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4to., SOLE EDITION, with a frontispiece and 9 plates of facsimiles; cloth, covers a little sunned and age-marked, backstrip faded else a very good, clean copy of a scarce work. This outstanding catalogue (compiled by Whitaker of his own collection) was published by the Brotherton Library as 'Library Publications' No. 2. It was never reprinted and is now increasingly hard to find. Sold from an institution with its small, neat stamp on front free endpaper, half-title and title only
32 p. Double column. Paper browning but not brittle. Softcover. 190 mm. Original tri-color printed pictorial wraps. Covers very slightly soiled. Volume One, Number One. Very Good. Edward Lytton Wheeler (1854-1885) was a professional 'Sensational Novelist' whose "Deadwood Dick" was the most popular hero of the dime novel era at the end of the 19th century. Through 'Dick' he greatly influenced boys (and men) to view the West as eternally exciting and heroic. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W8RtRear
8vo., First Edition, with large folding map coloured in outline as frontispiece and 2 maps (one folding; one full-page); original green cloth, sides elaborately framed and patterned in blind, backstrip blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, uncut AND LARGELY UNOPENED, primrose endpapers, upper hinge cracked (but binding entirely sound), a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean, fresh copy IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO JOHN O'SHANNASSY WITH THE FORMER'S HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With a bookplate on front paste-down and 16pp publisher's catalogue (dated July 1857) bound in at end. This copy was formerly in the holdings of Melbourne Public Library and bears its stamp dated 18 Dec 1888 on frontispiece verso, title and occasionally in text. Westgarth's Notes on the Overland Route comprise pp.376-451. A detailed statistical Appendix occupies pp.453-466. LOVELY COPY OF AN EARLY ISSUE OF A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT ACCOUNT OF THE COLONY. Ferguson 18418.
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 246 pages.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked pale green covers and no bumping to corners. Inserts plus 89pp. A fascinating collection of memories about motor racing at Goodwood and of the times, With images and details of sixteen races from 1948 onwards, full page colour adverts for saloon cars from the past, dress from the time, Festival of Britain facsimile brochure, aircraft Made in Britain, 'wonderful' new housing estates, major feature on Fangio, facsimile brochure of the Goodwood Scramble Trophy, period adverts and 'where the brake and clutch pedals are'. Tucked in is the detailed programme for the meeting.
Previous owner's name on ffep. No other marks. A clean very tight copy with bright boards and no bumping to corners. Price clipped dust jacket not torn with very slight creasing to edges. 80pp.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, enclosed tear to one page (otherwise fine) and no bumping to corners. 80pp. Coloured photographs (mostly full-page) of British trams with lengthy captions.
32 pages. Features: Cover photo of camouflaged marines crossing rope bridge in South Pacific; Article on freedom of movement for aircraft after the war by Vice-President Wallace; Russia's 'Burma Road' Through Iran - article and six photos; Needed - One American Peace Plan; Moscow Learns to Relax Again - The heart of fighting Russia beats calmly now and nerves are less tense as victory looms ahead; The Pentagon - illustrated article on this maze of corridors, courts, ramps and roads; Runner Gunder Haegg - A Modern Hermes From Sweden; Chicago Isn't So Sure - The city's isolationist spirit has changed since Pearl Harbor; "This is the Army" On the Screen - with six photos; Nice half-page color ad for Marlboro cigarettes - America's Luxury Cigarette (featuring lady in two-piece swimsuit as the Marlboro Man had not yet been concocted); What Kind of School? - a progressive educator says the time has come to harmonize our conflicts and work for the best possible in American education; Nice one-page color ad for Mazola Salad Oil; How to Salt Away Food; Nice half-page color ad for Ten-B-Low condensed milk; The Home in Wartime; That New Black Magic - Lovely two-pages of fashion photos of elegant black dresses; Great vintage Aircraft Spotter's Handbook ad on back cover helps readers determine if an aircraft is friend or foe. Unmarked with moderate wear and external soiling. A quality vintage wartime issue. Book
8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured and monochrome plates; GRRC binding of black cloth, upper board blocked in gilt with GRRC crest, black faux-leather back lettered in gilt, gilt edges, patterned endpapers, black ribbon marker, a near fine copy in publisher's blocked board slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 600 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY WALKER AND LORD MARCH (THIS COPY NO. 590).
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 304 pages with many full-page photos, biographies, overhead photos, etc.
Signed by researcher Eleanor A. Eastick upon colophon where she hand-numbered this copy number 897 of 1000. 264 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Large fold-out map inside back board. "A newly-found manuscropt written in the 1920's and never before published." - from title page. "The personal recollections of the very people who lived and worked in the Cariboo in the last half of the nineteenth century." - from dust jacket. Moderate wear. Binding tight. Vertical line of faint peeling midway along each fixed endpaper where tape removed. Name atop front free endpaper. Gift greetings upon half-title page. Birth and death dates of dedicatee hand-written beneath his name. Price-clipped dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Hale & Barman 959. Book
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing to upper and lower edges. 128pp. A lavishly illustrated study of the (mostly American) cars of the 1950s plus some European sports cars and Rolls Royce.
