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London; Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903., 1903. Hard Cover. New Edition. Illustrated- List of Illustrations states 8 plates but in fact there are 38 including the frontispiece. Full faux vellum with gilt titles to spine, intricately blocked in gilt to spine and bevelled boards; aeg; gilt dentelles. Floral endpapers; blue silk placemarker. Binding clean and crisp with very slight bruising to lower front corner. Scattered foxing, slightly heavier to prelims and textblock edge; no annotation or inscriptions. A Very Good copy in an exceptionally handsome binding. Contents divided into four sections: Life in Time, Life Through Death, Life Beyond the Veil and Life Everlasting.

London; Frank Cass Publishers, 2002., 2002. Hard Cover. 2 volume matching set. Quarto, printed in separately paginated sections: Vol I : xiv, [2], iii, [1], 56, iv, 26, v, [1], 53, [1], 59. Volume II: xiv, [2], ii-iv, [1], 30, v, [1], 33, [1], [2], ii, 13-26, 26, Appendix 23-33, [1], [2], ii, 28, iii, 37. 24 photographic plates (12 per volume) with numerous original plans. Navy blue cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jackets. Maps & plans to endpapers. Clean bright copies; no annotation or inscriptions. Jackets very faintly creased top rear edge and very lightly surface scuffed. A Near Fine set in like jackets. Naval Staff Histories series, originally produced after the Second World War to provide full accounts of actions and operations, often based upon Battle Summaries written shortly after the events. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.

London; Crime Club, Collins, 1982., 1982. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 199, [1]. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt spine titles. With the original unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Dust-jacket sunned to spine, with spine title entirely faded. Small chips to spine-tips. A Near Fine book in a Very Good-dust-jacket. D.C.I. Kelsey returns to solve a mysterious murder in the idyllic rural village of Longmead.

Madrid; Circulo De Bellas Artes, 2001., 2001. Hard Cover. Spanish text. Softcover large quarto, pp. xvi, 426. Illustrated throughout in both colour and black-and-white. Bright blue card wraps with white titles, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket depicting a panorama of the cityscape. A clean bright copy; no annotation or inscriptions. Near Fine in like jacket. Well illustrated guide to the architecture of Spain's capital city, with text in Spanish. Scarce. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.

Rawdon; Privately printed, 1914., 1914. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Square octavo, pp. [6], 108. 40 captioned monochrome plates. Blue cloth with gilt titles to upper board, and triple border in blind to boards. Spine toned; spine tips and corners a little rubbed. No annotation or inscriptions. A Very Good copy. Scarce Yorkshire history, with numerous photographic illustrations including local views and personalities.

London; Samuel French, [1872]., 1872. Original Wrappers. Softcover slim octavo in sixes, pp. 23. Original pink paper wrappers with adverts. Single tear (1 cm approx.) to inner side of page block, continuing to wrappers. Very Good condition. French's Acting Edition number 1487 with cast for the Strand Theatre production.

Cambridge, Massachusetts; Library of Harvard University, 1911., 1911. Original Wrappers. FIRST EDITION. Softcover quarto, pp. iv, 19, [1]. Stitched printed paper wraps with Harvard crest to upper cover. Lightly creased at spine, with 1 cm split at tail; crease to lower corner of upper cover. Leaves very lightly toned otherwise a clean bright copy, with no annotation or inscriptions. A Very Good copy. No. 59 in the Library of Harvard University's Bibliographical Contributions series, a comprehensive list of books relating to Welsh-born English poet George Herbert (1593-1633). The list includes biographies of the poet, manuscripts of his poems, his collected works, and editions of "The Temple". Herbert was associated with the Metaphysical Poets and is one of the premier British religious lyricists.

New York; G P Putnam's Sons, 1914., 1914. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Large octavo. xxvii, [1], 439, [1]. Numerous illustrations, mainly from photographs by the Author, including frontispiece of Mount Sir Sandford with captioned tissue guard; 2 fold-out maps, of which 1 in colour, & folding diagram. Book Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Condition: Very Good. Green cloth Remainder binding with black titles in unclipped Remainder wrapper with advertisements to rear but plain to front. Jacket spine sunned with numerous nicks & creases top edge & spine tips; small loss (approx 1/2"x 1/4" only) with associated creasing to lower edge near front fold. Inner rear hinge cracked; colour map creased from mis-folding otherwise a clean copy. This is the standard classic work on the Selkirks, covering the geography and history of the region as well as the ascent of the peaks; the Author was first to ascend Mount Sir Sandford together with his partner Holway and was a pioneer climber in the Rockies. Rare in jacket.

London; William Heinemann Ltd, 1954., 1954. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. [6], 239, [1]. Publishers' black cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth damp-stained and endpapers toned & a little foxed otherwise a clean tight copy, with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket toned to white rear panel and foxed to reverse with small nicks & creases to spine tips. A Very Good copy overall in like jacket. A novel exploring the effect of war on a group of English people, written under the Author's given name rather than her better-known nom-de-plume of Ellis Peters. Scarce.

London; William Heinemann Ltd, 1951., 1951. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. [4], 287, [1]. Publishers' blue cloth with light blue titles to spine and upper board, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Cover cloth lightly damp stained, and rubbed at spine tips and corners. Slight foxing to fore-edge otherwise contents clean; no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket slightly spine sunned, lightly surface soiled to rear white panel, and rubbed to edge. A Very Good copy overall in like jacket. Novel of love and change, written under the Author's given name rather than her better-known nom-de-plume of Ellis Peters.

London; Arthur Barker Ltd, 1938., 1938. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xv, [1], 331, [1]. Publishers' jade green cloth with gilt titles to spine; printed blue dust-jacket, with gallows motifs in green to spine and upper cover. A little minor light foxing to text-block edge otherwise a clean bright copy; no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket lightly surface soiled with a little discolouration, creases and a couple of small nicks top edge. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. A study of the problems caused by the Jury System in the workings of English justice, with reference to well-known cases such as that of Alfred Arthur Rouse, and Steinie Morrison. Scarce

Bristol; RRB Photobooks Ltd., 2017, 2017. SIGNED COPY in a LIMITED EDITION of 500 copies only. Quarto; pp. [4] text. 6 hand-stitched booklets in printed card wraps. 37 full page colour plates, with location map of featured postbox on each facing leaf. All housed in publisher's red and black printed box. Contents clean, and signed by Martin Parr to title booklet. Black lower box surface scuffed. red upper box partially lightly sunned, with light creasing. Near fine booklets in a very good box. Collection of images from the holiday travels of noted documentary photographer and photojournalist Martin Parr. His first published foray into landscapes. Scarce.

London; Constable and Company Ltd., 1936., 1936. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp. viii, 420. Frontispiece of the memorial tablet to Sir Charles Algernon Parsons plus 343 numbered illustrations, some within text, others to 96 plates and to 8 large fold-out diagrams. Publishers' maroon cloth with bevelled boards, gilt titles to spine and upper board and double border in blind to upper board. Top edge gilt. Spine very faintly sunned and lower board lightly surface scuffed. Ffep creased with ownership inscription in black ink: "T. Bowater Station Superintendent Worcester Power Station". Light creasing to single fold-out diagram otherwise contents clean. A Very Good copy. The two parts of the volume appeared independently in "The Engineer" in 1934 and 1935 respectively and are collected here in convenient form, describing the outstanding machines of their day in chronological order. Subject matter includes the application of the turbine to pumps, fans, blowers and compressors but not to marine… Ler mais

London; Whittaker & Co., 1835., 1835. Hard Cover. Small octavo, pp. vii, [1], 243. Letterpress and engraved title pages; 3 head-piece engravings, single tail-piece and decorative initial letter. Publishers' olive green cloth with gilt titles and cartouche to upper board; rose pink endpapers. Cover cloth a little rubbed with very slight loss at head of spine. Scattered minor foxing and soiling; engraved title page toned & foxed. No annotation or inscriptions. A Very Good copy. Detailed early travellers' guide to Yorkshire, with historical notes, directories and descriptions of local amenities and attractions in the vicinity of Leeds, Selby and Hull, with railway timings and costs. First, and it would appear only, edition. Scarce.

London; The Folio Society, 2013., 2013. Hard Cover. Octavo, pp. xxviii, 167, [1]. Illustrated with 16 colour plates. Bound in publisher's teal blue cloth blocked in gilt to upper boards with gilt titles to spine. As New in a As New slipcase. Still sealed in the original shrinkwrap. Attractive edition of Pater's Renaissance, one of the "sacred texts" of the English Decedent Movement, with Oscar Wilde allegedly having carried a copy of the book with him wherever he went and describing the work as "the holy writ of beauty" and "the golden book of spirit and sense".

Oxford; Published for The Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 2016., 2016. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. liv, 252. 2 plates including frontispiece. Publisher's russet cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board and Early English Text Society crest to upper board in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. A clean bright copy with no annotations or inscriptions. Small crease to front flap of dust-jacket. A near fine copy in very good dust-jacket. Early English Text Society O.S. 346. Presents a Middle English Life of Christ with additional religious advice, written in the early fifteenth century by a Carthusian monk.

London; Faber and Faber Limited, 1977., 1977. Mass Market Paperback. SIGNED COPY. Reprint, printed in same year as First Edition. Softcover octavo, pp 47. Original blue and grey card wraps. Covers a little rubbed to edge with bruised upper front corner, also affecting extreme corner tip of textblock. Contents clean and bright with the Author's signature in ink to half-title, without dedication. A Very Good copy. Collection of 35 poems by Irish poet Paulin (born 1949) a number of which reference the Troubles

Olney, Bucks; The John Payne Society, 1920., 1920. Hard Cover. LIMITED EDITION of 50 copies only. Octavo, pp. [6], 97, [1]. Publishers' grey-green cloth with black titles to spine and upper board; lower edge uncut. Spine a little creased at tips, and tips and corners rubbed. Endpapers faintly toned; a little scattered foxing; no annotation or inscriptions. Posthumously published verse by the translator and poet John Payne (1842-1916), with Introduction by Thomas Wright, author of "The Life of John Payne".

London, The Crime Club, an Imprint of HarperCollins, 1992., 1992. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 190. Publishers' red cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket with jacket photo by Joe Partridge. Clean and bright with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket very slightly toned to white panels, with almost imperceptible nicks to edge. A Fine copy in Near Fine jacket. Sixth title in the Mamur Zapt series of detective novels set in Cairo, featuring Captain Gareth Cadwallader Owen of the Secret Police.

Hassocks, Sussex; Post Mortem Books, 1998., 1998. Hard Cover. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION: No 5 of 250 copies. Octavo, pp 214. Vignette to title page. Original oatmeal cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, and scimitar motif in gilt to upper board. Bright green endpapers. A clean bright copy with signature of the Author and limitation number to half title in blue ink. Fine. First in the Mamur Zapt series of mystery stories featuring Captain Gareth Cadwallader Owen of the British Secret Police in Cairo. Scarce.