1. Earle, Mrs. C.W.

Pot-Pourri From A Surrey Garden / More Pot-Pourri From A Surrey Garden. With an appendix by Lady Constance Lytton.

Ninth Edition / Fourth Impression. Two Volumes together. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1897-1900. 14.5 x 21.5cm. Volume I: (12), 381 pages / Volume II: 453 pages. Original hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Some foxing to several pages, signs of shelf wear to spine. Bindings bumped, otherwise in very good condition with bookblocks firm.

2. Gorky, Maxim / Shirazi, J.K.M. (Translator).

Creatures That Once Were Men. With introduction by G.K. Chesterton.

Second Edition. London, Alston Rivers, 1905. 14 cm x 19 cm. Frontispiece (Colour portrait of Maxim Gorky by Henry Ospovat), XIV, 93 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear and tear. Some discoloring of pages but mostly to endpapers and pastedowns. Previous owner’s name “P.H.Stephenson” on endpaper in ink pen dated 1944.

3. Harris, Franklin S. / Stewart, George.

The Principles of Agronomy: A Text-Book of Crop Production for High-Schools and Short-Courses in Agricultural Colleges.

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1915. 13 x 19.5cm. (16), 451 pages, with photographs and illustrations. Original hardcover in protective collector’s mylar. Some signs of external wear, otherwise very good condition with binding solid. Library stamp on front endpaper. Some underlining to text. Handwritten name of preowner: “G.W. Salter – School of Agriculture Olds. Alberta” From the Rural Text-Book Series, edited by L.H. Bailey.

4. Hillsborough, Romulus.

Shinsengumi – The Shogun’s Last Samurai Corps.

Tokyo, Rutland (Vermont), Singapore, Tuttle Publishing, 2005. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. XXV, 230 pages. Illustrated with four black-and-white photographs and four maps. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Dustjacket illustrated with photograph of miniature Shinsengumi Banner. Cover image of Samurai courtesy of Masataka Kojima. Cover design by Horuga Yakobusu. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

5. Joya, Mock.

Mock Joya’s Things Japanese.

Sixth Edition. Tokyo, Tokyo News Service Limited, 1971. 15.5 cm x 17.5 cm. XXI, 745 pages. Illustrated throughout with a few black-and-white vignettes. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6. McCullough, William H. & Helen Craig.

A Tale of Flowering Fortunes [‘Eiga monogatari’] – Annals of Japanese Aristocratic Life in the Heian Period. Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by William H. & Helen Craig McCullough.

In two volumes. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1980. 17 cm x 24 cm. Volume I – XV, pages 1 to 428 / Volume II – pages 429 to 910. Illustrated with 19 woodcuts from a 17th century edition and 20 diagrams including plans of the capital and the Imperial Palace and several genealogical charts. Original Hardcover (no dustjackets). Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

7. Mead, Margaret / Cooke MacGregor, Frances.

Growth and Culture. A Photographic Study of Balinese Childhood. Based Upon Photographs by Gregory Bateson and analyzed in Gesell Categories.

New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1951. 21 cm x 28 cm. 223 pags. 58 black-and-white photographic plates. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor tears to dustjacket.

8. Shields, David.

Remote.

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. 14 cm x 20 cm. 203 pages. Several black and white photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author.

9. Trevelyan, G.M.

Illustrated English Social History. – Volume One: Chaucer’s England and the Early Tudors / Volume Two: The Age of Shakespeare and The Stuart Period / Volume Three: The Eighteenth Century / Volume Four: The Nineteenth Century. Illustrations Selected by Ruth C. Wright.

Four Volumes (Complete Set). London / New York / Toronto, Longmans, Green and Co., 1949 / 1950 / 1951 / 1952. 22.2 cm x 14.5 cm. Pagination: Volume One: Colour frontispiece, XVI, 175 pages. Many illustrations, colour and gravure plates throughout. / Volume Two: Colour frontispiece, XI, 206 pages. Many illustrations, colour and gravure plates throughout. / Volume Three: Colour frontispiece, XI, 209 pages. Many illustrations, colour and gravure plates throughout./ Volume Four: XI, 186 pages. Many illustrations, colour and gravure plates throughout. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only minor to moderate foxing to front, rear pastedown enpapers, endpapers and dustjackets. Edges discoloured. Faded red decoration to top edges. Dustjackets slightly frayed, Volume Four with one illustration loosely inserted. A previous owners name, dated 1950 and inscription on front enpaper of Volume Two. Ephemera loosely inserted in Volume Three.

10. Valade III, Roger M.

The Essential Black Literature Guide. Published in Association with the Schomburg Centre for Research in Black Culture.

Detroit, New York, Washington D.C., Toronto, Visible Ink Press, 1996. 15 cm x 23 cm. XVIII, 446 pages. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white portrait photographs. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.