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First Edition. Good. Fiction

London: Hydrographic Department, Admirality His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1933. Hardcover. Good. 585pp, large quarto, folder w/maps and booklet published by Order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admirality tight binding, heavy wear and soiling/stains to the boards, bumped edges, , repaired gutters, Only one map in rear pocket Indian ocean. Silverfish damage to p 585 and bottom of ten pages before that. School of Navigation ownership stamps, Rear board damp stained.

london: J. Johnson, J. & W. Richardson, W. Otridge et al,, 1806. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover, 16mo., full oak tree calf leather, some rubbing to the spine ends, small leather title labels on the spines, Vol. I. steel engraved frontis, 371pp., Vol II. concluding note, vocabulary, 404pp.; Vol III 312pp., Vol. IV. postscript, vocabulary, 323pp. Volume I and II contains the Iliad, Volumes III and IV contain The Odyssey plus Battle of the Frogs and Mice. Publisher: London, Printed for J. Johnson, J. & W. Richardson, W. Otridge et al,

Wellington, NZ: New Zealand Amateur cycling Association, 1951. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Red cloth covered boards, Black title to front with the Association's monogramme. 121 pages. Many more blank pages (for hand written notes?) interleaved. 19 cm high x 12.5 cm. Owner name discreetly on FFEP. Slight browning to end papers but otherwise in excellent condition.

Wellington, New Zealand: Historical Publlocations branch Department of Internal Affairs, 1986. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Green pictorail dust jacket with black and white illustrations. volume 2: pages 663 to 1330 pages.

Wellington, New Zealand: Historical Publlocations branch Department of Internal Affairs, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. Green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Green pictorail dust jacket with black and white illustrations. 660 pages. Slight sunning to spine of dustjacket making it slightly bluer than the rest.

London: Lund Humphries and Co. Ltd., 1951. First printing. Cards. Very Good. The Festival promoted " ... to declare belief and trust in the British way of life ...". 72 pages 9 x 7 inches. Blue covers with blue title, red/white/blue spine.

Wellington, New Zealand: NZ Centennial Exhibition Company Ltd, 1939. First printing. Cards. Very Good. 204 pages. Colour advertising. Card covers with colour pictures and titles. Plain spine with hand lettered titles. Spine split away from text block. Maps, lots of period advertising .GM Motors advert on rear cover.

London: Oink Publishing Ltd and IPC Magaines Ltd, 1986. Paperback. Good. Covers a bit split at seam.

London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1895. Hardcover. Very Good. Gordon Browne. eight illustrations. 279 pages plus 12 pages adverts at rear. Front end papers missing. There is a tissue guard but no illustration then title page. Binding somewhat loose. Deckle edges

Southampton, UK: Old Cadet's Association, 1955. Cards. Fine. Staples 24 pp booklet teal coloured cards

Wellington, New Zealand: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. x, 99pp. Original two-colour cloth . Cover slightly stained. Owner name pencilled in front (Prof Mackenzie). Text block and pages edges clean - slight foxing to rear endpaper.

London: MacMillan and Co, Limited, 1900. Hardcover. Good. xxi, preface, 362 pages plus 8 pages of catalogue at rear. Some rubber ownership stamps from WEA Wellington. MacMillan's ColonialLibrary.

Whitcoulls Publishers, 1906. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 350 pages deckled pages red writing on grey cloth, Art Nouveau style covers

London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin , c. 1878. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. No notes about revisions or corrections so probably a first edition. Before 1888 when Cassels became co. (Cassell, Petter, Galpin. (1879-1885)). six volumes. Three quarter calf, gilted with raised bands and Morocco title panel. Corners lightly rubbed otherwise little or no defect. 260x195mm. Vol I Front board seperate, Rear board very loose, spine has a horizontal break, botton part of title page missing. Vol II one page torn p 131 but still there. small split in spine 30 mm long, Volume III Spine mostaly attached but well worn on joint, Volume 4 some vertical splits in spine, Volume 5 some vertical splits in spine and a horizontal break, Volume 6 some vertical splits in spine Page edges marbled.

1994. cards. Near Fine. 35 Full colour plates of pots. With ownership signature of well known NZ potter Anneke Borren from 1995 in Echizen, Japan. 98 pages - mostly in Japanese. There is a list of plates in English but that is all. Soft card covers.

Burslem, Stoke on trent, England: Shelley Potteries . First printing. Paperback. Very Good. undated. A 45 page booklet printed on art paper and stapled in a brown oversize wrap with a striking woodcut illustration on the front panel. There are 24 monochrome photographs, mainly of people, equipment and processes at the Shelley works. Pice one shilling to front cover.

London: Jonathan Cape, 2007. First Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. In original clear wrappping, in slipcase, Waterstones Edition, Limited Edition Publisher: London; Jonathan Cape;, 2007 First edition, first printing. Waterstones limited edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Jonathan Cape, 2007. First Edition. Cloth. As New/As New. Publisher: London; Jonathan Cape;, 2007 First edition, first printing. Flat signed by the author on the title page. Dust Jacket in clear Brodart archival covering 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Actual scan of book shown.

London: Ward Lock & Co, 1910. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. [publisher: Ward Lock & Co., London] Hardcover 1910. Reprint, possibly first thus. 389pp. and a frontispiece portrait of Darwin. A feature of this edition of Charles Darwin's ground-breaking work on natural selection and evolutionary biology, first published in 1859, are decorated endpapers and a border design to the frontispiece and title-page by the book designer and decorative artist A.A. [Albert Angus] Turbayne (1866-1940) smilar to those of Talwin Morris. The book is bound in the original dark green cloth covered boards with gold titling and decoration on the spine and a blind stamped design by Turbayne on the front board. Size 17 1/2 cm high x 10 1/2 cm wide