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SHORT HISTORY OF THE LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE. Compiled Regimentally.
Aldershot.Gale & Polden Ltd. 1916. 48pp. Illustrated with plates and a folding map. Original decorative cloth. Octavo. Upper cover lightly marked; else a very good clean copy.
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SHORT SEA: LONG WAR. Cross-Channel Ships' naval & Military Service in World War II.
Gravesend.World Ship Society. 1997. 160pp. Illustrated throughout. Original pictorial softback covers. Quarto. First edition. Neat ownership inscription on verso of front cover; else a near fine copy. Loosely laid in is a small piece of paper inscribed by the author: 'All best wishes John.'
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SHORT STORIES, or Treasures of Truth, selected for Youthful Minds. Price One Penny.
Banbury: J. G. Rusher, No date [ circa 1830]. 16 pages. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece, and thirteen woodcuts. Original printed wrappers, with a cut to upper, and two cuts to lower panel. Wrapper dimensions: 11.5 x 7 cm. Uncut. A very nice copy.
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SHORT TALES IN SHORT WORDS: About The Lame Boy; The Sea Shore; - The Cross Boy; and, The Stray Child. Embellished with seven elegant coloured engravings. Sixth edition.
LondonThomas and Dean and Son No date [c. 1850]. [5] to 59, [1] pp advertisements. 7 colour plates. Green boards with title in gilt on front board. Small 4to. Repair to front and rear inner hinges; repair to page 23; previous owner's note on inner front board in pencil and in ink on front free end paper. A little tired, but a good plus copy.
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SHORT TALKS WITH THE DEAD, and Others.
London.The Cayme Press. 1926. [1-6] 7-210pp. Stone boards with paper label to spine. Pictorial dust wrapper with adverts to rear. Octavo. First Edition. Book label. Minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Light browning to pages. Dust wrapper, slightly foxed, tired at edges with some sellotape repair. Else, a very good copy. Cahill 92A.
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SHORT-TITLE CATALOGUE arranged geographically of books printed and distributed by printers, publishers and booksellers in the English provincial towns and in Scotland and Ireland up to and including the year 1700.
London.The Library Association. 1969. [4], 119pp. Original cloth, gilt. Dust-wrapper. Quarto. First edition. Wrapper price-clipped; else a fine copy.
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SHORTER POEMS by Christina Rossetti. Illustrated by Florence Harrison.
London.Blackie & Son Ltd. No date [inscribed 1933.]. 79pp. Illustrated with 8 full-page colour plates and numerous black & white illustrations. Original pictorial boards; original dust-wrapper. Inscription on half title; wrapper lightly soiled and with a small chip at the edge of the front panel and one at the heel of the spine; else an excellent copy in a very good wrapper.
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SHYLOCK. Four Hundred Years in the Life of a Legend.
London.Chatto & Windus. 1992. ISBN 701135239. Hardback. Dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Text block beginning to brown; short tear at heel of wrapper; else a very good copy. Loosely laid in is a request for a review from Alan Jenkins of the T. L. S. to Julian Symons, together with a publicity release on the back of which are Symons' notes.
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SIAM: A Handbook of Practical, Commercial, and Political Information. With 99 Illustrations and a Map. Second edition.
London.Alexander Moring, Limited. 1912. xiv, [2], 637pp. Original pictorial grey cloth, gilt. Octavo. Extremities a little bumped and rubbed; neat ownership inscription; else a very good copy.
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SIAM. With one hundred and fifty-three illustrations and a map.
London.Alexander Moring Limited. 1924. Two volumes. Volume I: xii, 396pp. Volume II: [x], 320pp. Both volumes illustrated throughout. Folding map at the rear of volume I. Original decorative cloth gilt. Octavo. Third and considered the 'best' edition. One leaf of text in volume II with multiple old creases; spines a trifle mellowed and a little marked; some flecking of the red on the covers; else a very good set.
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SICILIAN CAROUSEL.
London: Faber and Faber, 1977. Hardback in pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A near mint copy in a like unprice-clipped dust-wrapper.
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SICKERT.
London: Phaidon, 1973. [viii], [1], 2-398pp. With 302 reproductions of his works in black & white. Original cloth, gilt. Pictorial dust-wrapper. Quarto. First edition. Neat ownership inscription on fixed front endpaper; else a fine copy in a near fine wrapper.
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SICKERT. The Painter and His Circle.
Park Ridge.Noyes Press. 1973. 176pp. Illustrated. Original brown cloth binding, gilt. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First U.S. edition. Wrapper has a small 'invisible' tape repair at head of spine; neat ownership name on front free endpaper; else a very good copy.
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SICKERT The painter and His Circle.
New Jersey.Noyes Press. 1973. 176pp. Illustrated throughout.Original cloth, gilt. Pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First U.S. edition. A very good copy in very good wrapper that has just a tough of wear at the head and heel of spine.
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SIGNATURE. A Quadrigiimestrial of Typography and Graphic Arts. New Series 1949.
LondonSignature. 1949. 61pp. Black & white illustrations. Original paper covers. Light creasing to lower corners of covers; else a very good copy.Includes an article on the illustrator David Jones.
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Signed postcard.
1982. A pictorial postcard from the author John Wain, informing the recipient that he is returning by post his copy of the 'Declaration,' that has presumably been sent to Wain for him to sign. The card, which is undated, but probably dates from 1982, shows an embroidered binding from the Bodleian Library. This item is subject to VAT.
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SILLY SYMPHONIES. Babes in the Woods. King Neptune. Produced with the permission of Mr. Walter E. Disney.
London.Dean & Son, Ltd. Undated. 48pp. Colour, illustrated endpapers, 4 colour pop-up illustrations and numerous black and white cartoons throughout the text. Original pictorial boards. Quarto. First edition. Boards rubbed at extremities, a touch worn at corners and a little bowed; some wear to head and heel of spine; spine just splitting at top edges of rear board and lower edges of front board; top outer page edges at start a little rubbed; some light, occasional finger marking; previous owner's note to front free endpaper; one pop-up has a small repair and a crease to one piece; else a good plus copy.
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SILLY VERSE FOR KIDS.
London.Dennis Dobson. 1959. 61pp. Illustrated throughout. Original pictorial pink boards. Original pictorial wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Two tiny adhesion marks on front board from wrapper; wrapper a little browned and with some wear to the head and heel of the spine and to the top edge of the rear panel. Altogether, however, a very good copy of a book notoriously difficult first edition to find in acceptable condition.
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SILVANUS GOES TO SEA. Nicolas Bentley drew the pictures.
London: Faber and Faber. No date [1943]. Unpaged, but 28pp., including free endpapers. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. Pictorial dust-wrapper. Oblong. First edition. Little rubbed at extremities; wrapper has some light creasing at extremities and two tears; else a very good copy.
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SILVER FLATWARE. English, Irish and Scottish 1660-1980.
Antique Collectors' Club, 1983. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 4to. First edition. A fine copy in a near fine wrapper. This book is heavy and will incur extra postal charges. Please contact us directly for a shipping quote.
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