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801 |
BATSFORD, HARRY / FRY, CHARLES: The Cathedrals of England. Foreword by Hugh Walpole.
Batsford. 1942 5th edition revised.
Tall 8vo. In blue cloth covers with yellow lettering to spine and front. With pictorial dustwrapper by Brian Cook. Maps and plans to endpapers. 118pp. With colour frontis and 133 b/w photographs. With plans and line drawings. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly darkened and chipped at ends. Price clipped). Mild foxing to edges. Slight foxing to endpapers. Else a clean and tight copy.
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803 |
BATTISCOMBE, GEORGINA: Shaftesbury. A Biography of the Seventh Earl. 1801-1885.
Constable. London. 1974 1st edition.
Tall 8vo. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. Grey endpapers. With illustrated dustwrapper. 365pp. With b/w illustrations and photographs. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; not price clipped). Inscription to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. Biography of the man who did so much to ease the suffering of children with the Ten Hours Bill and other measure to prevent the exploitation of children in mines and factories. He also championed Ragged Schools, and introduced the Lodging House Act of 1851. He also campaigned for anti-vivisection, the suppression of child prostitution, the improvement of working conditions in Indian cotton mills and much else.
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804 |
BATTRICK, JACK: Brownsea Islander. As told by Gail Lawson.
Poole Historical Trust. 1978 1st edition.
4to. In cream cloth covers with brown lettering to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Maps to endpapers. 175pp. With b/w photographs, line drawings and maps. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded. Price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. Jack Battrick tell of growing up and living on the Island until the new owner, in 1927, cleared it of people.
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805 |
BAUMAN, JANINA: Winter in the Morning. A Young Girl’s Life in the Warsaw Ghetto and Beyond 1939-1945.
London. Virago. 1986 1st edition.
In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. 195pp. Prof. ills. with b/w photographs. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly rubbed along top edge with small chips. Not price clipped). A clean and tight copy. An extraordinary story of courage and survival. Following the fall of Warsaw the family if forced into the ghetto. Early in 1943 they escaped but had to remain in hiding until the war was over.
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806 |
BAX, CLIFFORD / (MR GAY): Polly. An Opera by Mr Gay being the sequel to The Beggar’s Opera, now freely adapted by Clifford Bax.
London. Chapman & Hall. 1923
8vo. In light blue hard card covers with green lettering to white spine and front. With vignette to front. 64pp. Vignette to main title page. In very good condition. Small marks to covers. Part fading to covers. Mild foxing to edges. Pencil inscription to front endpaper, "E.W.Margesson. Kingsway Theatre, Great Queen St. London W.C. 27th Jany 1923." Loose in front is envelope containing theatre ticket dated same as inscription, also publishers note that "This text of ‘Polly’ is the re-written and revised version, as played at the Kingsway theatre." Else a very clean and tight copy. Apparently bought by the previous owner at an early performance of the Opera, with a ticket kept as memento.
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807 |
BAXTER, W.M.: The SUN and the Amateur Astronomer. Amateur Astronomer’s Library, Vol III. Edited by Patrick Moore.
Lutterworth. London. 1963 1st edition.
Tall 8vo. In maroon cloth covers with silver to spine. With dustwrapper. 165pp. Prof. ills. with b/w photographs, diagrams, maps, and tables. With colour frontis. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; Slightly rubbed at edges with chips at ends of spine. Not price clipped). A clean and tight copy. After a brief introduction to the Solar System, the author proceeds to discuss the sun in detail. He describes telescopes and useful accessories, and gives much useful advice on making or adapting one’s own equipment. He explains the use of spectroscope and spectrohelioscope and advises on the technique of solar observation and recording, incuding photography for which he is widely recognised as a leading expert.
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810 |
BAYNTON-WILLIAMS, ASHLEY: Town and City Maps of the British Isles. 1800-1855.
Studio Editions. London. 1992 1st edition.
4to. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine. Purple endpapers. Pictorial dustwrapper. 128pp. With 56 town and city plans in colour. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly rubbed along top edge. Not price clipped). Corners slightly bumped. Else a very clean and tight copy. These engraved plans are intricately illustrated with attractive vignettes of important buildings, monuments and coats of arms. The engravers have often included scenic views to decorate the outer borders and it is fascinating to compare then and now. Many of the plans show the pre-industrialised level of development.
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811 |
BAYNTON-WILLIAMS, ROGER: Investing in Maps.
Barrie & Rockliff / The Cresset Press 1969 (1st.).
Size: 8.5 x 12.0 inches. In dark blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Num.coloured (some double-pg.) and black & white plates. 160 pp. Minor dent lower edge of front cover and a few pages. Else very good in very good pictorial dustwrapper
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813 |
BEACH THOMAS, Sir WILLIAM: The County Books. Hertfordshire.
Robert Hale. London. 1950 1st edition.
In green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. With b/w photographic plates. Fold out map at back. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; In removable plastic cover. Spine slightly darkened. Small marks to covers. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. One of a set of books describing the Counties of the British Isles as they existed before 1973. This volume covers Hertfordshire. The author’s description of the county is based on his own experience of living there. He looks at the, then, new Garden Cities, and some of the people associated with the county and its history.
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814 |
BEAMISH, DEREK / HILLIER, JOHN / JOHNSTONE, H.F.V.: Mansions and Merchants of Poole and Dorset Volume One.
Poole Historical Trust 1976 1st edition.
In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. With illustrated dust jacket in orange and black with white lettering. Decorated maps to endpapers. 192pp. Prof. ills. in b/w and colour. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded. back and front torn and creased at bottom edges. Not price clipped). Else a clean and tight copy. Superb book going through famous Merchants who have lived in Poole and the surrounding parts of Dorset over the last 2/3 hundred years and the hoses they left behind them. Many of these were adventurous people (or felt there was nothing for them in England) and the history of many families extends into members going abroad, to the USA in particular Newfoundland, to Australia and other corners of the world.
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815 |
BEAMISH, DEREK; DOCKERILL, JOHN; HILLIER, JOHN and SMITH, GRAHAM: An Album Of Old Poole
Poole Historical Trust 1975 1st Edition
Bound in original brown cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine.. With illustrated dustwrapper. Pages not numbered. Prof ill. with 226 b/w photographs, and other ilustrations. Illustrated endpapers. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (slight rubbing to front and back. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. A history of Poole through old photographs. Black and white photographs throughout. Victorian and Edwardian photographs by professional and amateur photographers. The photographs have all been researched individually by the authors and the text contains much information that has remained unpublished until now. Poole as it progressed from ‘The Age of Sail’ into the Twentieth Century.
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816 |
Bean, Tim and Fowler, Will: RUSSIAN TANKS OF WORLD WAR II Stalin's Armoured Might
Ian Allan 2002 1st Edition
Bound in original pictorial covers. With pictorial dustwrapper. 176pp prof ill b/w photographs and line drawings Very good condition in very good dustwrapper (Slight rubbing to edges, small tear back bottom edge) Not price clipped. An authoritative study of over 40 types of tanks used by Soviet armoured forces before 1945. Covers the foundation of the Soviet tank arm and its development and looks at different types of tanks in separate chapters such as light tanks, medium and fast tanks, the T-34 and foreign tanks in Soviet service. Also covers the effects of Stalin’s policies and the purges.
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817 |
BEATON, CECIL: British Photographers. Britain in Pictures.
William Collins. London. 1944
Tall 8vo. In beige hard card covers. With illustrated dustwrapper. 48pp. With 4 plates in colour, 8 plates in sepia and 20 illustrations in black & white. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly rubbed around edges. Not price clipped). Owner’s inscription to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. The author, himself a noted photographer, covers the story of British photography from Fox-Talbot to the Second World War.
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821 |
BEATY-POWNALL, S. (collected and described by): The Queen Cabinet Cookery Books. 14 volumes. Soups, Ices, Pickles and Preserves, Entrees, Meat and Game, Sweets Parts I & II, Breakfast and Lunch Dishes, Salads Sandwiches and Savouries, Vegetables, Bread Cakes and Biscuits, Fish Parts I & II, Household Hints.
Horace Cox 1902 - 1913.
Small 8vo Beige cloth lettered in decorated in blue and red. Advertisements on inside covers and some backs. In brown hard card case with gilt to front.. 139 pp. With b/w illustrations including some advertisements. In very good condition with good case. Case lid has splits to edges and gilt at front has faded. Some volumes have small marks to spines and foxing to edges. All are clean and tight inside. Numerous recipes, collected from the columns of the QUEEN (magazine). They are all "well within the capacity of any ordinary GOOD PLAIN COOK".
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150.00 GBP
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822 |
BEAUMAN, NICOLA: Morgan a biography of E.M.Forster.
Hodder & Stoughton. 1993 1st edition.
Tall 8vo. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. 404pp. With b/w photographs. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. Biography of the author, E.M.Forster.
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12.00 GBP
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825 |
BECKETT, SAMUEL et al: Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress. by Samuel Beckett, Marcel Brion, Frank Budgen, Stuart Gilbert, Eugene Jolas, Victor Llona, Robert McAlmon, Thomas McGreevy, Elliot Paul, John Rodker, Robert Sage, Wiliam Carlos Williams with Letters of Protest by G.V.L.Slingsby and Vladimir Dixon.
Faber and Faber. London. 1929 1st edtion.
8vo. In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. 194pp. In very good condition. Spine slightly darkened and rubbed at bottom end. Handling marks to covers. Small ‘ex-libris’ label and owner’s inscription, dated 1944 to front endpapers. Pages slightly browned. Else a clean and tight copy. Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress is a 1929 collection of critical essays, and two letters, on the subject of James Joyce's book Finnegans Wake, then being published in discrete sections under the title Work in Progress. All the essays are by writers who knew Joyce personally and who followed the book through its development.
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140.00 GBP
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826 |
BECKLES, GORDON: The Bridport Story. A Record of 700 Years. 1253-1953.
Bridport. 1953 1st edition.
In illustrated hard card covers with matching dustwrapper. 94pp. With b/w photographs and coloured town maps to endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; handling marks. Small tears to edges. Not price clipped). Mild foxing to edges. occasional small marks and foxing spots. Else a clean and tight copy. Published to clebrate the 700th anniversary of the incorporation of the Borough of Bridport in 1953.
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10.00 GBP
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828 |
BEEBE, WILLIAM: The Arcturus Adventure. An Account of the New York Zoological Society's First Oceanographic Expedition.
G.P.Putnam's. New York. 1927 (7th.print).
Tall 8vo. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. Pictorial endpapers. Top edge gilt. 439pp. Profusely ill.with 8 col.plates (of various fish) by Isabel Cooper. 69 photo plates. Maps. Stunning col.pict.endpapers (fish motif). In very good condition. Spine slightly faded. Corners slightly bumped. Owner’s inscription and address label on first blank page. Else a very clean and tight copy. "The Arcturus Oceanographic Expedition, the ninth expedition of the Zoological Society, sailed from Brooklyn on February 11th, 1925, and returned to New York on July 30th. In the interval we steamed a distance of over 13,600 miles, touching at Norfolk, Bermuda, Panama, Cocos Island and the Galapagos. The avowed objects of the Arcturus Expedition were the investigation of the Sargasso Sea and the Humboldt Current".(Preface).
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829 |
BEEBE, WILLIAM: Pheasant Jungles. With sixty illustrations from photographs by the author.
G.P.Putnam’s Sons. The Knickerbocker Press. 1927 1st edition.
Tall 8vo. In dark blue cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. With illustrated dustwrapper. Pictorial endpapers. 248pp. With b/w photo plates. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded. Rubed around edges with chips and tears. Not price clipped). Mild foxing to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. The author was Director of Tropical Research of the New York Zoological Society. Here he describes the hunt for rare pheasants in Ceylon, Burma, the Himalayas, Malaya and Borneo.
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830 |
BEER, PATRICIA: Wessex. A National Trust Book. Photographs by Fay Godwin.
London: Hamish Hamilton. 1985 1st edition
Tall 8vo. In green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. 224pp. With b/w photographs and a map. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Very slight crease to top edge. Not price clipped). A clean and tight copy. Includes 4 counties; Avon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire.
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833 |
BEERBOHM, MAX: And Even Now.
Heinemann 1920 (1st.).
Yellow cloth with paper label on spine ( and a spare label tipped in at the back). 320 pp. Binding slightly faded. Else very good. Essays on literary and other subjects.
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834 |
BEERBOHM, MAX: Seven Men and Two Others.
William Heinemann Ltd. London. 1950 1st thus.
8vo. In green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. 283pp. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly darkened. small marks. Edges slightly rubbed. Not price clipped). Mild foxing to edges. Slight browning to endpapers. Else a clean and tight copy. A new edition of Sir Max Beerbohm’s famous book of short stories, with the addition of Two written later in the same delightful vein.
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839 |
BELL - Richard Bell’s Britain.
Collins 1981 (1st.).
Tall 8vo. Brown cloth gt. Facsimile print of his notebooks, with all the lovely coloured illustrations and the text accompanying them reproduced here. With other text pages added. 192 pp. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
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8.00 GBP
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840 |
BELL, ADRIAN: A Young Man’s Fancy. A Novel.
The Bodley Head. London. 1955 1st edition.
8vo. In dark blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. 182pp. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly darkened. Small marks to covers. Not price clipped). Mild foxing to edges. Owner’s inscription to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. A continuation of the fictional biography of Roland Pace. A single sustained narrative of youthful love and endeavour, set chiefly in the London of 1920s.
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79.00 GBP
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841 |
BELL, ADRIAN: A Suffolk Harvest.
The Bodley Head. London. 1956 1st edition.
8vo. In brown cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. 219pp. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly darkened. Small tears and chips at ends. Small marks to covers. Not price clipped). Mild foxing to edges. Slight browning to endpapers. Else a clean and tight copy. Written in the form of a diary, with one or two entries every week, during the whole of one year. The pattern that emerges is of a life lived in natural surroundings and at a natural pace.
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842 |
BELL, ADRIAN: The Green Bond.
The Boydell Press. Ipswich. 1976 1st edition.
Tall 8vo. In green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Green endpapers. 124pp. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; In removable plastic cover. Not price clipped). Owner’s inscription to front endpaper. Else a very clean and tight copy. A series of meditations on rural life by the Suffolk farmer and journalist, Adrian Bell.
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844 |
BELL, ADRIAN: The Budding Morrow.
John Lane. The Bodley Head. London. 1946 1st. edition.
Tall 8vo. In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. 170pp. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; in removable plastic cover. Spine slightly rubbed along edges with small chips at ends. Corners chipped. Top edge slightly rubbed. Not price clipped). Damp stains to covers. Mild foxing to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. A very English book about farming and it’s place in the modern world. Written at the time when machinery was taking over from horse and manpower.
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8.00 GBP
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845 |
BELL, ADRIAN: The Balcony.
Corbet-Sanderson. London. 1934 1st edition.
8vo. In pink cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper by John Nash. 248pp. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; in removable plastic cover. Spine slightly darkened with small pieces missing from ends of spine and front. Small marks. Not price clipped). Slight browning to endpapers. Occasional small marks and foxing spots. Else a clean and tight copy. In this book Adrian Bell explores the experience of the child entering the world of adult values.
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23.00 GBP
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846 |
BELL, ADRIAN: A Countyman’s Notebook.
Boydell Press. Ipswich. 1975 1st edition.
Tall 8vo. In illustrated dark brown limp card covers with white lettering. 122pp. In very good condition. Covers slightly rubbed. Author’s signed dedicatory message to main title page. Else a clean and tight copy. Philosophical musings on everyday life from the point of view of a countryman.
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45.00 GBP
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847 |
BELL, ADRIAN: The Green Bond.
The Boydell Press. Ipswich. 1976 1st edition.
Tall 8vo. In green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Green endpapers. 124pp. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; In removable plastic cover. A couple of small tears to edges. Not price clipped). Author’s signed dedicatory note to main title page. Else a very clean and tight copy. A series of meditations on rural life by the Suffolk farmer and journalist, Adrian Bell. This copy is signed and dedicated by him.
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852 |
BELL, J.H.(et al): British Hills and Mountains.
B.T. Batsford 1943/4 (2nd.ed.revis.)
Pink cloth lettered in blue. With illustrated dustwrapper by Brian Cook. Maps to endpapers. 120pp. Col. frontis & 98 photo plates, several in colour. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly faded. Small marks. Price clipped). Spine slightly faded. Mild foxing to edges. Owner’s inscription to half title page. Else a clean and tight copy. In two sections; Scotland and England & Wales. Each has an introduction.
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12.00 GBP
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853 |
BELL, J.MUNRO: Chippendale, Sheraton and Hepplewhite The Furniture Designs of.
Gibbings & Co. Ltd 1910
Bound in original green cloth bevelled covers with gilt to spine. Gilt top edge. Many b/w illustrations by the three authors. In good condition. Spine slightly faded and marked. Slight rubbing at edges. Small marks to front. Corners slightly bumped. Mild foxing to edges.Hinges cracked. Browning to endpapers. Trace of long ago removed bookplate. A few gatherings beginning to separate. A compendium of the catalogues of the three great 18th century English furniture makers, Chippendale (1754), Sheraton (1802 and 1812) and Hepplewhite (1794) reproduced and arranged by J. Munro Bell. There is a 9 page introduction by Bell, and extensive black and white drawings of the three cabinet makers’ work.
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70.00 GBP
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854 |
BELL, JULIAN(ed): We Did Not Fight. 1914-1918 experiences of War-Resisters. Foreword by Canon H.R.L.Sheppard.
London. Cobden-Sanderson. 1935 1st edition.
5.0" x 7.5". In black cloth covers with red lettering to spine. With dustwrapper. 392pp. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly darkened with small chips at top end. handling marks. Small address label to back. Handling marks. Not price clipped). Spine slightly faded. Mild foxing to edges. Occasional small marks and foxing spots. Else a clean and tight copy. Stories of some of the men who refused to fight and in some cases to take alternative service in the Great War. Includes Siegfried Sassoon and Bertrand Russell.
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90.00 GBP
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855 |
BELL, KEN & MORTON, DESMOND: Royal Canadian Military Institute. 100 Years, 1890-1990.
Royal Canadian Military Institute. Toronto. 1990 1st edition.
4to. In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. 208pp. With Colour and Black and White photographs throughout. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly rubbed along top edge. Not price clipped). Covers slightly marked by damp. Owner’s inscription on front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. A history of the Royal Canadian Military Institute. The fantastic photographs depicting the many conflicts its members have been involved, makes for a brilliant read.
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860 |
BELLOC, HILAIRE: Mr. Petre. A Novel. With twenty-two Drawings by G.K.Chesterton.
J W Arrowsmith. London. 1925 1st edition.
In brown cloth covers with yellow to spine and front. 310pp. 22 b/w line drawings by G.K.Chesterton. In good condition. Spine faded and rubbed with small chips at ends. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Mild foxing to edges affecting most pages throughout. Slight browning to endpapers. Frontis missing. Else a clean and tight copy. An ironic tale of high finance, politics, and the problems caused by amnesia.
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10.00 GBP
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861 |
BELLONY-REWALD, ALICE: The Lost World of the Impressionists.
Weidenfield & Nicolson.. London. 1976 1st edition
4to. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine. Brown endpapers.With illustrated dustwrapper. 288pp. With b/w and colour illustrations. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; not price clipped). Covers laminated. Owner’s inscription on front endpaper. Else a very clean and tight copy. The Impressionists were intimately linked to the life of their times. This book, with the help of original contemporary documents, photographs, sketches and paintings, follows them around Paris to the Vexin, the Normandy Coast and the Midi showing life as it was in the late 19thC. A fascinating and instructive journey.
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862 |
BELLOW, CORINNE (trans and ed.): Lautrec by Lautrec.
Macmillan. London. 1964 1st edition.
Folio. In light green cloth covers with maroon lettering to spine and maroon design to front.. With illustrated dustwrapper. 1900pp. With b/w photographs and colour plates, some mounted and some fold out.. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly darkened. Small marks . Top edge slightly rubbed and creased with small tears. Not price clipped). Slight browning to edges of covers. Back free endpaper creased. Else a clean and tight copy. This book, published in celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Lautrec’s birth, presents for the first time in one volume the complete history of his life and work. Illustrated both by his works and by contemporary photographs. A heavy book.
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863 |
BEMELMANS, LUDWIG: The High World. Story and Pictures By Ludwig Bemelmans.
Hamish Hamilton, London. 1958 1st edition
In green cloth covers with silver to spine. With dustwrapper. 114pp. Prof.ills. with b/w line drawings and colour plates by author.. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Small marks on back, edges slightly creased. Small chip on front edge of spine). Not price clipped. A clean and tight copy. Brilliant writing by the Austrian - American humorist - a childrens/adults book. An officious government official arrives in a small Austrian town. His behaviour is changed for the better, ‘...and once a man starts to love his fellow creatures and do good, there is no stopping him. In his new role of benefactor the official so overwhelmed the villagers with his kindness that he presented them with almost as much of a problem as he had before.’
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20.00 GBP
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864 |
BENCE-JONES, MARK / PAGRAM, EDWARD: Nothing in the City.
Sidgwick & Jackson 1965 (1st.).
Blue cloth gt. Numerous black and white illustrations by Edward Pagram. 244 pp. Top corner of both cover a tiny bit bruised. Top edge foxed (not intruding into the pages). Endpapers lightly browned (off-setting from dw flap). Very good in very good dustwrapper (dw: top corners slightly bruised / NOT price-clipped). No inscriptions.
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866 |
BENEDICTUS, DAVID: The Fourth of June.
London: Anthony Blond. 1962
8vo. In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With pictorial dustwrapper by Richard Chopping. 208pp. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw;spine slightly darkened. Foxing spots. Not price clipped). Mild foxing to edges. Occasional small marks. Else a clean and tight copy. This is a satiric, extremely funny novel about staid Eton that scandalized the English and then proceeded to outsell every other new novel. The dustwrapper has attractive artwork by Richard Chopping (better known for his distinctive dustwrappers for the UK editions of Ian Fleming's James Bond books from 1957 onwards.
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871 |
BENFIELD, ERIC: Purbeck Shop. A stoneworker’s story of stone.
Ensign Publications. 1990 1st thus
Bound in beige cloth cover with gilt to spine. 160pp. Prof ill. with b/w photographs, line drawings and maps. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper(dw; slightly faded. Not price clipped). Else a clean and tight copy. In the Middle Ages, Purbeck marble was used in by the builders of Westminster Abbey and of almost every important church that could be reached by water transport. Written in 1940 this is a contemporary account of quarrying the same stone. It describes the stone, it’s uses, the methods of getting it and the men who do this work.
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872 |
BENFIELD, ERIC: The County Books. Dorset.
Robert Hale. London. 1950 1st edition.
In green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. With b/w photographic plates. Fold out map at back. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; In removable plastic cover. Spine slightly darkened. Small marks to covers. Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. One of a set of books describing the Counties of the British Isles as they existed before 1973. This volume covers Dorset. The author gives descriptions of some of the major places with historical points. Includes Monmouth, Jeffreys, Cerne Giant, Tolpuddle Martyrs, Purbeck, Maiden Castle, Dorset authors and churches.
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BENFIELD, ERIC: The Town of Maiden Castle.
London. Robert Hale Limited. 1947 1st edition.
8vo. In red cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. 70pp. With b/w illustrations. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly darkened. Handling marks. Price clipped). Mild foxing to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. This absorbing account of the town of Maiden Castle shows there is no evidence of Roman occupation of the hilltop beyond the battle at the eastern gate, and a lone hermit-like temple or chapel of an apparently decadent Pagan religion. Situated on the outskirts of Dorchester, this is an interesting town, and the author provides an interesting history.
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874 |
BENGT DE TÖRNE: Sibelius: A Close-up.
Faber & Faber, London 1937(1st.).
Maroon cloth gt. 117 pages, including an appendix of musical examples illustrating the characteristic features of Sibelius’ orchestral writing. Endpapers slightly foxed, else very clean. Very good in very good dustwrapper (dw: small chip top of spine).. De Torne was the only musician whom the great Finnish composer has ever taken as a pupil
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877 |
BENINGFIELD's Countryside.
A Studio Book. The Viking Press. N.Y. 1980 (1st. US ed.).
4to. (23 cm x 25 cm). 141 pages with many lovely col. plates and num.b/w illustrations. Previous owner’s name on hf. title page. Very good in very good pict. dustwrapper This book is centred on the "gentle, rural landscapes of Herfordshire and the open downs and lush valleys of Dorset".
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16.00 GBP
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878 |
BENINGFIELD's English Landscape.
Viking 1985 (repr.).
Oblong tall 8vo (28 cm x 26 cm). 141 pages with many lovely col. plates and num. b/w illustrations. Vg in vg dw. This book is centred on the southern and eastern England.
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12.00 GBP
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881 |
BENINGFIELD, GORDON (introduction & captions by): Hardy Country. Text by A. Zeman.
Allen Lane 1983 (1st.ed.).
Lg. oblong 4to.( 28 cm x 27 cm). Beige cloth gt. 141pp. Profusely ill. with col. & b/w drawings, many full-page. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw;small marks. slightly creased around edges. Price clipped). Else a clean and tight copy. Pictures of the countryside that Hardy knew and featured in his novels, painted and drawn by Gordon Beningfield a century later. Shows the countryside, buildings, activities and people of the area of the West Country known as ‘Wessex’.
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14.00 GBP
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883 |
BENINGFIELD, GORDON: Beningfield’s English Farm. Signed copy.
Viking. 1988 1st edition.
Oblong tall 8vo (28 cm x 26 cm). In grey cloth covers with gilt to spine. With pictorial dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers. 137pp. With many lovely colour plates and numerous b/w illustrations. In fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; a couple of small marks. Not price clipped). Signed on front endpaper. A very clean and tight copy. The artist celebrates the traditional farm and its animals.
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25.00 GBP
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884 |
BENINGFIELD, GORDON: Beningfield’s English Landscape.
Viking 1985 (1st.).
Oblong tall 8vo (28 cm x 26 cm). 141 pages with many lovely coloured plates and num.b/w illustrations. Fine in very good dustwrapper ( dw: one small tear). Includes: Sussex, Wiltshire, Dorset, Halvergate Marshes, farming, countryside, memories, my garden, home ground.
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885 |
BENINGFIELD, GORDON: Hardy Country. Text by Anthea Zeman.
Allen Lane 1983 1st. edition
Lg.4to. In illustrated cream hard covers, with matching dustwrapper. 141 pages with many lovely col.plates and num.b/w ills. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Slightly faded to spine and front with some small marks. Slight rubbing at top edge). Price clipped. Owner’s signature on main title page. A very clean tight copy. Showing the countryside which Hardy realised in words in his Wessex novels. This book captures the atmosphere of the Dorset scene. While not attempting recreate scenes from the Wessex novels, Hardy Country finds in present-day Dorset the atmosphere and feeling as well as the locales of Thomas Hardy. Gordon Beningfield shows us Dorchester, which is definitely Hardy’s Casterbridge, but also the tracts of heath-land that Hardy cared a great deal about and fictionally amalgamated as Egdon Heath. He portrays such recognisable Hardy landmarks as Evershot church, which is Evershead church from Tess of the d’Urbervilles, and the earth castle of Eggardon
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886 |
BENINGFIELD, GORDON: Hardy Country. Text by Anthea Zeman.
Allen Lane. London. 1983 (repr.).
Lg.4to. In beige cloth covers with brown to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper and endpapers. 141pp. Ills. with many lovely col. plates and num.b/w ills. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Slightly creased along edges. Price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. Illustrations of places associated with the novels of Thomas Hardy.
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887 |
BENINGFIELD, GORDON: Beningfield’s Countryside.
Allen Lane 1980 1st edition
4to. In olive green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers. 141 pages with many lovely col. plates and num.b/w illustrations. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; very slightly rubbed on back fore edge). Not price clipped. Presentation inscription signed by author on first blank page. Else a clean and tight copy. This book is centred on the "gentle, rural landscapes of Hertfordshire and the open downs and lush valleys of Dorset".
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888 |
BENINGFIELD, GORDON: Hardy Landscapes.
Viking 1990 (1st.).
Oblong folio. In grey cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper and endpapers. 64 pages with many lovely col.plates and num.b/w ills.; In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper (dw; Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. Published to coincide with the celebrations commemorating the 150th anniversary of Hardy’s birth, this beautiful, lavishly produced book contains sumptuous reproductions of paintings evoking the landscape as it must have appeared in Hardy’s day.
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889 |
BENINGFIELD, GORDON: Beningfield’s Countryside.
Allen Lane 1980 1st edition
4to. In olive green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers. 141 pages with many lovely colour plates and numerous b/w illustrations. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; very slightly rubbed at top of spine. Small marks to back. Not price clipped). Owner’s inscription to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. This book is centred on the "gentle, rural landscapes of Hertfordshire and the open downs and lush valleys of Dorset".
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890 |
BENINGFIELD, GORDON: Beningfield’s English Landscape.
Viking 1985 (1st.).
Oblong tall 8vo (28 cm x 26 cm). In pale green cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Pictorial endpapers. 141 pages with many lovely coloured plates and num.b/w illustrations. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper ( dw: one small tear. Small marks to back. Price clipped). Else a clean and tight copy. Includes: Sussex, Wiltshire, Dorset, Halvergate Marshes, farming, countryside, memories, my garden, home ground.
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892 |
BENINGFIELD, GORDON: The Artist and His Work. Signed copy.
Viking. 1994 1st edition.
Size 10.5 x 12.5 inches. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Pictorial endpapers. 76pp. With colour plates and b/w photographs and illustrations. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; light scratch and small indentations to back. Not price clipped). Signed under portrait frontis. A very clean and tight copy. The artist describes his work on various subjects covering many years. Includes many beautiful examples of his work with photographs of places and people in his life. Includes chapters on Ecclesiastical art and Thomas Hardy.
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894 |
BENNETT, CHARLES H.: Proverbs With pictures by Charles H.Bennett.
William Tegg & Co. London. 1877
Size 7.0 x 9.75 inches. In hard card covers with illustration to front and publisher’s cat to back. With dark green cloth spine. Unpaginated. B/w line drawings with many blank pages. In good condition. Boards rubbed around edges and paper slightly peeling. Marks to endpapers. Occasional small marks. Interesting book of proverbs with amusing line drawings providing illustration. The drawings are on one side of the page only and have plain pages interspersed. A fascinating example of Victorian humour.
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65.00 GBP
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895 |
BENNETT, GEOFFREY Naval Battles of World War II Foreword by Admiral Arleigh Burke USN
Batsford 1975 1st Edition
Bound in original black cloth, gilt on spine with Dustwrapper. 253pp prof ill b/w photos, maps. Very good condition in good dustwrapper (slightly rubbed around edges with tiny tear top edge). Not price clipped.Very slight foxing on fore edge. Comprehensive coverage of naval battles of WWII. Includes Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific battles. Also describes the American Navy’s battles with the Japanese Imperial Fleet.
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14.00 GBP
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896 |
BENNETT, LUCY A.: Open Secrets Illustrated.
Castell Brothers. London. n.d. ca1870
8vo. In grey pictorial limp card covers. 24pp. With monochrome plates and illustrations in text. In very good condition. Small marks to covers. Small marks and foxing spots throughout. Else clean and tight. Collection of verses, many based on Biblical texts, with illustrations.
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BENRATH, HENRY: Die Kaiserin Galla Placidia.
Deutsche Verlags-Ansalt Stuttgart. 1937
Tall 8vo. Green marbled hardcovers with leather spine and raised bands with gitl lettering. Gilt top edge. Marbled endpapers. 514pp. plus 20pp. In very good condition. Spine slightly rubbed with small chips and small chip on rear side of spine. Else a clean and tight copy.
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28.00 GBP
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900 |
BENSON, ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER: The Leaves of the Tree. Studies in Biography.
Smith, Elder & Co. London. 1911 1st edition
8vo.In green cloth covers with gilt to spine. 332pp. In very good condition. Spine slightly darkened. Owner’s bookplate to front endpaper. Slight browning to endpapers, with small pieces missing from front free endpaper. Signed letter from author loose in front. Else a clean and tight copy. Collection of biographies including Charles Kingsley and Matthew Arnold.
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35.00 GBP
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