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REBECCA'S TALE.

Beauman, Sally, · 2002

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Time Warner, London, 2002, reprint, trade paperback, [xii], 627pp, wraparound photo pictorial cover art by Jeff Cottenden, a little rubbed at tips with faint creasing at spine and cnrs., very good,

VICTORIAN WATERCOLOURS [Watercolors] : RURAL LIFE.

Vincent, Adrian, · 1991

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Bloomsbury, London, 1991, 1st in imprint, 61pp, 26 coloured ills., large landscape format (7.5 x 10 inches approx.), pictorial laminated boards with matching dustwrapper, coloured endpapers, a selection of some of the best Victorian watercolourists with brief biographical det...

FRESH WATERCOLOUR [Watercolor].

Smith, Ray Campbell, · 1991

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

David and Charles, Newton Abbot, ND (copyright 1991), 128pp, coloured double title, numerous in text diagrams, coloured and half tone ills., large format (11 x 8 inches approx.), blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured endpapers, pictorial dustwrapper, lightly bumped a...

WATERCOLOUR [Watercolor] PAINTING : The Ron Ranson Technique.

Ranson, Ron, · 1985

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Blandford Press, Poole, 1985, reprint, 160pp, numerous in text coloured and half tone ills., line drawings and diagrams, large format (10 x 7.5 inches approx.), ochre cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative headband, coloured endpapers, pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubb...

PAINTING.

Parramon, J. M., · 1971

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Fountain, London, 1971, paperback, 118pp, pictorial double page title, in text diagrams, coloured and half tone ills., large format (10 x 7 inches approx), pictorial upper wrapper, No. 2 in the Improve your Painting and Drawing series, a little rubbed at extrems., light creas...

OILS.

Parramon, J. M., · 1972

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Fountain, London, 1972, paperback, 130pp, coloured title, in text half tone photo ills., coloured and half tone ills., line drawings and diagrams, large format (10 x 7 inches approx), pictorial upper wrapper, No. 3 in the Improve your Painting and Drawing series, a little rub...

DRAWING THE HUMAN BODY.

Parramon, J. M., · 1973

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Fountain, Kings Langley - Herts, 1973, paperback, 74pp, pictorial double title, in text half tone photo ills., half tone ills., line drawings and diagrams, large format (10 x 7 inches approx), pictorial upper wrapper, No. 6 in the Improve your Painting and Drawing series, a l...

THE MARINE PAINTINGS OF CHRIS MAYGER.

Larkin, David (ed. and intro.), · 1976

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Pan, London, 1976, paperback, unpaginated [96pp], half title, title and verso in line, 40 coloured plates, in text line drawings, large format (11 x 9 inches approx.), pictorial card wrappers, a brief account of how the artist came to specialise in marine paintings and a sele...

KEYS TO SUCCESSFUL LANDSCAPE PAINTING.

Caddell, Foster, · 1977

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Watson-Guptill, New York, 1977, 3rd imp. US, 160pp, 32 coloured plates and numerous half tone ills. in text, large format (11 x 8.5 inches approx.), dichromatic dark/light green cloth lettered in gilt at spine and upper board, coloured endpapers, pictorial dustwrapper, '... 5...

BENINGFIELD'S ENGLISH VILLAGES.

Beningfield, Gordon, · 1996

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Viking, Harmondsworth, 1996, 1st edn., 92pp, coloured frontis, numerous in text coloured and sepia half tone ills., large format (11.5 x 10.5 inches approx.), navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative head and tail bands, coloured endpapers, pictorial dustwrapper,...

THE WESTERN ART OF FREDERIC REMINGTON.

Baigell, Matthew, · 1976

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Ballantine, New York, 1976, 1st edn. US, paperback, 31pp, 46 coloured plates, half tone photo and 6 half tone ills. in text, large landscape format (9 x 11 inches approx.), coloured pictorial card wrappers, a text account of the life and work of Frederic Remington with exampl...

BRITTEN'S OLD CLOCKS AND WATCHES AND THEIR MAKERS.

Clutton, Cecil, Baillie, G. H. and Ilbert, C. A. (revised and enlarged by Cecil Clutton), · 1975

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Eyre Methuen, London, 1975, reprint, xxii, 532pp, coloured frontis and 3 coloured plates, 192 half tone plates and 40 in text diagrams, coloured pictorial montage endpapers by L. H. Cresswell, large format (11 x 8.5 inches approx.), green cloth with red title panel lettered a...

THE COLLECTOR'S DICTIONARY OF THE SILVER AND GOLD OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTH AMERICA.

Clayton, Michael, · 1971

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Country Life / Hamlyn, London, 1971, 1st edn., 351pp, coloured photo frontis, numerous in text coloured and half tone photo ills., large format (12 x 9.5 inches approx.), black cloth lettered in gilt and silver at spine, decorated in gilt upper board, decorative head and tail...

THE WATCH COLLECTION OF STANLEY H. BURTON : 'Warts and All'.

Burton, Stanley H., · 1981

£21.00 (€25.17 | $27.74 | ¥4,430)

B. T. Batsford, London, 1981, 1st edn., 456pp, numerous in text coloured and half tone photo ills., large format (10 x 7.5 inches approx.), black cloth lettered in gilt at spine and upper board, decorative headband, top edge coloured, coloured endpapers, photo pictorial dustw...

IS IT GENUINE? How To Recognize An Authentic Antique.

Bly, John (General Editor), · 1987

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Mitchell Beazley, London, 1987, reprint, 224pp, numerous in text line drawings, coloured and half tone photo ills., large format (10.5 x 7 inches approx.), green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, with contributions from experts in their own fields ...

ONE MAN'S WAR.

Stroobant, Frank, · 1980

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Guernsey Press, Guernsey, 1980, 4th edn., paperback, 167pp, half tone frontis, 8pp half tone photo ills., pictorial wrappers (unattrib), account of the German occupation of Guernsey, the shortages and black market, deportation of British nationals to internment first at Dorst...

RAID AT DIEPPE (originally published as Dress Rehearsal).

Reynolds, Quentin, · 1943

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Avon, New York, ND (copyright 1943), paperback, 190pp, maps in text, [iii] ads., photo pictorial wrappers, an account of the raid on Dieppe by the war-correspondent for US Colliers Magazine, who was on the command ship for the operation, the RN Hunt class destroyer HMS Calpe,...

SHINGLE STREET - Flame, Chemical and Psychological Warfare in 1940, and the Nazi Invasion that never was.

Hayward, James, · 1994

£13.00 (€15.58 | $17.17 | ¥2,743)

LTM Publishing, 1994, 1st edn., paperback original, [viii], 159pp, half tone photo ills., map and facsimiles in text, erratum page tipped onto inside of upper wrapper, large format (8 x 6 inches approx.), coloured lettered wrappers, an examination of the rumour and local folk...

THE EPIC OF LENINGRAD.

Gibbons, John, · 1941

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Daily Worker League, London, ND, paperback, 24pp, many in text half tone photo ills., maps and half tone photo ills. inside wrappers, large format (8 x 6 inches approx.), photo pictorial wrappers, an illustrated account of the siege of Leningrad 1941-43 and of a visit made by...

OPERATION EICHMANN - Pursuit and Capture.

Aharoni, Zvi and Dietl, Wilhelm, · 1999

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Cassell, London, 1999, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 192pp, 12 pp half tone photo ills., photo pictorial montage upper wrapper, an account of Adolf Eichmann's invilvement with the 'final solution, his escape from Germany at the end of WW2, the search to find him until he w...