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1931réf. LFA00c0aUne brochure de 28 pages, format 155 x 120 mm, illustrée, publiée en 1931 par le Groupement des Syndicats d'Initiative de la Route Napoléon
182212mo., endpapers damp-marked in margins; contemporary calf reversed, tooled in blind and gilt, leather label gilt, very neatly recased, a very good, crisp, clean copy.
1998With library marks on cassette labels. 12 cassettes in one case, 8vo., a good, sound set. Publisher's code CAB 1447; total playing time 14 hours 15 minutes. Chivers Audio Books are arguably the finest audio books available. The author's original text is unabridged, the readers (usually professional actors or broadcasters) are selected for the quality of their characterisations, the recordings are produced to high standards in Dolby stereo and the cassettes or discs are housed in robust 'diamond' packs. Not surprisingly, used sets are scarce and almost invariably ex-institutional copies. Sets in the present state and condition are very uncommon.
19458vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 16 plates on 10; cloth, gilt back, a good, clean copy. Fascinating insight into rural China between the wars. Uncommon in this condition. Graham & Cole F7 (recording the first edition).
19048vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title in red and black, 26 plates and 46 illustrations (several full-page) in the text, free endpapers lightly foxed, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original pictorial cloth blocked in black, pictorial backstrip lettered in black, uncut and partially unopened, covers mildly age-stained, backstrip dulled (but all lettering entirely legible) else a very good, clean copy of a scarce account.
19068vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, title in red and black, and very numerous illustrations (many full-page) in the tet, neat inscription on front free endpaper; original pictorial cloth, uncut, uper hinge cracked but binding perfectly sound, an unusually bright, clean copy.
19078vo., First Edition, some moderate offsetting to free endpapers, front preliminaries and title lightly spotted; original blue cloth, upper board lettered in black, gilt back, fore-edge lightly spotted else a very good, bright, clean copy. NCBEL IV, p.660.
1930Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 22 x 30 ins (approx. 56.0 x 76.0 cms) folding in 21 panels to 7.5 x 4.5 ins (approx. 19.0 x 11.5 cms); original pictorial card wrappers, neat contemporary signature on upper wrapper, wrappers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. The famous Popular Edition One Inch series was first published in 1919 with striking 'hiker' artwork by Ellis Martin. The present copy is the 1930 revision (roads revised to June 1926); the covers are the dark red and black variant with location map. Browne, 11.2.a
1931Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 22.0 x 28.5 ins (approx. 56.0 x 72.0 cms) folding in 21 panels to 7.5 x 4.25 ins (approx. 19.0 x 11.0 cms), some light pencilled annotation in margins; original pictorial card wrappers, wrappers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. The famous Popular Edition One Inch series was first published in 1919 with striking 'hiker' artwork by Ellis Martin. The present copy is the 1931 revision; the covers are the dark red and black variant with location map. Browne, 11.2.a
1926Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 21 x 30 ins (approx. 53.0 x 76.0 cms) folding in 24 panels to 7.0 x 3.75 ins (approx. 18.0 x 9.5 cms); original pictorial card wrappers, wrappers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. The famous Popular Edition One Inch series was first published in 1919 with striking 'hiker' artwork by Ellis Martin. The present copy is the 1926 revision; the covers are the dark red and black variant with location map. Browne, 11.2.a
1935Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 22 x 30 ins (approx.56.0 x 76.0 cms) folding in 21 panels to 7.5 x 4.5 ins (approx. 19.0 x 11.5 cms); original pictorial card wrappers, wrappers lightly frayed at edges else a very good, clean copy.
1939Folding coloured map on cloth measuring 22 x 30 ins (approx. 55.5 x 76.0 cms) folding in 21 panels to 7.5 x 4.25 ins (approx. 19.0 x 11.0 cms); original pictorial card wrappers, neat contemporary signature on front wrapper, wrappers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. With the trade ticket of Moyse of Sheffield on rear wrapper. The Half Inch series was first published in 1919 with striking 'motorist' artwork by Ellis Martin. The present copy is the 1939 revision; the covers are the green and brown variant with green sheet name. Browne, 12.2.a
19042 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces (original tissue guards present), 28 fine plates (all original tissue guards present) and numerous illustrations in the text, neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper of first volume; original red pictorial cloth, upper boards ruled, blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt backs, gilt tops, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean set. With the trade ticket of Mawson Swan & Morgan of Newcastle-on-Tyne on front paste-down. Delightfully illustrated companion and guide compiled in Hewlett's best leisurely style. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION. Muir 14.
1926Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), and 167 illustrations by the author in the text; handsomely bound in dark red full morocco, back gilt with raised bands, gilt from original upper board and backstrip preserved and mounted on new and separate leaves, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. A lovely copy
19238vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, 7 plates and 15 maps and diagrams in the text; broad-weave cloth, buckram back with leather label lettered and ruled in gilt, uncut, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy. With small neat institutional stamp on front paste-down. This attractively produced work, published for the British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Company, is perhaps the scarcest of the author's studies of the history and development of the English road. Cahill 80.
19518vo., cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy.
19474to., SOLE EDITION, with a frontispiece and 9 plates of facsimiles; cloth, covers a little sunned and age-marked, backstrip faded else a very good, clean copy of a scarce work. This outstanding catalogue (compiled by Whitaker of his own collection) was published by the Brotherton Library as 'Library Publications' No. 2. It was never reprinted and is now increasingly hard to find. Sold from an institution with its small, neat stamp on front free endpaper, half-title and title only
19798vo., First Edition, with 37 plates on 16; black cloth gilt, gilt back, yellow endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with one or two short closed marginal tears. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED AND DATED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON HALF-TITLE.
19938vo., First Edition, with 48 plates on 24, 8 coloured maps, and 7 full-page maps in the text; original green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE, AND WITH A PRESENTATION A.L.s. FROM THE AUTHOR ON HIS PERSONAL LETTERHEAD TO DONALD EALES-WHITE. The first of Lyall Grant's masterly analyses of the Burma war and forerunner of 'The Japanese Invasion' (co-written with Tamayama and similarly privately printed some six years later). In this outstanding analysis, using extensive fresh information from both British and Japanese sources, Grant produces the most authoritative history to date. Includes command structures, OOB, statistical appendices and bibliography. An outstanding contribution to the history of WWII. Signed copies are very scarce. Graham & Cole E20.
1934Sm. 8vo., First Edition; cloth blocked in blind, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Collects twenty-eight of Lynd's thought-provoking essays, originally published as 'Y.Y' in the New Statesman. Extremely scarce in anything like this condition.
19488vo., First Edition, with a coloured frontispiece, 15 monochrome plates on 12 and several illustrations in the text; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.
19804to., First Edition, with a sepia-toned frontispiece and numerous sepia-toned photographs (many full-page) in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Wonderful collection of vintage (and more modern) photographs chosen by the founder of the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu.
19338vo., First Edition; original boards, darkened at edges as often, upper board and backstrip lettered in blue, uncut, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed at edges and with small loss at upper edge of rear panel. Keynes, A38.
19768vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations and maps (a number full-page) in the text; cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Objective review of the American War of Independence published to mark the Bicentenary.
18578vo., First Edition, with large folding map coloured in outline as frontispiece and 2 maps (one folding; one full-page); original green cloth, sides elaborately framed and patterned in blind, backstrip blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, uncut AND LARGELY UNOPENED, primrose endpapers, upper hinge cracked (but binding entirely sound), a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean, fresh copy IN WHOLLY UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO JOHN O'SHANNASSY WITH THE FORMER'S HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. With a bookplate on front paste-down and 16pp publisher's catalogue (dated July 1857) bound in at end. This copy was formerly in the holdings of Melbourne Public Library and bears its stamp dated 18 Dec 1888 on frontispiece verso, title and occasionally in text. Westgarth's Notes on the Overland Route comprise pp.376-451. A detailed statistical Appendix occupies pp.453-466. LOVELY COPY OF AN EARLY ISSUE OF A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT ACCOUNT OF THE COLONY. Ferguson 18418.