London: S.O. Beeton, 1863. Fiftieth Thousand. Hardcover. xxxix, 1112pp, with many illustrations in the text, and with the colour plates all present except the frontis. The plates are foxed, and one has wear to the edges, now repaired. Text in very good order, generally clean, with occasional foxing and or..... More
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 1864. Second edition. Hardcover. Landscape format: title, dramatis personae, map, + 40pp printed recto, packed with light-hearted drawings and notes recording the party's adventures and things seen. Occasionally obtrusive - but generally light - foxing to many pages. Original red-brown endpapers with new..... More
London: Sampson Low & Co., [1888 or earlier]. First UK edition. Hardcover. xii, 384pp, followed by 16 foldout plans, +xii (adverts); with a frontis, 8 plates, a folding displacement sheet, and many drawings in text. Adverts also to endpapers. Defective, lacking both the title page and p.xi/xii in the prelims..... More
London: Iliffe & Son, 1888. Original edition. Hardcover. [iv], 448pp (continuously numbered), with six frontis plates and several head- and tail-pieces in line. After the general title page, which has some soiling, the contents are clean and in very good order, with offsetting to a few pages. Each month's edition..... More
![Grand Cirque International. [= Internationaler Circus, French edition]. Lothar Meggendorfer](/pictures/thumb/18908101.jpg?v=1542314723)
Paris: Dambuyant & Guignard, Nouvelle Librairie de la Jeunesse, n.d. [c.1890]. First French edition. Hardcover. Panoramic pop-up. Classic of the genre. Original early edition, in very bright and functioning condition, having had a few small repairs, and with a few missing parts replaced from a modern copy: namely, the donkey..... More
London: Jarrold & Sons, n.d. [1892?]. Second edition. Hardcover. 406pp, with many illustrations, and with the four coloured folding maps in crisp condition. Contents very clean. Decorative endpapers tanned, with light foxing to their adjacent pages. Firm, in the original binding of navy cloth, with the decorative gilt title to..... More
![Dainty Dishes for Slender Incomes. [No. I of the Isobel Handbooks]. 'Isobel' of Home Notes](/pictures/thumb/18954120.jpg?v=1542314731)
London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited, n.d. [1895]. First or early edition. Hardcover. 128pp, endpapers foxed and pages tanned, but contents otherwise unmarked and in good clean order: includes some advertisements. In the original binding of green cloth printed in black. Boards firm, with some toning and soiling, upper joint fraying..... More
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1903. First edition. Hardcover. viii, 331pp. Endpapers browned: armorial bookplate to front pastedown. First and last few pages have some browning or foxing. Contents otherwise clean, faintly toned at edges. In the original binding of dark green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Firm..... More
London: W.H. & L. Collingridge, 'Amateur Gardening' Office, n.d. [c.1904]. Third edition. Hardcover. 94 + [10] adverts, with illustrations in the text. Contents clean and in good order, with creases to some corners. 8vo, in the original orange boards printed in black and red with green cloth spine. Slight soiling..... More
Halifax and London: Messrs Edward Mortimer (publishers of the 'Court' series), n.d. [c.1909]. Early edition. Softcover. 16pp, illustrated. Stapled booklet. Contents clean and unmarked. In green card covers with decorative red title in relief to front, adverts for cards to the back. Crease to fore-edge of front cover where it..... More
London and Aldershot: Gale & Polden, n.d. (c.1910?). Second Edition. Cloth. 38pp + portrait frontis, followed by 8pp of adverts (illustrated). Publisher’s list pasted onto front pastedown. Laid in is the 25-inch square folded chart illustrated with photographs: slightly creased and repaired and with a spot of old glue on..... More
London: C. Gilbert-Wood, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. x, (vi), 192pp, with photo frontis portraits, and illustrated with line drawings. 1915 ownership name to front free endpaper. Trim, well-kept copy with no wear or soiling. Endpapers browned. Pronounced foxing spots to the closed edges, sometimes encroaching on to the page margins..... More
London: W.H. & L. Collingridge, 'Amateur Gardening' Office, n.d. [1917]. Reprint. 108pp, with many illustrations in the text and a photo frontis: the last 4 pages are advertisements. First issued in 1913 as 'School Gardening: A simple book for teaching boys and girls in elementary schools the rudiments of practical..... More
London: Cassell, 1923. First edition. Paperback. [iv], 152pp, illustrated. Contents clean, with some soiling to title page. 8vo, with thin red card covers, battered but made good, illustrated to the front, adverts to rear and inside. With new red spine and label. More
London: Methuen, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. viii, 164pp, with a frontis portrait. 'In this volume Mr Tilden, the great lawn tennis player, surveys his career...' Contents clean and unmarked, with some foxing to the title page, little elsewhere. Closed edges browned. In the original blue cloth-textured binding titled in navy..... More
London: Methuen, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. viii, (102)pp: pages of text alternating with illustrations in line. Contents clean and unmarked. In the original binding of purple cloth, firm, dulled, cloth to lower board slightly ridged, some wear to spine ends. A useful copy. More
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London: Girl's Own Paper Offices, n.d. [1930s]. Presumed first and only edition. Hardcover. 48pp, illustrated. Contents very clean with new matching endpapers. 167x121mm, in the original paper-covered boards, with plain back and attractive pictorial front, and a new cloth spine. A few minor marks to upper board, and slight wear..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. xii, [4], 149pp; illustrated with drawings, plans, plus a sail plan and 13 foldout plans. Plans not numbered or listed, but appear to be complete. Contents overwhelmingly clean, with one or two minor foxing spots or soil marks. Endpapers very tanned..... More
London: The Boy Scouts Association, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 124pp: cartoons: with an introduction, and notes about several of the cartoonists represented. Small 1952 gift inscription to front free endpaper. Minimal foxing to endpapers, contents otherwise very clean. In the original green cloth-textured binding titled in black, clean, bright and..... More
Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1950. Eighth edition. Hardcover. 1279pp. A very clean and little-used copy. Formerly in a sellotaped cover, and the tape has left brown marks to the first and last few blank pages. The closed edges are flecked with foxing, and there is a pale brown mark from a...... More
London: Macdonald, 1954. First edition. Cloth. 676pp, illustrated with photographic plates, and drawings in the text. Contents strikingly fresh and clean. Faint tanning to endpapers. Small faint splash to top edge of closed text block. In the original binding of orange cloth, spine titled in gilt. Boards bright, spine faded..... More
London: Egon Ronay Ltd., [1959]. First edition. Paperback. 80-page stapled booklet 18.3x12cms, in thin card covers. Front cover design is red, and bears the shop label of the Fakenham garage which originally sold it. Advertisements for Ford cars to rear cover and inside covers. Slight foxing and soiling to both..... More
London: Adlard Coles, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 158pp, illustrated with photographs, and with plans for the boat as endpapers. Contents very fresh: inner edges of the jacket flaps have left a faint vertical yellow mark to the free endpapers and the adjacent few pages - including affecting the title at..... More
London: Peter Davies, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. xvi, 237pp, illustrated with photographs and with map endpapers. Gift inscription to half title, contents otherwise very clean. In the original binding of blue cloth titled in gilt. Upper board has slight discolouration to lower corner: firm and fairly bright, spine ends blunted..... More
Poona: Printed and Published at the College of Military Engineering Dapodi, n.d. [c.1975]. Presumed first and only edition. Hardcover. [viii], 134pp, illustrated with photographs. A very nicely produced book, done with love. Contents fresh and clean, with faint tanning to the endpapers. Small quarto, 25x17cms, in the original binding of..... More
