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8vo., First Edition, with map as frontispiece and illustrations in the text; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
26 pages. Published monthly in the interest of the personnel of 30 Air Materiel Base, R.C.A.F., Langar, Nottinghamshire. Contents: What have you seen of Britain?; M.D. Bott describes Langar's link to NATO; 10th Anniversary greetings from various dignitaries/officers; Ten Years at Langar - In Retrospect - article with photo of the civilian personnel who have been employed at 30 AMB for the ten years of its existence; Accounts Chatter; Base Telecom; Building 84; Materiel Inspection Section; Stock Control; Me Exhaust; TSU Calling; The Canadian Joint Staff, London - article by Air Commodor D.S. Blaine; The Many Honour "The Few" - anniversary of the Battle of Britain; New STSO Air Division Visits Langar (photo); Spooner Cup Presentation (Photo); Presentation of Plaques - 1961 Community Council Members (photo); Photos and brief write-ups of 17 new members; and more. Above-average wear but still a worthy memento of this former Canadian base in Britain. Book
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map; original series binding of green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter very lightly browned at fold-ins. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series edited by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 48 plates and large folding map; original series binding of green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned at backstrip. A REVIEW COPY WITH THE PUBLISHER'S RREQUEST SLIP LOOSELY INSERTED. Published in Hale's seminal 'County Books' series. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. 470 pages. Illustrated in black and white. "A compilation of letters from Canada and England written by an ordinary soldier in the PPCLI till mid-1942, then a navigator in Bomber Command by the end of the war. These letters cover the entire period of the war from Sept. 1939 to Jan. 1946." -back cover. "His description of the Blitz forms one of the best personal accounts of that terrible episode I have ever read." - back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
89 pages. Black and white illustrations. Bright gilt lettering upon navy cloth front board and spine. Light soiling to covers. Book
330 pages plus advertisements. Specially arranged for the use of first-year Board of Education, South Kensington, City and Guilds of London Institute, Colonial and other Engineering Students. Numerous diagrams, arithmetical examples, and examination quesitons. Fold-out colour illustration. Above-average wear. Binding brittle but holding. Above-average but not excessive soiling. Useful reference copy. Book
8vo., with a coloured frontispiece and 102 monochrome plates on 64; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper.
Very Good French Paperback. Large roy. 8vo. (25 x 18 cm). In French and English. 85, [1] p., unnumbered color and b/w plates. Minor wear on spine. A very good copy. A catalogue of exhibition held on between 28 November - 8 January 1973-1974. This is the 4th Edition. Mahmal et Attatichs: Peintres et voyageurs en Turquie, en Egypte et en Afrique du Nord.
Sm. Folio, First Edition, with coloured portrait frontispiece, numerous coloured and monochrome photographs, illustrations and plans in the text, and pictorial endpapers; black cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., Nineteenth Impression; original green cloth, upper board framed and lettered in black, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 2pp publishers advertisement at end. The first edition of Jenkins' classic appeared in 1916. Uncommon in anything like this condition.
4to., Second Edition, with a frontispiece, title-vignette, and numerous photographs (many full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. First published in 1979. Ottley, 12310.
4to., First Edition, with 20 fine plates; original decorative buckram gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, covers mildly age-soiled elsea very good, clean copy. Detailed standard study, particularly valuable for its illustrations (which major on churches since vanished). Indexes of churches and authors in addition to a general index. EXTREMELY SCARCE
8vo. First Edition with illustrations and plans in the text and pictorial endpapers; black cloth gilt back a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Fine/fine (no significant faults with book or dj) Large format, quarto. Unpaginated c 124pp Profusely illustrated
Light rubbing to boards and DJ and with one small open tear. DJ price clipped. Light foxing and browning to endpapers ; Pictures by E. W. Haslehust; 8vo
8vo., First Edition, endpapers lightly spotted; cloth, a very good, clean copy of a scarce work.
A very small number of classified section listings highlighted in pale blue. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with storage rubbing to covers, slighly tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 131pp. This issue includes Enid Blyton's 'Noddy', London Book Fairs, Anthony Trollope, Sylvia Plath poetry, Stuart and Hanoverian monarchs and the book illustrations of W Heath Robinson.
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with rubbing to upper front spine corner, slighly tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 139pp. This issue includes Enid Blyton's 'Famous Five' adventures, London Books Fairs, countryside books of AG Street, Lewis Spence, Lawn Tennis books, the fantastic world of Mervyn Peake and JB Priestley.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slighly tanned pages and minor bumping to upper corner. 153pp. This issue includes Frederick Forsyth, Crime novels of Ellis Peters, London Fairs, Saki, Airmen's memoirs, DH Lawrence, magazine work of GA Henty and Illustrated books of Edward Ardizzone.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slighly tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 147pp. This issue includes CS Forester, Antonia White, the Plantagenet Kings, Ted Hughes, VS Naipaul, George Orwell, Mark Twain, LTC Rolt, London Book Fairs and early golf books.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with very slight tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. 147pp. This issue includes Graham Greene, post-war Daphne Du Maurier, PC Wren, Beau Geste, London Mystery Magazine, Military memoirs of the age of Marlborough, Richard Hughes, collecting early cricket books.
First Edition, 16pp., disbound. "The company planned to build a sewage system running parallel to the river and emptying below the city."?Cohen. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 31079.19; Cohen, p.331.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Enser, p.148.
48 pages. Features: There's a New Chic to the Soviet Woman - the tough austerity of Stalin's era has begun to soften, and the ladies are taking the lead - article with great photos; Cowboy Charioteers - brief article and three photos of chariot racing in Idaho; How Billy Barker Won his V.C. (Victoria Cross) - It was One Against 60 so he decided to Ram! - long article with illustrations; Yukon Artist Inger Fiskaa - article with photos; Regina's Wascana Lake Bird Sanctuary - article with photos; Candles With a Twist - a profitable business for Creston, B.C. teacher Sigurd Askevold - story with photos; Princess Alexandra of Kent Becomes a Scotsman's Bride - story with great colour photos; Leo Durocher Explains Why the Spitball Ain't Nasty - photos with story; German Kurt Hill Became a Sarcee Indian in Alberta - article with photos; Nice colour photo ad for Lowney's Glosette Raisins - back when they came in the red box with the window; Colour photo ad for Angel Face Lipstick; Moderate wear. Unmarked. Please note: 4"x10" clipping from page 39 only affects recipe and cartoon; Kiddie Who Needs a Caddie - Five-Year-Old Andrew McConnell is a good golfer - short article with five photos; A quality copy. Book