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Songs from the Slums

Kagawa, Toyohiko · 1935

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Cokesbury Press, Nashville, Tennessee, 1935. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. yellow end-papers; foreword, contents list & introduction to front followed by these poems recalling the author's poverty as a young boy in Japan; Kagawa...

Superstition!

Heaps, Willard A. · 1972

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Thomas Nelson Inc. Nashville, Tennessee, USA, 1972. Fourth Impression, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Very Good. 9780840762269 black end-papers; Primitive man lived in awe of the natural elements; modern man still has an irrational fear of the unknown. The nam...

The Book of Talismans: Amulets and Zodiacal Gems

Thomas, William & Kate Pavitt · 1993

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Bracken Books/Studio Editions Ltd. London, 1993. First Thus, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. 9781851709472 blue end-papers; reprint of the original 1914 edition illustrated by the 10 b/w. plates but, in this re-issue, without the original's colour fr...

Prophet: The Life and Times of Kahlil Gibran

Waterfield, Robin · 1998

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

St. Martin's Press, New York, 1998. First Edition, Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. 9780312193195 In this biography, Robin Waterfield traces the influential life of Kahlil Gibran from his first flush as the wounded Romantic to his final metamorphosis as the "Prophet o...

A Lizard and Other Distractions (SIGNED COPY)

Ward, Philip · 1969

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Magpie Press, London, 1969. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Very Good. Signed by Author. Philip Ward, born 1938 in Harrow, England, was founder and Publisher of the "Private Library". ‘A Lizard and Other Distractions’ possess the unexpected unity...

The Case of the Seven Bells: A Ludovic Travers Mystery

Bush, Christopher · 1950

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

MacMillan, New York, 1950. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. It was a bewildering problem that confronted Ludovic Travers when the spivs who threatened the barmaid, Maudie Brown, let fall word of a proposed robbery at the bungalow o...

Eggs, Beans and Crumpets

Wodehouse, P. G. · 1940

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Herbert Jenkins, London, 1940. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. In the heart of Londons clubland there stands a tall and grimly forbidding edifice known to taxi-drivers and the elegant young men who frequent its precincts as the Dr...

Merrivale And Fossiter : A Memory Between Two Worlds (SIGNED COPY)

Haslett, George Wyndham · 1934

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

Hurst and Blackett, Ltd. London, 1934. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Inscribed by Author. author's initials in gilt monogram to front cover; map end-papers to the front and rear (of Treffle and Neighbourhood to illustrate "Merri...

Let's Pretend

Agnew, Georgette · 1927

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

J. Saville & Co. Ltd. London, 1927. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Illustrated by: Ernest H. Shepard. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. bound in blue cloth with, to the front, debossed silhouettes of children coloured in red; illustrated end-papers in blue on whi...

Nursery Tales: A Book of Nursery Stories

Macdonald, Violet M. (collected and illustrated by) · 1929

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Jonathan Cape, London, 1929. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Illustrated by: Violet M. Macdonald. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. colour frontis. illustration plus 16 full-page b/w. illustrations throughout & with header & footer b/w. illustrations to each story; a c...

A Guide to Prehistoric Scotland

Feacham, Richard · 1963

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

B. T. Batsford Ltd. London, 1963. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. The structural remains which constitute the visible record of the human occupation of Scotland in The prehistoric times are spread in profusion throughout the mainl...

Memoirs of Mary Baker Eddy

Dickey, Adam Herbert · 1986

£500.00 (€599.33 | $660.57 | ¥105,484)

Butter Field Books, Old Isleworth, Middlesex, 1986. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). As New/Near Fine. 9781869832001 A description of the daily private life of a great Leader is valuable only to the degree that the eyewitness is both intimate and honest. There have b...

Down the Road or the Reminiscences of a Gentleman Coachman

Reynardson, Charles Thomas Samuel Birch · 1875

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

Longmans, Green & Co. London, 1875. Second Edition, Hardcover (Full Leather). Near Fine Condition. Full leather red morocco binding by Morrell with five gilt-ruled raised bands to spine, gilt titles on black panels, gilt coaching vignettes within ornate decorative borders to o...

English Wayfaring Life in Middle Ages - Signed & Numbered Limited Edn. (1889)

Jusserand, J. J. · 1889

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1889. First Edition, Hardcover (Vellum). Very Good Condition. A limited, numbered edition on Japanese paper, one of only 65 copies, this being number 48; bound in vellum & signed by the publisher T. Fisher Unwin on the limitation page; tissue-guarded b...

The Autobiography of a Stage Coachman (Limited & Numbered Edition - 2 Volumes)

Cross, Thomas · 1904

£950.00 (€1,138.73 | $1,255.08 | ¥200,421)

Kegan Paul Trench Trubner and Co. Ltd. London, 1904. First Edition, Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Rare deluxe limited, numbered edition on handmade paper, one of fifty copies, this being number two; bound in a red, textured, full morocco Zaehnsdorf exhibition ...

The Teddy Bear (SIGNED COPY)

Theobalds, Prue (editor) · 1988

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Blackie & Son, London, 1988. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Illustrated by: Prue Theobalds. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. 9780216923935 beige end-papers; contents list to front; Chubby bears, lean bears, smart bears and scruffy bears, shy bears and bouncy bears - ...

The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol

Pevsner, Nikolaus · 1958

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1958. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. A volume (BE13) in Pevsner's 'The Buildings of England' series, documenting the important buildings of all the counties of England; this copy covers North Somerset and B...

The Buildings of England: Middlesex

Pevsner, Nikolaus · 1951

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1951. First Edition, Softcover. Good Condition. A volume (BE3) in Pevsner's 'The Buildings of England' series, documenting the important buildings of all the counties of England; this copy covers Middlesex; b/w. frontispiece map of ...

The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire

Pevsner, Nikolaus · 1953

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1953. First Edition, Softcover. Good Condition. A volume (BE7) in Pevsner's 'The Buildings of England' series, documenting the important buildings of all the counties of England; this copy covers Hertfordshire; b/w. frontispiece map...

The Adventures of Giuseppe Pignata Who Escaped from the Prisons of the Inquisition of Rome.

Pignata, Giuseppe (Arthur Symons - translator) · 1930

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Jonathan Cape, London, 1930. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/Fair. The story of a Roman noble of the 17th Century who was imprisoned for life by the Inquisition, but escaped in 1693. It was published in French in Cologne in 1725. Symons relates that h...