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Tom Quinn has written 45 work(s)
Product Description: Following the recent discovery of a treasure trove of original photographs by John Tarlton, the author Tom Quinn has collated the collection into a fascinating and nostalgic tour of the English countryside from the turn of the last century through to the late 1950s...read more
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9781904057673 | Swan Hill Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Following the recent discovery of a treasure trove of original photographs by John Tarlton, the author Tom Quinn has collated the collection into a fascinating and nostalgic tour of the English countryside from the turn of the last century through to the late 1950s.
Product Description: The first full-length study interpreting Celine's great novel through his traumatic war experience. As such, it makes an important contribution to Celine studies, to studies of memory and literature of the Great War, as well as to broader studies of war disrupted by twentieth-century trauma, memory and identity...read more
Hardcover:
9780773459380 | Edwin Mellen Pr, December 30, 2005, cover price $159.95 | About this edition: The first full-length study interpreting Celine's great novel through his traumatic war experience.
Throughout the ages, British culture has been obsessed with scandal. This book celebrates the people and places that have gained infamy over the centuries. Each of the nine chapters focuses on a different genre of 'scandal', from vice-ridden vicars to wild women. It covers well-known scandals and many lesser-known ones.
Hardcover:
9781843309673 | New Holland Pub Ltd, September 1, 2005, cover price $31.55 | About this edition: Throughout the ages, British culture has been obsessed with scandal.
Product Description: The history of science is littered with mad, bad, thoroughly astounding inventions. From the bicycle that required its rider to continually propel his head back and forth, to Professor Rayâs Nose-Adjusting Machine, this is the ultimate guide to the forgotten gems of scientific invention...read more
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9781861058263 | Trafalgar Square, March 30, 2005, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: The history of science is littered with mad, bad, thoroughly astounding inventions.
Product Description: Nowadays air travel is as routine as catching a bus. But before the war, it was truly extraordinary. A giant Handley-Page biplane bound for Paris, bouncing along Croydon Aerodromeâs grass runway, meant seat belts were primarily needed before take-off...read more
Hardcover:
9781854109378 | Aurum Pr Ltd, October 1, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Nowadays air travel is as routine as catching a bus.
Product Description: In this complete book on retrievers and their training, we enter the world of Tom Quinn, one of America's most successful breeders and trainers of bird dogs. Quinn explains the methods he has used in developing a remarkable series of champion retrievers, including his first Labrador bitch, Nakai Anny, who won honors as Field Champion and Amateur Field Champion, and is a member of the Retriever Hall of Fame...read more
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9781558217676 | Lyons Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $40.00
9780525932871 | E P Dutton, August 1, 1983, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Offers guidance on the selection of a retriever and explains how to train retrievers for hunting and competitions
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9781592281749 | Lyons Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In this complete book on retrievers and their training, we enter the world of Tom Quinn, one of America's most successful breeders and trainers of bird dogs.
Product Description: Now in a new gift edition, this collection is swimming with amusing, colorful, true tales that sound almost too fishy to be be believable From dead-sheep bait to whopper-sized catches ("It was this big!"), intoxicated trout, and flying pike, this collection presents the choicest gems of bizarre fishing facts...read more
Hardcover:
9781907554636 | Anova Books, September 1, 2012, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Now in a new gift edition, this collection is swimming with amusing, colorful, true tales that sound almost too fishy to be be believable From dead-sheep bait to whopper-sized catches ("It was this big!
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9781861055354 | Anova Books, January 1, 2003, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: From dead-sheep bait to whopper-sized catches ("It was this big!
Product Description: This follow-up to "Tales of the Old Railwaymen" features ten more railwaymen - all in their eighties or even nineties - looking back on a lifetime working on the railways, with a wealth of tales. These are memories of a long-lost era before World War II, when you could still follow quaint professions like under-shunter, wielding your 7-foot-long wooden shunting pole, or French polisher - lovingly polishing the wood-veneered interiors of Great Western Railway carriages - and when railway clerks stood in rows at sloping wooden desks appending "Your humble, obedient servant" in quill-pen to the bottom of every company letter...read more
Hardcover:
9781854108623 | Aurum Pr Ltd, September 1, 2002, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: This follow-up to "Tales of the Old Railwaymen" features ten more railwaymen - all in their eighties or even nineties - looking back on a lifetime working on the railways, with a wealth of tales.
Hardcover:
9780715301548 | David & Charles, July 1, 2001, cover price $28.99
Product Description: A celebration of all that is quirky about the way the British live, told through the words of a range of living eccentrics and some examples from the past. Figures include the former nun who now collects Lego sets, the car salesman who races lawnmowers and the inventor who rides a penny farthing...read more
Hardcover:
9780715303474 | David & Charles, July 1, 2001, cover price $28.99 | About this edition: A celebration of all that is quirky about the way the British live, told through the words of a range of living eccentrics and some examples from the past.
Paperback:
9780715308349 | David & Charles, July 1, 2001, cover price $14.99
Hardcover:
9780715305447 | David & Charles, July 1, 2001, cover price $28.99 | About this edition: Steam trains hold a nostalgic appeal for a great many people.
Product Description: Tea and tobacco, lace, silk and many other products were brought into almost every coastal region and the spirited away by river, road and mountain path. Meanwhile, from Scotland and Ireland, illegally distilled whisky found its way into England over the sea and across every inch of land border...read more
Hardcover:
9780715306963, titled "Smuggler's Tales" | David & Charles, July 1, 2001, cover price $28.99 | About this edition: Tea and tobacco, lace, silk and many other products were brought into almost every coastal region and the spirited away by river, road and mountain path.
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9780004720692 | Poc edition (Harpercollins Pub Ltd, November 1, 1998), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This guide comprises instructions to over 150 Irish dances, bringing together for the first time in a single volume, ceili, set, and two-handed country dances.
Product Description: Mad old colonels who took their trousers off before going elephant hunting, women poachers with terriers sewn into their underskirts, duck shooters chasing their quarry in helicopters - here they all in their vast and until now, long forgotten, eccentricity...read more
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9781861055002 | Robson Book Ltd, August 1, 1997, cover price $14.50 | About this edition: Mad old colonels who took their trousers off before going elephant hunting, women poachers with terriers sewn into their underskirts, duck shooters chasing their quarry in helicopters - here they all in their vast and until now, long forgotten, eccentricity.
Hardcover:
9781856950220 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, March 1, 1995), cover price $32.50
Paperback:
9780948253683, titled "Collecting Fishing Tackle: A Beginner's Guide" | Sportsmans Pr, December 1, 1994, cover price $22.99
Hardcover:
9780750900904 | Sutton Pub Ltd, June 1, 1993, cover price $30.00
Hardcover:
9780750900911 | Sutton Pub Ltd, November 1, 1992, cover price $28.00
Hardcover:
9780948253553 | Sportsmans Pr, July 1, 1992, cover price $45.00
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