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Blue buckram, gilt titles. In original pictorial dust jacket [original artwork in pastel by artist Jillian Willettnow ] now in protective mylar with slight damage at top of spine. Illustrated with b/w photographs: contemporary portraits and the author's own photographs of the places mentioned. Romance and thriller in one, all based on factual records. Set in diplomatic and royal circles. A sequel of the next generation to Anna and the King of Siam. (Biography, Thailand, Siam, Southeast Asia, History)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine in protective Mylar. Ainslie Roberts (illustrator). 1st Edition. 2nd. Printing. Previous owners inscription.This was the third of the Roberts/Mountford trilogy of myths of the Aboriginal First Nation people. It began in 1963 with an exhbition of Ainslie Roberts' remarkable paintings of central Australia, its people and stories. Part of the co-authorship of The Dreamtime", next "The Dawn of Time", (1968) followed by this volume "The First Sunrise" with 32 new paintings by Roberts based on First Nations People explaining the creation of the world with texts and interpretation by anthropologist Charles Mountford. Both men for years were very close to the people. Cultural ownership has shifted since then but it is a trilogy the publisher then could claim had no parallel in Australian literature.

Signed by Author as inscription by Clune to previous owner in 1953. Very good condition, tight binding in dust jacket protected by clear sleeve with decorative endpaper maps. Price not clipped.

London: Folio Society, 2007 4to Pictorial Cloth 1st Ed. Fine copy in slip case. Heavyset illustrated boards, a fine clean sound unmarked copy with an olive green plain slipcase also sound & unmarked; A later revised edition of book first published in 1973. 416 pages with index fully illust. with b/w & colour illustrations and maps throughout. Explores the history and development of food through the centuries.For larger or multi-volume items additional shipping charges may be necessary.

Hardcover. Black Boards with Gilt Lettering in Red Box on Spine. Pages clean and tight. Unclipped DJ now protected in our mylar sleeve. Previous owners inscription removed. Overall a very nice copy.Elspeth Joscelin Huxley CBE, née Grant (1907 - 1997) was an English writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. She wrote over 40 books, including her best-known lyrical books, The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard, based on her youth in a coffee farm in British Kenya. She left Africa in 1925, earning a degree in agriculture at Reading University in England and studying at Cornell University in upstate New York. She returned to Africa periodically.

L. C. Page & Company, Boston, 1909. Original Hardcover V. Good First Edition. Decorative endpapers, Rough cut pages on fore-edge and lower edge sound and tight. ; 330pp + 47pls. ; In protective jacket.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Impression, Condition: NF. Unclipped Dust Jacket Condition: NF. D/J protected by a clear removable sleeve. Cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Overall a fine copy.Contents: The Letters I Marina's Afterword 243 Postscript 252 Chronology 255 Slava's Amnesty International case-file 257 Amnesty's letter-writing campaigns 262 Acknowledgements 264.Consists of correspondence mainly between the English antiquarian bookseller Harold Edwards and Marina Aidova and her mother, Lera Shestakova.Formerly CIP."One of the most moving books you'll ever read—a powerful tribute to the far-reaching effect a single act of kindness can have."-Time Out London

Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Front board with light blue lettering and linear design.The first edition of Lady Elizabeth Thompson Butler's travel accounts of Ireland, Egypt, the Cape, and Italy, illustrated profusely throughout with colour plates. 28 illustrations from watercolors and 21 smaller sketchesLocale: Egypt; Ireland; Italy; South Africa. (Travel, Travel and Adventure)The first edition of this work. A travel work looking at the turn of the century in Ireland, Egypt, the Cape, and Italy. With a colour frontispiece, twenty-seven colour plates, and numerous in-text monochrome engravings. Written and illustrated by Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler. Thompson was a famed painter of history paintings, one of the only female painters of her time who found fame with her scenic paintings, such as battle scenes. With six pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. Collated, complete. Condition: In the original publisher's cloth binding. A little bumping to the tail of the spine and extremities.… Read More