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WILLIAM MASON: A STUDY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE.

DRAPER, John W. · 1924

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

New York University Press, 1924. First edition, 8vo., pp.xv,397, blue cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and plates; ownership bookplates to front paste-down endpaper, occasional light foxing within, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.

VISTA: The Culture and Politics of Gardens.

Edited by: RICHARDSON, Tim; KINGSBURY, Noel. Various contributors. · 2005

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

London: Frances Lincoln, 2005. 8vo., pp.191, orange hardcover, gilt; ex library, with remnants of removed plates to front endpapers, and sticker to title verso, else clean and unmarked, with sunning to top edges, an otherwise very good copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which i...

A SKILFUL MASTER BUILDER. The Continuing Story of a Yorkshire Family Business, Craftsmen for Seven Generations.

STAPLETON, H.E.C.; PACE, G.G.; DAY, J.E. · 1975

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

York: William Anelay Limited, 1975. 8vo., pp.viii,72, pictorial wrappers, b/w illustrations; a fresh and near-fine copy.

CY TWOMBLY: TEN SCULPTURES. Published on the Occasion of the exhibition ‘Cy Twombly: Ten Sculptures’, November 5, 1997 - December 20, 1997, Gagosian Gallery.

Text by: SYLVESTER, David. · 1997

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

New York: Gagosian Gallery, 1997. Exhibition catalogue, 4to., pp.60, pictorial hardcover, b/w plates; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a fresh and near-fine copy.

FACES WE MEET AND HOW TO READ THEM. With: HOW TO READ CHARACTER BY THE AID OF PATHOGNOMY; Or The Signs Which Are Manifested By The Human System In Motion: As By The Walk Or Gait, Tones Of The Voice, Form Of The Body, The Mode Of Shaking Hands, Temperamental Conditions, Dress, Etc.

WELLS, R.B.D., Phrenologist, Pavilion Place, Scarborough. · 1881

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

London: H. Vickers, et al, n.d.; 1881. Two volumes in one, small 8vo., pp.240, brown cloth, gilt, with decorative blindstamped borders to boards, b/w frontispiece, b/w in-text illustrations throughout; some paper-splitting along inner hinges (joints remain firm),light foxing...

To Keep the Ball Rolling - The Memoirs of Anthony Powell, Volume Four: THE STRANGERS ARE ALL GONE.

POWELL, Anthony. · 1982

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

London: Heineman, 1982. First edition, 8vo., pp.(vi),208, grey cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; extremities rubbed, light tone to edges, a clean and good+ copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly creased and rubbed to extremities.

THE RAMAYANA. A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic.

NARAYAN, R.K. (Suggested by the Tamil Version of Kamban). · 1973

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

London: Chatto and Windus, 1973. First edition, 8vo., pp.xv,171, purple hardcover, gilt, pictorial endpapers, pictorial headpieces to chapters; slight mustiness, an otherwise very good, clean copy, in vg price-clipped dust-jacket, which is lightly toned to pale paper.

ARCHAEOLOGIES OF RULES AND REGULATION.

Edited by: HAUSMUIR, Barbara; JERVIS, Ben; NUGENT, Ruth; WILLIAMS, Eleanor. · 2018

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

New York/Oxford: Berghahn, 2018. 8vo., pp.xii,344, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; a fine copy.

MATERIAL CULTURES, MATERIAL MINDS. The Impact of Things on Human Thought, Society, and Evolution.

BOIVIN, Nicole. · 2008

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Cambridge University Press, 2008. 8vo., pp.xviii,269, grey cloth lettered in black, b/w illustrations; a fine copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.

URBAN SPACE IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE EARLY MODERN AGE.

Edited by: CLASSEN, Albrecht. · 2009

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009. 8vo., pp.vii,757, pictorial hardcover; light discolouration to rear board, very slight bruising to corners, else fresh and near-fine. No dust-jacket, as issued.

IN THE NORTH COUNTREE. Annals and Anecdotes of Horse, Hound and Herd.

SCARTH DIXON, William. · 1889

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co./York: Sampson Brothers, 1889. 8vo., pp.(ix),296,(8)adverts, original pictorial cloth stamped in blue and black, and lettered in gilt, neatly recased, with new endpapers, pictorial title, b/w plates; ink ownership autograph to half title, rub...

CHURCHILL'S SECRET AGENT, CODENAME 'JAY BEE'.

BUTLER, Josephine. [Signed by the author, with ALS] · 1983

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Ashburton, Devon: Blaketon-Hall, 1983. 8vo., pp.205, black hardcover lettered in silver; signed by author to half title, with loose ALS, ownership autograph and small sellotape marks to front free endpaper, a little light scoring to margins, light marking to boards, a very g...

LORDSHIP AND MEDIEVAL URBANISATION: COVENTRY, 1043-1355.

GODDARD, Richard. · 2004

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Royal Historical Society, 2004. 8vo., pp.xvi,330, grey hardcover lettered in red, b/w figures; a very good, fresh copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.

EUPHORMIO'S SATYRICON (Euphormionis Satyricon).

BARCLAY, John. Translated from the Latin into English for the first time, from the 1605 edition, by Paul Turner. Illustrated with ten wood engravings by Derek Harris. · 1954

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London: Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1954. Limited edition, no.227 of 260 copies, 4to., pp.(ii),158, full pictorial vellum, gilt, mould-made paper, pictorial frontispiece and title, b/w wood-engraved plates with borders in red, pictorial headpieces to p...

THE GAME FOR THE GAME'S SAKE. The History of Queen’s Park Football Club 1867-1967.

CRAMPSEY, R.A. · 1967

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Glasgow: published by the Queen’s Park Football Club Ltd., and printed by Hay Nisbet & Co., (1967). First edition, 8vo., pp.(viii),402, black hardcover lettered and with pictorial emblem in silver; light partial toning to free endpapers, a clean and very good+ copy...

POETS OF CLACKMANNANSHIRE, With Numerous Speciments of their Writings.

BEVERIDGE, James. · 1885

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Glasgow: John S. Wilson, 1885. First edition, 8vo., pp.200, dark green bevelled cloth, gilt, with border and floral vignette in black to front board, engraved frontispiece and 9 further plates showing landmarks of Clackmannanshire; toning and foxing to prelims, some foxing a...

SELECT LIBRARY OF NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Second Series, Volume IX. St. Hilary of Poitiers; John of Damascus.

Edited by: SCHAFF, Philip; WACE, Henry. · 1983

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1983. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xcvi,258;viii,106, grey cloth with title label in blue, gilt; a very good, clean copy. No dust-jacket.

SELECT LIBRARY OF NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Second Series, Volume VIII. St. Basil: Letters and Select Works.

Edited by: SCHAFF, Philip; WACE, Henry. · 1983

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1983. Reprint, 8vo., pp.lxxvii,363, grey cloth with title label in blue, gilt; a very good, clean copy. No dust-jacket.

SICKERT. Paintings and Drawings.

BARON, Wendy. · 2006

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

New Haven/London: for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, by Yale University Press, 2006. 4to., pp.ix,587 orange cloth lettered in black, colour and b/w plates, pictorial endpapers; ownership autograph to front free endpaper verso, else near-fine, in vg unclip...

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF REFORMATION, 1480-1580. Papers given at the Archaeology of Reformation Conference, February 2001, hosted jointly by the Society for Medieval Archaeology and the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology.

Edited by: GAIMSTER, David; GILCHRIST, Roberta. · 2003

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.41 | ¥10,127)

Leeds: Maney, 2003. Large 8vo., pp.ix,486, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; exlib inkstamp to title and to final page removed, scuffing to boards, with a little light rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very good, internally clean copy.