1. Greer, Germaine.

De Jongen. [The Rare Dutch Edition of “The Beautiful Boy” by Germaine Greer].

Dutch Edition. Amsterdam, Meulenhoff, 2003. 28,5 cm x 22,5 cm. 256 pagina’s / pages. Originele Hardcover met stofomslag. Met een mylar beschermlaag / Original Hardcover with dustjacket. In protective mylar. In zeer goede staat met slechts weinig sporen van slijtage / Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

2. Hammerton, J. A.

Manners and Customs of Mankind: Their Origins and Their Observance Throughout the World Today. Edited by J.A. Hammerton.

In Three Volumes. London, Amalgamated Press Ltd., No Year (1918). 21.5 cm x 27.5 cm. 1356 pages. Abundantly illustrated in black and white, with full-page colour illustrations. Original Hardcover. Gilt titles to spine. Red speckled decorative edges. Very good condition in firm bindings and some rubbing to the binding only. The price for this set of three books includes international shipping per Courier !

3. Hoyle, Edmond.

Hoyle’s Games Improved : Being practical Treatises on the following fashionable Games, viz.: Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess, Back-Gammon, Billiards, Cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, and Lansquenet. In Which Are Also Contained The Method of Betting at those Games upon equal or advantageous Terms. Including The Laws of the several Games, as settled and agreed to at Whites and Stapleton’s Chocolate Houses. Revised and corrected by Thomas Jones, Esq.

London, Printed for W. Wood in Fleet-Street, 1778. Small Octavo (9.5 cm x 15 cm). XI, 216 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Spine professionally repaired, original endpapers preserved. Name of preowner “Desproz” on titlepage. A little dusty but overall very desirable and very rare publication.

4. McLaughlin, Terence.

Dirt – A Social History Through the Uses and Abuses of Dirt.

New York, Stein and Day, 1971. Octavo. IX, 182 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

5. Squire, Charles / Mackenzie, Donald A. / Moncrieff, A.R. Hope.

Celtic Myth & Legend / Indian Myth & Legend / Myths of Babylonia & Assyria / Classic Myth & Legend / Romance & Legend of Chivalry / Teutonic Myth and Legend / Egyptian Myth and Legend / Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe /

Eight volumes. London, Gresham Publishing, c. 1910-1918. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. Celtic Myth & Legend: XIV, 450 pages / Indian Myth & Legend: XLVIII, 463 pages / Myths of Babylonia & Assyria: XXXIX, 537 pages / Classic Myth & Legend: XVI, 443 pages / Romance & Legend of Chivalry: XII, 439 pages / Teutonic Myth & Legend: 469 pages / Egyptian Myth & Legend: 404 pages / Myths of Crete & Pre-Hellenic Europe: LIV, 361 pages // Original Hardcovers decorated with Celtic symbols in black and gilt on green boards. With Illustrations in Colour and Monochrome. This set in unusually excellent good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Myth and Legend in Literature and Art].