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Travels in Tartary
de Fleming, Peter
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- Usado - Very Good
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- First edition thus
- Published
- 1948
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1948. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. One’s Company and News from Tartary. First edition thus. 8vo, terracotta cloth boards with silver gilt titles on spine. Upper edge red. 603pp illustrated with 2 fold out maps. This covers Fleming’s journey from Soviet Russia through to what was then the Chinese capital of Nanking, on to… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Quant By Quant
de Quant, Mary
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- Usado - Good
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- First edition thus
- Published
- 1967
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London: Pan Books Ltd, 1967. First edition thus. Softcover. Good. First paperback edition. Coloured pictorial paper covers with portrait of Quant by Philip Bailey on front. 207pp illustrated with black and white photographic plates. Pan book M209. Some wear to covers and minor creasing to spine. Pages age toned. An account of Quant’s early years in fashion. Precio
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Lions and Shadows
de Isherwood, Christopher
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- Usado - Good
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- First edition
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- 1938
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London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Good. - An Education in the Twenties -. First edition and a rare signed copy. Gift dedication on front endpaper to his friend Jeremy signed by Isherwood and dated May 1961. 8vo, blue cloth boards with black titles on spine. 312pp illustrated with frontis… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The Military Orchid
de Brooke, Jocelyn
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- Usado - Fair
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- First edition
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- 1948
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London: The Bodley Head, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. Stephen Bone. Slim 8vo, tan cloth boards with titles on spine. 135pp with coloured frontis and other decorations by Stephen Bone. Tear to outer spine and some other edge wear. Very good + and clean inside. The first in the Orchid Trilogy. The Military Orchid is a comic masterpiece… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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A Mine of Serpents
de Brooke, Jocelyn
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- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fair
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- First edition
- Published
- 1949
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- Hardcover
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London: The Bodley Head, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. P Vinton. First edition with signed dedication to Desmond MacCarthy (British writer, member of the Bloomsbury group & critic) by author. 8vo, coloured illustrated dust jacket by P Vinten over blue grey boards with gilt titles on spine. Upper edge red. Some chipping / tears to edges of… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The Goose Cathedral
de Brooke, Jocelyn
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- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
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- First edition
- Published
- 1950
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London: The Bodley Head, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Julian Trevelyan. 8vo, coloured illustrated dust jacket by Julian Trevelyan over green boards with gilt titles on spine. Some chipping / tears to edges of price clipped dust jacket. 186pp. Part 3 of the Orchid Trilogy. Part fiction and part autobiography, these reminiscences ‘cover loosely linked periods in… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Turner
de Lloyd, Michael
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- Usado - Very good
- Published
- 1996
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- Softcover
- ISBN
- 9780642130471
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National Gallery of Australia, 1996. Softcover. Very good . Folio, 240pp, beautifully illustrated with Turner's work. J. M. W. Turner painted some of the most exciting and best-loved images in all Western art; this volume includes magnificent reproductions of oil paintings and watercolors from throughout his career, with contributions by Andrew Wilton, Evelyn Joll, David Blayney Brown, John… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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PURITAN IN THE WILDERNESS A Biography of the Rev. James Fitch 1622-1702
de John T. Fitch
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- Usado - Very Good
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- First edition
- Published
- 1993
- ISBN
- 9780897251310
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This is more than just a biography, it covers the reformation, moving to an American colony, rise of puritanism in America, interactions with the native populations etc., as well as personal history. 319pp including index and glossary, illustrated with photographs, figures and maps. Decorated endpapers. Precio
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Frits Goosen : F. J. Goosen: 20 jaar schilder
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- Usado - Near fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very good
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9789073931060
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- 1
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EUR 53.08
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Rokin Art Press. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. 4to. Hardcover with pictorial dustjacket. 128pp illustrated throughout. Text in Dutch and English. A monograph of Frits Goosen and signed by him with a dedication on the title page. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Generally near fine book with a little edge wear to the base. Precio
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The Reluctant Goldsmith: Abraham Portal, 1726 - 1809
de Portal, Christopher
- Estado
- New
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- New
- Published
- 1993
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780905903347
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Mendip Publishing, 1993. Hardcover. 174pp with a fold out family tree at rear. Dust jacket with colour portrait on front. This book tells the story of Abraham Portal, would be poet and skilled craftsman, 1726-1809. With two colour and other black and white illustrations. By use of his correspondence and interests, supplemented by published sources and public records, thus illuminating… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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In Memoriam: George R Mather M.D.
- Estado
- Usado - Very good
- Published
- 1896
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- Hardcover
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Glasgow: R Robertson, 1896. Hardcover. Very good . 8vo, brown cloth boards with gilt emblem on front. 97pp with tissue guarded portrait frontispiece. Upper edge gilt. A collection of prose regarding, and speeches delivered by Mather, who took a keen interest in literary and historical figures. Spine slightly sunned, generally very good. Precio
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Coleridges Essays and Lectures on Shakspeare and Other Poets and Dramatists
de Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Rhys, Ernest (Ed.)
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- Usado - Good
- Published
- 1907
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London : J. M. Dent, 1907. Hardcover. Good. First Edition Undated circa 1907, contemporary previous owner’s name dated February 1907 handwritten in pencil on front endpaper. Brown cloth with gilt titles and decoration on spine. Xvi + 479pp. Part of the Everyman library series. Contents include, Shakespeare with introductory matter on poetry, the drama and the stage, Notes… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Dawn in Africa
de Shaw, Mabel
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- Usado - Acceptable
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- First edition
- Published
- 1927
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- Softcover
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London: Edinburgh House Press, 1927. First edition. Softcover. Acceptable. Paperback 8vo, illustrated card covers. 64pp illustrated with frontispiece and 3 other black and white plates. A well used book with age spotting, wear to edges etc. A fair reading copy. Apparently a true story of missionaries and villages in present day Zimbabwe, then named Northern Rhodesia. Previous owner's… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Albert Fourth Earl Grey
de Begbie, Harold
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- Usado - Good +
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- First edition
- Published
- 1917
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London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. A Last Word. 8vo, turquoise cloth boards with embossed border on front and black titles on spine. Spine sun faded and worn to head and tail. 183pp with portrait frontispiece. Gift inscription from Lady Wantage (a relative by marriage of Grey) dated 1917 on front free endpaper.… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The Life of Benvenuto Cellini ; A Florentine Artist written by Himself
de Cellini Benvenuto ; Macdonell Anne (trans) ; Wilson Henry (introduction)
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- Usado - Very Good
- Published
- 1926
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London: J. M. Dent, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. Adrien De Friston. 8vo, blue cloth boards with gilt titles on spine and vignette on front. Xiv + 368pp fully illustrated with 28 drawings in pen and ink by Adrien De Friston and many contemporary portraits. Very nice copy with minor edge wear, clean inside with a little age toning… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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The Hangmen of England
de Bleackley, Horace
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- Usado - Fair
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- First edition
- Published
- 1929
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London : Chapman & Hall, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo, cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Damp staining to boards. Repairs to binding at front and rear. Xix + 272pp with frontispiece and 18 other plates in the text (2 are loose), including a folding plan of Newgate. A history of public executions and the hangmen… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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For My Grandchildren
de Princess Alice
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- Usado - Very good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- good
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- First edition
- Published
- 1966
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- Hardcover
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London, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. 8vo, pictorial dust jacket over red cloth with gilt titles on spine and emblem on front. Upper edge red. Xiii + 306p. including index. Illustrated with frontispiece and throughout with black and white photographs. Includes fold out genealogical tree at rear. Princess Alice was born in 1883 and grew up in… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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From the Somme to the Rhine
de ASHMEAD-BARTLETT, S.
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- Usado - Good
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- First edition
- Published
- 1921
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EUR 73.14
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London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, original red cloth badly discoloured, spine sunned. 206pp + 2pp of publisher’s adverts, illustrated with four maps, one folding. From the On Active Service series. A personal account of events in 1918 written by a regimental officer on his probationary period during the First World War.… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Realities of War
de Gibbs, Philip
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- Usado - Good
- Published
- 1936
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- Hardcover
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London: Hutchinson & Co., 1936. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, cloth covered boards with blue titles on front and spine. Some discolouration to covers, contemporary previous owner's name on front endpaper. Undated, but preface dates this edition to late 1930's. Clean inside with a little age toning to endpapers. 496pp with 12pp publisher's catalogue. A truthful, accurate and tragic record… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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Like A Mantle The Sea
de Shepherd, Stella
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- Usado - Very Good
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- First edition
- Published
- 1971
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
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London: G. Bell and Sons, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Dennis H. Shepherd. 8vo, blue boards, gilt titles on spine. Endpapers illustrated with a map of Papa Stour, an island to the west of Shetland. 184pp with frontispiece map of Shetland and Papa Stour and line drawings at the start of each chapter. This tells of Stella… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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