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Small Book of Common Prayer and Hymns Item number: C12368 Date: circa mid 20th century Price: NZ$18.00 Vintage book of Common Prayer, Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Printed in Great Britain by W.M.Collins Sons & Co, 144 Cathedral St, Glasgow. Hard cover, blue cloth. Measures 12 cm by 8 cm by 2.25 cm thick. Internally in excellent condition – only fault is name written on inside cover. Externally slight scuffing to cover and spine edges. |
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Chambers Cyclopedia of English Literature, 1876, 2 Vols. Item number: C9846-1 Date: 1876 Price: NZ$200.00 Two Volumes, Chambers Cyclopedia of English Literature published by W& R. Chambers, London and Edinburg, 1876. Third Edition, revised by Robert Carruthers. A History, Critical and Biographical, of British Authors with Specimens of their Writings. Hard cover (rebound), with marbled page edges. Large volumes, measuring each 25.5 cm by 18.5 cm by 5.7 cm thick. Some foxing to front introductory pages, otherwise very good condition. Approximately 816 pages per volume. |
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Manual of Map Reading Book Item number: C10021-1 Date: 1914 Price: NZ$38.00 Military Books – “a manual issued by command of the Army Council for the guidance of all concerned”, War Office, 1914. The Manual of Map Reading and Field Sketching. General Staff – War Office, London. First printed 1912 – reprinted with additions 1914 (at the outbreak of WW1). Hard Cloth cover, 101 pages with plates and pull outs, training maps England and Europe. Condition is basically very sound, some dog–ears to cover corners, some pencil writing in rear lists of books available, and on inside front cover – none in book itself. Book measures 18 cm by 13 cm and 1.3 cm thick. |
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Weldons Encyclopedia of Needlework, Circa 1940 Item number: C10021-4 Date: Circa 1940 Price: NZ$70.00 Weldon’s Encyclopedia of needlework. Hard cover, published by The Waverley Book Co Ltd, London. 876 pages. Many black and white a photo illustrations. (Nearly 2000). Circa 1940s? Book measures 23.5 cm by 15 cm and 4.5 cm thick. One minor scuff to cover edge, otherwise excellent condition. |
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The Knights at Bay, by Philip Lindsay, circa 1942 Item number: C9548 Date: circa 1942 Price: NZ$18.00 Hardback with dust cover. 189 pages, 9 illustrations (1 colour, the rest black and white). Published by Basil Blackwell, Oxford, England. First printed in 1935. This is an ex-school prize, Standard 1, 1942. Dust jacket is a little scruffy, and the book exposes the spine in a couple of places (see photo), but overall very sound. Some foxing to outer edges of pages. “The Knights at Bay” by Philip Lindsay. Tales of Action, No. 1. Possibly a first edition. No reprint dates. |
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Reveries of a Batchelor, I.K. Marvel, 1906: Hardback Item number: C8731 Date: 1906 Price: NZ$68.00 Hardback book by I.K. Marvel, entitled “Reveries of a Bachelor” — illustrations and page decorations by E.M. Ashe. ‘I.K. Marvel’ was the pseudonym of Donald G. Mitchell (1822–1908). A very popular best seller at the time. Ashe was a well known illustrator, and the colour plates are very good. “Reveries” was first published in book form in 1850. This version with the Ashe illustrations was published 1906 by Bobbs-Merill Company, Indianapolis. This book: Number of pages: 338; 16 colour plates plus one on the cover. Two pages still retain their hand-cut edges. Book measures 21 cm by 14 cm. Excellent condition cover and spine with just a tiny amount of scuff to corners — no dust dulling. Light foxing to page edges when book is closed, mainly on top and front. Some minor foxing inside, mainly to pages before the preface. Otherwise very tight and good condition. |
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Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, published 1898 Item number: C8124 Date: 1898 Price: NZ$35.00 Hard cover Victorian edition, published 1898 by Smith, Elder & Co, London. “New Edition, with Prefatory Note by Algernon Charles Swinburne”. Book measures 19.5 cm by 14 cm and 2.8 cm thick; 377 pages. Edges of pages and spine discoloured, otherwise very good condition. |