MCKILLIP PATRICIA A

The Throme of the Erril of Sherill

New York, Atheneum. 1973, First Edition. (ISBN: 0689301154) Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: Julie Noonan. Ex-Library, Dunsanyesque fairy tale. "The throme of the Erril of Sherill did not exist. Yet Caerles, Chief Cnite of Magnus Thrall, King of Everywhere, set out on a quest for it because Magnus Thrall would not let his daughter, the weeping Damsen, marry without it." Fairly good copy with clean pages in a tight binding, and a good but trimmed DW. Marred by library additions.ex-library, DW states reinforced binding. Grey heavy weight endpapers may be replacements. masking tape to joints. Library stamps etc. DW has been trimmed to fit into protective cover so a bit shorter than should be. Some tape residue to boards. 69pp. Good/Good.

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Book number: 000255

Catalogue: Science-Fiction Fantasy & Horror

Keywords: Fantasy Modern Fairy Tale Fiction 0689301154 Julie Noonan

BECKET ETHEL A

A Treasury of Alaskana

Seattle, Superior Publishing Company. 1969, First Edition. Hard Cover, 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. Ex-Library, tidy ex-librray, DW under plastic sleeve, library stamps, profusely illustrated with rare photographs of early Alaskan life including many of Aleut and Eskimo, 183pp. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 004264

Catalogue: History & Archaeology

Keywords: Alaska History Historic Photography Region America American Northwest Aleut Aleutian Eskimos Whalers Sealers Gold Rush

WOLLHEIM DONALD A

The universe makers, science fiction Today

London, Victor Gollancz. 1971, First Edition. (ISBN: 0575013389) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. excellent copy , DW unclipped, small patch of scuffing to lower part of the spine fold. Essays on science fiction themes and writers. Includes an index. some scattered foxing to the closed edges. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 012303

Catalogue: Science-Fiction Fantasy & Horror

Keywords: Science Fiction Anthology Hard Cover Criticism Essays 0575013389

AUSTIN K. A.

The Voyage of the Investigator 1801-1803 Commander Matthew Flinders, R. N.

Adelaide, Rigby. 1964, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. would be a beaut copy but has an inscription to fep and some occasional instances of neat underlining , mostly pencil but a few in red pen, still a tidy copy in a tidy, price clipped dust jacket with minor edge tears at head of rear panel, 223pp + plates, maps, colour frontis portrait of Flinders. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 006392

Catalogue: Australia & Pacific

Keywords: Australian Colonial History Exploration Pacific Navigators British Exploration Seamen Captain Matthew Flinders

HOPKINS MARTIN A.

War Torn China, from the Diary of a Relief Worker in 1944

Sydney, Jas. B. Nicholson. First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Selection of diary entries by a christian missionary in war ravaged China dust jacket has some edge tears and soiling, 64pp includes photographs, (500 gram rate). Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 012117

Catalogue: History & Archaeology

Keywords: China Chinese History Twentieth Century Modern Communist Kuomintang Post War 1944 Christian Missionary Memoir

MILNE A A

When we were very Young

London, Methuen. 1951, reprint. Decorative Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ill.: E H Shepard. (500 gram rate) 657th thousand, 53rd edition. blue cloth with red figures. dec endpapers have some strips of plastic contact film (clear), fep small blue mark over former name, rear paste down thin strip of contact film as well. DW has been contact sealed and on reverse has been strengthened with sellotape which has browned slightlty showing along the top and bottom edges. At the top of the front fold in flap is the name of a school in blue marker, underneath the contact film. 100pp very clean copy. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 012330

Catalogue: Childrens Young Adult

Keywords: Christopher Robin Winnie the Pooh Childrens Classics British E H Shepard

BISHOP MAJOR W. A.

Winged Warfare, Hunting the Huns in the Air

London, Hodder and Stoughton. 1918, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. tan cloth with black titling, lower joint split, spine attached by upper joint, name to fep, some foxing, both hinges showing binding mesh, 301pp + portrait frontis. + 5 plates Memoirs of a Canadian pilot in First World War. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 013185

Catalogue: Militaria Non-Fiction

Keywords: Rfc, Aviation, Air Aces, Fighter Aces, Wwi, Ww1, Great War,

GADDIS A

The Wonders of Egypt (vintage Souvenir Photograph album)

Luxor, A Gaddis. Original Wraps, landscape 4to. Ill.: A Gaddis. 62 b&w plates of Egyptian monuments and statuary, colour front wrapper, rear wrapper palin excepting publisher information, rear wrapper has some surface insect damage, colour decorated title page, ink inscription to inside cover "Donald G Shaw 4/2/42 | P.T. 35" , (500 gram rate). Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 011431

Catalogue: Anthropology Mythology, Sociology

Keywords: Early Twentieth Century Photography Egypt Egyptian Pharaoh Monuments Tourist Souvenir Photography a Gaddis

MILNE A A

The world of Christopher Robin the complete When We Were Young and Now We Are Six

London, Methuen. 1974, reprint. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: E H Shepard. very tidy reprint edition, brown cloth, DW price clipped otherwise VG+, 243pp + colour plates and illustrations in line in the text. closed edges slightly dusty otherwise VG+. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 013067

Catalogue: Childrens Young Adult

Keywords: Winnie the Pooh Piglet Christoper Robin a a Milne E H Shepard British Childrens E H Shepard

FAIR A A ( ERLE STANLEY GARDNER )

You Can Die Laughing

London, Heinemann. 1958, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ex-Library, (500 grams) DW hasbeen trimmed to extreme vertical edge of front fold in flap losing just the ET of the 'NET' by the price, price still present, the DW vertical fore edge flaps are tape stained as are the paste downs and offset to the feps, minor edge wear to wrapper otherwsie still tidy, Book Club issue slip tipped onto fep, binding is a little loose, some pen numbers to endpapers, pages starting to brown to edges with some minor scattered foxing, useful DW for a better copy. Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 004736

Catalogue: Crime & Thriller Fiction

Keywords: Crime Thriller Murder Mystery Detective Fiction

HENTY G A

The Young Buglers, A Tale of the Peninsula War

London, Hodder & Stoughton. 1910, reprint. Decorative Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ill.: Conrad H. Leigh. red cloth with gilt and colour decoration, colour pictorial paper illustration with Hussars (?) on cover and spine ( as published) backstrip sunfaded, ink inscripiton to fep "Isaballa Rua Sunderland Xmas 1915" , prelims, 336pp +4 col. plates + 10pp maps +16pp adverts, top corner of maps shows faint watermark, a tidy copy showing some minor age, no major faults. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010564

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: British, Victorian Fiction, Historical Fiction, G.A. Henty, Children's Literature, England, British History, Peninsula War, Napoleonic, Napoleon, Isaballa Rua Sunderland Conrad H. Leigh

PENTTILA AARNI

Aapiskukko Nakoispainos

Gummerus. 2003, reprint. (ISBN: 9512025396) Pictorial Boards, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: Asmo Alho. (500 gram rate) small pen price top corner of fep , 2 label ghosts to upper board otherwise tidy with lightly dust soiled boards, reprint of 1938 first reader for Finnish children with colour illustrations by Alho, 128pp Finnish language. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002815

Catalogue: Childrens Young Adult

Keywords: Suomi Saami Finnish Finn Finland Childrens Language Primer Reader Suomen 9512025396 Asmo Alho

A'BECKETT GILBERT ABBOTT, REVISED BY ARTHUR WILLIAM A'BECKETT

The Comic Blackstone, Revised and Extended

London, Bradbury, Agnew &co. 1887, New and Revised. Decorative Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: Harry Furniss. blue cloth decorated in gilt and black, same to spine, slight rol to spine, light handling wear, name in blue pencil to half title, xxviii+ 324pp, col. frontis, 9 other satirical col. plates by Harry Furniss. A study of British Law from a humorous perspecttive. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010034

Catalogue: True Crime & Legal Texts

Keywords: Law Legal Profession England Britain Nineteenth Century Victorian Social Life Social History Humor Humour Comic Harry Furniss

HAKIM .KHALIFA ABDUL

The Metaphysics of Rumi, a critical and historical sketch

Lahore, Institute Islamic Culture. 1959, First Edition. Quarter cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. (500 gram rate) quarter cloth printed boards , name and booksellers stamp to fep. third impression of 1000 copies. 157pp . DW has chipping and loss along the spine and edges, generally complete though. chapters include; nature of the soul (transcendental self) / problem of creation / evolution / love / freedom of the will / ideal man (ie man is the epitome of creation) / survival of personality (fana & baqa) / God / Sufi pantheism / bibliography. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 000538

Catalogue: Philosophy & Religion Modern, Mysticism

Keywords: Islam Muslim Rumi Philosophy Sufi Mathnawi Religion Metaphysics

ALHAZRED ABDUL, KING SOLOMON,

Das Necronomicon der Kleinere Schlussel Salomonis

Berlin, Verlag Richard Schikowski. 1980, First Thus. Soft Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Nach den Aufzeichnungen von Gregor A. Gregorius. / Die Goetia oder Der kleinere Schl?sel Salomonis. Bearbeitet und mit einem Nachwort von Friedrich Meyer, black soft cover, LIBRA and sign in pen to first page otherwise tidy, 130pp+ 2pp adverts, includes seals and sigils of the goetic spirits, Lesser Key of Solomon in German language edition, Gregor A. Gregorius of the Fraternitas Saturni may or may not have anything to do with this work which is "Published in Germany and German. (The Necronomicon: From the Transcription of Gregor A. Gregorius), this is simply a translation of the Simon Necronomicon. The volume also includes a German translation of an authentic mediaeval grimoire called the Goetia; or, the Lesser Keys of King Solomon". Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004981

Catalogue: Occult New Age Metaphysics

Keywords: Goetia Aleister Crowley Gregor a Gregorius Grimoire Black Magic Theurgy Demonology Necronomicon German Deutsch Nach Den Aufzeichnungen Von Gregor A. Gregorius. / Die Goetia Oder Der Kleinere Schl?Sel Salomonis. Bearbeitet Und Mit Einem Nachwort Von Friedr