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UNDERGROUND. Metropolitan District Railway. London Electric Railway. City and South London Railway. Central London Railway. INDEX TO THE TRAFFIC NOTICES Nos. 1/22 – 52/22. January to December, 1922 inclusive.
London: 1922. 494 pages, followed by 10 leaves, printed on one side only, of Failure Bulletins. Bound in cloth gilt. Binding a little worn; 2 library stamps have been scribbled over; fore-edges browned; else very good.
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UNDERGROUND RAILWAYS OF LONDON.
London Passenger Transport Board, No date [1933]. Second card folder edition still retaining L.P.T.B. within the bullseye, and having details about changes to the Piccadilly Line, plus the addition of North Harrow. 144 x 204 mm. An excellent example.
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UNE ECRITURE LISIBLE.
Paris.XXe Siècle. Éditions des Chroniques du Jour. 1938. 38[41] pages, including 15 full-page illustrations. Original printed paper wrappers. Number 148 from a total edition of 255 copies. Spine stained and splitting; some light dust-soiling and a patch of light red staining to the upper cover; else very clean. Presentation copy, inscribed on the half-title: 'á Joyce Reeves du vraisemblable au vrai affectueusement Georges Hugnet 1939.' Joyce Reeves was the editor of XXe Siècle and also, purportedly, the mistress of Roland Penrose.
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UNE JOURNEE D'ENFANT Compositions Inédites par Adrien Marie. Vingt Planches en Héliogravure de Dujardin.
Paris: Librairie Artistique - H. Laundette, Editeur, 1883. [88] pages, including 20 pages of plates, printed on thicker paper then the text. Original decorative cloth gilt, with a mounted pictorial pastedown to the upper panel. Folio. Spine worn at heel; small stain to upper cover; else a very good, clean, copy, the plates fresh and without foxing.
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UNE POULE SUR UN MUR. Dessins de Felix Lorioux.
Paris.Hachette et Cie. No date [1913.]. Rag book with 7 leaves, including covers, printed on cloth with colour illustrations and text in black Approx 11 x 9 inches. Pinked edges. Fine, bright condition. Manuscript note stuck to the front cover states that this book was produced from the 'customers own designs.' From the Dean archive. Rare.
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UNE POULE SUR UN MUR. No. 5. Editions des artists [Georges Houyoux]. Collections “Pomme D’Api”.
Printed in Belgium: No date, but between 1941 and 1946. Text by Rene Meurant, illustrations by Elisabeth Ivanovsky. [12] pages including outer wrappers. 82 x 65 mm. A very good copy from this series of 24 titles.
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UNE VISITE DU PÈRE NOËL. [Illustrated by Evelyn Gladys Hall.]
Paris: Hachette et Cie. [Dean's Rag Book Co. Ltd.], Undated [circa 1908]. [14] pages, including covers. 21.3 x 17.6 cm. Very light soiling to covers, else excellent. A French edition of Moore's celebrated, 'The Night Before Christmas.' Very scarce. The U.K. edition, from which this French issue was taken, was number 63 in the series.
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UNION-CASTLE CHRONICLE 1853-1953.
London.Longmans, Green and Co. 1953. Xvii[xviii], 392pp. Illustrated with plates in colour, photogravure, and in half-tone. Original buckram, gilt. Dust-wrapper. First reprint four months after the first printing. Wrapper a trifle chipped at head and heel; wrapper worn a little at front fold; else a very good, clean copy.
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UNS GEHT DIE SONNE NICHT UNTER. Lieder der Hitler=Jugend.
Leipzig.Gunther Wolff, 1934. 156pp., 4pp. ad's. Original coarse cloth printed in red, with swastika symbol on upper cover. Small octavo. A very good copy.
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UNTERHALTUNGEN IN DER NATURGESCHICHTE aller arten insekten zum nützlichen gebrauch für die jugend sowohl aus verschiedenen schriften berühmter naturforscher zusammen getragen, als auch, vorzüglich in disesem band, aus eigener beobachtung u. fleiß verfsertiget von F. A. S. Die Schmetterlinge, Mit kupfern.
Altona und Leipzig: Johann Heinrich Kaven, 1799. [8], 517[518] pages. Illustrated with a hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 48 hand-coloured plates of butterflies, moths and their respective caterpillars at the rear of the book, the vast majority hand-coloured as issued. Contemporary half sheep, gilt. Binding quite worn; short tear in the frontispiece at the joint between it and the title; some light wrinkling to the very outer blank edges of the folding plates; else a very good copy.
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Unterm Tisch und auf der Schaukel. Mit Bildern von Hildegard Weinitschke.
Potsdam: Muller & Kiepenheuer, 1929. [15] pages. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 282 x 232 mm. First edition. A very good copy.
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URBAN BIRDS A Collection of Cuts by Jo Spaul. Illustrated with a selection of suitable verse.
Incline Press, 1999. Number 9 of 25 ‘special’ copies issued in a slipcase with a separate folder containing an original coloured woodcut, signed by Jo Spaul and numbered 9 of 30; together with a coloured linocut by Spaul illustrating a poem by Ralph Hodgson. A fine/as new copy.
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URBAN RESIDENCE IN THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA. Compiled and Published under Authority of The General Manager, South African Railways and Harbours.
1924. Softcover. 64 pages. Illustrated in black & white. Original pictorial covers. Octavo. 18.4 x 12.3 cm. Few light spots; name in pencil on title; else a very good, clean copy.
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URSULA'S LOVE STORY. A Novel. By the author of "Beautiful Edith," "Sun and Shade." Etc. Etc. New edition.
Ward, Lock and Co, No date [circa 1880's]. Yellowback. 397, [16 ad's] pages. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. Octavo. Boards a little rubbed, and head of spine little worn; bookplate of Comte Louis de Segur on front endpaper; else very good.
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US.
London: Humphrey Milford, No date [1922]. 44 pages. With 6 full-page coloured plates, and black & white illustrations. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. Quarto: 265 x 232 mm. First edition. Covers lightly marked; else a very good, clean copy.
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US. An Old-Fashioned Story.with illustrations by Walter Crane
London.Macmillan and Co. 1885. [viii], 240, 32 pp [publishers advertisements]. Black & white frontispiece, and 6 other illustrations. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. 8vo. First edition. Very slight rubbing and bumping to spine and extremities; tissue guard, title page and last pages with light staining; small stain at page one and verso of previous page from a dried petal. A very good copy.
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USEFUL KNOWLEDGE: or a Familiar Account of the Various Productions of Nature, Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal.
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VADERLANDSH A-B BOEK voor de Nederlandsche Jeugd.
Amsterdam: W. Holtrop, 1781. [18] leaves; 3 - 58, [2 ad’s] pages. Engraved title; engraved pages of alphabets; 27 half-page engraved plates to scenes from Dutch history and daily life designed to illustrate the letters of the alphabet [there are two plates for ‘G’]; four other engraved plates. The engravings by L. Brasser, N. van der Meer, C. Brouwer, L. Brasser, C. Bogerts. B. de Bakker, J. Condet, and H. Numan after designs by the author in collaboration with P. Wagenaar den Jongen. Recent full calf. 12mo. First edition. A very good copy of a justly famous children’s primer.
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VAGBONDIANA or, Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the streets of London: with portraits of the most remarkable, drawn from the life by John Thomas Smith, Late Keeper of the prints in the British Museum. A New edition.
London.Chatto and Windus. 1874. vi, [7], 8 - 16pp., followed by 32 etched plates, printed on rectos only. Rebound sometime in the late twentieth century in full green buckram with leather label to the spine. Some light spotting on the half-title; fore-edges a little marked; small bookplate; light marking on upper cover; else a good clean copy.
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VALENTINE AND ORSON. Walter Crane's Toy Books. New Series. Price Six pence; or mounted on linen, One Shilling.
London: George Routledge & Sons, No date [circa 1874]. [8] leaves, the first and last mounted as pastedowns to the wrappers, each with an illustration in full colour with inset verse. Original pictorial series wrappers. 24.5 x 18.7 cm. Spine expertly restored; else a very good/fine copy
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