Miscellanies: Prose and Verse by Thackeray, W. M

London: R.T.S. Office [no date]. (Hardcover) 256pp. Very good, no dust jacket. A quality signed school prize binding in green 3 / 4 leather, with raised bands on the spine and the crest of St. John's College Rupertsland in gilt on the front cover. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, frontispiece. Book about John Franklin, Sir. Frontispiece by Lancelot Speed. Binding by W.H. Smith and Son Ltd. (Juvenile, Exploration, Fiction--Juvenile, Hudson's Bay Company, Voyages and Travels).

Bernhard Tauchnitz. Leipzig.,1858 & 57. TWO VOLUMES BOUND IN ONE .8vo. (6.4 x 4.7 inches). Very good copies in contemporary leather binding of half black calf, the spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Brown cloth on boards. Small library label stuck in on front paste down endpaper. Neat previous owners name on title page. Clean copies with no other markings or labels throughout. An attractive mid nineteenth century binding.:

Ikebana Arranging Images; Kamata, Soseke, 1950's. A nice publication given to Julia Jane Jeffers Dodge while here husband was helping Japan recover after the war. Her husband Joseph Morrell Dodge had a long and distinguished career and tried to help reform Europe but later wound up as financial advisor to Douglas MacArthur in the economic revitalization of Japan. This edition is in very good condition internally. Photos of Ikebana arrangements by the famous Japan Ikebana master. A gift given to Julia Jeffers Dodge and placed in her library. 38 single sided (double page but other side blank) on high quality Japan paper with photo examples of Ikebana, black and white. A rare publication.

Portland: Thomas B. Mosher 1898, 2nd edition. (Three-quarter leather) 163pp. Very good plus. Finely bound with blue cloth over blue leather with gilt decorated spine panels with raised bands. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, frontispiece, publsiher's device on title page, vignettes. One of 400 copies of a limited edition. (Ideas, Essays, Guardian, The, Newspapers).

London: Duckworth & Co. 1906. (Hardcover) 272pp. Very good plus. Issued without dust jacket. Dark blue leather with gilt decorations and raised bands to the spine and gilt cover decoration. Marbled edges, marbled endpapers, photographic frontispiece, photographic and illustrated plates, index. There is a previous owner's book plate on the front fixed endpaper and the interior pages are lightly speckled. "This book has grown out of lectures delivered to the Haileybury Natural Science Society. From the nature of the case, therefore, it aims at being intelligible without the help of much preliminary knowledge. Some of the lectures, however, were delivered to a small number of the elder members of the society, and the subject matter of some of these was in itself rather difficult. My object has been, not to shirk difficult questions, to make them clear to anyone who will give his attention to the subject" - from the Preface. (Natural History, Evolution, Lectures, Natural… Read More

London: R.T.S. Office [no date]. (Hardcover) 256pp. Very good, no dust jacket. A quality signed school prize binding in green 3 / 4 leather, with raised bands on the spine and the crest of St. John's College Rupertsland in gilt on the front cover. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, frontispiece. Book about John Franklin, Sir. Frontispiece by Lancelot Speed. Binding by W.H. Smith and Son Ltd. (Juvenile, Exploration, Fiction--Juvenile, Hudson's Bay Company, Voyages and Travels).

Santa Fe: Rydal, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+. Limited Edition, No. 2 of 5 copies: this is a proof copy of the First Edition, bound in fine gilt-stamped black leather with marbled endpapers. 8vo, black leather; vg+ (scratch and two faint scrapes to front cover; faint smudge to side edge); 108pp.

Bernhard Tauchnitz. Leipzig.,1858 & 57. TWO VOLUMES BOUND IN ONE .8vo. (6.4 x 4.7 inches). Very good copies in contemporary leather binding of half black calf, the spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Brown cloth on boards. Small library label stuck in on front paste down endpaper. Neat previous owners name on title page. Clean copies with no other markings or labels throughout. An attractive mid nineteenth century binding.:

Ikebana Arranging Images; Kamata, Soseke, 1950's. A nice publication given to Julia Jane Jeffers Dodge while here husband was helping Japan recover after the war. Her husband Joseph Morrell Dodge had a long and distinguished career and tried to help reform Europe but later wound up as financial advisor to Douglas MacArthur in the economic revitalization of Japan. This edition is in very good condition internally. Photos of Ikebana arrangements by the famous Japan Ikebana master. A gift given to Julia Jeffers Dodge and placed in her library. 38 single sided (double page but other side blank) on high quality Japan paper with photo examples of Ikebana, black and white. A rare publication.

Portland: Thomas B. Mosher 1898, 2nd edition. (Three-quarter leather) 163pp. Very good plus. Finely bound with blue cloth over blue leather with gilt decorated spine panels with raised bands. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, frontispiece, publsiher's device on title page, vignettes. One of 400 copies of a limited edition. (Ideas, Essays, Guardian, The, Newspapers).