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    Windows into worlds gone by, a vast store of history. Both the iconic and the less well-known is here. Together with forgotten byways and things not found anywhere else. Here is also Americana, Crime, Feminism, Occultism,Archaeology, and Ethnography.
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    1. 1955 The Mint: A Day-Book of the R. A. F. Depot Between August and December 1922
      1955 The Mint: A Day-Book of the R. A. F. Depot Between August and December 1922
      London: 1955
      An exceptional limited edition example of the first edition of T. E. Lawrence's memoirs of his time enlisted in the Royal Air Force.
      £425.00
      Stock Code: 978F38
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    2. 1955 The Mint: A Day-Book of the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922
      1955 The Mint: A Day-Book of the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922
      London: 1955
      A smart first edition of T. E. Lawrence's insightful memoirs of his time as an enlisted man in the Royal Air Force.
      £118.00
      Stock Code: 964T65
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    3. 1811 Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in England, Scotland and Ireland
      1811 Admirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in England, Scotland and Ireland
      Westminster: 1811
      An attractively bound collection of significant historical tales pertaining to various British counties, with woodcut illustrations throughout.
      £195.00
      Stock Code: 911Y32
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    4. 1977-1987 A Collection of Novels and Historical Works by Len Deighton
      1977-1987 A Collection of Novels and Historical Works by Len Deighton
      London: 1977-1987
      A very smart collection of first edition novels and historical works surrounding World War Two, by Len Deighton.
      £145.00
      Stock Code: 883Q35
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      1949 Knole and the Sackvilles
      1949 Knole and the Sackvilles
      London: 1949
      A signed presentation copy of Vita Sackville-West's ode to her ancestral home Knole House, in Kent.
      £1,275.00
      Stock Code: 878F43
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    6. 1955 The Mint: A Day-Book of the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922
      1955 The Mint: A Day-Book of the R.A.F. Depot Between August and December 1922
      London: 1955
      A smart first edition of T. E. Lawrence's insightful memoirs of his time as an enlisted man in the Royal Air Force.
      £125.00
      Stock Code: 874T79
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    7. 1978 Airshipwreck
      1978 Airshipwreck
      London: 1978
      A very smart first edition of this tribute to airship travel in the twenties and thirties, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper.
      £48.00
      Stock Code: 871T66
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    8. 1978 Airshipwreck
      1978 Airshipwreck
      London: 1978
      A very smart first edition of this tribute to airship travel in the twenties and thirties.
      £47.00
      Stock Code: 871T65
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    9. 1955 The Mint
      1955 The Mint
      London: 1955
      T. E. Lawrence's memoirs of his time in the Royal Air Force, the first trade edition of this volume in its unclipped dust wrapper.
      £130.00
      Stock Code: 798A66
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    10. 1873 The Lands of Cazembe
      1873 The Lands of Cazembe
      London: 1873
      A fascinating work on Portuguese travels to remote Africa, including the original large folding map of the voyage.
      £115.00
      Stock Code: 793J44
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    11. 1929 The Eighteen-Seventies
      1929 The Eighteen-Seventies
      New York: 1929
      The first edition of these historical essays on the Victorian era by Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature, in the original scarce dustwrapper.
      £34.00
      Stock Code: 782P9
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    12. 1959 Daughter of France
      1959 Daughter of France
      New York: 1959
      The first U.S. edition of Vita Sackville-West's intriguing biography on la Grande Mademoiselle, illustrated throughout with the original decorative dustwrapper.
      £50.00
      Stock Code: 781P61
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    13. 1936 Saint Joan of Arc
      1936 Saint Joan of Arc
      London: 1936
      A bright first edition of Vita Sackville-West's fascinating biography of the national heroine of France, Joan of Arc. In the very scarce dust wrapper.
      £295.00
      Stock Code: 781A60
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    14. 1955 The Mint
      1955 The Mint
      London: 1955
      The first edition of T. E. Lawrence's memoirs of his time enlisted in the Royal Air Force.
      £110.00
      Stock Code: 780F52
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    15. 1955 The Mint
      1955 The Mint
      London: 1955
      The first edition in original dustwrapper of T. E. Lawrence's memoirs of his time as an enlisted man in the Royal Air Force.
      £210.00
      Stock Code: 755A48
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    16. 1978 Airshipwreck
      1978 Airshipwreck
      London: 1978
      The first edition of Len Deighton's tribute to airship travel in its heyday, illustrated throughout.
      £45.00
      Stock Code: 750P31
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    17. 1978 Airshipwreck Len Deighton Arnold Schwartzman Illus First Edition DW
      1978 Airshipwreck Len Deighton Arnold Schwartzman Illus First Edition DW
      London: 1978
      The first edition of this illustrated work on the heyday of airship travel, complied by Len Deighton and Arnold Schwartzman.
      £40.00
      Stock Code: 625P36
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