MILNE J.P.MareMagnum
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19428vo., with a frontispiece; original blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in green, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, the latter frayed at extremities and with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Milne's popular girls' school adventure was first published in 1934. BL gives 1942 for the second edition. Uncommon in this condition.
19948vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Declared unfit for active service, he reported the Battle of Normandy, the Liberation of Paris, the Battle of the Bulge, Kamikaze attacks on the British Pacific Fleet and Hiroshima.
19798vo., Second Impression, with 26 plates on 16; black cloth, gilt back, black endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published in the same year as the first edition. Compelling and dramatic account of the last days of Hitler and the Reich Chancellery Group. First published in the US as 'The Bunker' (Houghton Mifflin) in the previous year. Enser, p.24.
19574to., First Edition, with plates; original printed wrappers, a near fine copy. Loosely inserted is a typewritten letter from Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood to Percy Edward Sleight OBE.
19978vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19678vo., First Edition, with frontispiece; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy.
2005Name/address stamp to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very minor bumping to rear corners. 344pp. Interpretation of the Gospel of Matthew about the Word of Jesus.
1976Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with 19 coloured plates on 8 and 95 monochrome photographs in the text; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in white, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly browned dustwrapper. Observer 62. Code 608.1175; jacket 62. Marren & Carter, p.173.
1995Articles, interviews, reviews, useful addresses, and diary notes. Occasional pencil lines in margins. Some light indentations and rubbing to cover surfaces.
1880A Chandos Classic. Edited by Edward Walford, with a Glossary and Life. 438 pages plus publishers list. A rebound copy. Light foxing on title page and occasionally throughout.
19348vo., with 18 plates; original green cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, a very good, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its stamp on front paste-down and press-marks on front free endpaper. The author gives a short history of Rupert's Land, later the North-West Territories. SCARCE.
20038vo., Revised and Best Edition, with plates and illustrations in the text; red cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Revised and extended version of the first edition of 1984.
1964A miscellany on books and book collecting. Signed inscription from author on front free endpaper. Brown red cloth covers with gilt title on spine. Dust jacket faded on spine and creased on lower front corner. Page edges foxed and browned.
1967Hardcover in very good condition, with good jacket. Signed and dedicated by author on FEP. Jacket is marked, tanned and edge-worn, with a few minor nicks. Minor edge-wear on hardcover. Page block is lightly marked. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. HCW Used
19808vo., First Edition; original series binding of olive cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. Camden Fourth Series Volume 24.
1938Sm. 4to., First Edition, with a title-vignette and numerous full-page woodcuts in the text, contemporary inscription on blank preliminary; cloth, gilt back, backstrip heavily sunned else a good, firm, clean copy. Nineteen short sketches of English character and the English countryside.
19618vo., First English Edition; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy. This copy was presented by Werner Knopp to the library at St. Antony's College, Oxford. It bears the College's bookplate on front paste-down and neat stamp on title. Dr. Werner Knopp (1931-), eminent German lawyer and Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Munster and long-term President of the Prussian Cultural Institute in Berlin.
20098vo., First Edition, with 2 full-page maps in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, blue endpapers, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Ninth novel in the Eagles of the Empire sequence.
19598vo., First English Edition, with 4 plates and a full-page facsimile in the text, wanting front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. With the trade ticket of Gieves of Portsmouth on front paste-down. The work was first published in Germany in the preceding year. Enser, p.213.
20078vo., First Edition; original black boards, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, yellow endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The author's third novel.
19958vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and coloured maps throughout; pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
20028vo., First Edition, with plates and maps; brown cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
19768vo., First Edition, with very numerous photographs and diagrams in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A standard reference. Includes a detailed list of development batch, prototypes and production variants. Published simultaneously with the first edition.
19508vo., Second Edition, on laid paper, free endpapers browned; black cloth, backstrip with printed paper label, a good, sound copy. Revised version of the original edition of 1938
19578vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and plates, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, backstrip lightly faded at headband else a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with small loss (affecting lettering) at tail of backstrip. Vividly-written account of major airship disasters.
