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Julian Press, Inc, New York, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Very Good Condition. Light brown end-papers. Introduction by Hyman Kublin. Werner's compendium of Chinese mythology, inimitably described by the author himself as a "Who's Who of the Chinese Otherworld," has been a choice collector's item for many years. It was originally published in 1932 with the illustrious imprint of Kelly and Walsh of Shanghai. But like many another notable work in the field of Chinese studies brought out by this famous publishing house, Werner's volume has long been unavailable to numerous would-be readers and purchasers. This stupendous work required nearly a half century to compile, traces the major myths, superstitions, and beliefs that are found in Eastern literature, art, and customs. Explains how the God of Happiness had his origin in an emperor's liking for dwarfs ... why Chinese children wear a cord around their necks ... what incense means… Read More

Collins, London, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. This New Naturalist volume provides a much-anticipated overview of these fascinating birds - the first book on the natural history of British and Irish terns since 1934. Terns are small seabirds that are commonly seen along coastlines and estuaries in the summer months - their graceful flight and command of the air are among their most attractive features.Most of the five species of terns breeding in Britain and Ireland today are under intensive management, involving protection from predators, human interference, egg-collecting, recreational activities, land-use changes, and a range of issues concerning climate change, including rising sea levels and flooding of low-lying colonies. If these protective measures were abandoned then the numbers of terns would inevitably decline, with the possibility of several species ending up on the endangered list. Covering the history of terns in Britain and Ireland, David Cabot and Ian Nisbet… Read More

Collins, London, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. This volume in the popular New Naturalist series is a detailed account of the evolution and classification of the wildfowl of Britain and Ireland. David Cabot, an expert in his field, looks at population trends and life cycles in three case studies of best known species - the swan, goose, and duck, along with wildfowl behavior, courtship, and breeding. This comprehensive exploration of what sets British wildfowl apart from other birds also considers the relationships between wildfowl and man, through popular mythology and legends. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiii + 460. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. in archive acetate film protection. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Gilt titles spine. green cloth. Includes appendices, bibliography & index. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Natural History & Resources; Ornithology; Waterfowl; Birds &… Read More

M. Aguilar, Madrid, Spain, 1944. First Thus. Leather. Near Fine/N/A. gilt titles & decoration spine; blind-stamped design on blue/green leather front & rear covers; blue endpapers with white lines & motifs; blue ribbon bookmark; No. 36 in the Crisol collection series; sepia frontis. portrait of author; Spanish text; three plays by one of Spain's foremost dramatists and one of the finest playwrights of world literature; previous owner's inscription on front endpaper; 530 pages plus index. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Text is in Spanish. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Theatre & Plays; Spanish Baroque Theatre; Spanish Language; Theatre & Plays. Inventory No: PLY00028. .

Sutton Publishing Ltd, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. As New. Cambridge University in Old Photographs is a photographic record of the ancient institution, its people and its traditions. This selection of photographs, chosen from the extensive collection of Cambridge City Library, and the author's informative captions detail diverse aspects of University life, from lectures to the bumps races, and from laboratories to May Balls. Of particular interest are the photographs that chronicle specific events in the University's history: the admittance of women to degrees, royal visits, notable honorary degrees, riots and student pranks. Helen Callaghan has brought together a superb collection of over 200 photographs which together present a fascinating illustrated account of University life from the nineteenth century to the present day. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 128 pages. no Dust Jacket as published.. White titles spine. illustrated by… Read More

Jarrold & Sons Ltd, Norwich, Norfolk, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Very Good. b/w. frontis illustration (Landing of St. Edmund at Hunstanton); preface; contents; list of illustrations; With thirteen illustrations & a fold-out pedigree showing the relationship to each other of the persons interested successively in the patents & leases granted by the crown in respect of the Hunstanton lighthouse; starting with the traditions & early history, this book charts the progression of the four patents, the crown lease & the changing ownerships from 1664 through the following 257 years of its life. The three appendices at the rear list the names of the signatories to the various petitions for patents. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ix + 65. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. some wear to top edge, now in archive acetate… Read More

Collins, London, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 21 short stories translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun and Peggy Wright. Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. This collection of playful, deadly fables, the author's second title to be published in English, is populated with waifs and strays, a gluttonous thief and a mischievous gardener. The grimly comic story - 'The Argentine Ant' - moved Gore Vidal to declare 'if this is not a masterpiece of twentieth-century prose writing, I cannot think of anything better'. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 190 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. White titles spine. black cloth. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Short Stories; Italian Literature; Fables; Italy; Fiction. Inventory No: 3431. .

Macmillan, London, 1928. First Edition. Burgundy Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. gilt titles & decoration spine; blind-stamped leaf motif front cover; blue ribbon bookmark; No. 108 in the English Literature Series (gen. Edit. - J. H. Fowler M.A.); this volume edited by E. T. Campagnac; contains 16 page introduction & 130 pages of text which include notes & questions with suggestions for essay subjects followed by a help to further study & a catalogue of other titles in the series; previous owner's name on front endpaper. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; English Literature Series; Classics; Education. Inventory No: LIT00014. .

G. Barbera, Florence, Italy, 1912. First Thus. Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. gilt titles spine; tissue-guarded frontis. engraving of author; Italian text; book of prefaces by the Italian poet, teacher & satanist who was the first Italian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature; previous owner's notes on front endpaper; otherwise a neat & clean copy of this small book with 541 pages plus index. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Text is in Italian. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literature & Literary; Italian Literature; Italy; Italian Language; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: LIT00008. .

Rider & Company, London, 1991. First Thus. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. The Alternative Dictionary of Symptoms and Cures is an essential reference book for every home. In clear, layman's terms, Dr Caroline Shreeve provides the most comprehensive guide yet to orthodox and alternative approaches to medical problems and your health. Cross-referenced for easy use, practical and non-technical, this book gives invaluable information and advice for when you or your family are ill."; includes appendices Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 504 pages. no Dust Jacket as published.. White titles spine. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Medicine & Health; New Age & Alternative. ISBN: 0712618155. ISBN/EAN: 9780712618151. Inventory No: MDC00038. . 9780712618151

N/A, N/A, 1969. N/A. N/A. Good Condition/N/A. Manuscript Signed by Author. Four typewritten poems from the poet's "Villages" series, with annotations by the poet's hand & each signed on the reverse, plus an accompanying signed letter. The poems are: "Berwick St John" (Wiltshire); "Ebbesbourne Wake!" (Wiltshire); Priddy" (Somerset); & "Gravestone in Watton" (Norfolk). John Miles’ (Maurice) Carpenter was a working-class left-wing poet, who was educated at Birkbeck. Carpenter wrote for the Young Communist League cultural magazine, ‘Alive!’ In 1939-40. A friend of Edith Sitwell, he worked at Archer’s bookshop in Parton Street, and published several published works, including the volume of poetry, `The Tall Interpreter’, published in the late 1940s, a short story called ‘Night Shift – the Machine… Read More

Odhams, London, 1967. First Edition. Laminated Boards. Very Good/N/A. this volume in the Magic Roundabout series (based on the BBC TV programmes by Serge Danot) is clean & bright with slight bumping to corners & some light foxing to page edges, unpaginated. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children; Film, Radio & Television. Inventory No: CHD00066. .

Odhams, London, 1967. Reprint - (Nov,). Laminated Boards. Good/N/A. described as "scarce" this volume in the Magic Roundabout series (based on the BBC TV programmes by Serge Danot) is clean & bright with a touch of wear to corners & some light foxing on most pages, unpaginated. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children; Film, Radio & Television. Inventory No: CHD00064. .

Odhams, London, 1967. Reprint - (Sept.). Laminated Boards. Good/N/A. this volume in the Magic Roundabout series (based on the BBC TV programmes by Serge Danot) is clean & bright with slight wear to corners & damage to (intact) ends of spine, lower half of inner pages detached from cover, unpaginated. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children; Film, Radio & Television. Inventory No: CHD00067. .

Odhams, London, 1968. Reprint. Laminated Boards. Very Good/N/A. described as "scarce" this volume in the Magic Roundabout series (based on the BBC TV programmes by Serge Danot) is clean & bright with a touch of wear to corners & some light foxing on some pages, unpaginated. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children; Film, Radio & Television. Inventory No: CHD00065. .

John Bartholomew & Son Ltd, Edinburgh, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. It is not only succulent enthusiasts who are taking up the cultivation of these colourful plants. Certain species with showy flowers have long been offered by the trade as houseplants. Many of the new hybrids have such brilliantly coloured rosettes that they are in considerable demand for house decoration. Species are very numerous and new ones are being continually introduced. The same applies to hybrids. Unfortunately many are being grown under wrong names. The authors have carefully gone into these matters and have endeavoured to include all those varieties introduced into this country up to 1971. The book is non-botanical and should serve as a useful introduction for all those interested in the cultivation of these lovely plants. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 110 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from… Read More

Routledge, London, 1996. Reprint. Paperback. Near Fine/N/A. this book by the Professor of Modern English Language at the University of Nottingham provides a basis for the further study of modern English vocabulary with particular reference to linguistic descriptive frameworks & to educational contexts; an unread copy with slight mark to front cover; incld. index -249 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Language & Linguistics; English Language; Vocabulary; England; Language & Linguistics. ISBN: 041509089X. ISBN/EAN: 9780415090896. Inventory No: LNG00001. . 9780415090896

Mcclelland & Stewart, Toronto, Canada, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Inscribed by Author. Inscription to fep reads: "For P. G. & Mrs. Gurney with my compliments & best wishes, Bert Diltz, February, 1969." After a lifetime of presenting to students the best in creative literature, Bert Case Diltz now offers some twenty stories and a dozen poems based on his personal recollections of the past. "While," in the words of the author, "autobiography. like travel has limited appeal for those unfamiliar with the course of events ... some of life's little episodes cannot be so readily dismissed. Whether they are set in the regions of the commonplace or the realms of the outlandish, some of them appear to be stranger than fiction." Gentle, atmospheric, and nostalgic, these episodes are glimpses from the writer's "store¬house of memory “- true stories heightened by the passage of time… Read More

British Archaeological Reports, Oxford, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. titles; foreword & contents followed by thirteen papers which were the result of a two-day discussion with numismatists & archaeologists on 'Coins and the Archaeologist' held in 1973 at the Institute of Archaeology in London. The articles include Roman coins; Romano-British coins; Anglo-Saxon; Medieval; clusters of finds in Britain, Italy & France; coin hoards; dating & interpretation of finds. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 271 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. no Dust Jacket as published.. Black titles spine. light wear to edges. illustrated by b/w. drawings, maps, photo's. & diagrams. list of other B. A. R. Reports to rear. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Archaeology; Numismatics; Coin Collecting; Metal Detecting; History. Inventory No: 4446. .

Millenia Press, Victoria, Canada, 1997. First Edition. Paperback. As New. Reveals the sorcerer's apprentice in an entirely new light. -- Includes never before published photos of Carlos Castaneda. -- Describes in detail their marriage. -- His first four books are discussed along with the impact the publications had on the couple's lives. We see young Carlos in the years before his fame, charming but remote and elusive; a drop-out from his anthropology courses at UCLA with no clear sense of direction. Learn of his eight year struggle, marked by many false starts and long periods of uncertainty, before he found the right shape for his message in The Teachings of Don Juan. There is the marriage: a long-distance, on-again off-again affair with its faked Mexican divorce. And then Margaret's second marriage and the birth of a son -- clearly not the biological child of Carlos -- but for whom he developed a long-lasting affection. For the thousands of readers who have longed to meet the… Read More