CHAMBERS'S MISCELLANY OF USEFUL AND ENTERTAINING TRACTS
No author listed.
Stock no. 985816
Published by William and Robert Chambers. Very good condition.

7 Volumes. Contemporary half leather bindings, with marbled boards and edges, gilt-lettered black morocco labels on spines. Numerous steel engravings. Corners rubbed but in general a very nice set.

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CHAMBERS'S REPOSITORY OF INSTRUCTIVE AND AMUSING TRACTS
No author listed.
Stock no. 985817
Published by William and Robert Chambers. Circa 1852. Very good condition.

5 Volumes. Contemporary half leather bindings, with marbled boards and edges, gilt-lettered black morocco labels on spines. Numerous steel engravings. Undated but probably the edition issued 1852-54. Corners rubbed. Volume 1 front joint broken, rear joint starting to crack.

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NOONTIDE LEISURE
Written by Nathan Drake.
Stock no. 983817
Published by T. Cadell. 1st 1824. Almost very good condition.

First edition. 2 Volumes in 1. Pages: 302 + 1, 327. Original blind-stamped sea-green cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Engraved frontis. Foxing to prelims else contents very good indeed. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Corners rubbed.

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THE HIDDEN HAND
Written by Eden Phillpotts.
Stock no. 986936
Published by Hutchinson. 1st 1952. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth. Dustwrapper: price-cut. Rear panel browned.

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THE LEAVES IN BUD
Written by Gilbert Carr Waugh.
Stock no. 987433
Published by Cassell & Company Limited. 1st 1949. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth. Black titles. 197 pages. SIGNED by author "To Bill Degenhardt With Every Good Wish Gilbert Waugh 19/1/50" on front endpaper. Also includes loosely inserted the author's personal bookplate. Dustwrapper: corners rubbed.

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CAPTAIN CLUTTERBUCK'S CHAMPAGNE
Written by William G. Hanley.
Stock no. 987203
Published by William Blackwood and Sons. 1862. Almost very good condition.

Subtitled: A West Indian Reminiscence. No author stated but believed to be Colonel William G. Hanley Royal Engineers. First edition. Pages: 372. Contemporary three-quarter leather binding with marbled boards and edges, gilt-lettered lable on spine. Foxing to prelims. Corners worn.

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THE YOUNG VISITERS OR MR SALTEENAS PLAN
Written by Daisy Ashford. Illustrated by Diana Brough.
Stock no. 692125
Published by Folio Society. 1st 1956. Very good condition.

Red cloth spine, yellow decorative paper boards. 8 hand-coloured plates. A few foxspots. Contained in good slipcase which is split and faded.

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PHILIP THE KING
Written by John Masefield. Illustrated by Laurence Irving.
Stock no. 311355
Published by Heinemann. 1927. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Limited edition of 360 copies (of which 350 were for sale). Large format. Black cloth, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. B/w mounted plates (printed on tissue paper). 45 pages. SIGNED by author and illustrator, copy no. 231. Corners bumped. Covers very lightly faded. A few small foxspots else contents clean. White paper dustwrapper (with brown title and vignette to front) is slightly edge chipped and lightly browned. Contained in original slipcase which is well worn but has done it's job and kept the book/dustwrapper nice.

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ADAM BEDE
Written by George Eliot. Illustrated by Gordon Browne.
Stock no. 710911
Published by W. & R. Chambers. Circa 1917. Very good condition.

523 pages. Blue cloth with pictorial onlay. Gilt decorations. Colour and b/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped and slightly rubbed. Small rubbing mark to base of spine. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. A very attractive book.

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THE PERVERSE WIDOW AND THE WIDOW
Written by Richard Steele; Washington Irving. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.
Stock no. 707167
Published by William Heinemann. 1st 1909. Very good condition.

Two short stories in one volume. 3 tipped-in colour plates mounted on brown card plus b/w text illustrations. Small format. Brown boards with onlay to front. Spine bumped. Name to front pastedown. Slight browning to contents. A nice copy.

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THE OPEN WINDOW
Written by E. Temple Thurston. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.
Stock no. 327854
Published by Chapman & Hall Ltd. 1st 1913. Almost very good condition.

Green cloth, dark green titles and borders, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 286 pages. Spine and corners worn. Covers slightly grubby. Endpapers browned. A few hinges slightly pulled. Foxing to outer page edges. Contents generally clean.

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OEUVRES POSTHUMES DE MARMONTEL
Written by Jean-Francois Marmontel.
Stock no. 988703
Published by A Paris. 1805. Very good condition.

6 volumes, Small format. In later 19th century marbled boards with orange spine labels. Contains Memoires d'un Pere (4 vols) and Regence du Duc d'Orleans (2 vols). Text in French. Pages browned. Corners rubbed. Reduced from £180.

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