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1 The Navy List, Corrected to the 20th January, 1889
London Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1889 Half-Leather Fair No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
Maroon half-leather binding with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: Fair, covers are generally shelfworn around edges, particularly top and bottom of spine and cover corners. Previous owners name (a lieutenant) on front pastedown. Light browning to endpapers. Binding sound, text clean apart from pages 68-97 (the section containing the list of officers on the active list) which have a fair number of notes and crossings-out. 322pp. 
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2 New Art For a New Era: Malevich's Vision of the Russian Avant-Garde
London Booth-Clibborn Editions 1999 1861541406 First Edition Soft Cover As New No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
Published by Booth-Clibborn Editions in association with the Barbican Art Gallery and the State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, 1999 to accompany the exhibition. Condition: As new. 144pp. In the early 20th century, it was clear that artists working in Russia, for so long influenced by the rest of Europe, had found their own direction, particularly with Suprematism. 
Price: 18.00 GBP
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3 Josef Albers
London The South Bank Centre 1994 1853321109 Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
Condition: Very good, with light reading wear. This catalogue was produced to accompany the national touring exhibition organised by the South Bank Centre in 1994. Preface by Nicholas Fox Weber. Introductory essay by Paul Overy. In addition, the artist Michael Craig-Martin writes about his personal recollections at Yale, where Albers taught from 1950 to 1958. 
Price: 20.00 GBP
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4 American Prints 1913-1963
London The Arts Council of Great Britain 1976 0728700972 First Edition Pictorial Cover Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Published to accompany the exhibition entitled "American Prints 1913-1963" held at the Leeds City Art Gallery from 16 July to 22 August 1976, an exhibition circulated under the auspices of The International Council of the Museum of Modern Art New York. Pictorial soft cover. Condition: Good. light wear to spine and cover edges, otherwise fine. 36pp. Profusely illustrated in black and white with 112 examples of 20th century American prints by artists including Robert Motherwell, Sam Francis and Jackson Pollock. 
Price: 7.25 GBP
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5 ? Oskar Kokoschka: Lithographs for Saul and David
New York G P Putnam's Sons 1973 0399111743 Cloth Good Fair 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Oskar Kokoschka 
Pale grey cloth with titles in dark grey on spine. Condition: Good, covers have very light foxing with light bumping to spine. Binding sound, previous owners name in pencil on fep. Small light crease to edge of fep. Dustjacket condition: Fair ot good, generally shelfworn with light soiling and a few small chips and repaired tears. Not price-clipped. 214pp. 41 b/w plates. Copy with text of a series of 41 lithographs created by Oskar Kokoschka in 1969, based on the Old Testament dual theme of Saul and David. (The original lithographs appeared in a portfolio published by Marlborough Fine Art (London) and Ganymed Press London). 
Price: 22.00 GBP
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6 ? Archives Claude Monet: Correspondance D'artiste, Collection Monsieur et Madame Cornebois
Paris Artcurial (Briest, Le Fur, Poulain, Tajan) 2006 Soft Cover Good No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
NB: Text is in French. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear. This catalogue was produced to accompany the 332 lot sale of correspondence relating to Claude Monet held at the Hotel Dassault in Paris on 13th December 2006. Many colour illustrations. Includes details of letters from Arsene Alexandre, Gustave Caillebotte, Mary Cassatt, Paul Durand-Ruel and many others. 
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7 ??? Half-Hours in the Air and Sky: Marvels of the Universe
London Wm.Isbister Ltd. 1886 Decorative Cloth Fair No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
Dark green cloth with gilt and black decoration to front cover and spine. Front cover has an image in gilt of a balloon floating above the clouds. Bevelled edges to covers. All edges gilt. Condition: Fair, covers are lightly soiled and shelfworn, with bumping to top and bottom of spine. Binding sound. Previous owners name on half-title. Light browning to text throughout. 372pp. Profusely illustrated with b/w engravings. From the Half-Hour Library series of books for "younger readers", including chapters on storms, electricity and comets. 
Price: 15.95 GBP
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8 ??? British Goat Society - Monthly Journal, Jan-Dec 1960 (Eleven issues
Diss, Norfolk British Goat Society 1960 Soft Cover Poor No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Paper covered booklets. Condition: Poor to fair, staples of all booklets are rusted, with previous owners name anod some creasing and light staining to front cover of all copies. The May 1960 issue is missing from the run. 
Price: 8.00 GBP
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9 ??? British Goat Society - Monthly Journal, July-Dec 1958 (Six issues)
Diss, Norfolk British Goat Society 1958 Soft Cover Poor No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Paper covered booklets. Condition: Poor to fair, staples of all booklets are rusted, with previous owners name anod some creasing and light staining to front cover of all copies. 
Price: 5.00 GBP
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10 ??? Farm Tractors: The History of Their Development with Notes on Their Proper Maintenance
London The Vizgol Oil Refining Co. 1946 Hard Cover Good Fair 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Dark brown paper covered boards with fawn colour linen spine and title and Vitafilm logo in gilt on front cover. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Far, generally shelfworn with a couple of chips and tears. A survey of farm tractors from steam tractors c.1884 to the date of publication (Summer, 1946). 63pp. Profusely illustrated in b/w. 
Price: 8.95 GBP
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11 ??? British Goat Society - Monthly Journal, Jan-Dec 1959 (Eleven issues)
Diss, Norfolk British Goat Society 1959 Soft Cover Poor No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Paper covered booklets. Condition: Poor to fair, staples of all booklets are rusted, with previous owners name anod some creasing and light staining to front cover of all copies. Eleven journals were issued in 1959, with July/August covering two months. 
Price: 9.00 GBP
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12 ??? The Wharncliffe Hours
London Thames & Hudson 1981 0500233306 Cloth Fine Fine 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
Maroon cloth, with titles in gilt on spine and cover. All edges gilt. Condition: Fine, appears unread. In fine slipcase with yellow silk book-pull. Scarce. a facsimile copy of a 15th century illuminated prayer book held in the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, with introduction by Margaret Manion. 
Price: 30.00 GBP
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13 ??? Beeton's All About Everything: Being a Dictionary of Practical Recipes and Every-day Information
London Ward, Lock & Co.Ltd. Decorative Cloth Fair No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
Eighth edition. No date, but previous owners name is on the half title with the date 1897. Blue cloth decorated with black and gilt on front cover and spine. Condition: Fair, covers are generally rubbed and shelfworn, particularly spine. Half-title is browned. Hinges cracked, and binding cracked internally in one place, otherwise sound. 356pp. plus publishers list. Occasional b/w illustrations within text. Good reading copy. Contains all sorts of practical information including how to extinguish a fire in a chimney, a cure for "depressed spirits" and the duties of a laundry maid. 
Price: 9.95 GBP
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14 ??? Nagel's Moscow and Its Environs - Leningrad and Its Environs
Geneva Nagel Publishers 1958 First Edition Hard Cover Good Fair 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall 
Red hardcover with red silk bookmark. Condition: Good, covers and spine a little bumped. Front cover corner has a small dent. Binding sound, text clean, pages beginning to brown slightly. Includes 2 city plans and 4 route plans. D/J condition: Fair, generally a bit worn and tatty, spine sunned. Not price-clipped. 
Price: 8.00 GBP
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15 ??? Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Vol.LXX, No.s 461-466, July to December 1898
London Vinton & Co. 1898 Cloth Fair No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Dark blue-green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on red morrocco label on spine. Red speckled edges to text-block. Condition: Fair, covers are lightly bumped and shelfworn, with rubbing to title label. Endpapers browned. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. 
Price: 16.00 GBP
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16 ??? The Circus Book
London Associated Newspapers Pictorial Cover Fair No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Eileen Mayo and Wyndham Payne 
No date, but presumed late 1930's. Pictorial paper covered boards with blue cloth spine with titles in dark yellow on spine. Condition: Fair, covers are rubbed, soiled and shelfworn, spine is rubbed and fraying. Binding slightly loose. Previous owners name in pencil on reverse of fep. Sunning to page edges. Foxing throughout. Beautifully illustrated with many bright colour images. Contains thirteen circus stories written for children, including "Buckskin Joe" and "Carlotta to the Rescue". 192pp. 
Price: 19.00 GBP
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17 ??? The Bloodstock Breeders Review, Vol.XXIV, 1935
London The British Bloodstock Agency 1935 Half-Leather Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Beautifully bound. Half-calf with red cloth, and marbling to text-block edges and endpapers. Five raised bands to spine with titles stamped in gilt within red label in one of the compartments. Condition: Good to very good, with light rubbing to spine. Binding sound, text clean. 
Price: 30.00 GBP
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18 ???  National Art-Collections Fund Review 1988
London  National Art Collections Fund  1988  095033345x  Soft Cover  Very Good  No Jacket  4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall  
Condition: Very good, with light crease to very top of front cover. A formal review of the NACF's activities in 1987, together with articles by curators and experts on the important works of art the NACF helped to acquire during the year, including Constables Waterloo Bridge and the Finding of Moses by Poussin.  
Price: 7.45 GBP
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19 ??? The Oxford School Music Books: Teacher's Manual Beginners
Oxford Oxford University Press 1961 019321525x Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Eigth impression 1969. Yellow softcover. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no creasing or marks apart from pencil note on fep (which has been rubbed out). 73pp. An introduction to the methods of teaching music. 
Price: 8.95 GBP
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20 ??? International Modern Plays (No.989 in the Everyman's Library series)
London J M Dent & Sons Ltd. 1950 Cloth Good No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
Light green cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with very light shelfwear to covers. Previous owners name on fep. Binding sound, text clean. 304pp. No.989 in the Everyman's Library series. A collection of plays including Lady Julie by Strindberg, Hannele by Hauptmann, and the Infernal Machine by Cocteau. 
Price: 5.00 GBP
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21 ??? A Book of the South West
Exeter William Pollard 1907 Hard Cover Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Vellum covers with titles and armorial emblem stamped in gilt on cover and spine. Condition: Good, although spine is sunned, and covers are quite soiled. Front hinge beginning to crack, back hinge cracked, otherwise binding sound. Text clean. Presentation inscription on fep to the previous owner from Henry Davy, then President of the BMA, thanking him for his assistance on the occasion of the BMA's visit to Exeter in 1907. 219pp., 4 maps, numerous b/w illustrations, plus adverts. 
Price: 25.00 GBP
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22 ??? The History of the Feuds and Conflicts Among the Clans, in the Northern Parts of Scotland and in the Western Isles. From the Year MXXXI Unto MDCXIX Andthe Authentic Narrative of the Massacre of Glencoe
Glasgow John Wylie & Co. 1818 Half-Leather Good No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
This book contains two texts within one volume having been rebound in the mid 19th century, with maroon leather spine and corners and marbled paper covered boards. Marbled endpapers. Pages untrimmed. Title on spine reads "Rare Scottish Tracts". The first title page for the "Feuds and Conflicts" states that this book from a manuscript originally written in the reign of James VI was originally printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis of Glasgow in 1764 and then reprinted by John Wylie of Glasgow in 1818. Condition: Good, covers have light shelfwear, binding sound, no inscriptions. The text is lightly browned throughout, with occasional light soiling and small watermarks. 91 and 30pp. respectively. The full title of the second tract reads thus: Authentic Narrative of the Massacre of Glenco, contained in a report of the commission given by his Majesty for inquiring into the slaughter of the men of Glencoe. Subscribed at Halyrudhouse, the 20th day of June, 1693. Glasgow; Printed for John Wylie & Co. by R.Chapman, 1818. 
Price: 145.00 GBP
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23 ??? 35 Chansons Ecrites, Ou Mises En Musique, et Chantees Par Georges Brassens Publiees De 1952 a 1956
Paris Productions Alain Pierson 1977 Soft Cover Good No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
Pictorial softcover. Condition: Good, binding sound, text clean, no marks or inscriptions. 144pp. 35 songs, with musical scores and words, together with a biographical introduction illustrated with many b/w photographic illustrations. Born in 1921, Brassens sang in small Paris clubs in the 1940s before being discovered by the French cabaret singer, Patachou, in 1952. From that point his simple tunes, backed mainly by his own guitar began to find a wide audience and he himself began to enjoy considerable celebrity Brassens the poet was as much prized by the French as Brassens the singer. NB: Text is in French. 
Price: 12.95 GBP
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24 ??? Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Specialised Stamp Catalogue - Vol.I, Queen Victoria
London Stanley Gibbons Publications Ltd. 1977 0852598750 Cloth Good Fair 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Fifth edition. Red cloth with titles in gilt on spine and front cover. Condition: Good, with very light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fair to good, with light shelfwear, spine sunned. 344pp. A detailed listing and pricing (1977) of the adhesive postage, postal fiscal and telegraph stamps of Queen Victoria and the Mulready Letter Sheets and Envelopes. 
Price: 20.00 GBP
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25 ???  The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
London  Bliss Sands & Co.  Cloth  Fair  No Jacket  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall  
Undated, but c.1898. Part of the Apollo Poets series. Terracotta linen cloth covers with raised gilt motif of Apollo dancing with a circle of maenads (temple maidens). Condition: Fair, covers lightly rubbed, and spine sunned. Gilt motif is still fresh and bright. Bevelled edges to covers. Binding sound, prize plate to previous owner on fep, dated 1898. Frontispiece engraving of Wordsworth has water stain to top and bottom (not affecting any surrounding text). Lacks tissue guard. Light foxing to pageblock. 688pp.  
Price: 8.95 GBP
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26 ??? Map of Central Europe Containing All the Railways in Use, with the Stations, Also the Principal Roads, Rivers and Mountain Ranges
London Edward Stanford 1876 Cloth Fair No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall B.R.Davies 
Dark green cloth with "Davies' Central Europe" in gilt on front cover. Engraved by B.R.Davies, hand-coloured. Originally published in 1872, this map was revised with additions in 1876. Divided into forty-five linen backed panels, the map measures 48 by 35 inches unfolded. Scale: 69.1 miles to a degree (scales also listed in French leagues, German miles and Italian miles). Inset map of Europe lower left illustrating the routes to India. Condition: Covers are in fair condition, being quite rubbed with fraying to the top of the spine and a water stain to the lower right of the back cover (not affecting the map in any way). The map is in relatively good condition, with occasional light soiling, particularly around the edges. 
Price: 174.00 GBP
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27 ??? The Wells Office Book: Prime and Hours
Wells Wells Theological College 1929 Cloth Good No Jacket 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall 
Third edition. Navy blue cloth with the crest of Wells Theological College stamped in gilt on front cover. Dark chocolate brown endpapers. All edges gilt. Condition: Good, covers lighly rubbed and shelfworn. Previous owners name faintly written on fep. Binding sound, text clean. 162pp. 
Price: 14.95 GBP
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28 ???  Wonders of Creation: A Descriptive Account of Volcanoes and Their Phenomena
London  T.Nelson & Sons  1881  Decorative Cloth  Fair  No Jacket  16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall  
Dark green cloth with titles in black within black decoration on front cover. Condition: Fair, covers lightly rubbed with bumping to spine and cover corners. Binding sound. Browning to endpapers. Previous owners name on front pastedown. 120pp. plus publishers list. 18 illustrations in b/w and frontispiece in colour. A book written for young people with chapters on the history of the worlds most interesting volcanoes including Vesuvius, Jorullo and Hecla.  
Price: 9.00 GBP
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29 ??? The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church According to the Use of the church of England Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as They are to be Sung or said in Churches
Edinburgh Sir D.H.Blair and J.Bruce 1802 Full-Leather Fair No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
Full black leather binding . All edges gilt. Condition: Fair, binding sound, covers are in good condition, with the patina of use. Front and back endpapers are lightly browned, and have the dates of births and deaths of several members of the Taylor family from Bolton, (also written as Bolton in the Moor) Lancashire, the earliest birth date being 1813. The first section of text at the begiining of the book (after the calendar) is the order of Morning Prayer. The first twelve pages are quite soiled at the bottom right edges of the text, with chunks missing from the lower right edges of the first ten pages, getting progressively smaller. 
Price: 20.00 GBP
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30 ??? Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Vol.CXIX, No.s 755-760, January to June, 1923
London Vinton & Co. 1923 Cloth Fair No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Dark blue-green cloth with two jockeys on horses stamped in gilt on front cover, and titles stamped in green on spine. Fair, covers are quite sunned, light browning to endpapers, binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. 284pp. 
Price: 10.00 GBP
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31 ??? The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church According to the Use of the church of England Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as They are to be Sung or said in Churches
Oxford Thomas Baskett, Printer to the University 1755 Full-Leather Fair No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
Full leather binding with gilt decoration to spine. Condition: Fair, spine is rubbed and very worn at top and bottom. Front cover is starting to separate from the spine to the bottom left. Covers generally shelfworn and rubbed at corners. Front and rear pastedowns have family inscriptions. Title page is quite soiled with a small hole underneath the word Sacraments of the title. 
Price: 75.00 GBP
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32 ??? Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Vol.CXV, No.s 731-736, January to June, 1921
London Vinton & Co. 1921 Cloth Fair No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Dark blue-green cloth with two jockeys on horses stamped in gilt on front cover, and titles stamped in green on spine. Fair, cover edges and spine are quite sunned, light browning to endpapers, binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. 284pp. 
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33 ??? Jacob Epstein: Sculpture and Drawings
Leeds Leeds City Art Gallery 1987 0901981311 Soft Cover Good No Jacket Folio - over 12" - 15" tall 
Softcover. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear. Binding sound, no inscriptions.290pp. 23 colour and many b/w plates. This catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition held at the Leeds City Art Gallery from April to June 1987 which then toured to the Whitechapel Gallery, July to September 1987. 
Price: 39.00 GBP
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34 ??? The Book of Common Prayer
London Eyre & Spottiswoode 1863 Full-Leather Fair No Jacket 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall 
Black leather with five raised bands to spine and "Church Services" in gilt on spine. Dull brass clasp connecting the two covers. All edges gilt. Dark brown endpapers. Condition: Fair, covers and spine shelfworn, binding sound (one loose page), previous owners name on inner fep. 
Price: 14.95 GBP
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35 ??? The Morning of Life: a Treasury of Counsel, Information and Entertainment for Young People
London Sunday School Union 1875 Half-Leather Fair No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Marbled paper covered boards with leather spine and corners. Titles in gilt on spine. Condition: Fair, covers are in quite poor condition with the marbled paper covered boards being very rubbed, and the leather on the spine and corners being quite rubbed and shelfworn. Binding sound. The first page of text has a small hole, lower left. Endpapers browned and lightly soiled, with some pencil scribble to rear pastedown. Light browning and foxing to text. A collection of short stories, with some b/w engraved plates and engravings within text. 236pp. One illustration has a pencil scribble around it. 
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36 ??? New Works By Knuttel
Dublin New Apollo Gallery 1994 Soft Cover Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Softcover. Condition: Good, with light creasing and shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. 39pp. 24 colour plates. This catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition of Knuttel's work held at the New Apollo Gallery, Dublin in 1994. 
Price: 14.00 GBP
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37 ??? Admiralty Handbook of Wireless Telegraphy, Vols I and II
London HMSO 1938 Cloth Fair No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Vol I is a 1944 reprint, Vol II is dated 1938. Green cloth with titles in black on spines of both volumes; titles on the front covers are in black on Vol.I and blindstampd on Vol.II. Covers of both volumes are lightly soiled and shelfworn. Bindings sound. Very light browning to text throughout. No inscriptions. Vol.II has b/w advertisements to the endpapers. 
Price: 20.00 GBP
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38 ??? Sherborne School for Girls 1899-1949
Dorset Sherborne School for Girls 1949 Cloth Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Green cloth with titles in gilt on spine and front cover. Condition: Good, with light browning to endpapers. Previous owners name in pencil on fep. Binding sound, text clean. 132pp. Several b/w plates. 
Price: 12.00 GBP
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39 ??? The Bloodstock Breeders Review, Vol.XXXII, 1943
London The British Bloodstock Agency 1943 Half-Leather Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Half-calf with red cloth. Five raised bands to spine with titles stamped in gilt within red morrocco label in one of the compartments. Condition: Good, with some rubbing and sunning to spine. Previous owners name in pencil on front pastedown, light foxing to endpapers. Binding sound, text clean. 
Price: 25.00 GBP
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40 ??? The Bloodstock Breeders Review, Vol.XXXVI, 1947
London The British Bloodstock Agency 1947 Half-Leather Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Half-calf with red cloth. Five raised bands to spine with titles stamped in gilt within red morrocco label in one of the compartments. Condition: Good, with some rubbing to spine and cover corners, particularly lower right. Light foxing to endpapers. Binding sound, text clean. 
Price: 25.00 GBP
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41 ??? The Bloodstock Breeders Review, Vol.XXXVII, 1948
London The British Bloodstock Agency 1948 Half-Leather Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Half-calf with red cloth. Five raised bands to spine with titles stamped in gilt within red morocco label in one of the compartments. Condition: Good, although spine is quite rubbed, and label beginning to detach from the spine at the edges. Light foxing to endpapers. Binding sound, text clean. 
Price: 20.00 GBP
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42 ??? Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Vol.XXXVI, No.s 461-466, July to December 1898
London A.H.Baily & Co. 1881 Cloth Fair No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Dark blue-green cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine within elaborate gilt decoration and gilt image of two racehorses with jockeys on front cover. Red speckled edges to text-block. Condition: Fair to goot, covers are lightly bumped and shelfworn. Endpapers lightly foxed. Previous owners name on front pastedown. Binding sound, occasional light foxing to text. 
Price: 12.00 GBP
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43 ??? The Bloodstock Breeders Review, Vol.LV, 1966
London The British Bloodstock Agency 1966 Half-Leather Fair No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Half-leather with red cloth. Titles in gilt within red label on spine. Condition: Fair to good, with some rubbing to spine and cover corners. Light browning to endpapers. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. 
Price: 22.00 GBP
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44 ??? Reprint of the First Edition of the One-inch Ordnance Suvey of England and Wales, Sheet 70, Oxford and Reading
Newton Abbot, Devon David & Charles 1980 0715346067 Soft Cover Good Fair 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Folded map in paper sleeve. Second impression. Condition: Good clean condition. Paper sleeve in fair condition only, generally rubbed and shelfworn. 
Price: 5.00 GBP
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45 ??? The Bloodstock Breeders Review, Vol.XLIX, 1960
London The British Bloodstock Agency 1960 Half-Leather Fair No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Half-leather with red cloth. Titles in gilt within red label on spine. Condition: Fair to good, with some rubbing to spine and cover corners. Small depression (5mm. diam) to front cover. Light foxing to endpapers. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. 
Price: 22.00 GBP
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46 ??? The Bloodstock Breeders Review, Vol.XLV, 1956
London The British Bloodstock Agency 1956 Half-Leather Fair No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Half-leather with red cloth. Titles in gilt within red label on the spine. Condition: Fair to good, with some rubbing and bumping to spine and cover corners. Light foxing to endpapers. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. 
Price: 22.00 GBP
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47 ??? The Bloodstock Breeders Review, Vol.LVI, 1967
London The British Bloodstock Agency 1967 Half-Leather Fair No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Half-leather with red cloth. Titles in gilt within red label on spine. Condition: Fair to good, with some rubbing to spine and cover corners. Front hinge cracked, but holding firmly. Text clean, no inscriptions. 
Price: 20.00 GBP
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48 ??? Poems for Christmas: A Peterloo Anthology
Liskeard, Cornwall Harry Chambers/Peterloo Poets 1981 0905291336 Soft Cover Fair No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Softcover. Condition: Fair, covers are sunned and lightly soiled and shelfworn. Internally good, binding sound, no inscriptions. 34pp. Includes poems by Connie Bensley, Jim Howell, Sylvia Cantaris and Lawrence Sail. 
Price: 8.00 GBP
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49 ??? Weird Tales, Vol 33, No.2, February 1939 Issue,
New York Weird Tales 1939 Soft Cover Fair No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
Cover design by Virgil Finlay. Condition: Fair, covers are sunned and shelfworn, with a small hole around the word February on the front cover. Spine is worn and creased with small chunk missing from base of spine and top and bottom inch of front cover torn along the spine edge. Binding sound. Text lightly browned throughout, no inscriptions. 160pp. Contains stories by Nathan Hindin, Seabury Quinn, and one by Donald Wandrei entitled Giant-Plasm. 
Price: 20.00 GBP
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50 ??? A Handbook of Travel-Talk: Being a Collection of Questions, Phrases, and Vocabularies in English, German, French and Italian
London John Murray 1865 Cloth Poor No Jacket 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall 
Twenty-fourth thousand. Brown cloth with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Poor, the cloth of the joints of spine is split at head and tail, binding cracked internally in a couple of places, otherwise sound. Fep is missing and title page is loose. 358pp. plus publishers list dated January 1866. Many quaint phrases, includes sections of phrases for use in hunting, fishing and mountain-climbing. 
Price: 10.00 GBP
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51 ??? Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays (Everyman's Library No.381)
London/New York Dent/Dutton 1962 Cloth Good Fair 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
Reprint. Large format (crown octavo). Dark pink cloth with titles in bronze on spine. Condition: Good, previous owners name on half-title, binding sound, text clean. Dustjacket condition: Fair, generally shelfworn, particularly around spine. 266pp. 
Price: 5.00 GBP
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52 ??? Francis Bacon: Study of Nude with Figure in Mirror
London Sotheby's 2008 Soft Cover Good No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
Softcover. Condition: Very good, with light shelfwear. This is the single item brochure for the eponymous painting by Bacon depicting Henrietta Moraes which sold for £ 17.8 million at Sotheby's in London in February 2008. Profusely illustrated in colour, with five short essays. 
Price: 10.00 GBP
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53 Ackerley, J.R. Hindoo Holiday
London Chatto & Windus 1932 Cloth Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Third impression, May 1932. Tan cloth. Condition: Good, with slight foxing to endpapers and pageblock. 341pp. 
Price: 7.00 GBP
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54 Adams, Ansel (intro.) Summit: Vittorio Sella; Mountaineer and Photographer, the Years 1879-1909
New York Aperture Foundation 1999 0893818089 Cloth Very Good Fair Folio - over 12" - 15" tall 
Black cloth with titles in silver on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fair to good, covers are generally a little scuffed and shelfworn. 142pp. Profusely illustrated with beautiful black and white photographs by Vittorio Sella including images of the Alps, the Caucasus, the Saint Elias Range in Alaska, the Ruwenzori in Africa and the Himalayas. Sella's portfolio of K2 in the western Himalayas is the definitive photographic study of this mountain, considered to be the world's most difficult and dangerous climb. Includes essays by Ansel Adams, David Brower, Greg Child, Paul Kallmes and Wendy M.Watson. 
Price: 45.00 GBP
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55 Adams, Hugh (intro.) Watermarks
Edinburgh The Scottish Arts Council 1980 0902989677 Soft Cover Good No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
Softcover. Condition: Good, with light sunning to spine and light crease to top right corner of front cover. Binding sound, no inscriptions. 64pp. Profusely illustrated in b/w. This catalogue was produced to accompany the joint exhibition of work by Robert Callender and Elizabeth Ogilvie which toured from Edinburgh to Glasgow and Aberdeen in 1980. Both Callender and Ogilvie used the coastal landsscape around the Point of Stoer in Sutherland as inspiration for their work. 
Price: 14.00 GBP
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56 Adams, Morley (ed.) What a Scout Should Know
London Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton 1915 Hard Cover Fair No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
The second volume of a series of books called "Books for Scouts" (the other two titles are Camping and Pioneering and Scout Handicrafts). Pale blue cloth hardcover with pasted colour image of a scout climbing a signpost (to Daventry) on front cover, with title above. Title also in black on spine. Condition: Fair, Cover edges and spine quite worn, small triangular 1/2in. chunk missing from image on front cover, midway down on the left. Binding sound, previous owners name in pencil on fep. Endpapers and last page of text quite browned. 96pp. 5 b/w photographic plates, inc. frontispiece. The book includes chapters on How to Qualify for Badges, The Scout as Handyman and Tools and How to use Them. 
Price: 25.00 GBP
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57 Addison, Joseph The Miscellaneous Works In Verse and Prose, of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq., Vol.II
London J & R Tonson 1765 Full-Leather Fair No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Francis Hayman 
Full leather binding with title in gilt within scarlet label on spine. Condition: Fair, covers and spine are somewhat shelfworn and rubbed. Binding sound. Previous owners printed initials on front pastedown. Text lightly browned throught, with some foxing to first and last pages of text. 360pp. Two engravings by Francis Hayman (inc.frontispiece). 
Price: 29.00 GBP
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58 Addleshaw, G.W.O. The Pastoral Structure of the Celtic Church in Northern Britain (Borthwick Papers No.43)
York St.Anthony's Press 1973 Soft Cover Fair No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Softcover. Cream card covers with titles in red on front cover within decorative border. Condition: Fair to good, covers are lightly shelfworn and soiled, binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. 30pp. 4 b/w plates. 
Price: 8.00 GBP
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59 Adriani, Gotz (ed.) The Books of Anselm Kiefer
London Thames & Hudson 1991 0500092257 Buckram Very Good Fair Folio - over 12" - 15" tall 
Grey buckram with titles in black on front cover and spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fair to good, with general shelfwear and light scuffing, particularly to tail of spine. Now protected by clear removable cellophane jacket. 378pp. 321 colour illustrations. This was the first publication dedicated entirely to the livres d'artiste crated by Anselm Kiefer, one of Germany's most famous contemporary artists. The tradition of artist's books began at the start of the 20th century. Kiefer's works in the medium suspend the traditional connection between picture and text and almost completely eliminate the semantic function, epitomizing the state of this art form today. Heavy book. Will require extra postage costs. 
Price: 275.00 GBP
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60 Agee, William C. And Rose, Barbara Patrick Henry Bruce: American Modernist
New York Museum of Modern Art 1979 0870702602 Soft Cover Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Softcover. Condition: Good with light shelfwear, binding sound, no inscriptions. 227pp. 35 colour plates, 203 b/w illustrations. This catalogue was produced to accompany an exhibition of works by Patrick Henry Bruce, the "rediscovered" American cubist painter, held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in 1979. 
Price: 17.00 GBP
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61 Agogos  Hints on Etiquette
London  Turnstile Press  1951  Pictorial Cover  Very Good  Good  24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall  Brian Robb  
1951 reprint. Pictorial boards. Condition: Very good, book is sound and unmarked. D/J condition: Good, with light sunning to spine, and v.small tear to top of spine. Not price-clipped. 68pp.  
Price: 5.25 GBP
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62 Aldous, Tony Changing Bristol: New Architecture & Conservation 1960-1980
Bristol Bristol Civic Society 1979 0905459156 Soft Cover Fair No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
Softcover. Condition: Fair, effectively good, but covers are quite sunned with light shelfwear. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions.44pp. Many b/w illustrations. 
Price: 7.00 GBP
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63 Aldred, Cyril  Middle Kingdom Art in Ancient Egypt
London  Alec Tiranti  1956  Cloth  Good  Good  12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall  
1956 reprint (first published in 1950) Black cloth, with title in white on spine. Condition: Good, spine lightly bumped. Binding sound, text clean, no marks or inscriptions. D/J condition: Fair, lightly shelfworn, not price-clipped. (there are actually two dustjackets, both the same size, one over the other. Neither quite tall enough (by about 0.4mm) for the book. The underneath jacket is in good condition, the top one in fair condition. 83 b/w plates. In this book, the writer surveys the austere, classical art of the Middle Kingdom in Egypt, from 2300 to 1590 BC. He analyses the character of this art and relates the changes in style to developments in the social, religious and political background of the period. This is the fifteenth volume in the "Chapters in Art" series.  
Price: 9.95 GBP
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64 Alexandre (intro.), Arsene Puvis De Chavannes
London George Newnes Ltd. Hard Cover Fair No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
No date, but c.1910. Pale purple paper covered boards with titles in gilt on white linen spine. Condition: Fair, cover edges are sunned, and spine lis lightly bumped, binding sound, prize bookplate on front pastedown. Endpapers browned. Text bright and clean.9pp.intro. 64 b/w plates plus frontispiece (frontispiece is foxed and tissue guard loose) 
Price: 10.00 GBP
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65 Alford, Dean The New Testament for English Readers, Vol.I, Part I
London and Cambridge Rivingtons & Deighton Bell & Co. 1863 Cloth Fair No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Maroon pebbled and blindstamped cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: Fair, covers are lightly shelfworn and rubbed, particularly spine, both hinges cracked but holding, previous owners name on half-title. Text clean with some pages unopened. Folding map frontispiece illustrating the "Journeyings of our Lord". 452pp. 
Price: 16.00 GBP
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66 Alington, C.A. Ten Crowded Hours
London Macdonald Cloth Good Fair 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
No date, but inscription on fep is dated 1943. printed to war economy standard.Red cloth with titles in black on spine. Condition: Good, with light bumping to cover edges. Binding sound. Previous owners name on fep, otherwise text clean. Dustjacket condition: Fair, generally shelfworn around edges with sunning to spine. Not price-clipped. 152pp. 
Price: 9.00 GBP
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67 Allan, A.D.H. The Naiad and Other Poems
London John Ouseley Ltd. Cloth Fair No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
No date, c.1910. Condition: Fair, covers are in good condition, binding sound, endpapers are browned, and text quite foxed throughout. Tilley's Library, Wimborne, is stamped in black at base of fep, no other library marks. 87pp. Good reading copy. 
Price: 9.00 GBP
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68 Allen, Joseph Battles of the British Navy, Vols.I And II
London Henry G.Bohn 1852 Hard Cover Poor No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
Olive green cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: Poor, on Vol.1, both boards and spine are virtually detached from the text, and held together with a strip of sellotape, on Vol II. the upper layer of the spine is missing and both boards are still attached, but loosely. In both volumes the text is still holding firmly together. Previous owners name on fep of Vol.II. 527 & 604pp. respectively. 
Price: 30.00 GBP
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69 Allott, Kenneth The Ventriloquist's Doll
London The Cresset Press Cloth Fair Poor 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall 
No date, but c.1945. Cream cloth, with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: Fair, cover edges lightly sunned, corners and spine bumped. Endpapers lightly foxed. No inscriptions. Binding sound, Occasional light foxing to last few pages, otherwise text clean. Dustjacket condition: Poor, generally soiled, with some chips and tears. Not price-clipped. 64pp. A collection of twenty-three poems by Allott, including City Nocturne and Elegy, as well as the Ventriloquist's Doll. 
Price: 6.95 GBP
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70 Alphen, Ernst Van Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self
London Reaktion Books 1998 0948462345 Soft Cover Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Softcover. Reprint of the 1992 first edition. Condition: Good, light bending to corners of front cover. Slight wear around edge of front cover. 208pp. 123 illustrations, 25 in full colour. 
Price: 9.00 GBP
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71 Amery, Colin and Curran, Brian  The Lost World of Pompeii
London  Frances Lincoln  2002  0711219664 Hard Cover  Fine  Fine  4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall  
Maroon hardcover. Condition: Fine, binding sound, text clean, no marks or inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fine. 191pp. "Richly illustrated with historical images and new images of the city by acclaimed photographer Chris Caldicott, this book tells the story of the ghosts of a bygone era raised from the ashes".  
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72 Amstutz, Walter (ed.) Japanese Emblems and Designs
Zurich, Switzerland Amstutz De Clivo Press 1970 Hard Cover Good Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Off-white hardcover with emblem in orange-red of entwined herons on front cover and titles on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear. Fep is lightly rubbed at top corner where previous price has been rubbed out. Binding sound, text clean, no marks or inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good, although the protective clear plastic cover over the jacket is chipped and torn at the bottom corner of the front cover.176pp. The text of this book is printed in four European languages (English, French, German and Italian) and Japanese. 900 Japanese emblems and other designs are presented in this book, acting almost as a dictionary of design forms for use and adaptation by cratsmen and designers. Also included in the book is a section of designs by the artist Hokusai. 
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73 Anderson, William J. And Stratton, Arthur The Architecture of the renaissance in Italy
London Batsford 1927 Cloth Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Fifth edition. Red cloth, with titles in gilt on cover and spine. Condition: Good, binding sound, covers lightly rubbed, spine lightly sunned, endpapers browned, previous owners name in pencil on fep. Ninety b/w plates and fifty illustrations within the text. 316pp. 
Price: 15.95 GBP
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74 Andrews, Keith (intro.)  Italian 16th Century Drawings from British Private Collections
Edinburgh  Scottish Arts Council  1969  Soft Cover  Good  No Jacket  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall  
Softcover. Condition: Good, although covers and spine are lightly sunned, with light shelfwear. Internally very good, no marks or inscriptions. Plates have very light sunning to edges. 47pp. plus 65 b/w plates. Good reference copy. This catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition held at The Merchant's Hall, Edinburgh from August to September 1969.  
Price: 9.00 GBP
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75 Annan, Noel Leslie Stephen
London MacGibbon & Kee 1951 First Edition Cloth Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Pale brown cloth with titles in copper gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear. Previous owners name on fep (Charles E.Wyzanski, Jr - legal consultant to the Franklin Roosevelt presidency).and occasional neat notes within text. 342pp. 
Price: 7.50 GBP
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76 Anouilh, Jean Dinner with the Family
London Methuen 1958 Hard Cover Good Good 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
Text is in English (translated from the French by Edward Owen Marsh). Red hardcover with titles in silver on spine. Condition: Good, with light browning to endpapers. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good, still bright front cover of jacket with light shelfwear and light sunning to spine and rear cover. Not price-clipped. Jacket design by Harry More-Gordon. 
Price: 9.00 GBP
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77 Ansted, D.T. In Search of Minerals (Natural History Rambles series)
London Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1895 Cloth Fair No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
Red cloth with titles in black on front cover and in gilt and black on spine. Condition: Fair, spine and top of cover edges are lightly sunned, light browning to text edges throughout. Binding sound, inscription to previous owner on reverse of fep. 282pp. plus publishers list. Several b/w engraved illustrations within text. Includes chapters on minerals and their homes, precious gems and useful non-metallic minerals. 
Price: 28.00 GBP
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78 Anstey (ed.), F. A Bayard from Bengal
London Methuen 1902 Cloth Fair No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Bernard Partridge 
Green cloth with titles in gilt on spine and in white on front cover with b/w image pasted onto front cover. Condition: Fair, covers have generaly shelfwear and bumping to spine and cover corners. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown, and another name on fep. Light browning to endpapers.Binding cracked in one place internally, otherwise sound. Frontispiece loose. 137pp. plus publishers list. 8 b/w plates, inc. frontispiece. Good reading copy. 
Price: 9.00 GBP
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79 Armfield, Constance and Maxwell The Flower Book, Being a Procession of Flowers Passing from a Meadow & Coppice Through the Hedge to the Garden Pool and Herb Patch
London Chatto & Windus 1910 Hard Cover Fair No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Maxwell Armfield 
Two thirds floral design paper covered boards with grey cloth spine. Title in gilt on spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. Pages untrimmed. Condition: Fair, covers are generally shelfworn with rubbing to spine and cover corners. Front hinge cracked but holding, binding otherwise sound.Browning to endpapers. Previous owners name in ink on fep and a couple of numbers in pencil on fep and title page. Light browning to edges of text and plates. 153pp. Text by Constance Armfield and illustrations by Maxwell Armfield. 18 colour plates plus frontispiece and decorated title page. 
Price: 25.00 GBP
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80 Armstrong, Martin Laughing: Being One of a Series Edited By J.B.Priestley and Entitled "These Diversions"
London Jarrolds 1928 Cloth Fair Poor 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
Brown cloth, with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: Fair, cover corners and spine bumped, particularly front cover, top right. Endpapers browned, no inscriptions. Light soiling to the edge of the reverse of frontispiece, and more so to p.86. (last full page of text). 87pp.Dustjacket condition: Poor, spine is sunned, with generaly light soling and sunning to covers and a couple of small chips and tears. Good reading copy. 
Price: 8.00 GBP
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81 Arnold, Dana The Georgian Country House: Architecture, Landscape and Society
Stroud, Gloucestershire Sutton Publishing 1998 0750915900 Hard Cover As New As New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Blue hardcover with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: As new, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: as new. 210pp. 
Price: 20.00 GBP
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82 Artmonsky, Ruth A Snapper Up of Unconsidered Trifles: A Tribute to Barbara Jones
London Artmonsky Arts 2008 0955199441 Cloth As New Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Black cloth with titles in silver on spine. Condition: As new, binding sound, text clean. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with light shelfwear to head and tail of spine. 142pp. Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w. Barbara Jones was a "jobbing" artist, who turned her hand to making murals, designing exhibition displays and creating dustjackets, amongst other things. She also curated Black Eyes & Lemonade, the Festival of Britain exhibition of "unsophisticated " arts such as the artefacts of seaside memorabilia, tattoo parlours and public house. She also wrote a number of books on her enthusiasms for the eccentric - The Unsophisticated Arts, Design for Death and Follies and Grottoes. 
Price: 25.00 GBP
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83 Astbury, Anthony  Just the Two of Us: Verse and Prose Poems Selected By Geoffrey Godbert
London  Only Poetry  1981  Soft Cover  Very Good  No Jacket  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall  Signed by Author
Blue softcover with titles in black on front cover and spine. Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear. Inscribed to the previous owner by the author on the title page. 75pp.  
Price: 9.00 GBP
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84 Astbury, Anthony  Verses
London  Only Poetry  1988  Soft Cover  Good  No Jacket  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall  Signed by Author
Softcover. Cream card covers with titles in black on front cover. Condition: God, with very light soiling and shelfwear. Inscribed by the author to the previous owners on the fep. 23pp.  
Price: 9.00 GBP
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85 Attenborough, Sir David (intro.) Gabriele Koch
Marston Magna, Yeovil Marston House, in Association with the Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne 2002 1899296166 Hard Cover As New As New 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Second edition. Black cloth, with titles in silver on spine. Condition: As new apart from neat pencil ticks and crosses next to some of the images, hence reasonable price. Dustjacket condition: As new. Introduction, appreciation of the artist by Tony Birks and a descriptions by Gabriele Koch of her working methods are in both English and German. Unpaginated. Profusely illustrated in colour throughout. 
Price: 15.00 GBP
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86 Auden, W.H. Selected Poems (No.39 in the Faber Library series)
London Faber and Faber 1938 Cloth Good Fair 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
Second impression. Red cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. Light foxing to endpapers. Dustjacket condition: Fair, generally lightly shelfworn, particularly head and tail of spine. Some sunning to spine. Not price-clipped. 128pp. 
Price: 25.00 GBP
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87 Austin, Stanley The History of Engraving, from Its Inception to the Time of Thomas Bewick
London T.Werner Laurie Cloth Fair No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
No date, but c.1910. Green cloth with titles in black on front cover and in gilt on spine. Condition: Fair to good, covers are lightly shelfworn and soiled. Light foxing to endpapers. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. 200pp. Eighteen sepia illustrations. 
Price: 9.00 GBP
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88 Azema, M.A. The Conquest of Fitzroy
London Andre Deutsch 1957 Hard Cover Good Poor 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Blue hardcover with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, binding sound, some browning to endpapers. No inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Poor, several chips and tears with rubbing and soiling. Not price-clipped. 237pp. 19 b/w photographic illustrations. This is the account of the successful attempt by a French expedition led by Dr.Azema to reach the summit of Mount Fitzroy in the Patagonian Andes in February, 1952. 
Price: 14.00 GBP
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89 Bacon, Francis  Essayes or Counsels Civill and Morall
London  J M Dent & Sons  1903  Full-Leather  Good  No Jacket  16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall  
Seventh edition. Olive green leather with image of an owl stamped on front cover in gilt. Condition: Good, covers generally rubbed and worn, particularly spine, but internally very good. Endpapers lightly browned. Image of Francis Bacon facing title page, with tissue guard. 243pp. Edited by Israel Gollancz, part of the Temple Classics series.  
Price: 7.95 GBP
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90 Bacon, Francis The Essays: Colours of Good and Evil and Advancement of Leaning
London Macmillan 1900 Cloth Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Red cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Page edges untrimmed. Condition: Good, although endpapers and textblock edges are quite foxed. No foxing within actual text. Binding sound. Previous owners name in pencil on fep. 422pp. Part of the English Library of Classics series. 
Price: 10.00 GBP
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91 Bailey, Anthony  Rembrandt's House: The World of the Great Master
London  J M Dent  1978  0460120425  Hard Cover  Fair  Fair  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall  
Terracotta colour hardcover with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: Fair, binding sound, text clean, light cockling to top of fep and title page. Small rubbed out mark on last page of index. Dustjacket condition: Fair, generally lightly sunned and shelfworn. Not price-clipped. 246pp.  
Price: 7.95 GBP
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92 Baker, Bob Stranded Juggernaut: The Stranding and Salvaging of the Super-Freighter Elwood Mead
Guernsey Paramount-Lithoprint 1974 Soft Cover Fair No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
Softcover. Condition: Fair, covers have light shelfwear, soiling and sunning. Binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. 72pp. Many b/w illustrations. This book is an account of a dramatic marine salvage operation performed off the west coast of Guernsey in the early months of 1974, which captured international interest. 
Price: 5.00 GBP
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93 Baker, Margaret Noddy Goes a-Ploughing
Oxford Basil Blackwell Hard Cover Fair No Jacket 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall Mary Baker 
No date, but c.1930. Orange hardcover with titles and images of a scarecrow, pig, cats, rabbit and crows on front cover in black. Condition: Fair, covers have light shelfwear, particularly to head and tail of spine and cover corners. Covers are lightly sunned around edges. Browning to endpapers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Beautifully illustrated with b/w silhouettes by Mary Baker. 
Price: 16.00 GBP
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94 Baker, Sir Samuel W. Le Lac Albert: Nouveau Voyage Aux Sources Du Nil
Paris Librairie Hachette 1885 Cloth Fair No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
Abridged after the translation of Gustave Masson by J.Belin-de Launay. NB: Text is in French. Fourth edition. Red cloth with title in gilt on spine and school logo (College de St.Servan, Rennes) stamped in pale black on front cover. Condition: Fair, covers are lightly soiled and shelfworn. Some foxing to endpapers and occasional foxing throughout. 355pp. Four engravings, and one folding map to rear. 
Price: 12.00 GBP
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95 Baldt, Laura I. Dressmaking Made Easy
New York, Toronto, London The McCall Company 1928 Hard Cover Good No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
Pretty colour blocked paper covered boards with green cloth spine and titles in black on green label fixed to front cover and in black on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear and bumping to cover corners and spine. Binding sound, light browning to endpapers. Text clean, no inscriptions.181pp. 
Price: 9.00 GBP
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96 Ballon, Robert J. Marketing in Japan
Tokyo, Japan Sophia University/Kodansha International 1974 0870112007 Cloth Good Fair 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Revised edition, second printing. Purple cloth, with titles in gilt within red label on spine. Condition: Good, binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fair, generally lightly soiled and shelfworn. Not price-clipped. 200pp. 
Price: 12.00 GBP
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97 Bang, Herman Vaerker I Mindeudgave (Vols I-VI)
Kjobenhavn Og Kristiania Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag 1922 Half-Leather Fair No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
Six volumes.Dark red half-leather binding with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: Fair, covers are lightly shelfworn, with light sunning to spines. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown of all volumes. Pencil note on half-title of all volumes. Bindings sound, text clean. All volumes haf silk bookmarks (rather worn). 
Price: 50.00 GBP
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98 Bang, Herman Ved Vejen
Kobenhavn Det Schuboteske Forlag 1904 Half-Leather Fair No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
NB: Text is in Danish. Scarlet half-leather binding with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: Fair to good, spine sunned, covers lightly shelfworn. Previous owners bookplate on front pastedown. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Text is very lightly browned throughout. 269pp. 
Price: 12.00 GBP
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99 Baretti, Guiseppe An Introduction to the Italian Language
London A.millar 1755 Full-Leather Fair No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Contemporary calf binding, with five raised bands to spine and gilt motif with crown in each of the compartments, apart from the compartment bearing the titles in gilt stamped on red leather. Condition: Fair, spine has been rebacked at some point, binding sound. Previous owners name on front pastedown has been partially removed. Some browning to endpapers. Occasional notes within text. Pages 269-273 and 301-327 have small holes to the right-hand side. 467pp. The full title reads: An Introduction to the Italian Language. Containing specimens both of prose and verse: selected from Francesco Redi, Galileo Galiliei, Eustachi Manfredi, Giampietro Zanotti, Annibale Caro, Antonmaria Salvini, Rafaello da Urbino, Baldassare Castiglione, Andrea Navagero, Francesco Guicciardini, Caterino Davila, Niccolo Macchiavelli, Giovangiorgio Trissino, Giovanni Boccaccio, Pietro Metastasio, Lodovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso, Lorenzo Giustiniano, Michaelangelo Buonarotti, Angelo Poliziano, Lorenzo de'Medici, Girolamo Fracastoro, Margherita di Valois, Regina di Navarra, Giovanni della Casa, Lorenzo Bellni, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Milton, with a literal translation and grammatical notes, for the use of those who being already acquainted with Grammar, attempt to learn it iwithout a Master. 
Price: 160.00 GBP
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100 Barham, the Rev.Richard Harris The Ingoldsby Legends
London Macmillan 1913 Cloth Good No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Cruikshank Leech Barham 
Second reprint of the 1898 edition. Dark green cloth with titles in gilt on spine and an image of a small drumming figure in gilt on front cover. Condition: Good, binding sound, head and tail of spine bumped, with light shelfwear. Inscription to previous owner on front pastedown and fep. Half-title browned. Text clean. Top and fore-edge of textblock slightly untrimmed. 546pp. Twenty illustrations by Cruikshank, Leech and Barham. 
Price: 7.95 GBP
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