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Japanese Cookery

Leeming, Margaret & Mutsuko Kohsaka · 1987

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Century Hutchinson Ltd.Century/Hutchinson, London, 1987. First Thus, Softcover, Illustrated by: Roy Jennings. Good Condition. 9780712615358 Sophisticated in appearance and intriguing in flavour, Japanese cookery is less familiar in the West than other Oriental cuisines. This a...

The Royal Road to Card Magic

Hugard, Jean & Frederick Braue · 1999

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Dover Publications Inc. Mineola, New York, U.S.A. 1999. First Thus, Softcover. Very Good Condition. 9780486408439 As a magician your greatest reward is to astonish and perplex your audience using just a simple pack of cards. And to do that, you need to master more than just th...

Encyclopedia of Card Tricks

Hugard, Jean (Editor) · 1981

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Faber, London, 1981. Reprint, Softcover. Good Condition. 9780571070176 Jean Hugard was known and revered throughout the world of magic as a practical performer, inventor and author. This new revised edition of his ‘Encyclopaedia of Card Tricks’ is one of the most complete work...

Classic American Cars

Nichols, Richard · 1989

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Magna Books, Wigston, Leicestershire, 1989. Reprint, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Very Good. 9781854220264 America has produced some of the most stylish, and expensive, cars in the history of the automobile. Ever since Henry Ford made the car an essential ac...

Who Killed Cock-Robin? Remarks on Poetry, on its criticism, and, as a sad warning, the story of Eunuch Arden.

Sitwell, Osbert · 1921

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

C. W. Daniel Ltd. London, 1921. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. erratum slip (page 26) present; Osbert Sitwell’s erudite & amusing comments on poetry & it’s criticism in seven parts those being: I - The Public and the Mammon of Righteousness; II - Give...

Seven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy by the President 1778

Reynolds, Joshua · 1971

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

The Scolar Press Ltd. Menston, Yorkshire, 1971. Facsimile Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. When Sir Joshua Reynolds collected his first seven discourses together for publication there were three main traditions of art theory in Britain. ...

Wooden Bygones of Smoking and Snuff Taking

Pinto, Edward H. · 1961

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Hutchinson, London, 1961. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Throughout his life three interests have been all-absorbing to Edward Pinto: history, wood and craftsmanship but he was also brought up in an atmosphere of tobacco, for his fath...

Experience

Maccarthy, Desmond · 1935

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Putnam, London, 1935. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Very Good. Desmond MacCarthy was a British literary critic and journalist; he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, from 1896. Though often thought to be a m...

Selected poems of Malcolm Lowry - edited by Earle Birney, with the assistance of Margerie Lowry (Pocket Poets series- number seventeen)

Lowry, Malcolm · 1969

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

City Lights Books, San Francisco, California, 1969. 6th Edition, Softcover. Good Condition. introduction by Canadian poet Earle Birney. Malcolm Lowry was a British novelist and poet whose masterpiece 'Under the Volcano' is widely hailed as one of the greatest novels of the twe...

Adam, One Afternoon & Other Stories

Calvino, Italo · 1957

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Collins, London, 1957. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 21 short stories translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun and Peggy Wright. Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. This collection...

My Mortal Enemy

Cather, Willa · 1948

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Heinemann, London, 1948. Reprint, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. bieige end-papers; blue paper-covered boards with black cloth spine; In Willa Cather's eighth novel, first published in 1926, through the eyes of a young girl, Nellie, we view the life of Myra, a ...

David Dreadnought; or, Nautic Tales and Adventures, in Verse. (In Four Parts)

Whitchurch, Samuel · 1813

£175.00 (€209.77 | $231.20 | ¥36,920)

Bath printed by Wood & Cunningham; & sold by Williams, London, 1813. First Edition, Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Very Good Condition. b/w. frontis. engraving showing the Internment of Henry Mowbray with a view of Rock Deception & a prospect of Henry's Bay; the story in verse o...

The Virgin Seated: A leaf from a French 'Book of Hours' attibuted to the school of Jean Bourdichon of Tours, France about A.D. 1500.

British Museum. Department of Manuscripts. · 1900

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Extract British Museum, London, 1900's. First Thus, Softcover, Illustrated by: School of Jean Bourdichon. Good Condition. British Museum Process reproductions in colour from illuminated mss. No.43 being a leaf from a French 'Book of Hour's attibuted to the school of Jean Bourd...

Elementary Geology with special reference to Canada

Coleman, A. P. & W. A. Parks · 1930

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd. London, 1930. Second Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. So many elementary text-books of Geology are available that it seems almost superfluous to add to the number. Geology, however, is a science embracing, not only gen...

The Story Of Kent's Cavern Torquay

Gerrard, John · 0

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

W. F. & L. W. Powe (proprietors), Wellswood, Torquay, Devon, No date. Presumed First Edn. Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Good Condition. an early 20-page booklet on Kents Cavern, a cave system in Torquay, Devon, England,s notable for its archaeological and geological features. Si...

The Navaho: Revised Edition (Harvard Paperbacks)

Kluckhohn, Clyde · 2002

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. USA, 2002. Reprint, Softcover. As New. 9780674606036 "This book is one of the most successful efforts so far to communicate the results of the anthropological study of one people to another people . the book is not addressed to the sp...

Ghostly Bedfordshire Reinvestigated: A Haunted History (SIGNED COPY)

O'Dell, Damien · 2004

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Egon Publishers Ltd. Royston, Hertfordshire, 2004. First Edition, Softcover. As New. 9780954669843 Signed by Author. Damien O'Dell's first book about the paranormal brings together his various interests - his Bedfordshire roots, his fascination with the paranormal and his love...

Can Your Mother Skin a Rabbit?: Tales of a Suffolk Lad (SIGNED COPY)

Allard, Bert E. · 1988

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

privately published, Stonham Parva, Suffolk, 1988. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition. Signed by Author. Signed dedication on the fep reads: "Best Wishes Sid B. E. Allard 14/9/89". Although Bert Allard's very personal account of his early life in Stonham, Suffolk re...

Fenland River: The Story of the Great Ouse and Its Tributaries

Tibbs, Rodney · 1969

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Terence Dalton Ltd. Lavenham, Suffolk, 1969. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. 9780900963100 Map end-papers in green & white. The Great Ouse river rises in Northamptonshire, skirts a mile or so of the Oxfordshire border before beginning ...

Looking at Pictures

Smith, S. C. Kaines · 1921

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Methuen & Co Ltd. London, 1921. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. a former guide-lecturer at the National Gallery explains how the understanding of paintings & why they were painted can increase the viewers' appreciation of art. ill...