THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF R.S. HAWKER (SOMETIME VICAR OF MORWENSTOW)
Written by C.E. Byles. Illustrated by J. Ley Pethybridge.
Stock no. 1831152
Published by John Lane The Bodley Head. 1st 1905. Almost very good condition.

A biography written by Hawker's son-in-law, Charles Edward Byles, about the life of Robert Stephen Hawker, a prominent English clergyman and poet who served as the vicar of Morwenstow in Cornwall for over 40 years. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour frontis. B/w illustrations. xxviii and 689 pages including index. Top edge gilt. Spine faded. Light fading to edges of boards. A few marks to boards. Corners lightly bumped. Text block browned. A few foxspots present but generally contents are very nice.

FRANK RICHARDS - THE CHAP BEHIND THE CHUMS
Written by Frank Richards; Mary Cadogan.
Stock no. 1330940
Published by Viking. 1st 1988. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Green boards, gilt title to spine. A book about the life and works of Frank Richards. Full of photgraphs and pictures. 258 pages. 9.5 x 6.25". ISBN: 0670819468. Spine slightly bumped. Foxing to textblock and endpapers. Dustwrapper is foxed on verso and just a tiny bit rubbed at corners.

THE ART OF ARTHUR BOYD
Written by Ursula Hoff; T.G. Rosenthal. Illustrated by Arthur Boyd.
Stock no. 1831133
Published by Andre Deutsch Limited. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This is the first major study of Arthur Boyd since the long out-of-print book by Franz Philipp. This book is illustrated with more than 200 pictures, ranging from line drawings to engravings to sculptures to pastels to the major oil paintings and constitutes a significant contribution to the study of Australian art. The author is a noted authority on Australian art. Introduction by T.G. Rosenthal. Large format. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles. 247 pages. ISBN: 0233978240. Text block lightly browned, top edge has some minor foxing. A few grubby marks to endpapers. Light browning to page edges else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby.

SNAFFLES: THE LIFE AND WORK OF CHARLIE JOHNSON PAYNE (SNAFFLES) 1884-1967
Written by John Welcome; Rupert Collens. Illustrated by Snaffles; Charlie Johnson Payne.
Stock no. 1831129
Published by Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd.. 1988. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A full range of Snaffles's work from the war at sea and on land, hunting, shooting, fishing, polo, show-jumping. big game. pigsticking, point-to-point, horse dealing and otter hunting. Large oblong format. Green cloth boards with gilt titles. Colour & b/w illustrations. 160 pages. ISBN: 0091726670. A very nice copy, no visible marks. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded and lightly scuffed.

DUXFORD TO KARACHI: AN RAF ARMOURER'S WAR
Written by Fred Roberts.
Stock no. 1831122
Published by Victory Books. 1st 2006. Almost very good condition.

The author, an RAF armourer, who served on a famous Spitfire squadron at Duxford throughout the Battle of Britain in 1940, and later in India. This memoir is a window on the wartime years, seen through the eyes of an ordinary young man who found himself in extraordinary circumstances and did his 'bit'. Pictorial cardwraps. A few b/w photos. 202 pages. ISBN: 0955043182. Slight lean to spine, covers lightly worn at corners. Previous price-label to rear cover. Front joint starting to pull away (glue drying out). Contents clean.

LIFE ON THE LAND
Written by Fred Kitchen. Illustrated by Frank Ormrod.
Stock no. 1831097
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1941. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Fred Kitchen's autobiography paints a vivid description of work on the land during the first half of the twentieth century in Northern England For a while he worked on the railroad and at collieries but decided that was not the life for him and after 13 years working in industry, he became a farm labourer again. Terracotta cloth boards with gilt title and vignette to spine. B/w woodcuts. 276 pages. A few minor scuffs to boards, light reading wear to spine. Foxing to endpapers and text block. A few scattered foxspots to contents else clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased with a couple of small closed tears (no loss), a little grubby, and browned to spine.

THE ART OF THE BRONTES
Written by Christine Alexander; Jane Sellars. Illustrated by Charlotte Bronte; Emily Bronte; Anne Bronte; Branwell Bronte.
Stock no. 1831095
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1995. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A full scale study of the drawings and paintings of the Bronte sisters and their brother. Comprising almost 400 illustrated entries, recording such details as medium, dating, provenance, sources, style, and arguments for attribution; and documenting many previously unknown drawings and paintings. Pale grey cloth boards, blue title to spine. B/w & a few colour illustrations. xxvi and 484 pages. ISBN: 0521432480. Top board corners lightly bumped and minor mark to rear board. Top edge of text block slightly grubby. Very light pale edge browning else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge creased, slightly grubby and a few minor scuffs. Includes a number of relevant newspaper cuttings.

SARAH MOON: NOW AND THEN
Written by Ingo Taubhorn; Brigitte Woischnik. Illustrated by Sarah Moon.
Stock no. 1831094
Published by Kehrer Heidelberg Berlin. 1st 2016. Slightly better than very good condition.

A catalogue that accompanies the first retrospective of the artist's work in Hamburg, Germany. This catalogue acts as a valuable synopsis of Moon's oeuvre, with interviews and essays that enrich our understanding of each photographic image. Black cloth spine, uncovered boards, white and black titles. B/w and colour photographs. 157 pages. ISBN: 9783868286564. Cloth spine a slightly discoloured at edges. Light wear to board corners. Contents clean.

RBK A VERY PARFIT GENTIL KNIGHT
Written by Simon Harris.
Stock no. 1831082
Published by Rooke Publishing. 1st 2004. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Ralph Kite was an ordinary Edwardian schoolboy, who was sent home at an early age from Tasmania to be educated in England. During his tragically short life he rose to command a company of the 52nd Light Infantry on the Somme. Having won the Military Cross he was mortally wounded and spent an agonising month dying of his wounds. In essence this is an informal history of the 52nd Light Infantry between the spring of 1915 and late 1916. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. xxiii and175 pages including index. ISBN: 095486400X. SIGNED with a personal dedication to half-title page. Also includes a letter signed by the author. A lovely copy.

AFTERMATH
Written by Harold Owen.
Stock no. 1831079
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1970. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

William Harold Owen was the younger brother and biographer of the English poet and soldier, Wilfred Owen. Harold Owen's notable trilogy Journey from Obscurity closed with the death of his elder brother Wilfred in France in November 1918. This volume continues the story and is a self-portrait, having a high degree of truth and sensitivity that characterized the earlier works; as a picture, in vivid painter's prose, of aspects of English life in the twenties, it stays in the mind. Brown cloth boards, black title label with gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xi and 199 pages. ISBN: 0192111957. SIGNED by the author (with dedication) to front endpaper. Also includes an addressed postcard from Harold Owen (blank). Base of cloth boards has a thin line of fading, light damp mark to base of front board at spine edge. Text block lightly browned with a few small marks. Contents clean. Price-cut dustwrapper has a corresponding damp stain to verso (not visible to front), is edge-rubbed and scuffed.

SAMUEL JOHNSON
Written by J.C.D. Clark.
Stock no. 1330914
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st PB 1994. Slightly better than very good condition.

Literature, religion and English cultural politics from the Restoration to Romanticism. Cardwraps (paperback edition). 270 pages including index. ISBN: 0521478855. Minimal rubbing to edges. Some light grubby marks to textblock (contents not affected).

ROBERT SOUTHEY ENTIRE MAN OF LETTERS
Written by W.A. Speck.
Stock no. 1330913
Published by Yale University Press. 1st 2006. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Black boards, gilt title to spine. Purple endpapers. B/w photos. 305 pages. ISBN: 0300116810. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper else a super copy. Small mark to rear panel of wrapper.