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CUNNINGTON, PAMELA Change of Use the Conversion of Old Buildings
London Alphabooks 1988 First Edition Hard Cover Nr Fine Fine 4to
"The re-use and conversion of redundant buildings proceeds at an ever increasing rate. Old barns, obsolete factories, empty churches and schools no longer used, once an urban and rural embarrassment, are now eagerly sought after, and provide new and distinctive houses, as well as industrial units, craft workshops and offices." Black and white photographs, plans and elevations, 256pp inc index. Ownership name on ffep.
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906 |
CYRIAX, TONY Among Italian Peasants
London Collins 1919 First Edition Very Good + 8vo The Author
5 coloured plates and 11 bw illustrations, 263pp. A clean tight copy with book plate of Frida Mond on pastedown. Pages largely unopened.
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909 |
D'AUVERGNE, EDMUND John, of England
London Grayson & Grayson 1934 First Edition Cloth Very Good No Jacket Large 8vo.
Bw frontis, 293pp inc index, extremities rubbed . Covers faded with mottled water stain. Light foxing to fore-edges otherwise contents clean.
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910 |
DAGLISH, ERIC FITCH Fishes & Sea Animals
London Denis Altman 1929 First Edition Very Good +. Very Good 8vo
Animals in Black and White series Volume 6. Illustrated paper covered boards. Wood cut illustrations, 47pp. Dw (chipped at ends of spine). Lovely clean unmarked copy.
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920 |
DARBY, HC The Domesday Geography of Eastern England
Cambridge University Press 1952 First Edition Buckram Very Good Good Large 8vo
"The Domesday Book has long been regarded as a unique source of information about legal and economic matters, but its bearing upon the reconstruction of the geography of England during the early Middle Ages has remained comparatively neglected." (from the author's preface). Bw maps, 400 pp inc index. Dw (discoloured with fraying to edge of back flap). Some foxing to prelims and page edges. Review copy.
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921 |
DARBY, HC & VERSEY, GR Domesday Gazetteer
Cambridge University Press 1975 0521206669 First Edition Cloth Fine Fine Large 8vo
"This Gazetteer is intended to supplement the other volumes of 'The Domesday Geography ofEngland by providing and index of place-names together with maps showing their location." 544pp + 65maps in colour. Dw (price clipped by published - new price on publisher's label affixed). Heavy book which will require extra shipping.
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922 |
DARWIN, BERNARD AND ELINOR Mr Tootleoo and Co.
London Faber & Faber 1935 First Edition Landscape 4to
Illustrated paper covered boards, children's story in verse with full page colour illustrations throughout. There is some damage along the spine with loss of surface. The contents are clean and crisp and binding is tight.
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75.00 GBP
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930 |
DAVID, SAUL Churchill's Sacrifice of the Highland Division France 1940
London Brassey's 1994 185753039X First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo
"Drawing heavily upon over 100 personal interviews with survivors of the the battle, upon unit war diaries, personal letters and journals as well as official documents and reports, Saul David traces the story of the Highland Division from it s arrival in France, through the excitement of patrol operations in front of the Maginot Line and its magnificicent defensive battles on the Somme and the Bresle to the final, desperate stand in the little Norman seaport of St Valery." Map endpapers, black and white plates, 276pp inc index.
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931 |
DAVIDSON, ALEXANDER MACKENZIE Cortege and Other Poems
Edinburgh The Porpoise Press 1927 First Edition Hard Cover Nr Fine No Jacket 12mo
Black paper covered boards with yellow linen spine, printed paper label, frontis design by H. Harvey Wood, 32pp. Tape marks on pastedowns. This book is inscribed by the author thus: "To Jimmy ! from the author A M Davidson Christmas 1927".
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933 |
DAVIES, DAVID W The World of the Elseviers 1580 1712
The Hague Martinus Nijhoff 1954 First Edition Nr Fine No Jacket 12.00
..in this book "an attempt has been made to give the essential facts of the history of the Elsevier family, and to show the relations of the printers to the world around them." Red cloth covers with printed paper labels, 159pp. End papers darkened.
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947 |
DAY, DAVID Characters from Tolkien a Bestiary
London Chancellor Press 2002 0753705613 Reprint Card Fine 4to
"A comprehensive, sumptously illustrated reference guide, to all the living creatures, both flora and fauna - that inhabit J.R.R Tolkien's Middle-earth and Undying Lands. Included are a map, a chronology of all the ages, and a special index referring readers back to Tolkien's original works.
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949 |
DAY, HAROLD A E East Anglian Painters 3 Volumes
Eastbourne Fine Art Very Good 4to
Volume I (2nd ed 1971)pp 261 Volume II (1st ed 1968) Volume III (1969 1st ed 257) pp 261 inc index for all three volumes. Each volume has a plate late on to front cover, all with numerous monochrome illustrations, slight wear to edges of covers, contents clean and bright. Multiple volumes which will require extra shipping.
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954 |
DE BRUNHOFF, JEAN Babar en Famille
Paris Hachette 1938 First Edition G+ Folio
French text, colour illustrations on every page. pictorial endpapers. This book has book has been professionally repaired - backstrip replaced and hinges reinforced internally with red tape matching the main colour of the illustrated boards. Boards are edge-rubbed and there is some finger marking along the bottom of the pages but in the main a contents bright with no inscriptions. Digital images available on request.
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150.00 GBP
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960 |
DE LA MARE, WALTER Behold This Dreamer : Of Reverie, night, sleep, dream, Love Dreams, Nightmare, death, the Unconscious, the Imagination, divination, the Artist, and Kindred Subjects
London Faber & Faber 1939 First Edition Cloth Very Good Good Large 8vo Barnett Freedman
Colour frontis lithograph, 702pp inc index. Dw (torn with small loss at extremities).
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966 |
DE RICCI, SEYMOUR Compiled By A Hand-list of a Collection of Books and Manuscripts Belonging to the Right Hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney at Didlington Hall, Norfolk
Cambridge University Press 1906 For Private Circulation Very Good Royal 8vo
Cloth backed boards, photographic facsimiles, text printed on one side of each leaf leaving the opposite page for notes. There are 1,013 items, apart from MSS.,and an Index. The items enumerated , to name but a few, include Block-books, Incunabula (according to countries)., Notable Early English Press Books, English and Foreign Bibles, Science and Arts, Occult Sciences, History, Travels, Bibliography, . The notes after the items are of considerable interest, being the work of one of the greatest bibliographers of the time. Heavy book which will require extra shipping.
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967 |
DE ROCHAS, ALBERT L'Exteriorisation de la Sensibilite: Etude Experimentale et Historique
Paris Bibliotheque Chacornac 1909 Sixth Edition Cloth Good 8vo
De Rochas, a Director of the Ecole Polytechnique, was one of the foremost psychological investigatores of his time, famous for his researches into human emanations, hypnotism, reincarnation and associated physical phenomena. He was eventually forced to resign from his prestigious post because of his interest in occult investigations. Bw figures in the text, 360pp. French text. Contents browned and corner cut from ffep
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982 |
DEWAR, DOUGLAS Birds of the Plains
London John Lane 1909 First Edition Cloth Good Large 8vo.
16 illustrations from photogravures, title page in red and black, 257pp inc index. Tiny wormholes pentrating to pp 22. Light mottled staining to covers.
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983 |
DEWAR, GEORGE A B Wild Life in Hampshire Highlands
London Dent First Edition Fine 8vo
Haddon Hall Library. Half crushed green morocco with raised bands, ruled in gilt with gilt titles, TEG, marbled endpapers, head pieces by Arthur Rackham, Book plate of Frances Evelyn, Countess of Warwick on pastedown, 304pp inc index. title page printed in red and black,5 monotone illustrations by R W A Rouse and one colour plate by Ralph Hodgson. Minor wear to corners.
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984 |
DEWAR, GEORGE A B Life and Sport in Hampshire
London Longmans Green 1908 First Edition Very Good + 8vo
Blue buckram covers with gilt vignette and titles, with 2 coloured plates after Thorburn, 4 photogravure plates and illustrations from photographs, 274pp inc index. Mainly clean but occasional light foxing and inscription to ffep.
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986 |
DEWEY, MEREDITH Diaries, Letters, Writings
Cambridge Pembroke College 1992 First Edition Cloth Nr Fine Nr Fine 8vo
Edited by AV Grimstone, MC Lyons & Ursula Lyons. Bw photographs, 268pp. Gift inscription on ffep. Dw (Some darkening due to light exposure to back panel)
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990 |
DICKENS, CHARLES Trotty Veck & Oliver Twist
London Raphael Tuck First Thus Very Good 12mo Harold Copping
Children's Stories from Dickens retold by Mary Angela Dickens and others. Laid on colour plate to front cover, cloth spine. colour plates, bw drawings, 58pp + publisher's lists.Some wear to covers,
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991 |
DICKENS, CHARLES Trotty Veck & Oliver Twist
London Raphael Tuck First Thus Very Good 12mo Harold Copping
Children's Stories from Dickens retold by Mary Angela Dickens and others. Laid on colour plate to front cover, cloth spine. colour plates, bw drawings, 58pp + publisher's lists.Some wear to covers, Prize label on pastedown.
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995 |
DICKENS, CHARLES The Battle of Life a Love Story
London Bradbury & Evans 1846 First Edition Fourth Issue Cloth Very Good Small 8Vo
Gilt vignette to top board, AEG ,frontis plate, illustrated title page without imprint, second title page, bw engravings by different artists, 175pp + 2 advertisement leaves. Spine has been professionally relaid. Book plate of Sir William Ffolkes Bart on pastedown, with his signature on ffep.
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999 |
DILKE, CHARLES WENTWORTH Problems of Greater Britain 2 Volumes
London Macmillan 1890 First Edition Very Good 8vo
."not a book of travel, but a treatise on the present position of Greater Britain, in which special attention has been given to the relations of the English speaking countries with one another, and to the comparative politics of the countries under British government" (from author's preface). Green buckram covers, gilt, five folding maps in colour pp596; 618. Foxing to page edges, Multiple volumes which will require extra shipping.
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