Ella Macmahon:

The Other Son; a novel.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1904. First edition (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), vi, 345pp. Original decorated olive green cloth, coloured illustration to the front board. This copy is only in fair condition, as the binding is somewhat rubbed, the contents are foxed, and the front inner hinge is strained.

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Book number: 35621

Catalogue: 4

H N Marshall:

Elephant Kingdom.

London: Robert Hale, 1959. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 190pp. 21 plates. Original brown cloth, dustwrapper. This copy lacks the front free endpaper, and there is heavy tape staining to the endpapers (the dustwrapper is in a laminate cover, and this cover has been sellotaped to the pastedowns. There is some foxing to the leading edge of the text block, but the pages are clean and the book is tightly bound, and this is suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 46929

Catalogue: 4

James Martin:

A Graduated Course of Problems in Practical Plane and Solid Geometry.

London: George Philip & son, 1876. First edition (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 12cm), xii, 295pp. Original brown cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. The boards are stained, and the inner hinges are strained; overall, this book is in fair to good condition only.

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Book number: 66530

Catalogue: 4

Claude Roger-Marx:

French Original Engravings from Manet to the Present Time.

London: The Hyperion Press, 1939. First edition (hardback). 4to (31cm by 22cm), 87pp, 130pp. 128 pages of black & white illustrations, plus 16 colour plates. Original grey cloth, dustwrapper. There is some tanning of the contents, and the binding is a little shaken; overall, the book is just about in good condition. The dustwrapper is in good minus condition (soome rubbing and chafing). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.

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Book number: 68480

Catalogue: 4

James Mason [editor]:

Ice-World Adventures; or, voyages and travels in the Arctic Regions, from the discovery of Iceland to the English Expedition of 1875.

London: Ward, Lock & Tyler, no date [1876]. First edition (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), xvi, 460pp, 10pp adverts. 41 plates, 3 of which are folding. Original decorated blue cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine, all edges gilt. Binding shaken, light chafing to the head of the spine, inner hinges repaired, pp xiii/xiv chipped at the margins, some minor foxing. Overall, this copy is only in fair to good condition, but the binding is bright, and the contents are generally clean. Undated, but COPAC dates the book to 1876, and there is an ownership inscription to the front pastedown dated 11/11/76. The list of illustrations calls for 42 plates - this copy lacks the plate at page 40 (as usual).

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Book number: 35826

Catalogue: 4

Massinger; Beaumont & Fletcher; Wycherley; Congreve, revised by J P Kemble:

New Way to pay old debts, Rule a Wife and have a wife, The Plain Dealer, The Double Dealer, The Way of the World, published as performed at the Theatres Royal.

London: printed for John Miller, 1814 - 1815. A series of five plays bound together in a single volume. The book is 12mo (18cm by 11cm) and bound in half brown morocco, gilt titling to the spine, with the title "Select British Theatre, vol 6". The binding is rubbed, the foot of the spine is chipped, the upper joint is cracked (and repaired), the contents are good to very good.

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Book number: 21218

Catalogue: 4

sa.Cecile Hulse Matschat:

Mexican Plants for American Gardens.

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935. First edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 15cm), xvi, 269pp. Frontispiece, plates. Original grey cloth, dustwrapper. The endpapers are heavily foxed, and there is an ownership stamp to the front free endpaper; overall, the book is just about in good condition. The dustwrapper is in good condition (a little rubbed and spotted, edges chafed). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.

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Book number: 51551

Catalogue: 4

George F Matthews:

Contemporary Index to Printed Parish (and non-parochial) Registers: part I, printed church registers.

London: John Matthews, 1909. First edition (softcover). 8vo (26cm x 16cm), 109pp. Original printed brown card wrappers. The covers are worn (chipped and torn with some loss), the endpapers are foxed, the contents are good to very good. This copy is only in fair condition overall, but it is suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.

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Book number: 33903

Catalogue: 4

Constance Elizabeth Maud:

My French Friends.

London: Smith, Elder & co, 1904. Second impression (hardback). Small 8vo, xv, 323pp, 2pp adverts. Original decorated grey cloth. Binding a little rubbed and scuffed, lacks the front free endpaper, contents foxed, short ownership inscription. Overall, this copy is in good minus condition.

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Book number: 28306

Catalogue: 4

W Somerset Maugham:

On a Chinese Screen.

London: William Heinemann, 1922. First edition (ie first impression), hardback. 8vo (21cm by 16cm), 237pp. Original black cloth, gilt titling and design to the front board and the spine. This copy is marred by a light stain to the foot of the spine and the rear board, which has affected the lower part of the gilt design on the spine. The endpapers are browned, and there is some light foxing of the contents. Overall, this copy is just about in good condition.

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Book number: 42859

Catalogue: 4

Donald Maxwell:

Adventures among Churches.

London: The Faith Press, no date [c. 1928]. No edition stated, but presumed first edition (hardback). 4to (28cm by 22cm), vii, 136pp. 24 b&w plates by the author. Original blue cloth. The binding is sunned, there is foxing to the spine, the preliminary pages and the edges of the text block; overall, this book is just about in good condition.

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Book number: 72333

Catalogue: 4

May Byron, illustrated by Cecil Aldin:

Jack & Jill.

London: Henry Frowde / Hodder & Stoughton, no date [1914]. No edition stated, but presumed first edition (hardback). 4to (29cm by 25cm), [52pp]. 24 full-page colour plates by Cecil Aldin, and an illustrated title page. Original boards, with a colour illustration to the front board. The binding has been sympathetically rebacked with a brown cloth spine, there is some rubbing and scuffing of the boards, scattered foxing (affecting the preliminary pages more than the interior), and a gift inscription (dated 1920). Only a good minus copy overall, but the plates are in sound condition. Undated; COPAC gives a date of 1914 or 1915, and confirms that all copies were undated. An uncommon Aldin, with the plates featuring a dog and a cat.

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Book number: 61543

Catalogue: 4

Henry Mayer:

A Trip to Toyland : a picture-story.

London: Grant Richards, 1900. First edition (hardback). Oblong 4to (23cm by 31cm), 127pp. 30 full-page colour illustrations. Original red cloth spine, blue boards with colour illustration to the front board, gilt titling to the spine. This copy is in fair condition only; there is some repaired fraying to the joints, the boards are rubbed, the edges of the boards are worn and the endpapers are browned. Nonetheless, the contents are in good to very good condition (short repaired tear to one page) and this is a serviceable copy overall.

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Book number: 58952

Catalogue: 4

W H McElroy and Alex McBride:

Life sketches of government officers and members of the legislature of the state of New York for 1874.

Albany: Weed, Parsons and company, 1874. First edition (hardback). 8vo, 343pp. Frontispiece and 3 plates. Original green cloth, gilt titling to the spine. Boards rubbed and stained, platesa foxed. Overall, this copy is just about in good condition.

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Book number: 22277

Catalogue: 4

J F Meehan:

A Few of the Famous Inns of Bath and District.

Bath: B & J F Meehan, 1913. First edition (softcover). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 43pp. Text illustrations. Original printed brown card wrappers. Covers rubbed and creased, some spotting and thumbing of the contents, ownership stamp to the inside of the front cover; overall, this book is just about in good condition.

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Book number: 62437

Catalogue: 4