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My 60 Memorable Games, Fischer, Bobby. Published by Faber & Faber, London, 1969. First British Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 384pp., text illustrations, index. Selected and annotated by Bobby Fischer, introduction to the games by Larry Evans. Blue cloth boards with gilt spine titles. Top corner is clipped on free endpaper and half-title; light dusting and spotting to outside… Saber más sobre este artículo

Women's Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement, Millicent Garrett Fawcett. Published by T. C. & E. C. Jack, London, and Edinburgh.1912. The People's Book 94. First Edition. 12mo up to 7½" tall., 94pp. with index and two rear pages of publisher's list at dated February 1912. Olive green cloth boards with black titles front and spine. Ghost toning… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Knights of Winter: Hockey in British Columbia, 1895-1911, Bowlsby, Craig H. Privately Printed, Vancouver, 2006. Signed, Limited Edition of 500 copies, this being copy number 22. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 412pp. with illustrations and several appendices. Silver cloth boards with blocked gilt image and titles; housed in a black slipcase. In fine, collectible condition. A hundred years… Saber más sobre este artículo

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or Life Among the Lowly, Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Published by H. G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, London, 1852. 12mo up to 7½" tall., 483pp. with Preface and Table of Contents; Publisher's advertisements front and back endpapers. Decorative green boards, both front and back; bevelled corners; gilt spine titles with original price of 3/6 to tail… Saber más sobre este artículo

Uncle Tom's Cabin, With A New Preface Expressly Written For This Edition, Authorized For The Continent Of Europe, Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Published by Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1852. From the Collection of British Authors; Volume One: CCXLIII. Volume Two: CCXLIV. 16mo up to 6½" tall. Volume One: 352pp. with frontis portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe; preface; title; contents. … Saber más sobre este artículo

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe, Harriet Beecher; With Twenty-Seven Illustrations on Wood by George Cruikshank, Esq. Published by John Cassell, Ludgate Hill, London, 1852. First UK Edition to be illustrated by George Cruikshank. 12mo up to 7½" tall., 391pp., Frontispiece, Vignette Title, Preface to the American Edition; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Mrs. Stowe and her Family; Opinions of the Press;… Saber más sobre este artículo

Uncle Tom's Cabin; Or, Negro Life In The Slave States Of America. Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Routledge & Co. & Clarke & Co. London, 1852. Third Edition. Author's Edition. Illustrated Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 380pp., Preface, Notice of Author's Edition; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; 40 wood engravings. According to the Notice, this edition was printed in a… Saber más sobre este artículo

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or Life Among the Lowly. Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Illustrated edition. Complete in one volume. Sampson, Low, Son and Company, London, 1853. Designs by Billings; engraved by Baker, Smith, and Andrew. 8vo up to 9½" tall. Preface, 560pp., illustrated. Rich tan leather with gilt ruled borders, banded spine with elaborate gilt design, board edges with filigreed… Saber más sobre este artículo

Carrie, King, Stephen. Published by New English Library, London, 1983. 2nd printing of the first UK edition published in 1974. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 222pp. Black paper over boards with gilt spine titles. Volume is in fine, unread condition. Unclipped jacket has a tiny rub lower front corner and otherwise, in fine condition. A rare print run… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Martian, Du Maurier, George. Published by Harper's New Monthly Magazine, New York, 1896. First Edition. Bound complete collection of the first printed serial appearances of The Martian, from ten Harper's New Monthly Magazines Volumes XCIII (October 1896) to XCV. 8vo up to 9½" tall. Olive green buckram boards with gilt titles to spine on brown leather label. Portrait frontispiece… Saber más sobre este artículo

River Angling for Salmon and Trout. With a Memoir of the Author: Followed with A Treatise on the Salmon, and A List of the Tweed Salmon Casts, Younger, John. Published by J. & J. H. Rutherfurd, Kelso, 1860. Second Edition. 16mo up to 6½" tall., xliv, 206pp. with poem; tissue guarded steel engraved frontis portrait and facsimile signature of… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Expiring Continent: A Narrative of Travel In Senegambia, With Observations On Native Character, The Present Condition And Future Prospects of Africa And Colonisation by Mitchinson, Alexander, William. Published by London: Wm. H. Allen And Co., 1881. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. pp. viii, 469. Tipped in folding map of Senegambia backed on linen and 16 full page… Saber más sobre este artículo

Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with Drawings of Costumes and Scenery, By Frank S. Marryat, late midshipman from H.M.S. Samarang, surveying vessel. Published by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row, London, 1848. First Edition. 4to up to 12" tall; Pp. (4), [v]-viii,[1]-232, colour chromolithograph frontispiece, colour-illustrated engraved title page, 20 leaves of chromolithograph plates, 37 woodcuts to text. Bound… Saber más sobre este artículo

Fetichism; A Contribution to Anthropology and the History of Religion, Schultze, Fritz; Translated by J. Fitzgerald. Published by Humboldt Publishing Co, New York, 1885. First English Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 112pp., 46pp publisher's catalogue. Maroon embossed cloth with black titles front and gilt spine titles; decorative endpapers. Light toning to pages and otherwise contents are in fine condition… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Home Radio How to Make and Use It, Verrill, A. Hyatt. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1922. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 105pp with diagrams; rear ads; laid in T. Eaton Co. advertisement supplement for radio sets and parts. Dark yellow pictorial cloth, printed in blue. In very nice condition; ghost mark to… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Burning of The Reichstag, Reed, Douglas, Special Correspondent of The Times at the Leipzig Trial. Published by Victor Gollancz, London, 1934. First Edition, Publishers Note Laid-In. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 352pp. with four black and white plates. Black cloth boards, gilt spine titles. Text block is clean without markings, tears or folds; a very light toning to edges.… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Mercantile Agency Reference Book (And Key) For The Dominion Of Canada, Published by R. G. Dun & Co., Calgary, Halifax, etc., 1908. 'Containing Names and Ratings Of Merchants, Traders And Manufacturers In Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec And Saskatchewan, With List Of Banking Towns, Banks, Bankers, etc.; Collection Laws Of… Saber más sobre este artículo

British Columbia: From the Earliest Times to the Present, Scholefield, Ethelbert Olaf Stuart. Published by The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. Vancouver, Winnipeg, Montreal, Chicago, 1914. 4to up to 12" tall. Volume I, 688pp., Volume 2, 727pp., Volume 3, 1161pp., Volume 4, 1208pp. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of plates, maps, photographs, etchings, and historical documents. Volumes 1 and 2… Saber más sobre este artículo

Wisdom vs. Foolishness, Henry D. Perky, President of Oread Institute. The Perky Publishing Company, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1902. Second edition. 12mo up to 7½" tall., 100pp. with 8 color and black and white plates. Two tone green cloth boards with green titles front and spine, green flowered patterned endpapers; rough cut fore and tail edge. Black stamp to blank page: Compliments… Saber más sobre este artículo

Through A Peer Glass. Winnie's Adventures in Wastemonster, Waghorne, Arthur [Told By]; Wilson, David [Drawn By]; Published by Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1908. First Printing, First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 183pp. plus one-page publisher's advert. Frontispiece and 44 illustrations by David Wilson including full page plates and line drawings. Cloth boards with pictorial front and spine. Boards… Saber más sobre este artículo