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Vintage and Antiquarian Books
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There are some interesting historical, non-fiction and fiction books here. There are some more Vintage Books listed on the Technical page of this site, relating to engineering and steam trains but if that is your interest, note A Hundred Year History of the P & O is in this section.

All hardback in Good or very good condition. Please add £2.69 except where otherwise stated for post and packing for UK, £3.50 to Europe. £5.75 worldwide or contact me to ask about a discount and the postage cost if buying more than one item.


author	title		publisher/ date	comment	price
Beaumont and Fletcher	The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher		Edward Moxon, London 1839	Volumes I and II with an introduction by George Darley. Dark maroon hard cover, spines decorated with gilt Five raised bands with gilt lettering. The spine of Vol. I has come away from the binding completely and would need to be glued back. Spine of volume II is loose at top and bottom. First 4 pages of each are foxed. Otherwise in good condition.	£75.00 + Postage
Lord Byron	Byron's Poetical Works		John Murray 1859 New and Complete Edition	Dark green leather and marbelled boards and page edges with gold tooled design. Good condition, some staining to pages, slightly bumped edges, slightly torn spine edge. With portrait and illustrative drawings.	£40.00 + Postage
Edited by J W Croker	Boswell's Life of Johnson		John Murray, London 1890	Spine faded and 3" tear on one edge. Tanned pages, pages 480-489 removed, otherwise good condition	£10.00 + Postage
Thomas Carlyle	The French Revolution		Chapman & Hall (Copywrite Edn.)(ca. 1888-1895 undated)	3 Vols. in one book 412 pp Frontispiece detached,sp faded & slight bmp, pages aged,	£8.00 + Postage
Charles Dickens	SET OF 10 BOOKS INCLUDING:		Chapman & Hall ca 1850 Date not stated on books	Please contact me if you are interested	Offers
	1 Sketches By Boz and Hard Times in one volume,
	2 David Copperfield
	3 Our Mutual Friend
	4 Great Expectations and Old Curiosity Shop in one Volume
	5 Nicholas Nickleby
	6 Dombey & Son, Uncommon Travels and Christmas Books in one Volume
	7 Pickwick Clu/b
	8 Barnaby Rudge and Tale of Two Cities in one Volume
	9 Oliver Twist and Martin Chuzzlewit in one Volume
	10 Bleak House
Boyd Cable	A Hundred Year History of the P & O 1837-1937		Nicholson & Watson h/b 1st Edn. Sept 1937		£25.00 + Postage
Nirad C Chaudhuri	Clive of India		Barrie & Jenkins 1^stEdn. 1975	Dust Jacket good, in plastic good,in plastic cover ,unclipped, mark on frontpage where something removed (possibly ex libris)	£12.00 + Postage
George Eliot	Silas Marner		Nelson undated (ca. 1931)	Dark blue cloth cover buffed at edges of spine and corners, page edges aged, owners name and 1931 hand written on front endpiece, pencilled drawings on 3 pages at front and pencilled writing on one page at back, gold writing and black and gold decorative design on front and spine	£4.50 + Postage
Robert Graves	Collected Short Stories		Cassell 1971 Third Edition Second Impression	Signed. Inscription reads "Robert Graves Deya August 1977 - ". Fine condition, unclipped dustjacket covered with plastic	£20.00 + Postage
H Rider Haggard	The Ancient Allan		Cassell March 1925	no d/j. sp discoloured,edges slight bmp, aged. Very clean boards, cellotape attaching flyleaf to binding/front cover	£7.00 + Postage
H Rider Haggard	King Solomon's Mines		Cassell 1887 37^th thou	Good.Red cloth cover no DJ spine faded & stained. Title in gold,drawing of spear & shields on front, hills on spine,flowers on back. Spine binding torn at edges,corners bumped, small amount of foxing.	£200.00 + Postage
Thomas Hardy	The Mayor of Casterbridge		Heron Books 1970	No Dustjacket. Green cover with gilt design. Spine faded. Very Good condition	£5.00 + Postage
Anthony Hope	The Prisoner of Zenda		JW Arrowsmith: Arrowsmith's 3/6 Series. 1894 First edition, 3rd Issue	Title is the last advertised at the end of the two pages of advertisements . Arrowsmith Bristol Library has reached vol. 58. Original cloth, 2 pp of ads. .Poor condition as front and back boards have separated from the spine, and stain on back cover. Old pencilled writing on inside cover and flyleaf. Yellowed pages.T	£95.00 + Postage
Rudyard Kipling	Plain Tales from the Hills Vol.1	*If you would like to read more about Kipling and his works, I have seen a very good website about him. See my Links/Books page	The Service Edition Macmillan London 1914	Good condition. No dustjacket. Cloth boards, gold tooled writing and design,some marks on front cover and bottom of spine. Rough-cut pages, Dedication to owner 1929 inside front cover.	£14.00 + Postage
Lord Lytton	The Last of the Barons		Cassell's Red Library 1888	No dustjacket. Binding coming away from book and back cover has come away completely. Inscription to owner dated 1988. Staining on cover. Poor condition	£10.00 + Postage
Thomas More	Utopia		Heron Books ca. 1970	No Dustjacket. Brown leather cover with gilt design.Very good condition.	£5.00 + Postage
Walter Scott	The Tales of a Grandfather (History of Scotland up to 1746)		A&C Black 1925	Red cloth board with coat of arms on front and decorative picture of knight on horseback in black gold and red on front board. Cover in good condition, slightly bumped on corners and edges of spine, front endpiece nearly detatched, brown staining on front page and page edges which has owners name and some pencilled writing on front and back pages. Otherwise clean. Front spine slightly stained and lightened with age.	£7.00 P&P £3.75
William Shakspere (Shakespear)	The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere Two Volumes: Plays Plays & Sonnets		Charles Knight & Co London Edited by Charles Knight Undated, believed to be about 1850	Red Cloth boards, no dustjackets, tanned pages, lots of illustrations, one volume in fine condition, the other in very good condition (there is a stain on spine and one corner rubbed).	£15.00 + Postage £5 for 2 heavy books
Tobias Smollett	The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett - Complete in one volume		Henry G Bohn London 1849	Quarter leather bound, and clothboard, tooled dark red leather spine with gold lettering and design. Marbled endpapers and matching edges, 20 full- page illustrations, printed in double columns, Illustrated by George Cruikshank. Some of the pages are stained	£50.00 + Postage
RL Stevenson	Island Nights' Entertainments etc.		Macmillan Illustrated Pocket Classics. Illustrated by HR Millar 1928 first printed in this edition	Leather bound with gilt design and writing and gilt on top page edges. Inscription to owner on first page dated 1944. Fine very clean condition - looks unread	£10.00 + Postage
Lowell Thomas	With Lawrence in Arabia		Hutchinson (132^nd thousand)	no dustjacket, 30 photoplates, slight bump and ageing, some pp slightly creased, owners name on flyleaf	£12.00 + Postage
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