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  READY STEADY GO pop book Beatles Rolling Stones
Norwich, TV Publications Limited. 1965, First Edition. Soft Cover, 8vo. (500 grams) Dusty Springfield, Tom Jones, Dave Clark Five, Marianne Faithful, Manfred Mann, The Hollies,and many others, I think this is a yearly retrospect for the 1965 season of the famous British POP music show, well illustrated throughout with B&W photos, many of the Stones and the Beatles etc. 82pp VG tidy copy, a little crackling to the lamination along the spine. Very Good/No Jacket.
USD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 83.5 | £UK 75.25 | JP¥ 11032] Book number: 004616
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  Winchester College Songs
P & G Wells. 1936. Cloth, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. name to paste down, minor foxing, small pocket sized cloth bound with gilt crest to cover, 104pp. Good/No Jacket.
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 1765] Book number: 001157
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CARSE ADAM  Toy-Land Tunes for Pianoforte a Collection of Very Easy Tunes for Children Book 1
London, Augener. 1957. Printer Wrapper, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Sheet Music, buff paper wrappers with black and red design of toy soldiers, a golliwog, jack in the box, etc. price stamp to mid centre of cover Album Series 19a, dated to rear cover by printer as 4/1957, 12pp lightly rubbed spine, 22 pieces (500 grams). Very Good/No Jacket.
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2206] Book number: 003233
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CHRISTIE AGATHA  Akhnaton a Play in Three Acts
London, Collins. 1973, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. unclipped DW has light edge rubbing and a few short tidy edge tears, faintly faded spine, book itself is near fine, rare play by Agatha Christie treating of the monotheistic sun-worshipping Pharaoh (whom some claim to have later become known as Moses). Very Good/Very Good.
USD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.75 | £UK 60.25 | JP¥ 8826] Book number: 002493
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BAKSHY ALEXANDER  The Path of the Modern Russian Stage and Other Essays
London, Cecil Palmer & Hayward. 1916, First Edition. Decorative Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. red cloth rubbed to edges with some fading or water splash discolouring to boards, sunned spine, corners and spine ends starting to fray slightly, name to fep, frontis has offset light ghost to title, xxiii 243pp + 12 'pholeo' illustrations. Good/No Jacket.
USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 | £UK 24.25 | JP¥ 3530] Book number: 002319
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JODOROWSKY ALEXANDRO  EL TOPO a book of the film
New York, Douglas Links. 1971, First Edition. (ISBN: 0825634016) Soft Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. (500 grams) first thus soft cover edition, translated by Loanne Pottlitzer, edited Ross Firestone. Includes screenplay to El Topo plus an iinterview with Jodorowsky. 173pp , illustrated B&W photos stills, NEAR FINE light wear to joints. Very Good/No Jacket.
USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 | £UK 30.25 | JP¥ 4413] Book number: 004984
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JODOROWSKY ALEXANDRO  EL TOPO a book of the film
London, Calder & Boyars. 1974, First Edition. (ISBN: 0714510386) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. first UK hardback edition, translated by Loanne Pottlitzer, edited Ross Firestone. Includes screenplay to El Topo plus an iinterview with Jodorowsky. 173pp , illustrated B&W photos stills. Book VG , DW complete , unclipped and VG except closed tear to cover from top left corner down for 50mm, hard to spot under mylar. uncommon in hardcover,EL TOPO in red on the rear wrapper panel is slightly sunned to top half, the bottom corner of the rear board has a small damp stain which is also apparent on the part of the DW that was adjacent to it, the rear board has small area white paper offset from the DW, toherwise tidy copy shows minimal signs of use or age, the tear goes from the L at top down to the left eye in the triangle poster on the wall. Very Good/Very Good.
USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 | £UK 45.25 | JP¥ 6619] Book number: 000786
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DE DIENES ANDRE  The Nude
London, Bodley Head. 1956, First Edition. Cloth, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ill.: Andre De Dienes. DW price clipped, torn along lower (rear) fore edge fold with some loss to edge of lower panel, light soiling and rubbing, book has light dust soiling and faint foxing to prelims, viii 127pp half are full page B&W photos of nude models, artistic poses etc art photography. Very Good/Very Good.
USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 | £UK 24.25 | JP¥ 3530] Book number: 002941
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FREEMAN ANDREW  English Organ-Cases
London, Geo.Aug. Mate & Son. 1921, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. poor copy, reading copy only, backstrip detached nd slipped in at front, cover rubbed and worn, waterstains to endpapers, foxed throughout, many pages detached but all complete, 1-78pp text 79-126 plates 127-132 index 1pp adverts.rear fep and paste down have pasted on diagram of the Church of St Margaret Westminster taken from The Builder December 23, 1882 . Front fep has pencil name "George Croft", and on rear fep is written "Organ All Saints Palmerston N my own design G C " but there is no design! maybe it was laid in ?. Fair/No Jacket.
USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2648] Book number: 000697
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WILTON ANDREW  Turner in the British Museum, drawings and watercolours
London, British Museum Press. 1977, reprint. (ISBN: 0714107468) Cloth, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ill.: J M W Turner. EXCELLENT COPY, dw PRICE CLIPPED, UNDER PLASTIC SLEEVE VERY TIDY, 35 COLOUR AND 220 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS. 168PP. Very Good/Very Good.
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 21.25 | JP¥ 3089] Book number: 001307
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MALCOLMSON ANNE  Miracle Plays, Seven Medieval Plays for Modern Players
London, Constable. 1961, reprint. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Pauline Baynes. (500 gram rate) tidy, priced clipped DW, long gift inscription to fep otherwise internally tidy, intro + 142pp, illustrated in line (medieval style) by Pauline Baynes, minor foxing to closed edges. Very Good/Very Good.
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 006249
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ANON  The David Soul Gift Book
Cheshire, Stafford Pemberton. 1978, First Edition. (ISBN: 0860301222) Pictorial Boards, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. (500 gram rate) ynclipped,spine may be sunned, minor handling wear, 46pp, colour & b&w photos throughout, actor made famous by 'Starsky and Hutch' show, small pen doodle at head of title page. Very Good/No Jacket.
USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 | £UK 6.25 | JP¥ 883] Book number: 005809
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ANON  The Film Show Annual 1958
London, L. T. A. Robinson. 1958, First Edition. Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Front pastedown shows Natalie Wood and front endpaper Terry Moore, rear endpaper shows Marisa Pavan and pastedown George Nader, 110pp includes about 20pp colour plates, DW has edge wear with rubbing and chipping, also faded to edges, but Elvis and Dolores Hart image from King Creole is unaffected, rear wrapper image of leggy Kathryn Grant in negligee and dancing shoes. Very Good/Good.
USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 | £UK 18.25 | JP¥ 2648] Book number: 005803
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ANON  The Great Comic Volume of Songs, 121 of the Newest and Best Sung By Sam Cowell &c
First Edition. Decorative Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. blue pebbled cloth with blind and gilt decoration and titling, backstrip missing, boards are worn and loose on the cords, corners rubbed back and frayed, lacks both feps, all edge are gilt but hard to tell as pages are offset from each other on the loose cords, undated but mentions The Great Exhibition of 1862, contains three separate collections of songs; 'The Perfect Cure Comic Song Book, with symphonies and accompaniments for the pianoforte' being 48pp, one leaf has top corner torn off with no loss of print, pages are thumbed and soiled from obvious candlelight use, includes; The Reg'lar Cure / Love's Perfect Cure / The Female Auctioneer / Aunt Jemima's Plaster / Kill Patrick of Tully Muckles Creig, or, the Irish Letter / The Irishman / The Old Maid, or, When I was a maid of Eighteen / Not to be Sneezed at / Johhny was a shoemaker / Oh! My love he is a saileur boy / My Betsy / Don't I love my Dixey / In the park, or, the Belgravian lament / The Captain with his whiskers / Woman's resolution / Be Quiet do, I'll call my mother / The Ratcatcher's Daughter / Why did my Sarah sell me? (with inked in 'Master' above title) / Minnie Clyde / Villikins and his Dinah / The Lost Child / Tim Turpin / Number One / Sheep-Skin and Bees' Wax / Where are you going to, My pretty maid? / The First of September; or, the Cockey SPortsman / Lord Lovel / Hot Codlings / The Irish Wedding / The Spider and the Fly / The Cork Leg / The Steam Arm / Billy Vite and Nelly Green; or, the ghost of a sheep's head / Umbrella Courtship / Giles Scroggins / Yankee's return from camp / The One horse shay / I'd rather be a daisy than any other flower / Revolutionary Tea [on the subject of the American Rebellion] / Peter Gray / Lord Bateman, + 'Sam Cowell's Forty Comic Songs with with symphonies and accompaniments for the pianoforte' being title and contents leaf plus 52pp same condition as the other, includes; A frog he would a-wooing go / A B C railway guide / Adventures of Major Longbow / Bacon and Greens / Barney Brallaghan's courtship / Beautiful Boy (the) / Ben Battle;or, Faithless Nelly Grey / Benedict and his missus (the) / Billy I have missed you / Bubble, Squeak and pettitoes / Cuba cigar / Fine Ould Irish Gintleman / Fine young English volunteer / Gay deceiver (the) / Going home with the milk in the morning / I smile but nothing more / I wish I had the right man here / I'm a young chap from the country / Lamplighter Dick / Lieutenant Luff / Nautical anatomist (the) / Neddy Bray / North and SOuth / Nothing to wear / Now a'days / Old Aunt Sally / Pretty Nanny / Rosy Lee the Airee Flower / So early in the morning / Tom Brown / Wake of Teddy Roe (the) / Wedlock is a ticklish thing / When the pie comes home / Wife's shy glance (the) / Yohn Schmidt / Young gal from the country (the) / Young Ben the carpenter, LACKS TWO LEAVES being pp17-18 = No 14 'Billy Barlow' and the end of Wedlock is a ticklish thing, and pp31-32 = No23 & 24 'Few days' Warbling Waggoner (the)' and the end of Nowadays, + 'Mackney's New Comic Song Book with with symphonies and accompaniments for the pianoforte' being title and contents leaf plus 52pp, same condition as others, includes; A bachelor's life for me / a file of bills / an Irishman / Billy Taylor / Camptown Races / Chapter of Kings (the) / Cobbler's end (the) / Come, let us go out, dear, together / Do, dear! do, Dear! / Fox and Grapes (the) / Georgy Barnwell / Giles Jolt / Girls are not so green (the) Great Exhibition of 1862 (the) / Guy (the) / Harry Brown's Sister / I bought a fine watch / I'd choose to wear a Jazey / I'm as happy as a bird / Irish Duel (the) / Maltreated grocer (the) / Margery Grinder / Molly O'Rigge / Mrs Waddle of Chickabiddy Lane / Murphy Delaney / My coat's the worse for wearing / My Jenny was a shirt-maker / Paddy's land / Paddy's trip from Dublin / Peg Briggs and her Pigs / Please to ring the Belle / Pull away merrily / The wig, the hat and the cane / Tippitywitchet / To the Strand / When my very first day / Whole hog or none (the) / Why look so queer, Jemmy? / Wouldn't you like to be me? / You'll get no ditty out of me. Good/No Jacket.
USD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 200.25 | £UK 180.5 | JP¥ 26477] Book number: 006672
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ASHTON ANTHONY  Harmonograph, a Visual Introduction to Harmony
Powys, Wooden Books. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 1902418050) Hard Cover, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Ill.: Anthony Ashton. (500 grams) near fine copy in same DW, minor spots of discolouration to spine edge of DW, 58 pp, the mechanics behind the Harmonograph, a Victorian invention that records sound waves as pencilled lines on paper. Very Good/Very Good.
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 1765] Book number: 004625
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HUNT LEIGH EDITED BY ARCHER & LOWE  Dramatic Essays By Leigh Hunt
London, Walter Scott. 1894, First Thus. Cloth, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. (500 gram rate) first thus edited, after 1807 original, red cloth rubbed to joints and corners, gilt titled cover and spine, spine faded a little and titling dulled, all edges gilt, xlvii 241+14pp adverts, port frontis with tissue guard, VG but shows light foxing and handling wear, theatrical / drama criticism from early Nineteenth Century. Very Good/No Jacket.
USD 70.00 [Appr.: EURO 46.75 | £UK 42.25 | JP¥ 6178] Book number: 005472
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IBSEN HENRIK EDITED BY WILLIAM ARCHER  Henrik Ibsen's Prose Dramas Edited By William Archer 5 Volumes
London, Walter Scott. 1890, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 5 vols, vols 1, 2 &4 are uniform green cloth with bevelled edges and gilt titling to covers and spines, spine ends and corners of rubbed and with short edge splits, top edge gilt vols 3 & 5 are undated and the cover titling and publisher name at foot of spine is blind instead of gilt and it has a different paper stock and maybe an American printing? otherwise ithey are still in uniform size and binding, but not bevelled and with no gilt edge, all vols have early ink inscription to fep (uniform in vols 1,2 &4 and the same in vol 3 & 5, VOL 1= lacks fep, inscription to verso of frontis, biographical intro / The League of Youth / The Pillars of Society / A Doll's House ( the first translation after a limited illustrated version) xii 389 x pp foxed prelims, VOL 2= Ghosts / An Enemy of the People / The Wild Duck 381 vi pp foxed prelims, VOL 3= Lady Inger of Ostrat / The Vikings at Helgeland / The Pretenders 379pp VOL 4= Caesar's Apostasy / The Emperor Julian 353 vi pp + insert advertising vol 5 and another insert 8pp with colour illustrations for the Sunflower Edition, the Camelot Series and the Windsor Series of books by Walter Scott, VOL 5= Rosmersholm / The Lady from the Sea / Hedda Gabler xiii 364pp. Very Good/No Jacket.
USD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.75 | £UK 60.25 | JP¥ 8826] Book number: 002346
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FERGUSON ARCHIBALD  The St Columba Collection of Gaelic Songs; A' Choisir-Chiuil
London, Bayley & Ferguson. Decorative Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. black printed green cloth over stiff card boards, front board minor split within the layering of the card, short inscription rear paste down, 100pp of Scots Gaelic songs with music and words in Gaelic. Very Good/No Jacket.
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 21.25 | JP¥ 3089] Book number: 002118
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HASKELL ARNOLD  Ballet a Pelican Special
London, Penguin. 1938, reprint. Mass Market Paperback, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ill.: Kay Ambrose. VG tidy copy DW unclipped 220pp + adverts illustrated with photogravures and decorations by Kay Ambrose (500 grams). Very Good/Very Good.
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 001669
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HASKELL ARNOLD  Diaghileff, His Artistic and Private Life
London, Victor Gollancz. 1936, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo. second impression ( cheap edition0, name across fep, DW minor chips to corenrs, spine has small bookseller label, as does bottom of front panel, 15mm hole rubbed into front fore edge flap of DW382pp + plates, biography of Diaghileff. Very Good/Very Good.
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 004485
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ADAMOV ARTHUR  Two Plays; Professor Taranne and Ping Pong
London, John Calder. 1962, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library, ex-library, DW has shelf mark and bottom corner of front fold in flap has been ccut out, stamps and slips to front and rear paste downs and front endpaper, light tape residue to boards, stamps to copyright page, 126pp, DW under plastic sleeve, translated from the French. Good/Good.
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1324] Book number: 003438
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YEATS W B  The Land of Hearts Desire volume Two of Dublin Plays
London, T Fisher Unwin. 1913, reprint. Original Wraps, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. slate grey card covers with vignette of woman restraining an Irish wolfhound (?). Lower half pf spine strip missing. soiling and edge wear to wraps. inside cover and fep foxed and soile. inscription dated Christmas 1916 to half title. 48pp text clean and tidy, glue perishing so starting to loosen. Good/No Jacket.
USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 | £UK 5 | JP¥ 706] Book number: 000553
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RENNOLDS MARGARET B.  National Museum of Women in the Arts
New York, Harry N. Abrams. 1987, First Edition. (ISBN: 0810913739) Cloth, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 253pp, welll illustrated in colour and b&w from the collections at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, inscription whited out to verso of fep, bookshop plate to front paste down (2500grams). Very Good/Very Good.
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 | £UK 12.25 | JP¥ 1765] Book number: 003870
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YEATS W B  Plays in Prose and Verse Written for an Irish Theatre, and Generally with the Help of a Friend
London, MacMillan. 1922, First Edition. Decorative Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. One of 1500 copies, ( Wade 136) 8vo, unicorn design on endpapers, original blind-stamped decorated green cloth, design by Charles Ricketts, ix, 447 pp + 1 p adverts, unicorn design on endpapers, spine sun faded and with small area torn at head of lower joint, faint browning to paste downs, untrimmed edges. Very Good/No Jacket.
USD 90.00 [Appr.: EURO 60.25 | £UK 54.25 | JP¥ 7943] Book number: 002413
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SHAW GEORGE BERNARD  Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion
London, Constable. 1916, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.inimal foxing to closed edges, one page dog eared, foxed prelims, cxviii, 205pp, lighytly soiled cloth. Very Good/No Jacket.
USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 21.25 | JP¥ 3089] Book number: 002253
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