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Chichester and London: Phillimore, 1973. First edition. (vi), 18, (ii), followed by 40 plates printed recto and an index. The title page also bears a flower painting. Small mark on front endpapers (perhaps where a tiny moth was trapped) - contents otherwise fresh and unmarked. Folio, 44 x 28cms, in the original full dark green faux morocco binding, spine titled in gilt. Spine bright, ends blunted, faint marks to surface of boards: firm and clean. Very Good+.

Price: £160.00

London: Hutchinson, 1964. First English edition. 288pp. Slight browning to endpapers, contents otherwise very clean. In the original blue cloth-textured binding titled in white, clean, bright and firm, foot of spine slightly blunted. In the protected unclipped Peter Edwards pictorial dust jacket: bright and complete, edges knocked, with short closed tears at front flap fold. Near Fine in VG dust-jacket.

Price: £45.00

Bungay: C. Brightly and T. Kinnersley, 1807. First edition. Vol I: v, (i), 254, 827; Vol II: [ii], 695, (i), [28] (index). All plates and maps (some folding) present except the map of 'Turkey in Europe and Hungary', referred to in a Note at the end of the list of plates. 1813 gilt bookplate to pastedown of vol ii, and mark to pastedown of vol i where the other has been removed. Contents generally clean, with tide stains in places and occasional groups of pages with some browning/foxing. Quarto, in contemporary full calf, spine with five raised bands and the original labels. Firm, corners bumped, an attractively weathered set. Very Good.
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Price: £560.00

London: Heinemann, 1962 to 1975. Five are reprints, the last seven are first editions. An internally extremely fresh and unmarked set in very fresh jackets (due to all except Books do Furnish a Room being unread); the red cloth spines are bright, with slight puckering to some spine ends, and the corners of the boards are sharp: but the edges of the boards of about half the set show some slight fading or loss of colour from damp (see photo). The protected Broome Lynne jackets are crisp, clean and complete with minimal signs of wear: that of vol i has a 6mm closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel, and that of vol xi has translucent pale marks to the rear panel. Reprint dates of first 5 vols: Vol i: 1969; Vol ii: 1967; Vol iii 1968; Vol iv: (1st reprint) 1964; Vol v: (1st reprint) 1969. The first edition dates of Vols vi - xii are 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1975. Very Good in near fine dust-jacket.
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Price: £1,450.00

London: Constable, 1921. First edition. xxiv, 356pp, with maps (4 folding), photographs and a portrait frontis. Contents clean with occasional very minor foxing. In later sturdy three-quarter binding of reddish pebble cloth with marbled boards, spine titled in slightly dulled gilt: library-type binding, but no library indications, and in very good condition. Very Good.

Price: £75.00

London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1895 - 1898. Some vols are first printings of this edition. Each subvolume is preceded by a printed title and a rubricated and decorated title, and has three plates, one of which is a frontis: plus the first volume has a portrait of Charlotte Bronte. Contents clean, with slight toning to pages. Top edges gilt. In new bindings of quarter pale buff cloth over thin slate blue boards, spines with printed paper labels. An attractive and readable set. Near Fine.

Price: £360.00

Bristol, & London: Arrowsmith's Christmas Annual: J.W. Arrowsmith; and Simpkin Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co; 1892. First English edition, first or second impression. 184pp, with adverts in the prelims, but without the final advertisement pages. Early pencilled ownership name to title page (can be erased). Some foxing to final leaf, and page corner towards back of book torn off, losing part of page number. Contents otherwise very clean. All edges with original marbling. Small 8vo, in a very pretty new binding of purple grained cloth with printed paper spine label. As the only points distinguishing first from second impressions of this title are in the long-discarded covers, there is no way of identifying which this is. [Green & Gibson A11:a. or a.i.] Near Fine.

Price: £140.00

London: George Bell and Sons, 1874. First edition of second volume, second impression of the first. First series (Vol I): xii, 152pp; Second series (Vol II): iv, 140pp; each with 54 guarded plates, and an armorial bookplate to the front pastedown. Each in the original binding of royal blue cloth decorated in blind and with a gilt floral vignette, bright, and a new spine labelled with the gilt title salvaged from the original spine. Both have some foxing to the blank opening after the endpaper, and Vol II has a little foxing to the frontis; and, although overall very clean, a few of the plates also have a spot or two. Volume I is even cleaner. A beautiful set. Very Good+.
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Price: £220.00

London: Printed for J.M. Cobbett, 1823. New Edition. Unpaginated. Frontis (grasses), title leaf, contents leaf; followed by [96pp] text. No preceding adverts. Some browning to title, frontis, and [I5-I7], but text generally clean. In very pretty new quarter calf with green marbled boards. Very Good.

Price: £140.00

Edinburgh: pocketbooks: Pier Arts Centre, Stromness; Polygon, Edinburgh; Morning Star, Edinburgh; Taigh Chearsabhagh, Lochmaddy; 1998. First edition. 96pp, illustrated in colour and monochrome. Half-title inscribed by Graham Rich. 17 x 12.5 cms, green softcover, in as new condition. Fine.

Price: £85.00

Firenze: La Nuova Italia, 1972. First edition. [ii], 13, [i], followed by 107 plates, (mostly full page, and several folding), followed by [46p] Elenco delle Tavole, and [ii] Bibliografia Sommaria. Italian text. Contents as new, with some pale foxing to the closed top edge. Very large book, 44 x 32 cms, in the original binding of fine sea-green cloth, with the artist's monogram in white on the front, and the spine titled in white: firm and clean with very slight compression to some extremities. In the pictorial dust jacket, plain to the spine and lower panel, top edge slightly knocked, 1cm closed tear to bottom edge. Near Fine in very good dust-jacket.
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Price: £160.00

Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1969. First printing of the English edition. 48pp: colour cartoon story. Contents clean and fresh and unmarked. Tiny bit of foxing to the closed edges. Large quarto, in the pictorial laminated boards. Very bright, with slight rubbing visible to white areas: firm, corners sharp, spine ends slightly rounded. A very nice fresh copy of the first Asterix adventure. Near Fine.

Price: £90.00

London: Brumby & Clarke, n.d. [1904? 1910?] First or early edition. vii, [iii], 105pp, plus the 24 superb guarded plates. In this copy the eggs are shown on a plain white background. Some browning to endpapers and half-title. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Large quarto, in the original binding of half green cloth with paler green cloth boards, boldly titled in gilt: two small pale marks to upper board, extremities slightly knocked: a nice firm copy. Very Good+.

Price: £150.00

London: printed by John Nichols, for T. Payne and Son, and G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1789. Enlarged edition. Splendid set ! Vol I: cxlix, 351pp, [xx]; Vol II: [vi] 598pp, [xli]; Vol III: [vi], 760pp, [lii]. With all the 87 plates called for, including the portrait frontis, plus the unlisted genealogical chart of Oliver Cromwell; and with all 57 of the superb maps, most of which are folding. A few maps and pages are very faintly browned, and in some sections of the work the text pages have a faintly blue tinge, but the overwhelming sense is of the freshness of the pages and the clarity of the print. Marbled endpapers bright. Large folio, 17.4 x 10.6 ins, in contemporary full tree calf gilt, with six raised bands, ornate floral decoration in compartments, and two red lettering pieces. Joints and ends recently restored. An exceptional set. Near Fine.
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Price: £3,500.00

Dorchester: Veloce Publishing, n.d. [2000]. Enlarged and Revised Edition. 240pp, packed with photos. Contents mint, appears unread. In the turquoise cloth-textured boards, spine titled in silver, sharp and sparkling bright: in the unpriced colour pictorial jacket, very slightly knocked to the top edge, as new. Really one to drool over. Fine in fine dust-jacket.
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Price: £75.00

Norfolk: The Author: Gerald Hagan, 1975 First edition. 132pp, illustrated with photographs and foldout genealogies. Errata slip tipped in facing the title. Author's 1975 gift inscription on first blank leaf. Detached front free endpaper tipped in, masking tape formerly used has left residue at join. Contents otherwise very clean and unmarked. In the original textured blue boards, spine titled in gilt, base of spine bumped. Protected pictorial jacket slightly frayed at head and corners, and has 1cm stain to back panel, but is otherwise clean. VG in VG dust-jacket.

Price: £60.00

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books in association with Michael Joseph, 1956. First Penguin edition. 203, (i), 4. Exceptionally fresh copy, apparently unread, and stored well. Spine has slight browning, a pucker near the base, and a few 1-mm scuffs. Square bright copy. Near Fine.

Price: £20.00

London: Macmillan, 1929. First edition. xvi, 182pp. Some foxing to panorama at p 99. Contents otherwise fresh and clean. Foxing to uncut edges of text block, but not intruding onto pages. Top edge gilt. Firm in the original smooth red-brown cloth with gilt medallion and spine title, bright and firm, corners good, spine ends puckered. Exceptional copy. Near Fine.

Price: £500.00

London: The Minerva Library of Famous Books: Ward Lock & Co, 1890. First thus. Vol I: xxxii, 608pp; Vol II: xviii, 548pp + (10) adverts: one advert leaf partly torn away. With full-page illustrations and woodcuts in the text. Some foxing to the closed edges, but not encroaching onto the page surfaces. In the original blue cloth, with minor marks to spines. Clean, firm copies. Very Good.
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Price: £95.00

Studies in Social and Political Thought: Liverpool University Press, 2001. First Edition. vii, 149pp. Contents fresh and unmarked, in the original navy cloth lettered in gilt. Fresh, bright and sharp, in unclipped (unpriced) dustwrapper. Unblemished Fine copy. ISBN 0853239762

Price: £30.00

Oxford: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1986. First edition. xviii, (ii), 625pp. Contents very fresh and clean, appears unread. In the original binding of navy cloth, titled in gilt. Firm and bright, with slight flattening of spine ends. In protected unclipped (unpriced) pictorial dust jacket: spine sunned (but print clear), knock to head of spine and top edges. Near Fine in very good dust-jacket.

Price: £90.00

London: Frederick Warne, 1978. First edition thus. 191pp, illustrated in colour and black and white. Ownership name on front free endpaper, contents otherwise clean and fresh and unmarked. In the original maroon textured binding lettered in white, clean, bright, firm and sharp. In protected unclipped (unpriced) pictorial dust jacket, with tortuous copy advertising Cyanamid Avenge wild oat herbicide: very bright and fresh and clean. Near Fine in Fine dust-jacket.

Price: £52.00

Edinburgh: William Oliphant, 1830. First edition. 131pp, including a lengthy preface. Slight browning to endpapers, ownership name on ffep. contents otherwise clean. 12mo, in the original purple pebble-grain cloth, boards firm. Paper spine label darkened, one-inch split to head of upper joint, spine ends fraying a little, mild scuffing to joints and corners. Greville was a notable biologist and mycologist, besides campaigning on a number of moral or political issues, such as slavery and capital punishment. He certainly takes a tough line on the theatre. Scarce title. Very Good.

Price: £70.00

London: Hodder and Stoughton, October 1934. First reprint. 160pp, enhanced by 21 of Munnings' drawings (including the endpapers). Ownership name to half-title, and a few foxing spots to the prelims and the last couple of pages. Contents otherwise clean and fresh. In the original binding of smooth light blue cloth, decorated with an inset drawing of Warrior. The closed edges of the text block have a little light foxing, the spine ends are puckered, and there is slight blunting of the upper corners: otherwise a very clean, bright, fresh, firm copy. Very Good+.

Price: £195.00

The World Bank, Washington, D.C., 1999. First Edition. xii, 424pp. Contents very fresh and clean. In original binding of maroon cloth lettered in gilt, spine ends slightly knocked. Unclipped dustjacket is clean, but slightly knocked at the edges and slightly sunned. VG+ in VG dust-jacket.

Price: £24.00