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Books Wanted

CENTRAL ASIAN TRAVEL AND POLITICS 19th and 20th century works sought by author. Especially Younghusband, Stein, Hedin, Schom- berg. Peter Hopkirk, 32 Quarrendon St, London SW6.

THE LOOM OF YOUTH by Alec Waugh. N. J. Brent, 45 Redcliffr Square, London SW10. SEX AND CHARACTER by Otto Weininger. Tel 01-226 5847 (Mr Wears).

THE LAND OF THE SEAL by James Berke, pub. around 1938 by Collins, Glasgow. R. Mit- chell, 6 Amers field Place, Haddington, E. Lothian.

LAST 2 VOLS of Winston Churchill's 'History of the English-speaking Peoples', and 'Sunset over France' by Stephen Lister. P. R. Robson, 53 Malvern Rd, London E6 I LS.

THE SPIKE by Peter Forster. Clark, 74 Osborne Villas, Hove, Sussex. Tel (day) 01-402 1231. A QUESTION OF UPBRINGING by Anthony Powell. A. Kuper, Rijnsburgerweg 104, 2333AE Leiden, Holland.

GILLIAN TINDALL, any books by, Box No 995GT.

THE WORKS OF Scottish author Neil Munro (1864-1930) incl his autobiography 'Brave Days' pub. 1931. Good price for complete works. I. Archibald, 23 Birch Grove, Chippenham, Wilts. ENGLAND IN POETRY (ed Kenneth Young) 1974. Also, 'William' books by R. Crompton. Ashton, Connaught School, Connaught Rd, London Ell.

ROOM AT THE BOTTOM and `Joncer' by Neil Woodin, pub. by Chatto, in 1960 & '61. 'Four Studies in Loyalty' by Christopher Sykes. P. Kirkland, 250 Yardley Wood Rd, Birmingham 13 9JN.

A VEGETABLE COOKBOOK by Digby Law (Hodder & Stoughton 1978). M. Little, 74 Marine Parade, Hythe, Kent.

MR LYWARD'S ANSWER by Michael Bum. Apply: Pearce, Vicarage, I11 Homerton High St, E9 6DL.

A HERB FOR EVERY ILL by Audrey Wynne Hatfield; also Roy Genders's 'The Cottage Garden'. R. E. C. Moss, 12 Victoria Rd, Ilkley, W. Yorks.

THE VICISSITUDES OF A LADY-IN- WAITING 1735-1821 by Eugene Welvert, translated by Lilian O'Neill. Publishers — John Lane, The Bodley. Head 1911. Box No 99ITV. THE JOURNAL OF EUGENE DELACROIX (Phaidon Press) and 'Parade's End' by Ford Madox Ford. R. Williams, St Trinians, Coney. Weston, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

BONAMY DOBREE: Restoration Tragedy (OUP). Ring 950 1057.

WHAT A WORD by A. P. Herbert. Apply: A. F. Valiance, Flat 1, St Kevin's, 34 Queen's Rd, Harrogate HG2 OHB.

THE CHINESE LAKESIDE MURDERS by Robert Van Gulik. B. Simpson, Iris Cottage, Park Close, Brockenhurst, Hants SO4 7TG. EXODUS A.D. by Troubetskoy, Maria Princess Paul and Nevinson, C.R.W., (pub. Hutchinson 1934). Also, reprint of Baedeker's Russia before 1917. T. O'Brien, 11 Walton St, Oxford OX1 2HG.

MERLIN'S RING by Munn. B. Elwell, 29 Park Street, Stourbridge, W. Midlands, DY8 IBY.