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PRINCES RISBOROUGH: SHIRE PUBLICATIONS, 1974 Blue Boards with gilt titles to spine, 215 x 155 mm approx. 96 pp. 104 b/w illustrations mostly from photos and published by Shire in its "History in Camera" series. Written by then Borough librarian and Curator of Great Yarmouth museum the book chronicles the ships that sailed the sea lanes of the East Coast of England between 1860 and 1935. Of interest to the maritime enthusiast as well as historians. VG/Good (Book- No previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket- 8mm approx tear to bottom rear corner with associated light crease and a little mild general shelf rubbing, not price clipped). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.

London : MILLS & BOON, 1914 Olive Green cloth Boards with gilt titles to spine, 205 x 135 mm approx. viii + 350pp + 32 page publisher's catalogue. Undated circa 1914 "Popular Edition" with 32 b/w photographic illustrations. Contains chapters on County & Test Match cricket, principal grounds in England, Australian Cricket Grounds and social life; winter training- pigeon shooting, university and Public School Cricketers, Warwickshire- the Champion County of 1911, the Philadelphians ,famous players as well as field settings and advice to young players etc. VG (Book- A little general shelf wear and soiling to cloth including 5mm approx. nick to head of spine.No previous owner name or insc. Binding generally sound with no cracks to end papers). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.

London: METHUEN & Co Ltd, 1927 Canvas cloth quarter- binding with Brown Paper covered boards and laid on printed title label, 310 x 250 mm approx, 34 numbered pages. Fourteen Songs eleventh printing 1927. [14 songs include Hoppity , Brownie , Halfway Down ] with line illustrations to margins by E.H.Shepard and full music scores by H.Fraser-Simpson. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Near Fine/ VG ( Larger Slim Book- no inscsps, one small corner rubbing to cardboard ] Dust Jacket 7/6 shows small illus. Buckingham Palace to front & the first music score to Changing Guards at Buckingham Palace, pale cover foxed with light shelf/ handling soil, edge col/rub/ loss max spine top, 3 edge tear-lines max to front cover. Now in clear easily removable glassine cover.

POOLE: BLANDFORD PRESS , 1983 Black Boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 220 x 145 mm approx. 128 pp. 8 pp of colour photos and numerous b/w in text + 14 line figs incl. Nest box details. First edition 1983. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Near Fine/ Near Fine (Book - no previoud owner name or insc. Dust Jacket - price clipped. No notable defects to book or jacket).

LONDON: KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO Cloth boards with red titles to spine and front.190 x 135 mm approx. 430 pp Frontis + 30 other woodcut illustrations as called for. Undated re print circa 1960's. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Near Fine/ Very Good (Book- negligible shelf wear/soiling. No previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket- spine sunned and with a 6 mm tear to fore edge flap fold, non price clipped 40s. No other notable defects to book or jacket).

LONDON: EDWARD ARNOLD, 1946 Brown Cloth Boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 190 x 130 mm approx. viii + 152 pp. 48 line figs. First Edition 1946. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG/VG (Book- No notable shelf wear or soiling to boards, top edge of book block dust soiled, a few light foxing spots to free end papers, conservation repair to tear to one leaf of 5 cm approx. No previous owner name. Dust Jacket - mild general shelf wear/ soiling, price clipped. No other notable defects to book or jacket).

London : Privately Published / West, Newman & Co Printers, 1913 Uncommon. Green Cloth Boards with gilt titles to spine and front board, 190 x 130 pp. Published for Private Circulation in 1913 , x + 66 pp interleaved with blanks. The catalogue was compiled at the request of the owner The Duke of Northumberland in 1912. With a Grade I listing on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens Albury was laid out by John Evelyn in the 17th Century then owned by Henry Howard 6th Duke of Norfolk. G+ (no d/j] Book-apart from end papers the book throughout is VG+ on very clean paper, fading ink inscp. to front end paper, sound binding] Boards- blotch fade to spine, shelf wear to cloth, with no other notable faults). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition.

LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS, 1904 Beige Buckram cloth boards with monochrome printed photographic illustration to front panel and black titles to spine and front. 185 x 125 mm approx. First Edition 1904. Commercial subject related adverts to front end papers. viii + 112pp. 54 figs in text being mainly monochrome photos. Chapters include stable work, Bits, Hands, Side-Saddle Work, Draught Work, The Bearing-rein and Hame-rein, Food and Feeding, Shoeing, The Teeth, the Stable etc. VG Light shelf wear to cloth - mainly colour loss to extremities and light general shelf soiling. Original book seller discreet label to front paste down. A few light foxing spots to end papers. Illustration to p51 has been water colour washed by the hand of a child (not too deleterious- but worthy of mention-see our image) no other notable defects and no previous owner name or insc. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.

LONDON : CONNAUGHT, 2005 Illustrated laminated boards repeating the design of the dust jacket, 270 x 205 mm approx. 96 pp. Illustrated in colour. First Edition 2005. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Near Fine/ Near Fine (Book - no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket- non price clipped - cover £12.99. No notable defects to book or jacket).

London : VICTOR GOLLANCZ Yellow Jacket, 1945 VG H/b. Chpt.1 - Holding Mama's hand tightly I came out of the dark arches of the railway station and into the bright streets of the strange new town. I was inclined to trust Mama, whom, until today I had never seen before...Gollancz Yellow Jacket, 1st printing 1945. 238pp. 190x130mm. VG/Good[ Slim Book- No insc., Sound binding, tanned war-time paper, clean boards] Dust Jacket not clipped, 9/6 to a sunned spine, light shelf wear, fade & soil. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.

LONDON: COUNTRY LIFE , 1951 Red with white titles to spine & front, 225 x 150 mm approx. 28 b/w photo illustrations on 18 glossy plates as called for. A book for gardeners, agricultural student, farmers and horticulturists: written by an arboriculturist with over 30 years experience. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition.VG / VG (Book- offset tan to free end papers. Ink name to reverse of front board, no other annotation, Binding sound. red boards have dusty-fade] Dust Jacket not price clipped 15/- negligible shelf soiling or wear).

NEW YORK: THE CENTURY CO, 1916 Slate Blue cloth Boars with gilt blocked titles to spine and front, 225 x 155 mm approx. xxiv + 406 pp, 400 Illustrations (Per title) in text and on plates, many on glossy art paper of which 7 in colour. First Edition Oct 1916. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG ( Mild to moderate general shelf wear - primarily colour rubbing to extremities, and gilt titles to spine dulled, light bump to bottom front corner, ink blocked name stamp of previous owner to front paste down with erased pencil note under, binding sound with no other notable defects.

LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS , 1910 Red cloth Boards with Gilt titles to spine and front board. 190 x 125 mm approx. [vi] + 212 pp. Frontis b/w photo with tissue guard + 15 other b/w photographic plates as called for.The author was awarded a gold medal by the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society for an Essay on Town Planting which prompted him to write the book now offered and which is quite scarce in it's original published format. Please see our images of the actual book for further details and condition. VG no d/j (Book- no notable shelf wear or soiling to cloth. Offset browning to free end papers and tissue guard with hint of sporadic foxing to prelims and light foxing spots to edges of book block not affecting face of pages. Binding sound with no other notable defects).

LONDON: ELEK BOOKS, 1967 Black boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 220 x 140 mm approx. xii + 116 pp. Many unspecified b/w line and photo illustrations together with 16 patterns. 2nd Impression 1967. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition.Contents include - Material and Methods, Projects and Patterns. Very Good/ Good. (Book- mild general shelf wear and soiling to boards, initials in ink of a previous owner to free front end paper. A few light dust spots to top edge of book block. Moderate shelf rubbing and soiling with 5 cm approx tear to bottom front panel at flap fold. Non price clipped - cover 25s. Supplied in a removable proprietary protective sleeve. No other notable defects to book or jacket).

LONDON: THE RICHARDS PRESS, 1933 Brown Buckram cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine and front, 195 x 120 mm approx. top edge gilt others uncut, viii + 96 pp. 1933 Printing by The Richards Press. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Very Good (Book- no notable shelf wear or soiling to cloth, no previous owner name or insc. A few mild foxing spots to edges of uncut pages. Dust Jacket- a little rubbed with tiny loss at head - up to 4 mm in depth approx. Printed price to spine 3/6. Remains very presentable in a removable proprietary protective sleeve to which a piece of manila paper has been inserted to mask the stark white of the backing paper where loss so as not to offend the eye on the bookshelf. No other notable defects to book or jacket). A very handsome copy.

LONDON: GOWANS AND GRAY, 1907 Illustrated waxed paper covers with flap folds to top and bottom edges in addition to fore edges, (paperback) 150 x 100 mm approx. 8 pp of adverts + 72 pp, Frontis b/w photo.7 pp of text at rear, remainder of book block comprises b/w photo plates. No 15 in Gowan's Nature Books. First Printing 1907. High no to list at front 14 - Animals at the Zoo. Loosely laid in at rear is a letter from the author's widow following his passing in response to a letter of condolence. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good (Usual discolouration to which these pocket books are prone but no chips to covers. Light foxing and browning to text pages. No other notable defects).

LEWES , Sussex: THE SUSSEX ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 1967 DARK BURGUNDY Cloth Boards with gilt titles to spine, 220 x 145 mm approx. xlii +138 pp. all figs and b/w photo. plates as called for. Contents of this vol include:- Excavations at Michelham Priory, Money Mound, Chailey Friendly Society, Linch and its Iron Resources, The Spring Parliamentary Election at Hastings 1640, A Hoard of "Bararous Radiates" from Goring-on- Sea, Memoirs and letters of James Dallaway,Grey Friars' Church Chichester, Notes on the Sussex Family of Savage, A Cowdray Inventory of 1682, The Excavations at Lodsbridge Mill. VG (book- no previous owner name or insc. No notable shelf wear or soiling). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.

LONDON: GOUPIL & Cie / MANZI, JOYANT & CO, 1902 Burgundy Buckram Cloth Boards with Gilt titles to spine and front board, 330 x 265 mm approx.Top Edge gilt others deckle edge. viii + 302 pp.Colour Portrait Colour Frontis with captioned tissue guard + 43 other illustrations as listed save one bound out of place. Published in a limited edition of 1,250 copies - this one is not numbered but marked Presentation Copy. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG (Book- Mild shelf wear, shelf soiling incl. liquid splash marks to spine which is also a little sunned, previous owner book plate to front paste down - Adolphus William Ward late Master of Peterhouse Cambridge and later same family (Maternal side) Sir John and Lady Barnes bookplate to free front end paper (Late British Ambassador to The Netherlands and previously Israel) Offset browning to free end papers and mild to moderate foxing to prelims and occasionally to margins. Tissue guards… Read More

LONDON: FELIX A. NEWBERY, 1924 Illustrated card covers (Stapled Paper back) 245 x 185 mm approx. 28 pp + 32 pp. of contemporary trade adverts. Many unspecified b/w illustrations. Pink centenary appeal slip tipped in. Fourth Year of Issue - Centenary Edition 1924. History of the charity and of it's work and life boats for the first 100 years of it's founding. Presumably the adverts contained varied for the different coastal areas issued. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG (Book- moderate general shelf wear/ soiling to covers, staples a little rusty but binding remains sound with no leaching of rust to centre pages. No previous owner name or insc. and no other notable defects.

LONDON: ANDRE DEUTSCH, 1966 Blue Boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 215 x 170 mm approx. 174 pp,16 b/ photos on 8 pp of plates + 6 line illustrations/ maps all as called for. First Edition 1966. Survival No 7 in Series under the editorship of Colin Willock. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG/VG (Book- negligible shelf wear and soiling, some sporadic foxing to top edge of book block extending to top margin of title page which also has an offset shadow from a piece of paper laid ln, no previous owner name or inscription. Dust Jacket - very mild shelf rubbing to extremities, tiny nick of 2 mm approx to top of rear panel, non price clipped - cover 27s. with residual glue mark from other price label over. No other defects to book or jacket).