(Alpine Journal).

THE ALPINE JOURNAL: A Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation By Members of the Alpine Club. Volume LV May 1946 to November 1946 (Nos. 272-273). Edited by H.E.G. Tyndale.

Alpine Club, 1946. 1st Ed. [Lacking all before text]. Numerous plates and maps including several folding and colour. Pencil annotations, some light browning, original upper wrapps. bound in at rear, rebound in navy cloth, sl. rubbed gilt lettering to spine.
¶ From the Library of William Allsup (1890-1969). Climber, Mountaineer, founder member of the Himalayan Club of which he became Vice-President in 1943. Howard Somervell penned obituaries of him in the Fell & Rock Climbing Journal and Alpine Journal. Articles include A Few Days on Matterhorn by Arnold Lunn, In the Dolomites with an Orientalist by J.B. Joyce, Indian Leave by Basil Goodfellow, etc.

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(Alpine Journal).

THE ALPINE JOURNAL: A Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation By Members of the Alpine Club. Volume LIII May 1941 to November 1941 (Nos. 262-263). Edited by H.E.G. Tyndale.

Alpine Club, 1941. 1st Ed. Numerous plates and maps including several folding and colour. Pencil annotations, some light browning, original upper wrapps. bound in at rear, rebound in navy cloth, sl. rubbed gilt lettering to spine.
¶ From the Library of William Allsup (1890-1969). Climber, Mountaineer, founder member of the Himalayan Club of which he became Vice-President in 1943. Howard Somervell penned obituaries of him in the Fell & Rock Climbing Journal and Alpine Journal. Articles include The Polish Ascent of Nanda Devi, East Peak, 1939 by S.B. Blake and Dr Jakub Bujak, The Ascent of Pico Bonpland by A.E. Gunther, Rock-Climbing in North Wales by A.D.M. Cox, etc.

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(Alpine Club).

EXHIBITION OF SWISS COLOURED PRINTS lent by the Members of the Alpine Club and their Friends. December 1st to 30th, 1924 from 10 am. to 6 pm.

..., 1924 1st Ed. Slim 8vo. 32pp. Colour frontis., 3 colour plates. Some sporadic light spotting, a couple of leaves unopened, original printed limp wrapps., some very minor fading to edges and spine.

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Altschul, Nadia R.

GEOGRAPHIES OF PHILOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE. Postcoloniality and the Transatlantic National Epic.

University of Chicago Press, 2012. 1st Ed. x + 248pp. Good in d/w. sl. faded to fore-edge.

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Ambler, Eric.

EPITAPH FOR A SPY. Introduced by Stella Rimington.

Folio Society, 2013. [xx] + 220pp. Illus. in colour by Paul Blow. Very good in black & white lettered dec. cloth, in slipcase as issued.

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Ambrus, Victor G.

DRACULA’S OMNIBUS.

OUP, 1983. 1st Ed. Slim 4to. [64]pp. Profusely illus. throughout in colour. Original cream coloured pictorial laminated boards, spine very lightly browned.

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Amhurst, N.

TERRÆ-FILIUS; Or, the Secret History of the University of Oxford; In Several Essays. To which are added. Remarks upon a late Book, entitled University Education by R. Newton.

London: Printed for R. Francklin ..., 1754. 3rd Ed. 12mo. T.p. + xxiii + [336]. + [i] publ. advert. Dec. devices and initial letters. First three leaves sl. chipped along fore-edge, light browning heavier to prelims., sm. stain to t.p., modern e.ps., blind ownership stamp of D. Wyndham Smith, rebound in modern half calf with marbled boards, light fading, gilt ruling and gilt lettered title label to spine.
¶ ESTC N13425 ‘P. 335 misnumbered 369. With a final advertisement leaf. Originally published in fifty numbers dated January-July 1721.’

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Amicis, Edmondo de.

SPAIN AND THE SPANIARDS. Translated from the Tenth Edition of the Italian by Stanley Rhoads Yarnall.

Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1895. Large Paper Ed. 2 vols. 293pp. + [i] + 292pp. Frontiss., 45 ills. from photos., folding map. Ex.-lib. with label to front pastedowns and remains of label to lower pastedowns, several accession nos., e.ps. lightly browned, original gilt lettered cream cloth with gilt floral device to upper boards, soiled, spines lightly browned and sl. bumped at head and tail and with accession nos. to tail of spines.
¶ No. 146 of a Limited Edition of 150 Copies.

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(Amis). Farringdon, Jillian Melynda.

LANGUAGE AND THE MORAL LIFE IN THE NOVELS AND POETRY OF KINGSLEY AMIS. A thesis submitted to the University of Wales in candidature for the degree of Magister. April, 1984. Department of English, University College of Swansea.

..., 1984. 4to. [xvi] + vi leaves + 290 leaves. Typed letterpress. Bound in gilt lettered black buckram, corners bumped.

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Amos, Peter.

MILES AIRCRAFT. The Wartime Years 1939 to 1945. The Appendices - Phillips & Powis Aircraft Ltd./Miles Aircraft Ltd., Reading, South Marston & Doncaster, and Miles Aircraft (Northern Ireland) Ltd. Containing individual aircraft histories of 1939-1945 production of Magister, Master, Martinet, Monitor and Messanger I types together with additional activities and background information.

Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd., 2012. 1st Ed. 4to. 400pp. Profusely illus. with photos. Very good in original white & yellow lettered green pictorial laminated limp card wrapps.

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Amos, Peter.

MILES AIRCRAFT. The Wartime Years 1939 to 1945. Phillips & Powis Aircraft Ltd./Miles Aircraft Ltd., Reading, South Marston & Doncaster, and Miles Aircraft (Northern Ireland) Ltd.

Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd., 2012. 1st Ed. 4to. 432pp. Profusely illus. with photos. and drawings, with many in colour. CD The Appendices in plastic envelope at rear. Very good in d/w. sl. rubbed to fore-edge of upper board.

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Anderson, E.N.

FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT IN EARLY AND MEDIEVAL CHINA.

University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2014. 1st Ed. [xii] + 338pp. Very good in d/w.
¶ Encounters with Asia.

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Anderson, J.H.

THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR. July 15-August 18, 1870.

Hugh Rees, 1909. 1st Ed. Slim 8vo. 69pp. + [i] + [ii] adverts. 7 folding plans, folding map in pocket at rear. Light marginal browning, ex.-Royal Air Force Museum lib. with label and several red cancelled and accession ink stamps, original black lettered pale blue cloth with black ruling to head and tail of boards and spine, cloth soiled, corners sl. rubbed, spine browned and sl. bumped at head and tail.

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Anderson, Gillian and Rovin, Jeff.

A VISION OF FIRE. Book One of the Earthend Saga.

Simon & Schuster, 2014. 1st UK Ed. Large 8vo. [xiv] + 292pp. + [xiv]. Very good in d/w., a.e.black.
¶ No. 125 of a Limited Edition of 500 Copies. Signed by Gil Anderson to title page.

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Andersson, Hans G.

SAAB AIRCRAFT Since 1937.

Putnam, 1989. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. 190pp. Profusely illus. with photos. and drawings. Good in d/w. lightly faded to spine.

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