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LLOYD GEORGE
Written by Martin Pugh.
Stock no. 1330841
Published by Longman Group UK Ltd.. 1st 1988. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Profiles in Power series. Black cloth covers with gilt title to spine. 206 pages, including index. ISBN: 0582023874. Heavy foxing, mainly at page edges. Some browning to endpapers. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper is slightly edge worn.

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FERMAT'S LAST THEOREM
Written by Simon Singh.
Stock no. 1330840
Published by Fourth Estate. 1st 1997. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Story of a Riddle that Confounded the World's Greatest Minds for 358 Years. Small format. Grey boards, gilt title to spine. Orange endpapers, b/w illustrations. xxii and 362 pages. ISBN: 1857025210. Slight shelf wear to spine and corners. Small grubby mark to top edge of textblock. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed and sunned to spine.

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THE CEREMONIAL CITY
Written by Iain Fenlon.
Stock no. 1330839
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 2007. Slightly better than very good condition.

History, memory and myth in Renaissance Venice. Green boards, gilt title to spine. 448 pages, including index. Colour and b/w photos throughout. ISBN: 9780300119374. Top of spine is bumped. Contents are fine. Dustwrapper is sunned to spine, also affecting edges of front panel.

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EVERYWHERE FOR WALES
Written by Phil Bennett; Martyn Williams.
Stock no. 1330838
Published by Stanley Paul. 1st 1981. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, silver title to spine. 175 pages. B/w photos. The autobiography of a truly great Welsh Rugby player. ISBN: 0091463106. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Small white mark to top edge of front cover. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed and lightly sunned to spine.

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STANDING OFF
Written by Gareth Davies.
Stock no. 1330837
Published by MacDonald; Queen Anne Press. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red boards, gilt title to spine. 176 pages. B/w photos. Autobiography of a gifted Welsh Rugby player. ISBN: 0356121577. Very slight shelf wear to spine and corners. Some light marks to textblock. Dustwrapper is slightly edge rubbed and lightly sunned to spine.

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THE LAUREL AND THE IVY
Written by Robert Kee.
Stock no. 1330836
Published by Hamish Hamilton. 1st 1993. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The story of Charles Stewart Parnell and Irish Nationalism. Black boards, silver title to spine. Green endpapers. 659 pages (including index). A few b/w photos. ISBN: 0241128587. Slight bumping to spine. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Light foxing and fingermarks to textblock, top edge of textblock slightly grubby. Dustwrapper is slightly edge creased.

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THE PASSING OF THE WHIGS 1832-1886
Written by Donald Southgate.
Stock no. 1330835
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1965. Very good condition.

Portraying Whiggery in its last generations. Papermac 114. Cardwraps. 488 pages (including index). Some b/w photos and pull-out tables. Cardwraps are a little marked at edges and browned to spine. Foxing to textblock, also affecting some page margins.

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THE YOUNG LLOYD GEORGE
Written by John Grigg.
Stock no. 1330834
Published by Eyre Methuen. 1st 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Covering Lloyd George's life from his birth in 1863 to the end of the Boer War in 1902. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine. 320 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 0413256901. Minimal shelf wear to spine and corners. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock and top edge a bit dusty. Dustwrapper is just a little rubbed at edges.

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THE BIOGRAPHER'S TALE
Written by A.S. Byatt.
Stock no. 1330833
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1st 2000. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Fed up with studying criticism, Phineas G. decides to study the messiness of 'real life'. Red boards, gilt title to spine. Dark blue endpapers. 265 pages. ISBN: 0701169451. Spine bumped. Dustwrapper spine sunned a little. Book leans to one side a little.

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TUNES OF GLORY: THE LIFE OF MALCOLM SARGENT
Written by Richard Aldous.
Stock no. 1330832
Published by Pimlico. 1st PB 2002. Very good condition.

The defining work on an extraordinary life drawn from the author's exclusive and unlimited access to Sargent's private letters, photographs and diaries. Cardwraps. 302 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 0712665404. Some page corner tips creased. Light page browning throughout. Scuffing to rear cover.

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FOOD AND WINE ADVENTURES
Written by Jancis Robinson. Illustrated by John Lawrence.
Stock no. 1830971
Published by Headline Book Publishing PLC. 1st 1987. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The author is one of the world's best-loved authorities on wine. A Master of Wine, a respected wine judge and lecturer. A book to bring joie de vivre to gourmets and wine lovers, promoting the pure pleasure of honest experience and delightful experiment. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w wood engravings. 96 pages including index. ISBN: 0747200300. Boards clean. A few scattered foxspots, mainly to endpapers and text block. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lighltly sunned to spine, foxing to verso (not visible to front).

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THE DIARY OF A NOBODY
Written by George Grossmith; Weedon Grossmith. Illustrated by John Lawrence.
Stock no. 1830970
Published by Folio Society. 1996. Very good condition.

A fictitious diary detailing fifteen months in the life of Mr Charles Pooter, a middle-aged city clerk of lower middle-class status but significant social aspirations, living in the fictional “Brickfield Terrace” in London. Bright yellow pictorial cloth. B/w illustrations. 165 pages. Eleventh printing. Spine browned and foxed. Light mottling to boards. Contents clean. Contained in publisher's slipcase which has a few minor marks.

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