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Printed by Order of the Trustees [of the British Museum],, 1924. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 16 plates and 217 photographs and illustrations in the text; original printed boards, sewed as issued, backstrip lettered in white, backstrip lightly faded (but all lettering entirely legible) else a very good, clean, firm copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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A Guide to the Mediaeval Antiquities and Objects of Later Date in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
by DALTON] [O.M.
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Nicanor of Athens. The Autobiography of an Unknown Citizen.
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University Press, Cambridge,, 1946. 8vo., First Edition, with front and rear endpaper maps; original brown cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. The original edition of this recreation in novel form, drawn from original sources, of the life of a citizen of Athens during the period of war with Sparta.
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Classic Locomotives: Great Western 'Saint' Class 4-6-0. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by NOCK O.S.
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Patrick Stephens, Cambridge,, [1983]. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrated title-spread, photographs and diagrams throughout, and pictorial endpapers; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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The Railways of Britain. Past and Present. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by NOCK O.S.
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Batsford,, [1949]. 8vo., Second Edition, with coloured frontispiece and 117 sepia-toned plates on 68; red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Post-nationalisation version of the first edition of 1947. Ottley, 122.
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O.S. Nock's Railway Reminiscences of the Interwar Years.
by NOCK O.S.
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Ian Allan, [Shepperton,, 1980]. 8vo., First Edition, with photographic title-spread and very numerous photographs in the text; original red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip. Ottley 8115.
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The Railway Engineers.
by NOCK O.S.
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Batsford,, [1955]. 8vo., First and Sole Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 49 plates on 30 and numerous illustrations and facsimiles in the text, faint tape marks on free endpapers; cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Ottley 2441.
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Underground Railways of the World. [Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
by NOCK O.S.
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A&C Black,, [1974]. Roy. 8vo., Second Impression, with numerous photographs and diagrams throughout; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the first edition.
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[Exhibition Catalogue of] Magritte Paintings, Drawings, Gouaches. 28 September - 27 October 1961. Catalogue compiled and edited by Philip M Laski. NEAR FINE COPY
by OBELISK GALLERY, LONDON
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Obelisk Gallery,, 1961. Oblong 4to., with portrait and 8 full-page monochrome facsimiles in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, covers lightly soiled else a near fine copy. The exhibition comprised 28 works. The catalogue includes biographical notes, appreciations by Arp, Bosmans, Breton, Copley, Ernst, Man Ray and several others, an extended bibliography and a listing of exhibitions. SCARCE.
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200 Luftsiege in 13 Monaten. Nacherzahlt von Berthold K. Jochim. [Third Impression] WITH AUTHOR'S PHOTOGRAPH AND SIGNATURE
by GRAF Oberst Hermann
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Pabel, Rastatt,, [1975]. 8vo., Third Impression, text in German, with photographs and illustrations in the text, page-edges lightly tanned; green cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. WITH THE AUTHOR'S PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT AND SEPARATE SIGNATURE MOUNTED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. The signature records a return flight from RAF Wildenrath to RAF Farnborough in one of four Harrier aircraft of no. 4 Squadron. Hermann Graf (1912 1988) was a WWII German fighter ace. He served on both Eastern and Western Fronts, becoming the first pilot in aviation history to claim 200 aerial victories. In over 830 combat missions he claimed a total of 212 aerial victories, most of them achieved on the Eastern Front. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
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St. Cuthbert's Old Church, Oborne, Dorset. NEAR FINE COPY
by OBORNE
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[Redundant Churches Fund],, [1993]. Oblong 8vo., with photographs in the text; photographs wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a very good, clean copy. Redundant Churches Fund, Third Series, No.164. SCARCE.
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Technology and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Edited by Phillips Payson O'Brien. FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by O'BRIEN, ed. Phillips Payson
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Frank Cass,, [2001]. 8vo., First Edition, with diagrams in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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Modern Irish Short Stories. Selected with an Introduction by Frank O'Connor. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by O'CONNOR, ed. Frank
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Oxford University Press,, [1977]. 8vo., original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. WC 560. First published in WC in 1957. Includes Moore, Somerville & Ross, Corkery, Joyce, Stephens, O'Flaherty, Strong, O'Faolain, O'Connor, Cross, McLaverty, MacMahon, Lavin, Plunkett, Bowen.
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Kindred. Introduced by Tananarive Due. Illustrations by James E. Ransome. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by BUTLER Octavia E.
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Folio Society,, 2019. 8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and 6 coloured illustrations (one double-page); pictorial boards, backstrip lettered in silver and blue, a near fine copy in publisher's pictorial board slip-case.
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Battle of Britain 50th Anniversary. Isle of Wight Commemorative Programme. May to October 1990. NEAR FINE COPY
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Isle of Wight Executive Committee,, 1990. 8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
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Jaguar. A Biography. Research by Michael Sedgwick. JAGUAR IN FULL MOROCCO
by BEAULIEU Lord Montagu of
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Cassell,, [1961]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
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Rolls of Rolls-Royce. A Biography of the Hon. C.S. Rolls. Research by Michael Sedgwick. [Second Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
by BEAULIEU Lord Montagu of
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Cassell,, [1966]. 8vo., Second Impression, with plates; plum cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, dustwrapper panels mounted on endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Published a month after the first edition.
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Genesis. Twelve Woodcuts by Paul Nash with the First Chapter of Genesis in the Authorised Version. [Facsimile reissue of the Nonesuch Press edition of 1924, with separate Essay by Sebastian Carter). 750 COPIES WERE PRINTED
by BOOK OF GENESIS.
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[Nonesuch Press], Folio Society,, 1924, [2017]. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with fine wood-engraved illustrations throughout; Facsimile in black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper; Essay 4pp; the whole housed in publisher's custom-made terracotta board solander case lettered in gilt with mounted illustration (repeated from text). EDITION LIMITED TO 750 NUMBERED COPIES.. Splendid facsimile reissue of the renowned Nonesuch Press edition of 1924.
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The Book of Psalms translated out of the original Hebrew; and with the Former Translations diligently compared and revised, by Her Majesty's Special Command. 'PREACHER'S' EDITION IN ORIGINAL ROAN PORTFOLIO
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Eyre & Spottiswoode for SPCK,, 1859. 8vo., 'Preacher's' Edition, with occasional neat underlining, two neat late nineteenth century signatures on blank preliminary; attractively bound and cased in publisher's original 'preacher's' roan portfolio with folding yapped edges and closing flap with pencil holder (empty), sides with double gilt frame border, owner's initials blocked in gilt on upper board, back with five bands ruled in gilt, all edges gilt, chocolate endpapers, hinges cracked (but binding entirely sound), a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean, crisp copy. bright, crisp example of a 'preacher's' version, printed in large type to facilitate oration in public. COPIES WITH ORIGINAL PORTFOLIO ARE VERY SCARCE.
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The Book of Jonah. Taken from the Authorized Version of King James I, with Engravings on Wood by David Jones. [Facsimile reissue of the Golden Cockerel Press edition of 1926, with separate Essay by Sebastian Carter). 750 COPIES WERE PRINTED
by BOOK OF JONAH.
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[Golden Cockerel Press], Folio Society,, 1926, [2017]. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with fine wood-engraved illustrations throughout; Facsimile in ivory cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper; Essay 4pp; the whole housed in publisher's custom-made blue board solander case lettered in gilt with mounted illustration (repeated from text). EDITION LIMITED TO 750 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 96). Splendid facsimile reissue of the renowned Golden Cockrel Press edition of 1926.
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[Prospectus for] Clover Hill Edition of The Book of Jonah with Thirteen Wood Engravings by David Jones.. Printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge will be published in the Autumn of 1979 by Douglas Cleverdon. FINE COPY
by BOOK OF JONAH.
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Clover Hill Editions,, 1979. 4pp., 8vo., with title in green and black and illustration; single-fold, a fine copy.
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