THE BEASTLY BIRTHDAY BOOK
Written by Nicolas Bentley. Illustrated by Nicolas Bentley.
Stock no. 1313082
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1934. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Quotations from works as diverse as those of Chaucer, Chesterton, Binstead and Byron. Grey cloth with red title to spine and vignette to front cover. 182 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners bumped. Spine slightly browned and light foxing to edges of covers. Endpapers partially browned, some foxing. Contents unused. Heavy foxed dustwrapper is also very browned to spine and and rear panel edges, is edge worn with loss and section of loss to top of spine and front panel.

TURNS & CHANCES
Written by Juliet E. McKenna; Chaz Brenchley.
Stock no. 2114530
Published by Ps Publishing. 1st 2004. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

The country of Lescar was carved out of the collapsing Tormalin Empire by ambitious men who felt entitled to seize power. SIGNED, Limited edition (to 300 copies). ISBN: 190461907X. SIGNED by authors to special page. This is copy no. 246.

DAYBREAK
Written by Jean Ure.
Stock no. 1502580
Published by Ian Henry Publications. 1976. Very good condition.

It was a bad time of year for hitching, she had been travelling for nine hours and still had three hundred miles to go so when a sports cars stopped she threw away her suspicions and jumped into the passenger seat. Blue covers with gilt titles to spine. 174 pages. ISBN: 0860250571. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. A few small marks to covers. Contents very good.

THE MAN WHO KNEW BETTER
Written by Tom Gallon. Illustrated by Gordon Browne.
Stock no. 1502579
Published by D. Appleton And Company. 1st 1901. Slightly better than good condition.

A Christmas Dream. A striking romance of hard-hearted worldliness redeemed by bitter experience, and the lessons of love and sympathy which it teaches will thrill and touch every reader. Brown cloth covers with dark green decoration and gilt titles. B/w illustrations. 224 pages. Wear to spine and corners with a little fraying at top of spine. A few marks to covers. Joints and a few hinges cracked. Front endpaper is possibly missing. Red mark to frontis. Some foxing and page edge browning but contents generally clean.

CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY PILGRIMAGE
Written by William Calder; Geoffrey Chaucer.
Stock no. 2114309
Published by William Blackwood and Sons. 1892. Almost very good condition.

Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. Fold-out b/w illustration to front. B/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; chipping and fraying of cloth to top and tail of spine. Marks to covers. Some foxing and page browning.

THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
Stock no. 2114159
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Circa 1911. Very good condition.

In a part of English high society where gossip runs rampant, a tangle of love has formed. Lady Sneerwell is in love with a young, rebellious man named Charles Surface. However, Charles is in love with Maria, as is his brother Joseph. Maria is in love with Charles, but Lady Sneerwell and Joseph plot to ruin this relationship through rumors of unfaithfulness on Charles' part... Lovely gilt decorated lilac cloth covers, gilt titles. 25 exquisite tipped-in colour plates and other b/w text illustrations. 195 pages. 10.75 x 8 inches. Browning to spine. Some bumping. Bookplate to front pastedown. Foxing and browning to endpapers and outer page edges. The odd margin mark. All plates present.

PERSONAL EFFECTS
Written by Barbara Willard.
Stock no. 1502235
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1939. Very good condition.

Grey patterned covers with blue titles to spine. 337 pages. Some bumping to spine and corners. A little erased pencil writing to front endpapers. Contents generally clean.

THACKERAYANA NOTES AND ANECDOTES
Written by William Makepeace Thackeray. Illustrated by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Stock no. 2112160
Published by Chatto & Windus. 1880. Almost very good condition.

Pictorial cloth, gilt title to spine and gilt/black vignettes to front cover. Depicting Humorous Incidents in his School Life, and Favourite Scenes and Characters in the Books of his Every-day Reading. B/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; chipping to cover edges. Some fraying to cloth at edges. Some foxing and page browning. Page edges are 'scraggy', where some pages have been uncut - but have been 'cut', but not neatly - some tears to these pages.

THE COMING OF SASKA
Written by Doreen Tovey. Illustrated by Maurice Wilson.
Stock no. 1108781
Published by St. Martin's Press, New York. 1st USA 1977. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. American Edition. ISBN: 0718115597. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. Foxing to outer page edges. Contained in a UK dustwrapper (Michael Joseph pub.), that is edge-creased with browning to rear panel and has some damp staining.

THE REUNION
Written by Eric Rankin.
Stock no. 1807847
Published by Aeberhard & Partners. 1st 1993. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The divisions of man in society united by war. A novel. The story of two men who came together in the war and who, 50 years later, travel to the annual reunion of their gunner regiment. ISBN: 0952197200.

MAXIMUM EFFORT
Written by James Campbell.
Stock no. 1604962
Published by Allison & Busby. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A novel. Reprint edition. An exciting and revealing novel about what it was like to take part in thousand bomber raids over Germany in 1944. ISBN: 0850311276. Spine and corners bumped. Contents very good. Wrapper edge creased and scuffed.

A BOOK OF OLD BALLADS
Written by Beverley Nichols. Illustrated by H.M. Brock.
Stock no. 1309709
Published by Hutchinson & Co. Ltd. 1st 1934. Almost very good condition.

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. Small mark to front cover. Inscription in ink to front fly-leaf. Heavy foxing to prelims and to page edges.