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69. Mackwood, Neil. With Preface by Burghersh, Lord. Drawings by Lucy. IN &
OUT: A LIGHTHEARTED GUIDE TO CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY (1980 DEBRETT'S 1981).
London, Debrett's Peerage Limited, 1980. 1st. Hardcover - decorated cloth,
12mo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Black & white drawings. A humorous guide to doing the right things with the
right people at the right times for the right reasons. Good tight copy. 160
pages......$10.00
70. Malcolme, David. THE ANTIQUITIES OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND. L.A.,
Sherwin & Freutel, 1970. Facsimile. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very
good condition. Facsimile of the Edition of 1738 printed in Edinburgh by T.
and W. Ruddimans. Good tight copy. Np......$12.50
71. Mallaby, George, former Under Secretary to the British Cabinet. FROM MY
LEVEL. New York, Atheneum, 1965. 1st American. Hardcover - cloth, octavo.
Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Owner
signature. Black & white frontis of Mallaby. Gallery of original portraits of
political/military decision makers of 40's to 50's Great Britain. Good tight
copy. Lively, insightful views of Churchill, Atlee, Begin & Montgomery, among
others. Good tight copy. 222 pages......$15.00
72. (Malory, Sir Thomas) Rendition in Modern Idion by Baines, Keith (With
Introduction by Graves, Robert). LE MORTE D'ARTHUR: A RENDITION IN MODERN
IDION. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1962. 1st printing. Hardcover -
cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Modern rendering of the fabulous web of Arthurian
history, saga & religious myth. Tight well-bound volume. 512
pages......$20.00
73. Margolis, Jonathan. CLEESE ENCOUNTERS: THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF
MONTY PYTHON VETERAN, JOHN CLEESE. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1992. 1st
edition. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photos. Biography of British
Comedian John Cleese. With Bibliography, Curriculum Vitae of his professional
work. Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 286 pages......$12.50
74. Marnham, Patrick. TRIAL OF HAVOC: IN THE STEPS OF LORD LUCAN. London,
Viking/Penguin, 1987. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photos. Famous
British murder & subsequent disappearance of prime suspect, Lord Lucan.
Surprising conclusions. Good tight copy. 204 pages......$12.50
75. Matthew, Christopher (With Photographys by Martin, Ben & a Note from
Morley, Robert). A DIFFERENT WORLD: STORIES OF GREAT HOTELS. New York/London,
Paddington Press Ltd, 1976. 1st edition. Hardcover - decorated cloth, Small
Quarto. Very good condition in lightly chipped dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Black & white frontis & photos. Decorated endpapers.
Beautifully illustrated with hundreds of Black & white photographs. The
elegant past & present of 50 great hotels. Including The Ritz in Paris, The
Plaza in New York, Le Grand Hotel in Rome & many more. Stories of the great
hoteliers, the great concierges, the great restaurants - and the
distinguished guests: the Dukes & Duchesses, Kings & Queens, the fabulously
wealthy & internationally famous. Tight well-bound volume. 352
pages......$25.00
76. Maurois, Andre. THE MIRACLE OF ENGLAND: AN ACCOUNT OF HER RISE TO
PRE-EMINENCE AND PRESENT POSITION. N.Y, Harper, 1937. 1st edition. Hardcover
- cloth, Large octavo. Good condition. Slight edgwear. Edges somewhat bumped.
Hinge starting. Black & white photos. 500 pages......$10.00
77. McWhirter, Ross & McWhirter, Norris. GET ON YOUR MARKS: A SHORT HISTORY
OF WORLD, COMMONWEALTH, EUROPEAN, & BRITISH ATHLETICS (THE STORY OF WORLD
TRACK & FIELD). London, Nicholas Kaye, 1951. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Small
octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Black & white photos. Chapter devoted to each event, plus "a full chapter on
women's athletics." Rare edition. Good tight copy. 267 pages......$15.00
78. Milton, John (A new text edited with Introduction & Notes by Fletcher,
Harris Francis). THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON. Boston, Houghton
Mifflin, 1941. Hardcover - decorated cloth, Imperial octavo. Very good
condition. Light cover/edge wear. Spine faded. Bookplate endpaper. Black &
white plates. Occasional faint pencil markings. With Index of Title & First
Lines. Tight well-bound volume. 573 pages......$20.00
79. Money, Agnes L. (editor). HISTORY OF THE GIRLS' FRIENDLY SOCIETY. London,
Gardner, Darton & Co, 1897. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Small 16mo. Very
good condition. Slight cover wear & very light soiling. Edges bumped. Black &
white photos & frontis. Victorian England. Good tight copy. 229
pages......$12.50
80. Moore, Doris Langley. THE LATE LORD BYRON: POSTHUMOUS DRAMAS.
Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1961. 1st edition. Hardcover - decorated
cloth, octavo. Very good condition in slightly worn dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Black & white plates. 1st complete account of the
stormy aftermath of Byron's life. From unpublished material. Fascinating
literary detective work.. 542 pages......$20.00
81. Morgan, Joan and Richards, Alison. A PARADISE OUT OF A COMMON FIELD: THE
PLEASURES AND PLENTY OF THE VICTORIAN GARDEN. New York, Harper & Row, 1990.
1st U.S. edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Color & Black & white plates.
Well-illustrated with colour plates and line drawings of the period.
Delightful detailed portrait of the Victorian House and its garden. Gathered
from a range of contemporary records, from the notes & diaries of head
gardeners themselves, & the many books & magazines they wrote & read, to
country house archives & recipe books. With Appendix: Estates & their owners
- References, Bibliography, Index. Tight well-bound volume. 256
pages......$15.00
82. Morton, Andrew. DIANA: HER TRUE STORY. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1992.
1st U.S. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Large octavo. Very good condition in
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Color photos. True inside story
of Princess Diana. With facts & private photographs published for the first
time. Good tight copy. 167 pages......$12.00
83. Morton, H.V. ATLANTIC MEETING: AN ACCOUNT OF MR CHURCHILL'S VOYAGE IN
H.M.S. PRICE OF WALES, IN AUGUST 1941, & THE CONFERENCE F.D.R. London,
Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1946. 6th printing. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, 12mo.
Very good condition. Very light cover wear. Corners lightly bumped. Black &
white photos. WHICH RESULTED IN THE ATLANTIC CHARTER. Decorated endpapers.
Facsimile frontis of card signed by FDR & Churchill. Historic photos. With
Appendix A) The Atlantic Charter, B) Churchill's description of the meeting,
C) Prince of Wales List of Officers. Indexed. Good tight copy. 160
pages......$12.50
84. Mowatt, R. B. THE AMERICAN ENTENTE. London, Edwin Arnold & Co, 1939. 1st
edition. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Slight edgewear. Survey of the
relations between Great Britain and the United States. Good tight copy. 286
pages......$16.00
85. Newby, Eric. A BOOK OF TRAVELLERS' TALES. New York, Viking Press, 1986.
1st American. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Large octavo. Very good condition
in price-clipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white
drawings & maps. A veritable Who's Who of travellers tales from 430 B.C. to
the 1980's. Representing more than 300 writers & subjects. Well known &
obscure true tales of travel from Africa, Europe, Great Britain & Ireland,
Near Asia, Middle Asia, Far Asia, North America, Central & South America, the
Caribbean, Australia & New Zealand, The Arctic & the Antarctic. With Sources,
List of Illustrations, Index. Good tight copy. 576 pages......$16.50
86. Noyes, Alfred. TALES OF THE MERMAID TAVERN. New York, Frederick A. Stokes
Co, 1913. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, 12mo. Very good condition. Light cover/edge
wear. Plate removed/foxing front endpaper. Black & white frontis & plates.
With portraits of Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Bacon, John Fletcher, John Selden,
Michael Drayton, Beaumont & Raleigh. 234 pages......$18.00
87. O'Connor, Philip (Introduction by Spender, Stephen). MEMOIRS OF A PUBLIC
BABY. New York, W. W. Norton, 1989. 1st American. Hardcover - 1/2
cloth/boards, Small octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Vivid memoirs of Philip O'Connor. Tight
well-bound volume. 229 pages......$11.00
88. Oakes, George W. TURN LEFT AT THE PUB: WALKING TOURS OF THE ENGLISH
COUNTRYSIDE. New York, David McKay Co, 1968. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth,
12mo. Very good condition in lightly chipped dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Corners lightly bumped. Black & white maps/diagrams. More
than 20 walking tours. Included are cathedral & university towns of
England... plus delightful strolls in Kent, York, Suth Devon, Bath, the
Cotswolds, STratford-on-Avon & more. With easy to follow outline maps, info
on transportation, points of interest. Delightful book. Good tight copy. 174
pages......$12.50
89. Parker, Louis N. DISRAELI: A PLAY. New York, John Lane Company, 1911. 1st
edition. Hardcover - decorated cloth, 12mo. Very good condition. Light
cover/edge wear. Corners lightly bumped. Black & white frontis photo of
Author. With tinted photographic cover plate. Tight well-bound volume. Hard
to find. 114 pages......$20.00
90. Partridge, Bellamy. SIR BILLY HOWE. New York, Longmans, Green and Co,
1932. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Corners
lightly bumped. Light coverwear. Signature endpaper. Black & white frontis &
plates. Biography of Sir William Howe, Washington's major opponent in the
Revolutionary War. With Notes, Index. Good tight copy. 301 pages......$12.00
91. Paston, George and Quennell, Peter. "TO LORD BYRON": FEMININE PROFILES
BASED UPON A COLLECTION OF UNPUBLISHED LETTERS TO BYRON - 1807 - 1824. New
York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo.
Very good condition in chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Black & white plates. With 12 illustrations in Collotype. Correspondents
include: Elizabeth Pigot, Susan Vaughan, Lady Caroline Lamb & many more. With
Index. Good tight copy. 275 pages......$17.50
92. Pearson, Hesketh. DIZZY: THE LIFE & PERSONALITY OF BENJAMIN DISRAELI,
EARL OF BEACONSFIELD. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1951. Reprint edition.
Hardcover - 1/2 cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition. Black & white
photographs. Excellent study of Disraeli. With Index. Good tight copy. 310
pages......$10.00
93. Pearson, Hesketh. G.B.S.: A FULL LENGTH PORTRAIT. New York, Garden City
Publishing, 1946. Repr. 1942 edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition. Lower corners worn/bumped. Black & white photos. Spirited Shaw
biography. Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 390 pages......$11.00
94. Penrose, Barrie & Freeman, Simon. CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE: THE SECRET LIFE
OF ANTHONY BLUNT. London, Grafton Books, 1986. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Large
octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Black & white photos. Story of Soviet secret agent Anthony
Blunt & his accomplices, Burgess, Maclean & Philby. Bibliography. Extensive
Index. Good tight copy. 588 pages......$13.50
95. Plumb, J.H. and Wheldon, Huw. ROYAL HERITAGE: THE TREASURES OF THE
BRITISH CROWN. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. Book Club.
Hardcover - cloth, Quarto. Very good condition in chipped dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Edges/corners bumped. Color & Black & white
photographs. Breathtaking survey of the paintings & palaces, the objets d'art
& jewels, furnishings & manuscripts... collected over a thousand years by the
British Royal Family. Lavishly illustrated(over 300 plates). Text by J.H.
Plumb, one of England's finest historians. With Index. Tight well-bound
volume. 360 pages......$18.00
96. Priestley, J. B. THEATRE OUTLOOK. London, Nicholson & Watson, 1947. 1st.
Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Good condition+. Cover wear. Edges/corners/spine
ends worn. Color & Black & white photos. With 8 photogravure colour plates,32
photogravure Black & white plates, & 6 colour pictorial charts designed by
the Isotype Institute. Priestley's outlook on British Theatre & theatrical
companies including the Old Vic & West End Commercial Management. Also
pictorial charts showing theatres in the Midlands, South-West England,
Yorkshire & Lancashire, more. Scarce. 84 pages......$14.00
97. Quennell, Peter. THE MARBLE FOOT: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1905 - 1938. New York,
Viking Press, 1977. 1st. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good
condition in lightly creased dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Black & white photo frontis. Autobiography of Quennell; biographer, novelist,
essayist & poet. With Index. Good tight copy. 254 pages......$12.50
98. Quest-Ritson, Charles. THE ENGLISH GARDEN ABROAD. London, Viking, 1992.
1st/3rd printing. Hardcover - cloth, Small Quarto. Near fine in dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Color & Black & white photos. A historical &
contemporary look at the celebrated tradition of English Horticulture
throughout europe. A beautifully photo-illustrated tour of past & present
English gardens throughout the Riviera, Italy, Tuscany, Portugal, Spain,
France & more. From the spacious 18th Century landscape gardens designed by
Capability Brown to the densely planted luxuriance of Hidcote and
Sissinghurst. With a wealth of new material, & illustrated throughout with
modern & previously unpublished archive photographs. Well-indexed. Tight
well-bound volume. 232 pages......$22.50
99. Reed, Michael. THE AGE OF EXUBERANCE - 1550 - 1700. London, Routledge &
Kegan Paul, 1986. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photos & drawings.
Definitive study & description of the Tudor & Stuart eras. The turning point
in British History from the Medieval to the Modern. Also the story of the
rich contribution of the men & women of the period to the fabric of Britain.
Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 306 pages......$14.00
100. Reid, Ivan. SOCIAL CLASS DIFFERENCES IN BRITAIN: A SOURCEBOOK. London,
Open Books, 1977. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition
in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Edge mark. The 1st Sourcebook
of key facts on social class in Britain. Clear discussion & data on income,
employment, health, housing, family structure, education, politics, religion
& leisure. Shows how class differences reach into every area of life from
pregnancy & birth to illness & death. With Bibliography. Well-indexed. Good
tight copy. 266 pages......$15.00
101. Rolfe, Wilfrid. THE LOVE OF LONDON. London, Octopus Books, 1978. 1st
edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Large Quarto. Very good condition in
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Light edge wear. Color photos.
Color photographic endpapers. Well written, full-color photo-illustrated
guide to the many facets of London. Parks, Gardens, Entertainments,
Architecture, Traditionsl Shops, Street Markets, Ancient Customs & Royal
Pageantry. Indexed. Good tight copy. 96 pages......$20.00
102. Ross, Caroline. MISS NOBODY. New York, Congdon & Lattes, Inc, 1981. 1st
edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition in dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Fiction concerning an early romance
of Prince Charles. Good tight copy. 277 pages......$10.00
103. Rothenstein, John. BRAVE DAY, HIDEOUS NIGHT: AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1939-1965.
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1966. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Near fine in
chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Edge mark. Black & white
photos. Frontis drawing. Good tight copy. 386 pages......$12.00
104. Scherman, David (Photography) & Wilcox, Richard (Descriptive Text)
Preface by Morley, Christopher. LITERARY ENGLAND: PHOTOGRAPHS OF PLACES MADE
MEMORABLE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE. N.Y, Random House, 1944. Hardcover - cloth,
quarto. Very good condition. Very light cover/edge wear. 50 full page Black &
white photographs. Full page photographs (with descriptive text) of scenes &
places made famous in English Literature. Includes: The Castle at Tintagel,
Winchester, Canterbury Cathedral, Battle Abbey, Keats Grove, Sherwood Forest,
Stokes Poges Churchyard, Fleet Street, Dickens' House, Dartmoor, Reading
Gaol, Piccadilly Circus, Stonehenge, Doone Valley, Wimpole Street and many
more. Good tight copy. Np......$15.00
105. Seelye, Lymann. OALIN. Bellingham WA, The Bayside Press, 1922. 1st
edition. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition. Light
edgewear. Slightly bumped. Black & white photos. Poetic drama. Fictionalized
version of the sinking of the HMS Hampshire with Lord Kirchner on Board in
1916. Rare. Tight copy. 192 pages......$15.00
106. Sen, Jyoti Prakash. THE PROGRESS OF T.S. ELIOT AS POET AND CRITIC. New
Delhi, Orient Longman, 1971. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, 12mo. Very good
condition. Slight cover wear. Light wrinkling first few pages. Good tight
copy. 156 pages......$10.00
107. Shaw, George Bernard. THE INTELLIGENT WOMAN'S GUIDE TO SOCIALISM AND
CAPITALISM. N.Y, Garden City Publishing, 1928. American. Hardcover - cloth,
octavo. Very good condition. Slight cover wear. Edges bumped. Owner's plate
endpaper. Good tight copy. 495 pages......$15.00
108. Slonin, Ruth. LONDON: AN AMERICAN APPRECIATION. Boston, Bruce Humphries,
Inc, 1954. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, 12mo. Very good condition in
chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Very slight edgewear.
Poetry. Good tight copy. 64 pages......$10.00
109. Spencer, Hazelton. THE ART AND LIFE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. New York,
Harcourt Brace and Company, 1940. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition. Very light cover wear. Black & white plates/frontis. Decorated
endpapers. Detailed portrait of the Life, Age & Works of William Shakespeare.
With Notes, Bibliography, Index. Tight, well-bound volume. 495
pages......$14.00
110. Strachey, James & Strachey, Alix (Edited by Meisel, Perry & Kendrick,
Walter). BLOOMSBURY/FREUD: THE LETTERS OF JAMES AND ALIX STRACHEY 1924-1925.
New York, Basic Books, Inc, 1985. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very
good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white
photos. Pictorial endpapers. Intimate correspondence. Year of almost daily
correspondence between husband & wife while Alix was in Berlin being analyzed
by Freud's disciple Karl Abraham. Highlights of Bloomsbury, as well as
Vienna. Good tight copy. 360 pages......$14.00
111. Strachey, Lytton. ELIZABETH & ESSEX: A TRAGIC HISTORY. London, Chatto &
Windus, 1932. 1st Phoenix edition. Hardcover - cloth, 12mo. Very good
condition. Very light edge wear. Story of Queen Elizabeth & the Earl of
Essex. With Bibliography. Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 288
pages......$12.00
112. Strachey, Lytton. QUEEN VICTORIA. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1921.
1st/2nd printing. Engraved cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Corners/spine
lightly bumped. Spine ends worn. Black & white frontis & plates. Landmark
biography of Queen Victoria. With Bibliography, Index. Well-bound volume. 433
pages......$13.50
113. Strauss, E. EUROPEAN RECKONING: THE SIX AND BRITAIN'S FUTURE. London,
Allen & Unwin, 1962. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo. Very good
condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Very slight edge
wear. Good tight copy. 177 pages......$10.00
114. Swinglehurst, Edmund. ROBERT BURNS COUNTRY. London, Grange Books, 1996.
1st. Pictorial boards, Quarto. Fine in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Color photos. Beautiful fullcolor photo-illustrated tour of the
travels of Robert Burns - thru the countryside, cities & byways of Scotland.
.the land Burns cherished and never left. With excellent information on
Burn's life & poetic career. Sections include: Growing up in Ayrshire -
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect - The Poet in Edinburgh - Burns in the
Border Country - The Highland Tours, Exciseman in Dumfries and Galloway.
Tight well-bound volume. 80 pages......$22.50
115. Swinglehurst, Edmund (Text) Warner, Simon (Photographs). THE LAKE
DISTRICT: A CELEBRATION OF CUMBRIA. Bolton, Aurora Publishing, 1995. 1st.
Pictorial boards, Quarto. Near fine in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Color photos. With superb full-page full color photographs. A
evocative tour of the English Lakes & Lake District. With detailed
introduction, map. Main sections include: The Way to the Lakes, Around
Windermere, Coniston Water & the Surrounding Countryside, The Western Lakes,
Around Derwent Water, Walking the Fells. Tight well-bound volume. 80
pages......$22.50
116. Taylor, Francis Henry. THE TASTE OF ANGELS: A HISTORY OF ART COLLECTING
FROM RAMSES TO NAPOLEON. Boston, Little, Brown & Co, 1948. 1st edition.
Hardcover - Hardcover - decorated cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition.
Color & Black & white photographs. Decorated endpapers. The definitive work.
An elegant lavishly illustrated volume. From the Origins of the Classic
Tradition through Collecting in the Napoleonic Age. With sections on Art &
Absolutism in France, The Spread of Italian Culture, English Collectors in
the Age of Reason, German Absolutism and the Ersatz Versailles - and much
more. Bibliography. Well-indexed. Tight, well-bound volume. 661
pages......$25.00
117. Thomas, Lee (Designed and Produced by Smart, Ted and Gibbon, David).
ENGLAND. Surrey, England, Colour Library Intl. Ltd, 1980. 1st edition.
Hardcover - Hardcover - decorated cloth, Quarto. Very good condition in dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Color photographs. Color photographic
endpapers. From Stonehenge to London. Absolutely breathtaking full color
pictorial of England. Lavishly illustrated portrait of England's rural
scenes, architectural glories, pastoral landscapes, coastal resorts, beaches,
inland towns, historic cities and, not least, its unforgettable capital,
London. Tight well-bound volume. 105 pages......$30.00
118. Tolstoy, Nikolai. THE QUEST FOR MERLIN. Boston, Little, Brown & Co,
1985. 2nd printing. Paperback. octavo. Very good condition. Very light
edgewear. Black & white photographs. Search for & discovery of the real
Merlin of Arthurian legend - thru archaeological search & examination of
ancient manuscripts. With Notes, extensive Index. Good tight copy. 322
pages......$11.00
119. Trease, Geoffrey. THE GRAND TOUR: A HISTORY OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRAVEL.
New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967. 1st edition. Pictorial boards,
octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Black & white plates. A delightful illustrated history of the European "Grand
Tour", from Elizabethan times to the middle of the 19th Century. With
decorated endpapers, Bibliography, Index. Good tight copy. 251
pages......$16.50
120. Turnbull, Malcolm. THE SPY CATCHER TRIAL: THE SCANDAL BEHIND THE #1 BEST
SELLER. Topsfield MA, Salem House, 1988. 1st. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards,
Large octavo. Very good condition in lightly rubbed dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. British Government efforts to stop publication of
SPYCATCHER, true story of espionage in the British Secret Service.
Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 322 pages......$11.00
121. Turner, Eric. ENGLISH SILVER FROM 1660. London, Her Majesty's Stationery
Off, 1985. 1st. Pictorial brds, Large octavo. Very good condition. Very
slight cover wear. Color & Black & white photos. Decorated endpapers. Lavish
illustrations. Good tight copy. 48 pages......$15.00
122. Vulliamy, C. E. DOCTOR PHILLIGO: HIS JOURNAL AND OPINIONS. London,
Michael Joseph Ltd, 1944. 1st/2nd impres. Hardcover - cloth, Small octavo.
Very good condition. Slight cover wear. Edges lightly bumped. Black & white
photo frontis. British medical diary. Good tight copy. 248 pages......$15.00
123. Wagenknecht, Edward. DICKENS AND THE SCANDALMONGERS: ESSAYS IN
CRITICISM. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. 1st/2nd printing.
Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in lightly worn dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Examination of the so-called evidence
regarding Charles Dickens' relations with Ellan Terman. Good tight copy. 162
pages......$14.00
124. Wasserman, Jacob (Translated from the German by Paul, Eden & Cedar).
BULA MATARI: STANLEY, CONQUERER OF A CONTINENT. New York, Liveright Inc.
Publishers, 1933. 1st. Engraved cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Light
cover/edge wear. Spine bumped/faded. Signature endpapr. Black & white photo
frontis & plates. Definitive biography of famed explorer & adventurer, Henry
M. Stanley. With Bibliography, Extensive Index. Tight well-bound volume. 351
pages......$16.50
125. Watson, Frederick. THE LIFE OF SIR ROBERT JONES. London, Hodder &
Stoughton Ltd, 1934. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Slight cover
wear/fading. Lightly bumped. Black & white photo & frontis. Medicine,
Surgery, World War I. Good tight copy. 216 pages......$15.00
126. West, Pamela. YOURS TRULY, JACK THE RIPPER. New York, St. Martin's
Press, 1987. Book Club edition. Boards, octavo. Very good condition in dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Unique mystery. "Pamela West's
well-researched book is a superb celebration of the centennial of Jack the
Ripper." Tight copy. 243 pages......$11.00
127. West, Rebecca. ENDING IN EARNEST: A LITERARY LOG BY REBECCA WEST. New
York, Doubleday Doran & Co, 1931. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards,
Small octavo. Very good condition. Light cover wear. Corners worn/bumped. The
travels & literary adventures of Rebecca West. With chapters on Andre Gide &
Evelyn Waugh. Good tight copy. 307 pages......$13.50
128. Whitlock, Ralph. HISTORIC FORESTS OF ENGLAND. New Jersey, A. S. Barnes &
Company, 1979. Hardcover - cloth, Imperial octavo. Very good condition in
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Color & Black & white plates.
Illustrated history of the indigenous forests of England from earliest times
& their significant role in the national life. With color & Black & white
photographs, paintings, drawings, maps. Sections include: The Primeval
Forest, Celts, Romans & Saxons, The Royal Chase, After the Middle Ages, Men
of the Forest, Wild Life in the Forests, The New Commercial Forests,
Gazetteer(the Historic Forests). With Bibliography, Index. Tight well-bound
volume. 176 pages......$20.00
129. Wilson, Rev. S. Law, M.A., D.D. THE THEOLOGY OF MODERN LITERATURE.
Edinburgh, Folcroft Library Editions, 1976. Repr. 1899 edition. Hardcover -
cloth, Imperial octavo. Very good condition. Very slight cover wear.
Beautifully bound reprint of Wilson's 1899 classic. Evidence & analysis of
theology inherent in 19th Century English Literature. Author's examined
include Carlyle, Eliot, Browning, George MacDonald, the Scottish School,
"Robert Elsmer", Hardy, Meredith - & more. Good tight volume. 446
pages......$25.00
130. Winwar, Frances. OSCAR WILDE AND THE YELLOW NINETIES (A candid, human
picture of the fantastic rise and tragic disintegration of a great genius).
New York, Blue Ribbon Books, 1940. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition in lightly chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Black & white photos. Blue Ribbon edition of the Harper & Brothers volume.
Foreward by Lord Alfred Douglas. Good tight copy. 381 pages......$16.00
131. Zeitlin, Jacob & Woodbridge, Homer. LIFE AND LETTERS OF STUART P.
SHERMAN (2 vol. set). Np, Farrar & Rinehart, 1929. Hardcover - decorated
cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition. Slight cover/edge wear. Front
covers lightly spotted. Black & white photos. Signature, endpaper/spine
starting - vol. 2. 1921 Atlantic Monthly article by Sherman enclosed. Well
bound set. 880 ttl pages......$40.00
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