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1951039023London: Geoffrey Bles 1951 12mo. original red cloth ex-Age Concern library large rsm inside front cover FFE excised occ. offsetting/small notation slightly rubbed & sunned slight nicking to spine ends a little paperstock toning & spotting; lacks dustwrapper; pp. 286 last blank with a crag diagram. A very good copy of an uncommon title. Neate X69: Milestone Buttress is a well-known crag in Snowdonia. The first Abercrombie Lewker mountain murder mystery set in Snowdonia. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG-/No Jacket. Geoffrey Bles hardcover
1967011172London: Geoffrey Bles 1967 F-/VG. 12mo. original brown boards a trifle rubbed slight offsetting to endpapers else clean & bright in dustwrapper edges a little rubbed & nicked lower flap a trifle trimmed ; pp. 224 with a map. A near fine copy. Neate X75. . First Edition. Hard Cover. F-/VG. Geoffrey Bles hardcover
1951006916London: Geoffrey Bles 1951 12mo. original red boards ex-library with FFE excised label rsm & notations to outer leaves externally unmarked though extremities a little worn some spotting to fore-edge and outer leaves crease to corner RFE occ. internal mark else clean; lacks dustwrapper; pp. 238. A good reading copy of an uncommon title. Neate X77. The second Abercrombie Lewker mountain murder mystery set in the Swiss Alps. First Edition. Hard Cover. G/No Jacket. Geoffrey Bles hardcover
1961759H2241Wichita Kansas U.S.A.: Defenders of the Faith. Good. 1961. First Edition. Paperback. 128 pages. Features: Greatest Subversive Plot in History - documented evidence of a malignant UNESCO plot against the future of this country's children and their children; Ruinous Public Debt - cannot exist for long with perpetual debt; Opposition to Law and Order - the ACLU and the establishment of Police Review Boards; America Exploited in the Name of Humanity; The Challenge of World Conflict - a reappraisal of America's future and manifest destiny; The American Dream; Oh! What a Night - prevent tossing and turning at night; Music - soothing sedative and savage - Science confirms certain music can be dangerous and may contribute to juvenile delinquency ; Bumper Crop of Trees - after 20 years tree farming is winning public appreciation; A Key to Communist Semantics - the Canadian Intelligence Service explains how Communists have a double-talk vocabulary designed to mislead and confuse; Worse than Chain Letters - the same principle underlies Urban Renewal; American Textiles in Trouble - suffering from weird policies of foreign aid and trade; Educational Hierarchies - public schools have almost as many administrators as teachers; Had TV Trouble Lately - watch out for shifty TV repairmen; Sovit Oil - Fuel for the Fires of Communism; Economic Integrity - by Hon. Harry F. Byrd; Materialism - The Devil's Delusion; Theft by Confiscation - Communism is merely the takeover of government by a political oligarchy - as in Russia - or by a banking oligarchy; Your Voice Reveals Personality; Scientific Socialism - Bunk; and more. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy bearing the address label of noted Madison WI architect William Kaeser.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; American Mercury Magazine "To Bear Witness To The Truth" September Sept. 1961 Volume XCIII No. 451 - Greatest Subversive Plot in History / A Key to Communist Semantics documented evidence of a malignant UNESCO plot against the future of this country . Defenders of the Faith paperback
1995355490711102London: Robert Hale 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's black boards with silver lettering to the spine. One of a very few hardback copies that did not get consigned to the library. A very fine copy in like D/W. A super copy. Robert Hale hardcover
1924845G0903USA: The Granite Monthly Company 1924. Magazine. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Pages 1-58. Black and white photos. Features: National convention of American Legion; Immigration; Stage Coach and Tavern Days; Our Winter Carnivals; An Answer to Our Critics; An anthology of one poem poets; Senator Moses' Three favorite stories; New Hampshire state Grange; Should the Governor's Council be abolished; New Hampshire Private Schools - with photos of their principals; The Phillips Exeter Academy; Tilton School; New Hampton Literary Institution; Holderness School; Five Foremost Leaders in N.H.; Alcoholic Bi-Focalism; First Candidates for Governor's Council - with photos of Samuel A. Lovejoy and Jesse M. Barton; The Old Toll Bridge poem; New Hampshire Necrology; and more. Above-average wear to front cover which bears a bit of pencil writing to top edge otherwise a sound vintage copy. The Granite Monthly Company Paperback
19965582<p>Hardcover in dust jacket. No names underlining notes or highlighting. Book will be well padded in bubble wrap and shipped in a sturdy box. A signature will be required for delivery.</p><p>z6</p> Victoria & Albert Museum hardcover
1870DEMO010722IWarren OH; NY Erie: Dana's Musical Institute ca. 1870 - 77. Fair. Folio lacks covers some foxing <br/><br/>"Dream on the Ocean Waltz " performed at the Grand Inauguration Ball given at Washingtonn honor of General Taylor by Gung'ls Band composed by Josef Gung'l. Dana's Musical Institute unknown
1835DEMO010844Ica. 1835 - 1854. Hardcover. Good. 4to half calf cloth boards worn <br/><br/>"Georgia March" "Moonlight Music Love And Flowers" "Nicholas Nickleby" "Brattleboro Waltz" "Battle of Waterloo". Also "The Relief From Study" by George F. ROOT. "Yankee Doodle and "Home Sweet Home" : Arranged with Variations." Also "The Syracuse Polka" and "The Rainbow Schottische. hardcover
196527757London: Geoffrey Bles. Very Good in Near Fine dj. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. minor shelfwear light foxing to top edge of text block one-time owner's initials plus date & place of acquisition written in ink along edge of rear pastedown concealed beneath rear jacket flap; the jacket shows extremely light wear along top and bottom edges faint age-toning to spine panel. Set in north Wales where the author lived this murder mystery features his recurring character Sir Abercrombie Lewker "the well-known actor-manager and amateur detective" and has to do with the mysterious death of an eccentric character who "purported to live by the Arts and to be above such things as conventional morality." A late entry in the Lewker series this like the others has a mountain-climbing angle reflecting the author's self-described lifelong recreation of mountaineering and rock-climbing. He also wrote numerous book on those topics usually under the name Showell Styles. . Geoffrey Bles hardcover
195827756London: Geoffrey Bles. Very Good in Very Good dj. c.1958. First Edition. Hardcover. price-clipped ex-rental library book W.H. Smith & Son; marked as such only by a bookplate on the front pastedown minor shelfwear faint foxing and very light soiling to edges of text block one-time owner's initials plus date & place of purchase in ink along edge of rear pastedown concealed beneath jacket flap; jacket has tiny bits of paper loss at several spine corners otherwise quite nice. A mountain-set murder mystery with a filmmaking angle. The plot involves a movie being shot against the background of Mont Blanc and features "Sir Abercrombie Lewker that well-known actor-manager and amateur detective." The was one of the author's seventeen Lewker adventures; most are set in mountainous regions reflecting the author's self-described lifelong recreation of mountaineering and rock-climbing. He also wrote numerous book on those topics usually under the name Showell Styles. . Geoffrey Bles hardcover
19860354191986. Original edition. Framed. Very Good. Broadside printed in black and white. Large photo of Hampton in tux posed over his vibraphone. Laid into a black plastic frame glazed. Image 22" x 17". Frame 25" x 18.5" Inscribed in blue ink upper left: "Good-Luck / To Andy Scotty / Lionel / Hampton. unknown
18083033nWilliams & Smith Uk. Good. Hardcover. 1808. pp 291 modern rebinding gilt titles<br><p></p> . Williams & Smith Uk hardcover
1969181565New York: Coward McCann 1969. First US edition Raymond Briggs's copy with his posthumous book label. Briggs and Richard Hough Briggs's editor at Hamish Hamilton conceived the idea of "Briggs' Books" six non-fiction titles for children about great figures of the 20th century. The UK edition was published earlier the same year. Showell Styles was a mountaineer and novelist who led several expeditions in the Himalayas and the Arctic. He wrote over 160 books for both children and adults with this book focusing on Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's expedition to become the first people to climb Everest. Briggs 1934-2022 was an illustrator graphic novelist cartoonist and author. The winner of numerous awards including the Kate Greenaway Medal twice the Hans Christian Andersen Award the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and the Kurt Maschler Award Briggs noted that "the whole point of illustration is that it is literary. If it is not it remains a drawing only. Something must be 'going on' in the illustration" Horne p. 124. He is chiefly remembered for Father Christmas 1973 Fungus the Bogeyman 1978 When the Wind Blows 1982 and the perennial classic The Snowman 1978. Quarto. Illustrated throughout by Raymond Briggs. Original pictorial boards lettered in black and white. With dust jacket. Edges lightly rubbed a few marks to boards; jacket unclipped chips to spine ends extremities a little rubbed: a very good copy in like jacket. hardcover
1961004095London: Bles. A scarce crime novel. Fairly clean ex-library copy with light evidence of plate removal to front endpapers & one small stamp to verso of title page . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1961. Bles hardcover
1807754L14London: Williams and Smith 1807. Cloth. Fine. 7.5" by 4.5". None. A very scarce essay on the effect of the theatre on morals and happiness. The second edition of this work. Rare in both editions. With chapters on the origin and progress of the stage principle causes owed to the success of the stage the character of the stage as drawn by historians philosophers legislators and divines and the stage as an amusement only.A fantastic early work on the philosophy of theatre. With errata to the contents page. To the rear is a list of other works by the author John Styles. Works include 'An Essay on Toleration' 'a Sermon on the Death of Lord Nelson' and 'A Sermon on the Spirituality of the Divine Essence'. Styles also wrote o nanimal rights. John Styles was a Nonconformist minister in Brighton and Brixton. In a recent full cloth binding. Externally fine. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright. A few handling marks to the title page. Minor chips to extremities. Occasional light spots. Fine Williams and Smith hardcover
195321009New York: E. P. Dutton & Co 1953. First US Edition. Hardcover. Slant to spine previous owner's name and offsetting from a clipped newspaper article on the front free endpaper. A very good copy in good dustjacket with chipping to the edges front flap almost completely split at fold and a short closed tear to the rear panel. Uncommon. In Hubin 1994 p. 135. ; Octavo. E. P. Dutton & Co hardcover
[8], 124, 13 (ads) pages. "A complete how-to book for working on any type of antique trunk" - subtitle. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Chapters include: Anatomy of a Trunk; Styles and Construction of Trunks; Safety; Tools, Supplies and Sources; Using Tools and Parts; Step-by-Step Refinishing Work; Trays; Locks and Keys; plus a parts and supplies catalog. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy of this wonderful guide. Book
BN275449Langenscheidt Sprachkurs Englisch für Fortgeschrittene - Sprachkurs mit 4 Bücher <br/><br/>Langenscheidt Sprachkurs Englisch für Fortgeschrittene - Sprachkurs mit 4 Bücher Naomi Styles unknown
BN278458Langenscheidt Sprachkurs Englisch für Fortgeschrittene - Sprachkurs mit 4 Bücher <br/><br/>Langenscheidt Sprachkurs Englisch für Fortgeschrittene - Sprachkurs mit 4 Bücher Naomi Styles unknown
2023BN251576Meteor Press 2023. 2023. Softcover. Pass The Cambridge Preliminary English. Larousse <br/><br/>Pass The Cambridge Preliminary English. Larousse Naomi Styles Meteor Press paperback
198715596<p>New York: Harper and Row 1987. <i><b>Signed on the half-title page by composer Philip Glass.</b></i> First edition / First printing. White cloth. Fine in price-clipped fine dust jacket.</p> Harper and Row, hardcover
2010mon0000012766The Foundling Museum 2010T. paperback. Very Good. 0.3937 in x 9.6063 in x 7.0866 in. 1st edition. Paperback. Clean and solid. No tears stains or odors. NOT a book club edition. NOT ex-library. Hand-wrapped and packaged in cardboard. The Foundling Museum paperback
199300035Positive Energy Records 1993. AudioCD. Near Fine. Very Good Signed by Author Cover is in excellent condition and signed by Michael Schenker/CD case is personally signed by the artist excellent condition. Music CD Rock. <br/><br/> Positive Energy Records unknown
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