[Christmas]

NOWELL, NOWELL, NOWELL An Old Carol.

Oxford & London, A.R. Mowbray & Co. Colour plates [4] =color cover + 16 [+ 4 extra drawings inside cover & on insert by Wyndham Hughes. . obl.8vo colour to front cover + full page line illusgration to rear cover [slight corner crease to upper margin of cover] Insert of Mowbray's "books for christmas" glued to hinge covering part of the colored titlepage. 20 leaves. A charmingly illustrated book, clean and tight.

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Buchzahl: A76163

Katalog: General Non-Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Christmas religious angels

OXFORD DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS

London, Oxf.Univ.Press 2nd edition revis. 1954 . Large octavo blue buckram (tips rubbed) xix+1003pp. Rear endpaper slightly foxed else clean and white inside.

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Buchzahl: A56124

Katalog: General Non-Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: dictionary literature

THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN

Bavaria, none given no date color printed illustrations [4] . narrow folio card covers with glazed pictorial illustration of the Piper and rats [some creases/three marginal tears and some chipping] Corners rounded Page 1 is a full-page colored illustration. On verso is the green printed text with floral head- & tail-piece. There are three more fullpage illustrations and 3 more green printed pages with a further floral illustration to the end of the text.The paper is tanned and somewhat brittle.

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Buchzahl: A76152

Katalog: General Non-Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: poem illustrated

Silk embroidered Christmas card

N.P., No publication name. 1920s approx. Embroidered silk floral arrangement with message To Greet You. . 152x121mm card held by yellow silk ribbon at hinge, tinted violet to embossed surrounds and "With Best Wishes", inside 2 leaves one of which has poem and Christmas greeting. No signature or other writing anywhere and lower cover of card clean.

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Buchzahl: A74480

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Sonstige Stichworte: silk embroidered Christmas card

Aeschylus [introduction & notes by A. Sidgwick]

AGAMEMNON with introduction and notes by A[rthur] Sidgwick, M.A. Sixth edition, revised Part I - Introduction and Text.

Oxford, Clarendon Press 1905 . Octavo red cloth with black rules and lettering to spine [spine lettering rubbed, tips bumped, lower cover with crease to cloth] Title + iii-xxiv (preface, contents & introduction + [62]pp (not numbered but collated and complete, text in Greek) + Titlepage [as above but] PART II - Notes + 88pp (Notes, Appendices & 3 indices). Names to the front pastedown dated 1916 else entirely clean, binding strong & tight.

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Buchzahl: A76123

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Sonstige Stichworte: Greek tragedy drama plays

Aeschylus [introduction by Arthurus Sidgwick]

TRAGOEDIAE cun Fabularum Deperditarum fragmentis Poetae vita et Operum catalogo

Oxford, Clarendon Text in GREEK Throughout . 8vo red-brown cloth with black cover details and lettering to front cover and spine [bit rubbed/sl. Bumped to tips/some black parts rubbed or faded] half title + title + Preface & contents etc. totalling 6 leaves + [387pp not numbered but collated and complete] First few pages of the 1st, 4th to 7th are annotated and with some underlining but the Fragmenta to the end are not affected. Even the 5 annotated tragedies are usually only marked to a few pages, primarily the first few leaves. Two names to the front free endpaper else entirely clean, tight and well bound. We have several other titles in this series.

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Buchzahl: A76098

Katalog: General Non-Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Greek Tragedies

Agogos [=Charlees William Day]

HINTS ON ETIQUETTE and the usages of Society with a glance at bad habits .. Illustrated by Brian Robb

London, Turnsile Press Ltd. 1947 coloured plates [4] . 16mo pictorial paper covered boards to front shewing entering a house and to rear a maiden sweeping the courtyard. [tips worn & bit bumped] half title + titepage /notes + introduction + Contents. +68 pages First 3 and last 2 leaves with small pale foxing. Based on the 1834 first edition the 3rd edition of 1836 is followed in this reprint.

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Buchzahl: A76240

Katalog: General Non-Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: behaviour in society

Aikman,Lonnelle

WE, THE PEOPLE: THE STORY OF THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL, IT'S PAST AND ITS PROMISE

Washington D.C., U.S. Capitol Historical Society/National Geographical Society 1967 Mostly color plates several doublepage + some black white illustrations. . Octavo white embossed cloth gilt titled to cover and spine (bit marked) 143pp + order form & publisher's list inserted between rear endpapers.

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Buchzahl: A72947

Katalog: General Non-Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: America Washington Capitol history

Cigarette Cards & Album

WILLS'S CIGARETTE PICTUE-CARD ALBUM -containding HOUSEHOLD HINTS

N.P., W.D. & H.O.Wills/Imperial Tabacco Co. colour pictorial cigarette cards [49 of 50] lacks card No.40 . Square Duodecimo buff decorated Picture-card Album [spine split up to lower staple with 1" tear to lower cover/rubbed and cover sl. Creased] [price one penny] 10 leaves cards are inserted into corner slots and are visible from both sides of the page through picture frame cut-out enabling reading of text to each card. Hints such as how to restore brush bristles, ridding a carpet of mothsrepairing linoleum, regilding picture frames, making a wireless "earth" etc *Some seems rather dangerous, others simple and clever. All in good condt.

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Buchzahl: A75343

Katalog: General Non-Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Household hints

Aldington, Richard (1892-1962)

SWITZERLAND. LA SUISSE. DIE SCHWEIZ. A Book of Photographs with an Introduction by Richard Aldington

London, Spring Books/Anglo-Italian Publications printed in Czechslovakia 1961 according to British Library Over 200 full-page illustrations + doublepage map to endpapers. . Octavo buckram red titled to cover and spine in edge torn dust jacket (tips rubbed/edges of jacket tatty but virtually complete) 256pp. *Text of introduction in English, French and German. Orig. Leinen 32 Seiten von 3-sprachig Einleitungstext, uber 200 ganzseitige Abbildungen (Photo nur ganz wenigen autos in stadt centrum) Schutzumschlag an mehreren Stellen eingerissen, sonst gut.

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Buchzahl: A73678

Katalog: General Non-Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Switzerland Suisse Scweiz travel

Alexander, R.J., Craft, M., Lynch, J.

Change in Teacher Education

London, Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1984 . With Dust Jacket. 357pp. Inscription inside front cover 'Silver'. Book in good very good condition.

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Buchzahl: A75362

Katalog: General Non-Fiction

Alexander, C.H.O'D

CHESS "the Gymnasium of the Mind" -Anderssen

London, Sir Isaac Pitman & sons Ltd. 1946 chess boards set up with game positions + players studying their chess game boards. . sm.8vo blue cloth boards with edge torn dust jacket. [flap of jacket with ink stain also carried to margin of prelims and first 11 pages but in all these pages only encroaching on less than half of the margin/cloth spine bit sunned] Portrait of Alexander facing title page & within xiv preliminary pages +190 pages of text.

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Buchzahl: A76234

Katalog: General Non-Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: chess

Anastassiou, Nicolaos

GREEK SELF-TAUGHT [Modern] with Phonetic pronunciation [Thimm's System]

London, E.Marlborough & Co. 1916 [1922 publisher's 334pp cataloque] Frontisplate of Greek Coins . 12mo red cloth blacklettered to spine and covers [slight rubbing to tips] Frontis. + titlepage + Preface + 4-120pp + 32pp publisher's catalogue of European & oriental Languages dated 1922. Front end-papers have two Royal Naval War Libraries stamps with "withdrawn H.M.Stationary Office" stamp. A bright clean copy. Text in three columns [English, Modern Greek, +Pronunciation + Elementary Grammar.

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Buchzahl: A76194

Katalog: General Non-Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Greek

Andrews,Allen

THE KING WHO LOST AMERICA George III and Independence

London, Jupiter books Ltd/ 1st edition 1976 Color plates and vintage illustrations. . Octavo boards and spine faded dust jacket (tips rubbed/sl.bumped) 182pp +[2]pp. Lacks free endpaper, name on margin of halftitle, ex library with usual stamps & numerals on titlepage only a few signs of use but a neat tight copy.

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Buchzahl: A63865

Katalog: General Non-Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: history America England Independence

Anon

BRISTOL, SOUVENIR LETTER CARDS

Bristol, Barton 1920, 1930 approx) Handcolored and black/white photographic panorama strip. . Two wallet-envelope drop down 6-fold strips of souvenir photographs. *Envelope unaddressed, unused.

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Buchzahl: A60893

Katalog: General Non-Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: souvenir photographs topography Bristol