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Good with minor spine wear. Inscribed neatly to FEP

A history of the Hoare family by Viscount Templewood. From bankers to abolitionists, architects, Quakers and sporting men and women. 320pp. Some discolouration and minor marks to cover. Dustcover fair but with tears and minor losses, Unclipped. Good, tight binding and clean copy.

Very good. Discolouration to fly leaf. Otherwise good clean and tightly bound copy. Tanned dustcover.

As new

79 pp - very good clean copy. Very minor bumps and scuffs to cover.

First paperback Penguin edition. 445pp.Very good condition. Creased spine showing normal use of previous reading. Very minor scufffs to cover Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd. A detective in his own right, he must solve the mystery of sudden and unexplained deaths.
He has performed over 23,000 autopsies, including some of the most high-profile cases of recent times; the Hungerford Massacre, the Princess Diana inquiry, and 9/11.
He has faced serial killers, natural disaster, 'perfect murders' and freak accidents.
His evidence has put killers behind bars, freed the innocent, and turned open-and-shut cases on their heads.
Yet all this has come at a huge personal cost.
Unnatural Causes tells the story of not only the cases and bodies that have haunted him the most, but also how to live a life steeped in death.

Very good unmarked copy with tight binding. Dustcover good with very light edgewear.

288pp. As new.
The late nineteenth by century was a golden age for European travel in the United States. For prosperous Europeans, a journey to America was a fresh alternative to the more familiar 'Grand Tour' of their own continent, promising encounters with a vast, wild landscape, and with people whose culture was similar enough to their own to be intelligible, yet different enough to be interesting. Their observations of America and its inhabitants provide a striking lens on this era of American history, and a fascinating glimpse into how the people of the past perceived one another.
In Unspeakable Awfulness, Kenneth D. Rose gathers together a broad selection of the observations made by European travellers to the United States. European visitors remarked upon what they saw as a distinctly American approach to everything from class, politics, and race to language, food, and advertising. Their assessments of the 'American character' continue to echo today, and create a full portrait of… Read More

471 pp with some moisture warping. Tanned pages, foxing and fold marks to pages. Wear to cover and creased spine from reading. Reading copy.

A good unmarked copy with minor scuffs to cover

Fair copy with slight detachment of pages from spine. Tanned pages