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The Boke of Saint Albans. Containing Treatises on Hawking, Hunting, and Cote Armour: Printed at Saint Albans by the Schoolmaster-Printer in 1486, Reproduced in Facsimile. With an Introduction by William Blades.
London: Elliot Stock, 1881. [Hawking, Hunting and Heraldry] FACSIMILE EDITION, first impression. Quarto (30 x 24cm), pp.34; [176]. Printed on fine hand-made paper. Publisher's full vellum, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and blind decoration to boards. All edges untrimmed. Internally crisp and clean, with some offsetting to endpapers..... More
Dumb Witness [Hercule Poirot].
London: Special edition for the Book Club, no date [circa 1937]. [Crime Fiction] LEATHER-BOUND BOOK CLUB EDITION, contemporary with the first. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] 316 [2]. With four black and white photographic plates. Recently re-bound in red half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching..... More
The Mysterious Mr. Quin.
London: W.Collins Sons and Co. Ltd. 1930. [Mystery novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.287; [1], imprint. Finely bound by the Baker Bindery, Anniston, Alabama in green full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, green patterned paste-paper endpapers, generous turn-ins ruled in gilt, with gilt motifs of dagger, pistol, moustache..... More
They Came to Baghdad.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1951. [Crime Mystery] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 256 [2]. Recently re-bound in burgundy half calf, with gilt titles to spine, raised bands, and matching cloth over boards. All edges trimmed, with the original publisher's cloth spine bound in..... More
Towards Zero.
London: Published by The Crime Club by Collins, 1944. [Crime Mystery] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 160 [2]. Recently bound in burgundy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Lightly trimmed for binding. Paper slightly toned as usual. A...... More
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