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Jeunesse au Plein Air [JPA].
Achetez les timbres et les vignettes au profit des colonies de vacances
Book ID: 4373More details Price: £100.00
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John Crome the Elder. I Text and a critical catalogue II Illustrations.
Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1978. Two volumes of this Catalogue Raisonné of Crome's work. Both volumes First Edition. Cream cloth in dust wrappers. Both of the wrappers are in good, sound condition, with a little fading to the top edge only. Slight water staining to the bottom part of the spine. No chips or tears. Cream cloth is in good, clean condition. Internally clean and tidy throughout - nice copies. xxv, 1-321,. 166 pages. Vol I. includes 16 full page colour plates. Vol II gives 242 images of Crome's work, portrayed in sepia. 290 x 220 mm (11½ x 8¾ inches).
Book ID: 3255More details Price: £50.00 -
John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character. From the Collection of Mr. Punch.
Volume 3.
London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co, 1887. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked, red cloth covered bevelled boards. Artistically dedicated with elaborate hand painted inscription to front end paper. Very well preserved overall. All page edges gilt. 286 pages. 310 x 255 mm (12¼ x 10 inches). Très bon exemplaire dans les planches biseautées d'origine, couvertes de tissu rouge et dorées. Dédié artistiquement avec une inscription peinte à la main sur le papier de garde. Très bien conservé dans l'ensemble. Toutes les tranches des pages sont dorées. 286 pages. 310 x 255 mm (12¼ x 10 pouces).
Book ID: 3064More details Price: £70.00 -
Josette en Famille adapte de L'Anglais par Gisele Vallerey illustre par Honor C. Appleton.
Paris: Fernand Nathan, Editeur, 1935. First Edition Thus (French edition). Cream boards, with laid down illustration to the front board. 8 further colour illustrations by Appleton and numerous black and white illustrations. A touch of marking / foxing to the boards, but overall a very nice copy. Internally clean and tidy, with fractional browning. 255 by 190mm (10 by 7½ inches). 64 pages. Edition originale Ainsi (édition française). Plats crème, avec illustration marouflée sur le premier plat. 8 autres illustrations en couleurs par Appleton et de nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc. Une pointe de marquage/rousseur aux plats, mais dans l'ensemble très bel exemplaire. Intérieurement propre et bien rangé. 64 pages. 255 × 190 mm
Book ID: 2498More details Price: £30.00 -
Journals of the Rev. Messrs. Isenberg and Krapf, missionaries of the Church Missionary Society,
Detailing their proceedings in the Kingdom of Shoa, and Journeys in other parts of Abyssinia, in the years 1839, 1840, 1841 and 1842.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1920More details Price: £1,500.00 -
Judicial Blindness, the Punishment of Rejected Truth:
A Sermon preached at Tavistock Chapel, Drury Lane, on Tuesday March 25th 1828; in the course of Lectures on the Points of Controversy between Roman Catholics and Protestants,
Edition: First Edition
London: James Nisbet: 1828. First edition. A disbound sermon. Was once bound, and has nicks to the spine where the gathers were. Very clean and tidy. No significant marks. 15 [i] pp. 210 x 130 mm (8¼ x 5 inches).
'Millennial Marsh' as he was known to his congregations, was a Church of England vicar, who leaned heavily towards Evangelism. He was concerned in many of his works and sermons with the conversion of the Jews. .Book ID: 1231More details Price: £18.00 -
Judith.
Tragédie en trois actes illustrée par Laboureur.
Book ID: 3895More details Price: £250.00
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Judith, the widow of Bethulia.
London: Dennis Dobson Ltd, 1946. One of only 700 copies produced. With illustrations by the author. Original hardback pictorial paper covered boards are now a little rubbed and age toned. Reproductions of illustrations by Richard Ziegler, some full-page and other in-text. Text in English, in a calligraphy style. Very clean inside. 42 unnumbered pages. 330 x 265 mm (13 x 10½ inches). Un des 700 exemplaires produits. Avec des illustrations de l'auteur. Les planches originales couvertes de papier pictural sont maintenant un peu frottées et vieillies. Reproductions d'illustrations de Richard Ziegler, certaines en pleine page et d'autres dans le texte. Texte en anglais, dans un style calligraphié. Intérieur très propre. 42 pages non numérotées. 330 x 265 mm
Book ID: 4336More details Price: £50.00 -
Just Donkeys.
Illustrations by Anton Pieck.
London: Hutchinson & Co. First Edition. Undated but 1949. Charming religious children's story about donkeys. Original dust jacket, with colour Pieck illustration pasted to front. Dust jacket is slightly soiled and lightly nicked at edges. One almost invisible repair also to jacket (only visible from inside). Underneath, blue cloth covered hardback boards with gilt titles to spine and front. Some darkeing to front and rear endpapers. 4 Lovely full-page colour plates by Pieck. 28 Other full page black and white illustrations. Overall in very good clean shape. 119 pages. 260 x 205 mm (10¼ by 8 inches).
Book ID: 3051More details Price: £20.00 -
Kaart van het gebied in het noorden van Nederland getroffen door de overstromingen in 1825.
Book ID: 2185More details Price: £120.00
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Kamp Tussen School en Leven.
Amsterdam: (AJC) Arbeiders-Jeugd-Centrale. First edition. Record and information book for attendance at the 1934 AJC socialist youth movement camp De Paasheuvel in Vierhouten. It tells attendees what to bring, what to wear, how to act and what to do once they go home again! This is the year that Koos Vorrink, the outgoing chairman of the AJC, gave his farewell speech at the week long camp. The AJC promoted traditional good manners, no alcohol or tobacco, lots of exercise, folk dancing, drama and music. Front cover green woodcut design by Fré Cohen. In good clean condition. 10 pages. 170 x 105 mm (6¾ x 4¼ inches).
The AJC (1918 - 1959) was a socialist youth movement.
Book ID: 3700More details Price: £30.00 -
Kate Greenaway's Alphabet
London / New York: George Routledge, 1885. First Edition. Miniature hardback card alphabet book for children. Boards in good shape, but green paper on spine almost all gone. Charming colour illustrations. One letter of the alphabet per page. Inside spotless. 30 unnumbered pages. 70 x 60 mm (2¾ x 2¼ inches).
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Book ID: 4240More details Price: £25.00 -
Kate Greenaway's Book of Games.
With Twenty Four Full page Plates engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1889. Very nice copy of this first edition. Hardback with illustration to front and rear board. Yellow end papers. Half title, frontis illustration and title with vignette. Good clean condition. A little darkening / marking to the boards. Internally clean. 64 pages. 235 by 190mm (9¼ by 7½ inches).
Book ID: 3269More details Price: £100.00 -
Keepsake de la jeunesse 1841.
Formant deux beaux volumes par an.
Book ID: 3441More details Price: £90.00
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Keith Haring at work, Amsterdam 1986.
Five digital prints - signed and numbered on reverse.
Book ID: 2163More details Price: £350.00
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Kent
London: J. Cary, 1793. An engraved map of Kent, hand coloured in outline. The detail from Cary's atlas for Kent is visible and legible to the verso. Framed in a simple pale green mounting board. Protected by acid free plastic. John Cary worked from London as a mapmaker, engraver and publisher, towards the last quarter of the 18th century up to around 1830. His "New and Correct English Atlas", first published around 1776, was a benchmark in British topography. He used Copper plates for all his work, despite steel engraving becoming more common at this stage.
Condition: Very nice clean condition. There is fractional foxing to the edge of the written page (verso) the map itself is clean and tidy with the merest hint of darkening. A couple of tiny marks not affecting detail.
Book ID: 1279More details Price: £10.00 -
Khwab O Khayal or "Visions of the Past".
Official Text-Book for the Examination of Civil and Military Officers by the Higher Standard Hindustani
Calcutta: The Baptist Mission Press, 1911. First Edition. Hardback. Colonial British officers and civil servants who lived in India during this period were expected to learn to speak the Indian languages in order to communicate directly with their staff and men. Hindustani was the considered 'lingua franca', spoken as it was over much of the area which, at that time, constituted British India. Higher Standard Hindustani examinations remained, virtually unchanged, until 1947.
Binding is tight and square. The paper covering the spine is split at the bottom. Boards are soiled but somewhat stained. The book has definitely been used as there are small / light pencil annotations to some pages. 220 x 135 mm (8¾ x 5¼ inches).
Book ID: 2337More details Price: £80.00 -
Kildine. Histoire d'une méchante petite princesse. Préface de Robert de Flers. Images de Job
Book ID: 4395More details Price: £300.00
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King Leopold's Ghost. A Story of Greed,Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Book ID: 4225More details Price: £40.00
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King Monmouth.
Being A History of The Career of James Scott "The Protestant Duke" 1649-1685.
Book ID: 4348More details Price: £40.00