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1974 1st edition with B&W llustrations, tightly bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket not price-clipped with wear and tear to edges and corners and a little foxing to inner surface. Light, pale foxing to page fore-edges and outer pages; slight musty aroma; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Fair dust jacket. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. With jacket. 215 pp. B/w plates and map. The author's charmingly told account of his purported 'previous life' in 17th Century Somerset. Clean and bright. No inscripitions. VG+ / VG+.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. Features: The Singing Tree - a story from the Bushveld of South Africa; The Road to Romanc - Part I of the amazing round-the-world travels of Cyril Holloway; Photo of ice-fishing in Vladivostock Harbour; Timber-Laden Round Cape Horn - a windjamming tale; An Aeroplane Adventure in Waziristan - the story of a British officer who was captured by the Wazirs; A Tenderfoot in Canada, Part II - a disastrous season on a prairie farm; Trapped in the Volcano of Kilauea, in the Hawaiian Islands; The Hundredth Chance - a story from the Union-Castle cargo-steamer Ripley Castle; What Happened to Ah Fong? - an unsolved Chinese mystery; Monasteries in Mid-Air - the remarkable monasteries of Meteora, in Greece - article with excellent photos; A Mystery of the "Bad Lands" - a cowboy story from Wyoming; The Rogue - a rogue elephant in central Africa; Bakhai, the Rebel of Babban Kurmi; The Mountain of Gold - conclusion of the author's journey to Canada; Nice vintage ads, including photo of Earle E. Liederman, the Muscle Builder. Multiple pieces of red, clear and brown tape securing covers. Somewhat above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Sindall, A.; York, W.G.; Woodville, R. Caton; Wightman, W.E.; Inns, Kenneth; York, W.G.; Burns, Inder; Abbey, S.; Tresilian, S.; De Walton, John; Hiley, Francis E. (illustratore).…

A RARE LONDON-PRINTED GERMAN ANNUAL, BY THE JEWISH PURVEYOR OF GERMAN BOOKS FOR THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Sm 4to. [20 x 13.5]. (40) pp, plus engr. frontispiece and 17 [of 18?] stipple-engraved, tissue-guarded portraits of women signed by various artists including "Miss L. Sharpe". Bound in original publisher's embossed brown cloth with gilt title on spine; all edges gilt. An immaculate, beautifully-preserved copy.Extremely rare example, beautifully-printed on thick paper, of this curious short-lived German-language annual brought to the press by Abraham Asher (1800-1853), a German emigré Jew resident in London with ties to the British Museum. The book consists of 17 striking, late-Romantic full-page steel engravings accompanied by poetic interludes drawn from celebrated German authors (Herder, Uhland, Immermann, and so on). The Anglo-German Louisa Sharpe (1798-1843) forged a successful career as miniature painter, and in 1834 moved from London to Dresden. The title, Ehret die Frauen ['Honor the Women'] seems to have been drawn from a 1796 Schiller poem of the same name. The audience for Asher's publication was undoubtedly Continental; it is interesting to note that Ehret die Frauen is advertised in all of the contemporary Germany literary journals often as 'in an embossed English binding' and seems to have attracted much acclaim for its typography and the quality of the illustrations. We can trace no copy of any edition or issue in UK libraries, while OCLC suggests that single volumes are held at Chicago (1837) and Northwestern University (1838) as well as in a number of German institutions. No institution seems to hold a complete run of the series (1835-1843?). * on Asher and the British Museum, cf Thomas Keiderling, "Ein jüdischer Buchhändler mit englischem Sortiment: Abraham Asher (1800-1853)" Berlinische Monatsschrift 8 (1996), pp. 55-60.…