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THE MODERN HISTORY OF SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA
Written by Geoffrey Wheeler.
Stock no. 2139438
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Circa 1964. Very good condition.

Green cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Spotting to covers, bumping to corners. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges.

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AIRCRAFT OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR 1936-39
Written by Gerald Howson.
Stock no. 2139232
Published by Putnam. 1st 1990. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 310 pages. All the multifarious types of aircraft known to have taken part in the war. ISBN: 0851778429. Light page edge browning. Wrapper has some edge-creasing.

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THE GOODMAN OF PARIS
Written by Eileen Power.
Stock no. 2138956
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1992. Slightly better than very good condition.

Translated and with an Introduction and Notes by Eileen Power. Green cloth. Colour pictorial onlay to front. Colour plates. A treatise on moral and domestic economy by a citizen of Paris c1393. Spine is browned. Slip case is very good - a few scuff marks.

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TWELVE CAESARS: IMAGES OF POWER FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD TO THE MODERN
Written by Mary Beard.
Stock no. 2138834
Published by Princeton University Press. 1st 2021. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. ISBN: 9780691222363.

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THE LAST EMPEROR OF MEXICO: A DISASTER IN THE NEW WORLD
Written by Edward Shawcross.
Stock no. 2138832
Published by Faber & Faber Ltd.. 1st thus 2022. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Cream boards with dark orange to title to spine. B/w photos. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 9780571360574. Pale page edge browning.

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THE DEFENCE OF LUCKNOW: T.F. WILSON'S MEMOIR OF THE INDIAN MUTINY, 1857
Written by T.F. Wilson; Saul David.
Stock no. 2138559
Published by Greenhill Books. 2007. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. Introduction by David. ISBN: 9781853677236. Wrapper has been stuck to book on edges with sticky tape.

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THE STORY OF THE ZULU CAMPAIGN
Written by Waller Ashe; E.V. Wyatt-Edgell.
Stock no. 2138556
Published by N. & S. Press. 1989. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Ango-Zulu War Series. Introduction by John Laband. Brown covers with gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0620142502. Page edge browning. Wrapper is faded to spine.

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THE INDIAN MUTINY
Written by Julian Spilsbury.
Stock no. 2138541
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1st 2007. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Published to mark the 150th anniversary of the Indian Mutiny, this is an epic story that recreates the shocking events of the summer of 1857, when thousands of formerly obedient and disciplined Indian soldiers turned on their officers, slaughtering men, women and children in a merciless bloodbath. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. Photogaphic endpapers. Colour plates. 9 b/w maps plus 373 pages including index. ISBN: 9780297846512. Light bumping to spine. Page edge browning. Wrapper is lightly edge-creased.

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CAWNPORE AND LUCKNOW: A TALE OF TWO SIEGES
Written by D.S. Richards.
Stock no. 2138540
Published by Pen & Sword Military. 1st 2007. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 1844155161.

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THE BATTLE
Written by Alessandro Barbero.
Stock no. 2138538
Published by Atlantic Books. 1st thus 2005. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A new history of the Battle of Waterloo, 1815. B/w photos. ISBN: 1843543095. Page edge browning. Wrapper is edge creased and browned to spine.

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FOR QUEEN AND COUNTRY
Written by Rodney Ashwood.
Stock no. 2138406
Published by Serendipity. 1st 2005. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The Zulu war diary of Lieutenant Wilfred Heaton 24th Regiment of Foot 1879. B/w maps. ISBN: 1843941635. SIGNED by author to title page. Wrapper spine is faded.

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THE OREGON TRAIL: SKETCHES OF PRAIRIE AND ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE
Written by Francis Parkman; Martin Ridge. Illustrated by Peter Pendrey.
Stock no. 2138346
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1973. Very good condition.

Introduction by Martin Ridge. Brown cloth spine. Gilt Indian motif to spine. Abstract pattern boards. Spine is faded. Page browning. Slip case is very good - fading to edges; some marks and scuffs.

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