141. Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles.

A Complete Guide to Heraldry. [With a chapter: “The Status and the Meaning of a Coat of Arms in Great Britain”]. Illustrated by Nearly 800 Designs, Mainly from Drawings by Graham Johnston, Herald Painter to the Lyon Court.

Revised Edition. London and Edinburgh, T. Nelson & Sons, Ltd. / T.C. & E.C. Jack, Ltd., no year [c.1925]. 18 cm x 24 cm. Frontispiece, XII, 647 pages. With 779 illustrations and 9 plates including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original tanned cloth] with lettering on spine and front board. Large heraldic device on front board. With rare illustrated dustjacket in protective mylar. Deckled fore and tail-edges. Gilt top edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Dustjacket chipped and torn. Some minor foxing to endpapers and edges. Some untrimmed pages. Unmarked interior.

142. O’Gorman, Francis (ed.).

A Concise Companion to the Victorian Novel.

First Edition. Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2005. 15 x 23 cm. XXIII, 277 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

143. [Fonteyn, Margot – Her personal copy] Reyna, Ferdinando.

A Concise History of Ballet.

Second Edition. New York, Grosset and Dunlap, 1965. 15cm x 21.5cm. 255 pages. 232 gravure illustrations, 16 in full colour. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the collection of Margot Fonteyn – photographer and artist Keith Money. Margot Fonteyn’s own copy with inscription to pastedown: “To Margo from Wally – Christmas ‘66”.

144. [John Minihan Collection] – Helmut Gernsheim.

A Concise History of Photography Third Revised Edition with 307 illustrations, including 26 in full colour.

New York, Dover Publications, 1986. 21 cm x 28.5 cm. 150 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

145. Rusbridger, Alan.

A Concise History of the Sex Manual 1886 – 1986.

First Edition. London, Faber And Faber, 1986. 13 x 21.5 cm. 204 pages with illustrations by Posy Simmonds. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Stronger traces of foxing to endpapers and pastedowns.

146. Twain, Mark.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Edited by Bernard L. Stein.

Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1979. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. 475 pages. All the original illustrations by Daniel Carter Beard. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [A publication of the Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library].

147. Sutherland, Capt RL / Crichton, Stewart.

A Creek to a Haven – Fifty Years of the Orkney Fishermen’s Society.

Orkney, Orkney Fishermen’s Society, 2003. 15.5 cm x 23 cm. 78 Pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Signed by the authors on title page.

148. Meigs, Cornelia et. al.

A Critical history of Children’s Literature. A survey of children’s books in English. Prepared in four parts. Decorations by Vera Bock.

First edition. New York, Macmillan, 1953. 24 cm. XXIVI, 624 pages. Frontispiece illustration. Original hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Spine has noticeable rubbing and a tear at its bottom. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown. With a private giftinscription to Erik Haugaard to the endpaper.

149. Foran, W. Robert.

A Cuckoo in Kenya – The Reminiscences of a [Irish] Pioneer Police Officer in British East Africa. Illustrated with Photographs by the Author and Others.

London, Hutchinson & Co, no year (c.1936). 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. Frontispiece, 360 pages. 119 monochrome photographs on 47 plates, including frontispiece. Maps of Kenya on pastedowns and endpapers. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with some clear signs of external wear. Slightly bumped and rubbed. Very minor staining to front board. Binding still firm and strong. Minor foxing to edges. Interior very bright and clean. Very Rare, rather scarce publication !

150. Hunter, James.

A Dance Called America. The Scottish Highlands, the United States and Canada.

Edinburgh / London, Mainstream Publishing, 1995. 15.6cm x 23.4cm. 288 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.