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1 Fairy Folks Picture A B C
London Juvenile Productions Pictorial Cover Very Good  4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
No marks or inscriptions. Decorated endpapers. Only one picture coloured in. Ownership box blank. Beautiful illustrations. Nice and clean internally and externally. A lovely item. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 12.00 GBP
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2 The Treasure Book of Fairy Tales
London Juvenile Productions Good++  Good++ 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
Unclipped, frayed and worn dustwrapper. No marks or inscriptions. Illustrated. Ownership box blank. Decorated endpapers. Nice and clean internally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 17.00 GBP
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3 Douglas the Duck - Hidden Colour Painting Book
London Juvenile Productions Pictorial Cover Very Good  4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
No marks or inscriptions. Circa 1950. No paints or crayons needed. Just water and a brush. Illustrations by Gordon Robinson. Nice and clean internally and externally. Immaculate internally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 45.00 GBP
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4 Fans in Fashion 1975
Bradford Northway 1975 Original Wraps Very Good  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
No marks or inscriptions. Exhibition catalog presenting a survey of the fascinating variety of fans used in this country from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Illustrated. Unusual and scarce item. Nice and clean internally and externally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 30.00 GBP
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5 The Modern English Garden
London Country Life Cloth Very Good  4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
Circa 1950. Boards scuffed. No marks or inscriptions. Black lettering to spine. Extensively illustrated. Nice and clean internally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 19.50 GBP
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6 The Juvenile Museum of Entertainment and Instruction
London Thomas Holmes 1848 First Edition Very Good  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
No marks or inscriptions. Rebound. Original cloth front and rear. New endpapers. Date of publication suggested by p. 200: It was on the 29th of August, 1782, sixty six-years ago. Frontispiece. Embellished with numerous engravings, some signed: Whimper. 2 pages have crayon markings. 208 pages. Possibly written by George Frederick Pardon. Containing many surprising and wonderful accounts of the habits of various creatures, plus notices of discoveries and inventions, and some explanations of what occurs in nature. Includes: The Shark * The Lifeboat * The Golden Eagle * Alum-works * Coal Mines * Printing * Book Binding * Whale Fishing etc. All edges gilt. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 225.00 GBP
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7 Exhibition of American Silver & Art Treasures
London English Speaking Union 1960 Original Wraps Good++  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
No marks or inscriptions. Crease to cover. Slight wear to spine. Nice and clean internally and externally. Extensively illustrated. AMERICAN SILVER and Art Treasures. An Exhibition, Sponsored by the English-Speaking Union and held at Christie's Great Rooms, London. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 13.50 GBP
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8 Fleet Air Arm
London HMSO 1943 First Edition Original Wraps Good++  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
First edition. Original wraps with split to spine. No marks or inscriptions. The Admiralty Account Of Naval Air Operations. Extensively illustrated. Nice and clean internally and externally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 14.00 GBP
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9 The London Mercury
London 1919 First Edition Original Wraps Very Good  4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
First editions. Original, frayed wraps. No marks or inscriptions. Contents include poems by Thomas Hardy, Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Walter de la Mare, James Elroy Flecker, Robert Graves and Frances Brett-Young. Articles by Aldous Huxley, Joseph Conrad, G K Chesterton etc. Includes November 1919 Vol 1 No. 1 * December 1919 Vol 1 No. 2 * January 1920 Vol 1 No. 3 & February 1920 Vol 1 No. 4. Nice and clean internally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 75.00 GBP
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10 His Majesty's Minesweepers
London HMSO 1943 First Edition Original Wraps Very Good  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
First edition. No marks or inscriptions. Prepared for the admiralty by the Ministry of Information. Extensively illustrated. Nice and clean internally and externally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 14.00 GBP
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11 The World of the Fan
UK Harris Museum & Art Gallery Original Wraps Very Good  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
First edition. No marks or inscriptions. Nice and clean internally and externally. Circa 1960. Catalogue of FANS. Illustrated. Fans from c1685 to c1960. Scarce item. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 25.00 GBP
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12 Meubels in Nederland 1840-1900. I/II
Lochem De Tijdstroom 1979 Original Wraps Very Good+  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
First editions. Original Wraps. No marks or inscriptions. 2 volumes. Nice and clean internally and externally. Text in Dutch. Extensively illustrated. Furniture catalogue. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 25.00 GBP
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13 Catalogus van de meubelen 1952
Amsterdam 1952 First Edition Original Wraps Very Good  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
First edition. Lightly frayed wrappers. Neat ownership inscription. Nice and clean internally and externally. Catalogue of furniture of the Rijksmuseum. Illustrated. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 18.00 GBP
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14 CHEERFUL TALES for Merry Little Folk
London Darton and Co Poor  
No marks or inscriptions. Spine detatched. Book incomplete (4 pages missing). All edges gilt. Beautifully illustrated in black and white and colour. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 40.00 GBP
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15 The Poetical Works of JOHN SHEFFIELD, Duke of Buckinghamshire
London Cooke Half-Leather Good++  24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall 
Cookes pocket edition. Circa 1800. No marks or inscriptions. Reinforced spine. No marks or inscriptions. Gilt lettering to spine. 3/4 leather binding. The Poetical Works of John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire, to which is prefixed, The Life of the Author. Embellished with superb engravings. Nice and clean internally and externally. A lovely item. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 45.00 GBP
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16 The Age of Neo-Classicism 1972
London Arts Council of Great Britain 1972 First Edition Original Wraps Very Good  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
First edition. No marks or inscriptions. Nice and clean internally and externally. The Fourteenth Exhibition of the Council of Europe. The Royal Academy and The Victoria & Albert Museum London 9th September - 19th November 1972. Illustrated in colour. 1037 pages. Complete with index. Useful reference. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 45.00 GBP
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17 A Century of Nature Stories
London Hutchinson Good  No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Neat gift incription on ffep. Black lettering to spine. Nice and clean internally. With an introduction by J W Robertson Scott (Editor of The Countryman). Circa 1940. 1024 pages. Contributors include Siegfried Sassoon * Hilaire Belloc * Anna Sewell * Mayne Reid etc. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 14.00 GBP
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18 Such Fun !
Pictorial Cover Good++  
No marks or inscriptions. Extensively illustrated. Poems. Nice and clean internally and externally. A lovely item. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 25.00 GBP
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19 Comicolour Album 1953
London Gerald G Swan 1953 Pictorial Cover Good++  4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
Unpriceclipped. Ownership box filled in. 92 pages. Cartoon strips. Nice and clean internally and externally. Scarce title. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 40.00 GBP
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20 1000 Makers of the Cinema
London The Sunday Times Very Good  4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
No marks or inscriptions. No date. Complete in Binder. History of the cinema. Extensively illustrated. Also included is the Sunday Times Filmfinder: What was Meryl Streep's first movie? Was Richard Dreyfuss in The Graduate? When was Casablanca made? How many Bond films did Sean Connery make? All the answers are in this unique Filmfinder listing 40,000 films. Nice and clean internally and externally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 50.00 GBP
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21 The War in Pictures
London Odhams 1946 First Edition Good++  4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
First editions. Slightly cocked volumes. Ownership stamps on pastedowns. Gilt lettering to spines. Profusely illustrated throughout. Each volume chronicles a year of the Second World War. Decorated endpapers. Nice and clean internally and externally. HEAVY ITEM Please email before ordering. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 50.00 GBP
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22 The Popular Book of Girls Stories 1931
London Fleetway House 1931 First Edition Pictorial Cover Very Good  No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
First edition. No marks or inscriptions. 128 pages. Pictorial cover of girls skating. First story The Runaway Circus Star. Illustrated. Nice and clean internally and externally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 20.00 GBP
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23 Round the Farm
Pictorial Cover Very Good++  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
No marks or inscriptions. Pictorial card wraps. Showing kittens and a puppy watching birds drink. Colour and b/w illustrations. Large print text. Very nice and clean internally and externally. A lovely item.  
Price: 30.00 GBP
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24 The Story Wonder Book for Boys and Girls
London Ward & Lock Pictorial Cover Good++  No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
Neat gift inscription dated 1951. Cloth spine with a gollywog. Boards worn with a little bumping to corners. Decorated endpapers. First Story, The Sea Babies. 264 pages. Packed with Fairies, Pixies, Dragons, Dolls, Gollies etc. With 8 colour plates and hundreds of 2 colour and other pictures. Illustrators include Inez Topham * Lilian Cheviot * Alan Wright * Harry Rowntree * Margaret W Tarrant * Grace Jones & Ruth Cobb. Nice and clean internally and externally. A lovely item.  
Price: 38.50 GBP
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25 Girls Fun Annual 1949
London Gerald G Swan 1949 First Edition Pictorial Cover Good++  No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
First edition. No marks or inscriptions. Spine reinforced with sellotape. 83 pages. First story The Schoolgirl Pilot. Complete. Nice and clean internally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 12.00 GBP
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26 The Purgatorio of Dante Alighieri
London Dent 1903 Reprint Good++  16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall 
Temple Classics. No marks or inscriptions. Detatched spine, repaired with sellotape. Tissue guarded frontis. Nice and clean internally and externally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 12.00 GBP
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27 The Prize for Girls and Boys Vol LXVI
London Wells Gardner, Darton & Co 1930 Very Good  No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
First edition. Spine slightly frayed. No marks or inscriptions. Extensively illustrated in colour and black and white. Many stories and poetry. Nice and clean internally and externally.  
Price: 12.00 GBP
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28 Niagara in Summer and Winter
New York Nicklis Original Wraps Very Good  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
No marks or inscriptions. Softcover, lightly rubbed. Nice and clean internally and externally. 56 plates from photos, each with description at bottom. Some stunning photography in all seasons. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 15.00 GBP
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29 Nursery Rhymes
London Nelson Pictorial Cover Very Good  No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Alec Buckels 
Circa 1930. Neat ownership inscription. Green cloth spine. Extensively illustrated. Very nice and clean internally and externally.  
Price: 18.00 GBP
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30 Cassell's Encyclopaedia - A Storehouse of General Information A - Beas
London Cassell Decorative Cloth Very Good  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
No marks or inscriptions. Gilt decorated spine. Nice and clean internally and externally. Cassell's Encyclopaedia. A Storehouse of General Information. A Special Edition Vol. 1. A - Beas. With coloured plates and maps and numerous full page engravings. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 15.00 GBP
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31 Guinness Recipes
Guinness Soft Cover Very Good  
No date. Circa 1954. No marks or inscriptions. Gilt lettering to spine. The publication of the 'Guinness Guides' during 1953 in a variety of magazines aroused so much interest both at home and abroad that it was decided to reprint the whole series with the addition of some recipes. The 'Guinness Guide' series appeared in Counrty Life, The Field, Illustrated London News, The Sphere, Sport and Country, Tatler and Bystander, Geographical Magazine, Scottish Field, Scotlands Magazine, Punch, The Family Doctor. Fantastic recipes for fish and meat dishes. Extensively illustrated. Nice and clean internally and externally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 85.00 GBP
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32 A Latin Anthology
London Macmillan 1909 First Edition Very Good  16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall 
First edition. No marks or inscriptions. Gilt lettering to spine. Engraved frontis plate of Caesar. Original blue cloth hardcover with gilt titles & decoration. Golden Treasury Series. Fore edge uncut. Includes Lucretius, Virgil, Horace etc. Complete with index. Nice and clean internally and externally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 75.00 GBP
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33 Daily Express Childrens Annual No. 4 [POP UP]
London Lane Publications 1932 First Edition Good++  No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Hardcover. Some small black and white drawings have been neatly coloured. Spine is cracked and repaired though the pages are still tight and clean. Spine loss at top and bottom. All The Coloured Pictures Rise Up In Model Form. There are 7 popup pictures (Under The Sea, The Peacock, The Palace of Tania, Teaching Dolly to Walk, The Mermaid's Surprise, The Pelican and The Pavement Hawkers) all in VG condition. Stories include Rupert the Bear and Bill Badger by Mary Tourtel. Nice and clean internally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 95.00 GBP
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34 MY DIARY Illustrated 1886
London Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co 1886 First Edition Decorative Cloth Very Good  24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall 
First edition. Cloth rubbed. Only 3 original entries in the diary. 5.5 x 4 inches. Neat gift inscription dated 1886. A Victorian diary with 3 dates per page. A small b/w engraving for each date plus colour plates. Complete, but some plates loose. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. A beautiful item. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 85.00 GBP
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35 A Collection of Poems By Several Hands Vol 1
London Dodsley 1758 Full-Leather Very Good  12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
In 6 Volumes. Only vol 1. 5th Edition . Rebound in fine calf with gilded spine. Includes Dr Johnsons London and a Garrick item. 335 pages of text. New endpapers. Foxed inside, but quite a nice copy. A fine assemblage of period 18th century verse. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 35.00 GBP
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36 The Dark Side of the Moon
London Faber and Faber 1946 First Edition Very Good  Good++ 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
First edition. Unclipped, slightly frayed dustwrapper. Sunned spine. No marks or inscriptions. Gilt lettering to spine. Preface by T S Eliot. A prefatory note by Madame Sikorski states that the author undertook this work with the approval of the late General Sikorski. A history of the relations between Poland and U. S. S. R. from 1939 to 1945. Nice and clean internally and externally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 27.00 GBP
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37 The Leisure Hour - A Book of Sports Games for Young and Old
London Modern World Press First Edition Very Good  No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
First edition. Circa 1930. No inscriptions. Prize label on ffep. Sunned spine. Complete with illustrations and plates. A book of sports games and hobbies for young and old. Contents include: Pigeon keeping * Motoring and Motor-Cycling * Water Sports * Cricket * Carpentry and Fretwork * Photography * Billiards * Card Games and much much more. Nice and clean internally and externally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 24.00 GBP
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38 Rural Life in New England
New York Winchester 1844 First Edition Half-Leather Very Good  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
First edition. Original marbled boards in half leather. No marks or inscriptions. Gilt lettering to spine. Rural Life in New England - A Domestic Romance by the author of Lights and Shadows of Factory Life. Includes The Omnibus of Modern Romance: Six New Novels : THE GAME OF LIFE by Leitch Ritchie, author of The Magician * MARRYING FOR MONEY by Mrs Gore author of The Birthright * THE OMEN; A TALE OF REAL LIFE by John Galt * THE LOADED DICE by John Banim author of Tales of the O'Hara Family * MURDER WILL OUT by Mrs. Opie & BERTRAND DE LA CROIX; OR THE SEIGE OF RHODES by G P R James author of Arabella Stuart. Three raised bands on spine. Nice and clean internally and externally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 245.00 GBP
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39 Down at the Farm with Enid Blyton C1951
London Sampson Low Marston First Edition Pictorial Cover Good++  4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
First edition. Corners rubbed. Illustrations by Cicely Steed. Belongs to box filled in. First story Apple-Tree Farm. Nice and clean internally and externally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 12.00 GBP
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40 Jack and Jill Book 1978
London IPC 1978 Pictorial Cover Very Good  4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
Some puzzles completed. Extensively illustrated. First story Fun on the Farm with Jack and Jill. Nice and clean internally and externally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 16.00 GBP
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41 My First Book of Nursery Rhymes
London Nelson Good++  No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Circa 1930. No marks or inscriptions. Ownership box is blank. Small chip to top of book. Includes classic nursery rhymes such as Baa Baa Black Sheep, Old Mother Hubbard, Hickory Dickory Dock etc. Centre pages include an A - Z. Illustrated throughout. Nice and clean internally and externally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 12.00 GBP
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42 Italian Art - An Illustrated Souvenir of the Exhibition of Italian Art at Burlington House London
London Clowes 1930 Very Good+  No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
No marks or inscriptions. Gilt lettering to spine. Hardback. An Illustrated Souvenir of the Exhibition of Italian Art at Burlington House London. 121 pages of monochrome illustrations. Complete with index. Nice and clean internally and externally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 23.00 GBP
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43 Eagle Annual 1963
London Longacre Press 1963 First Edition Very Good  Good++ 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
First edition. Unclipped, frayed and worn dustjacket. No marks or inscriptions. First story Hollow Mountain Adventure. Extensively illustrated in black and white and colour. Nice and clean internally and externally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 20.00 GBP
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44 Oeuvers De La Bruyere
Paris 1822 Half-Leather Very Good  24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall 
Contemporary half calf. Vol 2. Corners a little bumped. No marks or inscriptions. Small owner bookplate. Gilt lettering to spine. Text in French. Oeuvres De La Bruyere, suivies Des Caracteres De Theophraste, traduits du grec par le meme, et augmentees de notices et de jugemens sur ces deux moralistes. Nice and clean internally and externally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 25.00 GBP
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45 The Christian Year
London Longmans, Green and Co., 1891 Full-Leather Very Good++  24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall 
New edition. Contemporary calf. Neat gift inscription. Gilt lettering to spine with 5 raised bands. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. The CHRISTIAN YEAR thoughts in verse for the Sundays abd Holydays throughout the year. Nice and clean internally and externally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 40.00 GBP
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46 Favourite Book of Beasts, Birds and Fishes
London Nelson 1899 Pictorial Cover Good++  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Neat ownership inscription. Worn spine. No stated author. Profusely illustrated. Hundreds of creatures listed alphabetically from Adder to Zebra. Nice and clean internally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 30.00 GBP
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47 The Obscenity Laws
London Andre Deutsch 1969 First Edition Very Good+  Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
First edition. Unclipped dustwrapper with small chip to head of spine. No marks or inscriptions. Gilt lettering to spine. A report by the Working Party set up by a Conference convened by the Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain. It will not be possible to discuss the subject of censorship without reference to this document. With a foreword by John Montgomerie. Nice and clean internally and externally. Scarce. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 45.00 GBP
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48 World Archeaology
London Routledge Very Good  
Issues include: COLONIZATION, THEORIES AND ASSUMPTIONS, ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY, EARLY MAN & ART AND DESIGN. Nice and clean internally and externally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 28.00 GBP
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49 Echoes from the Oxford Magazine
London Frowde, Henry 1908 Good  12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 
Printed from the second (1890) edition. Poems and parodies that had appeared in the Oxford Magazine from its inception in 1883. Very clean copy with firm binding. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 16.00 GBP
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50 The Open Window the Second Volume April - September 1911
London Locke Ellis 1911 First Edition Good  
1st Edition 1911. Condition GOOD. Corners a little bumped. Small neat ownership insciption on endpaper. Contributors include E.M. Forster, Jack B. Yeats, Walter de la Mare, W.H. Davies, Keith Henderson etc. Frontispieces by Muirhead Bone, Maxwell Armfield,. Illustrated. Complete. A very nice, clean copy of this difficult to find book. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 90.00 GBP
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51 Boswell's London Journal 1762 - 1763
London Reprint Society 1952 Reprint Hard Cover Very Good  No Jacket 
As first published in 1950 from the original. Notes by Frederick A. Pottle. Map on inner boards. Has 2 appendices & index. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 12.00 GBP
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52 The Poetical Works of William Falconer - Cookes Edition
London Cooke Full-Leather Good  
Pocket-size Cooke edition. Original binding. Fairly worn externally, front board come away. A little foxed and stained inside. Presentation inscription 1824. Wonderful fold-out frontispiece of ship. No date given, circa 1820. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 27.50 GBP
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53 Cine Monde Elvis Presley Magazine
France 1961 Very Good  
No 1387 for 7th March 1961. Lovely Elvis cover and 3 pages of illustrations and articles: Les Presley's Girls' - The Presley Girls. Pictures of the girls, and in the company of Elvis eg Hope Lange, Natalie Wood. Slight wear to exterior of magazine. Rather a nice copy. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 28.00 GBP
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54 A D Divine D.S.M. DUNKIRK
London Faber and Faber 1946 Very Good  Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
Unclipped dustwrapper with minimal edgewear. No marks or inscriptions. 2nd Impression. Gilt lettering to spine. This is the true story of Dunkirk from it s almost nebulous beginnings to the astonishing triumph at the end. Precedes the 1948 E.P. Dutton First American Edition. Nice and clean internally and externally. Scarce in dustwrapper. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 23.00 GBP
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55 A Society of Upholsterers, Cabinet Makers, Etc. With a New Introduction By Christopher Gilbert Genteel Houshold Furniture in the Present Taste
UK EP 1978 0715812408 First Thus Very Good+  Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
First edition. Unclipped dustwrapper with slight creasing. No marks or inscriptions. Gilt lettering to spine. Nice and clean internally and externally. A facsimile of the second edition, published by Robert Sayer, London, [1764 or 1765]. Made from a copy belonging to the Chippendale Society. Genteel houshold furniture in the present taste. By a society of upholsterers, cabinet-makers, etc. Containing upwards of 350 designs in four parts. This volume is one of the few eighteenth century furniture pattern books never to have been reprinted in modern times. The reason for this is undoubtedly its great rarity. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 155.00 GBP
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56 Abramovitch, Raphael R The Soviet Revolution
London Allen & Unwin 1962 First Edition Very Good  Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
First edition. Unclipped dustwrapper with minimal edgewear. No marks or inscriptions. Black lettering to spine. This book covers in great detail the whole period from the February revolution of 1917 (when the author was elected to the Petrograd Soviet) till the outbreak of the Second World War, passing through the various intermediate phases of the October Revolution, the peace of Brest-Litovsk, the Civil War, the struggle for the leadership of the party, reaching its climax with the triumph of Stalin. Nice and clean internally and externally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 28.00 GBP
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57 Acheson, Dean Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
London, United Kingdom W W Norton & Co Ltd 1988 0393304124 Soft Cover Near Fine  8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
No marks or inscriptions. Illustrated. The author relates his experiences in the State Department during a period that witnessed World War II, European reconstruction, the Korean War and McCarthyism. Nice and clean internally and externally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 14.00 GBP
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58 Acton, Edward RUSSIA - The Present and the Past
London Longman 1986 0582493226 First Edition Hard Cover Fine  Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
First edition. Unclipped dustwrapper with NO LOSS. No marks or inscriptions. Silver lettering to spine. In a famous phrase, Churchill described the Soviet Union as a 'riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma'. Edward Acton's forceful and highly readable interpretation of Russian history is based on a critical assessment of the great mass of specialist research which has recently appeared from Soviet as well as Western sources. It is fully illustrated with maps and halftones. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 20.00 GBP
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59 Adams, Arthur E Readings in SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY Theory and Practice
Boston Heath 1961 First Edition Original Wraps Good  
First edition. No marks or inscriptions. This book represents an effort to provide the itelligent layman with a coherent introduction to Soviet foreign policy since late 1917. Nice and clean internally and externally. Scarce item! First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 30.00 GBP
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60 Adams, Leith & Burns, Keith JAMES DEAN Behind the Scene
Smith Gryphon 1991 First Edition Near Fine  Near Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 
Unclipped dustwrapper with NO LOSS. No marks or inscriptions. Silver lettering to spine. Introduction by Dennis Hopper. Extensively illustrated. A previously unpublished treasure of photographs. The most important book available on the man. Nice and clean internally and externally. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated.  
Price: 23.00 GBP
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61 ADELMAN Jonathan R. & GIBSON Cristann Lea [Editors] Contemporary Soviet Military Affairs : The Legacy of World War II
London Unwin Hyman 1989 0044450311 First Edition Near Fine  Near Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 
First edition. Unclipped dustwrapper with NO LOSS. No marks or inscriptions. Gilt lettering to spine. Nice and clean internally and externally. Edited by ADELMAN Jonathan R. & GIBSON Cristann Lea. Contemporary Soviet Military Affairs : The Legacy of World War II. Remarkable study of the Soviet Union. First edition means first edition, first printing, unless otherwise clearly stated. &n