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London: Edward Arnold,. Hardback. 63pp. First edition. By H.B. and illustrated by B.T.B. - Hilaire Belloc and Basil Temple Blackwood. Cream cloth to spine is very tanned and marked. Rubbed to all edges with boards exposed and rounded to corners. Green and black illustrated cream papers to front is tanned and marked. Binding is sound. Text is clean. Good copy . Hardback. 1899.

Cambridge University Press. Paperback. 409pp. 13 essays on a wide range of Adam Smith's thought. Very clean. Uncreased spine appears unread. Slightly rubbed to fore-edge and beginning to curl to the tip of one corner. Black remainder mark to top edge of closed pages. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 2006.

Heinemann. Paperback. 239pp. Includes the influential essay What is Universal Pragmatics? Ex-library copy with usual stamps, labels and numbers etc. some underlining. Binding is sound. . 1976.

Heinemann. Paperback. 166pp. Translated by Thomas McCarthy. Lightly rubbed. Pencil note to half title. Some underlining. Binding is sound. Good copy . Paperback. 1976.

Heinemann. Paperback. 310pp. Translated by John Viertel. Lightly rubbed. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1971.

Polity Press. Paperback. 196pp. Lightly rubbed. Clean and sound. Very good copy . Paperback. 1995.

London: Hutchinson,. Hardback. The Saturday Book was an annual cultural miscellany edited in its later years by John Hadfield (author of Love on a Branch Line). This edition being the 21st the themed articles cover 21 years of taste and fashion in articles on fashion with drawings by Philippe Jullian, travel, films, buildings, jazz, books, wine, as well as further articles on London Street Markets, the Social History of the Parrot etc and four articles reflecting on when they were 21 by Philip Gibbs, Harold Nicholson, Beverley Nicols and Louis MacNeice. Illustrations throughout. Colour illustrated dust jacket. In original matching box. Brown cloth with printed black labels to front and spine and gilt titles to same is very clean and neat. Colour illustrated dust jacket is also very clean but slightly rubbed and rolled to edges a two inch closed tears to the front and another to the back which has been mended with archival tape (which does not yellow). Not price clipped. Contemporary gift… Read More

London: Hutchinson,. Hardback. The Saturday Book was an annual cultural miscellany edited in its later years by John Hadfield (author of Love on a Branch Line). This edition focuses on collecting, with an essay on the art of collecting, and then pieces on Georgian glass, early transport posters, the diamond engraved glass of Laurence Whistler, vintage farm tractors, Victorian gardens, military uniforms and women's fashions, duelling pistols, etc. as well as a poem on Fred Astaire accompanied by a lovely series of photographs of Astaire with a number of different dance partners. There are a series of wood-engravings of bridges by George Mackley. Other illustrations include a series of photographs of Laurence Whistler's glass, line drawings and vintage adverts etc. In original matching box. Ex-library book with usual stamps and labels. No library numbering to spine. . Hardback. 1970.

London: Hutchinson,. Hardback. The Saturday Book was an annual cultural miscellany edited in its later years by John Hadfield (author of Love on a Branch Line). This edition includes poems by Philip Larkin and Elizabeth Jennings and subjects covered include the art of tattooing, Grand Canary, clocks, Jules David and Victorian fashion plates by Vyvyan Holland accompanied by vintage plates many in colour, the golden age of acting illustrated with black and white publicity photographs. The edition is also illustrated by wood-engravings of bridges by George Mackley, line drawings and vintage adverts etc. Dust jacket illustrated by William McLaren. In original matching box. Green cloth with printed red labels to front and spine and gilt titles to same is very clean and neat. Colour illustrated dust jacket is also very clean but slightly rubbed and rolled to edges with two closed tears to the front and some loss to the tail end pf the dust jacket spine. Price clipped. Contemporary gift… Read More

London: Hutchinson,. Hardback. The Saturday Book was an annual cultural miscellany edited in its later years by John Hadfield (author of Love on a Branch Line). This edition being a celebration of of highlights. An intriguing selection with a pieces on pin-ups of the past, a poem on Stanley Matthews with an accompanying engraving by David Gentleman, contributions by Jilly Cooper and Evelyn Waugh, Humphrey Lyttelton on the Golden Age of Jazz, articles on the diamond engraved glass of Laurence Whistler including a series of photographs of Laurence Whistler's glass and on Fred Astaire accompanied by a lovely series of photographs of Astaire with a number of different dance partners 50 colour illustrations and 170 black and white. Colour illustrated dust jacket with illustration by Philip Gough. Brown cloth with printed black labels to front and spine and gilt titles to same is very clean and neat. Colour illustrated dust jacket is also very clean but slightly rubbed and rolled to edges… Read More

Faber & Faber. Paperback. 213pp. 3 colour plates plus numerous black and white illustrations. Faber Paper Covered Editions series. Lightly creased to spine. Some foxing to glossy card cover. Text is clean. Binding is sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1954.

Midpoint Press. Hardback. 95pp. Very clean and neat in clean dust wrapper that is a little baggy and rolled to the bottom edge. Near fine, bright copy in good dust wrapper . Hardback. 2001.

Spencer Blackett,. Hardback. 344pp. Undated but assumed c 1890 - Spencer Blackett publishing was active 1880-1895. With 16 full page illustrations by Charles Kerr. binding is stamped Griffith and Farran to tail of spine. Brown cloth with silver titles to front and spine in a very attractive font. Black ruled boarders to textured cloth background and decorative border to title panel. A little bumped and with some slight wear to edges. Small black mark and a tiny glossy patch (glue splash?) to front. Front free endpaper is split to two thirds of the up. Clean and otherwise sound. Good+, sound copy . Hardback.

Longmans, Green and Co.,. Hardback. Half leather fine binding by Zaehnsdorf. Stamped bound by Zaehnsdorf to recto of front endpaper. First edition. Fantasy novel that is an extension of the Odyssey. Half dark maroon leather with maroon toned marbled papers to boards. Gilt ruled to edges of papers. Raised bands to spine. To the spine, gilt titles and 1890 also in gilt. Very pretty gilt decorations in the compartments. Marbled endpapers. Gilt to top edge. Some scuffing the marbled paper boards. Some foxing to closed page edges and to prelims. Leather is in very good condition tot he spine and joints retaining the colour and with bright gilt. Leather is a little worn to the very tips of the corners. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. 1890.

Ladybird. Hardback. 52pp. Spanish language Ladybird book. Cuentos de Siempre. Ladybird Classics series 740. Illustrated by Frank Humphris. Laminated cover. Colour illustrated laminated boards are very clean and neat. Very good copy . Hardback. 1990.

Oxford: Clarendon Press,. Hardback. 616pp. Black and white frontis. Dark blue boards with gilt titles to spine. Very slightly bumped to spine ends. Dust wrapper is very worn to edges. Very good copy in fair dust wrapper . Hardback. 1968.

Pan. Paperback. 412pp. Novel later filmed with Michel Rennie, Karl Malden, small still from film to back. Well thumbed copy but remains sound. Faded completely to spine. Clean and sound. . 1970.

London: SPCK. Hardback. xvii, 393pp. With historian Professor Brian R. Kemp's signature to endpaper dated March 1969. Fold-out map of the diocese of Worcester in the fourteenth century. Black cloth with gilt titles to spine is slightly faded but clean. Dust wrapper has some small chips to top edge. fold-out map is clean and crisp but with one corner creased to edge. Very good copy in good dust wrapper . Hardback. 1965.

Brontë Society. Paperback. Stapled pamphlet binding. 22pp. Small crease to one corner else very clean and neat. Very good copy . Paperback. 2018.

Brontë Society. Paperback. Stapled pamphlet binding. 22pp. Very clean and neat. Very good copy . Paperback. 2016.