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2001. Softcover in Dustwrapper. Very Good/Good++. Glossy maroon paper covers, glossy gold-coloured dustwrapper, Catalogue with colour photo repros of the Israeli artist's installation exhibition at the Vatican. Outer wrapper bumped and a little creased at some edges, gift inscription to first page ( by the artist's son) but otherwise very good clean and tight. Size: 13 x 9.5 Inches

Adam, 1997. Paperback. Good. Signed and dedicated to poet Adrian Mitchell. Light shelf wear. Size: 7 x 5 Inches

London: Collins - (The Graphic Story Books). Hardback. Good+. Green cloth boards, decorated in blue. black and gilt on front and spine. 8 x 5 inches, 256 pp, plus sixteen pp of publisher's lists. Boards slightly bumped at corners and rubbed at edges. Some browning to decorated endpapers; prize label to ffep dated 1901. Small, strange 3d red mark to back paste-down endpaper. Numerous colour and black and white plates. Good.

Leipzig: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1913. Tauchnitz edition Vol 4384. Paper covers. Front cover and half-title loose; corner of back cover missing; edges worn; spine browned. Complete.

London: Macmillan, 1917. Hardback. Good. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt decoration. 213 rough-cut pages. Colour tipped-in plate frontispiece and 2 b&w illustrations within as listed - each with tissue guard. 2 neat names of previous owners to 1st fep. Externally, boards bumped and slightly frayed at top and bottom of spine; boards flecked with white spots and small marks. endpapers and first few pages browned and foxed but unmarked from 1st page of text onwards. A good tight copy. Size: 7½" x 5½

Transatlantic Arts, 1946. The Story of a Chinese boy and his beloved water-buffalo. 4 charming full page col. plates and many b&w illus. by the author. 64pp. Dw, vg..

Singapore: Angsana Books, 1999. 1st Edition. . Paperback. Very Good. Paperback, 176pp, Dedicated to the late poet Adrian Mitchell and his wife ' Thinking of you both in S'pore and with best wishes, Robert 29 Sept '99 '. From the private library of Adrian Mitchell, provenance assured. Very good.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1961. Green cloth, unclipped dw, 173pp. Parallel text in English and Russian, trans. George Reavey. essays and poems published whilst the author was incarcerated by the Soviet authorities. Dw sunned and a little grubby, bumped and creased at some edges and corners with a few tiny closed tears and cihips. Book itself clean tight and good+. 1st UK Edition. Hardback in Dustwrapper. Good+/Good.

Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1984. 1st Edition Thus. . Hardback. Very Good-. Mei Ying. Square hardback, illustrated boards, beige cloth spine, 56pp. English translation of tale of a Uygur boy. Colour illustrations to every page. little scuffed at ends of spine otherwise very good clean and tight.

London & Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1968. 1st UK. . Hardback in Dustwrapper. Good ++/Good+. Anne Rockwell. Red cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards, with design of jester to front board. Clipped dw. Unpaginated. Sixties-style coloured illustrations. 1st free endpaper slightly tanned with neat ink inscription to top. Dw slightly tanned but clean and complete. Size: 7 x 5 Inches

London: Macmillan, 1891. New Edition 1891. . Hardback. Good. Blue boards, 5 b&w plates. Dedication in pencil dated 1891. Corners and edges a little bumped and scuffed; a few white spots to front board otherwise very good.

London: National Society's Depository. Hardback. Good. W. S. Stacey. Pictorial red cloth boards, decorated on front and spine in blue, red, black and gilt. 270 pp, plus 16 pp publisher's lists. Decorated endpapers. Contains five black and white plates, including frontispiece with tissue guard. Chapter headings decorated. Boards slightly worn and rubbed, very slightly grubby, some fading to spine; front hinge cracked, lacks ffep, half-title slightly browned, tissue guard becoming detached. A good tight copy. No date. Size: 7 x 5 Inches

London: Hurst & Blackett Ltd, 1903. First Edition. . Hardback. Good-. Yellow cloth-covered boards, 5 x 8 inches, with illustration of man in evening dress to front board. 312 pp plus 4 pp of publisher's lists. Boards bumped at edges and corners; grubby, spine darkened; 'Gladys, with love' neatly inscribed on ffep; front hinge slightly cracked. Otherwies a good tight copy.

London: The Menard Press, 1977. 1st Edition . Good+. Brenda Rudolf. Orange card covers. 14pp. Striking b&w illustrations. Covers slightly bumped, red ink blot 1½ x1 inch to edge of back cover.

London: Chapman & Dodd, 1922. 1st Edition. . Hardback. G+. 7"x4½" green boards with black illustrations, brown spine, crest on back cover 'The Abbey Library' - part of cover design. Cover slightly grubby and edges rubbed. Spine slightly loose on frontispiece, but good, tight copy. Pages tanned due to age. 252 pages and an advertisement for the Abbey Library at back of book. Rare copy. Size: 7x4½ Inches

New York: Cupples & Leon Co.. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. Olive green cloth with illustration of boys under tree to front board. 246 pp plus 6pp publishers' list. B&w frontispiece. American school story featuring sport and football. Boards bumped at corners and ends of spine. Ink stamp of previous owner to 1st free endpaper. Hinge cracked at contents page revealing webbing but otherwise a tight good copy.

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1942. 1st Edition. . Hardback. Good. Light brown cloth boards, 185pp. Frontispiece in brown black and white by Jack Matthew. Externally a little scuffed, ends of spine fraying, a few small marks to spine. Inside, neat ink inscription dated 1944 to 1st free ep, otherwise clean. Good tight copy. Size: 9 x 5.5 Inches

London: The Religious Tract Society. Hardback. Good. Green pictorial boards and spine with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Corners and spine bumped. No date but book plate to inside paste down is dated 1908. Front hinge cracked.Some tanning to endpapers. Fifteen [of sixteen] black and white plates present, one is detached. 278pp plus advertisements. Some scattered foxing. Size: 8 x 5 Inches

London: William Nicholson and Sons. Hardback. Good. B&w frontispiece and title-page illustration. B&w decorations to chapter headings. Red cloth boards with embossed gilt & black decoration on front & spine, embossed decoration on back. Patterned endpapers. No date but sunday school prize inscription dated 1917. 7x5 inches, 142 pages + 2 pages publisher's list. Slightly loose at spine with two neat booktape mends at front. A good copy of this very pretty little book.

Oxford, 1952. Paper Cover. Good+. Poetry psmphlet. NumberTwo in the series of selections by emerging poets, published by the Oxford University Poetry Society, edited by Michael Shanks and Oscar Mellor. Unpaginated but 6pp of poems. Neat ink name to front cover dated 1952. Good+ clean tight copy.