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Cambridge University Press, London, 1920. Second Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. series title to front cover; profusely illustrated by drawings, diagrams & formulae; bookshop small stickers inside front cover; Size: Octavo (standard book size). 316 pages. Mark to front cover;. Endpapers browned, text block clean. Previous owner's signature in ink. Black titles spine. Bumping & wear to corners;. Includes tables,answers to exercises & index. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Engineering, Industrial, Trade. Inventory No: 2449. .

Allen & Unwin/Unwin Papwebacks/Mandala, London, 1973. Fourth Impression. Paperback. Near Fine Condition. Written in a simple and easily understandable style, Concentration is a classic among books on the art of meditation. Published, as it was, before our fascination with things New Agey, it dispels many of the myths and misconceptions that have arisen and been promoted out of that movement. And for this reason alone, for the preservation of the truth, it is worth its weight in gold. First and foremost among the myths it dispels is the idea that developing concentration is really of no consequence in the practical application of the art of meditation, as some so-called New Age gurus would have people believe. This is like saying that for an automobile to function properly it doesn't need gasoline! Without the ability to concentrate, our efforts at meditation will result only in going nowhere, in spinning our wheels in an unending rut. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" -… Read More

G. Bell and Sons Ltd, London, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Near Fine Condition. half-leather binding with marbled boards, five raised bands to spine; titles, preface & contents to front. A scholarly account of the best of Eighteenth century literature in which the author attempts also to make the subject somewhat more attractive to the general reader; with chapters on: Dryden; Pope; Johnson; Boswell; Goldsmith; the Novel; Letters; Diaries; Verse; Drama; Anstey & Sheridan. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x + 399. Spine leather slightly browned with age. Previous owner's signature inside front cover dated 1946. Gilt titles spine. green leather. Includes index. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Eighteenth Century Literature; 18th century; Essays & Literary Criticism. Inventory No: 4778. .

Michel Lévy Frères, Paris, circa 1886. Plays/French Plays/Drama/ Victorien Sard. Hardcover (Half Leather). Very Good/N/A. Half Leather with five raised bands to spine & marbled boards. Three plays by Sardou bound together in one volume: 'Rabagas' (1872) 18th edition, 240 pages; 'Andrea' ((1880) new edition; 164 pages; & 'Les Pres Saint-Gervais' (1875) 127 pages; French text; List of other works by the author to front; three loosely inserted contemporary newspaper cutting reviews (English) relating to Sardou & performances of his plays (one starring Madame Sarah Bernhardt); handwritten note in French on title page of Andrea stating that it was first performed on 17th March in 1873 at the Theatre du Gymnase in Paris; no other notations or marks; a handsome volume with light wear to edges & corners of leather. Gilt titles spine with gilt number '4' so probably one of a set of Sardou plays; Marbled endpapers. . Size:… Read More

Rider, London, 1986. First Edition. Red Cloth. Fine/Fine. silver titles spine, small b/w. zodiac illust. to each star-sign section plus explanatory diagram in part one, a Rising Sign is the astrological sign rising on the Eastern horizon at the moment of an individual's birth, and from this single astrological factor much more can be learned than from the sun sign alone. A book of Rising Signs such as this, therefore, is extremely useful; it provides a great deal of information and (as presented by Dr. Sargent) is practical. Indeed, readers will find it far easier than the preparation and interpretation of a full horoscope. Dr. Sargent has provided unique, easy-to-use tables for identifying your Rising Sign within a few moments - provided you know the date, place and approximate time of your birth. Once you know your Rising Sign you pass on to the section describing the typical strengths and weaknesses of those born under each of 12 Rising Signs - the basic essence of each Rising Sign, the… Read More

Paper Tiger Productions, London, 1998. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine/N/A. Illustrator: Miller, Ron. black titles spine; colour illustrations throughout; "from pulp fiction to cyberpunk sctence fiction writing has always abounded with vivid, powerful women - Amazonians, alien queens, slayers of monsters, brilliant scientists and ethereal beings. Ron Miller's portraits evoke a colourful pictorial history of these multi-faceted heroines, while Pamela Sargent's incisive text provides an absorbing anaJysis from the beginnings of genre to the present day, from H. G. Wells's Weena, to Edgar Rice Burroughs's Oian the Beautiful and Isaac Asimov's Or Susan Calvin."; including index - 112 pages. A FAIRLY HEAVY BOOK WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Illustrator: Miller, Ron. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Art & Design; Modern; Women & Feminism. ISBN: 1855854627.… Read More

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1913. First Edition. Paper Covers. Near Fine/N/A. black titles front on grey paper covers, illustrated by b/w. frontis. & three further b/w. plates, these fragments of early printing were found covering beams in the Master's Lodge of Christ's College during restoration work during 1911; most of the fragments date to the sixteenth century the buildings having been established in the first decade of that period; among the finds are included proclamations, a poem on the death of Henry the Seventh, fragments of print type by Caxton & by Wynkyn de Worde, all of which are described, with some examples, in the text of this book - 43 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; East Anglia; Cambridge; England; Genealogy & Local History. Inventory No: TOP00003. .

printed by S. K Broadbent & Co. Ltd, Douglas, Isle of Man, 1922. Revised Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. This Volume, being Volume IX of the Revised Edition of the Statutes of the Isle of Man, is edited by George Sayle Johnson, Esquire, Advocate, under appointment issued by the Lieutenant-Governor. Care has been taken in comparing the text with the original Acts in the Rolls Office. Volume VIII continued the Statutes to the end of A. D.. 1909; this Volume brings them down to the end of A. D. 1915. First Thus. Size: Large Octavo. 504 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Endpapers browned, text block clean. Gilt titles spine. pebbed brown cloth with blind-stamped double line outer border front & rear(inner line stopped at corners). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; Legal History; Isle of Man; Genealogy & Local History; Britain/UK; 1900-1920; History. Inventory No: 3590. .

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Good. What have the following got in common: a crocodile journalist, Joan Collins, a judge, a thinly disguised prime minister, a less thinly disguised American president, Rambo, a collection of rampant automobiles, and a most peculiar television set? The answer is that they all appear, in the worst possible light, in Gerald Scarfe's Seven Deadly Sins. Pride, Greed, Anger, Gluttony, Sloth, Envy parade before our startled eyes. And then there is Lust ... The Seven Deadly Sins will never be quite the same again, after they have been illuminated and dissected with Gerald Scarfe's savage wit. Or will they? Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. unpaginated. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is fully intact, no tears or chips, but carries signs of wear to top and bottom edges, corners etc.. Price clipped inside book. Gilt titles spine. red cloth. Quantity… Read More

Insel-Verlag, Leicester, 1925. Second Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illustrator: Photo's. gilt titles on white cloth spine; gilt publisher's device to tan front cover; green ribbon bookmark; publisher's device in red on title page; text in German; 87 b/w. ills. throughout (maps, art works & photo's. of buildings, etc.); because of the closeness of the publication date to the first world war this edition of 'Paris: Notes by Karl Scheffler' omits the last chapter present in the first (1908) edition & entitled 'Germany & France'; very slight wear to corners & a tiny dent to front cover but otherwise a sound & smart copy; 263 pages. N.B. this is a thick & heavy book which, together with protective wrapping, takes its weight above the 1kg. standard quoted rate for post & packing so extra shipping charges will be requested. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Text is in German.… Read More

New American Library/Signet Book, New York, 1968. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine/N/A. red & blue titles spine; Signet Special Broadside No. 5; "For three years we have been devastating a small country on the other side of the world in a war which bears no rational relationship to our national security or our national interest."; "Certainly two hundred million Americans did not strike down John Kennedy or Martin Luther King or Robert Kennedy. But two hundred million Americans are plainly responsible for the character of' a society that works on deranged men and incites them to depraved acts."; 'The hysteria expressed by some at the thought that guns should be licensed only strengthens the psychiatric suspicion that men doubtful of their own virility cling to the gun as a symbolic phallus."; "We can no longer regard hatred and violence as accidents and aberrations ... The terrible things we do to our own people, the terrible things we do to other… Read More

Jonathan Ball, Johannesburg, 1979. Reprint. Paperback. Good/N/A. Illustrator: Brigg, Mel. cover illust. by Mel Brigg; translated from the Afrikaans by Marion V. Friedmann; the South African publication of the english translation of this novel first published in 1972 as 'Na die Geliefde Land'; winner of the South African CNA Literary prize in 1973; "Promised Land is a startling and chilling perspective of South Africa in the not-too-distant future. It transcends the limitations of time and country. Fable-like it provides an image of tyranny anywhere and at any time. It is a grim warning for the future. This the first time that Karel Schoeman has allowed one of his novels to be translated into English. When it first appeared in Afrikaans it was hailed as a 'brilliant piece of work' and 'a masterpiece of low-key writing, understatement, allegory and subtle innuendo'." light edge-wear; 222 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.… Read More

Felix Alcan, Paris, 1933. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. le grand mérite de M. P.-M. Schuhl est d'avoir soumis à une étude la question des rapports entre Platon et l'art de son temps. Il nous montre de hardis novateurs s'engageant dans des voies puis des archaïsants s'efforçant de revenir à l'idéal de la grande époque. La position prise par Platon est nettement indiquée, avec textes à l'appui. Ceux-ci sont chaque fois traduits de façon mais sans lourdeur, replacés dans le contexte et commentés en des notes nombreuses où l'on retrouve, en grec, certains passages litigieux. Les rigueurs de Platon s'adressent surtout aux tendances modernes ; au surplus, il ne peut approuver que certaines formes d'art particulières. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read More

Longman, London, 1977. Third Impression. Paperback. Very Good/N/A. white titles spine; a volume in the Longman's English Series; 'Victorian.' is interpreted here as the decades between 1830 and 187O - a time not only of social and intellectual change, but also of reassessment of the nature, relevance and purpose of poetry in the light of the achievement of the Romantics and under the pressures of.living in a new kind of society.Three short general sections,(Poems of Social Protest, Religious Verse. and Light Verse) drawn frorn.the abundance of Victorian minor Verse, support selections from nine more important poets. These divide into Poets of Society (Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, George Meredith, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Arthur Hugh Clough) and Poets of the Soul (Alfred Lord Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Charles Swinburne); previous owner's name on title page; fading to spine; including notes & index - 252 pages.… Read More

Country Life Ltd, London, 1951. First Edition. Green Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illustrator: Photo's & Drawings. gilt titles spine; gilt vignette (geese in flight) front; map endpapers (in green) showing route of expedition; col. frontis (pair of Ross's Geese); illustrated throughout by 36 b/w. photo's.; 2 further b/w. maps & numerous b/w. line drawings; "among the world's waterfowl - the ducks, geese and swans - there are several species which have become so greatly reduced in numbers that they face early extinction unless steps are taken at once to avert it. Much more needs to be discovered about the birds themselves before we know where, when and how best to take those steps. The beautiful little Ross's geese, whose nesting colonies were found for the first time in 1938, are among those which are threatened, for their world population is probably no more than 5,000, possibly much less. It was for this specific reason that the Perry River Expedition of 1949 was… Read More

Henry Frowde (Hodder), London, No date. Edition Unstated. Red Cloth. Good/N/A. Illustrator: Staynes, P.A. a volume in the Herbert Strang's Library ("carefully edited for school & home reading") with the 'piper beneath the tree' decorative front cover & spine in grey & black on red, slightly faded gilt title panel spine, illustrated endpapers, col. frontis & 1 other by P.A. Staynes, 288 pages incl.. glossary Illustrator: Staynes, P.A.. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children; Classics; Children. Inventory No: CHD00030. .

Henry Frowde (Hodder), London, No date. Edition Unstated. Green Cloth. Good/N/A. Illustrator: Staynes, P.A. a volume in the Herbert Strang's Library ("carefully edited for school & home reading") with the 'piper beneath the tree' decorative front cover & spine in grey & black on green, gilt title panel spine - slightly faded, illustrated endpapers, col. frontis & 1 other by P.A. Staynes, 288 pages incl.. glossary Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrator: Staynes, P.A.. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children; Classics; Children. Inventory No: CHD00031. .

Charles Griffin & Company, Limited, London, 1914. Twelfth Edition. Red Leatherette. Good/N/A. Signed by Author. gilt titles spine & front., signed on the pre-title page - "Hy. M. Rounthwaite 18/6/14", A Pocket-Book of Marine Engineering Rules and Tables For the Use of Marine Engineers, Naval Architects, Designers, Draughtsmen, Superintendents and All Engaged in the Design, Construction & Care of Marine Machinery, Naval & Mercantile, twelfth edn. revised & enlarged with diagrams, adverts on endpapers, an exceptionally well-cared-for early edition with a couple of pencilled margin notes & a little wear to extremities of spine & a minute chip to rear cover, foxing to e/p's., binding tight, 720 pages plus adverts. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. All edges gilt in good condition. Includes index. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Engineering, Industrial, Trade; Marine Machinery; Nautical; Ships & the Sea. Signed by… Read More

Herbert Jenkins, London, 1947. First Edition. Green Cloth. Good/No Jacket. gilt titles spine; illustrated by frontis. sepia photo. & fourteen further similar throughout book; "Shortly after World War I the author began contributing articles to the Shooting Times, under the nom de plume - 'Tower-Bird' and since most of them consisted.of odd notes and observations relating to field sports and country life in general, chose for them the title - 'Facts and Fancies'. Gradually these articles became a more regular feature of that paper, and were doubly sure of acceptance when he became editor in 1932 . A number of readers seem to like his articles and asked him to collect the more readable ones into book form. This volume is the response to that request."; gilts faded with some marks & light wear to covers & with bumping to corners but otherwise a sound copy; including index - 187 pages Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity… Read More

Methuen, London, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Stephen Dowling. B/w. frontis illustration; titles; introduction & foreword to front, followed by a light-hearted & humourous romp through the world of gardens, gardeners & gardening illustrated throughout by the b/w. cartoons and drawings of Stephen Dowling. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. xii + 131. minor spotting to rear cover. spine slightly cocked. Previous owner's signature in ink to fep.. Gilt titles spine & gilt vignette to front cover. light bumpingr to corners. Illustrator: Stephen Dowling. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Humour; Camping & Hiking; Garden Humour; Cartoons; Gardening. Inventory No: 4955. .