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Hardy's Anglers' Guide 1930

Hardy Bros. · 1930

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

Hardy Bros., 1930. Soft Cover. 386p Incut. 20 Coloured plates . Good sound complete copy of this annual catalogue. Binding tight and square with boards clean apart from previous owners neat name and address (Carter, South Miltion Street London WI on front board and 30 neatly i...

Olney and Its Associations or Reminiscences of the Poet Cowper

1880

£34.00 (€40.75 | $44.92 | ¥7,173)

Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1880. Hardcover. 61p engravings. Beautiful small thin book of the town of Cowper. References to the Town, lacemaking etc. Finely illustrated boards with gilt in nice condition with only minor wear to corners and edges. Inked title neatly on spine. Enth...

Picturesque Views of Perthshire

0

£11.00 (€13.19 | $14.53 | ¥2,321)

, . Soft Cover. 50 pp. printed illustrated wrapper forest green and gilt on beige cartonage. ? Turn of the 20th century travel brochure to Perthshire, illustrated with 88 b/w phototypes. (scuffed edges of lightly soiled bdg., with some neat internal reinforcement of binding wi...

Farther Afield in Birdland

Piike, Oliver G. · 0

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Jarrrold & Sons, . Hardcover. 224 pp. Nice gilt stamped image of fox on clean cover, with minor flecks, and bird on spine. Fine sepia plates of birds tipped in and photographic plates. tight without marks or signatures . Very Good

Parnell - Irish History Series No. 3

Lyons, F.S.L. · 1963

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Dublin Historical Association, 1963. Soft Cover. 1st edition - 39 pages including reading list. Fine but for fading of pale green covers at edges. . Very Good

Coital Interlocking - a Physiological Discovery

Stopes, Marie Carmichael · 1930

£29.00 (€34.76 | $38.31 | ¥6,118)

Mother's Clinic for Constructive Birth Control, 1930. Soft Cover. 6p booklet announcing Stopes discovery of Coital Interlocking - she suggests that the opening cervix may clamp down upon the penis during intercourse - not later confirmed by Masters & Johnson ! Original clean p...

Birth Control and the Population Question in England, 1877 - 1930

Soloway, Richard · 1982

£19.00 (€22.77 | $25.10 | ¥4,008)

Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina, 1982. Hardcover. 418p; includes a chapter on Marie Stopes.Unmarked and tight - but light foxing on fore-edge. One of a number of books I am listing of Marie Stopes and associated material. . Near Fine

The First Five Thousand Being the First Report of the First Birth Control Clinic in the British Empire, the Mother's Clinic for Constructive Birth Control .

Stopes, Marie Carmichael · 1925

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

John Bale, Sons & Danielson, Ltd, 1925. Hardcover. 67p + 3p adverts in original pale blue boards.Boards clean but some speckiling of spine from old damping. Owners name on fep. Browning of fep in gutters. One of a number of books I am listing of Marie Stopes and associated mat...

Wartime Harvest. Poems by Marie Carmichael Stopes. With a Preface by Lord Alfred Douglas and a Letter by George Bernard Shaw

Stopes, Marie C · 1940

£19.00 (€22.77 | $25.10 | ¥4,008)

William Heinemann Ltd, 1940. Hardcover. 92pp + adverts in original pale blue decorative boards.Some shelf wear, spine sl. darkened and few flecks of foxing on fep. No marks or signatures.One of a number of books I am listing of Marie Stopes and associated material. . Very Good

Man, Other Poems and a Preface

Stopes, Marie C · 1914

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

William Heinemann Ltd, 1914. Hardcover. 76p + 2p reviews. In the original dull blue cloth; boards little marked, but clean tight without marks or signatures.One of a number of books I am listing of Marie Stopes and associated material. . Near Very Good

Oriri

Stopes, Marie C · 1940

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

William Heinemann Ltd, 1940. Hardcover. 27p + adverts. In original silver and green decorative boards with ?original overlying clear cellophane wrapper in very good condition. Signed on foretitle by author To Margaret Rawlings with best wishes from Marie Carmichael Stopes Xma...

On the Banks of the Ouse or Life in Olney a Hundred Years Ago

Marshall, Emma · 1887

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

E.P.Dutton & Co., 1887. Hardcover. 339p +16p catalogue.Local history narrated about the lace making town of Olney. Book tight but slightly cocked and a little evidence of old damp staining. Spine rubbed at edges but internally clean and bright. No marks or signatures.Boards . ...

The Journal of the C.H. A. Mountaineering Club February 1933 (Vol. 1 No. 2)

1933

£29.00 (€34.76 | $38.31 | ¥6,118)

Bradford?, 1933. Soft Cover. 32p illustrated rare Mountaineering Club Journal. Long obituary to John Alfred Whitehead (killed climbing on Napes Needle? Christmas Day) Gaping Ghyll (illustrated), Pisgah Buttress Scafell, Waterpipe Gully Skye (Eddie Ling) etc. Journal is well wo...

The Poems of George Huddesford, M.A. , Late Fellow of New College, Oxford. Now First Collected. Including Salmagundi, Topsy-Turvy, Bubble and Squeak, and Crambe Repetita. With Corrections, and Original Anecdotes. 2 Vols.

Huddesford, Geoge · 1801

£64.00 (€76.71 | $84.55 | ¥13,502)

J.Wright Piccadily, 1801. Hardcover. viii, 145, errata leaf; [4], 176 pp. Spines dec. in gilt. one label missing - not quite matched - but likely as original - booksellers label A.W. Jordan Truro in both volumes.Tight and clean. First Collected Edition. Ink names of Wm Gates t...

The History of Robert Gordon's Hospital Aberdeen

Anderson, Robert · 1896

£26.00 (€31.17 | $34.35 | ¥5,485)

D.Wyllie & Sons, 1896. Hardcover. 199p ill plates and portraits.Comprehensive history of the early years of what is now Robert Gordon's University. Clean and tight without marks or signatures.Endpapers browned. Blue cloth boards good but top and bottom of spine worn. . Good +

Curling in Switzerland : A Treatise on the Principles of the Game, and Where and How to Play It.

A. Noel Mobbs, and F. McDermott · 1929

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Arrowsmith, 1929. Hardcover. A treatise on the principles of the game and where and how to play it. With 102 photographs and 34 diagrams. Both a history and a treatise on the scientific principles behind playing the game well. The authors also comment on the present state of c...

Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales - the Geology of the Quantock Hills and of Taunton and Bridgewater - (Explanation of Sheet 295)

Ussher, W.A.E. · 1908

£19.00 (€22.77 | $25.10 | ¥4,008)

HMSO, 1908. Soft Cover. 109p illust. One of the old comprehensive local memoirs - much detail. Complete and in near VG condition. Neat previous owners name on front wrapper and wrappers a bit dusty. . Near Very Good

Edinburgh International Festival 1975 - Official Programme

1975

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

, 1975. Soft Cover. 96p + adverts of this stylish ring bound brochure.The 29th Edinburgh Festival. . Very Good

County of Lanark - Second Report on the Administration of the Rivers Pollution Prevention Acts(Scotland) Report to Her Majesty's Secretary for Scotland

County Medical Officer · 1909

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Robet Anderson, 1909. Soft Cover. 118p illustrated and large folding map. Covers very dusty and old ? Library Sticker. Handwritten on front cover - Lennox M. Sellar Town Clerk Office Glasgow. . Good +

The Ibis - a Quarterly Journal of Ornithology Fourteenth Series Vol. IV. No. 1 January 1940

Ticehurst, C.B. · 1941

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

British Ornithologists Union, 1941. Soft Cover. 185p with articles on Birds from Northern Nigerian, East Africa, Scotland, Crete , Morocco and unusual Bean Geese in the Severn Esturay. . Near Fine