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ENID BLYTON'S HAPPY HOURS STORY BOOK.
Blyton, Enid, · 1964
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Dean and Son, London, ND (copyright 1964), 185pp, in text line drawings (unattrib.), laminated coloured pictorial boards, No. 2 in the Enid Blyton Rewards series, twenty-five short stories, lightly rubbed and bumped at extrems., edges tanned, dusty and a little foxed, no dust...
LONDON PAST.
Weightman, Gavin, · 1991
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)
Collins and Brown, London, 1991, 1st edn., paperback original, 96pp, sepia and half tone photo ills. throughout, large format (10 x 7 inches approx.), photo pictorial montage wrappers, in the 'Pictures from the Past' series, images of London and its people from the mid 19th t...
A FOREIGN COUNTRY.
Stock, Francine, · 2005
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Vintage, London, ND (circa 2005), reprint, trade paperback, [iv], 218pp, photo pictorial upper wrapper, lightly rubbed at tips, edges tanned, very good plus,
THE FABER BOOK OF UTOPIAS.
Carey, John (ed.), · 1999
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Faber and Faber, London, 1999, 1st edn., xxvi, 531pp, grey cloth lettered in brown at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, using extracts from Homer and Marx, Swift and Rousseau, de Sade and Hitler, Orwell and Wilde, etc., an anthology of the hopes and fears of humanity from 4...
FERRIES 2002 - British Isles and Northern Europe Edition.
Widdows, Nick (compiled by), · 2002
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Ferry Publications, Ramsey, Isle of Man, 2002, 1st issue of 15th edn., 240pp, coloured photo ills. and maps throughout, laminated coloured pictorial boards, listing every passenger and vehicle ferry in Great Britain and Ireland and to nearby Continental destinations of Northe...
KILLING CUSTER - The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians.
Welch, James (with Paul Stekler), · 1994
£9.50 (€11.39 | $12.55 | ¥2,004)
W. W. Norton, New York, 1994, 1st edn. US, 320pp, map and half tone ills. in text, maps at endpapers, black paper covered boards backed at spine with maroon cloth lettered in silver, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the fate of the Sioux and Cheyenne who, after t...
TRACING YOUR ANCESTORS - THE A-Z GUIDE.
Saul, Pauline, · 1995
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Countryside Books, Newbury, 1995, 5th edn., 287pp, half tone ills., map, diagram and pedigree in text, laminated coloured decorated boards, spine sl. sunned, small piece further research details selloed to front free endpaper, no dustwrapper, near fine,
BESIDE THE SEASIDE - A Celebration of 100 Years of Seaside Entertainment.
Pertwee, Bill, · 1999
£17.50 (€20.98 | $23.12 | ¥3,691)
Collins and Brown, London, 1999, 1st edn., 144pp, sepia photo pictorial half title, coloured facsimile frontis, facsimiles, coloured and half tone ills. throughout, coloured endpapers, large format (11 x 9 inches approx.), laminated coloured pictorial montage boards with matc...
OCEAN SHIPS.
Hornsby, David, · 2000
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Ian Allan, Shepperton, 2000, 1st issue of 12th edn., 224pp, half tone photo pictorial half title and double title, half tone photo ills. throughout, laminated coloured pictorial boards, divided into two: Passenger Liners and Cruise Ships; Cargo Vessels and Tankers, a comprehe...
THE MARITIME COMPENDIUM - An Encyclopedia of Designs and Motifs.
Cordingly, David (intro. by), · 1998
£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)
Conway Maritime Press, London, 1998, 1st edn., 192pp inc. 16pp coloured plates, half tone ills., line drawings, maps and diagrams throughout, large format (12 x 10 inches approx.), blue/purple cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial montage dustwrapper, a selectio...
THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S WARSHIPS.
Chant, Christopher, · 2002
£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,636)
S. Webb, Menai Bridge, Isle of Angllesey, 2002, 433pp, coloured decorated half title, coloured and half tone pictorial double title, coloured and half tone ills. throughout, [xiii] index, coloured endpapers, landscape format (6.5 x 8.5 inches approx.), laminated coloured phot...
EAST ANGLIAN TALES.
West, H. Mills, · 1983
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)
Barbara Hopkinson, Woodbridge, ND (circa 1983), paperback, [x], 149pp, pictorial montage upper wrapper, a collection of twenty-eight tales about the lives and characters of some of the country people of East Anglia, lightly rubbed at extrems., very good plus,
THE LONGEST WAR.
Timerman, Jacobo, · 1982
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Picador / Pan, London, 1982, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 160pp, photo pictorial upper wrapper, an account of Israel's controversial invasion of Lebanon in 1982, a brave attempt to show Israelis how others see them and the discovery that some Jews have a capacity for crue...
RUMPOLE FOR THE DEFENCE.
Mortimer, John, · 1994
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)
Penguin, Harmondsworth, ND (circa 1994), reprint, paperback, 186pp, [vi] ads., tv tie-in, pictorial upper wrapper by Rob Page shows caricature of Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole in the Thames Television production of Rumpole of The Bailey, a collection of seven short stories, v...
THE CAVALRY AT GETTYSBURG - A Tactical Study of Mounted Operations during the Civil War's Pivotal Campaign, 9 June - 14 July 1863.
Longacre, Edward G., · 1993
£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,793)
Bison Books / University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1993, 1st in imprint US, paperback, 338pp, half tone photo ills. and maps in text, large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), coloured pictorial upper wrapper, a detailed description of the campaign, of the Virginia battles at Br...
THE GHOST STORIES OF M. R. JAMES.
James, M. R., · 2004
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Penguin Popular Classics, Harmondsworth, ND (circa 2004), reprint, paperback, 362pp, [v] ads., pictorial upper wrapper, a collection of thirty-one short ghost stories, lightly rubbed at tips, faint creasing to wrappers, printing ink smudge page 101 affecting two lines with ti...
THE HONOURABLE HISTORY OF FRIAR BACON AND FRIAR BUNGAY.
Greene, Robert (adapted by Cathy Gill), · 2006
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,265)
ecollectit, Harleston, 2006, paperback, [iii], 38pp, stapled pictorial wrappers, an adaptation of the Elizabethan play for the Harleston Players for their 2006 production, lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,
THE RIDDLE OF THE TITANIC.
Gardiner, Robin and Van der Vat, Dan, · 1995
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1995, paperback, xv, 312pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., double page paln and double page map in text, large format (9 x 6 inches approx.), coloured pictorial upper wrapper, a re-assessment of the sinking of the Tatanic, stemming from the disco...
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CIVIL WAR USAGE - An Illustrated Compendium of the Everyday Language of Soldiers and Civilians.
Garrison, Webb (with Cheryl Garrison), · 0
£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,687)
Cumberland House, Nashville, paperback, [x], 274pp, half tone ills. and line drawings throughout, large format (9 x 7 inches approx.), coloured pictorial lettered upper wrapper, a dictionary of words and phrases in everyday use 140 years ago during the American Civil War, lig...
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS.
Footman, David (ills. by C. W. Bacon), · 1973
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Faber and Faber, London, 1973, reprint, paperback, 134pp, maps and half tone ills. in text, pictorial wrappers, in the World Outlook 1900-1965 Study Series, an account of the revolutions which created the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from the Holy Russia of the Czars, ...