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The Mechanism of the Credit Standard.
Practical Proposals for a New Monetary Standard.
Book ID: 4200More details Price: £75.00
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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 Most Important and Misappreciated American Films
since the beginning of the cinema
Brussels: Royal Film Archive Museum of Belgium, 1978. First edition. Originally for sale in cinema bookshops or at the Royal Film Archive Museum of Belgium in Brussels. White cloth hardback. Described by the publisher as 'A survey of the entire American cinema from a today's viewpoint: 2,237 films and 692 directors nominated by 203 experts'. Introduction by Jacques Ledoux, who was the curator of the RFAMB at that time. Cloth slightly grubby as it is white, otherwise book appears unread. 150 pages. 305 x 215 mm (12 x 8½ inches).
Book ID: 3397More details Price: £40.00 -
The Nature of Viruses.
A Ciba Foundation Symposium.
London: J. & A. Churchill Ltd, 1957. First edition. Scarce in dust jacket. A Symposium by Ciba in 1956 led to this book being published the next year. Contents written by by F. H. C. Crick, and J. D. Watson. Edited by G. E. W. Wolstenholme OBE, and Elaine C. P. Millar. Green hardback boards in excellent shape. No markings or writing inside. 57 illustrations. Dust jacket has scrape to lower back but otherwise in very good condition. 292 pages. 210 x 140 mm (8¼ x 5½ inches).
The Ciba Foundation was established in London in 1947, it was an international educational and scientific centre, and it held conferences and symposiums, and subsequently published the proceedings.
Book ID: 3738More details Price: £150.00 -
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 Parnellite Split.
Or the Disruption of the Irish Parliamentary Party.
Book ID: 2357More details Price: £60.00
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The Path to Power.
London: Harper Collins, 1995. First edition, first impression. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, blue end papers. With its original dust jacket. With 20 leaves of photographic reproductions. This is the second book of Mrs. Thatcher's autobiography, covering the years of her childhood up to her election as Prime Minister. With separate b/w photo signed by Thatcher. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 656 pp. 240 x 160 mm (9½ x 6¼ inches).
Book ID: 2333More details Price: £120.00 -
The Patriots.
An historical novel.
Book ID: 1840More details Price: £100.00
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The Penguin Atlas of Diasporas.
Maps by Catherine Petit. Translated from the French by A.M. Berrett
London: Viking Penguin, 1995. A lovely copy of this fascinating atlas. Text, maps and a few photographs of the most important migrations of the modern period. These include the Jewish, Armenian, Gypsy, Black, Chinese, Indian, Irish, Greek, Lebanese, Palestinian and the Vietnames and Korean diasporas. Clean and tidy dust wrapper over clean black boards. Oblong octavo. Internally clean and tidy throughout. 190 by 250mm (7½ by 9¾ inches). 184 pages.
Book ID: 3280More details Price: £20.00 -
The Pocket and the Stud : or, Practical hints on the Management of the Stable
Book ID: 4153More details Price: £120.00
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The Princesse De Lamballe: A Sketch.
London: Richard Bentley And Son, 1896. First edition in neat library brown cloth hardback binding, with title in gilt to the spine. Ex-library copy with usual stamps to a few pages. With numerous illustrations. The tragic life of the Princess Marie-Louise Thérèse of Savoy-Carignan (1749 1792), who was a friend and confidante of Marie Antoinette. Her fate was to be put to death in the September Massacres of the French revolution. 210 pages. 250 x 190 mm (9¾ x 7½ inches).
Book ID: 2849More details Price: £25.00 -
The Printing of Modern Books
Being a Paper Read before the Bibliographical Society on June XIX MDCCCXCIII
London: Chas. T. Jacobi, 1893. First Edition. Softback in sewn binding. The paper covers are somewhat marked and with a small chip to the top corner. A touch of nicking to the edges. Internally clean and tidy throughout. The paper is reprinted from the transaction and proceedings of the Bibliographical Society. 24 pages. 170 by 100 mm (6¾ by 4 inches).
Book ID: 3345More details Price: £25.00 -
The R.B. Adam Library relating to Dr. Samuel Johnson and his era: Volume the first
Letters of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds, and David Garrick.
Book ID: 4380More details Price: £100.00
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The Rake's Progress.
London: Perpetua, 1955. A nice copy of this first edition. No dust wrapper. Clean black cloth. Inside in very good condition. Front free end paper has been removed. 120 pages, 250 by 190mm (9¾ by 7½ inches). 255 by 185mm (10 by 7¼ inches).
Book ID: 3243More details Price: £15.00 -
The Second Annual Report of the Catholic Institute of Great Britain:
With an Appendix; Containing an Abstract of Cash Account, ending 12th May 1840, List of Auxiliary Branches, List of Publications, Names and Number of Tracts, Particulars of distribution, and Forms of Bequests.
Edition: First Edition
London: C. Richards: 1840. A thin volume, not bound up (as issued) Titles and monogram of the institute to the front cover. Sewn. The list of patrons and the committee, led by the Earl of Shrewsbury, includes Lord Clifford as one of the (many) Vice Presidents. The Catholic Institute grew out of the Metropolitan Catholic Tract Society. The organisation was formed "To protect the rights of Conscience of the Poorer classes of Catholics and to promote the interests of Religion and charity." Irish M.P. Daniel O'Connell was also involved in the establishment of the Institute. Led initially by the Hon. Charles Langdale M.P. 26pp.
Condition: Clean and tidy copy of this work. The pages are almost without mark, and the printing has made a clean, deep impression. Slight darkening to the front cover.
Book ID: 1301More details Price: £5.00 -
The Selector or Say's Sunday Reporter
Book ID: 4288More details Price: £50.00
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The Story of the Norman Conquest
Art Union of London, 1866. A nice copy of this work, produced on the 800th Anniversary of the Conquest. First Edition. Green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to the front board. There is a little rubbing and marking to the boards, with a touch of edgewear. The front end paper has a little creasing, and there are some small closed tears to the edges. The title and text pages have light foxing to them. The rest of the book has intermittent spotting. The first few leaves have light creasing to them. One introductory leaf with text and explanation to both pages. Followed by 42 leaves, with a full page engraving to the recto only of each leaf. 240 x 510 mm (9½ x 20 inches).
Book ID: 3325More details Price: £75.00 -
The Three and the Deuse
Book ID: 4154More details Price: £75.00
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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 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