Hislop, Victoria

The Island (First UK edition-first printing)

Near fine condition. Review, 2005. First UK edition-first printing (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Blue hardback (two small dents and nick on the edges of the cover, gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj cover (a couple of small creases, nicks and scratches on the edges of the Dj cover), both in near fine condition. Nice and clean pages with small ink marks on the outer edges. Nice and clean book with light shelf wear on the Dj cover. 375pp. Price un-clipped. A collectable first edition. Heavy book. Near Fine/Near Fine. ISBN: 9780755309504

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Book number: 11536

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Holland, Cecelia

Until the Sun Falls

Good condition. Hodder and Stoughton, 1969. First UK edition-first printing. Pictorial hardback(small nicks, crease, tear, scratches and ink marks on the cover and spine) in GC, no Dj cover. Illustrated with b/w maps. Ex-Library book with stamps, pocket. Clean pages with ink marks, tainted and aged on the outer edges, creases, nicks, small foxing and ink marks on the edges and inside the pages, small tear on the edge of the first blank page of the book, tear inside the back cover, the back cover of the book is slightly loose. The book is in GC for its age but with some shelf wear. 500pp including Note, The children of Gengbis Kban family tree. A collectable and rare first edition. Good/No Jacket. ISBN: 9780340106679

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Book number: 2832

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Howard, Alexander

The Menacing Rise of Japan: Ninety years of crafty statesmanship in pictures

GC plus. George G. Harrap and co, 1943. First edition. Orange hardback(black lettering on the front cover and spine, some ink marks, nicks and scratches on the cover and spine) in GC plus, no Dj cover. Illustrated with b/w photos, map, drawings. Clean pages but slightly tainted on the outer edges, some foxing marks, creases and nicks on the edges of the pages, mark on the edge of the first blank page of the book. The book is in GC for its age with some shelf wear. 94pp including foreword, books to read on Japan. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 5100

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Keywords: History : Asia :

Hugo, Victor, Uffe Birkedal (Translator)

Klokkeren Fra Notre-Dame (Hunchback of Notre Dame) Abridged Version

GC plus. Martins Forlag, 1944. Abridged version in Danish language. Pictorial hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small nicks and light shelf wear on the cover and spine) in good condition plus, no Dj cover. Clean pages but tainted on the outer edges, a couple of small creases, ink marks and tainted on the edges of the pages, previous owner's name written on the edge of the title page. 428pp. Translated by Uffe Birkedal. A collectable book. Good/No Dj.

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Book number: 6131

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L'illustration

L'Illustration Theatre 1903-1904- Supplements De Theatre Nos:3169 to 3224 (Leather Bound)

VGC. Paris Theatre, 1903-1904. Large format hardback, half leather bound(gilt lettering to the spine, some nicks, dents and scratches on the cover and spine) in VGC, no DJ. Illustrated with many colour, b/w photos, drawings. Nice and clean pages but aged and tainted on the outer edges, some creases, nicks, small foxing marks and slightly yellow on the edges of the pages, a couple of small marks inside the pages, light shelf wear on the cover and spine of the book. The book is in VGC for its age with some shelf wear. Photos available on request. Please note: This is very heavy book(approx 2 Kg). A collectable book. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 3615

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L'Illustration

L'Illustration Theatre 1905-1906- Supplements De Theatre Nos: 16 to 47 (Leather Bound)

VGC. Paris Theatre, 1905-1906. Large format hardback, half leather bound(gilt lettering to the spine, some nicks, dents and scratches on the cover and spine) in VGC, no DJ. Illustrated with many colour, b/w photos, drawings. Nice and clean pages but aged and tainted on the outer edges, some creases, nicks, small foxing marks and slightly yellow on the edges of the pages, light shelf wear on the cover and spine of the book. The book is in VGC for its age with some shelf wear. Photos available on request. Please note: This is very heavy book(approx 3 Kg). A collectable book. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 3997

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 Harry Robert Gall Inglis

The Early Maps of Scotland, with an account of the Ordnance Survey

VGC. The Royal Scottish Geographical Society, 1934. First UK edition. Black hardback(gilt lettering to the cover and spine, small nicks, dents and a couple of small marks on the cover and spine) in VGC, no Dj as issued. Illustrated with folded b/w maps, drawings. Nice and clean pages with small foxing marks, ink marks and light shelf wear on the outer edges, small creases and nicks on the edges of the pages, previous owner's name written inside the front cover, some foxing marks inside the front and back endpaper pages. The book is in VGC for its age with light shelf wear. 120pp including index. A collectable first edition. Very Good/No Dj Cover.

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Book number: 8280

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Keywords: History

Joans, Ted

Teducation: Selected Poems (First edition-first printing)

VGC. Coffee House Press, 1999. First paperback edition-first printing (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Paperback (a couple of creases and small nicks on the edges of the cover and spine) in VGC. Illustrated with b/w plates. Nice and clean pages with small ink marks and nick on the outer edges, small creases on the edges of the pages, previous owner's writing with red pen on the edges of some pages. The book is in VGC with light shelf wear. 242pp. A collectable and scarce first edition-first printing. Book Description: Black Dues! Black Blues! Black News! , Ted Joans trumpets in his tribute to Langston Hughes. What Library Journal wrote in 1969 holds true today: "This collection of his work clearly reveals the influence of Langston Hughes, his mentor and friend. Joans, however, has the harsher and more strident tone necessary to accurately reflect today's society. As he says in one poem: 'We must fall in love and glorify our beautiful black nation / We must create black images / give the world / a black education. '" One of the first black poets to become involved in surrealism and a first generation Beat, Joans is an expatriate poet whose work is enjoying renewed interest. This major collection of poems written during the past forty years is a significant contribution to American letters. Teducation is the first single-volume collection representing the life's work of Joans, a once roommate of Charlie Parker and a contemporary of Allen Ginsberg and Bob Kaufman. Energetic African American Beat poet, surrealist painter, longtime Paris-based expatriate, African traveler, jazz expert and jazz musician, the versatile 71-year old Joans (Black Pow Wow Jazz Poems) has published 35 books, but never, till now, a selected. Joans's rakish, unsatisfiable sensibility can make his work in Beat modes as technically innovative as Burroughs, as polemically exhuberant as Ginsberg and as comic as Corso. His early work, like theirs, depends heavily on surrealist modes; "The rhino roam in the bedroom/ where the lovely virgin wait/ the owl eats a Baptist bat/ adn God almighty is too late. " The masterful longer "Timbuktu Tit Tat Toe" packs a few hundred years of Black America's relationship to aftica into four pages of giddy declamation. Likke Amiri Baraka (who lauds Joans's verse), Joans came to enbrace an aesthetic of people's poetry, creating exhuberant forms to meet his needs, stirring the pot with neologism and slogan, and calling on an arsenal of heroes from Malcom X to Jean-Michael Basquiat. "And Then There Were None" locates political rage in Louis Armstrong's famous grin: "you tried to turn him into your 'musical golliwog doll'/ you wanted his trumpet to blow what you said so/ you misinterpreted his wide smile. " Repudiatin. Very Good. ISBN: 9781566890915

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Book number: 11975

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Johns, W.E.

The Murder at Castle Deeping

VGC. Latimer House, 1951. Completly revised and reset, 1951. Blue hardback(black lettering to the spine, small nicks and light shelf wear on the edges of the cover) with protected Dj cover(small nicks, ink mark, creases and scratches on the Dj cover), both in VGC. Nice and clean pages but aged and with some foxing marks on the outer edges, small creases, nicks and some foxing marks on the edges of the pages. The book is in VGC for its age with light shelf wear. 152pp. A collectable book. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 5105

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Keywords: Fiction WE

Johnson, Dr. Shakespeare William

The complete works of William Shakespeare consisting of his plays and poems with a critical preface by Dr Johnson; life of the auhtor; commendatory verses on Shakespeare by contemporary poets and a glossary.

VGC. James Rimmell, 1858. A New edition. Brown hardback with marbled boards(gilt lettering and illustration to the spine, small tear on the edges of the back cover, small dents and nicks on the cover and spine) in VGC, no Dj cover as issued. Illustrated with a b/w plate. Nice and clean pages with marbled edges on the outer edges, small creases, foxing marks and ink marks on the edges of the pages, previous owner's inscription and date(1866) written on the edges of the fist blank page of the book, some foxing marks and ink marks inside the first two and last two blank pages of the book. The book is in VGC for its age with light shelf wear. 762pp including Glossary. A collectable book. Heavy book. Very Good.

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Book number: 8243

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Keywords: Literature & Fiction : Poetry ; ;

Keenan, J. G.

Elementary Theory of Gas Turbines and Jet Propulsion

VGC/GC. Oxford University Press, 1946. First edition-2nd reprint. Black hardback(some marks and nicks on the cover and spine, gilt lettering to the spine) in VGC, with Dj(small tears, chipped, creases and slightly tainted on the edges of the Dj cover) in good condition. Illustrated with many b/w drawings, diagrams, tables. Nice and clean pages with small foxing marks and slightly tainted on the outer edges, small foxing marks inside the first two and last two blnak pages of the book, small nicks and creases on the edges of the pages. The book is in VGC for its age with light shelf wear on the cover and Dj cover. 265pp including index. Price clipped. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 5287

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Keywords: Engineering

Michael Kraus

Intercolonial Aspects of American Culture on the Eve of the Revolution. With special reference to the northern towns

VGC. Columbia University Press, 1928. First edition-first impression. Large format black hardback(small marks and nicks on the front and back cover, gillt illustration on the front cover, black lettering to the spine) in VGC, no Dj cover. Nice and clean pages with small ink marks and slightly tainted on the outer edges, small creases, nicks and ink marks on the edges of the pages. The book is in VGC for its age with light shelf wear. 251pp including List of authorities, index. A collectable first edition. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 5053

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Keywords: History

Julie Sazonova & Jean Laurent

Renovateur Du Ballet Francais (Serge Lifar)

VGC plus. Buchet-Chastel, 1960. First French edition-first printing. Limited edition to 718 copies. This copy is number 4. Text is in French language. Large format cream paperback(two small marks on the edges of the cover and spine, a couple of creases, small nicks and ink marks on the cover and spine, black and blue lettering on the front cover and spine) in VGC plus. The front cover illustrated by Picasso, black and white frontispiece of Serge Lifar by Picasso, b/w photos. Nice and clean pages with small ink marks and light shelf wear on the outer edges, a couple of creases on the edges of the pages, small pencil marks impressions on the edges of the first blank page of the book. Most of the pages are uncut at the top. 275pp including Table Complete Des Oeuvres Choregraphiques De Serge Lifar A L'Academie Nationale De Musique et De Danse, Oeuvres Dansees et Reglees Par Serge Lifar, Index Alphabetique Des Noms, Iconographie, Table Des Illustrations, Table Des Matieres. A collectable and scarce limited first edition. Very Good.

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Book number: 7342

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Lee, Harper

Go Set A Watchman (Rare Limited Misprinted UK Edition)

Mint condition. Heinemann, 2015. Rare Limited Misprint copy with publisher's printing errors (lines of text missing at the bottom of six pages between 252 and 277). First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). Grey hardback(black lettering to the spine) with Dj(small nick on the edges of the Dj cover), both in mint condition. The book is new with a very small crease on the edges of the back endpaper. 278pp. Price un-clipped. A collectable and rare misprint first edition-first printing. Book Description: Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch - 'Scout' - returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in a painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past - a journey that can be guided only by one's conscience. Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of Harper Lee. Here is an unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, humor and effortless precision - a profoundly affecting work of art that is both wonderfully evocative of another era and relevant to our own times. It not only confirms the enduring brilliance of To Kill a Mockingbird, but also serves as its essential companion, adding depth, context and new meaning to an American classic. New/New. ISBN: 9781785150289

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Book number: 9024

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Alan Lee

The Hobbit Poster Collection: Six Paintings by Alan Lee ((Signed by the Illustrator)

Near fine condition. HarperCollins, 1997. 60th Anniversary edition of The Hobbit. Six paintings by Alan Lee. Each poster is signed by the illustrator Alan Lee. The posters are in near fine condition with a couple of small nicks on the edges, with an illustrated card wallet (a couple of creases and nicks on the outer and inner edges of the slipcase) in near fine condition. The poster sizes are A3. Photograph of J. R. R Tolkien taken by John Wyatt, photograph of Alan Lee taken by Mark Rattenbury. A collectable signed set of six posters. More images are available on request. Product Description: Oversized portfolio of six paintings from the The Hobbit illustrated by award-winning artist, Alan Lee, individually printed and mounted on heavyweight stock suitable for framing. Ill: Alan Lee. Signed by Illustrator. Near Fine. ISBN: 9780261103610

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Book number: 12213

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Keywords: Science Fiction & Fantasy collectionalan 9780261103610