THE MAN WHO KNEW BETTER
Written by Tom Gallon. Illustrated by Gordon Browne.
Stock no. 1502579
Published by D. Appleton And Company. 1st 1901. Slightly better than good condition.

A Christmas Dream. A striking romance of hard-hearted worldliness redeemed by bitter experience, and the lessons of love and sympathy which it teaches will thrill and touch every reader. Brown cloth covers with dark green decoration and gilt titles. B/w illustrations. 224 pages. Wear to spine and corners with a little fraying at top of spine. A few marks to covers. Joints and a few hinges cracked. Front endpaper is possibly missing. Red mark to frontis. Some foxing and page edge browning but contents generally clean.

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CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY PILGRIMAGE
Written by William Calder; Geoffrey Chaucer.
Stock no. 2114309
Published by William Blackwood and Sons. 1892. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. Fold-out b/w illustration to front. B/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; chipping and fraying of cloth to top and tail of spine. Marks to covers. Some foxing and page browning.

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THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
Stock no. 2114159
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 1911. Very good condition.

Lovely decorated lilac cloth covers, gilt titles. 25 exquisite tipped-in colour plates and other b/w text illustrations. 195 pages. 10.75 x 8 inches. Browning to spine. Some bumping. Bookplate to front pastedown. Foxing and browning to endpapers and outer page edges. The odd margin mark. All plates present.

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PERSONAL EFFECTS
Written by Barbara Willard.
Stock no. 1502235
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1939. Very good condition.

Grey patterned covers with blue titles to spine. 337 pages. Some bumping to spine and corners. A little erased pencil writing to front endpapers. Contents generally clean.

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IVANHOE
Written by Sir Walter Scott.
Stock no. 2112665
Published by David McKay Company. 1972. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Brown cloth with gilt title to spine and partial sword to front cover. B/w and two-colour illustrations. This is a reprint of the edition published by The Felix Gluck Press Limited. American edition. Contains The story of Ivanhoe; Armour, Shields, Weapons, Tournaments and Jousts, Coins, Fortresses and Castles. A Glossary of Chivalry and much more... ISBN: 067920394X. Light bumping along cover edges. Some page browning. Wrapper is faded to spine, with couple of closed edge-tears.

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THACKERAYANA NOTES AND ANECDOTES
Written by William Makepeace Thackeray. Illustrated by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Stock no. 2112160
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1880. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial cloth, gilt title to spine and gilt/black vignettes to front cover. Depicting Humorous Incidents in his School Life, and Favourite Scenes and Characters in the Books of his Every-day Reading. B/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; chipping to cover edges. Some fraying to cloth at edges. Some foxing and page browning. Page edges are 'scraggy', where some pages have been uncut - but have been 'cut', but not neatly - some tears to these pages.

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THE COMING OF SASKA
Written by Doreen Tovey. Illustrated by Maurice Wilson.
Stock no. 1108781
Published by St. Martin's Press, New York. 1st USA 1977. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. American Edition. ISBN: 0718115597. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Foxing to outer page edges. Contained in a UK dustwrapper (Michael Joseph pub.), that is edge-creased with browning to rear panel and has some damp staining.

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THE REUNION
Written by Eric Rankin.
Stock no. 1807847
Published by Aeberhard & Partners. 1st 1993. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The divisions of man in society united by war. A novel. The story of two men who came together in the war and who, 50 years later, travel to the annual reunion of their gunner regiment. ISBN: 0952197200.

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MAXIMUM EFFORT
Written by James Campbell.
Stock no. 1604962
Published by Allison & Busby. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A novel. Reprint edition. An exciting and revealing novel about what it was like to take part in thousand bomber raids over Germany in 1944. ISBN: 0850311276. Spine and corners bumped. Contents very good. Wrapper edge creased and scuffed.

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A BOOK OF OLD BALLADS
Written by Beverley Nichols. Illustrated by H.M. Brock.
Stock no. 1309709
Published by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. 1st 1934. Almost very good condition.

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. Small mark to front cover. Inscription in ink to front fly-leaf. Heavy foxing to prelims and to page edges.

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ZULU HART
Written by Saul David.
Stock no. 2109809
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 2009. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

A novel. George Hart is the bastard son of a pillar of the British military establishment and a half Irish, half Zulu actress. Hart struggles to come to terms with his identity and heads to South Africa and a fresh start... Red cloth boards, black title to spine. ISBN: 0340953624. SIGNED by author, with dedication to title page. Wrapper has light edge-wear with couple of nicks to corners.

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THE LIFE OF MANSIE WAUCH
Written by Mansie Wauch; D.M. Moir. Illustrated by Charles Martin Hardie.
Stock no. 1603733
Published by T.N. Foulis. 1911. Very good condition.

Stiff card wraps covered with green suade. Gilt title to spine. 16 tipped-in colour plates. The story of a tailor in Dalkeith. 355 pages plus adverts. Spine browned, suade is a little scuffed and overlaps the card boards at edges. Approximately 1cm loss of suade at top of spine with a couple of edge tears. inscription to half-title page. Contents very good indeed, all plates persent.

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