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Victor Korchnoi, one of the greatest experts in the field of rook endings, now documents his own experiences in tournament play. His main purpose is to inspire readers with a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew chess openings carry the dramatic weight and tactical fire of the King's Gambit, and in this authoritative...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew openings in chess carry the daring, combative spirit of the King's Gambit — a centuries-old weapon that sacrifices a pawn for rapid development...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis lot gathers six gripping works of twentieth century history and biography, opening with Christopher...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn a twentieth century defined by political upheaval and ideological warfare, few lives stand as a more extraordinary testament to...

Captivating high-concept fiction as rich as The Man in the High Castle and as packed with thrills as Ready Player One 1945. Mia, a nineteen-year-old girl, is sent to Germany...

History & Military Bargain Book Box A unit of SAS men who went into the Western Desert dressed as Nazi stormtroopers. Ethel Rosenberg, executed on evidence her own brother later...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of Christianity, seven letters addressed to seven fledgling congregations in Asia Minor carried...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA geological field guide unlike any other, the...

Artists in America have long battled against injustices, believing that art can in fact "do more." The War of Art tells this history of artist-led activism and the global political...

Edition: Second Edition.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt the crossroads of medicine and faith, A Doctor's Casebook in the Light of the Bible...

She lies on the floor, her blue eyes wide and unseeing, arms outstretched as if begging for help. Kneeling next to her, wearing a sequinned purple ballgown and holding a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA remarkable piece of publishing history, History of the Second World War is Purnell's landmark part-work...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the vast and brutal theatre of the Second World War, few accounts match the analytical precision and narrative sweep...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the thundering hooves of Flemington's earliest races to the grandeur of the modern Melbourne Cup, A Century Galloped By chronicles the remarkable first hundred...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis matched set of eight royal and notable women’s biographies opens with John...

Unique collection of short stories When the descendant of an ancient aristocratic family moves from Massachusetts to Exham Priory, his ancestral home in the south of England, he is plagued...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat separates a great novel from a merely good one? In The Art of Fiction, celebrated novelist and...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the aftermath of Napoleon's defeat to the eve of the Second World War, Documents in...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: some moisture damage to book block; In the raw, restless years of the Victorian Gold Rush, one Englishman ventured to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Tanned edges , minor foxing, rubbed edges.Few figures in the history of social thought have cast as long a shadow...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodOne of the most monumental achievements in historical literature, Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire chronicles the...

In this wholly original, never-before-seen box set, the New York Times bestselling author who has redefined tarot for the twenty-first century takes seekers on a journey of self-discovery deep into...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodFew thriller writers of the twentieth century commanded the page with the assured grip of Desmond Bagley, and this...

The book titled Parks: Victoria's National and State Parks by the author Jane Calder. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the golden age of British comic writing comes What A Scream! And Other Stories,...

*HIGHLY COMMENDED ('BUSINESS JOURNEY' CATEGORY), BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2026* 'An inspiring story of a life well lived.' MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG, Founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies The Stoic ideal...

The Wimmera: A journey through western Victoria is a partner volume to our best-seller, The Mallee: A journey through north-west Victoria, of which almost 8000 copies have been sold. It...

The beloved story of The Velveteen Rabbit , the stuffed animal made real by the love of a boy, has captured our imaginations for generations. In this press and play...

Steve Berry decided to do something a little bit different to raise funds for Alzheimer's Research UK. A life-long DOCTOR WHO fan, he began to interview celebrities, writers, actors and...

Contemporary Fiction Bargain Book Box Rupert Everett writing short stories. Judy Murray writing a novel. Cleo Watson, formerly of Downing Street, writing something called Cleavage. The unexpected names are part...

An incomparable satirist, Ambrose Bierce became the 'laughing devil' of the San Francisco news media, for he was about as discreet as a runaway locomotive, according to HL Mencken.

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of faith and material history, Illustrations from Biblical Archaeology presents a stunning...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the turbulent half-century between the Congress of Vienna and the unification of Germany, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the vast, lonely marshes of the Essex coast, a reclusive, hunchbacked painter named Philip Rhayader finds an...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of laughter and legacy, Wit and the Writing of History: The Rhetoric of Historiography...

Eighty short stories by a master of the genre O. Henry's comic eye and unique, ironic approach to life's realities are unmatched. These stories-about con men and tricksters and "innocent"...

WINNER OF THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD AND THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE WOMEN'S PRIZEThe moving, powerful and urgent English-language debut from one of the brightest...

Hungry Hollow is simply an ordinary creek winding through about a mile of ordinary forest and meadow somewhere east of the Rocky Mountains. But like all such places, it is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; September 2014 missingFor those who feel the rumble of a vintage engine in their very bones, The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the vast, sun-scorched deserts of Central Asia, a vanished city holds the secrets of an entire civilisation...