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Challenge to Science the UFO Enigma

VALLEE Jacques & Janice · 1967

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Neville Spearman apart from lacking fep is VG in an unclipped DW under a plastic sleeve. first English printing xvi + 268pp + plates. scientific approach to UFO phenomenon. H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

The Pilgrim's Progress (Folio Society)

BUNYAN John · 1962

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Folio Society quarter dark green leather spine to brick buckram boards, copper engravings by Sturt from the 1728 edition, first thus, 290pp + plates, spotted closed edges, minimal foxing to prelims. lacks slipcase, light rubbing spine ends H First Edition No Jacket London ...

A Walk on the Wild Side

ALGREN Nelson · 1957

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Neville Spearman unclipped DW minor rubbing to edges, small split to lower joint at tail, very tidy apart from some handling soiling to the blank white rear panel, book VG throughout, light bookseller pencil note to fep, 346pp H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo -...

The Silent Continent

KEARNS William H & Beverley Britton · 1955

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Victor Gollancz names to fep, top corner bumped, DW tear along front panel with some tape residue showing from the rear side 237pp + plates, DW under plastic sleeve H First Edition Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Antarctic Adventure

FUCHS Vivian · 1959

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Cassell excellent copy, a little small minor amount of tape oxide to fep where it offset from some tape holding a plastic cover, the tape was ONLY on the plastic not the endpapers, 190pp illustrated, foxing to closed edges, The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58....

Adrienne

LE FEUVRE Amy

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Ward Lock very tidy, greyish buckram with black titling and picture of girl on horse talking to man by a gate. Head and tail of spine bumped, binding loosening, hinges fine, some minor foxing faintly showing to closed edges and extreme margins, 256pp + frontis, unabridged,...

Coffin on the Water

BUTLER Gwendoline · 1986

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

St Martins first US edition, DW unclipped but rubbed along bottom half of upper joint, minor edge wear to spine ends, small tear top left corner of rear panel, book VG no inscriptions, top edge red marker dot remainder mark. H First Edition Very Good New York Very Good 8vo -...

Deadline

RUSSELL Martin · 1971

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Thriller Book Club first thus book club edition, unclipped DW overall VG+ ciopy excellent, minor spine lean. H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

No Roses in June

SUMMERS Essie · 1961

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Mills and Boon ex-lending library/ bookclub, pen etc to fep, some stamps and stains throughout, unclipped DW under plastc sleeve that has been taped down to paste downs, small hole in spine of DW just taking the head of the logos' cherub H First Edition Good London Good 8vo - ...

Heather's Mistress

LE FEUVRE Amy

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Religious Tract Society blue cloth rubbed to edges and corners, gilt and black embossed cover and spine, gilt impressed school crest to upper board from St Hilda's Collegiate School Dunedin New Zealand, with prize plate from same to paste down, lower joint split to lower hal...

Biggles Investigates

JOHNS W E · 1964

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Brockhampton Press lacks dust jacket, light soiling to boards in places, heel of spine bumped, closed edges minor soiling, col frontis, 4 line pen inscription to fep, internally clean. scarce title. H First Edition No Jacket London Very Good Leslie Stead 12mo - over 6? - 7? ...

Lovely She Goes! a Story of Arctic Trawling

MITFORD William · 1969

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Book Club Associates first thus BCA edition light edge wear to DW, 192pp folding map, small stain to closed fore edge and onto margin of a few pages, a thrilling record of Britains most dangerous profession, deep sea trawling. H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - o...

Game-bag and Creel

DOBIE W G M · 1927

$90.00 (€81.66 | £68.12 | ¥14,372)

W Green and Son blue cloth lightly rubbed, one tiny hole in upper joint, mild foxing prelims, ink inscription dated (19)28 to fep, 2 mounted colour plates with tissue guards + line drawings, verse on Scots recreation themes (angling, stags etc). H First Edition No Jacket Edi...

Egyptian Temples

MURRAY Margaret A.

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Sampson Low faded blue cloth, sunned spine, lightly foxed closed edges, otherwise tidy, x 246pp + plates, survey of the then excavated Egyptian Temples H First Edition No Jacket London Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

The Lighter Side of English Life

MOORE f Frankfort · 1913

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Foulis tan buckram gilt titled, ink inscriptions to fep dated 1916 & 1929, 285pp + plates + 10pp adverts, colour and b&w plates, top edge gilt others untrimmed, anecdotes from village and town life illustrating the character of English folk at the turn of the twentieth centur...

Poems

NICHOLSON James & Ellen C. · 1880

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Hamilton Adams & Co tidy maroon cloth, bevelled edges to boards, gilt leaf design to upper board in gilt panel, blind panel to l;ower board, all edges gilt, some browning to paper stock, original endpapers, 217 + 2pp adverts, light fingermarking to prelims, light wear or handl...

The Elizabethan Stage Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4

CHAMBERS E K · 1945

$400.00 (€362.92 | £302.77 | ¥63,875)

Oxford University Press tan brown buckram with gilt arms to upper board, spines and boards lightly faded, name and date + rubber stamp acquisition number to feps otherwise tidy copies, the 1945 facsimile CORRECTED edition after the 1923 first, 4 volumes, xli 388 + 557 + 518 + ...

The Uncommercial Traveller

DICKENS Charles · 1866

$650.00 (€589.74 | £492.00 | ¥103,797)

Chapman and Hall Title states NEW EDITION, viii 204pp + frontis, internally open at first collation where sewn collations pulling away from the internal backing, no damage to the cloth binding and collated intact, the original green cloth is blind embossed with decoration and ...

Sophie's Choice

STYRON William · 1979

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Jonathan Cape tidy, price clipped dust jacket has a few minor nicks to fore edge folds, 515pp H First Edition Very Good London Very Good 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall

Mr. American

FRASER George Macdonald · 1980

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Collins unclipped dust jacket with fade to spine, edges of jacket a bit rubbed or creased, chipped or split at corners, tidy but read copy, yarn about a mysterious American's arrival in Liverpool in 1909 by author of the Flashman stories, and this story has Flashman as a chara...