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Inventory No.33535 Author: SCHOLES, Arthur
Fourteen Men. The Story of the Australian Antartic Expedition to Heard Island
Published 1951 George Allen & Unwin (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £7
Dust jacket a little rubbed otherwise a very nice clean copy.

Inventory No.35006 Author: Saddleworth Historical Society
Local Interest Trail: Delph, Heights and Grange
Published Saddleworth Historical Society Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4
8pp.
Lancashire Saddleworth Local History

Inventory No.33791 Author: Saggs, H. W. F.
Babylonians (Peoples of the Past)
Published 2000 British Museum Press. (London) Type:
Edition:First Paperback ISBN: 0714121827 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Clean unmarked copy, no reading crease

Inventory No.34981 Author: Sainean, Lazare
La Langue De Rabelais I Civilisation De La Renaissance et II Langue et Vocabulaire
Published 1976 Slatkine Reprints (Geneve) Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Rexine
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £50
First published Paris 1922. Excellent copy
Rabelais

Inventory No.36559 Author: Saint-Simon, Duc De; Norton Lucy
Memoirs of the Duc De Saint-Simon a Shorter Version Volume I: 1691-1709
Published 1999 Prion (London) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1853753521 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £15
Nice clean copy

Inventory No.32907 Author: Sainty, Sir John
A List of English Law Officers, King's Counsel an Dholders of Patents of Precedence Selden Society Supplementary Series Vol. 7
Published 1987 Selden Society (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £28
Excellent clean copy, d/w has small closed tear at bottom of spine
Selden Society Law

Inventory No.36667 Author: Saki (H, H. Munro)
The Short Stories of Saki
Published 1943 John Lane The Bodley Head (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £7
Nice clean copy in bright pink cloth

Inventory No.34214 Author: Salamanca, J. R.
A Sea Change
Published 1971 Collins (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0002217333 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £8
Clean copy in price-clipped d/w, faded on spine

Inventory No.33207 Author: Sale, Richard; Illustrator: Ang, Tom
Dorset
Published 1985 Hutchinson (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0091603501 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £8.5
Nice clean copy
Dorset

Inventory No.36439 Author: Salomom, Ernst
The Answers of Ernst Von Salomonto the 131 Questionsin the Allied Military Government 'Fragebogen'
Published 1954 Putnam (London) Type:
Edition:First English Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £50
Small strip of cloth faded at bottom of spine else clean and bright, d/w slightly edge-worn

Inventory No.34948 Author: Salveson, Paul
The People's Monuments: a Guide to Sites and Memorials in North-West England
Published 1987 W.E.A.(N.W.District) (Manchester) Type:
Edition: ISBN: 0951191217 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
62pp. Very good clean copy

Inventory No.35324 Author: Sampson, Alistair
Catalogue of The Collection of Leeds Creamware and Allied Wares: March 6 and 7, 1967
Published 1967 Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £25
Soft card covers rubbed and a little grubby. Light spotting to endpapers. Light pencil anotations, lot price, in margins of first 136 lots, otherwise clean bright copy with 8 full page plates.
Pottery

Inventory No.34821 Author: Samuel, Raphael. [edited by]
Miners, Quarrymen and Saltworkers ( History Workshop)
Published 1977 Routledge & Kegan Paul (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 071008353x Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £8

Inventory No.36432 Author: Sandars, N. K.
Poems of Heaven And Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia (Penguin Classics)
Published 1971 Penguin Books. Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0140442499 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £5
Very nice clean copy

Inventory No.36587 Author: Sandburg, Carl
The Complete Poems
Published 1970 Harcourt Brace (New York) Type:
Edition:Revised and Expanded Edition ISBN: 0151207739 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £40
Excellent clean copy in like d/w

Inventory No.36471 Author: Santillana, Giorgio De
The Crime of Galileo
Published 1961 Mercury Books (London) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Nice clean copy

Inventory No.36293 Author: Savory, Theodore
Naming the Living World: An Introduction to the Principles of Biological Nomenclature
Published 1962 English Universities Press (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good But Price Clipped Price: £25
Nice clean copy, d/w slightly sunned on spine

Inventory No.33385 Author: Sayle, R. T. D.
Notes on the South-East Corner of Chancery Lane 1119-1929
Published 1929 Sweet & Maxwell (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £11
Slightly rubbed, small bookplate on fep, nice-looking book

Inventory No.37116 Author: Schick, I. T.
Battledress: The Uniforms of the World's Great Armies 1700 to the Present
Published 1993 Artus Books (London) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1856051749 Size:4to Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £10
Clean bright copy, d/w sunned on edges

Inventory No.35352 Author: Schneider, Mike
The Complete Cookie Jar Book
Published 1999 Schiffer Publishing Ltd (Philadelphia) Type:
Edition:Revised Second Edition ISBN: 0764308262 Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
Clean bright copy

Inventory No.36288 Author: Schroder, Michael
The Argand Burner: Its Origin and Development in France and England 1780-1800
Published 1969 Odense University Press Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £30
Small tear at top of spine else nice clean copy

Inventory No.37089 Author: Schulberg, Budd
The Disenchanted
Published 1951 Bodley Head (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Clean unmarked copy in grey cloth, pictorial d/w very slightly chipped and browned on back cover

Inventory No.36092 Author: Schwartz, Charles
Gershwin: His Life and Music
Published 1979 Da Capo Press (New York) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0306800969 Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Crease across bottom corner of back cover else nice clean copy

Inventory No.34915 Author: Schwartz, David I
Introduction to Maple 8 (Esource/Introductory Engineering and Computing)
Published 2003 Pearson Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0130328448 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Clean unmarked copy

Inventory No.35479 Author: Scott, Brough
Of Horses and Heros
Published 2008 Racing Post (Newbury, Berks.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9781905156573 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £10
Illustrated. pp. 256. Lovely clean copy.

Inventory No.35706 Author: Scott, C. A. Dawson
Nooks & Corners of Cornwall
Published Eveleigh, Nash (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:16mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £8
Green cloth, gilt. Cloth a little rubbed. Inscription to front endpapers. Endpapers a little spotted and shaded, otherwise a very nice clean copy which does have the map in rear pocket.

Inventory No.32457 Author: Scott, Len
The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Threat of Nuclear War: Lessons from History
Published 2007 Continuum (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1847060269 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £8
Excellent clean copy

Inventory No.35033 Author: Screech, M. A.
Aspects of Rabelais's Christian Comedy: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered at University College London 2 February 1967
Published 1968 Published for the College By H. K. Lewis & Co. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £12
Slight browning to covers else very nice and clean

Inventory No.36411 Author: Scruton, Roger
Modern Philosophy: A Survey
Published 1994 Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 1856194736 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
Pages beginning to brown slightly else very nice clean copy

Inventory No.36018 Author: Scruton, William; Bronte Rev. P.
Birthplace of Charlotte Bronte, Together with, The Cottage in the Woods, Orthe Art of Becoming Rich & Happy
Published Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £500
Unusual item, the 2 items bound in blue cloth, gilt. Signed insription by Scruton on front prelim, followed by Birthplace of Charlotte Bronte each page has been cut (from original?) to borderd text and illustrations and laid onto single sided pages, plus 2 more recent, late1890s early 1900, photographs from newspaper clippings on rear of 2 pages. Pagination 58. This is then followed by The Cottage in the Wood. A reprint from the Second Edition, 1859. Again the pages have been trimmed, but they have been laid onto a page with a window cut out so text can be read from each side. Pagination 16. Photographs available.

Inventory No.33851 Author: Scutts, Jerry
Advanced Aviation Modelling: Compendium Modelling Manuals Volume 2
Published 1998 Compendium Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: 1902579054 Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Excellent copy

Inventory No.35241 Author: Self, Will
Cock and Bull
Published 1992 Bloomsbury (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0747512744 Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £10
Lovely clean copy

Inventory No.36396 Author: Selinger, Ben
Why the Watermelon Won't Ripen in Your Armpit: And Other Science Conundrums
Published 2000 Allen & Unwin (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1865082899 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Pages yellowing else very nice clean copy

Inventory No.36645 Author: Sella, Domenico
Italy in the Seventeenth Century
Published 1997 Longman (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0582035953 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £25
Excellent clean unmarked copy

Inventory No.34829 Author: Semler. E.G. (editor)
Engineering Heritage Volume Two
Published 1972 Institution of Mechanical Engineers (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0852980833 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £15
Faint musty smell else clean bright copy

Inventory No.34828 Author: Semler. E.G. (editor)
Engineering Heritage Volume One
Published 1972 Institution of Mechanical Engineers (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0852980825 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £15
Faint musty smell else clean bright copy

Inventory No.33862 Author: Settle, Raymond W.
The March of the Mounted Riflemen: From Fort Leavenworth to Fort Vancouver, May to October, 1849
Published 1989 University of Nebraska Press Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 0803291965 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Very nice clean copy

Inventory No.34012 Author: Shackleton, Tim
British Life in the 1850s. British Land 150th Anniversary
Published British Land Company Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
48 pages. Numerous illustrations. A very nice clean copy.
Social History

Inventory No.36558 Author: Shann, Stephen; Delperier, Louis
French Army 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War 1 Imperial Troops (Men-at-Arms Series 233)
Published 1991 Osprey Publishing (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1855321211 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Bright shiny copy, almost as new

Inventory No.36614 Author: Shannon, Richard
Gladstone: Peel's Inheritor:1809-1865
Published 1999 Penguin Books (London) Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: 0140275940 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Clean bright copy

Inventory No.36519 Author: Shannon, Richard
Gladstone: Heroic Minister:1865-1898
Published 2000 Penguin Books (London) Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: 0140275932 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £6.5
Nice clean unread copy, pges just starting to brown

Inventory No.34780 Author: Share, Bernard
Slanguage: a Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English in Ireland
Published 2005 Gill & Macmillan Ltd (Dublin) Type:
Edition:New and Expanded Edition ISBN: 071713959x Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Nice clean copy

Inventory No.36343 Author: Sharell, Richard
The Tuatara, Lizards and Frogs of New Zealand
Published 1975 Collins Type:
Edition:Reprint with Addenda ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £10
Very nice clean copy, d/w sunned on spine

Inventory No.35256 Author: Sharma, Om P.
Gerry James and the Sarcoidosis Movement: Biography of a Medical Luminary
Published 2011 Ithaca Press (New York) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780982597149 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £20
Inscribed to Pat. Excellent copy

Inventory No.35003 Author: Sharp, Cecil J.; Karpeles, Maud
Country Dance Tunes Set I- Set XI
Published Novello (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:Folio Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Good+ Price: £30
From a local society, with handwritten index and pagination (206pp.) Slightly scruffy externally but sound and serviceable

Inventory No.34640 Author: Sharp, Cecil J; Butterworth, George
English Country Dances. The Old Mole. Notation and Music
Published 1951 Novello (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:4to Binding:
Book / wrapper condition:Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £5
Single issue of 4 pages including covers. Previous owners name and blind stamp to top edge and crease where folded in half. Longways for 6. Decent copy.
Brass Military Bands

Inventory No.34639 Author: Sharp, Cecil J; Butterworth, George
English Country Dances. Newcastle. Notation and Music
Published 1951 Novello (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:4to Binding:
Book / wrapper condition:Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £5
Single issue of 4 pages including covers. Previous owners name and blind stamp to top edge and crease where folded in half. Round for 8; in 3 parts. Decent copy.

Inventory No.33988 Author: Shelton, Ferne
Southern Appalachian Mountain Cookbook. Over 175 Old-Timey Highland Recipes and Remidies from the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains
Published 1964 Hutcraft (High Point) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Slight fading and name to rear cover, otherwise nice clean copy.
Cookery

Inventory No.33955 Author: Shengtao Ye; Women of China
Women in Chinese Folklore (Women of China special series)
Published 1983 Women of China (Beijing) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0835111725 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Very good clean copy

Inventory No.36700 Author: Sherry, Norman
The Life of Graham Greene, Volume 2: 1939 - 1955
Published 1996 Penguin Books Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: 014024526x Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £9
Clean unmarked copy

Inventory No.36652 Author: Sherry, Norman
The Life of Graham Greene;Volume One: 1904-1939:
Published 1990 Penguin Books (London) Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: 014013123x Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Reading crease to spine else clean unmarked copy

Inventory No.35083 Author: Shillingford, A. E.
England's Vanishing Windmills
Published 1979 Godfrey Cave Associates (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0906223156 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Very good copy in slightly worn d/w
GREAT BRITAIN_DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL WINDMILLS

Inventory No.30479 Author: Shropshire Caving & Mining Society; Shropshire Caving & Mining Club; Pearce, Adrian
Mining in Shropshire
Published 1995 Shropshire Books Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0903802635 Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £7.5
Excellent copy

Inventory No.35888 Author: Sidney, Sir Philip Edited By Geoffrey Shepherd
Apology for Poetry
Published 1984 Manchester University Press Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0719005167 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Name on titlepage and a few pencil annotations in text else nice clean copy

Inventory No.36765 Author: Siedentop, Larry
Tocqueville (Past Masters)
Published 1994 Oxford University Press Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: 0192876902 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Clean and bright

Inventory No.36960 Author: Sieff, Marcus
Don't Ask the Price: The Memoirs of the Pesident of Marks & Spencer
Published 1986 Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0297787144 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Inscribed to Richard.

Inventory No.36918 Author: Silvain, Gerard; Minczeles, Henri
Yiddishland
Published 1999 Hazan Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 2850256234 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £25
Reading crease to spine of book, spine of d/w faded else nice clean copy

Inventory No.35261 Author: Silverstein, Jeffrey
Thomas Bewick's Birds - Watercolours and Engravings
Published 1981 The Gordon Fraser Gallery (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0860920593 Size:12mo Binding:Paper Covered Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good But Price Clipped Price: £5
Nice clean copy

Inventory No.26872 Author: Sim, Douglas
100 Years of St.Bees 1895-1995
Published 1995 St Bees Parish Council (Cumbria St. Bees Local History Family History Gene) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0952699001 Size:Small Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £12
Small address label on titlepage else very good clean copy of unusual item

Inventory No.36529 Author: Simanek, Donald E; Holden, John.
Science Askew: A Light-hearted Look at the Scientific World
Published 2002 Institute of Physics Publishing (Bristol) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0750307145 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £10
D/w faded on spine else very nice clean copy

Inventory No.32117 Author: Simmons, Jack
The Express Train and Other Railway Studies
Published 1994 David St John Thomas Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0946537976 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £6.5

Inventory No.36156 Author: Simmons, John
Managing the Wet Garden: Plants That Flourish in Problem Places
Published 2008 Timber Press (Portland, Oregon) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780881929003 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £25
Slight fading to spine of d/w else very nice clean copy

Inventory No.33498 Author: Simpson, A. W. B.
The Early Constitution of the Inns of Court
Published Cambridge University Press Type:
Edition:Offprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £5
Wrappers stained by rusted stapling. Reprinted from Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 28, Part 2, November 1970. Pages 241 to 256.
Inns of Court

Inventory No.33073 Author: Simpson, W. Sparrow
Gleanings from Old S. Paul's
Published 1889 Elliot Stock (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Decorated Cloth, Gilt
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £25
Slight wear to spine and corners else very nice clean copy, attractively bound

Inventory No.37164 Author: Sims-Kimbrey, J.M.
Wodds and Doggerybaw: a Lincolnshire Dialect Dictionary
Published 1996 Richard Kay (Boston, Lincolnshire) Type:
Edition:First Paperback ISBN: 0902662694 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £9.5
Spine slightly faded else very good clean copy

Inventory No.36197 Author: Singer, Charles
A History of Technology: Volume IV 4 The Industrial Revolution c1750 to C1850
Published 1967 Oxford University Press Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0198581092 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £20
Ex-school library with bookplate on fep and writing on ffep, sign of label on spine, boards a little rubbed and signs of damp on rear board but decent readable copy. Weighs over 2kg so will incur extra postage outside UK

Inventory No.34894 Author: Singer, Charles
A History of Technology: Volume V 5 The Late Nineteenth Century c1850 to C1900
Published 1980 Oxford University Press Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0198581092 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good+ Price: £16
Cloth slightly torn at top of spine else very good clean copy, d/w torn with piece missing at top of spine. Weighs over 2kg so will incur extra postage outside UK

Inventory No.36145 Author: Singer, Sam; Hilgard, Henry R.
The Biology of People
Published 1978 W.H.Freeman & Company (San Francisco) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0716700263 Size:4to Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £15
Very good clean copy

Inventory No.36182 Author: Singh, Simon
Fermat?s Last Theorem
Published 1997 Fourth Estate (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 1857025210 Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good But Price Clipped. Price: £9
Spine of d/w sunned else nice clean copy

Inventory No.36796 Author: Sinkankas, John
Van Nostrand's Standard Catalog of Gems
Published 1968 Van Nostrand Reinhold (New York) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0442276214 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Crease across bottom corner of back cover else clean tight copy

Inventory No.35708 Author: Sir John McEwan of Marchmont
The Battle of Floddon, 9 September, 1513
Published 1964 Vaux Breweries (Sunderland) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Privately Printed. 8 pages plus illustrations. very slight spotting to page edges. Nice bright copy.

Inventory No.33481 Author: Sisson, Rosemary Anne; Worsley, Marie; Illustrator: W. Churcher, Photographs
The Treasures of Time. Embroidered Kneelers for Chelsea Old Church
Published 1968 (London) Type:
Edition:Second Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Blue card with black titling and decoration. Colour frontis. black and white illustrations. Very nice clean copy.
Chelsea Church History London

Inventory No.33472 Author: Sisson, Rosemary Anne; Worsley, Marie; Illustrator: W. Churcher, Photographs
The Treasures of Time. Embroidered Kneelers for Chelsea Old Church
Published 1958 Old Church Appeal Fund. (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Plain card covers with green pictorial paper dust jacket. Dust jacket a little worn and dusty. Small ink mark to page edges but still a nice clean copy.
Chelsea Church History London

Inventory No.36871 Author: Skinner, Brian J.; Porter, Stephen C.
Physical Geology
Published 1987 John Wiley & Sons (New York) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0471056685 Size:4to Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £25
Excellent copy, almost like new. Extremely heavy so extra postage required for overseas order

Inventory No.36608 Author: Skirrow, Fraser
Massacre on the Marne: The Life and Death of the 2/5th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment in the Great War
Published 2007 Pen & Sword Military (Barnsley) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1844154963 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Writing on ffep, signed by author onhalf-title page.

Inventory No.36873 Author: Sladen, Teresa; Saint, Andrew
Victorian Society Studies Invictorian Architecture and Design Volume Three: Churches 1870-1914
Published 2011 The Victorian Society (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 97809016527 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £12
Owner's sticker on half-title page else would be fine copy

Inventory No.33820 Author: Slater, David
Through Time and Space:poems
Published 2008 Busbooks Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780955787805 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £8
Very nice clean copy

Inventory No.35941 Author: Slater, Malcolm
Circus Transport Volume 1
Published 1989 Slaters Photographic Sales & Publishing (York) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1871392012 Size:Square Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Fading to covers else nice clean copy
Circus

Inventory No.35318 Author: Smith, A. H; Murray, A. S.
A Catalouge of Engraved Gems in the British Museum (Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities)
Published 1888 British Museum (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:Small Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £8
Black cloth, gilt. Cloth a little rubbed. Bookplate to fep.pp. 244 and illustrated with frontispiece and full page plates A to I. Nice clean bright copy.

Inventory No.35485 Author: Smith, Bill; Skipwith, Selina
A History of Scottish Art: The Fleming Collection
Published 2003 Merrell (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £15
Faded patch on back cover (see image) else very nice clean copy. Weighs over 1kg so extra postage required for overseas order

Inventory No.34422 Author: Smith, Charlotte
Elegiac Sonnets 1789
Published 2001 Woodstock Books (Washington D. C.) Type:
Edition:Facsimile Reprint ISBN: 1854772600 Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Very good clean copy

Inventory No.27633 Author: Smith, David M.
A Guide to the Archive Collections in the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research
Published 1973 University of York (York.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £6
Top edge of dust wrapper chipped , name inside, decent copy
Archives Local History

Inventory No.36172 Author: Smith, Jillyn
Senses and Sensibilities
Published 1989 John Wiley & Sons (New York) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 047161839x Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Excellent clean copy

Inventory No.37159 Author: Smith, Kenneth
A Guide to Marx's Capital Vols I-III
Published 2012 Anthem Press (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780857285560 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine Price: £14
Lovely clean copy

Inventory No.36423 Author: Smith, Norman Kemp
The Philosophy of David Hume: a Critical Study of Its Origins and Central Doctrines
Published 1964 Macmillan (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £15
Very good clean copy

Inventory No.32118 Author: Smylie, Mike
Fishing Around Morecambe Bay
Published 2010 History Press (Stroud) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9780752453934 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £6
Excellent copy

Inventory No.34777 Author: Snelling, John
Sacred Mountain: The Complete Guide to Tibet's Mount Kailas
Published 1990 East-West Publications Ltd (UK) (London) Type:
Edition:Revised and Enlarged Edition ISBN: 0856921734 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6.5
Very good clean copy

Inventory No.36916 Author: Snowman, Daniel
The Hitler Emigres: The Cultural Impact on Britain of Refugees from Nazism
Published 2002 Chatto & Windus (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: 0701168803 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Nice clean copy, d/w slightly faded on spine and has small hole on rear panel

Inventory No.36146 Author: Sobotta, Johannes; Hammersen, Frithjof
Histology: a Color Atlas of Cytology, Histology and Microscopic Anatomy
Published 1980 Urban & Schwarzenberg (Baltimore) Type:
Edition:Second Edition Revised and Enlarged ISBN: 0806717424 Size:4to Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £20
Name on ffep else nice clean copy, slightly bumped

Inventory No.37006 Author: Southworth, James.
Walking the Roman Roads of Cumbria.
Published 1985 Robert Hale Ltd. (London.) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0709022883 Size:8vo Binding:Pictorial Laminated Boards.
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7
Clean bright copy

Inventory No.36761 Author: Spark, Muriel
Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography
Published 1993 Penguin Books (London) Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: 0140123113 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £8
Clean crisp copy

Inventory No.32525 Author: Spark, Muriel; Stanford, Derek
Emily Bronte Her Life and Work
Published 1953 Peter Owen (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good+ Price: £25
Neat name on ffep else clean bright copy in slightly torn (at top of spine) d/w
BRONTE

Inventory No.34903 Author: Speak, P.; Carter, A. H. C.
Map Reading and Interpretation
Published 1964 Longmans (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Hardback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6.5
Covers slightly rubbed else clean tight copy

Inventory No.36874 Author: Speed, John
COUNTIES OF BRITAIN: A Tudor Atlas
Published 1995 Pavilion (London) Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: 1857936124 Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
Owner's sticker on half-title page else would be near fine, appears unread

Inventory No.35898 Author: Spencer, Herbert
First Principles
Published 1946 Watts & Co. (London) Type:
Edition:Sixth and Final Edition ISBN: Size:16mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £7.5
Thinker's Library no. 62. Bumped, faint marks on front board else nice bright copy

Inventory No.27954 Author: Spencer, J. H. Edited By
Preston Gild Merchant, 1952 Official Handbook and Programme
Published 1952 Preston Herald Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £4

Inventory No.35662 Author: Spinna
50 New Tricks for All Kinds of Looped String Tops By Spinna : Yo-Yo
Published Gordon Press (London) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:16mo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Covers rubbed but a nice clean copy.

Inventory No.34786 Author: Spittal, Jeffrey; Field, John
A Reader's Guide to the Place-names of the United Kingdom: A Bibliography of Publications, 1920-89, on the Place-names of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands
Published 1990 Paul Watkins (Stamford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 1871615100 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £10
Crease across front of d/w else excellent clean copy

Inventory No.28710 Author: Stammers, Michael; Moss, Linda
Liverpool South Docks: An Archaeological and Historical Survey. Part 1 Mannisland - Wapping Basin
Published 1980 Merseyside County Council Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0906367085 Size:4to Binding:Pictorial Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Covers a little rubbed and faint sign of label removal to front cover. Numerous illustrations and plans.
Liverpool Local History Shipping

Inventory No.34923 Author: Stamp, L. Dudley
The Land of Britain Its Use and Misuse
Published 1950 Longman, Green, and Co. (London) Type:
Edition:Second Edition Revised ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Spine slightly faded, name on ffep, nice-looking book

Inventory No.35427 Author: Stanley, George
A Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters and Engravers with a List of Ciphers, Monograms, and Marks.
Published 1878 George Bell & Sons (London) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Fair Price: £25
Original cloth worn and bumped, top of spine torn, bottom of spine worn, hinges weak. pp. xxvi, IX Plates of Monograms, 938. A good working, reference copy.
Art

Inventory No.35936 Author: Staub, Christian; Illustrator: Fries, Hanny
Circus: a Book of Photographs
Published 1957 John Lane The Bodley Head (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £20
Very good clean copy
Circus

Inventory No.35919 Author: Steele, Donia
The Way of the Spirit
Published 1997 Time Life Type:
Edition:First Printing ISBN: 0783549083 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Near Fine/Near Fine Price: £9.5
Excellent clean copy

Inventory No.28280 Author: Steinberg, Lois
Through Glass. 6 Lyric Poems
Published 1973 The Egret Press Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £20
Original deep pink portfolio with the 6 poems in pocket. limited edition of 35 this is number 14.
Poetry

Inventory No.36133 Author: Steiner, George
Tolstoy or Dostoevsky
Published 1967 Penguin Books (Harmondsworth) Type:
Edition:New Edition with Revisions ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £12
Very good clean copy

Inventory No.36539 Author: Steinmann, Jean
Biblical Criticism
Published 1959 Burns & Oates (London) Type:
Edition:First English Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Nice clean copy

Inventory No.37110 Author: Stemp, Richard
The Secret Language of Churches and Cathedrals
Published 2010 Duncan Baird Publishers (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 9781844839162 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £18
Very nice clean copy in purple cloth, pictorial d/w has slight scuff at top of spine

Inventory No.36745 Author: Stenton, F. M.
The First Century of Feudalism 1066-1166
Published 1932 Clarendon Press (Oxford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £15
Clean and bright, slight edgewear to d/w

Inventory No.33578 Author: Stevens, Ronald
Motoring with Interest: a New Series of Excursions By Car Into the North-West Countryside
Published Philip Son & Nephew (Liverpool.) Type:
Edition: ISBN: Size:A5 Booklet Binding:Card Covers
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
n.d. 86pp. A little sunned but decent copy

Inventory No.37061 Author: Stevenson, D. E.
Miss Buncle Married
Published 2011 Persephone Books (London) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1903155819 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £8
Very nice clean copy

Inventory No.36850 Author: Stevenson, Neil
Annotated Architecture: The World's Greatest Buildings Explored and Explained
Published 1997 Covent Garden Books (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0751304468 Size:Folio Binding:Laminated Boards
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good Price: £9
Apart from owner's sticker on ffep, a lovely copy, d/w faded on spine and slightly rubbed

Inventory No.34775 Author: Stewart, Ian; Barnsley, Prof. Michael; Lesmoir-Gordon, Nigel; Mandelbrot, Benoit B.; Flake, Dr. Gary; Prechter, Robert R.
The Colours of Infinity: The Beauty and Power of Fractals
Published 2004 Clear Books Type:
Edition: ISBN: 1904555055 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £15
Nice clean copy, cd in pocket at rear

Inventory No.23819 Author: Stewart, Margaret; Gissing, George
A Seven Seas Sampler: a Collection of Short Stories By Nineteenth Century British Authors
Published 1961 Seven Seas Publishers (Berlin) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £6
Includes "A Charming Family" by George Gissing. Pages browning but clean unread copy

Inventory No.36320 Author: Stewart, Mary
Frost on the Window and Other Poems
Published 1990 Hodder & Stoughton (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0340537736 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Very Good Price: £10
Name and date on ffep else nice clean copy

Inventory No.33471 Author: Stewart, Rev. W. H.
Chelsea Old Church: A Guide to the Parish Chapel of the Parish of St. Luke, Chelsea
Published 1926 J. B. Shears & Sons (London) Type:
Edition:Second Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Wrappers
Book / wrapper condition:Good Price: £8
Wrappers sunned, chipped, torn, with loss, and a little fragile. Some spotting. 47 pages and illustrated with frontipiece and 6 full page plates.

Inventory No.33405 Author: Stewart, Rev. W. H.; Esdaile, Mrs. Arundell; Blunt, Reginald
Chelsea Old Church: An Illustrated Guide to the Parish Chapel
Published 1932 Oxford University Press (London) Type:
Edition:Revised and Enlarged Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £8
Smartly rebound in red cloth, gilt with original front wrapper bound in (but trimmed) Nice clean copy. All illustrations listed present, bar one which is only in the Limited Edition.

Inventory No.32683 Author: Stokes, Vernon; Harnett, Cynthia; Illustrator: Stokes, Vernon; Harnett, Cynthia
Mountaineers
Published 1945 Collins (London) Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Fair Price: £8
Blue cloth with red titling. Cloth a little rubbed and faded to edges and spine. Dust jacket in 2 halfs as spine has almost disintergrated. Rear of dust jacket worn. Text and illustrations in very nice clean condition. Dust jacket now in clear removable protective cover.
Children's

Inventory No.36940 Author: Stourton, Patrick Corbally
Songlines and Dreamings: Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Painting: The First Quarter-Century of Papunya Tula
Published 1996 Lund Humphries Publishers (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0853316910 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £16
Excellent clean unmarked copy, just slight fading to spine of d/w

Inventory No.36605 Author: Stoye, John
The Siege of Vienna
Published 2000 Birlinn (Edinburgh) Type:
Edition:New Edition ISBN: 1841580678 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £7.5
Clean bright copy

Inventory No.37068 Author: Stratton, Michael
The Terracotta Revival
Published 1993 Victor Gollancz (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0575054336 Size:4to Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £12.5
Excellent clean copy

Inventory No.34873 Author: Straw, Allan; Clayton, Keith M.
The Geomorphology of the British Isles; Eastern and Central England
Published 1979 Methuen (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 041684670x Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
Name inside else nice clean copy

Inventory No.31733 Author: Street, John
The Story of Littleborough
Published 1999 Littleborough Civic Trust (Littleborough) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0953686418 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £18
Nice clean copy
Littleborough History Lancashire

Inventory No.37101 Author: Street, Sean
A Remembered Land: Recollections of Life in the Countryside, 1880-1914
Published 1994 Michael Joseph (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0718138295 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £8
Very nice clean copy in like d/w

Inventory No.30738 Author: Stretton, John
The Welsh Highland Railway. Volume 2: Halfway to Paradise
Published 2007 Past & Present Publishing Ltd. Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
pp. 128. Nice clean copy.
Railways

Inventory No.30737 Author: Stretton, John
The Welsh Highland Railway. Volume 1: A Phoenix Rising
Published 2007 Past & Present Publishing Ltd. Type:
Edition:Reprint ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £5
pp. 96. Nice clean copy.
Railways

Inventory No.36971 Author: Strong, Martin
The Great Metal Discography: From Hard Rock to Hardcore Second Edition
Published 2001 Mojo Books (Edinburgh) Type:
Edition:Second Edition Revised and Expanded ISBN: 1841951854 Size:4to Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £25
Scrape at bottom of spine, mark on fore-edge else clean tight copy, appears unused

Inventory No.36763 Author: Stuart, Francis
Black List, Section H
Published 1982 Penguin Books (Harmondsworth) Type:
Edition:First Thus ISBN: 0140062297 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good + Price: £10
Nice clean copy

Inventory No.36672 Author: Stubbs, William: Davis, H. W. C.
Select Chareters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History
Published 1951 Clarendon Press (Oxford) Type:
Edition:Reprint of Ninth Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Good+ Price: £8
Clean bright copy in chipped d/w

Inventory No.26982 Author: Styring, William
The Poetical Works of William Styring. Volume I.
Published 1946 Watmoughs (Bradford) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Name and address on ffep else very good
Poetry

Inventory No.18236 Author: Styring, William
The Poetical Works of William Styring. Volume I.
Published 1947 Watmoughs (Bradford) Type:
Edition:Revised Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Good+ Price: £20
Original pink cloth. Bumped on foredge. Name/address written in top corner of fep, under d/w flap. Dustwrapper worn and chipped.
Poetry

Inventory No.36415 Author: Sumption, Jonathan
The Hundred Years War Volume II: Trial By Fire
Published 2001 Faber & Faber (London) Type:
Edition:First Paperback ISBN: 0571207375 Size:8vo Binding:Paperback
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £10
Nice clean copy

Inventory No.36189 Author: Sutciffe, Halliwell
Tales of the Open Hazard
Published 1912 Mills & Boon (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:12mo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good Price: £15
Spine slightly sunned, prize label on fep, light foxing, decent copy

Inventory No.36794 Author: Swann, Peter C.
Apan from the Jomon to the Tokugawa Period
Published 1966 Methuen (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/Slipcase, Very Good Price: £10
Clean tight copy, slipcase spotted on top edge and has a couple of small abrasions

Inventory No.36719 Author: Sykes, Percy
The Quest for Cathay
Published 1936 A. & C. Black (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good/No Dust Wrapper Price: £11.5
Slight wear to top of spine else clean bright copy

Inventory No.35154 Author: Sylvester, David
About Modern Art: Critical Essays, 1948-96
Published 1996 Chatto & Windus (London) Type:
Edition:First Edition ISBN: 0701162686 Size:8vo Binding:Cloth
Book / wrapper condition:Very Good +/Very Good + Price: £10
Very nice clean copy

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