Grahame Thornton, Bookseller

Romans in Britain

Legg, Rodney: · 1983

£3.50 (€4.20 | $4.62 | ¥738)

London: BCA ,1983 1st. ed. thus HBK + d/w. Index 275pp.+ b/w plates and illustrations. Jacket slightly creased top edge, o/w VG/G+.

My Favourite Village Stories

Blythe, Ronald: · 1979

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Lutterworth Press 1979 1st. ed. HBK + d/w. 128pp. + line decorations by Peter McClure. Ex library with usual stamps, labels and marks. Jacket re-inforced, back flap taped to inside back cover. Acceptable reading copy. Anthology of well-known writers such as Thomas Har...

Prehistoric England

Cavendish, Richard: · 1993

£3.50 (€4.20 | $4.62 | ¥738)

London: Orion Artus Books, 1993 2nd. imp. large format HBK + d/w. Index 152pp. + colour and b/w plates througout. Jacket small tear head spine rear and bottom fold rear. O/w VG/G+.

The Druid: The Nazi Spy Who Double-Crossed the Double-Cross System

Mosley, Leonard: · 1982

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

London: Eyre Methuen, 1982 1st. ed. HBK+D/W. VG/VG. 240 pp.

The Affairs of Flavie, or The Euffe Inheritance

Chevallier, Gabriel: · 1959

£1.00 (€1.20 | $1.32 | ¥211)

London: Penguin,1959 4th. imp. thus PBK. No 1056 multicoloured cartoon cover. 317pp. Translated from the French by Jocelun Godefroi. Foot spine split both edges, covers lightly soiled, o/w good reading copy.

Wessex Images

Chandler, John: · 1990

£3.50 (€4.20 | $4.62 | ¥738)

Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1990 1st. ed. large format HBK + d/w landscape. Index 192pp. + colour and b/w plates throughout. Ancient map printed inside front cover and front end paper, and repeated at rear. Jacket small tear top edge front, smaller tear foot spine foredge, top edge s...

Dorset: a Portrait in Colour

Ashley, Harry: · 1990

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

Newbury: Countryside Books, 1990 2nd. imp. large format PBK landscape. 80pp. + colour plates throughout. VG.

Country Ways: a Country Year in Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire

Howard, Anthony: · 1991

£1.50 (€1.80 | $1.98 | ¥316)

Newbury: Countryside Books, 1991 1st. ed. large format PBK. Index 102pp. + colour and b/w plates and illustrations. VG.

James Herriot's Dog Stories

Herriot, James: · 1981

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

London: Michael Joseph, 1981 7th. imp. HBK + d/w, 427pp. Small tear head spine backedge of jacket, slight chipping and bumping of head spine. Book has minor stain rear end paper. O/w G+/G.

Tales from the Animal Hospital

Grant, David: · 1997

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

London: Simon & Schuster, 1997 1st. ed. HBK + d/w. Index 223pp. + 23 colour plates. G+/G+.

Moule's County Maps: the West of England Including the West Midlands

Moule, Thomas: · 1994

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: Bracken Books (Studio Editions), 1994 1st. ed. large format HBK + d/w. 48pp. + colour maps throughout. VG/VG. Large book, so extra postage may be required - ask for a postage quote before buying.

The Englishman's Castle: a History of Houses, Large and Small, in Town and Country, from AD 100 to the Present Day

Gloag, John: · 1944

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944 1st. ed. HBK + d/w, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Index 176pp. + 16 colour and 41 b/w drawings by Marjory Whittington. Book Production War Economy Standard. Jacket torn at creases with small losses head spine and top and bottom edges...

The Great Spy Scandal

Mather, John S.: · 1955

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Daily Express, 1955 1st. ed. HBK+D/W, little torn and tatty, small piece missing top front, chipped at edges, spine colour faded. Some page browning especially at EPs. O/w fair copy. 192 pp. + 89 photographic plates.

East Dorset

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£1.00 (€1.20 | $1.32 | ¥211)

Gloucester: British Publishing Company, no date 72pp. + some colour and b/w illustrations + map, full of advertisements. Guidebook. Good copy.

To Kill Hitler

Mason, Herbert Molloy: · 1979

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

London: Michael Joseph, 1979 1st. ed. HBK+D/W, small tear top foredge. O/w VG/G+. Index 303 pp. + 16 photographic plates + map at EPs.

Antarctica: the Heroic Age

Finkel, George: · 1976

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

Sydney: Collins, 1976 1st. ed. HBK + d/w. 160pp. + 16 b/w photographs. Small tear head jacket, o/w VG/G. Covers four of the main expeditions between 1900 and 1914.

The Book of Inventions and Discoveries

Giscard d'Estaing, Valerie-Anne: · 1990

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Queen Anne Press, 1990 1st. UK ed. large format HBK, printed boards. Index 292pp. + colour photographs throughout. G+.

The Complete Golfer

Newell, Steve et al.: · 2004

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

London: Select Editions, 2004 Large format PBK. Index 256pp. + colour, b/w and sepia photographs throughout. G+.

How to Play Golf: a Complete Step-by-Step Course from Starting out to Advanced Techniques

Newell, Steve and Foston, Paul: · 1998

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

Oxford: Sebastian Kelly, 1998 1st. ed. thus large format PBK. Index 160pp. + colour photographs throughout. Front cover corners curled up, o/w good copy.

The Strokesaver Guide to the Classic Courses of Great Britain and Ireland

Edmund, Nick: · 2000

£2.00 (€2.40 | $2.64 | ¥422)

St. Helens: Ted Smart, 2000 1st. ed. thus PBK with flaps. 256pp. + colour photographs and maps throughout. VG.