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The Light Princess
With Pictures by Maurice Sendak
Book ID: 5328More details Price: £30.00 -
The Little Traveller
Book ID: 5038More details Price: £40.00 -
The Little Treasury of Leaflets. Vols 1-3.
Book ID: 5719More details Price: £100.00 -
The London Sketch Club.
London: Dilke Press, 1978. Hardback first edition in dust jacket. Book was limited to 1,000 copies of which this is # 862. Signed by author on copyright page. Author dedication to title page. Unclipped dust jacket has some curling / small tears to the edges. Otherwise in a good condition. 148 pages. 305 x 215 mm (12 x 8½ inches).
Book ID: 2635More details Price: £20.00 -
The Londoner's England.
Contemporary water colours and drawings of London and the Home Counties reproduced by Colour and Duochrome lithography and by Half Tone
London: Avalon Press, 1947. First edition hardback. Cream coloured boards with red embossed text to the front board and spine. Nice clean copy. No wrapper. Internally clean and tidy. viii, 192. pages. 280 by 225mm (11 by 8¾ inches).
Book ID: 3086More details Price: £20.00 -
The Lone Wolf Returns
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1923. First UK Edition. Clean yellow dust wrapper with image to the front and other titles by Vance to the rear panel. A little nicking to the top and bottom edge, and some rubbing to the front lower portion. An invisible repair to the inside top edge of the wrapper. Red cloth hardback with black titles. Fractional rubbing to the spine edge. Paper stock is very cheap and so significantly darkened throughout. Neat owner's name and date to front free end paper. Nevertheless a decent copy of this scarce UK First. "The most original cracksman since Raffles" says the dust jacket. The word cracksman was used to describe a burglar or thief. 313 pages. 180 x 115 mm (7 x 4½ inches).
Book ID: 3317More details Price: £125.00 -
The Lord's Passion.
A brief meditation by Rabanus Maurus, Abbot of Fulda and Archbishop of Mains 788-856
London: A.R. Mowbray, 1938. Small meditation, hardback. Attached dust wrapper with blue patterned cover. Neat owner's inscription to the front end paper. Contains nine short meditations. A scarce book. 48 pages. 145 x 110 mm (5¾ x 4¼ inches).
Condition: Covers are clean and tidy but with a little edgewear to the spine. Internally clean throughout if somewhat darkened.
Book ID: 2026More details Price: £30.00 -
The Love Beach.
Signed dedication to Thomas' second wife, Diana.
Book ID: 5099More details Price: £30.00 -
The Love of a Foolish Angel with decorations by Edmund Dulac.
London: W. Collins Sons and Co. Ltd, 1929. Cloth bound first edition. Binding is an Art Deco design by Dulac. Slightly darkened, but no significant marking. Fading to spine. Internally sound with foxing to end papers. 252 pages. 200 by 140mm (7¾ by 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2459More details Price: £15.00 -
The Luton Auguries.
Book ID: 4353More details Price: £30.00 -
The lyric.
London: Martin Secker, 1922. First Edition. One of 1,000 copies. In original dust jacket, which has age toning, sections of spine missing, and some chips to top of front. Boards in good shape, and book is very clean inside. Overall a decent copy. 85 pages. 195 x 120 mm. (7¾ by 4¾ inches).
Book ID: 4344More details Price: £30.00 -
The Man Who Died.
London: Martin Secker, 1931. First Edition, that was limited to only 2000 copies. Hardback in publisher's original green cloth, with the spine lettered in gilt and with the image of a phoenix in gilt to the front board. Top page edges gilt, other edges left untrimmed. Last page states that it was printed in Great Britain by the Botolph Printing Works. Minus the dust jacket. There is light sun fading to the both the front, the back and the spine. Darkening to front and back blank endpapers. Text is clean binding is tight. 97 pages. 260 x 170 mm (10¼ x 6¾ inches).
Book ID: 2853More details Price: £18.00 -
The Mary Deare.
London: Collins, 1956. First Edition; signed by the author, in its original dust jacket. Very good book, in green cloth. Simply signed by the author to the title page. Dust jacket unclipped with price shown as 12s. 6d - but the head and tail of spine are chipped, and lesser so to corners. Now in removable clear protective wrapping. Owner name to the front endpaper. Lightly age-toned pages. One or two small spots to prelims. 256 pp. 210 x 140 mm (8¼ x 5½ inches).
Ralph Hammond Innes CBE, was a British novelist who wrote over 30 novels, as well as children's and travel books.
Book ID: 2348More details Price: £120.00 -
The Mechanism of the Credit Standard.
Practical Proposals for a New Monetary Standard.
Book ID: 4200More details Price: £75.00 -
The Memphite Tomb-Chapel of Mose
Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd, 1977. First Edition. Includes English translations of Egyptian texts, and a transcription and translation of the 'Legal text'. Hardback in light blue cloth covered boards. Inside original unclipped illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wear to the edges but no tears. Also a little handled / darkened as it's was originally white. Inside clean and unmarked. v, 40 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations. 300 x 210 mm (11¾ x 8¼ inches)
Book ID: 4379More details Price: £30.00 -
The Mute Bride
Book ID: 4275More details Price: £30.00 -
The Mysterious Visit
Book ID: 4496More details Price: £90.00 -
The Nature and True Value of Church Property Examined in a CHARGE Delivered to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Colchester in June MDCCCXXXI.
Edition: Reprint
London: J. G. & F. Rivington: 1832. A nice copy of this tract. Disbound or unbound. It is small, sewn booklet without covers. Clean and tidy, but with a little foxing to the front cover. Frequently this is found as a 'print on demand', but this is one of the uncommon tracts, in its original form. This is the second edition. Lyall was the Archdeacon of Colchester, and the Rector of Fairsted and Weeley in Essex.
Book ID: 1059More details Price: £30.00 -
The Netsuke Handbook of Ueda Reikichi with 226 new photographs in color and gravure
London, Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1961. First Edition hardback. Author signed dedication to 'fellow collectors' on half-title. Original gift postcard from the author to the same people also included inside. In original dust jacket. Inside publisher's corrugated cardboard slipcase with pictorial title label; this is somewhat darkened and rubbed. There is some wear to the price-clipped dust jacket. The grey cloth boards underneath remain in very good condition. Overall in good condition. B/w and colour images of netsuke - miniature collectable sculptures, originating from 17th Century Japan. 325 pages. 245 x 165 mm (9¾ x 6½ inches).
Book ID: 3056More details Price: £35.00 -
The New Week's Preparation for a Worthy receiving of the Lord's Supper, as Recommended and Appointed by the Church of England; Consisting of Meditations and Prayers for the Morning and Evening of every Day in the Week with Forms of Examination and Confession of Sins and a Companion at the Altar....
Edition: Reprint
London: Executors of Edward Wicksteed for John Hinton, 1750. Reprint. 16mo. Full leather binding. Two parts. Each with their own frontispiece and title page. Half title, which is a warning from the publisher about impersonations (Beware the 'Old Week's preparation' and the fake 'New Week's preparation' Frontis to verso of this. Title, with contemporary ownership signature. Imprimatur of George [II] to the verso of the title. The leather binding is a little rubbed and with a touch of cracking to the front hinge. A new front end paper has been added at some point. Still presentable. Internally in sound, but slightly darkened, state. Annotations / family tree to the rear end paper. Overall a decent copy. xi, 156. 156 pp.
Book ID: 1953More details Price: £90.00














































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