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My Recollections
ex-lib first edition in half-leather 421pp VG (black cloth boards w.black half-leather,libr.stamp to top board w.libr.mark to spine,mod.rubbed and soiled,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.incl.rubbing to hinges,top hinge starting,usual stamps and pockets,speckled edges sl.soiled,sl.shaky spine)
PUBLISHER: james nisbet london 1909
KEYWORDS: history biography travel geography theology eugene stock
Handbook of World Salt Resources
ex-lib first edition 384pp [diagrams] VG+ (minor gum stains to boards,libr.mark to spine,usual stamps and pockets) in VG d/w (in libr.plastic,sl.soiled)
PUBLISHER: plenum press new york 1969
KEYWORDS: history geology science salt minerals stanley j.lefond
Five Years of My Life
ex-lib first edition 345pp G (rough,splits and chipping to spine,needs rebacking,libr.stamp to top board,rubbed and sunned and soiled,bumps and mod.wear to extrems.,shaky boards,usual stamps and pockets,tape repirs to ep gutters,some sl.foxing to contents,separation starting at some sections,cocked)
PUBLISHER: george bell london 1901
KEYWORDS: history biography politics alfred dreyfus
Fruitland,New Mexico
a navaho community in transition
ex-lib first edition 217pp VG+ (mod.soiled w.libr.mark to spine,usual stamps and pockets) lacks d/w
PUBLISHER: cornell univ.press ithaca new york 1960
KEYWORDS: history america new mexico navaho indians anthropology tom t.sasaki
Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville
a study of the federal operations - the pall mall military series
ex-lib first edition 285pp [maps - 1 missing from rear pocket] VG (red cloth,sl.rubbed and soiled,libr.mark to sunned spine,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,usual stamps and pockets,edges sl.foxed/soiled,shaky spine)
PUBLISHER: hugh rees london 1913
KEYWORDS: history geography politics america fredericksburg chancellorsville military j.e.gough
A Memoir of John Fernley
ex-lib first edition in full-leather 52pp VG (full-leather w.black/blind stamps and gilt lettering,top board detached,mod.rubbed and soiled w.wear and sl.surface loss to corners and hinges,2cm loss to head of spine,marbled eps w.dedication label to front pastedown,usual stamps and pockets,aeg)
PUBLISHER: wesleyan conference london 1874
KEYWORDS: history biography john fernley theology wesleyan w.b.pope
Shadows of Old Paris
first edition 242pp ills.by j.gavin [col.frontis.] VG (mod.rubbed and soiled,spine sunned,sl.wear to extrems.,upper hinge split full-length of spine,paste action to eps,prelims.and untrimmed edges sl.foxed w.some minor foxing to contents,shaky spine)
PUBLISHER: griffiths london 1910
KEYWORDS: history paris geography arts g.duval j.gavin
Festivals of Europe
ex-lib first edition 172pp+ads.ills. VG+ (minor bumps to extrems.w.libr.mark to spine,usual stamps and pockets) in VG d/w (mod.rubbed and sl.soiled,spine sunned,bumps and chipping to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: percival marshall london 1961
KEYWORDS: history festivals sociology gordon cooper
L'Empire Mongol
histoire du monde tome viii
ex-lib first edition 583pp [text in french] [5 maps to rear have been cut but are complete] VG (in paper boards,sl.rubbed and mod.soiled,libr.mark to mod.creased spine,sl.wear to extrems.,usual stamps and pockets,contents sl.browned,cut pieces of maps loosely inserted)
PUBLISHER: de boccard paris 1941
KEYWORDS: history geography mongolia politics genghis khan
The Welland Canal
a history
ex-lib first edition signed by publisher 117pp VG+ (green cloth w.libr.mark to spine,minor bumps to extrems.,usual stamps and pockets,signed by publisher at title - supposedly related to author) in clear acetate d/w (sl.rubbed)
PUBLISHER: privately printed for helen carter port colborne 1960
KEYWORDS: history welland canal canada nautical geography dewitt carter
Judicial Reform in France before the Revolution of 1789
ex-lib first edition 164pp some ills. NF (libr.stamps) in VG+ d/w (sl.soiled w.spine sl.sunned,minor bumps and wear to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: harvard univ.press cambridge 1981
KEYWORDS: history france politics revolution harvard historical studies john a.carey
The South-West Africa Case
ex-lib first edition 144pp VG (tape stains to boards and eps,usual stamps and pockets,minor ink marks to fore-edge) in VG d/w (in libr.plastic,sl.soiled and sunned)
PUBLISHER: asia publ.london 1967
KEYWORDS: history south-west africa geography politics m.hidayatullah
Six Good Type Families
94pp VG (in paper wrappers,mod.rubbed and soiled,sl.foxed and sunned,sl.wear to extrems.,spine starting,some sheets loose)
PUBLISHER: headley bros.ashford [nd]
KEYWORDS: history typeface printing
Paper and Paper Making
first edition 353pp ills. VG (sl.stained w.sunned spine,mod.bumps and wear to extrems.,owner's inscr.to ffep,eps and edges sl.soiled,cocked w.sl.shaky spine)
PUBLISHER: oxford univ.press london 1952
KEYWORDS: history printing paper making f.h.norris
Qvinti Horati Flacci Opera Omnia
numbered edition [649] 291pp [text in latin] VG (paper boards w.cloth spine,paper title labels to cover/spine,sl.rubbed and sunned,stained,mod.bumps and wear to extrems.,sl.chipping to head/foot of spine and minor split to upper hinge,paste action to eps w.owner's sign.to front pastedown,eps and untrimmed fore-edges sl.soiled,teg)
PUBLISHER: medical society [np] 1910
KEYWORDS: history latin horati flacci opera classical literature e.c.wickham
Intimate Society Letters of the Eighteenth Century
vol.1 only
ex-lib vol.1 only 327pp ills. VG (red cloth,sl.rubbed and mod.soiled w.spine sl.sunned,libr.label to cover,mod.bumps and wear to extrems.,usual stamps and pockets,eps and edges sl.foxed,cocked)
PUBLISHER: stanley paul london [nd]
KEYWORDS: history letters literature sociology duke of argyll
The Fight For the Ashes 1956
first edition 310pp ills. VG+ (yellow cloth,sl.soiled w.sl.surface nibbles towards head of spine,minor bumps to extrems.,paste action to eps,edges sl.soiled/foxed,sl.cocked) in G d/w (major losses from head of cover/spine/rear,soiled w.extrems.chipped and closed tears,rough)
PUBLISHER: harrap london 1956
KEYWORDS: history sport cricket the ashes australia england peter west
The Quest of the Golden Boy
the life and letters of richard le gallienne
first edition 580pp ills. VG+ (mod.soiled w.sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,paste action to eps,te blue,edges sl.soiled) in VG- d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.sunned w.price sticker to spine,bumps and chipping and minor closed tears to extrems.w.sl.loss to head of spine)
PUBLISHER: unicorn press london 1960
KEYWORDS: history biography literature richard le gallienne
BRACE BY WIRE TO FLY - BY - WIRE
75 Years of the Royal Air Force 1918-1993
First edition in slip case, Navy blue cloth with gilt to spine, 168pp illus, FINE, d/w FINE
PUBLISHER: Royal Airforce Benevolent Fund Enterprises 1993
KEYWORDS: aviation RAF history
Frederick Engels Lewis Morgan and the Australian Aborigine
64pp G+ (in wrappers,rubbed and sl.soiled,mod.sunned,spine hinge chipped,rear cover barely attachedchipping and creasing to extrems.,contents sl.foxed)
PUBLISHER: current book distrib.sydney [nd]
KEYWORDS: history aborigine australia anthropology frederick engels lewis morgan jagara