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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. FIRST ED. THUS. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. F.S. Challoner Ilustrador. First Edition. ----------hardcover, no dust jacket. The book is in blue cloth with a black leaf design on the front boards, and gilt lettering on the front boards and spine. The book has pulls on the back boards which likely indicates it was stuck to another book at one time, slight wear to spine extremities, a very solid VG copy with all portraits intact.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Orange cloth, 5 1/4 X 7 6/8 inches, 242 pages. Illustrated with black and white drawings. Cover faded, edges rubbed. Good. Internally clean.

Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), gilt letters, gilt decorations to upper cover and spine, top edge gilt, fold-out, tissue-protected frontis., [212] pp. Very Good, with light edgewear and darkened spine. European History, Czech Republic, Bohemia, Prague zslic.

Octavo, paperbound (string bound illus. green wrappers), [29] pp. Very Good, with darkening and wear to edges. Illustrated. Children's Literature, Illustrated.

near fine, appears unused jacket only, NO BOOK.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 17.5cm x 11cm [thick small 8vo], ix, 666pp / 719pp puls 4pp, signature to front endpaper. Brown Cloth (Good). No Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Fine original green cloth, in VG price-clipped DW with sticker pull.

Cloth, 8vo, 25 cm, xv, 512 pp, [32] pp of plates, ills. From the blurb - " When the darkness of mental illness closed over his last eleven years, John Ruskin had established himself as an extraordinary presence in Victorian England. This prominence, and its attendant private troubles and anxieties, form the centre of this absorbing new biography. Although his parents wished him to have a distinguished career in the Church, Ruskin himself opted for a life in which he could travel, read, collect geological specimens, study works of art, draw and maintain his role as critic and commentator. His energies and output were prodigious, despite the interruptions and distractions of social life and the unhappiness of his own marriage to Effie Gray. Throughout a public career as writer, lecturer, social reformer and eventually Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University, he never lost his determination to connect and relate his many interests, which seemed an ever-widening sea into which the rivers of all conventionally discrete disciplines fed. To present this fascinating and authoritative portrait of Ruskin's life and works, John Dixon Hunt has searched extensively in both published and unpublished materials, and has supplemented his text with over fifty superb illustrations. Ruskin's pursuits and talents have never before been shown in such depth, or to such good effect." Good in slightly creased dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 17.5cm x 11cm [thick small 8vo], xx, 638pp / 625pp puls 8pp. Brown Cloth (Very Good). Dust Jacket (Good).

Cloth, 8vo, 25 cm, xv, 512 pp, [32] pp of plates, ills. From the blurb - " When the darkness of mental illness closed over his last eleven years, John Ruskin had established himself as an extraordinary presence in Victorian England. This prominence, and its attendant private troubles and anxieties, form the centre of this absorbing new biography. Although his parents wished him to have a distinguished career in the Church, Ruskin himself opted for a life in which he could travel, read, collect geological specimens, study works of art, draw and maintain his role as critic and commentator. His energies and output were prodigious, despite the interruptions and distractions of social life and the unhappiness of his own marriage to Effie Gray. Throughout a public career as writer, lecturer, social reformer and eventually Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University, he never lost his determination to connect and relate his many interests, which seemed an ever-widening sea into which the rivers of all conventionally discrete disciplines fed. To present this fascinating and authoritative portrait of Ruskin's life and works, John Dixon Hunt has searched extensively in both published and unpublished materials, and has supplemented his text with over fifty superb illustrations. Ruskin's pursuits and talents have never before been shown in such depth, or to such good effect." Fore-edges spotted, otherwise Good in used dustwrapper.

307pp. Index. 8 b/w illustrations. Very good. Spine a little rubbed. Owner's name.

Cloth, 8vo, 23 cm. xviii, 302 pp, 4 plates. From the blurb - "John Skelton, poet-laureate of Oxford and later of Cambridge University, tutor to the prince who was to reign as King Henry VIII, rector of Diss, and the last poet of medieval England, stands midway between the Chaucerian school and the Italian influences of Wyatt and Surrey which heralded the English Renaissance. In his heyday Skelton made his mark as a political and social satirist through his verses. A complex man, he was the last of the great medieval satirists, and his holy orders did not prevent his undisguised appreciation of feminine beauty 'the merriest poet of Merry England'. For reasons explained by Pollet in a masterly chapter, Skelton became, soon after his death, a traditional figure of low comedy, and three hundred years were to pass before his work was restored to the ranks of serious literature with appraisals by Southey, Elizabeth Barrett and later Robert Graves, H. L. R. Edwards and others. Maurice Pollet's study is the major French contribution to the subject, and with its appearance John Skelton has certainly come into his kingdom. The seal has been placed on his recognition as an English classic by one of those magisterial monographs with which French scholars salute English writers of unquestioned eminence. It is lucid, superbly proportioned and organized, richly documented yet never pedantic, pretentious or dull. " Name on front pastedown endpaper, upper fore-edge corner of front free endpaper cut away, otherwise Good in a used and price-clipped dustwrapper.

Cloth, 8vo, [7], 237 pp, 14 plates, 11 text ills. From the blurb - "In the 1860s a new and devastating invader from the New World was detected in Europe: 'the unknown disease', as it was called at first - phylloxera. It took over vineyards, attacked the vines, and more particularly almost ruined the world's largest wine industry, that of France. In terms of wealth, the destruction of the vines and the experimental measures taken to eradicate the pest were as costly as the losses suffered by the French in the Franco-Prussian War. The drama and the tragedy, lasting more than a generation, was not merely financial: the human suffering, in terms of livelihoods wiped out, was immense. The main theme of the author's story, thus illumined against its social and economic background, is the pest's destruction of the vines and the remedy which eventually restored Europe's wine industry. It was done by the application of science and good sense, which unravelled a complex problem without the benefit of modern science, though not without a continuing battle against prejudice, ignorance and stupidity. Fittingly the remedy came from North America, the phylloxera's homeland." Elegant bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, Very Good in rubbed and used dustwrapper.

Cloth, small 4to, Unpaginated , approximately 60 pp, chiefly of illustrations. From the blurb - "In February 1987 the BBC's QED series broadcast a programme called The Foolish Wise Ones' which studied the effects of autism, that tragic affliction which leaves its sufferers with a perceived mental age of a child and, to all intents and purposes, cut off from the world. However, as the programme proved brilliantly, autistic people are often able to express themselves in a manner which leaves 'normal' people amazed at their talent Stephen Wiltshire, then eleven years old, was shown producing from memory drawings of London buildings, which moved Sir Hugh Casson to judge him 'a wonderfully natural draughtsman, really spectacularly good'. . Stephen's trustees have .granted Dent permission to publish this extraordinary and moving volume which not only contains some of the finest freehand drawings of a brilliant artist, but also produces a powerful argument for re-thinking our policy regarding the 'mentally handicapped'. 'His sense of perspective seems to be faultless. I've never seen in all my competition drawing such a talent, such natural and extraordinary talent that this child seems to have. [Stephen] is possibly the best child artist in Britain.'- Sir Hugh Casson Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.

Original pictorial cloth. Binding a bit rubbed, edges with some minor stains, a good copy. Please see description or ask for photos.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. A useful and comprehensive introduction to music by composer, Antony Hopkins, including how it has developed over the centuries; how to listen to it; musical form & idiom; nature of the key system etc. Hardback book in VG condition, p.256, illustrated with music examples & diagrams, SIGNED by Antony Hopkins on the front endpaper. Complete with price clipped dustjacket which o/wise is in VG condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine original blue cloth, remainder mark inside front cover, mild age-toning to pages, otherwise virtually As New throughout, in Fine DW, protected in Brodart sleeve.

Cloth, 8vo, xxi, 328 pp, portrait, facs, ills. Approximately 300 entries. The Bibliography occupies pages 183-288 and includes a full descriptive bibliography of Thomas' works (the best available) in addition to a listing of selected biographical and critical material about him. The biography is a perceptive portrait of Thomas, the "poet of the English countryside". Front and rear joints split along nearly full length, with spine-panel remaining attached at corners only, name on front free endpaper, contents agetoned with minor marks. Laid in is a bookseller's catalogue issued by I.D. Edrich : 'Edward Thomas', 147 items.

Cloth, 8vo, xi, 268 pp. "While Rolph remains the standard bibliography, Maud offers a wealth of supplementary information about the primary writings, and his annotations to them and the secondary bibliography make this book an indispensable aid to the student." - Mellown. From the blurb - "The compilers list everything by Dylan Thomas published in his lifetime, and posthumously, together with everything written about him that would interest the literary historian or the general reader. An essential reference work for students, this thoroughly researched check-list supersedes the bibliography published sixteen years ago. Part One lists the books by and about Thomas, chronologically under the years in which they appeared. Periodical publications are dealt with in three geographical sections: Welsh; English and allied publications; and American- Canadian. Foreign language publications are listed in a final section. This check-list is arranged for clarity and ease of reference, with some variation of traditional bibliographical conventionsWith an Appendix (1969-71) compiled by Walford Davies." Very Good in used and price-clipped dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. hardback, 8vo, viii,221pp, owner's bookplate, edges slightly browned, text clean and sound, purple cloth, corners bumped, spine faded, Good / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Dutton,/J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., Aldine House, Bedford Street, London First Thus New Edition . 1952 decorative hardback no jacket xiii 210 pages illustrated with 8 colour plates and line drawings by Arthur Rackham, no cloth to spine, ex library book with usual label removed, markings and stamps. but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm, ix, [1], 182 pp, ills. Top edge spotted, otherwise Near Very Good in a Near Very Good price-clipped dustwrapper whose spine-panel is slightly faded.

Cloth, 8vo, xix, 108 pp, 16 plates. Approximately 370 entries. "The authoritative bibliography" - Mellown. Small white mark to spine panel, front free endpaper partly glued to front pastedown endpaper obscuring a library label, otherwise Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. GD original blue cloth, moderate to heavy shelf wear, map end-papers, numerous b&w plates. A sketch of social life in seventeenth century Essex.

Cloth, 8vo, 25 cm, xiii, 370 pp, [8] pp of plates. From the blurb: "As plants 'for use and for delight' herbs form a very broad and varied category and are grown not only for culinary medicinal or cosmetic purposes but sometimes for their own sake as attractive plants. Allen Paterson, who has very wide experience of the plants about which he writes, shows the superb and often undervalued heritage of herbal plants from which we can freely draw today. He describes how they have been used in the past and suggests ways in which suitable plants can be used in any and every garden now.There is a chapter on herbs in garden design, including information on grouping, climate, planting and visual effects, and another on ideas for gardens, from the largest landscape garden to the small window box, with advice on the terrace herb garden, herbs in the shady courtyard, the kitchen herb bed, herbs indoors and many other aspects. Further chapters deal with the year in the herb garden and the uses of herbs in the kitchen, and there is a section on herbal cooking, with numerous recipes. The main part of the book is a comprehensive alphabetical list of herbal plants, from Acanthus mollis to Vitex agnus castus and including conifers, with detailed practical gardening information, plus extensive and useful planting charts." A few page corners mildly creased, otherwise Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.

196pp. Index. 2 maps and 16 b/w photographs. Owner's name Otherwise fine in fine dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. hardback, 8vo, viii,219pp, 2pp adverts, owner's name and some foxing on endpapers, text clean and sound., pink patterned cloth, spine browned; Good / no dustwrapper.