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London: William Heinemann, 1899. Book. Good. Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Red cloth with titles in gilt on spine and circular gilt motif to top left of front cover depicting a profile Napoleon I? Condition: Good, covers are lightly soiled and shelfworn, with light bumping to cover corners, and light sunning to spine. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Binding sound. Light browning to endpapers. Occasional light foxing with text. 266pp. plus publishers list. 12 b/w plates taken from paintings by the Verestchagin, plus tissue guarded frontispiece and occasional b/w sketches by Verestchagin decorate the margins. Introduction by R.Whiteing. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Printed by Charles Bill, and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, deceas'd, 1705. Book. Fair. Full-Leather. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Brown leather binding. Condition: Fair, covers are quite rubbed and worn, particularly around spine and cover corners. Covers are a little loose but the binding is sound. Rear endpapers and last few pages of text have some wormholes.Previous owners name on front endpaper and next blank page, together with some small notes to front and rear endpapers. This book contains the text of an act for those concerned to pay duty to the crown for various types of alcohol to finance the "War against France and Spain" amongst other things. To the rear of the book are two tables of allowances, one for "Maltsters on the Cistern and Couch gauges" and the other for"Malsters on the Floor". .

London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1985. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 1985 reprint of the 1984 first edition. Dark brown cloth with title in gilt on spine and front cover. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with light shelfwear. Not price-clipped. 408pp. 235 colour and 299 b/w illustrations. In this book the author describes and illustrates in detail the way in which people arranged their houses and planned their decoration in Europe and America from 1620 to 1920..

London: Left Review, 1937. Book. Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paper-covered stapled booklet. Condition: Good, with general shelfwear, some sunning and light soiling to covers. Staples are beginning to rust in centre, affecting the immediate surrounding area. The paper covers have a vertical one inch split to top of spine. Previous owners bookplate on reverse of front 32pp. This extremely scarce pamphlet is one of an edition of three thousand copies which sold out immediately on publication. It represented the views of a selection of British authors on the Spanish civil war, including Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, Vita Sackville-West, Ezra Pound and Arthur Machen. It was written in an era when the media was beginning to have more power than ever before with the general public..

Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press (an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd.), 2017. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Maroon hardcover with title in silver on spine. Condition: Fine, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fine. 343pp. 8 colour plates and several b/w illustrations in text. In this book the author isolates three years in the 1780s when the air balloon, pioneered by the French, captured the British imagination. Brant uses the balloon as a metaphor for the Enlightenment itself, as a concept of limitless possibilities..

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1869. Book. Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The book has a modern rebinding of blue cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, binding sound, no inscriptions. Half-title has light soiling and browning. Occasional light foxing within text. 505pp. The appendix includes plans of estate cottages, a cropping map and an illustration of a traction engine. Includes chapters on leasing, tenant farmers, land management (including construction, maintenance, improvement of land and manures), and the valuation of estates. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: John Murray, 1912. Book. Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seventh impression (third edition). Blue cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, spine lightly sunned, binding sound, light foxing to edges of textblock and title page. No inscriptions. Top right hand corner of front endpaper has been removed. 431pp. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Saqi, 2008. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Black hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with light shelfwear. 285pp. Several b/w and colour plates. In this memoir Abdel Bari Atwan recounts the journey of his life from a refugee camp in Gaza where he was born in 1950 to becoming one of the world's foremost commentators on the Middle East. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Shropshire: Tanat Books, 1981. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Maroon hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear. Price-clipped. 234pp. 38 b/w illustrations. As well as listing over 600 notable makers of clocks in Dorset, such as Ralph Norman of Poole, John Harvey of Weymouth and Henry Ward of Blandford, the book includes a detailed study of the astronomical dial, clocks and chimes of the Wimborne Minster..

London: John Russell Smith, 1869. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Maroon cloth with title in gilt on spine. Pale yellow endpapers. Condition: Good, although cover cloth is quite faded, particularly the spine. Small 1/2 inch vertical split to cloth at top of front cover where it joins the spine. Previous owners neat reference number at base of front endpaper.178pp. plus 2pp. publishers list. Scarce..

London and Cheltenham: E.J.Burrow & Co., 1927. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Undated, but c.1927.Grey paper-covered boards with white cloth spine, and title in navy blue on front cover. A Rolls-Royce bookmark is attached with blue cord, and a Rolls-Royce compliment slip is loosely inserted. Condition: Fair, covers are generally shelfworn with sunning to cover edges and light soiling. There is a coffee/tea splashmark to the top left corner of the front cover, not affecting the book internally in any way. Binding sound, no inscriptions. This book does not include reference to the very early motor vehicles of the mid 19th century, but rather records interesting facts relating to the history of the first few years of the use of petrol vehicles on the roads, with particular reference to Rolls-Royce. 80pp.many b/w illustrations plus 64pp.adverts, some in colour. .

London: Thames & Hudson, 2017. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover with dustjacket. Condition: Fine, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Fine, with just a hint of shelfwear.352pp. Many colour illustrations. "This is a gentrified East London seen through the lens of a smartphone, but one that retains exquisite traces of each incarnation before it, implying that the city can change again. Personal, nostalgic and light, these are clearly the notes and snaps of a figure (formerly director of the Royal Academy) who profoundly enjoys being in the city" (Financial Times).

Chichester, West Sussex: Phillimore & Co., Ld., 1988. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Red hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, with the faintest hint of shelfwear to covers. Binding sound. Signed and inscribed to the previous owner by one of the authors, Richard Coleman-Smith on title page. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear. Price-clipped. 428pp. 3 colour plates and many b/w illustrations. Donyatt, in Somerset, was the site of continuous pottery production for over 800 years. This comprehensive work describes not only the very thorough excavations and archaological research into the industry at Donyatt but also draws on a range of documentary evidence that survives to provide a complete study of a pottery..

Roskilde, Denmark: Vikingskibshallen, 1990. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Text is in English throughout. Laminated hardcover. Condition: Very good, with previous owners names on front endpaper. Binding sound. 136pp. Many b/w illustrations. During the course of three summers, a team from the Danish National Museum excavated and in 1962 salvaged five Viking ships from the bottom of Roskilde Fjord, 30km west of Copenhagen. In this book, the two leaders of the excavation described this unique diving project, as well as the five ships, which added greatly to the knowledge of Viking voyages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: George G Harrap & Co.Ltd., 1953. Book. Good. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Fourth reprint of the 1950 first edition. Blue cloth with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with general light shelfwear to covers. Gilt of title on spine is dulled. Binding sound, no inscriptions. No dustjacket. 604pp. 31 b/w plates and many b/w illustration in the text. This book includes sections on operative masonry and the London company, speculative masonry, the grand lodges and the craft degrees. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1980. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover. Condition: Fine, with just the faintest hint of shelfwear. Signed and inscribed by author to previous owner at top of half-title. 71pp. Many b/w illustrations. A programme of excavation and survey directed by Roger Mercer between 1974 and 1986 demonstrated that Hambledon was the site of an exceptionally large and diverse complex of earlier Neolithic earthworks, including two causewayed enclosures, two long barrows and several outworks, some of them defensive. This book published in 1980, gives an interim report of the findings..

Dublin: James Duffy and Co. Ltd., 1915. Book. Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Dark green hardcover with title typed on paper label on spine. The book was originally softcover, and this hardcover has been placed around it (several years ago), with the new endpapers pasted down onto the original covers. Condition: Fair to good, very light browning to text, binding sound, text clean. 206pp. Folding map of the cemetery facing title page (with small one inch tear to the left corner where it joins the page. Previous owners name on inside of original paper cover, and on the rear pastedown. Glasnevin cemetery was opened for interments in 1832. All the great movements, in one shape or another, that arose immediately before or after the year 1800, having as their goal the liberation of the good or Ireland - the Emancipation Movement, the Insurrecton of '67,the Home Rule movement and that identified with the name of Parnell are here repsented in this great necropolis of… Read More

Richmond, Surrey: Hiscoke and Son, 1894. Book. Fair. Cloth. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Dark green cloth with titles in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Black endpapers. Condition: Fair to good, covers have shelfwear to edges and some bumping to head and tail of spine and cover corners. Some ink marks and light soiling to front cover. Binding cracked internally in one place and feels a little loose. Inscription to previous owner on blank page preceding half-title. 410pp. plus appendixes and index. Foldout frontispiece of a copy of a print of a view of Richmond. Many b/w illustrations. Chapters include sections on the Old Palace aned Manor of Richmond, the Green, the River, Ham and Ham houses and riverside houses. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1972. Book. Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Black hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with very light shelfwear to covers. Inscribed to the writer Elspeth Huxley and signed Bill Buckley in red biro on front endpaper. Dustjacket condition: Fair to good, generally shelfworn to edges, not price-clipped. 410pp. This book contains a collecion of articles, columns and essays ranging from first-hand reports on Richard Nixon's trip to China to an evaluation of Helen Gurley Brown's Cosmpolitan, and the end of the Vietnam war..

London : Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1984. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Maroon hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound. Inscribed on the half-title and dated May 1984 by the author and his wife Sally to the previous owners. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with just a hint of sunning to the spine. 224pp. 440 illustrations, 125 in colour. In this book the author meets the skilled practitioners of more than forty different traditional Irish crafts, from the weaving of crioses (colourful woollen belts) and the making of pampooties (moccasin-type shoes) on the Aran islands to the blowing of Waterford glass, or the making of currachs or drystone walls..