Archive for January, 2009

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.

Longfeather the Peacemaker

Decorative cover and spine. Good, clean and neat condition. Very slight foxing to some pages.

Hereward the Wake

Blue boards with decorative cover and spine.Ink inscription of previous owner on fep.

Prester John

binding shaken, slight foxing to page edges. Ink inscription of previous owner on fep.

Reminiscences of Johannesburg and London

Red cloth spine, well worn on edges. Some foxing throughout. Bookplate to Alpheus Fuller Williams, who was the general manager of DeBeers mining. Good firm copy

Rugs and Wall Hangings: period Designs and Contemporary Techniques

3cm tear to back of head of dust jacket and some small tears to head of front of dust jacket. Small stamp on free endpaper with previous owner’s name.

Rudyard Kipling

Dust jacket in very good condition with minor foxing on inside , Good firm copy

Residence in Sierra Leone

Murrys colonial home library. described from a journal kept on the spot

Rehabilitation of Freshwater Fisheries


Rakaposhi

Secker and Warburg 1951. No dust jacket. Cover is bumpded on edges. Very slight foxing to edges of pages.

Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest Being an Attempt to Illustrate the First Principles of Natural Philosophy

No spine. Covers held on with tape. Previous owner’s name on title page.

Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers :being an Excursion By Membersof the Alpine Club

2 Volumes. Stamped English rooms Funchal Book First Edition. 8 maps present. Some foxing throughout.

Parochial Topography of the Hundred of Wanting

Leather spine ,with marbled boards, worn.Previous owners inscrtion in ink, plus hand drawn book plate tipped in. The Hundred of Wanting comprises of 6 parishes in the county of Berks.Include fold out Hyde family tree .

Pall Mall Catalogue

Catalogue from Hamptons and sons in Pall Mall East, London. Some repairs,section clipped out of page three, of registared grates.Illustrated with photographs and coloured etching.

Out of the Past : The Istanbul Grand Bazaar

Dust jacket is worn, with a small tear on the spine. Slight discolouration to endpapers.Black and white illustrations and photographs.

Oriental Rugs and Carpets

Dust jacket is in poor condition with bottom section of spine missing and tape stains from where it had once been mended. Tears and folding all round

Orient Stars: a Carpet Collection

Some curling at top corner. Cover shows signs of wear

Oranje En Zijn Keurvendel in 1572

Brown cloth covers with gilt illustration. Spine missing, loose covers. Some foxing throughout.Full colour illustrations.

Observations, Anecdotes and Characters of Books and Men

Some of head of spine missing, scuffing to spine and corners. Front cover loose.

Observations on Milford - Haven

Fold-out colour maps. Slightly damp damaged around the corners.