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THE R.N.V.R. - A Record of Achievement
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THE R.N.V.R. - A Record of Achievement

by KERR, J. Lennox, and GRANVILLE, Wilfred

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London: Harrap, 1957. [Naval history] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.304. With frontispiece illustration and full-page half tone plates, line-drawings within the text. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, with illustrated dust-jacket priced at 21s. Contents clean, discreet ink ownership, jacket with some chips and tears. Very good. A history of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve form the late nineteenth century to the present day (1957), including accounts of wartime operations in the Mediterranean, the Second MTB flotilla at Hong Kong, minesweeping and mine disposal, and their role in the Fleet Air Arm. Photos include the Dieppe Raid (in which Cdr. Ian Fleming was an observer), landing craft, motor torpedo boat, commandos in France, Long-Range Desert Group liaison, submarines, etc. This copy is from the comprehensive collection assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencilled notes and signature within). His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th… Read More
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The Racing Car Development & Design. Drawings by George A. Oliver
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The Racing Car Development & Design. Drawings by George A. Oliver

by [FLEMING / BONDIANA] CLUTTON, Cecil, POSTHUMUS, Cyril, & JENKINSON, Denis

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London: Batsford, 1956. [Motoring] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.288, illustrated with black & white plates. Publisher's hardcovers in dust-wrapper priced at 25s. A very good copy in a used wrapper with some chips and tears. A history of race cars and their manufacturers including Mercedes, Bentley, Jaguar and Ferrari. Illustrator George Oliver wrote a history of the Bentley 4.5 litre. This reference copy is from the comprehensive Ian Fleming bibliographical archive assembled by Jon Gilbert (pencilled ownership within, one other ink name); cars from Bentley, Mercedes, Ford and and Aston Martin feature prominently in Fleming's James Bond novels.
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Racket Busters Incorporated

Racket Busters Incorporated

by LEE, H.W.

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London: Gerald G. Swan, 1946. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 5s. A large clumsy blue ink ownership to fly-leaf, otherwise an exceptionally clean, bright copy on low-grade economy paper. Just a little wear to jacket edges (too large for the book). Near fine. A sequel to 'Snappy Vendetta' (1944), this cheap post-war crime thriller sees Robert Wilberforce Coleman continue his high-stakes war against racketeers.
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The Ragamuffin Mystery

The Ragamuffin Mystery

by BLYTON, Enid (1897-1968)

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London and Glasgow: Collins, 1959. [Children's Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black to spine, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price of 7/6 to front flap. Colour frontispiece, black and white in-text illustrations throughout. Sunday School sticker to half title page, toning to edges of textblock, bumping to edges, small neat pen marks to rear jacket flap, archival tape to jacket reverse, large tears to front and spine of jacket. Good. This is the sixth book in the 'Barney Book' series, and once again the beloved Roger, Diana, Snubby, and his spaniel Loony go adventuring to a little seaside town in Wales.
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A Rage to Live
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A Rage to Live

by O'HARA, John (1905-1970)

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New York, NY: Random House, 1949. [Modern Literature] LIMITED PRESENTATION EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 590 [2]. An advance copy specially produced for distribution to American booksellers; one of 750 copies thus. Publisher's black cloth with gilt and red titles to spine and upper. Top edge red. A little light handling. Near fine.
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The Raid (including Biggles in 'Ace of Spades')
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The Raid (including Biggles in 'Ace of Spades')

by JOHNS, Captain W.E. (1893-1968)

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London: John Hamilton, n.d. [1937]. [Boys' adventure stories] FIRST EDITION, early printing (undated, ca.1937), with first edition wrapper. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.221; [1], blank, no rear flyleaf (as issued). Publisher's Khaki cloth blocked in black, illustrated dust-jacket, correctly priced at 3/6 to spine. This is effectively the first cheap edition, with WRAPAROUND ADVERTISING BAND promoting the reduced price of 1s. Contents clean, edges a little dusty, jacket has a loss to top edge, toned to spine, worn to rear fold. Shows well. Rare with the original jacket and paper sash. An early collection of flying stories, including one Biggles adventure.
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The Railway Panoramic Guide. Complete Midland. A Panoramic Decription of the Principal Objects of...

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London: Bembrose and Sons, n.d. [1873]. FIRST EDITION PAMPHLET. (295 X 190mm), pp.i, 56 [10]. First page of adverts dated 1873. With an illustrated map of the railways and steam boat routes of England, Wales and southern Scotland to verso of front cover. In publisher's yellow paper covers with black titles, stamped over vertically in red by 'Cook, Son and Jenkins, General Passenger Agents, No. 262 Broadway. New York'. Corners worn and folded over; spine worn away almost completely; covers nearly detached. Some light spotting; text all clean and intact. Fair overall, considering age and fragility. A notorious Chartist in his youth, Philp settled down to become a publisher of cheap pamphlets in London, scoring particular success with the long-running 'Enquire Within Upon Everything'.
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Rain-Charm for the Duchy, and Other Laureate Poems

Rain-Charm for the Duchy, and Other Laureate Poems

by HUGHES, Ted (1930-1998)

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London: faber and faber, 1992. [Royal Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 64 [4]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue and gold monogrammed dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. A touch of rubbing to jacket edges. Near fine. A collection of poems dedicated to members of the Royal Family since Hughes' appointment as Poet Laureate in 1984.
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The Rainbow and the Rose

The Rainbow and the Rose

by SHUTE, Nevil (1899-1960)

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London: Heinemann, 1958. [Aviation Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 306 [2]. Recent red half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Light toning and spotting to edges. A clean copy in an attractive new leather binding. Romantic adventure novel set in remote Tasmania, from a master storyteller.
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The Rainbow and the Rose
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The Rainbow and the Rose

by SHUTE, Nevil (1899-1960)

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London: Heinemann, 1958. [Aviation thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[vi]; 306. In publisher's maroon cloth with rose-red pictorial dust-jacket by Stein, priced at 16s. Child's gift inscription to flyleaf, spine of jacket sunned as usual. Very good. Romantic adventure novel set in remote Tasmania, from a master storyteller.
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour—An Introduction

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour—An Introduction

by SALINGER, J.D. [Jerome David] (1919-2010)

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London: Heinemann, 1963. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[6] 248 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket, priced at 21s. A black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Heavy spotting to edges, and moderate spotting to first and final few leaves. Jacket shows moderate wear and spotting, with sunning also to spine. Good. Two long short-stories concerning Seymour Glass.
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour—An Introduction

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour—An Introduction

by SALINGER, J.D. [Jerome David] (1919-2010)

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London: Heinemann, 1963. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[6] 248 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket, orange to spine. Price-clipped jacket lightly handled, with a few minor creases and rub marks. Near fine. Two long short-stories concerning Seymour Glass.
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Ramage
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Ramage

by POPE, Dudley (1925-1997)

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London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1965. [Naval fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.302. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and maps to endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Brian Keogh, priced at 21s. Light rubbing and sunning to board extremities. A touch of wear to jacket edges, essentially a clean, bright, near fine copy. First book in the series of the Voyages of Lt. Ramage RN, and the author's first novel.
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Randall and The River of Time

Randall and The River of Time

by FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966)

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London: Michael Joseph, 1951. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Biro, with printed price 10s 6d. Slight spotting and toning to text block edges, else internally clean. Light rubbing to spine head/tail, minor bumping to board corners. Lightly toned dust-jacket. A near fine copy.
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Randolph Caldecott's Graphic pictures

Randolph Caldecott's "Graphic" pictures

by CALDECOTT, Randolph (1846-1886)

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London: George Routledge & Sons, 1883. [Illustrated Satire] FIRST THUS. Oblong quarto (28 x 38cm), pp.96. With colour illustrations to every page, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Each leaf printed to one side only, largely by Edmund Evans using his superior six-colour process, but with pp.81-96 printed in fewer colours by Grant & Co. Publisher's green quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and colour illustrated pasteboards. All edges red; brown endpapers. Repairs to split hinges. A vertical crease to fly-leaf, with heavy wear to edges generally. Heavy spotting to first and final few leaves, and moderate spotting throughout. Boards toned with very heavy wear. Clean and complete internally, but well-used. Good.
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Ranson's Folly. With 16 Illustrations by Frederic Remington, Walter Appleton Clark, Howard...

Ranson's Folly. With 16 Illustrations by Frederic Remington, Walter Appleton Clark, Howard Chandler Christy, E.M. Ashe, and F. Dorr Steele

by DAVIS, Richard Harding [REMINGTON, STEELE, et al; Ill.]

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First Edition. Publisher's brick coloured cloth with gilt titles to upper with colour illustration to centre, gilt titles to spine; top edge gilt, others rough trimmed. Rubbed to extremities; internally clean and sound. Very good indeed.
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The Rape of Venice
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The Rape of Venice

by WHEATLEY, Dennis (1897-1977)

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London: Hutchinson, 1959. [Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.446 [2]. Publisher's navy cloth with blocking to spine in gilt and lime green. Endpapers showing a view of Venice in the 18th century. With the dust-jacket designed by Sax priced at 15s. A crisp, clean fine copy. An occult mystery featuring the adventurer Roger Brook.
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The Rasp

The Rasp

by MACDONALD, Philip (1900-1980), [MEDAWAR, Tony, introduction]

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London: Collins Crime Club, 2015. [Crime Fiction] REISSUE, first thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.x; 230. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, featuring designs from 1932 and 1934 jackets, priced at £9.99. A fine, as-new copy. The author's first novel under his own name, and the first to feature ex-Secret Service agent Anthony Gethryn - an amateur sleuth who must guide the police to the right conclusions.
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The Ratastrophe Catastrophe
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The Ratastrophe Catastrophe

by STONE, David Lee

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London: Hodder Childrens, 2003. [Children's] Signed First Edition. Octavo. Bound in publisher's red cloth with titles in silver to spine. Pictorial dust wrapper shows rendering of wizard's face, with titles to spine, and blurb to rear cover. Signed by the author to the title page. A fine/as new copy.
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A Rationale Upon the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England
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A Rationale Upon the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England

by SPARROW, Anthony (1612-1685)

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London: Are to be sold by T. Garthwait, 1655. [Religion] FIRST EDITION, scarce. Duodecimo (15 x 9cm), pp.[12]; 168; [12]. With the engraved frontispiece. Errata to rear. Brown full calf. Boards double ruled, seven rulings in blind to spine. Edges speckled red. Interior clean though toned with very minimal spotting and marking, as expected. Binding visible through gutter. Woodworm damage up to around page 46, minor interference to lower text. Ownership inscription in black ink to flyleaf. Archival glue marks to both paste-downs. Edges toned. Soiling and marking to boards. Faint ink imprint to upper. Wear to spine and extremities. Very good. An Anglican priest, Sparrow was ejected from the rectory of Hawkedon in 1647 for using Thomas Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer, vehemently outlawed during the Interregnum. In 1655, after a proclamation affirming the continued prohibition of the book, Sparrow anonymously published this controversial essay staunchly defending it.
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