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A collection of 20 offprints by Sir Stephen MacKenzie.

MacKENZIE (Sir Stephen) · 1877 · Forest Books

£344.00 (€412.40 | $454.55 | ¥72,594)

1877-86. 20 pamphlets bound in one, a list is available on application, cont. cloth. Stephen MacKenzie (1844-1909) studied at London Hospital, then at the Aberdeen University, where he received his doctorate in 1875. Following further education in Berlin he once more came to L…

A Practical Treatise on the History, Medical Properties, and Cultivation of Tobacco.

JENNINGS (James) · 1830 · Forest Books

£177.38 (€212.65 | $234.38 | ¥37,432)

London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1830. First edition, 8vo (180 x 110 mm), vi, [2], 159 + 13pp., of publisher’s adverts,2 folding lithographed plates showing the Havanna, Virginian, Missouri and Langsdorff Tobacco plants, some light foxing, orig. cloth backed boards, printe…

Petrus Alfonsi and His Medieval Readers

Tolan, John V. · 1993 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€18.53 ($20.42 | £15.46 | ¥3,262)

Florida, University Press, 1993. xv,288 pp. Illustr. Fine copy. Paperback. Petrus Alfonsi was an important and unusual figure in the "twelfth-century renaissance" whose interests embraced polemical theology, astronomy, and literature, each an area in which he made important con…

Outcast

SUTCLIFF,ROSEMARY · 1959 · Kalamos Books

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.19 | ¥10,381)

Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1959, 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: Richard Kennedy. Book, Although Beric was rescued by Brirish tribesmen from a wrecked Roman ship, when he grew up he was expelled from the tribe. As a slave he was condemned to the rowing benches of a Roman …

THE LETTERS OF THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH.

(Gainsborough). Woodall, Mary (Editor). · 1961 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Lion and Unicorn Press 1961. 1st Ed. 4to. 175pp. Port. frontis., 26 plates. Gilt lettered morocco backed dec. boards, spine lightly faded. No. 146 of a Limited Edition of 400 Copies.Ex.-libris J.R. Abbey.From the Library of Glyn Tegai Hughes (1923–2017) Welsh scholar, writer …

THE FANFROLICO PRESS. Satyrs, Fauns & Fine Books.

Arnold, John. · 2009 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Private Libraries Association 2009. Royal 8vo. 328pp. Frontis., many ills. and examples. Very good in original gilt lettered blue cloth with gilt illus. to upper board. One of a Limited Edition of 900 Copies.From the Library of Glyn Tegai Hughes (1923–2017) Welsh scholar, writ…

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

Marvell, Andrew. · 1923 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London Nonesuch Press 1923. Large 8vo. [iv] + 148pp. + [v]. Port. frontis. Light toning, intricate gilt tooled boards, light browning, spine sl. bumped. No. 631 of a Limited Edition of 850 Copies.Dreyfus 4.From the Library of Glyn Tegai Hughes (1923–2017) Welsh scholar, write…

FINE PRINTING AND PRIVATE PRESSES. Selected Papers by ...

Cave, Roderick. · 2001 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

British Library 2001. 1st Ed. xii + 267pp. + [i]. 73 b/w. figures. Good in d/w. faded to spine. The British Library Studies in the History of the Book.From the Library of Glyn Tegai Hughes (1923–2017) Welsh scholar, writer and literary critic. He was a Liberal Party politician…

MAKING, KNOWING AND JUDGING. An Inaugural Lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 11 June 1956.

Auden, W.H. · 1956 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Clarendon Press, Oxford 1956. Reprint. Slim 8vo. 34pp. Good in original brown lettered pale blue stitched limp wrapps., yapped edges, very minor soiling, edges sl. rubbed, spine faded. From the Library of Glyn Tegai Hughes (1923–2017) Welsh scholar, writer and literary critic. …

LIFE IN B&W. Foreword by Richard Lascelles.

Lee, Jim. · 2015 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Quartet Books Limited 2015. 1st Ed. [x] + 285pp. + [i]. Many b/w. photos. Good in d/w. sl. chipped along top edge. Author’s Presentation Copy, inscribed - ‘James very nice to meet you and hope you enjoy my silly story, Jim.’From the Library of Glyn Tegai Hughes (1923–2017) Wel…

[Carte de visite photo of the Chinese Giant in Bournemouth] ca 1875.

[CHANG, THE GIANT (CHANG WOO GOW)]. · 1840 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€360.00 ($396.79 | £300.29 | ¥63,371)

Original photograph of Chang, the Giant. Size: 6,4 x 10,8 cm. He is dressed in a Chinese traditional costume, most likely his performace outfit. Chang Woo Gow was born in Fuzhou (Canton) in the 1840's. He was well educated and travelled around the world performing as "Chang th…

Paper Towns

John Green · 2009 · Book Haven

NZ$12.50 (€6.26 | $6.90 | £5.23 | ¥1,103)

Speak 2009 Paperback, 320pp. Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life - dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge - he f…

The Western Art Of Harold Von Schmidt

Walt Reed · 1976 · Book Haven

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Bantam Books 1976 Paperback. Harold von Schmidt (1893-1982) was an American illustrator, who specialized in magazine interior illustrations. Harold von Schmidt's work appeared primarily in Collier's Weekly, Cosmopolitan, Liberty, The Saturday Evening Post, and Sunset. Although h…

Schoolboy to Soldier 1935 - 1945.

Hoyle, Clement · 2006 · Hessay Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,372)

Serendipity, 2006. First Edition. Soft Cover, 243pp. Illustrated softback covers, a little rubbed to the edges. B + w illustrations. SIGNED by the author on the flyleaf. Internally clean and tight. The author was born in Halifax and joined the Royal Ordnance Corps at 14 and trai…

The Fourth Estate

Jeffrey Archer · 1996 · Book Haven

NZ$10.50 (€5.26 | $5.80 | £4.39 | ¥926)

Harper Collins 1996 Paperback, 551pp. Featuring a bonus interview with the authorAdisgraced British colonel bequeaths a mysterious letter to his only son. The moment Adam Scott opens the yellowing envelope, he sets into motion a deadly chain of events. Within days, he's running …

No Remittance

Dan Davin · 1959 · Book Haven

NZ$17.50 (€8.77 | $9.67 | £7.32 | ¥1,544)

Michael Joseph 1959 Hardback, 224pp. In this novel a young Englishman, able, ambitious, sanguine and silly, spoils a promising start as an architect in London and goes to the New Zealand of the 1900’s to try again. There the flaws in his character defeat him again and he drifts …

The Green Branch

Edith Pargeter · 1975 · Book Haven

NZ$9.50 (€4.76 | $5.25 | £3.97 | ¥838)

Tandem 1975 Paperback. Young Harry Talvace, the son of Ralf Isambard's master-builder who raised the great church of Parfois and was put to death by his jealous patron, has grown up at the court of Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales. Deep in his heart he nurses a desire for vengenc…

Sonata for Miriam

Linda Olsson · 2008 · Book Haven

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Penguin Books (NZ) 2008 Trade Paperback, 272pp. When Adam Anker loses his daughter Miriam, he loses his hold on life. After a year of grieving, he decides to embark on a journey of discovery. His daughter's unanswered questions merge with his own: who am I? Adam's journey takes …

The Paperchase

Marcel Theroux · 2002 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Abacus 2002 Paperback, 224pp. Damien March hasn't thought of his eccentric uncle, Patrick, for almost twenty years, so he is shocked to learn that he has inherited his ramshackle house on Ionia, an isolated island off the coast of Cape Cod. But his new future means moving circui…

We are Now Beginning Our Descent

James Meek · 2008 · Book Haven

$14.50 (€13.16 | £10.97 | ¥2,316)

Text Publishing 2008 Paperback 298 It's 2001 and Adam Kellas is in Afghanistan, reporting the US attacks on the Taliban for his London-based paper. When he's not filing the kind of report he knows his editor doesn't want, he is writing a sell-out novel he hopes will make his for…