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BARE RUINED CHOIRS: THE DISSOLUTION OF THE ENGLISH MONASTERIES
Written by David Knowles.
Stock no. 1831254
Published by Purnell Book Services Limited. 1st thus 1976. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The book examines the changing economic and religious climate as a prelude to the sombre story of the Suppression. The fate of the monastic buildings and lands and of the religious themselves is described in full, and numerous engravings and photographs illuminate this account of the transition from splendour to desolation. An abridged edition of The Religious Orders in England, III: The Tudor Age first published in 1959. Book Club Edition. Light brown cloth boards, gilt title in burgundy title block to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. 329 pages including index. Text block lightly browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some minor foxing present and a musty odour. Pictorial dustwrapper is sunned to spine and lightly browned to rear panel.

GEORGE STEPHENSON A BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY OF THE FATHER OF RAILWAYS
Written by Hunter Davies.
Stock no. 1330888
Published by Purnell Book Services Limited. 1975. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Book club edition. Green boards, gilt title to spine. 337 pages. B/w photos. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Name and date in ink to verso of front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock and first few and last few pages. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed and creased.

PEPYS: A BIOGRAPHY
Written by Richard Ollard.
Stock no. 1330762
Published by Purnell Book Services Limited. Circa 1974. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Book Club Edition. Red cloth spine with gilt title, darker red boards. Endpapers are maps showing the principal battles of the second and third Dutch wars. 368 pages. B/w plates. Spine bumped. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Textblock is foxed and grubby to top edge. Dustwrapper is worn and torn and is badly sunned to spine and edge of rear panel.

WORLD WAR II FIGHTER CONFLICT
Written by Alfred Price.
Stock no. 2133813
Published by Purnell Book Services Limited. 1975. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Book Club Edition. Blue boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. Browning to cover edges. Mark to spine. Page browning. Wrapper is edge-creased with uneven browning.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Written by P.A. Rickson; A. Holliday.
Stock no. 2122630
Published by Purnell Book Services Limited; Book Club. 1974. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A new look at three great air operations of the Second World War. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 0718301439. Light bumping along cover edges. Page edge browning. Wrapper is edge-creased with some chipping.