Compton,Denis

PLAYING FOR ENGLAND

London, Low, Marston & Co. 4th impression same year as first 1948 Plates with 21 illustrations. . Octavo blue cloth (tips rubbed/spine gilt dull/sl.edge-dusting) 231pp name on endpaper else V.G (but no jacket). *Autobiography of Middlesex & England Cricketer and Arsenal-England Footballer.

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Book number: A51217

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: cricket sport

Connell,John

WAVELL Scholar & Soldier (to June 1941)

London, Reprint Society 1966 Plates and 6 maps. . Octavo red boards (tips rubbed) 573pp. Endpapers slightly marked and half title with one crease also 2 pages toned/marked but still V.G, *WW1 then with Allenby in Palestine WW2 Middle East and Greece etc.

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Book number: A57071

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: biography

Connolly,Billy

GULLIBLE'S TRAVELS Compiled and introduced by Duncan Campbell

London, Book Club/with Pavilion Books Michael Joseph Ltd 1982 Illustrations by Steve Bell. . Large octavo boards in dust jacket 184pp. No inscriptions, no creasing, no marks. As new.

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Book number: A72748

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: humour travel

Coombs,David editor

ANTIQUE COLLECTING FOR PLEASURE

London, Book Club/Ebury Press 1980 Colour illustrations and black and white illustrations of over 600 objects. . Quarto cloth in dust jacket 192pp. *What to buy, how much to pay, where to look over 900 ideas.

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Book number: A72749

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: antiques collecting

Cordellier-Delanou, M.

JACQUES COEUR

Tours {France}, Alfred Mame et fils 1874 engraved plates [6] by Eug. Carpentier . 12mo Dark Green gilt levant morocco spine with blind-stamped cloth sides [upper edge of spine with a chip/sl.rubbed] 285pp +[1p =contents] includes half title of half title of Bibliothèque de la Jeunesse Chretienne and the title as required. Original marbled endpapers. Very minor pale foxing else clean and tight. FRENCH TEXT

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Book number: A75462

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: French moral stories

Cirencester Town Council

CIRENCESTER THE ROMAN TOWN OF CORINIUM the Official Guide

Gloucester, British Publishing Co. Ltd. 1988 approx Colour and black white illustrations + doublepage map etc. . Octavo pictorial card covers (light crease to cover) 107pp. A neat copy includes many pictorial adverts. Subtitled Capital of the Cotswolds.

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Book number: A72434

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: Gloucestershire Cotswolds Cirencester guide topography

Hertfordshire Local History Council

HERTFORDSHIRE PAST & PRESENT Number 3, 1962/3

Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire Local History Council 1963 Photographic illustrations (6). . Yellow sugar paper wraps (tips rubbed) 48pp nice clean tight condition. Includes L.M. Mumby "Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-66) and his Family", M.E. Dahl "Late Elizabethan Chruch inventories", A.M. Foster "Brief History of Banking in Hitchin", J.G. Dony "Botanists in Hertfordshire" + 2 more articles.

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Book number: A74492

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: local history Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire Local History Council

HERTFORDSHIRE PAST & PRESENT Number 4, 1964

Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire Local History Council 1964 Photographic illustrations (7). . Red sugar paper wraps (tips rubbed/spine sl.sunned) 48pp owner's name to margin of title else nice clean tight condition. Includes "Deserted Medieval Villages in Hertfordshire", A.L. Wood "The Hemel Hempstead Market in the 17th Century", "The ancient office of the High Sheriff", "17th century Inns" and crimes in the 18th century using Barnet as an example.

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Book number: A74493

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: local history Hertfordshire

Coutts,J. revised & edited G.H. Preston (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew)

ALL ABOUT GARDENING

London, Ward Lock Ltd 1973 Color plates and 150 photographic illustrations and diagrams. . Octavo cloth in edge worn dust jacket (cloth edge sunned/jacet creased and rubbed) 317pp. *Well illustrated and with an ABC of plants, pests, herbaceous, rock and water gardens etc.

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Book number: A71956

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: gardening pests plants botany natural history

Cox, L.R.

NEW LIGHT ON WILLIAM SMITH AND HIS WORK

Wakefield, West Yorkshire Printing Co./Proceedings of Yorkshire GEOLOGICAL society 1942 Plates (8) including folding + examples of Smith's manuscripts. . Octavo grey printed wrappers 99pp. Pencil annotations and marginal lines throughout but a neat tight copy, pagination excellent, very little foxing. Signed bookplate of Stan Robinson to inside of cover. Early geological studies by Smith here augmented by the recent discoveries of his diaries and letters newly unearthed at the Oxford University Museum have here been able to supplement the earlier biographies of John Phillips and Mr.T Sheppard.

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Book number: A75249

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: Geology founder of geological science

Creasey, C.J. (illustrated by Tamasin Cole)

A STORY ABOUT THE PANDA FAMILY in which a Miss is a hit

1960 approx., Printing Arts Ltd. Near full page illustration to each page in green, grey & black/white by Tamasin Cole. . Square 12mo paperback (ceases and marks) Titlepage +25pp with a line or two of text under. First and last page is tanned and there are some signs of use.

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Book number: A73061

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: children's story

Sallusti Crispi [Sallust] [Alphonsus Kurfess editor]

SALLUSTI CRISPI CATILINA - JUGURTHA FRAGMENTA AMPLIORA Posta A.W.Ahlberg Edidit Alphonsus kurfess

Leipzig, B.G.Teubner 3rd edition 1957 text in Latin Throughout . 8vo blue cloth, black titled to spine and cover + 2 paper covered APPENDIX SALLUSTIANA Fasc. 1 & Fasc 2 [spine and edges of front cover faded] Titlepage +XXXII Prefaces etc.+ 200pp includes Fragmenta and indices and addenda at the end. The First of the two APPENDIX SALLUSTIANA has the author's EPISTULAE AD CAESAREM SENEM DE RE PUBLICA + some indexes. XII +28pp the 2nd booklet is titled IN CICERONEM ET INVICEM INVECTIVAE with XII + 31pp Both are dated 1962. These two booklets have no markings but the cloth bound item has pencil notations in the margins. They are neat and the pages are otherwise clean, crisp and tightly bound to the covers. We have further similar items in our catalogue.

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Book number: A76145

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: Latin text

Crush, Margaret (compiling editor)

THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF NATURE A seasonal guide to the habitats of the British Isles.

London, W.H. Smith / Mitchell Beazley Ltd 1986 Colour illustrated full page and text illustration to nearly every page by Ruth Levy, Colin Robson & Suzie Lanni. . Quarto pictorial boards in dust jacket (almost as new in near fine dust jacket) 216pp. No inscriptions or writing, no loose or creased pages seems never to have been read.

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Book number: A74924

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: flora fauna habitat animals birds flowers natural history

Dahl,Roald

BOY Tales of Childhood

London, Cape reprint 1985 Illustrated. . Octavo boards in dust jacket (tips rubbed & sl.bumped) 160pp ex library with stamp on titlepage only but endpapers have tape removal marks and remains of tape to jacket flaps. Internally clean and good.

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Book number: A56008

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: biography childrens Dahl

Daniken,Erich Von

MIRACLES OF THE GODS A Hard Look at the Supernatural

London, Book Club Assoc./Souvenir 1976 Plates of places that seem to work miracles. . Octavo boards in dust jacket (tips sl.rubbed) 237pp V.G in jacket with small tears without loss at turn-in of jacket flaps.

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Book number: A62820

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: miracles religion occult phenomena