Archive for January, 2009

Mont Blanc / with a Preface By Geoffrey Winthrop Young

The Picture Guides series. Clean text and tight binding in slightly faded boards.

Report of the Little Owl Food Inquiry, 1936-1937. Organised by the British Trust for Ornithology

Originally published in: British Birds, vol. 31, nos. 6, 7 and 8. Slight random foxing.

The Wayward Bus

Small ink deletion on front fep. Spine slightly faded.

East of Eden

Past owners’ names on front endpapers. Clean text with sound boards and a slightly faded spine.

Shooting: Field and Covert

The Badminton Library. Text clean and whole, text block a little loose in boards. Slight wear to boards and chipping to ends of spine.

With Wolfe in Canada; or, The Winning of a Continent

No date of publication; circa 1920s. Past owner’s name on front fep. Corners a little frayed but front board and spine clean and bright.

Refugees and Exiles Challenge the Churches: Report of the Nineteenth Annual National Conference of the South African Council of Churches Held at St Barnabas College, Johannesburg, 29th June - 3rd July 1987


Some Notes on Cyaniding for the Rhodesian Small Worker

Printed and distributed by the Mines Department of Southern Rhodesia.

Rubber : a Footnote to Northern Rhodesian History

The Occasional Papers of the Rhodes-Livingstone Museum; no. 13. Browning to edges of covers.

The Mountain Vision

Past owner’s name on front endpaper. Clean tightly bound copy. Corners of boards a little worn and top of spine chipped.

The First and the Last: The Story of the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, 1939-1945 : Compiled from the Regimental War Diary, Squadron Diaries, Personal Narratives, and the Unofficial Actions of the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards in France

Clean text and firm binding; some insect damage to edges of boards and to spine. Gilt decoration on front board still bright.

The Cockney : a Survey of London Life and Language

DW illustration by Edward Ardizzone. Past owner’s name on front endpaper. Clean whole copy in very slightly chipped dw.

A History of the Australasian Colonies (from Their Foundation to the Year 1911)

Cambridge Historical Series. Some writing on front endpapes. General light wear to edges of boards.

Titus in Trouble

Text clean and binding tight. Back endpapers stained, boards soiled and worn and spine missing.

Martin Pippin in the Apple-Orchard

One plate and front fep missing. Text clean and binding tight, boards a little edge worn and back hinge of spine split.