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Prescott, AZ: Wolfe Publishing Co, 1982. xiii, 175pp, appendices, bw ills. Or tan faux leather. Reprinted from the 1971 Winchester edition. As new. Deals with the development of the shotgun and wing shooting in the USA during the last thirty years of the 19th century.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo.

Croydon South, Vic: Motor Racing Publications Ltd., 1997. 304 pages, four appendices: price comprisons; specifications and performance data; ownership of British marques after 1970; production figures, registrations, exports and imports 1970-1995. Laminated boards. The book includes new-model descriptions, and production dates, production and sales figures, technical specifications of more than 1,500 models, industrial and technical developments, and changes in the… Read more about this item

Croydon South, Vic: Motor Racing Publications Ltd., 1996. 224 pages, four appendices: specifications and performance data; ownership of British marques from 1945; production figures, registrations, exports and imports 1945-1970; price comparisons. Laminated boards. The book includes new-model descriptions, production and sales figures, technical specifications of more than 1,500 models, industrial and technical developments, changes in the motoring scene.. First Edition.… Read more about this item

Havertown, PA: Casemate, 2002. HEAVY. Foreword by Clifford G Simenson. x, 342 pages, b/w photos, six appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. Sworn to secrecy for 50 years, the men of the 23rd Special Troop are only now talking about their missions and the role they played and the impact they had on the European front in World… Read more about this item

New York: Foreman & Cloark, 1929. Unpaginated [48 pages], full page bw plates featuring sketches of the new season's suits and topcoats including Plus Six Knickers and tuxedos with descriptions and order forms. This style portfolio was produced 'for Outside Salesman only'. It has a typed 'Important Special Note for all Outside Salesmen' laid down on the order form (not… Read more about this item

New York: Windward, 1981. 223 pages, 48 pages of full-color illustrations, b/w iulls throughout, bibliography, indexes. Prelims, end-pages and edges ightly foxed. Prev owner's bookplate laid down on the tinted front paste-down. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. The book 'presents a survey of the histories of the major precious and semiprecious stones. Beginning with prehistoric man's first tools and ending with… Read more about this item

Burbank, Ca.: Unique Publications, 2001. 338 pages, b/w ills throughout. Paperback. Through interviews with 24 of the world's top karate masters, including Osamu Ozawa and Masatoshi Nakayama, the author presents a complete view of the empty-handed art of fighting, philosophy and self-defence. . Second Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 4to.

Winston-Salem: John F Blair, 1989. 207 pages, b/w ills, index. Cloth-backed papered boards in dust-jacket. The book covers acts of uncommon bravery at sea, told largely in the words of the particpants, North and South alike.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Square 8vo.

Norwalk, Cn: Easton Press, 2001. 481pp. Or full black leather with title in gilt, all edges gilt, moire silk endpoapers, silk place marker ribbon. Small rubs to gilt borders and several small scratches to gilt page edges. Top corners very lightly bumped. Attractive leather bound edition of the second of Anne Rice's vampire series produced to the usual high standards… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. xi, 332pp. Or red cloth, titled in gilt to spine, in jacket. Jacket price clipped with some foxing, spine very slightly sunned. Some minor foxing to endpapers, page edges and margins of a few pages. Jacket particularly crisp. Eight early stories by Raymond Chandler which he refered to as his 'cannibalised stories'- meaning that in later… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1982. HEAVY. xxiii, 342 pages, illustrated throughout with colour photographs, line drawings, distribution maps, index. Preliminary, endpages and edges a little foxed. Cloth boards in dust-jacket which has plastic lightly sellotaped (two pieces on each) to the paste-downs. The book, while providing a serious and comprehensive reference, also captures the beauty and charm of these Australian… Read more about this item

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1988. HEAVY. Foreword by Ronald Strahan. xix, 508 pages, illustrated throughout with colour photographs, line drawings, distribution maps, extinct forms, eggs, bibliography, index. Prelims, end-pages and edges slightly foxed. Cloth boards in dust-jacket which is covered plastic. Narrataives introduce each species group, while synopses present a summary of details about such aspects as habitat, breeding and… Read more about this item

London: Patrick Stephens, 1967. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout in full colour, index to illustrations, illustrated end-papers. There are two marks on the front paste-down. Illustrated laminated boards minor wear at spine head and foot. Uniforms of Africa, Oceania (including Australia), America and Asia in the 1960s. Text in Italian. A companion volume on European uniforms was also published making this Volume… Read more about this item

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1965. 192 pages, 16 pages of b/w plates, references, appendix, index. There is some wear at the spine. Cloth boards in rubbed, price-clipped dust-jacket. Napoleon's coup d'etat.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo.

London: Windrow & Green, 1991. 200 pages, with 100 colour paintings, more than 80 photographs and contempoary engravings, appendices: tables of uniform facings, detailed orders of battle for both sides in 15 major actions. Red cloth boards in dust-jacket. The chronological text offers a concise account of the progress of the war. Major battles are described in detail, and accompanied… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988. VERY HEAVY. xvi + 814 pages, map of Australia showing distribution of Aboriginal languages. Original boards in dust-jacket. The book is 'the first comprehensive, historically based record of the 10,000 words which make up the Australian contribution to the English language'.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Edinburgh: Chambers, 1993. HEAVY. xii, 1604pp. Or blue cloth boards in jacket. Slight edge wear to jacket, some thumb soiling to bottom page corners.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Barnes & Noble Publishing, 2005. Introduction by Linda Ronstadt. Profile by Orville Schell. 120 pages, more than 150 full color illustrations of Ferrington's superb guitars, illustrated end-papers. Illustrated boards in dust-jacket. The book has been produced in trapezoidal shape, intended to represent a custom guitar body. The book includes a pictorial essay showing how Danny makes a guitar.… Read more about this item

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. HEAVY. xvi, 304 pages, coloured frontispiece, 160 color and 135 b/w illustrations, appendix of marks, index. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. 'Myer Myers, a Jewish silversmith in Colonial America, created outstanding works for leading members of the New York elite, and the objects made in his workshop have long been regarded as the most… Read more about this item

San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2002. Foreword by Neal Benezra. 172 pages, illustrated throughout with photographs, catalogue of the Exhibition with commentary on the works by Edward Wakeling, bibliography, decorated end-papers. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. The book examines Dodgson's photographs not as the sideline of a celebrated writer, but as the creations of a serious potographic artist… Read more about this item