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"Tiger", "Lion" and "Blake", 1942-1986 : The Royal Navy's Last Cruisers - Antennae: Poems
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6608
'Birdie' Bowers of the Antarctic - Seaver, George
Price : £100.00
Publisher : London:John Murray
Published : 1938
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Second impression of the first edition. Book in very good condition in a good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing. Chipping to jacket edges, with a little loss to head and tail of spine. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding is tight. Illustrated. 270 pages.
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957
'Creative Camera' International Year Book 1975 - Osman, Colin; Turner, Peter
Price : £22.00
Publisher : London: Gordon Fraser
Published : 1974
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. Couple of small dents to rear panel of jacket. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding tight. Illustrated throughout. 236 pages.
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4620
'Fessor Mojo's "Don't Start Me To Talking" - William E Donoghue (Sonny Boy Williamson interest)
Price : £15.00
Publisher : Mojo Visions
Published : 1997
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
pp96. "The most comprehensive Sonny Boy Williamson II Discography to Date"
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1016
'R Wy'n Cofio - Yr Hen Was
Price : £10.00
Publisher : Llyfrau'r Dryw
Published : 1963
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
VG-. Green cloth, pictorial dust jacket, 104pp. Welsh text.
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59
'The Mad Woman' in Lovat Dickson's Magazine Vol 3 No 5 - Bates, H E (contributor)
Price : £15.00
Publisher : Lovat Dickson Ltd, London, November 1934
Published : 1934
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Lovat Dickson's magazine black & orange paper wraps including H.E. Bates 'The Mad Woman'. Sound copy, but slightly rubbed cover.
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1519
(White's) History, Gazetter and Directory of Lincolnshire . 5th. Edition 1892-1893 - White, William Limited
Price : £125.00
Publisher : Sheffield: William White
Published : 1892
Edition : 5th or later Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
xx+1200+32(advert) pages, newly crafstsman-rebound,in tan reliance bookcloth with red leather title label on spine;head and tail bands. A handsome and again sturdy volume. The pages are in very good condition apart from light marginal foxing to the first and last few leaves; there is no map.
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5211
100 Years of Model Engineering - Ball, Eric C.
Price : £75.00
Publisher : Norwich: The Society of Model & Experimental Engineers
Published : 1998
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Near Fine
Jacket : J
Limited edition, no. 104 of 200 copies. Signed by author Eric C. Ball on a special limited edition book plate which is pasted to the ffe. Book in near fine condition in a near fine dustjacket, with minimal wear and rubbing. Internally very clean, no marks or inscriptions, printed on coated paper. Illustrated throughout. 128 pages.
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6713
19 Stories (Nineteen) - Greene, Graham
Price : £120.00
Publisher : London: William Heinemann Ltd
Published : 1947
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
First edition, first impression. Book in very good condition, in a good unclipped jacket, which has wear and rubbing. Chipping to head and tail of spine panel, with inch tear along edge to top of spine, some edgewear and the jacket is marked/soiled and rubbed to the spine. Jacket is a little worn at corners.Internally clean, previous owner's signature to endpaper.
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120
19th Century English Pottery and Porcelain - Bemrose, Geoffrey
Price : £15.00
Publisher : London: Faber & Faber
Published : 1952
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
VG+/VG. Purple cloth, gilt/green title to spine, xi + 57pp. 4 colour plates, 96 b/w plates. Pictorial dustjacket with faded spine. Where the dustjacket does not lie against the endpapers the paper has turned brown, otherwise a fine copy.
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6934
21st Century Extreme Steam - Le Cheminant, Steve et al.
Price : £18.00
Publisher : Carnforth: Tele Rail Publications
Published : 2003
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Large format book in very good condition in a very good dust-jacket, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, illustrated throughout.
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6875
22 Pamphlets on Concrete, Cement, Wall boarding, plaster boarding and related subjects - [None]
Price : £10.00
Publisher : Various Official and Trade Bodies
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
How to Store Materials for Concrete (Man on the Job leaflet 2. 2 copies) How to mix better concrete (Man on the Job leaflet 3. 2 copies). The Slump Test (Man on the Job leaflet 4) How to batch concrete by volume (Man on the Job leaflet 5. 2 copies) How to batch concrete by weight (Man on the Job leaflet 6) How to Vibrate Concrete (Man on the Job leaflet 9) Transporting Concrete to the Job (Man on the Job leaflet 12) Thin Reinforced Concrete Walls (Man on the Job leaflet 14) An Introduction to Lightweight Concrete (Cement and Concrete Association 3rd Ed 1960) Specification for Gypsum Plasterboard Part 2 Metric Units (BSI 1230:Part 2:1970) Portland Cement (Ordinary and Rapid-Hardening) (BSI 12:Part 1: 1958) Glossary of Terms Applicable to Internal Plastering, External Rendering and Floor Screeding (BSI 4049:1966) The Uses of Lime in Building (British Lime Manufacturers 5th Edn 1954) Concrete in Garden-Making (Cement and Concrete Association 1960) The Blue Book on Plasterboard (British Gypsum 1967) In-Situ Floor Finishes (BS Code of Practice CP 204:1965. 2 copies) Plaster Mixes for Inside Work (Ministry of Public Building and Works Advistory Leaflet 9) Fixing Fibre Building Board Wall Linings (Minsitry of Public Building and Works Advisory Leaflet 17. 1963) Sands for Plasters, Mortars and Rendering (HMSO Department of the Environment Advistory Leaflet 15) Redland Using Jointing Compounds User Guide Number 2 (Redland Plasterboard).
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5303
3 Boys in a Boat (Three Boys in a Boat) - David Brook
Price : £16.00
Publisher : London: Adlard Coles
Published : 1968
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp238. Large 8vo. Blue cloth cover. Colour photographic DW. BW plates. Map endpapers.
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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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4668
45 Anni di Vita della G. Minganti & C, Bologna. 1919-1964 - [None]
Price : £40.00
Publisher : Bologna: G Minganti e C. S.p.A.
Published : 1964
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp132. Quarto. Black cloth binding with gilt metalic boss of two heads (founder Minganti and wife?) in centre front. Slight wear at corners and ends of spine. Interior glossy pages, mostly photographic records of the machines and machine shops of the company from the company foundation, including the bombed remains in 1945. From p99 shows the new steel framed factory and its interior as it was in 1958. Then further machinery until 1964 when Italian President awarded a knighthood of Industry.
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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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3428
A Bibliography of Libya - R W Hill
Price : £20.00
Publisher : U of Durham Dept of Geography Research papers series no 1 (1959)
Published : 1959
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
pp100. Blue card covers fading slightly at spine. As Libya returns to the world fold we need all the information we can find. Check Scarthin's stocks for other titles on Libya.
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508
A Book of Joys: The Story of a New England Summer - Perkins, Lucy Fitch
Price : £25.00
Publisher : A.C. McClurg & Co. Chicago
Published : 1907
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Green decorated front cloth, 8vo, slight darkening of spine and lettering on spine a little indistinct, otherwise in good condition. 5 very attractive illustrations in colour by author. Rough cut pages.
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7998
A Book of Sporting Painters - Sparrow, Walter Shaw
Price : £23.00
Publisher : London: John Lane The Bodley Head
Published : 1931
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp240. Quarto. Green cloth binding with gilt decoration to front, gilt lettering to spine. Irregularly cut pages have grubby edges (in contrast to covers, whose colour is still bright). PO inscription on FEP. 14 colour plates. BW plates throughout. A few pages have tears about edges, none found of significance. No additional postage in UK.
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1126
A Book of the Running Brook: And of Still Waters - Campbell, Lady Colin
Price : £20.00
Publisher : London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886
Published : 1886
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
VG-. Pale blue cloth, maroon titling, 129pp + 2pp adverts for other books on angling. Binding cracked at front endpaper, but no loose pages. Cover discoloured with age along edges and spine, slight yellowing and minor foxing of text. Previous owner's name in pencil on ffep.
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2573
A Brief History of Paper and Its Manufacture - Hamer, N. E.
Price : £20.00
Publisher : London School of Printing
Published : 1941
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Scarce booklet in very good condition in the original paper-covered boards with cloth to spine. With some wear and rubbing, and light soiling. Internally clean, inscription from author to front pastedown, binding tight. pages. Runs to 10 pages.
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2763
A Brief recorded History of Blidworth - Wild, W.
Price : £15.00
Publisher : Blidworth: Wilfred Wild
Published : 1972
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
A somewhat warped and dusty copy of the paperback edition (we also have, at the time of typing, the hardback) with loss of surface of a small area of the card at bottom front corner. Pages clean and undamaged (iv)+102 pages including illustrations; correction slip pasted in.
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6848
A Brief Recorded History of Blidworth including Newstead and Clipstone - Wild, Wilfred
Price : £40.00
Publisher : Blidworth: Published by the Author
Published : 1972
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 rubbing. Internally clean, previous owner's inscription to front pastedown, binding tight. With 31 black and white illusrations. 102 pages. Or we may still have the paperback edition for £15.
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6898
A Case of Samples - Amis, Kingsley
Price : £35.00
Publisher : London: Victor Gollancz
Published : 1956
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a very good dust-jacket, which has some minor wear and rubbing. Internally clean, previous owner's signature to front free endpaper, binding is tight. 72 pages.
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7782
A Census of Finnegan's Wake: An Index of the Characters and Their Roles - Glasheen, Adaline
Price : £22.00
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Published : 1957
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 alittle chipping to edges. Internally clean, previous owner's name and date acquired to ffe, couple of small labels to front pastedown, binding is firm. 146 pages.
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2524
A Century of Service (1864-1964) - Frederick Horsley
Price : £15.00
Publisher : Denby Parish Council
Published : 1964
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp37. Many BW photographs. Previous owner's inscription on fep and inside back cover. Recording a century of those who held public office in the Derbyshire parish of Denby. The author was clerk to the parish council.
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5058
A Collection of the Sufferings of the People Called Quakers, for the Testimony of a Good Conscience, from the Time of Their Being First Distinguished by That Name in the Year 1650, to the Time of the Act, Commonly Called the Act of Toleration, Granted to Protestant Dissenters in the First Year of the Reign of King William the Third and Queen Mary, in the Year 1689. Taken from Original Records and Other Authentick Accounts (Two Volumes Complete) - Besse, Joseph
Price : £400.00
Publisher : London: Luke Hinde
Published : 1753
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Complete in two volumes. Foolscap folio-sized books, which are in a sturdy Nottingham Reference Library binding, with library bookplate to front pastedowns, but no other signs of markings. New endpapers, but the original fly leaves have been retained. Small labels of the Library of the Meeting of Friends of Nottingham to verso of title-pages; the books were later presented to the Reference library. Near-contemporary inscription: 'Belongs to the Mo. Meeting at Nottingham No.1/No.2'to fly leaf of both volumes. Bindings are in very good condition, with some wear and rubbing, and are well suited for the secure handling of such large books. Internally the pages are age-toned but clean, and the bindings are tight. lv, 767; 638,[10] pages. This is a very heavy set and so will incur extra overseas postage; please enquire for rates, or if you require any photos.
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8132
A Collector's Guide to Nineteenth Century Jugs - Hughes, Kathy
Price : £18.00
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul
Published : 1985
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. 138 pages. Illustrated throughout.
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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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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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1115
A Complete Collection of State-Trials and Proceedings for High-Treason .from the Reign of King Richard 2nd. - [None]
Price : £1000.00
Publisher : London: J. Walthoe Sen.,etc., 1730 etc.
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
We have five of the original six volume set (volume 6 missing),and the two supplementary volumes, making seven of the eight volumes in all. Large quarto ("folio") in full contemporary or near-contemporary calf,raised bands with gilt rules,the boards edged with double gilt panel; red leather title labels. Covers showing wear and joints signs of splitting but essentaially a very good sound set that can be kept in its original state. More details on application. 01629-823272. These volumes can be sent economically within the UK;expensive elsewhere.
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7707
A Concordance to the Plays and Prefaces of Bernard Shaw (Complete 10 Volume Set) - Bevan, E. Dean
Price : £500.00
Publisher : Gale Research Company
Published : 1971
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
10 volume set. Books in very good condition in the original cloth, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, bindings are tight. Books are quarto size and the set is obviously very heavy; no extra postage charges within the UK, but shipping costs abroad are prohibitive. Please enquire about overseas postal rates if interested in buying this set.
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6113
A Country Parish: Great Budworth in the County of Cheshire - Boyd, A.W.
Price : £150.00
Publisher : London: Collins
Published : 1951
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp278. 8vo. Green cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine in DW. DW priceclipped (or rather torn), tears at corners, tears at edge of spine, 1cm missing top and bottom of spine. Signed by author on page opposite title page.
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6886
A Course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy by the late Richard Helsham M.D. Published by Bryan Robinson M.D. - Helsham, Richard
Price : £150.00
Publisher : London: J. Nourse
Published : 1777
Edition : 5th or later Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Scarce book in good condition in the original full calf binding, with some wear and rubbbing. Lacks title-label to spine. Corners worn. Joints starting but both boards firmly attached, and no splitting to inner hinges. Internally clean, age-toning to pages, bookplate to front pastedown, binding is tight. With 11 folding copper plates. viii + 404 pages.
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3844
A Day Out for Mehmet Erbil (Signed Limited Edition) - De Bernieres, Louis
Price : £110.00
Publisher : London: Belmont Press
Published : 1999
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : No Jacket
No.56 of 150 regular copies signed by the illustrator Eileen Hogan and the author De Bernieres. In fine condition with no visible signs of wear. In paper-covered boards with cloth to spine, paper label to board. Issued without dustjacket. 40 pages.
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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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7876
A Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Artists, 1420-1970 - Milner, John
Price : £250.00
Publisher : Antique Collectors' Club
Published : 1993
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Large book in very good condition in a very good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions. Illustrated throughout. 483 pages. Heavy book which will incur extra overseas postage; please enquire for rates.
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4673
A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue : From the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth ( First 10 Volumes) - Craigie, William A. (et al.)
Price : £600.00
Publisher : Iniversity of Chicago Press; Oxford University Press
Published : 1974
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Complete first 10 volume run of the dictionary, fom A-Toy; 2 volumes published later completing the dictionary. DOST was compiled over a period of some eighty years, from 1931-2002, under various editiors and publishers; these 10 volumes run from 1974 to 2001. Uniformly bound in green cloth, except volume 4 which is in navy cloth. All in every good condition, with minor wear and rubbing; small repaired tear to cloth of volume 7. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions. Obviously a very heavy set of books, so the overseas postage charges will be prohibitive, but please enquire for rates if interested; no extra postage charges in the UK.
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6812
A Digest of the Faith, Duties, and Privileges, of A Christian. Including a View of the Evidences of the Christian Religion - Porteus, Dr. Beilby
Price : £75.00
Publisher : London: M. Jones
Published : 1803
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Scarce first edition, book in good condition in original cloth, with some splitting to spine edges, but with no splitting to inner hinges, binding tight. Chipping to head and tail of spine. Internally clean, age-toning and some foxing to pages, probably lacks a frontispiece portrait of Porteus. 282 pages.
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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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365
A Dublin Anatomist : Tom Garry 1884-1963 - Garry, John Daniel
Price : £30.00
Publisher : Dublin ; Black Cat Press, 1984
Published : 1984
Edition : F
Binding : Hard
Jacket : J
"In an edition limited to three hundred copies". This copy at any rate is bound by "Antiquarian Bookcrafts", Rathfarnham, Dublin (small ticket). Red half leather and marbled boards, a near mint copy. Well done, Black Cat Press.
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1464
A Dyer's Manual - Goodwin, Jill
Price : £20.00
Publisher : Pelham Books, London
Published : 1982
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Tan cloth, gilt title to spine, pictorial dust jacket, 128pp. Illustrated in b/w and colour. Top and bottom edges slightly rubbed. Previous owner's name sticker on ffep and some notes in pencil and ink on rear endpapers. A few faint pencil annotations in text.
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2230
A Fan of Shadows - Cluysenaar, anne
Price : £10.00
Publisher : Manchester Institute of Contemporary Arts
Published : 1967
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
MICA poets no. 5. Small paperback book in very good condition, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, stapled binding is tight, no marks or inscriptions. 11 pages.
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375
A Fly Fisher's Reflections 1860-1930 - Bromley, A. Nelson
Price : £75.00
Publisher : The Fishing Gazette and J .&H. Bell, 1930
Edition : F
Binding : Hard
Slight fading to spine, and a couple of kneadable-out bumps to board fore-edges, otherwise a vg+ or near fine copy of this lovely book, dark green cloth, gilt decortations to front board and spine. Inscribed to D.F.Leney from A.Nelson.Bromley on the free endpaper.
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4433
A Fowler's World : An Account of Days on the Marsh and Estuary - Niall, Ian
Price : £18.00
Publisher : london: William Heinemann
Published : 1968
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, binding tight. Illustrated. 163 pages.
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7910
A Free Spirit : Irish Art, 1860-1960 - McConkey, Kenneth
Price : £28.00
Publisher : Antique Collectors Club
Published : 1990
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Near Fine
Jacket : J
pp228. Quarto. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering in illustrated DW. Illustrated endpapers. Please check postage due to weight.
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842
A Geographical Handbook of the Dorset Flora including a Chapter on the Soils of Dorset by K.L.Robinson - Good, Ronald, M.A.(Cantab), Professor of Botany, University College Hull
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Dorchester: The Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Societ
Published : 1948
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Guilty! This copy is NOT signed, but contains two letters and a postcard on University stationery from the author, corresponding with Michael Paffard (late of Keele University)on Iris foetidissima v.citrina,Anagalis tenella etc.dated 1946,'48 and '49. This copy is somewhat warped and the spine and board edges are faded. Otherwise VG.
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1528
A Geological Inquiry respecting the Water-Bearing Strata oof the Country around London. - Prestwich, Joseph, F.G.S.
Price : £40.00
Publisher : Gurney & Jackson
Published : 1895
Edition : 2nd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
x+ii+240 pages in blind-panelled dark-blue cloth, gilt titling on spine; the "ii" pages eccentrically numbered as from there on a reprint of the 1851 edition. Indeed no sign that a map was ever attached. AN ANECDOTE. I purchased this, thinking it a bargain, in a chaotic seaside-town bookshop while harrassed by my exploratory young daughter.(Better to resist busman's holidaying!) Normally I would have noticed the lack of map and left it on the shelf! Time to do some Spring planting, Dave Mitchell.
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6482
Á Gljúfrasteini (Gljufrasteini) - Andrésdóttir, Edda vid Auði Sweinsdóttur Laxness (Andresdottir)
Price : £24.00
Publisher : Reykjavik: Vaka
Published : 1984
Edition : 3rd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
A very good copy of the third issue, in edgeworn and singly creased otherwise very good and complete dustjacket with photo of Mr. and Mrs. Laxness.
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7930
A Grammar of Contemporary English - Quirk, Randolph
Price : £32.00
Publisher : Longman
Published : 1980
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Ninth corrected edition. Book in very good condition in a very good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding is tight. 1120 pages. Heavy book so please enquire for extra overseas postage costs.
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4774
A Guide to Black Rocks and Cratcliffe Tor - A J Moulam P R J Harding
Price : £12.00
Publisher : Climber's Club Guides
Published : 1949
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Fair
pp27. Grey card cover, wrapped in clear plastic, taped inside leading to brown adhesive stains on first pages. Page edges very ragged. Many pages and BW photographs taped in. PO inside front cover. Many climbs ticked, while condition suggests this volume went on them.
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5134
A Guide to French Fetes ("When to Go Where") - Robson, E. I.
Price : £20.00
Publisher : London: Methuen & Co.
Published : 1930
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing. Some edge-chipping and stain from old removed sellotape to head of spine. Foxing to foredge of text-block. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding tight. Illustrated with photographs. 238 pages.
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2388
A Guide to the History of Science - George Sarton
Price : £20.00
Publisher : Ronald Press
Published : 1952
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp316. DW spine faded. Otherwise in very good condition. Illustrated throughout. Contains many bibliographies and checklists.
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2138
A Guide to the Law Twenty-Second Edition - A Barrister
Price : £14.00
Publisher : Stevens and Sons
Published : 1879
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
(viii)+272 pages, bound in characteristic textured and blind-panbelled brown cloth of the period, titling in gilt; "3/6" it was,multiply by 100 to today's prices and you get.a very good copy, though cover a little drab, it seems scarcely to have been used.
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1961
A Guide to Zermatt and the Matterhorn - Whymper, Edward
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Gaston's Alpine Books
Published : 1978
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Soft cover with detail to front. Slightly faded at the top. 42pp of advertisements + (xiv)+ 224pp, with 79 illustrations and fold-out maps. A lovely, clean and tight copy.
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5405
A Half-Century of Conflict: Two Volumes - Francis Parkman
Price : £30.00
Publisher : London: Macmillan
Published : 1892
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp333, pp395. 8vo. Brown cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Slight fading, small stains to cover. Ex lib plates, stamps internally.
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625
A Handbook of Succulent Plants (3 vols) - Jacobsen, Hermann
Price : £55.00
Publisher : London: Blandford Press, 1960
Published : 1960
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
pp1441 in 3 volume set. Red cloth, black title labels with gilt lettering to spine. Foldout diagrams in volume 3. Please check postage.
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5700
A Hard Day's Summer : Six Classic North Faces Solo - Hargreaves, Alison
Price : £80.00
Publisher : Hodder and Stoughton
Published : 1994
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
pp158. 8vo. Black cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Colour photographic DW now in protective wrap. Near fine.
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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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6637
A Historical Review of the Mollusks of Linnaeus: Part 2, Part 3, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 - Dodge, Henry
Price : £45.00
Publisher : American Museum of Natural History Bulletin
Published : 1953
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
5 parts of this 7 part series. Quarto, blue card covers. Part 2: Class Cephalopoda etc (1953, 153 pages); Part 3: Genera Bulla and Voluta etc (1955, 157 pages); Part 5: Genus Murex etc (1957, pages 73-224); Part 6: Genus Trochus etc (1958, pages 153-224); Part 7: Certain Species of the Genus Turbo (1959, pages 207-258).
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6827
A history of Brimington: From the Domesday survey to 1937 - Brelsford, Vernon
Price : £30.00
Publisher : Chesterfield: Wilfred Edmunds, Limited.
Published : 1937
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Very scarce 1937 original edition, limited to 300 copies. In good condition with some wear and rubbing to cloth. Internally clean, binding loose but holding. With 5 illustrations and a folding map, which has been repaired to reverse, but with no loss. Inscriptions to endpapers.
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5499
A History of British Livestock Husbandry 1700-1900 - Robert Trow-Smith
Price : £35.00
Publisher : London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
Published : 1959
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp351. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. DW is torn about corners, bottom RH corner missing, tears to ends of spine - DW now in protective wrapping. BW plates. This is the sequel to A History of British Livestock Husbandry to 1700.
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6759
A History of Cast Iron in Architecture - Gloag, John, and Bridgwater, Derek (Fwd: Charles Reilly)
Price : £42.00
Publisher : London: George Allen and Unwin
Published : 1948
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp395. Quarto, Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. BW photographs and line drawings. Coloured frontispeice (Chrystal Palace). FEP missing.
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7744
A History of English Field Names - Field, John
Price : £35.00
Publisher : Longman
Published : 1993
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Softcover book in very good condition, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, previous owner's small label to reverse of front cover. Illustrated. 285 pages
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577
A History of English Furniture: The Age of Oak/Walnut/Mahogany/Satinwood (4 vols) - MacQuoid, Percy
Price : £450.00
Publisher : London: Lawrence & Bullen Ltd/Medici Society
Binding : Hard
Jacket : J
VG/Good. Original red cloth with gilt titling on front and spines. Grey dust jackets are faded and tattered with some loss, but have protected the books well. Colour plates (protected by tissue) by Shirley Slocombe, plus many b/w illustrations. No inscriptions. A lovely clean set.
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8128
A History of Greek Vase Painting - Hirmerr, Max; P E Arias; Trans: P B Shefton
Price : £65.00
Publisher : London: Thames and Hudson
Published : 1962
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp410. Folio. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering. Light staining of cover (due to handling?). Slight yellowing of endpapers. PO name on FEP. Some of the tipped-in colour plates are now loose but all believed to be present.
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5373
A History of Hinckley - Henry James Francis
Price : £120.00
Publisher : Hinckley: W Pickering and Sons
Published : 1930
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp193. Folio. Halfbound brown boards. Gold lettering to front and spine. Light staining to front R/H edge. Pages handcut, some not cut. Tucked in complements slip, signed by author. With map, B/W photographs.
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4089
A History of Market Drayton Parish Church - Marshall, T.P.
Price : £35.00
Publisher : Bennion and Horne / Simpkin Marshall
Published : 1884
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp44. Quarto. Grey board covers (slightly grubby) with blue ribbon spine (slightly worn, badly at one point). The Church was restored in 1884 so this volume was probably a commemorative publication.
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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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420
A History of St Catharine's College Once Catharine Hall Cambridge - Jones, W.H.S.
Price : £45.00
Publisher : Cambridge at the University Press, 1936
Edition : F
Binding : Hard
Jacket : J
We are asking a bit more for this copy as its pleasing dust wrapper (showing Bull or Walnut Tree Court) has largely survived (some loss and creasing at top of spine, repaired, but needs redoing to match the cream of the wrapper. Book itself VG. Signature "M.B.Thompson Cantab 44" on FEP. My old friend John was gated by Cat's for peeing into a light globe. He should have used the sink.
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1633
A History of Swedish Art - Lindgren, Mereth; Lyberg, Louise; Sandstrom, Birgitta; and Wahlberg Anna Greta
Price : £30.00
Publisher : Bokforlaget Signum
Published : 1987
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : No Jacket
VG+. Board cover with reproduction of "Skeppsbron" by Einar Jolin. 278pp. "A bird's eye view of Swedish painting, sculpture and architecture from the Stone Age to the 1980s".
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1354
A History of the Derbyshire County Cricket Club 1870-1970 - Shawcroft, John
Price : £50.00
Publisher : Ripley, Derbyshire: John Shawcroft
Published : 1970
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
No.84 of the 250 copies of the first, privately printed edition, showing slight wear at head and foot of spine and spine joints, but generally a near-fine copy. Colour title page, with photo. of the Duke of Devonshire on the back, plus 12 un-numbered pages, plus 230 pages, with a 40 page central plate section of photographs of teams etc. Bound in dark green cloth with gilt lettering.
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7954
A History of the House of Percy (Two Volumes) - Brenan, Gerald
Price : £90.00
Publisher : Freemantle & Co.
Published : 1902
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Two volume set. Books in very good condition in the original cloth, with some wear and rubbing, and marking to cloth. Internally clean, inscription to ffe, spotted foxing scattered throughout the two volumes, bindings are tight. Illustrated. 393 pages & 495 pages. Heavy set which may incur extra overseas postage; please enquire for rates.
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100
A History of the Kingdom of Denmark - Lauring, Palle (translated by David Hohnen)-
Price : £15.00
Publisher : Copenhagen: Host and Son
Published : 1960
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
VG/VG. Grey cloth, gilt title to spine, pictorial dust jacket, 263pp. Scarce in Britain.
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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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7227
A History of the Papacy From the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome (Complete in 6 Volumes) - Creighton, M.
Price : £40.00
Publisher : London:Longmans & Co.
Published : 1911
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
New edition, complete in 6 volumes. All books in very good condition in the original cloth, with some wear and rubbing and occasional marking to the cloth. Internally clean, all hinges firm and no splitting, bindings are tight. No marks or inscriptions. 388; 391; 358; 351; 340; 487 pages, including index. This is a heavy set and will incur extra postage; please enquire for rates.
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4046
A History of the Towns Along the Roman Wall from 500 BC to 1924AD - Jno. W Leslie
Price : £17,5
Publisher : Hexham: Herald
Published : 1924
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp119 + adverts. Foldout colour map, 5 leafs. Illustrated board cover and brown ribbon spine. Front cover has small inkstains near edges, and is browning. Wear to ribbon spine. Grubby back boards and someone has neatly written their name upsidedown on it. PO name and address neatly on fep. BW plates.
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7749
A History of Wellingborough - Palmer, Joyce & Maurice
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Steepleprint Ltd
Published : 1974
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a very good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, previous owner's small label to ffe. Illustrated. 357 pages
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6762
A Holiday in Burma, with a chapter on a visit to Calcutta - Leicester, C M
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Exeter: A Wheaton
Published : 1928
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp191. Octavo. Orange cloth binding with black lettering to front and spine, and black animal illustrations to front (peacock) and back (hare), grubby about edges. Illustrated with BW plates. This is an account of a visit to Burma in 1926-27.
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ABE-1332188853
A House in Pondicherry - Langley, Lee
Price : £18.00
Publisher : London: William Heinemann
Published : 1995
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
pp276. Octavo. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine in illustrated DW. Concludes the trilogy that includes Change of Address and Persistent Rumours. Comes close to being Like New.
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4933
A Hundred Years of Enterprise: Centenary of the Clay Cross Company Ltd 1837-1937 - [None]
Price : £40.00
Publisher : Derby: Bemrose
Published : 1937
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
pp52. Blue card bound folio volume with gilt illustration and lettering to front. Card cover is slightly larger than pages inside, and is creased about edges. Heavy paper inside and some colour plates (eg frontispiece of George Stephenson). The Clay Cross Company in Derbyshire was founded by the Stephensons, father and son, and Hudson "the Railway King". It produced iron and steel goods (originally for the North Midland Railway), mined coal (photographs of the new pit head baths included), generated gas and electricity, and ran its own dairy and arable farm operation.
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5427
A Life at the Centre - Roy Jenkins
Price : £25.00
Publisher : London: Macmillan
Published : 1991
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
pp658. Green cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Photographic DW. Inscribed to Frank Trainor in Derby in 1991 on FEP.
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6788
A Life on Film - Astor, Mary
Price : £30.00
Publisher : New York: Delacorte Press
Published : 1971
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a very good dust-jacket, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions. Illustrated throughout in black and white. 245 pages.
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3224
A list of provincial words in use at Wakefield - William Stott Banks
Price : £60.00
Publisher : London: Russell
Published : 1865
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
pp82. Pocket sized. Scarce. Corner of fep missing. Damage to title page and bottom margin of last page cut off. All text appears to be present.
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1688
A Little Book of Prose and Verse - Price, Mary Gertrude
Price : £10.00
Publisher : Privately printed for W. F. Price
Published : 1913
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
(ii)+42pp +3 tissue guarded half-tone plates. Some capitals and tiles printed in red. Page edges untrimmed. Owner's signature (M.M. Price) on free end paper. Under author's name on title page inscribed "Died August 5th 1913". Bound in faun polished buckram. Title and author printed in red on front board. A very good copy of a sweet little volume. Privately printed for Christmas 1913 by her husband W. F. Price.
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1748
A Lookat Cecil Aldin's Dogs and Hounds - Collens, Rupert
Price : £40.00
Publisher : London: The Lambourn Press
Published : 1990
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
A fine copy in very good dustjacket of the first (but not the limited) edition. The author's "signature" is printed at the end of the introduction. An attractive large-format landscape-format volume.
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2613
A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths - H T Stainton
Price : £90.00
Publisher : London: John van Voorst
Published : 1859
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
2 Volumes pp338 + 480. Blue cloth binding (may be a Georgian rebind). Owner's inscription on fep dated 1920 in both. BW drawings.
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5819
A Manual of Falconry - M H Woodford (J G Mavrogordato and S E Allen) (Fwd Lord Portal)
Price : £25.00
Publisher : London: Adam and Charles Black
Published : 1960
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp192. 8vo. Green cloth binding with gilt illustration to front and lettering to spine. DW grubby and torn several inches on edges of spine. Either falcons roost upside down or the frontispiece is wrongly inserted. A handwritten note on the title pages describes the author as "Secretary British Falconers' Club".
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3957
A Manual of Marine Zoology for the British Isles - Philip Henry Gosse
Price : £40.00
Publisher : London: John van Voorst
Published : 1855
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp203 + 239 + publishers announcements in each volume. Green cloth binding (rebound with new spine and lettering). Corners bumped. College name inscribed on endpapers, PO name inside front cover.
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975
A Manual of Metallurgy or a Practical Treatise on the Chemistry of the Metals - Phillips, John Arthur
Price : £80.00
Publisher : John Joseph Griffin and Co
Published : 1852
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
8pp adverts+ xx+606pp+10pp adverts; illustrations in text, tissue guard to frontispiece (not additional to pagination); booklists on front and back endpapers.Bound in red decoratively blindstamped cloth, gilt titling to spine. A volume of the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana. One of our esteemed bookbinders has just returned this, almost invisibly and strongly reassembled in the original boards and spine, now again a very good copy ready for another century and a half.
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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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6884
A Manual of Wood Carving . - Leland, Charles G.
Price : £20.00
Publisher : London: Whittaker and Co.
Published : 1890
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Book in good condition in pictorial paper-covered boards, with some wear and rubbing. Brown tape has been stuck over the spine. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding is tight. Illustrated with 6 plates and figures in the text. 162 pages.
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6189
A Message From Space - Goodchild, George
Price : £25.00
Publisher : London: Jarrolds
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp254. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with black lettering to front and spine. Colour frontispiece shows a biplane flying near an enormous airship. There is a Christian theme and Martians play a part, too. Sunday school presentation bookplate on FEP dated 1932.
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1209
A Midsummer Day's Dream A Poem - Atherstone, Edwin illustrated by John Martin
Price : £200.00
Publisher : London: Baldwijn, Cradock and Joy
Published : 1824
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
172 pages + 3 steel engravings on card, classic Hollywood Epic John Martin, in near-contemporary half leather and marbled boards;spine blind-decorated and with red title label. Front endpapers discoloured and liberally inscribed in the mid nineteenth century in now-faded ink.
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7708
A Military History and Atlas of the Napoleonic Wars - Esposito, Vincent J.; Elting, John R.
Price : £50.00
Publisher : Greenhill Books
Published : 1999
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Very large oblong format book in very good condition in a very good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, illustrated throughout with 169 maps. heavy book which will incur extra postage; please enquire for rates.
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4908
A Natural Curiosity - Margaret Drabble
Price : £22.00
Publisher : London: Viking (London Limited Edition)
Published : 1989
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp309. Marbled cloth cover with green cloth spine. Signed limited edition (No 86).
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208
A Naturalist in Brazil: The Flora and Fauna and the People of Brazil - Guenther, Konrad (translated by Bernard Miall)
Price : £20.00
Publisher : London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd
Published : 1931
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
VG. Green cloth, gilt titles to spine. First English edition. 400pp, 71 illustrations, 40 sketches by the author. Inscription on ffep. spine slightly faded an a few marks to the cover, but a tight, clean copy with only minor foxing.
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205
A Naturalist in the Guiana Forest - Hingston, Major R W G
Price : £30.00
Publisher : London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1932
Published : 1932
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Good. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. Pp xiii + 384. Frontispiece + 15 b/w plates + 150 drawings + map. The author was leader of the Oxford University expedition to British Guiana in 1929, of which this book is a description. One plate and 4 pages have come loose from the binding, which is otherwise sound. Inscription on ffep. Foxing on last few pages.
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3518
A Nema: Regeny - Lajos, Szilvasi
Price : £12.00
Publisher : Budapest: Szeoirodalmi Konyvkiado
Published : 1984
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp536. Blue cloth binding. Illustrated DW, slight browning at top. Check our stock on other Hungarian literature.
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4793
A New Dictionary of the English Language Combining Explanation with Etymology: and Illustrated by Quotations from the best Authorities - Richardson, Charles
Price : £150.00
Publisher : Bell and Daldy
Published : 1863
Edition : 4th Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Two immensely dense volumes; (xl)+ 2221 pages in all, bound in dark green half calf and textured cloth; spines with raised bands and gilt ruling and decorations; marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. As for the contents, printed in three collumns to the page, the title describes, but is no preparation for the amazing scale of this work - the author being a Super-Johnson; in the introduction the author expresses his debt to and criticism of Johnson. Rear hinge of volume 2 loosening; wear to leather joints, otherwise a very good and handsome set
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579
A New English-Hindustani Dictionary - Fallow, S W
Price : £20.00
Published : 1883
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
G. Red embossed cloth, faded gilt title to spine, 674 + vi pp. Pale yellow endpapers. A companion volume to the same author's Hindustani and English Dictionary, "with illustrations from English literature and colloquial English". Joint of front endpaper has been repaired with tape, and there is a separation of the joint between pp.14-14, but no loose pages. Corners bumped, some marks on rear cover, also split at base of spine at rear cover.
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4736
A New Flora of Alnwick District - Alnwick District Natural History Society (Fwd. Lord Richard Percy)
Price : £15.00
Published : 1980
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
pp104. Glossy card binding (slightly grubby), corners still good.
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2026
A New Manual of the German Language of Conversation - Schlessing, A.
Price : £25.00
Publisher : London: T. Fisher Unwin
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
No date, but probably 1880's. Book in very good condition in the original cloth, with some wear and rubbing, especially to spine. Internally clean, binding tight. 368 pages.
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2566
A New Tale of Two Cities - James Milne
Price : £30.00
Publisher : John Lane The Bodley Head
Published : 1923
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp172. Rough Cut pages. Inscribed "To P N McFarlane from James Milne Cordially 20.11.23" Subtitled "Calling up the life adventurous of the great war time in London and Paris; and so a treasury of faith, hope and courage for a world which the peace has disenchanted"
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2953
A Peakland Faggot - Gilchrist R. Murray
Price : £40.00
Publisher : Faber & Gwyer, London
Published : 1927
Edition : 2nd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Book in good condition, green cloth, corners and top and bottom of spine slightly rubbed,inside tight and clean.No inscriptions.No jacket.pp379.
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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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7717
A Pictorial Record of Great Western Engines (Two Volumes) - Russell, Jim
Price : £40.00
Publisher : Guild Publishing & Oxford Publishing Company
Published : 1986
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Two volume set, volume one is a Book club edition. Large format books in very good condition in very good dustjackets, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions. Illustrated throughout. 188 & 243 pages. Heavy set which will incur extra postage overseas; please enquire for rates.
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7732
A Pictorial Survey of LNER Constituent Signalling - Maclean, A. A.
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Oxford Publishing Company
Published : 1983
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 throughout. 220 pages.
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758
A Potter's Portfolio - .Leach, Bernard
Price : £200.00
Publisher : Lund Humphries and Company Limited,1951
Edition : F
Binding : Hard
Large, approx 30cms. square in coarse-wove cloth with gilt fruitful tree logo on front board and titling to spine. Plain endpapers, 16pp introduction + frontispiece + "plates" leaf + 60 plates one-sided on art paper, some in colour, + "Comment and Analysis "leaf + 12pp. The text pages are craem with very ample margins, designed by Maurice Bennett. This copy was rescued froma garage (!) but seems to have escaped the usual effects, though the spine is yellowed and \ quantity of leaves pressed decade-long between the front endpapers have left a faint inpress and a region of foxing. There is a marginal clay (?) stain on p.14. Plates and rest of text fine and binding VG; in well preserved "slipcase", actually a cardboard box. Pressed leaves optional.
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1767
A Practical Guide to Splines - de Boor, Carl
Price : £55.00
Publisher : Springer-Verlag
Published : 1978
Binding : Soft
Condition : New
Jacket : No Jacket
(xxiv+) 392pp. New. Volume 27 in the Applied Mathmatical Sciences series.
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1036
A Practical Treatise on Mining, Land and Railway Surveying, Engineering, Etc. . - Hoskold, H.D.
Price : £100.00
Publisher : London: Atchley and Co
Published : 1863
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
xx+250pp+errata leaf+two fine lithographs (not coloured) of miners' theodolites + 8 folding plates showing plans and sections of iron-ore mines + two leaves of adverts for John Archbutt and Sons' instruments + one leaf to a smaller format; yellow endpapers also printed with a list of publications etc. Tall 8vo, greeny greyy blackish cloth with blind-stamped decorative patterns, very much of its date; elegant gilt titling on spine. The price was thirty shillings, so we are charging more or less the same price in real terms (if you can compare). The front board shows creases where it has been bent and re-straightened there is slight fraying to the cloth here and there and one folding plan has a worn edge, but this is essentially a handsome and very good copy, little used, as you don't learn this sort of thing from books. P.S. Hoskinn writes from Cinderford, Dean Forest and W.E.Wells has ink-stamped his name, the date 1871 and a decorative flourish very neatly on the back of the first, frontispiece, plate.
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6882
A Practical Treatise on Various Diseases of the Abdominal Viscera. - Pemberton, Christopher Robert
Price : £80.00
Publisher : London: W. Bulmer
Published : 1807
Edition : 2nd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Book in good condition in the original paper-covered boards, with later vellum to spine. Boards marked and stained, with wear to corners, and vellum is age-yellowed. Internally clean, uncut pages with age-toning, two plates as called for, with some staining and foxing, binding is tight. xi + 201 pages.
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3493
A Quaker from Cromwell's Army: James Nayler - Brailsford, Mabel Richmond
Price : £22.00
Publisher : London:The Swarthmore Press
Published : 1927
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 is tight. With 3 illustrations. 200 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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5182
A Short Description of Castleton in Derbyshire: _Ist_ Natural Curiosities and Mineral Productions - Hedinger, J.M.
Price : £250.00
Publisher : Derby: J Drewry / Castleton: S Needham
Edition : 5th or later Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Half-Title page, Frontispiece (View of Peaks Hole), pp34. 8vo. Fifth edition. Modern grey cloth binding with title label to front. New endpapers. Original half-title page bears script "Castleton Derbyshire". Original rear endpaper has bottom two inches missing. "Its" is mis-spelled as "Ist" on title page. All tight and clean.
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69
A Short History of Manchester & Salford - Bruton, F A
Price : £40.00
Publisher : Sherratt & Hughes, Manchester, 1924
Published : 1924
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
First edition - red boards previous owner's bookplate inside endpaper slight rubbing to spine otherwise very good
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1328
A Short History of the Grammar School, Macclesfield, 1503-1910 - Wilmot, Darwin, M.A. (Headmaster of the School 1876-1910)
Price : £75.00
Publisher : Macclesfield: Claye, Brown & Claye (Courier Office)
Published : 1910
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
148+lxiv(appendix) pages + 5 plates, bound in original blue-grey cloth, gilt titling and simple decoration on front board and spine.Spine rubbed at head and foot, otherwise a near-fine text in very good binding.The appendices include lists of masters from 1503 and pupils from 1775; there is also a list of "theatricals" and thier casts in the late 19th. Century. The retirement tribute, on the eve of a great rebuilding, of a man who obviously loved this school.
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3564
A Short History of the National Shell Filling Factory Chilwell Notts 1915-1918 - [None]
Price : £50.00
Published : 1918
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Approx pp16. 8 BW plates. Bright burgundy leather binding. Stitch binding. PO bookplate inside front cover. Frontispiece of Viscount Chetwynd, most others of the destruction by the explosion of July 1918. This depot (later an Ordnance depot. Still in operation 2007) supplied 60% of the shells used on the Western Front in the last two years of the war, and all the large shells used in the Battle of the Somme.
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836
A Short History of the Swedish Language - Bergman, Gosta
Price : £10.00
Publisher : Stockholm: The Swedish Institute for Cultural Relations, 1947
Published : 1947
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
106pp, illustrated, in fawn stiff card cover with cloth spine. A most interesting and scholarly monograph, perhaps I'll take it to bed with me first. It may help in the rediscovery of DOGGERELL, the language spoken by the people of the now submerged Dogger Banks and intelligible to all the inhabitants of Northern Europe. A very good copy.
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1017
A Short Welsh Grammar - Wiliam, Urien
Price : £10.00
Publisher : Llandybie, Carmarthenshire: Christopher Davies Ltd
Published : 1960
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
VG/G. Light blue cloth, vi + 95pp. Intended as a school text book, but useful to any student of Welsh.
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4097
A SKeleton Key to Finnegan's Wake - Campbell, Joseph and Henry Morton Robinson
Price : £30.00
Publisher : New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company
Published : 1944
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in an unclipped good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing, browning/soiling to edges and spine. Internally clean, Harvard Book Stores sticker to ffe, binding tight. 365 pages.
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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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6889
A Summer in Iceland. Translated by Rev.M.R.Barnard. - Paijkull, C. W.
Price : £100.00
Publisher : London: Chapman and Hall
Published : 1868
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Book in good condition in the original blindstamped cloth, with some wear and rubbing. Especially worn to head and tail of spine, corners bumped. Rear inner hinge weak, with repair to split endpaper, but board firmly attached. Internally clean, inscription to top of front free endpaper, some foxing to prelims, binding is tight. With a folding map, illustrations in the text, and six plates. 364 pages.
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3448
A Survey of Libyan Bibliographical Resources - Philip Ward
Price : £10.00
Publisher : Tripoli: Libyan Publishing House
Published : 1965
Edition : 2nd Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
pp44 X 2 (ie front half of the book is in English), the other half, working from the back cover is in Arabic. Stapled inside card cover. PO inscription on title page.
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3938
A System of Conic Sections adapted to the study of natural philosophy - Rev. D. M. Peacock
Price : £40.00
Publisher : London: Lunn
Published : 1809
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
pp112 + errata. Brown board cover (heavily worn) with brown ribbon spine (heavily worn). Fep and sep creased. PO inscription sep. Odd pages bear pencilled notes. Published as an alternative to Vince's geometry according to the introduction.
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6018
A System of Magic - Defoe, Daniel
Price : £175.00
Publisher : Oxford: Thomas Tegg
Published : 1840
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
This is volume XII of the Novels and Miscellaneous Works, but complete in itself. Book in good condition in a half-leather red binding, cloth to boards. With some wear and rubbing, especially to corners and head and tail of spine. Boards holding firm with no splitting to joints. Internally clean, bookplates to front endpapers, endpapers to front inner hinge just starting, binding is tight. 396 pages.
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2070
A Tale of Two Secrets and The Wax Doll - Wilson, Theodora Wilson
Price : £15.00
Publisher : Blackie & Son Ltd.
Published : 1929
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
The date is guessed from the extensivepencil inscriptions in the front.A little book of 48 pages + frontispiece bound in illustrated boards and cloth spine. The cover illustration of boy reading in dappled sunlight mong the leaves of a tree is of great charm and a minor mastrepiece of commercial art.A bit worn and grubby but still a "very good" copy.
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402
A Topographical Dictionary of the United Kingdom - Capper, Benjamin Pitts
Price : £350.00
Publisher : London: Richard Phillips, 1808
Edition : F
Binding : Hard
Textually a very good copy with very little browning and almost no foxing to pages or maps. Maps all present, note that Wales is in one map rather than the two maps listed at the outset, making 46 maps in all, as claimed on the title page.Maps plain. The frontispiece folded map of the whole country has marginal bookworm burrows at the bottom edge. Full suede binding with marbled endpapers and ticket of W.Hoon, Stationer, Ashborne; recently expertly rebacked with original boards and spine relaid onto new suede, linen hinges inside, tucked under the endpapers. Handles well and good for another century or two of use.
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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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4281
A Treatise on Byzantine Music - S. G. Hatherley
Price : £60.00
Publisher : London: William Reeves
Published : 1892
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp162. Quarto. Brown cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Many musical examples - may, in fact, be more music than text in this work. "Byzantine" appears to refer to the eastern style of music, both religious and secular, rather than historical period.
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6752
A Visit to Bass' Brewwey Burton-on-Trent - [None]
Price : £70.00
Publisher : London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company
Published : 1902
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
pp48 + tissue-guarded photographic plates + tipped in fold-out map. Postcard size (approx 7" x 4 1/2"). Gilt-blocked edge of pages. The card covers are grubby about the edges and lightly worn but not creased (a risk with this type of binding). Internally this copy if VG-Fine.
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6818
A Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North - Pfeiffer, Ida
Price : £25.00
Publisher : London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co.
Published : 1852
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Book in good condition in the original cloth, but with wear to spine; cloth to head and tail of spine chipped and cloth worn along spine edges. Inner hinges are weak with endpapers split along hinges. Contemporary inscription to front free endpaper. 354 pages. Internally clean, with 8 illustrations, some foxing.
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4250
A Voyage Around the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV (1740-1744) - George Anson (Richard Walter)
Price : £400.00
Publisher : London: Knapton
Published : 1748
Edition : 2nd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp548. Octavo. Leather bound (heavily scuffed, corners badly bumped, edges of spine worn). Three foldout charts/maps. Slight spotting and browning to pages. Grubby page edges indicate this has been read and re-read, but kept well and is VG overall.
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5052
A Walk Through Surrey - Moore, John, Intro by Humphrey Phelps
Price : £30.00
Publisher : Woollashill Publication for the John Moore Society
Published : 1990
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
pp119. Yellow card covers with brown ribbon spine. This copy has been graingerised: in addition to the original line drawings (by Barrington Browne), the previous owner has enhanced this copy with photographs, cuttings etc. A colour map is pasted inside the rear cover. This is No 52 of a limited edition of 100, and is signed by Humphrey Phelps and John Shakles, the expert on John Moore's work.
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7845
A Writer's Diary - Woolf, Virginia
Price : £30.00
Publisher : The Hogarth Press
Published : 1953
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a good unclipped dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing, and a couple of repaired tears and some chipping to edges. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions. 372 pages.
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323
A Yeoman's Letters - Ross, Percy Thomas (Late Corporal 69th Sussex Company I.Y.)
Price : £500.00
Publisher : London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co Ltd, 1901
Published : 1901
Binding : Hard
VG+. Decorative cream cloth, 186pp. Third edition. Illustrated by the author. Frontispiece signed by the author and inscribed "To Ernest Callard with the author's best wishes, Aug. 09". Some foxing and discolouration to first few pages. Description of daily life as a British soldier in the Boer War. Also included are (1) Six postcards postmarked between 22 December 1911 and 22 December 1914 from Percy T Ross to Ernest Callard, two of which show him in uniform; (2) A postcard from Percy T Ross on active service with the British Expeditionary Force, B Company, 23rd London Regiment, to Ernest Callard, dated 13 April 1915; (3) Four letters from Percy T Ross from 'somewhere in France' - two pages dated 30 March 1915, four pages dated 21 April 1915, two pages dated 2 May 1915, four pages dated 22 May 1915, all of which describe his experience in the trenches. One letter includes his authorisation for the publication of his letters home from the trenches to his family and friends, under the control/editorship of Ernest Callard; (4) Press cutting: 'ROSS: Killed in action, on the night of 25th/26th May, in France.'; (5) Reprinted from the Daily Express, dated 29 June 1915, a long article describing an action by the 23rd London Regiment: 'The Charge of the 23rd - Battersea men beat the Prussian Guard'.
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1470
Abbot Suger, on the Abbey Church of St.-Denis and its Art Treasures - Panofsky, Erwin (editor and translator)
Price : £20.00
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Published : 1946
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Grey cloth, gilt decoration and black title 'label' to spine, top edge black, xiv + 250pp. 27 b/w illustrations + fold-out sketch-map of church at rear of book, Previous owner's name-stamp on ffep and different owner's name stamped on fore-edge.
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6912
About the House - Auden, W. H.
Price : £12.00
Publisher : London: Faber and Faber
Published : 1966
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
First edition, second impression. Book in fine condition in a fine unclipped dust-jacket which very little wear and rubbing. Internally clean, previous owner's signature to front free endpaper, binding tight. 94 pages.
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5197
Abroad With Autocheques - [None]
Price : £15.00
Publisher : London: Autocheques
Published : 1934
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Good
pp148. 8vo. Card cover with art deco cover illustration (streamlined limousine at dock). Thumb indexed pages. Cover is larger than pages so has creased about edges. 11 maps, 12 illus. Introductory articles by Earl Howe and Sir Herbert Austin. Autocheques were designed to give Britons better value and escape exchange controls when holidaying in Europe, and hence encourage British motoring holidays on the continent.
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4518
Achievements 1953 [Castrol] - [None]
Price : £12.00
Publisher : London: C C Wakefield
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Good
Unnumbered pages. Pamphlet. Colour card cover (front green racing car on a desert run, rear grey car on a track with numberplate MVC579), inside full- and part-page monochrome photographs of racing, rallying, motorcycling successes using Castrol products. Some coffee stains on cover, tear on top edge, torn on spine, and rust marks around staples. Photographs internally G-VG.
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5510
Achievements in the Air - [None]
Price : £50.00
Publisher : Napier
Published : 1920
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Unpaginated (20 pages). Approx 10" x 7". Threadbound. A history of achievements of Napier engines in aircraft in 1919 and early 1920. Illustrated with duotone photographs throughout.
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7965
Across Iceland: The Land of Frost and Fire (Including letters from author) - Chapman, Olive Murray
Price : £25.00
Publisher : London: John Lane The Bodley Head
Published : 1930
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp193 + publisher's announcements. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to front. An envelope pasted inside front cover contains two letters from the author to the original owner of this book. A later owner has inscribed her name and date 1953 on FEP. 8 colour plates. BW plates. Maps.
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7943
Ad Pyrrham - Storrs, Ronald
Price : £40.00
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Published : 1959
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 fading/sunning to spine area. Internally clean, previous owner's name to ffe, binding tight. 203 pages.
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2422
Adaptation and Origin in the Plant World: The Role of the Environment in Evolution - Frederic Clements, Emmett Martin,Frances Long
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Waltham Mass: Chronica Botanica
Published : 1950
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp332. Appendices. Many BW photographs. Colour frontispiece. Green cloth over board cover; gold lettering is fading. Original bookseller's label inside front. Published posthumously by his wife, Clements is regarded as a seminal botanist, yet this work suggests that like Lysenko (whom he does not mention) Clements was able to produce new species by adaptation. Clements worked in California but quotes other work from the then Palestine mandate territory on similar principles. Within a short time of his death his gardens had been dug up and the plants distributed.
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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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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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2554
Adventures of Twm Shon Catti - Jones, Beryl M.
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Western Mail & Echo
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Scarce oblong softcover book in very good condition, with some wear and rubbing, and spotted foxing. Contains two black and white cartoon-strip adventures: 'Twm's Bid for Freedom' and 'Twm's Fun at the Fair' pages. 37 pages. Internally clean, stapled binding tight.
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7055
Advice to Young Men and (Incidentally) to Young Women (Facsimile of 1829 edition) - Cobbett, William
Price : £30.00
Publisher : Oxford: Henry Frowde
Published : 1906
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp303. Small 8vo. Green cloth binding with gilt decoration and lettering to spine. A 1906 facsimile edition of the 1829 original which was published by Cobbett himself. An examination reveals that Cobbett's advice is heavily based on the experience of his own family.
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1427
Aero Engines - Burls,G.A. M.Inst.C.E.
Price : £25.00
Publisher : London:Charles Griffin
Published : 1916
Edition : 5th or later Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
A copy of the 7th. edition (!). (2)+x+196+(8) pages of which 1 at front and 8 at back are publishers adverts; plus one folding table and four india-paper folding engineering drawings; many other diagrams and half-tones in the text. This copy is shaken at the hinges fore and aft, and the navy-blue cloth has been loosened by damp (we have restored its colour and tone AMAZINGLY with TLC and special unguents)
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529
Africa: Make Them Craftsmen - Kiewe, Heinz Edgar and Biddulph, Michael
Price : £7.00
Publisher : Oxford: Art Needlework Industries Ltd, 1969
Published : 1969
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
Fine/VG. Orange cloth, 148pp. Many black/white illustrations, photographs. An examination of African art, its past and its future.
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940
African Clearings - Mackenzie, Jean Kenyon (Intro J K A Bell)
Price : £20.00
Publisher : London: Martin Hopkinson & Co Ltd
Published : 1926
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
G. Light blue cloth, gilt title to spine, 162pp. Spine faded, some marks on covers, foxing throughout (otherwise would be VG). Inscribed on front endpaper as a school prize from Girls' County School, Penzance in 1928.
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6418
After Midnight Stories - Myers, Amy
Price : £18.00
Publisher : William Kimber
Published : 1985
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Near Fine
Jacket : J
Book in near fine condition in a near fine dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions. 222 pages.
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7935
Agamemnon of Aeschylus (Three Volume Set) - Fraenkel, Eduard (Editor)
Price : £250.00
Publisher : OUP
Published : 1962
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Complete three volume set. Books in very good condition in the original cloth, with some wear and rubbing, and a little marking to cloth. Gilt lettering to spine of Volume I is rubbed and difficult to read. Couple of stains to bottom of text-block of Volumes II and III. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, bindings are tight. Volume I: Prolegomena, Text Translation runs to 195 pages; Volume II: Commentary on 1-1055 runs to 480 pages; Volume III: Commentary on 1056-1673, Appendixes, Indexes runs from 481 to 850 pages. Overall an excellent set, and difficult to find together. Heavy set which will incur extra overseas postage; please enquire for rates.
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2872
Agate Collecting in Britain - Peter R. Rogers
Price : £20.00
Publisher : London: Batsford
Published : 1975
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp96. Outsize volume. Signed by author. Price clipped. 4 colour plates.
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4694
Agent of Vega - James A Schmitz
Price : £10.00
Publisher : NY: Gnome Press
Published : 1960
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp191. Blue cloth cover. DW is worn at corners and ends of spine, about 1 sq" torn off front cover and tucked inside; grubby. Endpapers yellowing. Author's name is correctly shown as James H Schmitz on title page, and incorrectly as James A Schmitz on DW.
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5390
Agriculture in Berkshire: A Survey - Orr, John
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Oxford at the Clarendon Press
Published : 1918
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, fading to spine. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, browning to endpapers, binding tight. Illustrated with a folding map and plates, two of which are fold-out. 208 pages.
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7776
Aircraft Archive: Aircraft of World War I (Three Volumes) - [None]
Price : £50.00
Publisher : Argus Books
Published : 1989
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Three volume set, running to 95 pages each. Softcover books in very good condition, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, profusely illustrated throughout.
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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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7737
Alan Ayckbourn : A Casebook - Dukore, Bernard F.
Price : £35.00
Publisher : Garland Publishing
Published : 1991
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Book in very good condition in the original cloth, issued without jacket, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions. 206 pages.
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4267
Album Littoral du Mediterraneen de Marseille a Menton - [None]
Price : £300.00
Publisher : No publisher/date given
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Album (approx 6.5" high x 12" wide) of plates, woven tassell thread bound through cover. Red card cover with gold/black decoration about edge, front cover has 2 coloured (polychrome?) illustrations. Gold patterned endpapers. Edge of pages partially gold-blocked. Contents: Panorama of Marseille (fold out), Vue Generale de Marseille, Rade de Marseille, Marseille Le Quai, Marseille Musee Longchamp, Vue Generale d'Hyeres, Hyeres la Place, Vue Generale de St Raphael, Cannes, Cannes le Port, Cannes La Baie, Vue Generale d'Antibes, Panorama Nice (fold out), Nice le Casino sur la mer, Nice la promenade des Anglais, Nice le quai Massena, Nice la place Massena, Vue Generale de Nice, Vue generale de Nice prise du mont Boron, La Rade de Villefranche, paysanne de Beaulieu + cheval et son chapeau, Route de la Corniche, Route du Littoral de Nice a Monaco, Panorama de . Monaco (1 page), Monaco facade du casino, Casino de Monte Carlo, Casino - la salle Mauresque, Route de la Corniche de Nice a Menton - Roquebrune, Vue Generale de Menton, Menton, Vue Generale de Menton, Vue Generale de Menton prise de la frontiere Italienne. Printed in chromolithography(?), these have a photographic detail but are not photographs - the styled is of a detailed mezzotint. The building detail is perfect, the human forms less so. Probably produced as a tourist souvenir from the 1880s onward this book gives a wonderful picture of the Riviera before it became The Riviera.
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4055
Album of Royal Photographs of Queen Victoria and her family - [None]
Price : £400.00
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
An album (from Whiteley's department store: worn leather - top of spine poor - with working solid brass clip, approx. 8" x 7" and 2" deep) containing 25 photographs (each approx 6" x 4.5"): Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Prince of Wales, Princess of Wales,Duke of Edinburgh, Duchess of Edinburgh, Prince Christian, Princess Christian, Marquis of Lorne, Marchioness of Lorne, Duke of Connaught, Duchess of Connaught, Duke of Albany (all prededing by Bassano photographer), Duchess of Albany and children, Battenbergs, Princess Alice, late Emperor of German, Empress?, Duke of York, Duchess of York, Duke and Duchess of Fife,Princess of Wales and family (by Downey photographer), Emperor of Germany (by Russell and Sons photographer), Empress of Germany, 3 women (by Lafayette of Dublin, photographer). Most photographs have a handwritten label. There are a couple of pages empty at end, which are spotted. "William Whiteley Universal Provider" is still providing, though now via Scarthin Books!
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1510
Album of Soviet Horse Breeds ( Albyom Porrod Loshadey SSSR) (very approx. Transliteration) - Afanasiev, S.B. and Lykov, B.N. (approx. transliterations)
Price : £40.00
Publisher : Moscow
Published : 1953
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Large landscape-format volume; 134 text pages and 60 plate pages, each plate being a subtly coloured vignette-edged horse breed portrait. The whole is held together by now-rusting staples, the cover being stoput black cloth=covered boards, titling in gilt, blind-embossed stepping horse on front. All text in Russian, no "subtitles"!
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7992
Alexej von Jawlensky - Belgin, Tayfun
Price : £80.00
Publisher : State Russian Museum Palace Editions
Published : 2000
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Near Fine
Jacket : J
pp192. Folio. Illustrated board cover in illustrated DW. DW has small score marks and dust staining to rear. Text in English throughout. No additional postage in UK.
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6289
Alfred Hitchcock's Having a Lovely Crime - [None]
Price : £15.00
Publisher : Severn House
Published : 1981
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very condition in a very good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions. 224 pages.
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6430
Algeria And Tunis - Nesbitt, Frances E.
Price : £135.00
Publisher : Adam and Charles Black
Published : 1906
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
A very good copy of this volume of the twenty shilling series. There is some localised wear at corners and to the projecting spine joints and some patchy loss of the overprinted Mackintoshy/Alhambrish design, but no fading or darkening of the blue-based cover. Inside, there is the usual darkening of the endpapers, which has browned the facing first and last pages of the book block itself, which includes the advert leaves at the back. Very light foxing of fore-edges. Not fine, but an acceptably very good survival.
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3514
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Carroll, Lewis (Illus: Milicent Sowerby
Price : £22.00
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Edition : Illustrated Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp157. 12mo (5" x 6"). Green cloth quarter bound with gilt lettering to front, black lettering to spine, tipped-in colour illustration to front of Mad Hatter's tea party. 8 colour plates. Brown spotting to edges of pages.
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5828
All 14 Eight-Thousanders - Reinhold Messner (Trans Audrey Salkeld)
Price : £75.00
Publisher : Marlborough: Crowood Press
Published : 1988
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp248. Quarto. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. V light wear about edges of DW. Overall: VG-Fine. Signed by author on FEP, and inscribed to "Mark", dated 25/9/88.
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2128
Allan and Clara: or The Murder in the Winnats Castleton - [None]
Price : £10.00
Publisher : Unlawfully lacking an imprint
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Fair
Jacket : No Jacket
16 pp. In blue card wrapper, faded to brown an inch either side of spine. Tears at top and bottom of spine. Previous owner's small inscription, top right of front cover. Seems to be an extract from an early C19th novel (Scott?) or perhaps Highways and Byways, J.B. Firth. Macmillan 1908
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186
Almanack 1931 - Whitaker, Joseph
Price : £25.00
Publisher : 1931
Published : 1931
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Good. Green cover with calendar for 1931, red spine. There is a 1" tear in usual place at top of spine and the front hinge is cracked. No loose pages.
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2829
Alphonse Legros: Modern Masters of Etching Number Nine - Alphonse Legros (Intro Malcolm C Salaman)
Price : £15.00
Publisher : London: The Studio
Published : 1926
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp10 + 12 plates. Approx 12" x 10". PO bookplate inside cover. Each plate is attached to heavy paper and is tissue protected. Some wear to corners of pages (not plates). Blue stiff card cover, with title plate on front centre in black and yellow, has faded spots. Legros (born 1837, France; died a Briton) was said to have shown the influence of E A Poe.
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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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203
Amazon and Andes - Grubb, K G
Price : £20.00
Publisher : London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1930
Published : 1930
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
VG-. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Pp xiii + 296 + adverts; pages untrimmed. Map on front endpaper and 139 illustrations. Spine very faded and a few marks to cover. Light foxing throughout, but a tight copy.
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4432
Amazonia: Key Environments - Ghillean T Prance & Thomas E Lovejoy (Fwd HRH Duke of Edinburgh)
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Oxford: Pergamon Press / International Union for Conservation of
Published : 1985
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp442. Green cloth binding with gold lettering to spine. DW slight wear to ends of spine.
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1814
American Notes for General Circulation - Dickens, Charles
Price : £30.00
Publisher : Leipzig: Bernh. Tauchnitz Jun.
Published : 1842
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Half panelled and decorated leather with red title label and marbled boards ( almost certainly an English binding).Rubbed and split in spine joint where pulled at top,internally very good and strong.
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6114
American POW's Calling from Korea - [None]
Price : £15.00
Published : 1951
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
No date, but presumably c.1951. Softcover book in very good condition, with some wear and rubbing, and light fading. Internally clean, binding tight. Illustrated with photographs. 112 pages.
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0017
American Rock Garden Society Bulletin - American Rock Garden Society
Price : £3.00
Publisher : 1973-76
Binding : Soft
We have most Issues of Vols 31-34 (4 issues per year). Enquire for availability. Price is per numbered issue. Substantial discount for bulk purchase.
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6683
American Watchmaker and Jeweler - Abbott, Henry G.
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Chicago: B. R. Hazlitt
Published : 1908
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Book in very good condition in the original cloth, with some wear and rubbing, especially to head and tail of spine. Some marking to cloth. Internally clean, previous owner's name to a couple of pages. Illustrated throughout. 378 pages + adverts.
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4176
Among the Broad-Arrow Men: A plan account of English prison life - B.2.15 [ex lib Syd ney Dernley)
Price : £160.00
Publisher : London: A & C Black
Published : 1924
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp191. Brown cloth binding. Some grim line drawing illustrations. The author is said to have been a Robert Castle. This copy bears the bookplate of Sydney Dernley. 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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3684
Amphigorey Too - Edward Gorey
Price : £30.00
Publisher : Putnam
Published : 1975
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
unpaginated (circa pp150?). Larger than Quarto size album. Illustrated board cover, ends of spine bumped. DW fading on spine, worn at ends of spine, and along top edge. Price clipped DW. Otherwise VG.
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2453
Ampleforth College. A Sketchbook - Pike, Joseph
Price : £40.00
Publisher : London: A & C Black
Published : 1921
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Scarce book in very good condition in the original paper-covered boards, paper label to front, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding tight. With 16 illustrative sketches.
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386
An Album of Photographs of Malta and Port Said, 1913 - [None]
Price : £60.00
Publisher : Kodak binding
Edition : F
Binding : Hard
A beautifully presented record of a Mediterranean voyage, towards the Suez Canal, "Sailed from Tilbury, May 3rd. 1913" on board the P&O ship S.S. Sardinia. The album contains 48 60X104 mm. photographs, sepia, + 1 loose. Many are shortly and stylishly captioned in white on the dark mounting card, notably "As soon as these women saw my Kodak they turned away at once & I had to hide behind Mother's sunshade to get these two photographs." The photographer was probably Evelyn Dawes or Ferguson perhaps of Wokingham (Family memories can be short, particularly when you finish up as an aunt.) One caption is "Battle Ships at Malta During the War" - which war?? The Malta pictures are somewhat foggy but show for instance the Boom and various warships and harbour scenes. There are some excellent street scenes in Port Said. The binding is a Kodak Series H. Album, half dark green leather, gilt titled and ruled and grey-green buckram; very handsome.
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877
An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber , Comedian.Written by Himself - Cibber, Colley
Price : £50.00
Publisher : London: R. Dodsley
Published : 1750
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
A jolly solid copy, rebound in the later 19th. century in maroon half-leather and attractive coloured rain-spotted boards. Spine chastely titled and decorated.Margins heavily trimmed but no text loss and otherwise in VG condition, all edges "library speckled". 556 pages, but lacks portrait frontispiece.
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3912
An Atlas of Speciation in African Passerine Birds - B. P. Hall and R. E. Moreau (Fwd: E Mayr)
Price : £90.00
Publisher : London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History)
Published : 1970
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
pp423.Blue cloth binding. Slight wear to DW. Includes additional tucked in sheets with updated map. Also includes manuscript review by A J Cain (pp7) and synopsis (pp5). Huge volume - check postage.
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444
An Autobiography - Allis, Peter
Price : £20.00
Publisher : Collins, 1981
Published : 1981
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
A very good copy in very good dustwrapper; minimalist and striking in both title and design.Inscribed on half-title page "leman, ((?))pity about the Swing! P R Alliss".A worthy addition to your ingle-nookside shelf!
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51
An Earl's Daughter & Vain Ambition - Pollard, M. M. & Davenport, Emma
Price : £15.00
Publisher : Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell
Published : 1895
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Two novels in one binding. Book in very good condition in the original cloth, with light wear and rubbing. internally clean, prize bookplate dated 1895 to front pastedown, binding tight. 220 pages & 215 pages.
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5032
An Early and Compendious Introduction for Reading all sorts of Histories: Contrived in a more facile way . to which is added a synopsis of Councels - Prideaux, Mathias, John Prideaux
Price : £150.00
Publisher : Oxford: Leonard Lichfield
Published : 1655
Edition : 3rd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp351 + A Table of the Lines of Succession + Table Alphabetically shewing Name (ie Index) + Index of things of note. Synopsis of Councels pp58 + p4 index. Octavo. Modern calf half rebound with marbled boards, with gilt lettering to spine. New marbled endpapers. Pages whole but worn about edges. A few annotations throughout, probably by original or early owner judging by ink and script style. Basically an annotated chronology of the world/British history, each section is followed by Queries, essentially an early version of our modern revision aides.
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4788
An Easy Poultry Guide - Brown, Edward (Intro. Sir Arthur Pearson)
Price : £25.00
Publisher : London: C Arthur Pearson
Published : 1917
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp92. 8vo. Red board covers, spine faded brown, corners better than usual. Original printed price 1/- overstickered "Reduced to 6d" on front. Advertisements for Smallholder's Library at either end. A nice copy of this rare work. We have also today added Brown's much larger "Poulty Keeping as an Industry for Farmers and Cottagers".
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3917
An Economic History of West Africa - A G Hopkins
Price : £15.00
Publisher : London: Longman
Published : 1973
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
pp337. Cloth cover with slight staining. Extremities bumped. Inscribed by the author "with many thanks" "Tony Hopkins".
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2392
An Elementary Text-Book of the Microscope - J. W. Griffith
Price : £55.00
Publisher : John van Voorst
Published : 1864
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp192. 12 colour plates. Colour frontispiece protected by tissue paper. Spine dented top and bottom, but surprisingly good.
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4302
An Exact Abridgement of all the Statutes in Force and Use from the end of the reign of Queen Anne, to the beginning of the sixth year of King George Vol. V (5) - [None]
Price : £45.00
Publisher : London:H Gosling
Published : 1720
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
pp368 + index. Leather bound (worn about edges) with pastedowns missing inside covers, leather lifting slightly. "LEEK" is stamped on front cover, though second E is worn and appears as "I". Bookplate of Friend's Meeting Library Leek attached to inside cover. First two leaves are worn, worn through at one point: making the righthand side of the inscription almost illegible: "This book belongs to the Mo: Meeting of the People called Quakers in Leek" (People and Leek being almost illegible). Last two blank leaves worn, but not as first two. Some page margins are yellowing or grubby, but in common with other Quaker works we offer, while the binding is poor, the pages are G to VG.
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5702
An Examination of the Ancient Orthography of the Jews, and of the Original State of the Hebrew Bible . Egyptian Hieroglyphics etc - Charles William Wall
Price : £400.00
Publisher : London: Whittaker and Co
Published : 1835
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
4 volumes, large 8vo. Faded blue cloth binding, showing wear to edges of spine. Some foxing to endpapers.Volume I: pp378 + 3 foldout diagrams of hieroglypics. Volume II: The Propagation of Alphabets etc, pp484. Volume III: Part the Second of the Propagation of Alphabets (1841), pp467. Volume IV: Part the Third; The Sacred Text Originally Written without Vowel-letters (1856), pp376. Volume III is inscribed "From the author" in copperplate on second endpaper. Volume IV is inscribed "With the Author's Compliments". The author was Vice-Provost of Trinity College, Dublin (ie an Anglican) but these volumes bear the stamps and labels of the Methodist College, Belfast, an interesting example of early ecumenical fraternity.
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7960
An Experiment in Criticism - Lewis, C. S.
Price : £18.00
Publisher : CUP
Published : 1961
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, binding tight. 142 pages.
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2014
An Historical and Biographical Dictionary . - Ladvocat, Monsieur The Abbe', translated by Catherine Collignon
Price : £10.00
Publisher : Cambridge: John Burges, Printer to the University
Published : 1800
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Poor
Volume 2 only of the 4 volumes, and very distressed -damp-stains and now in four or more pieces in the rems. of its binding, but complete.Could be resewn and bound. Offered just in case someone needs to assemble a set.
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6816
An Historical and Descriptive Account of Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands - [None]
Price : £60.00
Publisher : Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd
Published : 1840
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Book in good condition in the original cloth, with chipping to head and tail of spine, front board repaired with archival tape along spine edge and inner hinge, firmly attached. Internally clean, one leaf roughly opened with loss to margin, but not affecting text, and binding is tight. 416 pages, including index. With folding map and several plates.
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6524
An Illustrated History of Belper and its Environs - Giles J; Power, g; Smith, M: Ed Naylor, P
Price : £10.00
Publisher : Belper: M G Morris
Published : 2000
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
pp163. Folio. Dark purple cloth binding with gilt lettering in an illustrated DW. Detailed text illustrated with facsimiles, BW photographs etc. A fascinating account of a town central to the industrial revolution worldwide.
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5435
An Illustrated History of L.M.S. Coaches, 1923-1957 - Essery, R. J.; Jenkinson, David
Price : £22.00
Publisher : Oxford Publishing
Published : 1977
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, illustrated throughout. 218 pages. May incur extra overseas postage; please enquire for rates.
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7716
An Illustrated History of L.M.S. Wagons (Two Volumes) - Essery, Bob
Price : £50.00
Publisher : Oxford Publishing
Published : 1981
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Two volume set, 1981 & 1983. Large format books in very good condition in very good dustjackets, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions. Illustrated throughout. 179 & 192 pages. Heavy set which may incur extra overseas postage; please enquire for rates.
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7070
An inquiry into the Deposition of Lead Ore, in the Mineral Veins of Swaledale, Yorkshire [FACSIMILE REPRINT] - Bradley, Lonsdale
Price : £50.00
Publisher : London: Edward Stanford
Published : 1862
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
A modern privately commissioned facsimile reprint of a very scarce book, which has been bound in a light brown half-leather binding with marbled paper to boards. Leather labels to spine and five raised bands. Leather in very good condition with minor wear and rubbing. Marbled effect to endpapers. Internally clean; the illustrations, while being very clear, are obviously not of the same quality as the originals. 40 pages + colour plates of the veins.
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6887
An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: or, Philosophical Lectures read in the University of Oxford, Anno Dom. 1700. To which are added, the demonstrations of Monsieur Huygen's Theorems, concerning the centrifugal force and circular motion. - Keill, John
Price : £160.00
Publisher : London: Andrew Millar
Published : 1758
Edition : 5th or later Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Scarce book in good condition in the original full calf binding, with some wear and rubbbing. Corners worn. Front joint splitting and rear joint starting but both boards firmly attached, and no splitting to inner hinges. Internally clean, marbled endpapers, age-toning to pages, bookplate to front pastedown, binding is tight. xii + 306 pages.
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3669
An Introduction to Probability Theory - Moran, P. A. P.
Price : £30.00
Publisher : Oxford at the Clarendon Press
Published : 1968
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a very good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbbing. Edge creasing to jacket and previous owner's name and date acquired in small note to front cover. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding is tight. 542 pages.
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1822
An Introduction to Rocket Missile Propulsion - [None]
Price : £33.00
Publisher : Canoga Park; California: Rocketdyne
Published : 1958
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Grey binding card slightly creased, but a very good copy, of this simply-produced monograph (vi+125 pages approx.) on an unsimple subject.
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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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1952
Analysis and Design of Dynamic Systems - Cochin, Ira
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Addison-Wesley
Published : 1997
Edition : 3rd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : No Jacket
(xviii)+ 666pp with many B&W diagrams. Previous owners stamp to top of page edges.
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6048
Anarcho-Socialism: Theory & Practice - Rocker, Rudolph
Price : £25.00
Publisher : London: Secker & Warburg
Published : 1938
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Softcover book in good condition, with some wear and rubbing, and fading to spine area. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, some occasional spotted foxing, binding tight. 158 pages.
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5898
Anchiennes Cronicques D'Engleterre (Choix de chapitres inedits annotes et publies pour la societe de l'historie de france par Mlle Dpont) (Trois Tomes/ 3 volumes) - Jehan de Wavrin
Price : £500.00
Publisher : Paris: Mme Ve Jules Renouard
Published : 1858
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp341, 409, 431. 8vo. Morocco quarter bound with marbled boards. 5 band spine with gilt lettering and decoration. Rubbing to edges of boards, lighter wear to ends of spine. Marbled endpapers. Ex-lib stamps on and near title pages. A faded rectangle on front boards suggests very neat removal of a label. Bound-in green ribbon bookmark in each volume. Interiors and binding tight and clean. French language, seemingly concentrated on the period of John and after. "Warewic" is Warwick, I guess. "Gorgeous binding" is one description we have heard of this three volume set. Please check postage due to weight.
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8017
Ancient Egyptian Jewellery - Andrews, Carol
Price : £40.00
Publisher : British Museum Press
Published : 1996
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp208. Folio. 1st paperback edition. V light wear to corners.
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3039
Ancient Forts and Castles of the Gold Coast (Ghana) - Dr Isaac S Ephson
Price : £20.00
Publisher : Accra: Ilen Publications
Published : 1970
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp112. Large paperback. BW plates. Worn at both ends of spine. Cover creased. Fascinating account of the forts built by slaving and trading fleets.
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5888
And Afterward, the Dark - Copper, Basil
Price : £20.00
Publisher : Arkham House
Published : 1977
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. 222 pages.
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3373
Andre Breton and the First Principles of Surrealism - Rosemont, Franklin
Price : £25.00
Publisher : London: Pluto Press
Published : 1978
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp147. 8vo. Maroon cloth binding in photographic DW, very worn about edges and foldover, spine colour faded. Book itself VG.
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6139
Angela von Veumann Novembre 2000 - Gener 2001 - Angela von Neumann (Intro: Joan Fageda Aubert)
Price : £20.00
Publisher : Palma de Majorca: Casal Solleric
Published : 2000
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Fine
pp143. Folio. Catalogue raisonee of Angela von Neumann's work, with essays at end of volume. Full colour reproductions.
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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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6598
Anglo-Irish Trade in the Sixteenth Century - Longfield, Ada Kathleen
Price : £50.00
Publisher : London: George Routledge
Published : 1929
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, inscription to ffe, binding is tight. Frontispiece, and folding map of Ireland to rear. 241 pages.
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5319
Anmut des Leibes/Beautiful Figures/Formes et Beaute - [None]
Price : £16.00
Publisher : Frankfurt am Main: Rudolf Holman
Published : 1966
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp42. Quarto. Green cloth cover. Multilingual introduction attempts to put this book of nudes in context. Some colour, mostly BW. The colour DW photograph shows a young lady who is either welcoming us to her moorish garden or else expostulating that her goldfish pond is empty of water.
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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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ABE-1238561711
Annales Gandenses : Annals of Ghent - Hilda Johnstone (Ed and Trans)
Price : £80.00
Publisher : Oxford Medieval Texts
Published : 1985
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
pp105. 8vo. 1st published by Thomas Nelson in 1951, this is Oxford's republication in their standard series. A very nice copy.
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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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4287
Annual Reports 1941, 1944-47 Wirral Footpaths and Open Spaces Preservation Society - [None]
Price : £15.00
Published : 1941
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
5 pamphlets, with a card front and back to set (note on card says 1940-42, but only '41 is present of those years). pp4, 16, 16, 16, 20. 1st is folded, others stapled. Stamp on front of each, and pencilled classification (suggesting ex lib). Interesting reflections on the war: from the destruction of the map printers to the loss of paths due to war agriculture ploughing.
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5527
Annuals and Biennials - Jekyll, Gertrude
Price : £40.00
Publisher : London: Country Life
Published : 1916
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Book in good condition in the original cloth, with some wear and rubbing, especially to spine which is faded and now with dull lettering. Internally clean, previous owner's name to front free endpaper, some light foxing, binding tight. Rear inner hinge just starting to split along endpaper. Illustrated with 3 colour plates on card and many others in black and white. 174 pages.
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7108
Another Time - Auden, W.H.
Price : £60.00
Publisher : London: Faber and Faber
Published : 1940
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
2nd impression. pp125. Red cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine. DW is heavily worn at corners, rubbed through back edge of spine, with several small tears along top edge. PO inscription on FEP dated 1943. Some foxing internally. Tucked in sheet of speaker's notes on value of literature, from same period.
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2849
Another Vintage Bentley Book - (John Dowdeswell)
Price : £16.00
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
63pp.Yellow soft card cover. Aging. Reprints of articles from Autocar and The Motor from 1919 to 1934 on the great Bentley line. Sequel to The Vintage Bentley Book, which we also have.
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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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6866
Antenna File - [None]
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Radio Society of Great Britain
Published : 2001
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
pp287. Folio. Corners bumped, which is a pity as this book otherwise looks near-new. Articles reprinted from the RSGB magazine.
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5232
Antennae: Poems - Llewellyn Jewitt
Price : £350.00
Publisher : Derby: Privately Printed
Published : 1858
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp159. 8vo. Green embossed cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine. A six small points on the spine the green cloth has been worn away to reveal white specks of paper underneath. Printed 1857. Inscription on FEP "Clara Adela Maud Jewitt with her papas [sic] dear love November 9th 1857". One of only twenty-five copies printed. Largely uncut. The "antennae" of the title are the metaphorical antennae put out by the author as he metamorphosises into a literary butterfly. Jewitt became famous as a Derbyshire based antiquarian.
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