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Karachi: Government of Pakistan Press, 1953. 220 x 143 mm. Very Good. Reprinted from Records of the Geological Survey of Pakistan, VolIV, Part3, pp1-28 In very good, clean condition in green printed wrappers which are tanned to the edges, the pages are crisp and fresh. Very well illustrated with black and white photographs and diagrams. Very Good 1953

Dominican Studies, 1949. 220 x 143 mm. Good. Reprinted from Dominican Studies, VolII, No4, october 1949, pp356-384. Good in card wrappers which are marked and worn along the spine, the pages are attached to the lower cover by a large staple. This book comes from the collection of Walter Stein, a British writer, literary critic and Catholic moral philosopher. Born in 1922, Stein was a Jewish refugee from pre-war Austria, educated by the Quakers in York and eventually a Catholic convert who worked in the Department of Extramural Studies at Leeds University. Good 1949

Manchester: University of Manchester, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. pp156 Typescript thesis submitted for the Degree of M.A. Very good, bound in marbled paper covered boards with cloth spine. Covers rubbed to corners. Laid in manuscript note stating that this is a first edition, limited to 5 copies of which this is number 4, "With the author's homage to the Rt. Rev. W Stein". This book comes from the collection of Walter Stein, a British writer, literary critic and Catholic moral philosopher. Born in 1922, Stein was a Jewish refugee from pre-war Austria, educated by the Quakers in York and eventually a Catholic convert who worked in the Department of Extramural Studies at Leeds University. Very Good 1948

Economic Geology, 1953. Soft cover. Very Good. pp 251-281 An article signed by its author Virgil I Mann on the processes which 'affected the development of soft iron ores in the Marquette and Gogebic ranges'. This offprint is signed in the top right hand corner of the front cover - 'Virgil I Mann'. The text is clean and complete - it forms part of a large quantity of natural historical pamphlets recently acquired by Modernfirsteditions. Very Good 1953

London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine. Near fine first edition, in black cloth with silver titles, pink top edge, internally crisp and fresh. In a near fine dust wrapper, not price clipped, a little rubbing to the lower panel. Translated from the Italian 'La Volpe e le Camelie, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1960. Near Fine 1961

France: Unpublished, 1664. Rededicated - and perhaps presented - to King Charles II by the author's nephew, a manuscript meditation on Psalm 101, unpublished in this form and written as an antidote against the plague. Small quarto (horizontal chainlines & foolscap watermark) bound in contemporary calf with raised bands to the spine and gilt decoration. Three blank endpapers precede a manuscript title page, followed by the dedication to Charles II 'A Tres puissant et Serenissime Roy Charles deuxiesme Roy de la Grande Bretagne' [pp] 11 which is signed at the end 'J Rivet De Caussade en guerci le 23 Apuril 1664' followed by the text of 'Le savory du Ciel ou Meditation sur le pseaume cent un' [pp] 22. A major figure in European Calvinism, Andre Rivet (1572-1651) published his Meditation on Psalm 101 in 1638, having spent a period in Oxford in the 1620s and late settling in Breda. His nephew Jean Rivet was born in 1610, marrying Marthe Chadeau in 1632, and here taking his uncle's text at a time of plague… Read More

Kuching, Sarawak: Government of Malaysia, 1965. Soft cover. Near Fine. pp 70 Near fine in printed card wrappers, crisp and clean apart from slight staining to the page edges and lower cover. Near Fine 1965

Temple Newsam, Yorkshire: N/A, 1890. Excellent. Very Good. Manuscript accounts book filled out by or on behalf of Mrs Meynell Ingram of Temple Newsam near Leeds, Yorkshire. There are 19 double pages of entries including among others Sheriff Hutton, Holbeck Cottages and Temple Newsam. Very good, a tight and square binding, in attractive embossed calf with gilt titles. Marbled edges and end papers with stationer's label for Beck & Inchbold, Leeds to front paste down. Internally very clean with neat entries in ink on red rules of rents payable and received. A very attractive and interesting volume. Very Good 1890

London: D S Morris, 1800. Very Good. Three plays in one pocket-sized volume, bound in contemporary half calf over rubbed marbled boards. As performed at the Theatres Royal, with remarks. Very Good 1800

London: Faber and Faber, 1989. Sixth Impression from the year of publication signed by the author on the title page. Publisher's black cloth over boards with white lettering on spine. Binding clean, square and tight. Dustjacket not clipped, with closed 1cm tear to upper edge of lower panel and slight rubbing and minor creasing to top edges, with uniform fading to top 3cm of jacket. 245 pages, clean with no markings, uniformly browned paper stock. Ishiguro went on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1989