Antiquarian from Brogden Books

Barrow-in-Furness Corporation, 1968 12mo pp136 bw plates/drawings/maps index VG+ Published to commemorate the Borough centenary, an update of the 1951 original. Some minor marking to the front cover, near Fine otherwise. A nice copy of this softcover first printing.

Kendal: Westmorland Gazette, 1968 12mo turquoise cloth pp xxxviii+176 bw drawings index G+/G- First edition, with 18/- priced dust jacket, stated Fourth Impression. Text and drawings are VG+ with some very minor former damping. Name, address and slight label scrape inside front. Slight 3x4mm loss at top jacket spine, and remains of old tape on inside jacket edge. Quite scarce.

London: Warne, 1890 large 8vo cloth pp xlvi+587 bw engravings VG- Memoir of hunting across the continents. Written with practical information, and includes some social observations. Also a gun fight with a party of Sioux while on a buffalo hunt. The author was a British Army officer, seconded to Ottoman forces, and permanently wounded in… Read more about this item

London: Air League, 1963 4to pp30 bw plates VG Featuring the wartime French Air Force.

Hong Kong: South China Morning Post, 1953 larger 8vo cloth pp244 colour/bw plates drawings index VG/fair- A work by the administrator ornithologist and cultivator. This is the April 1953 First printing. Name written inside front. Lower front and upper back jacket torn. Very scarce.

London: Readers Union, 1938 8vo cloth pp xvi+304 bw plates maps index VG- Memoir of journeys in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman, with photographs. Foreword by T.E.S. aka T. E. Lawrence. All plates present, large fold out map inserted loose. Minor binding wear, a nice copy. [ Extra signed for postage overseas. ]

The Village Press, 1990 4to leatherette pp xiii+396 bw drawings index F/F- Originally published in 1903, this a facsimile edition. Printed in a font slightly larger than modern, so an easier read. A Fine copy book. [ Heavy book, so extra postage overseas. ]

The Village Press, 1989 4to leatherette pp v+430 bw drawings index F/VG Originally published in 1904, a facsimile edition in the slightly larger font Edwardian style. [ Heavy book, so extra postage overseas. ]

Longmans, Green, 1927 larger 8vo cloth pp723 colour/bw maps index G Quite traditionalist history by the 1920s Cambridge professor. Fold-out maps all present, VG+ text, wear to cloth binding, so Good overall. [ Heavier book, so extra postage overseas. ]

Faber, 1944 12mo cloth pp415 G Various authors with factual and fictional sea stories. War Economy printed text-block is near Fine, with somewhat worn cloth binding, so Good condition overall.

London: Constable, 1987 larger 8vo cloth pp xxii+314 bw maps bibliography index F/VG The second part of Hubert's work, with a modern Introduction. A nice copy.

London: Longmans, Green, 1894 12mo cloth pp xiv+210+32publisher adverts bibliography index G- First edition, VG- text, splash of paint on front binding, front endpaper removed, a research copy.

London: Constable, 1987 larger 8vo cloth pp xxxiii+335 bw plates/drawings bibliography index F/VG Originally published in 1934, this also has a modern academic Introduction by Gearoid Mac Eoin. A nice copy. [ Larger book, so possible extra airmail postage overseas. ]

London: J. J. Seeley, 1913 smaller 8vo boards pp239 F- Catalogue of the organisation's library. Includes many obscure titles, particularly topography and travel. Very minor wear and one scrape to card binding, Fine text. Rare.

Loughborough: Wills & Hepworth, 1959 12mo beige/blue boards pp51 colour drawings G- First of this Ladybird Travel Adventure. Chipping to binding edge, 15mm missing top spine, near Fine illustrations.

London: Vawser & Wiles, 1945 smaller 6vo cloth pp72 bw drawings VG/G Undated post-war c.1945, dust jacket originally 5/- priced. A detailed work on various scale model railway design and construction. Former damping to the cloth binding, text-block Fine, so VG overall. Jacket with edge wear and a 3mm scrape through, but colour bright, now protected.… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Heffer, 1936 8vo boards pp221 index G+/G- Anglican historical survey of Christianity. Dust jacket pasted on to spine, name dated 1939 written inside front.

National Book Association / Hutchinson, 1938 8vo cloth pp320 index G+ Memoirs of the merchant seaman organiser.

Kessinger, 2010 4to laminated boards pp25 F Undated c.2010 facsimile printing of the 1846 work. Narrow gauge railways in England. Scarce, a nice copy.

London: Success Publishing, 1927 12mo booklet pp64 G Undated c.1927 booklet of food and drink for the summer season. From the age of 'Brideshead Revisited', very much of the era.