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WINGS OF THE PHOENIX. The official story of the Air War in Burma.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1949. 143 pages. Illustrated. Original cloth gilt. Pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A fine copy in a like unclipped dust-wrapper.
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WINNIE ILLE PU. Liber celeberrimus omnibus fere pueris puellisque notus nunc primum de anglico sermone in Latinum converses auctore Alexandro Lenardo.
Londonii. Neo-Eborici.Sumptibus Methueni et Sociorum. Sumptibus Duttonis. 1960. 121pp. Illustrated in black & white. Original boards gilt. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A near fine copy in a wrapper that has light spotting to rear panel and is clipped at top corner of front, inner panel.
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WINNIE THE POOH. With colour illustrations by E. H. Shepard.
Methuen Children’s Books, 1973. Illustrated throughout in colour. Hand bound by Zaehnsdorf in full pictorial morocco, stamped in blind and gilt. All edges gilt. Contained in a pictorial cloth and paper slipcase. Limited edition of 300 copies numbered and signed by Shepard, of which this is number 202. First edition thus. A fine copy.
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WINNIE-THE-POOH AND EEYORE'S TAIL. A Pop-Up Picture Book Adapted by A. Schenk from the original illustrations by E. H. Shepard.
London.Methuen & Co. Ltd. No date [1953]. Unpaged. Illustrated in full colour by throughout and with four superb pop-ups. Original spiral-bound pictorial boards. First edition. A very good copy with just light wear to the corners, the pop-ups in fine condition.
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WINNIE-THE-POOH and the Bees. A pop-up picture book. Adapted by A. Schenk from the original illustrations by E. H. Shepard.
London: Methuen & Co, No date [1952]. Illustrated with three full-colour pop-ups and illustrations in colour throughout. Original pictorial paper-covered boards with metal spiral spine. 24 x 18.5 cm. A fine copy.
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WINNIE-THE-POOH. With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1926. Original pictorial full green leather gilt. All edges gilt. Silk bookmark. First edition. A fine clean, fresh copy, with no ownership inscription.
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WINNING COLOURS. Selected racing Writings of Edgar Wallace Edited & Introduced by John Welcome.
London.Bellew Publishing. 1991. ISBN: 0947792805. Hardback. Octavo. First edition. A near fine copy in a like, unprice-clipped, dust-wrapper. Presentation copy from the editor, inscribed on front free endpaper: 'To Julian & Kathleen Literature this aint but perhaps a bit of fun with horse love thrown in With much love, from John Welcome 18.2.92.' Loosely laid in is a signed typed letter from John Welcome to the same couple.The recipients were the crime writer Julian Symons and his wife Kathleen.
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WINTER EVENINGS’ DIVERSIONS for Youth; Being a collection of games and forfeits, partly original, and partly translated from the French. By Mr. Estcourt.
London: B. Crosby and Co, 1811. Price One Shilling. [2], 104 pages. The verso of the title is a booklist. Recent quarter tan sheep gilt over marbled boards. 140 x 90 mm. Some spotting throughout; two blank corners lost; else a very good copy of a rare compilation of twelve games of forfeits, including ‘Cupid Comes,’ ‘The Capuchin.’ ‘The Stool of Repentance,’ The Poor Soldier,’ and ‘What’s the price of Barley.’ Rare. Library Hub and Worldcat records one copy only of any edition, it being the second edition of 1808, held by the British Library.
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WISDOM. A Poem.
London: Printed by J. Rivington, jun. For the Author: and sold by J, Bew, 1777. 32 pages. 4to. First edition. Disbound from a collection. Occasional brown marking; else a very good copy.
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WISH YOU WERE HERE The Art of Donald McGill.
London: Hutchinson, 1966. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 127 pages. Illustrated in colour. 2cnd impression. Couple of spots on font endpapers; else a very good copy with seven vintage McGill cards loosely laid in.
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[Witchcraft.] An Act to repeal the Statute made in the First Year of the Reign of King James the First, intituled, An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft, and dealing with evil and wicked Spirits, except so much thereof as repeals an Act of the Fifth Year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Against Conjurations, Inchantments, and Witchcrafts, and to repeal an Act passed in the Parliament of Scotland in the Ninth Parliament of Queen Mary, intituled, Anentis Witchcrafts, and for punishing such Persons as pretend to exercise or use any kind of Witchcraft, Sorcery, Inchantment, Conjuration.
London: John Baskett, 1736. General title and [2] pages. Folio. Disbound from a collection, with evidence of that to the spine; else a very good copy. An important act that provided security for persons accused of witchcraft or sorcery, but that punished people who under the guise of witchcraft, sorcery of fortune-telling sought to cheat and defraud gullible persons.
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WITH DANTE IN FLORENCE. Walks in Florence to places marked by Epigraphs recalling the history of Dante's day. English version by C. DANYELL TASSINARI. Illustrated.
FlorenceGiulio Giannini E Son. 1930, but possibly later as inscribed 1944. [i - vi], vii - xi, 272 pages. Black & white illustrations throughout. Softback with original decorative wrappers. 18.3 x 12 cm. Inscription on front endpaper; slight wear and pulling to ends of spine and corners, else a very good copy.
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WITH FREDERICK THE GREAT. A Story of the Seven Years' War.With twelve illustrations by Wal. Paget.
London.Blackie & Son, Limited, 1898. vi; [5], 12 - 384, 32 pp. Publisher's advertisements. Illustrated with 12 black & white plates, and with 8 maps. Original pictorial clothgilt; all edges stained green. 8vo. First edition. Boards a little rubbed affecting the illustration to the front, and on the spine has some light fading. Some light spotting at front and rear. Previous owner's name and bookplate on front free end-paper. A very good copy.
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WITH THE CAMEL CORPS UP THE NILE. With Numerous Sketches by the Author. Third edition.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1889. xi, 320 pages. Illustrated. Original blue pictorial cloth, gilt. Octavo. Head & heel of spine a little worn; ownership name on half-title; inner joints cracked but firm; else very good.
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WITH THE GUNS.
London. Eveleigh Nash Company Limited, 1916. [i-vi], vii, 222 pages plus two pages ad's. Black & white maps on endpapers. Khaki cloth hardback. Octavo. Second impression. Foxing to endpapers and first and last few pages; ownership inscription to front endpaper; else a very good copy.
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WITH THE MISSION TO MENLIK 1897. With Illustrations by the Author and from Photographs.
London: Edward Arnold, 1898. xi, 363 pages. Two folding coloured maps at end of text, and many black & white plates and illustrations within the text. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition. A very handsome copy.
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WITH WINSTON CHURCHILL AT THE FRONT.
London & Glasgow.Gowans and Gray, Ltd. 1924. 111pp. Frontispiece of Churchill. Original pictorial softback. First edition. Quite heavily foxed; covers and spine a little rubbed and browned; else a good plus copy of a very scarce book.
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WO STECKT HANS ÜBERALL? Bilder Georg Walter Rössner.
Köln.Herman Schaffstein. 1932. Unpaged, but 26 leaves. Coloured pictorial title and 12 full-page coloured plates, the remainder text. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. Oblong: 25.5 x 31 cm's. First edition. Just a little slack in binding; light rubbing and dust-soiling to covers; else a very good copy.
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WOLVERCOTE MILL. A study in Paper-Making at Oxford.
Oxford.The Clarendon Press. 1957. [iv], xi, 1-79pp. Colour frontispiece with 17 other illustrations throughout the text including 5 black and white photographic plates. Original publisher's blue cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Head and heel of spine and board corners a little worn; two creases to front board; name blacked out on front free-endpaper; else a very good copy.
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WOMAN CUTTING GRASS.
Line engraving. Signed in pencil. 1933. Image size 120 x 97 mm. Not included in Campbell Dodgson's Catalogue published in 1930. A fine impression. Unmounted. Price is subject to VAT at the current rate.
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