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4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured and tinted photographs throughout; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Nelhams, the resident gardener, gives a richly illustrated account of the family, garden and plants associated with this magnificent feature of the Scilly Isles.
8vo., First Edition, with double-page map as frontispiece, 91 plates on 64 and numerous illustrations in the text; original printed wrappers, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, unusually clean copy. THE FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST WORK IN PEVSNER'S MONUMENTAL SERIES. Published as Penguin BE1, this unassuming volume marked the beginning of the most important architectural survey of the twentieth century. The work was originally published without a dustwrapper which first appeared with later issues of 1952-3. BE1; Cherry PC1. PJ1.
8vo, 24.6cm. Pp. viii,330, several pls., maps, tabs. and figs., refs. Orig. wrs. Little rubbing to covers but a good copy yet.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip faded else a very good, bright, clean copy. HK33, better known as PINGUIN, was the most successful of the German raiders until she waas caught by HMS CORNWALL in the Indian Ocean. An early Kimber. SCARCE. Enser, p.188; Law 1692.
8vo., First Edition, with endpaper pedigrees; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Eighth novel in the Poldark sequence.
4to., Second Impression, on laid paper, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and plate by the author; pictorial green cloth gilt, gilt back, top lightly dust-soiled else a near fine copy. Published in the same month as the first edition. Hardy's great Arthurian verse drama is unusual among his works in that the two illustrations - 'Tintagel Castle' as frontispiece (repeated in gilt on front board) and the castle's 'Great Hall' - are the work of the author himself. Purdy, pp.227-231.
Sm. 4to., Sole Edition, with a portrait and illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES (this copy no. 226). The last of Rowse's works on his birthplace, published posthumously in celebration of the life of one of Cornwall's greatest men of letters. 'When Dr. Johnson was sleepless at night he occupied his mind composing Latin verses. Similarly when I can't get to sleep I take to making rhymes on Cornish place names.'
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, title-vignette, 12 plates, 3 pedigrees on 2 folders and a double-page map in the text; original blue cloth gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Already scarce, especially in this condition
8vo., First Edition, with coloured and monochrome photographs, and line illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Collects favourite passages from sixteen volumes of the immensely popular Minack Chronicles, published between 1961 and 1990.
ST-BRIEUC, Les Presses Bretonnes -1932 - in-8 - broché - Couverture factice - Illustrations en texte - XL-283 pages - Propre
8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, covers very lightly faded else a near fine copy.
First American edition, 8vo (225 x 140 mm), xvi, 439, [1]pp., text somewhat browned in places, orig. boards, upper board detached, spine perished, stitching loose, uncut. Drew, a metaphysician and one of the early Cornish Methodists, was an intimate friend of Dr. Thomas Coke and Adam Clarke. His metaphysical disquisitions obtained for him an honorary M.A. from Scotland, and the offer of a chair in the University of London, which he declined. This work was published as a successor to his very successful "Essay on the Immateriality and Immortality of the Soul". This book was not quite so popular, though Drew's limited philosophical skills probably appear to better advantage here than in the earlier work.
Vitré : E. Lécuyer , 1917 - In-8 - broché - couverture tachée - 47 pages + 1 de corrections - Bon exemplaire - envoi rapide et soigné
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 18 plates on 16 and a double-page map in the text, fore-edges lightly spotted; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. A valuable and delightfully personal account of the poet's birthplace, the village of Pelynt. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION
8vo., Third Edition, small neat signature on front free endpaper; grey cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in blue, upper board lightly faded at upper edge else a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter mildly browned at backstrip and with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Twenty Years at St. Hilary. [Third Edition]
8vo., Sixth Edition, with coloured and monochrome maps and plans (a number folding) and coloured front endpaper map, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original series binding of red cloth, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, radial corners, red sprinkled edges, coves lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright,clean copy. With trade advertisements at front and rear.
First Edition, 54pp., from the library of John Davies Enys, disbound. A practical inquiry into the number, means of employment, and wages, of agricultural labourers.
Features: Small accomplishments - the young and the rest of us; 1995 Tour Album - a few photos on our trek through Cornwall, London, Birmingham and more!; A Glass Act - Ferenc Albert's glass blowing talent; Moving Day - packing up the miniatures is no small feat!; German Schneegass Miniatures - the first of a new series about old miniatures; Show Shopping - Philadelphia finds!; Food for Thought - Lesley Burgess' toothsome tidbits are as British as she is; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
4to., First Edition, with numerous coloured photographs and reproductions throughout; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., Twentieth Thousand, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and plates, some very light age-spotting, neat contemporary inscription on half-title; original pictorial red cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and black, gilt edges, patterned endpapers, expertly recased, a very good, bright, clean copy. With 8pp publisher's catalogue at end.
First edition, 12mo, 48pp., frontispiece, original green printed wrappers, a very nice copy.
First edition, 4to (238 x 190 mm), 70pp., without the half-title, wide margin copy, disbound, a nice clean copy.
Small 8vo, 32pp., orig. printed wrappers, a very good copy. JISC locates a single copy at the British Library.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates and pictorial endpapers; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. The author of 'Rebecca' and many other novels and short stories was a complex and often deeply troubled character. Forster's new biography is surely set to become the standard 'life'.
Features: Recorders' Errors or Oversights? - Locomotive running past and present - No. 245; The Eleventh Hour of Steam - 1; The Preservation Bubble; First of the SDJR 2-8-0s; Cornwall to Caithness; Railway Club Photographic Competition; East European Journey; To Switzerland - for Steam (and so much else); The Carmarthen & Cardigan Railway; The Railways of Bord Na Mona; Annual Report on Railway Accidents; and more. Light wear. Unmarked. Nice copy. Magazine
