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New Delhi: Indian Council of Agricultural Research, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardback. Good/Good-. 105 pp. 8½ x 5¼ inches. Includes colour illustrations. Red clothbound boards, gilt lettering to spine, unclipped dustjacket. Some markings to back of dustjacket. Dustjacket worn at edges, with some small tears. Small piece of cover torn from top edge of front of dustjacket. Blue stamp to front inside dustjacket. Spine and cover of book tanned. Very slight foxing to paste-down endpapers. Contents good and tight.

Penguin, 1959. First Paperback Edition Thus. . Paperback in Dustwrapper. Good ++/Fair-. Paperback with dw. 553 pp plus glossary, index of plates, index of artists, index of places, addenda.and blank pp. for notes. Dw has front flap present but detached; a little scuffed in places; one inch loss at top of spine; a couple of neat closed vertical tears (now in removeable transparent protector). Paperback itself a little scuffed at ends of spine, neat ink name to half-title but good+ clean and tight

Bruxelles: L Tobiansky, 1891. Paperback. Good. Red cloth-covered wraps, gilt stamps entirely faded but lettering still perfectly legible, cloth rubbed and a little worn. Pages toned. Colour folding map to rear with ads on reverse; one small (1 cm) closed tear to edge. Sound copy of this scarce item. Size: 15 x 10.5cm

London: Hutchinson, 1966. 1st Edition. . Hardback. Good+/Very Good. Green cloth-covered boards, 191 pp. Study of the Island of Lewis through a series of portraits and episodes; its fishing industry and the issue of rural depopulation etc. Dustwrapper price-clipped. Book itself has slight surface damage to free endpapers but otherwise very good.

Pontefract: Lofthouse Publications, 1990. 1st Edition . VG. Paper covers. 7x5 inches, 116pp. Signed by author on title page. Illustrated with b&w drawings. Very good.

Oslo: Dreyers Forlag. 2nd Printing. . Hardback in Dustwrapper. Very Good/Good. Bert Boger. Red cloth boards, gilt title, dustwrapper. 118pp. Dw worn at corners with usual nicks and chips and small loss at ends of spine. Book itself has neat ink gift inscription to FFEP, creasing to top of fold-out map at rear of book where it has been folded back in carelessly. Otherwise book itself clean, tight and unmarked. Size: 28 x 23 Cm

London: London Missionary Society, 1900. Author's account of his voyage in a missionary ship in the South Sea Islands. With 62 photographs and illustrations. Red cloth boards with illustration of south sea islanders under a palm tree to front. Boards grubby, faded on back. Presentation label from London Missionary Society dated 1900 on front endpaper. Good.

New York: Manhattan Post Card Publishing Co., 1938. Paper Covers. Good+. Illustrated card covers with composite image of Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building etc, unpaginated. Wonderful collection of sepia period photographs of the city. A little scuffed at exterior of spine, pages inside a little yellowed with age but clean neat and tight. Size: 25 x 18 Cm

London: Wiedenfield & Nicolson, 1964. 1st Edition. . Hardback in Dustwrapper. Very Good/Good-. Brown boards, unclipped dw, 191pp. Dedicated and signed by the author 'really the responsible authors of this book', dated March 1964. Dw worn at some edges with one inch piece missing at top corner of front cover and a small closed tear at rear cover - now in transparent removeable protector. Book itself very good.

Education Department of the Hertfordshire County Council, 1966. First Edition . Ink initial to ffep. B/w photo frontis. List of illus. after contents. B/w photos and illus. throughout. Black cloth pic boards; edges sl. bumped; front board sl. bent. 186 pp; very good.

Munich: Carl Aug. Seyfried & Comp. (Carl Schnell), 1910. 1st Thus. . Michael Zeno Diemer and Otto Geigenberger. Red boards 12 x 9 inches. 'A survey of the history of Oberammergau and its Passion Plays, from their origins down to the present day, including a description of the country of Ammergau, the characteristics and customs of its inhabitants'. English edition by Walter Manning. Many b&w photos of the previous 1900 and the 1910 productions. Boards scuffed and worn at edges, otherwise a godd tight copy.

Boston: Joseph Knight Company, 1893. Reprint . Illustrated with b&w photographs, each with tissue guard. Hardback, bound in gilt-decorated cloth and paper. 5.5x3.5 inches. Boards worn, contents very good.

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1908. Hardback. Good. Frank Reynolds. Pale green cloth boards witht illustrated front, Containing 45 illustrations in b&w, including frontis. Spine titles faded and cloth wrinkled, otherwuise externally good. Pastedown at first hinge revealing webbing; tissue guarding frontis detached but present and whole. Otherwise good, tight and clean copy.

T.N. Foulis. 22nd Edition. . Hardcover. Good+/No Dustwrapper. Henry W. Kerr. No publishing date but the preface to the 22nd edition is dated 1872. 'Author's Copyright edition'.16 tipped-in colour plates from paintings by Henry W. Kerr. Brown cloth boards with gilt on front board and spine. Top edges gilt. Boards slightly faded at top edge and spine, slightly bumped at corners. A good+ tight copy. Size: 8 x 5 Inches

Exeter: Webb & Bower, 1980. 1st Edition . Harry Price. 'Being a lower deck account of Their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York's voyage around the British Empire'. A facsimile of Petty Officer Harry Price's handwritten and colour-illustrated journal. Blue cloth boards. Dustwrapper bumped at edges. Otherwise a very good copy of this fascinating book.

Exeter: Webb & Bower, 1980. 1st Thus . Blue dw with white lettering to front and spine. Dec. eps. Reproduction of the journal of HarryPrice detailing the 1901 cruise, complete with his handwritten journal entries and beautiful full colour illustrations of events and people encountered en route. Some bumpinmg to edges of dw.but o/w good.

Bristol?London: John Wright & Sons/ Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1922. Good+/Good. Blue cloth-covered boartds, dustwrapper, 7 x 5 inches, 138 pp. Billed as the first work on the waters of Harrogate, a printed label mounted to the first free endpaper reads 'This little book is re-bound to the loved memory of Dr James Rutherford, who practised medicine in Harrogate for thirty-five years, in the hope that it may be of interest to those who value past history in a modern setting'. Biographical notes on the original author by Alex Butler. Dustwrapper bears remains of library label on spine and is a little bumped at some edges; slightly grubby but complete. Book itself has plate of the Library of the Royal Empire Society to 1st pastedown, with withdrawn stamp to that page and the title page, otherwise a good+ tight copy.

Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirkjastus, 1963. Hardback. Good+/No Dustwrapper. Cream cloth spine, paper-covered boards. Text in English, Russian, Estonian and German follows the 16 attractive colour illustrations of views of the medieval part of Tallinn. Externally a little dusty and marked with board coorners bumped. Internally neat ink name and date to page opposite title page, otherwise clean and very good. Size: 28 x 23 Cm

London: William Heinemann, 1900. 1st Edition. . Hardback. Good. Red cloth boards, gilt title, 208pp plus 32pp 'Mr Heinemann's Catalogue MCM'. Externally a little bumped and scuffed, spine darkened. Inside, free endpapers tanned. A tight, clean and good copy.