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HERBS, SPICES, AND MEDICINAL PLANTS FOR HUMAN GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS: HEALTH BENEFITS AND SAFETY
Written by Megh R. Goyal; Preeti Birwal; Durgesh Nandini Chauhan.
Stock no. 1827786
Published by Apple Academic Press Inc.. 1st 2023. Slightly better than very good condition.

This volume presents valuable information for exploring the health claims of plant-based phytochemicals for the treatment and prevention of gastrointestinal disorders. Pictorial glazed boards. Colour & b/w charts and photos. ISBN: 9781774637142. Board corners lightly bumped. Contents clean.

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EXPLOSIVES, PROPELLANTS AND PYROTECHNICS (BRASSEY'S WORLD MILITARY TECHNOLOGY)
Written by A. Bailey; S.G. Murray.
Stock no. 1827785
Published by Brassey's. 2000. Very good condition.

Written for those who wish to improve their knowledge of military weapons and equipment. This book introduces the reader to the science of technology associated with the three main classes of explosive, detonating high explosives, propellants and pyrotechnics. Glazed pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 1857532554. Reprint. Boards lightly rubbed at corners, lightly scuffed. Small stain to text block which merges onto the margins of a few pages. Else a clean copy.

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HUMAN NATURE AND THE CAUSES OF WAR
Written by John David Orme.
Stock no. 1827784
Published by Palgrave Macmillan. Circa 2018. Nearly fine condition.

This book examines the effects of six types of regime on foreign policy, monarchy, republic and sultanistic, charismatic and military and totalitarian dictatorship.Light brown pictorial boards. ISBN: 9783319771663. Lower corners lightly rubbed. Still in original shrinkwrap which is starting to split on spine.

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NOT FORGETTING THE 9TH: THE WAR DIARY OF SGT. CYRIL GRIMES 1944-1945
Written by Cyril Grimes; Sylvia Fox.
Stock no. 1827783
Published by Timebox Press. 1st 2013. Nearly fine condition.

With the 9th Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment, to India, Burma and Malaya. Cyril Grimes was conscripted into the newly formed 9th Battalion in the Summer of 1940 when he was in his mid 20's. Cyril's first sight of action was in the Arakan in 1944 and for the whole of this and the following year, he made a daily entry in secret diaries. This is the story of Cyril's war and a tale of friendship and discovery. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w maps and photos. Colour map to inside rear cover. ISBN: 9780955021916. A lovely copy.

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THE LIZARD CANARY AND OTHER RARE BREEDS
Written by G.T. Dodwell.
Stock no. 1827782
Published by Saiga Publishing Co. Ltd.. 1st 1982. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Brown cloth boards with gilt title to spine. B/w and a few colour illustrations. Cage and Aviary Series. ISBN: 0862300525. Boards clean. Text block slightly browned. Light browning to contents. A very few pale foxspots to prelims. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine and is scuffed to rear panel.

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SEA-RUNNING!
Written by Maxie Lane.
Stock no. 1827781
Published by Macmillan London Limited. 1st 1978. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Sequel to 'Running!' which told of its author's whirlwind childhood and adolescence. This biography drops him in 1940, at the age of 24, on his first ship and newest adventure. Sea-Running! takes up the story in the same sentence as it left off, and pursues it in the same exhilarating fashion. A string of memorable merchant ships showed Maxie the wartime world, and he shared the twilit world of the boiler-rooms with men who were many times larger than life. Blue cloth boards, yellow title to spine. ISBN: 0333236513. A nice, clean copy. Dustwrapper is lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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THE CIVILISATION OF THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY
Written by Jacob Burckhardt; Anthony Grafton.
Stock no. 1827778
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2004. Very good condition.

An Essay. Introduced by Anthony Grafton. Very attractive green and gold pictorial cloth. Colour illustrations. xxviii + 451 pages. Spine faded from being in the sun (not noticeable until the book is removed from slipcase). Contents clean. Contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed (VG).

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THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH (2 VOLUMES)
Written by William L. Shirer.
Stock no. 1827777
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1995. Slightly better than very good condition.

A History of Nazi Germany. Red cloth boards with white title panel to spines and swastika to front. B/w photos. A few minor foxspots to text block of volume I. Else a lovely set contained in publisher's slipcases which is lightly scuffed at ends (VG).

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THE FAIRY TALES OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM
Written by Brothers Grimm. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1827776
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 1996. Slightly better than very good condition.

A reproduction of the 1909 edition. Blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Colour plates. Top edge blue. A beautiful book. Spine lightly faded. Otherwise a lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which has some lightly shelf-scuffing (VG+).

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HIDDEN HANDS: THE LIVES OF MANUSCRIPTS AND THEIR MAKERS
Written by Mary Wellesley.
Stock no. 1827775
Published by Riverrun. Circa 2021. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Manuscripts are not only the stuff of history and literature, but they offer some of the only tangible evidence we have of entire lives, long receded. Without manuscripts, many historical figures would be lost to us, as well as those of lower social status, women and people of colour, their stories erased and the remnants of their labours destroyed. Grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 9781529400939. 3rd printing. A very nice copy.

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THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE MANUSCRIPTS CLUB
Written by Christopher De Hamel.
Stock no. 1827774
Published by Allen Lane. 1st 2022. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This entrancing book describes some of the extraordinary people who have spent their lives among illuminated manuscripts over the last thousand years. Cream paper boards, black title to spine. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 9780241304372. Tiny nick to base of spine. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly creased at top & tail of spine. A lovely copy.

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FRANKENSTEIN OR THE MODERN PROMETHEUS
Written by Mary Shelley; Miranda Seymour. Illustrated by Harry Brockway.
Stock no. 1827772
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2004. Nearly fine condition.

Introduction by Miranda Seymour. Dramatic grey, black and silver decorative cloth. B/w illustrations. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which has some light shelf scuffing (NR F).

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