Rare / Antiquarian Book List - By Author
" Velox " - Ann Lawrence (illus. Mila Lazarevich)
Index
2738
Velocipedes, Bicycles, and Tricycles: How to Make and How to Use them. with a Sketch of their History, Invention, and Progress - " Velox "
Price : £450.00
Publisher : George Routledge & Sons
Published : 1869
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
"Whether velocipedes are only the "toy of the hour," or are destined to become a permanent adjunct to our civilization and every-day life or not, no one can doubt their extending popularity." (from the Preface). Small octavo, 156X96 mm pages, paginates as follows.Pastedowns and both sides of free-endpapers, front and back are publisher's booklists. (3), vi-viii,(1),x,(1), 12-127,(1). There is absolutely no sign of anything having been removed, so it seems that the front free endpaper is included in the pagination, and that are therefore only 126 pages, excluding endpapers (or 130 including). The binding is sand-brown paper-covered card with lettering in several faces and a line drawing of "The French Bicycle" on the front, adverts for cough lozenges and insect destroying powder on the back cover! The spine carries the title longitudinally, the British way round. Condition of the text VG, though one section has been bound slightly displaced vertically; the hinges are sound. Condition of cover "good", i.e. with surface wear but no loss of surface except at bumped corners,joints and top and bottom of spine, which shows creasing that somewhat interferes with the lettering. Rare complete survival of an early and ephemeral type of publication. I have failed to look after my pre-war hub-braked tandem properly, time someone else looked after this!
Add to Basket
6632
Shooting with Game and Gun-Room Notes - "Blagdon"
Price : £30.00
Publisher : London: Cogswell and Harrison, Limited
Published : 1900
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
First edition book in good condition in the original pictorial boards, with wear to the corners and head and tail of spine. Some marking to cloth. Internally there is a stain to bottom of inner hinge which affects about first 16 pages, and a stain to top margin affecting about 30 pages to rear. 8vo. viii + 122 pages + 14 pages of advertisements for guns, ammunition, etc. Illustrations in the text.
Add to Basket
4246
The Civilian's South India: Some Places and People in Madras - "Civilian"
Price : £50.00
Publisher : London: Bodley Head
Published : 1921
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Book in very good condition in the original cloth, with some wear and rubbing, and marking to cloth. Internally clean, previous owner's name to ffe, binding tight. 244 pages.
Add to Basket
7830
The North Staffordshire Railway: A history of the line and its locomotives - "Manifold"
Price : £50.00
Publisher : Ashbourne: J H Henstock
Published : 1955
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp182. Octavo. Review copy in card cover, which has been torn perhaps by some glued symetrical object placed near it. Interior much better. Colour frontispiece, and BW photographs. Various tipped in facsimile documents (e.g. 1909 timetable) in VG condition. An essential reference work.
Add to Basket
1665
Beeton's Book of Poultry and Domestic Animals: showing how to reara and manage them in Sickness and in Health - ( Beeton, S.O. (editor))
Price : £200.00
Publisher : 1870
Published : 1870
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
The date is not given, we have followed the Briitish Library, who also tell us that this is a re-issue of part of the Book of Home Pets (1860 or 1861), Pagination is xii+pp.353-832+8pp. of Beeton adverts on yellow paper. There are 5 chromolithographs of groups of animals - the poultry proud, the rest "sweet". Bound with yellow endpapers in heavily decoratively blind-embossed red cloth, with gilt rabbits on front board, ornate gilt titling and animals on the spine;all edges gilt. Ticket of W. Greening, Binder 183, Fleet Street on back pastedown, faded signature on front free endpaper.The spine is a bit darkened with one very short pull-off-the-shelf split at the top, but this is a very good copy; considering its age it feels almost "fine"; few comparable copies can have survived.
Add to Basket
3708
The Gentleman's Pocket Magazine; and Album of literature and fine arts. - (by the editor of The Ladies' Pocket Magazine)
Price : £250.00
Publisher : Joseph Robins
Published : 1829
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp420. Leather quarter bound, octavo. Leather worn, split between spine and front cover top 1". Title label missing from spine. 12 (hand-?)coloured plates by Cruikshank. BW plates. Reverse of frontispiece (BW engraving of Beggar Boy) exhibits set-off (apparently a share prospectus, as type can be seen in reverse on the back of the fp). Splitting between joints, otherwise tight.
Add to Basket
2848
The 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.
Add to Basket
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.
Add to Basket
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.
Add to Basket
5932
The Chronicle of Novgorod 1016-1471 (Camden Third Series Vol. XXV) - A A Shakhmatov; Robert Michell and Nevill Forbes (Trans); C Raymond Beazley (Intro)
Price : £60.00
Publisher : London: Camden Society
Published : 1914
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp237. 8vo. Blue cloth boards with lettering to spine. Faded symmetrically down front, cloth splitting edge of spine top. PO inscription FEP dated 1915, ex lib bookplate inside front cover. Some pencilled annotations to text.
Add to Basket
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.
Add to Basket
3190
The Lentiad; or Peter the Pope and his pioneers the Puseymen - A Beefeater; Rearranged by John Allan
Price : £45.00
Publisher : London: Freeman
Published : 1863
Edition : 2nd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp396. Uncut pages from p75. First few leaves heavily foxed. Brown cloth cover. Paper label on spine disfigured by wear with some loss. Body VG. A hudibrastic attack on the Pusey-ites and presumably the whole mid-Victorian Oxford movement.
Add to Basket
3355
Mileage Marks of Scotland - A Bruce Auckland
Price : £15.00
Publisher : Scottish Postmark Group
Published : 1965
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp71. Blue cloth binding with gold lettering. fep bears PO's calligraphic inscription. Like the roads of Marshall Wade over which the posts of Scotland were carried the Scottish Postmark Group ensured their publications were of the finest and longest lasting construction, to which this volume bears witness.
Add to Basket
5093
The Armies of India - A C Lovett (Painter), G F MacMunn (Text), Lord Roberts (Fwd)
Price : £100.00
Publisher : London: Adam and Charles Black
Published : 1911
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp224 + publisher's announcements. Blue cloth binding with yellow lettering and illustration to front; gilt lettering and illustration to spine. Some wear about bottom of cover. Tissue protected colour plates and some line drawings.
Add to Basket
4499
Songs of the North gathered together from the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland: twelfth edition. 2 volumes - A C Macleod and Harold Boulton (Eds). Music arranged by Malcolm Lawson
Price : £50.00
Publisher : London: Leadenhall Press
Edition : 5th or later Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp202 + 278. Folio. Maroon cloth binding with gilt lettering to front and spine. Two splits across spine of volume 1. Volume 1 bears inscription to Reginald Currey from Granny Xmas 1894, while Volume 2 bears inscription dated 24 August 1895 and signatures of eight members of the Currey family, including Percy Heylyn Currey (1864 -1942), who would become the most prominent Arts-And-Crafts architect in Derbyshire. Endpapers yellowing. 46 songs in Volume 1 including Loch Lomond, A Lyke Wake Dirge, Skye Boat Song, The Twa Corbies and Sound the Pirbroch. Volume 2 includes 50 songs including Jingling Johnnie, Sir Patrick Spens, Aiken Drum and The Flowers of the Forest. Frontispiece in each volume: Volume 1's is labelled Proud Maizie, and must have been drawn from life: she is stunning (and as a model should have signed a release if her image was to have been labelled with that song title).
Add to Basket
2557
The Coal Mines of Buxton - A E Roberts and J R Leach
Price : £15.00
Publisher : Scarthin Books
Published : 1985
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp96. BW photographs, line drawings, transections. A fascinating true account of the mines around the fashionable spa town from a specialist publisher who brought together two experts on the subject.
Add to Basket
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".
Add to Basket
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.
Add to Basket
3977
Round and Round Pictures - A L Harris
Price : £100.00
Publisher : London: Ernest Nister
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Unpaginated (8 pages). A near unique copy: Colour cover shows seven children in a ring. Inside chromolithographic illustrations contain a central rotating image, which can be turned by pulling on the short ribbon. Guinea pigs, cats, farmyard, children. Hinges and all fastenings (edges) have been neatly repaired with brown tape. Inscription fep dated Nov 1916.
Add to Basket
1392
Leaves from my Portfolio - A Member of (Glasgow) University Council (Walter Wardlaw)
Price : £22.00
Publisher : Glasgow: Printed for Private Use, by W. Anderson Eadie
Published : 1869
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
152 page slim volume of poetry bound in classic dark green cloth of the period, with title and triple-ruled panel in gilt on the front board. At the time of entry we seem to have the author's remaining stock of three copies, all basically in very good condition apart from the usual minor faults such as darkening of the cloth and foxing of endpapers.The first copy is signed by the author in an aged hand under the preface and dedication to gis daughter Ellinor Halcro-Wardlaw. This double-barelled name seems to have emigrated to America; does it survive? The poetry does not entirely pass the "poetical verbiage" test: a quick check finds: fain, cleave, rill, e'en and o'er -but he seems to resist the temptation of "azure".
Add to Basket
3025
The Climate of Africa Part 1: Air Temperature , Precipitation - A N Lebedev (Ed.), trans from the Russian
Price : £50.00
Publisher : Hydrometeoroligical Service of the USSR / Israel Program for Sci
Published : 1970
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp482. Russian original 1968. A comprehensive compilation of meteorological data from over 1800 stations in 48 African independent states and the insular Portuguese possessions.
Add to Basket
4842
South America - A S Forrest (Painting) W H Koebel (Description)
Price : £50.00
Publisher : London: A & C Black
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp230 + foldout map + publisher's announcements. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering and illustration (presumably the significance of the two Roman fasces is explained inside). 75 illustrations. This is just one of the wonderful copies of the A & C Black illustrated series we are offering. Check our stock.
Add to Basket
5031
From Spring to Fall, or When Life Stirs - A Son of the Marshes (Ed. J A Owen)
Price : £16.00
Publisher : Edinburgh: William Blackwood
Published : 1894
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp244 = pp30 illustrated catalogue. Blue illustrated cloth binding with black lettering. Spine worn at ends and edges, corners bumped. W H Smith's impressed stamp on FEP. PO inscription inside front cover dated 1895 has been crossed through in pencil by later owner who has inscribed themselves in 1900. Endpapers yellowing.
Add to Basket
5261
Photoelastic Analysis - A W Hendry
Price : £7,5
Publisher : Oxford: Pergamon Press
Published : 1966
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp155. 8vo. Illustrated cloth binding. BW illustrations, photographs.
Add to Basket
3970
Das Schloss in den Ardennen - A. Brook
Price : £50.00
Publisher : Berlin: Verlag Otto Fante
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp240 + 230 + 218. Black board binding with charcoal ribbon spine, reinforced corners - showing slight wear. 3 volumes in one. German language.
Add to Basket
5575
The Green Flag and other stories of war and sport - A. Conan Doyle
Price : £30.00
Publisher : Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchntiz
Published : 1900
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp304 12vo. 1/2 vellum and buckram binding. Bound by Charles Day for Hungerford Littledale Fletcher Castell. The edition appeared the same year as the true Smith Elder first edn.
Add to Basket
5329
Problems of Reunion AND two letters from the Bishop of Derby - A. E. J. Rawlinson, Bishop of Derby
Price : £30.00
Publisher : London: Eyre and Spottiswoode
Published : 1950
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp179. Brown cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine. Top of DW torn and bottom 3" missing. Inscribed by John Derby (ie Bishop Rawlinson) to Martin Cordes. Tucked in are two letters from the Bishop's Palace (ie Breadsall Mount) to Cordes discussing his forthcoming ordination amond other theological matters. Cordes's address was in The Cloisters at Windsor, suggesting he already held a position in St Georges Chapel there.
Add to Basket
4666
The Lamp of Love - A. O. Peacock
Price : £25.00
Publisher : London/Derby: Bemrose and Sons
Published : 1908
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
pp38. Green card binding with ovoid plate tipped on (illustration by author of child with lamp), black lettering. Some bumping to corners. Spotting to pages. Six stories. Derbyshire interest.
Add to Basket
5109
Moscow of Tomorrow - A. Rodin
Price : £22.00
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Good
pp72. Pamphlet with red black photomontage cover. No title page (contents list appears on last page), so no publisher's details. Trans. from Russian? Takes the form of a conversation between four students on the Sparrow Hills overlooking Moscow discussing the consequences of industrialisation and modernisation under the (first?) Five Year Plan. Glue holding cover to stapled spine of text is coming loose. Some BW photographs. Cover spells the title "Moscow of To-morrow".
Add to Basket
4414
Folk-Etymology: A Dictionary of Corrupted Words - A. S. Palmer
Price : £25.00
Publisher : London: George Bell
Published : 1882
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp664 + pp16 publisher's announcements dated 1884. Blue cloth cover with gold lettering to spine. Spine twisted out of true. Hinges cracked front and back. Previous owner's inscription on title page. Another owner's address on fep.
Add to Basket
2569
Case Book for Survival : Collected and Arranged - A. T. Baird
Price : £11.00
Publisher : London: Psychic Press
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp282. Parts DJ spine missing. DJ has been wrapped by a plastic jacket. (Late 40s, we think). Author's name given as Alex Baird on DJ.
Add to Basket
2500
Life in the Eagle's Nest, A Tale of Afghanistan - A.L.O.E.
Price : £11.00
Publisher : Gall and Inglis
Published : 1884
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp222. Bookplate on inside cover. Previous owner's inscription on fep. Publication date presumed from bookplate date. Signs of reading and wear generally. This Victorian children's romance was written to raise funds for her orphanage in Batala.
Add to Basket
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.
Add to Basket
4094
Gordon and other poems - Abel, G.
Price : £40.00
Publisher : London
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
pp236. Brown patterned cloth binding, patterned endpapers. Spine ends badly bumped. Endpapers faded and browning. Bookplate of George Glencowe inside front cover. Some pages still uncut, but one page found with a tear.
Add to Basket
6753
Instruction in Photography - Abney, Captain (William)
Price : £60.00
Publisher : London: Piper and Carter
Published : 1876
Edition : 3rd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
pp196 + advertisements. Octavo. Green impressed boards with gilt lettering, heavily worn at edges of spine and corners, revealing threads. Endpapers browning. Frontispiece tissue guarded. Abney was a Derby man and tucked in is Maxwell Craven's newspaper account of Abney's life. For the historian of photography this is a rare chance to obtain this early, third edition of what became a standard work for fifty years.
Add to Basket
5628
Time Reversal : An Autobiography - Abragam, Anatole
Price : £50.00
Publisher : Oxford Clarendon Press
Published : 1989
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. This copy has the signatures of 18 scientists who attended the Symposium Neuroradiologicum in 1990. Internally clean, small stain on foredge of text-block and small tear to jacket along rear spine edge, binding is tight. 373 pages.
Add to Basket
2063
Some Questions and Answers concerning Women and Priesthood - Acres, E. Louie
Price : £75.00
Publisher : London: H.R.Allenson
Published : 1931
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Suprisingly(?)rare and specifically on the subject, published by a busy "devotional" firm. 96pp in limp card covers with blue "dustjacket" attached at the spine (like a small press poetry book), the title etc. printed on the front cover of this.The date is the latest reference in the book and that given by the British Library.
Add to Basket
4216
Hin hljodu tar - AEvisaga Astu Sigurbrandsdottur (Sigurbjorg Arnadottir skradi)
Price : £12.00
Publisher : Vaka-Helgafell
Published : 1995
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
pp181. Faux leather binding. BW plates. The title translates as "The Sound of Tears". Check our other icelandic literature.
Add to Basket
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"!
Add to Basket
1417
Rachel - Agate, James
Price : £20.00
Publisher : Gerald Howe Ltd
Published : 1928
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Inscribed by the author on the free endpaper " To Philip Page from his friend James Agate." A very good copy (fine but for some abrasion marks) of the first edition in dark brown cloth binding, titling and author's monogram in gilt on spine; "Representatove Women" and logo blind-embossed on front board.
Add to Basket
1403
here's Richness! An Anthology of and by James Agate - Agate, James ; Foreword by Osbert Sitwell
Price : £50.00
Publisher : George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.
Published : 1942
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : No Jacket
No.31 of the 100 copy limited edition in half turquoise Morocco (or Morocco-finished leather) and blue buckram. Some fading of leather and thin brown stripes where leather has lain against the grey endpapers, otherwise a fine copy. Agate's signature has faded even more than Sitwell's!
Add to Basket
4807
Text Book of Social Dancing - Agnes Marsh and Lucie Marsh
Price : £16.00
Publisher : Bridgeport, Connecticut: Buckingham Marsh Press
Published : 1933
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
pp132. Quarto. Card faux-leather cover with gilt lettering faded. Cover is larged than block inside with consequent bending of all edges. A few dogeared pages internally. Type and photographs are sepia, enhanced by the yellow/cream paper on which this work is printed.
Add to Basket
2592
Life of Mary Queen of Scots, 2 volumes - Agnes Strickland
Price : £75.00
Publisher : London: George Bell
Published : 1873
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Volume 1. pp462 Volume 2. pp 508. Owner's inscription on title page of both volumes. Some bumping to spines. Marbled half covers. Strickland's original edition was revised and abridged for this "cheap" edition. This still runs to near a thousand close printed pages, all in remarkably well kept condition. Please check postage due to weight.
Add to Basket
1472
The Kingdom Under the Sea and other stories - Aiken, Joan (illus. Jan Pienkowski)
Price : £75.00
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
Published : 1971
Edition : 3rd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
Fine/VG. Dark green cloth, gilt title to spine and illustration to front cover, decorated endpapers, 104pp. Light green illustrated dust jacket. East European folk tales with beautiful black silhouette illustrations by Jan Pienkowski throughout, mostly interspersed with text on white background, but nine on marbled colour background; each story starts with an 'illuminated capital' in colour. Dust jacket has very light foxing. Altogether a beautiful book.
Add to Basket
6885
Mathematical Tracts on Physical Astronomy, the Figure of the Earth, Precession and Nutation, and the Calculus of Variations - Airey, George Biddell
Price : £60.00
Publisher : Cambridge: Macmillan and Co.
Published : 1858
Edition : 4th Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Book in good condition in the original cloth, sympathetically rebacked with the original spine laid down. Some wear and rubbing to cloth, with a few marks. Internally clean, new endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown, no marks or inscriptions, binding is tight. With 2 folding plates to rear. 400 pages.
Add to Basket
6571
Meaulnes The Lost Domain - Alain-Fournier (Trans Sandra Morris)
Price : £40.00
Publisher : London: Blackie
Published : 1966
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp212. Octavo. Black cloth binding with silver lettering. Illustrated DW has small tears at corners of spine, and another 2mm centre front bottom edge - colours are still bright. Newspaper clipping of finding of AF's aeroplane tipped inside front cover, pencilled biographical notes on FEP.
Add to Basket
4624
Meeting the Blues: The Rise of the Texas Sound - Alan Govenar
Price : £35.00
Publisher : Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing
Published : 1988
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp239. Outsize. Black cloth binding with white lettering to spine. DW shows light wear to top edge. Signed by the author on the half-title page.
Add to Basket
3574
Oxford Poetry 1921 - Alan Porter, Richard Hughes, Robert Hughes
Price : £30.00
Publisher : Oxford: Blackwell
Published : 1921
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp64. Black cloth with white spine, title label on front cover. Browning to end papers. Inscription by William Bell (1924-1948), an Oxford poet of WWII. By this date Robert Graves had come back from the announcement of his death in the Great War. Includes apart from the editors: Edmund Blunden, Louis Golding, Edgell Rickword and four others.
Add to Basket
2756
Le Chariot D'Or - Albert Samain (Illus Maurice Leroy)
Price : £15.00
Publisher : Paris: Bombaldi
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp235. No date. Traditional French card binding. Has been wrapped in glascene cover which is now torn at bottom. Wear to top and bottom of spine. Colour frontispiece
Add to Basket
8107
Nineteenth Century Australian Gold and Silver Smiths - Albrecht,Kurt
Price : £22.00
Publisher : Hutchinson Australia
Published : 1969
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp69. Quarto. Black cloth binding with gilt lettering and coloured decoration in photographic DW (yellowing, priceclipped with publisher's £SD/decimal price sticker). Many BW plates.
Add to Basket
8036
Post-War Houses - Aldington, Peter
Price : £32.00
Publisher : The Twentieth Century Society
Published : 2006
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp88. Quarto. "Twentieth Century Architecture 4: the Journal of the Twentieth Century Society". More of a guide or gazeteer than an issue of a journal.
Add to Basket
5372
Souvenir Programme of the Coronation Celebrations Portsmouth 1953 - Alec Kinnear (Ed)
Price : £13,5
Publisher : City of Portsmouth Coronation Celebrations Committee
Published : 1953
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
pp32. Includes details and plans of the Spithead review of the Royal Navy and the Navies of the Commonwealth, and ships from all foreign nations attending. Seems to contain details of every event, activity, celebration to be held in Portsmouth and Southsea throughout June and July 1953. And ends with a special prayer for Her Majesty composed by the chaplain to the corporation.
Add to Basket
2508
This Flying Business - Alex Monteith and R F Thatcher
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Privately Printed
Published : 1935
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
pp78. Printed on heavy paper. Front cover illustration and lettering good, but spine lettering seems to have rubbed off. Slight yellowing to edges of pages, and spotting due to age on pages throughout. None of it serious.
Add to Basket
3460
Young Italy - Alexander Baillie Cochrane
Price : £125.00
Publisher : London: John Parker
Published : 1850
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp313. Cream cloth binding (perhaps not original), however shows small label of John Rodmell New Bond Street inside cover. Slightly irregular sized pages as published. One of the most important works popularising the philosophy of "Young Italy".
Add to Basket
6455
Birds of Delhi and District, The Reference List - Alexander, H.G. and Sir N.F.Frome
Price : £30.00
Published : 1950
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
"Compiled from Sir N.F.Frome's notes B.N.H.S. Vol. 47.2 with additions B.N.H.S. Vol 48.2, and notes by Mr. H.G.Alexander" H.G.A. is the author of the introduction to this 66 page (+14 blank pages) booklet bound in flexible "plasti-cloth"-covered boards. Lists 357 species with brief note of where, and sometimes when, it can be found. A very good copy.
Add to Basket
2001
Questions and Answers from the Justice of the Peace connected with Local Government, Public Health, Poor Law, Poor rate, Licensing. 1877-1896 - Allan, C.E., M.A.,LL.B., Of the Inner Temple and Western Circuit, Barrister at Law
Price : £50.00
Publisher : London: Office of the Justice of the Peace (Shaw & Sons, Butterw
Published : 1902
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
xlii+1144 pages of careful legal advice on many now "picturesque" matters under some 8000 headings, with references to cases and to the annual volumes of the Justice of the Peace.Immense, dark-green, blind-panelled cloth binding with gilt titling. Quarto sized but 8vo.printed.Paper at hinges splitting a bit to show the cloth binding strip, pages yellowing from the edges, but basically a very good copy, the appearance of the binding verging on fine.Probably never used, but now a fascinating social and legal-historical reference source.
Add to Basket
2750
Libya : The Experience of Oil - Allan, J. A.
Price : £22.00
Publisher : London: Croom Helm
Published : 1981
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions, binding tight. 328 pages.
Add to Basket
334
Some Common Trees of Malaya - Allen, Betty Molesworth
Price : £7,5
Publisher : Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 1957
Edition : F
Binding : Soft
Good. Yellow card cover with green pictures of trees. 100 pp., 16 b/w plates + 46 full page line drawings. A guide to 47 of the commoner trees of the region.
Add to Basket
1286
Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems (3 volume set) - Allen, Gay Wilson and Bradley, Sculley (eds.)
Price : £60.00
Publisher : New York University Press
Published : 1980
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
Red cloth, green 'title label' to spines, gilt 'WW' logo to front covers. Vol.I 1855-1858, lxxix + 272pp; Vol.II 1860-1867, pp.273-562; Vol.III 1870-1891, pp.563-779. Fine in very good grey dust jackets. In the series "The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman" Please check postage due to weight.
Add to Basket
6764
Guide to Craft Suppliers - Allen, Judy
Price : £10.00
Publisher : Studio Vista
Published : 1974
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp172. Red cloth binding with black lettering to spin in illustrated DW. An essential reference booker for the crafter.
Add to Basket
3842
Sea King - Allen, Patrick
Price : £20.00
Publisher : Airlife
Published : 1993
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Soft
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Large format softcoverbook in very good condition, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions. Illustrated throughout. Not paginated, but approx. 80-100 pages.
Add to Basket
6217
Reader's Digest ( Readers Digest) Auswahlbücher 45 Bände Volumes Condensed Books - Allerlei
Price : £60.00
Publisher : Stuttgart: Verlag das Beste
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : As New
Kunstleder-Bände. Eine sammlung von 45 Bänden der Auswahlreihe, alle Bände wie neu. Natürlich ist es zu teuer diese Sammlung ausser Gross Britannien zu schicken. Maybe there is a fluent or native German speaker in England who these books like would.Deutsche auswahlbücher in England - vielleicht des Welts unverkaufbarste Bücher?
Add to Basket
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!
Add to Basket
2415
Every Celebration - Allison, Alex
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. 4. Small paperback book in very good condition, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, stapled binding is tight, no marks or inscriptions. 11 pages.
Add to Basket
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.
Add to Basket
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.
Add to Basket
1042
Shir Asara Akhim Song (Poem) of the ten Brothers - Alterman, Nathan
Price : £30.00
Publisher : Tel Aviv: Makhbarat Le-Sifrut' 1960
Edition : F
Binding : Hard
A Big (approx 330X240 mm) book; 98 pages bound in black cloth, silver lettering to spine and decoration to front board. The Poems are accompanied by striking Greek-Hebrew black line illustrations, eleven being full-page on card, which accounts for 11 leaves of the 49 in the book.the entire text is in hebrew;this copy is a bit faded and shows signs oof having been tasted by a pest of "tropical" climes.
Add to Basket
3513
The Seven Curses of London - Amateur Casual, The(James Greenwood)
Price : £30.00
Publisher : London: Stanley Rivers
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp461 + 2. Black cloth boards with gold lettering front and spine. Worn at ends of spine and corners. Frontiespiece portrait with facsmimile of Greenwood's signature. Mainly a social history, with a financial analysis of the costs of poverty and crime. A useful addition to the social historian who has Henry Mayhew's books.
Add to Basket
5696
Spirit of the Age: Royal Robbins - Ament, Pat
Price : £45.00
Publisher : Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.A.: Poudre Canyon Pr
Published : 1992
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
pp301. 8vo. Black cloth binding in photographic DW (now in protective wrap).
Add to Basket
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.
Add to Basket
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.
Add to Basket
7780
Dead Babies - Amis, Martin
Price : £190.00
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
Published : 1975
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
Book in very good condition in a very good unclipped dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, previous owner's name and date acquired to top of ffe, binding is firm. Light spotted foxing to top edge of textblock. 254 pages. An excellent copy of the author's second book.
Add to Basket
1273
The Lay of the Poor Fiddler, a Parody on the Lay of the Last Minstrel with Notes and Illustrations - An Admirer of Walter Scott (John Roby? says B.L.Catologue)
Price : £100.00
Publisher : London: B. and R. Crosby & Co.
Published : 1814
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Good
Jacket : No Jacket
Binding size 4.25 X 7 inches;168 pp., no endpapers, gatherings signed as a quarto printing. Case is buff-rose sugar paper on boards, printed as title page plus a border. Repaired with part of an early nineteenth century print; turquoise paper with Bewick-type vignette and curious epitaphs enclosed in a border. The parody itself is preceeded by a lengthy prologue and followed by even lengthier notes. A worn but atmospheric item.
Add to Basket
4061
Fairytales - Andersen, Hans Christian, Illus. Kay Nielsen
Price : £450.00
Publisher : London: Hodder and Stoughton
Published : 1924
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
pp197. Blue cloth binding with gold lettering and design. Signs of heavy wear at top and bottom of spine. Small reddish stain bottom left of front (to left of "With illustrations"). Tipped-in colour frontispiece and eleven other tipped-in colour plates. Patterned endplates. PO name on reverse of fep dated 1924.
Add to Basket
5002
Hans Andersen's Fairy Stories Bookano Series with pictures that spring up in model form - Andersen, Hans, S Louis Giraud
Price : £50.00
Publisher : London: Strand Publications
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Unpaginated. Small quarto. Colour illustrated board covers. 4 colour pop-ups are near-Fine: The Tinder Box, The Snow Queen, Hans Clodhopper, The Swineherd. Other illustrations in colour and mostly BW. Stories printed on heavy paper. PO inscription inside front cover is dated 1951.
Add to Basket
1524
Orgelbogen Klanteknik,arkitektur og historie - Andersen,Poul-Gerhard
Price : £25.00
Publisher : Kobenhavn (Copenhagen): Christian Ejlers' Forlag
Published : 1987
Edition : 2nd Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
A fine copy of this revised edition of the 1955 original.That edition was translated into English in 1969; we have not checked whether this edition has been.336 pages; 137 plates, of which the first 40 are line illustrations in the text, the rest halftone plates on art paper sections additional to the numbered pages. Royal blue cloth, handsome gilt title. An organist-owner's inscription on the free endpaper, otherwise a fine copy.
Add to Basket
5042
Russian Architecture of the Soviet Period - Andrei Ikonnikov (trans. Lev Lyapin)
Price : £35.00
Publisher : Moscow: Raduga Publishers
Published : 1988
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Fine
Jacket : J
pp397. Black cloth binding (leatherized) with white lettering. Photographic DW.
Add to Basket
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.
Add to Basket
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.
Add to Basket
6369
Charles Beaumont: Selected Stories - Anker, Roger (editor)
Price : £50.00
Publisher : Dark Harvest
Published : 1988
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Near Fine
Jacket : J
Book in near fine condition in a very good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, no marks or inscriptions. 404 pages.
Add to Basket
4544
Tom Ass, or The Second Gift - Ann Lawrence (illus. Mila Lazarevich)
Price : £22.00
Publisher : New York: Henry Z Walck
Published : 1972
Edition : 1st Edition
Binding : Hard
Condition : Very Good
Jacket : J
pp133. Brown cloth binding (faded heavily on points of spine). DW foldovers have corners clipped (but not price clipping), with worn spine. Inscribed by author on FEP, dated March 1974.
Add to Basket
Index
