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H.F. Macmillan
£25.00

Tropical Planting and Gardening, With special Reference to Ceylon

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A highly detailed guide to gardening and cultivation in tropical regions, and the uses of plants.

Walter P. Wright
£35.00

Alpine Flowers and Rock Gardens

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A practical guide to gardening with Alpine plants, magnificently Illustrated throughout with brightly tinted plates.

Walter H. Godfrey
£30.00

Gardens in the Making

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A practical guide to designing and planting a garden, based on numerous illustrated examples.

A.T. Johnson
£20.00

A Garden in Wales

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A charming and detailed description of the authors experiences caring for a large garden in the Welsh climate.

S. Polak
£35.00

The Theory and Practice of Perspective Drawing

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"A complete course of instruction to meet the requirements of the syllabus of the Board of Education and of similar examinations."

Roger Manvell, Executive Editor
£30.00

The Penguin Film Review 1946-1949 (Two Volumes)

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A collection of the original nine volumes with an introduction and index by Roger Manvell.

Audrey Scott
£15.00

I Was a Hollywood Stunt Girl

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The fascinating autobiography of Audrey Scott, whose career as a daring and skilful stunt performer ran from the silent-screen era until the late 1950's.

Audrey Kearns, Editor
£18.00

Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia, 1948

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A fascinating and exhaustively detailed record of Hollywood in the mid '40's.

Graham Greene, Edited by John Russell Taylor
£20.00

The Pleasure Dome: The Collected Film Criticism 1935-40

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A collection of the extensive film criticism published by the celebrated author, mostly for The Spectator, with his own introduction. From The Bride of Frankenstein to The Wizard of Oz.

William Moorcroft and George Trebeck
£20.00

Travels In the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab, Volume II

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The travels of the first trained veterinary surgeon, who went to India at the invitation of the British East India Company to improve the stock of horses.

Michael Aris
£120.00

Bhutan: The Early History of a Himalayan Kingdom

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A study of the evolution of Bhutan from the earliest records, to the founding of the theocratic state in the 17th century.

Ernest Law
£22.00

Shakespeare's Garden, Stratford-Upon-Avon

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A history of the garden annexed to New Place, owned and occupied by Shakespeare as his success and prosperity grew; and how it has been restored to the date of this volume's publication.

W. Lansdown Goldsworthy
£35.00

Shakespeare's Heraldic Emblems; Their Origin and Meaning

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An investigation in the the origins and meanings of the Heraldic imagery that Shakespeare often used throughout his work.

John Drinkwater
£20.00

Shakespeare

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PUBLISHERDuckworth, London.
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Red cloth boards.
BOOK CONDITIONA little shelf wear to edges of boards, some fading. Printed pages are clear and largely unmarked.

Guy Cadogan Rothery
£32.00

The Heraldry of Shakespeare: A Commentary with Annotations

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An illustrated account of how Shakespeare used the symbolism of heraldry in his poems and dramatic works.

Rainer Nagele
£15.00

Theater, Theory, Speculation: Walter Benjamin and the Scenes of Modernity

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PUBLISHERThe John Hopkins University Press.
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Lilac cloth boards with black design and lettering.
BOOK CONDITIONVery good, just some slight scuffing to ends of...

C.J. Bulliet
£15.00

Venus Castina: Famous Female Impersonators Celestial and Human

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A history of female impersonation, from ancient Greece to the twentieth century.

Jean Anderson, Editor
£15.00

Late Joys at The Players' Theatre

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A history of the Players' Theatre, from it's small beginnings in Covent garden to the late night musical entertainments which carried on through the Blitz.

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