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KNOCK-OUT.
"Sapper" [H. C. McNeile],, · 1933
£12.00 (€14.37 | $16.14 | ¥2,550)
Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1933, 1st edn., 317pp, [i] blank, wedgwood blue cloth lettered in black at spine and upper board, a Bulldog Drummond / Ronald Standish novel, slightly cocked, cloth well rubbed at extrems. with a few light frays, cnrs. a little bumped, spine sunned...
FROM TIN TO BRICK REVISITED.
Robb, Ian G., · 2016
£8.00 (€9.58 | $10.76 | ¥1,700)
Privately published by the author, Lowestoft, 2016, 1st thus, 32pp, 33 in text half tone photo images, street plan in line, stapled illustrated card wrappers about 11.5 inches by 8.25 inches, an expansion on the author's original account in 'From Tin to Brick' (1998), a descr...
VELVET EDEN, The Richard Merkin Collection of Erotic Photography,.
Merkin, Richard and McCall, Bruce,, · 1979
£10.00 (€11.98 | $13.45 | ¥2,125)
F & S Publications, New York, 1979, 144pp, oversize paperback, numerous half tone photographs, some prelimary text explaing the context, , perfect bound illustrated card wrappers 11 inches x 8.5 inches, , a selection of erotic photographs of mainly female subjects in the sty...
WORKING FOR VICTORY - A Diary of Life in a Second World War Factory.
Bruley, Sue (ed.), · 2010
£8.00 (€9.58 | $10.76 | ¥1,700)
The History Press, Stroud, 2010, trade paperback, xxvi inc. plan of factory, 226pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., coloured pictorial upper wrapper, during WW2 over 1.5 million women found themselves thrust into the previously male dominated domain of the workplace, having to qui...
HANDLEY CROSS or MR. JORROCK'S HUNT.
Surtees, R. S., illustrated by Cecil Aldin,, · 1911
£25.00 (€29.94 | $33.63 | ¥5,313)
Edward, Arnold, London, ND (circa 1911), in 2 volumes, x and 363pp, x and 372pp, each with frontis and 11 other coloured plates and numerous in text line drawings, tissue guard between frontis and title, red leather binding with five raised bands at spine simulating tradition...
THE SKY AND I.
Volkersz, Veronica, · 1956
£75.00 (€89.83 | $100.88 | ¥15,939)
W. H. Allen, London,1956, 1st edn., 200pp, seventeen half tone photo illustrations on 8pp, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured photo-pictorial dustwrapper, leaves from the log book of a British airwoman in war and peace including the first full story of the Air Tran...
NOTES ON PET MONKEYS and how to manage them.
Patterson, Arthur ("John Knowlittle"), · 1893
£360.00 (€431.19 | $484.22 | ¥76,507)
L. Upcott Gill, London, ND (circa 1893), 112pp, many line drawings in text, 16pp catalogue of practical handbooks published by L. Upcott Gill, bound in after index, deep turquoise cloth lettered and ruled in gilt at spine and upper board, gilt vignette upper board, decorative...
NOTES OF AN EAST COAST NATURALIST.
Patterson, Arthur H. ("John Knowlittle"), · 1905
£30.00 (€35.93 | $40.35 | ¥6,376)
Methuen, London, 1905, 2nd edn., xiii, 304pp, tissue guarded coloured pictorial frontis and 11 other colured plates by Frank Southgate, 40pp catalogue for January 1906 of books published by Methuen, green cloth lettered and ruled in gilt at spine, lettered and bordered in gi...
NATURE IN EASTERN NORFOLK.
Patterson, Arthur H. ("John Knowlittle"), · 1905
£48.00 (€57.49 | $64.56 | ¥10,201)
Methuen, London, 1905, 1st edn., 352pp, tissue guarded coloured pictorial frontis by Frank Southgate and 11 other coloured plates, 48pp catalogue of books published by Methuen dated September 1909 bound in (some leaves unopened), red cloth lettered and ruled in gilt at spine,...
IN NORFOLK BIRD HAUNTS IN A.D. 1755.
Patterson, Arthur Henry ("John Knowlittle"), · 1930
£55.00 (€65.88 | $73.98 | ¥11,689)
Rounce and Wortley, Holt, 1930, 1st edn., 103pp, pictorial vignette to title, pen and ink in text sketches by the author, blue cloth lettered in black at spine, lettered and bordered in black upper board, 'reprinted from the "Norfolk Chronicle" Series', no dustwrapper, lightl...
FROM HAYLOFT TO TEMPLE - The Story of Primitive Methodism in Yarmouth.
Patterson, Arthur H. ("John Knowlittle"), · 1903
£60.00 (€71.86 | $80.70 | ¥12,751)
Robert Bryant, London, 1903, 1st edn., xvi, half tone photo pictorial frontis, decorated title, 175pp, decorated chapter heads, half tone photo ills., line drawings and tables in text, red cloth lettered in gilt at spine and upper board, blind stamped decoration upper board, ...
BEAUVALLET.
Heyer, Georgette, · 1963
£16.00 (€19.16 | $21.52 | ¥3,400)
Heinemann, London, 1963 reprint, [viii], 244pp, salmon pink cloth lettered in maroon at spine and upper board, uniform edition, pictorial dustwrapper (unattrib.), edges tanned, old sello stains to free endpapers and adjacent pages, dustwrapper: price label over original price,...
THE TOLL-GATE.
Heyer, Georgette, · 1954
£6.00 (€7.19 | $8.07 | ¥1,275)
William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1954, 1st edn., [iv], 287pp, maroon cloth lettered in gilt at spine, blind stamped GH upper board, publishers device lower board, cloth worn at tail of spine, patches of colour loss to spine and lower board, edges tanned, ink name front pastedo...
WINGS OF THE MORNING - The Story of the Fleet Air Arm in the Second World War.
Cameron, Ian, · 1962
£16.00 (€19.16 | $21.52 | ¥3,400)
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1962, 1st edn.,288pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., 2 maps and 2 diagrams in text, light blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, an account of many of the operations of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm during WW2 includi...
GAD'S HALL.
Lofts, Norah, · 1977
£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.40 | ¥1,169)
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1977, 1st edn., 254pp, pale chocolate cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, the story of a possessed house in Suffolk, a little rubbed and bumped at extrems., edges tanned with light foxing, dustwrapper: price clipped, ...
ENGLAND'S HOUR - An Autobiography 1939-1941.
Brittain, Vera, · 1981
£8.00 (€9.58 | $10.76 | ¥1,700)
Futura, London, 1981, 1st in imprint, paperback, xi, 226pp, [i] ads., pictorial panel upper wrapper, a personal account of the early years of WW2 in and around London, when she was interviewing potential escorts to evacuate children overseas, and visiting London and various o...
JOHN KNOWLITTLE - The Life of the Yarmouth Naturalist Arthur Henry Patterson, A.L.S..
Tooley, Beryl, (Patterson, Arthur H. ("John Knowlittle") interest), foreword by Ted Ellis,, · 1985
£10.00 (€11.98 | $13.45 | ¥2,125)
Wilson-Poole, Sprowston, 1985, 1st edn., oversize paperback, 158pp, half tone Patterson portrait on title, numerous facsimiles, line drawings and half tone photo ills in text, pictorial wrappers, biography of the Norfolk naturalist Arthur H. Patterson by his great grand-daugh...
MAN AND NATURE ON THE BROADS.
A. Patterson, · 1895
£80.00 (€95.82 | $107.61 | ¥17,002)
Thomas Mitchell, LondonND, circa [1895], 143pp, numerous line and half tone ills. in text, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine and upper board, decorated in blind and black upper board, embossed silver vignette upper board, a monthly chronology of the natural history of...
THE FOUNDLING.
Heyer, Georgette, · 1949
£12.00 (€14.37 | $16.14 | ¥2,550)
The Book Club, London, 1949, club edn., [iv], 308pp, [i] ad., red cloth, coloured pictorial dustwrapper by Philip Gough , slightly cocked, a little rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, dustwrapper laminated to boards, very good reading copy,
ROYAL ESCAPE.
Heyer, Georgette, · 1954
£16.00 (€19.16 | $21.52 | ¥3,400)
Heinemann, London, 1954, 5th imp., [viii], 541pp, 2pp bibliography, ochre cloth lettered in maroon at spine, lettered and stamped GH upper board., blind stamped publisher's device lower board., uniform edition, coloured pictorial dustwrapper (unattrib.),upper edge dusty, all ...