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Slightly Better Books was formed in 2004 and is based in Honor Oak, South-East London and the ethos of the bookshop is to give the customer the contents, chapter and image information they need to choose and buy a book. Whilst the focus of this site is to give obscure and under-covered books a chance and room to breathe, sometimes an author is just good enough to warrant covering all their books, like Rex Stout and John Creasey

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Maryniak, Barbara. 'A Hiking Guide to the National Parks and Historic Sites of Newfoundland', published in 1994 in Canada in paperback by Goose Lane Editions, 319pp, ISBN 0864921500 Condition: Very good, well looked-after Category: Hiking & Rambling Price: £22.00, not including post and packing, which is Amazon's standard charge (currently £2.80 for UK buyers, more for overseas customers)	Scott, A. F. 'The Saxon Age: Commentaries of an Era', first published in 1979 in hardback by Croom Helm with dustjacket, 182pp, ISBN 0856649058 Condition: Very good, clean and tidy condition with very good dustjacket (price-clipped). Well looked-after Category: History-Saxon England Price: £7.20, not including post and packing, which is Amazon's standard charge (currently £2.80 for UK buyers, and more for overseas customers)	Joshi, S. T. (ed.). 'Collected Essays. Volume 2: Literary Criticism', published in 2004 in the U.S. by Hippocampus Press, 248pp, ISBN 0972164499. This is the 2nd volume of the complete set of Lovecraft's non-fictional output (all collected together for the first time) Condition: very good with some mild handling wear to the cover Category: Literary Analysis Price: £8.99, not including post and packing, which is Amazon UK's standard charge (currently £2.80 for UK customers and more for overseas buyers)	Waller, Diane. 'Becoming a Profession: The History of Art Therapy', published in 1991 in Great Britain by Routledge in paperback, 290pp, ISBN 0415025818 Condition: Good condition - internally clean, but with some creasing to the cover (mild handling wear) and some outline drawings in biro in the back of the book. A very decent and rare copy Category: Psychology Price: £105, not including post and packing, which is currently Amazon's standard charge (£2.80 for UK buyers, more for overseas customers)

Dixon, Roger. 'Christ on Trial', published by Collins in 1974, 255pp, hbk, ISBN 0002211432 Condition: very good, nice clean copy with very good dustjacket (small rip to rear top edge & price-clipped). Book is also priceclipped just inside cover Price: £3.25, not including p&p, which is Amazon's standard charge (currently £2.75 for UK buyers, more for overseas customers) Contents: See the page on Roger Dixon	Agatha Christie. 'Postern of Fate'. Hardcover in leatherette cover. Published in 1975 by the Companion Book Club (The Hamlyn Publishing Group). 254 pages. Condition: Good/very good. Nice clean copy, well looked-after. Storyline-click here Price: £3.50 (not including p&p, which is Amazon's standard charge of £2.75 for UK buyers, more for overseas customers) Click Picture to Buy!	Wise, David; and Ross, Thomas B. 'The Invisible Government', published in 1964 in the United States in hardcover with dustjacket, 376pp, no ISBN Condition: good condition clean & tidy Has some wear to the top and bottom edges of the dj Category: Intelligence Agencies Price: £22.00, not including post and packing, which is Amazon's standard charge (currently £2.75 for UK buyers, more for overseas customers) Click Picture to Buy!	Hawkins, Eric.'30 Years of Language Teaching 1966-1996'. First published in 1996 in Great Britain by The Centre for Informatin on Language Teaching and Research in paperback, 424pp, ISBN 1874016674 Condition: very good, clean and tidy copy, well looked-after. Category: Education About this book: This volume reviews the transformation seen in language teaching in the UK since 1966 Price: £6.99, not including post and packing, which is Amazon's standard charge (currently £2.75 for UK buyers, more for overseas customers

Schoeser, Mary. 'English Church Embroidery 1833-1953', published in 1998, 2nd edition by Watts & Co in Great Britain, in paperback, full colour, 180pp, ISBN 0953326500 Condition: Brand New Category: Decorative Arts - Embroidery Price: £32.20, not including Amazon's postage and packing charge (currently £2.80 for UK buyers, more for overseas customers)	Chambers, Harry (ed.), 'AN ENORMOUS YES in memoriam Philip Larkin (1922-1985), first published in 1986 in Great Britain in paperback, 68pp, ISBN 0905291859 Condition: Good condition ex-library copy with exterior protected by plastic sleeve, although the cover is still a little creased. The book has the normal library markings - spine label, etc Category: Poetry-anthologies Price: £3.20, not including post and packing, which is Amazon UK's standard charge (currently £2.80 for UK buyers), more for overseas customers	Melling, Maxine; and Little, Joyce (eds.) 'Building A Successful Customer-Service Culture: A Guide for Library and Information Managers', published by Facet Publishing in 2004 (reprint) in hardback, 212pp, ISBN 1856044491 Condition: Like new Category: Management Price: £36.85, not including p&p, which is Amazon's standard charge (currently £2.75 for UK buyers, more for overseas customers) Click image to buy via Amazon! Contributors: Sheila Corrall, Alix Craven, Mary Fleming, Robert Gent, Grace Kempster, R. David Lankes, Joyce Little, Andrew McDonald, Bill Macnaught, Graham Matthews, Maxine Melling, John M. Pulse, Christopher West	Surtees, William. 'Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade', published in 1996 as a new edition in Great Britain by Greenhill Books, Lionel Leventhal Limited, in hardback, 455pp, ISBN 1853672300 Condition: Very good, clean & tidy copy with some very slight marks to the bottom of the front cover and the bottom of the book. Dustjacket in v.good condition and not price-clipped. Category: Military/Army Price: £29.55, not including p&p, which is Amazon's standard charge, currently £2.75 for UK orders, more for overseas customers

Bradford, William; and Braham, Helen. 'Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections' published in 1991 in Great Britain in hardback with dustjacket, 208pp, ISBN 090463065. Condition: Very good+ condition, clean and tidy condition, well looked-after with dustjacket protector applied to the exterior of the book. Category: Art Price: £16.29, not including post and packing, which is Amazon UK's standard charge (currently £2.80 for UK buyers and more for overseas customers)	Treasure, Geoffrey (Ed.) 'Who's Who in Early Hanoverian Britain', published in 1991 in Great Britain by Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers in hardback, 450pp, ISBN 0856830763 Condition: Very good++ clean & tidy condition - well looked-after, with dustjacket (not price-clipped) Category: History-British History: The Hanoverian Period Price: £6.99, not including p&p, which is Amazon's standard charge (currently £2.75 for UK buyers, more for overseas customers)	Zuckerman, Professor Lord Solly (Ed.); The Staff of the Publications Department of The Zoological Society of London 'The Zoological Society of London 1826-1976 and Beyond', published in 1976 by Academic Press in hardback with dustjacket, 353pp, ISBN 0126133409. Condition: Very good, nice, clean & tidy copy with unclipped dustjacket. Category: Zoology Price: £22.75, not including p&p, which is Amazon's standard charge (currently £2.75 for UK buyers and more for overseas customers)	Stout, Rex. 'The Doorbell Rang.' Published in 1965 by The Viking Press, New York, 186pp, no dustjacket. True 1st Edition. Condition: Good, clean copy with only the odd tiny mark to the cover. Category:Murder Mystery Price: £5.25 (not including postage, which for UK buyers is Amazon's standard £2.75. Check with Amazon for overseas postage costs charged) Click picture to buy!

Spence, Richard T. 'The Privateering Earl. George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, 1558-1605'. Published in 1995 in Great Britain by Alan Sutton Publishing, in hardback with dustjacket, 256pp, ISBN 0750908920. Very scarce publication Condition: Very good, clean & tidy condition, almost like new. Dustjacket is not price-clipped. Category: History, British, Elizabethan (see this page for detailed description of book) Price: £45.00, not including p&p, which is Amazon's standard charge (currently £2.75 for UK buyers, more for overseas customers)	Bruford, A. J.; Macdonald, D. A. 'Scottish Traditional Tales' published in 2007 in Great Britain by Birlinn. An entertaining, wide-ranging collection of stories gathered over the last 50 years Condition: very good, clean and tidy copy with small dent at the top of the front cover. A nice copy Category: Scottish Tales & Stories Price: £7.61, not including post and packing, which is Amazon's standard charge (currently £2.80 for UK buyers and more for overseas customers)	Sheilah Ward Ling, , 'Piggy', published in 1980 in Great Britain by Dennis Dobson in hardback with dustjacket, 216pp, ISBN 0234721847. Condition: very good with some slight handling wear to dustjacket (which is price-clipped) Category: Children's Books: Older Readers Storyline Price: £6.15, not including p&p, which is Amazon's standard charge (currently £2.75 for UK buyers, more for overseas customers)	Enders, Jody (Ed.), Theatre Survey: Volume 47:1, May 2006 . Bi-annual journal of the American Society for Theatre Research Condition: Very good, with some sections underlined in pencil and with the odd pencil note (no loss of text or readability) Category: Theatre Full Contents: See Theatre Price: £7.25, not including post and packing, which is Amazon's standard charge, currently £2.75 for UK buyers, more for overseas customers Click Picture to Buy!	Mountford, Charles P. 'Before Time Began: Legends of the Dreamtime', published in 1976 in Great Britain in hardback, 96pp, ISBN 017005070X Condition: Very good with very good dustjacket (not price-clipped). Has a small mark on the opening edge of the front cover and a tiny patch of surface loss on the back cover (price sticker?) Category: Anthropology Price: £16.85, not including post and packing, which is Amazon UK's standard charge	Illustrated Data Guides Chant, Christopher. 'An Illustrated Data Guide to World War II Fighters', first published in Great Britain in 1997 in hardback with dustjacket, 77pp, ISBN 1855018594. Condition: Very good condition copy with very good dustjacket (not price-clipped) Category: Military: Illustrated Data Guides Price: £1.65, not including p&p, which is Amazon's standard charge (currently £2.75 for UK buyers, more for overseas customers) Includes data and development history on the following bombers: 1. Focke-Wulf Fw 190 2. Hawker Hurricane 3. Messerschmitt Bf 109 4. Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa 'Oscar' 5. Republic P-47 Thunderbolt 6. Yakonlev Yak-9

Sillars, Stuart. 'Art & Survival in First World War Britain', published in 1987 in Great Britain by Macmillan Press in hardback, 192pp, ISBN 0333425243 Condition: very good with very good dustjacket, although the top edge of the dustjacket is a bit worn and there's a small rip to top edge near the spine with some light tanning to dj and internal pages Category: World War 1 Price: £20.00, not including p&p, which is Amazon's standard charge (currently £2.75 for UK buyers, more for overseas customers)	Rosen-Ayalon, Myriam. 'Islamic Art and Archaeology of Palestine', published in 2006 by Presses Universitaires de France in paperback, 211pp, ISBN 1598740644 Condition: very good, clean and tidy copy, well looked-after Category: Archaeology Price: £23.75, not including post and packing, which is Amazon UK's standard charge (currently £2.80 for UK buyers, more for overseas customers)	Teichmann, Howard; The Girls in 509: A Comedy in Two Acts Published by Samuel French, Inc in 1959. Category: Plays: 1950s Price: £8.99, not including p&p, which is Amazon's standard charge (currently £2.75 for UK buyers)	Halstead, Paul. 'Neolithic Society in Greece', published in 1999 in Great Britain, in paperback, 163pp, ISBN 1850758247. Condition: very good, neat, clean & tidy condition, well looked-after Category: Archaeology Price: £28.65, not including post and packing, which is Amazon's standard charge (currently £2.80 for UK buyers, more for overseas customers)	Duda, Joan L. (ed.). 'Advances in Sport and Exercise Psychology Measurement', published in 1998 in the United States in hardback by Fitness Information Technology, 520pp, ISBN 1885693117 Condition: Very good, neat and tidy condition, with a couple of patches of highlighting Category: Psychology Price: £25.75, not including post and packing, which is Amazon's standard charge (£2.80 for UK buyers, more for overseas buyers)	Clark, Leonard (selected by; editor); Hughes, Shirley (illustrator). Flutes and Cymbals: Poetry for the Young, published in 1968 in Great Britain, in hardback with dustjacket, 104pp, ISBN 0370010906. An anthology of classic poetry for the older child Condition: Good, but slightly worn and vintage condition Category: Poetry Anthologies Price: £8.99, not including post and packing, which is Amazon UK's standard price (£2.80 for UK buyers; more for overseas customers)

Chant, Christopher. 'Austro-Hungarian Aces of World War 1: Eastern Front', published by Del Prado in 2001, paperback, 64pp, ISBN 8483726327 Category: military-airforce Contents: Austro-Hungarian pilots led by aces such as Godwin Brumowski, Otto Jindra, Benno Fiala and Kurt Gruber flew in extremely difficult geographic, climatic and operational conditions on the Eastern Front, but were both brave and effective. This is their story Sorry, sold out, but click image to access prebuilt search for this title on Amazon	Allingham, Margery. 'Hide My Eyes' published in 1961 in Great Britain by Penguin Books in their green and white design Penguin Crime series: #1476, 223pp, no ISBN. Condition: Fair - completely readable and intact, but a bit dusty-dirty with tanning to internal pages (browning effect from ageing) and a cup ring mark on the front cover. There are two name stickers from the previous owner in the front of the book Category: Margery Allingham (British murder & mystery classics Price: £2.99, not including p&p, which is Amazon's standard charge (currently £2.75 for UK buyers, more for overseas customers) Click Picture to Buy!	Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Washington, D. C. 'One Year of Soviet Struggle Against German Invasion. June 22, 1941-June 22,1942', published in 1942 by the Soviet Embassy in Washington (?), paperback, 75pp, exceptionally rare, highly collectable. Illustrated. Condition: Very good condition, clean & tidy. Category: World War 2. Please see this page for full contents on this publication Price: £50.00, not including p&p, which is Amazon's standard charge (currently £2.75 for UK buyers, more for overseas customers)	Presland, John. Lynton and Lynmouth: A Pageant of Cliff and Moorland. Illustrated by Frederick J. Widgery. Published (reprinted) in 1919 by Chatto and Windus, London. 200pp, with 12 pages of textual adverts for other Chatto & Windus titles. No dustjacket. Condition: Good, with personal bookplate and a previous owner's name & tiny message just inside front cover. Illustrations are very nice and really add to the quality of the edition. Additional Picture: Doone Valley In Winter Category:Non Fiction: Geography: UK: Southern England Price: £9.00, not including postage, which is Amazon's standard charge (£2.75 for UK buyers, more for overseas customers) Click Picture to Buy!	King, Anthony. 'The End of the Terraces: The Transformation of English Football in the 1990s', published in 2002 in Great Britain, as a revised edition by Leicester University Press, 242pp, ISBN 0718502590 Condition: Very good, ex-library copy, with the usual library markings (spine label, classification stamp, barcode) Category: Football Price: £27.55, not including post and packing, which is Amazon UK's standard charge (currently £2.80 for UK buyers, more for oeverseas customers)	Cain, Tubal. 'Building the Overcrank Engine Georgina', published in 1981 by MAP, pbk, 54pp, ISBN 0852427470. Condition: Very good condition clean copy, almost like new. Category:Hobbies: Model Engineering For contents, click here Price: £12.00, not including p&p, which is Amazon's standard charge (currently £2.75 for UK buyers & more for overseas customers)