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The Compleatest Angling Booke That Ever Was Writ

Crawhall, Joseph · 0 · Rainy Day Books

$19.50 (€17.69 | £14.76 | ¥3,114)

Book Fine No Jacket Freshet Press USA Facsimile printing, black leather with gilt trim in gold slip case. Book is fine, slip case has light wear at corners.

Alive on a Rainy Day Fishing Is a Way of Life

BUCKNALL, GEOFFREY · 2013 · The Old Bookshelf, UK

£21.95 (€26.31 | $29.00 | ¥4,632)

United Kingdom: Bright Water Press, 2013. Second Revised Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0956255213. Very Good 2nd Revised Edition hardcover (stated) in Near Fine dustjacket. Clean blue cloth boards, lightly bumped to tail. Gilt titles bright. Internally, bookplate shadow to front e...

Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life

Briggs, Julia · 2005 · The Glass Key

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Orlando, Harcourt, 2005. First US edition. Hardback. 1st impression. 8vo. Pp xiv + 527 including 29 b&w illustrations. Brown cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy without dust jacket. Lightly pencilled notes on the rear endpapers. ...

The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson

Balfour, Graham · 1920 · The Glass Key

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Methuen, 1920. Later printing. Hardcover. Nineteenth Edition (Cheap Form). Small 8o. Pp 310. Blue cloth boards stamped in black on the spine and upper panel. Small stain on the upper panel else a clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy without dust jacket . near Very Go...

Letters to a friend Correspondence between T. H. White and L. J. Potts.

White, T. H. & Gallix, Francois (ed) · 1984 · Aucott & Thomas

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears little used. viii + 278 pages, photos on plates, illustrations in the text, appendices, bibliography, index. Very G...

John Major Prime Minister.

Jenkin, John (ed) · 1990 · Hessay Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Press Association Bloomsbury, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover, 204pp, complete dustjacket with small marks. B + w photographs. Gift inscription on flyleaf, otherwise very clean. The development of Major's political career, shown by the original newspaper articles.. Very Good /...

Time and the Priestleys The Story of a Friendship.

Collins, Diana and Murdoch, Iris · 1994 · Hessay Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,372)

Alan Sutton, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover, 256pp, complete dustjacket with one very small closed tear to the back upper corner. B + w illustrations. Internally very clean. Foreword by Iris Murdoch. An affectionate biography of J B Priestley, who the author first met through...

Robert E. Lee: Man and Soldier (Volume Two, Only, of Two)

PAGE, THOMAS NELSON · 1912 · Round Table Books, LLC

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt border and medallion on cover, t.e.g, fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with portraits and maps. The volume is unmarked, tight, square, and cle...

Paper Daughter: A Memoir

MAR, M. ELAINE · 1999 · Clausen Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Harper Collins. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 0060182938). Boards, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, Very clean and sound with minimal wear. 292 pp. Near Fine/Near Fine (in mylar).

Samurai William the Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan

MILTON, GILES · 2005 · The Old Bookshelf, UK

£4.95 (€5.93 | $6.54 | ¥1,045)

United Kingdom: Sceptre, 2005. Paperback. ISBN: 0340794682. Very Good reprint paperback with creased spine, lightly bumped to tail. Edges very lightly tanned and foxed. Internally, no writing or stamps. Clean, bright pages. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours fro...

Affairs at State

AFFAIRS AT STATE · 1965 · Nans Book Shop

$6.02 (€5.46 | £4.56 | ¥961)

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. This book is a career diplomat's candid appraisal of the U. S. Foreign Service in 1965. The writer tired of his Service being debased by the White House, congressional committees, and the American people. Thi...

Sometimes Creek: A Wyoming Memoir

Shepard, Florence Rose Krall · 2012 · Rainy Day Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Book Good. Ravens Eye Press LLC Signed by the author. Lower corners finger smudged.

Governor Richard Ogilvie : In the Interest of the State

PENSONEAU, TAYLOR · 1997 · Round Table Books, LLC

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997. 0809321483. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0809321483. Publisher's full burgundy cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with B&W photographs. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jack...

Lorca: A Dream of Life

STAINTON, LESLIE · 1999 · Round Table Books, LLC

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999. 0374190976. -. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0374190976. Quarter bound in black cloth over blue boards, silver lettering on spine. Illustrated with B&W photographs. Both volume and unclipped dust jacket are in excellent condition. A fe...

On the Trail of Washington: A Narrative History of Washington's Boyhood and Manhood , Based on His Own Writings, Authentic Documents and Other Authoritative Information

HILL, FREDERICK TREVOR · 1933 · Clausen Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)

New York, D. Appleton and Company. 1933, 15th Printing. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Arthur E. Becher Full-Color Frontispiece. Hard Cover, three-line, ink gift inscription on fep, dated August 6, 1934; beautiful, bright,blue cloth binding, very lightly edge-worn; li...

My Life As an Angler

HENDERSON, WILLIAM · 1880 · Clausen Books

$99.00 (€89.82 | £74.92 | ¥15,811)

Covent Garden, London, William Satchell & Co. 1880, New Edition. Green Cloth, Gilt Titled, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: 12 Woodcuts Engraved By Edmund Evans; Photograph Frontispiece by Woodbury. Hard Cover, Clean and tight binding with bright gilt-embossed front cover; For...

Mighty Stonewall

VANDIVER, FANK · 1957 · Clausen Books

$23.00 (€20.87 | £17.41 | ¥3,673)

NY, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 1957, Special Edition. Quarter Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Photographs. Ex-Library Hardcover, Retired library copy, minimally marked/stamped. Author's ink signature on second ffep; Textblock very clean and tight; Black cloth spine...

A Forgotten Chapter of Indian History As Described in the Memoirs of Seth Naomul Notchand, C.S. I. , of Karachi 1804-1878

HOTCHAND, SETH NAOMUL (WRITTEN BY HIMSELF); BHOJWANI, RAO BAHADUR ALUMAL TRIKAMDAS (TRANSLATED BY HIS GRANDSON); JAMES, SIR H. EVAN M. (EDITED WITH AN INTRO. BY); KHUHRO, HAMIDA (NEW INTRO. BY) · 1982 · Clausen Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Karachi, Pakistan, Oxford University Press. 1982, Reprint. (ISBN: 0195772938). Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Photo Frontispiece. Hardcover, Characteristic lightly bubbled end papers, else textblock is very clean and tight. Binding is minimally edge-rubbed and otherwi...

Nixon's Head

WOODSTONE, ARTHUR · 1972 · Clausen Books

$8.99 (€8.16 | £6.80 | ¥1,436)

NY, St. Martin's Press. 1972. Boards, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover, Very clean and tight textblock. Red paper-covered boards, wear to spine, rubbed head and foot of spine. Unclipped dust jacket with light moisture wear to head of spine, otherwise lightly shelf worn. 2...

Looking Forward Into the Past

TENNEY, E.P. · 1910 · Clausen Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Nahant, MA, Rumford Press. 1910, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library Hardcover, Retired library copy, usual stamps, labels, and markings, rear pocket removal glue stain. Minor aging or reading wear, else textblock is clean and tight. Black cloth with gi...