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FREELING Nicolas · 1964

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

Victor Gollancz minor pencil to fep, DW unclipped yellow paper style, minimal wear to edges, tiny chipping to corners and spine ends, backstrip a little darkened, first and last pages slightly age browned from glue action H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over...

The Man Who Followed Women

HITCHENS Bert & Dolores · 1960

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Boardman lacks DW, small faint water stain bottom half of upper board, American Bloodhound Mystery number 332, light foxing to closed edges H First Edition No Jacket London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Faintley Speaking

MITCHELL Gladys · 1954

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Michael Joseph ex lending library with stamps etc to endpapers, hinges stained with tape oxide, boards lightly bumped or soiled, foxed, a few pages old water stain to bottom corner, DW has been pasted onto brown paper to stiffen with 5mm of paper overlapping onto the front at ...

If It's Speed You're After

BAILEY E. MacDonald · 1953

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Stanley Paul lightly soiled boards, lacks fep, faint foxing, one plate tipped back in with some edge wear, DW significant loss to backstrip and rear panel, , chipping and tear to front panel, black British resident 100 metre champion gives advice to sprinters H First Edition F...

The Forbidden Valley

SUMMERS Essie · 1973

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,376)

Mills and Boon DW unclipped and very tidy under plastic sleeve with some tape holding the fllaps to the pastedowns, 189pp + adverts, romance fiction set in New Zealand H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall

Somme Battle Stories

DAWSON A J & BAIRNSFATHER Bruce · 1916

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Hodder sunned spine, lightly soiled boards with some stains, titled to upper board, small piece torn from top edge of half title, aged feps, vii 239pp + 6 plates incl col frontis, one page small marginal tear, pp13 has a 'clean' horizontal tear across the page, illustrated...

With the French Eastern Army

GREY W E · 1915

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Hodder slightly soiled cloth, small bookseller stamp to fep, light ageing , rare account of the French forces in the first years of the war, one of The Daily Telegraph War Books, 187pp + 6pp adverts H First Edition No Jacket London Very Good 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall

The Natural History of Commerce with a Copious List of Commercial Terms

YEATS John · 1870

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Cassell Petter & Galpin spine and corners rubbed, light surface soiling, pencil to endpapers and fly, xvi 436pp +16pp publishers catalogue, includes errata slip, colour frontis map, light foxing to page edges, the various raw materials and where they are to be found around the...

The Mouthpiece, the Story of the Play

WALLACE Edgar & Robert Curtis · 1950

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Hutchinson lightly dust soiled cloth, foxed prelim, age toned paper, DW large chips from head and tail of spine and covers, 219pp, the novel of the famous play told by Robert Curtis H reprint Fair London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Jewels

FISHER P J · 1965

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Batsford light rubbing to board edges, faint offsetting to edges of feps, DW price clipped but tidy under plastic sleeve, 112pp plus colour and b&w plates, some light foxing to blank versos of plates, diagrams in text, does not cover metalwork and jewellery making but rather t...

Admiralty Handbook of Wireless Telegraphy Volume 1 & 2

anon · 1941

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Her Majestys Stationery Office BR 229, vol 1 'Magnetism and Electricity', boards lightly rubbed and corners bumped, name and date to paste down, rubber name stamp to fep and rear fep, all edges dusted red speckle, unpaginated but approx 200pp, BR 230 vol 2 'Wireless Telegraphy...

Fruhgriechische Junglinge Mit 180 Abbildungen (Ancient Greek Youth Kouros)

BUSCHOR Ernst · 1950

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

R Piper & Co black cloth with gilt kouros design to upper board, library call number in white to spine, a few library stamps or marks and one bookplate to half title, 157pp and 180 B&W photographic images in the text, GERMAN TEXT, study of ancient Greek Kouros ( young male) st...

The Art of Mystery and Detective Stories

HAINING Peter · 1986

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Treasure Press The Best Illustrations from over a Century of Crime Fiction, 176pp, minimal wear to DW corners, illustrated throughout with colour and b&w reproductions of vintage crime fiction art as well as good authorative information on the well known and obscure characters...

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

POE Edgar Allan (Harry Clarke) · 1928

$450.00 (€408.27 | £340.61 | ¥71,836)

Harrap blue green pebbled grain leatherette cloth with gilt panel to upper and blind panel to lower board, gilt titled and decorated spine, joints rubbed and showing cloth along the edges, name and date to fep dated 1932, light foxing to prelims and closed edges, half title ha...

North from Rome

MACINNES Helen · 1958

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Collins DW unclipped with edge rubbing, chipping to spine ends and corners, short tear along fold at top corner, little if any loss, book has faint foxing to prelims, Her fourth book H First Edition Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Belonging, Conversations with men and Women Who Have Made Israel Their Home

McNEISH James · 1980

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Collins price clipped DW, 192pp H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

In the Absence of the Sacred, the Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations

MANDER Jerry · 1992

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Sierra Club as new, first thus edition, 446pp, Mander challenges the utopian promise of technological society and tracks its devastating impact on native cultures worldwide. The Western world’s loss of a sense of the sacred in the natural world, he says, has led us toward glob...

Television Culture

FISKE John · 1994

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Routledge reprint of first edition, light edge wear, 353pp, A comprehensive introduction to television studies. Fiske analyzes both the economic and cultural aspects of television and investigates it in terms of both theory and text based criticism. S First Edition No Jacket L...

Questions and Answers... dealt with in the Transactions of the Masters and Past Masters Lodge up to June 1971

CHAMBERS A R & Ross Hepburn · 1973

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Masters and Past Masters Lodge blue papered board sunned to spine, finger marks to boards otherwise VG, no DW, 369pp, Questions and Answers on all aspects of Freemasonry published by the Christchurch, New Zealand Masters and Past Masters Lodge #130 H revised No Jacket Christ...

Barbed Wire and Footlights, Seven Stalags to Freedom

TAYLOR Frank · 1988

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Merlin Books soft cover, light dust soiling, 124pp. Autobiography of Frank Taylor, born 22nd of February 1921 at Kirkhill, Coldingham, Berwickshire, Scotland. Educated at the Edinburgh Academy and trained for the stage at the Scottish School of Drama, under the direction of Mi...