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Royal Insurance Company Ltd, 1908. Hardcover. VG+. Fifth Edition. 9.5 x 13.5 cm dark green cloth backed dark brown card boards with gilt stamped titles and a photographic image of a polo player on the front. 169pp with images of a high jumper and a skater on each of the free endpapers and publisher's advert on the insides of both covers. Internally there are basic descriptions of the basic rules and records and results for various major sporting events from Amateur Athletics to Yachting as well as Oxbridge and Public School records. A lovely copy clean and bright internally with just an a little light rubbing to the edges of the boards and some small ink splashes to the front and rear boards and a hand written date of 1907 on the spine. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
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Record of Sports 1907
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Red Dwarf Log No. 1996 ~ Signed by Doug Naylor and Craig Charles
by ALEXANDER, Paul
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Heinemann, 1995. F. 14.7 x 21.5 cm laminated boards pictorial end papers. The 'diary' of the crew of the Red Dwarf unpaginated with illustrations throughout. Signed by series creator Doug Naylor and actor Craig Charles who plays Lister A fine book with excellent signatures. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
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Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches
by Saki (H. H. Monroe)
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Methuen & Co, 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG. First Edition, 11 x 17.4 cm blue cloth with gilt stamped titles to the front and spine, 123(1)pp. The titles on the spine are a little faded and there is a touch of rubbing to the spine tips, corners and edges. Internally there is no name, inscription or bookplate but there is some toning to the endpapers and the edge of the text block. The final two text pages have been poorly opened and there is slight loss from the foredge margin although no text has been lost. All in all a good clean First Edition copy. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
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Richardson's New & Commercial Reference Chart Of the British Isles Showing railway, steamship routes, ports, rivers, canals main roads and rainfall
by G W Bacon (Publisher)
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G W Bacon, nd[1912] 1912. Hardcover. VG. 21 x 32.5 cm burgundy boards with gilt stamped titles to the spine and front containing a large folding map with two halves, each folded into nine sections on linen that opens out to a magnificent 127 x 93 cm with a 1:950,000 scale. The map is priced at 21/- is in full colour and has statistical tables covering a myriad of subjects from imperial revenue to postage rates and the various motor speed limits in different towns in the UK. The map's date is based on the fact that the latest date on all the tables is 1910-1911. This large, detailed and information packed map has been well protected by its cloth covers which are some what age marked with some loss of cloth to small areas on the front and back boards, although the gilt titles remain bright. The spine has splits on both joints at the top and bottom ranging from 4.5 - 7.5 cm but the binding remains firm. Internally the map is in excellent condition with just a little dust staining to the verso of…
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Richelieu
by CAHU, Theodore
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Boivin & Cie, 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG-. LELOIR, Maurice. 1st Edition. 30 x 37 cm dark green cloth with gilt and colour illustrations and titles to the front, gilt stamped titles to the spine and publisher's device in black to the rear. All edges gilt, pale blue-grey endpapers, iv, 76(2)pp with 36 chromolithographic illustrations 4 of which are double pages. There is a little light dust staining to the boards with a few white marks (paint) at the top of the rear board. The binding is firm but there is a 3cm split in the cloth on the front joint and a couple of 5mm holes in the cloth at the foot of the spine and a 2mm hole at the head. There is a little rubbing to the corners edges and spine tips together with some bruising to all four corners. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
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The Ring - Translated by Andrew Porter
by WAGNER, Richard
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Dawson, 1976. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. VG++. FRASER, Eric. Limited Edition no 149 of 200 copies. 14.8 x 24 cm putty coloured cloth with paste down image to the front and brown titles to the spine. Fawn endpapers, xli 362 pp with 39 black and white illustrations and six vignettes. Together with an additional complete suite of illustrations 19 x 28.5 cm signed by the illustrator, tied in a green ribbon and contained within a cloth chemise with a paste down image echoing that on the book. Both are housed within a double slip case. The dust marked and slightly spotted slip case has protected the book and the illustrations well. Both the book and the illustrations are clean, bright and unmarked noting only a touch of toning to the spines. A beautifully illustrated edition with a lovely signed suite of additional illustrations. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
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The Ring of Nenuphar
by RUTLEY, C Bernard
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George Newnes Ltd, 1943. VG++/VG. 1st Edition. 12.5 x 19cm blue cloth boards with black stamped titles to the front and spine, 214 [2]pp with original unclipped jacket priced at 5/- net. The boards have been well protected by its jacket and are clean and bright with just a hint of pushing to the spine tips. Internally, there is a gift inscription dated 1944 on the front free endpaper but otherwise the pages are very clean with just the merest hint of spotting to the edge of the text block. The dust jacket which is now protected in a removable clear jacket (not shown) and presents very well. It is surprisingly clean and bright with a little chipping at the head of the spine and corners, a small 4mm tear on the lower rear joint and a 1cm tear with associated creasing at the lower corner on the front panel. There is also a little creasing along the top edge of the front panel. All in all an excellent and scarce 1st Edition copy of this, the first in Rutley's Honor Lang trilogy, an adventure series…
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Rip Van Winkle
by IRVING, Washington
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William Heineman, 1919. Hardcover. VG+. RACKHAM, Arthur. New Impression. 19.9 x 25.5 brown paper covered boards with gilt and brown stamped decoration and titles to the front and spine. Top edge brown, silhouette endpapers, (x), 36(2) pp with 24 full page colour illustrations with captioned tissue guards and black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham within the text. The boards are very good in general noting only a crease to the top corner of the front board and a hint only of rubbing to the corners and spine tips. The often delicate spine is particularly nice. Internally, the book is excellent, clean and bright with no inscription, name or bookplate and only some toning to the front free endpapers. All in all a very nice early copy of this much loved, Rackham illustrated, volume. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
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Roadmarks
by ZELAZNY, Roger
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Ballantine Books, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. NF/VG++. 14 x 21.5 cm cream cloth backed paper covered boards with copper stamped titles to the spine and blind stamped titles to the upper board. Rough cut fore edge, [vi] 185 [1] pp in unclipped dust jacket priced at $8.95. The boards have been well protected by the jacket and the corners are firm and sharp. Internally clean, without name, inscription or bookplate. The dust jacket, which is now protected in a removable, clear cover (not shown) and has slight fading and creasing to the spine. A lovely copy. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
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The Roly-Poly Pudding
by POTTER, Beatrix
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Frederick Warne & Co., 1908 1908. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition, 1st impression. 12.5 x 20.5cm original red cloth boards, front board lettered in gilt and blue with colour pictorial onlay and blue lettering to the spine. This is the first impression, having '[All Rights Reserved]' at the foot of the title page. The boards are in near fine condition with a little pushing to the spine ends and a faint 1cm rubbing ogf the colour from the top 1cm of the upper joint. Internally, the pages are very clean with only sporadic light finger marks. A really lovely copy. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
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Rose In the Afternoon and Other Poems
by JOSEPH, Jenny
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J M Dent & Sons Ltd, 1974. 1st Edition. Softcover. VG++. 1st Edition. 13.7 x 21.6cm red paperback with black titles to the front and spine, 72pp. Signed and inscribed by the author on the back of the title page, to friend and fellow poet Terence Hards. The book is well preserved with a little rub to the top corner of the front cover and a little fading to the spine. It is now protected in a clear, rigid removable cover (not shown in our images). It won the 1974 Cholmondley Award and includes the 1st appearance in book form of her most famous poem 'Warning', which begins 'When I am an old woman I shall wear purple / With a red hat which doesn't go... ' which was voted Britain's favourite post war poem in a BBC poll and is the inspiration behind The Red Hat Society. A lovely association copy. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
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A Rough Shaking
by MACDONALD, George
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Blackie & Son, 1891. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+. 1st Edition, 13.2 x 19.2 cm green bevelled boards with black, green and gilt decoration and gilt titles to the front and spine. All Edges green, dark blue endpapers, ix [iii] 384+32 catalogue for Blackie's books. With 12 full black and white illustrations by W Parkinson. Rubbing to the corners and spine tips with a couple of pin prick holes in the cloth but the titles are clear and bright. There is a ding on the top edge of both the front and rear boards. Internally there is a prize inscription on the half title page and occasional handling marks. Two leaves have marginal corner creases. All in all a lovely 1st Edition copy in an unusual coloured binding. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald
by KHAYYAM, Omar
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E P Dutton, 1922. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. VG+/VG+. FISH, Anne Harriet. 1st US Edition illustrated by Fish. 23.2 x 29.2 cm 4to., black cloth spine over orange black and cream paper covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Cream and orange paisley designed endpapers. Edges uncut, 108pp black and orange decorated initial letter to each stanza with 20 colour images in the Art Deco style with silver and gold highlights by Anne Fish, all with tissue guards. The book comes with its scarce original dust jacket. The boards are very good plus with a little bruising to the corners and a hint of shelfwear to the bottom edge. The gilt titles on the spine are a touch faded. Internally, there is no name inscription or book plate, the patterned front free endpaper has been removed at some point in the past and has now been professionally replaced with a copy. The images are all in fine condition and there is just a hint of spotting to the uncut edges. The dust jacket now protected by a removable…
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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Hodder and Stoughton, nd(c1920) 1920. -. Hardcover. VG+. DULAC, Edmund. Early reprint. 22.3 x 28.5 cm red cloth with gilt stamped titles and decoration to the front and spine, plain endpapers with 20 tipped in plates by Edmund Dulac each with captioned tissue-guards. A lovely looking copy with bright gilt decoration and firm sharp corners. There is a touch of shelf wear to the bottom edge and spine tips and a faint band of fading to the top 1cm of the front board and rear boards and the spine edge of rear board. Internally there is a bookplate for Major Sir Brunel Cohen, who was both an MP and disabled rights campaingner. Otherwise there are no inscriptions or foxing and just a small smudge in the top corner of the tissue guard to the plate to Quatraine I and a 2mm ink spot to the tissue guard for Quatraine XL. A very presentable copy. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged…
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. Illustrated in Colour and Line by René Bull.
by KHAYYAM, Omar
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Hodder & Stoughton, nd[1913] 1913. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+. BULL, René. 1st Trade Edition. 21.5 x 28.2 cm, brown cloth with blue and gilt stamped titles and decoration to the front and gilt stamped titles to the spine. Top edge brown, unpaginated 78 leaves, with 10 full page tipped in colour illustrations mounted within gilt decorative borders and with captioned tissue-guards; together with 19 smaller mounted vignettes. There are also many in-text drawings, head and tail pieces and elaborate borders. The boards have a touch of shelf wear with light rubbing to the corners and edges and spine tips and to the gilt decoration. There is a split in the cloth across the very tip of the foot of the spine, slight pushing to the bottom corners and a 3mm drip mark to the top edge of the front board. Internally there is a book plate to the front pastedown but no inscriptions. The free endpapers have some toning (acid migration) and the following and preceding few leaves have a touch of spotting whilst…
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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George G. Harrap, nd [c.1930] 1930. Full Leather. NF/VG. POGANY, Willy. Reprint. 15 x 22.5 cm leather binding with gilt stamped titles and decoration to the front and titles to the spine. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut, marble endpapers. Unpaginated 75 quatrains printed in green with decorative boarder and 16 full page colour plates by Willy Pogany. The book is contained within a brown card slipcase. A near fine book with the merest hint of rubbing to the spine tips. Internally the book is clean, without name, inscription or bookplate and the plates fine. The slip case is very good and with just a touch of rubbing to the corners and edges and a 25/- price pencilled in on the front. All in all a lovely example of Pogany's first set of Rubaiyat illustrations. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
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Ruby in the Smoke ~ SIGNED by the author
by PULLMAN, Philip
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Oxford University Press, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. NF/NF. 1st edition, 1st Impression. 14.3 x 22cm red cloth with silver titles to the spine, 200pp with original unclipped dust jacket with £6.96 net price. The book has been signed on the title page by Philip Pullman. A near fine book with clean bright boards and sharp corners. Internally, there is the usual uniform toning to the pages resulting from the quality of the paper stock used. The author has signed the title page in blue biro. The dust jacket is near fine with only a little light creasing to the spine and only very slight fading of the red sections at the spine ends. All in all an excellent, collectable, signed first edition of this the first in Pullman's extremely popular Sally Lockhart quartet. If you would like any further information or images, please do not hesitate to ask. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are…
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Russia For Beginners
by ATKINSON, Alex and SEARLE, Ronald
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Perpetua Books, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG++/VG+. Black cloth with gilt stamped decoration and vignette to the front and gilt titles to the spine. Red endpapers, 93[3]pp, with black and white illustration's throughout. In original unclipped dust jacket priced at 21s net. Signed and inscribed by Searle to his friend Wilfred Hanchant curator of the Wisbech Museum, "Wlifred/ with Happy Christmas Wishes/ Ronald/1960". Clean boards with bright titles and decoration. There is just a touch of bruising to the corners. Internally there is a reference number in pencil from a previous owner on the front pastedown and Searle's inscription to the front free endpaper. Otherwise the book is clean and bright. The dust jacket is protected in a removable, clear cover (not shown) and is bright and unfaded with just a 1cm tear to the top edge of the front panel and a small ink smudge of less than 1cm on the bottom corner of the front panel. There is a hint of rubbing to the spine tips and corners…
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