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Bentley, EC
Elephant's Work: An Enigma
London Hodder & Stoughton 1950 Reprint Hard Cover Very Good Good 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 252pp + adverts. Red boards, general light foxing, slight bump/rub to 1 corner, overall a VG tight copy in (internally reinforced, edge chipped, to be supplied in removeable protective sleeve) dustwrapper.
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Benussi, Giulio
Carri Armati e Autobindate Del Regio Esercito Italiano 1918 - 1943
Italy Intergest First Edition Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall 85pp, index, bibliography, 46 illustrations, some in colour, plus drawings. Italian text. Landscape format softback, light wear to covers, light ageing to contents, overall a VG clean tight copy. Undated, presumed first edition, probably 1980s.
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Beresford, Lord Charles
The Break-up of China with an Account of Its Present Commerce, Currency, Waterways, Armies, Railways, Politics and Future Prospects.
London Harper & Brothers 1899 First Edition Hard Cover Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall xviii + 509pp + 2pp adverts at rear. Gilt on blue boards, general edge rubbing to boards, owner's bookplate to front pastedown, owner's stamp to front endpaper, 2 folding maps (edge tears) plus folding data table (cotton imports), rough cut edges, general ageing to contents. Overall a Good copy. Heavy book, extra shipping may be required to non-UK address.
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38.00 GBP
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Bernabo, Ferruccio (Editor)
Lancia Catalogue Raisonne, 1907 - 1983. Two Volume Set
Italy AUTOMOBILIA 1983 8885058329 / 9788885058323 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 2 volume set. Volume 1: 287pp. Volume 2: 216pp. Both volumes fully illustrated with drawings, illustrations and photographs, some in colour. Brown boards, Lancia badge to front, light wear only, VG clean tight copies in Good (spine colour fading, short closed edge tears to spine head (Vol 1), a few marks) dustwrappers. Books housed in a blue/brown slipcase (splits/edge loss to back edge top and bottom, small split to top at front, small rubs with small loss, in Fair to Good condition). Text in Italian/English/French. Scarce. Heavy set, approx 4.5kg packed weight, UK at standard rate, overseas at cost.
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400.00 GBP
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Berthoud, Roger
Transience Captured: The Life and Art of Kenneth Draper
London The Hart Gallery 1996 0952075970 / 9780952075974 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 120pp, bibliography, biographical notes, illustrated including 64 colour plates. Large format softback, slight edge rubbing/creasing to covers, overall a VG copy. Text in English/German/Spanish. Undated, assumed to be 1996 1st edition.
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Bethell, Alan V
Two By Two: An Evacuee's Story
Plymouth EPAM (UK) Ltd 1986 1869908015 / 9781869908010 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall xviii + 221pp, 16pp plates, 6 appendices. Softback, slight edge rubbing with minor loss, fading to spine, overall a VG copy. Signed and dated by the author to verso of front cover. Much of this story concerns the evacuees, their lives, adventures, treatment, attitudes, fears, worries and their relationship with the townsfolk of Sherborne in Dorset.
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Bianchi, Luigi / Masetti, Marco
Motociclismo: Tells the Story of Ducati. Photographs and Commentary on Street, Off-road and Competition Models, Engineering, Designers, Riders, Races, Records, Roadtrips and Advertising from 1946 to the Present
Italy Edisport Editoriale Spa - Motociclismo 1997 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good+ 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 224pp, bibliography, Roll of Honour, this is the second volume produced celebrating Ducati and is mainly a photographic history, many photographs in colour. Landscape format hardback, red boards, slight bumping to bottom edge and corners, from a smoker's collection so very slight aroma, overall a VG copy in a Good+ (closed edge tear, a few rubs and edge creasing) dustwrapper. Limited edition of 2300 copies.
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40.00 GBP
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Biddlecombe, Terry / Lucas, Pat
Winner's Disclosure: An Autobiography
London Stanley Paul & Co 1982 0091475503 / 9780091475505 First Edition Hard Cover Nr VG Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 229pp, index, 16pp black and white photographs. Brown boards, general browning to pages, foxing to endpapers, so a near VG copy in a price-clipped dustwrapper. Signed on title page 'Good luck, Terry Biddlecombe'. Autobiography of the National Hunt jockey who died in 2014. Scarce signed copy.
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100.00 GBP
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Billson, Peter
Derby and the Midland Railway
Derby Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd 1996 1859830218 / 9781859830215 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good+ 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 149pp, 11 appendices, bibliography, black and white photographs and illustrations, maps. Grey boards, a VG copy in a Good+ (closed edge tears to spine head and one corner, to be supplied in a removeable protective sleeve) dustwrapper.
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14.00 GBP
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Bindloss, Harold
A Moorside Feud
London Ward, Lock & Co Ltd 1930 First Edition Hard Cover Good No Jacket 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 320pp. Red boards, black titling and decoration, slight fading to spine, a few marks. Label (?) removed from front endpaper resulting in small area of scuffing and small loss, light ageing to contents, a few marks to page edges. A Good tight reading copy of a scarce title.
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Bingham, Charles / Allen, Tony
Fundamentals of Freshwater Fishing
Shrewsbury Swan Hill Press 1999 1853109967 / 9781853109966 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 151pp, index, 3 appendices, drawings, colour photographs. Green boards, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy in (spine fading) dustwrapper. Signed gift inscription from Tony Allen to 1/2 title, dated April 2001, to 'Mr Brownsdon & Shakespeare', together with accompanying letter. Nice provenance.
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Birks, Tony
Lucie Rie
Dorset Alphabooks Ltd 1987 0906670462 / 9780906670460 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 224pp, bibliography, chronology, illustrations throughout, many in colour. The story of the life of Lucie Rie, her friendship with Bernard Leach and Hans Coper and illustrates a wide range of work from tableware to specially commissioned pots. Brown cloth boards, a VG copy in (price-clipped, slightest colour fading to spine and adjacent edges, slight edge creasing) dustwrapper.
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50.00 GBP
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Blackbushe Aviation Research Group
No.2 (S): A History of the Douglas Skyraider AEW.1
Hampshire Blackbushe Aviation Research Group 1974 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 56pp, black and white photographs, drawings showing markings. Large format softback, slight sunning to top edge of front cover, general light reading wear, a VG copy. Monograph featuring information on every Skyraider in Royal Navy service. Useful reference for the aviation modeller and historian alike.
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25.00 GBP
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Blackman, Dorothy / Burnham Historians (Daphne Chevous, Mervyn Eden, Anthony Packe and Oliver Spencer)
Yesterday's Town: Burnham
Buckingham Barracuda Books 1984 0860232085 / 9780860232087 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 132pp, subscribers list, index, sources, endpaper maps, maps, black and white photographs. Brown boards, owner's details to front pastedown (under wrapper flyleaf), general light ageing to contents, overall a VG copy in (slight spine fading, price-clipped) dustwrapper.
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10.00 GBP
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Blackman, Raymond VB
The World's Warships
London Macdonald 1960 Revised Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall 256pp, captioned black and white photographs with narrative and technical data opposite. Blue boards, light wear only, small date stamp to front endpaper, light foxing, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. Contents cover aircraft carriers, battleships, battle cruisers, command ships, cruisers, fast minelayers, destroyers, frigates, submarines. This is the second and completely revised edition.
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12.00 GBP
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Blair, Captain Clough
Shoestring Shipping Line
Auckland AH & AW Reed 1967 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good+ 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 180pp, 4 appendices, illustrated. Blue boards, light ageing, a VG clean tight copy in (edge worn, internally reinforced, to be supplied in a removeable protective sleeve) dustwrapper. Signed gift dedication from the author to 1/2 title.
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20.00 GBP
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Blair, Claude (Editor)
Pollard's History of Firearms
Middlesex Country Life Books 1983 0600331547 / 9780600331544 New Edition Hard Cover Very Good Near Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 559pp, index, bibliography, 2 appendices, glossary, 700 illustrations including photographs (some in colour) and drawings. Brown boards, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy in a near VG (colour fading to spine) dustwrapper. A collection of 21 essays, based on but wholly revised and enlarged, from the classic work by Major HBC Pollard.
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Blake, George
Gellatly's 1862 - 1962: A Short History of the Firm
London Blackie & Son Ltd 1962 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 178pp, index, 18pp illustrations. Green boards, slight edge rubbing, dated owner's name to front endpaper, general light ageing, overall a VG clean tight copy without dustwrapper. A history of the company which dealt in ship management, agency, brokerage, insurance and general trading.
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5.00 GBP
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Blake, WT
Thailand Journey
London The Travel Book Club Reprint Hard Cover Good Fair to Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 192pp, index, 16 illustrations of which 8 are in colour. Yellow boards, slight spine twist, a few marks to front board, slight browning to spine head, light ageing only to contents, overall a Good tight copy in a Fair to Good (edge chipped with loss to spine head/tail and minor corner loss, to be supplied in a removeable protective sleeve) dustwrapper. Signed and dated dedication from the author to front endpaper. Undated, circa 1955.
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Bleakley, David
Faulkner: Conflict and Consent in Irish Politics
Oxford Mowbrays 1974 026466227X / 9780264662275 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall xi + 204pp, index, 5 appendices, references, 16pp plates. Blue boards, light wear only, a VG clean tight copy in dustwrapper. Dated gift inscription to 'Lord Edmund-Davies' to the front endpaper, signed by the author.
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12.50 GBP
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Bleiweis, Wolfgang / Mauser, Thomas
Eisenbahn in Unterfranken
Germany Bufe-Fachbuchverlag 1983 3922138152 / 9783922138150 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket (Pictorial Boards) 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 264pp, captioned photographs throughout including 24pp in colour, maps to front endpapers. Laminated pictorial boards, an excellent clean tight copy. German text.
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75.00 GBP
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Bloch, Marc / Translated from the French By LA Manyon / Preface By Jacques Le Goff
Feudal Society
London The Folio Society 2012 First Thus Hard Cover Fine In Slipcase 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall xxiv + 624pp, index, bibliography, illustrations. The text of this edition follows that of the second (1962) edition of the translation by LA Manyon, with minor emendations and contains the supplement to the bibliography (1962 to 1989) by TS Brown included in the 1989 reprint. Black boards, gilt design to front, gilt titling and design to spine, a Fine copy in red slipcase.
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Blocksidge, Jeffrey (Editor)
Drawing and Painting Animals: The Essential Guide
U.S.A. North Light Books 2008 1600611109 / 9781600611100 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 192pp, index, fully illustrated throughout. Large format softback, light wear, spine colour faded, overall a VG copy. Covers a variety of media including pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, watercolour, acrylic, coloured pencil and pastel.
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Bluett, Jeffery (Sou'wester) / With a Foreword By Major Kenneth Dawson
Sea Trout and Occasional Salmon
London Cassell & Co 1948 First Edition Hard Cover Good+ Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall viii + 152pp, colour frontispiece and 12 pages of half-tone illustrations, 4 diagrams in text. Green boards, colour fading to bottom edge otherwise bright, foxing mainly to endpapers, pencilled owner's name to front endpaper, overall a near VG tight copy in (edge chipped, small corner losses, closed tear to rear panel, small area of surface loss and text to same, not price-clipped, to be supplied in a removeable protective sleeve) dustwrapper.
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Bluhm, Andreas [Editor] / Drost, Wolfgang / Hargrove, June / Heran, Emmanuelle / Ward-Jackson, Philip / Yarrington, Alison
The Colour of Sculpture, 1840 - 1910
Amsterdam Van Gogh Museum 1996 9040098468 / 9789040098468 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 280pp, indexes, bibliography, notes, extensively illustrated, most in colour. Large format softback, slight bumping to spine base, otherwise general light wear only, a VG copy. Published for an exhibition of the same name at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam 26 July - 17 November 1996 and at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 13 December 1996 - 6 April 1997.
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Blumenthal, Stefan
Grusse Aus Der Luft: 100 Jahre Luftfahrt Auf Alten Postkarten
Germany Motorbuch Verlag 1991 3613013363 / 9783613013360 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket (Laminated Boards) 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 222pp, extensively illustrated, some in colour. German text. 100 years of aviation postcards. Very slight edge bumping to boards otherwise a VG clean tight copy in laminated pictorial boards. Uncommon. Heavy book, extra shipping may be required to non-UK address.
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Blunden, Edmund / Bennett, Eric / Carter, Philip Youngman / Morpurgo, JE (Foreword By HRH The Duke of Gloucester)
The Christ's Hospital Book 1553 - 1953
London Hamish Hamilton (published for a Committee of Old Blues) 1953 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall xxxiii + 426pp, index, bibliography, 53 illustrations. Blue bevelled boards, silver titling to spine and decoration to front boards, slight foxing to page edges otherwise a VG clean tight copy in (slight browning to spine, price-clipped) dustwrapper.
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12.00 GBP
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Blunsden, John (Editor)
Motor Racing Year 1972 Edition
London Motor Racing Publications Ltd 1971 0900549130 / 9780900549137 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket (Pictorial Boards) 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 130pp, black and white photographs throughout, pictorial endpapers. Pictorial boards, slight edge rubbing, minor marks, title page price-clipped, overall a VG copy.
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15.00 GBP
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Bond, Francis
Fonts and Font Covers
London Waterstone & Co Ltd 1985 0947752153 / 9780947752156 First Thus Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall xi + 351pp, bibliography, indexes, 434 photographs and drawings, 8 colour plates. Black boards, light wear and ageing only, a VG copy in dustwrapper.
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9.00 GBP
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Boocock, Colin
Locomotive Compendium: Ireland
Surrey Ian Allan Publishing 2009 0711033609 / 9780711033603 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket (Pictorial Boards) 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 128pp, index, bibliography, illustrations throughout, some in colour. Laminated pictorial boards, a VG copy.
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Boon, David / Davis, Ken
Boony's Ashes: The Laughs, Legends, Matches, Captains, Selectors, Mates, Jokes, Yarns, Tours, Sixes, Teams, Family, Stats, Stories, Umpires. (With DVD)
Australia Wilkinson Publishing 2006 0977545725 / 9780977545728 First Edition Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 200pp, illustrated. Softback, light wear only, a VG clean tight copy. DVD is wallet to verso of front cover. Personallised dedication signed by David Boon to title page.
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