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BOSHIER, Derek.
16 Situations. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHER.
Imprint: 1971
Binding:
Hardback
Idea Books. 1971. No DW. Slim landscape 8vo. Original white laminated boards, slightly soiled with small portion missing from head of spine. Endpapers browned. "To Philip - Derek Nov 1972." Edges of pages slightly browned otherwise a clean and sound copy. From the library of Philip Oakes Author and literary editor of The Sunday Times.
Stock number: 73325.
£ 150.00 (approx. $US 195.21 ) |
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BOSISIO, JONES, Jenny, SCHUBERT, Camille, GLOVER, Charles, MOORE, Thomas, KNIGHT, Joseph Philip, DEVEREAUX, L, et al.
A BOUND COLLECTION OF SONGS AND AIRS ARRANGED FOR THE PIANOFORTE SOME WITH ILLUSTRATED FRONT COVERS.
Imprint: (c.1850)
Binding:
Hardback
Wessel & Co., C. Jeffereys et al. London. No date, circa 1850. A collection of sheet music - songs, airs and dances, arranged for the pianoforte bound in half green calf gilt. Large 4to. Marbled endpapers. Many illustrated front covers including one coloured chromo-litho. Extremities rubbed, pages browned otherwise a clean and sound copy.
Stock number: 78244.
£ 75.00 (approx. $US 97.60 ) |
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BOSSE, Malcolm.
The Man Who Loved Zoos. FIRST EDITION IN DW.
Imprint: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
Victor Gollancz. London. 1975. First edition. Hardback in DW. Small light mark to front board otherwise a very clean and fresh copy in wrapper.
Stock number: 91062.
£ 25.00 (approx. $US 32.54 ) |
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BOSWELL, James.
Boswell's Life of Johnson.
Imprint: 1898
Binding:
Hardback
Macmillan, London. 1898. Half maroon morocco, over marbled boards. xxiii, 718pp. Marbled endpapers. "The Globe Edition". Hinge partially exposed at bottom of title page, and also at first page of main text. Spine a little rubbed, o/w a clean copy.
Stock number: 84559.
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BOSWELL, James.
Journal of A Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson. Illustrated. (Forming Vol. V of Boswell's Life of Johnson.)
Imprint: 1852
Binding:
Hardback
Office of the National Illustrated Library, London. 1852. Half tan calf with raised bands to spine with gilt decorations to compartments and gilt type to dark tan title-piece; marbled boards. Page edges and end-papers marbled. Illlustrated title-page with frontis. and occasional smaller illustrations throughout. Extremities rubbed esp. head of spine and some splitting beginning from tops of hinges; still a fair copy of a nice edition.
Stock number: 83912.
£ 30.00 (approx. $US 39.04 ) |
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BOSWELL, James.
The Life of Samuel Johnson. Comprehending An Account of His Studies, and numerous works, in chronological order; A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence, and conersations with many eminent persons, and Various Original Pieces of His Composition never before published. The whole exhibitiing a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished. With copious notes and illustrations by Malone. Complete in One Volume.
Imprint: Jones & Co., London. 1829
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
First edition thus. Bound in half tan calf, marbled boards, gilt. 580pp. Edges speckled red. Author portrait frontis. Text in two columns. Index. Extremities rubbed incl. spine now lacking most of gilt + small portion of calf missing from tail. Upper hinge cracked. Small portion of calf and marbled paper peeled from lower fore-edge corner of upper board. Pre-lims foxed. VG-
Stock number: 51501.
£ 40.00 (approx. $US 52.06 ) |
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BOTKIN, B. A.
A Treasury of American Folklore. Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the People. Edited by... With a Foreword by Carl Sandburg.
Imprint: Crown Publishers, New York. 1944
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
First edition. Hardback. No DW. Original maroon cloth, gilt. xxvii, 932pp. Bookplate to front pastedown. Spine creased and slightly soiled, extremities lightly bumped. Contents sound. VG.
Stock number: 53134.
£ 10.00 (approx. $US 13.01 ) |
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BOTT, Alan. (Edited by). CLEPHANE, Irene. (Text by).
Our Mothers. A Cavalcade in Pictures, Quotation and Description of Late Victorian Women 1870-1900.
Imprint: Victor Gollancz Limited, London. 1932
Binding:
Hardback
Large 8vo. Illustrated throughout. 219pp. Original dark blue cloth, gilt. Boards lightly soiled, rubbed and worn at extremities. Endpapers lightly browned o/w VG+.
Stock number: 31485.
£ 8.50 (approx. $US 11.06 ) |
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BOTT, Alan.
The Londoner's England. Contemporary Water-Colours and Drawings from London and the Home Counties. Reproduced by Colour and Monochrome Lithography & by Half-Tone: Assembled and Edited with Descriptive Text by...
Imprint: 1948
Binding:
Hardback
Avalon Pres and William Collins. 1948. Reprint. 4to. Hardback with price-clipped wrapper. Illustrated. Internally clean and sound. Wrapper is worn and grubby and lacks portion near head of spine.
Stock number: 73019.
£ 12.50 (approx. $US 16.27 ) |
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BOTTARI. Brian SEWELL, Notes By... Angus MCBEAN, photographs by...
Earth Air Fire Water. Manzi / Bottari. Italian Institute of Culture, London. WITH AN ORIGINAL SKETCH, SIGNED AND DATED, BY LORENZO MARIA BOTTARI TO FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
Imprint: 1990
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated
Published by The Italian Institute of Culture, London, 1990, to commemorate the opening of Manzi's Restaurant in Docklands, which is adorned by a Bottari ceiling painting. Limited edition of 2,000 copies. Large landscape paperback with wrapps that have a small oblong window to front cover displaying part of the coloured illustration to the limp board beneath. With an original sketch by Bottari to front endpaper which is signed and dated London 90. This is a large copy of one of his cartoons from page 29. Text in English, Italian, French, German and Spanish. 56 plates that include coloured and b/w photographs, some showing the artist at work at the restaurant and also colour and b/w examples of Bottari's works. In addition there are vignettes by the artist under the text plus photographs of the Manzi family in the introductions. Slight browning to the outer margins of the pages otherwise a clean and sound copy of a scarce item.
Stock number: 77539.
£ 150.00 (approx. $US 195.21 ) |
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BOTTOME, Phyllis.
Private Worlds. FIRST PENGUIN EDITION.
Imprint: Penguin Books. Harmondsworth. 1937
Edition: First Edition
Penguin Books. First edition, thus. 1937. No DW. Orange triband Penguin paperback, number 107. Spine sunned, lightly creased and chipped at head and tail, edges of covers worn, pages browned. Generally clean and sound. Loosely inserted is an unfilled-in Penguin business reply postcard to get on John Lane's mailing list.
Stock number: 91239.
£ 50.00 (approx. $US 65.07 ) |
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BOTTRALL, Ronald.
The Loosening And Other Poems.
Imprint: 1931
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated
First edition. Gordon Fraser, The Minority Press, Cambridge. 1931. Patterned blue paper-covered boards. 53 pages. From the library of M.C. Bradbrook, British literary scholar, Shakespeare authority and the first female Professor in the English Faculty of Cambridge University; her signature to front free end-paper.
Stock number: 82085.
£ 8.50 (approx. $US 11.06 ) |
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BOUANT, Émile.
Les Grands Froids. Ouvrage Illustré de 31 Vignette par Th. Weber
Imprint: Librairie Hacette, Paris. 1880
Beautiful prize binding. Full tan calf, gilt tooling, raised bands, contrasting label. Marbled edges an end papers. Armorial crest on upper board from Edinburgh Institution. Lovely illustrations. French text. Bookplate to front paste down. A clean copy in lovely binding.
Stock number: 63409.
£ 75.00 (approx. $US 97.60 ) |
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BOUBLIK, Vlastimil.
The Art of Make-Up for Stage, Television and Film. Translated from Czech by Bohuse Cernohorska-Volfova. Line drawings by A. Michalcik.
Imprint: Pergamon Press. London. 1968
Edition: First Edition
First edition. DW. Profusely illustrated with photographs and drawing. Near Fine in wrapper.
Stock number: 30971.
£ 10.00 (approx. $US 13.01 ) |
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BOUCHER, Anthony.
Exeunt Murderers. The Best Mystery Stories of Anthony Boucher. Edited by Francis M. Nevins, Jr. & Martin H. Greenberg.
Imprint: 1983
Southern Illinois University Press. Carbondale. 1983. DW. Early edition, thus. A lovely clean copy in wrapper with very lightly sunned spine that has very slight wear to head.
Stock number: 90840.
£ 35.00 (approx. $US 45.55 ) |
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BOUCHER, Anthony.
Nine Times Nine. A Sister Ursula Mystery.
Imprint: 1986
Edition: First Edition
International Polygonics Ltd. New York. 1986. First edition thus. Paperback. Slight shelfwear otherwise a very clean and fresh copy.
Stock number: 90214.
£ 20.00 (approx. $US 26.03 ) |
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BOUCHER, Alan, translated by.
Tales from the Eastfirths. with a special introduction by Oskar Halldorsson. Iceland Review Saga Series.
Imprint: Iceland Review, Iceland. 1981
Edition: First Edition
First Edition thus, in this English translation. Paperback. 96pp. Nice bright copy with sl. wear to extremities. VG.
Stock number: 56001.
£ 12.00 (approx. $US 15.62 ) |
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BOULGER, Demetrius Charles.
The Life of Sir Stamford Raffles.
Imprint: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
Pepin Press, Amsterdam. 1999. First edition thus. Hardback with DW. Illustrated. 403pp. Reprint of 1897 edition. Spine somewhat warped. outer edges a little grubby, but o/w a clean copy.
Stock number: 81538.
£ 15.00 (approx. $US 19.52 ) |
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BOULLE, Pierre. Translated from the French by Xan Fielding.
Monkey Planet.
Imprint: 1966
Edition: First Edition
Penguin Books. 1966. First Edition thus. Penguin Paperback. Covers are partially browned and a little worn, the spine is lightly sunned. Pages are browned o/w contents are clean and sound.
Stock number: 76708.
£ 25.00 (approx. $US 32.54 ) |
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BOULLE, Pierre.
Monkey Planet. FIRST P/BK EDITION.
Imprint: 1966
Edition: First Edition
Penguin Books. Harmondsworth. 1966. First edition in p/bk, UK. Pages and covers browned, slight shelfwear to covers otherwise a clean and sound copy.
Stock number: 89012.
£ 15.00 (approx. $US 19.52 ) |
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BOULOISEAU, Marc.
Délinquance et Répression. Le Tribunal Correctionnel de Nice (1800 - 1814). Commission D'histoire Économique et Sociale de la Révolution Française. Mémoires et Documents XXXVII.
Imprint: 1974
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. 1974. Large format Paperback. 313pp. Cover sl. creased and faded o/w a good copy. FRENCH TEXT.
Stock number: 55466.
£ 25.00 (approx. $US 32.54 ) |
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BOULTON, W.S. (Editor).
Practical Coal-Mining by Leading Experts in Mining and Engineering. In Three Volumes.
Imprint: 1910
Binding:
Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated
Gresham, London. 1910. 3 vols. Large 8vo. Hardback, no DW issued. Green cloth boards, black morocco backstrips, gilt type. Marbled edges. Colour frontis to each volume, with b&w illustrations thoughout. Vol.1: 348pp. Vol 2: 404pp. Vol.3: 448pp. Boards very sound, with a little bumping and some marks. Endpapers grubby in all three vols, previous owner's signature to title page of vol.1, but overall a very clean and bright set.
Stock number: 82398.
£ 120.00 (approx. $US 156.17 ) |
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BOURKE, Lorraine.
Crossing the Rubicon. Bronze Age Metalwork from Irish Rivers.
Imprint: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Department of Archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway. 2001. First edition. 4to. Paperback. Illustrated. Bronze Age Studies 5. Covers a little shelf worn o/w a very clean and fresh copy.
Stock number: 81977.
£ 30.00 (approx. $US 39.04 ) |
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BOURNE, John.
Handbook Of The Steam-Engine. Containing all the rules required for the right construction and management of engines of every class, with the easy arithmetical solution of those rules. Constituting a Key to the Catechism of the Steam-Engine. Illustrated by Sixty-Seven woodcuts and numerous tables and examples.
Imprint: Longmans, Green and Co., London. 1873
Binding:
Hardback
New Edition. Brown cloth, gilt. No DW. Rebound in brown cloth, retaining original backstrip which has been laid down. New endpapers. Some staining to fore-edges edges and some foxing throughout o/w a lovely copy. VG+.
Stock number: 59395.
£ 65.00 (approx. $US 84.59 ) |
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BOURNE, Lawrence R.
The Adventures of John Carfax. A Gentleman of Devon and Sometime Seaman In The British Navy. By.... Illustrated by Rowland Hilder and R. Southern.
Imprint: Oxford University Press, London. 1930
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
First Edition. NO DW. 286pp. Colour frontis + illustrated. Original beige illustrated cloth, black lettering to spine. Spine worn and dulled brown. Small closed tear to outer margin of frontis. not affecting the illustration. Inner hinge cracked o/w contents clean and sound.
Stock number: 63628.
£ 20.00 (approx. $US 26.03 ) |
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BOURNE, H.R. Fox.
The Romance of Trade.
Imprint: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London. nd (c1870)
Binding:
Hardback
Dark maroon cloth, gilt to spine. 379pp. Index. Extremities rubbed and sl. knocked. spine sunned. VG
Stock number: 59506.
£ 35.00 (approx. $US 45.55 ) |
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BOUTELL, Charles.
Heraldry, Historical and Popular. With nine hundred and seventy-five illustrations. Third edition, revised and enlarged.
Imprint: Richard Bentley, London. 1864
Binding:
Hardback
Third edition. Rebound with new red cloth backstrip and new end-papers; red cloth boards, gilt St George to upper board. 547pp. Index. Extremities of boards rubbed. VG-
Stock number: 46619.
£ 25.00 (approx. $US 32.54 ) |
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BOWDITCH, L.
Peter. A Tale of The Great Trek. FIRST EDITION.
Imprint: 1933
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
J. L. Van Schaik Ltd. Pretoria. 1933. First edition. DW. Illustrated by Naomi Lang. Illustrated paper covered boards, worn and rubbed along lower edge, endpapers browned, small neat gift inscription. Pages lightly browned otherwise a clean and sound copy in a worn and torn wrapper that lacks small portions to extremities. SCARCE.
Stock number: 83210.
£ 65.00 (approx. $US 84.59 ) |
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BOWEN, Geraint.
Atlas Meirionnydd.
Imprint: n.d. (c1972
Binding:
Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated
Cyhoeddwyd ac argraffwyd gan Wasg y Sir, Y Bala. c1972. DW. 4to. From the library of Iorwerth Peate with his bookplate to front pastedown and his ownership signature to front free endpaper. Illustrated. 218pp. A nice bright copy with occasional foxing to endpapers in bright wrapper a little rubbed and chipped to extremities. VG+/VG. WELSH TEXT.
Stock number: 69847.
£ 25.00 (approx. $US 32.54 ) |
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BOWEN, John. written by. Illustrated by Kenneth Rowell.
Pegasus.
Imprint: 1957
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
Faber and Faber, London. 1957. First Edition. Hardback. Dw. Slim landscape 8vo. Illustrated. A very clean and fresh copy in slightly stained and lightly worn wrapper.
Stock number: 72424.
£ 28.00 (approx. $US 36.44 ) |
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BOWEN, Marjorie.
The Glen O' Weeping. FIRST PENGUIN EDITION IN DW.
Imprint: Penguin Books. Harmondsworth. 1936
Edition: First Edition
Penguin Books. First edition, thus. 1936. DW. Orange triband Penguin paperback, number 45. Head and tail of spine sunned and chipped, margins of covers also browned. Pages browned and foxed, front inner hinge visible otherwise a clean copy in wrapper that lacks large portions at head and tail of spine and is partially split along joint with front flap.
Stock number: 91277.
£ 30.00 (approx. $US 39.04 ) |
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BOWEN, Elizabeth.
The House in Paris. (FIRST PENGUIN EDITION).
Imprint: 1946
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated
Penguin Books, Harmondsworth. 1946. First edition, thus. Penguin paperback No. 535. Covers are soiled, ownership signature to top margin of front cover and head of spine slightly pulled. Pages are browned, "J256" in ink to front endpaper o/w contents sound.
Stock number: 87862.
£ 15.00 (approx. $US 19.52 ) |
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BOWEN, Joseph.
The Man Without a Head. FIRST EDITION.
Imprint: 1936
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
Covici Friede Publishers. New York. 1936. First edition. No DW. Original black cloth, word and rubbed with light staining. Endpapers and edges browned otherwise a sound copy.
Stock number: 91066.
£ 35.00 (approx. $US 45.55 ) |
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BOWEN, Catherine Drinker.
Yankee from Olympus. Justice Holmes and His Family.
Imprint: 1949
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
Ernest Benn. London. 1949. First edition. Hardback with wrapper. A very good, clean copy in slightly soiled and worn wrapper that is sunned to spine.
Stock number: 37373.
£ 8.50 (approx. $US 11.06 ) |
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BOWLE, John.
The English Experience. A Survey of English History from Early to Modern Times.
Imprint: History Book Club. 1971
DW. 523pp. Inscription to front free end-paper. Wrapper slightly creased o/w internally a clean copy. VG/VG-
Stock number: 61864.
£ 8.50 (approx. $US 11.06 ) |
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BOWLE, John.
Western Political Thought: An Historical Introduction from the Origins to Rousseau.
Imprint: 1968
Reprint. Jonathan Cape, London. 1968. DW. 472 pages. Index. Some sl. discolouration and wear to wrapper.
Stock number: 83539.
£ 10.00 (approx. $US 13.01 ) |
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BOWLES, T. Gibson.
Bowles v. The Bank of England. The Proceedings in Court (from the shorthand writer's notes) and Official Court Documents. With an Introduction by...
Imprint: Butterworth and Co. Ltd. London. 1914
Binding:
Hardback
Large 8vo. xiii, 151pp. + 4pp. of index at rear. Original purple cloth, gilt. Spine sunned, boards soiled, worn and rubbed at extremities, cloth sl. frayed at head and tail of spine. Ownership label and newspaper article tipped in to front endpapers, o/w contents clean and fresh.
Stock number: 29286.
£ 30.00 (approx. $US 39.04 ) |
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BOXER, Arabella.
First Slice Your Cook-book.
Imprint: 1964
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
Thomas Nelson, London. 1964. First edition. 4to. Hardback, spiral binding. Decorative boards, dark spine. Each page divided into three horizontally, the upper section for soups and hors 'oeuvre, the middle section for main dishes and the lower section for sweets and savouries. Unpaginated. Seven pages to rear of sauces, pastry etc, plus table of contents. Boards are slightly marked, spine a little bumped to head and tail, but overall a clean copy.
Stock number: 84359.
£ 45.00 (approx. $US 58.56 ) |
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BOXER, C.R.
Portuguese Conquest and Commerce in Southern Asia, 1500-1750.
Imprint: 1985
Binding:
Hardback
Variorum Reprints, London. 1985. Blue cloth, gilt type to spine and upper board. Very faint ring mark to lower portion of upper board but a nice clean copy of this scarce volume.
Stock number: 90547.
£ 85.00 (approx. $US 110.62 ) |
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BOY'S OWN.
The Boy's Own Book: A Complete Encyclopaedia of Sports and Pastimes, Athletic, Scientific and Recreative. A New Edition, Thoroughly Revised and Partly Re-Written.
Imprint: 1889
Binding:
Hardback
Crosby, Lockwood & Son. London. 1889. New Edition. Thick square 8vo. 726 pages. Illustrated with numerous engravings and illuminated title pages to each section. Original maroon cloth gilt, beautifully decorated to spine. Head and tail of spine crumpled otherwise a remarkably clean and sound copy of a very attractive and informative volume. Includes a short chapter on American Baseball.
Stock number: 88895.
£ 100.00 (approx. $US 130.14 ) |
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BOYAJIAN, Zabelle C.
In Greece. With Pen and Pallette.
Imprint: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London. 1938
Edition: First Edition
First Edition. D/W. Please contact us for further information.
Stock number: 13289.
£ 7.50 (approx. $US 9.76 ) |
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BOYCOTT, Charles Arthur.
Boycott: The Life Behind the Word. The Life and Times in England and in Ireland and The Unusual Family Background of Charles Cunningham Boycott. (SIGNED).
Imprint: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated
Carbonel Press, Ludlow. 1997. First edition. DW. xii + 333 pages. Maps, b/w plates, index. SIGNED presentation copy from the author "Mary (?) with love from Charles A Boycott 22 November 1997". Wrapper spine sunned o/w a very clean and fresh copy.
Stock number: 74651.
£ 35.00 (approx. $US 45.55 ) |
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BOYD, William
Armadillo. SIGNED BY AUTHOR
Imprint: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated
First edition, second impression. Hamish Hamilton, London. 1998. Hardback with DW. 310 pages. Author's signature to title-page. Very clean and sound.
Stock number: 87700.
£ 18.00 (approx. $US 23.43 ) |
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BOYD, A. W. (THE NEW NATURALIST).
A Country Parish. (The New Naturalist No. 9).
Imprint: [2008]
HarperCollins. London. [2008]. Reprint. DW. Illustrated throughout. A beautiful clean copy in wrapper.
Stock number: 86073.
£ 50.00 (approx. $US 65.07 ) |
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BOYD, J. M. & I. L. (THE NEW NATURALIST).
The Hebrides. A Natural History. (The New Naturalist No. 76).
Imprint: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Collins. London. 1990. First edition. DW. Illustrated throughout. Top edge of pages very slightly spotted o/w a lovely clean and fresh copy in wrapper that is sunned to spine and has a small bump to head.
Stock number: 86258.
£ 285.00 (approx. $US 370.90 ) |
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BOYD Tracey.
Tracey Boyd's Nursery Rhymes.
Imprint: Chapman's, London. 1991
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
First Edition. No DW. Laminated boards. Slim 4to. Colour illustrations througout. A Lovely copy. Nr. fine.
Stock number: 66075.
£ 25.00 (approx. $US 32.54 ) |
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BOYLE, Thomas.
Black Swine in the Sewers of Hampstead. Beneath the Surface of Victorian Sensationalism.
Imprint: Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1990
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
First edition, UK. Hardback. DW. 273pp. Nr. fine in slightly worn wrapper.
Stock number: 55470.
£ 12.50 (approx. $US 16.27 ) |
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BOYLE, Jack.
Boston Blackie. MODERN HARDBACK REPRINT.
Imprint: 2013
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
Black Curtain Press. Floyd. VA. 2013. First edition thus. Original black laminated boards, no DW issued. Slight signs of wear to head and tail of spine otherwise a very clean and sound copy. Writer Jack Boyle grew up in Chicago, Illinois. While working as a newspaper reporter in San Francisco, he became an opium addict, was drawn into crime, and was jailed for writing bad cheques. Later convicted of robbery, Boyle was serving a term in San Quentin when he created the character of Boston Blackie.
Stock number: 91037.
£ 20.00 (approx. $US 26.03 ) |
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BOYLE, Gerry.
Port City Shake Down. A Brandon Blake Crime Novel.
Imprint: 2014
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated
Down East Books, Maine. 2014. First Edition thus. Paperback. SIGNED by the author "Best wishes Gerry Boyle" on title page. A very clean and fresh copy.
Stock number: 72967.
£ 25.00 (approx. $US 32.54 ) |
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BOYLE, John Earl of Orrery.
Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift. In a Series of Letters from . . . to his son, the Honourable Hamilton Boyle.
Imprint: A. Millar, London. 1752
The Third Edition, Corrected. Full tan calf, raised bands with small gilt emblem repeated to compartments and gilt lettering to dark red title-piece to spine. Page edges speckled with red. 214pp + Index. Portrait engraving of Swift frontis. Extremities esp. spine ends rubbed. Lacks rear f.ep. Antique inscrip. to head of tp o/w internally crisp and clean. VG
Stock number: 32140.
£ 65.00 (approx. $US 84.59 ) |
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