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BEHIND THE BRASS PLATE

by SCHOFIELD, ALFRED T

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HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st?* Date of Publication: 1928* Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston & Co.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine & to face. Impressed logo to rear cover. Considerable shelf wear. Bump to lower edge and some marks to boards. GD* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, & tight with light reading wear, some slight foxing and showing age to edges. Fore and lower edge rough cut. GD++* Illustrations: B/w portrait photo to frontis.* Pages: 310 pp. text. xvi pp. index & blank pages at rear.* Description: The reminiscences of a genial, busy doctor whose profession brought him into contact with all sorts of people. It is written from Harley Street and the subjects are therefore the great and good of the era. Small beer it is, but like much small beer harmless and refreshing if taken in judicious quantity. The language is fairly Victorian and non-confrontational but for an insight into medical… Read More
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BLADE AND THE PASSION
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BLADE AND THE PASSION

by Dawson, Les

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HARDBACK EDITION, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1993* Publisher: Robson Books Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Purple cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps, rubs or shelf wear to boards. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper, white titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £10.95. No shelf wear to top or bottom edges or to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to top & fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: Several b/w line drawings within text.* Pages: 166 pp. text. iii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: The late great Les Dawson is at his funniest in this book ? a rollicking , lusty saga of sex, love and deceit. As he himself described it: ?The Blade and The Passion? is not just a saga of rich, rumbustious adventure, it is a record of… Read More
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A CHILD CALLED IT (Hardcover).

by Pelzer, Dave

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HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* 10th. Reprint.* Date of Publication: 2000* Publisher: BCA (Orion).* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, silver title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: B/w photo-illustrated wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing no shelf price. Minimal shelf wear to edges and to head of spine. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight paper colouration throughout. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 148 pp. text.* Description: Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother, a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games. Games that left one of her three sons nearly dead.; She considered Dave a slave; no longer a boy, but an it. His bed was an old army cot in the basement, his clothes were torn and smelly, and when he was allowed the luxury of food it was scraps from the dogs bowl. The outside world knew nothing of the… Read More
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A Flight of Hurdles

by Blackwell, Mary

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SOFTBACK ?AUTHOR DEDICATED,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2005* Publisher: McCraith, Sherborne.* Binding and cover condition: Glossy black & white photo-illustrated soft card covers. Staple-bound, no rust. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to covers. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems un-used. A few small marks to front. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Author dedicated to fep. ?To Anne with best wishes from Mary.? Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: A number of b/w photo-illustrations and line drawings within text throughout.* Pages: 112 pp. text.* Product Description:- ?A Flight of Hurdles,? spans thirty-five years of the author?s life, from 1922 ? 1957. It relates all the most interesting tales from that time and details her most varied occupations and the journeys she was fortunate to have made. She met some… Read More
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Living To Tell The Tale
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Living To Tell The Tale

by Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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9780224072786
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Jonathan Cape, 2003-11-06. 1st Edn. 1st Imp. FNL.. Hardcover. F/VG+/ND. Box X27 SOFTBACK ""NOT HARDCOVER BUT SAME ILLUSTRATION TO COVER & SAME ISBN."" SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 2003.* Publisher: Jonathan Cape.* Binding and cover condition: Coloured photo-illustrated soft card covers showing the author as a small child. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear, very slight reading creases to spine. Slight wear creases to front cover, none to hinge. Seems lightly used. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or marks to text. No tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Single b/w line drawn map at front. * Pages: 484 pp. text. iv pp. blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- He is perhaps the most acclaimed, revered and widely read writer of our time, and in this first volume of a planned trilogy - a book that has already become a bestseller in its Spanish-language… Read More
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Picking Up the Brass
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Picking Up the Brass

by Nugent, Eddy

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9781904181927
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SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2006* Publisher: Writers World.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers showing the back view of a man in the gym. No bumps or rubs, shelf wear or reading creases to spine, no wear or creases to boards, none to hinge. Seems lightly used if at all. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Dedicated to Brian and signed by Charlie Bell, (Eddie Nugent). Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or marks to text. No tanning or other visible faults. FINE * Illustrations: None.* Pages: 372 pp. text. nil at rear.* Product Description:- The book that Andy McNab wouldn't want you to read! "Picking up the Brass" is a hilarious look at what real life was like for the vast majority of young men who joined the British Army in the Eighties. It follows Eddy Nugent, a bored fifteen year old, living in Manchester, as he travels through the drinking, swearing and sex-obsessed world… Read More
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Recollections 1832 to 1886

by West, Sir Algernon

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HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 1910?* Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, faded gilt title and decoration to spine & dark blue decoration to face. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to corners and to head and tail of spine. Slightly dusty. VG* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Inscription to ffep ?With many good wishes from the Author 1910. Photo of author tipped in to front paste-down. Coloured patterns to end papers (azure) which show some age. Top edge gilt and fore-edge slightly aged. Clean, crisp and bright with only light reading wear, no marks to text. VG.* Illustrations: Single b/w photo to frontis.* Pages: 478 pp. text. iii pp. booklist & blank pages at rear.* Description: Sir Algernon West was an English civil servant. He acted as Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister William Gladstone. He was much decorated and held a number of prestigious… Read More
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The Second World War, Vol. I The Gathering Storm

by Churchill, Winston S.

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HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* New Edition: 1st. Thus revised and reset.* Date of Publication: Nov. 1949* Publisher: Cassell & Co.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps, slight rubs, some marks and ageing to boards. ACC* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp and tight with only light reading wear. Grey & white patterned end papers, a few light spots of foxing to text, margins and to top and fore edge, slight marks to end papers, hinges not shaken. GD* Illustrations: Several b/w line drawn maps and diagrams throughout some with printed colour highlights showing troop movements eyc.* Pages: 601 pp. text. cxxiii pp. appendices & index at rear.* Description: Part one of Churchill?s Seminal History of The Second World War. Divided into two sections Book I, ?From War to War 1919-1939 & Book II ?The Twilight War Sept 3rd 1939 ?May 19th 1940.? This reprint edition was produced by ?World Books? and… Read More
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A Shepherd's Life
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A Shepherd's Life

by Hudson, W. H.

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SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1979 (1910).* Publisher: Futura Pubs Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Black & white line drawn illustration on a cream ground to soft card covers showing a rabbit in the grass. Black titles to spine and face. No bumps or rubs or reading creases to spine. Minimal shelf wear to edges and corners. VG * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or marks to text. Some marks to prelims, page margins and edges. Considerable age to page edges. GD++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 248 pp. text. viii pp. index & advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- In the 1920''s W.H. Hudson was regarded alongside Joseph Conrad as Thomas Hardy's natural literary heir. His books about the English countryside are first class but of them all, A Shepherd's Life, stands out as a classic.* This is a NEAR VG text copy of the 1st./1st. thus with some age and wear… Read More
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Valor, Guts, and Luck: A B-17 Tailgunner's Survival Story during World War II
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Valor, Guts, and Luck: A B-17 Tailgunner's Survival Story during World War II

by Smallwood, William L

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HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2014* Publisher: Potomac Books.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps, rubs or shelf wear. FINE, AS NEW.* Jacket condition: Mono illustrated dust wrapper sepia-tone portrait photo and b/w photo crashed B17, black and red titles to face, with black and white titles to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of $24.95. No marks or visible faults. Now in clear protective wrapper. FINE, AS NEW.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no age or tanning no visible faults. Seems un-used. FINE, AS NEW.* Illustrations: One block of 10pp. b/w photos, and one diagram at page 94-95.* Pages: 176 pp. text. viii pp., blank pages at rear.* Description: Slat?s Slayton was drawn into the Army by seductive war-time advertising & he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force, eventually finding himself on an ill-fated… Read More
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White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war
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White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war

by Melville, Herman Dugdale, John (Editor)

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SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Reprint: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1992(1990).* Publisher: Oxford University Press World's Classics.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers showing "An American Frigate" by Louis Dodd. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to edges and corners. No reading wear to minimally dished spine. Very slight creases to back cover. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Marked "damaged" by publishers. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or marks to text. Minimal paper colouration throughout. No other visible faults. VG+ * Illustrations: None.* Pages: 404 pp. text. xlii pp. variants, notes, sail diagram, list of nautical terms & advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- In 1843, after three years of voyaging in the South Seas, Melville signed up as an ordinary seaman on the man-of-war "United States", and headed for home. What he observed on that trip formed the basis of White-Jacket , a success both as a… Read More
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