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Cathedral Church of Norwich.: Thirteen-Hundredth Anniversary of the Diocese of East Anglia. Official Handbook.

CRANAGE, D.H.S. (DEAN OF NORWICH).(EDITOR). · 1930 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Norwich: Jarrold & Sons, Limited, 1930. Includes: A History of the Diocese; The Connection of Norwich with Contiguous Dioceses; List of Bishops; History of the Cathedral Church; Carved Bosses in the Cathedral Church and Cloisters; The Effigy of Bishop Goldwell; The Birkbeck Cope…

The Castle of Knaresburgh and The White Mare of Whitestonecliff.

ABBAY, RICHARD. · 1887 · Chilton Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,600)

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1887. 1st edition. The Castle of Knaresburgh: A Tale in Verse of the Civil War in Yorkshire, 1644 and The White Mare of Whitestonecliff: A Yorkshire Legend of the Fifteenth Century. Pp.xiv/337/48(publisher's catalogues), folding map (Prince Ruper…

Fred's Five Minute Talks. Your Masonic Questions Answered.

LOMAX, FRED. · 2013 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

Hersham: Lewis Masonic, 2013. 9780853184379. 1st edition. "Here is a ready source of inspiration and reference, and a handy means of instituting a regular programme of varied snippets into the ordinary course of Lodge activity. " Pp.128, occasional colour and black & white illus…

Verdi and / or Wagner. Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries.

CONRAD, PETER. · 2013 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,796)

London: Thames & Hudson, 2013. 9780500290859. 1st paperback edition. "A scintillating absorbing read..page after page of elegantly calculated, richly allusive prose comparing, contrasting and deconstructing the lives and works of his two operatic giants" (Opera). 23.5cms x 17cms…

The Elgins 1766-1917. A Tale of Aristocrats, Proconsuls and Their Wives.

CHECKLAND, SYDNEY. · 1988 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1988. 0080363954. 1st edition. "Based on the Elgin archives, which the present Earl of Elgin placed at the disposal of the author, whose extensive research took him as far afield as Canada and Japan." 25.5cms x 19cms. Pp.xiv/303, signed by 11…

Familiar To All. William Lilly and Astrology in the Seventeenth Century.

PARKER, DEREK. · 1975 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. 022401112X. 1st edition. "A colourful picture of the social life of the time and of astrology's last great stand as a science. In an age ripe with catastrophic forebodings, Lilly watched at close quarters the majority of Londoners flee from epidemics…

The Factor Families of Bermuda.

NORTH BOURNE OF TUCKER. (COMPILER). · 2018 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,545)

Beamreach Printing, 2018. 9781526207609. Signed limited edition. A handful of families, all of whom traced their ancestries far back into English gentry and who were not insignificant landholders, came and setted in Bermuda. "They leave many descendants on the island today. The …

Dartmoor Prisoner of War Depot and Convict Jail. (signed).

JAMES, TREVOR. · 2002 · Chilton Books

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Chudleigh: Orchard Publications, 2002. 1898964505. 1st edition. "This is a fascinating story of Dartmoor Prison from its origins to the present. The author explains the foundation of Princetown as a village, the creation of the POW camp within double horseshoe walls, the life of…

Book Of Common Prayer And Administration Of The Sacraments, And Other Rites And ceremonies Of The Church... Stereotype Edition .

PRAYER BOOK - LADY PEEL. · 1830 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,436)

London : Printed By George Eyre And Andrew Strahan..1830 . 0. A very good full leather binding. Dedication: "Lady Peel Drayton Manor 1835" . 12mo. 5.5" x 3.02 X 1.0". pp.22/pp.510/pp.82 . Original crimson straight-grained morocco. Edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Spine with gilt…

The Poetical Works of James Chambers, Itinerant Poet, with the Life of the Author.

CHAMBERS, JAMES 1748-1827 . · 1820 · Chilton Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,872)

Ipswich (Eng.) : Printed for and sold by the editor, J. Roe, sold also by Cowell, Butter-Market, and all other booksellers, 1820 . 0. A very good early half calf binding. 12mo. 7.0" x 4.5" x 0.5". pp.21/[3pp]/pp.7-166 . Balck corners and spine over soiled marbled boards. Corners…

Atala, René, Le Dernier Des Abencérrages Par Le Vicomte De Chateaubriand.

FLORENCE BAIRD BOOKPLATE BY WILLIAM PHILLIPS BARRETT / CHATEAUBRIAND, FRANçOIS-RENé VICOMTE DE [1768-1848] . · 1842 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.42 | ¥10,123)

A Bruxelles: Et Dans Les Principales Villes De L'Estranger, Chez Tous Les Libraires, 1842. 0. Engraved bookplate of Florence Baird, signed and dated "Inv. W.P.B. 1900" [William Phillips Barrett] featuring a furnished study with imps taking books from a small bookcase and cherubs…

The Student. By E. L. Bulwer. - In One Volume.

BULWER, E. L. ( BARON EDWARD GEORGE LYTTON [OR, BULWER LYTTON] 1803-1873 ) . · 1835 · Chilton Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,308)

Paris: Published By A. And W. Galignani And Co, Rue Vivenne, No. 18, 1835 . 0. A very good half vellum binding. 8vo. 7.0" x 4.5" x 1.0" . [2pp.]/pp.ix. - xi./[5pp.]/pp.343 . Vellum spine and corners over marbled boards. Edges rubbed and bumped. light soiling to the vellum. Spine…

Jeremy Taylor By W. J. Brown, B.D. late Scholar, Exhibitioner and Priestman, University of London, King's College, Director of Religious Education in the Diocese of Wakefield, Canon of Wakefield Cathedral.

`BROWN, W. J. - [ SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR + LETTER ]. · 1925 · Chilton Books

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London: Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge,1925. 0. Signed 1st Edition. Plus later dedicaton from the author and a letter complaing about the scarcity of his book in 1954! A sketch of Taylor's life and times, together with an account of some of his more important theologi…

White Ladies.

BRETT YOUNG, FRANCIS. · 1935 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1935. 1st edition. English novel about three generations of a midlands industrial family and their country house, the White Ladies. Pp.693, signed by Francis Brett Young to title page, owner's details to inside front board, occasional light spottin…

Going to the Wars. (signed).

HASTINGS, MAX. · 2000 · Chilton Books

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London: Macmillan, 2000. 0333771044. Reprint. "Max Hastings grew up with romantic dreams of a life amongst warriors. But after an embarrassing false start as a parachute soldier in 1963, he became a journalist and a war correspondent instead. Before he was thirty he had reported…

Two Hundred Years of Masonic Jurisdiction in Suffolk. 1771-1971. Some notes compiled by W.Bro.S.F.Watson, P.G.St.B., P.P.G.W., P.M., British Union Ldge, No.114.

WATSON, W.BRO. S. F. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

Ipswich: Privately printed by S. F. Watson, 1971. 0. A very good copy with a letter signed by the author. Hardback. Pp.16.Navy blue boards with gilt titles to spine: "Masonic Suffolk". leter tipped-in to front endpaper. Original blue card covers with printed title also bound -in…

Heroic Endeavour. One Attack, a Victoria Cross, and 206 Brave Men. (Signed).

FEAST, SEAN. · 2006 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Grubb Street, 2006. 1904943519. 1st edition. "It is 23rd December 1944 and a heroic yet dreadful action is about to take place over Cologne, involving the bravest of the brave - The Pathfinder Force..Journalist Sean Feast has written Heroic Endeavour in two parts, the fi…

City of Human Memories.

MOUBRAY, GUY DE. · 2005 · Chilton Books

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Stanhope: The Memoir Club, 2005. 1841041289. 1st edition. "Guy de Moubray has had a most unusual and varied life..His time at Oxford resulted in long-standing friendships with such eminent names as Sandy Wilson, Kenneth Tynan and Anthony Crosland. The core working years of his l…

My Name is Legion. (Signed).

WILSON, A.N. · 2004 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

London: Hutchinson, 2004. 0091795354. 1st edition. "A savge satire on the morality of contemporary Britain - its Press, its politics, its Church, its rich, its underclass. His London is a bleak, if occasionally hilarious, place: murderous, randy, money-obsessed and haunted by st…

The Questing Mind

MICKLE, ALAN D. · 1925 · Chilton Books

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London: Andrew Melrose Ltd, (nd. C.1925). Essays, the majority written in the writer's homeland - Australia. Pp.160, inscribed to front free endpaper ("To Ernest H. Gough Esq from Alan D Mickle and Mrs Mickle as a very slight token of appreciation of many kindnesses. 24.11.30"),…