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The Book of the Sword with a new Foreword by J.G. Cluff.
by Burton, Richard F.
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- New Edition
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- 1972
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- Hardcover
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- 9780854099030
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire, GBR
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NZ$60.27
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East Ardsley Wakefield: EP Publishing, 1972. Book. Fine. Hardcover. New Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy in d/w. An excellent professional facsimile reprint, with a new Foreword, of this the classic work on the sword by the great Victorian polymath Sir Richard Francis Burton. With a new Foreword by J.G. Cluff. 299pp. NOT to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Rural Hours The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner & Rosamond Lehmann
by Baker, Harriet (SIGNED)
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- Used - Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 2024
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- Hardcover
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- 9780241540510
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire, GBR
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NZ$40.18
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London: Allen Lane, 2024. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine copy nicely flat signed by the autor. Following long periods of creative uncertainty and private disappointment, each of Baker's subjects is invigorated by new landscapes, and the daily trials and small pleasures of making a home; slowly, they embark… Read more about this item Item Price
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How the World Made the West: a 4,000 year history
by Quinn, Josephine
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- New
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- New
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- 1st Edition
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- 2024
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- Hardcover
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- 9781526605184
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire, GBR
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NZ$50.23
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London: Bloomsbury, 2024. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Moving from the Bronze Age to the Age of Exploration, the author provides a new narrative: one that traces the millennia of global encounters and exchange that built what is now called the West, as societies met, tangled and sometimes grew apart. Quinn argues that… Read more about this item Item Price
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Naval Wives & Mistresses
by Lincoln, Margarette
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- 1st Edition
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- 2011
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- Paperback
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- 9780752460918
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire, GBR
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NZ$10.05
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The History Press & National Maritime Museum, 2011. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. An innovative study of this subject of the companions of sailors. 192pp.. Item Price
NZ$10.05
Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen
by Muir, Rory
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- New
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- 1st Edition
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- 2024
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- Hardcover
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- 9780300269604
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire, GBR
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NZ$44.20
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New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2024. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine, new copy. Marriage is at the centre of Jane Austen's novels, Muir illuminates the position of both men and women in marriage, as well as those spinsters and bachelors who chose not to marry at all. Col illus.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Last Yakuza: a life in the Japanese Underworld
by Adelstein, Jake
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- Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 2024
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- Hardcover
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- 9781472158314
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire, GBR
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NZ$20.09
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London: Corsair, 2024. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine, new copy of this account of the Japanese mafia. From the author of Tokyo Vice. 392pp.. Item Price
NZ$20.09
Unbuilt Strawberry Hill
by Lindfield, Peter N.
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- Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 2022
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- Hardcover
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- 9781915774040
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire, GBR
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NZ$70.32
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Donington: Shaun Tyas , 2022. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. Horace Walpole (1717-97), the artistic son of Robert Walpole, the United Kingdom's first prime minister, began creating Strawberry Hill in Twickenham at the end of the 1740s. The house is now seen as the most significant, if not the… Read more about this item Item Price
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In the Shadow of St Paul's Cathedral, The Churchyard that Shaped London
by Willes, Margaret
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- New
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- 1st Edition
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- 2022
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- Hardcover
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- 9780300249835
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire, GBR
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NZ$40.18
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London: Yale University Press, 2022. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard-the area of London that was a heart of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium St. Paul's Cathedral stands at the heart of London, an enduring symbol of the city.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
by Cockett, Richard
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- New
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- 1st Edition
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- 2023
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- Hardcover
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- 9780300266535
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire, GBR
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NZ$42.30
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London: Yale University Press, 2023. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. This is the panoramic account of how one city made the modern world-and how we all remain arguably inescapably Viennese.455pp.. Item Price
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Peace, War and Adventure an Autobiographical Memoir, Volume 1 ONLY
by Chesterton, George, Lavel
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1st Edition
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- 1853
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- Hardcover
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire, GBR
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NZ$120.54
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London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1853. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. An attractive copy of Volume 1, bound in full tan leather with gilt decorated spine with maroon leather title label. Marbled endpapers and marbled edges to paper. Internally bright and clean. 282pp. Neat inscription to fep, "William G H Keppell… Read more about this item Item Price
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Monuments and Monumentality Across Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Proceedings of the 2011 Stirling Conference
by Penman, Michael (ed.)
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 2013
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- Hardcover
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- 9781907730283
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire, GBR
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Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2013. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. 298pp + colour plates.. Item Price
NZ$70.32
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Gold Coins of Anglo-Saxon England. A Catalogue for Collectors and Detectorists
by Abramson, Tony
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- Used - Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 2022
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- Hardcover
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- 9781915774002
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire, GBR
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NZ$63.44
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Donington: Shaun Tyas , 2022. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A fine, new copy of this new work on Anglo-Saxon gold coinage. Includes details of the few known forgeries in gold, or warnings if a unique coin is now considered 'doubtful' for various evidential reasons. This useful fully illustrated work comes with a… Read more about this item Item Price
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Showmen, the Voice of the Travelling Fair People
by Festing, Sally
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- Used - Fine
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- New Edition
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- 2013
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- Paperback
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- 9781907730184
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire, GBR
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NZ$31.72
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Lincolnshire: Shaun Tyas, 2013. Book. Fine. Paperback. New Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine, new copy. 192pp +section of 60 colour photographs. Fairgrounds and the travelling showmen who run them are the subjects of this book. it is composed of interviews with the show people, exploring their philosophy and way of life, their troubles and joys,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Thoresby Society Vol L. Miscellany Volume 14, Part 1
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1965
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- Paperback
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire, GBR
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NZ$10.05
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Leeds: The Thoresby Society, 1965. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine copy. Contents include; Part 1: Leeds Quaker meetings, A note on Leeds Wills, Stourton Lodge 1776 - April 1965.. Item Price
NZ$10.05
Working-Class Housing: Improvement and Technology, Rewley House Studies in the Historic Environment, 9
by P. S. Barnwell and Marilyn Palmer (editors),
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 2019
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- Hardcover
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- 9781907730764
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire, GBR
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NZ$84.59
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Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2019. Book. Fine. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy. This book contains 11 essays exploring ways in which design and technology brought about improvements in housing for the working classes between the advent of the industrial revolution and the end of the Second World War. It covers both back-to-back… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Place-Names of Clackmannanshire
by Taylor, Simon Clancy, Thomas Owen, McNiven, Peter and Williamson, Eila (editors
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 2020
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- Hardcover
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- 9781907730863
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire, GBR
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NZ$74.02
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Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2020. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This is the eighth volume in the acclaimed Place-Names of Scotland series and covers the whole of this small county in one volume. It comprises the parishes of Alloa, Alva, Clackmannan, Dollar and Tillicoultry. Nevertheless, there are 660 place-names covered in the volume. There… Read more about this item Item Price
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Banquetting Stuffe; The Fayre and Social Background to the Tudor and Stuart Banquet
by Wilson, Anne C. (ed.)
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- Used - Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1991
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- Paperback
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- 9780748601035
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire, GBR
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NZ$8.46
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Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991. Book. Illus. by Brears, Peter. Fine. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A fine new copy of this collection of papers from the First Leeds Symposium on Food History and Traditions. 160pp.. Item Price
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Suburban Style: the British Home, 1940-1960
by Barrett, Helena & Phillips, John
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1987
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- Hardcover
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- 9780356140544
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire, GBR
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NZ$16.07
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London: Macdonald Orbis, 1987. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Useful and informative volume for those looking to decorate or renovate their homes in period style. From High Victorian, through Arts & Crafts to post 2nd World War, it shines a light on how we lived then. Col & b&w illus. A fine, unmarked… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Black Death in England, 1348-1500
by Ormrod, Mark and Lindley, Phillip (eds)
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- Used - Fine
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- Second Edition
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- 1996
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- Paperback
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- 9781871615562
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire, GBR
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NZ$25.27
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Donington: Shaun Tyas, 1996. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This fine, new copy includes four major essays plus introduction and index into the Black Death, 202pp + 12 plates. Item Price
NZ$25.27
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The Court Rolls of the Honor of Clitheroe in the County of Lancaster Vol. I
by Farrar, William
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1st Edition
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- 1897
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- Hardcover
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire, GBR
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NZ$50.23
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Burnley: Emmott & Co, 1897. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. A very good copy of this transcription of the Court Rolls by William Farrar. Bound in original green cloth as issued, 561pp. From the library of decorative bookplate of local historian George Redmonds with his decorative bookplate to fep.. Item Price
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