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LEWIS C S · 1950

$145.00 (€131.56 | £109.75 | ¥23,147)

Dent brick coloured red cloth lightly faded to spine and top edge of boards and onto 20mm onto the spine edge of the lower board, spotted closed edges (foxed), top edge dusted red, gilt to spine, scattered foxing to endpapers, minor foxing to prelims and occasional spot in ...

The Travelling Vampire Show

LAYMON Richard · 2000

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

Headline near fine in same DW, unclipped, no tears or inscriptions, 314pp H First Edition Fine London Fine 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Come Out Tonight

LAYMON Richard · 1999

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,165)

Headline near fine in same DW, unclipped, no tears or inscriptions, just a little light creasing to extreme bottom edges of DW, 311pp H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Dreadful Tales

LAYMON Richard · 2000

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

Headline near fine in same DW, unclipped, no tears or inscriptions, 312pp H First Edition Fine London Fine 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

The Midnight Tour

LAYMON Richard · 1998

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

Headline near fine in same DW, unclipped, no tears or inscriptions, just a little light creasing to extreme edges of DW, 438pp H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Leila; or the Siege of Granada; Calderon, the Courtier; and the Pilgrims of the Rhine

LYTTON Edward Bulwer Lord

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

Richard Edward King bevelled edges, red cloth with blind rules and gilt title to cover and spine, browned paper stock, top edge gilt, three stories, The Pilgrims of the Rhine is a kind of travelogue describing the Rhine area and also the folk legends and tales of the people o...

In Defiance of the Ban

WESTERMAN Percy F · 1931

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Blackie small pencil sketch of fighter plane and naval boat to paste down otherwise tidy but showing some age, name blacked out to fep, frontis + 320pp + 3 plates and frontis, Boys type adventure tale set in South America, undated but from 1931 H No Jacket London Very Good E ...

Classic Who, the Hinchcliffe Years Seasons 12-14

RIGELSFORD Adrian · 1995

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Boxtree 128pp well illustrated in black and white and colour stills from the shows, lots of Dalek and Victorian episodes covered H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 4to - over 9? - 12" tall

Puffin Annual Number One

WEBB Kaye editor · 1974

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Penguin Books light bruise to corners and spine, no inscriptions not clipped, assortment of images and text by many well regarded British childrens writers and illustrators, 125pp includes Joan Aiken Nicholas Fisk Norman Hunter Branestawm Quentin Blake Tove Jansson Geoffrey T...

The St Columba Collection of Gaelic Songs; A' Choisir-Chiuil

FERGUSON Archibald

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

Bayley & Ferguson black printed green cloth over stiff card boards, front board minor split within the layering of the card, short inscription rear paste down, 100pp of Scots Gaelic songs with music and words in Gaelic H No Jacket London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Zen Unterweisung

ENOMIYA-LASSALLE Hugo M · 1987

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Kosel Bearbeitet und herausgegeben von Roland Ropers and Bogdan Snela, as new condition, 120pp, B&W photographs H First Edition No Jacket Munchen Fine 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

The New German Cinema

SANDFORD John · 1981

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Eyre Methuen large 8vo in wraps with still of Herzog from Aguirre Wrath of God on cover, corners slightly bumped or curled, 180pp photo illustrated in the text, survey of post war German cinema focusing on directors; Alexander Kluge, Jean-Marie Straub, Volker Schlondorff, Wer...

A Hundred Years of Progress, The Record of the Scottish Typographical Association 1853 to 1952

GILLESPIE Sarah C · 1953

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Robert MacLehose and Co blue cloth, light soiling or edge rubbing, name to fep, xv 268pp + col frontis and tissue guard H First Edition No Jacket Glasgow Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Seven Scamps Who are Not All Boys

BRENT-DYER Elinor M · 1927

$195.00 (€176.92 | £147.60 | ¥31,129)

W & R Chambers assumed first edition (1927) but undated, has no other reprinting listed etc, at front the list of works by Brent-Dyer by Chambers has 7 titles, blue cloth rubbed to spine ends and corner tips, backstrip faded, black panelling and title and author to upper boar...

My Life as a Matador

ARRUZA Carlos & CONRAD Barnaby · 1960

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Hutchinson decorated boards, DW has two 25mm tears at top edge of cover and some minor edge chipping to top edge, 174pp + plates, autobiography of one of the greatest matadors of the twentieth century, rival and contemporary of Manolete, with much detail pertaining to Manolete...

Winston Spencer Churchill Servant of Crown and Commonwealth Atribute By Various Hands

MARCHANT James · 1954

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Cassell 'A tribute by various hands presented to him on his eightieth birthday', DW has edge wear and short splits at ends of joints, light surface soiling, unclipped, complete with the 80th birthday card wrap around band which was intended to be sent off to Churchill by the p...

The Best of Corey Ford

FORD Corey Edited Jack SAMSON · 1975

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Holt Rinehart & Winston edition specially printed for the friends of Sami S Svendson Inc, xvi 266pp, DW price clipped and some minor short edge tears plus a little soiling to covers, a selection of writings from Field and Stream contirbutor Corey Ford H First Edition Very Go...

An History of the Origin and Establishment of Gothic Architecture Comprehending Also an Account from His Own Writings of Caesar Caesarianus the First Professed Commentator on Vitruvius and of His Translation of That Author

HAWKINS John Sidney · 1813

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.54 | ¥23,945)

J Taylor at the Architectural Library title continues as ; "an investigation of the principles and proportions of that style of architecture called the gothic and an inquiry into the mode of painting upon and staining glass as practised in the ecclesiastical structures of the...

The Twelfth Step

RANDALL Thomas · 1957

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

Scribners assumed first edition; copyright page reads A 8 57 [H] Ahearn states this is indicative of a first edition (A= first edn 8= August 57= 1957 [H] = hardback?) book has some foxing mainly to the endpapers and paste downs, the closed edges are dusty, the linen cloth a ...

The Peasant and the Donkey, Tales of the Near and Middle East

NAHMAD H M · 1967

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Oxford University Press minimal foxing to endpapers, DW price clipped and with minimal rubbing to the corners and small nick from head of upper joint, 33 stories by various authors collected by Nahmad, from Turkish Arabic Armenian Jewish Hebrew Persian and Georgian sources, ...