Bainbridge,Beryl

MASTER GEORGIE

London, Duckworth 2nd impression same month & year as first 1998 . Octavo cloth dust jacket 190pp V.G+ in V.G jacket *Short-listed for the 1998 Booker prize.

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Book number: F62816

Catalogue: Fiction and Poetry

Keywords: fiction novel Booker prize

Baker, Sir R., Knight (Sir Richard Baker 1568-1645)

A CHRONICLE OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND From the Time of the Romans Government [sic] unto the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles.

London, Daniel Frere to be sold at his shop at the Red Bull in Little Brittaine 1st edition first printing. 1643 Frontispiece of Charles Prince of Wales by Cor(nelius) van Dalen + fine engraved titlepage by W. Marshall with views of London, York, Lincoln . Folio contemporary brown marbled calf on five raised bands with gilt directly lettered to spine (tips worn/hinges split to top & bottom compartent of front hinge but hinges still well attached & sound). Frontis portrait + engraved title + dedication leaf to Charles Prince of Wales + To reader +[5]pp of Authors used as sources + 181pp +163pp +108pp +163pp collated complete. The To Reader & Author list are Misbound at the end (signed from A2 where they should follow the dedication). The last leaves of text are correctly signed XXXX (pp161-3) last is a quarter page of text ending in FINIS. The frontis has a longitudinal crease and a corner torn away not touching either the printed area nor even the plate mark, page 88 of the Elizabeth section has an ink mark affecting a few words but with no loss of sense otherwise no tears, no MS notes or underlining the only marks a few pages with edge dusting. A really nice wide margined copy clean tight and crisp. *Very scarce in this first edition.

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Book number: V74614

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: history England

Howard Baker (publisher)

PICTURE SHOW ANNUAL FOR 1937

London, Howard Baker Publishers Ltd. 1970 Reproduction of 1937 Annual illustrated throughout in sepia, violet, blue, green, & black. . 272x195mm boards in price clipped dust jacket 160pp *1937 was one of the cinema's greatest years. Gable, Garbor, Loy, Astaire and Hepburn

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Book number: A72952

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: film movies stars

Leech (designed by) and engraved by Baker

YOUNG TROUBLESOME or Master Jacky's Holidays - From the Blessed Moment of His Leaving School To The Identical Moment of His Going Back Again; Showing How There Never Was Such A Boy As That Boy.

Philadelphian USA, Davis, Porter & Co. 1850 as entered according to Act of Congress Hand-colored illustrations on 18 pages. . 250x195mm newer cloth spined boards (rubbed to tips) 24pp. Paper uniformly tanned with minor foxing and a few gutters strengthened, first 2 leaves have 2" tears without loss. Now a neat amusing item. *Young Jacky comes home for the Christmas Holidays and brings mayhem to the household. This is an American printing with plates from the 1850 London edition re-engraved and hand-colored.

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Book number: V71106

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: humorous illustrations schoolboy

Balducci,Rita

BARBIE THE PEASANT OR THE PRINCESS

London, Mattel/Grolier Enterprises 1998 Full-page colour photographs of Barbie & Ken and other dolls dressed in scenes of the fairy tale. . Octavo pictorial boards [55]pp V.G.

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Book number: J72507

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: Barbie dolls

Ball, John [editor]

PEAKS, PASSES AND GLACIERS a series of excursions by members of the Alpine Club.

London, Longman Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts 1859 1st edition Chromolith plates (8) each tipped onto beige art paper, woodcuts in the text. Chromolithographs by Day & Son lithographers to the Queen. Day & Son lithographers to the Queen. . Octavo tan half calf with green cloth sides; spine with gilt library name and number (leather edges rubbed/hinges cracked but covers well attached/spine lacking most of spine title label but blind iumpression of title remains) xvi (incl.frontis & titlepage with large vignettwe +Preface +contents) +516pp with errata slip tipped in after p466 as called for. Bookplate of S.R.[ie Stan Robinson] to pastedown & sm.stamp "Robinson Collection" to both pastedowns and the blank versos of most of the chromos and two of the maps also only on the blank back. The Robinson collection is part of the Knowsley Library and the latter's heraldic device is gilt to foot of spine. The interesting text is well printed and is crisp and clean.

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Book number: V75244

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: mountaineering Switzerland

Ballard,E.G. (according to Brit.Library but no author given)

ORIGINAL POEMS FOR YOUNG PERSONS (second Series) Vol.1

London, Souter 1st edition 1825 Frontispiece . Duodecimo green roan backed marbled boards (marbled paper very worn/rear board sl.cracked and missing some paper/head and foot of spine chipped) 108pp inscriptions on FEP and some pale foxing/signs of use but G+ Although some titles are similar to Taylor's poems these are not the same and the preface is unsigned but written by a man (not in Osborne Collection, British Library has only this second series).

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Book number: J51716

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: poetry childrens poems

Balleine,G.R.

BAILIWICK OF JERSEY

London, Hodder & Stoughton King's Channel Islands series 2nd impression 1962 Plates with 114 pictures with map endpapers at rear. . Octavo blue cloth in price clipped dust jacket (tips rubbed and edge sunned) xxxi +170pp neat name on pastedown else V.G in V.G jacket.

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Book number: A62460

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: Channel Island Jersey topography guide

Ballingall,William [engraver]

SCENES OF SCOTTISH STORY drawn by Waller H.Paton Sam.Brough, W.F.Vallance and other artists

Edinburgh, E.S.Livingstone 1873 Plates [15 including frontis.] + every text page with pictorial decoration + 28 illustrations in the text. . sm.folio [in 6's] redish-brown gilt cloth cover & spine and blindstamped lower cover. On bevelled boards. [Sl.marked/corners rubbed/ a few bubbles to cloth of lower cover] All Edges Gilt. 88pp including halftitle + Frontisplate + pictorial titlepage. + Preface + contents list.Lacks the first free endpaper and the following page is browned as is the last page facing its rear free endpaper. The endpapers seems to have been rather acidic for this to happen. The text includes historical descriptions and many poems taken from John Brown, Walter Scott, Wordsworth, Ruskin etc. A clean tight copy with no marginalia, names etc.

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Book number: V75874

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: Scottish Scenery

Bankoff, George

THE SHADOW ON THE PATH with a foreword by A.W. Reynolds & Patrick Haviland

London, Peter Garnett Ltd. 1st edition first printing (March) 1949 Plates of early medics (15 as listed) from 16-18th century books and including a few Victorian doctors. . Octavo cloth in dust jacket (jacket with marginal chips, creasing & 2 larger lacks at foot) xi +207pp. *History of venereal diseases from the earliest times and their treatment and the great advances made in modern times so that treatment now is "speedy and effective".

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Book number: A74344

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: history medicine venereal diseases cures

Bannerman, Helen (1862-1946)

THE STORY OF LITTLE BLACK QUASHA

London, Nisbet & Co. Ltd. 22 Berners Street, W.1 1908 according to British Library Colour plates (28) to face each text page + square onlay colour print to cover not repeated inside the book. . 16mo cloth spined grey decorated boards with 80x60mm pictorial onlay (tips rubbed) pictorial end papers. Frontispiece + titlepage +[2]pp blank +6-111pp +[1]p blank. Some pressure marks to rear endpapers, lower cover with a few pencil marks. All text and all colour plates printed one side only, blank sides counted in page numbering though they are not themselves numbered. *A neat copy of this charming book by the author of Little Black Sambo.

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Book number: J73406

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: black interest classic childrens illustrated

Barber, Thomas (1771-1843) (Bartlett & Barber illustrators)

BARBER'S PICTURESQUE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT, Comprising Views of every object of interest on the Island. Engraved from Original Drawings Accompanied by Historical and Topographical Descriptions.

London, Simpkin & Marshall 1834] (but no date given) Engraved plates (40 incl. illustrated titlepage) + doublpage map, by W.H. Bartlett, T. Barber et al. . 235x152mm (in 4's) green cloth spined boards (newer rebind and new endpapers) 110pp some foxing and edge browning but all plates with tissue guards present. Generally clean and tight.

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Book number: V62471

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: topography England illustrated

Hanna-Barbera

HUCKLEBERRY HOUND CLIMBS A TREE a Huckleberry Hound Deluxe Pop-up

Manchester, World Distributors/Ottenheimer 1976 Pop-ups (4) + 7 tab movements by Hanna- Barbera. . Octavo green pictorial boards (with US$ price) [12]pp. Last pop-up background with small professional repair to (unprinted) backside without loss (MONTANARO 131).

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Book number: J65224

Catalogue: Children's Books and Pop-Ups

Keywords: pop-up movable cartoon TV spin off

Barker,Felix

DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION - FIRST EXPLORERS

London, Reader's Digest 1st edition 1971 Color and other illustrations throughout. . Large octavo cloth spined pictorial boards (tips slightly rubbed) 191pp V.G. *Egyptian Poenican Greek explorers.

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Book number: A58280

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: exploration classic travel exploration

Barlaeus, Caspare, Cornelius Boyus, Jacobus Lydius & Jacob Cats.

FACES AUGUSTAE SIVE POEMATIA quibus Illustriores Nuptiae a nobili & Illustri viro D.Jacob Catsio…

Dordrecht {Germany], Matthias Havius 1643 charming text engravings [14 copperplates + 1 mounted as frontispiece to Part I] 3 signed S.V. Q. [Crispin Van Queborn] + handsome woodcut large figural, floral and foliated initals + smaller decorated initials an. Octavo 4 Parts in One Volume. laced through vellum binding with yapp fore-edge & with rubbed black stamped tree growing from a crown with initials CJH ? and motto on a plaque. This stamp to the cover is Very rubbed but there is a bookplate to endpapers with the same stamp in a bit better condition. Spine with ink title & date. [Vellum somewhat marked and dusty/Lacks all but a stub of ribbon ties] Titlepage with printer's mark pf woman holding a plume and with a lap full of books as the Dortrecht printer's mark + [60pp of Dedications, laudatory poems and privilege etc.] + 272pp + 149pp + [3p=blanks] + 32pp +198pp

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Book number: V75513

Catalogue: Antiquarian

Keywords: illustrated + poetry