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London: Penguin, 1948. First edition. Softcover. Very Good. Edwards, Lionel. Broad octavo paperback with pictorial card covers. Unpaginated and illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. A little edge wear, crease to one corner, generally very good. Nice and clean inside. A childrens’ guide to different breeds of British and Irish cattle. Part of the Puffin Picture… Read more about this item

Cape Town: Stourton Press, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition limited to 600 copies. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt titles on spine, spine sunned. 120pp illustrated with one colour and 8 black and white full page plates. Gift dedication dated 1950 and a rather long note written in ink on front free endpaper ‘…do not lightly… Read more about this item

London: Penguin, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Bawden, Edward. Broad octavo hardback with coloured pictorial covers. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Endpapers illustrated with maps. A little edge wear, generally very good. Nice and clean inside and a lovely copy of this childrens’ guide to the peoples and history of Arab nations. Part… Read more about this item

London: Penguin, 1957. First edition. Softcover. Good. Richard Taylor . Broad octavo paperback with pictorial card covers. 31pp illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. A little edge wear, tear to base of spine, generally good. Nice and clean inside. Includes descriptions of early explorers, the search for the North West passage, Shackleton, Amundsen etc. Part of… Read more about this item

London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very Good. Hockney. 4to, dust jacket with portrait of Hockney on front over black cloth boards. 100pp illustrated throughout. Exhibition catalogue from a showing held at Whitechapel Gallery, London in 1970. Includes an interview with Hockney by Mark Glazebrook, also biographic note, list of exhibitions and selected bibliography. Slight… Read more about this item

D.S. Brewer LTD, 1977. Hardcover. Very good +/Good. Folklore Society Mistletoe Series. 8vo, green dust jacket with vignette of Mistletoe on front, over green cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. 182pp. Contents include Religious Symbols and Indian Thought; The World to Come. A Two Thousand Year Old Painting from China; The Old English Paternoster; Icons as… Read more about this item

London: Chapman & Hall, 1910. Hardcover. Good +. 8vo, cloth boards with gilt titles on front and spine. 360pp plus 4pp + 2pp adverts, with 287 illustrations. Second edition. School stamp on front endpaper and single stamp inside. A practical manual for the instruction of the youth in woodworking and joinery skills.

London: B T Batsford, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Good. For the Use of Workmen, Builders, Architects, and Others. Fully illustrated by Working Drawings and diagrams and photographic reproductions of old and modern types. Handrailing and Wreath Making. Folio, tan dust jacket over red cloth boards with black titles and illustration of spiral stair on front.… Read more about this item

Edward Lloyd Limited, 1897. Hardcover. Good +. Complete in 4 volumes. 8vo, paper covered boards with red cloth spine. Gilt titles on spine. Vol. I, xi + 340pp; vol II, xi + 308pp; vol. III, xii + 338pp; vol IV, xvii + 314pp. Illustrated with 124 coloured plates and other figures in the text. Detailed descriptions of male… Read more about this item

8vo, 362pp including index & bibliography. Contents include: Conceptual foundations: Realization, Superveniance, and the Characterisation of Physicalism; Overdetermination and Causal Closure of the Physical; Mental Causation and the Problem of Causal/ Explanatory Exclusion; Causality and Human Agency.

Spiral-bound, hard cover format. 317pp. 'Using the asanas of the Primary Series of Astanga Yoga this manual presents: Principals and benefits of adjusting; detailed alignment and guidance for each asana; key teaching points for verbally instructing a class; illustrates a wide range of adjusting methods including Partner Yoga and Thai Massage; over 210 photographs with adjustments and detailed instructions;… Read more about this item

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Good. 8vo, pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth boards. 258pp including index & appendices, illustrated with 20 plates and 15 maps. Some edge wear/ rubbing to the dust jacket. Inner book lovely and clean in near fine condition. Contents include chapters on individual canals, including proposed ventures,… Read more about this item

London: The Caxton Publishing Company, 1948. Hardcover. Very good . Complete set of 3 Volumes. Black textured cloth covers with blind stamped publisher's motif on front with gilt titles to spines, all edges speckled green. Vol I, 247pp; vol II, pp; vol III, pp. Illustrated with plates and numerous figures throughout the text. Nice and clean inside. These… Read more about this item

London: B. T. Batsford, Date, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, brown cloth boards with gilt titles from and spine. A little rubbing to the corners and spine, green endpapers. Previous owner’s name handwritten in ink dated 1892. 63pp plus 2pp publisher’s catalogue. Illustrated with 3 plates (2 folding) and figures throughout the text. Occasional marks, generally very… Read more about this item

London: Whittaker and Co, 1914. Hardcover. Good. With Two Hundred and Eighty-Three Illustrations; Fourth Edition, Thoroughly Revised and Enlarged. 8vo, blue cloth boards with blind embossed titles on front, gilt titles on spine. Some edgewear/ marking to the covers, generally very good and clean inside. 409pp including index and appendices, illustrated with plates, photographs, figures and diagrams throughout… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1857. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, full calf binding with marbled endpapers, with gilt titles and decoration on spine. Emblem of Trinity College in Oxford in gilt on front and back boards. From the collection of George Gilbert Ramsay of Glasgow University with his personal bookplate on the front pastedowns. Ramsay studied at Trinity… Read more about this item

London : John Murray, 1863. A New Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, half calf binding with marbled paper on boards, matching marbled endpapers, with gilt titles and decoration on spine. All edges red. Vol. I viii + 472pp, slight crack to binding and some shelf wear, vol. II iv + 474pp, vol. III iv + 518pp, including index.… Read more about this item

London : John Murray, 1863. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, half calf binding with marbled paper on boards, matching marbled endpapers, with gilt titles and decoration on spine. All edges red. A very attractive set. Vol. I xliii + 464pp, one page has a professionally repaired tear; vol. II vii + 490pp; vol. III vii + 479pp… Read more about this item

London: Meiklejohn & Son, Ltd, 1954. Hardcover. Good +. Medium octavo, blue cloth boards with black titles on spine. 41st edition. Some edgewear and tears to outer spine, inside very good and clean. Viii + 80pp of maps and comparisons in colour + 32pp of index of places with their latitude and longitude. This compares a range of… Read more about this item

London : Longmans, Green and Co., 1884. Hardcover. Good +. Complete in 3 volumes, 8vo, cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Blind embossed motif on boards. Coloured endpapers. Spines sunned, with a little edge wear. Vol. I, xviii + 704pp; vol. II, xii + 568pp; vol. III, xiii + 608pp + 12pp publisher's catalogue, spine cracked at… Read more about this item