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London; 1960., 1960. Two letters and a sheet of 31 different signatures of the South African Rugby Team, all inscribed upon headed note paper with the printed London address of the team, accompanied by a gilt metal lapel badge. The two letters are signed by Dick Lockyear, scrum half in the team, and one refers to the enclosed badge while the other refers to the sheet of signatures and also references some methods of play and gives tips on passing. The letters are dated repectively 7/12/ 60 and 30/11/60. The 3 sheets are each creased from historic folding both horizontally and vertically and each have a tiny drawing-pin hole at the top but are otherwise in Very Good condition. The badge is pinned to a small paper envelope. In 1960-61 the Springboks, the South African Rugby Touring Team, toured England and France, playing a series of test matches as well as games against clubs and regional and representative teams in their fifth tour of the Northern Hemisphere. In this tour the Springboks defeated… Leer más

Newcastle upon Tyne; S. Mary the Virgin, Monkseaton, 1932., 1932. Original Wrappers. FIRST EDITION. Softcover octavo, pp. 64, plus blanks to rear for the addition of further recipes. Numerous advertisements throughout text and to covers inside and out. Pictorial card wraps depicting the interior of the church. Cords replaced. Covers rubbed to edge and surface soiled, some nicks & creases. Ownership inscription to front cover. Further ownership inscription with address to first leaf, and formula for leg ointment to rear in the same hand; a few minor marks throughout text. A Very Good copy in Good covers. "A collection of over 270 well tested recipes" compiled by the Promoters from many named donors, to raise money for the Church Building Fund at St. Mary's Church Monkseaton. The recipes are arranged by type such as Meats, Preserves and Bread and Cakes, and include measurements in pounds and ounces. Many local business adverts, printed to the verso of each leaf up until pp52.

London; Hurst, Robinson & Co, 1823., 1823. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Quarto. Xi, 402 pp. Engraved frontispiece, vignette to half-title, thirteen illustrations in text plus plate of the Circular Ceiling from the Temple of Isis at Dendera as called for. Tan half-calf with five raised bands, stamped Maltese cross decoration, gilt-stamped title label. Top edge stained red. Calf worn at corners and beginning to split at joints of lower board; loss to title label edge. Ffep and following endpaper creased and torn (no text affected) ; frontis & title pages have faint damp-staining (semicircular mark at bottom edge approx 2 inches x 6 max) and there are foxing and minor marks throughout, mainly to margins. Scarce.

Kyoto, Japan; Kyoto Editions, 1980., 1980. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 21 and 1/2 inches square. Folding handmade thick compressed paper/card boards with twin toggle fastening and loose leaves inside. Printed paper title label to front. Comprises introductory sheet with brief biography and photographic portrait of the Whitby photographer Frank Sutcliffe together with twelve of Kirkup's poems, each printed on a single sheet together with the Sutcliffe image which inspired it. Limited edition of 100 copies - this copy came from the library of James Kirkup and the issue number is left blank. Minor scuffing to board edges only. An unusual and attractive work. Photographs

London; Chapman & Hall, 1868., 1868. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Three vols. Small octavo, pp [2], 315, [1]; [2], 318; [2], 310. Lacking half-titles.Black half calf with gilt titles and ruling to spine and marbled paper-covered boards; all edges sprinkled red. Bindings lightly scuffed with a little wear and bruising to edge. Scattered light foxing; Vols II & III split at inner hinge but very firmly holding. From the library of Ballyarnett House, Derry, a late nineteenth century Arts & Crafts country house, with the address in gilt at tail of spine. Only the second novel by Lady Wood (1802-1879), wife of Sir John Page Wood and author of a dozen other works of fiction. Mother of novelists Lady Emma Barrett-Lennard and Anna Lady Wood is perhaps better-known today as the mother of Katherine "Kitty" O'Shea, whose long-term adulterous affair with Charles Stewart Parnell, the Irish nationalist, caused a major scandal and her divorce. Though Katherine and Parnell married, he died only four months later with… Leer más

Freiburg; EK Verlag, 2000., 2000. Hard Cover. First Edition. German text. Quarto, pp 207, [1] advertisements. Illustrated throughout with colour section to rear (17 images, mainly 2 to a page). Laminated pictorial boards; illustrated endpapers in colour. Very minor bruising to corners only. A Near Fine copy; no annotation or inscriptions. Scarce sequel to Sachsische Scnellzuglokomotiven Band 1, the well illustrated history of the locomotives from Saxony.

London; John Weale, 1857., 1857. Hardcover. THIRD EDITION. 12 mo. vi, 166 pp. Colour frontispiece of British Flags, 8 plates to rear including 2 further Flags plates in colour; map, tables and diagrams in text. Book Condition: Very Good. Full tan calf; black leather label with gilt titles and ruling to spine. All edges marbled; marbled endpapers. Corners a little bruised, boards lightly scuffed and edges rubbed. Reference number to tail of spine. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown; stamp of South Shields Public Library Reference Department to title page and margin of 14 leaves with reference numbers to verso title page, otherwise contents clean & tight. Directions for Great Circle Sailing, An Essay on the Law of Storms and Variable Winds and Explanations of Terms used in Ship-Building to rear. Scarce.

London; Faber and Faber Ltd., 1936., 1936. Hard Cover. FIRST THUS. Octavo, pp. 322, [2]. 16 full-page colour plates by C.F. Tunnicliffe, plus fifty head and tailpieces and illustrated title page. Publishers' blue/grey silk with silver titles and salmon motif to spine; top edge silver; emerald green pictorial endpapers by Tunnicliffe; unclipped pictorial dust-jacket also designed by Tunnicliffe. Spine and top edge of boards lightly sunned. Pictorial bookplate with robin motif to verso ffep; no annotation or inscriptions; contents remarkably clean and crisp. Jacket lightly soiled to white background, with small loss (approx half an inch) to lower rear edge, several nicks and creases and very minor loss at spine tips. A Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. The first trade edition was published the previous year, this is the first printing with Tunnicliffe's full-page colour illustrations which very much bring the tale to life. Scare, especially so in Tunnicliffe's vivid dust-jacket.

London; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1899 & 1900., 1900. Hard Cover. Four volume first edition, limited to 250 copies only. Quarto, pp. xxv, [1], 278, [2]; xiv, 286, [2]; xvi, 226, [2]; xiv, 290, [2]. Map frontispiece with tissue guard to each volume, plus 10, 19, 16 and 19 plates respectively and numerous illustrations within text. Publishers' original quarter parchment with gilt titles to maroon labels to spine and grey paper-covered boards. Bindings lightly soiled. Spines A little worn with and bruising at tips; boards bumped at corners with wear to edge. Endpapers toned with armorial bookplates to each front paste-down. Scattered light foxing mainly to text-block edge and endpapers. A far better copy than is usually found. Widely regarded as the best book on the subject; giving a comprehensive account of the rivers, pool's, loch's, extent of fisheries, flies and lures used, methods employed and variety and quality of catch. Illustrated throughout with full-page black and white… Leer más

Dublin; Browne & Nolan Ltd, 1910., 1910. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. 16 mo. vi,. [1], 199 pp with fold-out map frontispiece of fishing districts; six colour plates of flies by Hardy Bros of Alnwick, each mounted on grey card. Original blue cloth with black titles to spine and upper board and black-stamped angler motif to upper board. Endpapers toned as is usual; sporadic minor foxing mainly to textblock edge. Cover cloth lightly rubbed with bumped corners. Gazetteer of fishing locations in Ireland with notes on flies and baits plus general information such as accomodation and transport.

South Dakota; University of South Dakota Press, 1972., 1972. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. vii, [1], 92. 24 monochrome photographic plates. Publishers' brown cloth with black titles to spine and upper board, in unclipped printed dust-jacket. A clean crisp copy with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket slightly surface soiled to rear, with nicks & creases and very minor loss top edge, and small hole adjacent to mid front fold. A Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Biographical study of the movie director, primarily with reference to the making of The Ballad of Cable Hogue, the classic 1970 Western starring Jason Robards, Stella Stevens and David Warner.

London; Collins, [1938]., 1938. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Square octavo, pp. [7], 1-60, [1]. Illustrations in colour throughout, with many full-page. Publishers' cream cloth with brown titles to upper board in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth slightly soiled to edge. Scattered light foxing, mainly to endpapers; tidy contemporary ownership inscription in ink to ffep. Jacket surface soiled with slight wear at spine tips and corners. Small closed tear to front panel and "Pat" inscribed in pencil above "Susan" in the cover art. A very good copy in like jacket. A charming book, written and illustrated by 12 year-old Katharine Harrison-Wallace, and printed as a facsimile of her hand-written manuscript, with foreword by her godfather the Duke of Atholl. The three stories comprise: The Adventures of Sambo and Susan (a tale of two horses), Jim the Huntsman (a tale of a fox family evading the hunt) and The Story of a Disobedient Salmon. Scarce, especially in the rare jacket.

London; Folio Society, 2004., 2004. Hard Cover. Second printing. Tall quarto, pp. xxxv, [1], 372. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings by Miriam Macgregor. Bound in quarter midnight blue leather and illustrated cloth, designed by Macgregor, with gilt tiles to spine and midnight blue endpapers. Housed in a matching blue paper covered slipcase. Faintest of scuff to slipcase. A Fine copy in a Near Fine slipcase. Attractive copy of the collected poetic works in English by the canonical metaphysical Romantic poet. Selected and introduced by former British Poet Laureate Andrew Motion. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.

London; Anderson Press, 1989., 1989. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp. [32] unpaginated. Lavish full colour illustrations throughout by Michael Foreman. Laminated pictorial boards, issued without a dust-jacket. Extremely light sunning to spine and very snall bump to board edge. A clean, bright copy; Near Fine book. Imaginative tale of a sand horse on St. Ives beach, brought to life with Foreman's characteristically bold illustrations.

Sarratt; Village Books, 1999., 1999. Hard Cover. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 64. Blue cloth with silver titles to spine, with both of the TWO different issues of the unclipped pictorial dust-jackets. A Fine copy in like jackets. Boldly signed by John Le Carre to title page. A collection of short stories inspired by the beautiful English village of Sarratt, home to John Le Carre; the volume was produced to raise funds for the local parish church and village hall. Scarce.

Cornwall; Turangalila Press, 1983., 1983. Hard Cover. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo, pp. [6], 43, [1]. Publisher's terracotta cloth with gilt titles to spine. Clean and bright. Inscribed to half-title with date and signature, and flat-signed to dedication leaf. A Near Fine copy. Sequence of forty poems by the controversial photographer and artist.

London; Chatto & Windus, 1920., 1920. Hard Cover. GIFT INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. [9], 2-139. [1]. Publishers' terracotta cloth with printed paper title label to spine; fore- and lower-edge uncut. Lower corners bruised and spine tips rubbed. Inscribed to ffep: "Peter Gibbings with Best Wishes from the Author Sept. 1939" above another inscription "Anna Winsloe with Love from Grannie 1970". Endpapers lightly toned otherwise contents clean and crisp. A Very Good copy. The Author's first book, a collection of eleven stories adapted and translated from sources around the world by Marjorie Strachey, sister of Lytton Strachey. Scarce.

London; John Murray, 1851., 1851. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. 12 mo, pp. xi, [1], 292, 31, [1] catalogue. Engraved frontispiece; large folding map of Erris and Galway to rear. Publishers' original bottle green cloth with gilt titles to spine and decoration in blind to boards. Spine lightly sunned and boards a little bruised to edge; lower board damp stained. A shaken copy with cracked inner hinges but contents clean and crisp, with no annotation or inscriptions. 7 cm closed tear to map at edge from hinge. A Good copy. Detailed impressions of Ireland and the Irish, intended to direct British investors to purchase land in Ireland, much of which was perhaps readily available towards the end of the great Irish Famine caused by the failure of the potato harvests. Scarce.

Copenhagen; Rhodos International Science and Art Publishers, 1995., 1995. Mass Market Paperback. FIRST EDITION. Softcover quarto, pp 144. Illustrated throughout in both colour and black and white. Pictorial card wraps. Tail of spine a little creased otherwise a clean bright copy; no annotation or inscriptions. Near Fine. Expert articles on the decorative arts including Galle glass, coffee cups, weaver Gerda Henning and textiles.

London; Arco Publications, 1966., 1966. Hard Cover. FIRST THUS. Octavo, pp. 189, [1]. Black cloth with gilt spine titles. In the unclipped original black and teal pictorial publishers' dust-jacket. Contents clean, tight and free from inscriptions and ownership marks. Unclipped dust-jacket lightly soiled to rear panel with vivid and vibrant colouring, free from nicks and tears. A Near Fine copy in a like dust-jacket. Verne's desert island adventure, previously published as "The School for Robinsons".