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+viii pp Publisher's advertisements to rear. 2 photographic plates. Boards bright and tight. Neat ownership name to front endpaper and browning to guttering. Very Good in edge-torn original dustwrapper. Methuen's monographs on biological subjects.

First Edition thus (previous edition in 1886 not credited in this volume). Very Good, clean tight condition with only a hint of rubbing to spine head/tail/edges. Fine prize-binding by Bickers & Son of Leicester Square, with their ink pallet on the verso of the front endpaper, in full maroon polished calf, the spine divided into six panels with tooled raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with gilt compartments. The covers with gilt borders and an armorial crest for the Grammar School, Loughborough, with marbled endpapers and gilt edges. Associated bookplate "The Grammar School, Loughborough" to front pastedown (unnamed, 'First in Form Prize for VI Lower'). Essays accompanied "with twelve portraits in permanent photography" including Washington Irving, Charles Lamb, Thomas de Quincey, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Matthew Arnold, John Morley, James Russell Lowell, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Babington Macaulay, James Anthony Froude, Edward A. Freeman, William Ewart Gladstone.

UK 1st Edition / 1st Printing with complete numberline 1-9 to copyright page. Very Good, clean, tight,unread condition. No inscriptions. Issued simultaneously in hardcover and French-flap card covers, this is the card cover (paperback) variant.Sebald's novel of linked narratives that investigate "the vertiginous unreliability of memory," the first in the trilogy also including The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. The last book published in English by the author before his untimely death in 2001.

UK 1st Edition / 1st Printing with correct numberline "1" to copyright page. Very Good condition, with no inscriptions. In Very Good original dustwrapper which is not price-clipped (Published price £17.99)

1st Edition / 1st Printing, 1989. Very Good condition with minor signs of use including a thumb 'crinkle to lower edge of 1st pages. No inscriptions or price stickers.
Master of Dreams, "Sound and Fury" - Morpheus faces off with Dr. Destiny for the final piece of the Dream King's objects of power--the Dreamstone. Warring across the landscape of The Dreaming, the two beings wage psychological war.

1st Edition / 1st Printing, 1990. Very Good condition. No inscriptions or price stickers.

1st Edition / 1st Printing, 1994. Very Good condition. No inscriptions or price stickers.
Scarce special HIV / AIDS Awareness & Prevention Issue.

1st Edition / 1st Printing, 1989. Very Good condition with minor signs of use, including corner creases. No inscriptions or price stickers.
Master of Dreams Part 2, "Imperfect Hosts" - Morpheus returns to his realm, The Dreaming, and finds it is in very bad shape after his seven decade long absence and worst of all, he doesn't have the power to restore it as he has lost his three power items: the ruby, the helm and the pouch of sand. He called upon the Furies to tell him their whereabouts and is given a clue to find each one, and so begins his journey to reassert himself as Dream of the Endless.

1st Edition / 1st Printing, 1991. Both issues are in Very Good condition. No inscriptions or price stickers.

UK 1st Edition / 1st Printing, with correct numberline 1-10 to copyright page. Very Good+, clean, tight condition, with no inscriptions. In correct 1st state Very Good+ dustwrapper which is not price-clipped (Published price £16.99).
The searing novel by the South African author, winner of the 2021 Booker Prize.

20pp. Near Very Good condition with Brown's Tours, Mansfield inkstamp to cover. No other inscriptions or writing. English language. December 1935 illustrated advertising brochure detailing timetable/prices, stadium plan, Olympic village, arts programme, travel arrangements etc for the XI Olympiad in Berlin. Designed to be folded into half to make a smaller format brochure with striking colour illustration by Franz Theodor Würbel with his printed signature to lower left of image. The covers feature the classical-influenced design by Franz Wurbel (b. 1897) featuring an image of a man in gold wearing a green laurel leaf headpiece below the five Olympic rings dominated by the triumphant Brandenburg Gate Quadriga (the four horses leading an ancient chariot sculpted by Johann Gottfried Schadow; 1764-1850) in the foreground with the stylised text below.

Scarce original Menu for this dinner honouring the Olympic Medal Winners. Includes details of the National Sporting Club executives, the Guests of Honour, Toasts, Menu, Alphabetical list of attendees and Table Plans. Loosely inserted is a slip of 'Late Additions' to Table F. Good condition with vertical creases to card covers. No inscriptions.

German language. 41pp. Near Very Good condition. Minor marks to boards. Contemporary attractive owners bookplate to front pastedown. Brightly decorated endpapers with bird and tulip design. Superb hand-coloured illustrations every page by Joshua Leander Gampp. Very scarce and charming Jugendstil title. "In its pathos, its delicacy, and its humour this is one of the loveliest of children's poetry-books, capable of enriching the child's imaginative world and at the same time heightening his feeling for language" / Marvellous dream-like illustrations, pochoir-colored in pastel tones, in the style of Freyhold. "In its pathos, its delicacy, and its humour this is one of the loveliest of children's poetry-books, capable of enriching the child's imaginative world and at the same time heightening his feeling for language" (Bettina Hürlimann, Three Centuries of Children's Books in Europe, p. 262-263)

48pp, including illustrations and advertisements. Very Good condition with a minor strip of sunning to the rear wrapper. No inscriptions.

1st Edition of this attractively produced landscape-format pictorial record of the village of Newton Harcourt in Leicestershire. Signatures of both authors to blank prelim facing title page (No dedications or other inscriptions). Very Good+ clean, tight condition, in Very Good+ unclipped dustwrapper.

UK 1st Edition, 1915. Near Very Good condition, with fading / marks and pinhole to the spine. Internally clean and tight with no inscriptions.
A major collection of Romanian popular legends recorded by Moses Gaster (1856-1934), an eminent folklorist and Hebraic scholar, which includes Gaster's lengthy, highly important, introduction (pages [1]-59) in which he discusses his folk tale migration theory in detail. "In these Romanian popular legends, so strikingly in contrast to the fairy tales of western Europe, one can see evidences of the stage when 'marvelous and wonder-working animals' were implicitly accepted as part of the popular faith . Paganism and gnosticism mix happily. 'The heathen gods, the Christian saints, God and the devil legends, fairy tales, oriental imagery, mystical traditions and astrological lore are all inextricably blended together.' In a sense the collection is mis-titled, for these are actually creation and biblical folk legends in which birds and beasts play a part." - Dorson,… Read More

French language. Good+, complete condition with some dusting to boards and staining to tissue guard protecting the frontispiece. Illustrated with black/white frontispiece portrait, and further plates illustrating manuscripts. Includes lxxiv biography of Baudelaire by Theophile Gautier preceding 349 pp poems / appendix / index. An attractively produced volume.

184pp + iv pp advertisements to rear. Includes 5 photographic plates + further text illustrations. This volume contains bound to the front, a 71pp extensively illustrated advertising/history catalogue for the Harvey Engineering Co Ltd, Scotland Street Engine Works, Glasgow, Manufacturers of Sugar Machinery. Near Very Good condition with rubbing/marks to the rear cover and toning to endpapers.

Booklet containing 9x sepia detachable picture postcards + tissue guards. The cards are all present, and bear advertising for the Hotel-Restaurant - Pension Au Petit Bateau to the reverse. Good condition, with loss to paper covering of lower spine, and creases to some tissue guards. No writing or inscriptions.

Very Good with occasional foxing. 1st Edition. 304 pp.+ Illus half title / frontispiece depicting Gold Panning in Australia, 28 Other Illustated Plates in Text. Patterned endpapers. Neat previous owners name to corner of prelim + original bookseller's label "DB Friend, 77 Western Road, Brighton". A well preserved first edition copy of this collection of twenty-eight essays on aspects of geology, first published in the Scotsman newspaper.