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London: Constable and Company , 1951. Thirteenth. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Gift inscrip. to flyleaf, dust jacket with a small closed tear nr hd of spine, price clipped, else a very sound, clean copy.

New York: The Lyons Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. pp. 193.

Bath: Self published, 1992. Third edition. Trade Paperback. As New. An account of the Baedecker [Baedeker] Raid which left 417 Bath people dead and destroyed over 200 Historic Buildings. With 90 photographs. "50th Anniversary edition, Including new and previously unpublished material." pp. 90. An as new copy, unread, a few minor storage rubs to spine.

Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1974. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine. 4to. pp. xv, 316. Red cloth, gilt titles to spine, faintest of rubs to extrems, a fine copy.

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1950. First edition. Very Good /very good +. Sm 8vo. Maroon cloth, blue titles to spine, in unclipped jacket. In the series, Ethical and Religious Classics of East and West. x, 123. Cloth a little dulled, offsetting to prelims, rust mark from a paper clip to front blank, minor edgewear top edge jacket, otherwise a very nice copy and uncommon as a first in jacket.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very good +/very good. 8vo (cm). Publisher's cream linen. Unclipped dust wrapper. xv, 267. A few minor spots to top page edges, else a very clean, sound copy.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. First edition. Original Cloth. Good +. 8vo., pp. 412. Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. Top edge stained green, map endpapers, b&w portrait frontis, b&w photog. illus. Biography of the Swedish born explorer and writer, chiefly in nowadays Namibia. Light wear to spine ends, previous owner's name neatly to flyleaf, a few minor marks to boards, else a clean, very sound copy. Not quite VG, but close. Uncommon.

New Haven: The Institute of Far Eastern Publications, Yale University, 1963. Fifith printing. Card wraps. Good. 8vo (23.5cm). Blue printed wraps. pp. 385. A few, only, scattered pencil annotations. Wear to covers, front gutter cracked but binding still very firm and serviceable. Page edges darkened. With ownership stamp of I Birch (Ivan Birch, Chinese linguist), to title page.

London: The Pali Text Society, 1984. Reprint of the Second edition. Trade Paperback. Very good. xvi, 462. Some minor creases to covers, spine faded, light wear, internally a bright, firm copy, clean and unmarked.

San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2000. First edition. Laminated Boards. Fine. pp. 438. Tips a little bumped, binding sound, no marks or inscriptions.

Taipei: Confucius Publishing, 1971. First Edition. Card wraps. Very good. 8vo (9cm). In the pictorial wraps. pp. 438, inc bibliography. The translation in English to the left hand page, with the facing page in the original Chinese text. Bar some light wear, a sound, firm copy. Bilingual issues of this work are uncommon and this issue itself is scarce. Ware's was the first English translation of Zhuangzi. Some light wear, spotting to top page edges, but a very firm, sound copy.

London: Haunch of Venison, 2004. First edition. Card wraps. As New. Sm paperback - 20cms x 15cms. As new with minor shelfwear.

Birmingham: Ikon Gallery, 2004. First edition. Paperback. pp. 128. AS NEW - in stock, ships immediately. Art catalogue.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1971. First paperback. Trade Paperback. Good. vii, 128. Previous owner's name to flyleaf, some edgewear, splash stain to forward page edges, a few minor pencil marks, otherwise a firm, sound copy.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1965. Second printing. Cloth. Very Good/very good. 8vo. Blue boards, silver titles to spine. vii, 304. In price clipped jacket, slightly rubbed, base of spine lightly bumped, previous owner's name to flyleaf, else a very bright, clean copy.

London: Thames & Hudson, 1985. First edition. Paperback. Fine. pp. 256. Minimal signs of use.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Pub's dark green cloth. A decent, sound, firm copy, no marks or scribbles. Lacks jacket.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. First Edition. Original Cloth. Near fine/No DJ, as issued. Sm 4to. Gilt titles to spine, cover, on black cloth. Bump to rear upper tip, otherwise very limited signs of use. From the blurb: "a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family."

London: William Collins Sons (Book Club edition), 1986. First edition thus. Original Cloth. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo (22cm). In the green cloth, gilt titles to spine and Collins to base, but no Collins to base of spine of dust wrapper, which also lacks a price so the contemporaneous book club edition. 20 col. photographs as well as over 100 diagrams in b&w. pp. 223. A few small impressions, lines to jacket. Otherwise a smart, attractive copy, clean and unmarked, binding tight.

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1920. New edition, Revised and Enlarged. Original Cloth. Good +. 8vo. viii, 145 + ads, dark blue cloth. Boards marked, dulled, light wear, endpapers spotted, o'wise internally a clean, sound copy, binding firm.