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Thornton's Bookshop( W A & J S Meeuws ) ( ABA, BA, ILAB ) Established in Oxford in 1835 - Member of the ABA since 1907 The Old Barn - Walnut Court - Faringdon, SN7 7JH A small market town near the Cotswolds, about 20 miles from Oxford Tel.  (0044 ) (0) 1367 240056 . Fax: (0044) (0) 1367 241544 E-Mail Images of the Old Broad street premises (the mosaic is still present)  We offer help to publish your own book Search stock as from 1 December 2009            Mailing Lists Conditions of sale Special offers Who are we Catalogue index News Links

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Vincent van Gogh  the letters  6 volumes

Tolkien: Lord of the Rings.  3 volumes First edition 1954/1955

The Red Book the art of psychology See below at the bottom of the page for sample pages of this  wonderful book  Old wallpaper Broad street

Clairmont, Christoph W.lassical Attic Tombstones.  7 Text Volumes and One Plate Volume and  Supplementary Volume.  together 9 volumes  £550

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Vincent M. Holt  Why Not Eat Insects ? ISBN 0854550240

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Special offers Latest catalogue: Acquisitions Spring 2010 Siborne, Captain W., History of the War in France and Belgium, in 1815.  Containing Minute Details of the Battles of  Quatre-Bras, Ligny, Wavre, and Waterloo. By Captain W. Silborne. 2 Volumes + Folder  with all the Battle Maps. (this folder of maps is  usually lacking)  Zabelin, I., (1820 - 1908 ) Moskva v eia proshlom i nastoiashchem.  Roskoshno-illiyustrirovannoe izd., posviyashchennoe  pamiyati I.E. Zabelina V izdani prinimaiut uchastie D. N.  Anuchin i dr. Redaktsiia G. Balitskogo volumes I (1-2); II (1-2); IV  (also marked 7) ; VIII, IX, X, XI, XII  in  fine new half leather bindings      Published by Thornton's John Ogden: Silken Dalliance. ISBN 978-085455-040-1  £17.99 ( the 2nd volume in the trilogy; the 1st volume "On fire" also  still available) Helmut Ricke: Glass Art. Reflections of the Centuries. £12.50   Vincent van Gogh - The Letters. The Complete Illustrated  and Annotated Edition. Six volumes slipcased with a  CD-ROM of the letters in their original languages Complete collection of the Albums de la Pléiade 50 volumes £3000     The last Costume ball in the Winter palace. (1903) 2 volumes. (Kostiumirovannyi bal v Zimnem dvortse ) Bi-lingual English-Russian edition.  £435   Maria Feodorovna Empress of Russia. An exhibition about  the Danish princess who became Empress of Russia.  Kejserinde Dagmar £150 Codex Sinaiticus A Facsimile. To be published: on  20 October 2010. Hardback, 832 pages, 340 x 420mm,  822 colour illustrations £550.00  weight about 20 lbs.  A beautiful facsimile of the world's oldest Bible. Jews and Slavs 21 volumes List of c. 750 books in the field of Slavic studies at greatly  reduced prices   The Curzon Gospel The Holkham Bible

Siborne text volumes       Pleiade set A selection of our books is for sale in  the White Horse Bookshop in Faringdon  History of the Bookshop Famous visitors Jan Bok: Waarde Broer   Vincent M. Holt  Why Not Eat Insects ? ISBN 0854550240   Russkaya Moda 150 years of Russian fashion in photographs. massive volume.  (book in Russian )  ISBN 5-85050-729-9     check our stock via  Antiqbook.com