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Hermit Kingdom Update: We regret that we can no longer supply books worth less than EU 150 directly to customers in the European Union. Our catalogue is available through third party sites: please place your order through either abebooks or biblio to ensure that the transaction is covered by the IOSS scheme. If possible, we will prepay local VAT on orders over EU 150, but this option is not yet available for all destinations.

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Robert Garland | The Eye of the Beholder | Duckworth | 1995 | 9780715626511 Long diagonal closed tear at top outer corner of front panel of jacket, short closed tear at top of fold of back panel/back flap. Lower outer edge of cloth cover marked, corners bumped, front cover set a little forward. A perfectly serviceable, but very evidently secondhand, copy. | £15

E. J. Hobsbawm et al (eds) | Peasants in History: essays in honour of Daniel Thorner | Oxford UP | 1980 | 0195612159 In unclipped jacket, with a presentation slip from Alice Thorner tipped in between the frontispiece & title page. Name on ffep, extremities of spine bumped, outer edge of page-block foxed & lightly marked. | £100

J. R. de J. Jackson | Historical Criticism and the Meaning of Texts | Routledge | 1989 | 9780415007672 Light mark on spine of jacket, flaps foxed. | £25

Ivan D. Margary | The London-Lewes Roman Road | Sussex Archaeological Society | n.d. | Stapled pamphlet with foxed outer edge. | £15

Ivan D. Margary | Roman Sussex | Sussex Archaeological Society | 1971 | Stapled pamphlet with light cup ring on back cover, otherwise in very good condition. | £15

Marcus Milwright | The Queen of Sheba’s Gift | Edinburgh | 2021 | 9780748668496 Unread copy with external wear from previous storage/display. Cover is scuffed & bumped, text pages are in excellent condition. | £50

Jaakoff Prelooker | Under the Russian and British Flags | Spriggs Publishing Agency | n.d. | First edition in unclipped jacket. Extremities of spine are bumped. | £20

Jaakoff Prelooker | Under the Russian and British Flags | Spriggs Publishing Agency | n.d. | Paperbound edition with marked, faded spine & foxed, marked outer edge. No problem with text pages or plates. | £15

Jacobus Augustus Thuanus | Collectanea Adamantaea – XI: A True Narration of that Horrible Conspiracy against King James and the Whole Parliament of England, commonly called the Gunpowder Treason | Privately Printed | 1885 | A rough copy. The parchment front & back covers are partly detached, the sewn spine of the page-block is fully exposed, the endpapers are crinkled & foxed. There are creases & marks in the very wide margins of the text pages. A reading copy, which could be rebound. | £20

Ronald F. E. Weissman | Ritual Brotherhood in Renaissance Florence | Academic Press | 1982 | 0127444807 Hardback in unclipped jacket. Edge of page-block foxed. | £200

Mark R. Wenger (ed.) | The English Travels of Sir John Percival and William Byrd II | Missouri |1989 | 9780826207005 Location & date of purchase noted on ffep. | £15