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Numero Special de ‘La Revue Musicale’: LES BALLETS RUSSES DE SERGE DE DIAGHILEW. No.110 - Décembre 1930.

Dessins et peintures de: BAKST, BENOIS, BRAQUE, COCTEAU, DERAIN, DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC, GONTCHAROWA, LARIONOW, PICASSO, UTRILLO, etc. · 1930

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

Paris, 1930. Large 8vo., pp.112, printed paper wrappers, 4 colour plates, numerous b/w plates; light toning to page margins, foxing to wrappers, otherwise an unusually fine copy.

WARNINGS AND CONSOLATIONS SPOKEN IN ST. BARNABUS CHURCH, PIMLICO.

SKINNER, Rev. James. · 1857

£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)

London: J. and C. Mozley, 1857. First edition, small 8vo., pp.x,308, uncut, recased preserving original cloth, new endpapers, green cloth, gilt; light wear to original cloth at extremities, light rubbing to boards, a few light marks to cloth, internally clean, very good.

THE GREATEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD And Other Stories.

FLYING OFFICER “X”. [BATES, H.E.] · 1942

£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)

London: Johnathan Cape, 1942. First edition, 8vo., pp.79, blue cloth; contemporary ownership autograph to front free endpapera very good, fresh copy, in unclipped dust-jacket which is rubbed to extremities, and has 3cm closed tear to lower fold of spine, with creasing to adj...

A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS CHIEFLY RELATING TO THE HISTORY, ART, AND NATURAL HISTORY OF INDIA AND THE FAR EAST, Followed by a small collection of Oriental miniatures, Drawings, Paintings, and some Arabic, persian, and Siamese MSS. (No.462).

Bernard Quaritch. · 1932

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1932. Bookseller’s catalogue, 8vo., pp.119,(ix)adverts, brown printed wrappers, 22 single-page b/w plates plus one folding plate; surface soil to wrappers, rear wrapper with series of light creases to upper corner (last 3 plates have single cr...

MAP COLLECTORS’ CIRCLE. No.44: THE PRINTED MAPS OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 1773-1873. Map Collectors’ Series (Fifth Volume).

TOOLEY, R.V. · 1968

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

London: Map Collectors’ Circle, 1968. Large 8vo., pp.49,xxx(b/w plates), printed wrappers; extended closed tear to front wrapper, some loss to head of spine, upper corners of wrappers creased and lightly worn, internally clean, a good working copy.

AN HISTORICAL CURIOSITY: ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-ONE WAYS OF SPELLING BIRMINGHAM.

By a Birmingham Resident. · 1880

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London/Sheffield: J. Ward, 1880. 8vo., pp.22, printed blue paper wrappers; light surface soil and some staining to wrappers, internally clean, a good copy.

Volumes 1-12: NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY MAGAZINE 1911-1922; Volumes 13-37: LONDON AND NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY MAGAZINE, 1923-1947. Plus volumes I and II of BRITISH RAILWAYS MAGAZINE North Easter Division, for 1948 and 1949.

FULTHORPE, J., ed. · 1911

£1,200.00 (€1,438.60 | $1,585.63 | ¥253,235)

York: Head Offices, 1911-1949. 39 volumes, large 8vo., green pictorial cloth, gilt; 11 volumes with bookplate to front endpapers, a very good set of this very scarce regional railway magazine.

THE WORKS OF BERNARD SHAW. Volumes 1-5, then 7-30.

SHAW, Bernard. · 1930

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London: Constable and Co. Ltd., 1930. 29 volumes (of 33), limited edition, 8vo., green cloth, gilt, t.e.g.; in very good condition, all in dust-jackets, some of which are torn with loss to extremities.

WHAT IS SURREALISM? Criterion Miscellany-No.43.

BRETON, Andre. Translated by GASCOYNE, David. · 1936

£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1936. First edition, 8vo., pp.90, pictorial green wrappers, 4 b/w plates; sunning to margins of wrappers, an internally clean and o/w very good copy.

DOUTHWAITE DALE AND THE SHEPHERD FAMILY.

FRANK, Bert. Illustrated by PIERSON, Helen. · 1977

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Kirkbymoorside Society, 1977. 8vo., pp.17, stapled wrappers, b/w illustrations; small amount of highlighting to p.16, a couple of lightly pencilled annotations, o/w very good.

NOTES ON CHINESE LITERATURE: With Introductory Remarks on the Progressive Advancement of the Art; and a List of Translations from the Chinese, into various European Languages.

WYLIE, A. · 1867

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Shanghae, American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1867. First edition, 4to.,pp. xxviii,260, marbled paper covered boards, green cloth spine, title label to front; rubbed to extremities, chipped to head and foot of spine with some loss, worn to corners with creasing and small te...

NEWARK PARISH CHURCH OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE.

PASK, Brenda M. · 2000

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Newark-on-Trent: District Church Council of St. Mary Magdalene, 2000. Limited edition, no.866 of 1,000 copies, 4to., pp.376, paperback, 195 b/w illustrations, 4 colour plates and 10 plans; a very good copy.

THE WAR MEMORIALS OF THE WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (The Prince of Wales’ Own). The unveiling and dedication of the War Memorials in York Minster, 20th March, 1926.

1926

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

n.d.(1926). 4to., pp.(6), with 8 b/w plates, red cloth, gilt; light wear to extremities, spots of rubbing to rear board near joint, internally clean and otherwise very good.

INEXPENSIVE RURAL COTTAGES AND BUILDINGS FOR SMALL HOLDINGS.

TAYLOR, Samuel. · 1906

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London: The Land Agents’ Record, Limited, 1906. 4to., pp.112,(2)adverts, red cloth, gilt, 27 b/w plates; light toning to free endpapers, slight marking to cloth, margins of boards slightly darkened, internally fine, overall a very good, bright copy.

THE OTHER NATION. The Poor in English Novels of the 1840s and 1850s.

SMITH, Sheila M. · 1980

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. 8vo., pp.xvii,282, black hard covers, gilt; very good, in vg unclipped dust-jacket (with crease to price at front flap), which is lightly sunned to spine.

LES INSCRIPTIONS CRETOISES II. Reprinted from Archiv Orientalni, Vol.15. (1946), No.3-4.

HROZNY, Bedrich. · 1946

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

1946. 8vo.,pp.159-302, plain wrappers, b/w illustrations; rubbed and toned to extremities, creased to spine, with repair work to foot of spine, ownership autograph and inscription to front wrappers, soiled to wrappers with a small tear to front lower fore-edge, light toning ...

MALORY’S MORTE DARTHUR, IN THE LIGHT OF A RECENT DISCOVERY. Reprinted fro the “Bulletin of the John Rylands Library” Vol.19, No.2, July, 1935.

VINAVER, Eugene. · 1935

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Manchester University Press, 1935. 8vo.,pp.21, printed wrappers, b/w illustrations; rubbed and toned to extremities, ownership inscription to front of wrappers, some pages uncut to upper edge, light foxing to title and margins, otherwise very good.

THE PSCYCHOLOGY OF PSYCHOLOGISTS. Reprinted from the “Bulletin of the John Rylands Library”, Vol.24, No.I, April, 1940.

PEAR, T. H. · 1940

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Manchester University Press, 1940. 8vo.,pp.22, printed wrappers; lightly rubbed and toned to extremities, ownerhsip autograph to front wrappers, a very good copy.

HISTORY OF THE QUEEN’S ROYAL REGIMENT, Vol. VII (1905-1923). In Two Volumes (text volume and volume of maps).

Compiled by WYLLY, H.C. · 1924

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Aldershot: Gale & Polden, Ltd., (1924). First edition, 2 vols., 8vo., pp.xvi,308;14 folding maps in colour, pictorial bevelled blue cloth, gilt, marbled endpapers, monochrome frontispieces and plates; foxing to edges and to early leaves, rubbing to extremities, darkening...

THE ANALOGY OF RELIGION, NATURAL AND REVEALED, TO THE CONSTITUTION AND COURSE OF NATURE. To which are added Two brief Dissertations: I. Of Personal Identity. II. Of the Nature of Virtue.

BUTLER, Joseph. · 1736

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London: James, John and Paul Knapton, 1736. First edition, includes half title, 4to., pp.(x),320, full pannelled calf, five raised bands; lacks title label, wear to calf, including loss of apx. 5x6 cms to front lower LH corner, with professional reinforcement and recolouring...