The Song of the Cold.
First Edition. New York, The Vanguard Press, Inc., 1948. 24.5cm x 16.5cm. 113 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.
EUR 40,-- Order
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Operations of the Eighth Corps. Normandy to the Rhine. Field-Marshal Alanbrooke’s Copy. Account of Operations from Normany to the River Rhine.
First Edition. London, St. Clements Press, [1948] 24 x 15 cm. (4), 171 pages. With a frontispiece, few illustrations in text and threee coloured folding maps in rear pocket. Original grey cloth with red title on front board and spine. In original decorated dust jacket. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear.Edges and end papers age darkened. Occassional mild foxing. Dust jacket with some edge wear and mild fraying to spine ends. Short closed tear to the back of the DJ. Now in archival jacket. With a tipped in printed card to ‘Field Marshal The Viscount Alanbrooke… with the Compliments of the Members of the Officer’ Association H.Q.8-Corps’.
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The First Decade. Ten Years’ work of the Medical Missionaries of Mary. 1937 – 1947.
First Edition. Dublin, At the Sign of the Three Candles, [1948]. 22 x 14 cm. xvi, 105 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original decorated stiff paper wrappers. Soft covers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear and dust dulling to covers. Internally bright and clean. A very nice copy.
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New Irish Poets. Representative Selections from the Work of 37 Contemporaries. Edited by Devin A. Garrity with Woodcuts by Harry Kernoff, R.H.A.
First Edition. New York, Devin-Adair Company, 1948. 22 x 15 cm. xiii, 209 pages. Eight woodcuts and B&W photos of the Poets. Original pale green cloth. Hard cover. Inside original dust jacket, now inside clear archival jacket. Very good in very good dust jacket. A lovely copy.
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The Lone Kiwi.
First Edition. Dublin, Dawson Publications, 1948. 18 x 12 cm. 234 pages with six full page B&W Illustrations. Original orange cloth with gilt title on spine. In original decorated dust jacket. Very good in fair dust jacket. Cloth binding dust dulled with minor shelf wear. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Dust jacket has some large paper losses to spine and rear (see image). Marked by colour pens on front cover. Dust jacket now inside archival jacket.
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Britain at War. Narrative of a Film Record.
Second and Enlarged Edition. London, MaxLove Publishing, 1948. 22 x 16 cm. xii, 66 pages. With colour and B&W Illustrations. Original cloth spine over papered boards. Hard Cover. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Small stain on front board. Rear hinge cracked. Inscribed by the author on half title page. Internally bright and clean.
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Compendium Historiae Ordinis Praedicatorum.
Revised and updated Edition. Rome, Pontificum Athenaeum Angelicum, 1948. c 24 x 17 cm. xxiv, 733, (2). Modern half morroco over marbled boards. Gilt title and decorations. Four raised bands. Matching marbled end papers. Near fine condition. Minor shelf wear. Edges dust dulled. Internally clean. A very nice copy.
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The Flying Postman. A Porpoise Book by V.H. Drummond.
First Edition. West Drayton & Boston, Penguin Books & Houghton Mifflin, 1948. 22 x 18 cm. 48 unnumbered pages. Colour Illustrations throughout. Original cardboard covers. New (2024) matching blue cloth spine. New end papers. Very good condition. Boards rubbed and bumped with some very mild losses to corners (see images). New end papers. A few brown spots (foxing or stains) to first two pages. One page ‘repaired’ with clear tape. Some old tape marks to one other page. Overall a bright and clean copy of this scarce first edition.
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