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Writers of the Future : The Year's Twelve Best Tales from the Writers of the Future International Writers' Program
Hubbard, L. Ron; Kress, Nancy; Stirling, S. M.; Benford, Gregory; Eggleton, Bob
Language: English
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Writers of the Future : The Year's Twelve Best Tales from the Writers of the Future International Writers' Program
Hubbard, L. Ron; Kress, Nancy; Stirling, S. M.; Benford, Gregory; Eggleton, Bob
Language: English
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Geologic Sections and Maps across Brooks Range and Arctic Slope to Beaufort Sea, Alaska (The Geological Society of America Map and Chart Series Map MC-28S).
Mull, C. G., D. H. Roeder, I. L. Tailleur, G. H. Pessel, Arthur Grantz and S. D. May.
Published by The Geological Society of America., 1987
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Add to basketNo Binding. Condition: Very Good. Large folded sheet in printed envelope with three geologic maps, two cross-sections, three seismic profiles, two aeromagnetic and bouguer gravity profiles, a columnar section with description of units, and a summary of data sources; owner's stamps; ex-corporate library; in very good condition. Map/Print.…

Writers of the Future : The Year's Twelve Best Tales from the Writers of the Future International Writers' Program
Hubbard, L. Ron; Kress, Nancy; Stirling, S. M.; Benford, Gregory; Eggleton, Bob
Language: English
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Writers of the Future: The Year's Twelve Best Tales from the Writers of the Future International Writers' Program
Hubbard, L. Ron/ Smith, Dean Wesley/ Kress, Nancy/ Stirling, S. M./ Benford, Gregory
Language: English
Published by Galaxy Pr Llc, 2024
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Writers of the Future : The Year's Twelve Best Tales from the Writers of the Future International Writers' Program
Hubbard, L. Ron; Kress, Nancy; Stirling, S. M.; Benford, Gregory; Eggleton, Bob
Language: English
Published by Galaxy Press, 2024
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Writers of the Future: The Year's Twelve Best Tales from the Writers of the Future International Writers' Program
Hubbard, L. Ron/ Smith, Dean Wesley/ Kress, Nancy/ Stirling, S. M./ Benford, Gregory
Language: English
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Published by John Castle, 1925
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. First Edition. boards are worn and bumped. foxing and markings. book is damp damaged and wavy. uneven page ends. loose binding and visible netting. poor copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Published by John Castle, 1925
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Add to baskethardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. First Edition. No dust jacket. Some edge wear and scuffing to the blue cloth boards. Spine sunned and frayed at the ends, with a tear to the bottom third. Page edges tanned and foxed. An ex-libris plate on the front pastedown. Contents firmly bound and clear within. A good condition book.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Minor reading wear. School stamp on title page. Otherwise a square, tight, unmarked book. B/w and color illustrations. Index. xii, 570 pp.
More imagesPunch Volumes CXVIII and CXIX - 118 and 119 Full Year January to December 1900
Arthur Conan Doyle, Fox Russell, Helen Mathers, G.S. Street et al
Language: English
Published by Punch, London, 1900
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. iv / 464 & iv / 464 pp two uniform volumes for the year 1900, bound in burgundy cloth with gilt illustration and black decoration to front, gilt title and illustrations to spine. Cloth a little marked , spines sunned with marks and indentations, corners a little rubbed, endpapers spotted and marked - solid reading copies covering part of the Boer War { OVER 2.5 Kilos PACKED EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE NEEDED OUTSIDE UK}. Phil May, Bernard Partridge, Reginald Cleaver, Tom Browne, Raven Hill et al (illustrator).…
More imagesBobby Bear's Annual
Arthur Groom; Betty E. Spence; Berta Lawrence; Christine Smith; Samuel Jeans; Doris M. Lee; Silvey A. Clarke; Lilian E. Shorter; Wallace Arter; May Hirst; Joyce Goodways; S. G. J. Ouseley; Nancy Tubbs; Dorothy MacDonald; Jennifer
Published by Dean & Son Ltd
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No date. Circa 1947/1948. Depicts Bobby Bear and friends at the seaside in the water playing. Blue linen spine faded otherwise boards are in good condition. Lovely colour frontis. The first story is "The Flower Show". A children's annual with lots of stories, poems games and puzzles.…
Published by John Castle, London. 1925., 1925
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Add to basket8vo, 320pp, with black and white illustrations. A good hardback copy with flecking and wear tlo boards. Foxing to fore edges. Binding canted. Light spotting throughout.
Published by John Castle, London, 1925
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Contact seller5-star sellerFirst edition. 8vo. [ix], 320 pp. Illustrations. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (82353).

Published by John Castle (1925), London, 1925
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Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. First edition. 320 pp., 8 monochrome plates; octavo, original blue cloth. Strange weddings and divorces from the records of Doctor's Commons (roughly equivalent to Civil Court in the US). Author was himself a Barrister-at-Law, Surrogate in Doctor's Commons. Slight loss of color to front cover, else fine in fine jacket.…

Published by John Castle
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Published by John Castle, GB, 1925
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: nrVG. No DW. 1st Edition. Book is in near very good condition with minor but just noticeable signs of wear and/or age.
More imagesPublished by John Castle, 1925
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A good hardback first edition in a dust jacket. There is an old inscription on the front free endpaper (pictured), and the shadow of some pencilled numbers on the rear free endpaper, along with a small blemish. Light scattered foxing throughout. The dust jacket (with its oval cut out on the upper cover showing the gilt ring on the board beneath) is in nice condition, and protected by a non-adhesive transparent sleeve. Overall, a good hardback first edition in a very good jacket.…

The annotated Oscar Wilde : poems, fiction, plays, lectures, essays, and letters [Requiescat;Ravenna;Wasted days;Madonna mia;Sonnet to liberty;The arlot's ome;On the sale by auction of Keat's love letters;The new remorse;To my wife, with a copy of my poems;The Sphinx;The ballad of Reading Gaol;Poems in prose;The disciple;The artist;Prose fiction;Lord Arthur Savile's crime;The happy prince;The nightmare and the rose;The remarkable rocket;The selfish giant;The birthday of the Infanta;The picture of Dorian gray;Plays;Lady Windermere's fan;Salome;The importance of being Earnest;The Gribsby episode;Lectures and essays;The Irish poets of '48;Impressions of America;Pen, pencil and poison;The soul of man under socialism;De Profundis ]
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. ; Hyde, H. Montgomery (Harford Montgomery), 1907-1989. ; artwork, Harry Furniss, Max Beerbohm, Aubrey Beardsley, Hermann Struck, Leslie Ward, Toulouse-Lautrec, Charles Ricketts, William Rothenstein, Alfred Thompson, Althea Gyles, Jeasn de Bosschere, Alastair, Arthur Wragg, Frans Masereel, James McNeill Whistler, Rex Whistler, Dorothea Braby, Charles Robinson, Peter Cholerton, Phillipe Jullian, Hans Henning Voigt, Majeska, Paul Thiriat, John Singer Sargent, Henry Keen, W R Sickert, Alfred Bryan, Cecil Beaton, Leon Bakst, Michael Weight, Sheila Jackson, Beatrix Whistler, H Viele, Thomas Nast, Thornton Hunt, Albert Sterner, Carlo Pellegrini, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, S P Hall, Phil May, Max Meyerfeld
Language: English
Published by New York : C.N. Potter : Distributed by Crown Publishers, 1982, 1982
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st American edtion, 1st printing ; 487 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm ; ISBN: 0517547457; 9780517547458; National Library: 014878580 LCCN: 82-12196 ; LC: PR5812; Dewey: 828/.809 ; OCLC: 8587824 ; purple cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: Poems -- Requiescat - Ravenna -- Wasted days -- Madonna mia -- Sonnet to liberty -- The arlot's ome -- On the sale by auction of Keat's love letters -- The new remorse -- To my wife, with a copy of my poems -- The Sphinx -- The ballad of Reading Gaol -- Poems in prose -- The disciple -- The artist -- Prose fiction -- Lord Arthur Savile's crime -- The happy prince -- The nightmare and the rose -- The remarkable rocket -- The selfish giant -- The birthday of the Infanta -- The picture of Dorian gray -- Plays -- Lady Windermere's fan -- Salome -- The importance of being Earnest -- The Gribsby episode -- Lectures and essays -- The Irish poets of '48 -- Impressions of America -- Pen, pencil and poison -- The soul of man under socialism -- Phrases and philosophies for the use of the young -- Letters - De Profundis -- To Robert Ross from Reading Prison -- To the Daily Chronicle -- The case of Warder Martin : some cruelties of prison life -- To Robert Ross from Berneval, France -- To the Daily Chronicle -- Prison reform -- To Robert Ross from Rome ; "Critical introduction and background information accompany selections of Wilde's writings that includes The Selfish Giant, Lady Windermere's Fan, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Picture of Dorian Gray" ; large, heavy volume ; nick on corner of dustjacket, else FINE/FINE. Book.…
More imagesPublished by John Castle, London, 1925
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Blue cloth binding with gilt spine lettering and wedding ring centre fr. cover, clean and unworn. ix+320+(4, pub.list), 8 ill. plates ex-pagination (collated as present); a bottom marginal note to one page of some interest, three slipped in contemporary news clippings and a handwritten note, the only fault is intermittent tanning spots, inc. to t.p., and a little heavier to text-block edges. Unclipped jacket, in protective sleeve as acquired, must be considered Fine for age, only flaw appears to be a small chip to top front joint, the front has an oval hole designed to show the gilt wedding ring on front cover. 15 cm x 23 cm.…
More imagesHamish | The Memoirs of Group Captain T. G. Mahaddie DSO, DFC, AFC, CZMC, CENG, FRAeS. | The Story of a Pathfinder (Signed)
Mahaddie, T. G. [Group Captain Thomas Gilbert "Hamish" Mahaddie, DSO, DFC, AFC & Bar, FRAeS (19 March 1911 - 16 January 1997) was a Scotsman who served in the Royal Air Force]. General Sir Edward Arthur Burgess, KCB, OBE (30 September 1927 - 8 May 2015) was a British Army officer who served as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe.
Published by Published by Ian Allan Ltd., Terminal House, Station Approach, Shepperton, Surrey First Edition . 1989., 1989
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Add to basketCondition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original aqua marine cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 166 pp with monochrome archive photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Housed in Fine condition open-fronted slip case. From the private library of General Sir Edward Arthur Burgess, KCB, OBE with his personal bookplate 'E. A. Burgess' to the verso of the front free end paper with a SIGNED dedication to him by the author to the title page + cartoon of Mahaddie titled 'Hamish' to the front free end paper. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ROYAL AIR FORCE (RAF).…

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More imagesVoices in a Giant City | Poems 1934-1947
Tessimond, A. S. J. [Arthur Seymour John Tessimond (19 July 1902 in Birkenhead - 13 May 1962 in Chelsea, London) was an English poet].
Published by Published by William Heinemann Ltd., London First Edition . 1947., 1947
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original deep slate cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back, circular embossed motif to the front board. 12mo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Tessimond first began to publish in the 1920s in literary magazines and was to see three volumes of poetry published during his life: Walls of Glass in 1934, Voices in a Giant City in 1947 and Selections in 1958, he also contributed several poems to a 1952 edition of Bewick's Birds. Contains pp (6), vii-viii, 66, (2). Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with much sun fading down the spine and edges, not price clipped, 6s. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.…
More imagesGeneral Orders. Spain and Portugal. April 27th To December 28th, 1809. Volume I [Signed]
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (1 May 1769 - 14 September 1852). Charles Stewart (as he then was) Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry KG, GCB, GCH, PC (18 May 1778 - 6 March 1854), named Charles William Stewart until 1822 and known by his courtesy title as The Lord Stewart from 1814 to 1822, was a British soldier, politician and nobleman.
Published by London. Printed by Authority, by T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall First Edition . 1811., 1811
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Add to basketFirst edition hard back binding in contemporary full diced brown leather, raised bands to the spine with gilt titles on three faded labels, all page edges gilt, marble end leaves. 8vo. 8½'' x 5¼''. Contains [iv] 288 [including index] printed pages of text. Ink name and pencil numbers to the second front free end paper, very light foxing, from the private library of Thomas Godwin Campbell Reynolds with his coat of arms bookplate to the front paste down. In April 1809 Charles Stewart was made Adjutant General to Sir Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) with the British forces fighting in the Peninsular War, a post in which he distinguished himself, particularly at the battles of Busaco and Talavera. He received the thanks of Parliament in 1810, and on 20 November 1813 was made Colonel of the 25th Light Dragoons, becoming a Knight of the Bath that same year. Until the end of the war he was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Berlin, and was also Military Commissioner with the allied armies, being wounded at the Battle of Kulm. Through his daughter Lady Frances, Lord Londonderry was the great-grandfather of Winston Churchill. SIGNED by Charles Stewart to the verso of the title page 'For the use of the Brigade Major attached to the 1st Brigade of Cavalry, Charles Stewart, August 1809.' Ron McGuigan: 'I have never come across the numbering of the cavalry brigades before, only by commanders's names. The following three officers were Brigade-Majors to the cavalry in 1809 including August: Captain John Mahony 14th Light Dragoons, B-M to S. Cotton (Challis lists as 2nd Brigade?), Captain George Holmes 3rd Dragoon Guards, B-M to H. Fane (Challis lists as 1st Brigade?), Captain William Serle 24th Foot, B-M to J. Erskine (no number)'. A special thank you to author Ron McGuigan, [co-author of 'Inside Wellington's Peninsular Army 1808-1814'], for supplying and helping with the above information. Member of the P.B.F.A. WELLINGTON, Duke of (1769-1852).…

Ode On The Death of the Duke of Wellington
Tennyson, Alfred Lord [Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS (6 August 1809 - 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets]. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (1 May 1769 - 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as Prime Minister. He won a notable victory against Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Published by Published by Edward Moxon, Dover Street, London First Edition . 1852., 1852
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. First unimproved edition of this commemorative poem, written by Tennyson as Poet Laureate in publisher's original side stitched steel blue paper covers, black title lettering to the front cover. Subsequent editions resulted in a further 29 lines being added. 8vo. 8¾'' x 5½''. Wellington died at Walmer Castle in Deal on 14 September 1852. This was his residence as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. Walmer Castle was said to have been his favourite residence. He was found to be unwell on that morning and was aided from his military campaign bed (the same one he used throughout his historic military career) and seated in his chair where he died. His death was recorded as being due to the after-effects of a stroke culminating in a series of seizures. He was aged 83. Contains 16 page elegy written by Tennyson while Poet Laureate. Odd spots to the pages, nothing heavy, light shelf rubbing to the rear cover and in Very Good sound and original condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. WELLINGTON, Duke of (1769-1852). …