THE WORLD'S LIGHTHOUSES BEFORE 1820
Written by D. Alan Stevenson.
Stock no. 1830765
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1959. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The purpose of this book is to record facts about seamarks and to arrange them in Sections, with some explanation, to show the transition from the wood fires of Antiquity to the reflector lights of 1819. Includes an account of the Eddystone Lighthouse. Large format. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine and gilt crest to front board. xxiv and 310 pages including index. Top edge gilt. Boards clean. Minor foxing to text block and endpapers. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is a little browned and grubby, small closed tear to top front edge of spine (no loss).

RAILWAY PASSAGE
Written by Charles Keeping. Illustrated by Charles Keeping.
Stock no. 1830713
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1974. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Charming story of the residents of Railway Passage, and how their individual lives change when their Residents Consortium win the football pools! Illustrated endpapers and wonderful and extensive colour illustrations throughout. Large format. Pictorial boards. Unpaginated. ISBN: 019279700X. Boards lightly browned across top edge. Name in ink to verso of front endpaper. Else contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned.

WASTEGROUND CIRCUS
Written by Charles Keeping. Illustrated by Charles Keeping.
Stock no. 1830712
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1975. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Scott and Wayne used the demolition site in the heart of the city as a playground. Then one day a circus made an overnight stop on the site and life was never the same again - for one of the boys. Large format. Pictorial paper boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0192797085. Corners of boards lightly rubbed. Name in ink to top edge of front endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is very slightly faded at edges.

BROKEN LIVES: SEPARATION AND DIVORCE IN ENGLAND 1660-1857
Written by Lawrence Stone.
Stock no. 1830424
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The last book in a trilogy of the subject. How the break-up and dissolution of marriages was contrived before the first Divorce Act in 1857. Individuals in their own words explain their actions and feelings about one another in dramatic courtroom confrontations, while behind the scenes they were conducting secret negotiations, and offering massive bribes to witnesses either to commit perjury or to hold their tongues. These stories offer astonishing insights into many hitherto unknown aspects of martial life and marital breakdown in early modern England. Dark blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xviii and 355 pages including index. ISBN: 0198202547. Minor foxing to top edge of text block else a clean copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS IN THE DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS
Written by Charles R. Hicks; Kenneth V. Turner.
Stock no. 1830332
Published by Oxford University Press. 5th 1999. Very good condition.

Fifth edition, thoroughly revised and updated, includes sixty new problems. A comprehensive coverage of the key elements of experimental design used by applied researchers to colve problems in the field. Wide-ranging and accessible, it shows students how to use applied statistics for planning, running, and analyzing experiments. This edition focuses more on computer use than previous editions. Blue glazed boards. x and 565 pages including index. ISBN: 0195122739. Boards scuffed and a little grubby. Top & tail of spine and corners lightly worn. Text block is very slightly grubby. Name in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean.

PRINCIPLES OF MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS: A USER'S PERSPECTIVE (OXFORD STATISTICAL SCIENCE 22)
Written by W.J. Krzanowski.
Stock no. 1830317
Published by Oxford University Press. 2000. Very good condition.

Revised Edition. Oxford Statistical Science Series 22. An introduction to the principles and methodology of modern multivariate statistical analysis. The author's emphasis is problem-orientated and he is at pains to stress geometrical intuition in preference to algebraic manipulation. Red & blue cardwraps. xxi and 586 pages including index. ISBN: 0198507089. Spine lightly faded and creasing caused by reading. Covers lightly edge-worn. Text block a little browned. Name in ink to top edge of first page else contents clean.

STATISTICS AND INFORMATICS IN MOLECULAR CANCER RESEARCH
Written by Carsten Wiuf; Claus L. Andersen.
Stock no. 1830303
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 2009. Slightly better than very good condition.

Edited by Carsten Wiuf and Claus L. Andersen. Aimed at graduates and researchers, this book discusses novel advances in informatics and statistics in molecular cancer research. A main theme is the extensive use of array technologies in modern cancer research - gene expression and exon arrays, SNP and copy number arrays, and methylation arrays - to derive quantitative and qualitative statements about cancer, its progresion and aetiology , and to understand how these technologies on the one hand allow us to learn about cancer tissue as a complex system and on the other hand to allow us to pinpoint key genes and events as crucial for the development of the disease. Glazed boards. xii and 196 pages including index. ISBN: 9780199532872. Spine faded from red to pink. Rear board lightly scuffed. Name in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean.

THE LI DYNASTY HONG KONG ARISTOCRATS
Written by Frank Ching.
Stock no. 1330179
Published by Oxford University Press. Circa 1999. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. ISBN: 0195909046. 2nd impression. SIGNED by author to front endpaper. Couple of grubby marks to outer page edges. Wrapper is faded to spine.

THE PHEASANTS OF THE WORLD
Written by Paul A. Johnsgard. Illustrated by Henry Jones.
Stock no. 1830252
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Distribution, status, and biology of 49 species of pheasants. 53 colour plates in the books show adults of all the pheasant species. Large format. Blue boards, gilt title to spine. Colour plates, b/w illustrations. xii and 300 pages including index. ISBN: 0198571852. Pale foxing to dustwrapper flaps and endpapers. Text block a little grubby. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly faded to spine.

BY STEPPE, DESERT, AND OCEAN: THE BIRTH OF EURASIA
Written by Barry Cunliffe.
Stock no. 1830240
Published by Oxford University Press. Circa 2015. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

How humankind first started building the globalized world we know today. A tale of war, invasion, migration and the rise and fall of empires, covering a vast historical canvas from China to the Atlantic world. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour photos. ix and 530 pages including index. ISBN: 9780199689170. Fourth impression. Text block faintly grubby else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper has a tiny nick to top rear panel edge.

MRS STRANG'S ANNUAL FOR BABY
Written by Mrs. Herbert Strang. Illustrated by Millicent Sowerby; Anne Anderson; Nina K. Brisley; E. Dorothy Rees; et al..
Stock no. 1330122
Published by Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. Good condition.

Front cover shows two babies playing with building bricks and an orange ball. 12 full-page colour illustrations with a short sentence of text below. 7 full pages of easy to read text. Spine and corners are worn, covers edge rubbed. Rear cover is slightly grubby. The binding has been repaired and the pages are now quite 'stiff' to open. There is paper damage to the margins of the last two pages (an illustration and text) but the illustration is not affected.

THE BEES ON DRUMWHINNIE
Written by Dorita Fairlie Bruce. Illustrated by Margaret Horder.
Stock no. 1330072
Published by Oxford University Press; Geoffrey Cumberlege. 1st 1952. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An unsual story based in Scotland in the 1870's, Felicity cares for her two elderly aunts and their bee colony. Cream boards, green titles to spine and bee vignette to front cover. B/w illustrations. 273 pages. 7.5 x 5". Minimal bumping to spine. Inscription in ink to front pastedown. Pale page browning to endpapers and very slight evidence of removal of a label to front free-endpaper. A few small foxspots to textblock. Price-cut wrapper is slightly foxed and slightly edge rubbed.