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ref. 2013567766.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1965ref. 457813London & Fontwell: Centaur Press Ltd 1965. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Translated by Thomas Taylor edited and introduced by Esme Wynne-Tyson. Publisher’s cloth over boards. A very good ex-library copy inscribed to American novelist and critic Edward Dahlberg by Texas librarian and scholar Harold Billings: “Withdrawn from The University of Texas Library with great love for a man who needs it more – my dear friend Edward with much love Harold Aug. 29 ‘68”. With Dahlberg’s name and address written in pencil on the front free endpaper and his pencil annotations throughout the text. Billings published A Bibliography of Edward Dahlberg in 1971. A nice association. Centaur Press Ltd hardcover
ref. 125451949. Printed beige boards hinge strain at front cover condition mainly good. 3 or 4 days to the pages additional space for notes not used. Mainly a record of times dates people involved in a busy life of professional and social engagements and expenditure at the beginning of Bonham-Carter's years with The House of Collins. He records the occasional "Edit. Meting" 3 Jan. possibly his first. Information also includes phone numbers and addresses. His background obviously gave him access to many circles. The Collins clients he meets for cocktails lunch or dinner Belle Meuniere a favourite etc. include: Rose Macaulay working on "The World my Wilderness" Rosamund Lehmann Peter Quennell Desmond Shaw Taylor Christopher Sykes Nigel Bruce Bowes Lyon Neville Cardus Ivor Brown Ernest Thesiger Christopher Hollis Nancy Spain Liddell Hart. Professional meetings also include John Murray and Gollancz at the Savoy Argentine Ambassador Weidenfeld Spencer Curtis Brown Mrs Knopf. Interesting statements: "Ring J.M. Synge" "World Books Bd Mting Book Society Mting". His personal social life perhaps a tincture of the professional involves Tony Lambton Julain Fane Rachel Joyce Buss R.F. Harrod I. Berlin opera with George Barnes Mrs Douglas Fairbanks Russell Flint John Carter Joyce Grenfell parties holidays Ditchley Spain Blenheim etc Occasionally there is a little more information e.g. "Ring Hampshire Fontana - discuss" or "Send Rommel proof . to Jack Beddington" ; cricket fixtures and the start of theOxford term also feature. His reading also creeps in - eg. Order Ryle - Concept of Mind Hutchinson - RHBC". 1949. hardcover
1967ref. 429310New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1967. Softcover. Near Fine. Presumed first edition. Octavo. 70pp. Stiff illustrated wrappers. Corners lightly rubbed near fine. With original 33 1/3 RPM record "Frost Has a Say" in rear pocket. Holt, Rinehart and Winston unknown
1965ref. 4885Fresno Ca 1965. Very good plus. 68pp. Original blue printed wrappers stapled. Minimal wear. Unrecorded program for the annual convention of the Most Worshipful Hiram of Tyre Grand Lodge Scottish Rite Masons which took place at Del Webb's Town House in Fresno in July 1965. The work includes a short schedule of events but is almost completely comprised of greetings and well wishes from dozens of Masonic and Eastern Star chapters across California. The program also includes numerous advertisements towards the rear of the text. OCLC reports no works at all from the Most Worshipful Hiram of Tyre Grand Lodge. unknown
1517ref. 28702Rome: Apud Iacobum Mazochium 1517. First Latin edition of Maximus of Tyre's forty-one philosophical sermons translated from the original Greek by Cosmo Paccio. Issued as a post-incunable folio this example is bound in modern full leather tooled in a Renaissance style with five raised bands and a red gilt-titled spine label. The book is complete collated at CXV 1 leaves pagination errors expected and printed in a clear Roman typeface consistent with early sixteenth-century presses. The leaves are clean and well-preserved with margins measuring generously across the gatherings. Subject matter includes moral discourses and mythological references such as Achilles Anacreon Helen and Vulcan. This edition is cited in Adams M 936 and USTC 841641. A preserved Roman folio from a noted press. Questions and photo requests welcome. Apud Iacobum Mazochium hardcover
ref. 061593577X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. 0615664040.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1969ref. 38536New York: Simon and Schuster 1969. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster 1969. First Edition First Printing Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth in unclipped photo-illustrated dust jacket; 416pp.; half tone photographic frontispiece illus. throughout. Light wear to jacket margins top textblock edge foxed else a Very Good copy. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper "For Sir Peter Allen / with warm regards / Harold Wind / P.S. Thanks for the photographs at your wonderful Masters party." Sir Peter Allen 1905-1993 was a noted British industrialist and trained chemist who was part of the team that developed polythene plastic. In 1969 Allen had just been named Chairman of the Imperial Chemical Industries but more importantly Allen was the author of the guide "Play the Best Courses: Great Golf in the British Isles. Simon and Schuster unknown
1992ref. 9365New York: Marcel Dekker Inc 1992. Hardcover 528 pages. Very good. Light wear and soiling to pictorial boards head of spine bumped. Light soiling to text block edges. Pages appear free of writing / highlighting. In nice shape. Marcel Dekker, Inc hardcover
ref. 1595814159.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. AdityaBooks-9781119482451Wiley. New. Wiley unknown
ref. AdityaBooks-9781119482451Wiley. New. Wiley unknown
2001ref. 53415Lewiston NY: The Edwin Mellen Press 2001. First edition thus. Octavo. 2 volumes. 24 xx 4 415 1; 26 415-915 1pp. Index. Plus a 6pp. publisher's catalog at rear of both volumes. This work consists of leaves of a transcription in Middle English of the contemporary "Caxton Eracles" and a facing page of their translation into Modern English. Color pictorial orange cloth with white spine lettered in purple. Illustrated with genealogical charts and a schematic drawing of a siege-castle. An ex-library set with rubber stamp on title page & bottom of text block and library pockets on rear pastedowns otherwise a very good clean set. A fascinating first hand account of the First Crusade. Text and Studies in Religion Volume 88a. The Edwin Mellen Press unknown
1970ref. 049355Canada: Association of Kinsmen Club 1970. Book. Good. Hardcover. Small stain affects outer closed page edges interior is clean. Dust jacket has overall wear. Association of Kinsmen Club Hardcover
1930ref. 27398Auckland: Wanderlust Magazine. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1930. First Edition. Softcover. Small chips up to 20mm at ends of spine on some issues. Volume I Issue 1 with some paper tape reinforcement to tears on spine. Overall a nice complete set.; Vol. I. Nos 1-6 Vol II No. 1. Only seven issues were published. This is a complete set. Page dimensions: 247 x 186mm. An early incarnation of a "New Zealand Geographic" type magazine. Numerous black and white illustrations. Some colour illustrations including illustrations of the Pink and White Terraces. Includes Malcolm Ross's article "The First Traverse of Mt. Cook" which shortly before his death Ross called "The finest piece of descriptive work I have ever done". Also includes: "The Climbers" by Malcolm Ross; "A Mountain Lake" by James Cowan; "New Zealand Glaciers" by A. P. Harper; "Fish Tales - True Ones" by G. Bryant Hobbs; "Wakatipu - The Lake that Breathes" by Nomad; "Stewart Island: Its Early History" by G. R. Curtis; "Tales of the Maori War" by E. T. Frost; "Stalking Red Deer" by A. R. Kingsford. . Wanderlust Magazine paperback
ref. 0939084309.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1930ref. 27207Auckland: Wanderlust Magazine. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. 3 issues with 25mm tears and small chips at tail of spine. Previous owner's name in ink on front cover of 3 issues. Volume I Number 1 with some creasing to lower corner of front cover and first leaf. Volume I Number 2 with 20mm tear to margin of rear cover. Overall a nice tidy and complete set.; Vol. I. Nos 1-6 Vol II No. 1. Only seven issues were published. This is a complete set. Page dimensions: 248 x 187mm. An early incarnation of a "New Zealand Geographic" type magazine. Numerous black and white illustrations. Some colour illustrations including illustrations of the Pink and White Terraces. Includes Malcolm Ross's article "The First Traverse of Mt. Cook" which shortly before his death Ross called "The finest piece of descriptive work I have ever done". Also includes: "The Climbers" by Malcolm Ross; "A Mountain Lake" by James Cowan; "New Zealand Glaciers" by A. P. Harper; "Fish Tales - True Ones" by G. Bryant Hobbs; "Wakatipu - The Lake that Breathes" by Nomad; "Stewart Island: Its Early History" by G. R. Curtis; "Tales of the Maori War" by E. T. Frost; "Stalking Red Deer" by A. R. Kingsford. . Wanderlust Magazine hardcover
1893ref. 000338The most over-decorated of the Kelmscott books surpassing in this respect even the 'Chaucer' Peterson 1991 141. A very good copy of 300 printed on paper from a total edition of 306 copies. Description: Original full limp vellum with yapped fore-edges and cloth ties. Titled horizontally in gilt on spine. Quarto: 29 × 21 cm; pp.: xxii i 1 450 2. With double page woodcut title and numerous ornaments and initials. Printed from 'Troy' type list of chapter headings and glossary in 'Chaucer' type. Printed in black and red on Batchelor handmade paper. Provenance: Small bookplate of Wilfred Merton to upper pastedown. Wilfred Merton 1888–1957 was a passionate collector of books and manuscripts The Merton Papyri and publisher of books Homer's Odyssey 1932 in translation by T.E. Lawrence with Bruce Rogers and Emery Walker. Merton was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1938. Ref.: Sparling 15; Walsdorf 15; Peterson 15 Condition: Front cover shows a few naturally occurring variations in the surface colour of the vellum slight bow to front board as often; only two of the six ties are preserved. Internally bright and clean no browning to endpapers. Notes: This is the fifth and last of the Caxton reprints and the first book published and sold at the Kelmscott Press. lt also contains a new printer's mark after the colophon followed by the words "Sold by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press." Walsdorf 1983 29. Reprinted from Caxton's edition of 1481. Edited by H. Halliday Sparling. Kelmscott Press
ref. 1165149397.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2016ref. 2-0692783261LexNoir Foundation 2016. Paperback. New. 598 pages. 11.00x8.50x1.35 inches. LexNoir Foundation paperback
2013ref. 2-0615930190LexNoir Foundation 2013. Paperback. New. 36 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.09 inches. LexNoir Foundation paperback
2014ref. 2-0692256156LexNoir Foundation 2014. Paperback. New. 32 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.08 inches. LexNoir Foundation paperback
2014ref. 2-0692233474LexNoir Foundation 2014. Paperback. New. 36 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.09 inches. LexNoir Foundation paperback
2014ref. 2-0692256016LexNoir Foundation 2014. Paperback. New. 38 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.09 inches. LexNoir Foundation paperback