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SOUVENIR OF THE OPENING OF THE NORTH BRITISH STATION HOTEL EDINBURGH By John Geddie (1902) Edinburgh Banks & Co. includes fold out map and contemp...

A WAINWRIGHT. 'Scottish Mountain Drawings', volumes one, two, three and five. Two clipped. Original dust jackets. Engraved, printed and published ...

ROBERT GRAVES. 'Claudius The God and his wife Messalina', first edition, Arthur Barker: London, 1934, together with four other Robert Graves books...

WILLIAM CAMDEN. 'Britain or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands adjoy...

WILLIAM CAMDEN. 'Britain or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands adjoy...

VALENTINE'S DOLLY SERIES. 'Black Sambo,' decorative card boards with swivelling head, illustrated every other page, rust on staples, some pages lo...

Sir JOHN DODRIDGE. 'An Historical Account of the Ancient and Modern State of the Principality of Wales, Dutchy of Cornwall, and Earldom of Chester...

EDWARD GIBBON. 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.' Six volumes (missing 7th), original cloth, corners bumped, spines faded and some soilin...

CORNISH ART INTEREST: GLYN MACEY, 'The Tinners Way, a Walk Through Time', signed limited edition, 79 of 200, first edition, 2018, together with CH...

CORNISH ART INTEREST: ERIC WARD, 'St Ives from his studio and beyond' and 'Painting in Cornwall and across the Tamar', both signed; Clive Williams...

A. A. MILNE. 'Now We Are Six', first edition, Methuen & Co, 1927, illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard, original burgundy cloth with gilt illustrati...

Russell THORNDIKE and Reginald ARKELL.THE TRAGEDY OF MR. PUNCH A Fantastic Play in Prologue and One Act. Introductory Essay by Max Beerbohm. Illus...

CHRISTOPHER LLOYD. 'The Mixed Border,' first edition, original cloth, clipped dj, tears to dj, previous owner signatures to endpaper, W. H. & L. C...

JEFFERY FARNOL. 'The Broad Highway: A Romance of Kent,' original cloth with highly decorative gilt front board and spine, rubbed and bumped, sligh...

THE KEW MAGAZINE incorporating CURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. Vols 1-12 or 1984-1995, vols 13-30 or 1996-2013, all bound in blue cloth with gilt emb...

CURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. New series, vols 165-184 or 1949-1983, edited by W.B.Turrill, uniformly bound in blue cloth, profusely illustrated, T...

ANTHONY TROLLOPE. Twelve volumes published by 'The Trollope Society,' uniformly bound, to include 'The Life of Cicero,' 'South Africa,' 'North Ame...

Sir WILLIAM JARDINE. 'The Naturalist's Library,' vol I, engraved half-title and frontispiece, full plate hand-coloured illustrations, W. H. Lizars...

'Hortus: A Gardening Journal,' a complete run of 1-125, plus 128, 129, 130, 135, card wraps, The Bryansground Press; Plus one other. (130) ...[mo...

Mr H. MARKLOVE. 'Views of Berkeley Castle,' card wraps, lacking frontispiece, ten engravings, foxing on engravings, Longman & Co, London, 1840; FR...

CHARLES ADDAMS. 'Addams and Evil,' first printing, original cloth, unclipped dj, repairs to dj, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1947. ...[more]

WILLA CATHER. 'Alexander's Bridges,' UK first edition, original cloth, William Heinemann, 1912; 'My Antonia,' first edition, original cloth, Hough...

BORNEO INTEREST. 'In Brunei Forests: An Introduction to the Plant Life of Brunei Darussalam,' by Wong Khoon Meng, unclipped dj, Borneo Natural Her...

WILLIAM GOLDING. 'Rites of Passage,' first edition, unclipped dj, Faber & Faber, 1980; 'Close Quarters,' first edition, unclipped dj, Faber & Fabe...

WINSTON S. CHURCHILL. 'A History of the English Speaking Peoples,' first editions, original cloth, unclipped djs, some tearing toi DJs, Cassell an...

MILITARY INTEREST. 'The Long Road to Baghdad,' by Edmund Candler, two vols, third impression, original cloth, rubbed and bumped, Cassell, 1919; 'T...

CHARLES DICKENS. The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club,' half black leather, rubbed and bumped, ink signature to title page, Chapman & Hall, ...

LEWIS CARROLL. 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland,' illustrations by John Tenniel, eighty-third thousand, original red cloth, spine stained and loo...

ALVIN LANGDON COBURN. 'More Men of Mark,' original boards, rubbed with some soiling to spine, thirty-three tipped in photogravure plates Compleat ...

CORNWALL INTEREST. 'One and All: Stories from Cornwall,' edited by Denys Val Baker, first edition, original cloth, bleaching to spine, Museum Pres...

Rev J. G. WOOD. 'Common Objects of the Microscope,' original cloth with gilt embossed decorations, coloured frontispiece engraving, many illustrat...

JEFFERY FARNOL. Handwritten letter signed by the author, addressed to 'Herbert and Edyth Evans,' postmark Eastbourne 24 dec 1946. '....very gratef...

JEFFERY FARNOL. 'The Broad Highway,' signed and inscribed by the author 'To Gillian from her oldest admirer.....1944,' Sampson Low, London; 'The A...

J. M. BARRIE. 'Peter and Wendy,' original cloth, rubbed and sun bleached, illustrated title page and frontispiece, pages toned, Hodder & Stoughton...

WILLIAM DUGDALE. 'Curiosities of Great Britain,' eight vols, chipped, rubbed and worn, some watermarks, numerous illustrations and maps, circa 184...

AVIATION INTEREST. 'The Aero' magazine, incorporating 'Flying' and 'The Airship'. No1 vol I Tuesday May 25th 1909- No22 vol I, Tuesday October 19t...

GEORGE CLEMENT BOASE and WILLIAM PRIDEAUX COURTNEY. 'Bibliotheca Cornubiensis. A Catalogue of the Writings, Both Manuscript and Printed, Cornishme...

The Bible in miniature or a concise history of the Old and New testaments, London printed for W. Harris No 70 St Pauls- Church yard 1771, first bl...

R.A.PROCTOR, Old and New Astronomy, London Longmans, Green, and Co. 1895 New Edition completed by A.Cowper Ranyard with numerous plates and woodcu...

ANTHONY BURGESS, Earthly Powers uncorrected proof copy on proofing paper, provisional publication date 13.10.80, original printed wrappers, 27.5cm...

P D JAMES, Devices and Desires, Uncorrected advance proof, original printed wrappers, pencil annotations on the final blank leaf, 21cm x 14cm. .....

NATURAL HISTORY INTEREST, Wild Orchids of Britain V.S Summerhayes, Welsh Country Characters D. Parry Jones first edition, Sowerby A Naturalist's H...

NAZI PROPAGANDA, Speech by the Fuher and Chancellor of the German Reich before the Reichstag, on April 28 1939, English translation, pamphlet, pos...

DOKTOR SCHRECKLICHKEIT, A Nazi Story Book, a parody on the original Struwwelpeter by Robert and Peter Struwwelpeter, presented by to the Daily Ske...

REV J.G.WOOD, Common Objects of the Seashore, original decorative cloth with gilt aquatic designs, circa 1880s, and a fourteenth edition example, ...

PENGUIN BOOKS, various mostly fiction approx 50. (Box).Condition report: Food Growing, Storing and Cooking- First Published 1941Ariel- Published i...

CHRISTOPHER MILNE, The Enchanted Places, signed paperback branded plastic book jacket, and another The Enchanted Places signed and dated paperback...

CORNISH INTEREST, Godrevy, Views to a lighthouse, Micheal Marten published by KEHRER 2015, Cornwall Strange But True, Joan Rendell published by Su...

Sir ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH. Thirty volumes 'The Duchy Edition of Tales & Romances,' uniformly bound in original blue cloth, reprints, each vo...

JEFFERY FARNOL. 'John O' The Green,' signed and inscribed by author, with photograph, original cloth, Sampson Low, London; 'Adam Penfeather, Bucca...

JEFFERY FARNOL. 'The Piping Times,' handwritten letter by author wanting to add to title, book lacking wraps but annotated and corrected by author...

ART INTEREST. 'The Drawings of Roger Hilton,' by Adrian Lewis, card wraps, Short Run Press, Exeter, 2017; 'Naum Gabo: Constructions for Real Life,...

REGINALD FARRER. 'The English Rock Garden,' two volumes, fifth impression, original cloth, T. C. & E. C. Jack, London, 1930; ANNE PRATT. 'The Flow...

DAVID FOSTER WALLACE. 'Girl with Curious Hair.' First UK edition, limpback, toning to pages, Abacus, 1986; 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,' Fi...

Harold Pinter. 'The Hothouse.' original cloth, unclipped dj, Eyre Methuen, London; PHILLIP MARSDEN. 'The Main Cages.' Signed, first edition, origi...

MICHAEL CHABON. 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.' Scarce UK first edition, limpback, foxing to edge of text block, Fourth Estate, Londo...

DAVID MITCHELL. 'number 9 dream.' Proof copy, limpback, no publishers logo, acknowledgement to be supplied, Hodder & Stoughton, 2001; 'Slade House...

THE BEAT GENERATION. 'Big Table 1: The Complete contents of the Suppressed Winter 1959 Chicago Review,' featuring Jack Kerouac's 'Old Angel Midnig...

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