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Belfast; John Aiken and Son. November 1946, 1946. Mass Market PaperbackOriginal Wrappers. [5], 102-197, [1], 24. Final 24 pages are pictorial advertisements. Illustrated with full page plates in black and white. Original publishers' wrappers in cream with forest green lettering. A small closed tear (3cm) to spine tip and some minor soiling and creasing. Overall in Very Good condition. Volume. XIII, November 1946. Illustrated with humorous cartoons and black and white photographs.

London & Toronto; J M Dent & Sons Ltd, 1920., 1920. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp vii, [1], 245, [3] adverts. Original dark blue cloth with gilt titles and motif to spine and floral roundel in blind to upper board. Unclipped grey dust-jacket with rose motif and green titles. A clean tight copy; no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket lightly soiled with a few nicks & creases to edge and minor loss to corners and head of spine. A Near Fine copy in Good jacket. Essays on mysticism theory and practice and lives of mystics from pagan Plotinus up to date. Most previously published elsewhere, though revised and/or rewritten for this volume. Scarce, particularly in jacket.

London; Gyldendal, 1922., 1922. Hard Cover. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Octavo, pp. vii, [1], 344. Publishers; maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine, and titles in blind to upper cover. Cover cloth a little rubbed to spine tips. Tidy ownership inscription to ffep, free endpapers toned; scattered foxing, mainly to early and late leaves and text-block edge. A Very Good copy. First novel in the Kristin Lavsransdatter trilogy, also known as The Wreath. Undset (1882-1949), the Norwegian author, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.

London; Michael Joseph, 1980., 1980. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 118, [2]. Sapphire blue publishers' cloth with silver spine titles. In unclipped pictorial publishers' dust-jacket. Near Fine book in Near Fine dust-jacket. Absorbing historical novel which brilliantly captures the atmosphere of menace and death looming over Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. By Heinemann Award winning writer Barry Unsworth.

London; Published for the Benefit of the Maritime Society by J Richardson, 1816., 1816. Hard Cover. Second Edition. Octavo, pp.,100. Publishers original paper-covered boards with printed paper title label to spine. Edges uncut. Boards scuffed with wear to corners; spine cracked at upper joint with associated loss; label incomplete. Scattered light foxing; no annotation or inscriptions. A Good copy. Urquhart's letter made a heartfelt appeal to the great and good of the day including the Prince Regent, Lord Viscount Melville and fellow philanthropist William Wilberforce, advocating a cessation in the practice of enforced enlistment into the Navy by press gangs. Instead he suggested the training of youngsters as an alternative method of recruitment and a preferable way to ensure and maintain the "decided superiority of our navy". Following the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815, no further impressments were made for the Navy.

London; Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1980., 1980. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. [6], 216. Monochrome photographic frontispiece of original manuscript. Publisher's bottle green cloth with gilt titles to spine. A very clean copy which appears unread; no annotation or inscriptions. Very minor shelf wear to boards. Near Fine condition. Anglo-Norman Text Society No. XXXVIII.

London; Gurney and Jackson, 1900., 1900. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xxxi, [1], 419, [1]. Colour frontispiece of Peregrine Falcon eggs with tissue guard, 6 monochrome plates, 7 further illustrations within text and 2 fold-out maps in colour to rear, as called for. Publishers' deep green cloth with gilt titles to spine and map blocked in black to upper board. Cover cloth a little scuffed, with rubbed spine tips and bruised corners. Small area to ffep where name has been erased; a hint very light scattered foxing, mainly to prelims. Comprehensive guide to the distribution, migration and habits of birds observed in Ireland, including tables showing distribution during breeding season. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs may be requested for overseas delivery.