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Gunther, Albert C L G.
The Gigantic Land Tortoises (Living and Extinct) in the Collection of the British...
Publisher: Taylor and Francis by Order of the Trustees, London;
Date of publication: 1877
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FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp iv, [2], 96. 55 lithographic plates to rear as called for, numbered I to LIV including XXXIb, of which 6 fold-out and 1 double page. Sympathetically re-backed, with gilt t...
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Fleming, Ian.
Diamonds Are Forever.
Publisher: The Macmillian Company; New York;
Date of publication: 1956
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FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo, pp [8], 215. Pale grey cloth with black and red titles to spine and upper board, and black-stamped diamond motif to upper board, in clipped pictorial dust-jacket. M...
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Sassoon, Siegfried.
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.
Publisher: Faber and Faber, London;
Date of publication: 1931
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FIRST ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED EDITION, Number 224 in a Limited Edition of only 320 copies. Octavo, pp 310, [2]. 15 colour illustrations including frontispiece, and numerous black-and-white illustratio...
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Milne, A. A.
The House at Pooh Corner.
Publisher: Methuen & Co Ltd, London;
Date of publication: 1928
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FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp xi, [1], 178, [2]. Frontispiece and illustrations throughout text by E H Shepard. Original salmon pink cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt motif to upper board within...
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Tennyson, Alfred Lord. [Smyth, Dorothy Carlton, artist].
Superb “Vellucent” binding in green vellum by Cedric Chivers of Bath. The Works of...
Publisher: Macmillan and Co, London;
Date of publication: 1898
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FIRST THUS. Octavo, pp viii, 900, [4] Song Index and publishers catalogue. Tissue-guarded engraved portrait frontispiece by George Stodart from a photograph by J Mayall. Full transparent vellum ove...
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Bewick, Thomas.
A General History of Quadrupeds.
Publisher: Printed by & for S Hodgson, R Beilby & T Bewick, Newcastle upon Tyne;
Date of publication: 1800
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Fourth Edition. With the ownership inscription of William Speechly. Octavo. One of only 300 Royal Paper copies, pp [4], [v]-x, 525, [1], [2] ad for History of British Birds. 224 figures of...
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Orwell, George.
Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Publisher: Secker & Warburg, London;
Date of publication: 1949
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FIRST EDITION. 16mo, pp 312. Publishers’ green cloth with red titles and ruling to spine and top edge stained red. Spine sunned, with partially sunned boards; faint cup ring-stain to lower board....
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Bewick, Thomas.
The Figures of a Supplement to the British Birds. Land Birds. [with] The Figures ...
Publisher: Printed by Edward Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne;
Date of publication: 1821
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FIRST EDITION. Quarto, unpaginated. Engraved title page and 20 engraved plates to Land Birds; engraved title page and 18 engraved plates to Water Birds. Maroon quarter calf with five raised bands a...
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Tolkien, J R R
The Peoples of Middle-Earth.
Publisher: Harper Collins, London;
Date of publication: 1996
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FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp xiii,[1], 482. Colour frontispiece; tables in text. Dark blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, in unclipped blue dust-jacket with white and gold titles and monogram and or...
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Hobbes, Thomas.
Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and C...
Publisher: Andrew Crooke, London;
Date of publication: 1651
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FIRST EDITION, second state. Tall quarto, pp [6], 248, 247-56, 261-394 (final leaf misnumbered as 397-394 instead of 395-396) - complete, despite pagination. Engraved title, letterpress title and f...
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Crawhall, Joseph.
Juvenile Sketchbook of Animals;1869.
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Date of publication: 1869
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Small landscape octavo, approx 5” x 7”. 16 unpaginated sketches, plus a further 8 inscribed pages (in an adult hand) and sketches loosely inserted in a slightly larger size. Stitched thin pale gree...
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The Beano Book.
Publisher: D C Thompson & Co Ltd, Dundee;
Date of publication: 1939
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[1939]. Quarto. 128pp.The VERY FIRST BEANO ANNUAL. Illustrated throughout, including title page in navy and red and numerous cartoon strips. Publishers’ quarter blue pictorial cloth with yellow pic...
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