251. [Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew] His Majesty’s Stationary Office.

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Illustrated Guide.

London, H. M. Stationary Off, 1951. 19 cm. V, 132 pages. Illustrated in black and white throughout. Includes fold-out map. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

252. Curtayne, Alice.

Alice Curtayne and “The Furrow” – Monthly Journal published by the Leinster Leader, Naas and Edited by Rev. J.G.McGarry. A Collection of 56 issues of the Journal, including two issues with Curtayne – publications: 1. “Saint Patrick in his Confession” – (In: “The Furrow” from March 1951) / 2. “Marillac Manor” (in “The Furrow” from July 1959) / 3. “Ecumenism in Dublin” (In “The Furrow” from February 1966).

Naas, The Furrow / Leinster Leader, 1951 – 1969. Octavo. 56 Issues with different amounts of pages and content. Overall c. 2200 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Some of the issues with annotations and some with a former library-stamp. Very rare run of these periodicals which invited contributions from other women writers like Mairin Allen, Anna Dundurs etc.

253. Camp, Raymond R.

Duck Boats: Blinds: Decoys and Eastern Seabord Wildfowling. Drawings in line and color by G. Don Ray.

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. 8°. XVI, 240, IV pages. Original Hardcover. Good condition with some stronger signs of external wear. Staining also to endpapers and pastedowns. But the text and the illustrations inside in very good condition. One of the rarer books on Wildfowling. The preowner purchased this book from Ray Riling’s “Arms and Collector Service” – With a bookshop-sticker from Riling’s company attached to the rear pastedown.

254. [English History Collection] – Boswell, James.

Boswell’s London Journal 1762 – 1763. As first published in 1950 from the original MSS. Prepared for the press, with introduction and notes, by Frederick A. Pottle, Sterling Professor of English, Yale University.

London, The Reprint Society London, 1952. 13.5 cm x 20 cm. XII, 360 pages, including maps. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Slight browning of the pages. Clean inside. Solid binding.

255. Lunn, Sir Arnold. (Editor). Holt-Needham, Miss Phyllis. (Assistant Editor).

The British Ski Year Book. 1952 Published on behalf of The Ski Club of Great Britain founded 1903 and of the Alpine Ski Club founded 1908.

London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. 1952. 21 cm x 14 cm. 192 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Vol.XV No 34.]

256. Shaw, George Bernard / Mrs. Patrick Campbell [that is: “Beatrice Rose Stella Tanner”] / Alan Dent (Editor).

Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence.

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1952. Octavo. 339 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

257. Arnold, Richard.

Come Shooting With Me.

First Edition. London, Frederick Muller Ltd., 1953. 16 x 24 cm. 152 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. In protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

258. [John Minihan Collection] – Deschin, Jacob.

35mm Photography. Approaches and Techniques with the Miniature Camera [With images of Leica III with rangefinder focusing / Contax IIa / Canon IV-S2 / The Nikon / The Bolsey / The Kodak Signet / The Kodak Retina / etc.].

First Edition. San Fransisco, Camera Craft Publishing Company, 1953. 24.5cm x 17cm. 192 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of irish photographer John Minihan.

259. [English History Collection] – Cave, C. J. P.

Medieval Carvings in the Exeter Cathedral.

London, King Penguin Books, 1953. 8°. 64 Pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

260. [English History Collection] – Fulford, Roger.

Glyn’s 1753-1953: Six Generations in Lombard Street.

London / New York, Macmillan & Co Ltd / St Martin’s Press, 1953. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. XVI, 267. Original Hardcover with dustjacket covered in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Some browning of page edges. Slightly worn corners on cover. Inscription by preowner. Clean inside with solid binding.