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Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. 40pp. Printed wrappers. Two label remnants inside front cover, book with a faint tideline along spine, covers lightly soiled, about very good. Prints "Notes on the Poetry No. 1" by Stephen Spender; additional contributions by Dannie Abse, Edwin Brock, Peter Viereck, Frances Bellerby, Patricia Beer, Jon Silkin, Michael Hamburger and more.

Signed by author under frontispiece. Half-title page a little browned from old news clipping, a little foxing on page top edge, but otherwise a bright, tidy copy in tight binding. Blue cloth slightly faded on spine and at board edges. Dust jacket yellowed with a few short tears and small stains; spine browned. Used - Very Good. VG SIGNED hardback in Good dust jacket.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. [1962 - 1968]. Illustrated, octavo, pp (10), 206, (6), very clean internally, blue cloth in good condition, the dustwrapper is slightly worn and marked. TOGETHER WITH : Corrignda & Supplement. 12mo, pp 36, paperback, very good. [Viscose Rayon, one of the most successful man-made fibres.].

Hardback, approx 9 x 6 inches. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (DW a couple of small nicks/tears to edges on front and corners, a little marked on rear. Price clipped on rear flap.) No inscriptions or marks. Pages all very clean and tight throughout. 206pp. Illustrated with B&W photo plates.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. First edition hardback, 1962, with no jacket. In overall very good condition with only minor signs of handling and storage - spine tanned. Internally very clean. Binding tight, no annotations or inscriptions - owner's name to ffep; slight tanning to page-ends, text and plates crisp and clear throughout. Frontispiece photograph of author with his signature. Includes The Beginning of Rayon Corrigenda and Supplement, 1968, plus an original advertising flyer for The Beginning of Rayon.

viii, 350, [6] pp. Figs. Text-illust. (220 x 138 mm). Blue cloth with with DJ. Gilt spine. B/w portrait frontis of E.S. Goodrich. 8vo, Small chips in DJ, date ("6-27-53") written in blue pen on ffep. Very good. Contributors include the editor, Julian Huxley, O.W. Richards, and Walter Garstang. The book contains, among others, the following essays of genetical interest. E. B. POULTON-"Insect adaptation as evidence of evolution by natural selection"; J. S. HUXLEY-"The present standing of the theory of sexual selection"; E. B. FORD-"The genetic basis of adaptation"; J. B. S. HALDANE-"The nature of interspecific differences"; O. W. RICHARDS-"The formation of species"; CH. ELTON-"Animal numbers and adaptation"; J. S. BAKER-"The evolution of breeding seasons"; H. G. THORNTON- "Bacterial strains and variation." .

pamphlet. 2 pages (pp. 1768-1769) IN: Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 54, no. 22. Tall 4to, modern wrappers. Chicago, 1910. First Edition. Whole number offered entire. Beer's method of transurethral fulguration of bladder tumours, from which arose the operation of transurethral prostatectomy.

Original Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Printed presentation slip tipped in; folding table in pocket at front. Tiny dent in spine; lower front cover lightly soiled.

pp. (xii), 206, (vi) Index. Portrait frontispiece, 18 photographic illustrations. Dust wrapper, a very good copy.

31 items from the papers of leading Pepys scholar and maritime historian Edwin Chappell (1883-1938). The collection in good general condition, with light signs of age and wear. Around half the items are by Chappell himself, including offprints (many of them bearing his Blackheath address, 41 Westcombe Park Road), pamphlets, articles, proofs, and a bibliography. Other items are papers and pamphlets by: Sir Arthur Bryant; J. R. Tanner; Sir Stephen Gaselee (bearing an autograph inscription by him); T. Wellard; Arthur Ponsonby; Allen Beville Ramsay; Edward B. Powley; H. L. O. Flecker. Also a Christmas card produced by the Admiralty (containing a printed disclaimer by Chappell) and an auction catalogue (no other copy of either item traced. There are a handful of loose enclosures, and a few autograph notes by Chappell. Ten of the items (one by Chappell) are addresses delivered at the Annual Pepys Commemoration Service at St Olave's Church. The majority of items in the collection are scarce, with few if any copies traced on COPAC. The last three items, dating from after Chappell's death, were presumably added to the collection by his executor. The following list is in rough chronological order. ONE: The Spanish Books in the Library of Samuel Pepys by Stephen Gaselee, M.A., F.S.A., C.B.E. Printed at the Oxford University Press For the Bibliographical Society, 1921. 49pp. TWO: Samuel Pepys: An Address delivered at S. Olave's, Hart Street, at the Annual Pepys Commemoration Service, on May 23rd, 1928, By The Rev. T. Wellard, B.A., B.D., Rector of the Parish and Chaplain to the Pepys Club. No copy on COPAC. THREE: Samuel Pepys: An Address delivered at S. Olave's, Hart Street at the Annual Pepys Commemoration Service on June 4th, 1929 by Mr. Arthur Ponsonby, M.P. No copy on COPAC. FOUR: Samuel Pepys as a Friend: An Address delivered at S. Olave's, Hart Street, at the Annual Pepys Commemoration Service on May 20th, 1930 By J. R. Tanner, Litt.D. (Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge). No copy on COPAC. FIVE: [auction catalogue] Catalogue of Oil Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, etc. To be sold by Auction On Monday, 4th May, 1931, at 12 noon. Hurcombs Grafton Galleries, W.1. [London] Some lots priced in pencil. Lot 55 (£24) is a portrait of Pepys by Sir Godfrey Kneller, and 56 (£12) is one of Mrs Pepys by Sir Peter Lely. No copy on OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC, and no other copy traced. Loosely inserted is a cutting of an advertisement by Hurcombs, from the Connoisseur, announcing the sale 'early in May' of the two portraits, both 'unimpeachable, coming from Samuel's descendants', and giving photographic reproductions of both portraits. SIX: Catalogue of Pepysiana belonging to Mr. Edwin Chappell exhibited at the Annual General Meeting of the Society for Nautical Research held at the Royal Naval College Greenwich 8th. July 1931. Accompanying text signed in type by Chappell, from his Blackheath address. Three copies only on COPAC. SEVEN: Samuel Pepys, The Childlike Diarist: An Address delivered at S. Olave's, Hart Street, at the Annual Pepys Commemoration Service on June 2nd, 1932. By the Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. [i.e. Allen Beville Ramsay] EIGHT: Elizabeth Pepys by Edwin Chappell. Offprint. Reprinted from the Somerset Year Book, 1933. 'With the compliments of Mr. E. Chappell'. A date is corrected in autograph. One copy on COPAC. NINE: Samuel Pepys: An Address delivered at S. Olave's Hart Street at the Tercentenary Celebration of the Birth of Samuel Pepys (February 23rd, 1633) Held at the Church on February 23rd, 1933 By the Rev. Prebendary Wellard, B.A., B.D. Rector of the Church and Chaplain to the Pepys Club. With handbill advertisement for the service loosely inserted. No copy of either item on COPAC. TEN: Samuel Pepys by Edwin Chappell. Offprint. Reprinted from The Mariner's Mirror, April 1933. 'With the Compliments of Mr. Edwin Chappell'. Loosely inserted leaf carrying family tree of 'WILLIAM PEPIS | Will proved 1519'. ELEVEN: [Magazine] Notes and Queries. 13 May 1933. Containing on pp.326-227, the article by Chappell of which the next item is an offprint. TWELVE: Notes on Some Relations of Samuel Pepys: Reprinted from "Notes & Queries" of May 13, 1933, by kind permission of the Proprietors. 'With the Compliments of . . | Mr. Edwin Chappell'. THIRTEEN: Pepys's Wedding-Day: Reprinted from "Notes & Queries" of July 1, 1933, by kind permission of the Proprietors. 'With the Compliments of . . | Mr. Edwin Chappell'. FOURTEEN: Bibliographia Pepysiana 1633 Samuel Pepys 1933 Mens cujusque, is est quisque. Signed in type at end 'Edwin Chappell | September 1933', Blackheath. 18+1pp, in grey printed wraps. FIFTEEN: [proof of last] A Short-Title Pepys Bibliography Compiled for the most part from copies in my own possession. At end: 'Edwin Chappell | August 1933' and his Blackheath address. 16pp, stapled in margin. No wraps. SIXTEEN: Samuel Pepys as a Naval Administrator: A Lecture delivered to the Hull Historical Association on the 29th September 1933. Signed in type at end 'Edwin Chappell'. Cambridge: Printed at the University Press, 1933. 23pp. SEVENTEEN: The Secrecy of the Diary: A Paper read before the Samuel Pepys Club November 24th, 1933. 'With the compliments of Mr. Edwin Chappell', Blackheath. Pencil notes by Chappell on blank reverse of title. EIGHTEEN: [Christmas card, from the Admiralty, Whitehall] Nicely-printed card, with colour photograph of portrait of Pepys, 'Reproduced by permission of Mrs. Henry Noel, daughter of Mr. Frederick Pepys Cockerell, from the original small portrait in her possession'. Admiralty, Whitehall; Christmas 1933. With printed text in copperplate, headed 'Tercentenary of Samuel Pepys, 1633-1933', mainly discussing the portrait. Loosely inserted is a printed bifolium, carrying a long text by 'Edwin Chappell', Blackheath, December 1933, beginning: 'Although an employee of the Admiralty, I am not at the Admiralty. It is therefore an act of courtesy, which I very m.