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London, U.K. : Fontana/Collins, 1987 Some age and shelf wear - cover edges rubbed and corners bumped. Clean text pages, no internal markings. b/w illustrations. With Index. 100 restaurants reviewed plus 100 wine-bars, cafes and food-shops

London, United Kingdom: Heinemann, 1986 [First published 1986]. This edition is now out of print. 218pp. Slight age and shelf wear. Original dustjacket not price clipped - jacket has slight browning around top edge. Jacket design: Claudia Zeff; illustration by Michael Munday. The top edge has some brown spotting. Clean text pages no internal markings. In this novel the sense of alienation and uncertainty which lies beneath and beyond politics and the struggle for power is compellingly evoked. By exploring the themes of love, loyalty and betrayal, and of tradition versus modernity, Christopher Hope creates a world where illusion and game-playing are not merely a refuge, but the means for self-preservation.

London, United Kingdom: Charles Letts & Co Ltd, 1981 Revised edition. 96 pages, b/w photos and maps. Some shelf and age wear - edges rubbed and bumped. Pictorial cover - front cover picture of a windmill; on back cover map of Holland. "This little book sets out to do three main things. It tries to tell you enough about what you can see and do in Holland and about the people you will meet there to enable you to decide where you want to go and what you want to do. It gives you an outline of how to travel to and in Holland, so that you can decide your own routes. And it indicates costs sufficiently to allow you to budget your visit accurately enough." The towns and cities of Holland are listed alphabetically.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Running Press , 1993 With an index. Slight age and shelf wear. Original dustjacket not price clipped. Dustjacket rubbed along edges. Tight copy no internal markings, clean text pages. "The practice of medicine touches everyone's life. In this funny, cynical, and poignant collection of quotes, physicians, writers, psychologists, comedians, celebrities, and philosophers share their views on birth, death, and everything in between.

London, United Kingdom: Kyle Cathie Limited, 1997 128pp including index, addresses & glossary. Colour and black & white illustrations. Clean text with no internal markings. Dr Godagama is one of the world's leading Ayurvedic practitioners and is a consultant at the prestigious Hale Clinic in London. He is also the Founding President of the Ayurvedic Medical Association, UK. The Handbook is a highly practical and accessible introduction to Ayurveda.

London, United Kingdom: The Rough Guides, 1998 434 pages with colour maps. Written and researched by Jonathan Buckley with contributions by Rachel Kaberry and Hilary Robinson. Some shelf and age wear especially to cover edges - some slight creases to cover. Text clean no internal markings. At the time of publication this was advertised as the definitive handbook to Europe's most beautiful city. It includes lively accounts of all the museums and monuments, plus the lowdown on the Biennale, Carnevale and other events; critical reviews of restaurants and accommodation in every price range, plus the pick of the bars and shops. Full colour maps plus plans of the major churches and the waterbus system.

Harrow, Middlesex, United Kingdom: Michelin Tyre Public Limited Company, 1985 3rd Edition. 139 pages with b/w illustrations. Age and shelf wear. Creasing to spine, edges worn - rubbed and corners bumped. Front cover - bottom right side creased and large crease to upper right side. First 11 page spreads have been folded at the upper right side. Text pages clean with no internal markings.

London, United Kingdom: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2004 Original dustjacket not price clipped. Tight copy, clean text pages, no internal markings. Dustjacket edges slightly rubbed, small scratch on the back of the d/j (approx 1 inch). Was first published in the UK in 2002 by SixForty Press as 'The Bones in the Womb'. It was shortlisted for the Encore Award in 2003. This is an intense story of a fifteen year old girl whose abductor decides after twelve years to return her to her parents. It is a riveting meditation on the themes of loss and reunion, parents and children, and nature versus nurture.

London, United Kingdom: Hodder & Stoughton, 2006 Minimal shelf and age wear. Original dustjacket not price clipped. No internal markings, clean text pages. Colour and black & white photographs; black & white illustrations by Danny McBride. David writes on the flap "This book is my opportunity to print something from my heart, to tell the truth about what happened to me on the long and winding road from Baltimore to Baywatch to Broadway - and beyond. And the truth is not to be found in tabloid stories but in my actions: I am a good father and have tried to be a good husband. I love people and the emotional rollercoaster that goes with human relationships. I love all the bewildering, crazy, and wonderful things that life has to offer. This book is about my successes and my failures. And, above all, it is about the hope contained in the Knight Rider slogan: "One man can make a difference"." David Hasselhoff (The Hoff) has been descirbed as a 'living legend', this… Read More

London, U.K. : Dorling Kindersley, 2002 Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy, no internal markings, clean text pages. Colour illustrations. "Your Guide to the 10 Best of Everything. ... Whether you are travelling first class or on a limited budget, this Eyewitness Top 10 guide will lead you straight to the very best Tuscany has to offer. Dozens of Top 10 lists - from the Top 10 Etruscan sights to the Top 10 hill towns, villas, vineyards and beach resorts - provide the insider knowledge every visitor needs. ... find your way effortlessly with the help of detailed maps and hundreds of photographs.

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1997 Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: 'Adultery a-la-Mode': Privilege, the Law and Attitudes to Adultery 1770-1809 by Donna T. Andrew; Narratives of Women: English Feminists of the 1790s by William Stafford; 'An idyllic and unruffled atmosphere of complete Anglo-German misunderstanding': aspects of the Operations of the Dienststelle Ribbentrop in Great Britain, 1934-1938 by G.T. Waddington; 'I Love the Scent of Cordite in Your Hair': Gender Dynamics in Mixed Anti-Aircraft Batteries during the Second World War by Gerard J. De Groot; Reviews and Short Notices: General; Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern.

London, United Kingdom: John Lane, 1899 Second Edition. 305pp. Green boards with gilt decoration. Dustjacket was not issued with this edition. B/w illustration of author protected by tissue paper. Name of previous owner on first front endpaper in ink. Pages rough cut and are beginning to spot on every page. Otherwise no other markings on text pages. Boards have some minor age and shelf wear - spine top and tail bumped with minor tearing. 147 poems in this collection - for example: Wordsworth's Grave; Shelley's Centenary; England and Her Colonies; The Raven's Shadow; To a Seabird; To Lord Tennyson; Bryon the Voluptuary; The Sovereign Poet; The Ruin Abbey; The Riddle of the Thames; Peace and War; The Tomb of Burns; Estrangement; The Lost Eden; The Captive's Dream; To Thomas Bailey Aldrich; etc.

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1998 Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: Joint Action against 'Bad' Lordship: The Peasants' Revolt in Essex and Norfolk by Herbert Eiden; Cement or Solvent? Kinship and Politics in Late Medieval England: The Case of the Nevilles by Michael Hicks; Party Politics, Political Economy and British Protectionism, 1919-1932 by W.R. Garside; The British Popular Press and the Early Cold War by Tony Shaw; Reviews and Short Notices: General; Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern.

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1997 (page numbers 545-750). Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: Locality Metropolis and Nation: The Impact of the Military Camps in England during the American War by Stephen Conway; Women's Place in the American Labour Force, 1870-1995 by Margaret Walsh; 'All you soldiers are what we call pro-Boer': The Military Critique of the South African War, 1899-1902 by Keith Surridge; Thatcher and the Victorians: A Suitable Case for Comparison? by Stephen Evan. Reviews and Short Notices: The Americas; Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern. Index to Volume 82.

London, United Kingdom: Hutchinson, 1989 125 pages. Cover design by Salim Patell incorporating a painting by Michael Leonard on front cover; back cover author's photograph by Julian Ewart. Some shelf and age wear especially to edges of cover which are slightly bumped; spine creased; some small black smudges on back cover at top and bottom. No internal markings, clean text pages.

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1996 (page numbers 507-737). Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: Why Was Sir Francis Bacon Impeached? The Common Lawyers and the Chancery Revisited: 1621 by Damian X. Powell; Political Dinners in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain: Platform, Meeting Place and Battleground by Peter Brett; Roads to Democracy: Electioneering and Corruption in Nineteenth-Century England and Ireland by K. Theodore Hoppen; Reviews and Short Notices: The Americas; Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern; Index

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1998 (page numbers 391-581). Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: 'To solemnize His Majesty's Birthday': New Perspectives on Loyalism in George II's Britain by Bob Harris and Christopher A. Whatley; Englightenment and Freedom of the Press: The Debate in the Berlin Mittwochsgesellschaft, 1783-1784 by Eckhart Hellmuth; The Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Fiction, British Conservatism and the Revolution in France by M.O. Grenby; 'A new language in Politicks': George Canning and the Idea of Opportunities, 1801-1807 by Stephen M. Lee; Reviews and Short Notices: Africa, Asia and Australasia; Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern.

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1999 (page numbers 215-398). Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: The Colonial History of the Norman Conquest by Francis James West; The Treaty of Edinburgh and the Disinherited (1328-1332) by Sonja Cameron and Alasdair Ross; Fenianism in North America in the 1860s: The Problems for Church and State by Oliver Rafferty; The Importance of Being Serious: The Unexplored Connection between Gladstone and Humour by Joseph S. Meisel; The Rise, Fall and Rise of Political Consensus in Britain since 1940 by Brian Harrison; Reviews and Short Notices: Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern.

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1997 (page numbers 393-543). Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: H.H. Asquith and Britain's Manpower Problem, 1914-1915 by John Gordon Little; Revising Orwell's Wigan Pier by Robert Pearce; 'A Goddamned Electable Person': The 1966 California Gubernatorial Campaign of Ronald Reagan by Gerard J. De Groot; Reviews and Short Notices: Africa, Asia and Australasia; Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern.

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1999 (page numbers 399-568). Slight age and shelf wear. Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Editorial; Articles: Popular Astrology and Lutheran Propaganda in Reformation Germany by C. Scott Dixon; Manhood, the Male Body, Courtship and the Household in Early Modern England by Anthony Fletcher; The British Secret Service and the Escape of Sir Sidney Smith from Paris in 1798 by Michael Durey; Controlling the Riots: Dickens, Barnaby Ridge and Romantic Revolution by Iain McCalman; Reviews and Short Notices: Africa, Asia and Australasia; Medieval; Early Modern; Late Modern.