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LITERATURE AND WESTERN MAN.
Priestley, J. B., · 1962
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Readers Union / Heinemann, London, 1962, x, 405pp, dark brown/blue mixture cloth type paper covered bds. lettered in gilt at spine, a comprehensive criticism, spine ends and cnrs. bumped, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., spine sunned, internally re-lined at spine hea...
THE AUK - Auchinlek, Victor at Alamein.
Parkinson, Roger, · 1977
£9.40 (€11.27 | $12.42 | ¥1,983)
Hart-Davis / Macgibbon / Granada, London, 1977, 1st edn., 272pp, 16pp half tone photo ills. and line maps, crimson cloth with small oval title panel on spine gilt, biography of Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, incorporating newly released archive material on the Western D...
ARCHITECT OF AIR POWER - The Life of First Viscount Weir.
Reader, W. J., · 1968
£11.80 (€14.14 | $15.59 | ¥2,489)
Collins, London, 1968, 1st edn., 351pp, frontis port. and 10pp half tone photo ills., biography of the architect of the formation of the RAF in 1918, the resistance to the Navy in 1923 and 1938, and the re-building of the RAF 1933/8, as well as other responsibilities, notably...
THE JOKER.
Wallace, Edgar, · 1950
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Pan Books, London, 1950, 1st in imprint, paperback, 192pp, #140, unattributed pictorial wrappers, slight roll and slant to spine, lightly rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, very good,
OPERATION HEARTBREAK.
Cooper, Duff, · 1955
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Pan Books, London, 1955, 3rd imp., paperback, 155pp, [5pp] ads., published as fiction but obviously based on the author's private and secret knowledge of a successful episode of deception used by the Allies prior to the invasion of Sicily, sl. slant to spine, a little rubbed ...
THEY WALK IN THE CITY - The Lovers in the Stone Forest.
Priestley, J. B., · 1936
£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)
William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1936, 1st edn., 515pp, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pub. device in blind lower bd., novel, a little shaken, sl. cocked, rubbed at spine ends and tips, some faint marks to cloth, edges rather browned, small booksellers' label fpd.,...
WONDER HERO.
Priestley, J. B., · 1933
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1933, 1st edn., 321pp, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pub. device in blind lower bd., a novel, sl. cocked, rubbed at spine ends and cnrs., some speckling to cloth upper bd., small impressed mark upper bd., lightly bumped cnrs. lower...
WARSHIPS 1860-1970 - A Collection of Naval Lore.
Thornton, J. M., · 1973
£8.90 (€10.67 | $11.76 | ¥1,878)
David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1973, 1st edn. UK, 96pp, numerous line drawings, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, book edition of a collection first published in the Royal Canadian Navy's magazine 'Crowsnest', a series of informal line dra...
ROMMEL.
Young, Desmond, · 1950
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Collins, London, 1950, 1st edn., 288pp, frontis port. and 7 half tone plates, maps in text, maps at eps., account of the life, military record and death of the legendary Afrika Corps commander incl. his service in WW1 and between the wars, rubbed and rather bumped at extrems....
JAMES BOND - A REPORT.
Snelling, O. F. (Ian Fleming interest), · 1965
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Panther Books, London, 1965, reprint, paperback, an examination of his predecessors, image, women, adversaries and future, slight spine slant and roll, lightly rubbed at extrems., slight soiling lower wrapper, paper a little browned, good plus,
THE SCIENCE OF A NEW LIFE.
Cowan, John, MD, · 1897
£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)
L. N. Fowler and Co., London, ND (c1897), 405pp, [12pp] promotional notices, decorative eps., line engraved frontis, maroon cloth stamped in silver and black on spine and upper bd., blind stamped lower bd., an oddly constructed book with the title page tipped onto stub leaf (...
AS MAD AS A MARCH HARE - The World of Proverbs.
Houghton, Patricia, · 1985
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Javelin Books, Poole - Dorset, 1985, 1st in imprint, paperback, 128pp, paper wrappers, a selection of proverbs for every occasion from all over the world, lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus,
THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO LITERATURE IN ENGLISH.
Ousby, Ian (foreword Doris Lessing), · 1996
£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996 (reprint of 1993 edn. with corrections), 1054pp, 1pp acknowledgements, many half tone ills. in text, maroon cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, '...the most authoritative survey of its subject now available in a single volume...',...
WRITERS' AND ARTISTS' YEARBOOK 1990.
Black (pubs), · 1990
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
A. and C. Black, London, ND (c1990), 83rd year of issue, paperback, 592pp, paper wrappers, a dirctory for writers, artists, playwrights, writers for film, radio and television, photographers and composers, fine,
UNDERSTANDING ENGLISH SURNAMES.
Addison, Sir William, · 1978
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
B. T. Batsford, London, 1978, 1st edn., 176pp, 8pp half tone ills., purple cloth gilt, a guide to the derivation of English surnames, light impressed marks cnr. of front free endpaper where old price erased, pw pc but publishers price label added, spine and top part of upper ...
An Introduction to MAPWORK and PRACTICAL GEOGRAPHY.
Bygott, John and Money, D. C., · 1960
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
University Tutorial Press, London, 1960, 7th edn., 264pp, col'd frontius and 7 map plates, 2pp col'd maps, 2pp half tone ills, numerous line drawings in text, red cloth gilt, this edn. includes new chapter on the Use of Aerial Photography in Survey and Map Making, book and du...
USAGE AND ABUSAGE - A Guide to Good English.
Partridge, Eric, · 1982
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Book Club Associates, London, 1982, club edn., 392pp, black cloth type paper covered bds. gilt, book and dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at extrems., very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,
THE RECITER'S NEW TREASURY OF PROSE AND DRAMA.
Pertwee, Ernest Guy (compiler and ed.), · 1925
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
George Routledge, London, ND (c1925), 584pp, red cloth gilt and blind stamped, a selection of prose and drama for recitation grouped under the headings 'Serious', 'Humorous', 'Shakespeare' and 'Miscellaneous', lightly rubbed and bumped at extrems., top edge dusty, all edges a...
THE POPULAR ELOCUTIONIST and Reciter comprising Practical Hints on Public Reading and Reciting, etc..
Carpenter, J. E., MA., PhD.,, · 1902
£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)
Frerderick Warne, London, ND (c1902), new and extended edition, 631pp, ads. at eps., brown cloth lettered and decorated on spine and upper bd. in black and gilt, lower bd. blind stamped, '...an extensive collection of speeches, dramatic scenes, dialogues, soliloquies, reading...
1956 AND ALL THAT.
Sherrin, Ned and Shand, Neil (ill. Willy Rushton), · 1984
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)
Michael Joseph, London, 1984, 1st edn., 143pp, many line ills., dark blue cloth type paper covered bds. lettered in silver, an updating of history from 1945-56 in the style of '1066 and all that', sl. cocked, lightly rubbed at extrems., dustwrapper: price clipped, small mark ...