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The sacred Iris; a literary and religious offering.

Liverpool: Henry Lacey, nd [c. 1850]. 8vo, vi, 316pp. [At least] 8 engraved plates. Full black morocco, gilt titling and tooling to spine. Binding rubbed at extremities, titling upside-down on spine, prelims and plates foxed, hinges cracked. A good copy overall. The first two stories are "The widow and her son" and "The colonel".

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Book number: 3139

Catalogue: MISC

Burt, Bob:

Surf city, drag city.

Poole: Blandford Press, 1986. First edition. 4to, 128pp. Text illustrations. Original brown cloth, dustwrapper. Inscription, else a very good copy in a good plus dustwrapper (top edge chafed, one short closed tear, rear panel rubbed).

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Book number: 2736

Catalogue: MISC

Guinness, Paul:

We pledge our lives.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1945. Fiirst edition. 8vo, 160pp. Original grey cloth, dustwrapper. Fine copy in a bright very good dustwrapper (top edge slightly chafed, rubbed at rear). A book written in a prison camp about how the world should work together following the second world war.

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Book number: 2556

Catalogue: MISC

James, Winifred:

A man for empire.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1930. First edition. 8vo, xvi, 230pp. Original green cloth, dustwrapper. Fore-edge foxed, else a very good plus copy in a good plus dustwrapper (rubbed and stained but still intact). "This book is a call to the youth of England and the dominions to stand for and with her in the perilous days of peace as their fathers and brothers did in the perilous days of war" (dustwrapper blurb).

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Book number: 2652

Catalogue: MISC

Jones, J B:

The Witch of Chedworth.

Swindon: J B Jones, nd [1945]. First edition. 8vo, 227pp. Original grey printed wrappers. Light foxing of endpapers and fore-edge else a very good copy. A typewritten note loosely inserted reads "Dear Sir, Mr Jones who is at present in hospital would greatly appreciate your acceptance of his book The Witch of Chedworth, [signed] O M Johns."

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Book number: 2433

Catalogue: MISC

Newnham, W:

Man, in his physical, intellectual, social and moral relations.

London: Religious Tract Society, nd [c. 1847]. First edition. 12mo, 2, 192pp. Original green cloth, gilt titling on spine, all edges gilt. Binding rubbed and shaken, a good copy.

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Book number: 2563

Catalogue: MISC

Sanz, Carlos:

Hacia el descubrimiento del verdadero sentido de la historia?

Madrid, 1971. 8vo, 83pp (pp 201 - 283). Text illustrations. Original cream printed wrappers. Fingermarks to rear wrapper, else a very good copy.

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Book number: 1635

Catalogue: MISC

Uribe, Antonio Jose:

Cuestiones internacionales, economicas politicas y sociales.

Bogota: Camacho, Roldan & Tamayo, 1925. 8vo, 304pp. Red calf spine, marbled paper-covered boards, 4 raised bands and gilt titling to spine. Binding rather rubbed, joints worn, corners and edges of boards rubbed, overall a good minus copy.

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Book number: 1637

Catalogue: MISC

Vallance, Aylmer:

The centre of the world.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935. First edition. 8vo, 245pp. Original black cloth, dustwrapper. Spine a little wrinkled, light spotting of fore-edge, else a very good copy in a near-VG dustwrapper (rubbed at front and rear). A book about the City (ie the financial district) of London. Publisher's file copy, with the number 5008 inscribed in crayon on the flyleaf and the spine of the dustwrapper.

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Book number: 2554

Catalogue: MISC

Watson, Nigel:

The story of Airsprung 1870s to 1990s.

Arena design associates, 1997. First edition. 8vo, 73pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and b&w. Original laminated boards. Lower corners bumped, else a very good copy. History of the Airsprung furniture group.

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Book number: 2203

Catalogue: MISC