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Past Feelings Renovated; Or, Ideas Occasioned by the Perusal of Dr Hibbert's 'Philosophy of Apparitions', written with the View of Counteracting any Sentiments Approaching Materialism, which that work, however Unintentional on the Part of the Author, May have a Tendency to Produce.
London: George B. Whittaker, 1828. [Supernatural occurence / mysticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), ppxi; 323. Early two-tone cloth, manuscript label to spine. Contents clean, occasional fold to corners, vintage catalogue description affixed to pastedown, minor rubbing and soiling to covers. A very good copy. Relating to Samuel Hibbert-Ware..... More
![Item #55639 [Photographs - Motorcyling / Motor Sport interest]. ANONYMOUS](/pictures/thumb/55639.jpg?v=1612373703)
[Photographs - Motorcyling / Motor Sport interest].
No place (UK), no date (1950s). A selection of Motorcycle trials and speedway event photographs, being mostly postcard size, black and white images, examples detailing a meeting or meetings held in the 1950?s. One image has competition details to the rear 'J.B. HUNT N v S [North versus South?] Oct..... More
[Photographs of Barre Rangers Foot Ball Club, United States Football Association, 1913].
[Barre, VT]. 1913. [Mounted Photographs] EARLY AMERICAN SOCCER TEAM, winners of the Vermont League and the 5-A-Side Champions of Vermont in 1913. Four mounted black and white photographs. Three photographs of the fourteen team members, as well as trainer, secretary and mascot, each in different attire. One photo of the..... More
The Pictorial Museum of Sport and Adventure, being a record of daring and marvellous escapes by field and flood, with an account of various countries of the world and their inhabitants: the whole forming a compendium of the world.
London: James Sangster and Co., no date [circa 1881]. [True adventure and hunting] FINE DECORATIVE CLOTH. No edition stated. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[4]; 508; [2]. With eight colour plates, including a frontispiece and decorated title page, (lacking the plate of the Bear and Prey), as well as numerous..... More
Pictorial Sport and Adventure, being a record of daring and marvellous escapes by field and flood, with an account of various countries of the world and their inhabitants: the whole forming a compendium of the world.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [1898]. [True Adventure and Hunting] EARLY EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.viii; 312. With a colour frontispiece and decorated title page, and numerous engravings through the text. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper board. Cracked-earth..... More
The Poll for the Knights of the Shire, to Represent the Western Division of the County of Kent in Parliament, including the Registered Electors who did not vote, also, a General Index, and an Abstract of the Number of Votes for each Parish. Candidates: Thomas Law Hodges, Esq.; Thomas Rider, Esq.; Sir William R.P. Geary, Bart.
Maidstone: J. Smith, 1835. [Kent Voting Register] RARE ORIGINAL PRINTING. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] 192 [2]. In the original publisher's brown quarter leather grain-effect cloth with brown paper over boards and gilt titles to the original navy blue label on spine. Wear to board edges and head and tail..... More
Princes Theatre Christmas Season 1956: The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. [The Gondoliers].
London: Printed by G.J. Parris, 1956. [Theatre Programme] ORIGINAL PROGRAMME. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 13cm), pp.[16]. A programme for Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Gondoliers', with a programme for a whole season of other G&S productions a the Princes Theatre. Publisher's red covers, stapled once with a 6d price label. A...... More
The Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Army. Revised Army Regulations. Vol. II.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, January 1868. [Military Regulations] ORIGINAL HANDBOOK. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.viii; 395 [1]. Interleaved with blank leaves for notes, and with an errata slip. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind titles and decoration to upper. Advertisements to pink endpapers. Repairs to..... More
Recueil de Plans de Batailles, Sieges et Combats, Arrives dans les Expeditions Memorables de la Guerre de Sept Ans, pour Servir A L'Intelligence des Oeuvres Posthumes de Frederic II, Roi de Prusse.
Amsterdam: J. G. Treuttel, 1789. [Seven Years War] DUKE OF GRAFTON'S COPY. Folio (42 x 27cm), pp.[4] followed by 19 plates. Contemporary marbled boards, paper covered spine designed to look like speckled calf, printed paper label to spine. Introductory text in French, text to plates in either English or French..... More
Royal Tunbridge Wells: The Official Guide issued under the Auspices of the Mayor and Corporation and the Tunbridge Wells Advertising Association.
Cheltenham: J. Burrow and Co., no date [circa 1920s]. [Town Guide] FINE COPY. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.120. With frequent in-text black and white photographic illustrations, including many advertisements. Publisher's colour-illustrated card covers, not priced. A lovely clean, barely handled copy. Almost as-new. A general description of the Spa town..... More
Sam Sheridan: The Secret Service Special, or, the jamboree at "Early Bird" bar. The Aldine "Boys' First-Rate Pocket Library." No. 178.
London: Aldine Publishing Company, n.d. [1893]. ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo, pp.32. In original colour illustrated paper covers. text heavily browned and extremely brittle. Some chips to leaf edges. Covers much less brittle, also chipped in places. Spine reinforced with archival tape. Good considering paper stock. More
Tales of the Classics: A New Delineation of the Most Popular Fables, Legends, and Allegories commemorated in the works of Poets, Painters, and Sculptors. Selected and Written by a Lady, for the amusement and instruction of her own daughters.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. [Greek Mythology] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] xxiv; 302 [4]; pp.[4] iv; 302 [4]; pp.[4] iv; 370 [4]. Contemporary black half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to burgundy labels, further gilt decoration to spines..... More
![Item #56535 Triumph workshop manual [for] unit construction 350 c.c. and 500 c.c. twins : T100,...](/pictures/thumb/56535.jpg?v=1589300951)
Triumph workshop manual [for] unit construction 350 c.c. and 500 c.c. twins : T100, T90, 5TA, 3TA, including from engine no. H65573.
Coventry: Triumph Engineering Co., no date [1969]. [Motorcycle Manual] ORIGINAL MANUAL. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), pp.3-178. Stapled twice, in a secondary plain paper cover with titles written by hand in black ink to front cover. Central bi-fold loose. Staples rusted, with significant grease stains and thumb prints throughout. A...... More
Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Adapted from Grimm's Fairy Tales.
London and Glasgow: Collins, no date [circa 1940's]. [Children's Illustrated] VINTAGE COPY, a later printing. Small quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.80. With black and white, and occasional colour illustrations reproducing scenes from the famous Disney film of the same name. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, with the blue cloth spine. Illustrated..... More
Who's Who & Where: The Illustrated Year Book of Tunbridge Wells & District. Complete Local and Official Information.
Brighton: The Robinson Printing Company, 1908. [Town Guide and Directory] FINE COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.18 [2]; xlvi; 19-168. With frequent in-text black and white photographic illustrations, including many advertisements. Publisher's red quarter cloth, with colour-illustrated card covers priced at 6d. Just a touch of toning and spotting to..... More
The Wonderful Discoverie of the Witchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower, daughters of Joan Flower neere Beuer Castle: executed at Lincolne, March 11. 1618. Who were specially arraigned & condemned before Sir Henry Hobart, and Sir Edward Bromley, Judges of Assize, for confessing themselues actors in the destruction of Henry, Lord Rosse, with their damnable practices against others the Children of the Right Honourable Francis Earle of Rutland. Together with the seuerall Examinations and Confessions of Anne Baker, Ioan Willimot, and Ellen Greene, Witches in Leicestershire.
Leicester: Vance Harvey Publishing; 1970. [Witch Trials] FACSIMILE EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.26 [20]. With a woodcut vignette title page. A facsimile of a Victorian edition, circa 1841, limited to 500 copies, including the alarmingly large publisher's catalogue. Publisher's brown hard covers reproducing the title page to upper. Light..... More
![Item #58968 The Young Ones [Exhibitor's Campaign Brochure]. ANONYMOUS](/pictures/thumb/58968.jpg?v=1612286882)
The Young Ones [Exhibitor's Campaign Brochure].
London: Warner-Pathe Distributors, no date [1961]. [Musical Film] ORIGINAL PUBLICITY SERVICES BROCHURE. Large oblong booklet (29 x 44cm), pp.[8]. Including specs for posters and lobby cards, and suggestions cinema owners for publicising the film and extracting maximum financial benefit from showing it at their venue. Also with a loose sheet..... More
Dinner with the Family.
London: Methuen & Co., 1958. [French Drama] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.98 [2]. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to cloth. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Harry More-Gordon, priced at 10/6. A lovely crisp copy, with some toning and chipping to jacket spine. Near fine. An..... More
How to Decorate a Cake.
Stourbridge: Taylor, Law & Co., 1954. [Baking / Cookery] ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.32. With two colour-illustrated leaves, and black and white illustrations to almost every page. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, stapled twice. Light spotting and moderate handing to covers. Minimal oxidation to staples. Very good. A step-by-step..... More
The Talking Horse and Other Stories.
London: Smith, Elder, and co., 1893. Presentation Copy, "New Edition". Octavo. Bound in publisher's red cloth, with panelling embossed in black to boards, titles to front board, and titles in gilt to spine. Binding is rubbed, with noticable fading to spine; somewhat shaken, linen visible in joint at p.1, and..... More
The Voyage of Argo: The Argonautica.
London: The Folio Society, 2014. [Greek Mythology] FIRST EDITION THUS. Large octavo (26 x 19cm), pp.xxii; 168 [4]. With eight colour illustrations by Egneus, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine, and black and white decoration. Maps to endpapers, and with the illustrated paper-covered slipcase. A...... More
The Autobiography of Francis Arago. The Traveller's Library 78.
London: Longman, Brown, and Longmans, 1855. FIRST EDITION, with rare original covers. Crown octavo, pp.[6], 122. In publisher's original cream paper wraps with black titles printed to spine and covers. Covers lightly browned; more heavily to spine. Some loss to tail of spine. Very good indeed, especially considering the rarity..... More
Dead Man's Bay.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1959. [Mystery Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the green and black dust-jacket priced at 10/6. Light offsetting to endpapers and some browning to edges. Jacket toned and chipped to..... More
Those Three. Forty-Four Cartoons.
London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., no date [1942]. [Second World War] FIRST EDITION. Oblong octavo (14 x 21cm), pp.[48] unpaginated. Publisher's wraps printed in red and black with printed price of 1' net. Stapled twice to spine. Three page introduction followed by forty-four full page cartoons with captions..... More
The Secret Trail A Jimmie Rezaire Story.
London, Methuen 1928. A Secret Service thriller. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp256. Publisher's hardcover in dustwrapper. A very good copy with owner name, loss to jacket at base of spine affecting imprint, faded beneath at same, one or two other minor nicks or tears (one taped at rear) spine sunned. A...... More