R Whitcombe (28 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Reprint. 127 pages. No dustjacket. SHABBY - spine covering is split with losses, binding very stained, heavy wear to boards' corners, ink writing to flyleafdated 1946. Page-edges yellowed o/w pages clean.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 18.5x12.5cm. First edition, dated from Author's Note. pp(10)134 with caricature frontispiece of the author, and numerous in-text instructional and comic illustrations. Original red cloth, backstrip titled in gilt. Backstrip moderately faded, gilt dull. Front cover faintly marked adjacent to lower edge, slightly bumped at upper outer corner, and with patches of minor cloth-lift towards fore-edge and lower inner corner. Flyleaves at both front and rear faintly toned, pastedowns with a little paper residue from an unknown source. Edges of text-block a little toned. Contents clean and tight. GOOD+ copy.

Softcover. 8vo., Exploitation film criticism. Explores exploitation as presented in the Western and the horror film by assessing the worlds of Hitchcock and Polanski. Very Good in color illustrated wraps.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Date unstated Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:

Reprint. Slim 8vo. Illustrated. with 30 photographs. Original laminated pictorial boards, rubbed and worn at extremities, lacking small portions from head and tail of spine, affecting text. Inner hinge cracked, pp.64 has red ink underlining to 2 lines of text and a red ink line in the margin o/w Good reading copy only.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Reprinted hard cover book in good- condition with dust jacket in fair condition. Creasing and numerous tears and chips to all edges of foxed jacket. Book slightly rolled with creasing to spine. Pages tanned throughout. 12mo. 127pp.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. For more than a century, The Wizard of Oz has been presented as a harmless children's story-a fantasy of colour, courage, and homecoming. Its repeated retelling has rendered it familiar, comforting, and largely unquestioned. Generations have grown up with its images and phrases, encountering it early and revisiting it often.This book takes that familiarity as its starting point rather than its conclusion.The Wizard of Oz: How a Children's Tale Exposes the Modern Illusion does not argue that L. Frank Baum set out to write a secret political tract, nor that the story contains a coded manifesto waiting to be decoded. Instead, it advances a more limited and historically grounded claim: that stories absorb the conditions of the worlds in which they are written, and that some narrative structures endure because they continue to align with how authority, perception, and reassurance are organised in everyday life.Written in a calm, investigative style, the book examines how Oz operates internally before widening the lens outward. It traces the story's reliance on guided paths, mediated perception, distant authority, symbolic rewards, and carefully managed closure. Each element is examined for what it does within the narrative rather than what it is presumed to "mean."Particular attention is given to how exposure functions in the story. The Wizard is revealed, the spectacle collapses, and yet the system remains intact. Resolution is delivered not through transformation, but through reassurance. Experience is acknowledged, then neutralised. Memory persists, but consequence dissolves.From the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City, from the enforced spectacles to the curtain itself, the analysis proceeds step by step. The book then follows the story's logic beyond Oz, examining why similar arrangements remain familiar in modern contexts. Education systems, courts, banks, corporations, bureaucracies, and media environments are discussed not as conspiracies, but as ordinary institutions shaped by efficiency, abstraction, procedure, and continuity.Throughout, the emphasis remains descriptive rather than prescriptive. No solutions are proposed. No call to action is issued. The book does not argue that understanding leads to reform, nor that clarity produces change. It distinguishes function from intention and observation from advocacy.Instead, it offers a way of looking. The final sections explore what it means to see without enforced lenses-how discernment differs from rebellion, why truth often appears quietly rather than dramatically, and why systems that are widely recognised nevertheless continue to operate. The analysis closes not with instruction, but with orientation.For readers interested in cultural analysis, media literacy, and the mechanics of modern authority, this book provides a careful examination of why The Wizard of Oz still works-and why, once its structure is recognised, its logic is difficult to unsee. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This Book has also been published as The Broxtowe Illusion: Ritual Abuse, Inquiry, and the Making of a Moral PanicThe Broxtowe case is often remembered for its dramatic allegations, but its real significance lies in what it reveals about how institutions think, investigate, and fail. THE SATANIC ERROR: How Institutions Created a Moral Panic - A Documentary History is a precise, fully documented examination of Britain's most influential and misunderstood child-protection investigation and the chain of events that followed it across the 1980s and 1990s.Drawing on the suppressed Joint Enquiry Team (JET) report, the official La Fontaine inquiry, contemporary records, and the professional culture of the period, G. R. Whitcombe reconstructs how a case of multigenerational familial abuse was gradually overlaid with an interpretive narrative of "ritual" and "satanic" activity-despite the absence of corroborating evidence. The book shows how interview errors, imported therapeutic theories, organisational pressures, and asymmetric information allowed an interpretive model to flourish inside institutions while the corrective findings remained out of sight.From Nottingham to Rochdale, the Orkney Islands, and Ayr, Whitcombe traces how belief in hidden networks spread across agencies, influencing practice, training, and public perception. The book examines why the original findings were suppressed, how professional networks such as RAINS accelerated the narrative, and how the panic finally collapsed under national scrutiny. It also analyses why belief in concealed abuse persisted into the digital era, and how figures such as former detective Jon Wedger illustrate the post-panic shift from institutional evidence to personal testimony in public discourse.This is not a sensational account. It is a documentary study of institutional vulnerability: how interviewing methods became distorted, how memory was misunderstood, how warnings were ignored, and how well-intentioned professionals helped create one of late-twentieth-century Britain's most consequential safeguarding failures.The Satanic Error is essential reading for safeguarding practitioners, social-work educators, legal professionals, journalists, and anyone concerned with how public institutions handle complex allegations. Its central lesson is a simple one: safeguarding requires vigilance, but vigilance must be governed by evidence. When narrative outruns method, error This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardback. 1st Ed. Rubbed illus. boards with some wear to upper spine-end. 7.3" x 5". 127 pp. Illus: B/W photos throughout. Wt: 0.45 Kg. Good.

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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Whitcombe, C.R. (illustrator). Cream coloured card cover with illustration of the mill on the front. Illustrated with b/w photographs, maps and diagrams. Postage will be reduced as slim light book.

Golfing instructional from Whitcombe who won the 1938 Open playing in gale force winds in Sandwich. 128pp. Photographs in-text throughout. In original illustrated paper covered boards, some rubbing and spine a little cracked with minor losses. Good condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Both parts in one volume covering the basics of playing golf, written by the champion player of the 1920s and 30s and illustrated with nice explanatory drawings and diagrams. 8vo. 134pp. Cloth-covered boards. Spine and boards are lightly rubbed. Good condition.

Hb in Pictorial Dw 127pp mono illustrations SIGNED to fep by R.A. Whitcombe 14/2/39 1938 British Open Golf Champion with a score of +15 at Sandwich , Kent A Vg/Vg copy indeed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Red embossed boards with gilt ornamentation and lettering on spine are Very Good minus for age. Some edgewear but mostly on head and tail of spine. Brown endpapers with some light pencil marks on front pasted down endpaper and owner name and date "1896-7" on front loose endpaper. Hinge is lightly cracked between the two front endpapers. Textblock is gilded on all edges. Text has some age tanning but no foxing. Binding is still tight and true. Second revised and enlarged edition. Very scarce. book.

Pair of color printed aquatints, with hand-coloring, engraved by R. and D. Havell. Lovely pair of color aquatints depicting a naval battle between the British and French in the Adriatic Sea during the Napoleonic Wars. A pair of engravings from a suite of hand-colored plates recounting the Battle of Lissa on March 13, 1811. "The Battle of Lissa (sometimes called the Battle of Vis; French: Bataille de Lissa; Italian: Battaglia di Lissa; Croatian: Vika bitka) was a naval action fought between a British frigate squadron and a larger squadron of French and Italian frigates and smaller ships on 13 March 1811 during the Adriatic campaign of the Napoleonic Wars. The engagement was fought in the Adriatic Sea for possession of the strategically important island of Lissa (also known as Vis), from which the British squadron had been disrupting French shipping in the Adriatic. The French needed to control the Adriatic to supply a growing army in the Illyrian Provinces, and consequently dispatched an invasion force in March 1811 consisting of six frigates, numerous smaller craft and a battalion of Italian soldiers. The French invasion force under Bernard Dubourdieu was met by Captain William Hoste and his four ships based on the island. In the subsequent battle, Hoste sank the French flagship, captured two others, and scattered the remainder of the Franco-Venetian squadron. The battle has been hailed as an important British victory, due to both the disparity between the forces and the signal raised by Hoste, a former subordinate of Horatio Nelson. Hoste had raised the message "Remember Nelson" as the French bore down, and had then manoeuvred to drive Dubourdieu's flagship ashore and scatter his squadron in what has been described as "one of the most brilliant naval achievements of the war." (Wikipedia).

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This Book has also been published as The Broxtowe Illusion: Ritual Abuse, Inquiry, and the Making of a Moral PanicThe Broxtowe case is often remembered for its dramatic allegations, but its real significance lies in what it reveals about how institutions think, investigate, and fail. THE SATANIC ERROR: How Institutions Created a Moral Panic - A Documentary History is a precise, fully documented examination of Britain's most influential and misunderstood child-protection investigation and the chain of events that followed it across the 1980s and 1990s.Drawing on the suppressed Joint Enquiry Team (JET) report, the official La Fontaine inquiry, contemporary records, and the professional culture of the period, G. R. Whitcombe reconstructs how a case of multigenerational familial abuse was gradually overlaid with an interpretive narrative of "ritual" and "satanic" activity-despite the absence of corroborating evidence. The book shows how interview errors, imported therapeutic theories, organisational pressures, and asymmetric information allowed an interpretive model to flourish inside institutions while the corrective findings remained out of sight.From Nottingham to Rochdale, the Orkney Islands, and Ayr, Whitcombe traces how belief in hidden networks spread across agencies, influencing practice, training, and public perception. The book examines why the original findings were suppressed, how professional networks such as RAINS accelerated the narrative, and how the panic finally collapsed under national scrutiny. It also analyses why belief in concealed abuse persisted into the digital era, and how figures such as former detective Jon Wedger illustrate the post-panic shift from institutional evidence to personal testimony in public discourse.This is not a sensational account. It is a documentary study of institutional vulnerability: how interviewing methods became distorted, how memory was misunderstood, how warnings were ignored, and how well-intentioned professionals helped create one of late-twentieth-century Britain's most consequential safeguarding failures.The Satanic Error is essential reading for safeguarding practitioners, social-work educators, legal professionals, journalists, and anyone concerned with how public institutions handle complex allegations. Its central lesson is a simple one: safeguarding requires vigilance, but vigilance must be governed by evidence. When narrative outruns method, error This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. For more than a century, The Wizard of Oz has been presented as a harmless children's story-a fantasy of colour, courage, and homecoming. Its repeated retelling has rendered it familiar, comforting, and largely unquestioned. Generations have grown up with its images and phrases, encountering it early and revisiting it often.This book takes that familiarity as its starting point rather than its conclusion.The Wizard of Oz: How a Children's Tale Exposes the Modern Illusion does not argue that L. Frank Baum set out to write a secret political tract, nor that the story contains a coded manifesto waiting to be decoded. Instead, it advances a more limited and historically grounded claim: that stories absorb the conditions of the worlds in which they are written, and that some narrative structures endure because they continue to align with how authority, perception, and reassurance are organised in everyday life.Written in a calm, investigative style, the book examines how Oz operates internally before widening the lens outward. It traces the story's reliance on guided paths, mediated perception, distant authority, symbolic rewards, and carefully managed closure. Each element is examined for what it does within the narrative rather than what it is presumed to "mean."Particular attention is given to how exposure functions in the story. The Wizard is revealed, the spectacle collapses, and yet the system remains intact. Resolution is delivered not through transformation, but through reassurance. Experience is acknowledged, then neutralised. Memory persists, but consequence dissolves.From the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City, from the enforced spectacles to the curtain itself, the analysis proceeds step by step. The book then follows the story's logic beyond Oz, examining why similar arrangements remain familiar in modern contexts. Education systems, courts, banks, corporations, bureaucracies, and media environments are discussed not as conspiracies, but as ordinary institutions shaped by efficiency, abstraction, procedure, and continuity.Throughout, the emphasis remains descriptive rather than prescriptive. No solutions are proposed. No call to action is issued. The book does not argue that understanding leads to reform, nor that clarity produces change. It distinguishes function from intention and observation from advocacy.Instead, it offers a way of looking. The final sections explore what it means to see without enforced lenses-how discernment differs from rebellion, why truth often appears quietly rather than dramatically, and why systems that are widely recognised nevertheless continue to operate. The analysis closes not with instruction, but with orientation.For readers interested in cultural analysis, media literacy, and the mechanics of modern authority, this book provides a careful examination of why The Wizard of Oz still works-and why, once its structure is recognised, its logic is difficult to unsee. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.