Anon.

Cold Cookery. The Electric Refrigerator Home Handbook.

Third impression of second edition. London, British Electrical Development Association, 1952. 21 x 13 cm. 71 pages plus three blank pages for ‘Notes’. Printed blue on white with line decorations and B&W photos. New (2019) light coloured cloth. Hard cover. Original paperback cover now on front board (see images). New end papers. Very good condition. Binding new and clean. Recipe for ‘Lemon Cake’ handwritten on first ‘Notes’ page. Otherwise internally bright and clean. A nice copy.

Averbakh, Y./ Maizelis, I.

Comprehensive Chess Endings. Volume 4: Pawn Endings. Translated by Kenneth P. Neat.

Oxford, Pegamon Press, 1987. 8°. 296 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. (Pergamon Russian Chess)

Beckford, Peter.

Thoughts on Hunting. In a Series of Familiar Letters by Peter Beckford, Esq., with Illustrations by G. Denholm Armour and Introduction by E.D. Cuming.

Limited Edition De Luxe. No. 172/350. Signed by Artist. London, New York & Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton, [1911]. 28 x 23 cm. xxiii, 155 pages. NO ILLUSTRATIONS! ALL PLATES HAVE BEEN REMOVED. Original brown leather with gilt decorations and titles. Top edge gilt. Fore and tail edge deckle. Good condition, BUT NO PLATES! All plates have been cleanly removed. Text block is complete. Binding is rubbed and bumped. Edges and end papers dust dulled. Ex Libris (Raymond Butler) on front paste down. A few numbers written on front free end paper. Internally bright and clean.

Bridges, Anthony.

Modern Salmon Fishing.

Second Edition. London, Adam & Charles Black, 1969. 22.4cm x 14.5cm. xx, 229 (5) pages. With frontispiece photograph. Seventeen plates and thirty-four line illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Browne, Phyllis.

The Dictionary of Dainty Breakfasts. With a Tabular Introduction by A Mere Man.

London, Cassell and Company, 1899. 18 x 12 cm. xii, 139 pages. Original cloth hard cover with black title on front board and spine. Very good condition. Binding rubbed and bumped. Some discolorations (see images). Front joint cracked in places. Binding sound. Ex Libris and name of previous owner on front end papers. Internally age darkened with very few pencil marks.

Burns, Pagraig (editor).

Soccer History Westport United 1911 – 2011.

First Edition. Westport, CPR Publications, 2011. 24 x 17 cm. 335 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour and B&W. Original red cloth hard cover. Gilt titles. Inside original decorated dust jacket. Fine condition.

Captain Hale.

How To Tie Salmon Flies. A Treatise on the Methods of Tying the Various Kinds of Salmon Flies. With Illustrated Directions and containing the Dressing of Forty Flies. By Captain Hale. East Lancashire Regiment.

First Edition. London, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1892. 22 x 14 cm. xi, 122 pages plus 4 pages of Ads. Illustrated. Original red cloth. Gilt titles. Very good condition. Binding seriously stained and discoloured (see images). Edges and end papers dust dulled. Front hinge ctacked and front free end paper almost disconnected. Internally bright and clean. A very good reading copy or candidate for rebinding.

Carman, Kerry. (Editor and illustrator).

Emily’s Garden. The Colonial New Zealand Garden of a Suffolk Lady.

First edition. New Zealand, Random Century New Zealand Ltd., 1990. 16,5 x 19,5 cm. VII, 143 pages with illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent, close to new condition. Inscribed and signed by the author. A very nice copy.

Chapman, Abel.

On Safari. Big-Game Hunting in British East Africa. With Studies in Bird Life. With 170 Illustrations by the Author and E. Caldwell. Sketch-Maps and Photographs.

First Edition. London, Edward Arnold, 1908. 21 x 14 cm. xvi, 340 pages. Illustrated. Fine dark half morocco over cloth covered boards. Gilt title on spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled end papers. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear. Small abrasion to rear board (see images). Edges dust dulled and mildly foxed. Occasional mild foxing, mainly to first and last few pages. Ex Libris of previous owner (Alan Francis Brooke) on front paste down (see notes below). Internally clean. A very nice copy in a sturdy very attractive binding.

Clark, Atwood.

Gun Dogs and their Training. The Sportsman’s Library Volume IV.

First Edition. London, Philip Allan, 1935. 18 x 12 cm. 253 pages with eight Plates. Original red cloth. Silver Titles. Hard cover. Some shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust dulled and foxed. Internally mildly foxed.