Westport, CT: Associated Booksellers, 1958. Blue cloth. pp (2), 267, [3] + 12 plates. Bibliography, index. Fine copy. Jacket has small chips and tears, generally VG otherwise.

Corte Madeira, CA: Gingko Press, c 2008. Second printing. Illustrated boards without jacket, as issued. Minor wear to spine corners, else fine. Copiously illustrated in colour. Features the work of 32 tattooists. 1.1 kg parcel

University of Toronto Press, 1968. Octavo. Green cloth. (x), 316 pp + 3 double-sided plates, map. Previous owner's bookplate, some pencil lines to margins early in text, otherwise fine. Price-clipped jacket has nicks and tears at head of spine, VG otherwise.

London: Macmillan, 1909. Maroon cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt. pp x, 448, (4, ads) + colour frontispiece with tissue guard and 8 other colour plates + 13 b&w plates; 1 illustration in text, indexed. Ex library, with paper label at lower spine, cloth splits to joints neatly repaired; small rubber stamp and small remains of label on front endpapers, front inner hinge neatly repaired; else a VG copy, text clean and tight, no other library marks. A fascinating history of gambling in England and the Continent in the 18th and 19th centuries. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.

Orlando, FL: Ripley Publications, 2007. Colour illustrated boards. Text has photos, colour illustrations, paste-ins, a few pop-ups, and a ribbon marker with a King Tut tab. Mild cover rubbing, VG, clean and unworn. "This fascinating facsimile diary offers a first-hand account of Robert Ripley's travels to far-flung exotic corners of the globe in search of the weird and wonderful during the 1930s. Inside, Ripley's own darwings cartoons, and memorabilia evoke the strange and baizarre." 1.5 kg parcel

London: Ancient and Accepted Rite for England and Wales. Title page continues: "Togethr with a list of members, June, 1906". 16mo, 16.5 cm, original red cloth gilt. (6), x, 274, [2] + folding map frontispiece. Chips to cloth at foot of spine and upper outer corner of front cover and to edges; inner hinges and inner edge of p (3) repaired with rice page; short creased tear to bottom edge of pp 5-8; good clean copy otherwise, no tight in the binding. Freemasonry.

Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, c2000. Third printing. Black cloth. pp (xvi), 336, Index. Fine in fine jacket. In print (2017) at USD 150.00.

Cambridge University Press, 1997. Glossy card covers. pp xiv, 322. Some sunning to the pink spine, else a VG clean, unworn, and unmarked copy. Volume 4 in the Studying Family and Community History: 19th and 20th Century series. 1.15 kg parcel

Philadelphia: Chilton, 1961. Tall octavo. Cloth and decorated boards. (xx), 259 pp. VG+ copy, no owner names. Pale green price-clipped jacket sunned; tanned, spotted; tears and small chips all along top edge; good. A book about human fads, fashions, and folly, the author is again "on the trail of stupidity". A good read.

Toronto: Mcarthur & Company, 2001. Brown boards. pp 280. Yellowing to page edges, else fine in fine jacket. "A wry look at the way in which people in the past imagined their own future. David A. Wilson takes the reader into a world of prophets, self-proclaimed Christs, astrologers, witches, utopians and economists - all of whom predicted the future, and almost always got it wrong."

London: Chatto & Windus, 1912. Dark grey cloth. xii, 310, (2) pp, indexed. 28 plates inserted (3 in colour). Spine a bit sunned, else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy, no owner names. In a home-made plain beige dust wrapper, with nicely printed spine label. English social history of the 19th century - the amusements of fashionable men. Sporting resports; gulls, pigeons, books [grouped together]; duelling; reckless spendthrifts; pleasure-loving undergraduates; dancing places and music halls, and much on France. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.

New York: Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 2007. Square quarto, black boards. pp 288. Colour photos, b&w reproductions of ads, glossary, index. Fine in fine jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. 2 kg parcel.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1941. First edition. Tall octavo, hardcover, green cloth. [12], 301 pp. Spine a bit tanned, with tips a little frayed; yellowing to page edges; else a VG clean and tight jacketless copy, no previous owner names or marks.