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MARY NORTON. 'The Borrowers,' first edition, original cloth, rubbed and bumped with sporadic foxing, ex libris stamp on title page and half title,...

GEORGE MACDONALD. 'The Princess and The Goblin,' New edition, original decorative boards, gilt decorative spines, prize label on endpaper, some fo...

MICHEAL BOND. 'Paddington on Top,' first edition, unclipped dj, slight tearing and tide mark to top of dj, toning to edge of leaves, Collins, Lond...

GEORGE MACDONALD. 'A Rough Shaking,' first edition, decorative boards, frontispiece illustration, graphite markings to pastedown and endpaper, ink...

WILLIAM E. SOOTHILL. 'Timothy Richard of China,' first edition, original decorative cloth, presentation copy stamp to title page, Seeley Service &...

Lord TEIGNMOUTH and CHARLES G. HARPER. 'The Smugglers: Picturesque Chapters in the History of Contraband,' first edition, two vols, original cloth...

EDEN PHILPOTS. 'A Deal with the Devil,' original decorative cloth, Bliss Sands and Foster, London, 1895; LAURENCE HOUSMAN. 'All-Fellows,' original...

THOMAS ALLOM. Approx 200 engravings, all mounted, some with toning and foxing; With approx thirty others all mounted in one box. (230) ...[more]

VANITY FAIR. Twenty-eight prints including;The SquireAustriaHaute EcoleAllenoFortificationsPoetryBaron LionelRound the WorldSensational ArtThoroug...

VANITY FAIR. Four prints including "Cricket", a depiction of W. G. Grace, Jim, the Mate, and "a good light weight", otherwise known as the Marquis...

THOMAS ALLOM. Over three hundred engravings mostly of the county of Devonshire, but also a few of The Midlands, London and Scotland, plus three fr...

ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS. A large collection of individual leaves, numerous depictions of ships, buildings of interest, men at work, royal gala's e...

PRINTS. 'The South-Eastern Prospect from Castlehornack near the Mount Cornwall,'; A late 18th century engraving of 'The South West View of Exeter,...

RUPERT CROFT-COOKE. 'The Last Spring,' signed and inscribed by author, first edition, unclipped dj, original cloth, Putnam, 1964; 'The Numbers Gam...

RUPERT CROFT-COOKE. 'Twenty Poems From The Spanish of Becquer,' signed by author, first edition, card wraps, Basil Blackwell, 1927; 'Tales of a Wi...

LEO BRUCE (Rupert Croft-Cooke). 'A Bone and a Hank of Hair,' signed and inscribed by the author, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Pete...

EDWARD GIBBON. 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,' seven vols, full red leather, school prize for Marlborough College, rubb...

BINDINGS. 'Algemeene Weerld-Beschryving........Geographisch, Politisch, Historisch, Chronologisch en Genealogisch,' two vols of three, lacking map...

HENRY HAVARD. 'Amsterdam et Venise,' half green Morocco with pebbled boards, rubbed and bumped, engravings throughout, ex libris label of Sir John...

ARTHUR MARSHALL. 'Specimens of Antique Carved Furniture and Woodwork Measured and Drawn....,' hand written letter from author on pastedown with Ke...

BERNARD SHAW. 'The Complete Plays,' first edition, original cloth, spine loosening, sporadic foxing and toning throughout, Constable and Co, Londo...

EDWARD WALFORD and WALTER THORNBURY. 'Old and New London: A Narrative of It's History, It's People, and It's Places,' six volumes in half calf wit...

'The Illustrated Exhibitor, A Tribute To The World's Industrial Jubilee,' profusely illustrated, fold-out engraving of the Crystal Palace for fron...

PENGUIN BOOKS. Approx 150 crime fiction titles. (150)Condition report: Murder In Hospital- Reprinted Decemberv1940Mr Justice Raffles- Published by...

ANGELA BANNER. Thirteen books of the 'Ant and Bee Series,' all UK prints, some firsts. (13)Condition report: Ant and Bee and the ABC- 1966.More An...

EASTON PRESS BINDINGS. A good collection of seventy-four books, including The Jungle Books, Origin of Species, The Odyssey of Homer, The Pilgrim's...

J. G. MILLAIS. 'Magnolias,' first edition, original cloth, Longman Green & Co Ltd, London 1927; With a letter written and signed by the author. (2...

CORNWALL INTEREST. Fifty books and pamphlets including 'early photographs: The West Cornwall Peninsula,' by Reg Watkiss, 'Lost Cornwall,' 'Reflect...

'The Observer's Book of....' The first 50 of which nineteen are first editions, including 'British Wild Flowers,' 'Butterflies,' 'Dogs,' 'Geology,...

FOLIO SOCIETY: The Father Brown Stories by G. K Chesterton, The Trumpet Major and The Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy and other folios (7) ...[more]

FOLIO SOCIETY: Empires of the Ancient Near East four book set, Empires of Early Latin America, The Norman's by David C. Douglas, The Celts by Nora...

FOLIO SOCIETY: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Memoirs of a fox-hunting man by Siegfried Sassoon, Scoop by Evelyn Waugh, A memoir of the forty-...

H. RIDER HAGGARD. 'King Soloman's Mines,' first edition, folding colour map as frontispiece, lacking advertisements, ex libris, Cassell & Company,...

J. R. R. TOLKIEN. 'The Silmarillion,' edited by Christopher Tolkien, first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, George Allen & Unwin, 1977, vg t...

HAMMOND INNES. 'The White South,' original cloth, clipped dj, Collins, 1949; 'Campbell's Kingdom,' first edition, original cloth, unclipped dj, Co...

REGINALD ARKELL. 'Playing the Games,' first edition, illustrated by Robert S. Sherries, original cloth, Herbert Jenkins, 1935; 'More Green Fingers...

BEVERLEY NICHOLS. 'Sunlight on the Lawn,' first edition, clipped dj, Jonathan Cape, 1956; EDEN PHILLPOTTS. 'My Garden,' original cloth, Country li...

HORTICULTURE and BOTANY INTEREST. 'No ordinary gardener: Thomas Knowlton 1691-1781,' by Blanche Henrey, unclipped dj, British Museum, 1986; MICHAE...

ERIC LINKLATER. 'A Sociable Plover and Other Stories and Conceits,' five wood engravings by Reynolds Stone, first edition, unclipped dj, Rupert Ha...

RAYMOND BRIGGS. 'Ethel & Ernest,' signed, first edition, unclipped dj, previous owner pen inscription on pastedown, Jonathan Cape, London, 1998. ...

DENDROLOGY INTEREST. 'Trees of Southern Africa,' by Eve Palmer and Norah Pitman, two volumes, original cloth, unclipped dj, A. A. Balkema, Cape To...

JOHN NORRIS. 'A Winter in Nepal,' original cloth, Readers Union, London, 1964; G. A. C. HERKLOTS. 'The Hong Kong Countryside,' sixth impression, i...

BOTANY INTEREST. 'The Orchids of Bhutan,' volume three part three, unclipped dj, illustrated throughout, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Royal Gov...

BOTANY INTEREST. 'Ericas in Southern Africa,' collector's edition, 273/400, signed by artists and authors, edited by E. G. H. Oliver, bound in ful...

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