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3ft single bed mattress by land of beds - brand new in white, still in original wrappingi have replaced my bed base but kept my specialist mattress hence this one for salefirst to see will buy read more90cm x 200cm pocket sprung "gabriella"
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In topeka, kansas, transformations of land and life prompt a lawsuit that culminates in the momentous civil rights case of brown vabraham lincoln, an unlettered citizen from the countryside, steers the union through a moment of extreme peril, guided by his clear-eyed vision of nature's capacity for improvementamong the historical moments revisited here, a revolutionary nation arises from its environment and struggles to reconcile the diversity of its people with the claim that nature is the source of libertyrevisiting historical icons so familiar that schoolchildren learn to take them for granted, he makes surprising connections that enable readers to see old stories in a new lightin these pages, the nation's birth and development, pain and sorrow, ideals and enduring promise come to life as never before, making a once-familiar past seem newthe republic of nature points to a startlingly different version of history that calls on readers to reconnect with fundamental forces that shaped the american experienceoxfam bookshop knutsford in the dramatic narratives that comprise the republic of nature, mark fiege reframes the canonical account of american history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurredfor more information, visit the author's website: http://republicofnatureby focusing on materials and processes intrinsic to all things and by highlighting the nature of the united states, fiege recovers the forgotten and overlooked ground on which so much history has unfoldedcom/ see oxfam website for delivery information read moreboard of education
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Players enter the world of narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter by the evil powers of the malevolent and evil white witchthese four unlikely heroes must battle the evil forces of the white witch by waging war against a vast variety of creatures, including centaurs, minotaurs, minoboars, cyclops, werewolves, wraiths, ankleslicers, wolves, satyrs, boggles and moreit will become the destiny of four young siblings from our world: peter, susan, edmund and lucy pevensie to work together and use their unique combat skills, weaponry and abilities to defeat the witch and her armies and save narniain order to end this frigid captivity and free his people, the mighty lion aslan, true ruler of narnia, invokes an ancient prophecysee oxfam website for delivery information read more• live the epic adventure while playing as one of four heroes (lucy, peter, edmond, susan) in a team-based action adventure • battle the evil forces of the white witch by waging war against a huge variety of creatures, including centaurs, minotaurs, minoboars and more • utilise the unique combat skills, weaponry and special moves of each character to fight and fend off hordes of dark mythical beasts, or solve intricate puzzles and progress through the adventure • two-player action featuring all four characters • seamless game play integration of film footage with music and voice talent plus unlockable secrets to open exclusive content and moreoxfam shop clitheroe the chronicles of narnia: the lion, the witch and the wardrobe is a definitive action adventure based on the walt disney pictures and walden media film capturing the renowned and beloved book series from author c
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Crossing the land of grasslolos and miao-tzethe tibetan borderlandthe country of the loloscontents: introduction, the object of the missionfrom hanoi to sze-chuanplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitearrival in pekincatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablesecond impression october (after: first edition april )the heart of the great cold mountainsthe gate of tibetare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiattacked by the tibetans - lhbrangtranslated from french by bernard miallfrom tibet into mongoliaour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storerock-sculptureswith the road map (two pages included in the binding)with 41 illustrations and images - luxury edition with a decorated binding (other copies have a blue linen binding)condition: good copy with only minor foxing - the flyleaves have strongly browned - the book block is uncut - a few pages with images are (partly) loosethe last of the independent territory
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New states emerged from the great european land empires, while germany's african and pacific colonies, and the ottoman provinces in the middle east fell into allied handsat the paris peace conference of , the allies agreed reluctantly to govern their new conquests according to international and humanitarian norms and under 'mandate' from the league of nationsdrawing on research in four continents and dozens of archives, and bringing to life a global network of nationalists, humanitarians, international bureaucrats, and imperial statesmen, the guardians offers an entirely new interpretation of the importance of international organizations in the emergence of the modern world orderoxfam bookshop bath a paperback in very good conditionthe pages are clean and tight and appear unreadminor signs of shelf wearcolonial nationalists and humanitarians exploited new rights of petition or opportunities for publicity to expose abuses or scandals; germans resentful of the loss of their colonies and italians eager to found a new empire arrived in geneva to demand a repartition of the spoilsas imperial politicians wearied of continual scandals and crises - revolts in south west africa, syria, samoa, and palestine; famine in rwanda; labour abuses in new guinea; extortionate oil contracts in iraq - they began to question whether independent states might be easier to deal with than territories subject to international scrutinysee oxfam website for delivery information read morebritain, france, belgium, japan, and the british dominions wanted to keep the new states, but woodrow wilson and the millions converted to the ideal of self-determination thought otherwiseas the guardians shows, this decision had enormous consequencesthe allies sought to use the league to safeguard imperial authority, but that authority was undermined by the mechanisms for international oversight they had themselves createdthe first world war threw the imperial order into crisis
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham in the early 's the village of montaillou & the surrounding mountainous region of southern france was full of hereticswhen jacquest fournier, bishop of pamiers, launched an elaborate inquisition to stamp them out, the peasants & shepherds he interrogated revealed, along with their position on official catholicism, many details of their everyday lifesee oxfam website for delivery information read morebasing his absorbing study on these vivid, carefully recorded statements of peasants who lived more than 600 years ago--pierre clergue, the powerful village priest & shameless womanizer is even heard explaining his techniques of seduction--eminent historian le roy ladurie reconstructs the economy & social structure of the community & probes the most intimate aspects of medieval life: love & marriage, gestures & emotions, conversations & gossip, clans & factions, crime & violence, concepts of time & space, attitudes to the past, animals, magic & folklore, death & beliefs about the other world
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Oxfam books & music durham what happened to the allied armies in normandy in the months after d-day, ? why, after the initial success of the landings, did their advance stall a few miles inland from the beaches? why did the british take so long to capture caen? why did the us infantry struggle so much in the bocage south of omaha beach? who was right about the conduct of the land campaign - eisenhower or montgomery? how did the germans, deprived of air support, manage to hold off such a massive allied force for more than two months? and if enigma was allowing the allies to read german battleplans, why did things go wrong as often as they did?the battle of normandy re-examines the demands and difficulties of the campaign and sheds new light on both with the aid of accounts from veterans on both sidescontroversial and at times catastrophic, the battle of normandy was the last great set-piece battle in history and is long overdue for reassessment(oral history forms a large part of the book) it also analyses in detail the plans and performance of the commanders involved: eisenhower, bradley, patton, montgomery, crerar and, of course, rommelsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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One english critic called the abolition of britain "an elegant jeremiad" in which peter hitchens identifies everything that has gone wrong with britain since world war ii and makes the case for "those many millions who feel that they have become foreigners in their own land and wish with each succeeding day that they could turn the clock backoxfam bookshop cheltenham a surprise best seller in england, the abolition of britain is bitingly witty and fiercely argued, yet also filled with somber appreciation for what "the idea of england" has always meant to the west and to the world at large" see oxfam website for delivery information read more"writing with passion and flair, hitchens targets the pernicious effects of tv culture, the "corruption and decay" of the english language, the loss of politeness, and the "syrupy confessional mood" brought on by the death of diana, which hitchens contrasts with the somber national response to the death of winston churchilllooking at the changed face of his country, hitchens finds a "politically correct zeal for the new" whose impact on daily life has been "as devastating in effect, if not in violence, as mao tse tung's cultural revolution in chinathe new britain is government by focus group in which people are told what to feel as a way of preventing them from asking how they want to be governedif there is a term that summarizes everything that has gone wrong in britain, it is "tony blairism," which hitchens sees as having rewritten england's history, trivialized its journalism, subverted its educational system and cultural standards, and overthrown accepted notions of patriotism, faith, and morality
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It also includes a full explanation of the scope of powers to acquire land compulsorily and the exercise of the powers and principles of compensationthis authoritative new book is your single accessible volume to this complex and wide-ranging area of the lawthere is some little shelf wear and a few marks to the page edge on the bottomthe practical structure, style and indexing ensures that the relevant statutory provisions and cases to the matters in issue are easy to findthis is a first edition in a very good conditionthe law of compulsory purchase sets out the practice, procedure, policy and valuation of a compulsory purchaseit both simplifies what can be simplified and explains with clarity the difficult areasthis book should be on the desk of every practitioner who has to advise upon this branch of law and every advocate who has to present a case in which it ariseswritten in convenient narrative form, it contains full cross-referencing to the relevant cases, statutory provision and policy circularsoxfam bookshop hampstead the law of compulsory purchase by guy roots being spread across several statutes of varying antiquity and many judicial decisions, the law relating to compulsory purchase and compensation can appear dauntingsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefind the answers you need quickly and easilyit provides a summarised statement of the law, complete with footnotes to enable you to access further information
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Taking a comparative national perspective, the book examines agricultural practices in a broad sense, including the practices and disciplines devoted to land management, forestry, soil science, and the improvement and management of crops and livestockoxfam books & music crouch end this volume explores problems in the history of science at the intersection of life sciences and agriculture, from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centurythe life sciences considered include genetics, microbiology, ecology, entomology, forestry, and deal with us, european, russian, japanese, indonesian, chinese contextsthe book shows that the investigation of the border zone of life sciences and agriculture raises many interesting questions about how science developswithout close attention to this zone it is not possible to understand the emergence of new disciplines and transformation of old disciplines, to evaluate the role and impact of such major figures of science as humboldt and mendel, or to appreciate how much of the history of modern biology has been driven by national ambitions and imperialist expansion in competition with rival nationssee oxfam website for delivery information read morein particular it challenges one to re-examine and take seriously the intimate connection between scientific development and the practical goals of managing and improving - perhaps even recreating - the living world to serve human ends
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But now the power-mad emperor jagang confronts richard with a swift and inexorable foe: a mystical plague cutting a deadly swath across the land and slaying thousands of innocent victimsemperor of the d'haran empire, war wizard, the seeker of truth--none of these roles mean as much to him as his newest: husband to his beloved kahlan amnell, mother confessor of the midlandsseparated and fighting for their lives, richard and kahlan will be tested to the utmostthis is a boxed set of 3 booksgood condition overallthis mass market boxed set is the second bundle in the bestselling the sword of truth series by terry goodkindbook covers creased, slight yellowing to pages, spines creased and bridgedit includes volumes 4-6: temple of the winds, soul of the fire, and faith of the fallenbook 4: temple of the winds wielding the sword of truth, richard rahl has battled death itself and come to the defense of the d'haran peoplebut their wedding day is the key that unlocks a spell sealed away long ago in a faraway countryoxfam bookshop glossop road some shelf wear to boxbook 5: soul of the fire richard rahl has traveled far from his roots as a simple woods guidesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreunwilling to heed an ancient prophecy, kahlan raises an army and goes into battle against forces threatening armed insurrection in the midlandsrichard heads into the old world with cara, the mord-sith, while his beloved kahlan remains behindnow a deadly power pours forth that threatens to turn the world into a lifeless wastebook 6: faith of the fallen emperor jagang is rising once again in the old world and richard must face him, on his own turf
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Schweid helps us to appreciate the broader message of the narrative of creation and settlement of the land in its ecumenical and planetary dimensionsthe approach draws at the same time from the philosophical modernism of hermann cohen, the dialogical philosophy of buber, the religious phenomenology of heschel, and the insights of contemporary biblical scholars, including literary analysts of the bibleoxfam bookshop glossop road very good condition, no marks or wear the fundamental book of eliezer schweid is a modern interpretation of the bible as narrative and law which can reopen the dialogue of contemporary jews with the bible, from which a dynamic jewish culture can continue to draw its inspirationsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe world is gods creation, and its resources are to be deployed as necessary for the sustenance and need-fulfillment of all peoples and all creatures equally a message very much relevant to the ecological crisis facing us all at the present time
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This beautiful panel shows the friends, the tin man and the scarecrow adventuring through the woods and coming across the field mice who live in the magical land of ozare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithe fabulous colour palette highlights the fantasy mood of the story, whilst the figure drawing, composition and exquisite line work highlight this artist’s talenta very rare chance to bid on a panel from georgio trevisan's adaptation of classic 'the wizard of oz' for the comic 'princess tina'the mice all live very close to the field of deadly poppies and mostly stay undergrounditalian artist trevisan moved to milan and joined the studio d’ami agency, from here he worked extensively for british comics and war picture libraries, illustrating many adaptations of literature including ‘a dog of flanders’ by marie louise de la ramée (ouida), the ugly duckling by the brothers grimm, and also stories of sherlock holmes during the sthey aren’t a unique race of rodents who can talk and live on the outskirts between the munchkin country border and the emerald cityplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storetrevisan is now highly regarded for his work for tarot card designsan elegant black mount has been cut and is provided with this piece, however the piece has not been attached to the mount as this leaves room for personal choicethey are all ruled by a mouse queen, whom the tin woodman savescatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Praise for harry sidebottom:'sidebottom's prose blazes with searing scholarship' the times'the best sort of red-blooded historical fiction' andrew taylor, author of the american boydrharry sidebottom is fellow of st benets hall, and lecturer at lincoln college, oxford - where he specializes in ancient warfare and classical artoxfam bookshop hertford warrior of rome: the wolves of the north by harry sidebottom marks the start of a new trilogy within the warrior of rome seriesas ballista and his retinue make their journey, someone - or something - is hunting them, picking them off one by one, and leaving a trail of terror and mutilated corpsesin the north, the tribes are increasingly bold in their raids on the imperium - their savagery unlike anything rome has known beforehe must face the heruli - the most bizarre and brutal of all the nomad tribes - the eaters of flesh, the wolves of the northsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreballista is in a strange land, among strange people, but is it possible that the greatest threat may come from within his own familia?dr harry sidebottom is a leading authority on ancient warfare - he applies his knowledge with a spectacular flair for sheer explosive action and knuckle-whitening dramafans of bernard cornwell will love sidebottom's recreation of the ancient worldballista must undertake his most treacherous journey yet - a covert attempt to turn the barbarians of the steppe against each otherad263 - barbarian invasions and violent uprisings threaten to tear apart the imperium of rome
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Externally the bottom right corner of the front cover has been creased and the is some slight signs of edge wear on the front and back covershis starting point is the arrival of the first visitors to the cape, the portugeuse, innoel mostert vivdly recounts this momentous story and its appalling aftermath - the self-immolation of the xhosaoxfam books & music beeston this book is in very good conditionin an epilogue he observes that the end of the wars did not mean the end of the agony, but rather a legacy of pain and anger that to this day shapes south african society the story of the nine 'kaffir' wars, fought in the 18th and 19th centuries between the whites and the xhosa nation, form the heart of this astonishing bookinternally all the pages are clean, tight and unmarkedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein a comparatively small area of land, eastwards from the cape, on territory demarcated by the great fish and the great kai riversit was here that the crucial frontier was variously to be found - the volatile border where colonial expansion met local intransigence and brutal warfare proved the only solution to the impasse
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Soon, the amazon princess finds herself in a world she never knew existed-america, a land of untold wonders that also finds itself threatened by a great war abroadand in order to defeat this powerful enemy, the princess of peace must become the hero she was meant to beand lose everything in the processshe must become wonder woman! with gorgeous art, a period setting and contemporary flair, writer/artist renae de liz (the last unicorn), with help from artist ray dillon (noble causes), stunningly retells the origin of the greatest superheroine the world has ever known! collects the legend of wonder woman 1-9in order to get back home, diana and her new friends steve trevor and etta candy must head into the war zone and find the nazi agent known as the duke of deception, who wields a powerful artifact that belongs to hippolytabut the balance is upset when hippolyta is granted what no immortal may have: a child, given life from the clay of the islandbut when a man from the outside world is brought to themyscira as part of a conspiracy to overthrow its queen, diana will risk everything to save his innocent lifesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music perth the beginning of a legend! on the hidden island of themyscira, the amazons, led by queen hippolyta, live in a kingdom of peace, protected by the godsshe is the princess diana, who alone can sense the evil that is infesting the amazon's home
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The simpsons big portfolio of 4 scenes original drawings from the episode 'the girl who slept too little' with milton burkhart's book "the land of the wild beasts" original and unique pieceare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithe works belongs to the process of creating one the sequences of one episode of the famous cartoon seriegood condition with the signs and normal wear of a drawing used in animation productionplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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For example, how does one create an original work when the 'new' has already been established, marketed and institutionalised? rod rosenquist's study focuses on the writers and poets who emerged after modernism's high-water mark year of , in which ulysses, the waste land and the early cantos were publishedcontaining illuminating examinations of wyndham lewis, laura riding and henry miller, this study will be invaluable reading for those interested in modernism and its complicated legacyoxfam bookshop canterbury rod rosenquist cambridge university press (30 augseeking to refine our own understanding of the high modernists through the frequent difficulties encountered by the generation that succeeded them, this study discusses issues of cultural value, the relationship of history to innovation, and the market for new works in an era already dominated by the likes of joyce, eliot and poundmodernism remains deeply connected to ideas of innovation, and this has created problems for successive generations of writersan as new unread copy see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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When the army clothing function was privatised, the duke of westminster offered the land for developmentthe successful bidder was fred fthe book charts the square's changing ownership and eventual creation of the dolphin square trust, which managed the flats on a non-profit-making basis for 40 yearsfrench, the swashbuckling new york property developer, who had plans to produce in london something like his large-scale apartment complexes in tudor city and knickerbocker villageoxfam bookshop victoria blending social history with pioneering architecture and business analysis, dolphin square provides a detailed history of the london landmark and its antecedentshowever, he was unable to raise funds in the aftermath of the great depression, and the project was taken on by a british builder, costain, inconceived as a speculative housing project and later catering for mps, peers and entertainers required to work in london, this book tells the story of the dolphin square project and also captures what it has been like to live in the square for figures including ellen wilkinson, alistair darling, william hague, mo mowlam, sir david steel, christine keeler, sid james, barbara windsor and princess annethe trust's unique blend of quasi-charitable purpose and commercial management enabled long-standing tenants to enjoy below-market rentals before the trust came under immense pressure to realise the value of the existing leases and sell them off inbuilt on a massive scale to a high density in the mid-s, it was a pioneering example of concrete design, and when completed was the largest single residential building in europesee oxfam website for delivery information read moredolphin square breaks new ground in providing a detailed examination of a major example of urban property speculation and managementfrom to it was the site of the royal army clothing depot, which produced uniforms for the british and other armed forcesdolphin square - the large, imposing red brick building on the north bank of the thames - was and is no ordinary block of flatsthe book begins with the antecedents of the seven-acre site, which was first occupied by the workshops of thomas cubitt, when he developed pimlico and belgravia
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In the making of the british landscape, eminent historian, archaeologist and farmer, francis pryor explains how to read these clues to understand the history of our land and of how people have lived on it throughout timecovering both the urban and rural and packed with pictures, maps and drawings showing everything from how we can still pick out bronze age fields on bodmin moor to how the industrial revolution really changed our landscape, this book makes us look afresh at our surroundings and really see them for the first timefrom the suburban streets that still trace out the boundaries of long vanished farms to the norfolk broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded, from the ceremonial landscapes of stonehenge to the spread of the railways - evidence of how man's effect on britain is everywheresee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop ludlow this is the story of britain as it has been preserved in fields, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands
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He was a native of ithaca, called the land of the sun, and is one of the achaean heroes described and narrated by homer in the iliad and in the odysseyulysses is a character of greek mythologyare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithe original copy of this statue was discovered in sperlonga at the villa of tiberius in the sulysses head - from the polyphemus groupthe bronze copy, produced with the lost wax technique, was made out of a cast of the original one in the early 20th century by a historical foundry in naples, the chiurazzi foundryplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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It shows the whole of human civilization under threat, as terrifying, tentacled martians land in england, build gigantic killing machines, destroy all in their path with black gas and burning rays and feast on the warm blood of trapped, still-living human preyedited by patrick parrinder with an introduction by brian aldiss and notes by andy sawyer see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham 'the classic tale of alien invasion, and still the best' the timesthe first modern depiction of extra-terrestrials attacking the earth, the war of the worlds remains one of the most influential of all science-fiction worksthe forces of the earth, however, may prove harder to beat than they at first appear
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Both book and dust jacket are slightly bumped at extremities, but the jacket is wonderfully glossy, the binding is sound and tight, the contents of the book are close to as new, and the jacket is not price-clippedoxfam bookshop henley-on-thames sennen can lay claim to being the first and last parish in britain, sited at the most westerly tip of cornwall, it is a landscape of coves, farms, and hamlets, and includes the famous promontory of land's end which, over the centuries, has attracted thousands of visitorsincluding list of subscribersa close-knit community grew up in this once remote parish and a strong sense of friendship and family ties continues to this daythe community spirit endures in sennen, and through memories and a rich harvest of photographs, a way of life that is fast disappearing is celebrated and preserved in this booksee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe sea has played a vital part in the life of the parish with fisherman gaining a tough living from it and the lifeboat, coastguards and lighthouse keepers have all been part of its proud maritime tradition
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land of dragons, small lakes dragon k041 tudor mint dragon no chips, flaws or damage (like new) postage is available at an extra charge
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land of promise - bfi 4 disc box set + 94 page book - like new condition - e
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Advanced dungeons and dragons d&d ex2 the land beyond the magic mirror
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Title: trouble in the landblack 47 - blood is thicker than water 4:40black 47 - touched by fire 4:49black 47 - delirious 4:04black 47 - bobby kennedy 4:34black 47 - bodhrans on the brains 4:01black 47 - those saints 4:42
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Brown leather sofa and chaise, both originally from land of leatherchaise 70’’ wide and 38’’ deepexcellent condition, these have been in a room that was barely usedcollection from preston brook, runcornmeasurements are as follows: sofa 68’’ wide, 38’’ deep
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