ALLSOP Kenneth

Letters to his Daughter. Edited by Amanda Allsop.

Hamilton,, [1974]. 8vo., cloth, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 4947

Catalogue: Countryside Authors0

Keywords: countryside, rural, modern firsts, kenneth allsop, countryside authors, letters, his, daughter

ALLWARD Maurice

Hurricane Special. NEAR FINE COPY

Ian Allan, [Shepperton],, [1975]. Sm. folio, First Edition, with photographs and illustrations; pictorial laminated boards, a near fine copy.

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Book number: 35600

Catalogue: Aviation0

Keywords: aviation, ww2, wwii, hurricane, hawker hurricane, battle of britain, aircraft monographs, maurice allward

ALMACK Edward

Regimental Badges worn in the British Army One Hundred Years ago. BRIGHT COPY OF THE FACSIMILE REISSUE

Frederick Muller,, [1970]. Roy. 8vo., with frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text; red cloth, upper board lettered in gilt and blocked in black, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Facsimile reissue of the original edition of 1900.

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Book number: 39642

Catalogue: Military0

Keywords: military, uniforms, badges, regimental badges, almack, edward almack

ALMACK T.F.

A Village Heritage. The Story of Blandford St. Mary. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Friary Press, Dorchester,, [1961]. 8vo., First Edition, with 11 plates on 11, a folding pedigree and 3 folding maps; blue cloth, gilt back, backstrip sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy.

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Book number: 36501

Catalogue: Topography0

Keywords: topography, dorsetshire, dorset, blandford st. mary, almack

ALMAN et al] [Karl

Einzelkampfer. Da Weisse im Auge des Feindes. Portrats hochausgezeichneter deutscher Soldaten. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Erich Pabel, Rastatt,, [1975]. 8vo., First Edition, text in German, with photographs in the text; green cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 34752

Catalogue: Military0

Keywords: military, ww2, wwii, german army, heere

ALMEDINGEN E.M.

The Unnamed Stream and other Poems. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Bodley Head,, [1965]. 8vo. First Edition; olive cloth gilt back a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 27686

Catalogue: Modern First Editions0

Keywords: modern firsts, almedingen, e.m. almedingen,modern first editions, the, unnamed, stream, other, poems

ALMEIDA Manoel de

Some Records of Ethiopia, 1593-1646. Being Extracts from 'The History of High Ethiopia or Abassia'. Together with Bahrey's 'History of the Galla'. Translated and edited by C.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL SERIES BINDING

Hakluyt Society,, 1954. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations and maps; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper board with multiple frame border in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. The selections from Almeida describe the country, its people and the journeys of Jesuit missionaries attempting to enter or leave Ethiopia. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, No. 107. Bridges & Hair, p.284.

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Book number: 33997

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration0

Keywords: travel, hakluyt society, manoel de almeida, bahrey, ethiopia, abyssinia

ALPINE CLUB

Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club. Edited by John Ball. Second Edition. IN CONTEMPORARY SIGNED BINDING

Longman Green Longman & Roberts,, 1859. 8vo., Second Edition, with a mounted chromolithographed frontispiece, engraved title-vignette, 7 fine mounted chromolithographed plates (all original tissue guards save one present), 24 woodcut illustrations in the text, and 9 folding engraved and coloured maps (one of two short tears in folds), neat contemporary signature on blank preliminary recto; attractively bound in late nineteenth century half calf BY SMART OF GLOUCESTER, marbled boards, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartment ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments ruled in blind, red sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers, upper hinge tender else a very good, bright, clean copy. With the engraved binder's ticket on front paste-down. Published in the same year as the first edition. This edition has a new title-vignette and an extra woodcut illustration. This work is effectively the forerunner of the Alpine Club Journal. 'Commonly regarded as the cornerstone of any mountaineering collection' (Neate). An appendix lists all Alpine peaks above 12,000ft. Neate 18.

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Book number: 17855

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: mountaineering, climbing, alps, alpine club, john ball, alpine club, sports, pastimes, mountaineering, peaks, passes, glaciers

ALPINE CLUB

Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club. Edited by John Ball. Fourth Edition. BRIGHT COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH

Longman Green Longman & Roberts,, 1859. 8vo., Fourth Edition, with mounted chromolithographed frontispiece (original tissue guard present), engraved title-vignette, 7 fine mounted chromolithographed plates (all original tissue guards present), 24 woodcut illustrations in the text, and 9 folding engraved and coloured maps; original terracotta diced cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, green endpapers, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean copy. With the contemporary trace ticket of Sanders of Upper Tooting on front paste-down, and binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants on rear paste-down. Published in the same year as the first edition. This edition has a new title-vignette and an extra woodcut illustration. This work is effectively the forerunner of the Alpine Club Journal. 'Commonly regarded as the cornerstone of any mountaineering collection' (Neate). An appendix lists all Alpine peaks above 12,000ft. Neate *18.

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Book number: 42232

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: mountaineering, climbing, alps, alpine club, john ball, alpine club, sports, pastimes, mountaineering, peaks, passes, glaciers

ALPINE CLUB

Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club. Third Series. Edited by A.E. Field and Sydney Spencer. BRIGHT COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH

Methuen,, [1932]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 15 plates, neat inscription on front free endpaper, half-title and title lightly spotted; original terracotta plain cloth, boards framed in blind, gilt back, upper joint fractionally rubbed at headband else a very good, bright, firm copy. This copy has the upper board plain rather than gilt-blocked. Comprises selections from Volume I-V of the Alpine Journal. Neate 22.

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Book number: 42233

Catalogue: Sports & Pastimes0

Keywords: mountaineering, climbing, alps, alpine club, alpine journal, sydney spencer

ALTES A Korthals

September 1944. Operation Market Garden. NEAR FINE COPY

De Haan,, [1987]. 8vo., text in Dutch and English, with frontispiece, and photographs and maps throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. Well-illustrated chronological survey.

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Book number: 36332

Catalogue: Military0

Keywords: military, ww2, wwii, arnhem, market garden, oosterbeek

[AMALGAMATED PRESS]

The Bruin Boys' Annual 1935. Tales to read to little People.

'The Rainbow',, 1935. Roy. 8vo., with a coloured frontispiece, illustrated title, and very numerous coloured and monochrome plates, illustrations and strips throughout, 'belongs to' page completed in pencil, pages edges lightly browning as usual; original pictorial boards, cloth back, boards very lightly scuffed at edges else a remarkably tight, clean copy. Scarce, especially in this condition.

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Book number: 12012

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: childrens, juvenilia, annuals, bruin boys, amalgamated press, amalgamated press, children's, juvenilia, the, bruin, boys', annual, 1935

AMALGAMATED PRESS

The Modern Boy's Book of Aircraft. The Romance of Man's Mastery of the Skies in Picture and Story. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

[Amalgamated Press,, 1931]. 4to., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 3 coloured plates, and very numerous monochrome photographs (a number full-page and illustrations in the text; free endpapers lightly spotted; original blue cloth, upper board with mounted coloured illustration (not repeated in text), upper board and backstrip lettered in black, lower hinge webbing exposed (but binding entirely sound), a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy with almost no trace of the usual fading and soiling. W E Johns [of 'Biggles' fame] is a major contributor. He is credited with four stories and all the coloured plates, but was almost certainly responsible for further content. The first 'Biggles' book was published in the following year. A WONDERFUL COPY OF A SPLENDID PERIOD PIECE AND VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 21777

Catalogue: Children's & Juvenilia0

Keywords: childrens, juvenilia, w e johns, biggles, aviation, aircraft, flight, amalgamated press, children's, juvenilia, w.e. johns, the, modern, boy's, book, aircraft

AMBLER J.

Bagged in World War 2. Two Tales of Royal Marines Prisoners of War. The Jim Fallace Story by John Ambler and the Diary of Benjamin Knapton.

Royal Marines Historical Society, [Portsmouth,, 2001]. 8vo., with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. Royal Marines Historical Society Special Publication 24

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Book number: 26326

Catalogue: Naval0

Keywords: mstock, naval, ww2, royal marines, pow, j. ambler, naval, royal marines, bagged, world, war, 2

AMBLER Eric

Epitaph for a Spy. Introduced by Stella Rimington. Illustrated by Paul Blow. FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE

Folio Society,, 2013. 8vo., First Edition thus, with a frontispiece and 7 coloured illustrations; pictorial cloth, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.

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Book number: 24120

Catalogue: Folio Society0

Keywords: mstock, private press, folio society, eric ambler, espionage fiction, eric ambler, folio society, epitaph, spy