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A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
London: Times Books, 1979. Two volumes in one facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1755. Maroon leather grain cloth. spine elaborately decorated in gilt, sprinkled page edges. Spine a bit concave, else fine, no owner marks. Maroon leather grain card slipcase has small rubbed spots, VG otherwise. Note: 10 kg, 43 x 28 x 10 cm parcel, extra postage at cost will definitely be charged.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51741More details Price: USD $195.00 USD $175.50 -
AUSTRALIAN BANK NOTES 1817-1963...
Edition: First Edition
Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, 1963. Title page continues : "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Notes of the Banks of Issue 1817 to 1910, the Commonwealth of Australia 1910 to 1963 and others, together with brief notations. TOMLINSON, GEOFFREY WILLIAM". Red cloth. pp (8), 143. Many photos. Tape stains to endpapers and lightly to covers, else a VG clean and unworn copy. Dust jacket has shallow chips to spine ends, tan spot to spine; VG otherwise.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44966More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
CONSIDERATIONS ON REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT. Second Edition
London: Parker, Son and Bourn, 1861. Second edition, corrected and slightly enlarged, published the same year as the first. Original brown cloth decorated in blind, spine gilt lettered, brown endpapers. pp viii, 347, (1), (4, ads). Short cloth tears at ends of slightly darkened spine; cracked inner hinges neatly repaired with rice paper; light shadow of a bookplate inside front cover; in all, a VG copy, text fine, no owner names, tight in the binding.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 33787More details Price: USD $175.00 USD $157.50 -
FRANK'S REAL PA
Edition: First Edition
Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 1995. Octavo, 48 pp, stapled in colour paper covers. Mild cover rubbing, soft crease to upper outer corners, VG clean & tight otherwise, no owner names. Issued as JIM Special #1. All graphics. Originally appeared in the Millennium Whole Earth Catalogue; some images were altered to fit this new format. Uncommon
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 41350More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
FREDEGOND AND GERALD SHOVE. With a Preface by Ermengard Maitland
Colliers, Brookthorpe, Gloucester: Privately printed, 1952. Quarter bound in black cloth and patterned boards. pp (xviii), (47) + 5 photo plates. Edition of 250 copies. Some yellowing to page edges and endpapers, bubbling to pastedowns, rippling to frontispiece, boards just a little splayed, else VG. Pale grey jacket has yellowing, chips to spine ends and one corner, old internal cellotape repair to spine splits; fair. Autobiographical writings, quotes from her poetry, and a memoiir of her husband the economist Gerald Shove. Fredegond Shove, a cousin of Virginia Woolf, published three volumes of poetry (one with the Hogarth Press).
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51925More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
Histoire des perruques, où l'on fait voir leur origine, leur usage, leur forme, l'abus et l'irrégularité de celles des ecclésiastiques.
Edition: First edition.
Paris: aux dépens de l'auteur, 1690. Édition originale. 12mo. [24], 544 pp + Privilege leaf; three small woodcuts on p. 133. Bound in old calf, spine with raised bands and gilt-decorated compartments, sprinkled page edges. Shallow chips to spine tips; front joint cracked but cover still firmly attached; fingernail-size skinned spot to upper outer corner of front cover; fingernail-size damp spot to top margin of page 529 to end; in all a VG tight copy, text quite clean and unworn, no owner names. Thiers was a respected theologian and writer. This work, which opposes the wearing of wigs by the clergy, has been said to be the first comprehensive book on wigs.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 22054More details Price: USD $495.00 USD $445.50 -
Interparliamentary Union: XVIIth Conference, Geneva, September, 18-20th, 1912. Resolutions voted and Elections made at the Conference. Circular to the Groups
Uccle-Brussels: Interparliamentary Bureau, 1912. 16 pp, stapled, in pale orange printed paper covers. Some sunning to margins of covers, soft creases, else a VG+ clean and unworn copy, no owner names. Founded in 1889 and still active, the Interparliamentary Union "is the focal point for world-wide parliamentary dialogue and works for peace and co-operation among peoples and for the firm establishment of representative democracy. " (their website). A precursor to the League of Nations and the United Nations.
Condition: Binding: Softcover.
Book ID: 28048More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
MALTA AND ITS INDUSTRIES. Published by the Commission appointed to superintend in Mlta the sending of objects to the Exhibition of Industries of Her Majesty's Colonial and Indian possessions to be held in London in 1886...
Edition: First Edition
London: Waterlow and Sons, Printers, 1886. Octavo, pp (iv), 88, stapled, in buff printed wrappers. Spine darkened, with chips at ends; staples rusty, with a narrow chip at inner margin of front cover at staple; rear cover has slight soiling and a small chip and insect holes at top margin; pencil ownership inscription inside front cover; front cover has light rubbing; else a VG copy of this fragile booklet. Translated from the Italian by H. Vella. Text only, no illustrations, as issued.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 38316More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50 -
NEW CLIMBS IN NORWAY: An Account of Some Ascents in the Sondmore District. Illustrated by A.D. McCormick and from Photographs
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 29533More details Price: USD $395.00 USD $355.50 -
NOTES ON DUELS AND DUELLING, Alphabetically Arranged, with a Preliminary Historical Essay. Third Edition
Boston: Crosby, Nichols, 1859. Third printing (first was in 1854). Original dark brown cloth decorated in blind, spine gilt lettered, [2], viiii, 426, [4], cream endpapers. Spine a bit worn at tips, with gilt lettering dulled; cloth splits to spine and front joint neatly repaired; scattered foxing (not heavy); book just a little leaned; else a VG clean & tight copy, no owner names.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 27886More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
ONLY ROCK 'N' ROLL. Comic Strips and Cartoons
Edition: First Edition
Manchester [UK]: New Manchester Review, 1980. Oblong format, 17 x 24.5 cm. stapled in card covers. [60] pp. A fine, uncreased copy, no owner names. Uncommon.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 41349More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
SCANDALS AT CAIRO IN CONNECTION WITH SLAVERY. Published with the Sanction and Under the Auspices of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. To Whom the Documents in Proof of the Statements Made, Have Been Submitted. By an English Resident at Cairo.
Cairo, 3rd June, 1885. 18 pp, sewn, in tan printed paper covers. Ex American Antiquarian Society, with their blind stamp on front cover and discreet withdrawal rubber stamp at rear. The whole is vertically creased; wrappers are browned and chipped at edges; spine split neatly repaired; VG otherwise. A fragile and rare pamphlet. WorldCat locates only at BL and Cambridge U, author not identified.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 23932More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
Tailed Head-Hunters of Nigeria. An account of an official's seven years' experiences in the northern Nigerian pagan belt, and a description of the manners, habits, and customs of some of its native tribes
London: Seeley, Service & Co. Second edition, with new author Preface (first also 1912). Original terra cotta cloth stamped in gilt and blind. pp xvi, 17-(342 ), (10, ads) + 16 pp publisher's catalogue + 36 illustrations on 30 plates and one folding map at rear; 2 illustrations in text, indexed. Light offset tanning to endpapers, else a fine, bright & tight copy, no flaking to the gilt cover stamping. With nice engraved Canadian West Coast bookplate of Canadian anthropologist T.F. McIlwraith (U of Toronto Prof. of Anthropology, author of The Bella Coola Indians, 1948).
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 30212More details Price: USD $250.00 USD $225.00 -
THE ART & CRAFT OF OLD LACE. With an Introduction by Wilhelm Pinder
Edition: First US edition
New York: E. Weyhe, 1931. Original black bevel edge cloth gilt lettered. pp (3)-181. 47 pp text following by the plates (some in colour; captions in English, French, German, and Italian). Library discard with rubber stamps; pouch at rear; bit of wear to spine tips; else a sound, clean copy, text unworn, tight in the binding. An excellent and uncommon book on the subject. Note: 3.5 kg parcel, please enquire for shipping rate.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 28832More details Price: USD $225.00 USD $202.50 -
THE ATTWOOD FAMILY, with historic notes & pedigrees
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 31918More details Price: USD $225.00 USD $202.50 -
THE BAN OF THE BORI: Demons and Demon-Dancing in West and North Africa
Edition: First edition.
London: Heath Cranton & Ouseley, no date (1914). Original brown pictorial cloth stamped in black, spine gilt lettered. pp 504 + colour frontispiece with tissue guard and 32 plates containing 60 photos; 47 figures in the text. Spine has minor rubbing at ends, gilt just a little dulled; tissue guard browned; cracked rear inner hinge neatly repaired; slight foxing to top page edges; else a near fine, clean, bright and unworn copy. With nice engraved Canadian West Coast bookplate of Canadian anthropologist T.F. McIlwraith (U of Toronto Professor of Anthropology and author of The Bella Coola Indians, 1948), and one of his folded examination questions from 1951 (U of Toronto) laid in.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 30215More details Price: USD $250.00 USD $225.00 -
THE COMPACT EDITION OF THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY. Complete Text Reproduced Micrographically (3 volume set)
Oxford University Press, 1987. Three volume set. Blue cloth, in blue cloth slipcase with magnifying glass in tray. Vol I: spine a bit concave, with two diagonal creases to half-title leaf, corner crease to last two (blank) leaves and rear free endpaper, else fine. Vols II and III are fine. Some soft curling to text in all three volumes. Slipcase has minor use, VG+ generally. Note: 14 kg parcel, substantial extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52845More details Price: USD $74.95 USD $67.46 -
THE ELEMENTS OF HERALDRY, containing the definition, origin, and historical account of that ancient, useful, and entertaining science....The fifth edition, with considerable alterations and additions
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51035More details Price: USD $175.00 USD $157.50 -
THE HISTORY OF THE REVENUE OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE...The Third Edition
London: A. Strahan, for T. Cadell and W. Davies...1803, 1803, 1804. Third edition, revised, with a new author introductory note (first was in 1785). Three volumes, octavo, old mottled calf, spines with labels, raised bands, gilt ornaments, page edges marbled. pp (2, half-title), xvi, 532; viii, 411, (1), 63 (appendices); viii, 320, 196 (appendices). Gilt spine ornaments rubbed, dulled; joints lightly rubbed; cracks to joints and hinges neatly repaired internally with rice paper; offset browing to endpaper margins for turn-ins; VG copy otherwise, internally fine; clean, attractive, tight in the bindings. "Containing an Account of the public Income and expenditure from the remotest Periods recorded in History, to Michaelmas 1802. With a Review of the Financial Administration of the Right Honorable William Pitt." A standard work on British taxation in its day. Sabin 81397
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 31243More details Price: USD $650.00 USD $585.00 -
THE KRONDSTADT REBELLION. With Map of Kronstadt and a Facsimile Page of the Kronstadt Izvestia
Edition: First edition.
Berlin: "Der Syndikalist, 1922. Green card covers lettered in red and black. pp (44), stapled. Russian Revolution Series no. 3. Printed on pulpy, now tanned and brittle paper; last leaf pulling at the rusty staples; creases and chips to upper outer corners of late leaves, well away from any printing; first leaf has a pencil name at top margin and a small chip at fore margin; short splits at spine tips neatly repaired, otherwise a VG sound copy of this scarce and fragile pamphlet, now protected with a plastic wrapper. The German edition was in 1923.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 26217More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50