491. Beales, Peter.

Twentieth-Century Roses. An Illustrated encyclopaedia and grower’s manual of clasic roses from the twentieth century.

First Edition. London, Collins Harvill, 1988. 20cm x 27cm. 320 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Signed by Peter Beales and additionally inscribed on the endpaper.

492. [Beatles, The] Sansom, Clive A. / Marchbank, Pearce / Coke, Jane.

Pocket Beatles Complete. [Easy to Read Arrangements of 184 Beatles Songs, Including a Complete Discogrpahy of British Record Releases].

London, New York, Sydney, Tokyo, Cologne, Wise Publications, 1979. 14 cm x 20 cm. 383 pages. Illustrated with eight black-and-white portrait photographs of The Beatles and one black-and-white group photograph (on inside front pastedown). Original Hardcover (yellow cloth with embossed black lettering on cover and spine). Designed by Peace Marchbank. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

493. Beaton, Cecil.

Beaton in the Sixties. More Unexpurgated Diaries. Introduced by Hugo Vickers.

London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2003. 24 cm x 16,5 cm. XII, 434 pages. With many black-and-white photographs. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

494. Beaton, Cecil.

Time Exposure. With Commentary and Captions by Peter Quennell.

First Edition. London, B.T. Batsford, Ltd., 1941. 22.5cm x 17cm. VIII, 136 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of wear. From the library of irish photographer John Minihan.

495. Beatty, Bertha (nee Creagh).

Kerry Memories. [together with a MLS manuscript letter signed by Maude Isabel Buxton, about the author Bertha Beatty – Letter on stationery of Tockenham Manor].

First Edition. Dawlish (Devon), The Channing Press, 1939. Small Octavo. 59 pages. Hardcover / Private green cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare !

496. [Beatty, Chester].

Gardens of Earthly Delight. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle, 2005.

No.1119 / 1400 copies. Dublin, Graphic Studio Dublin, 2005. 16 cm x 24 cm. 81 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

497. Beaulieu, Mad. Mallès de / [Robinson Crusoe].

Le Robinson de douze ans – Histoire intéressante d’un jeune Mousse Français abondonné dans une ile déserte. Ornée de Gravures par Mme Mallès de Beaulieu, Auteur des Coules d’une Mère à sa Fille.

Paris, P.-C. Lehuby, no date (approx. 1818). Small – Octavo. Engraved frontispiece, Titlevignette, 288 pages with two further engravings (4 in total). Hardcover. Original, blue paper-covered boards, extensively decorated with gilt floral motifs and an inset illustration of the young Robinson and his dog on a beach. Very good condition. Interior remarkably clean. Fine example of a so-called Robinsonade, a fashionable adaptation of the original Robinson Crusoe story, in this case based on another “Robinsonade”, this is a somewhat modified and inspired version of Johann David Wyss’ famous publication “The Swiss Family Robinson”, which he published initially “to teach his sons about family values, good husbandry, the uses of the natural world and self-reliance” (Wikipedia). In her publication “History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children’s Literature”, Jackie C. Home writes that “The Bibliothèque Nationale de France online catalogue lists 35 French language editions of Mallès de Beaulieu’s novel, published between 1818 and 1923, suggesting that the novel was one of the most popular titles fro children in nineteenth-century France.”

498. Beaumont, Cyril W.

The Vic-Wells Ballet.

First Edition. London, C.W. Beaumont, 1935. 14cm x 22cm. 45 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Some foxing. From the collection of Margot Fonteyn – photographer and artist Keith Money.

499. Beaumont, Ernest.

The Theme of Beatrice in the Plays of Claudel.

London, Rockliff Publishing Corporation, 1954. 14 x 22cm. (9), 102 pages. Original clothbound hardcover. Very good condition, spine very slightly scuffed, small ink mark on front board, endpapers slightly foxed. Previous owner’s name on front free endpaper.

500. Beaumont, Fletcher / Fletcher, John / Gurr, Andrew (Editor).

Philaster or Love Lies a-Bledding.

Manchester / New York, Manchester University Press, 2003. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. Frontispiece (Title-page of the 1620 Quarto (reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum)), LXXXIV, 142 pages. One black and white copy of second impression of title-page of the 1622 Quarto (reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum). Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition+ with only minor signs of external wear.