6401. [Eyre & Spottiswoode].

The Book of Common Prayer / Hymns – Ancient and Modern [Two Miniature Book Versions in Silversmith-Bindings].

2 Volumes. London / New York and others, Eyre & Spottiswoode, no year [c.1880]. Miniature (4.7 cm x 5.5 cm). 630, 861 pages. Hardcover (Original full leather with stamped silversmith plates to frontcovers. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Bindings slightly rubbed.

6402. [Kings Bromley Manor] Church of England.

The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the Use of The Church of England. Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches; and the form and manner or making ordaining and consecrating of Bishops, Priests and Deacons.

Oxford, Printed at the University Press, no year (ca.1880). 4°. 473 unnumbered pages. Full Morocco-binding on 5 raised band with gilt lettering on spine and gilt lettering “Kings Bromley Manor – Lichfield” on frontcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Bookplate on pastedown.

6403. Le Clézio, Jean Marie Gustave.

The Book of Flights – An Adventure Story. (Translation of Le Livre des Fuites) Translated from the French by Simon Watson Taylor.

New York, Atheneum, 1972. 8°. 319 pages. Original cloth with dustjacket in very good plus (rather better) condition. Rare FIRST American Edition. The jacket with few flaws but complete. The volume itself only with very few signs of use (a little bit of foxing to the edge). Slightly crooked but overall a wonderful collectible.

6404. Malloch, D. Macleod.

The Book of Glasgow Anecdote.

First Edition. London, T.N. Foulis, 1912. 14 cm x 20 cm. 396 pages. Includes 36 plates with beautiful illustrations and a fold-out map of Glasgow. Original Hardcover with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Some staining to the cover. Otherwise very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6405. Hamilton, Jane.

The Book of Ruth.

Boston / New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. 14.5 cm x 21.6 cm. 328 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Fine condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Only very minor discolouration to edging and very minor foxing to spine/ hardcover. Very intact dustjacket with no wear. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

6406. [London Collection] – Graham, Willam Hussey / Adams, R.R.D. / Banfield, Frank. (Compiled by).

The Book Of The Cheese. Being Traits and Stories of “Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese”.

London, “Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese”, 1937. 12.5 cm x 18.5 cm. XII, 96 pages with illustrations. Original softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. A Small ink stain at bottom edge and some textmarkings in ballpen.

6407. Stephens, Henry.

The Book of the Farm – Detailing The Labours of the Farmer, Farm-Steward, Ploughman, Shepherd, Hedger, Farm-Labourer, Field-Worker and Cattleman. In Three Volumes – With Numerous Illustrations [Steel-Engravings and Wood-Engravings of Animals, Machinery, Farm Buildings etc.].

Third Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). Edinburgh / London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1871. Large Octavo (17 cm wide x 25 cm). Pagination: Volume I: Portrait-Frontispiece showing Henry Stephens, XVI, 550 pages with three Engravings in Steel and 268 Wood-Engravings within the Text / Volume II: XI, 654 pages with 14 Engravings on Steel and 288 Wood-Engravings within the Text. As an Appendix to Volume II: With 12 pages of a List of Works on Agricultural and Rural Affairs published by William Blackwood & Sons. Hardcover / Original, decorative half-leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and board. Binding of Volume I a bit shaky and with some damages to the spines. But the bookblock both very clean and with the stunning illustrations complete. Volume II firm and intact. This particular Third Edition is a great example of 19th century farming-history documentation. The popularity of this work is the reason why each edition improved over time. The Third Edition is the pinnacle of the publication with stunning steel-engravings and please pay attention to the particularly smart way of illustrating sowing and harvesting techniques by using black-and-white firguartive illustation of farm-hands, farmers and planters (Pitato-Planting etc.).

6408. [English History Collection] – Burke, Thomas.

The Book of the Inn. Being Two Hundred Pictures of the English Inn from the earliest Times to the Coming of the Railway Hotel.

First Edition. London, Constable & Co Ltd., 1927. 18.8cm x 12.5cm. XV, 401 pages. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. ExLibris of Hugh Mc Causland on pastedown.

6409. Edwards, Gregory J.

The Book of The International Film Poster.

London, Tiger Books International, 1988. Quarto (21.7 cm wide x 30 cm high). 224 pages with Illustrations of Film-Posters throughout the volume (mainly in colour). Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

6410. Blake, William.

The Book of Urizen.

New York, Random House, 1978, 15.5 cm x 23 cm, 102 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes, with his name on the front free endpaper.

6411. [Kennedy, John Pendleton].

The Border States, their power and duty in the present disordered condition of the Country.

(Maryland), (1860). 8°. 46 pages. Softcover. This is an Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Not the Lippincott-publication, this must be a proof or a preprint of the publication. It contains several handwritten notes and markings in pencil by an old hand.

6412. Perry, Vincent G.

The Boston Terrier. By Vincent G. Perry – International Show Judge. Sketches by G.H.Lederer.

Original, First Edition. Chicago, Judy Publishing Company, 1928. Octavo. 153, (6) pages. Hardcover / Original, illustrated orange cloth with the very scarce original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear to the dustjacket. Name of preowner on endpaper. The dustjacket with some fraying and spotting. A very scarce book and the only true first edition form the year 1928 on the international market at he moment of cataloging !

6413. Alexander, Caroline.

The Bounty – The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty.

New York / London / a.o., Viking, 2003. 16 cm x 24 cm. 491 pages. Several black and white and a few coloured plates, maps and illustrations. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Fine / As New.

6414. George, Emery Edward / [Peter Viereck].

The Boy and the Monarch – Sonnets and Variations. [Association Copy] –

First Edition. Ann Arbor, Michingan, Ardis, 1987. 16 cm 23,5 cm. 96 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Traces of discoloration on the spine. Signed and inscribed by the author to the american poet Peter Viereck.

6415. Haugaard, Erik Christian.

The Boy and the Samurai.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1991. 22 cm. XIV, 221 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, as new condition. This book comes from the author’s personal library !

6416. Fry, Christopher.

The Boy with a Cart.

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1966. 19 cm x 12,5 cm. 40 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. In protective mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6417. Higgins, Kevin.

The Boy With No Face.

First Edition. Cliffs of Moher, Salmon, 2005. Octavo. 69 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6418. [Lawrence, T.E.] Thomas, Lowell.

The Boys’ Life of Colonel Lawrence.

London, Hutchinson & Co., No date (c.1950). 13 cm x 19 cm. 286 pages including illustrations. Original hardcover. Excellent condition withminor signs of external wear. Browning of paper, spotting of page-edges and endpapers. Otherwise clean inside with solid binding.

6419. Sandham, Miss [Elizabeth].

The Boys’ School; or, Traits of Character in Early Life – A Moral Tale.

London, Printed for John Souter, [1821]. Small Octavo. Engraved Frontispiece, IV, 152 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s boards with spinelabel. Binding firm but with lower corner of rear board missing. Overall a little stronger rubbed. Endpapers intact. Previous owner’s name in ink on titlepage, dated 1822. From the library of Richard Meade of Ballymartle, County Cork, Ireland, with a gift-inscription to rear pastedown: “the gift of M.J.Meade to H. Meade, April, 27th, 1821”. Frontispiece and text in very good condition. Pages 101 – 108 with clean tears and some paperloss (text not effected from loss). An extremely scarce publication !

6420. Golding, William.

The Brass Butterfly: A Play in Three Acts.

First Edition. London, Faber and Faber, 1958. 13 cm x 21 cm. 80 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear.

6421. Pire, Pere Dominique.

The Bread of Peace. Nobel Peace Prize Winner Pire speaks to Ireland.

Ireland, Irish National Committee of the Pere Pire Fund, no year (c.1950). 20.3cm x 14.2cm. 40 pages. With several photographs. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6422. Tate, W.E. & Others. [The Times]

The Breweries of Great Britain and Ireland [in: The Times Special Supplement on Beer in Britain]. No. 54,137.

[London], The Times, 1958. 45.5 cm x 62 cm. XVI. Black and white illustrations. Features large map of Great Britain and Ireland. Original Newspaper. Good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Edges frayed. Open tears to centre. Minor foxing and tanning.

6423. Brockway, James.

The Brightness in Between.

First Edition. Ware, Rockingham Press, 2000. Octavo. 64 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by James Brockman to John Wakeman.

6424. Martin, Robert Montgomery.

The British Colonies; Their History, Extent, Condition and Resources. 6 Volumes bound in 3 Volumes (Text only without maps and illustrations). The Set includes: Volume I – British North America / Volume II – Australia / Volume III – New Zealand, Tasmania / Volume IV – Africa and the West Indies / Volume V – British India / Volume VI – Ceylon, East India and Meditteranean Settlements /

First Edition. London and New York, The London Printing and Publishing Company [that was J. and F. Tallis], no year (c. 1850). Quarto (20 cm x 27 cm). Volume I (British North America [Canada / USA]): Frontispice illustrated titlepage, XXIV, 360 pages with pages 1 – 9 missing / Volume II (Australia): pages 361 – 744 pages / Volume III (New Zealand / Tasmania): II, 384 pages. / Volume IV (Africa and the West Indies): II, 188 pages / Volume V (British India): II, 564 pages with pages 455 – 456 missing / Volume VI (Ceylon, East India and Mediterranean Settlements): II, 172 pages. Hardcover / Original, decorative publisher’s halfleather with gilt lettering and ornament to spines. Bindings rubbed but overall in firm and very good condition with only minor signs of wear. All maps and illustrations besides one illustration removed by a previous owner. In the course of removal of maps and illustrations, one page slightly torn and 11 pages of text missing. This is still one of the most important text-sources of British Colonial History, itsevaluation in Britain and a plethora of data on economical and political impact the Colonies had for the former Empire. No other contemporary 19th century publication includes details on colonial produce, movement of population and local History from Tasmania to Quebec, from Hong Kong to Heligoland (Helgoland), and in general on the depition of “England, the ‘Nursing Mother’ of Nations” (Introductory page XXIV by Montgomery Martin).

6425. [English History Collection] – Vesey-Fitzgerald, Brian.

The British Countryside in Pictures. In four illustrated sections, each introduced by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald.

First Edition. London, Odhams Press Ltd, 1946. 18 x 25 cm. 320 pages including numerous photographs. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor traces of foxing only.

6426. [English History Collection] – Salmon, Edward / Worsfold, James / Vivian, E. Charles.

The British Dominions Year Book 1916.

London, The British Dominions / General Insurance Co., 1916. Octavo. 336 pages with numerous illustrations and 4 special, large folding-maps [Tipped-in illustration of Subscription Room at Lloydsin 1800 / Photographic Plate showing the “Chiefs of the Dominions” (Sir Robert Laird Borden / General Louis Botha / A. Bonar Law / W.E.Massey / Andrew Fisher) / Plate with “Badges of Rank – Royal Navy (Cuffs) / Caps and Cap Badges – Royal Navy / Badges of Rank – Officers – Shoulder Strap Badges and Caps / Cuffs / Gorget Patches / Sleeve Badges / Folding Map in Colour of “The British Dominions” / Folding Map of “The Panama Canal” (specially drawn for “The British Dominions”) / Plate with Medal Ribbons of the British Army / Plate with Badges of Rank and Proficiency – N.C.O.‘s and Men / Coloured Folding Map: “Industrial Map of Europe” / Coloured Folding Map “The Races of Europe” (Classified by Language) / Map of “The Balkan States” / Hardcover / original, publisher’s half cloth with illustrated cover. Binding slightly stained and rubbed but firm ! Interior in excellent condition with all maps and illustrations pristine !

6427. Hooker, William Jackson.

The British Flora ; Comprising the Phaenogamous or Flowering Plants and the Ferns.

Second Edition, with Additions and Corections. London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1831. Octavo. XI,479 pages. Original half-leather with gilt lettering on spine. Firm binding, slightly rubbed. Some faded staining to upper margins of several pages. Some annottaions and markings in pencil. Overall still very good-

6428. Macfall, Haldane.

The British Genius. Illustrated with nineteen [tipped-in] plates in colour.

First Edition. London and Edinburgh, T.C. and E.C. Jack, 1911. 21cm x 29cm. XX, 312, (1) pages. Original Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine and illustrated frontcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Very minor traces of foxing to endpapers. [A History of Painting].

6429. Mavor, William.

The British Nepos: Consisting of the Lives of Illustrious Britons Who Have Distinguished Themselves by their Virtues, Talents or remarkable Advancement in Life; with incidental practical reflections.

Twelfth Edition. London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816. Small Octavo. Frontispiece, XI, [1], 458 pages with all 24 portraits of eminent British People of History in place. Hardcover / Original, contemporary full leather with gilt ornament on spine. Binding slightly rubbed but firm and holding. Interior slightly dusty but overall in very good condition. Giftinscription from 1822 in ink verso titlepage.

6430. Suriano, Gregory R.

The British Pre-Raphaelite Illustrators.

Second Edition. USA & UK, Oak knoll Press and The British Library, 2005. 29 x 22 cm. 352 Pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6431. McCann, Eamonn.

The British press and Northern Ireland.

London, Northern Ireland Socialist Research Centre, no year [c.1971]. Octavo. 28 pages. Softcover. Besides a few dogears in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of an irish university lecturer and council man. Name of preowner on endpaper.

6432. Westcott, G.F. (ed.).

The British Railway Locomotive. A Brief Pictorial History of the First Fifty Years of the British Steam Railway Locomotive 1803-1853.

First Edition. London, Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1958. 21 x 16 cm. 14 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

6433. Lunn, Sir Arnold. (Editor). Holt-Needham, Miss Phyllis. (Assistant Editor).

The British Ski Year Book. 1952 Published on behalf of The Ski Club of Great Britain founded 1903 and of the Alpine Ski Club founded 1908.

London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. 1952. 21 cm x 14 cm. 192 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Vol.XV No 34.]

6434. Doyle, Peter.

The British Soldier of the First World War.

Oxford, Shire Publications Ltd, 2008. 15.5 cm x 20.5 cm. 56 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

6435. Robinson, Charles Napier.

The British Tar in Fact and Fiction. The poetry, pathos, and humour of the sailor’s life. With introductory chapters on the place of the sea officer and seaman in naval history and historical literature by John Leyland.

Reprint of the 1909 Edition. Washington, Singing Tree Press, 1968. 13.5 cm x 22 cm. XXIII, 520 pages. Illustrations, including frontispiece in colour and one hundred and thirty reproductions of old prints, engravings, and woodcuts, in black and white. Original hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. A slight stain on front cover. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard.

6436. Viney, Michael.

The Broken Marriage – A Study in Depth of a Growing Irish Social Problem. Reprinted from The Irish Times.

Dublin, The Irish Times, 1970. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. 26 pages. Some black and white illustrations throughout. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing to endpapers.

6437. Frimet, Hillel / William Carlos Williams.

The Broken Promise and Other Poems. With an Open Letter to William Carlos Williams.

No.121 of a Limited Edition. New York, Survival Press, 1959. 15.3 cm x 22.4 cm. 62 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor discolouration to edging, endpapers and pages. Signed by the author Hillel Frimet on half-title page. Errata-leaf loosely inserted. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard. With his bookplate / Exlibris to front pastedown (Exlibris design by Brian Lalor).

6438. Allen, Fergus.

The Brown Parrots of Providencia.

First Edition. London, Faber and Faber, 1993. Octavo. VIII, 66 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear with some foxing.

6439. Puig, Manuel.

The Buenos Aires Affair. A Detective Novel. Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine.

First Edition. New York, Dutton, 1976. Octavo. 219 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6440. [Building News].

The Building News and Engineering Journal – Six Volumes bound in Five – With c. 600 original, stunning Lithographs of Architectural Buildings and Designs [Volume XIV (which is the complete Year 1867, January to December, but erroneously says 1868 on spine) / Volume XXII and Volume XXIII (which is the complete Year 1872, January to December) PLUS: Three Volumes with hundreds of plates / illustrations for the years 1873, 1877 and 1878. Being the very rare Illustrations / Plates – Volumes only (no text) for 1873: Volume The Twenty-Fourth / Volume Twenty-Fifth and 1877: Volume The Thirty-Second / Volume The Thirty-Third and 1878: Volume The Thirty-Fourth and Volume The Thirty-Fifth.

London, Office for Publication and Advertisements, 1868 / 1872 / 1873 / 1877 / 1878. (23 cm x 32.5 cm). All Five Volumes together contain c. 600 stunning lithographs / plates of which c. 180 are large, double-page-plates. [c. 60 plates missing or defect.] Original Hardcover / Original half leather with gilt lettering to spine. Overall very firm and in very good condition of the five volumes with occasional pages missing or some illustrations torn (see detailed descriptions of pagination). The 1873 Volume excellent. The Volumes 1877 and 1878 with some stronger fraying and dampstain-damage to the corners (Illustrations NOT effected). The price for these 5 heavy Volumes includes international free UPS Express shipping.

6441. Keohane, Frank.

The Buildings of Ireland: Cork City and County.

New Haven / London, Yale University Press, 2020. Slim Octavo. XIX, 681 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, as new condition with only very minor signs of wear.

6442. [Schäffer Warren, Mary T.S./ Bridgman, Herbert Lawrence / Hyde, Walter Woodburn / Tower, Walter S. / Jefferson, Mark / Bryant, Henry G./ Worcester, Elwood and many others].

The Bulletin of The Geographical Society of Philadelphia. [including articles like: Professor Emory R. Johnson – ‘The Conservation Movement’ or on “The Oxford School of Geography” and Mary T.S. Schäffer’s early photographic travels through the Canadian Rocky Mountans: “The Valleys of the Saskatchewan with Horse and Camera” and many other articles].

Eight volumes (bound in five). Philadelphia, The Geographical Society of Philadelphia, 1907-1914. 19 cm x 25.5 cm. Vol.5-6 (1907-1908) 423 pages; Vol.7-8 (1909-1910), 349 pages; Vol.9-10 (1911-1912) 474 pages; Vol.11 (1913) 250 pages.; Vol.12 (1914) 349 pages. Numerous monochrome illustrations and many fold-out maps throughout the periodical. Hardcover / Buckram with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt Insignia of The Alpine Club on lower spine. [Original wrappers bound within]. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Text-block edges dust-toned with age. Interiors bright and clean.

6443. Aksyonov, Vassilii Pavlovich.

The Burn. A novel in three books (Late Sixties – Early Seventies). Translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny.

New York, Random House, 1984. 528 pages. Hardcover / Original cloth with dustjacket. First US edition of “Ozhog” – this portrait of life during the Kruschev years, whose publication in Italy forced Aksyonov to emigrate in 1980. Probably his major work to date. Near fine in very good+ dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by Aksyonov on the front free endpaper.

6444. Aksyonov, Vassilii Pavlovich.

The Burn. A novel in three books (Late Sixties – Early Seventies). Translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny.

New York, Random House, 1984. 8°. 528 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Inscribed / signed by Aksyonov and translator Michael Glenny in the year of publication. First US edition of “Ozhog” – this portrait of life during the Kruschev years, whose publication in Italy forced Aksyonov to emigrate in 1980. Probably his major work to date. Near fine in like dust jacket with light wear and a short edge-tear to spinal extremities.

6445. Robinson, Tim D.

The Burren – A Map of the Uplands of North-West Claire (Éire)

Arainn, T.D.Robinson, 1977. Folio Size – Folded. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Extremely Rare !

6446. [Berkeley, Busby] Thomas, Tony / Terry, Jim.

The Busby Berkeley Book. Foreword by Ruby Keeler.

Greenwich, Conn., New York Graphic Society, 1973. Folio. 192 pages with numerous photographs. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6447. Stancer, G. Herbert / Shaw, Reginald / Way, John.

The C.T.C Gazette – The Official Organ of the Cyclists’ Touring Club. 11 volumes in total. 10 Volumes of ‘The C.T.C. Gazette’ and one volume for 1974 called ‘Cycle Touring’.

11 volumes. London, The Cyclists’ Touring Club, 1942 – 1974. 16.3 cm x 22.7 cm – 18.5 cm x 25 cm. Circa 3,500 pages. 10 volumes of the C.T.C Gazette total circa 3,300 pages and 244 pages for the single volume of the Cycletouring Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on either spine or front boards. Some minor staining to a few pages in the volume for 1944. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interiors lightly tanned and clean throughout. All bindings firm and square.

6448. Grass, Günter.

The Call of the Toad. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim.

First English language edition. London, Secker & Warburg, 1992. 23 cm. 248 pages. Illustrations in black and white, including photograph of author on back of dustjacket. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition first english langauge edition with only very minor signs of external wear.

6449. [Atwood, Margaret] Howells,Coral Ann (ed.).

The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008. 15 x 23 cm. XVI, 200 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

6450. Bristow, Joseph (ed.).

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry.

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. 15 x 23 cm. XXXVII, 321 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.