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CHEESMAN, Evelyn.
Time Well Spent.
Imprint: 1960
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
First edition. Hutchinson, London. 1960. Hardback with DW. B/w photograph frontis. 224 pages. Tiny chip to DW near tail of spine; a lovely copy.
Stock number: 87601.
£ 30.00 (approx. $US 39.04 ) |
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CHEIRO.
When Were You Born? Your Character Told. Your Tendencies Explained. Your Future Indicated. Your Marriage Partner Selected. From your date of Birth.
Imprint: The London Publishing Company, London. N.d. (c.1925)
Binding:
Hardback
No DW. Portrait frontis. + 5 illustrations. Light grey boards, slightly shelf-worn and grubby, creased to spine and fore-edges lightly foxed. Inner hinge cracked, but contents sound. some "Birthdays in ... (month)" have been filled in. VG-.
Stock number: 65903.
£ 35.00 (approx. $US 45.55 ) |
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CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley.
The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctica 1910-1913. ONE VOLUME EDITION.
Imprint: 1937
Produced by the Author and Published for Him by Chatto & Windus. London. 1937. First reprint of one volume edition. DW. 585 pages. 4 folding maps and 10 plates all present. Slight rubbing to head of spine. Endpapers and edges foxed otherwise a clean and sound copy in a chipped and worn wrapper, lacking 8cm x 4cm portion from top margin of rear panel, has white marks to front panel which may be light paint splashes and is torn at head of spine but has been internally strengthened with tape.
Stock number: 88624.
£ 150.00 (approx. $US 195.21 ) |
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CHESTERTON, G.K.
The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton.
Imprint: 1958
Binding:
Hardback
Methuen, London. 1958. Reprint. Hardback with DW. 403pp. A lovely clean copy in a slightly worn but still attractive wrapper that is slightly chipped to extremities. Outer edge of pages marked.
Stock number: 80657.
£ 20.00 (approx. $US 26.03 ) |
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CHESTERTON, G. K.
The Man Who WasThursday. FIRST PENGUIN EDITION IN DW.
Imprint: Penguin Books. Harmondsworth. 1937
Edition: First Edition
Penguin Books. First edition, thus. 1937. DW. Orange triband Penguin paperback, number 95. A very lovely clean and fresh copy in wrapper that is sunned to spine and slightly worn to front cover. Only faults are that the half title has been stuck down to the inside of the front cover and there is a small French bookseller's label to reverse of half-title.
Stock number: 91289.
£ 35.00 (approx. $US 45.55 ) |
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CHESTERTON, G. K.
The Return of Don Quixote.
Imprint: 1927
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
Chatto & Windus, London. 1927. First edition. Hardback NO DW. Original blue cloth, gilt. Rear board is a little soiled, fore-edges lightly foxed. Endpapers browned and some light occasional foxing to o/w clean and sound contents.
Stock number: 89963.
£ 35.00 (approx. $US 45.55 ) |
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CHESTERTON, G. K.
The Scandal of Father Brown. FIRST PENGUIN EDITION.
Imprint: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Penguin Books. Harmondsworth.1978. First edition, thus. Paperback with delightful photo of Kenneth More as Father Brown. In very lovely condition. SCARCE TITLE.
Stock number: 89877.
£ 25.00 (approx. $US 32.54 ) |
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CHESTERTON, G.K. and WILLIAMS, J.E. Hodder.
Thomas Carlyle. With Numerous Illustrations.
Imprint: 1902
Binding:
Hardback
Hodder & Stoughton, London. 1902. Red cloth with black decoration and type to upper board. Portrait frontis. with tissue guard. 40 pages. A few small rubs and marks to boards, spine sunned.
Stock number: 90985.
£ 45.00 (approx. $US 58.56 ) |
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CHESTERTON, Mrs. Cecil.
Women of the Underworld.
Imprint: Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd., London. N.d.[1931]
Binding:
Hardback
254pp. Original black cloth, red lettering to spine. Upper board very slightly cocked, extremities lightly rubbed and worn, fore-edges foxed. Endpapers browned, prelims lightly foxed, inner hinge visible o/w contents clean and sound.
Stock number: 31140.
£ 30.00 (approx. $US 39.04 ) |
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CHETWYND, T. H.
Poems of the Wye and Herefordshire District.
Imprint: 1937
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
Cornish Brothers Ltd, Birmingham. 1937. First edition. Hardback with DW. The boards are a little soiled and worn. 4 poems in the contents list are partially underlined in ink, the endpapers are lightly foxed and pages are a little browned. Wrapper is very faded to spine and front panel, a little soiled and has a few small close tears to extremities. Overall a good copy.
Stock number: 86794.
£ 85.00 (approx. $US 110.62 ) |
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CHETWYND-HAYES, R.
The Partaker. A Novel of Fantasy. FIRST EDITION.
Imprint: 1980
Edition: First Edition
William Kimber. London. 1980. First edition. DW. Small knock to top of back cover, slight foxing to prelims otherwise a clean, fresh and sound copy in a wrapper with slight signs of use.
Stock number: 88633.
£ 25.00 (approx. $US 32.54 ) |
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CHEVALLIER, Gabriel.
Clochemerle.
Imprint: 1947
Binding:
Hardback
Reprint. Twelvth Impression. Hardback. DW. Ownership signatures to front free endpaper. Contents age browned to margins o/w a nice copy in slightly worn wrapper.
Stock number: 79428.
£ 35.00 (approx. $US 45.55 ) |
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CHEW, V.K.
Talking Machines. 1877-1914. Some Aspects of the Early History of the Gramophone.
Imprint: 1967
Edition: First Edition
HMSO. 1967. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated. Covers a little grubby with small tears to tail of spine o/w generally contents clean and fresh.
Stock number: 75445.
£ 8.00 (approx. $US 10.41 ) |
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CHEYETTE, Fredric L.
Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadors.
Imprint: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
Cornell University Press, New York. 2001. First edition. Large 8vo. Hardback with DW. Illustrations. 474pp. A very clean and fresh copy.
Stock number: 84364.
£ 20.00 (approx. $US 26.03 ) |
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CHEYNEY, Peter.
Dance Without Music.
Imprint: 1947
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
Collins, London. 1947. First edition. Hardback with DW. A lovely clean copy in slightly worn wrapper that is very lightly sunned to spine.
Stock number: 89979.
£ 15.00 (approx. $US 19.52 ) |
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CHEYNEY, Peter.
I'll Say She Does!
Imprint: 1945
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
Collins, London. 1945. First edition. Hardback with DW. Bookplate to front pastedown (hidden beneath wrapper flap) and ages are a little browned o/w a good clean copy overall in slightly worn wrapper with a couple of small close tears and a sunned spine.
Stock number: 89971.
£ 15.00 (approx. $US 19.52 ) |
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CHEYNEY, Peter.
Try Anything Twice.
Imprint: 1950
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
Collins. London. 1950. DW. Second impression of first edition of 1948. Yellow boards slightly mottled, pages lightly browned otherwise a sound copy in wrapper that lacks portions at corners and head of spine and is rubbed to spine and foxed to rear panel.
Stock number: 87141.
£ 8.95 (approx. $US 11.65 ) |
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CHILD, Harold. (Ttranslated and edited with an Introduction by). Illustrated by A. Anderson.
Aucassin and Nicolette.
Imprint: 1911
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
Adam and Charles Black. 1911. London. First Edition. Hardback. No DW. Cream cloth with blue decoration and lettering. 4to. Illustrated with six colour plates. Boards are a little soiled and worn o/w generally a clean and fresh copy.
Stock number: 75019.
£ 45.00 (approx. $US 58.56 ) |
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CHILD, L. Maria.
Lettters From New York. First and Second Series. FIRST UK EDITION IN ONE VOLUME.
Imprint: 1879
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
F. Pitman. First edition thus in one volume. 1879. xvi, 429pp. Original royal blue cloth gilt, spine sl. sunned and extremities a little rubbed, front endpapers sl. worn and soiled with small neat gift inscription dated 1879. Some browning to pages o/w a clean and sound copy of a scarce item.
Stock number: 70999.
£ 50.00 (approx. $US 65.07 ) |
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CHILDERS, Erskine et al.
The Yachting Monthly Magazine. February 1898 (Volume 1 no. 1) and April 1898 (Vol. 1 no. 3) and May, 1898, (Vol. 1 no. 4) Bound together. Contains two articles by Childers.
Imprint: 1898
Binding:
Hardback
Yachting Monthly. 1898. February 1898 (Volume 1 no. 1) and April 1898 (Vol. 1 no. 3) and May, 1898, (Vol. 1 no. 4)Green limp cloth covers, "Cruises" in gilt to spine. 398 pages, illustrated with maps, photographs, illustrations and plans. Folding plates 1 & 4 present. Covers are soiled and a little worn. Some foxing and the occasional stain o/w a nice copy. Scarce. VG. Contains two Erskine Childers articles. How we drifted to the Baltic in a seven tonner and a Month's cruise in Sheltered waters. Childers, famously went on to write Riddle of the Sands.
Stock number: 71626.
£ 150.00 (approx. $US 195.21 ) |
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CHILDREN'S ANNUAL.
Little Folks. A Magazine for the Young. New and Enlarged Series. 1893.
Imprint: 1893
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
Cassell and Company. First edition. 1893. 4to. Original blue pictorial cloth gilt, very attractive, slight wear and sunning to extremities. All edges of pages gilt. Chromolitho coloured frontis. + one other chromolitho with sepia and b/w plates and illustrations throughout text. 427 pages + 8 pages of publisher's catalogue and general adverts to printed yellow endpapers with engravings. A lovely volume.
Stock number: 73314.
£ 20.00 (approx. $US 26.03 ) |
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CHILDS, David and POPPLEWELL, Richard.
The Stasi. The East German Intelligence and Security Service.
Imprint: 1999
MavMillan Press Ltd. London. 1999. Reprint. Large format paperback. A lovely clean copy.
Stock number: 85720.
£ 35.00 (approx. $US 45.55 ) |
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CHILTON, Charles.
The World in Peril. FIRST P/BK EDITION.
Imprint: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Pan Books. London. 1962. First edition in p/bk. Pages and insides of covers browned, covers are creased and worn otherwise a sound copy.
Stock number: 89024.
£ 9.95 (approx. $US 12.95 ) |
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CHINA INTERCONTINENTAL PRESS.
A Selection of Traditional Chinese Paintings.
Imprint: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
China Intercontinental Press. First Edition, thus. Hardback. No DW. Beige textured cloth, black lettering. Large square 4to. Colour illustrations throughout including one large gatefold. Top edge very slightly marked o/w a lovely copy.
Stock number: 80725.
£ 50.00 (approx. $US 65.07 ) |
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(CHINESE ACADEMY OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES).
Karst in China. Institute of Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences.
Imprint: 1976
Binding:
Hardback
Shanghai People's Publishing House. 1976. Hardback with wrapper in slipcase. 4to. Damage to tail of spine and lacking portion from corresponding area of wrapper. The contents overall are clean and sound. The slipcase is a little worn and is partially sunned.
Stock number: 76130.
£ 25.00 (approx. $US 32.54 ) |
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CHINESE ART.
A Song of Nature. An Exhibition of Chinese Flower and Bird Painting.
Imprint: No English date (c.2015)
Publishing details in Chinese. General text in English and Chinese. 4to paperback, filled with beautiful colour reproductions, some folding with one extra loose folding poster at rear. A lovely copy, very clean and fresh with small marks to covers, mainly from the internal glue used by publishers to wraps.
Stock number: 87555.
£ 250.00 (approx. $US 325.35 ) |
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CHINN, Carl.
Homes for People. Council Housing and Urban Renewal in Birmingham, 1849-1999. SIGNED by the author.
Imprint: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated
Brewin Books, Warwickshire, UK. 1999. First edition. Paperback. Illustrated. Large slim 8vo. Flat SIGNED by the author to the half title page. Small tear to tail of spine, price sticker on back cover and corners slighlty creased. Otherwise a lovely clean copy.
Stock number: 90854.
£ 10.00 (approx. $US 13.01 ) |
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CHINOY, Helen Krich and JENKINS, Linda Walsh.
Women In American Theatre. Careers, Images, Movements. An Illustrated Anthology and Sourcebook. Edited by.... (SIGNED).
Imprint: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated
Crown Publishers. 1981. First Edition Hardback. DW. SIGNED presentation copy from Chinoy to Arnold Wesker "For Arnold Wesker and the ... coridally Helen Krich Chinoy... " on half-title page. Also with Wesker's ownership signature to front free endpaper. Illustrated. A very nice copy in slightly worn wrapper that is very lightly sunned to spine.
Stock number: 72743.
£ 12.00 (approx. $US 15.62 ) |
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CHISHOLM, Kate.
Fanny Burney: Her Life.
Imprint: Chatto & Windus, London. 1998
DW. 347pp. B/w plates. Index. VG/VG
Stock number: 63156.
£ 8.95 (approx. $US 11.65 ) |
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CHITHAM, Edward.
The Black Country.
Imprint: 2009
Amberley Publishing, Gloucestershire, UK. 2009. Reprint. Paperback. Illustrated. Large slim 8vo. A lovely clean and fresh copy.
Stock number: 90853.
£ 8.95 (approx. $US 11.65 ) |
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CHIVERS, Keith, compiled and edited by.
History with a Future. Harnessing the heavy horse for the 21st Century. Report of an Investigation Commissioned By The Shire Horse Society. Foreword by HRH The Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh.
Imprint: Shire Horse Society. 1988
Edition: First Edition
First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated. A very nice copy. VG+.
Stock number: 65794.
£ 7.95 (approx. $US 10.35 ) |
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CHOKSEY, R.D. (Editor)
Malwan Residency (Savantvadi Affairs) (1812-1819). Select Documents from the Ratnagiri Collector's Files (Peshwa Daftar).
Imprint: 1956
Edition: First Edition
First edition. Choksey, Poona. 1956. DW. viii+ 144 pages. DW sl. shelf-worn with spine sunned to dull brown but a very clean copy o/w.
Stock number: 90527.
£ 85.00 (approx. $US 110.62 ) |
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CHOKSEY, R.D. (Editor)
Ratnagiri Collectorate (1821-1829). Select Documents from the Ratnagiri Collector's Files (Peshwa Daftar).
Imprint: 1958
Edition: First Edition
First edition. Choksey, Poona. 1958. DW. vi + 213 pages. DW sl. shelf-worn but a very clean copy o/w.
Stock number: 90524.
£ 65.00 (approx. $US 84.59 ) |
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CHOKSEY, R.D. (Editor)
The Last Phase: Selections from the Deccan Commissioner's Files (Peshwa Daftar) 1815-1818. With an Introductory Note on the British Diplomacy at the Court of Peshwa.
Imprint: 1948
Edition: First Edition
First edition. Phoenix Publications, Bombay. 1948. DW. B/w portrait frontis. viii + 262 pages + publisher's ads. DW spine and margins sunned.
Stock number: 90567.
£ 25.00 (approx. $US 32.54 ) |
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CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL H.
Fishing. By... Late Her Majesty's Inspector of Sea Fisheries. With Contributions From Other Authors. Pike and Other Coarse Fish. Fifth Edition Revised.
Imprint: Longmans, Green and Co. London. 1893
Binding:
Hardback
Fifth Edition Revised. Half blue morocco with contrasting orange boards with gilt decoration. B/w frontis illustration with tissue guard and illustrations throughout. Extremities rubbed and chipped, upper hinge visible, various pen signatures to end papers, front free end paper and half title page. Occasional foxing but o/w a nice clean copy. VG-. Part of the Badminton Library Series, Sports and Pastimes, edited by His Grace the Duke of Beaufort.
Stock number: 37015.
£ 45.00 (approx. $US 58.56 ) |
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CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL, H.
Fishing. [In Two Volumes.] Volume I: Salmon and Trout. Volume II: Pike and Coarse Fish by... With Contributions from Other Authors.
Imprint: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., London. 1901/1903
Binding:
Hardback
Vol I: Eighth impression 1901. Vol II: Ninth edition, revised 1903. Illustrated throughout. Original brown illustrated cloth. Boards slightly soiled, extremities worn. Previous owner's first name in ink to front free endpaper of volume 1 o/w contents clean and sound. Part of the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes Edited by His Grace The (Eighth) Duke of Beaufort, K.G. Assisted by Alfred E.T. Watson.
Stock number: 37099.
£ 60.00 (approx. $US 78.08 ) |
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CHOMET, Seweryn.
Outrage At Auschwitz.
Imprint: Newman - Hemisphere. London. 1990
Slim vol. DW. PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR. Illus. VG+/VG+ isbn: 1873106009
Stock number: 33262.
£ 12.00 (approx. $US 15.62 ) |
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CHOMSKY, Noam.
The Chomsky Reader. Edited by James Peck.
Imprint: 1995
Serpents Tail, London. 1995. Reprint. Paperback. Large 8vo. A nice clean and fresh copy.
Stock number: 88367.
£ 10.00 (approx. $US 13.01 ) |
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CHORIER, Nicolas.
The Dialogues of Luisa Sigea. (Aloisiae Sigae Satyra Sotadica de arcanis Amoris et Veneris) Literally translated from the Latin.
Imprint: Librairie Astra, Paris. n.d. (c1949)
Paperback. 302pp. Covers soiled and creased. Contents age browned with creased corners o/w clean. A well read copy. VG-.
Stock number: 63644.
£ 25.00 (approx. $US 32.54 ) |
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CHORIN, Ethan.
Translating Libya. The Modern Libyan Short Story. SOAS Middle East Issues.
Imprint: Saqi, London. 2008
Edition: First Edition
First Edition. Paperback. 238pp. Illustrated. Covers slightly shelf worn. bottom edge slightly bumped which has slightly creased the bottom margin of pages. Top corner of pp.47/48 creased o/w VG+. Scarce.
Stock number: 49627.
£ 12.50 (approx. $US 16.27 ) |
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CHRISTENSEN, Erwin O.
Primitive Art.
Imprint: Bonanza Books, New York. 1955
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated
First edition, thus, US. DW. Square 4to. 384pp. Illustrated throughout. From the library of Margaret Stutley, a writer on religion and esoterica with her ownership signature to front free endpaper. Cloth backstrip discoloured o/w VG/VG in nicked and creased wrapper that is lightly sunned to spine.
Stock number: 56378.
£ 20.00 (approx. $US 26.03 ) |
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CHRISTIANSEN, Rex & MILLER, R. W.
The Cambrian Railways. Volume I: 1852-1888.
Imprint: David & Charles, Newton Abbot. 1971
New edition. DW. Colour frontis. + Illustrated throughout in black and white. Head of spine bumped. VG+/VG+ in price clipped wrapper that is very slightly worn at extremities.
Stock number: 38335.
£ 15.00 (approx. $US 19.52 ) |
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CHRISTIANSEN, Sigurd.
Two Living and One Dead. Translated from the Norwegian by Edwin Bjorkman.
Imprint: 1932
Edition: First Edition
Binding:
Hardback
First edition UK. Victor Gollancz, London. 1932. Black cloth, yellow type to spine. 304 pages. Front flap (with blurb) of original wrapper loosely inserted.
Stock number: 89213.
£ 25.00 (approx. $US 32.54 ) |
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CHRISTIE, Agatha.
4.50 From Paddington. FACSIMILE EDITION.
Imprint: 2013
Binding:
Hardback
Collins Crime Club. London. 2013. Facsimile edition. Red cloth hardback with DW. Top edge of pages sunned otherwise a lovely copy in wrapper with very slight shelfwear and is also sunned to spine
Stock number: 89442.
£ 20.00 (approx. $US 26.03 ) |
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CHRISTIE, Agatha.
4.50 From Paddington. FACSIMILE EDITION.
Imprint: 2013
Binding:
Hardback
Collins Crime Club. London. 2013. Facsimile edition. Red cloth hardback with DW. A lovely copy in wrapper with very slight shelfwear.
Stock number: 89625.
£ 20.00 (approx. $US 26.03 ) |
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CHRISTIE, Agatha.
After the Funeral. FACSIMILE EDITION.
Imprint: 2013
Binding:
Hardback
Collins Crime Club. London. 2013. Facsimile edition. Red cloth hardback with DW. Top edge of pages slightly sunned otherwise a lovely copy in wrapper with very slight shelfwear and is sunned to spine.
Stock number: 89424.
£ 25.00 (approx. $US 32.54 ) |
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CHRISTIE, Agatha.
After the Funeral. FACSIMILE EDITION.
Imprint: 2013
Binding:
Hardback
Collins Crime Club. London. 2013. Facsimile edition. Red cloth hardback with DW. A lovely copy in wrapper that is alightly worn to extremities.
Stock number: 89694.
£ 25.00 (approx. $US 32.54 ) |
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CHRISTIE, Agatha.
An Autobiography. In Two Volumes. PART OF THE FACSIMILE COLLECTION.
Imprint: 2015
Binding:
Hardback
Collins Crime Club. London. 2015. In Two Volumes. The Facsimile edition collection. Red cloth hardbacks with DW. A lovely set in wrappers that have shelfwear to edges.
Stock number: 89629.
£ 30.00 (approx. $US 39.04 ) |
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CHRISTIE, Agatha.
And Then There Were None. FACSIMILE EDITION.
Imprint: 2012
Binding:
Hardback
Collins Crime Club. London. 2012. Facsimile edition. Red cloth hardback with DW. Top edge of pages sunned otherwise a lovely copy in wrapper that has very slight shelfwear and is sunned to spine.
Stock number: 89468.
£ 35.00 (approx. $US 45.55 ) |
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CHRISTIE, Agatha.
And Then There Were None. FACSIMILE EDITION.
Imprint: 2012
Binding:
Hardback
Collins Crime Club. London. 2012. Facsimile edition. Red cloth hardback with DW. A lovely copy in wrapper that has very slight shelfwear.
Stock number: 89608.
£ 35.00 (approx. $US 45.55 ) |
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