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	Prince of Vienna, Oscar Strauss, Music, signed, 1955         ...		0 bids	£24.95 ($49.95)	0m 38s~
	Rare Arthur Rackham's Comus (1921) - First Edition         ...		11 bids	$177.5	0m 43s~
	DER FUEHRER BY KONRAD HEIDEN H/B 1944         ...		0 bids	$4.95	1m 20s~
	New World A-Coming-Inside Black America-Ottley-FE-1943         ...		0 bids	$9.99	1m 43s~
	"Corrective Photography" Lewis L Kellsey 1st ed HB 1947         ...		0 bids	$59.99	2m 06s~
	Archbishop of Cambray, Adventures of Telemachus, 1750         ...		4 bids	£8.1 ($16.22)	3m 07s~
	HITLER VS. ROOSEVELT BY THOMAS BAILEY AND PAUL RYAN D/J         ...		0 bids	$4.95	4m 22s~
	"American Silversmiths & Their Marks" Stephen G C Ensko         ...		0 bids	$3.99	5m 25s~
	Four Vintage One Act Plays 1937 to 1946         ...		0 bids	£1.5 ($3.0)	7m 43s~
	FROM HERE TO ETERNITY BY JAMES JONES H/B         ...		0 bids	$4.95	7m 55s~
	"Claymont's Kitchen Secrets" 1951 (Claymont, Delaware)         ...		0 bids	$6.99	9m 56s~
	Carlyle. French Revolution Vol 1. The Bastille c1889         ...		0 bids	£15.0 ($30.03)	11m 32s~
	1930 The Winmore & Other Stories by Florence Morgan W/J         ...		0 bids	$0.25	11m 34s~
	GARRISON/PSYCHOLOGY OF ADOLESCENCE/1941 5th ED/MINT         ...		0 bids	£29.99 ($60.04)	11m 40s~
	HITLER FROM POWER TO RUIN BY BENJAMIN APPEL D/J H/B         ...		0 bids	$4.95	12m 03s~
	THE SECRET OF THE LOST CITY LIONEL SURREY HB 1939         ...		0 bids	£2.99 ($5.99)	12m 05s~
	YELLOW JACKET- THE AVENGING RAY - SEAMARK JUL 1936         ...		1 bid	£2.49 ($4.99)	12m 15s~
	1958 The William Saroyan by &Intro.William Saroyan 1stE         ...		4 bids	$1.75	12m 35s~
	1969 The Waterfall by Margaret Drabble 1stEdit/Jacket         ...		0 bids	$0.25	13m 14s~
	Horse+Buggy Days w/Uncle Sam-Paynter-1943-Black Author         ...		1 bid	$9.99	14m 27s~
	1922 Journeys Through 4 Booklands by Charles Sylvester         ...		3 bids	$1.26	14m 52s~
	Centennial Souvenir & History of Washington Lodge 1893         ...		0 bids	$19.98	14m 53s~
	From Estate- 2 Books -Shop Mathmatics 1931 & Steel 1940         ...		0 bids	$3.99	16m 30s~
	IS PARIS BURNING BURNING? -LARRY COLLINS,D.LAPIERRE D/J         ...		0 bids	$4.95	16m 32s~
	Caernarvonshire-Volume 2 Central Rare in this condition         ...		0 bids	£5.0 ($10.01)	16m 51s~
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1936 HANDWRITTEN JERUSALEM DIARY young british girl "a recording angel" witness to arab terror campaign         ...

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Note: this is an original, historically significant handwritten diary by a young British girl who observes and records the atrocities of the first Arab uprising. As such this is guaranteed to be authentic and not a copy, replica or facsimile. THE DIARY OFDOREEN C. Evidential to the roots of Middle Eastern terror, this is the extraordinary handwritten diary of Miss Doreen M. C., daughter of General and Mrs. J. C., sister of Cynthia. This British family witnesses the very beginnings of the modern era of Middle East tensions and terrorism having been residents of Jerusalem from January 1st to mid-June of 1936. Doreen writes one of the most exciting, insightful and well written diaries we have ever come across. A girl of 16 or 17 we estimate (too young for boys - she detests them - and too old for the usual games that girls play [paraphrase]) writes of her time spent travelling throughout British mandated Palestine recording daily her comings and goings and more importantly all that goes on around her. She also does a great job drawing maps and other illustrations to further enhance her writings. In a handwritten copy of a 1963 letter to the famed Leonard Mosley of the Sunday Times found in the book she admits to having in 1936 a passion for keeping a large diary; I wrote down incidents of the strike, riots, and daily murders and ambushes like a recording angel! She is being very modest. Historians and buffs will recognize 1936 as a very intense, very interesting an ...