Aldin, Cecil.

Sleeping Partners. A series of Episodes.

[First Edition]. London, Eyre and Spottiswoode, Notd dated. 30 x 24 cm. Title page plus twenty unnumbered pages with a drawing per page on brown background (see images).Losely inserted Errata slip. Original blue cloth. Hard cover. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Boards partially faded (see image). Edges and end papers age darkened, otherwise clean.

Anon.

The Pictorial World. Illustrated Newspaper. Containing numerous Engravings of the Principle Events at Home and Abroad. No. 126 – 130, 134 – 136, 141 – 158, 161. (27 numbers in total).

London, Newspaper Publishing Company, Ltd., 1876-1877. 39 x 29 cm. c. 430 pages (16 pages / issue). Illustrated throughout. Includes five colour maps (Sussex, North Wales, Bedfordshire, Norfolk, Warwickshire). Contemporary green cloth with gilt and black decorations. Very good condition. Binding rubbed, bumped and age darkened. Spine ends frayed. Binding shaky, but holding. Front hinge cracked. Internally age darkened and occasionally spotted. Minor closed tears.

Garth, Christian.

A Place for Animals. A Plea for the Preservation of Wild Life.

Proof Copy and First Edition. Two Volumes. London, Lutterworth Press, 1958. 20 x 13 cm. Proof Copy: 249 pages / First Edition: 256 pages. Both volumes illustrated with B&W photographs. Losely inserted are a letter by the author, two letters by the publisher and a three page typed draft of the Foreword by Alanbrooke to be included in the final book. Paperback Proof Copy. First Edition in original black cloth with dust jacket. Very good condition. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Dust dulled. Dust jacket edge worn with some knicks and several closed tears. Now in archival jacket.

Morris, T.A.

The Irish Greyhound Stud Book. Established by the Irish Coursing Club. 1923. Volume VIII. (Section 2). Containing the Names, Colours, Ages and Pedigrees of Greyhounds registered Therein from 31st December 1929, to 1st June 1930. Compiled by T.A. Morris, Keeper of the Irish Greyhound Stud Book.

Clonmel, The Greyhound and Sporting Press, 1930. 21 x 14 cm. 967 pages. A few illustrations and ads. Original gree cloth with gilt decorations on front board and spine. Gilt title on spine. Good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Age darkened and dust dulled. Front free end paper missing. Otherwise complete and clean inside.

Morris, T.A.

The Irish Greyhound Stud Book. Established by the Irish Coursing Club, 1923. Containing the Names, Colours, Ages and Pedigrees of Greyhounds registered therein from 1st January, 1934, to 31st May, 1934.

Volume XII. (Section II). Clonmel, The Greyhound and Sporting Press, 1934. 22 x 14 cm. 1644 pages. Original olive green cloth with gilt title and gilt decorations to front board and spine. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Spine creased. Front hinge open over ca. 5 cm. Binding sound. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Internally bright and clean.

Scott Burn, Robert.

Outlines of Modern Farming. Comprising Soils, Manures, and Crops; Framing Economy Stock – Cattle, Sheep, and Horses; the Dairy; Pigs; Poultry; Utilisation of Town Sewage; Irrigantion; Reclamation of Waste Land etc. etc.

London, Crosby Lockwood and Son, [1912]. 17 x 11 cm. vii, 227 / vii, 343 / 211 / iv, 211 / xx, 218 pages. Plus eight pages publishers list. Illustrated in B&W. Original quarter leather over cloth. Gilt decorations and title on spine. Edges red speckled. Very good condition. Rubbed and bumped. Age darkened. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Some fraying to top end of spine. Front and rear hinge cracked, but binding holding. Internally clean. An impressive book.

Wegman, William.

Puppies.

First edition. New York, Hyperion, 1997. 28.5cm x 22.5cm. 96 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed and signed by the author with an additional little drawing on the titlepage.

Youatt, William.

The Horse. With a Treatise of Draught.

A New Edition. London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851. 21 x 14 cm. viii, 581 pages plus 32 pages publishers list. Illustrated throughout in B&W. New (2018) brown cloth by Kenny’s in Galway. New decorated end papers. Very good condition. New binding. Edges dust dulled. With neat inscriptions opposite title page and a tipped in letter between pages 190 and 191. Both texts appear to be recepies for the treatment of horses. Otherwise internally bright and clean. A nice copy