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A BOOK OF SCOTTISH VERSE with a frontispiece by Jessie M King.
London.Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1932. [i-vi],vii-xiv,[1]208pp, plus 8pp adverts to rear. Colour frontispiece and pictorial dust wrapper by Jessie King. Blue boards gilt. Octavo. First Edition. Slight spotting to endpapers. Small smudge marks to top of pp 58-9. Dust wrapper slightly chipped at corners, with some small paper loss to head and heel of spine, and to rear of wrapper; else, a very good bright copy.
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A bound collection of seven chapbooks.
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A Bow-Wow Book. No. 100. Fluffidown Rag Books.
London: Dean’s Rag Book Co., Ltd, No date [1915]. 16 pages. Illustrated in colour by Stanley Tyreman Berkeley. Oblong: 180 x 220 mm. A fine copy from the Dean archive. This title was also issued in the normal rag book format between 1909 – 1919, but in ‘Fluffidown’ form only in 1915. See Cope, page 75. [15120]
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A BOX OF TRICKS. Invented and drawn by G. E. Studdy. Explained by George Jellicoe.
London: John Swain & Son, Limited, No date [1924]. [22] pages, plus 12 colour plates; line drawings within the text. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. 17 x 13 cm's. Some light spotting on fore-edges; else a very good copy.
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A BOY'S TOWN. Illustrated.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. vi, 247 pages. Illustrated with 23 black & white full-page plates. Original blue decorative cloth; silver gilt; titling in gold. Octavo. First edition. Small blank corner torn from one leaf; else a very good copy.
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A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF ALL THE BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
London: John Wallis, 1792. 32 pages. Original marbled paper wrappers. 199 x 75 mm. Ownership name on end-paper. A very good copy. ESTC suggests that this may have been issued with a dissected puzzle, Wallis’s Key to the Old Testament. Scarce.
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A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF ENGLAND AND WALES; containing a particular Account of each County: with its Antiquities, Curiosities, Situation, Figure, Climate, Rivers, Lakes, Soils, Agriculture, Civil and Ecclesiastical Divisions, Cities, Towns, Palaces, Corporations, Markets, Fairs, Manufactories, noted Places, Bays, Harbours, Products, &c. and the Number of Inhabitants as also the Distance of each Market Town from London, by the latest Survey, with the Latitude and Longitude of each County, Town or City; and on what Point of the Compass from London. Embellished with Copper-plates MAPS of each COUNTY. Very useful for travellers and others, and very proper for School, to give Youth an idea of Geography, and the Nature of his own Country, and each County.
London: Printed by R Bassam, No. 53, St. John’s Street, West-Smithfield, 1796. (Price One Shilling with Cuts, and Six-pence without.) 108 pages. Engraved pastedown frontispiece. Original Dutch flower-paper boards. 122 x 83 mm. First edition thus. This copy is the sixpenny edition, issued without maps. Spine a little worn, with small loss of paper; else a very good copy of this rare book. This is a re-issue of Homan Turpin’s edition of circa 1780. Extremely rare. ESTC list one copy only of this edition, but with maps, at the Pierpont Morgan Library, and no copies of the issue without maps.
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A BRIEF HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF MAIDSTONE AND ITS ENVIRORNS. By S.C.L.
Maidstone: Printed and Published by J. Brown, 1834. v, [4], 2-128 pages. Illustrated with a double-page map and nine engraved plates on India Paper. Original green cloth gilt. 203 x 127 mm. First edition. Some foxing to the map and, occasionally to the borders of the plates; slight loss at head of spine; else a very good copy.
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PIANOFORTE.
London: John Brinsmead & Sons, 1885. [i-iv], [5],6-30,[1-2],pp. Blue cloth gilt. a.e.g. Octavo. First edition. Presentation copy from publisher inscribed on front free endpaper; 'A. C. Kohler with the compliments of John Brinsmead June 6th 85'. Small ink initials to top of paste-down endpaper. Small crease to fore-edge of pages 9 &10. Corners, edges and head and heel of spine slightly worn. Hinges a little weakened. Else a very good copy.
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A BRIEF SCHEME OF Parochial Government: or, a method of Promoting the Welfare of a Single Parish. Particularly in the Country; and thereby of the Publick Good, in several short Proposals or Requests. By Samuel Blackwell, B.D. Rector of Brampton by Bingley, Northamptonshire. The Third Edition.
London: Printed and Sold by J. Downing, 1722. Price Three Pence. 48 pages. 12mo. Disbound from a collection. A very good copy.
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A BRIGHT SUNSET; or, Recollections of the Last Days of a Young Football Player, with introductory note by J. H. Wilson, D.D. Fourth edition, completing eleventh thousand.
London.Hodder & Stoughton. 1885. [iv], vii, [viii], [1], 2-142pp. Three wood-engraved illustrations. Original pictorial boards, gilt. Octavo. Binding slightly cocked; rubbed and a little worn at extremities; some foxing on endpapers and very lightly spotted on title. A good plus copy. This copy has an extra leaf mounted as a frontispiece bearing an actual real photograph of William Easton Riddell the young footballer who is the subject of the book.
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A BRITISH RIFLE MAN. The journals and correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade, during the Peninsular War and the campaign of Waterloo. With three maps.
London.A. & C. Black. 1899. xxvii, [1 blank], 386, [2 ad's]pp. With three folding maps. original red cloth decorated with gilt badges and title to the upper board, and title and image of a rifleman to the spine, all in gilt. Octavo. First edition. Browning and spotting to endpapers, less so to half-title, and very lightly to title; some light spotting to fore-edges; else a very good, clean copy in a bright and fresh pictorial binding.
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A BUNCH OF COUSINS and the barn 'Boys.' With four Illustrations by Hilda Cowham.
London.W. & R. Chambers, Limited. No date (inscribed 1917). [8], 220pp. Illustrated with four full-page black and white plates. Original pictorial cloth with a design by Hilda Cowham. Pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First published in 1911, this is an early reprint. Binding and wrapper in excellent bright condition; fore-edges foxed; and with the occasional patch of foxing; else a very good copy. Scarce in wrapper.
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A BUNNY IN TROUBLE. Illustrated by F. Stocks May. Blackberry Farm Books.
Leicester.Brockhampton Press. 1960. [32]pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original cloth with mounted full-colour pastedown on upper board. Top edge green. Original plain cellophane wrapper. First edition. File number written in biro on the wrapper; light spotting to fore-edges; else a fine copy of the much scarcer de-luxe issue in cloth. From the publisher's archive. Loosely laid in a publisher's list of title issued in de luxe format.
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A BUNNY IN TROUBLE. Illustrated by F. Stocks May. Blackberry Farm Books.
Leicester.Brockhampton Press. 1960. [32]pp. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original cloth with mounted full-colour pastedown on upper board. Top edge green. Original plain cellophane wrapper. First edition. File number written in biro on the wrapper. Else a fine copy of the much scarcer de-luxe issue in cloth. From the publisher's archive. Loosely laid in a publisher's list of title issued in de luxe format.
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A CAPE HORN CALM and other verses.
London.James Nisbet & Co., Limited. 1911. [iv], vii, [viii], [2], 3-105pp. Original cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Top front cover has the slightest of bumps; else an excellent, bright copy- almost fine.Very scarce.
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A CAROL GOOD KING WENCESLAS. Illustrated by Jessie M. King.
London: Leopold B. Hill, September 1920. 14 coloured, tipped in plates. Original wrappers with pictorial pastedown to the front panel, and another, smaller, to the lower. 266 x 222 mm. The imprint on this copy has been overlaid with a printed label reading: ‘MACBETHS’ of King Street wish all their little friends a Merry Christmas.’ An inscription in ink at the top of the front wrapper reads: ‘With love & best wishes from all at Offed [?] House 25 xii 25.’ Small area of wear at head of spine; else a very good copy. First published in ‘The Studio’ in 1919. .
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A carte-de-visite.
London: No date [circa 1860s]. A carte-de-visite by Elliott & Fry of 56 Baker, Portman Square, London, of the novelist Anthony Trollope. 10.2 x 6.2 cm. Library stamp on verso, little faded, else very good.
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A CAT BOOK. Portraits by H. Officer Smith. Characteristics by E.V. Lucas.
London: Grant Richards, 1900. The Dumpy Book For Children. No VI. [6] 121, [2 ad’s] pages. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original two-tone green striped cloth. 13 x 8.2 cm. First edition. A very good copy. Necker 1239.
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A CAT FROM PERSIA.
London: Henry Frowde, No date [1910]. [16] pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the card covers as issued. [Coloured illustrations by William Foster.]. Original pictorial boards. 320 x 240 mm. Short split at base of spine [2 cm]; else a very good copy.
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