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"LEARN BY DOING." (LxD) A Scheme of Educational Woodwork Design on Froebellian Principles. For use in Special, Primary, and Secondary Schools; for Students in Training for the Certificates of the National Froebel Union; and for "Handicraft" Classes and Centres generally.
Manchester: Thos. Griffiths & Co, 1909. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 221 = (3 ad's) pages. Illustrated throughout. Original cloth. 4to. Second edition, containing a tipped-in printed note from the author. Corners. little worn; school stamp at rear; else a very good copy.
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LEGAL LEVITIES AND BREVITIES, being Cases in Rhyme and other Eccentricities for Law Students and others. With illustrations by W. H. Troy.
Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons Ltd, 1913. Softcover. 91 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original pictorial card covers. Octavo. Spine worn and split at foot; inscription on endpaper; else a very good copy.
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LES LIVRES DE L'ENFANCE du XVe au XIXe Siècle. Préface de Paul Gavault.
London. The Holland Press Limited, 1979. Hardcovers. Two volumes. xx, 446 pages and 336 pages. Green paper-covered boards, gilt. Volume two has original pictorial dust-wrapper. Limited Edition number 433 of 600 copies. Small tear and light soiling to dust-wrapper of volume two; else very good copies. This Item is heavy and will incur extra charges. Please contact us directly (01227 464773) for a shipping quote.
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LETTERS FROM A PERSIAN IN ENGLAND, to his Friend at Ispahan. The Fourth Edition, Corrected.
London: John Millan, 1735. Vi, 254, [4 book catalogue] pages. Contemporary panelled calf. Sometime re-backed. 12mo. Bookplate; binding a little rubbed at edges, corners, etc; else a very good, clean copy.
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MAGADI. The Story of the Magadi Soda Company.
Birmingham: Kynoch Press, 1964. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 199 pages. Two folding coloured maps, and 24 plates. Name on endpaper; dust-wrapper just a little creased at top edge; else a very good copy.
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MARY ANNE'S EXPERIENCES. Mary Jane's Wedding. Mary Anne's Trip up the Tamar.
Devonport: W. Wood, No date [circa 1850's]. 24 pages. Original pictorial wrappers with ad's to pages. Just a little worn, else very good.
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MILITARY MUSIC. With 4 Plates in Colour & 37 Black & white Illustrations.
London: Max Parrish & Co. Limited, 1950. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 72 pages. First edition. Wrapper torn completely along the length of the spine, and generally a little tired; else very good.
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MORNING CALLS.
No imprint or date, 1840. Comprising of a simple title-page with no information but the title, and 14 leaves, each bearing a lithographed illustration with text written by hand in ink. Original stiff cloth covers with gilt title. Oblong: 12.5 x 18 cm. The title and two of the plates have light water-staining to the top outer edge; the cupper cover has a two ink marks; else very good. We estimate the date of this piece to be circa 1840.
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MR. FACEY ROMFORD'S HOUNDS. With illustrations by John Leech and Hablot K. Browne.
London. Bradbury and Evans, 1865. vi, [1], 2 - 391pages. Illustrated with 24 full-page hand-coloured engravings. Contemporary half green calf, gilt over marbled boards. Red spine label. Octavo. First edition. Endpapers foxed; some light rubbing to corners and edges; else a very good and clean copy, the plates fresh and bright.
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MY FATHER AND EDWARD ARDIZZONE. Illustrated with Ardizzone Christmas cards.
London: Patrick Hardy Books, 1983. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. Small pull at head of spine of wrapper; else a fine copy.
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NOCTES AMBROSIANE. In Four Volumes.
Edinburgh and London. William Blackwood and Sons, 1869. Hardbacks. Contemporary half blue calf over marbled boards, with red and tan labels to the spine. Octavos. Bindings lightly rubbed; some very light spotting at beginning and end of each volume; else a very attractive set. The first four volumes in 'The Works of Professor Wilson,' edited by his son-in-law Professor Ferrier.
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OBSERVATIONS ON THE CHARACTER, CUSTOMS, AND SUPERSTITIONS OF THE IRISH; and some of the causes which have retarded the moral and political improvement of Ireland.
London. Gale and Curtis, 1812. Hardcover. iv, 353 pages. Contemporary full calf, with red label to the spine. First edition. Octavo, measuring approximately 21.5 x 13.5 cm. Bookplate to front paste-down endpaper. Very light spotting to endpapers and title-page; else a very good copy.
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ON THE CHOICE OF A PROFESSION.
London.Chatto & Windus. 1916. 28pp. Original quarter cloth over paper boards with dust wrapper. First edition. Light spotting to endpapers and fore-edges. Dust wrapper a trifle soiled with some very minor chipping to corners and small paper loss to head of spine; spotting at front and rear; else, a very good copy.
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OUR VILLAGE. With twenty-five coloured illustrations by C.E. Brock.
London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1904. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. xv, 309 pages. Colour frontispiece and 25 colour illustrations throughout. Pale green cloth with elaborate decorative gilt to front cover and spine. First edition thus. 16mo. Some light browning to endpapers; else a very good copy.
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P. G. WODEHOUSE. Methuen's Library of Humour. Edited by E. V. Knox.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1934. Hardcover. Pictorial dust-wrapper. First edition. A very good copy in a like wrapper.
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PALAEOGRAPHICAL PAPERS 1907-1965. Edited by Ludwig Bieler.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972. Two volumes. Hardcovers. Dust-wrappers. Illustrated. First editions. Dust-wrappers very slightly rubbed and with a couple of very short tears; else a fine set without inscriptions etc.
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PATENTS AND PATENTEES. Volume VIII. Indexes for the year 1873. Compiled from Specifications lodged in the Patent Office attached to the Registrar=General's Department, Melbourne.
Melbourne.George Skinner; G. Robertson; Trubner and Co, 1875. xviii, 88pp, 38 folding plans of patents. Original blue printed wrappers. Generally worn with page edges turned at the start and wrappers worn. Presentation copy from the Registrar General Victoria, Australia, with a loosely inserted letter of presentation to Maidstone Free Library.
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PETS.
London.W. & R. Chambers, Limited. No date. (Circa 1905.). Un-paged. Illustrated with six full-page colour plates, and borders in black & white & red. Quarter buckram over original pictorial boards. Folio. Damp stain to upper corner of front board and verso plus light watermarks to fore-edge of front board. Slight tear to fore-edge of front free endpaper. Staples rusting. Some wear to corners and heel of spine; else, a very good copy.
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PICTURE POST. Vol. 34. No 1. January 4, 1947 – Vol. 35. No 13. June 28, 1935.
1947. Twenty-six issues in all, bound with their covers, in two-tone red cloth gilt. Binding a faded, but internally excellent and a very good half-year set.
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PICTURE POST. Vol. 36. No 1.
July 5th, 1947 – Vol. 37. No 13. December 27, 1947. Twenty-six issues in all, bound with their covers, in two-tone red cloth gilt. Spine a little faded and rubbed; one small ad' cut from the advertisement section of one issue; else excellent. This issue for December 13th, 1947 has a scarce cover photograph of Marilyn Monroe taken by Andre de Dienes. This image was taken before she had become famous and she is not named.
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