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BACON, GERTRUDE All About Flying
London Methuen 1819 Revised Edition Cloth Good No Jacket 12mo
This second edition has 20 illustrations from bw photographs and has two extra sections: "Flying in the War" and "Flying in the Peace". 126pp inc index. Binding a little shaken inner joints splitting.
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BAGNALL, CL British Cigarette Card Issues 1888-1919
The London Cigarette Card Company 1950 Hard Cover Good No Jacket 8vo
2 Volumes: Catalogue of Comparative Values of British Cigarette Card Issues 1888-1919; Handbook. No. 40 of a limited edition of 500 copies autographed by the author. In good condition apart from some splitting along the back strip of the 'Comparative Values' Volume
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BAGSHAW, ROBERT Poppies to Paston a Norfolk Boyhood
Wymondham Geo. R Reeve 1986 0900616210 First Edition Cloth Nr Fine Fine 8vo
"Bob Bagshaw is, above all else, a countryman. Born in Cromer, he has always had an unswerving love for his native county..In this book..he turns his mind back to his boyhood and to the Norfolk scene of the twenties and early thirties." Black and white photographs, 158pp.
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BAINES, THOMAS & FAIRBAIRN, WILLIAM Lancashire and Cheshire Past & Present Volume II Only (of 4)
Glasgow William Mackenzie 1867 First Edition G+
Decorated red cloth covers, gilt, AEG, engraved vignette of Dutton Viaduct on first Title page, second title page, 4 engraved plates (John Bright; Eaton Hall; Preston and Town Hall Preston). This volume has two chapters which cover the period from the Restoration to 1867, pp 352pp. Covers are stained and worn at extremities, hinges starting internally but binding tight. Apart from some foxing mainly affecting the blanks guarding the plates, contents are crisp and clean. Heavy book which will require extra shipping.
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BAKER, DEREK Edited By Sanctity and Secularity: The Church and the World
Oxford Blackwell 1973 0631151206 Cloth Fine Fine 8vo
Papers read at the eleventh summer meeting and the twelfth winter meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Papers by various authors - "discussions ranges from the consideration of specific incidents and developments - the allegation of witchcraft made against pope Benedict XIII, the 'business' of victorian religion - to the investigation of wider issues." 223pp.
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BAKER, JH Reports from the Lost Notebooks of Sir James Dyer, 2 Volumes
London Selden Society 1992 First Edition Cloth Fine No Jacket 4to
Text in Latin and English with transcript on verso and translation on recto. Pp 557pp inc index. Sir James Dyer born 1512, died March 24 1582. Chief Justice of the English Court of Common Pleas from 1559, who originated the modern system of reporting law cases to serve as precedents. His method superseded the recording of cases in yearbooks (begun in 1292), which were not intended as guides for future decisions.Multiple volumes which will require extra shipping.
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BALL, ALICE E American Land Birds
New York Tudor Publishing 1936 New Edition Cloth Very Good No Jacket Large 8vo Robert Bruce Horsfall
With 47 coloured plates, 295pp inc index. Bright copy with no foxing. Previous owner's book plate on ffep. Some minor edgewear to covers. Heavy book which will require extra shipping.
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BANNET, IVOR The Amazons
London The Golden Cockerel Press 1948 Limited/Numbered Very Good Folio Clifford Webb
..."in Poliphilus type, with Centaur initials, on Arnold's mould-made paper.....The Edition is limited to 500 numbered copies....Copy Number 402." Quarter dark brown buckram binding over decorated paper covered boards, black and white engravings and maps, 252pp. The original onion skin wrapper is present and the bindiing is in near fine condition. Some foxing to contents, mainly to prelims. Laid in loose is a magazine article about Clifford Webb. Heavy book which will require extra shipping.
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BARBER, M, MCNULTY, P & NOBLE, P Edited By East Anglian and Other Studies Presented to Barbara Dodwell
Reading University First Thus Wraps Very Good 8vo
Reading Medieval Studies Monograph No. 3. Undated [1980s] Contents include: The Lady Chapel at Ely (Coldstream); Some Saints of East Anglia (Farmer); The effects of King John's Scutages on East Anglian Subjects (Feeney); More Battle Forgeries (Holt); Maiden Bradley Prioy, Wiltsher (Kemp); Two Medieval Parish Books from the Diocese of Ely (Owen); Dispute in the Manorial Court: Lakenheath in the early fourteenth century (Williamson). 140pp. Some small marginal pencil markings.
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BARBER, RICHARD Edited By Arthurian Literature III
Bury St Edmunds Brewer Rowman & Littlefield 0859911497 First Edition Cloth Very Good No Jacket 8vo
Brown cloth covers, ex library with usual stamps. Contents include: The Prologue of Cresiten's LiContes del Graal (Luttrell); The Presentation of the Character of Lancelot: Chretien to Malory (Brewer); The Briar and the Vine: Tristan Goes Horth (Thomas; Vengeance and Love in 'The Book of Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere' (Joynt); Update: The Manuscripts of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (Dumville).
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BARBER, RICHARD Edited By Arthurian Literature II
Bury St Edmunds Brewer Rowman & Littlefield 0859910954 First Edition Cloth Very Good No Jacket 8vo
Brown cloth covers, ex library with usual stamps. Colour frontis plate. Contents include: Geoffrey of Monmouth and Gildas (Wright); The Round Table: Ideal, Fiction, Reality (Schmolke-Hasselmann); The Tradition of the Troubadours and the Treatment of the Love Theme in Chretien de Troyes' Chevalier au Lion (Bogdanow); Kairo-ko: A Dirge; Twentieth-Century Arthurian Literature: an Annotated bibliography (Wilman); Update: Additional Manuscript Evidence for the Vera Historia de Morte Arthuri (Lapidge). 168pp.
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BARBER, RICHARD Introduced By British Myths and Legends
London The Folio Society 2004 6th Printing Fine John Vernon Lord
Three volumes: Vol. I British Myths and Legends; Vol II Heroes and Saints; Vol III History and Romance. Ilustrated paper covered boards with cloth spines in slip case (fine), Black and white illustrations. Multiple volumes which will require extra shipping.
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BARLOW, FRANK William Rufus
London Methuen 1983 0413281701 First Edition Hard Cover Nr Fine Nr Fine. Large 8vo.
Bw plates, genealogical charts, 484pp inc index. Contents darkened, Prince Yuri Galitzine's book plate on pastedown.
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BARNES, JOHN E George Ratcliffe Woodward 1848-1934 Priest, Poet and Musician
Norwich The Canterbury Press 1996 1853111279 First Edition Soft Cover Fine Fair 8vo
"Dr G R Woodward is best remembered as the writer of such well-known carols as 'This Joyful Eastertide, Ding Dong! Merrily on High, and Past Three a Clock'. But besides his work with carols - which included his compilation of the popular 'Cowley Carol Book' - he also played a part in the revival of plainsong, the enrichment of hymnody, and the story of Walsingham, where he was Vicar in the 1880s" 168pp inc index.
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BARRIE, JM Quality Street a Comedy in Four Acts
London Hodder & Stoughton 1901 First Edition Good 4to Hugh Thomson
Blue cloth covers with elaborat gilt decoration, illustrated endpapers, 22 mounted colour plates with captioned tissue guards, numerous bw drawings, 198pp. Spine is faded and there are some short splits along joints. Heavy book which will require extra shipping.
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BARRIE, JM A Window in Thrums
London Hodder & Stoughton Very Good 12mo
Uniform Edition, undated with gift inscription dated 1923. Full black morocco with gilt decoration, title AEG, page printed in red and black, 222pp. Minor wear to covers.
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BARTON, RICHARD Lectures in Natural Philosophy....also a Dialogue Concerning Some Things of Importance to Ireland Part Only
Dublin S Powell 1751 48mo
Sections of a larger work.Front cover missing, engraved frontis plate showing a "Perspective View of Lower Lough Lene"; title page: "Some Remarks towards a Full Description of Upper Lower Lough Lene, Near Killarny, in the County of Kerry" ; 2pp dedication; pp 14; title page: " A Dialogue, Concerning some Things of Importance to Ireland: Particularly to the County of Ardmagh. Being Part of a Design to write the Natural, Civil and Ecclesiastical History of that County "; 2pp dedication pp 27, 2 blanks, calf back cover still attached. Some worm damage.
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BASTIN, JEREMY The Norfolk Yeomanry in Peace and War
Fakenham The Iceni Press 1986 0951166409 First Edition Cloth Fine Nr Fine 8vo
.. the story of Yeomanry from its beginning as the Norfolk Rangers - initial strength of 50 raised by Viscount Townshend at Raynham (1782) -to its end as 284 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery..(1961); however much of the book covers the Second World War when the Norfolk Yeomanry made an important contribution to the crucial battle of Medenine (1943). Colour frontis plate, black and white photographs, maps, some fold out, 309pp inc index. Laid in loose, relevant ephemra. Dw (price clipped).
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BAYNE, A D Royal Illustrated history of Eastern England, Civil, Military, Political, and Ecclesiastical, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time,
Great Yarmouth James Macdonald First Edition Very Good Large 8vo
(title cont.) Including a survey of the Eastern Counties: Physical Features, Geology, and Natural Hisotry of Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk, Descriptions of Antiquities, ...and an Account of Agriculture, Manufactures, Trades etc. .. 2 volumes, undated (1873). Recently recased in blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, new endpapers. Each volume has a frontis plate + 13 further plates bound together at the front, pp608; 624 including index to each volume. While the contents are mainly clean, there is some occasional foxing and insect damage affects the first few pages of Volume 2. There is also a rust mark left by a paper clip affecting the top border of pp 8-11 in volume 2. Multiple volumes which will require extra shipping.
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BAYNE, CS Getting to Know the Birds
London Collins 1948 Reprint Cloth Nr Fine Very Good 4to Ralston Gudgeon
Beautifully illustrated with colour plates and bw drawings, 102pp. Short gift inscription on ffep. Dw (worn at extremities).
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BEATTIE, JAMES The Minstrel or, the Progress of Genius, with Some Other Poems
Edinburgh William Creech, Manners and Miller, and A. Constable 1805 24mo
Full leather with raised bands and gilt decoration to spine, gilt border and dentelles, black label. Engraved frontis portrait, 152pp. The binding is tight through worn along hinges. Previous owner has used a maroon polish to cover the exposed surfaces - effect is not unpleasant. Contents bright. Digital images available.
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BEECHING, HC Selected By A Book of Christmas Verse
London Methuen 1898 Reprint Very Good 8vo Walter Crane
Illustrated cloth covers with gilt vignette, TEG, title page printed in red and black, bw illustrations, 173pp. Title page is dated 1895 but at the back is a 40 page publisher's catalogue dated 1898. Gift inscription dated 1900.
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BEEDELL, SUZANNE Windmills
London Bracken Books 1975 1851702318 First Edition Hard Cover Nr Fine Nr Fine 4to
Bw photographs and diagrams, 142 inc index. Dw (price clipped). Ownership name
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BEERBOHM, MAX More
London John Lane 1899 First Edition Cloth Very Good 12mo
Printed paper label (worn), 201pp. TEG. Contents clean and bright, minor fleck staining to front cover.
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BEETON, MRS All-About Cookery
London Ward Lock 1913 New Edition Fair No Jacket 8vo
Brown cloth covers with black line decoration, gilt medallions and titles, colour plates and other illus, advertisements on endpapers, 584pp inc index. + advertisements. Covers worn and stained, front hinge cracked internally with a few loose leaves. Laid in loose a bunch of ms receipts in different hands including one for 'wine like whisky' and 'the liniment'.
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BEHREND, WILLIAM Ludwig Van Beethoven's Pianoforte Sonatas
London Dent 1927 First English Edition Cloth Very Good + No Jacket 8vo
Translated from the Danish by Ingeborg Lund with an introduction by Alfred Cortot, 23 illustrations in half tone and numerous musical examples. 199pp inc index. Previous owners name on ffep, minor foxing to page edges.
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