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10001NACHT.
Cologne: Snoeck, 2011. Oblong 4to., pp.87, purple hardcover with decorative inlay, colour plates; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, light bending to boards, extremities slightly rubbed, a very good copy indeed. No dust-jacket.
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1807: FROM EYLAU TO FRIEDLAND.
The Polish Campaign.
Paris: Histoire & Collections, 2007. 4to., pp.144, pictorial hardcover, colour maps and illustrations; near-fine.
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20TH CENTURY BRITISH GLASS.
Antique Collectors’ Club, 2009. 4to., pp.480, blue hardcover, gilt, colour-illustrated; a fresh and near-fine copy, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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5 EASY PIECES.
The Impact of Fisheries on Marine Ecosystems.
Washington/London: Island Press, 2010. Large 8vo., pp.xii,193, pictorial hardcover; a fresh and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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A BARONIAL FAMILY IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND: THE CLARES, 1217-1314.
Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 1965. First edition, 8vo., pp.332,x, red cloth, gilt, folding genealogy; light tobacco odour, a good copy, in good price-clipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed, with wear to edges (now in a protective cover).
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A BEAR CALLED PADDINGTON.
London: Collins, 1958. First edition in a later dust-jacket, small 8vo., pp.128, pink cloth lettered in silver, b/w illustrations; light surface soil to cloth, small pin-hole to cloth over spine, creasing to head and foot of spine, very slight curling to corners of boards, a good++ copy of the scarce first edition, in later price-clipped dust-jacket, which is rubbed with slight wear to edges, with small closed to rear upper edge, else very good and now in a protective cover.
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF D.H. LAWRENCE. Second Edition.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. 8vo.,pp. xvii,626, black hardcover, red title band and gilt lettering to spine, b/w illustrations; lightly toned to margins, light foxing to upper edges of text block, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT OWEN, THE SOCIALIST 1771-1858.
The National Library of Wales. Second edition, revised and enlarged.
Aberystwyth/London: Published by the National Library of Wales, in association with the Press Board of the University of Wales/Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1925. 8vo., pp.viii,90, uncut, quarter beige cloth, lettered in black, with pale blue paper-covered boards, ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, dated 1926, review notice pasted in to front paste-down endpaper; toning to margins of boards and to endpapers, a little foxing within, else very good.
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WORKS OF MAX BEERBOHM.
The Soho Bibliographies series.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952. Tall 8vo., pp.x,60, red cloth, gilt; very good, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which has small closed tear and light rubbing to upper edge.
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A BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE TO 1500
Cambridge University Press, 1957. 8vo., pp.xl,695, green cloth, gilt, top edges green, b/w frontispiece; neat ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, foxing to endpapers/prelims, else internally fresh, a very good+ copy, in a complete and unclipped dust-jacket, with closed tear to the front upper maegin, an foxing to the pale paper.
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A BIOGRAPHICAL REGISTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD A.D. 1501 TO 1540, Supplementary Volume.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. 8vo., pp.xxiv,742, grey cloth, gilt; ownership bookplate to front paste-down, otherwise internally clean, a near fine copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, with light sunning to spine, one small closed tear and small length of scotch-tape reinforcement to upper margin.
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A BOOK OF AUTOMATIC DRAWINGS.
London: Catalpa Press. Limited edition, no.495 of 1000 copies, folio, paper wrappers with mounted plate, unpaginated, 13 plates + pictorial title, half-title, frontispiece; contents fine, wrappers show light discolouration to margins, with 3cm closed tear to fore-edge of rear wrapper and light chipping to edges, else very good.
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A BOOK OF IDEAS.
Cornwall: Belgrave St Ives Modern & Contemporary Art, 2017. 8vo., unpaginated, printed wrappers, numerous colour plates; very slight shelf-wear to extremities, a near fine copy.
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A BOOK OF MYTHS.
London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, Ltd, 1914. First edition, large 8vo., pp.xv,340, green cloth, black lettering, colour frontispiece, 19 further colour plates; toning to endpapers and to half title, foxing to edges of text block and lightly throughout, hinges working slightly loose, edges cut, light wear to extremities and light bruising to spine, a good + copy overall. No dust-jacket.
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A BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES.
London: Zodiac Books, 1949. First edition, pocket 8vo., pp.64, pictorial paper-covered boards, small b/w illustrations accompany the text throughout; light sunning to spine and margins, a very good copy indeed, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which has a 2cm closed tear to the rear upper margin, and light chipping to extremities, and some light spotting to the pale paper, overall very good.
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A BOOK OF NURSERY SONGS AND RHYMES. With Illustrations by Members of the Birmingham Art School Under the Direction of A.J. Gaskin.
London: Methuen & Company, 1895. 8vo., pp.xvi,160, uncut, pictorial navy cloth, pictorial spine, gilt, t.e.g, decorative Arts and Crafts borders throughout, decorative endpapers; lacks front free endpaper, border to p.80 hand-painted by owner, slight toning and foxing throughout, particularly to edges, lower corners lightly bumped, light rubbing to extremities, light bruising to spine, very slight soiling to boards, overall a very good copy.
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A BRIGHT SHINING LIE. [Two-volume set in slipcase]
John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam.
London: The Folio Society, 2021. First Folio Society edition, two volumes, 8vo., pp.xxv,437;xv,439-998, pictorial cloth, b/w frontispieces, numerous b/w plates, b/w maps; a fine set, in matching pictorial slipcase, also fine.
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A BUSHEL OF MERRY-THOUGHTS.
Comprising: The Terrible Punishment of the Naughty Boys of Corinth; The Exciting Story of the Cat and the Mouse; The Disobedient Children Who Stole Sugar Bread; The Fearful Tragedy of Ice-Peter.
London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1868. Oblong 4to., pp.(iv),14,16,16,16, cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards, plates and vignettes hand-coloured by Busch; foxing to margins throughout, wear to extremities, with loss to paper covering of front board at lower margin, a good(+) copy of this scarce hand-coloured edition. The second title Cat and Mouse appears to be lacking page 13 although there is no sign it has ever been there.
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A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS CHIEFLY RELATING TO THE HISTORY, ART, AND NATURAL HISTORY OF INDIA AND THE FAR EAST,
Followed by a small collection of Oriental miniatures, Drawings, Paintings, and some Arabic, persian, and Siamese MSS. (No.462).
London: Bernard Quaritch. Bookseller’s catalogue, 8vo., pp.119,(ix)adverts, brown printed wrappers, 22 single-page b/w plates plus one folding plate; surface soil to wrappers, rear wrapper with series of light creases to upper corner (last 3 plates have single crease to upper corners), small closed tear to fore-margin of 2 leaves of plates (not affecting printed area), otherwise very good.
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A CATALOGUE OF ENGLISH COINS IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. [Two Volumes] Anglo-Saxon Series.
London: B.A. Sealby Ltd, 1970. Two volumes, reprint, 8vo., pp.xciv,282;cxxvi,544, navy harcover, gilt, b/w plates; very slight shelf-wear to extremities to both volumes, very slight soiling to top edge of both volumes, a very good set indeed, in unclipped pictorial dust-jackets which have small price stickers to internal flap in both volumes, are slightly rubbed, very slightly sunned to spines and with a very slight mark to spine of vol.2 overall both very good.
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