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Focal Press, 1969 Book dedicated to the Asahi Pentax Camera. Part of Camera Way Books series.. 5th or later Edition. Hardcover. Fine.

Oxford University Press, 1995 About the book: Reading other people's letters, like reading private diaries, offers thrilling and unexpected glimpses into the lives of others--their pledges of love and their sharp remonstrances, their thoughts on war and peace and the gossip of the day, their intellectual travels and idle chatter. It is partly this guilty pleasure we take in such literary eavesdropping that makes The Oxford Book of Letters so compelling. More than 300 letters spanning five centuries chronicle the affairs of correspondents from Elizabeth I to Groucho Marx, from politicans to poets, from the famous to the unknown. Editors Frank Kermode and Anita Kermode have chosen a remarkable selection of correspondents both educated and barely literate, with styles that range from polished and witty to stumbling and artless, but who all share a gift for letters that display an immediacy and intimacy not shared by any other form of writing. Here is John Adams to his wife, Abigail, in what we know… Read More

The Folio Society, 1976 With a printed picture of the cover and brown maps of Africa on the end papers, and brown sprayed edges at the top only, this is the 1976 edition of Travels in West Africa. A previous owner of this copy has stamped their name on the front page, as can be seen in the image, but it only adds to the character of this book.. Hardcover. Very Good.

Penguin Classics, 2011 More Penguin Mini classics available as a collection - please look at my page.. Soft cover. As New.

Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1985 About the book: These photographs, and the accompanying text, chronicle much more than the tragedy of a single community in one northern English town; they evoke an entire culture.. Soft cover. Fine.

Vintage, 1990 In this superby written book, Professor Krauss not only sets out in diamond-clear prose arguments for the existence of dark matter, he also explains what methods are being devised by scientists to find it.. Soft cover. Very Good.