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378 pages including index. Colour frontis of a young Prince of Wales. Well used, soiled and worn but still holding together. A few bits of writing inside and on front flyleaf. Still usable. Text is separated into no less than 226 sections i.e. too many topics to list. A random sampling includes poem study, singular and plural of verbs, beginning a story, business letters, pronunciation, the semicolon, using your imagination, some common uses for italics, reduncancy, selecting the correct word. Book
126 pages. Includes Hors d'Oeuvres and Savouries; Soups, Sea Food, Meats, Breads and Cakes, Omelettes, Pancakes, Puddings, Preserves, Sauces, Jams, Confectionery, Wines, Beverages. First 42 pages loose but present. Average wear. A worthy reference. Book
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Stuck on Glue - Liquid Cement Bottles - numerous fantastic vintage ads, by Dave Cheadle; Fulper of Flemington - Whiskey Potter Discovered?, by Jack Sullivan; Jar Talk - the Wee Stinky Fly Trip - and more, by Jack LaBaume; Extra Special Deliveries; Auction Directory; Bottle Network News; British Bottle Bits - discovery of a cache of 53 bottle seals in North Wales; The Label Space - Jumbo Peanut Butter and the Frank Tea & Spice Company, Dove Brand Products - by Tom Caniff; Up-Dates; Old Bottles & Corks - reprint of a great 1882 newspaper article, by Winston Reed Jr. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Nice vintage ads on covers. Features: Jarad Spencer Comes to Town - Record Prices Broken in bidding for the Paul Richards Collection - early American flasks, by Scott Grandstaff; Getting the Glug Out - Henry Stiles Patent Recherche Ware of Cleveland, Ohio - by Jack Sullivan; Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition - may great vintage illustrations, by Dave Cheadle; Extra Special Deliveries; Bottle Network News; Auction Directory; British Bottle Bits - Awesome and Strange, by Rob Goodacre; The Label Space - Eskay's Alumenized Foods, Cereal Milk - Wells & Richardson Co. of Vermont, Skilton, Foote & Co's Bunker Hill Pickle jars, by Tom Caniff; Up-Dates; Bryan's Top Shelf - Questions Answered about mystery bottle, by Bryan Grapentine. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
62 pages. Features: Lothian Leylands; Roy Marshall; Setright Speeds, Bellgraphic & the rest; The story of Newbury & District; Looking after the US forces in WW2; Double deckers to Oxford, now and then; The Canterbury to Ashford; North Wales in the 'fifties; and more. Average wear. Couple of library markings. Clear tape along spine. Average wear. A sound reference copy. Book
16 pages. Features: Chinese Needlecase; Ned Darning of Filet Lace; Stitching Trivia; "Take Up Your Needle" - author unknown; "Midnight Blue" Bergello Pattern; "Manz Zorj" - Embroidery of the Hill Tribes; Thoughts of Sheep in Wales and Other Embroideries; and more. Clean with light wear. Magazine
Features: The Australian Contribution to World Cymbidiums; Cymbidium Rosalynn Carter makes debut; Orchid societies in Southern California; The Structure of a Cymbidium; Paphiopedilum scene - New South Wales, Australia. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Book
361 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Footnotes, bibliography and index. "A rich social history which traces the events, from the decades leading up to the blast, the frenetic rescue operation and mass funerals, through the series of acrimonious legal inquiries, to the divisive relief effort and the continued commemoration of the disaster by the community of Mt Kembla." - from dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Slight lean to spine. Minor bit of discolouration to top of dust jacket at spine. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
pp. 557, (4) [Publisher's catalogue] + Frontis. Illustrated with several hundred text engravings, many full page plates. Fore edge and inner margins dampstained. Age stained. Lancaster bookseller's label on front paste down. Tall 8vo. 235mm. Original publisher's cloth binding. Spine and front board elaborately decorated in gold with castles and ruins. Rear board decorated in gold with an urn and flowers. Corners worn with loss. Head and tail of spine worn with loss. Boards rubbed. ENGLAND BX 3
First edition. With frontispiece and 8 pages of plates.
8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and a folding map; cloth, a very good, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at edges. SCARCE
Light blue octavo in a green slipcase ; 267 p, illus (some color) ; 23cm Novel -- Story -- Travel -- Family -- England
206p. Color frontis. Woodcut style illustrations by Frank Dobias. 8vo. Original orange full cloth binding. The full page illustrations are indeed handsome. They accompany wonderful folk tales from Roumania, Wales, Poland, Bulgaria, Transylvania, etc. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! GYPSY 1
Light pencil marking to text. 240 pages. 10 1/4"w x 11"h. "This book, published to coincide with an exhibition at The Gallery of New South Wales -- the first major retrospective of the artist's work -- presents an illuminating evaluation of Whiteley's achievement. Works dating from the 1950's until the last years of his life, illustrated in 180 colour plates, allows Whiteley's fascinating career to be surveyed in its entirety."
8vo., Fifth Impression, with frontispiece, very numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and large folding map coloured in outline; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, blue top, a near fine copy. With 4pp series catalogue at end. First published in 1898.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 140pp. Originally published in 1967, written by Min Lewis and with the superb drawings by her husband Stanley Lewis, this work is 'the essential documentary reference that gives a complete corroboration to Dylan's own work'. It contains an important cache of letters, documents, illustrations and thumbnail sketches relating to Laugharne and Dylan Thomas in the 1950s and 1960s including Stanley's delightful original 1958 sketches of the Llaregyb Players rehearsing Under Milk Wood.
Small 4to, 24.5cm. Pp. x,461, 104 figs. and maps (some fold.), refs., subject index. Orig. boards in dust-jacket. Light wear to jacket, very good otherwise.
Book is in excellent condition in red paper hardback boards. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, gilt print to spine, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is price clipped, shows chipping, edgewear, 2" tear at back, scuffing. Prnted in G.B. 242 illustrations in gilt and black. Illustrations are photographically reduced from original rubbings and turned into positives with art ehn printed on to a solid gilt base, giving an authentic reproduction of the original design as conceived by the medieval craftsman. Detail to block-making. Book is heavily illustrated with large, often full page illustrations bathed in gilt.
8vo., First Edition thus; original series binding of green ribbed cloth, upper board blocked in blind, back gilt extra, coloured top, pictorial endpapers, a near fiNe copy. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. EL 272; Seymour 434.0.
Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 41 x 32 ins (approx. 104 x 81 cms) folding in 36 panels to 8.25 x 5.0 ins (approx. 21.0 x 13.0 cms); original pictorial card wrappers, some light dust-soiling, small closed tear in rear wrapper else a very good, bright, clean copy. Fifth Series Special Sheets were produced for a relatively small number of selected regions, and not included in the numbered sheet series. The cover is Reeves' 'Five Lines' in blue landscape format with Welsh Dragon in red. THIS COVER DESIGN IS UNIQUE, AND SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Browne, 100.2.
First edition, small 8vo, x, 146pp., 4 chromolithographed plates, text block loose, several gatherings standing proud, orig. publishers cloth, spine torn and chipped.
First edition, 12mo (175 x 110 mm), xiii, [1], 168pp., title vignette, orig. green cloth. Provenance: Ownership signature on front endpaper: 'Wm. Webster, Tintern Abbey.'
First Edition, presentation inscription on half-title "H.N. Pendlebury from the Author. 2 Decr 1901.", frontispiece, folding plan, 11 plates, viii, 101, [1]pp., an eighteenth century engraving of the priory pasted to the final blank leaf, original cloth, slightly rippled, gilt.
In 8°, t. t. edit., pp. 44; ottimo es..
