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London: Robert Hale Limited, (1964). First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in very good white illustrated dust jacket with pink title to front and spine panels. Minor chipping and creasing to edges of dust jacket. Index, 224 pages. ENGMON/011518. Very Good / Very Good. More about Princess Margaret
New York: Scribner, Armstrong, and Company, 1875. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Very good in extensively-decorated light brown cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and to spine. Light soiling to board corners. Interior is clean and bright. 335 pages. English History. ENG3/2262. Very Good. More about Personal Reminiscences by Barham, Harness, and Hodder (BRIC-A-BRAC SERIES
New York: Villard Books, 1985. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in ver good blue illustrated price-clipped dust jacket with gilt title to front and spine panels. Minor edgewear to dust jacket which has been neatly laminated. 221 pages. ENGMON/121305. Near Fine / Very Good. More about Royal Secrets; The View from Downstairs
Boston: Joseph Knight Company, 1893. Hardcover. A charming children's book of photographs of children dressed in costumes and depicting several Mother Goose rhymes. The photographs by Bartlett are reproduced with the verse on tissue paper sheets that are affixed to larger sheets of paper. Oblong volume in blue and gold floral design paper boards with cream back strip with silver lettering and design along left-side of front cover. Front hinge splitting; some staining to covers. Gift inscription in ink on front fly. Still a lovely volume in very good condition. CHI/120512. Very Good. More about Mother Goose of '93
London, New York, Toronto: The London School of Economics and Political Science, and Longmans, Green and Co., 1952. Hardcover. 8vo. Maroon cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine. Minor browning to end pages. Else is clean and bright. Light grey dust jacket with maroon title to front and spine panels. Minor toning to edges and spine of dust jacket. Index, 654 pages. English History. ENGHIST/012012. Very Good + in Very Good DJ. More about Democracy and Foreign Policy, A Case History, The Sino-Japanese Dispute. 1931-33
Cumbria: Westmorland Gazette, (1987). Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in near fine red dust jacket with white title to front and spine panels. Previous owner's name to half title page. Else is pristine with illustrations throughout and map to rear. English History. ENG11072. Near Fine / Near Fine. More about Guardian of the Lakes: A History of the National Trust in the Lake District from 1946 (1st Edition
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2003. Paper Covered Boards. Tall 8vo. Blue illustrated paper covered boards with white title to spine and front board. Pristine interior with bright text. Tight binding. Index, 261 pp. MON/080504. Near Fine. More about The English Royal Family of America, from Jamestown to the American Revolution
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege. Paperback. SCARCE. No date. Circa 1946. Grey paper wrappers with black title to front wrapper. Browning and creasing to edges. Interior is clean and bright with photographic illustrations of Flower. 27 pages. ENGBIO/031418. Very Good. More about Robin Ernest William Flower 1881-1946. From the Proceedings of the British Academy. Volume XXXII
New York: Crown Publishers, 1952. Hardcover. Very good. No Jacket. 4to. Red cloth boards with blue title to spine and small white unicorn designs. Minor fraying to spine ends; rubbing to boards and spine. Light bowing to front board. Interior pages are yellowed around edges, but are otherwise very clean w/ bright text. Includes 201 photographs of English scenes from 1850-1951. Index, 164 pages. ENG/042004. Very Good. More about Those Impossible English
New York: Macmillan, 1914. Hardcover. 1st edition. 8vo. Very good in tan cloth with illustration in orange and black to front board and orange title to front board and to spine. Cloth a bit faded, with light soiling. Interior is clean and bright with illustrations throughout. 187 pages + ads. Children's Literature. CHILD01/120299. Very Good. More about Indian Legends
New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper & Row, (1971). Hardcover. 8vo. Blue illustrated paper covered boards with black title to front board and white label to spine. Minor wear to corners. Minor damp staining to bottom edge of past downs and end pages. Else is clean and bright. Filled with lovely illustrations. Blue illustrated price clipped dust jacket with black title to front panel and white title to spine panel. Minor edgewear to jacket. 96 pages. Children's Literature. CHILD/080509. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. More about Feldman Fieldmouse a Fable
Sussex and New Jersey: The Harvester Press and Barnes & Noble Books, (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine in grey paper covered boards with gilt title to spine. Pristine interior. Fine light blue dust jacket with white and black title to front and spine panels. Index, 228 pages. ENGHIS/010418. Fine / Fine. More about The Power of the Early Tudor Nobility: A Study of the Fourth and Fifth Earls of Shrewsbury
New York: The F.M. Lupton Publishing Company, No date. Hardcover. 8vo. Maroon cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Fading and discoloration to the spine. Minor edgewear. Interior hinges starting. Previous owner's writing to front free end page. Else is clean and bright with frontis. 382 pages. English History. ENG3/4022. Very Good. More about All Sorts and Conditions of Men: An Impossible Story
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1954. Hardcover. 12mo. Very good in brown cloth covered boards with faded gilt decoration and title to spine. Chipping to spine ends and crease to front board. Minor foxing and browning throughout though text remains bright. Illustrations throughout. 83 pages. CHILD/051414. Very Good. More about The Living Temple: A Brief Memoir of Jane Bethel
Birmingham, AL: Gryphon Editions, 1986. Hardcover. Fine in genuine black leather boards with gilt title to spine. Gilt decoration to boards and spine. Pristine interior. Full edges gilt, ribbon book mark. Facsimile plates. 107 pages. MED/052212. Fine. More about Medicina Magica
Munchen: Theodor Stroefer's Kunstverlag, circa 1890-1910. Hardcover. Blue cloth spine with illustrated paper covered boards titled in brown. Filled with poems and short stories for children (according to jacket aged 6 - 10 years) with charming illustrations on every page. Several have been hand colored. Minor foxing throughout. In original tan dust jacket with light green title to spine and front panels. Minor spots of dampstaining to jacket. Heavy chipping and wear to edges of jacket, which is now preserved in a removable plastic cover. Text in German. A cute book. 88 pages. GER/031819. Very Good / Very Good. More about Guck! Guck! Ein Bilderschass fur unsere Kleinen
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1905. Hardcover. Very good- in beige cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and brown title to spine. Lovely brown illustration to front board. Minor edgewear, rubbing, and soiling to boards. Crack to rear hinge. Front free end page is detached but present. End pages and title page are brittle. Minor yellowing to edges of pages. Previous owner's address on verso of frontis. Illustrations throughout including full color frontis. 157 pages. Children's Literature. CHILD110161. Very Good -. More about The Ideal Speaker for Young People: Gleanings >From the Poets for Home and School Entertainments
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, (1930). Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. 12mo. Very good+ in green cloth covered boards with dark green title to front board and to spine. Previous owner's name to front free end page. A very unique book, each left-hand page is a B&W photographic illustration of a location in the city and each right-hand page describes said location. Many photos of vanished structures. 255 pages. English History. ENG110191. Very Good +. More about London Cameos (1st Edition
New York: American Illustration Inc. / Harry N. Abrams, 1986. Hardcover. First edition. The definitive collection of the best work by nearly 200 American artists, created this past year for books, posters, magazines, newspapers, advertising and animation. Fine in yellow cloth boards with maroon title to spine. Clean interior with 290 illustrations of which 268 are in full color. Fine illustrated dust jacket with green marbled pattern and black title to spine. 295 pages. CHILD/102609. Fine in fine jacket. More about American Illustration 5
Lausanne: Librairie Th. Sack-Reymond, 1913. Hardcover. Includes twelve fairytales (Cendrillon, La Belle au Bois Dormant, La Petite Sirene, La Belle et la Bete, etc.). Very Good in three quarter leather with gilt lettering and raised bands on spine, marbled paper boards. Marbled endpapers and top edge gilt. Illustrated with charming black and white plates with tissue-guards. Text is printed in black. Initials, head and tail pieces are printed in red. Moderate wear to corners and spine ends and light rubbing to hinges, but overall a clean, attractive copy. 246 pages. Children's Literature. CHI1/6221. Very Good. More about De Cendrillon A Percinet: Choix de Beaux Contes
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd, 1928. Hardcover. General Series No. 141. Inscribed by the author "Prof T.M. Lowry from W.R.B." on the front free endpage. Thomas Martin Lowry (1874 - 1936) was an English physical chemist who developed the Bronsted-Lowry acid theory and was a founding member and president of the Faraday Society. He published a few hundred papers and several books. Red cloth spine with beige paper covered boards. Beige paper title label with red title to spine. Darkening and a few small chips to spine label. Browning and rubbing to covers and spine. Foxing to endpages and a few spots of foxing to interior pages. Previous owner's signature in pencil to front endpage. 132 pages plus 1 pages of ads. PSYCH/080912. Very Good. More about The Basis of Memory. Psyche Miniatures
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine in Very good illustrated maroon dust jacket with white title to front and spine panels. Minor creasing and rubbing to dust jacket. Index, 304 pages. English History. ENGHIST02/0522. Fine / Very Good. More about The Benevolent Man: A Life of Ralph Allen of Bath
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., (1957). Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR. 8vo. Light green cloth covered boards with white title to spine. Wear to exterior includes minor edgewear, a few light spots of soiling, and minor fading to spine. Inscription from editor to front free end page as well as an inscription from someone else. Minor browning and foxing to end pages and paste downs. Else is clean and bright with four pages of illustrations. Index, 309 pages. ENGHIS/010418. Very Good. More about Victoria, Albert, and Mrs. Stevenson
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., (1933). Hardcover. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. Very good in light green/blue cloth with black lattering on spine. Minor edgewear to boards. Text is clean and bright. Index, 446 pages. English biography. ENG106020. Very Good. More about Lord Shaftesbury and Social-Industrial Progress
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. Hardcover. 1st American edition Very good blue cloth covered boards with gilt title, corner bumped, spine rubbed. Very good blue dust jacket with white title to front and spine panels. 8 full-page illustrations; 255 pages. English History. ENG/1283. Very Good / Very Good. More about Eminent Edwardians