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Cabell, James Branch. Jurgen. Penguin, London, 1940. Penguin 1st edition. Softcover with Dustwrapper. Pp 247, ads 8. Dustwrapper tanned to spine with very small loss. Covers clean. Pages age toned to edges, tight bright and clean throughout. A very good example of this early Penguin First Edition.

Caldecott, Randolph. Last Graphic Pictures. George Routledge and Sons. 1888. Oblong folio. Original pictorial cloth-backed boards, rubbed and soiled, edges worn. Hinges weak, holding. Pp 71 all coloured Caldicott images. This book included "Scenes with the Old Mickledale Hunt", "A Lovers Quarrel", "The Legend of The Laughing Oak", "The Strange Adventures of a Dog Cart", and "The Curmudgeons Christmas. A little light toning to page edges, not affecting illustrations.The four full page hunting plates of the Old Mickledale Humt are very attractive.

Chinese Students and their Country's Struggle. China Campaign Committee, London. 1938. 1st edition. 8vo. Printed card covers. Pp32. Light age tone to page edges, otherwise tight, bright and clean throughout.

Carpenter. Maurice. The Tall interpreter. London, Meridian Books, 1st Edition, 8vo, pp32. Illustrated card covers by Gordon Barker, with price label to front fold in. Signed and dated by Author 3/4/48. Covers a little bumped but all pages in good order throughout.

Carruthers Gould. Sir F. Froissart's Modern Chronicles 1903-1906. London. T Fisher Unwin. 1908. Wide 8vo approx 180mm x 245mm. 1st Edition, limited number 4 of 50, signed by author/illustrator. Wheat cloth backed blue boards, paper label to front. Pp115 with 51 illustrations as called for. Boards a little bumped and some shelf wear. Early ownership inscription of 1908 on front pastedown. Binding firm and sound, all pages in fine condition.

H C Brentnall and CC Carter. The Marlborough Country. Notes Geographical, Historical and Descriptive on Sheet 266 of the One Inch Ordnance Survey Map. Oxford University Press, London. 1912. 12mo, Soft cloth covers, titles to front and spine. Pp171. In excellent clean, bright and tight order throughout. A scarce item.

Carter, John & Michael Sadlier,: Victorian Fiction, An exhibition of original editions at 7 Albemarle Street, London/January to February 1947. The National Book League. 1947. 8vo approx 215x130mm, xiv,50p. Decorated paper cover. Together with a typed sheet headed from the National Book League from the Director, enclosing an advance copy of the catalogue and inviting the unnamed recipeint to the exhibition. Covers a little aged otherwise in very clean and bright order throughout.

Cary, John: A Map of Cheshire. John Stockdale 26th March 1805. Engraved by J Cary 43x 53cm. Uncoloured. Two vertical folds. Some age toning on map, otherwise good strong print with great detail and accuracy. Excellent condition.

Ch'ien, Hsiao: The Dragon Beards Versus the Blueprints. 'Meditations on post-war culture'. London: The Pilot Press, 1944. 1st ed. Slim 8vo. Recent half cloth over handmade marbled boards, gilt titles to spine. Viii, pp36, pages a little age toned, full page woodcut frontispiece by Leon Underwood. The writer covers areas of thought of Chinese intellectuals over East and West differences of it's time. An interesting commentary given the changes in lifestyle in China in the 21st Century.

Cole, Barry. Moonsearch. Metheun, London. 1968. 1st edition. 8vo. Softcover. PP55. Blue card wrapper, blue printed titles to front and spine. Unclipped wrapper with a little shelf wear to edges and age tone, bumped qat top edge. Foyles bookseller label laid on inside front cover, behind wrapper. All pages tight, bright and clean. A neat book.

COLFER, Eoin. The Supernaturalist. London, Puffin. 2004. Octavo. Ist Edition, 1st Impression. Signed by Author on half title page. Unclipped dustwrapper. Blue Cloth boards, silver titles to spine. Pp291. In fine, as new, condition throughout.

Collins, Capt. Greenville: Netherlands, Untitled chart of Holland, Flanders and Eastern England. Ca 1753. Copper engraved chart. Size approx 600mm x 480mm. Good margins, hand coloured, good impression on heavy paper. Coast line of Flanders at Calles [Calais] to Der Scheling [Terschelling]of the West Frisian Islands and then Eastern England Margate in Kent to Burnham Flats in Norfolk. Much detail is given of the Thames estuary and Rotterdam soundings. Depth soundings and rhumb lines indicated. A compass rose is set at the centre of the Chart. Title cartouche "To the Honourable Sir john Ashby Kt. Admiral of the Blew/ This is most humbly dedicated and presented by Capt G Collins". Some age soiling to edges, one small tear, without loss and repaired to centre fold area. A scarce, attractive sea chart in good, bright condition suitable for display.

Collins, Greenville : Chart of Milford Haven, from Great Britain's Coasting Pilot, ca.1760. Copper engraved chart. Map size approx 560mm x 440mm. Wide margins, hand coloured, good impression on heavy paper, showing the Welsh coast at Milford Haven. Compass rose, rhumb lines, scale. Cartouche with cherub, dedicated to Sir Hugh Owen. Light water stain to top margin just touching printed area, otherwise a very good, bright and attractive chart.

Knight., Damon. Dimension X. Five Science fiction Novellas. Gollancz, London, 1972. 1st Edition. 8vo, Purple boards, gilt title to spine. Unclipped dustwrapper. Pp350. Dustwrapper sunned with some shelf wear. Binding and all pages in clean, bright and tight order throughout. The book includes work by Robert A Heinlein, C M Kornbluth, Richard McKenna, Brain W Aldiss and Isaac Asimov.

Constantine,. David,. Sleeper. The Delos Press Birmingham, The Redlake Press Clun. 1995. 1st Edition Limited, number 63 of 210. Illustrated by Mark Mawer. Large 8vo, Quarter cloth on textured paper boards. Title, Imprint, Full page illustration by Mark Mawer, Dedication, Pp [14], Colophon. Fine illustration, binding and printing, signed by author and artist. In near fine condition. Scarce.

Crane, Stephen, George’s Mother. London and new York, Edward Arnold, 1896, Small 8vo 120mm x 180mm. Blue cloth with Light grey titles to front and spine. Pp185, pp6 publishers adverts. Binding a little shelf worn and bumped, all pages a little age toned to edges, otherwise bright and clean throughout. Published in the year he met his lifelong partner Cora Taylor this work is an example of Crane’s use of realism to expose social ills. Much comment had been made to this work and that of the life of his mother and brother. A good book from this writer who was to die some 4 years later at 28 years of age.

Crane, Stephen. Active Service. London, William Heinemann, 1899. First English Edition pp316, pp32 publishers adverts. Buff cloth with two colour woodblock design by William Nicholson to front back and spine. Binding is a little age toned and bumped. End free end paper removed. Pages rough cut and clean. Active Service published in 1899 is based on the Greco-Turkish War. In the same year Crane returned to Cuba, to cover the Spanish-American War, but due to poor health returned to England. Crane died on June 5, 1900 in Germany. Active Service is his last book to be published in his very short lifetime.

Conway. Litho by W. Crane, Chester. Published by W. Shone. Bangor, ca. 1850. Hand coloured lithograph of Conway Castle and Bridge over the River Conway. Sheet size is approx. 340mm x 260mm and the engraved plate area is approx. 255mm x 180mm. Laid down by publisher. An attractive item with good contemporary colouring in bright and clean condition.

Abergavenny Church. Original hand coloured aquatint etching. Drawn and Engraved by J Cullum. Ca 1840. Sheet and plate size 265mm x 205mm including blank border of 15mm and title Now known as St Marys this Priory was a Monastery of Benedictine or Black Monks, founded in the reign of Henry I between 1100 and 1135. Abergavenny Church is recorded in the poem The Worthiness of Wales written near the end of the 16th Century, by Thomas Churchyard who toured Wales in 1586. This poem, dedicated to Her Most Excellent Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, gives much information respecting the Church and the Monuments. The poem was first published in 1587 and reprinted in 1776. Extensive alterations took place in 1828 and Cathedral and Church architect Gilbert Scott was to comment in 1874 "Few Churches have suffered from decay and injudicious repair than this." Information regarding the alternations would suggest this aquatint was completed after the alternations, the leaded roof replaced by slates being the most… Read More