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WILLIAM MORRIS ART AND KELMSCOTT
Written by Linda Parry.
Stock no. 1329952
Published by The Boydell Press. 1st 1996. Very good condition.

The importance of Kelmscott in the private and public lives of the Morris family from 1871 to 1938, also detailed assessments of William and May Morris's work by leading Morris scholars. Black cardwraps. 144 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 0851156703. Slight rubbing to corners. Publisher's price sticker to rear cover has been neatly scribbled out with pencil.

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THE JUBILEE BOY: THE LIFE AND RECOLLECTIONS OF GEORGE SWINFORD OF FILKINS
Written by Judith Fay; Richard Martin.
Stock no. 1329951
Published by The Filkins Press. 1st 1987. Very good condition.

Edited and researched by Fay and Martin. Cardwraps. Some b/w photos. Lower corner of textblock is very slightly grubby.

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THE LIFE AND ART OF W. HEATH ROBINSON
Written by Langston Day. Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson.
Stock no. 1329949
Published by EP Publishing. 1st thus 1976. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Republication of the 1947 edition which was published by Herbert Joseph. Red boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 270 pages. ISBN: 0715811800. Slight foxing to textblock. Endpapers browned. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed and lightly browned.

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RUNNING THE NUMBERS AN AMERICAN SELF-PORTRAIT
Written by Chris Jordan; Chris Bruce; Lucy R. Lippard; Paul Hawken. Illustrated by Chris Jordan.
Stock no. 1329924
Published by Museum Of Art. 1st 2009. Very good condition.

Astonishing photographs revealing the devastating consequences of our culture of consumption. Large oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. 110 pages. Colour photographs. ISBN: 9780975566251. SIGNED by Jordan to title-page. Spine and corners bumped. Original 'blurb' band to rear cover still present but a little browned witha small crease at one corner. Contents fine.

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RAMBLINGS OF A SPORTSMAN-NATURALIST
Written by BB. Illustrated by BB.
Stock no. 1329854
Published by Michael Joseph. 1st 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Drawn mainly from the sporting diaries he kept for many years, BB recalls numerous little adventures afield. A collection of happenings and impressions of the seasons, beautifully enhanced by dramatic b/w scraperboard illustrations throughout. Black boards, gilt lettering to spine. 176 pages. ISBN: 0718118154. Spine bumped. Name in ink to front free-endpaper. Light page edge browning. Price-cut wrapper is slightly edge creased.

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SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL FLINT
Written by Ralph Lewis; Keith S. Gardner. Illustrated by William Russell Flint.
Stock no. 1329816
Published by David & Charles. 1st 1988. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large oblong format. Colour illustrations. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0715393065. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Dustwrapper is lightly foxed on verso and a rubbed at corners.

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THE QUICK AND THE DEAD
Written by W.A. Waterton.
Stock no. 1329739
Published by Grub Street. 1st thus 2012. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Story of a Chief test pilot and the perils of post-war test flying. First published in 1956 by Frederick Muller Ltd. Blue boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. 201 pages. ISBN: 9781908117274. Light scratch mark to front cover.

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THE DIARIES
Written by William Allingham.
Stock no. 1329647
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2007. Slightly better than very good condition.

Reprint edition with new introduction. Green cloth, gilt titles and decorations. Sepia photos. A super copy contained in slipcase which is just a little/lightly scuffed.

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WILLIAM HAZLITT: THE FIRST MODERN MAN
Written by Duncan Wu.
Stock no. 1329634
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st PB 2010. Very good condition.

Wu's sparkling biography recovers Hazlitt for our time - a restless, passionate idealist whose voice helps us to see his times and our own more clearly. Cardwraps. 557 pages including notes and index. B/w photos and illustrations. ISBN: 9780199588848. Covers are edge rubbed.

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A FREEDOM DEARLY BOUGHT
Written by Ernest Ackroyd.
Stock no. 1829803
Published by Ernest Ackroyd. 1st 1995. Very good condition.

In 1939 the 122 (West Riding) Field Regiment Royal Artillery TA was formed and on February 15, 1942, it ceased to exist with the fall of Sinapore. Only 13 members of the regiment were killed in action; more than 200 members who formed the regiment were to die a cruel and agonising death at the hands of their Japanese captors. The author was one of those young men who suffered but survived to tell the story. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. xiii and 136 pages. Covers lightly creased, lightly rubbed at corners. Contents clean.

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THE ANGLING LETTERS OF G.E.M. SKUES
Written by G.E.M. Skues; C.F. Walker.
Stock no. 1829717
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1975. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Edited by Walker. Dark brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xv and 153 pages including index. ISBN: 0713616210. Reprint. Top of spine and top front board corner bumped. Some foxing present, mainly to text block. Price-cut dustwrapper is rubbed at corners, faded to spine, mark left by old price label to rear panel, slightly grubby.

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A FORMIDABLE HERO: LT R.H. FRAY, VC, DSC, RCNVR
Written by Stuart E. Soward.
Stock no. 1329456
Published by Canav Books. 1st 1987. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 186 pages. ISBN: 096907039X. Minimal bumping to top of spine and a tiny nick to top edge of front cover. Contents fine. Dustwrapper is sunned to spine.

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