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5247
The Fairbanks of Sheffield 1688 - 1848 - T Walter Hall
Price : £45.00
Publisher : Sheffield: J W Northend
Published : 1932
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
pp163, foldout genealogical tree, publisher's announcements. BW plates. Lavender card cover, fading about edges. Small quarto. Rough cut pages, heavy paper. Search our stock for related Sheffield records.
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5248
A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Charters and Instruments relating to lands near Sheffield in the counties of York, Derby, Nottingham and Lincoln with Genealogies and Notes - T Walter Hall
Price : £45.00
Publisher : Sheffield: J W Northend
Published : 1936
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
pp196, BW plates, publisher's announcements. Grey-green card cover, fading about edges, date 1936 handwritten. Small quarto. Rough cut pages, heavy paper. Author inscription inside front cover. Author's compliment slip pasted to FEP, with note "See pages ii and 10", paragraphs pencilled on said pages. T Walter Hall's address was 6 Gladstone Road, Sheffield 10. Search our stock for related Sheffield records.
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3234
The Crops (Morton's Handbooks of the Farm number III) - T. Bowick, J Bckman, W T Carrington
Price : £15.00
Publisher : London: Vinton
Published : 1892
Edition : 5th or later Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp148 + advertisments. Light brown cloth cover, with black lettering front and spine. PO name on title page. Minor inscription inside rep.
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3703
The Microscope and how to use it: a handbook for beginners New and Revised Edition illustrated with photo-micrographs - T. Charters White
Price : £45.00
Publisher : London: R Sutton
Published : 1893
Edition : 2nd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp133 + index + publisher's announcements. Fawn cloth binding with black lettering, spine and corners browned. Green endpapers, fep bearing inscription "M5" and small part of corner missing. PO inscription on title page. Thread bound. Frontispiece is tipped-in "foot of spider" "printed on Eastman's paper". Other tipped-in plates: flea, diatom (2 plates), spine of sea urchin, spiracle of dytiscus, parasites of common fowl, water flea, obisium. BW engraved illustrations throughout text.
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6926
The Prestige Treasures of Wedgwood - Tachibana, Yoko (editor)
Price : £100.00
Published : 2002
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
Itself a prestige volume,unpaginated full-colour on art paper bound in real cloth-covered boards, black with gilt lettering, illustrtaed dustjacket in Wedgwood Blue and gilt. Date is a guess, but post 2000.The subject is a brief celebratory history of the pottery company and its archive. Mainly in Japanese, with some titling in English.
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6765
The Crescent Moon - Tagore, Rabindranath (Translated from the Bengali by the author)
Price : £20.00
Publisher : Macmillan
Published : 1929
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp82. 8 colour plates. Octavo. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and illustration. Cover has light bumping to corners and ends of spine, but colour still bright. Internally VG+. This is the 1929 reprinting of the 1st edition.
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ABE-2857184501
The Landscape Garden in Scotland - Tait, A. A.
Price : £30.00
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Published : 1980
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Near Fine
Jacket : J
pp283. Small quarto. Green cloth binding with gilt lettering in illustrated DW (now in protective wrap). Our Ref 8032?
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5030
Pepys' Memoires of the Royal Navy, 1679-1688. - Tanner, J. R. (editor)
Price : £35.00
Publisher : Oxford at the Clarendon Press
Published : 1906
Binding : Soft
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Facsimile reprint of the edition of 1690, in limp imitation vellum wrappers which have some wear and rubbing, with soiling. Wear to head of spine. Internally clean, ex-Sheffield University History Dept. Library, with Sir C. H. Firth's signature to ffe, (Firth was the Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford), bookplate with cancelled stamp to front pastedown, and a few small circular stamps to the margins. 131 pages.
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6948
Works: A Compleat Melody, or the harmony of Sion and The Melody of the Heart, or, the Psalmist's Pocket Companion - Tans'ur, William
Price : £500.00
Publisher : London: James Hodges
Published : 1748
Edition : 5th or later Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Oblong format book recently rebound in full brown leather, with gilt to spine. [18],72;152;[8],8,80 pages. Part I, "A compleat melody" contains a general titlepage issued as the fifth edition. Part I, Books II and III have no edition statements and are dated 1743 and 1744, respectively. Part II, "The Melody of the Heart" is dated 1751. Separate title-page, dated 1748 for the "Works". Frontispiece portrait to the "Works" and to the "Melody of the Heart". Internally there is age toning, and some light soiling to a few pages, but overall the contents are clean.
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7706
Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft 1913 - Tapper, Oliver
Price : £45.00
Publisher : Putnam
Published : 1988
Edition : 2nd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a very good dustjacket,with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, illustrated throughout. 392 pages.
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1943
The tales the Letters Tell (Book III) - Tarrant, Margaret W.
Price : £12.00
Publisher : The Grant Educational Co. Ltd
Published : 1942
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Light brown boards with detail to front. 224pp in fine condition with colour and B&W illustrations by the author.
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6107
My Best Games of Chess, 1905-1954 - Tartakower, S. G.
Price : £30.00
Publisher : Dover Publications
Published : 1985
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Softcover book in very good condition, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding tight. 197 pages.
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5054
Thermal and Mechanical Distortions of Self-Acting Gas Bearing Gyroscopes - Tate, D.
Price : £40.00
Publisher : University of Leeds
Published : 1978
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp262 + plates, illustrations (some colour). A4 hardbound, black cloth binding with gilt lettering to front. A Ph. D. thesis submitted to the University of Leeds, apparently successfully as author is listed as a speaker on another tucked in document. Ex lib stamps inside front cover, label to spine.
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7804
Dragonflies of Hampshire - Taverner, Cham
Price : £30.00
Publisher : Pisces Publications
Published : 2004
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a very good dustjacket, with minor wear and rubbing. Internally clean,no marks or inscriptions. Illustrated. 136 pages.
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2325
Late Tudor and Early Stuart Geography 1583-1650 - Taylor, E. G. R.
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Methuen & Co
Published : 1934
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
A sequel to Tudor Geography, 1485-1583. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and embossed lettering to front. Orange paper dust jacket is faded to the spine and worn at the corners, but remains intact and near very good condition. (xiii)+ 322pp with 8 plates. Tiny spot stain to top edge of centre pages otherwise a tight and tidy copy.
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7703
Airspeed Aircraft since 1931 - Taylor, H. A.
Price : £75.00
Publisher : Putnam
Published : 1991
Edition : 2nd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Revised edition. Book in very good condition in a very good dustjacket,with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, illustrated throughout. 206 pages.
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6768
The Aquarium: Its Inhabitants, Structure and Management - Taylor, J E
Price : £42,5
Publisher : London: Hardwicke and Bogue
Published : 1876
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp316 + publisher's announcements. Octavo. Brown cloth binding with gilt illustration and lettering to front and spine. Wear to corners, ends and edges of spine. Early bookplate inside front cover, and pencilled name of later owner on reverse of endpaper. Gilt blocked pages, though not all pages square. Many BW illustrations.
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63
The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying - Taylor, Jeremy
Price : £75.00
Publisher : London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
Published : 1819
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
In full calf, which has been repaired along the joints with pared leather laid on rather than being rebacked. The binding overall is in very good condition, with some wear and rubbing. The rear inner hinge has been strengthened with a strip of matching marbled paper laid over the original. Internally clean, and the binding is tight. 288 pages.
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1004
Spitfire - Taylor, John W R and Allward, Maurice F
Price : £20.00
Publisher : Leicester: The Harborough Publishing Co Ltd, 1946
Published : 1946
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : J
G/Fair. 119pp. Crimson cover is rather marked and faded, pictorial dust jacket (now covered by protective plastic) has areas of loss at corners and base of spine, together with several nicks and tears along edges, and is rather grubby. A short history of the Spitfire fighter plane, dedicated to the 375 RAF pilots who died in the Battle of Britain. Profusely illustrated in b/w.
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4390
Family Walks Around Bakewell and Castleton - Taylor, Norman
Price : £3.00
Publisher : Cromford: Scarthin Books
Published : 1994
Edition : 2nd Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : New
Jacket : J
pp95. Please specify 2000 or 2006 revision. ** New book from its publishers at a special price **
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4391
Family Walks in the White Peak - Taylor, Norman
Price : £3.00
Publisher : Cromford: Scarthin Books
Published : 1985
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : New
Jacket : J
pp77. Please specify 2000 or 2006 revision. ** New book from its publishers at a special price **
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6550
Scenes in Europe for the Amusement and Instruction of little Tarry-at-Home Travellers - Taylor, Rev. Isaac
Price : £30.00
Publisher : London: J.Harris and Son
Published : 1820
Edition : 3rd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
A copy of the third edition in original quarter Morocco and illustrated paper-covered boards. The binding firm but the covers very rubbed, almost obliterating the printed designs and lettering on the front and back covers. The free endpapers have been removed, but the text leaves are all present. The hand-colored folding map has been repaired with archival tape on the back. The 28 pages of plates are all present and are ALL strongly hand-coloured. A classic of its type.
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1996
Anster Fair, A Poem in Six Cantos. with Other Poems - Tennant, William
Price : £16.00
Publisher : Edinburgh: Michael Anderson
Published : 1816
Edition : 3rd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Small 8vo.; viii+256 pages, plus two blank leaves at start, one at end.Blue black marbled endpapers, marbled page edges bound in full calf with double gilt panel toboards, and gilt title, bands and cartouches to spine. Contents very good, binding strong but worn with giltwork worn or dulled.
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8085
The Jewelled Garden - Tennenbaum, Suzanne; Zapata, Janet
Price : £32.00
Publisher : Thames and Hudson
Published : 2006
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : New
Jacket : J
Oblong format book still in shrinkwrap, never opened. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions. Will incur extra overseas postage; please enquire for rates.
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2674
Osiris Volume 7 Science after '40 - Thackray, Arnold , Editor
Price : £7.00
Publisher : Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Published : 1992
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Thick paperback journal issue, in very good condition.
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2677
Osiris Volume 1 (Second Series) - Thackray, Arnold , Editor
Price : £7.00
Publisher : Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Published : 1985
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Thick paperback journal issue, in very good condition.
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2678
Osiris Volume 2 (Second Series) - Thackray, Arnold , Editor
Price : £7.00
Publisher : Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Published : 1986
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Thick paperback journal issue, in very good condition.
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2679
Osiris Volume 3 (Second Series) - Thackray, Arnold , Editor
Price : £7.00
Publisher : Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Published : 1987
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Thick paperback journal issue, in very good condition.
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4954
The Trail of the Black and Tans - The Hurler on the Ditch
Price : £130.00
Publisher : Dublin: Talbot Press
Published : 1921
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp230. Maroon cloth binding with black lettering. DW has front illustration by J Quinn: DW spine worn at ends, and wear to corners. Front endpapers yellowing. No rear endpapers (as issued?). A very good copy at this price.
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2597
Road Tests of 1950 Cars - The Motor
Price : £15.00
Publisher : Temple Press
Published : 1950
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Fair
Jacket : No Jacket
pp94. A large magazine-sized publication, slightly stiffer cover, which is worn and torn particularly at the spine. Publisher's note apologizing for using poorer printing method. Review 30 cars including Austin A40, Ford Anglia, Hillman Minx and Vauxhall Velox. We are offering the 1950, 1951, 1953 ad 1954 issues separately.
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2598
Road Tests of 1951 Cars - The Motor
Price : £15.00
Publisher : Temple Press
Published : 1950
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Fair
Jacket : No Jacket
pp94. A large magazine-sized publication, slightly stiffer cover, which is worn and torn particularly at the spine. Review 25 cars including Ford Consul, Humber Hawk, Morris Minor and Jowett Jupiter. We are offering the 1950, 1951, 1953 ad 1954 issues separately.
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2792
The West Indian Islands "All Roads Lead to the Panama Canal": Part II of the Future of Tropical America - The Tropical Exploitation Syndicate
Price : £20.00
Publisher : London: The Tropical Exploitation Syndicate
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
pp60 + maps + plates. Approx 9 " by 11". (Originally supplied with "The Future of Tropical America". Grey card cover, slightly worn and faded, but generally good. Date probably 1914. Partly a financial prospectus, this is mainly an account of the islands of the West Indies, island by island. Of note is the reference to Redonda on page 35, which some still claim today does not exist.
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3910
H R H Prince Chula of Thailand - The Twain Have Met: An eastern prince came west
Price : £40.00
Publisher : London: Foulis
Published : 1957
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
pp299 + foldout family tree. Purple cloth binding with gold lettering. The lettering from the DW spine has sun-printed through to spine so that second lettering appears as a black silhouette of titles. Slight bumping to spine ends. Some foxing to page edges. 1st Edn 2nd printing. Near Fine/VG. Inscribed by the Prince with best wishes on October 17th 1957 in Harrogate.
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4285
Cape Town Dicky; or Colonel Jack's Boy - Theo Gift (Illus. Alice Havers & Ernest Wilson)
Price : £45.00
Publisher : London: Hildesheimer & Faulkner
Published : 1887
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
pp65. Quarto. Illustrated board cover (heavily worn about edges). Spine missing. Internally many pages re-attached neatly with tape. Colour frontispiece and fifteen full-colour illustrations. Text printed on sepia background with BW line-washed illustration (all on one plate) on each page. Overall, page appearance is VG, but the binding reduces this to Good.
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4169
The Druce-Portland Case - Theodore Besterman [ex lib Syd Dernley]
Price : £35.00
Publisher : London: Duckworth
Published : 1935
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp308. Purple cloth cover. Fading spine fading heavily. The late Syd Dernley's bookplate inside front cover. Scarthin Books acquired the library of Sydney Dernley, Britain's last surviving hangman. Check our stock for other items from his library of criminology, mostly bearing his bookplate.
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5361
The Christian Faith: A System of Dogmatics. Two Volumes - Theodore Haering (Trans by John Dickie and George Ferries). Former property of Alex Vidler
Price : £16.00
Publisher : London: Hodder and Stoughton
Published : 1913
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
pp.952 (continuous pagination). 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Cover fading, worn heavily at corners and ends of spine. Stain inside front cover of Vol II. Signed by Alex Vidler on both FEPs. Dickie and Ferries translated the German second revised and enlarged edition.
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3737
Marsh Arabs - Thesiger, Wilfred
Price : £14.00
Publisher : London: HarperCollins
Published : 2000
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding tight. Illustrated with photographs. 219 pages.
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2210
Principles of Vacuum Forming - Thiel, Alfons
Price : £15.00
Publisher : Iliffe Books
Published : 1965
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated unclipped dust jacket, faded to spine and edges. 71pp, including many illustrations & b&w photo plates. A mint copy.
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7756
Artist in Two Fields - Thistlethwaite, Christopher
Price : £20.00
Publisher : Published by the Author
Published : 2003
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Large format paperback book in very good condition, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, illustrated throughout. 232 pages. May incur extra overseas postage charges due to weight.
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6315
Hydrostatic Power Transmission - THoma, Jean U.
Price : £30.00
Publisher : Mordeen, Surrey: Trade and Technical Press
Published : 1964
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
A very good copy, 186 pages plus one two-sided leaf of halftone plates, bound in red "plasticated cloth", bold gilt titling.
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3886
Quarry West 34: Ron Silliman and the Alphabet - Thomas A Vogler (Ed). (Ron Silliman
Price : £10.00
Published : 1998
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
pp194. Card covered journal, with tucked-in typewriter poem "Albany". Issue dedicated to Ron Silliman the modern concrete poet (fans of British authors such as Bob Cobbing and Edwin Morgan will appreciate his work).
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2574
Brief Sketches of Bridlington Quay and Neighbourhood - Thomas Cape
Price : £75.00
Publisher : Bridlington Quay:G. Furby
Published : 1871
Edition : 2nd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp128. Slight wear to top and bottom of spine. Gold lettering on cover still good. Some BW engravings. Originally published in 1868. This is the reissued edition. fep bears a long inscription dated 1908 from the York City and County Bank.
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2875
Famous Scottish Houses: The Lowlands - Thomas Hannan
Price : £35.00
Publisher : London: A & C Black
Published : 1928
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
pp205. Blue cloth cover, gold lettering. Sepia frontispeice. Sepia plates. Author's own copy, inscribed inside cover, May 4th 1928. Also includes loose four pages of notes in author's hand.
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4948
Misadverntures at Margate: A legend of Jarvis's Jetty - Thomas Ingoldsby, Illus. Ernest M Jessop
Price : £10.00
Publisher : London: Eyre and Spottiswood
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
pp18. 11" x 14" (ie folio). Quarter cloth and pictorial paper-covered bevelled boards. All originally "perfect bound" pages now separate but in good condition. Text of Ingoldsby's verse is printed in a script font, with use of underlining and colour to give a "rebus"-like impression, even apart from Jessop's startling illustrations.
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3908
The Life of Shelley - Thomas Jefferson Hogg (Intro. Edward Dowden)
Price : £30.00
Publisher : London: Routledge
Published : 1906
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp585. Red cloth binding, fading slightly on spine and around edges. Slight bumping to spine ends. BW frontispiece portrait tissue protected.
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3948
Poems - Thomas John Ouseley
Price : £75.00
Publisher : London: Simpkin, Marshall
Published : 1870
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp368 + pp2 notices. Blue cloth binding with gold lettering and patterning. Ends of spine bumped. Inscribed by the author thus: "Mrs Glover with T. F. Ouseley's sincere regards". Printed "advice to borrowers" plate on fep.
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4150
The Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Little, Esq - Thomas Little
Price : £25.00
Publisher : London: Carpenter
Published : 1817
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
ppxxiv + 176. Marbled board covers. Title label mostly missing from spine. Inscription dated 1854 on fep. Inside cover bears signs of marbled sheet having been removed. This is the thirteenth edition.
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3469
Lectures on some Important Branches of Practical Religion - Thomas Raffles
Price : £40.00
Publisher : Liverpool: Thomas Taylor
Published : 1820
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
pp329 + note. Brown board cover with green cloth spine (heavily worn). Rough cut pages are stained. Inside, the cover/front hinge is completely separated. PO inscription and label inside front cover. Small inscription top of title page.
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5371
Northumberland and Durham: Shell Guide - Thomas Sharp
Price : £30.00
Publisher : London: Batsford
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
pp54. Photographic cover boards, plastic ringbound. Heavily graingerised by the previous owner, to include tipped in colour photographs, maps, etc. PO name inscribed inside front cover. Maps as endpapers.
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4796
Around the World on a Bicycle: From Teheran to Yokohama - Thomas Stevens
Price : £150.00
Publisher : London: Sampson Low
Published : 1888
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp477. Green cloth illustrated binding (front shows cyclist in pith helmet on penny-farthing with two coolies running beside, on spine he is cooling his feet in a stream bicycle beside him). Corners worn. Hinges worn loose across FEP and REP, one section (pp273-286) loose. Cloth worn at ends of spine. Cover clean and not faded - spine cloth "buckled". (A companion volume is San Francisco to Teheran).
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2419
Opera Omnia - Thomas Sydenham
Price : £50.00
Publisher : Sydenham Society
Published : 1846
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fair
Jacket : No Jacket
pp667. Spine is present but completely separate. ExLib Leicester Medical Society (pencilled date shows they purchased this copy in 1847). Sydenham (seventeenth century) was one of the first to describe the febrile diseases (maleria, measles etc), which were just becoming recognised again after the work of John Snow etc. Like all scientific works of the period the Opera Omina is entirely in latin.
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2539
Annals of Philosophy (Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics) Vol. VIII July to December 1816 - Thomas Thomson
Price : £60.00
Publisher : London: Baldwin, Craddock and Joy
Published : 1816
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fair
Jacket : No Jacket
pp479. Roughcut pages showing age. Previous owner's inscription on inside cover. Board cover and spine showing age. Previous owner has written on fep in pencil: "A dozen or more articles relating to the safety lamp - from the same year (1816) as its introduction into pits by Sir Humphrey Davy. Nine plates, one handcoloured, one folding."
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5231
Advanced Cotton Spinning Volume III (Third Revised and Enlarged Edition) - Thomas Thornley
Price : £22.00
Publisher : London: Scott, Greenwood
Published : 1923
Edition : 3rd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp776. 8vo. Green cloth binding with gilt lettering to front and spine. Spine worn at edges, corners bumped. Endpapers browning. PO inscription (probably original) of address in Bombay. BW illustrations. This is volume III only. Please check postage due to weight.
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3535
The Life oif Sir James Nicholas Douglas - Thomas Williams
Price : £60.00
Publisher : London: Longmans, Green
Published : 1900
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp195. Blue cloth binding with gold lettering to front and spine. BW frontispiece portrait with facsimile signature. Rough cut pages. The two dedication pages between the title and contents pages have a rectangle cut from the top of each (1" x 2" approx), seemingly removing no text. Slight wear to corners of spine. Endpapers browning. This is the life of one of the great Victorian lighthouse builders.
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3598
T' Heft an' Blades o' Shevvield - Thomas Winder
Price : £40.00
Publisher : Shefffield Independent Press
Published : 1907
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp127. Red cloth binding, heavily faded on spine. BW frontispeice, BW plates. Foldout map. Slight evidence of previous bookplate on inside cover. Otherwise VG.
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3676
Welsh Land Commission: A Digest of its Report - Thomas, D. Lleufer
Price : £35.00
Publisher : London: Whittaker and Co
Published : 1896
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp509. Octavo. Stiff green card covers with gilt lettering to front and spine, worn at edges, corners. Stamp of John Evans, Solicitor, Aberystwyth, on title page (and on several pages within: Mr Evans obviously feared the consequences of this volume's popularity); PO name inscribed FEP; pencilled notes on FEP and REP, probably contemporaneous.
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1742
Thomas Churchyard of Woodbridge - Thomas, Denis
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Quadrangle Books
Published : 1966
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
Good condition green cloth hard cover, with dust jacket. 24pp biography followed by b&w illustrations (+4 colour). Inscription on inside page. Slight wear to dust jacket, otherwise a clean and tidy copy.
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632
Twelve More Letters - Thomas, Dylan
Price : £80.00
Publisher : Turret Books, 1969
Edition : F
Binding : Hard
Jacket : J
Near fine/VG. First edition. Brown cloth, gilt title on front cover. 175 numbered copies were printed, then a further 26 lettered A to Z - this copy is letter L. Nineteen pages of text consisting of Prefatory Note, twelve letters and an appendix. Frontispiece is b/w photo of the author. Printed by Daedalus Press. Book has a stain at top edge of back cover (not affecting contents), otherwise fine. Cellophane dust jacket has a couple of tears, with small area of loss on back cover.
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861
Under Milk Wood Acting Edition - Thomas, Dylan preface and settings by Daniel Jones
Price : £15.00
Publisher : J.M.Dent and Sons Ltd., 1958
Published : 1958
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
pp96. A very good copy (signature neatly at top of front cover(M. Paffard(a poet)) of the first edition of the acting edition.
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1575
Maurice Maeterlinck - Thomas, Edward
Price : £40.00
Publisher : Methuen & Co. Ltd.
Published : 1911
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : No Jacket
xiv+336+32advert pages+ 8 illustrations in red cloth with gilt titling and decoration. A very good copy.
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876
The Childhood of Edward Thomas a fragment of autobiography - Thomas, Edward , preface by Julian Thomas
Price : £30.00
Publisher : London: Faber and Faber
Published : 1938
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
A very good copy in good dustwrapper. Wrapper not VG as spine fading and marginally worn; the book not fine as there is a signature and some other endpaper notes, and a light smudge to the front board. An appealing classic offering from Faber.
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1474
The Yeoman's England - Thomas, Sir William Beach
Price : £20.00
Publisher : Alexander Maclehose & Co, London
Published : 1934
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Dark green cloth, gilt title to spine, 299p. 15 b/w photos. Descriptions of British countryside through the months of the year. From John Masefield's collection (a sticker inside the front cover states "From the Library of John Masefield, O.M., Poet Laureate").
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2173
Science and the Classics - Thompson, D'Arcy W.
Price : £35.00
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Published : 1940
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
A very good copy indeed, a little gem of a "pocket-sized" volume, just as books ought to be.viii+264 pages, including frontispiece in textured and blind-panelled magenta cloth, black endpapers - very much the style of a hundred years earlier, when perhaps the St. Andrews University Publications series began?
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2511
The Materials of Medieval Painting - Thompson, Daniel V.
Price : £20.00
Publisher : London: George Allen
Published : 1936
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing, creasing/chipping to edges. Internally clean, bookplate to front pastedown, binding tight. 239 pages.
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1233
Plays and Pageants - Thompson, Edward
Price : £40.00
Publisher : Ernest Benn Ltd, London
Published : 1931
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Fine in tissue wrapper and card slipcase. No 44 in a limited edition of 60 (only 50 intended for sale), printed on handmade paper and signed by the author. Slipcase and its title label browned with age, else VG.
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238
Sixty Minutes with Winston Churchill - Thompson, W H
Price : £20.00
Publisher : London: Johnson Publications Ltd, 1964
Binding : Hard
Jacket : J
VG/VG. Pale blue cover with black titles and sketch of Churchill. Dust jacket is simply tissue paper. Inscribed on title page: W H Thompson, 14th Jan 1965". The author, who had three terms of office as Churchill's bodyguard, was an ex-detective inspector and author of "I Was Churchill's Shadow", an earlier volume of anecdotes.
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6620
A Dissertation on The Ancient Chinese Vases of The Shang Dynasty From 1743 to 1496B.C. - Thoms, P. P.
Price : £80.00
Publisher : London: Published by the Author
Published : 1851
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Scarce book in very good condition, aside from a piece of cloth (approx. 1 inch by 1/4 inch)missing from the bottom of the spine area. Sopme light rubbing and wear to cloth. Internally very clean and the binding is tight. A few pencil marks in margin, but these can be easily erased if so wished. Book runs to 63 pages, and is illustrated with 42 Chinese wood engravings.
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6013
Britain Underground - Thornber, Norman and A. H. & R. D. Stride and J. O. Myers
Price : £15.00
Publisher : Lancaster: Dalesman Publishing Company & London: Blandford Press
Published : 1953
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition, in a good dust-jacket which has some wear and is rather grubby, but complete. Internally clean. Alphbetical guide to all caves of England, with a map section. 246 pages.
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5142
Britian Underground - Thornber, Norman; A H and R D Stride, J O Myers
Price : £16.00
Publisher : Dalesman Publishing and Blandford Press
Published : 1953
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp246 . Pocket sized hardback. Cream cloth cover with illustration which is reproduced on DW. DW is grubby and heavily worn/torn along top edge. Pages show slight browning.
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5140
The Complete Poultry Book: A Manual for the American Poultry Yard - Thorne, C.E.
Price : £40.00
Publisher : Springfield, OH: Mast, Crowell and Kirkpatrick
Published : 1882
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp224. Embossed blue cloth binding, fading to brown on spine. PO inscription FEP. Hinges cracking across endpapers. Profusely illustrated with cross-hatched line drawings.
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6512
Elements: The Making of Fine Monochrome Prints - Thornton, Barry
Price : £110.00
Publisher : Croydon: Creative Monochrome
Published : 1997
Edition : 2nd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
pp164. Large quarto. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine in photographic DW (itself within clear protective wrap). Text, BW prints. Second edition with index 1997.
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8141
A Sporting Tour through the Northern Parts of England, and Great Part of the Highlands of Scotland - Thornton, Colonel E.
Price : £600.00
Publisher : London: Vernor and Hood
Published : 1804
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Bound in contemporary half-calf, with wear and rubbing, especially to corners where the leather has worn through to the boards. Head and tail of spine worn down to headbands, leather splitting along joints, but no splitting to inner hinges and boards firmly attached. Marbled paper to boards has some pieces missing. [xxviii], 312 pages. With 16 engraved plates, as called for. Internally there is the usual age-toning to paper, contents are clean with the occasional light foxing, textblock is firm with no loose pages. There is an old inkstain (2cm in width) on pages 157-160 affecting the text and a small hole through one leaf (pp.159-160). See photos for condition, etc.
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5080
Transcript of Letters to Thos Fenton (Snr & Jnr) of Eyam - Thos Fenton, James Sorby, John Alsop
Price : £15.00
Publisher : Peak District Historical Mines Society
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Fine
A4 card covered, stapled. A transcription of letters into modern handwriting. "The majority of the 47 letters are of the period 1843-5 and primarily involve James Sorby of Sheffield and John Alsop of Darley Dale". First letter is dated 3/1/1843 and the last 16 Jan 1862. Thos. Fenton was described in Whyte's Directory of 1857 as a surgeon.
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4578
Derbyshire Parish Registers Marriages Vol XIV - Thos. M Blagg and LL. LLoyd Simpson
Price : £80.00
Publisher : London: Phillimore
Published : 1917
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
pp239. Blue cloth binding (modern rebind with new endpapers) with gilt lettering to spine. Remains of cut-out leaf (possibly original fep) before pre-title page. On the pre-title page an inscription has been removed previously written above the general editor's name. A modern name and address label has been stuck on the pre-title page. "Only one hundred copies printed". Check our stock for other Derbyshire Parish Registers.
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7723
Domestic Life in Wales - Tibbott, S. Minwel
Price : £15.00
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Published : 2002
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Book in very good condition in pictorial card covers, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions. Illustrated. 164 pages.
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7797
History of the Birds of Suffolk - Ticehurst, Claud B.
Price : £48.00
Publisher : London: Gurney & Jackson
Published : 1932
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a very good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing and creasing to edges. A few marks to jacket. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding is tight. Illustrated. 502 pages. May incur extra overseas postage; please enquire for rates.
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8145
The Old Halls, Manors, and Families of Derbyshire: Volume 3. The Scarsdale Hundred - Tilley, Joseph
Price : £150.00
Publisher : London:Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co; Derby: Frank Murr
Published : 1899
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
The elusive third volume in this series. Book in good condition in the original cloth, with wear and rubbing, especially to head and tail of spine where the cloth is chipped. Some marking to cloth. All edges gilt. Endpaper to front inner hinge beginning to split, endpaper to rear inner hinge is split along its length. Some spotted foxing to contents, previous owner's name to half-title, textblock firm. Illustrated. 285 pages.
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6911
Newman: Prose and Poetry - Tillotson, Geoffrey
Price : £20.00
Publisher : London: Rupert Hart-Davis
Published : 1957
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a good unclipped dust-jacket which has wear and rubbing, with edgewear and some closed tears to edges. Internally clean, previous owner's signature to front free endpaper, binding tight. 842 pages.
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6412
Owlers, Hoverers and Revenue Men - Tindale, John
Price : £16.00
Publisher : North Riding of Yorkshire: Whitby Publishers
Published : 1986
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
A very good copy of this 104-page paperback, for which you have been searching for years.
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4758
The Greater Manchester Archaeological Journal Volume 2 - Tindall, Adrian (editor)
Price : £16.00
Publisher : Manchester University
Published : 1986
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Large format softcover book in very good condition, with some wear and rubbing. Creasing to a couple of corners and very light staining to bottom of front cover. Internally clean, binding tight. Illustrated. 162 pages
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7942
A Reader's Guide to James Joyce - Tindall, William York
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Thames and Hudson
Published : 1959
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a very good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing. Chipping to jacket at head of spine, and corners. Internallly clean, previous owner's name to ffe and small address label to bottom of pastedown, binding tight. 304 pages.
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2112
Adventures of Telemachus. Vol II - Tobias Smollett (Trans). Fenelon
Price : £50.00
Publisher : London: Crowder, Longman, Robinson, Baldwin, Johnston
Published : 1776
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Leather Binding? Second (and final) volume only. Previous owner's inscription dated 1801. Spine scuffed, and leather worn away on back corner, but otherwise good for age.
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7185
A History of the Mathematical Theory of Probability, From the Time of Pascal to that of Laplace - Todhunter, I.
Price : £400.00
Publisher : Cambridge and London: Macmillan & Co.
Published : 1865
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fair
Jacket : No Jacket
Scarce first edition. Book is worn externally, with section of cloth missing from the head of spine, cutting into title. Rest of cloth is pretty sound except for wear to corners. There is no splitting to the inner hinges, the binding is shaken but still holding firm, and the contents are clean. Most of the 624 pages appear to be unopened. Bookplate to front pastedown. Overall a fair copy of a scarce and important 19th century mathematics book, which is priced to reflect its faults.
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4858
Brain Mapping : The Methods - Toga, Arthur, W.
Price : £65.00
Publisher : Academic Press
Published : 1995
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Large format book in very good condition in laminated boards, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions. Illustrated. 471 pages. This book may incur extra overseas postage; please enquire for rates.
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2326
The Hobbit or There and Back Again - Tolkien, J. R. R.
Price : £600.00
Publisher : London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
Published : 1937
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Poor
Jacket : No Jacket
Second impression of the first edition; the first edition with the colour plates. No dustjacket. This is an ex-library copy in poor state, and in need of a sympathetic restoration, being sold at a price which reflects its condition. 310 pages. The book is complete, with all plates and illustrations, and with the map endpapers bound in. The cloth is very worn and rubbed, with cloth to the joints worn through. Internally there is a fair amount of finger marking, and some other marking, as to be expected in a well-read library book. There are small stamps to reverse of the plates and some to the margin of a few pages. Square accession stamp to reverse of title-page. Two page publisher's advertisment to rear. This book is being sold with all faults; any requests for photographs, or general enquiries, are welcome.
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5619
Silmarillion Calendar , The 1978 ( Tolkien ) - Tolkien, J.R.R.
Price : £32.00
Publisher : George Allen & Unwin
Published : 1977
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
A fine copy of the spiral-bound calendar in a very good original card case, even the closing tabs are undamaged.
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5620
Calendar 1979 ( Tolkien ) - Tolkien, J.R.R.
Price : £32.00
Publisher : George Allen & Unwin
Published : 1978
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
A near-fine copy of the spiral-bound calendar in a very good original card case, even the closing tabs are undamaged. "Near-fine" becasue of one short (less than an inch) tear in the paper of the cover sheet adjacent to the plastic hanger
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5622
Hobbit Calendar 1976, The ( Tolkien ) - Tolkien, J.R.R.
Price : £120.00
Publisher : George Allen & Unwin
Published : 1975
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
A very good copy of the spiral-bound calendar in a very good original card case, even the closing tabs are undamaged. The condition of the calendar is fine but for small creases near the bottom edge od some month sheets where the sheet has been lifted to lok at or change to other months.
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7810
Collins Field Guide : Butterflies of Britain and Europe - Tolman, T.; Lewington, R.
Price : £20.00
Publisher : Harper Collins
Published : 1997
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Book in very good condition in laminated boards, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions. Illustrated. 320 pages.
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6528
War And Peace (in three volumes) - Tolstoi, Leo
Price : £37,5
Publisher : London: Dent Everyman's Library
Published : 1958
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp 428, 364, 469. Three Volume Everyman edition. Red cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine in red DW. Each DW has minor wear about the ends of spine. First published by Everyman in 1932, these are the 1954 reprints. The translator is not identified. An edition with readable sized text!
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409
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy, Leo (translated by Hiroshi Kimara)
Price : £5.00
Publisher : 1978
Published : 1978
Binding : Soft
Jacket : J
VG. Paperback with paper cover. Japanese text.
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279
Resurrection - Tolstoy, Leo (translated by Louis Maude)
Price : £30.00
Publisher : London: Francis Riddell Henderson, 1900
Binding : Hard
Crimson cloth, gilt titles to spine and front, bevelled edges, ix + 565pp + adverts for other titles, black endpapers. Illustrated by Leonid Pasternak. Spine faded with vertical rubbed dent, front hinge decaying, else a G+ or VG- copy.
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3364
Patagonian Press - Tom P. Jones OBE
Price : £75.00
Publisher : Bournemouth: Outspoken Press
Published : 1961
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
pp173.16 BW plates. Blue cloth binding with gold lettering on spine. This controversial work, published by its author, had an immediate reprinting (this is one of those 1961 reprints).
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491
Historic Organs in Derbyshire ; A Survey for the Millenium - Tomkins, Rodney; foreword by Nicholas Thistlethwaite.
Price : £12.00
Publisher : Cromford:Scarthin Books,1998
Published : 1998
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : New
Jacket : J
304pp, profusely illustrated, bound in burgundy Oxford Library Buckram. The author is not only knowledgable and absolutely meticulous in his research and description but also an accomplished writer able to convey a lot in few words. Though we say it ourselves (and could have done a few things better in the production) a remarkable and definitive summing up for the place and time. New copies in mint condition still available and now at a bargain price.
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29
Yseldon: A Perambulation of Islington - Tomlins, Thomas Edlyne Esq.
Price : £350.00
Publisher : London: James S Hodson, 1858
Binding : Hard
Decorative Cloth. Very Good viii + 214pp + 14pp index, folding map, woodblock illus. in text, brown endpapers, green stamped cloth, red edges, some fraying to spine and corners, traces of library ticket having been removed from front board, marginal pencil notes made in 1944, slight foxing to page edges, a pleasing, VG copy.
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343
Illusion: 1915 - Tomlinson, H M
Price : £20.00
Publisher : London: Wm Heinemann Ltd, 1929
Edition : F
Binding : Hard
Jacket : J
VG/G. 34pp. Quarter cloth bound with marbled boards. Cream dust jacket is rather grubby. No 240 of a limited edition of 525 copies, signed by the author.
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6914
Life in Northumberland During the Sixteenth Century - Tomlinson, William Weaver
Price : £45.00
Publisher : London: Walter Scott
Published : 1897
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
scarce book in good condition in the original cloth, with wear to edges and rubbing. Corners worn. Internally clean, front inner hinge weak and endpaper splitting but binding still firm. Slight lean to spine. 276 pages.
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527
The Children's Song Book - Tomlyn, Alfred W (ed.)
Price : £8.00
Publisher : Edinburgh: Andersons
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
G. Book of children's songs (some rather grisly!) with music. Eight coloured illustrations. Padded cover illustrated with village scene. Binding rather loose, but no loose pages.
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7118
Ironstone Quarrying at Easton on the Hill - Tonks, Eric S, and Scholes, John
Price : £12.00
Publisher : Rutland Railway Museum
Published : 1983
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
pp55. 8vo pamphlet with card covers. BW photographs, maps, line drawings.
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998
Yorkshire County Cricket Club: Season 1928 - Toone, F C (ed.)
Price : £15.00
Publisher : Yorkshire County Cricket Club Committee
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
VG-. Dark green cloth, rose motif on front cover, 280pp. Spine a bit faded, a few marks, but otherwise good for its age. 36th Annual Handbook, listing officers, accounts, attendances, averages and a host of other information of interest to the Yorkshire cricket enthusiast.
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1057
Boat Race: The Oxford Revival - Topolski, Daniel (Inscribed by Ladies First VIII 1985)
Price : £30.00
Publisher : London: Collins/Willow Books
Published : 1985
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
VG/VG. Black cloth, navy dust jacket, 287pp. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "Oxford, 5th June 1985. To the Evil Welshman/Poisoned Dwarf, with love, thanks, best wishes and a few blisters, bruises and black grease patches - from the Animals of the so-called 'Ladies' 1st VIII, Sharon" and signed on the inside front cover by the Oxford Ladies' Crew - Rosie, Kirsty, Julia, Jenni, Vicky, Mary and Susi-head, so presumably to their coach.
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6109
The Fowles of Heauen or History of Birdes - Topsell, Edward
Price : £36.00
Publisher : University of Texas
Published : 1972
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a very good dustjacket, with minor wear and rubbing. Internally very clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding tight. 332 pages. There are reproductions of coloured woodcut illustrations within the text
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2380
Space, Time and Resurrection - Torrance, Thomas F.
Price : £15.00
Publisher : Edinburgh: T & T Clark
Published : 1998
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Softcover book in very good condition, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions. Previous owner's name stamped onto foredge of text-block. 196 pages.
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7953
The History of Helston - Toy, H. Spencer
Price : £60.00
Publisher : OUP
Published : 1936
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Book in very good condition in the original cloth, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, two small numbers in ink to ffe and paper to front inner hinge beginning to split, binding tight. With a folding illustration. 652 pages.
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1044
Terrier, V.C. A Black-and-Tan Hero who Won the Victoria Cross - Tracy, Julia Lowndes With a Note by Lady Smith-Dorrien, illustrated by Louis Wain
Price : £70.00
Publisher : London: The Aldine Publishing Co. Ltd. (c. 1915)
Published : 1915
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Title and Note-leaves (2 in all) on art-paper + 48 pages bound in quarter blue cloth and colour-illustrated boards (as a children's book of the period). 170 x 210mm portrait format. Thirteen animal line-drawings by Louis Wain in the text, and one on verso of note leaf. The book was sold in aid of the Blue Cross Fund (for war horses etc.) and this copy appears to be a rare example of Wain's work. Cover stained but still pleasing, contents shaken and one leaf loose.
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4470
Boilers, Marine and Land: Their Construction and Strength - Traill, Thomas W.
Price : £18.00
Publisher : London: Charles Griffin
Published : 1920
Edition : 5th or later Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Book in very good condition in the original coated cloth, with some wear and rubbing. Lean to spine. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding tight. 583 pages.
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ABE-1426670017
Extraordinary Jewels - Traina, John
Price : £60.00
Publisher : Doubleday
Published : 1994
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : As New
Jacket : J
pp200. Folio. Black cloth binding with silver lettering to spine in DW colour on black background. Please check postage costs due to weight. Our Ref: 1332
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4787
Gudrun: A Story of the North Sea: From the Medieval German - Trans. Emma Letherbrow
Price : £35.00
Publisher : Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas
Published : 1864
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp214. 12vo. Green cloth binding with gilt decoration and lettering to spine. Tissue protected frontispiece. Peter Riley has given us the following bibliographic information on this rare volume: "It's one of the 'Nieberlunglieder'. This might be the first English translation . I didn't at a quick run-through locate an earlier one (in the BM Catalogue)."
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3006
Ritsafn 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Bandi - Trausti, Jon
Price : £60.00
Publisher : Rejkjavik: Bokautgafa Gudjons O. Gudjonssonar
Published : 1946
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Works in 8 handsome volumes, each half-bound in black morocco-effect cloth with bold gilt titling and "Olympic Torch and Victor's Laurels" motif, with blue-marbled paper-covered boards, published between 1946 and 1951. Some volumes have a neat name and date inscribed on the front free endpaper. Mailing might be expensive; please enquire for an overall quote.
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2263
The Mule - Travis, Lorraine
Price : £22.00
Publisher : London: J.A.Allen
Published : 1990
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : As New
A mint copy, in its illustrated laminated boards, signed by the author and with a "compliments" letter on British Mule Society notepaper loosely inserted.
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5016
The Mercurial Chemist: A Life of Sir Humphry Davy - Treneer, Anne
Price : £18.00
Publisher : London: Methuen & Co. Ltd
Published : 1963
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a dustjacket which has wear and rubbing. Edge chipping and creasing, with the rear panel repaired and some edge loss. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding is tight. binding is tight. Illustrated. 264 pages.
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4836
Southern Spain - Trevor Hadden (Paintings), A F Calvert (Description)
Price : £150.00
Publisher : London: A & C Black
Published : 1908
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp xii + 210 + foldout map + publisher's announcements. Burgundy cloth binding with Moorish illustration and gilt lettering. Spine fading slightly, wear to corners and ends of spine. Now in protective slip. Top of pages gold blocked. Slight damp stain about edges of endpapers, and more noticably about publisher's announcments. Two (near contemporary) PO inscriptions on FEP. 75 illustrations. Illus. and tissue opp. p126 is loose and standing slightly proud. This is just one of the wonderful copies of the A & C Black illustrated series we are offering. Check our stock.
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7777
Angels at the Ritz, and Other Stories - Trevor, William
Price : £80.00
Publisher : London: The Bodley Head
Published : 1975
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
First edition, first impression. Book in very good condition in a very good unclipped dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing. Top edge dust-spotted. Internally clean, previous owner's signature with date of 1976 to top of ffe, binding is tight. An excellent copy. 253 pages.
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2120
Les Instants Immobiles - Trevor-Roper, Patrick
Price : £20.00
Publisher : London: Avanti Fine Arts
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Scarce paperback book in very good condition, with some wear and rubbing, especially to one corner. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding tight. Illustrated. Not paginated.
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6185
The Story of the Robins - Trimmer, Mrs.
Price : £30.00
Publisher : London: Frederick Warne
Published : 1899
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
No date, but inscription dated 1899. Book in very good condition in the original cloth, with very little signs of wear and rubbing, gilt bright. All edges gilt. Internally clean, inscription to half-title, binding tight. Coloured illustrations. 213 pages.
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7025
The Shakespeare Head Edition of the Novels of Anthony Trollope in 14 Volumes - Trollope, Anthony
Price : £300.00
Publisher : Oxford: Basil Blackwell
Published : 1929
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
One of 525 unumbered sets limited edition, complete in 14 volumes. Bound in green cloth which is in very good condition, with some wear and rubbing. Top edge gilt with rough cut foredge. Wear to extremities, including bumping to edges. Internally clean, though the odd water stain to the edge of front and rear boards. Spines dulled, though titles are visible, except 'The Warden'. Pages clean and bright apart from occasional handling marks and mild spots, some spotted foxing to endpapers. A very heavy set which will incur extra postage; please enquire for rates.
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7967
The Land-Leaguers: A New Edition - Trollope, Anthony
Price : £250.00
Publisher : London: Chatto and Windus
Published : 1884
Edition : 2nd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp304 + publisher's announcements before and after the text. 8vo. Recently rebound in maroon, keeping original cloth front cover. New endpapers. A very attractive work for the Trollopian, and for anyone interested in Irish life of the period (the 1850s). Photographs available on request.
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3723
The Two Heroines of Plumplington - Trollope, Anthony; John Hampden (Intro); Lynton Lamb (Illus)
Price : £40.00
Publisher : London: Andre Deutsch
Published : 1953
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp112. 8vo. Brown cloth binding with silvern lettering to spine in DW, now in protective wrap. DW is priceclipped, worn at corners. Inscribed in red ink on FEP, dated Christmas 1953. This was the first edition in book form.
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5629
Goldkopfchens Gluck und Leid - Trott, Magda, illust. Albert Erbert
Price : £9.00
Publisher : Leipziger Graphischer Werke
Published : 1932
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Die erste Auflage.Halbleinen (oder viertel- ?).Ohne Schutzumschlag. Ein fast sehr gutes Exemplar nach seinen ehemaligen Reisen zwischen Preussen, der DDR und England. 158 S.+ 2 s. Serieanzeigung. Name in Vorsatz
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5630
Goldkopfchen in Beruf - Trott, Magda, illust. Albert Erbert
Price : £9.00
Publisher : Berlin: Paul Franke
Published : 1933
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Halbleinen (oder viertel- ?).Ohne Schutzumschlag.Fruhe und spate Seiten leichte stockfleckich, sonst ein fast sehr gutes Exemplar nach seinen ehemaligen Reisen zwischen Preussen, der DDR und England. 160 S. Name im Vorsatz
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2768
The Life of Hodson of Hodson's Horse - Trotter, Captain Lionel J
Price : £15.00
Publisher : London: Dent Everyman
Published : 1912
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp306. Small 8vo. Grey board covers with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Light staining to edge of pages. This is the 1912 reprint of the first Everyman edition.
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902
Edward Carpenter, 1844-1929 - Tsuzuki, Chushichi
Price : £35.00
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Published : 1980
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing. Inscribed by the author on the half-title. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding tight. Illustrated. 237 pages.
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3419
The Life of Eleanor Marx 1855 - 1898 A Socialist Tragedy - Tsuzuki, Chushichi
Price : £33.00
Publisher : Oxford: Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press)
Published : 1967
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
A very good copy in an edge-worn but complete dustjacket, siged "To Edith from Chushichi Tsuzuki". Probably a gift to a friend, the wife of a socialist academic.
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6389
Law of Privacy and the Media, The - Tugendhat, Michael Q.C. and Iain Christie
Price : £40.00
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Published : 2002
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : No Jacket
A fine copy of the hardback edition. No extra post charges for this heavy book.
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162
Johnson's England: An Account of the Life & Manners of his Age (2 vols) - Turberville, A S (ed.)
Price : £45.00
Publisher : Oxford: Clarendon Press
Published : 1933
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
VG/VG. 2 volume set - Vol 1: i-xxiii, 405pp; Vol 2: 404pp. Crisp blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Slight foxing to top edge. A description of the England that Dr Johnson would have known, between 1730 and 1790, edited from 28 contributors. A lovely set in unclipped dustwrappers.
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6451
History of Derbyshire, A - Turbutt, Gladwyn
Price : £125.00
Publisher : Merton Priory Press
Published : 1999
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : As New
Jacket : J
A probably mint set in probably mint dustwrappers of this mighty four-volume work with its classically unassuming title.
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6826
A History of Shirland and Higham - Turbutt, Gladwyn
Price : £50.00
Publisher : Ogston Estates
Published : 1978
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
pp308. Green cloth binding with gold lettering to spine. Dustwrapper illustration of market cross. Small tear at bottom. Signed by author on title page. Also contains previous owners' neat inscription. All plates intact.
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253
A Manual of Practical Medical Electricity, The Roentgen Rays and Finsen Light Third Edition Revised and Enlarged - Turner, Dawson
Price : £85.00
Publisher : London: Balliere, Tindall and Cox
Published : 1902
Edition : 3rd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp396. Large 8vo. Half bound with maroon cloth boards. Dark lettering impressed to front, gilt lettering to spine. 1/4" tear in top board, ends and edges of spine rubbed. Black endpapers. PO bookplate inside front cover. BW illustrations, diagrams, tables throughout. The Dawson Turners had been a family of scientists for over a hundred years. Niels Ryberg Finsen was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on light therapy (one of the first treatments for lupus) in 1903, making this book of special contemporary interest.
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1153
Fifty Special Savouries - Turner, Elsie
Price : £25.00
Publisher : London: Spottiswoode, Ballantyne
Published : 1934
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Unpaginated (100 pages, approx). Extraordinarily scintillating colours on board covers, with black/gold title label, in original glascene wrapper (which has some small tears about edges). Slight dustmarking to top of pages, internally tight and bright. Hence, book is VG-F, while DW is G-VG.
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4422
Fifty Ways of Cooking a Pheasant: New and enlarged edition - Turner, Elsie
Price : £25.00
Publisher : London: Spottiswoode and Ballantyne
Published : 1936
Edition : 2nd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Unpaginated (approx 50). 8vo. Marbled boards with gold/black title label in original glascene DW (lightly worn about edges). Check our stock for other Elsie Turner "Fifty" books in their original DW.
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4538
Fifty Ways of Cooking Fish - Turner, Elsie
Price : £25.00
Publisher : London: Spottiswoode, Ballantyne
Published : 1933
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Unpaginated (approx 100 pages). 8vo. Silver fish-scale impressed board cover in original glascene DW. Search our stock for other of Elsie Turner's "Fifty" books, each with an extraordinary cover in its original glascene wrapper.
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4922
Fifty Egg Dishes - Turner, Elsie
Price : £40.00
Publisher : London: Spottiswoode, Ballantyne
Published : 1935
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Unpaginated (approx 100 pages). 8vo. Possibly hand-painted cover of chicks and eggs, with red tipped on title label, in creased glascene DW, now torn at corner and ends of spine. Check our stock for other of Elsie Turner's "Fifty" series.
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5245
Scientific Instruments, 1500-1900 : An Introduction - Turner, Gerard
Price : £18.00
Publisher : University of California Press
Published : 2001
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Book in very good condition in laminated boards, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding tight. Illustrated. 144 pages.
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4052
My Climbing Adventures in Four Continents - Turner, Samuel
Price : £75.00
Publisher : London: T Fisher Unwin
Published : 1913
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp283. Illustrated cloth binding, worn at corners and edges, bumped at spine ends. Roughcut pages. BW frontispiece. This is the 1st Edn 2nd Impression. Signed on fep "To my friend J Connelly Esq Melbone with complements from the author S Turner July 21 1918" (possible spelling errors in transcribing this). Endpapers browning. All plates believed present but at least one is loose (opp. p78)
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2379
The Padarn and Penrhyn Railways (Signed Copy) - Turner, Susan
Price : £22.00
Publisher : Newton Abbott:David & Charles
Published : 1975
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a very good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, author's signature to title-page, binding tight. Illustrated. 192 pages.
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6539
Origins of Icelandic Literature - Turville-Petre, G.
Price : £24.00
Publisher : Oxford: Clarendon Press
Published : 1975
Edition : 3rd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Would be a fine copy in very good dustjacket, but prof. W.'s inked symbol on the endpaper is rather heavy, so we'll call it VG in VG. xii+260 pp + 3 halftone plates on art paper. Bound in classic Oxford Dark Blue library buckram. Should Cambridge University Press be binding in Light Blue - do they? I think they sometimes do, really!
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3283
The Years of the Shadow - Tynan, Katherine
Price : £22.00
Publisher : London: Constable and Company Ltd.
Published : 1919
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Ex-library book in very good condition in the original cloth, with some wear and rubbing. Corners a little worn. Only signs of this being a library book are a bookplate to the front pastedown, and thinning of paper to top margin of first page where a stamp has probably been removed. Internally clean, previous owner's name to ffe, binding is tight. 343 pages.
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3314
Geologic Map of Kingdom of Libya (and Topographic Map) - U S Geological Survey
Price : £35.00
Publisher : U S Geological Survey
Published : 1964
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
2 maps: topographical 1:2000000 and geological 1:2000000. A second date on each suggests they were ratified in 1975. Both in 1 official brown wallet (slightly creased).
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6434
The Other Mind of Europe Goethe as a Scientist - Uberoi, J.P.S.
Price : £35.00
Publisher : Delhi: Oxford University Press
Published : 1984
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
A near-fine copy of this 96pp + 4pp plates hardback, dark blue cloth in illustrated dustjacket. Well-produced for an Indian book of this period.
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7787
High Conquest - Ullman, James Ramsey
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Gollancz
Published : 1942
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition, spotted marking to cloth, in a very good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing, and chipping to edges. Some marking to jacket. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding is firm. Illustrated. 320 pages.
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2319
Boerhaave's Men at Leyden and After - Underwood, E. Ashworth
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Published : 1977
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
A fine copy in fine dustjacket; viii+228 pages plus plates on toned paper and bound in REAL cloth. A handsome volume on an important thoroughfare of medical history.
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4222
Ulfar Thortharson AEviminningar - Unnur Ulfarsdottir
Price : £12.00
Publisher : Setberg
Published : 2001
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
pp286. Morocco bound. Slight creasing to DW. Small inscription on fep.
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1120
Sacred Hunger - Unsworth, Barry
Price : £100.00
Publisher : London: Hamish Hamilton
Published : 1992
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
VG. Uncorrected proof copy signed by the author. White p/b cover with b/w design of rows of fettered slaves. 630pp. Fore-edge lightly foxed.
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941
The Devil's Mill - Unsworth, Walter
Price : £50.00
Publisher : London: Victor Gollancz Ltd,
Published : 1973
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Red cloth, dust jacket, 159pp. Previous owner's name on inside cover (hidden by DW foldover). This story of a young man's life is set in the harsh world of the Derbyshire cotton mills in the 18th century. 1st Edn, 3rd impression.
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6570
Finland in Crisis 1940-1941 - Upton, A F
Price : £75.00
Publisher : London: Faber and Faber
Published : 1964
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp318. Octavo. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine, light rubbing to spine, in DW (small tear centre front bottom edge). Dusty tops of pages.
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4612
Twilight of a Tudor - Ursula Bloom
Price : £16.00
Publisher : London: Hutchinson
Published : 1952
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp232. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine (colour fading slightly top front). DW worn about ends of spine, small tears near spine. Endpapers yellowing. Inscribed by Ursula Bloom on FEP. Check our stock for other Bloom collectables.
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4613
Parson Extraordinary - Ursula Bloom
Price : £16.00
Publisher : London: Robert Hale
Published : 1963
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp189. Grey cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine. DW has two unattributed 'Biro' illustrations on front and spine (reminiscent of Edward Ardizzone). Illustrated with BW plates. A biography of the author's father. Check our stock for other Ursula Bloom collectables.
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4614
The Mightier Sword - Ursula Bloom
Price : £16.00
Publisher : London: Robert Hale
Published : 1966
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp173. Black cloth binding with siler lettering to spine. DW has 'Biro' illustration, worn along top edge. Signed by Ursula Bloom on title page. Endpapers yellowing. An autobiographical examination of her writing life. Check our stock for other Bloom collectables.
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4615
The Duke of Windsor - Ursula Bloom
Price : £20.00
Publisher : London: Robert Hale
Published : 1972
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp164. Purple cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. DW is worn along top edge and ends of spine. BW plates. Inscribed by Ursula Bloom. Check our stock for other Bloom collectables.
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4616
Facade - Ursula Bloom
Price : £16.00
Publisher : Lythway Press
Published : 1974
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp340. Laminated cover. Reprint of 1948 edition, with Ursula Bloom's inscription "A reprint which I rather liked". Check our stock for other Ursula Bloom collectables.
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4611
The Wild Daughter - Ursula Bloom writing as Lozania Prole
Price : £30.00
Publisher : London: Robert Hale
Published : 1963
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp192. Red cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. DW is torn at top of spine, and top left corner of DW back is missing. Inscribed by Ursula Bloom on FEP. Check our stock for other Ursula Bloom signed works.
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13
A Traveller In Time - Uttley, Alison
Price : £30.00
Publisher : London: Faber and Faber
Published : 1972
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
pp331. 8vo. Green cloth binding. DW has been cut short top and bottom by 1/4", on a maroon backing sheet, and covered with clear adheseive covering. PO label inside front cover. Hence DW only VG, while body of book is Fine. This is the 11th impression of the 1st edition.
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7941
A Peck of Gold - Uttley, Alison
Price : £42.00
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Published : 1966
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a very good price-clipped dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing. Internallly clean, previous owner's inscription to ffe, binding tight. Illustrated by C. F. Tunnicliffe. 148 pages.
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4405
Poems by V. : I Watched The Heavens; Poems, Second Edition with some additions; The Queen's Ball; Saint Oldooman, a Myth of the Nineteenth Century - V (pseudonym of Caroline Clive)
Price : £75.00
Publisher : London: Saunders and Otley
Published : 1842
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Green boards with gilt decoration and lettering on spine. Heavily worn at corners and down edges of spine. Octavo. Binding: G, interior: VG. Contains a binding up of four works by "V" (Caroline Clive): I Watched the Heavens: A Poem (London, Saunders and Otley. 1842), pp58; IX Poems, Second Edition with some additions (London: Saunders and Otley, 1841), including erratum slip, pp62; The Queen's Ball, A Poem (London: Saunders and Otley, 1847), pp15; Saint Oldooman: A Myth of the Nineteenth Century contained in a letter from the Bishop of Verulanum to the Lord Drayton (London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1845), pp22. Saint Oldooman is a prose work, a satire on Cardinal Newman and the Oxford Movement, nominally written in the year 1950 (SF interest, anyone?). The Queen's Ball is a meditation on the 150 dead people invited to Queen Victoria's Ball on 18th June 1847, when those people had been alive to attend the previous.
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2108
Las Revoluciones de Arequipa - Valdiva, Dean Juan Gualberto
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Arequipa (Peru) : Editorial El Deber, S.A. Ltda.
Published : 1956
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Fair
Jacket : No Jacket
274+40 pp + some 9 half-tone illustrations, paper bound. This copy is dedicated to Douglas Cochrane, descendent of the "Founder of the Chilean Navy", Admiral Cochrane, apparently by the publisher. The materials being sub-standard, the pages are browned and the "French-style" paper cover is beginning to part at the front joint.
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6575
Heroes of the United Service - Valentine, L
Price : £45.00
Publisher : London: Frederick Warne
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp248, 256. Quarto. Blue cloth binding with gilt decoration (ship under sail, and flag bearer, front; pensive explorer on spine). Light rubbing to corners. First half is heroes of the army, ending with defence of Rourke's Drift; second part deals with the navy and ends with the disappearance of the Franklin Expedition. Illustrations and facsimiles throughout.
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6172
Jewels I Have Loved - van Horn, Erica
Price : £30.00
Publisher : London: Coracle
Published : 1990
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Unpaginated. Large 8vo. Marbled brown cloth cover, with silver lettering to front and spine. This is number 51 of a limited edition of 200 signed by the author/illustrator. Rough cut pages, heavy paper.
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1832
Three Aspects of the Russian Revolution - Vandervelde, Emile
Price : £25.00
Publisher : George Allen & Unwin Ltd
Published : 1918
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Red cloth boards, spine faded. 281pp (pp7-10 loose). Ex library copy.
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3250
The Domestic House Planner and The Sanitary Architect - Various Practical Writers
Price : £40.00
Publisher : Ward, Lock, and Co.
Published : 1891
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
viii+264pp.+16 folding line-illus plates, many other illustrations in text. Bound in fox brown polished cloth, gilt tiling. Except for a crease to the front board,and browning of the plate paper, an unused, near-fine copy.
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2239
The Kama Sutra - Vatsyayana. Photographs by William Graham
Price : £12.00
Publisher : Hogarth Guild: Los Angeles
Published : 1970
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp158 plus perhaps a equal number of full page B/W photographs. Approx. 8" by 12". Tearing to top of D/J. The text is that of the Hindo Kama Shastra Society's 1883 edition published in Benares, while the photographs are obviously late 60s in their ability to avoid anything overly explicit.
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770
Moffatt's Perspective for Second Grade Art Students - Vaughan, Joseph
Price : £35.00
Publisher : London: Moffatt & Paige
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
A landscape format, cloth-bound book approx 13 inches by 8; brown cloth,black title. (iv)+104 pages, being principally some 41 plates with explanatory workings on the opposite page. Published some time between 1875 and 1895. I should be ashamed of such imprecision. Prof. Kolbe' used to do mystify his students at Birmingham with this sort of thing.
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1855
Comeday, Go Day - Vaughan, K.L
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Privately Published
Published : 1992
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
A very limited edition signed by the author/illustrator. (iii)+ 134pp+ index. Pages are in near mint condition.
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723
VDMA Verein Deutscher Maschinenbau-Anstalten (German machinery manufacturers association) and its members 1927 - VDMA
Price : £60.00
Publisher : Berlin NW 7: VDI-Verlag, 1927
Published : 1927
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Die (?) Titel ist in deutsch gedruckt aber andereweise ist dieses Buch in englisch gescrieben. Also soll Ich sofort into English change. A large, handsomely bound hardback volume, (iv)+772 pages (seite)m but a final leaf may have been torn out, but the long alphabetical list of products of VDMA products, appears complete.Mehr als 400 seiter hadeln sich uber die einzelnen Hergestelltern und seiner Produkten, including many famous firms, each with photographs of works and products A very good copy. I tried my hand at translating technical German into english seite viele Jahre, so I have Mitgefuhl with those who ubersetzed this Band and forgive their Fehlers.Ick node hilp wit den job of neumaking DOGGER ,die spreak dat alle Nordeurope menn verstanden kan. (DOGGER wer die Spreak der forlorne menn von de Dogger Bank, lang uverflowtet von de Nordsea.) Dave Mitchell, Scarthin Books.
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6394
Mariette van Velden's Malawi - Velden, Mariette van
Price : £22.00
Publisher : Goodwood, Western Cape, South Africa: National Book Printers
Published : 1996
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
A very good copy of this landscape-format, pictorial-cover hardback, Some 72 unnumbered pages, with many lovely coloured "paintings" (or crayons) of everyday life in village and countryside.
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937
Mr Crabtree Goes Fishing - Venables, Bernard
Price : £22.00
Publisher : London: Daily Mirror
Published : 1952
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Second impression of the first edition. Oblong format softcover book in very good condition, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, little spotted foxing. Illustrated throughout. 96 pages.
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159
Analyses of Shake-speares Sonnets Using the Cipher Code - Venton, W B
Price : £25.00
Publisher : London: The Mitre Press
Published : 1968
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
Fine/G+. Blue cloth, gilt lettering, 39pp. "With fac similes of the coded sonnets and coded dedication of the 1609 edition, analysed by the author using the cipher code and verified and confirmed by computer". Dustjacket rather faded, otherwise in excellent condition.
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344
Hands Up! Palmistry for Pastime - Vequin, Capini
Price : £5.00
Publisher : London: T Werner Laurie Ltd, 1928
Binding : Hard
Fair. Pictorial card cover. 69pp + a few more to record the hands of your friends on. Spine missing, but no pages loose. Illustrated with b/w line drawings. A curiosity.
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8146
The History of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, Styled afterwards, the Knights of Rhodes, And at present the Knights of Malta. Translated from the French of Mons. L'Abbé de Vertot. (Complete 5 Volume Set) - Vertot, René Aubert de
Price : £375.00
Publisher : Edinburgh: Printed by R. Fleming
Published : 1757
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Complete 5 volume set. First English translation published in 2 volumes in 1728; this is the first 12mo. edition. All books uniformly bound in half-calf, volume one has been rebacked with the original leather laid down, the upper board to volume three is detached. Wear to leather at head of spine of volume five. New endpapers to all volumes. Although the pagination is erratic, there are no missing pages: [8], 279, 270-271, 280-331, pages; [2], 290 pages; [2], 308pp; [2], 300, 299-300, 301-305, 308-322pp; [2], 180, 191-286, + index. Internally there is age-toning to the paper, but the contents are clean, and all textblocks are firm.
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7791
Private World of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - Vickers, H.
Price : £50.00
Publisher : Harrods Publishing
Published : 1995
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Large format book in very good condition in a very good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing, small chip to back cover of jacket. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions. Profusely illustrated throughout. 240 pages. Heavy book which will incur extra overseas postage; please enquire for rates.
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5107
Climbs in Leicestershire - Vickers, Ken
Price : £20.00
Publisher : Leicester Mountaineering Club
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
pp48. Yellow stiff cloth pamphlet. Illustrated with photographs and line drawings. Perhaps the PO is mentioned in the newspaper clipping also tipped in.
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3741
Wildlife of Gondwana - Vickers-Rich, Patricia; Thomas Hewitt Rich
Price : £30.00
Publisher : Reed Australia
Published : 1993
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp276. Large folio. Grey cloth binding. Illustrated DW has two 1" tears at top front, label bottom showing Eureka Winner 1993-94 is rubbed. Illustrated endpapers. Not a book of palaentological recreations as I first thought, but a detailed history of all stages of life on Gondwana, with many colour photographs of fossils, tables of descent etc, leading to the current state of Australasian life. A superb work of biology.
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3176
Antique Spoons: A Collector's Guide - Victor Houart
Price : £7,5
Publisher : Souvenir Press
Published : 1982
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
pp144. Price clipped DJ. PO inscription fep. BW and colour plates. Errata slip present.
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4916
338171 T E Lawrence of Arabia - Victoria Ocampo (Trans. David Garnett), Intro. A W Lawrence
Price : £15.00
Publisher : London: Gollancz
Published : 1963
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp128. Brown cloth binding with gilt lettering. Usual Gollancz yellow DW. Spotting to edge of pages.
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2137
Farm Tractors The History of their Development with Notes on their proper Maintenance - Vigzol Oil Refining Co (London) Ltd.
Price : £10.00
Publisher : London and Ormskirk: Vigzol Oil Refining Co. (London) Ltd.
Published : 1946
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
64 pages printed in very dark brown, with halftones, on paper shaded with turquoise, in illustrated boards and cloth spine. A very good copy with ammendment and lubrication stickers attached to endpapers.The date is deduced from the text.
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829
Loukis Laras - Vikelas, Demetrios
Price : £22.00
Publisher : London: Doric Publications Ltd.
Published : 1972
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a very good unclipped dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing, especially to jacket edges. Some marking to rear cover of jacket. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions. 128 pages.
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4399
Family Walks in Dorset - Vile, Nigel
Price : £3.00
Publisher : Cromford: Scarthin Books
Published : 1995
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : New
Jacket : J
pp79. ** New book from its publishers at a special price **
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3013
Islenzkir Malshaettir - Vilhjalmsson, Bjarni og Oskar Halldorsson
Price : £20.00
Publisher : rejkjavik: Almenna Bokafelagid
Published : 1966
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
A very good, nearly fine, copy in a somewhat stained and creased dustjacket. Icelandic owner's signature and date on free endpaper.xxii+394 pages, handsomely bound in green "plasticloth2 with red and black leather labels for titling on spine, headband. They do a proper job with their books.
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4291
The Fascist Experiment - Villari, Luigi
Price : £25.00
Publisher : London: Faber & Gwyer
Published : 1926
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Book in very good condition in the original cloth, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding tight. 253 pages.
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3230
Last of the Wind Ships - Villiers, A. J.
Price : £40.00
Publisher : London: George Routledge
Published : 1934
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Large book in very good condition in a good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing. Jacket is soiled and has chipping to head and tail of spine, and chipping/creasing to edges, now protected within clear plasic sleeve. Internally clean, no marks or illustrations, binding is tight. 59 pages of text followed by 208 black and white illustrations. Reasonably heavy book which may incur extra overseas postage; please enquire for rates.
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3719
A Haunted House and other stories - Virginia Woolf
Price : £75.00
Publisher : London: Hogarth Press
Published : 1943
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp124. Red cloth binding. DW is badly torn on spine, and 2"-3" in lower half beginning at author's name are missing - where DW is missing the spine itself has faded. DW shows slight browning. Pages are tight, but paper is browning as is common with wartime paper.
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8069
Textiles of the Wiener Werkstatte,1910-32 - Volker, Angela
Price : £50.00
Publisher : Thames and Hudson
Published : 1994
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Large format book in very good condition in a very good dustjacket with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions. Illustrated throughout. 256 pages. Will probably incur extra overseas postage; please enquire for rates.
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3481
The Cutting of an Agate - W B Yeats
Price : £40.00
Publisher : Macmillan
Published : 1919
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp223. Blue cloth binding, gold lettering on spine (fading) and gold design on front cover. Rough cut pages. Browning to endpapers.
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3489
Essays - W B Yeats
Price : £12.00
Publisher : London: Macmillan
Published : 1924
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp538. Green cloth binding, with gold lettering on spine. Spine faded. Bookplate inside both covers. Inscription on fep dated July 1925. Ex lib showing Dewey No on spine base (presumably recipient in 1925 gave to school library). Shows only minor wear.
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6141
Music and Manners: Personal Reminiscences and Sketches of Character (2 Volumes) - W Beatty-Kingston
Price : £60.00
Publisher : London: Chapman and Hall
Published : 1887
Edition : 2nd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp390, 351 + pp40 publisher's list bound in. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering showing wear to ends of spine and corners. Sections of Vol 2 remain uncut. Quick examination shows accounts of Adelina Patti, and written while Strauss was still "Walzerkoenig" using the origial German.
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3210
45 Years in Wall Street and New Stck Trend Detector - W D Gann
Price : £30.00
Publisher : Library of Gann
Published : 1976
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp148 + pp 92. DW torn at corners and ends of spine. Sticker has been removed from spine. A work on investment who had allegedly predicted the devastation of the Wall Street Crash.
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5453
The Gentle Art of Excavating - W Heath Robinson
Price : £250.00
Publisher : Lincoln: Ruston-Bucyrus
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
pp12. Linen (?) thread bound. Stapled. Spine worn. General wear about edges. Condition: G-VG.
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3882
Book-Plates - W J Hardy
Price : £20.00
Publisher : London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner
Published : 1893
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp175. Burgundy cloth binding, fading about edges. Some pages uncut. Rough cut pages. 36 plates of historic bookplates. Browning to endpapers. Pages still gleaming white.
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3559
British Dragonflies odonata - W J Lucas
Price : £175.00
Publisher : London: L Upcott Gill
Published : 1900
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp356 + pp16 adverts. Brown illustrated board cover. Slight bumping to ends of spine and corners. Monogrammed endpapers. PO bookplate inside cover. Slight browning to endpapers.
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4605
Baby, The Camera and You (With 48 pictures by the author) - W Nurnberg
Price : £22.00
Publisher : London: Chapman and Hall
Published : 1946
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp52. Rose cloth binding with white lettering to front and spine. DW has been repaired with paper tape on reverse, and clear tape (now browned) about front ends of spine and corners. Small tears/holes in back of DW.
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4577
Derbyshire Parish Registers. Marriages Vol. VII - W P W Phillimore and LL. LL. Simpson (Eds.)
Price : £80.00
Publisher : London: Phillimore
Published : 1910
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp152. (Light) blue cloth binding, slightly stained, worn at ends of spine and corners. Endpapers browning. "One hundred and fifty printed" opposite title page is initialled by Phillimore "W.P.W.Ph.". Search our stock for other Derbyshire Parish Registers.
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3433
Foreign Stock Manual: A compendium of stocks by foreign government 1872 - W T F M Ingall
Price : £11.00
Publisher : London: F C Mathieson
Published : 1872
Edition : 5th or later Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Good
pp110. Green cloth soft binding, about pocket diary size. Gold lettering heavily worn. Some bumping to all corners. Interior VG EXCEPT that all the blank endpapers etc have been used for pencilled calculations and appear to be contemporary (e.g. calculation of 1858 stocks). This 1872 edition was the 12th. Other pencilled pages indicate the owner had interests in Egypt and Africa.
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3480
Reveries Over Childhood and Youth - W. B. Yeats
Price : £60.00
Publisher : Macmillan
Published : 1916
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp213. Blue cloth binding with gold lettering on spine (faded) and gold design on front cover. Coloured frontispiece by Jack Yeats, two BW plates. Tissue protecting fp has browned title page. Slight bumping/wear to corners and ends of spine.
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4968
Ice Cream: Revised and augmented edition - W. S. Arbuckle
Price : £20.00
Publisher : Westport: Conn: Avi Publishing
Published : 1966
Edition : 2nd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp403. Blue cloth cover (fading, so that title on front is lost) with gilt lettering to spine. Corners bumped. Illus. with BW photographs. Inscription from author to recipient at her English college address dated Feburary 1967. Ben and Jerry started with just a book on Ice Cream: might it have been this title?
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4931
Atlas of Cerebral Angiography with Anatomic Correlations - Waddington, Margaret M
Price : £100.00
Publisher : New York:Little Brown
Published : 1974
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
Unpaginated. Outsize. Large folio (approx 18" x 10"). Brown cloth binding with white lettering in similar slipcase. An enormous volume with photographs, colour illustrations etc. Hence, volume Fine in VG+ slipcase. Please check postage due to size and weight.
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150
The Aeroplane in the Great War: A Record of its Achievements - Wade, W L
Price : £100.00
Publisher : London: Virtue & Co
Published : 1919
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
VG+. Grey illustrated boards, 229pp. No dustjacket. Illustrations by Geoffrey Watson. Some foxing to endpapers, also discoloration of lower corner of rear board, otherwise an excellent and bright copy.
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7933
Essays in Greek History - Wade-Gery, H. T.
Price : £50.00
Publisher : Oxford: Basil Blackwell
Published : 1958
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Book in very good condition in the original cloth, with some wear and rubbing, and marking to cloth. Spine lettering a little dulled. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding is tight. 301 pages.
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2180
The Problem of the Picts - Wainwright (Ed.)
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Melven Press
Published : 1980
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dust jacket. (xi)+ 195pp with many b&w illustrations and photo plates. A very clean and tidy copy.
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7792
Rowsley : A Rural Railway Centre - Waite, Glynn; Knighton, Laurence
Price : £15.00
Publisher : Midland Railway Society
Published : 2003
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Large format book in very good condition in laminated boards, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions. Illustrated throughout. 124 pages.
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7814
Violin Bow: Rehair and Repair - Wake, H. S.
Price : £22.00
Publisher : Published by the Author
Published : 1975
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Large format softcover book in very good condition, with some wear and rubbing, and a little creasing. Internally clean, previous owner's inscription to ffe. Illustrated. 93 pages.
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4462
Synchronized Flashlight Photography - Wakefield, G. L. and N. W. Smith
Price : £24.00
Publisher : London: The Fountain Press
Edition : 2nd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Book in very good condition in the original cloth, with some wear and rubbing, small mark to front cover. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding tight. Illustrated. 130 pages.
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2400
Alston Moor Its Pastoral People Its Mines and Miners [FACSIMILE] - Wallace, W.
Price : £40.00
Publisher : Newcastle-on-Tyne: Mawson, Swan & Morgan
Published : 1890
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Facsimile reprint of a scarce book, which has been privately commissioned. In a recent half-leather binding, with paper to boards, which has some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, runs to 213 pages. Several illustrations.
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3565
The Castle of Otranto - Walpole, Horace
Price : £22.00
Publisher : London: Grey Walls Press
Published : 1950
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp137. Large 8vo. Black cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine, fading in a couple of spots on front. DW is torn at corner and at ends of spine. DW price crossed through in crayon, same crayon has written pre-decimal price on FEP, and also crossed through another pre-decimal price written in pencil. FEP creased lengthways. Internally VG.
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2995
The Rontgen (Roentgen) Rays in Medical Work: Third Edition - Walsh, David (Part I Re-written by Lewis Jones)
Price : £75.00
Publisher : London: Bailliere, Tindall and Cox
Published : 1902
Edition : 3rd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp316. Large 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering. PO modern bookplate inside front cover. Part I Apparatus and Methods Re-written by Lewis Jones. Part II Medical and Surgical Brought up to date with an appendix. Original owner signed his name with the date on title page: "31-1-02" - within days of publication. Illustrated with photographs of equipment and X-Ray plates.
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1497
The English Whippet - Walsh, E G and Lowe, Mary
Price : £80.00
Publisher : The Boydell Press
Published : 1984
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
Brown cloth, silver title to spine, 288pp. Near fine dust jacket shows painting of whippets by Oudry. Many b/w illus. Describes the whippet both as a show dog and a coursing dog.
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5009
Fish - Walsingham, Lord
Price : £20.00
Publisher : London: Philip Allan & Co. Ltd.
Published : 1926
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Book in very good condition in the original cloth, with some wear and rubbing. Sunning to spine, and some marking to cloth. Internally clean, previous owner's name to ffe, binding is tight. Illustrated. 158 pages.
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3366
Rivers to the Sea: A Profile of Modern Libya - Walt Wandell
Price : £15.00
Publisher : Wiebaden: You and Europe Publications1
Published : 1966
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Good
Jacket : J
pp136. Oversize softback with a cover folded to created flaps. Wear to spine, slight wear to all edges and corners. BW frontispiece protrait of King Idris. Other BW plates. Minor inscriptions in text in Arabic and English.
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3546
Fifty Years Ago - Walter Besant
Price : £30.00
Publisher : London: Chatto and Windus
Published : 1888
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp268. Green cloth binding. Rough cut pages. Illustrated with engravings and line drawings. Frontispiece of Victoria in 1830. Bookplate inside cover, PO inscription dated 1895 on second endpaper.
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4535
The Devil's Mill - Walter Unsworth
Price : £25.00
Publisher : London: Gollancz
Published : 1973
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp159. 1st Edn 3 printing. Red cloth binding, in only G DW (torn at edges of spine, heavily worn at corners). PO address label on FEP. Interestingly, the Gollancz label does not appear on bottom of DW spine (unlike our other 1st Edn, 3rd printing). A story of childworkers in Derbyshire.
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7951
Murder on Mars - Walters, Hugh
Price : £80.00
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Published : 1975
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a very good unclipped dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding tight. 131 pages.
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278
Limestones and Caves of North-West England - Waltham, A C (ed.) assisted by M M Sweeting
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1974
Edition : F
Binding : Hard
Jacket : J
VG/VG. Brown cover, gilt title to spine, 477pp. A full account of the caves of NW England and their geology and formation. First book in the series "The Limestones and Caves of Britain".
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6122
The Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. With Jackson's Practical Fly-Fisher bound in) - Walton, Isaak and Charles Cotton (Ed. John Major). John Jackson
Price : £180.00
Publisher : London: John C Nimmo
Published : 1889
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp445 "with six original etchings, two portraits, and seventy-four wood engravings" (Angler). pp15 + 10 colour plates (Practical Fly-Fisher). Green cloth binding with gilt lettering and illustration to spine, gilt illustration to front. Rear pages (index and Practical Fly-Fisher) are becoming unbound, protective sheet missing from frontispiece portrait. Reginald W Sale's bookplate inside front cover, and his inscription on reverse of endpaper.
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3551
The Compleat Angler - Walton, Izaak and Charles Cotton
Price : £15.00
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Published : 1921
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Book in good condition in the original cloth, with some wear and rubbing, and sunning to spine. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding tight. With several illustrations. 340 pages.
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4811
Audi Quattro: The Development & Competition History - Walton, Jeremy
Price : £15.00
Publisher : Guild Publishing
Published : 1984
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a very good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding tight. Illustrated throughout. 267 pages.
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2960
Machining and Constructing a "Castle" Clock - Walton, Jeremy
Price : £50.00
Publisher : Brant Wright Associates Ltd
Published : 1980
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
No.12 of an unspecified limited edition, signed by the author on the title-page. Large format book in very good condition in a very good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing, and creasing/chipping to edges. Internally clean, binding tight. Illustrated throughout. 67 pages.
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2735
Belshazzar's Feast Vocal Score (signed by Dennis Noble) - Walton, William
Price : £30.00
Publisher : OUP
Published : 1931
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp120. Owner's inscription 1st page. Signed by Dennis Noble (who sang at the first performance in 1931) on page ix. Old sellotape around card cover edges, spine worn, and old sellotape along inner hinges.
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3451
Modern Norway: A Study in Social Democracy - Warbey/Palmer/Champion/Whyte
Price : £10.00
Publisher : Fabian Publications/ Allen and Unwin
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Good
pp181 + BW plates. Large paperback. Corners bumped. Based on an investigative visit made by the authors in 1948.
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5036
Shrewsbury: A Rich Heritage - Ward, Arthur Walburgh
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Shrewsbury: Wilding and Son
Published : 1946
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp68. Cream cloth cover with brown lettering. Quarto. Endpaper maps. No 39 of a limited edition of 500. Many tipped in photographs, plates. In addition, PO has graingerised this volume with more photographic illustrations of Shrewsbury. Also tucked in various clippings and cuttings related to Shrewsbury.
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7204
Plant Hunter's Paradise - Ward, F Kingdon
Price : £25.00
Publisher : London: Jonathan Cape
Published : 1938
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in fair dust-jacket, which is worn and rubbed with fading and soiling. Repairs to inside of jacket. Internally clean, previous owner's name to front free endpaper, occasional spotted foxing, which is quite heavy to title-page, binding tight. No front free endpaper, but it looks like the book was bound without it. Illustrated with black and white plates. 347 pages.
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349
With the 'Die-Hards' in Siberia - Ward, John, (Col.)
Price : £200.00
Publisher : London: Cassell & Co Ltd, 1920
Edition : F
Binding : Hard
VG. Half-bound in leather, xii + 278pp. 8 b/w plates. Some scuffing to edges of cover, light foxing throughout. Inscribed "1926. To my friend and Neighbour, Ernest Callard, Wandsworth Library. John Ward". Ernest Callard evidently employed the resources of the library to rebind this volume in robust half leather with raised bands and library cloth boards. The following newspaper cuttings are stuck in the front and back of the book: (1) Prize-winning letter from Mr J Martin recounting an escapade from his days serving under Col. Ward's command; (2) Cartoon by Bruce Bairnsfather illustrating this incident; (3) Obituary from The Daily Telegraph of 20 Dec 1934; (4) Obituary from The Times of same date; (5) Three further obituaries, one from The Evening News.
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618
The Cricketer, Vol XIII (13) (Magazine) - Warner (Ed.)
Price : £35.00
Publisher : The Cricketer
Published : 1932
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
VG. Dark green polished cloth, bold gilt titling to spine ("The Cricketer Vol XIII 1932"). Bound copies of The Cricketer magazine. Contains Spring Annual 1932, May to September issues, Annual 1932-33. Slight damp-spotting to cover.
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619
The Cricketer, Vol XIV (14) (The Cricketer) - Warner (ED.)
Price : £35.00
Publisher : The Cricketer
Published : 1933
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
VG. Dark green polished cloth, bold gilt titling to spine "The Cricketer Vol XIV 1933"). Bound copies of The Cricketer magazine. Contains Spring Annual 1933, May to September issues, Annual 1933-34. Some speckles to back cover.
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7873
Aviation Handbook - Warner, Edward P. and S. Paul Johnston
Price : £50.00
Publisher : McGraw-Hill
Published : 1931
Binding : Soft
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
First edition, seventh impression. Book in good condition in cloth covered card boards, with some wear and rubbing, especially to joints and corners. Internally clean, previous owner's name to reverse of front cover, binding is tight. Illustrated. 715 pages.
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613
The Cricketer, Vol VIII (8) (Magazine) - Warner, P F (ed.)
Price : £40.00
Publisher : The Cricketer
Published : 1927
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
VG. Dark green polished cloth, bold gilt titling to spine ("The Cricketer Vol VIII 1927"). Bound copies of The Cricketer magazine. Contains Spring Annual 1927, May to September issues, Annual 1927-28. Some small marks to cover, no loose pages.
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614
The Cricketer, Vol IX (9) (Magazine) - Warner, P F (ed.)
Price : £30.00
Publisher : Cricketer
Published : 1928
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Good. Dark green polished cloth, black titling to spine ("The Cricketer Vol IX 1928). Bound copies of The Cricketer magazine. Contains Spring Annual 1928, May to September issues, Annual 1928-29. Small tear at base of spine, scuffing to top edge and corners, a few marks to covers. The top front corner (about 2" square) is damp-stained. Contents VG, no loose pages.
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4554
The Gold of Chickaree - Warner, Susan and Anna
Price : £35.00
Publisher : London:James Nisbet (Golden Ladder Series)
Published : 1877
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp352, + pp8 publisher's announcements. 8vo. Red cloth binding with illustration in gold and black (colours still gorgeously bright), colours continue in lettering on spine. End of spine bumped. Inscription on reverse of frontispiece dated 1880, and another name inscribed on pre-title page. Light spotting to end papers.
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6861
Handbook of Perspective, Third Revised Edition - Warren, W G
Price : £10.00
Publisher : London: Crosby Lockwood
Published : 1948
Edition : 3rd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp68. Quarto. Brown cloth binding. Illustrated brown DW, is torn on spine edge with part missing. Corner of one page missing (no effect on text or illustration).
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5377
Love Among the Ruins - Warwick Deeping
Price : £15.00
Publisher : London: Grant Richards
Published : 1904
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp318 + publisher's list. 8vo. Illustrated cloth binding - abstract blue, red and gold patterning. Some wear to edges and foxing of cover and end pages. PO name stamped on FEP. Condition: G-VG.
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442
Happy Hawkins - Wason, Robert Alexander
Price : £10.00
Publisher : London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1924
Published : 1924
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : J
A near-fine dustwrapper picturing chain-smoking, gun-toting eponymous hero and (!) a bride. The book is VG-, the cheap paper is browning and the edges are darkened, but overall about as good a copy as you will find (protected for 80 years by BROWN PAPER!). A 1924 title in Hodder's two-shilling series.
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445
Friar Tuck: A thrilling story told by Happy Hawkins - Wason, Robert Alexander
Price : £10.00
Publisher : London; Hodder and Stoughton, 1924
Published : 1924
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
A near-fine dustwrapper picturing the eponymous hero happily hefting his gun belt though around his neck lies a NOOSE! Signed "Gale 1923". The book is VG-, the cheap paper is browning and the edges are darkened, but overall about as good a copy as you will find (protected for 80 years by BROWN PAPER!). A 1924 title in Hodder's two-shilling series.
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513
Painting in Britain: 1530-1790 - Waterhouse, E K
Price : £30.00
Publisher : London: Penguin Books, 1954
Binding : Hard
Jacket : J
Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Third. Part of the 'Pelican History Of Art' series, edited by Pevsner, many illus., handsome volume.
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7754
Tipping the Velvet (Signed by Author) - Waters, Sarah
Price : £40.00
Publisher : Virago Press
Published : 1999
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Paperback book in very good condition, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, signed by Sarah Waters on the title-page. 472 pages.
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7742
BB a Celebration - Watkins-Pitchford, Denys
Price : £100.00
Publisher : Wharncliffe Publishing
Published : 1993
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a very good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions. Illustrated. 303 pages.
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7763
The Naturalist's Bedside Book - Watkins-Pitchford, Denys
Price : £20.00
Publisher : Michael Joseph
Published : 1980
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a very good unclipped dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions. Illustrated. 192 pages.
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1931
History of British Athletics - Watman, Melvyn
Price : £14.00
Publisher : Robert Hale
Published : 1968
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Basically a very good copy in very good wrapper, but spine faded and surface of endpaper roughened by price out-rubbing 9not by us).Inscribed neatly by previous owner. Packed with information, chatacters, performances and portraits. You have to go back a fair way for my 4m24s mile to be competitive.
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1932
History of British Athletics - Watman, Melvyn
Price : £14.00
Publisher : Robert Hale
Published : 1968
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Basically a very good copy in very good wrapper, but spine faded and surface of endpaper roughened by price out-rubbing 9not by us).Inscribed neatly by previous owner. Packed with information, chatacters, performances and portraits. You have to go back a fair way for my 4m24s mile to be competitive.
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2411
Pastoral Moods and Impressions - Watson Lyle
Price : £10.00
Publisher : London:Heath Cranton
Published : 1924
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp 223. 36 illustrations from original drawings by George J Thompson. Signed by the author. The thirty-five vignettes of the countryside the author calls prose-poems in his introduction.
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4819
Lionel Edwards : Master of the Sporting Scene - Watson, J. N.
Price : £25.00
Publisher : London: The Sportsman's Press
Published : 1986
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Large format book in very good condition in a very good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions. Illustrated throughout. 127 pages.
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104
The English Lake District Fisheries - Watson, John
Price : £40.00
Publisher : T.N. Foulis
Published : 1925
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Grey-green cloth boards with gilt, illustrated, pages uncut, slight foxing to fore-edges, otherwise VG.
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1169
The Derbyshire Village of Duffield, Past and Present - Watson, W R
Price : £38.00
Publisher : Chevin Books, Derby
Published : 1991
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
Blue cloth and dust jacket, 191pp. No 514 of a limited edition. This is the successor to "The Illustrated History of Duffield", published in 1986 by Chevin Books, the author's own imprint. Illustrated in colour and b/w.
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6374
The Illustrated History of Duffield - Watson, W.R.
Price : £40.00
Publisher : Duffield: Chevin Books
Published : 1986
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp158. Quarto. Red cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine inside illustrated DW. DW slightly worn about edges. Limited edition of which this is 147. A possible PO address label adheres to the reverse title page. Maps, diagrams, photographs. Some pencilled underlinings in text.
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4607
Tao : The Watercourse Way - Watts, Alan; Huang, Al Chung-liang; Lee Chih-Chang
Price : £30.00
Publisher : London: Jonathan Cape
Published : 1976
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a very good dustjacket, with some minor wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding tight. Illustrated with Chinese characters. 134 pages.
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1990
Edwin Waugh's Works (complete in 11 volumes), including the Limping Pilgrim - Waugh, Edwin
Price : £200.00
Publisher : Manchester: John Heywood
Published : 1881
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Comprises (short titles) Lancashire Sketches, Factory Folk,Besom Ben Stories,The Limping Pilgrim, Tufts of Heather Vols 1 and 2,Irish Sketches and Miscellany,The Chimney Corner,Rambles in the lake Country,Poems and Songs, Poems and Songs (Second Series).The eleven uniform volumes are bound in handsomely gilt tiles nrown cloth, with black panelling to the front board (blind to the back)and Waugh's signature in gilt on each front board. Each volume has a photogravure (?) frontispiece, tissue guarded opposite the title page printed in red and black with vignette. Decorative headpieces etc. in the text. One spine is dulled,one creased, the rest bright, all unfaded. Contents soewhat foxed but obviously little-opened.An attractive and rarely-seen complete set, of which two volumes (Irish Sketches, the Limping Pilgrim) are scarce and not included in earlier sets of Waugh,s works. The actually dates of publication of the first ten volumes are range from 1881 to 1883, the second poems and songs dates from 1889 and though uniform in style and materials gives Gilbert G.Walmsley of Liverpool and W.E.Clegg of Oldham as the publishers. Please contact us for postage details due to size.
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83
Black Mischief - Waugh, Evelyn
Price : £60.00
Publisher : Chapman & Hall, London
Edition : F
Binding : Hard
First edition1932 red and black patterned cloth with gilt to spine - no dustwrapper - slight fading to spine, otherwise a very good copy.
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7916
A Companion to Homer - Wave, Alan J B and Frank H Stubbings
Price : £28.00
Publisher : London: Macmillan
Published : 1962
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp595. Large 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering now faded on spine. PO name inscribed on fep.
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4857
The Racing Calendar for the Year 1854: Races to Come - Weatherby, Charles and James
Price : £50.00
Publisher : London: Reynell & Weight
Published : 1854
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Book in full calf binding, label to spine, leather in good condition with some wear and rubbin. No splitting to joints, leather worn to head of spine, and wear to edges. Internally clean,no marks or inscriptions, binding is tight. lxi, 467 pages.
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2376
Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey - Weeks, Richard V.
Price : £20.00
Publisher : Greenwood Press
Published : 1978
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
ex library copy with usual markings and stamps. Label has been torn out from prelimainary page, leaving page a little worse for wear. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to cover and spine. (xli)+ 546pp with 4 illustrated maps.
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7994
A Collectors' Guide to Judaica - Weinstein, Jay
Price : £28.00
Publisher : London: Thames and Hudson
Published : 1985
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Near Fine
Jacket : J
pp240. Quarto. Brown cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine in illustrated DW. Publisher's price label on rear DW above barcode. No additional postage in UK.
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4832
Star Trek Convergence Limited Edition in Case: Part One: Split Infinties: Part Two: Future Imperiled: Signed - Weinsten, Friedman, Save, De La Rosa
Price : £125.00
Publisher : DC
Published : 1995
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
Black stiff plastic wallet containing: a) certificate of authenticity that this collection is one of a 500 limited edition; b) Star Trek Convergence: Part One: Split Infinities: 1995 Annual Number 6; c) Star Trek The Next Generation Convergence: Part Two: Future Imperiled: 1995 Annual Number 6 (There are references on WWW to this volume as "Future Imperfect" but the cover title is clearly "Future Imperiled"). Star Trek is signed by Howard Weinstein. Star Trek TNG is signed by Michael Jan Friedman.
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