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$55.00
1u24a/10

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1952 (89th Year)


PRESTON, HUBERT (Ed)

Sm octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, printed eps, viii + 1031pp, illus, VG- (light bruising & rubbing to spine & board extrems, light chafing & soiling to front board, moderate to heavy soiling & bruising to rear board & part of spine, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, heavy cracking to rear gutter, prev. owner's name in ink to title page, occasional light foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: Sporting Handbooks Ltd 1952

KEYWORDS: Wisden sport cricket almanacks past years history data statistics results 1952

$65.00
1u24a/11

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1953 (90th Year)


PRESTON, HUBERT (Ed)

Sm octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, printed eps, xx + 1015pp, VG (moderate bruising & light chafing & soiling to spine & boards, light fading to spine, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, minor occasional foxing & gutter cracks throughout)

PUBLISHER: Sporting Handbooks Ltd 1953

KEYWORDS: Wisden sport cricket almanacks past years history data statistics results 1953

$55.00
1u24a/12

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1954 (91st Year)


PRESTON, HUBERT (Ed)

Sm octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, printed eps, xx + 999pp, illus, VG (light to moderate bruising & chafing/soiling to spine & boards, light fading to spine, light tanning & soiling to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Sporting Handbooks Ltd 1954

KEYWORDS: Wisden sport cricket almanacks past years history data statistics results 1954

$55.00
1u24a/13

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1958 (95th Year)


PRESTON, HUBERT (Ed)

Sm octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, printed eps, xxxvi + 1035pp, VG- (binding a little sloppy, moderate scuffing & bruising to spine- light fading also, minor chafing & soiling to boards & edges, light to moderate tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's details in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Sporting Handbooks Ltd 1958

KEYWORDS: Wisden sport cricket almanacks past years history data statistics results 1958

$60.00
1u24a/16

Ivan Bilibin


GOLYNETS, SERGEI (Text) & KOZLOV, GLENYS ANN (Trans)

Quarto, illus light card covers, white lettering & blue decoration to spine, 226pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, light chafing to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges, sl foxing to prelims & terminals)

PUBLISHER: Pan Books 1981

KEYWORDS: art history Ivan Bilibin graphic artists Russia Russian stage designers design

$55.00
1u24a/18

Oude boerderijen in Achterhoek en Liemers


JANS, EVERHARD & VAN PROOIJE, SCHOLTZ, WIM & BECK, HUMPHREY MANSVELT & HARTGERS, CO

TEXT IN DUTCH, quarto beige cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt illus to front board, illus prelims, x + 166pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional sl wrinkling & soiling to pages) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Uitgeversmaatschappij van der Loeff BV 1983

KEYWORDS: TEXT IN DUTCH farm buildings rural history historical architecture Achterhoek Liemers

$45.00
1u24a/19

Handcraft to Industry: Philadelphia Ceramics in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century


MYERS, SUSAN H

Quarto, illus light card covers, white lettering to spine, iii + 117pp, illus, VG (light creasing & curling to spine & cover egdes, moderate fading to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, sl tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, occasional sl wrinkling to pages)

PUBLISHER: Smithsonian Institution Press 1980

KEYWORDS: US America American history art crafts ceramics pottery early 19th nineteenth century Phialdelphia Smithsonian

$40.00
1u24a/21

The Aerodrome of Democracy: Canada and the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, 1939-1945


HATCH, F J

Super octavo, illus light card covers, black lettering to spine, xix + 223pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate creasing to spine & cover edges, moderate cracking to spine, light to moderate tanning/soiling & wrinkling to covers, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, minor cracking to gutters, prev. owner's name label to ffep, 2cm closed tear to base of rear cover/spine join, light to moderate cracking to central gutter)

PUBLISHER: Canadian Government Publishing Centre 1983

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2 Canada Britain Canadian British air training plan aviation defence defense

$100.00
1u24a/23

My Faraway One: Volume I 1915-1933


O'KEEFFE, GEORGIA & STIEGLITZ, ALFRED & GREENOUGH, SARAH (Selected, Annotated & Ed)

FIRST EDITION, THIS VOL ONLY, imperial octavo, red heavy boards, black lettering to spine, printed eps, frontispiece, xvii + 814pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl fading to board edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to ffep) in d/w, VG (light creasing to edges, light to moderate fading to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 2011

KEYWORDS: first editions letters correspondence Georgia O'Keeffe Alfred Stieglitz art history relationships love

$60.00
1u24a/25

Out of an Old Sea Chest


VON LUCKER, FELIX COUNT & FITZGERALD, EDWARD (Trans)

UK FIRST EDITION, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 222pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light fading to spine, sl soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, jacket remnants tipped in to front eps, occasional light foxing to pages throughout)

PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co 1958

KEYWORDS: first UK editions history autobiography autobiographies memoir Count Luckner maritime warfare ww1 the great war first 1st world war one i 1 anecdotes

$85.00
1u24a/27

The New Zealand Division 1916-1919: A Popular History Based on Official Records


STEWART, Col H

Octavo, grey buckram boards, black lettering to spine & front board, xv + 634pp, illus/folding maps- all folding maps present & in tidy condition, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, top corners of pgs 17-18 missing)

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs 1921

KEYWORDS: New Zealand division military history early 20th twentieth century campaigns battles ww1 the great war first 1st world war one i 1

$40.00
1w35b/5

The Radical Programme 1885, with 'The Future of the Radical Party'


CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH et al & ESCOTT, T H S & HAMER, D A (Ed & Intro)

Very tidy ex-library- possibly unread? Octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, printed eps, xci + xvi + 263pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl fading & soiling to boards/edges, light tanning & soiling/foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: The Harvester Press 1971

KEYWORDS: British politics history literature radicals reform acts 1885

$100.00
1w35b/7

Pioneer Medical Men of Taranaki 1834 to 1880


SKINNER, W H & LEATHAM, H B (Addenda)

Octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, xi + 176pp, illus, VG+ (in plastic protective cover- easily removed if desired, chafing & soiling to plastic cover only, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Capper Press 1984

KEYWORDS: New Zealand medical history Taranaki doctors pioneers medicine

$110.00
1w35b/10

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1961 (98th Year)


PRESTON, NORMAN (Ed)

Ex-library, sm octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, printed eps,viii + 1019pp, illus, VG (minimal library markings- to prelims only, binding a little sloppy, moderate bruising & rubbing to spine, light to moderate soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edgesminor cracking to rear gutters)

PUBLISHER: Sporting Handbooks 1961

KEYWORDS: sport history Wisden cricket almanacks data statistics results past years 1961

$50.00
1w35b/11

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1963 (100th Year)


PRESTON, NORMAN (Ed)

Sm octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, printed eps, xlviii + 1131pp, illus, VG (light bruising & rubbing to extrems, moderate soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, occasional light cracking to gutters, binding a little sloppy)

PUBLISHER: Sporting Handbooks 1963

KEYWORDS: sport history Wisden cricket almanacks data statistics results past years 1963

$70.00
1w35b/12

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1965 (102nd Year)


PRESTON, NORMAN (Ed)

Sm octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, printed eps, xxiv + 1043pp, illus, VG+ (minor bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's details in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: Sporting Handbooks 1965

KEYWORDS: sport history Wisden cricket almanacks data statistics results past years 1965

$65.00
1w35b/13

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1969 (106th Year)


PRESTON, NORMAN (Ed)

Sm octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, printed eps, xl + 1055pp, illus, VG (light bruising & rubbing to spine, light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Sporting Handbooks 1969

KEYWORDS: sport history Wisden cricket almanacks data statistics results past years 1969

$500.00
1w42a/1

Strategies of British India: Britain, Iran and Afghanistan 1798-1850


YAPP, M E

FIRST EDITION, very tidy ex-library- possibly unread? Super octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, viii + 682pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, light tape staining to board & ep edges, light to moderate tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (price clipped, minor creasing & adhesive staining to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1980

KEYWORDS: British empire history India early 19th nineteenth century Great Britain conflict Near Middle East

$42.50
1w42a/2

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1965 (102nd Year)


PRESTON, NORMAN (Ed)

Sm octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, printed eps, xxiv + 1043pp, illus, VG (boards & page block warped with cocked spine, light bruising & rubbing to spine & board edges/extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Sporting Handbooks 1965

KEYWORDS: sport history cricket Wisden almanacks past years 1965 data statistics

$30.00
xxagaa213475

The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution


HICKS, DAN

First edition. Super 8vo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Pluto Press 2020

KEYWORDS: Dan Hicks British Museum museums history culture colonial colonization violence conflict decolonization heritage European

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