Henry Leslie:

Leslie's songs for little folks.

London: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, no date [c. 1879]. Second edition [stated]. Square 12mo (17cm by 17cm), 29pp, 6pp adverts. Frontispiece by H C Selous, Original decorated blue cloth. Binding rubbed at edges, endpapers chipped, inner hinges cracked, contents a little shaken. Overall, this book is in good minus condition.

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Book number: 58121

Catalogue: 4

W S Birkett & G G Lewis:

The Pupil's Europe Atlas, for use by the Comparative Method.

London: Evans Brothers, no date [c. 1930]. No edition stated (softcover). 4to (30cm by 25cm), 48pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Original printed blue card wrappers. This book is marred by staining to the upper corner of the text block. Only a fair copy overall, but suitable as a working or reference copy.

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Book number: 66289

Catalogue: 4

Liam o'Flaherty:

Spring Sowing.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1924. First edition (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), 287pp. Original green cloth spine, white boards, title label to the spine. Boards stained, pp 173-176 opened clumsily. Overall, this copy is in fair to good condition.

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Book number: 49984

Catalogue: 4

Bernhard Scholz & Ernst Liebermann:

Weihnachtsklange : Deutsche Weihnachtslieder.

Mainz: Jos. Scholz, no date [c. 1900]. No edition stated (hardback). Oblong 4to (22cm x 29cm), [16pp]. 6 full-page colour illustrations. Original grey cloth spine, grey boards with colour illustration to the front board. There is a crease to the front board, chafing to the edges of the boards, there is a gift inscription, and some thumbing and spotting of the contents. Overall, this book is just about in good condition. Text in German.

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Book number: 64203

Catalogue: 4

John Lodwick:

Love Bade Me Welcome.

London: Heinemann & co, 1952. First edition (ie first impression), hardback. 12mo (19cm by 13cm), 318pp. Original black cloth, but lacks the dustwrapper. The binding is a little rubbed, there is some foxing to the edges of the text block, some bumping to the lower corner of the text block, and an ownership insciption. Overall, this book is in good minus condition. Suitable as a reading copy.

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Book number: 70794

Catalogue: 4

Norma Lorimer:

By the Waters of Africa : British East Africa, Uganda and the Great Lakes.

London: Robert Scott, 1917. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 15cm), x, 342pp. Frontispiece, plates, folding map. Original blue cloth. Some scuffing of the joints, lower corners of the boards worn, bookplate to the front pastedown, foxing to the preliminary pages and the edges of the text block. Overall, this copy is just about in good condition. Suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 46295

Catalogue: 4

Ellen Louise [editor]:

The Book of the Boudoir, or Momento of Friendship.

Boston: Phillips, Sampson and company, 1853. First edition (hardback). 8vo (25cm by 19cm), 400pp. 6 engraved plates (as called for). Full red morocco, gilt design to the front board, gilt titling and design to the spine. Please note that the binding is in scruffy condition; the book has been rebacked, and the spine is rather rubbed and chipped. The contents are in good condition (some thumbing anf foxing, contemporary gift inscription). Overall, this is a fair copy of an uncommon book.

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Book number: 59874

Catalogue: 4

W C Lucy:

The Origin of the Cotteswold Ckub, and an epitome of its proceedings from its formation to May 1887.

Gloucester: John Bellows, 1888. First edition (softcover). 8vo, vi, 129pp. Origina printed paper wrappers. Covers rubbed, scuffed and dusty, binding cocked, contents VG. Overall, this copy is in good minus condition.

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Book number: 28643

Catalogue: 4

H E Luxmoore:

Eton from a Backwater.

London: A & C Black, 1908. First edition (hardback). A portfolio of 12 colour plates in the original case (with a black cloth spine and printed white boards). The boards are somewhat rubbed and foxed, and the 2pp contents leaf is foxed and a little scuffed. The colour plates are in very good condition. Overall, this copy is just about in good condition. One of the A&C Black colour books, and regarded by some as the rarest book in the series.

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Book number: 42305

Catalogue: 4

Anatole Bourman & D Lyman:

The Tragedy of Nijinsky.

London: Robert Hale & company, 1937. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 320pp. 12 plates. Original red cloth, gilt titling to the spine. The binding is rubbed, the contents are foxed (heavy foxing to the preliminary pages, scattered lighter foxing elsewhere), and there is a short ownership inscription. Overall, this book is in good minus condition. Suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 70984

Catalogue: 4

Ruth Lynam [editor]:

Paris Fashion : the Great Designers and their Creations.

London: Michael Joseph, 1972. First edition (hardback). 4to (30cm by 22cm), 256pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w, plus several colour plates. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. Short ownership inscription, else the book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in fair condition only (rubbed and chipped, and the dustwraper has been laminated to the book). Suitable as a reading, working or reference copy. ISBN 0718110331

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Book number: 69282

Catalogue: 4

Bohun Lynch:

Max Beerbohm in Perspective.

London: William Heinemann, no date [c. 1920]. No edition stated (hardback). 8vo, xix, 185pp. 19 illustrations (of 20 - lacks the plate at page 16). Original black cloth spine, decorated boards. Binding rubbed and scuffed, some repaired fraying to the edges of the spine, endpapers browned, contents good to very good. Overall, this copy is in fair to good condition, but please note that it lacks one of the plates.

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Book number: 29906

Catalogue: 4

A C Maby:

Venezuela; economic and commercial conditions in Venezuela [Overseas Economic Surveys].

London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1951. First edition (softcover). 8vo, xiv, 254pp. Folding map. Original printed card wrappers. This copy is only in fair to good condition - the covers are rubbed and scuffed, and the lower corner of the text block is a little creased. Signed by the author on the title page.

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Book number: 21788

Catalogue: 4

Edith Macdonald:

Annals of the Macdonald Society.

London: Horace Marshall & son, 1927. First edition (softcover). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), 64pp. 5 portrait plates. Original fawn card wrappers, title label to the front cover. This book is in good minus condition overall, as the contents are somewhat foxed. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "Margot from Aunt Edith".

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Book number: 69258

Catalogue: 4

Angus Macfarquharson:

A Scot in Cornwall.

Aberdeen Press and Journal Office, 1929. First edition (softcover). Small 8vo, 71pp. Original printed card wrappers. Backstrip chipped with loss, front cover re-attached, ownership inscription. Overall, this copy is in fair condition only

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Book number: 21387

Catalogue: 4