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1942499p. + Plus Index and three color folding charts of Army Insignias. Numerous drawings, charts and photographs. Inked ownership of Robert H. Deardoff. Tall 8vo. Original full tan cloth binding, decorated with officer's hat on front cover. Top edges slightly faded. Original dust jacket, worn and torn. Nice example. WWII 1
1960102 pages. Features: Regimental Notes; Andrew Hamilton Gualt - A Memoir; Colonel of the Regiment; Obituary - Miss Jennie MacGregor Morris; Presentation of New Colours 1 PPCLI; Laying up of Old Colours 1 PPCLI; Honours and Awards; First Battalion Report; Second Battalion Report; The Depot; Regimental Museum; PPCLI Band; The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (3 PPCLI); PPCLI Cadet Corps; PPCLI Association; The Rifle Brigade; United Nations Military Observer Group in Palestine; United Nations Military Observer Group in Pakistan; The Crossing of the Moro and the Capture of the V. Roatti; Customs of Service; Confidential Comments; Location Lists; Captured Operation Order. Light to moderate wear. Contents clean and unmarked. Brilliant gilt lettering and emblem upon flexible forest green cloth covered boards. Very nice copy. Book
1961122 pages. Features: Regimental Notes; The 1960 Rifle Team; An Unforgettable Soldier; Honours and Awards; First Battalion Report; Home Station Report - Second Battalion, Mess Activities, The Depot, Regimental Band, Regimental Museum, PPCLI Cadet Corps; The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (3 PPCLI); PPCLI Regiment; The Rifle Brigade; Letter From England; Two Years with the Rifle Brigade; Canadians in Indo-China; Congo Papers; The 8th of May 1915; Kapyong; Customs of the Service. Very light wear. Clean and unmarked. Brilliant gilt lettering and emblem upon forest green cloth covered flexible boards. Excellent copy. Book
1981ref. 107316The National Trust, Killerton House, Broadclyst, Exeter Devon, 1981. 24,5 cm ; broschiert
1981No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and slight bumping to some corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with rubbing to upper and lower edges and general signs of handling. 285pp. A study of the experiences of specific groups of English working people from the advent of the enclosures to the 1970s. Illustrated.
1985313 p, bibliography.index. Book
1909With frontispiece picture of Sarath Kumar Ghosh. Small, 25mm diameter round embossed stamp "Presentation Copy" on title page. Spine bumped and worn top/base and spine faded. General soiling to covers. Page edges greyed and a little foxed, several marks on top page edges.
1969304 p. illus. (part col.), facsims., map, ports. (part col.) 26 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
1982No inscriptions or marks. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked, torn or creased. 156pp. This book sets out to depict the great age of railways in terms of the way it affected the whole community.
1635ref. 741511635. The Last Customs Guide for Revenue Farmers Great Britain. Commissioners of Customs. The Rates of Marchandizes; As They are Set Downe in the Book of Rates For the Custome and Subsidie of Poundage And for the Custome and Subsidie of Clothes. The Same Being Signed by the Kings Majesty And Sealed with the Great Seale of England And Remaining in His Highnesse Court of Exchequer at Westminster: And by Speciall Commandment from His Majesty Published in Print For the Direction of Such as It May Concerne: Together with the Rates of Such Impositions as are Laid Upon Any Commodities Either Brought into the Realme Or Carried Out of the Same According to His Majesties Letters Patents Thereof Under the Great Seale of England. London: Robert Barker Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty 1635. ii 13 111 pp. Lacking final blank. Octavo 5-1/2" x 3-1/4". Recent straight-grained morocco gilt title and date to spine endpapers renewed edges rouged. Light rubbing a few small scuffs to front board some fading to spine somewhat lighter fading to extremities recent pencil annotations to front free endpaper. Moderate toning to interior light foxing in a few places trimming to fore-edge of leaf H6 pp. 108-109 just touching right edge of text with loss to catch-word but not legibility of main text. $1250. Final edition one of two 1635 issues the other in quarto. A guide to customs administration for private revenue farmers who paid an annual rent to the Crown in return for the privilege of collecting and retaining customs duties. These rents effectively became an intricate system of short-term loans to the Crown and a way to raise funds without Parliament. This was the last such guide before the revenue farming system was abandoned as a concession to the Long Parliament in 1641. OCLC locates 6 copies of this issue 1 in North America Huntington Library. The ESTC adds a North American copy at Harvard. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC S105551. Ashton "Revenue Farming under the Early Stuarts" The Economic History Review 8.3 pp. 310-322. unknown
1635ref. 741511635. The Last Customs Guide for Revenue Farmers Great Britain. Commissioners of Customs. The Rates of Marchandizes; As They are Set Downe in the Book of Rates For the Custome and Subsidie of Poundage And for the Custome and Subsidie of Clothes. The Same Being Signed by the Kings Majesty And Sealed with the Great Seale of England And Remaining in His Highnesse Court of Exchequer at Westminster: And by Speciall Commandment from His Majesty Published in Print For the Direction of Such as It May Concerne: Together with the Rates of Such Impositions as are Laid Upon Any Commodities Either Brought into the Realme Or Carried Out of the Same According to His Majesties Letters Patents Thereof Under the Great Seale of England. London: Robert Barker Printer to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty 1635. ii 13 111 pp. Lacking final blank. Octavo 5-1/2" x 3-1/4". Recent straight-grained morocco gilt title and date to spine endpapers renewed edges rouged. Light rubbing a few small scuffs to front board some fading to spine somewhat lighter fading to extremities recent pencil annotations to front free endpaper. Moderate toning to interior light foxing in a few places trimming to fore-edge of leaf H6 pp. 108-109 just touching right edge of text with loss to catch-word but not legibility of main text. $1250. Final edition one of two 1635 issues the other in quarto. A guide to customs administration for private revenue farmers who paid an annual rent to the Crown in return for the privilege of collecting and retaining customs duties. These rents effectively became an intricate system of short-term loans to the Crown and a way to raise funds without Parliament. This was the last such guide before the revenue farming system was abandoned as a concession to the Long Parliament in 1641. OCLC locates 6 copies of this issue 1 in North America Huntington Library. The ESTC adds a North American copy at Harvard. English Short-Title Catalogue ESTC S105551. Ashton "Revenue Farming under the Early Stuarts" The Economic History Review 8.3 pp. 310-322. unknown books
1985267pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
1992ref. MILI1238(Ldn.), Windrow & Greene (1992). Lex.-8°, 96 S., mit zahlr. Farbfotos, farb. OKart., nur unwesentl. Gebrauchsspuren. (= Europa Militaria Special No.2).
1969[ALL VOLUMES]: 170X110 mm. [74]+[80]+[111]+[95]+[69]+[83]+[74]. Gilt Hardcover. [MINOR FESTIVALS & FASTS]: Cover corner slightly bumped. Spine corner slightly worn.[SHAVOUTH]: Cover edges slightly worn. [PASSOVER]: Cover slightly stained. [SUCCOTH]: Cover slightly scratched. [ROSH HA-SHANAH]: Cover slightly stained. Few pages slightly age-stained. [SUMMARY]: Else in good condition.
Limited Edition for subscribers.This is no. 58 of 600 copies. 8vo. 444 pp. Bound in half green cloth over decorative boards, title in gilt on spine. Black and white frontispiece and numerous plates., Sexual life, Syria, Hungary, Gypsy, Hindu, Algeria, Greece, Turkey, Mediterrranean, Mid-East, India, Islam, the Koran, harems, marriage.
199156 pages. Features: Mimicking a leaf's ability to trap the energy of light; The evolutiionary benefits of psychic pain; The role of fashion in ancient burial customs; The tangled history of nuclear missile guidance - a review of 'Inventing Accuracy' by Donald MacKenzie; What fate awaits Chernobyl in the New World Order?; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1972A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Small tears on edge worn dust jacket. 201 pages. Many b&w photographs.
197346 pages. Black and white photos throughout. "Pierre Berton's television interviews with a former rumrunner and "Machine-Gun" Kelly of Canadian customs form the basis of this tale of prohibition days. Centering on the U.S. Coast Guard's illegal sinking of the Canadian ship 'I'm Alone', the succinct informative narrative combines with contemporary photos, archival material and more to provide the reader with a distinctive sense of period." - from back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1964pp. xx, 374. Illustrated with maps, drawings and photographs. 8vo. Paperback. Very nice copy. Volume 72 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series. LOC W17
1940Blue cloth boards show wear at edges and some small spots. 10 1/4"w x 12 1/2"h. Black and white tipped-in photographs throughout. A photographic record of Sadler's Wells Ballet's 1939 production of Tchaikovsky's ''Sleeping Princess'' based on ''The Sleeping Beauty'', under the direction of Nicolas Segueeff and starring Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann. "The book itself is really a collection of 'Action' pictures taken in mystudio of the chief characters from the story, in poses which are as near as possible characteristic ones, taken from the dances they illlustrate, and are placed in the order of their appearance in the ballet itself."
19232 v. illus. Hardcover Very good ex lib.
1957222 pages. "The entertaining life-history of a schooner, from her first appearance on the designing-board, through her gradual growth in the builder's yard and trials in the North Atlantic, to her cruel death indirectly at the hands of the U.S. Customs during the prohibition period." - dust jacket. Prior owner's name and date atop front free endpaper, otherwise contents clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound vintage copy. Book
1956n.p. Title ruled in black and red and printed in four languages. Text printed in (Cyrillic) Russian. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Folio. Original full cloth binding. With a folio phamplet insert describing each of the 381 items detailed in this exhibit. A fascinating photographic study of 450 years of Russian military art and royal craftsmanship. Gene Box 2 **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
1994209 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "Illuminates the underside of the Civil War." - James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Beautiful copy. Book
1917ref. 2080502106500924Publisher: Nippon Shoin 1917. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Publisher: Nippon Shoin paperback
