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POETRY and LITERATURE INTEREST. Over thirty books formely of the library of Terrence and Marion Whybrow, covering Virinia Woolf, contemporary poet...

ERIC WARD. 'St Ives: From His Studio and Beyond,' signed and inscribed by the artist 'To Terry and Marion,' Halsgrove, 2003; With one other signed...

ART INTEREST. 'Velazquez,' complete edition, by Enrique Lafuente, original cloth, unclipped dj, Phaidon Press, 1943; plus another copy without dj,...

RICHARD DOYLE. 'Fairyland: Pictures from the Elf-World,' original cloth, second edition, loose binding, colour illustrations throughout, Longmans ...

IAN FLEMING. 'The Spy Who Loved Me,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, ex libris label, spotting to top edge of textblock, Jonathan Cap...

JUVENILE INTEREST. 'Ten Little Nigger Boys,' 'More Beasts (for worse Children),' 'Picture-Book of Natural History in three languages,' 'Complete V...

JOHN LE CARRE. 'The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life,' signed, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Viking, 2016; 'Agent Running in the...

CHIANG YEE. 'The Silent Traveller in Paris,' signed and inscribed by the author, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Methuen & Co, 1956; ...

DEREK TANGYE. 'A Cornish Summer,' signed and inscribed by the author, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Micheal Joseph, 1970. ...[more]

DEREK TANGYE. 'A Cat Affair,' signed and inscribed by the author, first edition, original cloth, clipped dj, Micheal Joseph, 1974. ...[more]

DEREK TANGYE. 'The Evening Gull,' signed and inscribed by the author, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Micheal Joseph, 1990. ...[more]

A. L. ROWSE. 'The Cornish in America,' first edition, original cloth, clipped dj, MacMilan, 1969; 'The England of Elizabeth,' original cloth, uncl...

CORNWALL INTEREST. 'A Week at the Land's End,' by J. T. Blight, original decorative cloth, frontispiece engraving, Lake and Lake, Truro, 1876. .....

MARCEL PROUST. 'The Guermantes Way,' C.K. Scott Moncrieff, two vols, first English edition, original cloth, slight spotting to fore edge of textbl...

MINING INTEREST. 'A Historical Survey of the Mines and Mineral Railways of East Cornwall and West Devon,' card wraps, D, Bradford Barton Ltd, 1964...

CHARLES CAUSLEY. 'The Ballad of Aucassin and Nicolette,' first edition, unclipped dj, Kestrel Books, 1981; with four other Causley's. (5) ...[mor...

CORNWALL INTEREST. 'Crosses and Churchway Paths in the Land's End Peninsula West Cornwll,' by Ian MacNeil Cooke, vol four, Men-An-Tol Studio, Penz...

JOHN WESLEY INTEREST. 'The Wesleys in Cornwall,' by John Pearce, first edition, clipped dj, D. Bradford Barton, 1964; 'John Wesley: The Hero of th...

P. J. RADFORD. 'Antique Maps,' unclipped dj, 1965; with three other books concerning cartography including a facsimilie of Richard Carew's 'The Su...

CORNWALL INTEREST. 'The Redruth and Chasewater Railway 1824-1915,' decorative card wraps, D. B. Barton, Truro, 1966; 'The Story of Cornwish Railwa...

CORNWALL INTEREST. 'Life in Cornwall in the early Nineteenth Century,' unclipped dj, D. Bradford Barton Ltd, Truro, 1970; With three others of the...

CORNISH POETRY. 'Little Feathers and Stray Fancies,' by R. J. Noall and introduction by R. Morton Nance, W & J Jacobs, St Ives; 'Under Helicon,' b...

CORNWALL INTEREST. 'The Book of Penzance,' by Cyril Noall (& Douglas Williams), signed by both authors, number 56, unclipped dj, Barracuda Books, ...

CORNWALL INTEREST. 'Yesterday's Town: St Ives,' signed by author Cyril Noall, number 165, unclipped dj, Barracuda Books, 1979. ...[more]

R. S. HAWKER. 'Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall,' re-issue, unclipped dj, Westaway Books, 1948; with another copy of the same work minus i...

'The Agreement of the Customs of the East-Indians, With those of the Jews, And other Ancient People: Being the first Essay of this kind, towards t...

DYLAN THOMAS. 'Deaths and Entrances,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, tears to dj, toning to edges of textblock, owner name and inscr...

CORNWALL INTEREST. 'Naenia Cornuniae,' by William Borlase, original cloth with gilt spine and front board, Longmans Green Reader and Dyer, London,...

CHARLES DARWIN. 'The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection...' Sixth editition with additions and corrections to 1875, original cloth, s...

J. M. BARRIE. 'Peter and Wendy,' illustrated by F. D. Bedford, original cloth with gilt decoration and spine, spine torn, rubbed and bumped, foxin...

MARK TWAIN. 'The £1,000,000 Bank-Note,' New edition, original pictorial boards, rubbed with cracked joints, advertisments on pastedown and endpape...

NATURAL HISTORY. 'The British Cyclopaedia of Natural History,' by Charles F. Partington, three volumes, half leather with green embossed boards, b...

FEDERICK WHYMPER. 'The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism,' Four volumes bound in two, profusely illustrated throughout with f...

MILITARY INTEREST. 'The Russo-Turkish War: Including an Account of the Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Power, and the History of the Eastern Quest...

MARY RUSSELL MITFORD. 'Christina, The Maid of the South Seas; A Poem,' first edition, full dark purple leather with embossed boards and gilt compa...

BIBLE. 'The Book of Common Prayer.......Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David,' full black leather, higly decorative gilt boards and spine,...

HUGH MURRAY. 'An Historical and Descriptive Account of British America...', Volume one of three volumes, second edition, engraved half title, fold...

BINDINGS. 'Hudibras, in Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars....' by Samuel Butler and a preface by Zachary Grey, two vols, half leat...

BENJAMIN DISRAELI (Earl of Beaconsfield). 'The Bradenham Edition of the Novels and Tales...' with intro by Philip Guedalla, original boards with g...

MILITARY INTEREST. 'Eighteen Years in the Khyber,' by Sir Robert Warburton, letter attached to pastedown addressed to Major Phipps Khartoum reads ...

COLONEL RAMSAY WESTON PHIPPS. 'The Armies of the First French Republic,' vols I-V with multiples of vol I, III and V, no djs to vol II and III wit...

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