THE HOMES OF TENNYSON
Written by Arthur Paterson. Illustrated by Helen Allingham.
Stock no. 2137119
Published by Adam & Charles Black. Circa 1906. Good condition.

Green cloth with gilt titles and gilt, pink and green decorations. Top edge gilt. 20 tissue-guarded colour plates. 7/6 series. Black's Beautiful Books booklist to rear (4 sides). Some books to booklist were published 1906. Spine is faded. Some marks to covers. Bumping. Fraying to cloth at base of spine. Name in ink to front endpaper. Front joint is a bit cracked. Page browning and heavy foxing. Newspaper clipping stuck opposite page 53. Tissue guard is torn to plate page opposite page 56.

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WILLIAM CALLOW R.W.S., F.R.G.S.
Written by William Callow; H.M. Cundall.
Stock no. 2137057
Published by Adam & Charles Black. Circa 1908. Almost very good condition.

An Autobiography. Green cloth with gilt title to spine, black title to front cover and red/brown decorations. Edited by Cundall. A. & C. Black 7/6 series. Spine is browned. Corners are bumped. Cracking to joints. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and some page margins.

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WINCHESTER
Written by Telford Varley. Illustrated by Wilfrid Ball.
Stock no. 2137056
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1st 1910. Good condition.

24 tissue-guarded colour plates. 2000 copies printed. Top edge gilt. Blue cloth, gilt titles and coat of arms to front cover. A & C Black Colour Book 7s 6d Series. Covers are heavily marked and faded. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and some pages internally. Some plate pages are starting to become detached. A reading copy.

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WAR IMPRESSIONS
Written by Dorothy Menpes. Illustrated by Mortimer Menpes.
Stock no. 2137055
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1903. Good condition.

Green cloth, gilt titles. 216mm x 153mm. xiv, 254 pages. Folding chart. 99 tissue-guarded colour plates. 3000 copies printed. An A. & C. Black Colour Book. Damp staining to bottom corner of front cover. Split to top of spine at front; to about half way down the book. Marks to covers. Corners are bumped. Ink stamp to front pastedown. Foxing to endpapers, outer page edges and margins. Tear to fold-out page. A working copy ONLY!

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HISTORICAL STEAM LOCOMOTIVES
Written by O.S. Nock.
Stock no. 1820328
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1st 1959. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Colour frontis. B/w photos. Light rubbing to board edges. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed, faded to spine and heavily scuffed to rear panel.

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LONDON UP TO DATE
Written by George Augustus Sala.
Stock no. 2133854
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1895. Good condition.

Essays describing scenes and characters by 'an authority on London streets'. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, red titles and decorations to front cover. 378 pages. Spine faded and worn with tear in cloth at top. Corners bumped and rubbed. A few faint marks to covers. Newspaper cutting featuring Sala stuck to front pastedown. Endpapers foxed. Pages lightly browned.

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AUCASSIN AND NICOLETE
Written by Harold Child. Illustrated by Anne Anderson.
Stock no. 1316854
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1st 1911. Very good condition.

Translated and edited by H. Child. Cream cloth with blue titles and decoration. 6 beautiful colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. 131 pages. Text surrounded with decorative gilt. Spine and corners bumped. Spine browned. Covers grubby. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers browned. Small booksellers sticker to rear pastedown.

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REMBRANDT
Written by Mortimer Menpes; C. Lewis Hind. Illustrated by Rembrandt.
Stock no. 1814271
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1st 1905. Very good condition.

Large format, Brown cloth. Mounted colour illustrations. Edges lightly rubbed. Free endpapers browned. All plates present. New pastedowns, some professional strengthening of sections using cloth.

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A DREADFUL OF DRAGONS
Written by Peggy Blakeley. Illustrated by Frank Francis.
Stock no. 2123242
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1st 1975. Very good condition.

Oblong format. Glazed pictorial boards. And other collections of creatures and people and things put together for fun. Colour illustrations. Very little text. ISBN: 0713615559. Bumping and wear to spine and corners. A few marks to covers. Uneven browning to covers.

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THE HEAD OF KAY'S
Written by P.G. Wodehouse. Illustrated by T.M.R. Whitwell.
Stock no. 1504928
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1st 1905. Almost very good condition.

Red pictorial cloth with white titles to front cover, gilt to spine. 8 b/w plates. 280 pages plus 8 page publication list. Spine bumped and worn with a couple of tiny splits to cloth, also faded. A little bumping and wear to corners and tiny bump to bottom edge of front cover. Both covers are marked, light stain to front cover below title. Small neat ink name and address to top corner of front endpaper. Repaired tear to inside margin of contents page. A couple of hinges cracked. All plates present but two partially detached and crease to corner of plate opposite page 210. Some browning, mainly to half-title page and last page in publication list. Some foxing throughout.

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WORLD'S CHILDREN
Written by Dorothy Menpes. Illustrated by Mortimer Menpes.
Stock no. 1314438
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1st 1903. Very good condition.

Deluxe edition limited to 500 copies. White decorated cloth with gilt titles. 100 colour plates. 246 pages, top edge gilt others untrimmed. SIGNED by the artist. This is copy no. 322. Spine and corners bumped. White cloth is slightly grubby. Foxing throughout (affects tissue-guards but not actual plates).

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JOHN HALIFAX GENTLEMAN
Written by Dinah Maria Murlock; Gordon Home. Illustrated by Oswald Moser; G.F. Nicholls.
Stock no. 2114825
Published by Adam & Charles Black. 1st thus 1912. Almost very good condition.

Deluxe, limited edition of 250 copies, SIGNED by publisher. Large format. Cream cloth with gilt titles and elaborate black/brown decorations. 20 tipped-in colour plates, with captioned page guards. This is copy 109. SIGNED by publisher. Damaged spine has been repaired - still some chipping. Bumping and wear to corners and cover edges. Front endpaper has been repaired. Some foxing and grubby marks. All plates present. Damp marks to bottom of last pages.

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