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Genius Genuine, by Samuel Chifney, of Newmarket. A Fine Part in Riding...
CHIFNEY, Samuel.London: Sold only for the Author, 232 Piccadilly, [1795]. First edition. 8vo. 170 pp. (i-v), vi-vii, (viii-xi), 12-170 pp. Contemporary red full straight grained morocco, neatly rebacked to style, gilt tooled compartments with a gilt lettered green label. Some light wear and marking to the boards, occasional browning within, very.....
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The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California. Das Neue Industriegelände in der...
BALTZ, Lewis.(New York: Leo Castelli / Castelli Graphics, 1974). First edition, 4to, (106) pp. 51 full page black and white illustrations, contemporary signature and an old inked price to the fly leaf. Cloth, with mild spotting, d.w. with light soiling and slight loss to the spine ends.
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Baroda Views.
(BARODA).Printed at the Caxton Works, Bombay by G.W. & A.E. Claridge. Published by Sakharam Sadashiv Manohar, for the Proprietors of the Vividhakala-Mandir, Raopura, Baroda [Vadodara], [n.d.]. Small oblong 4to. (ii), (20) pp. Publisher's full morocco, gilt lettered to the upper cover, patterned coated endpapers, presentation inscription to "A. Menton Esq.".....
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William Blake's Watercolour Inventions in Illustration of The Grave by Robert Blair...
(BLAKE, William). BUTLIN, Martin and PALEY, Morton D.Lavenham: The William Blake Trust, 2009. Limited edition, one of 36 special copies from a total edition of 186 copies. Folio. 95, (1) pp. Publisher's wine red half calf over black moiré silk, gilt lettered to the spine with a matching gilt lettered label to the upper board, slipcase in.....
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[Postcards].
BRITISH OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS.69 postcards relating to Palestine, including multiples: 141. General Sir Edmund Allenby & General Baillout at Ismailia - x 4 142. The Imperial Camel Corps entering Beersheba - x 3 143. One of the 5 Wells of Beersheba as left by the Turks - x 4 145. El Arish redoubt.....
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When the Wind Blows.
BRIGGS, Raymond.London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. First edition. 4to. (40) pp. Publisher's pictorial boards, the peace symbol of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) drawn in ink to the verso of the front free endpaper by the original owner along with the handwritten date "Christmas '82", plus signed and dated (2008) by.....
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War Speeches. Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning;...
CHURCHILL, Winston S.London: Cassell and Company, 1943-50. Mixed editions. Nine volumes. 8vo. Seven volumes of the war speeches in publisher's blue cloth, the post-war volume in publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to the spines, three volumes with early inscriptions, dust jackets, early Singapore bookseller's stamp to the front free endpaper of "Victory".....
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Some Reminiscences.
CONRAD, Joseph.London: Eveleigh Nash, 1912. Second edition, 8vo, 236, (2, 2 advertisement) pp. Contemporary inscription from Conrad to his fellow author Eden Phillpots on the fly leaf. Endpapers foxed, pencil sketches of ships to the front blanks and half title, small hole to the fly leaf, not affecting the inscription, rear.....
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On the Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection, or the...
DARWIN, Charles.London: John Murray, 1861. Third edition, seventh thousand. 8vo. xx, 538 pp. Later green half straight grain morocco for Hatchards, green cloth sides, spine with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels and dated at the foot, marbled endpapers with the bookplate of a Laurence Currie to the front.....
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An Historicall Discourse of the Uniformity of the Government of England. The...
[BACON, Nathaniel].London: Printed for Mathew Walbancke at Grayes-Inne-Gate, 1647. First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 323, (13) pp. Engraved second title showing a map of Britain, light damp staining to the first 5 leaves. Booklabel of Kimbolton Castle Library to the paste down. Contemporary speckled calf, spine dull, joints recently repaired with a......
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The New Survey of London Life & Labour. Forty Years of Change...
(BOOTH). SMITH, Sir Hubert Llewellyn (Editor).London: P.S. King & Son, 1930-35. First edition, nine volumes, 8vo, volume IV and VII being map volumes. Photographic portrait frontispiece of Charles Booth in volume I. The map volumes containing 13 folding maps, plus 13 folding maps and a folding chart in the text volumes as well as further.....
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Letters and Journals of... In My Hot Youth. Famous in My Time...
BYRON, Lord.London: John Murray, 1974-84, 1994. First edition, 13 volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces in all but the index volume, two in colour. Cloth, d.w.'s, that to volume I slightly worn otherwise very good.
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