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APHRODISIACS, from legend to prescription. a study of aphrodisiacs throughout the ages, with sections on suitable food, glandular extracts, hormone stimulation and rejuvenation
Edition: First printing
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. ; Octavo
Book ID: 51482More details Price: USD $12.95 USD $11.66 -
JUXTAPOZ TATTOO
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; Quarto
Book ID: 53342More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
LIFE IN ONTARIO. A Social History. Drawings by Adrian Dingle.
Edition: First Edition
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. 0802015131
Book ID: 23272More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
LIGHT COME, LIGHT GO: Gambling-Gamesters-Wagers-The Turf
Edition: First Edition
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.; Thick octavo
Condition: Good
Book ID: 31659More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
RIPLEY'S SEARCH FOR THE SHRUNKEN HEADS and other curiosities (cover title)
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; Quarto
Book ID: 52650More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
RULES AND REGULATIONS for the government of the degrees from the 4° to the 32° inclusive under ths Supreme Council 33° of the Ancient and Accepted Rite for England and Wales, and the Dependencies of the British Crown...
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.
Book ID: 42948More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society
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. 0198296215
Book ID: 47104More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
SOURCES AND METHODS FOR FAMILY AND COMMUNITY HISTORIANS: a handbook
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; Quarto
Book ID: 54165More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
THE ART OF FOLLY
Edition: First Edition
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.
Book ID: 7174More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
The Great Farini
Edition: First printing
Book ID: 45064More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
The History of the Future
Edition: First printing
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."; Octavo 1552781690
Book ID: 50949More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
THE MAN OF PLEASURE
Edition: First Edition
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.; Octavo.
Condition: Very Good
Book ID: 22442More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
THE SEDUCTIVE SHOE: four centuries of fashion footwear
Edition: First printing
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.; Signed by Author
Book ID: 45674More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
VICTORIAN PRELUDE. A History of English Manners 1700-1830.
Edition: First Edition
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.
Book ID: 18264More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50