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Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J M W Turner


MOYLE, FRANNY

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, dark grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, XII +508pp,illus/photos, NF (minor tanning to page edges) in d/w, NF

PUBLISHER: Viking 2016

KEYWORDS: memoirs biography J M W Turner art

$40.00
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The Jim Richards Story


RICHARDS, JIM & NAISMITH, BARRY

Ex library, quarto, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to front and spine, frontispiece, 96pp, illus/photos, VG- (usual library markings, minor tape soiling to front and rear boards, minor foxing and tanning to eps, heavy cracking to rear gutter with binding exposed, potentially rear pages missing) in d/w, VG (loose protective cover, minor chipping to head of spine, front and rear wrappers)

PUBLISHER: GP publications 1986

KEYWORDS: Jim Richards biography racing cars mechanics engineering

$60.00
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Waterman: The Life and Times of Duke Kahanamoku


DAVIS, DAVID

SIGNED BY AUTHOR, super octavo, afton light blue boards, silver gilt lettering to black cloth spine, 315pp, VG+ (minor damp staining to lower corner of front board & base of rear board, minor scuffing to extrems) in d/w, VG+ (moderate creasing & light water staining to edges, minor chipping to front fold)

PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press 2015

KEYWORDS: biography Duke Kahanamoku olympics sports swimming signed

$65.00
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The Last Voyage of Capt. John Ross R.N., For The Discovery of a North West Passage: Performed In The Years 1829-30-31-32 and 33


UNKNOWN

READING COPY OR REBIND, LACKS SPINE, FRONTIS & PRELIMS, octavo, marbled heavy boards half bound in leather with blind decoration, marbled page edges, vignette, 716pp + 44pp supplement, folding table near rear, illus, G- (missing spine, front board & eps detached but present, moderate to heavy scuffing & surface loss to boards & extrems, heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling throughout- text unaffected, occasional minor pencil underlining & markings, rear board & terminals/supplement pgs detached but present, occasional creasing to pages at rear, binding otherwise reasonably sound)

PUBLISHER: London: Published for The Proprietors by John Saunders, 25, Newgate Street, 1835 (?)

KEYWORDS: maritime exploration biography Captain John Ross history antiquarian books rebinding reading copy

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