CAMERON,KENNETH

English Place Names

London: Book Club, 1979. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo - over 6 ¾" - 9¾" Tall. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in a Very Good Dust-Jacket,not price clipped and with no previous inscriptions present.Lovely clean copy internally of a collectable title.The Dust-Jacket is well protected in a brodart cover sleeve,with tape marks where it has been securely attached to the pastedowns.The book was acquired from the Library of Reverend John Cooper Anglican Priest,8vo 258pp Reprint. Very Good .

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Book number: 25191

Catalogue: History

CANBY,COURTLANDT

A History of Ships and Seafaring Vol 2

London: The New Illustrated Library of Science and Invention, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 4¾" - 5¾" Tall. This is a Fine Copy of this Book in a Fine Dust-Jacket.The book is in superb condition as it has been kept in it's original cardboard shipping box,hence it has remained in superb and bright condition with NO chips or tears and with crisp white page edges.Not price clipped.This copy has NO previous names dgesr inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is no leaning or rolling to spine.Contents remain lovely and clean internally,profusely illustrated throughout in both colour and black and white,8vo First British Edition. Fine .

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Book number: 72941

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Science

CANBY,COURTLANDT

A History of Weaponry Vol 4

The New Illustrated Library of Science and Invention, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 4¾" - 5¾" Tall. This is a Fine Copy of this Book in a Fine Dust-Jacket.The book is in superb condition as it has been kept in it's original cardboard shipping box,hence it has remained in superb and bright condition with NO chips or tears and with crisp white page edges.Not price clipped.This copy has NO previous names dgesr inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is no leaning or rolling to spine.Contents remain lovely and clean internally,profusely illustrated throughout in both colour and black and white,8vo First British Edition. Fine .

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Book number: 72943

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Science

CANSDALE,G.S.

Animals and Man

London: Hutchinson, 1952. First Edition... Hardcover. 8vo. This is a Near Fine Copy of this book in cream cloth with black title lettering to spine,in a Near Fine Dust-Jacket which has NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket,light sunning to spine.Not price clipped and this copy has NO previous ownership inscriptions present.. Near Fine .

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Book number: 44198

Catalogue: Natural History

CARPENTER,GEORGE

Insect Transformation

London: Methuen & Co, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This is a Very Good + Copy of this Book in Publisher's original brown coloured cloth with black lettered title to spine and upper cover.No Dust-Jacket.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and with No leaning to spine.Nice clean copy internally with 4 plates and 124 other illustrations.The book was acquired from an impressive private academic collection of books on entomology.This copy is NOT ex library,Thick 8vo 282pp First Edition. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 57254

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: Entomology

CARTLAND,BARBARA

The Outrageous Queen the Romantic Life Story of Queen Christina of Sweden

London: Frederick Muller, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 6 ¾" - 9¾" Tall. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in Publisher's original red hardcover cloth in a Very Good Dust-Jacket that has some rubbing and wear to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.Price clipped and this copy has NO previous names or inscriptions present.The d/j comes well protected in a removable cover sleeve,uncomon title 8vo 256pp First Edition 1st Impression. Very Good .

Richard Thornton BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 60904

Catalogue: History

CHADWICK,EDWIN

Wild Flowers Puffin Picture Book 81

London: Penguin Books, 1949. First Edition. Soft cover. 8vo. This is a Very Good Copy in Soft Cover wraps with 61 colour illustrations.8vo landscape format unpaginated First Edition [1949]. Good .

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Book number: 80938

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: Flowers Botany

E BERESFORD CHANCELLOR (SIGNED COPY)

Col. Charteris and the Duke of Wharton Volume III

London: Philip Allan & Co, 1925. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This is a Poor Copy of this hardcover book in original cloth with paper title label to spine.There is some damage to the boards at head of spine with slight chipping and with edges and corners rubbed and worn.This is one of 300 copies of this Limited edition and signed by the Author on the Limitations page.This copy has no number listed to the limitations page.Clean copy internally and there is some slight leaning to spine.8vo 243pp. Poor .

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Book number: 64644

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Signed

CHANCELLOR,VALERIE (EDITED BY)

Master & Artisan in Victorian England: The Autobiography of Joseph Gutteridge

New York: Augustus M Kelley, 1969. Hardcover. This is a Very Good+ Copy of this Book in a Very Good+ Dust-Jacket,not price clipped and with just one small neat owner's name to the ffep.Lovely clean copy internally 8vo 238pp First Edition Size: 8vo - over 6 ¾" - 9¾" Tall. Very Good+ .

Richard Thornton BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 11685

Catalogue: History

CHANDLER,E.A. C.J GASKELL A.D.R. HILBERY

Feline Medicine and Therapeutics

Oxford London Edinburgh: Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. This is a Near Fine Copy of this book in Publisher's blue cloth with gilt title lettering to spine,in a Very Good- Dust-Jacket,which has one repaired closed tear to the top edge of te upper cover approx 1.5 inches in length.This copy has no previous ownership inscriptions present.Firm binding with no hinge weakness and their is no leaning or rolling to spine.profusely illustrated.Thick Academic work,large 4to 405pp Rare First Edition. Near Fine .

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Book number: 19755

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: Cats

HSIN-PAO CHANG

Commissioner Lin and the Opium War

Cambridge Massachusetts USA: Harvard University Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. This is a Good Copy of this Book in Publisher's blue cloth with gilt title lettering to spine in a Very Good Dust-Jacket,which has a little rubbing along extremities of the dust-wrapper.Price clipped and this copy has one previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown and there are tape remnant marks to the front and rear pastedowns.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.Text block is a little spotted to page edges.The wrapper comes protected in a cover sleeve,8vo 317pp p First Edition 1st Impression [1964]. Good .

Richard Thornton BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 81819

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Opim War China

CHARLTON,MICHAEL

The Eagle and the Small Birds: Crisis in the Soviet Empire from Yalta to Solidarity

London: BBC, 1984. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. This is a Very Good Copy of this book in Publisher's red cloth with gilt title lettering to spine in a Very Good Dust-Jacket which has NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.Not price clipped and this copy has one owner's name to the ffep that of 'Keith Kyle' he has also annotated the book on the Title page and to the rear endpaper.He may well have reviewed the book for the Economist magazine.Clean copy internally.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and their is no leaning or rolling to spine.This copy was acquired from the Private Library of Professor Keith Kyle and he would have been sent this title for review possibly for the Economist Magazine.Kyle was a gifted journalist and historian best known for his absorbing dispatches for the Tonight programme and as the Author of Suez: Britain's End of Empire in the Middle East (1991), the definitive book on the Suez crisis.He worked for the BBC for Many Years and produced many articles and book reviews for the Economist.Kyle was The Washington Correspondent for the Economist and served in that position from 1953 to 1958, covering the emerging civil rights struggle in the south and the infamous McCarthy hearings. He got to know such diverse leaders as Martin Luther King, Richard Nixon,and John F Kennedy.8vo,192pp First Edition 1st Impression Size: 8vo - over 6¾" - 9¾" Tall. Very Good .

Richard Thornton BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 33580

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Politics Russia

EVELYN LE CHENE

Mauthausen the History of a Death Camp

London: Methuen & Co, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. This is a Very Good + Copy of this book in a Very Good Dust-jacket that has just a touch of light rubbing to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.Not price clipped and without a couple of previous owner's names to the front endpaper.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.Nice clean copy internally of this scarce title 8vo 296pp First Edition [1971]. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 58321

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Concentration Camps

CHILDERS,ERSKINE

In the Ranks of the C.I. V.

Staplehurst Kent: Spellmount Ltd, 1999. First Thus. Hardcover. 8vo. This is a Fine Copy of this Book in Publisher's black cloth boards with gilt title lettering to spine in a Fine Dust-Jacket that has NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-wrapper.Not Price Clipped.The book has a Firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is no leaning or rolling to spine.This copy has NO previous names present.Contents remain clean internally,8vo 301pp First Thus [1999]. Fine .

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Book number: 82770

Catalogue: History

CHURCH,PROFESSOR

With the King at Oxford (a Tale of the Great Rebellion)

London: Seeley Service and Co, 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. A Very Good Copy of this Book in Blue Pictorial Cloth,with 16 attractive cold illustrations,8vo 298pp + 2pp of further adverts.. Very Good .

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Book number: 5736

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Oxford