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TOKYO: SHUBUN INTERNATIONAL , 1982 Blue Cloth Boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 215 x 155 mm approx. [viii] + 266 pp. Colour illustrations by Kobayashi and Takano b/w photos and distribution maps. English Text.3rd Edition 1982. 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 - intact - publisher printed slip giving printing details tipped in to rear blank.No notable defects to book or jacket).

Bloomington, USA: Indiana University Press, 1997 Internal FINE.Large P/b.1997.13 Lessons for child / adult / student / teacher/ layman. 134pp.The Beginning to learn Chinese laminated book.[ Indiana University Press ] Interactions 1 - Workbook [ beginning Chinese].English & Chinese Text. Bright & clean laminate cover, light edgewear, minor crease-line top front corner area. Please see our actual image of the book offered for sale.

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN Ltd, 1931 Publisher's Fawn Buckram Decorative Cloth Boards, 220 x 150 mm approx. viii + 408 pp. Portrait frontis of James I + 12 further plates all as called for First Edition, first print 1931. The discovery and settlement of Virginia under James and Elizabeth I - with appendices of grantees and families under charter/ settlement. VG (Book - a little soiling to spine, no notable shelf wear to cloth, no previous owner name or insc. binding sound). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition.

HOVE , Sussex: WAYLAND, 1988 Illustrated laminated boards, 230 x 165 mm approx. 130 pp. Frontis + 44 b/w illustrations. 2nd Impression 1988. Documentary History Series. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG (Book- A little light general shelf wear. No previous owner name or insc. Binding sound with no other notable defects).

NEW YORK: D.APPLETON-CENTURY CO, 1938 Red cloth boards with black lettering, xxii + 315pp. B/W photo. plts and many diags. in text as expected. The book covers the whole subject of model railroading from tinplate or ready made equipment to the more complicated gague and scale outfits operated by confirmed model railroad enthusiasts. Accaimed as the definitive and most practical volume on model railroading at the time of publication. VG+/VG- (book- no previous owner name or insc. A little offset browning to endpapers. D/J- 20mm approx tear with associated creasing to top front near spine fold. 3 chips of approx 10x 5mm aropund head and less significant areas of loss at corners and tail of spine. Now in proprietary protective wrapper).

GUIST BOTTOM DERBYSHIRE: THE LARKS PRESS, 1990 Illustrated card covers (Paperback) 205 x 145 mm approx. [ii] + 58 pp. 18 b/w photo illustrations on 8 pp of glossy plates + 2 illustrations in line BY Robert Yaxley. First Printing 1990 (1,000 copies). Erratum slip pasted to inside cover.Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Near Fine (Covers - negligible shelf wear/ soiling. Contents - clean with no previous owner name or annotations. No notable sign of use).

LONDON: HAMISH HAMILTON, 1993 Illustrated laminated boards, 255 x 170 mm approx. Un paginated 62 pp b/w line illustrations by Quentin Blake. First Edition 1st Impression 1993. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Near Fine no d/j (Book- negligible shelf wear, no previous owner name or insc. No notable defects).

NEW YORK: ST.MARTIN'S PRESS, 1985 Yellow Card covers with black printed titles and dec. 210 x 135 mm approx. 124 pp. Uncorrected Proof First printing 1985 with publisher's printed details slip pasted inside front cover. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG ( Mild shelf wear to covers with uneven fading/ browning bands to front/ back and spine. No previous owner name or insc.).

JAPAN: KAISEI-SHA, 1976 White paper covered boards with titles in Japanese to spine and colour illustration to front cover repeating the design of the jacket. 40 pp. Colour art work by Yonekura with text in Japanese 1976 . If anyone would care to translate the title into English for us so that we can amend our listing we would be grateful. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Very Good (Book a little general shelf wear and soiling with some dust/ dirt ingression soiling to some leaves. No previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket- mild to moderate shelf wear and soiling with a few small nicks, cover price Y980)

London: THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION / Phillimore, 1972 Blue card covers, 24pp. 1972 reprint. Results of a survey conducted during the summer of 1971 of , then recent and forthcoming , publications relating to record sources for the Study of English and Welsh Local History; of those in active preparation, of earlier publications then still in print , with addresses from which they may be obtained. Near Fine (No notable defects, clean staples , No previous owner name or insc.) Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.

London : C ARTHUR PEARSON Ltd, 1925 Thick annual-book style format.Undated c. 1925. Published for the Boy Scouts movement.with contributions by Rt Hon Ramsay MacDonald , Sir Robert Baden Powell , HG Ponting , Ian Hay etc. - Artist illus by W Heath Robinson , C Crombie , Tony Sarg, GE Studdy etc - & Poems by Sir Owen Seaman, John Oxenham etc [includes - The Rubaiyat of the Panel Doctor] 168pp. OLive green spine , plain green card board rear with light markings , green illus front cover shows head of a Boy Scout with contributors listed beneath. the front cover has speckled colour rub/loss , some ink marks over the listed names,edgewear rub/loss to the card , the spine is complete. No inscsp or annotation.sound copy.Dusty edges. Uncommon. PLS See our images.

London : COLLINS, 1942 VG H/B in Good D/j.2nd. author GM Young has penned many brilliant Historical Studies. brown /white decorative boards with matching D/j , Britain In Pictures Series, illustrated 12 colour plates and 16 b/w , This essay brings theory and practice together and shows Parliment as it is of today [ in 1940's] [ no inscsp , tight bindings, clean throughout ] Dust Jacket not clipped , still shows a price, in ink, of 4/6 , light fox browning , mild edgewear col/rub-loss. Please see our image of the actual book offered for sale.

London : HUTCHINSON & CO, 1985 This book is both compulsively readable and a classic travel book of rare distinction.442pp. blue boards , silver titles. Different Maps to both end-papers. Illust. by Salim. With its magical evocation of the past & the present , of far-off lands & peoples,of vivid skies 7 bizarre floea & fauna. Near Fine/ VG+ (book- clean throughout, no inscp. tight binding, no notable defect] Dust Jacket not price clipped , no loss, no crese, spine fade. Please see our actual image of the book offered for sale.

Bognor Regis, West Sussex: ARUNDEL PRESS, 1950 Green Cloth Boards with gilt titles to spine, 190 x 130 mm approx. Illustrated end papers, 126pp. Frontis b/w aerial photo of village+ 11 illustrations by Grimes as called for. First Edition 1950. These country jottings of Flansham, a West Sussex Hamlet, originally appeared in the Glasgow Evening News near the end of the War and being everyday country life in and around Hoe Lane. VG/VG (Book- No notable shelf wear or soiling to cloth, No insc. No notable defects] Dust Jacket- not price clipped 7/6, a little rubbed to extremities with minor chips to colour at head and tail of spine. No notable soiling.Now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.

CHICHESTER: PHILLIMORE , 1983 Grey Boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 250 x 190 mm approx. Illustrated end papers, xx + 296 pp. Frontis Map + 26 line figs in text and 101 b/w photo illustrations on 48 pp of glossy plates all as called for. First Edition 1983. Very Good/ Near Fine (Book- mild general shelf rubbing to boards, no previous owner name or insc. Paper of text block slightly but evenly tanned. Dust Jacket price clipped. In a removable proprietary protective sleeve.Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. No other defects to book or jacket- No jacket fade - taking image lightens jacket colours

LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN, 1983 Full Brown Morroco Leather boards with five raised bands gilt lettering and decs to spine and gilt framed border to front and rear boards in slip case with matching leather fore edges, brown silk endpapers to book and silk marker, all edges gilt, x + 221pp. 27 b/w photo. illustrations as called for.First Edition 1983 in a presentation binding.Centenial History of STC established in 1883 as an agency of the giant American Company Western Electric to market the Telephone, barely 7 years after it had been patented by Alexander Graham Bell. The copy offered by us is inscribed to Alex Park one of the directors in February 1983 by the author on the title page. There is also a typed list of the Directors of STC at the time of the Centenary tipped onto the reverse of the front free end paper and opposite on the front blank the entire board including the Chairman and Chief Executive Sir Kenneth Corfield; HRH Prince Michael of Kent, Lord Keith of Castleacre, Lord Penney… Read More

LONDON: GARDNER DARTON & CO , 1896 Publisher's blue cloth boards with dark blue blocked decoration and gilt blocked titles, 210 x 160 mm approx. Top edge gilt, others uncut, xx + 280 pp + 16 page publisher's catalogue. Frontis with tissue guard, title page illustration + all other b/w illustrations as listed by Gordon Browne + a few other unspecified chapter end pieces. Introduction by Charlotte M. Younge. First Thus 1896. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Fair no d/j (Book- restoration work - new head cap with best match book cloth. Moderate to heavy general shelf wear with some general shelf soiling, mild foxing to end papers and prelims and offset browning to free end papers. Occassional spotting from dust ingression and light marginal soiling to some leaves. No previous owner name or insc. Binding sound). ,

LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO, 1908 Burgundy Cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine and crest to front, 230 x 150 mm approx. xvi + 208 pp. Portrait frontis with tissue guard + 15 other b/w photo illustrations all as called for First Published in 1908 the copy offered is of the 4th Imp. in Oct of the same year. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Fair no d/j (Book- Heavy shelf wear to cloth at extremities with soiling and fading to spine. Browning to end papers from the laying in of numerous subject related newsprint articles and boards floppy from consequential straining/ use. However sewing and tapes holding with no cracks to end papers. Pencil previous owner names to free front end paper. No annotations. No other notable defects. A sound reading / reference copy).