1071. Cooke, Arthur O.

At the Zoo. Pictures by Winifred Austen.

London, Edinburgh and New York, Thomas Nelson and Sons, no year. 22 cm x 29 cm. Frontispiece, 152 pages. 12 colour illustrations including frontispiece on separate plates. Numerous illustrations within text. Hardcover [publisher’s original cream cloth] with title and pictorial on front baord with tooled bordering. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very minor foxing to an otherwise clean and bright interior.

1072. Buchan, John / Olcott, Frances Jenkins[editor].

The Magic Walking-Stick and Stories from the Arabian Nights .

London, Associated Newspapers, no year (c.1900). 15 cm x 20 cm. Frontispiece, VI, 314 pages. Numerous colour illustrations Hardcover [publisher’s original orange cloth] with lettering and pictorials on spine and front board. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine shows fading. Light tanning and occasional foxing throughout. Binding good and firm and bookblock tight and square. Unmarked interior. Name of previous owner on rear pastedown.

1073. Dickson, George.

Railways Shown to the Children.

London & Edinburgh, T.C. & E.C. Jack, no year [c.1917]. 12 cm x 16.5 cm. Frontispiece, VII, 95 pages. 40 coloured plates and numerous illustrated within text. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Pictoral on front board with gilt lettering and bordering. Deckled edges. Bound purple nylon bookmark. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of previous owner on front end paper. Interior bright and clean. [Shown to the Children Series, No. 15]

1074. Gillon, Captain Stair.

The Story of the 29th Division – A Record of Gallant Deeds. Compliled from Narratives supplied by the Three Divisonal Commanders and Others.

London, Edinburgh, and New York, Thomas Nelson and Sons, no year (c.1925) 15.5 cm x 23 cm. Frontispiece, XV, 276 pages. 3 portrait plates and 12 colour maps. Hardcover [publisher’s original brown cloth] with lettering on spine and front board. Red Design (Divisional insignia) to both spine and board also. Deckled fore- and tail edges. In protective Collector’s Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Top edge dust-toned with age. Occasional foxing to and otherwise clean and bright interior.

1075. Driscoll, Charles B.

Kansas Irish.

London and Glasgow, Art and Educational Publishers Ltd, 1946. 14.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 320 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original cream cloth] with lettering on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean. Signed name of preowner on front endpaper.

1076. Finlay, T.A.

With the Army of O’Neill. An Irish Historical Romance.

Dublin and Cork, The Educational Company of Ireland Limited, no year. 12.5 cm x 18.5 cm. Frontispiece, 176 pages. 4 other illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with lettering on spine and front board. Pictoral to front board also. Fair condition. Some soiling to front board. Wear to spine cloth. Board corners rubbed and bumped. Gutter between endpage and rear pastedown cracked with exposed cloth. Binding shaky. Minor damp staining to top edges. Marking to interior. Some dog-eared pages. Front endpaper carries private signature of ‘James O’Sullivan, Bantry.’

1077. Holmes, Thomas.

London’s Underworld.

London / New York, J.M. Dent & Sons / E.P.Dutton & Co, 1912. 14.5 cm x 21.2 cm VII, 255 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Deign to front board. Gilt top edges. Good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Foxing throughout. Binding still firm and strong.

1078. Sikes, [Bartholomew].

Sikes’ Tables of the Concentrated Strength of Spirits, with directions for the use of the Hydrometer. Established Throughout the United Kingdom for Estimating the Duties on Spirituous Liquors. To which is added, Tables of Specific Gravity adapted for the use of the Hydrometer.

Revised. No place, No publisher, No year (c.1865). 14 cm x 21.8 cm. VIII, 102 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with gilt lettering on front board with blind tooling. Good- condition. Soiled boards. Stained. Foxing to textblock edge and throughout interior.

1079. Massard. F. Victor (Editor) / [Lot, Pierre].

Pêcheur d’Islande. Annotations

3rd Impression. London, Rivingtons, 1916. 11 cm x 15.8 cm. 251 pages: Pêcheur d’Islande, 171 pages / Annotations booklet, 80 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with decorated front board. Softcover booklet with captioned blue paperboards enclosed in pocket at rear paste down. Good- condition. Hardcover board show shelf wear. Corners are rubbed and bumped. Booklet paper boards and preliminary pages creased. Interiors of both mostly clean and bright with only very occasional pencilled notes. Open tear to front endpaper of book, which carries pencilled private signature. Some foxing to preliminary pages of booklet. All bindings good and firm. [Massard’s Series of French Readers]

1080. Anrick, Carl-Julius (editor) / Anrick Calla (editor)

Svenska Turistföreningens Tidning.

8 volumes. Stockholm, Carl-Julius Anrick, 1933 – 1958 21.5 cm x 29 cm. Circa. 4367 pages. Vol.1933-34, 379 pages / Vol.1935-36, 410 pages / Vol.1937-38, 446 pages / Vol.1939, 255 pages / Vol.1940-45, 1183 pages / Vol.1946-50, 955 pages / Vol.1951-54, 764 pages / Vol. 1955-58, 764 pages. Hardcover / Seven volumes with green cloth with gilt lettering on title label on spine. One volume with brown cloth and gilt lettering on spine. Library-Signet of the Alpine Club on all spines. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some tanning to otherwise clean and bright interior. All bindings firm !