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Books and Records Wanted

TESS OF THE DiURBERVILLES. Macmillan Pocket Edition, 1919. 0. Herbert, 36 Lower Green, Tewin, Welwyn, Herts. A TREASURY OF SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH VERSE ed. H.J. Massingham. Golden Treasury Series, Macmillan. Write: S. Maunsell, 34 Westwood Park, London SE23. CEYLON. Any hard back books on nineteenth century Ceylon; Memoirs, diaries, autobiographies, impressions, etc. Write Spectator Box No. 806.

WILLS CROFT'S novels (hardback) wanted. Write titles, prices. Spectator Box no, 807.

P.G. WODEHOUSE'S SCHOOL BOOKS, original editions 1902-1910. However battered your copies., I would probably buy them for many times their original prices. Write Richard Usborne, Fenton House, Windmill Hill, London NW3.

SOUTHERN ITALY, Collins Companion Guide, P.A. Horton, 12, Herga Court, Watford, WD1 3PA. COLLECTED POEMS by Sylvia Lynd. Macmillan. Write with price to Spectator Bp No. 808, JOHN DICKSON CARR. Good price for any hardback edition. British or American, in reasonable shape, of 'The Burning Court'. Write Spectator Box No. 809.

JAMES I by David Mathew, also Gardiner's 'History of England from 1603'. Write Spectator Box No. 802.

D IS FOR DOG and 'Hyman Kaplan' by Leo Roston. Hard or paperback. A. Peck, 17 Clare Lawn Avenue, London SW14. GIFT FROM THE SEA by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1955, any edition, paper or hardback. Watson, 26 Oaklands Close, Potts Wood, Kent.

W. L. VVYLLIE R.A. Books, sketchbooks, relics, wanted. J. G. Wyllie, 44 Eivaston Place, London SW7. Tel. 01-235 0801.

LOCKE, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, unabridged (Everyman or other ed.); any works of Herbert Soencer. Sampson, Richmond House, Ingloton, Carnforth, Lancs.

THE AFGHAN WARS and anything collectable on Afghanistan — history, travel, peoples, languages. Brereton, Painscastie, Bullth Wells, Powys.

L'ARGILE ET LE CENDRE by Zoe Oldenbourg or Eng. translation by Ed. Hyams: The World is not Enough. 'Naughty Sophia' by Winifred Letts. Mrs. Lynch, 2 The Bowling Green, Evenley, Hr. Brackley, Northants.

IVAN BUNIN Any books in translation. Derek Marlowe, Nudge Farm House, Froxfieid, Marlborough. Wilts.

ANY BOOKS ON CANADA: fiction, etc. Details to Burns, 15 Utley Road, Kingswood, Surrey KT20 6JA.

. RUPERT GRAYSON. 'Voyage Not Completed', 'Stand Fast the Holy Ghost' and any Gun Cotton books. Write Spectator Box No. 800.

NO LAUGHING MATTER: First series by James Morris. Grove Press 1968. Any price within reason. Write Thomas Loveday, c/o Barclays Bank, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, C.I.

BAEDEKER'S Austria or Austria-Hungary in good condition. Waddington, 98 Marylebone High St. London WI.