THE NEW NUMBER ONE
Written by Geoffrey Lewis.
Stock no. 1810904
Published by Sgm Publishing. 1st 2009. Fine condition.

1948: the reality of life on Britain's nationalised waterways is becoming apparent to the families who work the narrowboats on the Grand Union Canal. More change threatens as a post-war world raises new demands for faster, cheaper transport, and old ways become out-moded. The concluding tale of a popular trilogy. Cardwraps. ISBN: 9780954562489. SIGNED by the author with dedication to half-title page. This copy would make a wonderful gift.

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SNORUM A CHORUS OF COUNTY TALES
Written by John Barrington Barrett. Illustrated by Carol Walklin.
Stock no. 1713405
Published by Mullet Press. 1st 1994. Fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Limited to 150 copies. B/w illustrations. Dark cloth boards with gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0951992155. Copy no. 141. Wrapper has a couple of marks.

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THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS
Written by Thomas Ingoldsby. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 1314241
Published by J.M. Dent & Co.. 1st thus 1907. Very good condition.

Olive green cloth, gilt titles and vignettes to front cover and spine. Large format. Dark green pictorial endpapers. Top edge gilt, others uncut. 24 mounted colour plates with captioned tissue guards, 12 full-page tinted illustrations plus numerous b/w drawings. Spine and corners slightly bumped with minimal rubbing. Small indentations to cover edges. All plates present, a couple have light corner creases all others are fine. Foxing to contents and some light fingering to page margins.

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A BOOK OF OLD BALLADS
Written by Beverley Nichols. Illustrated by H.M. Brock.
Stock no. 1314096
Published by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. 1st 1934. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Brown cloth, gilt titles and vignette to front. Brown and white pictorial endpapers. 16 superb colour plates. Poems that are 'the very essence of the British spirit' selected and introduced by Nichols. Spine and corners bumped. Endpapers very slightly browned. Some slight page edge browning and a few fingermarks to margins else contents clean. Very scarce original blue dustwrapper (with green titles) is a bit grubby and edge worn.

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TEITHI MEDDWL ANN GRIFFITHS: FEL Y'U HADLEWYRCHIRE YN EI HEMYNAU
Written by Daniel Williams.
Stock no. 1712841
Published by Hugh Evans. 1st 1932. Almost very good condition.

Small format. B/w frontis. Spine faded.

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VATHEK
Written by William Beckford.
Stock no. 1503226
Published by Philip Allan & Co.. circa 1923. Good condition.

Navy cloth covers with gilt titles and vignette of rose bush. 8 colour plates. 212 pages. Spine is split on both sides for almost full length and has split to centre at top, also faded. Corners bumped and worn. Residue from label on back cover plus a few other marks. Endpapers browned. Foxing throughout.

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SKYWRITING AN AVIATION ANTHOLOGY
Written by James Gilbert; et al.
Stock no. 1712096
Published by M. And J. Hobbs; Michael Joseph. 1st 1978. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Collection of excerpts from the finest writers on aviation. ISBN: 0071816232. Wrapper spine faded.

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ROGER PLOWMAN'S EXCURSION TO LONDON
No author listed.
Stock no. 1502971
Published by Kent & Co.. Almost very good condition.

With Adventures and Recollections in Gloucestershire. Also contains Roger Plowman's Second Excursion to London with his marriage to Sarah Jane. Marbled boards with red spine and corners, gilt title to spine. Marbled text block. B/w illustrations. 109 and 111 pages. Spine, corners and cover edges worn. Split at top of spine. Some scuffing and scratching to boards. Front joint cracked next to frontis. Endpapers browned. Pink mark to top corner of frontis. Rusty staple marks to edges of title page and frontis. Contents generally clean.

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JOHN HALIFAX GENTLEMAN
Written by Dinah Maria Murlock; Gordon Home. Illustrated by Oswald Moser; G.F. Nicholls.
Stock no. 2114825
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1st thus 1912. Almost very good condition.

Deluxe, limited edition of 250 copies, SIGNED by publisher. Large format. Cream cloth with gilt titles and elaborate black/brown decorations. 20 tipped-in colour plates, with captioned page guards. This is copy 109. SIGNED by publisher. Damaged spine has been repaired - still some chipping. Bumping and wear to corners and cover edges. Front endpaper has been repaired. Some foxing and grubby marks. All plates present. Damp marks to bottom of last pages.

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THE BEASTLY BIRTHDAY BOOK
Written by Nicolas Bentley. Illustrated by Nicolas Bentley.
Stock no. 1313082
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1934. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Quotations from works as diverse as those of Chaucer, Chesterton, Binstead and Byron. Grey cloth with red title to spine and vignette to front cover. 182 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Spine slightly browned and light foxing to edges of covers. Endpapers partially browned, some foxing. Contents unused. Heavy foxed dustwrapper is also very browned to spine and and rear panel edges, is edge worn with loss and section of loss to top of spine and front panel.

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TURNS & CHANCES
Written by Juliet E. McKenna; Chaz Brenchley.
Stock no. 2114530
Published by Ps Publishing. 1st 2004. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

The country of Lescar was carved out of the collapsing Tormalin Empire by ambitious men who felt entitled to seize power. SIGNED, Limited edition (to 300 copies). ISBN: 190461907X. SIGNED by authors to special page. This is copy no. 246.

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DAYBREAK
Written by Jean Ure.
Stock no. 1502580
Published by Ian Henry Publications. 1976. Very good condition.

It was a bad time of year for hitching, she had been travelling for nine hours and still had three hundred miles to go so when a sports cars stopped she threw away her suspicions and jumped into the passenger seat. Blue covers with gilt titles to spine. 174 pages. ISBN: 0860250571. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. A few small marks to covers. Contents very good.

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