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A Month in Siena.
Publisher: Viking, London;
Date of publication: 2019
£35.00
FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp. ix, [1], 116, [2]. 16 illustrations in colour, of which 3 double-page, by various artists. Publishers’ black cloth with silver titles to spine in unclipped orange pict...
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Barnes Wallis: A Biography.
Publisher: Ian Allan Ltd, London;
Date of publication: 1981
£28.00
FIRST THUS (updated edition). Octavo, pp. xvi, 400. 37 monochrome illustrations to plates. Publishers’ black cloth with gilt titles to spine in price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket. Spine tips ligh...
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!"
Publisher: Folio Society, London;
Date of publication: 2012
£50.00
FIRST THUS. Ocatvo, pp. xv, [3], 356. Photographic portrait frontispiece, plus numerous illustrations throughout by Aude van Ryn. Publishers’ silver grey cloth blocked in black, red and white, with...
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Useless Memoirs.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, London;
Date of publication: 1962
£20.00
FIRST THUS. Octavo, pp. xxiv, 285, [1]. Publishers; leaf green cloth with gilt titles to black panel to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Spine tips gently rubbed; cover cloth clean and b...
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Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga.
Publisher: Random House, New York;
Date of publication: 1967
£45.00
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. [6], 278, [2]. Publishers’ black cloth with dark red titles to spine and red biker motif to upper board. Corners bruised and spine tips a little rubbed; small scuffs to...
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Brave Boys Who Have Become Illustrious Men of Our Time Forming Bright Examples fo...
Publisher: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., London;
Date of publication: 1890
£65.00
Seventh Edition. Octavo, pp. [2], vii, [1], 288. 3 plates by Harrison Weir; numerous head- and tail-piece decorations. Bound in superb full tree-calf with 5 raised bands, gilt titles to black label...
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Blake.
Publisher: Folio Society, London;
Date of publication: 2008
£35.00
FIRST THUS. Large octavo pp. 455. Illustrated including frontispiece self-portrait of Blake. Pictorial cloth with gilt & black titles and decoration, and pictorial endpapers; housed in plain black ...
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Captain Cook.
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., Limited, London;
Date of publication: 1904
£35.00
Octavo, pp. vi, 191. Full polished tan calf, with 5 raised bands and gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to compartments; gilt border to boards, board edges and turn-ins with gilt armorial of...
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Short Lives of Great Men.
Publisher: Edward Arnold, London;
Date of publication: 1910
£30.00
Octavo, pp. viii, 296. Frontispiece and 7 further plates. Prize binding of full polished burgundy calf, with 5 raised bands, black label with gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to compartmen...
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Plutarch's Lives of Greek Heroes.
Publisher: Blackie & Son, London;
Date of publication: 0
£35.00
Octavo, pp. [2], 240. Frontispiece monochrome illustration. Prize binding of full polished burgundy calf by Relfe Bros, with 5 raised bands, scarlet label with gilt titles to spine, and gilt decora...
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Ariel.
Publisher: Penguin Books, London;
Date of publication: 1935
£40.00
Softcover octavo, pp. 252. Publishers’ blue-and-white striped card wraps in matching striped dust-jacket. Wraps show extremely light toning to spine; jacket has tears to flap crease, approx. half ...
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A Long Life's Work.
Publisher: Macmillan & Co., Limited, London;
Date of publication: 1924
£28.00
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xii, 426, [4] adverts. Monochrome photographic frontispiece. Publisher’s navy blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Cloth is lightly rubbed and bruised to spine tips. L...
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