Archive for September, 2008

The Rhymes of a Red-Cross Man

Clean sound copy with just a past owner’s name in ink on front fep and a slightly faded spine.

Rommel

Text clean, past owner’s name in ink on half-title page, past owner’s stamp on title page. Front board has large stain on front edge, spine faded and marked and lower corners bumped.

Reef Pilots: The History of the Queensland Coast and Torres Strait Pilot Service

Text clean and bindng tight. Presentation inscription in ink on verso of front fep. Boards slightly edge worn and corners rounded. DW mildly scuffed.

Color in Townscapes : Handbook in Six Parts for Architects, Designers and Contractors, for City-Dwellers and Other Observant People

Translated from the German. Past owner’s name neatly in ink on fron fep. Small closed tear on spine of dw.

The Child World

A fine clean copy. Boards only slightly marked, top and bottom of spine chipped and corners of boards bumped.

The Chimes: a Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year in

No date of publication. Text clean and whole, binding loose at back hinge. Presentation inscription in ink on front endpaper, deleted name on front fep. Boards chipped at edges, corners bumped and spine faded.

Namaqualand: Garden of the Gods

Past owner’s name in ink on front fep otherwise a clean attractive copy. Slight fading to edges of dw and small chips at top and bottom of spine of dw.

Cary’s New Map of England and Wales with Part of Scotland

“Showing all the direct and principal cross roads, the course of the rivers and navigable canals, cities, market and borough towns, parishes, and most considerable hamlets, parks, forests etc. With a hand coloured key map and 81 leaves of maps printed on one side only, with all boders, towns, parks etc coloured by hand. Bound in brown cloth boards witrh black leather spine and foredges. With gilt titles to spine. Usual wear to spine and edges. Small ink stain to maps no 1-13 at bottom of page edge. Stain does not enter the print block on any of the maps. Cary’s Maps”" written on the 3 page edges in neat faded ink. Previous owner’s name on fep. Binding tight and very minor foxing throughout. Large vol”

Dizionarii

6 vol. brown leather bound set in three sided leather case on stand. Italiano Inglese, English Italian / Jane Pulford;  Italiano Tedesco, Deutsch Italienisch / Emil Plaafnet; Italiano Francese, Francais Italien / Cesar Begoglio. Text clean and binding tight. Volume English Italian has ink inscription on prelim. page. Slight marking and discolouration of top edges of books. Spot marks on back of stand.

Yangtze Patrol: The U.S. Navy in China

Past owner’s name and date in ink on front fep. Top fore edges of pages slightly marked. Back panel of dw slightly scuffed, spine faded. DW now in plastic cover.