Evan John:

Time Table for Victory : a brief and popular account of the Railways & railway-owned Dockyards of Great Britain & Northern Ireland during the six years' war of 1939-45.

London: British Railways, no date [c. 1947]. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 268pp. Frontispiece, plates, folding map. Original blue cloth, but lacks the dustwrapper. Binding rubbed and stained, endpapers foxed, contents VG. Only a good minus copy overall, but suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 54718

Catalogue: 4

Edgar Johnson:

Charles Dickens, his tragedy and triumph, volume two.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1953. Second impression of volume 2 (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), viii, pp589-1159, xlx-cxcvii. 42 plates (numbered 45-86). Original blue cloth, but lacks the dustwrapper. There is some rubbing and staining of the binding, and some foxing to the edges of the text block; overall, this book is just about in good condition. Suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 63611

Catalogue: 4

Cecil Webb-Johnson:

Diet for Infants.

London: Mills & Boon, 1925. First edition (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), 80pp, 16pp adverts. Original green cloth, dustwrapper. The boards are stained, the corners of the boards are bumped, and the endpapers are browned; overall, the book is just about in good condition. The dustwrapper is in good condition (rubbed, edges chipped). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.

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Book number: 51614

Catalogue: 4

R Brimley Johnson [editor]:

Eighteenth Century Letters : Swift, Addison, Steele.

London: A D Innes & Company, 1897. First edition (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), xxviii, 251pp. Portrait frontispiece (of Addison). Original white parchment spine, green cloth boards. The boards are heavily rubbed; overall, this book is just about in good condition.

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Book number: 66112

Catalogue: 4

Henry Johnson:

The Life and Voyages of Joseph Wiggins FRGS, Modern Discoverer of the Kara Sea Route to Siberia.

London: John Murray, 1907. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), xxiv, 396pp, 4pp adverts. Frontispiece, plates. Original red cloth, gilt titling and design to the spine, gilt titling to the front board, top edge gilt. There is some waterstaining of the boards, the endpapers are browned, and there is an ownership inscription to the front pastedown. Overall, this book is just about in good condition.

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Book number: 57629

Catalogue: 4

John Johnson:

Reliques of Ancient English Architecture.

London: Day & son, no date [1858]. No edition stated, but presumed first edition (hardback). Folio (27cm by 28cm), 80 plates (of 81 - lacks plate number 36). Recently rebound in green cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine, marbled endpapers. The contents are somewhat foxed, there is one plate missing, and there is an ownership inscription; overall, this copy is in fair condition.

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Book number: 38411

Catalogue: 4

Martin Johnson:

Safari : a Saga of the African Blue.

New York & London: G P Putnam's sons, 1928. Second impression (hardback). 8vo (24cm by 16cm), x, 294pp. 66 plates. Original orange cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine, top edge gilt. There is a stain to the lower corner of the front board, the front free endpaper is lacking, and there is light foxing to the preliminary pages; overall, this book is just about in good condition.

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Book number: 69407

Catalogue: 4

W Dyde & James Johnstone:

The history and antiquities of Tewkesbury, from the earliest periods to the present time [bound with] some account of the medicinal water near Tewkesbury.

Tewkesbury: Dyde and Sons, 1790. First edition (hardback). 12mo (20cm by 12cm), vi, 8pp subscribers list, 131pp; 30pp, 19pp. Folding frontispiece of Tewkesbury Abbey, two engraved plates, folding plate listing some inscriptions on tombs in the Abbey churchyard (collates as per other copies I have seen, including pp129*-132*). Plain contemporary binding of grey spine, blue boards, title label to the spine. The binding is worn but intact (backstrip chipped, ront board stained); the contents are in good to very good condition.

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Book number: 48710

Catalogue: 4

Harry E Jones:

Mainstays of the Marsey (shipping section).

Liverpool: Merchant Service Review Offices, no date [c. 1905]. No edition stated (softcover). Oblong 4to (21cm by 28cm), [v], 75pp + adverts. Original printed green card wrappers. The front cover is detached from the binding, the backstrip is chipped, and the edges of the text block are foxed. Overall, this copy is in fair condition.

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Book number: 44146

Catalogue: 4

Jenny Jowett:

Canary Wharf : New Squares for London.

London: Olympia & York, no date [c. 1996]. First edition (hardback). A portfolio of four magnificent colour prints by Jenny Jowett, all signed by the author in pencil and numbered 351/500. The plates are housed in the original portfolio case (folio size, 40cm by 31cm, green cloth spine, textured boards). The prints are in excellent condition (the seal has been broken on one of them; the other three are mint). Please note, however, that there is some waterstaining to the front panel of the portfolio case.

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Book number: 68580

Catalogue: 4

Dr Sevket Aziz Kansu:

Les Fouilles d'Etiyokosu [Etiyokusu Hafriyati Raporu, 1937].

Ankara: Turk Tarih Kurumu Tarafindan Yapilan, 1940. First edition (softcover). 4to (30cm x 23cm), x, 112pp. Text illustrations, folding plate. Original printed card wrappers. Repaired scuffing to the backstrip, dog-earing to the upper corner of the first few pages. Only a good minus copy overall, but suitable as a reading, working or reference copy. Text in Turkish and French.

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Book number: 46247

Catalogue: 4

James Kelly:

A Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs, explained and made intelligible to the English reader.

London: printed for William and John Innys, and John Osborn, 1721. First edition (hardback). 8vo (20cm by 13cm), [xiii], 400pp, 18pp index. Full brown calf. Binding worn with the front board detached, endpapers foxed, contents very good. This is the first edition from 1721, printed in London; there was also a Dublin edition printed in 1722, and a second edition (in a smaller font size), printed in London in 1818.

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Book number: 32196

Catalogue: 4

E R Kelly [editor]:

Somersetshire [County Topographies].

London: Kelly & co, 1875. First edition (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), xvii, 556pp. Lacks the map. Original red cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. The binding is somewhat rubbed, the joints are chipped, there is some light foxing, and the front free endpaper is lacking. Only a fair copy overall, but suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 72418

Catalogue: 4

T D Kendrick:

A History of the Vikings.

London: Methuen & co, 1930. First edition (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 14cm), xi, 412pp. 12 plates, 40 text illustrations. Original black cloth. The binding is rather rubbed and scuffed, there is a bookplate to the front pastedown, and some light browning of the contents. Only a fair to good copy overall, but the interior is rather better than the interior, and this is suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 61636

Catalogue: 4

Edith C Kenyon:

Scenes in the Life of the Royal Family.

London: W Nicholson and sons, [1887]. No edition stated, but presumed first edition (hardback). 12mo (17cm by 13cm), 251pp, 5pp adverts. Frontispiece, plates, text illustrations. Original blue cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. Some rubbing of the binding, lacks the front free endpaper, preliminary pages foxed. Only a good minus copy overall, but suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 58141

Catalogue: 4