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London: Hutchinson pp 248 including index and bibliography. Ikllustrated with photographs. Blue cloth, with light wear to head and foot of spine and corners. End papges lightly spotted. Item Price
SGD 6.81
ALL IN A LIFETIME
by Buck, Frank
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- First Edition
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Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, GBR
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SGD 18.10
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London: Jarrolds pp 208. illustrated with photographs and endpaper maps. Brown cloth with white lettering on faded and spotted spine. Small top corner bumps and light wear to spine corners. Item Price
SGD 18.10
THEY ENRICHED HUMANITY Adventurers of the Nineteenth Century
by Wren, David
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- Used - Very Good
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- Fair
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- First Edition
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- 1948
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- Hardcover
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Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, GBR
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SGD 6.90
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London: Charles Skilton, 1948 pp 160. Illustrated with frontis portrait of Elizabeth Fry. Red cloth, gilt. Endpapers yellowed. S within a circle stamped on front endpaper.Very Good in Fair protected price-clipped dustjacket with 2 inch piece missing from rear bottom corner. Item Price
SGD 6.90
DAISY BATES
by Salter, Elizabeth
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good
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- First American Edition
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- 1972
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- Hardcover
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Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, GBR
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SGD 12.07
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New York: Coward, mcCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1972 pp xix 266 including index and bibliography plus 16 pages of photographs and a map of Australia. Yellow cloth with brown title and decoration. In protected dustjacket, slightly faded at spine. Item Price
SGD 12.07
JOHN MILTON, ENGLISHMAN A Critical Biography
by Hanford, James Holly
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- Used - Good
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- Good
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- First Edition
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- 1950
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- Hardcover
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Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, GBR
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SGD 8.62
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London: Victor Gollancz, 1950 pp 314 including index. Dark blue cloth, gilt with fading along top and bottom edges. Endpapers spotted and partly browned. Owners bookplate on front pastedown and name on front endpaper. In protected price-clipped dustjacket with light spotting and yellowing to spine and rear top edge. Item Price
SGD 8.62
BARTOK
by Dommett, Kenneth
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- 1978
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- Soft cover
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Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, GBR
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SGD 5.17
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Sevenoaks: Novello and Co., 1978 Short Biographies series. 23 pp booklet, paperback. Bottom 2 cms. creased Item Price
SGD 5.17
PRESIDENTS OF THE U.S.A.
by Cook, Denys
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- Used - Very Good
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- Good
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- First Edition
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- 1981
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- Hardcover
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- 9780715380673
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Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, GBR
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SGD 7.76
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Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1981 pp 288 including index and bibliography. Black boards, gilt. Page edges yellowed. Very Good in Good protected dustjacket faded at spine and front edges. Item Price
SGD 7.76
GREAT MEN A Series of Lectures
by Myers, Frederic
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SGD 10.34
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London: James Nisbet & Co. pp viii 391 plus 16 page publishers catalogue at the back. Pictorial cloth, gilt with stylised floral decoration on front and spine. A little fading around spine and top rear edge. Some pages mainly towards the ends spotted at fore edge. Sunday School prize label inside front cover dated 1911. Good. Item Price
SGD 10.34
THE BOYHOOD OF GREAT INVENTORS
by Robertson, A. Fraser
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- New Edition
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London: John F. Shaw and Co., pp 158. Illustrated with coloured frontis and two colour plates. Blind stamped green cloth, gilt, faded at front, spine and rear edges. Pages spotted throughpout. Good. Item Price
SGD 8.62
HARMONY OF MIND AND HEART
by Smit, Johan J. Snr.
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- Used - Good
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- First Edition
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- 1960
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- Hardcover
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Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, GBR
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SGD 17.24
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High Wycombe: Studio I.S.P., 1960 pp. 271. Frontis portrait. Red cloth, gilt with wear to head and foot of spine and bottom edge. Endpapers lightly spotted. Good+. Heavy book which will require extra overseas shipping. Item Price
SGD 17.24