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BENSON, E.F.: The House of Defence. Two Volumes.
Bernhard Tauchnitz. Leipzig. 1907
In green cloth covers with gilt to brown title label on spine. Top edge gilt, decorated gilt floral endpapers. 295, 264pp. In very good condition. Spines slightly darkened. Small marks to covers. Mild foxing to edges. Else clean and tight copies. Set in Scotland by the author of the ‘Mapp and Lucia’ series.
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902 |
BENTLEY, E. CLERIHEW: More Biography.
Methuen & Co. 1929 (1st.).
4to. Yellow paper covered boards, cloth spine, paper labels on spine and front cover. 50 cartoon illustrations with accompanying rhyming couplets. Illustrated by the author as well as G.K. Chesterton, Victor Reinganum, Nicolas Bentley. Binding marked. Some paper rubbed off from title on spine. Inside very clean. Vg to good. Ills.include: Ranjitsinhji/ Milton/ Noel Coward/ E.A.Poe/ Handel/ H.G.Wells/ Dickens/ Adam Smith/ etc.;
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903 |
BENTLEY, E.CLERIHEW: More Biography.
Methuen & Co. 1929 (1st.).
4to. Yellow paper covered boards, cloth spine, paper labels on spine and front cover. 50 cartoon illustrations with accompanying Clerihews. Illustrated by the author as well as G.K.Chesterton, Victor Reinganum, Nicolas Bentley. In very good condition. Spine slightly darkened.Small marks to covers. Mild foxing to edges. Owner’s bookplate on front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. Ills.include: George III/ Ranjitsinhji/ Milton/ Noel Coward/ E.A.Poe/ Handel/ H.G.Wells/ Dickens/ Adam Smith/ King John. With accompanying ‘biographical’ nonsense rhymes.
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904 |
BENTLEY, NICOLAS: The Events of That Week.
Collins. London. 1972 1st edition.
8vo. In brown cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. 190pp. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded with small chips at ends. Not price clipped). A clean and tight copy. Told by various characters involved, the story of Brig, who, on holiday gets involved with the Mafia. The story covers the events of one week during which he tries to escape their clutches.
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905 |
BENTLEY, ROBERT: The Student’s Guide to Systematic Botany Including the Classification of Plants and Descriptive Botany.
London. J.A.Churchill. 1884
8vo. In green pebbled cloth covers with gilt to spine. 178pp. With 357 b/w illustrative figures. In very good condition. Spine slightly darkened. Mild foxing to edges. Occasional foxing spots throughout. Owner’s inscription to front endpaper, "E.W.Margesson. Bought from The Publishers April 30th 1923." With pencil note to bottom of main title page giving address of publisher and date 1884. Else a clean and tight copy. Book I covers Classification of plants and is copiously illustrated. Book II covers Descriptive Botany. A fascinating textbook for the student botanist.
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906 |
BENTON, KENNETH: Spy In Chancery.
Crime Club, Collins. London. 1972 1st edition.
Tall 8vo. In red cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. 256pp. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded. Slightly rubbed around edges with small chips to ends. Not price clipped). Owner’s inscription to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. Modern first edition. The author’s third Peter Craig story, set largely in the British Embassy in Rome, is about a world of sophisticated espionage.
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907 |
BENYON-TINKER, W.E.: Dust Upon the Sea.
Hodder and Stoughton. 1947 1st edition.
Tall 8vo. In red cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. 216pp. With b/w photographs and fold-out maps. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly darkened. Small marks to back. Slightly creased along top edge. Not price clipped). Mild foxing to edges. Slight browning to endpapers. Else a clean and tight copy. The exploits of the Levant Schooner Flotilla among the Greek Islands between midsummer 1943 and January 1945 when a handful of men in converted Greek caiques made a series of incredible expeditions against enemy held islands.
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908 |
BERENSON, BERNARD: Aesthetics and History.
Constable. London. 1950 1st edition.
Tall 8vo. In dark blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. 242pp. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly darkened. Slightly creased along top edge with small tears. Not price clipped). A clean and tight copy. Neatly marshalled under terse headings and divided into five general sections are the final conclusions upon the functions of art of one of the foremost art historians and humanists of our century.
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909 |
BERGER, THOMAS: Regiment of Women.
Eyre Methuen. London. 1974 1st UK edition.
Tall 8vo. In green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. 349pp. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Spine slightly faded. Top edge slightly creased. Not price clipped). Mild foxing to top edge. Owner’s neat inscription on front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. Modern first edition. The twenty first century, New York, women are in total control. Men have become mere chattels and sexual playthings, reproduction is limited to involuntary donorship in special camps. Ribald, surreal and brilliantly comic.
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910 |
BERGSTROM, EVANGELINE H.: Old Glass Paperweights. Their Art, Construction and Distinguishing Features.
Crown Publishers, Inc. New York. 1968 5th printing.
Size 6.25 x 9.25 inches. In black cloth covers with silver lettering and decor to spine and front. With illustrated dustwrapper. 132pp. With b/w and colour photographs. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly rubbed at ends of spine. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. Originally published privately, This is a new edition from the original plates, covering all elements of the art of paperweights in all countries.
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915 |
BERRIDGE, W.S.: Marvels of the Animal World. With numerous photographic Illustrations by the Author.
Thornton Butterworth Limited. 1924
Tall 8vo. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine and front with gilt cobra to front. 253pp. With colour frontis and b/w photographs. In very good condition. Spine slightly faded with small chip near top. Owner’s neat inscription in red to front endpaper, dated 1925. Occasional neat pencil notes in margins. Occasional foxing spots. Else a clean and tight copy. The author describes unusual animals and animals with unusual habits from around the world.
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916 |
BERTHON, SIMON / ROBINSON, ANDREW: The Shape of the World. The Mapping and Discovery of the Earth.
George Philip. 1991 1st edition.
4to. In black cloth covers with silver to spine and front. With illustrated dustwrapper. Pictorial endpapers. 192pp. With b/w and coloured maps and illustrations. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Slightly rubbed and creased along top edges. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. The history of map making from the first crude maps to the pictures of Apollo 8 in 1968. The endpapers show details from a Dutch World Map of the 17th Century.
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917 |
BERTIN, CELIA: Marie Bonaparte. A Life.
Quartet Books. 1982
In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Family trees to endpapers. 258pp. With b/w photographs. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly creased along top edge. Not price clipped). Author’s note stapled to front endpaper. A clean and tight copy. The Life of Marie Bonaparte who, after an unhappy childhood and marriage, turned to Sigmund Freud and became a distinguished psychoanalyst.
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920 |
BERTRAM, CHARLES (the late): A Magician in Many Lands. Introduced by Professor Hoffmann.
George Routledge and Sons Ltd. 1911 (1st.).
Size: 14 cm x 20 cm. Maroon cloth gt. Coloured frontispiece and many illustrations in black and white. 315 pp. Extremities slightly rubbed. Front cover faded on 2 margins, also has a weak horizontal indentation. Binding a bit faded overall. Inside very clean. Near very good. A book of travel, through Calcutta, Kapurthala, Delhi, Jeypore, Agra, Dholpur, Kolar, Rangoon, Mandalay, Hongkong, Canton, Shanghai, (Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Honolulu, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Montreal, Quebec, etc.). etc. - he was allowed to see and participate in many ceremonies that was closed to the ordinary traveller. Of his own performances Bertram says very little except when relating an amusing incident. He does, however, devote 3 very interesting chapters to the tricks of the Indian conjurers. He gives minute explanations of the mango trick, the basket trick, and others less known.
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921 |
BESANT, W.H.: A Treatise on Hydromechanics, Part 1: Hydrostatics. Revised Edition
Deighton, Bell, and Co 1891
In original brown cloth covers with gilt to spine and blind embossed logo to front. 268pp. plus 8pp catalogue at back. In good condition. Spine slightly darkened. Small marks to front and back. Slight browning to endpapers. Owners signature on front endpaper. Else clean and tight. Preparation for Part I of Examination for Mathematical Tripos, and to serve as a stepping stone in the advance to the higher regions of Hydrokinetics. Covers buoyancy, Boyle’s Law, surface tension, and much more.
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922 |
BESSON, GEORGE: Masters of French Painting 1850-1950. With a Selection of Old Masters.
The Pallas Gallery Ltd. 1958 1st edition.
4to. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. With illustrated dustwrapper. 163pp. With colour reproductions throughout. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly rubbed along top edge with small marks to back. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. Relevant advertisement loose in front. A general summary of the evolution of French painting from Corot and Courbet down to 1950.
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923 |
BESTERMAN, THEODORE: Old Art Books Collected and catalogued by Theodore Besterman.
Maggs Bros.Ltd. London. 1975
Size 12.5 x 16.5 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. Two volumes. With many large fold out engravings. In near fine condition. Small marks to back. Else a very clean and tight copy. Catalogue of Old Art Books, from before 1700, with engravings of illustrations, title pages etc. Limited edition of 300 copies, but this copy not numbered or signed.
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926 |
BETJEMAN, JOHN /CLARKE, BASIL: English Churches.
Vista Books. London. 1964 1st edition.
Size 7.5 x 10.0 inches.In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. 56pp text. With 263 b/w photographs accompnaied by short commentary. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded. Back top edge slightly creased with small tear. Not price clipped). Owner’s bookplate to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. Basil Clarke wrote the text and John Betjeman chose the illustrations and wrote the captions. Covers most of the country and most periods, includes RC and Nonconformist churches. A comprehensive guide to English Churches, showing their development and changing styles through the ages.
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927 |
BETJEMAN, JOHN: Church Poems Illustrated by John Piper.
John Murray. 1981 repr.
6.0" x 8.25". In green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Green endpapers. 65pp. With line drawings in text. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded. Slight fading around edges. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. Poems on a theme of Churches, by John Betjeman.
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928 |
BETTEY, J.H.: Church and Parish (Batsford Local History). A Guide for Local Historians.
Batsford Ltd. London. 1987
In pale blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. 174pp. 16 b/w photograph. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly rubbed along edges). Not price clipped. Mild foxing to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. Church and Parish traces the historic involvement of the Church in local life and its response to changing political and social conditions. It shows how parish churches have been used by the surrounding population; how the buildings have grown and been altered in decoration, furnishings and structure; how the services, liturgy, ritual and atmosphere have been modified at different periods; and how parishioners’ lives have been affected by Church courts, schools, taxes.
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929 |
BEWICK, THOMAS: My Life. Edited and with an introduction by Iain Bain.
The Folio Society 1981 (1st.thus)
Tall 8vo. In yellow hard card covers with gilt to brown cloth spine and vignette to front. Dark blue endpapers. Hard card slip case. 192pp. Num.text ills.& watercolours by the author. In near fine condition. A very clean and tight copy. Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) was an English wood engraver and ornithologist.
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931 |
BEY, PILAFF: Venus in the Kitchen. or Love’s Cookery Book. Edited by Norman Douglas. Introduction by Graham Greene. With decorations by Bruce Roberts.
William Heinemann Ltd. London. 1952 1st edition.
Tall 8vo. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. 192pp. With line drawings by Bruce Roberts. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; in removable plastic cover. Spine slightly darkened. Large piece missing from front top. Not price clipped). A clean and tight copy. Kitchen: Recipes for Seduction. The recipes are designed to be aphrodisiacs. "While no statistics are available attesting to the efficacy of these concoctions and decoctions, readers do not have to be committed to the announced purpose of the book to enjoy its merits." Please note there are several recipes for oysters.
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934 |
Bidwell, Robin Travellers Arabia
London: Hamlyn 1976 (1st ed.).
224pp. frontispiece, b/w & colour photographs, endpaper maps, index. Vg in vg pict.dw (dw: Price clipped). Neat owners inscription. History of travel and exploration in Arabia; Burton, Palgrave, Neibuhr, etc.
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938 |
BILL, MAX: Le Corbusier & P.Jeanneret. 1934-1938.
Les Editions d’Architecture Erlenbach-Zurich. 1947 3rd ed.
Oblong. In plain cloth covers with red lettering to spine and front. With original illustrated dustwrapper. 175pp. Prof. ills. with b/w line drawings and photo plates. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; slightly rubbed and creased around edges. Small marks. Not price clipped). A clean and tight copy. Text in English, French and German. The work of Le Corbusier in the 1930s with diagrams, and models.
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50.00 GBP
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940 |
BINGHAM, JOHN: Vulture in the Sun. New spy thrilller.
Victor Gollancz. London. 1971 1st edition.
Tall 8vo. In red cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. 191pp. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Spine slightly faded and creased at top edge. Not price clipped). Owner’s neat inscription on front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. Modern first edition. Spy thriller set in Cyprus. Tom Carter is sent to allow the permanent man to take a holiday. He is soon caught up by blackmail, double-crossing and assassination. The solution comes in a series of explosive surprises.
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941 |
BINGHAM, JOSEPH / BINGHAM, RICHARD: Origines Ecclesiasticae: Or the Antiquities of the Christian Church and Other Works Of the Rev. Joseph Bingham; With a set of maps of ecclesiastical geography, to which are now added, several sermons, and other matter, never before published; The whole revised and edited, together with a biographical account of the author by his great grandson, Richard Bingham.
London: William Straker. 1834
Size 5.75 x 9.0 inches. Bound in original brown patterned cloth with gilt on spine. 8 volumes complete. With facsimile handwriting page and 12 maps and plans, many fold out, bound in at back of Vol 8. In very good condition. Some rubbing on edges. Small inscription on front endpaper of each volume dated 1835. Volume 6 small chip head of spine. Volume 8 has been neatly repaired on spine, with slight worm damage to front free endpaper. The final volume is titled; "The French Church’s Apology for the Church of England: or the objections of dissenters against the articles, homilies, liturgy, and canons of the English Church, considered and answered upon the principles of the Reformed Church of France. A work chiefly extracted out of the authentic acts and decrees of the French National Synod, and the most approved writers of that church." Maps include Great Britain, Italy Sicily, France, Spain, Africa plus plans.
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100.00 GBP
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942 |
BINGLEY, Jos: Original engraved map of the Isle of Wight.
London. Simpkin and Marshall. ca1850
Size 41.5 x 34.0 cm. With wide ivory mount with green and gilt lines, in gilt frame with glass with hardboard back Printed area 26.5cm x 19.5cm. Later hand colouring. In very good condition. Slightly marked. Map seller’s label to back. Bingley map of Isle of Wight showing towns, villages, roads, woods, hills. Distances given from Newport.
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40.00 GBP
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944 |
BIRCH, T.W.: Maps. Topographical and Statistical. Second Edition.
Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1966 2nd edition.
Tall 8vo. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. 240pp. With b/w and coloured maps, diagrams and illustrations. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; in removable plastic cover. Spine slightly darkened. Small chips and tears along edges. Price clipped).Small marks toendpapers. Else a clean and tight copy. Topographical maps are introduced by a brief historical account. Modern maps and plans are treated at some length, and include the latest (1966) Ordnance Survey work. Concluding chapters deal with map reading and the geographical interpretation of landscape as depicted on maps.
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947 |
BIRD, ROBERT: Joseph the Dreamer. With three hundred illustrations.
London. Thomas Nelson and Sons. 1903 1st edition.
Tall 8vo. In pictorial blue cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. Black endpapers. 477pp. In very good condition. Some rubbing on edges, with spine lightly faded. Small mark on rear cover. Inside generally clean & tight. Top of front endpaper and first blank page have a small tear. Else a clean and tight copy. Contents include; Over the Hills to Bethel,A Camel ride to Dothan, Sold for a slave, Crossing the broad Nile, The magician of Egypt, In upper Egypt, Sailing down the Nile, Wars in Egypt.
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948 |
BISHOP, ALAN (ed): Chronicle of Friendship. Vera Brittain’s Diary of the Thirties, 1932-1939.
London. Victor Gollancz. 1986 1st edition.
Tall 8vo. In brown cloth covers with gilt to spine. With pictorial dust wrapper. 448pp.With many b/w photographs. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Spine slightly faded. Price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. Diary covering the life of Vera Brittain during the 1930s. A very eventful period, with a new King, the abdication, Hitler’s rise to power. There are a lot of famous names and personal recollections.
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951 |
BISHOP, GEORGE, W.: My Betters.
Heinemann 1957 (1st.).
Red cloth lettered in silver. Num. photo. illustrations . 282 pp. Very good in good dustwrapper (dw: slightly chipped / small tear / back covers marked). SIGNED AND long INSCRIPTION BY AUTHOR To Stanley Norman. ALSO inclosed is a hand-written letter (3 pages) of the author’s daughter, explaining about S. Norman to a friend. - Memoirs of a theatre journalist who meets the Marx brothers, Sibelius, Chaplin, etc., The character "Deacon"in George Moore's novel "Conversations in Ebury Street" is based on him.
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954 |
BLACK, J.B.: The Reign of Elizabeth 1558-1603. The Oxford History of England.
Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1959 2nd ed.
In grey cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. 539pp. With maps and fold out table at back. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly darkened. Price clipped). Mild foxing to edges. Owner’s inscription to front endpaper. Slight browning to endpapers. Else a clean and tight copy. A classic account of the reign of Elizabeth, and of the political, economic, social, literary, artistic, scientific, and cultural features that made it one of the richest periods in British history. It ranges from the Religious Settlement, England’s relations with France, and the succession, to Catholic and Puritan challenges to the establishment, the execution of Mary Stuart, the Armada, the Irish problem, and the later years of her reign.
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955 |
BLACK, J.B.: The Oxford History of England: The Reign of Elizabeth 1558 - 1603.
Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1988
In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. 539pp, Ills. with 7 maps and 3 genealogical tables. In very good condition. Fading to spine of dw. Clean inside. In some respects at least a new book, embodying extensive and salutary changes in the matter, the costumary textual corrections and emendations, and a revised bibliography. There are major "deviations" from the first edition.
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958 |
BLACKWELL, DORIS / LOCKWOOD, DOUGLAS: Alice on the Line.
Angus & Robertson. London. 1965 1st Edition
Tall 8vo. In brown cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Brown endpapers. 204pp. With b/w photographs. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; in removable plastic cover. Slightly rubbed along edges with small tears. Not price clipped). Small marks to back endpapers. Mild foxing to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. Doris Blackwell’s father was officer-in-charge of Alice Springs telegraph station from 1899 to 1908. A personal story of life at The Alice at the turn of the 19th /20th century.
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960 |
BLAEU, JOHN: ORIGINAL ENGRAVED MAP OF DORSETSHIRE.
1650
Lg. map (engr.surface ca.51 cm x 37 cm). Pleasing hand-colouring. An attractive and decorative map with elaborate title-cartouche and coats of arms. In good condition. Some light water marks on lower edge, does not effect engraved surface. In ivory mount, with gilt line border. BLAEU, JOHN (1596 - 1673): One of the largest and most prolific map publishing houses of the 17th. century. The decorative merit and cartographic excellence of their maps are without doubt.
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961 |
BLAINEY, ANN: The Farthing Poet. A Biography of Richard Hengist Horne 1802-84. A Lesser Literary Lion.
Longmans. 1968 1st edition.
Tall 8vo. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. 286pp. With b/w illustrations. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly rubbed along top edge with small tear at front. Not price clipped). A clean and tight copy. Now largely forgotten, Richard Hengist Horne was the author of an epic Poem, Orion, which was acclaimed a work of genius in the 1840s. His life was varied and adventurous, fighting in Mexico, digging in Australian goldfields, a somewhat eccentric personality, he was given a pension from the Civil List by Disraeli and produced his last book at age 80.
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962 |
BLAIR, JOHN (ed): Somerset and Dorset. Chamber’s Illustrated Guide and Souvenir.
W&R Chambers Ltd. n.d ca1955
8vo. In pictorial hard card covers with cloth spine. Picture maps to boards and endpapers. 124pp. With b/w photographs throughout. In very good condition. Slightly rubbed around edges. Else a clean and tight copy. In two parts; Somerset and Dorset. Each part gives brief descriptions of towns and villages, in alphabetical order, in the two counties with many b/w photographs.
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5.00 GBP
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965 |
BLANC, CHARLES: Grammaire des Arts Du Dessin Architecture, Sculpture, Peinture. Jardins - gravure en pierres fines, gravure en medailles -m gravure en taille-douce - eau-frte maniere noir, aqua-tinte - graqvure en bois, gravure en couleurs, lithographie. Nouvelle edition.
Librarie Renouard. Paris. 1880.
Large 4to. In brown half calf leather bindings with gilt to spine. cream cloth boards. Marbled endpapers. Raised bands. 691pp. With over 300 b/w engravings. In very good condition. Spine slightly faded and slightly rubbed. Small marks and chips to covers. Mild foxing to edges.owner’s pencil inscription to front endpaper "E.W.Margesson...Worthing, 8th October 1913. Bought from H.Grevel & Co Covent Garden, London. Bound by W.J.C.Long, 22 Portland Road, Worthing." Occasional foxing spots and small marks esp to top ends of pages. Else a clean and tight copy. Descriptions with examples of styles of architecture, sculpture and painting in French.
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100.00 GBP
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967 |
BLAZÍCEK, OLDRICH J.: Baroque Art in Bohemia. Translated from the Czech by Slavos Kadecka.
Paul Hamlyn. London. 1968
In white cloth covers with gilt to spine and black illustration to front. With illustrated dustwrapper. Decorated endpapers. 179pp. Prof. ills. with colour and b/w photo plates, maps and plans. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper ( A couple of small chips at top corners. Not price clipped). A clean and tight copy. The Baroque style entered Bohemia from Northern Italy in the first half of the seventeenth century. Imposed as a Counter-Reformation policy, it was assimilated and struck roots in its new home, even finding its way into folk art.
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14.00 GBP
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969 |
BLISH, JAMES A Torrent Of Faces
Faber & Faber 1968 (1st. ed.).
Red cloth gt. 270pp. Very good in very good dustwrapper (no inscriptions / dw NOT price-clipped). Dust Jacket Illustration By Jerome Gask In the world of eight hundred years in the future, one thousand billion people are kept reasonably content in a complex and completely automated society. Immaculate copy of a science fiction novel that combines the 'world machine' motif with the timeless 'disaster' scenario of a meteor on course for the Earth, as explored and exploited by a number of Hollywood blockbusters recently, that shouted "Yo".
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20.00 GBP
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970 |
BLISH, JAMES Midsummer Century
Faber & Faber 1973 (1st. ed.).
Red cloth gt. 107pp. Very good in very good dustwrapper (no inscriptions / dw NOT price-clipped). In Story of a 20th c. scientist projected into the year 25,000 AD by a freak accident.
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971 |
BLISH, JAMES A Life for the Star.
Faber & Faber 1962 (1st. ed.).
Red cloth gt. 148pp. Very good in very good dustwrapper (no inscriptions / dw NOT price-clipped). Jacket design by Robert MacLean. Second of the Cities in Flight novels.
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25.00 GBP
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972 |
BLISH, JAMES Any When.
Faber & Faber 1972 (1st. ed.).
Blue cloth gt. 185pp. Good in good dustwrapper (dw NOT price-clipped). A few brown marks on endpaper & covers from tape. Ex lib copy. Second of the Cities in Flight novels.
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10.00 GBP
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973 |
BLISH, JAMES The Star Dwellers.
Faber & Faber 1961 (1st. ed.).
Blue cloth gt. 153pp. Very good in very good dustwrapper (no inscriptions / dw NOT price-clipped). Very minor rubbing to top and bottom of dust wrapper. Two small tape marks on the cloth. Owners book plate on front endpaper. Jacket design by John C. Griffiths The story of a cadet in interstellar diplomatic corp and his meeting with the strangest sentient humanity had found as of that date.
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35.00 GBP
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976 |
BLOME, RICHARD: A Mapp of Wiltshire with its Hundreds.
ca1675
Size 37.5 x 31.5-cm. In wide card mount, in gilt frame with glass with stiff card back. Engraved surface: 24.5cm x 19.0cm. Later hand colouring. In very good condition. A few light creases. Small tear to top edge. Small chip to bottom edge. Engraved map of the County of Wiltshire by Richard Blome. Showing towns and villages, with roads, rivers, parks, forests and hills. With dedicatory escutcheon and table of Hundreds.
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120.00 GBP
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979 |
BLOMFIELD, RICHARD: Poole. Town and Harbour.
Dorset Publishing Co. 1989 (1st.)
In illustrated limp card covers. 88pp of text. Some b/e drawings and engravings in text. Many b/w photographs collected and captioned by Rodney Legg at back. In very good condition. A history of the growth and development of the town of Poole in Dorset and of the harbour which made it.
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15.00 GBP
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980 |
BLOOMFIELD, ROBERT: The Farmer's Boy; A Rural Poem.
Vernor and Hood. 1801
Sm 8vo. In full calf leather binding with gilt to spine and red morocco label. Gilt borders to front and back. 128pp. With b/w engravings and chapter headings. In very good condition. Spine slightly rubbed, with light scratches to boards. Occasional small marks and foxing spots. Else a clean and tight copy. Classic rural poems. The Farmer’s Boy is a long narrative poem with a section on each of the four seasons. It contains very attractive engraved plates.
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25.00 GBP
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981 |
BLORE, G.H.: Victorian Worthies. Sixteen Biographies.
Humphrey Milford. OUP. 1920 1st edition.
Size 5.0 x 7.75 inches. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine. 376pp. With b/w portraits. In very good condition. Spine slightly faded. Some pages uncut/unopened. Else a clean and tight copy. Collection of biographies of notable Victorians. Subjects include; Thomas Carlyle, Sir Robert Peel, Charles Dickens, Tennyson, William Morris, Cecil Rhodes.
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8.00 GBP
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982 |
BLOXAM, MATTHEW HOLBECHE: The Principles of Gothic Architecture Elucidated by Question and Answer. Fifth edition.
Tilt and Bogue. London. 1843
8vo. In brown cloth covers with gilt to spine and with blind embossed decor to covers. Yellow endpapers. 228pp. 16pp cat. With b/w engraved plates and engravings in text. In very good condition. Spine slightly rubbed and chipped at ends with small split at top. Light scratches to covers. Corners slightly bumped. Mild foxing to edges. Owner’s pencil inscription to front endpaper dated 1902. Else a clean and tight copy. Revised fifth edition with additions to text and new woodcuts. Chapters include; Definition of Gothic, Arches, Anglo-Saxon, Norman, Early English, Decorated, Perpendicular, Debased English. Engravings by Mr.Jewitt.
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984 |
BLUNDEN, EDMUND: Cricket Country.
Collins 1944 (1st.).
Brown/ red cloth gt. 224pp. Very good in near very good pict. dustwrapper (dw: ends of spine a bit creased). The central theme is the cricket field, it has many reminiscences and reflections upon that scene and its actors and actions.
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10.00 GBP
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985 |
BLUNDEN, EDMUND: Shells by a Stream. New poems.
London. Macmillan & Co. 1944 1st edition.
In green cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. With dustwrapper. 60pp. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly darkened. Slightly rubbed with small chips along edges. Old repairs with sticky tape inside. Not price clipped). Presentation inscription on front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. Not war poems in the ordinary sense...not a casual optimism, his vision is one of an ultimate flowering of many hopes often seemingly frustrated.
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20.00 GBP
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986 |
BLUNDEN, EDMUND: Shells by a Stream.
London. Macmillan & Co., Ltd. 1944 1st edition.
Bound in original green cloth with gilt on spine and front. 60pp. In very good condition. Spine slightly rubbed at ends. Lacks front endpaper. Else clean and tight. Not war poems in the ordinary sense...not a casual optimism, his vision is one of an ultimate flowering of many hopes often seemingly frustrated.
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10.00 GBP
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987 |
BLUNDEN, EDMUND: Constantia and Francis. An Autumn Evening.
Privately Printed for Friends of Elkin Mathews Ltd. 1931 1st edition.
Tall 8vo. In paper cover. 3pp. In very good condition. Covers and pages clean and un-creased. Poem by Edmund Blunden in limited edition of 200 of which this is 95. Printed for the friends of Elkin Mathews Ltd, the booksellers.
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25.00 GBP
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988 |
BLUNDEN, EDMUND: Nature in Literature. Hogarth Lectures No.9.
London: Hogarth Press. 1929 1st edition.
Size 4.75 x 7.5 inches. In orange cloth covers with red lettering to spine and front. 156pp. In very good condition. Spine slightly faded. Mild foxing to edges. Slight browning to endpapers. Occasional small marks and foxing spots. Else a clean and tight copy. The author discusses various writers and their treatment of Nature in English Literature.
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12.00 GBP
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BLUNT, REGINALD: By Chelsea Reach. Some Riverside Records. With twenty eight illustrations.
London. Mills and Boon. 1921 1st edition 1st imp.
Tall 8vo. In brown cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. 278pp. 10pp publishers list to rear. Frontispiece and 27 illustrations from old photographs, etchings and drawings. In good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; slight rubbing t edges, with a few small tearsand small pieces missing. Not price clipped). Spine is nice & bright. Cloth covers are damp stained. Pencil inscription on front endpaper, "E.W.Margesson. Bought from Ramsden Brothers, 11 Chapel Road, Worthing. 15th November 1921." Slight browning to endpapers. Inside a few pages have small stain on bottom right corners. Else generally clean & tight. Essays on notable people and places of Chelsea including Thomas More, Sir Hans Sloane, Jonathan Swift, and Fanny Burney.
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BLUNT, WILFRED / STEARN, WILLIAM T.: The Art of Botanical Illustration. New Edition, revised and enlarged.
Antique Collector’s Club in association with The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1994
Size 8.5 x 11.0 inches. In green cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. With illustrated dustwrapper. Pictorial endpapers. 368pp. With colour plates and b/w and colour illustrations in text. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Slightly creased along top edge. Not price clipped). Author’s neat inscription to half title page. A very clean and tight copy. New and substantially revised edition of this classic work. A comprehensive, critical and beautifully illustrated survey of the portrayal of plants in art through more than three thousand years.
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60.00 GBP
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BOAS, GUY (ed): Modern English Prose Second Series.
Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1938 1st edition.
Sm 8vo. In dark green cloth covers with gilt to spine. Blind embossed vignette to front. With illustrated dustwrapper. 232pp. With map of Everest. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly darkened and rubbed at ends. Rubbed around edges. Small marks. Not price clipped). Rubber stamp to front endpaper. Slight browning to endpapers. Else a clean and tight copy. Selections from authors including Aldous Huxley, W.Somerset Maugham, J.B.Priestly, Eric Linklater, John Buchan, Lytton Strachey, Winston Churchill. Notes and questions on the text at back.
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10.00 GBP
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BODEN, JANE: Pleasant Stories in Prose and Verse.
London: J.S.Virtue and Company Ltd. n.d. ca1886
Tall 8vo. In brown bevelled, pictorial cloth covers with gilt to spine. All edges gilt. 248pp. With about two hundred illustrations on wood. In very good condition. Illustration on front slightly rubbed. Edges and corners slightly rubbed. Hinges slightly cracked. Presentation inscription on front free endpaper, dated May 10 1886. Impression of inscription on following page. Small marks and foxing spots throughout. Else a clean and tight copy. Stories from history and the Bible, with short essays and poems for children. Written in the late 19thC with the aim of entertaining, educating and giving moral guidance to it’s readers.
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75.00 GBP
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