Rare books from Daisyroots Books Ltd

Thornton Butterworth. Hardback. Acceptable. Thornton Butterworth 1935 1st edition 1st impression. Hardback, no dj. Acceptable. Scarce copy not reprinted until recently. Blue cloth with black lettering. Raynes Raleigh Library stamp on end papers and blind embossed on front board. Cloth dust stai

London: Smith, Elder & Co.,1908. First edition. 6000 copies printed. 8vo. half-title, pp. 372 + 4 of adverts. Frontis. illustration by A. Castaigne, original pictorial red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. Front panel illus. 'Examining the leather funnel'. Spine head has two short splits. Splash marks to rear. Generally dust soiled. Fep shows ink number 17 and small red stain. Binding intact but loose. Collection of seventeen stories, mostly crime or fantastic, the latter including "The Leather Funnel," an antiquarian ghost story worthy of M. R. James, "Playing With Fire," and "The Brown Hand." Also present "The Man With the Watches", "The Japanese Box" etc..

FINLAY, Ian H.
The Sea Bed and Other Stories
1958 1st ed. hardback with original wrapper. Illustrated by Zeijko Kundzic. Eight lino cuts to illustrate the story plus one on the inside of the card binding and one more on the dust wrapper. Wrapper very fragile and with split along most of the spine edge. Finlay's first selection from his short stories. Rare.mon0000007151

PARGETER, Edith (Ellis Peters)The Fair Young Phoenix (first edition with wrapper)Heinemann 1948 First edition 1st impression. Hardback with jacket. Red board with black title plate. Small half moon shaped piece out on base of front board. Jacket chipped and tattered on edges, piece out on spine head and bottom RH corner. Now in archive sleeve. See scan. End papers tanned. Internally clean and sound. No inscriptions. Prompt, secure UK dispatch. Pargeter's eighth book. It is very unusual to find this rare title with its wrapper.
mon0000036385 HB 19 FIC 1st P

The World's Work (1913) Ltd. Hardback. Good. London: The World's Work (1913) Ltd 1937 stated First Published 1937. Yellow cloth boards, no wrapper. No inscrioptions. Moderate scattering of foxing to page ends. Internally clean and sound. Boards generally soiled. 312 pp. Prompt UK dispatch.

Gregg International Publishers Limited 1970 hardback, scarlet cloth / gilt. 219 pp. Facsimile reproduction of the 1598 original work by the Italian painter Paul Lomatimus (Giovanni Paulo Lomazzo) this is an extraordinary early instruction book for student artists. Covers: Proportion, Actions and Gestures, Colour, Light, Perspective, Practice, History and a Conclusion. Vg. Ex college library. bookplate, no stamps. Internally sound. Cover lightly soiled.

A Miscellany of Bastardy Record Volume 2 Salisbury & Amesbury Petty Sessions Division & Devizes Petty Sessions Division 18th & 19th centuriesWiltshire Family History Society 1998, plastic wraps. Vg. 57 pp. Top end of spine has short split. Scarce title.40918 HIST family cabinet £180.00

The Practical Fly-Fisher More Particularly for Graying or UmberJohn JacksonGibbings & Co, London, 1899. VG+. Green cloth gilt decorative title panel and blind recessed borders. 72 pp. Four pages of adverts. With 10 plates. coloured by hand, representing 120 flies, natural and artificial. With addendum by John Miller. Fourth Edition. Bookplate to fep. Lead corners gently rubbed. All plates present and in good order. Binding sound. 41002 ANTI fishing £300.00

The Complete Official Triumph TR4 & TR4A 1961-1968 Comprising the official driver's handbook, workshop manual, competition preparation manualRobert Bentley, Inc., Mass. USA, 1975. acceptable. Soft card wraps, 394 pp, b/w diagram and photo illustrations, pages hole punched and held together with wire and a file holder. Well used copy, heavily creased cover, page edges dirt stained. SCARCE.Triumph TR4, Triumph TR4A, official car manual, Bentley41117 TRANS road - car manual £300.00

The Life of A Regiment
The History of the Gordon Highlanders
By Lt Colonel C Greenhill Gardyne
Volume 1 1794 – 1810
Hardback with paper cover
Printed by The Medici Society Ltd
Reprinted in Royal in 1929
Cover a little tatty at edges Volume in good condition with some foxing to page edges not inside some rubbing to top boards
Volume II 1810 - 1898
Hardback with no cover
Printed by The Medici Society Ltd
Reprinted in Royal in 1929
Volume in good condition some rubbing to top boards
Volume III 1898 – 1914
During and after the Boer War
Hardback with cover
Printed by Leo Cooper London 1972
Second impression 1972
Volume and cover in excellent condition some small marks on cover
Volume IV 1914 – 1919
Gordon Highlanders in the First World War
Cyril Falls
Hardback with No cover
Aberdeen University
Press
First Published in 1958
Volume in excellent condition some slight fading to spine
Volume V 1919 -1945
Hardback with Cover
The Gordon Highlanders
Wilfrid Miles
Frederick Warne Reprint 1980
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A Narrative by John Ashburnham on his Attendance on King Charles the First from Oxford to the Scotch Army, and from Hampton Court to the Isle of Wight Volume 2Payne and Foss, London, 1830 first edition hardback, dark green cloth boards, blind embossed to front and back, gilt title. Interesting book plate (see scan). Short crack in gutter of front end papers - binding still sound. Fascinating collection of letters, accounts and narrative by a man who served King Charles I . Charles 1, English Civil War, 17th century history, Royalist42387 ANTI hist £80.00

The Justice of the Peace and the Parish OfficerSixth Edition in three volumes. ( Volumes 1 and 2)Richard BurnA Millar, London, 1758. Gd+. two volumes. Full calf with raised banding to spine. Title plates almost entirely obliterated. Blind embossed borders. Worn on all corners, boards scuffed. Here are volume 1 ( A - E) and volume 2 ( F - P). Covers laws and by-laws of the era. Antiquarian, law, Parish Law, Local By-laws42469 ANTI £400.00

DOYLE, A. ConanThe Adventures of Sherlock HolmesGeorge Newnes, Ltd,. London, 1894, third edition. Hardback with original turquoise cloth, Strand Library motif on front and spine, gilt lettering. Bevelled edges. Gilt to all page edges. Decorative end papers. Illustrated in the text by Sidney Paget (1860-1908) the first artist to draw Sherlock Holmes for Conan Doyle's short stories in The Strand Magazine. 317 pp. Visible faults: Gutter cracked on fep but binding still sound. Cloth slightly grubby, some rubbing on shelf edge, light foxing internally on some pages. One segment of leaves beginning to come loose (see photo). . HEAVY BOOK UK DELIVERY ONLY44187 LB 1 ANTI fic £1,000