COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE
Written by Charles Bullock.
Stock no. 1505210
Published by Home Words Publishing Office. Very good condition.

Sidelights of Home Life. Tenth Thousand edition. Green cloth covers with red vignette and gilt titles. Bevelled edges. B/w illustrations. 74 pages plus publication list. Spine bumped and worn, slight wear to corners. Spine and covers alongside are very browned. Covers slightly grubby. Front joint and a couple of hinges cracked. Contents clean but some light foxing.

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THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
Written by William Shakespeare. Illustrated by J. Finnemore; F.L. Emmanuel.
Stock no. 1404571
Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons. circa 1918. Almost very good condition.

Brown boards with gilt title and vignette to front. Colour plates and b/w text illustrations. Patterned endpapers. 110 pages. All edges gilt. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Front board edge a little rubbed. Browning to endpapers and prelims. Name and date to flyleaf. Browning and some foxing to some pages else contents are generally clean.

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THE RHINEGOLD & THE VALKYRIE
Written by Richard Wagner; Margaret Armour. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Stock no. 2118149
Published by William Heinemann. 1920. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Trade edition. Brown cloth. Gilt titles and decorations to spine and front cover. Cream and orange pictorial endpapers. Part of the trilogy of 'The Ring of the Niblung'. With a prelude by Richard Wagner. Translated into English by Margaret Armour. 34 beautiful tipped-in colour plates, covered with captioned tissue-guards. Text in a play format. Some wear to spine and corners. Browning to endpapers and outer page edges; a little foxing. Wrapper is worn and scuffed along edges; creased with some tears and chips; a little loss to top of spine. Some marks to wrapper.

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THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD
Written by Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Frank Reynolds.
Stock no. 1504725
Published by The Westminster Press. 1911. Good condition.

Large, heavy format. Red cloth, gilt titles. B/w pictorial endpapers. Tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. 572 pages. Spine bumped and faded with 3.5" piece of red cloth stuck to top part of spine, looks like spine is missing underneath. Splits and fraying to both sides of middle of spine. Wear to corners and cover edges. Covers are grubby and marked. Rear joint starting to crack. Couple of tissue guards creased. Some grubby marks/fingermarks but most pages are clean. All plates present.

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QUEST'S END
Written by Alfred Brisco. Illustrated by Brian Fawcett.
Stock no. 1504468
Published by Brown and Brown. 1st 1950. Almost very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper.

A man, after being knocked out, wakes up as his horse. A fascinating tale which will at once appeal to lovers of Northern Rural England - the life of its people and animals and Lakeland Lanes. The veil of the occult running through the tale will grip, as also will the adventures of the main character depicted in Civil and Army Life. Orange cloth covers with dark titles to spine and front cover. B/w illustrations. 83 pages. SIGNED by author, with date, on front endpaper. A little bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. A few white marks to covers. Light browning and foxing to endpapers, rest of contents very good. Price-cut dustwrapper is edge worn, torn and chipped with some stains to panels.

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THE TWO BOUQUETS
Written by Eleanor Farjeon. Illustrated by Reginald Woolley.
Stock no. 1504465
Published by Michael Joseph. 1st 1948. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

A period novelette featuring the Gills of Twickenham and misunderstandings at a ball, based on the operetta by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon. Deep pink cloth covers with silver titles to spine and silver vignette. B/w chapter headers. 163 pages. SIGNED by author, with dedication and date, on front endpaper. A little bumping and wear to spine and corners. Pages are lightly browned but contents are clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with some tears and chips, tear across spine near top, slight loss from ends of spine. Bottom corner cut from front flap. Wrapper is a little grubby.

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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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