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801 |
BOSWELL, James. (Edited by Roger Ingpen).: THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON.
London: Hutchinson & Co., (no date).
"Hutchinson's Library of Standard Lives" series. Abridged and edited by Roger Ingpen. Hardback, no dustwrapper. Frontispiece. Contents: some light spotting, otherwise pages generally good and clean. Owner's small digits and bookseller's small label inside front board. Boards: some light to moderate smudging. Spine a little darkened. Owner's small neat digits foot of spine. A tight reading/reference copy. 504 pp.
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802 |
BOTTOME, Phyllis.: LONDON PRIDE.
London: Faber & Faber, 1947.
8th impression. Hardback, no dustwrapper. Blue boards, red spine lettering. Pages very good and clean throughout. Owner's name fep. Boards: spine and edges a little sunned. Otherwise a very good, tight copy.
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804 |
BOUMPHREY, Geoffrey. (ed).: The Shell and BP Guide to BRITAIN.
London: Ebury Press in association with George Rainbird / Shell-Mex and B.P. Limited, 1964.
1st edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. Including 48 plates in full colour and 32 pages of maps. Contents: pages very good and clean. Dustwrapper: very good and bright, and nicely preserved in clear plastic protective cover. No price-clipping. 808 pp.
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812 |
BOWERS, Fredson & WRIGHT, Lyle H.: BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Williams Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1966.
1st edition. Printed wraps. White soft-cover. Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, May 7, 1966. With an Introduction by Hugh G. Dick. Spine a little browned, otherwise a very good, clean copy. 52 pp.
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815 |
BOWMAN, Anne.: AMONG THE TARTAR TENTS or The Lost Fathers.
London: Frederick Warne & Co., (no date, circa late 1800s).
1st edition (?). Hardback. Blue pictorial boards, gilt and black embossed. Highly decorative boards. With original illustrations, including frontispiece. Contents: some moderate browning towards front and rear or book. Binding a little fragile/stretched in the centre. Otherwise pages generally very good and clean. Hinges nice and tight. Previous owner's inscription front endpaper. Boards: small nick top of spine. Corner tips lightly rubbed. Otherwise very good and bright. An attractive copy. 335 pp + publisher's ads.
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837 |
BRADLEY, Elizabeth.: NEEDLWORK ANIMALS.
USA: Trafalgar Square Publishing, 1996.
1st edition. Large format. Hardback in dustwrapper. With over 25 original chartered designs. With lovely bright illustrations throughout. Contents: pages very good and clean. Bookseller's label front endpaper. Dustwrapper: small nick to one rear corner, otherwise very good and bright. A tight copy. 168 pp.
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841 |
BRADSHAW, John (ed). (Thomas GRAY).: THE POETICAL WORKS OF THOMAS GRAY, English and Latin.
London: George Bell & Sons, 1894.
8vo. Red boards, gilt embossed spine. Uncut page edges. Frontispiece, tissue guard. Edited with an Introduction, Life, Notes and Bibliography by John Bradshaw. Contents: tissue and endpapers foxed, and some occasional mild spotting to pages. Otherwise pages generally very good and clean. School stamp fep. Boards: square chunk missing top of spine (lettering not affected). School library label towards base of spine. Spine darkened. Edges a little sunned and rubbed. A tight reference/reading copy. 319 pp.
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851 |
BRANDES, George.: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Critical Study.
London: Heinemann, 1907.
Reprint. Two books in one volume. Brown boards, gilt embossed spine-title. No dustwrapper. Uncut page edges. Contents: pages very good and very clean throughout. Book plate inside front board. Boards: neat tape shadow strip across bottom of spine. Spine and rear top edge a little sunned. Otherwise a very good, clean, tight copy. 709 pp.
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852 |
BRANDON-THOMAS, Jevan.: SIT DOWN A MINUTE, ADRIAN.
London: Samuel French, 1949.
French's Acting Edition No. 1168. Blue soft-cover. Contents: page corners curled/creased. Sheet of paper taped onto title-page. Owner's notes title-page. Pages clean. Cover: browned & creased with light surface marks. Suitable for reference/use. 73 pp.
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855 |
BRAYFIELD, Celia.: Pearls.
The Leisure Circle (Chatto & Windus), 1987.
1st Leisure Circle edition. Contents: Very good. Dustwrapper: Lightly creased/rubbed, otherwis very good. Front board a little loose.
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858 |
BRERETON, F. S. (Lt.-Col.).: TRAPPED IN THE JUNGLE !
London: Hollis and Carter, 1946.
Reprint. Hardback, no dustwrapper. Green boards, black spine lettering. Illustrated by Vernon Soper. Colour frontispiece. Contents: pages generally very good and clean. Previous owner's name and pencil inscription front endpaper and inside front board (paste-down). Boards: very good. A very good, tight copy. 232 pp.
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860 |
BRETT, Walter.: YOUR GARDEN'S FLOWERS ILLUSTRATED.
London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., (no date).
Hardback. Green cloth, no dustwrapper. With 8 plates in colour, including frontispiece, and 668 half-tone illustrations from photographs. Contents: pages generally very good and clean throughout, with just some slight browning. Boards: small closed nick top of spine. Spine browned. Slight surface rubbing. Otherwise a good, tight copy. 320 pp.
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863 |
BRICKHILL, Paul.: THE DAM BUSTERS.
London: The Children's Book Club, 1958.
Cadet Edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. Frontispiece. With black-and-white photo illustrations. Contents: College stamp to endpapers. Moderate spotting to page edge extremities. Otherwise pages generally good and clean. Dustwrapper: moderate rubbing/creasing to edges/corners. A few small closed nicks/chips to edges/corners. Otherwise good and bright. A tight copy. 190 pp + Epilogue.
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864 |
BRIDAHAM, Dorothy.: TOULOUSE-LAUTREC IN THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO.
The Art Institute of Chicago, (no date).
Folio. Photography by Hans Hinz. Yellow hand-made paper covered flimsy boards, with hand-mounted colour plate on the front. Comprises of individual removable folding folios, each with a hand-mounted colour plate. Plates printed on art paper, & mounted onto brown sugar paper. Legend in brown type. Complete with 9 plates. Some inevitable creasing to cover, which is also a little unevenly tanned, otherwise a very nice collection in very good condition.
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865 |
Bridgeman, Brian.: The Flyers.
Wiltshire: Brian Bridgeman (in association with The Self Publishing Association Ltd., Worcs.), 1989.
1st edition. The Untold Story of British and Commonwealth Airmen in the Spanish Civil War and other air wars from 1919 to 1940. With black & white photo illustrations. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. Folio. 255pp.
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866 |
BRIDGEMAN, Harriet & DRURY, Elizabeth. (eds).: THE LAST WORD.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1982.
1st edition. With a Foreword by John Julius Norwich. An entertaining collection of mostly eighteenth- and nineteenth-century obituaries chosen not for their historical significance, but for their oddity and charm. A very good copy in very good dustwrapper. Price-clipped. 210 pp.
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872 |
BRIDIE, James.: TOBIAS AND THE ANGEL: A Play.
London: Constable and Co., 1934.
Reprint. Soft-cover in blue wraps. Paper label title front cover and spine. Contents: pages very good and clean. School inscription fep. Loss to top and tail of spine. Spine label lifting. Tape mark across spine and edges where label has been removed. Otherwise a tight, clean copy. 82 pp.
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873 |
BRIDIE, James.: TOBIAS AND THE ANGEL: A Comedy.
London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1938.
2nd edition, reprinted. Paperback, grey wraps. Contents: occasional mild spotting to pages, otherwise very good. School presentation inscription fep. Cover: a little loss to top and tail of spine. Two small tape marks & a little browning, otherwise good. 82 pp.
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889 |
BROOK-SHEPHERD, Gordon: THE STORM PETRELS
London: Collins, 1977
1st Edition. Hardback in dust wrapper. The first Soviet defectors, 1928-1938. Contents: very good. Dust wrapper: edges slightly browned and creased and front hinge a little weak. Otherwise good+. 257 pages.
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890 |
BROOKE, Rupert.: POEMS.
London: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., 1916.
10th impression. Black boards, spine label, (no dustwrapper). Uncut page edges. Contents: very good & clean. Owner's ink inscription fep. Boards: rubbed. Corners and top & tail of spine scuffed, otherwise tight. 87 pp. POST FREE UK.
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894 |
BROOKNER, Anita.: HOTEL DU LAC.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1985.
Reprint. Hardback in dustwrapper. Contents: pages generally very good and clean. Previous owner's name fep. Dustwrapper: (with "Booker McConnell Prize" label on front). Some light creasing, otherwise good and bright. A tight copy.
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BROSTER, D. K.: THE DARK MILE.
London: Heinemann, 1961.
Reprint. Blue boards, gilt spine lettering. No dustwrapper. A Sequel to "The Flight of the Heron" & "The Gleam in the North". A very good, clean tight copy. 362 pp.
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