GILBERT Richard

City of the Angels. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Secker & Warburg,, [1964]. 8vo., First Edition; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at extremities.

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Book number: 37971

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GLUBB John Bagot

Britain and the Arabs. A Study of Fifty Years 1908-1958.

Hodder & Stoughton,, [1959]. 8vo., First Edition, with 31 maps (several double-page and full-page) and front and rear endpaper maps; blue cloth gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright copy. Sold from an institution with its stamp on front paste-down, bookplate on front free endpaper verso and small blind stamp on title. First edition of Glubb Pasha's third book and a well-known standard reference.

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Book number: 20550

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GRACE John

Domestic Slavery in West Africa. with particular Reference to the Sierra Leone Protectorate, 1896-1927. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Frederick Muller,, [1975]. 8vo., First Edition, with maps in the text; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 30812

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Keywords: travel, africa, west africa, sierra leone, slavery

GRIERSON Alice Kirk

The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier. The Correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson. Edited by Shirley A. Leckie. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln NE,, [1989]. 8vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text; grey cloth, gilt back, red endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 48735

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GRIERSON Edward

Reputation for a Song. [Book Society edition]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Chatto & Windus [and] Book Society,, [1952]. 8vo., First Edition thus, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, top mildly spotted; red patterned cloth, gilt back, a bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly rubbed dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. Published simultaneously with the first edition.

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Book number: 35284

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GRIERSON Elizabeth

Things Seen in Florence. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Seeley Service,, 1928. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and plates; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and lettered in black, gilt back, blue top, backstrip a little dulled else a bright, clean copy With 2pp series catalogue preceding half-title.

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Book number: 41937

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GRIFFITHS Percival

The British Impact on India. IN FULL MOROCCO

Macdonald,, [1952]. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 4 full-page maps coloured in outline and 2 large folding coloured maps; handsomely bound in burgundy full morocco, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.

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Book number: 21075

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GRIMBLE Arthur

A Pattern of Islands. Illustrated by Tom Pomfret. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

John Murray,, [1952]. 8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, several illustrations in the text and double-page map; decorative blue cloth, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter rubbed and frayed at edges, heavily rubbed at folds, with loss (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip and front panel, and loss (affecting lettering) at tail of backstrip. Classic travel-autobiography set in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands of the Central Pacific. SCARCE WITH THE DUSTWRAPPER IN ANY CONDITION

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Book number: 39352

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GRIMBLE Arthur

A Pattern of Islands [with] Return to the Islands. THE 'ISLANDS' IN FULL MOROCCO

John Murray,, [1952-57]. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with title-vignettes, several illustrations in the text and 2 maps (one double-page) on green stock; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, backs with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt tops, hand-made endpapers, ribbon markers, original backstrips and upper board images preserved and mounted on new and separate leaves at front, custom-made slip-case, an elegant set ideal as a gift or for presentation. Bright set of Grimble's classic travel-autobiography set in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands of the Central Pacific

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Book number: 11532

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GRIMBLE Arthur

A Pattern of Islands [with] Return to the Islands. THE 'ISLANDS' COMPLETE IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS; WITH PROMOTIONAL BAND

John Murray,, [1952-57]. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with title-vignettes, several illustrations in the text and 2 maps (one double-page) on green stock, small signature on front free endpaper of first volume; original blue-green cloth, upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in white, a bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper, wrapper of first volume mildly rubbed and frayed at edges with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip; second volume lightly sunned at backstrip; first volume complete with Book Society promotional band. Bright set of Grimble's classic travel-autobiography set in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands of the Central Pacific. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 48990

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GUIDES BLEUS. FRANCE.

Les Guides Bleus. English Series. France. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Nagel, Paris,, [1949]. Roy. 8vo., text in English, with numerous folding maps coloured in outline, and very numerous plans and diagrams in the text; original blue cloth lettered in silver, covers slightly dusty else a very good, clean copy.

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Book number: 12307

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GUNNIS Rupert

Historic Cyprus. A Guide to its Towns and Villages, Monasteries and Castles. Second Edition. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Methuen,, [1947]. 8vo., Second Edition, with 6 plates, 7 plans (one double-page) in the text and a very large folding map, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in brown, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed at extremities and mildly age-soiled on (predominantly white) rear panel. First published in 1936, this is the first comprehensive guide to the settlements of the island, compiled by the Inspector of Antiquities. Professor David Talbot contributes an introductory chapter on the icon and the Greek Church. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 22133

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HAKLUYT SOCIETY.

Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth. Studies in the History of the Hakluyt Society 1846-1996. With a complete list of the Society's Publications. Edited by R.C. Bridges and P.E.H. Hair. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hakluyt Society,, 1996. 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and illustrations in the text; original Society binding of blue cloth, upper boards framed in blind enclosing sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Effectively a bibliography of the Society's First and Second Series, with invaluable summary description of each volume's contents and coverage. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Nos. 183.

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Book number: 47861

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HALL Ernest George Fenton

The Journals of Ernest George Fenton Hall. [Ninth Impression.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Evangelical Publishing, [Colchester],, [1942]. 8vo., Ninth Impression, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps; printed wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. The author served in the RGA and RAF before working as a missionary in Latin America. EXTREMELY SCARCE.

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Book number: 40814

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HAMILTON, ed. J.A. de C.

The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan from Within. With a Foreword by Sir Stewart Symes. HUMPHREY BELL'S COPY IN FULL MOROCCO

Faber,, 1935. 8vo., First Edition, with large folding coloured map; handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With the trade ticket of Hugh Rees of Regent Street on front paste-down. THIS COPY WAS FORMERLY IN THE LIBRARY OF SIR HUMPHREY BELL AND WAS PRESENTED BY HIM TO HIS ALMA MATER WITH ITS PRESENTATION BOOKPLATE ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. One of the greatest English public servants of the Sudan, Sir [Bernard] Humphrey Bell (1884-1959) was the second son of the Rev. J.T. Bell, headmaster of Christ's Hospital School (then at Hertford). He was educated at Christ's Hospital (1894-1903) followed by a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1906. In the following year he joined the Sudan Political Service and in 1912 married Lilian Constance Bagot, daughter of the Rev. G.P. Dew. In 1917 he was called to the bar at Gray's Inn, and from 1918-1923 served in Baghdad, first as President of the Court of First Instance and then as President of the Court of Appeal. In 1923 he returned to Sudan as Judge of the High Court, having first been appointed CBE in that year. He was appointed Chief Justice of the Sudan in 1926, and received the insignia of the second class of the Order of the Nile from the King of Egypt in 1929. From 1930-1936 he served as Legal Secretary to the Government of the Sudan, after which he retired, and was created KBE in the following year. During WWII he served as Assistant Legal Advisor to the Home Office. Sir Humphrey Bell died in Hampshire in 1959. AN OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATION COPY.

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Book number: 21470

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