BLUNT, WILFRED.

Isfahan, Pearl of Persia.

London. Paul Elek, 1974., 2nd impression. 208 pages including bibliography & notes. 36 colour photographs and 55 in b./w. by Wim Swaan. 24 illustrations in the text. Contents near fine, clean, no inscription or marks. D./w. is torn on all corners, repared on inside with sellotape, & its price clipped. Cloth cover is near fine. 28cm. x 20.5cm. 1974

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Book number: 8309

Catalogue: Travel & Places::History

Keywords: Persia Isfahan Shah Mosque Safavid Minarets Iran

BLUNT, WILFRED.

SLOW ON THE FEATHER. Further Autobiography, 1938-1959.

Wilton, Salisbury. Michael Russell, 1986., 1st edition. This is the second part of Wilfred Blunts's autobiography, it covers the 21 years he spent as an art teacher at Eton. 270 pages, with over 100 black & white photographs and illustrations. Near fine, no inscription or marks. Cover is near fine but corners are slightly bumped. Near fine d./w. but corners & edges slightly worn & bumped, back is faintly scratched & rubbed. Priced £12.95. 22cm. x `4.5cm. ISBN 0859551350. 1986 ISBN: 0859551350

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Book number: 7944

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: autobiography Anthony Blunt Eton Christopher Blunt

BLY, JOHN (GENERAL EDITOR)

IS IT GENUINE ? How To Collect Antiques With Confidence.

London. Mitchell Beazley,1993, Reprint. First published1986. "14 dealers, saleroom experts & other authorities...look at furniture, metalware, pottery, porcelain, glass, clocks & toys." etc. 224 pages, illustrated throughout in colour & b./w. Near fine. Near fine d/w., priced £14.99.10½" x 7¼". ISBN 0855336129. 1993

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Book number: 2563

Catalogue: Antiques

Keywords: antique table chair clock furniture silver decoy glass netsuke scrimshaw Sheffield Plate Peter Sims

BLYTHMAN, JOANNA.

SHOPPER. The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets.

London. Harper Perennial, 2005., Paperback. 382 pages. Contents near fine, no inscription or marks. Near fine stiff card cover priced on back £7.99. ISBN 0007158041. 2005

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Book number: 7705

Catalogue: Business, Finance & Marketing

Keywords: supermarkets megastore groceries

BLYTON, ENID.

Five Have Plenty Of Fun.

London. Hodder & Stoughton, 1955., Appears to be a first edition. 185 pages. 32 illustrations in black & white, and blue, black & white. Contents clean, no inscription or marks. Red cloth cover has faint stain on bottom corner of front otherwise very good. No d../w.

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Book number: 8510

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Enid Blyton Famous Five

BOARDMAN, JOHN

GREEK ART.

London. Thames & Hudson, 1964., Softback. One of T. & H.'s " World of Art Library History of Art" series. 286 pages including bibliography, list of illustrations and index. 46 plates in colour and 205 photographs in b.& w. Near fine except some notes written neatly & very small on last page, on list of galleries. 8.25" x 5.75". 1964

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Book number: 3204

Catalogue: Art & Design

Keywords: Greece Greek sculpture statues art painting

BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI.

THE DECAMERON OF BOCCACCIO. 2 Volumes.

Westminster. Folio Society, 1954 & 1955, 2 volume set. Boccaccio's tales, collected from many sources, were first published about 1460. Vol. 1 "The First Five Days", 394 pages, pub.1954. Vol. 2 "The Second Five Days", 324 pages, 2nd impression, pub. 1955. Unexpurgated translation by Richard Aldington. Illustrated with aquatints by Buckland-Wright. Each book contains 50 stories & 10 aquatints. Near fine, no inscription or marks. Dust wrappers slightly worn top & bottom of spine, on corners with small tears on edges, also on volume 1 the top of spine & top corners slightly torn with small pieces missing. Scanned to show condition of d./w. & cover underneath, vol. 1 in d./w., vol. 2 without d./w. showing attractive binding.10" x 6¼". 1954.

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Book number: 3393

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Boccaccio Decameron Buckland-Wright aquatint

BOCOCK, ROBERT.

FREUD and Modern Society.

Woking. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1986., Paperback. Reprint, first published 1976. An Open University Set Book. 200 pages, Very good card cover, priced on back £6.25. Contents very good, except some lines underlined in red, and previous owners name & address label on f.e.p. ISBN 0442306822. 1986 ISBN: 0442306822

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Book number: 8468

Catalogue: Sociology & Culture

Keywords: Freud psychology psychotherapy sociology society

BODDY, FREDERICK A.

Foliage Plants.

Newton Abbot David & Charles, 1973, 213 pages including index of common names & index of Latin names. 32 b./w. photographs. 8.75" x 5.5". Cover & contents near fine except slightly faded on spine and along top & bottom edges. Near fine d./w. priced £2.95. ISBN 0715356925. 1973

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Book number: 2562

Catalogue: Gardening

Keywords: foliage plants leaves garden shrubs trees

BOEHN, MAX VON.

MODES AND MANNERS. VOLUME III The Seventeenth Century.

London. George G. Harrap, 1935., First edition. "Describes the fashions and social manners current among the better classes of European peoples from the period of the Early Middle Ages, with Germany as the focal-point." Translated by Joan Joshua. 228 pages. 31 colour & 186 b./ w. illustrations. Contents near fine, no inscription or marks. D./w. is very good but bumped on edges, top of spine & corners are worn & torn, and spine is soiled. 22cm. x 14.5cm.

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Book number: 8021

Catalogue: History

Keywords: fashion manners clothes 17th century Paris Europe

BOLDT, GERHARD.

HITLER'S LAST DAYS. An Eye-witness Account.

London. Sphere Books, 1973., Paperback. First published in German in 1947. Translated by Sandra Bance. 188 pages, with about 28 b./w. photographs on 16 pages. 6.75" x 4".Corners slightly bumped, edges slightly worn o./w. very good. ISBN 0722117353. 1973

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Book number: 2383

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: Hitler Nazis W./W.2 Eva Braun

BOLLAND, TONY.

PLUG INN. Volume Two. The continuing story of a music shop & the Merseyside Music Scene.

St. Bride's Major, Wales. Aureus 2009, Volume 2, " (The Forgotten Years.) The continuing story of a music shop in the 1970's and the Merseyside Music Scene." Large size softback. 349 pages, illustrated with many black & white photographs. 29.5cm. x 21cm. Near fine, no inscription or marks. 2009

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Book number: 9051

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Merseyside music shop

BOLTON, RICHARD.

PAINTING LANDSCAPES & NATURE. Watercolour Tips and Techniques.

Tunbridge Wells. Search Press, 2006., Softback. 96 pages. "How to create sparkling, original watercolour landscapes, with water, trees, hills, mountains & skies, using 80 step-by-step photographs." Illustrated in colour throughout. 29cm. x 21.5cm. Near fine, no inscription or marks. Near fine stiff card cover, priced on back £9.99. ISBN 0855325890. 2006

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Book number: 7711

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: landscapes watercolour painting nature

BOLTON, G.DOUGLAS.

SCOTLAND'S WESTERN SEABOARD..

Edinburgh. Oliver & Boyd, 1953., First edition. 84 very good black & white photographs of the Western coast of Scotland, the sea, lochs, mountains & lovely scenery, from Carlisle & the Solway Firth to Cape Wrath. Isles of Arran, Iona, & Skye, Kintyre, Mull, Oban, Tobermory, Durness & Cape Wrath by the author. 176 pages with photographic notes & data. Cover & contents are near fine, no inscription or marks. D./w. is slightly worn on corrners o./w. near fine. 8½" x 6½". 1958

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Book number: 1685

Catalogue: Travel & Topography

Keywords: Scotland West Scotland Kirkcudbrightshire Ayrshire Dunbartonshire Argyllshire Inverness Hebrides Sutherland

BOLTON, G. DOUGLAS

YORKSHIRE REVEALED.

Edinburgh. Oliver & Boyd, 1955., 260 pages, including photographic notes & index, followed by map at end folded in 3. 68 b./w. photographs on about 39 pages. Near fine, no inscription or marks. Near fine d./w., not price clipped (25/-) 9.25" x 6.5". 1955

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Book number: 5897

Catalogue: Travel & Topography

Keywords: York Yorkshire Wharfedale Yorkshire Moors Hull Humber Leeds Bradford Beverley Dentdale Halifax Harrogate Ribblesdale Skipton Whitby