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"B.B." [WATKINS-PITCHFORD, Denys.] Recollections of a 'Longshore Gunner.

Ipswich. The Boydell Press. 1976.

£128

8vo., original cloth with price-clipped dust wrapper. Illustrated by the author. A near fine copy. First edition.

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A CENTURY OF DETECTIVE STORIES, with an introduction by G.K. Chesterton.

Hutchinson and Co. n.d.

£275

8vo. Recently finely bound by Bayntun in half red morocco over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, a fine copy.

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ADAMS, H.G. and H.B. The Smaller British Birds. With Descriptions of Their Nests, Eggs, Habits, Etc., Etc., Etc.,

Gibbings and Company, Ltd. 1894.

£175

4to. Original green gilt cloth, with gilt illustration of swallows to front; pp. iv + 252, with 16 coloured xylographed plates of birds, each plate with multiple images, by A.F. Lydon, and …

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ADAMS, Margaret. Gloria in Excelsis Deo et in …

ADAMS, Margaret. Gloria in Excelsis Deo et in Terra Pax.

[no date]

£498

205 x 240mm, framed and glazed. An original calligraphic design by Margaret Adams, white ink on black paper, signed with her monogram in the bottom left corner. Adams uses the word Pax to …

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ADAMS, W.A. Bores and Loads for Sporting Guns for British Game Shooting. With Notes on the Choice of a Gun and Powder and Shot.

Horace Cox. 1894.

£330

Small 8vo. Original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on the upper cover, yellow endpapers with advertisements on the paste-downs; pp. 24 and [12] of advertisements, frontispiece; light …

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ADE , George. Forty Modern Fables.

New York. R.H. Russell. 1901.

£148

8vo., original green cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards, decorated initials to each fable. A very good copy. First edition. An amusing collection of fables set in the world of early …

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AFLALO, F.G. Sea Fish

GENERAL NATURAL HISTORY

AFLALO, F.G. Sea Fish

George Routledge and Sons, Ltd. [n.d., c. 1924].

£40

8vo. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering on spine; pp. xii + 256 + [2, ads.], illustrated throughout in black and white, previous owner's stamp and inscription to ffep; very good. Early edition of Volume II in The Angler's Library.

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DARWINISM AND GEOLOGY

AGASSIZ, Alexander Letters and Recollections of Alexander Agassiz.

~I~Constable and Co, Ltd.~I. 1913.

£70

8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, top edges gilt; pp xii + 454 + [4], 18 plates including frontispiece, 2 maps in front and back cover pockets; a little rubbing to …

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ALBIN-GUILLOT, Laure (and others). Aspects de la …

ALBIN-GUILLOT, Laure (and others). Aspects de la France in R[epublique] F[rançaise]. Cet ouvrage a été édité par le Gouvernment Français a l'occasion de la visite en France de Leurs Majestés Britanniques le Roi George VI et La Reine Elisabeth. 19-22 Juillet 1938.

Paris: Georges Lang. 1938.

£998

Folio. Original stiff card and plain cream wrapper; illustrated with 101 photogravures, including 14 by Laure Albin-Guillot, other photographers include Giraudon, Bulloz, Chevalier and Le …

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ALCOCK, C.W. (editor) Famous Cricketers and …

ALCOCK, C.W. (editor) Famous Cricketers and Cricket Grounds. 1895.

Hudson & Kearns 1895.

£798

Folio, original cloth boards lettered and decorated in gilt, recently rebacked and cornered in green morocco, spine lettered in gilt with gilt emblematic cricketing centre tools, all edges …

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ALCOVER, Joan Poemes.

Biblioteca Exemplaria Mundi, Palma de Mallorca. 1947.

£75

8vo., full dark green morocco, lettered in gilt on spine with raised bands gilt, and gilt centre tools; marbled endpapers; illustrated by Riba Bracons; printed in blue and black. A fine …

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ALDIN, Cecil. Ratcatcher to Scarlet.

Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd. 1933.

£498

4to., recently bound in half green morocco, lettered in gilt on spine with emblematic gilt hunting centre tools, top edge gilt, original front cover bound in at rear. Illustrated with …

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ALDIN, Cecil. Scarlet to M.F.H.

Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd. 1933.

£498

4to., recently bound in half red morocco, lettered in gilt on spine and with emblematic gilt hunting centre tools, top edge gilt. Illustrated with full page plates and drawings in the text by Cecil Aldin. A handsome volume. First edition.

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ALDIN, Cecil. The Romance of the Road.

ALDIN, Cecil. The Romance of the Road.

Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1928.

£698

Folio. Recently rebound in half green morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt and with gilt centre tools of a coach and horses and crossed post-horns, top edges gilt; 11 mounted coloured …

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ALDINGTON, Richard. D.H. Lawrence.

Chatto & Windus. 1930.

£28

Small 8vo. Original orange printed wrappers; pp. 43; spine a little faded, slight internal foxing, otherwise a very good copy. First edition.

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