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The Umbrellas, Japan-USA 1984-91
Book ID: 4002More details Price: £600.00 -
The Un Corrected Billy Childish - No Such Number
Book ID: 3410More details Price: £850.00 -
The Uncollected Work of Aubrey Beardsley
Book ID: 3018More details Price: £175.00 -
The Underground Sketchbook of Tomi Ungerer, with a preface by Jonathan Miller.
New York: Dover Publications, INC, 1972. First thus. Softback book of 152 pages, mainly satirical and erotic b/w illustrations. In a very good condition, with minimal sign of handling. Closed page edges have blue ink to top - pages themselves not affected. 175 x 215 mm (7 x 8½ inches).
Book ID: 2642More details Price: £30.00 -
The Vantage Point Perspective of the Presidency 1963-69 - with TLS from Harold Wilson
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 2016More details Price: £90.00 -
The Voice of Asia.
New York: Random House, 1951. First Edition. Stated first printing. Hardback in neatly price clipped dust jacket - now in Mylar. Dust jacket has some light edge wear. Illustrated end papers. Pages clean. Michener had travelled widely in Asia and this book is the result of him having talked to many people he encountered along the way about their opinions of their country's religious problems, economic questions, and social revolutions. A snap shot of mid twentieth century Asia. 338 pages. 215 x 145 mm (8½ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3222More details Price: £48.00 -
The War in Korea 1950-1953 A military study of the war in Korea up to the signing of the Cease Fire
Book ID: 4252More details Price: £40.00 -
The Way of the Cross and Other Verses.
Edition: First Edition
London: R. & T. Washbourne Ltd, 1913. First edition. Original purple buckram with white titles and Holy Cross to the front board. Bookplate of Syon Abbey, Chudleigh to the inside front board. Overall in sound condition. The buckram is clean, but the colour has entirely faded to the spine. Internally clean and tidy, with a little darkening to the end papers only. 72 pages.
Book ID: 1241More details Price: £34.00 -
The Weekly Pacquet of Advice from Rome: Or the History of Popery. The Second volume Together with the Popish Courant
London: Langley Curtis [LC], 1679. A single issue of a weekly anti-Catholic diatribe in the form of a contemporary broadside issued at the time of the Popish Plot (1678-1681). The Weekly Pacquet is Number 16 - Both of the broadsides were issued Friday 24th October 1679. Pagination is continuous (presumably from issue 1) and these leaves are numbered page [121] - [128]. They are held together, but would appear to have been bound together with other issues at some point. 16 pages. 190 by 140mm (7½ by 5½ inches). Clean and tidy with very slight darkening to the page edge only.
Condition: Clean and tidy with very slight darkening to the page edge only.
Book ID: 2489More details Price: £60.00 -
The Welsh House. Being volume XLVII of Y Cymmrodor, The Journal of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion
London: The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1940. This work describes the various types of traditional houses and is profusely illustrated with Frontis and other b/w illustrations throughout; including plans and sketches - many folding. Very clean and tidy throughout. Lightly soiled dust wrapper that is slightly darkened to the spine. 230 x 150 mm (9 x 6 inches).
Iorwerth C. Peate was The Keeper of the Department of Folk Cultures and Industries, in The National Museum of Wales. From the library of the Welsh Nationalist John Legonna (1918-1978), author of the book Celtic Odyssey. Has his bookplate to front endpaper. 232 pp.
Book ID: 2230More details Price: £50.00 -
The West-End Gazette of Gentlemen's Fashions.
Book ID: 3889More details Price: £550.00 -
The White Swans and Other Tales. Illustrated by Alice Havers.
London: Hildesheimer & Faulkner. Undated but circa 1880. Retelling of Hans Christian Andersen tales, with 16 chromolithographic illustrations, 12 of which are full-page. Tinted illustrations in text, also by Alice Havers. In original pictorial hardback boards with gilt embellishments. Cloth spine. The six stories are: The Daisy, The Brave Tin Soldier, The Conceited Apple-branch, The White Swans, The Pea-blossom, and The Little Match-seller. Translated by Mrs H. B. Paull. Text printed in a frame in brown letterpress. Boards are somewhat rubbed, with signs of wear. Internally the book has some staining to very outer leading edge; not affecting the images or text. 48 pages. 190 x 260 mm (7½ x 10¼ inches).
Book ID: 3964More details Price: £50.00 -
The Wife Hunter, by the Moriarty Family.
Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1838. First edition. An uncommon Irish novel, written by William J. O'Neill Daunt under the pseudonym Denis Ignatius Moriarty. Two volumes, as issued. Red cloth spine, and cream card boards. A little fading to the labels on the spine, and slight rubbing to the boards only. Internally clean and tidy, but the text block is quite darkened. Adverts to the front of Volume 1. (18), 198, 191 (i). pages. 130 x 100 mm (5 x 4 inches).
Book ID: 1860More details Price: £300.00 -
The Wild Orchard.
London: Herbert & Daniel, 1911. A book of Irish Catholic poetry. Bound in original green cloth boards, with gilt stamped title to front and spine. Minor shelf-wear with very slight darkening to spine. Internally in a clean condition with minor foxing only to endpapers. Very good condition. 120 pages. 200 x 140 mm (7¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2041More details Price: £40.00 -
The Winchelsea Hermit (Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington; George William Finch-Hatton, 10th Earl of Winchelsea)
Book ID: 4495More details Price: £90.00 -
The Wolfe Tone Annual 1939. The Story of Young Ireland and the Years Before 1848.
Dublin: Brian O'Higgins, 1939. Scarce First edition. Soft cover. The front cover is an indication of the contents. With stories of 1848, but primarily of John Mitchel. Covers age toned. Staples rusting, but binding holding firm. Also contains some fascinating local Dublin advertising of the time. 98 [6] pp. 215 x 140 mm (8½ x 5½ inches).
Brian O'Higgins was an Irish poet, writer and lifelong Republican (1882-1963). The Wolfe Tone Annual ran for about 30 years from 1932-1962); its purpose to help raise funds for Wolfe Tone commemorations. O'Higgins was one of the founders of Sinn Féin, and used this publication to comment on recent history and current affairs. Censor authorities refused permission to publish the 1944 annual.
Book ID: 3866More details Price: £30.00 -
The Works of the Right Honourable John Hookham Frere In Verse and Prose. In three volumes. Second edition. Revised with Additions.
Book ID: 4815More details Price: £150.00 -
The World in Miniature; England, Scotland, and Ireland; Containing a description of the character, manners, customs, dress, diversions and other peculiarities of the inhabitants of Great Britain. In Four Volumes.
Book ID: 3841More details Price: £680.00 -
The Yellow Dwarf
Book ID: 5056More details Price: £150.00 -
The Young King, and other stories.
The Folio Society, 1953. Hardback in original maroon cloth with gilt title to spine, pale blue patterned boards with matching original unclipped dust-jacket. Nice F.S. edition of the complete collection of fairy tales by Wilde is illustrated with wood engravings in colour by John Gaastra. Dust jacket has some small nicks / curled edge to top and one small closed tear. Tiny loss to jacket on back at base of spine. Inside prelims age toned, otherwise a very good, clean copy. 156 pages. 250 x 165 mm (9¾ x 6½ inches).
Book ID: 3016More details Price: £30.00