ABDY Jane

The Souls. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Sidgwick & Jackson,, [1984]. 4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous photographs (a number full-page) throughout; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Sonstige Stichworte: history, edwardian england, souls, balfour, asquith, marlborough house

ADAMS Max

The King in the North. The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria. THE INSPIRATION FOR ARAGORN: NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

[Head of Zeus,, [2013]. 8vo., First Edition, with coloured plates, maps in the text and endpaper maps; terracotta cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Oswald Iding or 'Whiteblade' ruled Northumbria for just eight years after a youth spent in exile. Bede gives an account of his life which provides a glimpse of an heroic figure who may be the 'real' Beowulf. Certainly Tolkien used him as the model for his prodigal prince, Aragorn, in The Lord of the Rings. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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ADAMSON Joy

Born Free [with] Living Free [ with] Forever Free. [Mixed Impressions.] THE ELSA TRILOGY COMPLETE IN DUSTWRAPPERS

Collins & Harvill Press,, 1961-62. 3 vols., roy. 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with 3 coloured frontispieces, very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout and endpaper maps in the last two volumes, small contemporary signature on front endpaper of first two volumes; pictorial cloth, backstrips lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean set in mildly worn dustwrapper (one wrapper clipped). The trilogy comprises Born Free. A Lioness of Two Worlds. With Extracts from George Adamson's Letters. Preface by Lord William Percy. Foreword by Captain Charles Pitman, (thirteenth impression, 1961); Living Free. The Story of Elsa and her Cubs. Introduction by Sir Julian Huxley, (first edition, 1961); Forever Free. Elsa's Pride, (first edition, 1962). Bright, crisp set of George and Joy Adamson's account of their pioneering conservation project involving three generations of lions in Kenya's Serengeti in the late 1950s/early 1960s. The first volume formed the basis of James Hill's 1966 Oscar-winning movie of the same name starring husband and wife team Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers. So involved did McKenna and Travers become that they founded independently the Born Free Foundation which flourishes to this day.

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ADAMSON Joy

Born Free [with] Living Free [ with] Forever Free. THE ORIGINAL ELSA TRILOGY COMPLETE IN DUSTWRAPPERS

Collins & Harvill Press,, 1960-62. 3 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 3 coloured frontispieces, very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout and endpaper maps in the last two volumes, small contemporary signature on front free endpaper of second volume; pictorial cloth, backstrips lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean, crisp set in dustwrapper, the wrappers with two or three small losses and closed tears. The trilogy comprises Born Free. A Lioness of Two Worlds. With Extracts from George Adamson's Letters. Preface by Lord William Percy. Foreword by Captain Charles Pitman, 1960; Living Free. The Story of Elsa and her Cubs. Introduction by Sir Julian Huxley, 1961; Forever Free. Elsa's Pride, 1962. Near fine set of George and Joy Adamson's account of their pioneering conservation project involving three generations of lions in Kenya's Serengeti in the late 1950s/early 1960s. The first volume formed the basis of James Hill's 1966 Oscar-winning movie of the same name starring husband and wife team Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers. So involved did McKenna and Travers become that they founded independently the Born Free Foundation which flourishes to this day. COMPLETE SETS OF FIRST EDITIONS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE.

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ADAMSON Joy

Born Free [with] Living Free [ with] Forever Free. OUTSTANDING SET OF THE ORIGINAL ELSA TRILOGY

Collins & Harvill Press,, 1960-62. 3 vols., roy. 8vo., First Edition, with 3 coloured frontispieces, very numerous coloured and monochrome photographs throughout and endpaper maps in the last two volumes; pictorial cloth, backstrips lettered in black, a near fine set in dustwrapper. The trilogy comprises Born Free. A Lioness of Two Worlds. With Extracts from George Adamson's Letters. Preface by Lord William Percy. Foreword by Captain Charles Pitman, 1960; Living Free. The Story of Elsa and her Cubs. Introduction by Sir Julian Huxley, 1961; Forever Free. Elsa's Pride, 1962. Near fine set of George and Joy Adamson's account of their pioneering conservation project involving three generations of lions in Kenya's Serengeti in the late 1950s/early 1960s. The first volume formed the basis of James Hill's 1966 Oscar-winning movie of the same name starring husband and wife team Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers. So involved did McKenna and Travers become that they founded independently the Born Free Foundation which flourishes to this day. COMPLETE SETS OF FIRST EDITIONS IN THIS CONDITION ARE VERY SCARCE INDEED.

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ADAMSON Joy

Living Free. The Story of Elsa and her Cubs. Introduction by Sir Julian Huxley. [First RS Edition.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Reprint Society,, [1963]. 8vo., First Edition thus, with plates and endpaper maps; black boards, yellow back lettered in gilt, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Adamson's sequel to 'Born Free' was first published in 1961.

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Sonstige Stichworte: natural history, mammals, joy adamson, adamson, elsa, lions, conservation, born free, kenya

ADAMSON Joy

Queen of Shaba. The Story of an African Leopard. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Collins,, [1980]. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and endpaper maps; blue cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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ADAMSON Joy

The Searching Spirit. An Autobiography. With a Foreword by Eslpeth Huxley. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Collins and Harvill Press,, 1978. 8vo., First Edition, with plates; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, blue endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Cross & Perkin B11.

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Buchzahl: 29842

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Sonstige Stichworte: modern first editions, modern firsts, joy adamson, george adamson, elsa, africa, kenya, elspeth huxley, conservation, born free

AIKIN Lucy

Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth. Fourth Edition, revised and corrected. BRIGHT, FRESH, CLEAN COPY IN CONTEMPORARY CALF

Longman Hurst Rees Orme & Brown,, 1819. 2 vols., 8vo., Fourth Edition, with engraved portrait frontispiece (some offsetting to title); attractively bound in contemporary full tan calf, expertly rebacked in calf to style, backs with flat bands ruled in gilt, second and fifth compartments with red leather labels lettered in gilt, tooled edges, green endpapers, a remarkably bright, fresh, clean, crisp copy in gently restored contemporary binding. With nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate on front paste-downs. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

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Sonstige Stichworte: history, lucy aikin, elizabethan period, elizabethan england, elizabeth 1, virgin queen, gloriana

AITKEN George A.

An English Garner. Later Stuart Tracts. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Constable,, 1903. 8vo., First Edition, with facsimiles in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Includes Petty's Political Arithmetic (1690) and various pieces by Defoe and Arbuthnot. A complement to Firth's earlier volume covering the years 1603-1693. See Davies 165.

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ALDERSON A. D.

The Structure of the Ottoman Dynasty. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Clarendon Press, Oxford,, 1956. 8vo., First Edition, with maps in the text and 63 detailed genealogical tables (the majority folding), neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; green buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Sonstige Stichworte: history, ottomans, ottoman, ottoman dynasty, turkey, alderson

ALEXANDER Michael

Omai. 'Noble Savage'. IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Collins,, 1977. 8vo., First Edition, with plates and pictorial endpapers; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter frayed at edges and with loss at bottom edge of rear panel.

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Sonstige Stichworte: history, omai, noble savage, joseph banks, fanny burney, tahiti, captain cook

ALFOLDI A.

The Conversion of Constantine and Pagan Rome. Translated by Harold Mattingly. [Second Edition].

Clarendon Press, Oxford,, [1998]. 8vo., Second Edition; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Unabridged reissue of the original edition of 1948.

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Sonstige Stichworte: mstock, history, rome, constantine, christianity, christian rome, a. alfoldi, history, the, conversion, constantine, pagan, rome

ALI Salim

Indian Hill Birds. Illustrated by G.M. Henry. BRIGHT COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Oxford University Press,, [1949]. 8vo., First Edition, with numerous coloured and monochrome plates, and endpaper maps, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; yellow cloth, backstrip lettered in black, radial corners, a good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Tate, p.200.

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Sonstige Stichworte: natural history, birds, ornithology, avifaunas, indian, indian birds, indian hill birds, salim ali

ALISON Archibald

History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in MDCCLXXXIX to the Restoration of the Bourbons in MDCCCXV. Seventh Edition. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN SET IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING

William Blackwood, Edinburgh,, 1847. 20 vols., 8vo., Seventh Edition, with engraved portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present); original brown ribbed cloth, boards elaborately blocked with frames and panels, backs blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, uncut, primrose endpapers, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, crisp, clean set. The set comprises: Vol. I: 1774-1789; Vol. II: 1789-1792; Vol. III: 1792-1793; Vol. IV: 1793-1794; Vol. V: 1794-1797; Vol. VI: 1797-1799; Vol. VII: 1799-1801; Vol. VIII: 1801-1804; Vol. IX: 1805-1806; Vol. X: 1806-1807; Vol. XI: 1807-1808: Vol. XII: 1808-1809; Vol. XIII: 1809-1811; Vol. XIV: 1811-1812; Vol. XV: 1812; Vol. XVI: 1812-1813; Vol. XVII: 1813; Vol. XVIII: 1813-1814; Vol. XIX: 1814-1815; Vol. XX: 1815-Index. A SPLENDID SET OF A CORNERSTONE OF ANY NAPOLEONIC COLLECTION.

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