Samuel Johnson, Thomas Edison, Flavius Josephus Works & Opera 1546, Biggles Gimlet First Editions by Capt. W E Johns, Elizabeth Jolly signed Palomino.

Jekyll, Gertrude. Wood and Garden.
Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur, with illustrations from photographs by the author. London. Longmans, Green, and Co. 1899. First Edition, 8vo., original gilt lettered blue cloth slightly marked, spine faded, tissue guarded frontispiece and numerous full page photographic plates, pp. xvi + 286, neat name on ffep, apart from some light " yellowing" to endpapers contents clean, a good firm copy. U.S. $250

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8vo., A New Edition, being the Seventh, wherin the two volumes are comprised in one, and arranged under one alphabet, with considerable additions, bound in contemporary full tree calf rubbed at corners and edges, joints split but firm, elaborate gilt tooled spine with new green morocco title label, pp. lxxx [2] + 294 & 6 page catalogue, illustrated with a frontispiece engraved plate of Johnson, offsetting from frontispiece plate to title page, mild foxing mainly to first few pages, stamped name on ffep, overall a good copy.

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Johns, Capt. W. E. Biggles Works it Out.
Hodder & Stoughton 1951. 8vo., First Edition, original red cloth in a price clipped worn and chipped d/w reinforced with tape on inside edges, illustrated by Leslie Stead with full page plates and line drawings in text, foxing mainly to edges and prelims, a fair copy. U.S.$195

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Johns, Capt. W. E. Biggles Gets His Men.
London, Hodder & Stoughton 1950. 8vo., First Edition, original blue cloth in a pictorial d/w with head & tail spine chips and half inch tear to top edge and marked on lower d/w cover, illustrated by Leslie Stead with full page black & white plates, pp. 189, light browning to endpapers and edges otherwise a good clean copy. U.S.$210

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Johns, Capt. W. E. Biggles and The Poor Rich Boy.
Brockhampton Press, Leicester 1961. 8vo., First Edition, original brown cloth in a soiled pictorial d/w with a few small chips, illustrated by Leslie Stead with color frontis. and black white chapter heading drawings, pp. 182, top edge dusty but contents clean, a good copy.

U.S. $230

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Johns, Capt. W. E. Gimlet off the Map.
The Brockhampton Press Ltd. 1951. 8vo., First Edition, original light grey cloth in a priced clipped pictorial d/w with slight wear, foxing to first & last few pages, a good copy. U.S. $175

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Author's First Book & Signed
Jolly, Elizabeth. Palomino.
Melbourne House, London. 1980. 8vo., First Edition of the authors first book & signed by her on title. Original bright green cloth in pictorial d/w, pp. 260, a mint copy. U.S.$185

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Jones, Francis Arthur.
Thomas Alva Edison Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life.
New York. Thomas Y. Crowell Company. 1908. 8vo., original green cloth gilt tooled and lettered. Spine gilt, top edge gilt, pp xii+362, including index, illustrated with a tissue guarded frontispiece plus 28 pages of full page plates. bookplate on front paste-down. A fine copy. U.S.$250

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Josephus, Flavius. Omnia, Quae Extant OPERA.
quorum hic tomus continet Antiquitatum Judaicarum Libros decem priores. Lyon. Seb. Gryphium 1546. 8vo., bound in full tan/mustard calf with blind ruled covers, spine in compartments with green morocco title label, new endpapers, pp. unpaginated index (82pp) + 552, Woodcut device on title and verso of blank f. at end, a very good copy of a sixteenth century book in a handsome binding. U.S.$975

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Josephus: The Works of Flavius Josephus, The Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian, and celebrated warrior. To which is added, Three Dissertations, concerning Jesus Christ,John The Baptist, James The Just, God's Command to Abraham. Translated by William Whiston.
Published: Halifax: Milner and Sowerby.
Edition: 1854
Binding: Contemporary Full Calf
Price: U.S.$545

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8vo., Handsomely bound in full contemporary ribbed calf, double gilt ruled, elaborate gilt spine in compartments with red morocco label, endpapers and all edges marbled, pp. 710 in double columns, half title, engraved frontispiece offset to title page, armorial bookplate, a few spots to endpapers, a very good copy with minor wear to binding.

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