Archive for January, 2009

A Coronation Exhibition of Royal, Historical, Political and Social Glasses Commemorating 18th and 19th Century Events in English History

“Nameplate reading :Alfred Bordon Brown Art Library Wynberg South Africa”" on front paste down endpaper. Stamp bearing the same name on front free endpaper. Foxing to endpapers. B/w photoplates”"”

A Collector’s History of English Pottery

Price clipped. Dust jacket in very good condition.

A History of Sport in Southern Rhodesia

With shelf wear to top and bottom of spine and corners bumped. Previous owners name on fep and on paste down fep. Binding slightly shaken.

Over to You


Good-Bye Dolly Gray, History of the Boer War


Heath Robinson’s Book of Goblins

A good tightly bound copy with the usual age toning. Pencil inscription on fep. seven colour illustrations and numerous black and white ones.

A Hero of Lucknow

Some foxing on pages. Includes six illustrations. Corners bumped. Ink inscription dated 1904 to fep.

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction

Clear and neat text, ex-library book, with library pocket to fep and sticker to spine of dust wrapper. Tape repair to back fep. Dedication page tipped in.

The Story of a Baby

Very slight water damage, scattered foxing of pages.

A Story of the Sea

Slight water damage. Decorative cover and spine.