1. Askari, Nasreen / Arthur, Liz.

Uncut Cloth: Saris Shawls and Sashes.

London, Merrell Holberton, 1999. 22.5 cm x 27.8 cm. 128 pages. With colour illustrations throughout. Original Softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Contains loose ephemera, an article entitled ‘Paisley Shawls’ with information on ‘weaving a paisley shawl’.

2. Batselier, Dom Pieter / Callender, Elsie (trans.)

Saint Benedict – Father of Western Civilization.

Antwerp, Mercatorfonds, 1981, 26 cm x 33 cm. 476 pages. 476 beautiful mononchrome and colour illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Near fine condition. Interior in excellent condition also.

3. Enderle, Alfred / Meyerhöfer, Dietrich / Unverfehrt, Gerd.

Small People – Great Art / Restricted growth from an artistic and medical viewpoint.

Hamm, Artcolor Verlag, 1994. 24.5 cm x 22.5 cm. 324 pages. Illustrated with 116 full-colour plates. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4. Fanthorpe, Lionel and Patricia.

The Oak Island Mystery. the secret of the world’s greatest treasure hunt.

Toronto, Hounslow Press, 1995. 19 x 23 cm. XIII, 221 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

5. Fountain, Robert / Coward, Malcolm (illustrator) / Whitcombe, Susie (illustrator).

The Art of the Traditional Circus: A History of the Circus and its Artists.

Askham, Palette Press, 2011. 27.5 cm x 21 cm. VIII, 216 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent, as new condition. Signed by the author Robert Fountain on the titlepage.

6. Freitag, Sandria B.

Culture and Power in Banaras – Community Performance, and Environment, 1800 – 1980. Edited by Sandria B. Freitag.

Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford, University of California Press, 1992. 15.5 cm x 23 cm. XVIII, 290 pages. 17 Illustrations. Cover illustration ‘Drawing of Ramlila’ by James Prinsep 1833. Softcover. Very fine condition with only minor signs of external wear.

7. Hammerton, J. A.

Manners and Customs of Mankind: Their Origins and Their Observance Throughout the World Today. Edited by J.A. Hammerton.

In Three Volumes. London, Amalgamated Press Ltd., No Year (1918). 21.5 cm x 27.5 cm. 1356 pages. Abundantly illustrated in black and white, with full-page colour illustrations. Original Hardcover. Gilt titles to spine. Red speckled decorative edges. Very good condition in firm bindings and some rubbing to the binding only. The price for this set of three books includes international shipping per Courier !

8. Hoyle, Edmond.

Hoyle’s Games Improved : Being practical Treatises on the following fashionable Games, viz.: Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess, Back-Gammon, Billiards, Cricket, Tennis, Quinze, Hazard, and Lansquenet. In Which Are Also Contained The Method of Betting at those Games upon equal or advantageous Terms. Including The Laws of the several Games, as settled and agreed to at Whites and Stapleton’s Chocolate Houses. Revised and corrected by Thomas Jones, Esq.

London, Printed for W. Wood in Fleet-Street, 1778. Small Octavo (9.5 cm x 15 cm). XI, 216 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Spine professionally repaired, original endpapers preserved. Name of preowner “Desproz” on titlepage. A little dusty but overall very desirable and very rare publication.

9. [Knight, Dame Laura] Wortley, Laura (Foreword).

On With The Show – Drawings by Dame Laura Knight DBE. Catalogue notes by Caroline Fox.

London, David Messum / The Studio Fine Art Publications, 1988. 16 cm x 21 cm. 64 pages and a further ten unpaginated. c.64 black and white and colour prints throughout. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Internal pages clean and bright with only one minor smudging to page 65.

10. Lively, Adam.

Masks: Blackness, Race and the Imagination.

London, Chatto & Windus. 1998. 16 cm x 24.5 cm. 295 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

11. Mead, Margaret / Cooke MacGregor, Frances.

Growth and Culture. A Photographic Study of Balinese Childhood. Based Upon Photographs by Gregory Bateson and analyzed in Gesell Categories.

New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1951. 21 cm x 28 cm. 223 pags. 58 black-and-white photographic plates. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor tears to dustjacket.

12. Pratt, T.K.

Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English.

Toronto, Buffalo, London, University of Toronto Press, 1988. 18 cm x 25.5 cm. XXX, 192 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Small inscription by previous author on front free endpaper.

13. Williams, Jonathan (editor) / Cribb, Joe (editor) / Errington, Elizabeth (editor).

Money: A History.

London, British Museum Press, 1997. 19 cm x 24.5 cm. 256 pages including many photographs and illustrations. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.