SOOTHILL, RICHARD & ERIC

Small quarto hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) illus; 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: Blanford 1982

KEYWORDS: specials Richard Soothill Eric Soothill wading birds animals natural history reference

DELACOUR, JEAN & HARRISON, J. C. (Illus)

Quarto, red faux leather boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, upper page edges stainied red, frontispiece, 395pp, illus, VG+ (v. slight bruising to spine extrems, light soiling to page lower corner edges) in d/w, VG (price clipped, some creasing to spine extrems, light tanning)

PUBLISHER: Spur Publications / World Pheasant Assn 1977 (Second Edition)

KEYWORDS: Jean Delacour JC Harrison ornithology natural history pheasants birds animal husbandry breeding hatching aviculture

SOOTHILL, ERIC & WHITEHEAD, PETER

Small quarto hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) illus; 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: Blanford 1978

KEYWORDS: specials Eric Soothill Peter Whitehead wildfowl birds pictorial animals wildlife natural history

ELLIS, RICHARD

Ex library, Quarto hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG+) illus; 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: Alfred A. Knopf 2000

KEYWORDS: specials ex library Richard Ellis encyclopedia sea geography science marine history

PERRY, GEORGE

Small quarto hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG) illus; 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: Pavilon 1986

KEYWORDS: specials George Perry biography Margaret Kelly Bluebell Girls show-business history dance

MCDOWELL, BART & CONGER, DEAN (photography)

Small quarto hardcover (VG) illus; 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: National Geographic Society 1977

KEYWORDS: specials Bart McDowell Dean Conger photography history russia soviet union politics international relations

BLUNDEN, EDMUND

Imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in slipcase (VG) illus; 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: The Folio Society 1989

KEYWORDS: specials Edmund Blunden folio society war history prose poetry literature

SCOTT, CAPTAIN R. F.

super octavo hardcover (VG) in slipcase (VG) illus; 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: The Folio Society 1964

KEYWORDS: specials Captain R. F. Scott memoir expedition exploration adventure sole pole mountaineering history

NOTT, STANLEY CHARLES

Imperial octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and front board, green rule & chinese lettering to front board,patterned eps, frontispiece, xx + 193pp, illus, VG+ (slight tanning to page edges, light foxing to half-title) in d/w, VG (light rubbing, light foxing inside, v light creasing to edges) in slipcase, VG- (light rubbing creasing & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Charles E. Tuttle Company 1972

KEYWORDS: Stanley Charles Nott China Chinese Jade geology anthropology folklore mythology symbolism history

LE MAY, REGINALD

Imperial octavo in slipcase, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt buddha motif to front board, gilt eps, frontispiece, xxiii + 169pp + 2 folding maps, illus with 205 b&w photos, VG (staining to rear eps, slight soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (light fading to spine, slight creasing to edges) in cardboard slipcase, VG- (some soiling, owner's name in ink)

PUBLISHER: Charles E Tuttle Co 1963

KEYWORDS: Reginald Le May Siam Buddhism Buddhist art history sculpture architecture

MACKAY, WALLIS

Super octavo, red cloth boards with black lettering & black rule to front board, gilt lettering to spine, black coated eps, 184pp, illus, VG- (soiling & browning to boards, fraying & bruising to spine extres, light scuffing & rubbing to board edges & corners, insect damage hole to front board, browning to page edges, light tanning & foxing)

PUBLISHER: Trischler and Co 1890

KEYWORDS: Wallis Mackay Portuguese South-east Africa Portugal travel history memoir

GIBBON, EDWARD

Imperial octavo softcover (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 cost

PUBLISHER: Wordsworth Editions 1998

KEYWORDS: specials Edward Gibbon Roman Empire ancient history

HOBHOUSE, HENRY

Imperial octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xxiv + 372pp, illus, Near FINE in Near FINE slipcase

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2007

KEYWORDS: Henry Hobhouse plants agriculture natural history Folio Society

WINCHESTER, CLARENCE (Ed)

Two-volume set, large quarto, blue cloth boards with gilt lettering & gilt ship motif to spine, blind embossed lettering & bind embossed ship motif to front board, frontispiece, 1764pp in two volumes, illus, VG- (some rubbing & staining to boards, scuffing to board edges, light fraying to spine extrems & 2cm closed tear to upper spine side, some tanning & foxing to page edges, prelims & terminals, reference label to feps, v unattractive large diagonal browned sellotape repair to page 837) VERY HEAVY SET

PUBLISHER: Amalgamated Press (circa 1937)

KEYWORDS: nautical marine naval history shipping boats sailing trade whaling adventure the sea oceans travel

BRICKELL, CHRIS

Imperial octavo, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, 208pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine

PUBLISHER: Genre Books 2012

KEYWORDS: Chris Brickell Robert Gant photography gender studies sexuality homosexuality masculinity art history

JACKSON, MRS J. HOWARD

Signed limited numbered (131/400) edition, octavo blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & gilt initials to front board, frontispiece, 151pp + 6pp book adverts, illus, VG (light sunning to spine and light bruising to spine extrems and board corners, light soiling to boards, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG- (moderate browning to spine and covers, light chipping and scuffing to spine extrems and flap corners, small spot of surface loss to rear cover)

PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1935

KEYWORDS: Mrs J Howard Jackson signed New Zealand Gilbert Mair biography local history

LYNN, BOB

Quarto, black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 120pp, illus, nr fine in d/w, VG+ (v light soiling & rubbing)

PUBLISHER: The Lynn Historical Woodworking Trust Inc.1992

KEYWORDS: Bob Lynn New Zealand woodwork woodworking craft timber tools history autobiography

HARCOURT, MELVILLE

Dated signed inscription by author tipped in to f.e.p., also a two page typed signed letter by author loosely enclosed, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, xi +253pp + 5pp book catalogue, illus, VG- (light rubbing & soiling to boards & spine, light bruising & fraying to spine extrems, 16cm crack along outer rear hinge, light fading to spine, light foxing to eps & page edges, light tanning to page edge)

PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1940

KEYWORDS: Melville Harcourt New Zealand the Bay of Islands local history signed

FREEMAN, ROGER A. & RABBETS, JOHN B. (Illus)

Quarto, light blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 311pp, illus, VG- (lengthy owner inscription to front pastedown, occasional highlighting & annotation, slight bruising to lower spine extrem, light tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG- (some soiling, light tanning, light creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: Doubleday and Company 1978

KEYWORDS: Roger A Freeman 8th US army air force aviation military history

PORTER, ROY

Imperial octavo hardcover (nr fine) in d/w (nr fine); 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 cost

PUBLISHER: Reaktion Books 2001

KEYWORDS: Roy Portter Britain British medicine medical doctors diseases health history