Archive for September, 2008

Guide to the Lake District with an Outline Guide for Walkers and a Special Section for Motorists

Ward Lock’s The Lake District. With foldout map of the district, three section maps and numerous illustrations. No date of publication; probably late 1940s. In good condition: a little foxing on top fore edges of pages and faded spine.

Von Ceylon zum Himalaja

Title page missing. In German. Text clean and binding whole, small marks on front fore edges of pages.

Night Sky at Rhodes

Text clean and whole; binding a little skewed, fore edges of pages slightly marked and corners bumped. DW is chipped top and bottom especially at spine, and price clipped.

The Breath of the Desert: The Account of a Journey Through Algeria and Tunisia

Book in clean crisp condition; dw has tears top and bottom (pieces missing at top of back panel), spine of dw discoloured.

They Found the World

Clean neat copy, crease at top of spine; corners of boards slightly rounded. DW chipped top and bottom with small pieces missing.

Great Explorers


Bilder aus der Wunderwelt Tropischer Schmetterlinge

Plates loose in book. Clean whole condition, spine slightly sunned.

Butterflies and Moths

No date of publication. Ex-library copy with usual stamps and additions. Text and plates are clean and whole. Boards are rubbed on edges of spine and corners are bumped.

Ontwerpen, Aanleggen en Beplanten van Tuinen

Two-volume set in Dutch. Past owner’s name in ink on title page but otherwise text is clean and whole, binding tight. Covers lightly sunned at ends of spine and corners softened. DWs have browned spines, chips and tears at top and bottom of spines, with adhesive tape reparis on inside of dw for vol. 1.

Everyday Gardening

Clean attractive copy, slight wear to corners of boards.

Just Dogs: Sketches in Pen and Pencil

Ink presentation inscription on front fep. Random light foxing in text. Ends of spine frayed and corners of boards bumped.

The Popular Yorkshire Terrier

Text clean and binding tight. DW soiled and torn with piece missing on upper edge of front panel.

The Rowland Johns Dog-book

Presentation inscription in ink on front fep. A little light foxing on fore edges of pages. Corners of boards bumped and some staining on front board and spine. DW foxed with tears and pieces missing round spine.

Plant Life

Morton’s Handbook of the Farm Series; no. 5. Past owner’s name in ink on title page and name stamp on a few internal pages. Slight foxing at front and end of text and on fore edges of pages. Edges of boards worn, corners bumped and spine faded. Front endpapers torn at hinge and binding a little loose.

Timber: The Great Investment

Pamphlet advertising the Rapid Growth Timber Investments, Limited. Prospectus for securing shares pasted in on back endpaper. The company had interests in citrus growing and forestry in the Lydenburg district of the former Transvaal Province, South Africa. Covers a little sunned and corners bent. Some foxing on pages of text.

A Handbook of Hardwoods

Clean copy; a little edge wear to boards and binding mildly skewed. Slight foxing to endpapers and top fore edges of pages. DW chipped at top, spine browned with shelf number in black ink on white paint at lower edge.

Diving Companions: Sea Lion, Elephant Seal, Walrus

Clean neat copy, covers slightly scuffed. Translated from the French.

Conquest of the Underwater World

A clean copy with firm binding. DW has small chips top and bottom. Translated from the German.

Morning Flight: a Book of Wildfowl

First impression 1936. Text clean and binding tight. Boards a trifle marked, edges faded and corners bumped.

The Next Wave: a Survey of World Surfing

Text clean and binding secure, edges of boards worn. DW chipped with tears top and bottom and small piece missing at top of spine. This is a large item that may incur extra postage.