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8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, backstrip with paper label, green endpapers, boards lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE. This copy is presented to 'The Dean of Bocking', a title of considerable antiquarian interest. Although Bocking is a village in Essex, the title of Dean is bestowed upon the rector of Hadleigh in Suffolk. It was at Hadleigh Deanery that the Oxford Movement was born in 1833 to change forever the modern Church of England. Presentation copies are very scarce.
13 vols., 8vo., with numerous plates, maps and diagrams (a number folding), small personal name-stamp on front wrappers of most volumes; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean run. The run comprises: Scotland. The Tertiary Volcanic Districts, 1952; The South of Scotland, 1948; Scotland. The Northern Highlands, 1936; East Anglia and adjoining Areas, 1948; The Hampshire Basin, 1956; The Wealden District, 1951; South-West England, 1948; The Grampian Highlands, 1948; The Midland Valley of Scotland, 1953; North Wales, 1948; East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, 1951; London and Thames Valley, 1947; Northern England, 1953.
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and illustrations; red cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, covers mildly worn and age-marked else a good, clean copy. With the list of subscribers. SCARCE.
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with frontispiece, plates and maps, and very large folding coloured map at end; sand cloth, upper board framed in blind, gilt back, top and fore-edge lightly dust-soiled else a near fine copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Two Volumes. Foxed. XLib bookplate of York County Historical Society in both volumes. [Withdrawn]. Early manuscript ownership of Eli Lewis (York County, PA) on title page of volume I. 12mo. 200 mm. Original uniform cloth bindings, slightly worn. Spines decorated with a balloon and lettered in gold gilt. Volume I slight loss at head of spine, front board fragile. Volume II loss at head of spine. Hardbound. Good. Clark was a Protestant Episcopal minister born in Pittsfield, MA. He served as Rector in Providence, New York, and Philadelphia. In failing health, he made this trip to England and the Continent. The early owner of this book - Eli Lewis (1750-1807) was a Pennsylvania Quaker who strongly believed in the need to separate the Colonies from England. He traveled back and forth from York Co., PA, to Philadelphia for several years before the war. When it became time for war, Eli was given the rank of Major and lead the 1st Battalion of York Co. Militia. He was a printer and shopkeeper. He started the first newspaper in the area - "The Harrisburg Advertiser." He also was the founder of the town of Lewisberry in York Co., PA. SCARCE. S&S/AI 40-1468. PAIMP 23
110 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Average wear. Clean and unmarked. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
Pages 1381-1412. Many great black and white photos. Features: Captain Fryatt and the "Brussels" in the War of 1914-1918 (continued); Australia's Oldest Steamship - The "Edina"; The United States Navy; Luxury Cruising - The Arandora Star of the Blue Star Line; Sailing Ships in Collision - off Newcastle, New South Wales, April 1902 - photos with captions; By-Passing Niagara - the new Welland Canal; Youth at the Helm - William Albert Robinson sailed round the world from New York between June 1928 and November 1931 in a ketch only 32 feet 6 inches long. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Three-hole punched. A sound copy. Book
Features: Steam Travel and Photography 40 Years ago -- 1958 Part 1 - Czechoslovakia; Chile's last Broad Gauge Compound; The Eritrean Railway Phoenix; The C.36 Class 4- 6- 0s of New South Wales; Sardinia; Working Steam in Sweden 1949; Back Track. Small date stamp atop front cover else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Yankee Moguls in England; Railways Above the Streets of New York; AD60 Class Beyer Garratt Locomotives of the New South Wales Railways; Locomotives of the Jamaica Government Railway - Concluding Part; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Magazine
Features: The Manchester Flyers; Final Curtain - Plymouth to Paddington on the Western Tribute Special; 20 Years of South Wales Inter-City Services; North Eastern Locomotives-2 - Studies in Locomotive Performance, No. 13; Weekend in France; Then and Now - Eastleigh; British Rail in Camera - Manchester and Environs/ West Country Scenes; Specials on the Southend Line; Western Wanderings; Two Venerable 2-4-0s; Stamps; and more. Price stamped upon front cover else unmarked with light wear. Quality copy. Magazine
Features: The Metal Japanners of Pontypool and Usk; A Welsh Dozen - Welsh artists; The Porcelains of Nantgarw and Swansea; Antique Welsh Love Spoons; Influence of Welsh Landscape in Painting; The Antique Glass of Wales; Silver in Wales; Jones the Clock; The Charm of Welsh National Dress; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
534 pages. Author index. Subject index. Somewhat above-average external wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. A sound reference copy. Book
8vo, 21.2cm. Pp. viii,140, 1 map, 2 fold. sections, 10 figs. in text. Orig. cloth, gilt lettering on front cover. Very good. - Author's inscribed presentation copy to Rev. S. Gaskig, F.G.S. In the list of illustrations on page vi is called for three more plates but there is no evidence that these have been in this copy. The author was "a business man devoting all his leisure time to geological research" (Challinor, History of British geology).
Roy. 8vo., ALL PUBLISHED; navy buckram, gilt back, gilt top, UNCUT AND UNOPENED, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES
Yr ail argraphiad, 12mo (175 x 105 mm), [4], 5-129, [1] pp., contemporary sheep, hinges partly cracked, small piece missing from tail of spine, a good copy. Gweinidog annheilwng o Eglwys Loegr = Griffith Jones.
4to, 117pp., of typescript with the author's additions and corrections, from the library of Owen Morris, loose in envelope. Published in 1989 in 'The National Library of Wales Journal'.
8vo., Sole Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 28 monochrome plates on 24, 2 folding plates, 17 illustrations and diagrams (a number full-page) in the text, 3 folding maps on japon (2 coloured in outline and one coloured), appendices including 6 tables (4 folding), 5 folding sketch-maps in red and black and 1 folding meteorological table, some light foxing throughout; cloth, blocked in blind, gilt back, uncut, covers a little faded else a sound, clean copy of a very scarce work. The definitive general study and notoriously hard to find. Neate 142
267 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "... Will revive controversy about one of the most appalling naval tragedies of World War II - a tragedy that had, perhaps, more far-reaching consequences than any other... Tells the story of the passing of the capital ship, as well as the story of the end of Western ascendancy over the Far East." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Unmarked. Price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
16 pages. Contents: Tulle and Lace Veils; Fashionable Employments; Dinner-Parties; Dinners, by Gail Hamilton; Manners Upon the Road - of rainy weather; New York Fashions - camel's-hair cloth; loadies' cloth costumes; new tunics; "Dolly Vardens"; Calicoes; plannel polonaises and wrappers; toys, chromo-lithographs; Personal; towel rack of carved wood with embroidery; braid-work lunch bag; canvas work-bag with point russe embroidery; tatted and crochet insertion and edging for lingerie; Border for curtains, lambrequins; Suits for girls and blys from 1 to 15 years old; The Lovels of Arden - continiued; Grumbers; knitted and crochet worsted glove; velvet and kid kitchen glove; sewing-weight with case for sewing utensils; Royal's Raffle, by Harriet Prescott Spofford; Sayings and Doings; Paris Gossip; The Prince of Wales - illustration and write-up; Netted clothes-bag; crochet and tatted and needle-work collars for children; point lace cover for fan; humor. Average wear. Book
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece; original green cloth, a very good, clean copy. With trade advertisements at rear
Roy. 8vo. Sole Edition with 9 lithographed plates and very numerous illustrations in the text some occasional light spotting; contemporary cloth blocked in blind gilt back uncut covers a little age-marked backstrip sunned and chipped at head and tail a ve Section I: stone coffins and coffin-lids devoid of effigies; Section II: semi-effigial monuments
114 pages. Features: Reports on Canada's Boom, Washington, and Jordan; Other Worlds Than Ours, by Donald H. Menzel; British Cultural Fatique, by Kenneth Tynan; Hunting Moon, by William Wister Haines; The Kidnaping of Kamlon, by Agnes Newton Keith; Horizon Thong (a poem), by George Abbe; Soviet Industry, by Edward Crankshaw; Cockles, Brambles, and Fern Hill - Dylan Thomas in Wales, by John Malcolm Brinnin; Saturday Night, a Story, by Marjorie Anais Housepian; Educational Television, by Leland Hazard; The Wreath - a story, by Frank O'Connor; T.E. Lawrenc- Man or Myth?, by B.H. Liddell Hart; Charles de Gaulle, by Curtis Cate; Air Travel with Stopovers, by Mitchell Goodman (part 2). Interesting colour ad by the Tennessee Gas Transmission Company inside front cover; Black and white photo ad by the Bell Telephone System shows damage of Hurricane Diane. Nice black and white photo ad by Columbia Records features pianist Robert Casadesus; Colour ad for the European Travel Commission inside back cover; Nice color ad for I.W. Harper Kentucky Straight Bourbon on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
112 pages. Features: Reports on Washington, Cambodia, Norway and Hungary; Dylan Thomas in Wales, by John Malcolm Brinnin; Undergraduates on Apron Strings, by Howard Mumford Jones; Hadrian's Villa (poem) by Adrienne Cecile Rich; The Menace of Radiation, by N.J. Berrill; The Inventor and the Acress, a story by William Saroyan; Women in Red China, by James Cameron; Why Prisoners Riot, by H.W. Hollister; Brotherly Love - a story by George Johnston; The Land of Cockayne (poem), by Eric Barker; The Portrait Painter and His Subject, by Charles Hopkinson; Thomas Mann's Farewell, by Frederic Morton; The Writer in the University, by Alfred Kazin; Air Travel with Stopovers (part I), by Mitchell Goodman. Black and white photo ad by General Electric shows the evolution of the refrigerator from 1900 the cupboard-mounted models of 1955. Color ad for Convair aircraft inside front cover. Great black and white photo ad by Columbia Records on page 27 features Somerset Maugham. Nice colour ad for I.W. Harper Kentucky Straight Bourbon inside back cover. Colour back cover ad for Grace Line Caribbean vacations. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
iv, 402 pages. Nice illustration plates including one fold out map. Well worn covers. Gutter of title page cracked and title page half loose but still holding. Rear pastedown gutter cracked. Wear to top/base of spine and cover corners. Binding generally ok but getting fragile.
