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Italian Wall Decorations of the 15th and 16th Centuries : a handbook to the models illustrating interiors of Italian Buildings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1901. First edition (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), xiv, 112pp. Frontispiece and 52 illustrations. Original green cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. This book was formerly in a reference library, with a bookplate to the front pastedown and several stamps; overall, this book is in good condition.

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Book number: 61883

Catalogue: 3

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Japanese Drama.

Tokyo: Maruzen Company [Board of Tourist Industry, Japanese Government Railways], 1936. Second edition (softcover). 8vo (20cm by 14cm), 84pp. Folding colour frontispiece, 2 colour plates, text illustrations. Original printed card wrappers with colour plate inlaid on the front cover, yapped edges. There is some spotting of the front cover and the endpapers, and some creasing to the yapped edges of the covers; overall, this book is in good condition. Japanese Government Railways Tourist Library number 6.

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Book number: 71587

Catalogue: 3

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Jersey Cattle; their feeding and management.

London: Published by Vinton & co on behalf of the English Jersey Cattle Society, 1911. Third edition (hardback). 8vo, xi, 72pp. Original red cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. Binding dusty, endpapers browned. Overall, this copy is in good condition.

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Book number: 22374

Catalogue: 3

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Jerusalem and the World; a case of conscience.

Privately published, 1971. First edition (softcover). 12mo (17cm by 12cm), 89pp. Text illustrations. Original laminated card wrappers. Light sunning of the backstrip, else this copy is in very good condition.

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Book number: 34318

Catalogue: 3

G E W [G E Wyatt]:

Johnnie Venture; a story of an exciting venture.

London: T Nelson and sons, 1893. Early edition (hardback). 12mo (18cm by 13cm), 128pp. 8 full-page illustrations. Original decorated brown cloth, gilt titling to the spine. Light rubbing of the binding, endpapers browned, label removed from the front pastedown. Overall, this copy is in good plus condition. COPAC lists other editions printed in 1887 and 1890; all editions of this book are scarce.

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Book number: 37524

Catalogue: 3

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The Journal of the British Archaeological Association, new series, vol. XXXVIII - 1932.

London: British Archaeological Association, 1933. Volume 38 (hardback). 8vo, viii, iv, 389pp, xxxii. Plates, text illustrations. Bound in dark blue cloth, gilt titling to the spine. Binding rubbed, endpapers browned, bookplate of the Society of Antiquaries to the front pastedown. Overall, this copy is in good plus condition. The first paper is a report of the Congress at Weymouth in 1932.

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Book number: 24836

Catalogue: 3

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Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, volume I Third Series, November 1893 - October 1894.

London: The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), 1894. Volume 1, Third Series, covering the period November 1893 - October 1894 (hardback). 4to (29cm by 24cm), xvi, 671pp. Plates, maps, text illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titling to the spine, top edge gilt. Binding rubbed, inner hinges strained, preliminary pages foxed, contents VG. Overall, this copy is in good condition.

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Book number: 42603

Catalogue: 3

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Kelly's Directory of Warwickshire, 1932.

London: Kelly's Directories Ltd, 1932. Twenty-Second edition (hardback). 8vo (26cm by 18cm), xvi, 558pp. Folding coloured map. Original red cloth. Titling darkened on the spine, light staining of the boards, repairs to the folds of the map. Overall, this copy is in good condition. Please note that this volume does not cover the city of Birmingham.

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Book number: 41915

Catalogue: 3

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Kelly's Directory of Gloucestershire [The County of Gloucester], 1894.

London: Kelly & co, 1894. No edition stated (hardback). 8vo (27cm by 17cm), xix, 532pp, 64pp adverts. Folding map. Original red cloth, gilt titling to the spine, gilt design to the front board. There is some scattered foxing of the contents (particularly affecting the preliminary pages), and a short repaired tear to the map, but the binding is unusually bright for a Kelly's Directory of this vintage; overall, this book is in good to very good condition. No edition stated; Kelly's Gloucestershire reached the 11th edition in 1906, so the 1894 edition will be the eighth edition or thereabouts.

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Book number: 53236

Catalogue: 3

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Kelly's Directory of the County of Gloucester [Gloucestershire] and the City of Bristol, 1910.

London: Kelly's Directories Ltd, 1910. Twelfth edition (hardback). 8vo (27cm by 18cm), xx, 546pp; xxxviii, 974pp, 56pp adverts. Folding coloured map of Gloucestershire, but lacks the plan of Bristol. Stoutly rebound in plain red cloth, gilt titling to the spine. Foxing to the preliminary pages and the edges of the text block; ownership inscription. Overall, this book is in good condition.

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Book number: 53374

Catalogue: 3

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Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire 1915.

London: Kelly's Directories, 1915. Fourteenth edition (hardback). 8vo (26cm by 17cm), xix, 404pp, 48pp adverts. Lacks the folding map. Original red cloth, gilt titling to the spine, gilt motif to the front board. Binding a littl rubbed and scuffed, titling a little dulled on the spine, bookplate, some light foxing. Overall, this book is in good condition.

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Book number: 70448

Catalogue: 3

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The Kentish Note Book: notes, queries, and replies on subjects connected with the county of Kent, volume II, January 1891 to December 1892.

[No publication details, 1893]. Volume 2 (hardback). 8vo, 428pp. Bound in plain dark green cloth. Binding rubbed, some light spotting and thumbing of the contents. Overall, this copy is in good plus condition. If there was a printed title page for this publication, it has not been bound in. From the library of Archaeologist Paul Ashbee, with his bookplate to the front pastedown.

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Book number: 24822

Catalogue: 3

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Kenya : Britain's Most Attractive Colony.

London: H.M. Eastern African Trade and Information Service, 1935. Revised edition (softcover). 8vo (21cm by 17cm), 120pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w, and there is a folding coloured map at the back of the book. Original printed card wrappers. There is some chafing to the edges of the covers, some creasing of the folding map, and the title page is torn with some loss; overall, this book is in good condition.

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Book number: 70446

Catalogue: 3

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Lacon & Ollier : Theatre and Opera Tickets, Artistes, Bands & Entertainers.

London: Lacon & Ollier, no date [c. 1935]. No edition stated (softcover). 4to (30cm by 25cm), 88pp. Original printed grey paper wrappers with a black cloth backstrip. There is an ownership inscription to the front cover, and the covers are a little rubbed; overall, this book is in good to very good condition. Several of the theatre plans have had updated versions pasted in over the original version. Undated; the telephone number "Regent 5321" is listed on the front cover. This format of telephone numbers was in use in the 1930s, so we have estimated a date of 1935.

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Book number: 57236

Catalogue: 3

[J D Carrick, editor]:

The Laird of Logan; or, Anecdotes and Tales illustrative of the Wit and Humour of Scotland.

Glasgow: Gavid Robertson & co, 1889. No edition stated (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), xlviii, 608pp. Original green cloth, gilt titling and design to the spine. Light rubbing of the boards, preliminary pages foxed; otherwise, this is a bright, very good copy.

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Book number: 60807

Catalogue: 3