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MARGARET MITCHELL. 'Gone With the Wind.' Original cloth, sun bleached spine, MacMilian and Co, London, 1940; SHELBY FOOTE. 'The Civil War.' Three ...

MARJORIE KINNAN RWALINGS. 'When the Whippoorwill.' Original cloth, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1940; 'Cross Creek,' Original cloth, unclipp...

ARTHUR SYMONS. 'Thomas Hardy.' 109/350, original cloth, fronticipiece image of author, spotting to tissue paper and title page, foxing to edges of...

ALISTAIR MACLEAN. 'Bear Island.' Original cloth, unclipped dj, The Book Club Associates, 1971; 'The Way to Dusty Death,' 1973, 'Breakfastheart Pas...

WILLY POGANY ILLUSTRATIONS. 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,' limited edition of 525, signed by Pogany, London: George G. Harrap, 1909. Condition: p...

18th CENTURY ITALIAN ENGRAVINGS. Thirty-three Italian engravings. Two by 'Lorenzo Garbieri, various others include 'Aurelio Bonelli,' 'Tomaso Camp...

A Chinese art book, published Beijing 1954. Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regarding the condi...

FLORENCE K. UPTON. 'The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls,' First edition, original pictorial boards, binding loose, some wear to boards, Longmans Gre...

MARIA LUISA BOMBAL. 'La Amortajada.' A hundered and five uncut pages, original publishers limp back in card slip, sun damage to spine, five etchin...

GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ. 'Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories.' Uk first edition, unclipped dj, Jonathan Cape, London, 1993. Condition: please reques...

AESOP'S FABLES. 'Fables of Aesop and Others, Translated into English with instructive Apllications; And a Print before each Fable.' By Samuel Crox...

PAUL GALLICO. 'The Snow Goose.' Signed and inscribed by author "To D. F. Doublet in appreciation of a charming evening in his company....", first ...

WALTER DE LA MARE. 'Lewis Carrol.' signed by author, 32nd of 65 copies, first edition, original cloth, untrimmed edges to fore of text block, Fabe...

V. SACKVILLE-WEST. 'Orchard and Vineyard.' Signed and inscribed by author "This Book painted by Ms Tilton belongs to V. Sackville 1925,' ex libris...

WILLY POGANY ILLUSTRATIONS. 'Atta Troll.' Signed and inscribed by illustrator, original boards with gilt title, loose card on spine, some spotting...

LEWIS CARRO. 'The Hunting of the Snark, an Agony, in Eight fits.' Illustrated by Henry Holiday, first edition, first impression,"Baker" instead of...

ARTHUR MACHEN. 'The Great God Pan and the Inmost Light,' First edition, original cloth, bumped edges, toning to textblock, John Lane, London, 1894...

SIR JOHN HILL. 'The Family Herbal, or an account of all those English Plants which are Remarkable for their Virtues and of the Drugs which are pro...

WALTER CRANE ILLUSTRATIONS. 'Legends for Lionel.' Original pictorial boards, a very good clean copy, Cassel & Co, 1887; Two copies of 'Walter Cran...

AYERTON SENNA INTEREST. Fifteen books including a Mario Donnini by Giorgio Nada Editore (2014), a Free Press and Sony Magazine both published in J...

T. SMOLLET. 'A Complete History of England from Julius Caesar to the Treaty of Aix La Chapelle.' Seven volumes, leather bound, James Rivington and...

THOMAS HARDY. 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles'. One of 325 signed copies by the author, 41 wood-engraved plates and illustrations by Vivien Gribble, mo...

COMICS. Sixty-seven issues of 'Captain America,' by Marvel, earliest issue being 168. Condition: please request a condition report if you require...

EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS. An Album of 66 Sepia photographs of Rome and other Italian views. Original morocco folio, c1880, g. Condition: please request ...

Five Wisden books. 1938, 1951, 1958, 1974 and 1989. (5) Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regard...

MARITIME. Including 16 vols of 'Seabreezes', two boxes Condition: please request a condition report if you require additional information regardi...

THE EASTON PRESS. 'Lighthouses.' Collector Edition, full leather, all edges gillt, The Easton Press, 1999. Condition: please request a condition ...

THE CUNARD LINE. 'The Cunard Turbine-Driven Quadruple-Screw Atlantic Line "Lusitania".' Original cloth, b+w illustrations throughout, Offices of E...

EARLY CHILDREN'S BOOK "Sketches of Little Girls." by Solomon Lovechild. Fourth edn, seven hand-col engr plts comp, 63pp comp, orig cl, spine split...

THE NEW NATURALIST. A complete run of the 'Monograph', volumes 1-22, from good to very good, plus two others, all with original dj's bar one. (24)...

THE GUTENBERG BIBLE. 'A Commentary, Historical Background, Transcription, Translation,' by Jean-Mari Dodu, two volumes, double column, original cl...

WILLIAM ROBINSON. 'Gravetye Manor, or Twenty Years' Work Round An Old Manor House, being an abstract from The Tree And Garden Book Of Gravetye Man...

JOHN PATRICK ROURKE. 'Mimetes: An Illustrated Account of Mimetes Salisbury and Orothamnus Pappe. Two Notable Cape Genera of the Proteaceae, Cape T...

WILLIAM BORLASE. 'Observations on the Antiquities Historical and Monumental of the County of Cornwall.' first edition, 32 engravings complete incl...

RUDYARD KIPLING. 'Soldiers Three: A Collection of Stories.' six works in one volume comprising Soldiers Three; The Story of the Gadsbys; In Black ...

James Curtis: 'An authentic and faithful history of the mysterious murder of Maria Marten, with a full development of all the extraordinary circum...

C. PLINII SECUNDI. 'Naturalis Historiae.' Woodcut engraving to title page, rebound half Morocco, raised bands on gilt embossed spine, tide mark to...

R. RENNIE. 'Essays on the Natural History and Origin of Peat Moss.' Mottled calf with gilt embossed spine, some foxing to tite page and contents, ...

WILLIAM FORSYTH. 'A Treatise on the culture and management of fruit-trees.....' Rare first edition, rebound in contemporary tan calf, thirteen fol...

WILLIAM FORSYTH. 'A Treatise on the Culture and Managet of Fruit Trees.' New and Improved edition, original publishers boards, clean and tight tex...

WILLIAM FORSYTH. 'A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees......To Which are Added, an Introduction and Notes, adapting the rules o...

WILLIAM COBBETT. 'The American Gardener.' Stereotype edition, re-bound quarter morocco, occastional spotting to clean tight text bock, C. Clement,...

HORTICULTURE. 'Hortus Cantabrigiensis; or, A Catalogue of Plants, Indigenous and Exotic,' by James Donn, fourth edition, Ex Libris to pastedown H....

HORTICULTURE. 'The Gardeners Kalendar....' by Phillip Miller, full calf leather, engraved frontispiece, four pages of publishers advertisements to...

THOMAS BEWICK. 'A History of British Birds.' Vol one and two, half morocco, raised bands on gilt embossed spine, gilt edges to text block, numerou...

WILLIAM BUCHAN. 'Domestic Medicine: or, A Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases....' The twelfth edition, tide marks to preface contents...

NICHOLAS CULPEPER. '....English Physician; and Complete Herbal. To Which are Now First Added, Upwards of One Hundred additional Herbs.....Family D...

PHILIP MILLER. 'The Gardeners Dictionary: Containg the Method of Cultivating and Improving the Kitchen, Fruit and Flower Gardener...' Re-bound in ...

PHILIP MILLER. 'The Gardeners Dictionary: Containg the Method of Cultivating and Improving thenKitchen, Fruit and Flower Gardener.....' First edit...

PIERRE-JOSEPH BUC'HOZ. 'The Toilet of Flora; or, a Collection of...Methods of Preparing Baths, Essences, Pomatums, Powders, Perfumes...' New editi...

JOHN EVELYN. 'Silva: or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber in his Majesty's Dominions.' First edition, full calf skin bind...

MARY KETTILBY. 'A Collection of Above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery; for the use of all Good Wives, Tender Mothers, and C...

JOHN GERARD. 'The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes.' First edition, re-bound in half calf leather, numerous woodcuts to text, John Norton, ...

JOHN PARKINSON. 'Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of Large Extent.' First edition, Thomas Cotes, London, 1640. Title page...

HORTICULTURE. 'Le Bon Jardinier,' half Morocco, seperate volume for illustrations, Audot, Libraire-Editeur, Paris, 1829, foxing through out, tight...

D. REMBERT DODOENS. 'A New Herbal, or Historie of Plants: Wherein is contained the whole discourse and perfect description of all sorts of Herbes ...

JAMES SOWERBY. 'English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, With Their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth...' Vols I...

THE NEW NATURALIST- Numbers 1-142, with 155 books in total. 1945-2020 A complete run with 141 1st and 14 reprints (4, 6, 15, 19, 25, 37, 40, 45, 4...

ERNEST H. WILSON. 'If I Were to Make a Garden'. First edition, 8vo, unclipped dj, original cloth, illustrated with b+w photos, The Stratford Compa...

E. H. M. COX. 'The Plant Introductions of Reginald Farrer'. First Edition, signed letter of gratitude by author, original cloth, worn and bleached...

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