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Books and Records Wanted

BENJAMIN BRITTEN OPERAS in good condition (not 'Peter Grimes'). Write Spectator Box No. 724.

SCOTLAND. Any volumes of the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments, or books on Scottish antiquities and buildings. P. Clarke, 20, Morrison St. London 5W1 1. ADMIRALS IN COLLISION by Hough. Write—Fegen, Ashleigh Cottage, Weston Green, Thames Ditton, Surrey. ELIZABETH DAVID any of her books, 1st edition in hardback. Write Spectator Box No. 726.

KIPLING—Macmillan's 1901 editions of 'Soldiers Three,' 'Puck of Pooks Hill,' and 'Life's Handicap,' illustrated by J. L. K. Write B. Anderson, 43, Midholm, London NW11. FRECKLES by Gene Stratton-Porter. Write Spectator Box No. 725.

BAUDELAIRE. Selected Writings on Art by Charver. Also James Tattant Adventurer by Wills Croft. Write: Moss, Tocknells Court, Painswick, Glos.

LEWIS CARROLL by Florence Becker Lennon, published by Cassells in 1947. Write Spectator Box 723.

IN THE CASTLE OF MY SKIN by George Lamming Write: A. Bell, 93 Edith Road, London W14.

BURMA wanted. Grandfather Longlegs by Ian Morrison, Faber 1947 and any other books about Karens in wartime or at other times. Write : Reid, 43 Carson Rd., London SE21. KASHMIR by Sir Francis Younghusband, illustrated by Major E. Molyneux, published by A. & C. Black, 1917, Write: Mrs, A. M. Greenway, The Berekeley Hotel, Worthing, BN11 30D, Sussex, PALGRAVE'S GOLDEN TREASURY. G. Walker, Donnybrook Hotel, 2 Russell St., Bath, HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN THOMAS HARDY'S WESSEX by Herman Lea, Collenette, Macmillan London Ltd., 4 LAlle Essex St., London WC2.

CONDUCT OF THE ALLIES or complete Swift including same. VISITS TO FIELDS OF BATTLE OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY by Richard Brooke. PASTON LETTERS completee.g. Gairdner's 6-vol edition of 1904. Vegetius—MILITARY INSTITUTIONS OF THE ROMANS. Any clean complete edition for reading not 'collecting'. Write: E. T. Widdup, 16, Oakley Gdns, London SW3.

LITTLE DEVIL DOUBT—Onions; GOODBYE TO SOME— Forbes ; COMING AGE OF WOOD—Glesinger; ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY—Skeat; NATURE OF WORKMANSHIP—Pye, Write: Austin, 16 Digby Mansions, W6. COTTAGE ECONOMY by William Cobbett, Johnson, Newpass, Rathowen, Co. Westmeath, Eire, JOHN MOORE: any Elmbuty books or anything else. Write, .1. E. Brown, 15t Kennington Road, London 5E11, BERGH OLT'S Illustrated Book of Patience Games: Hoffman, same title Torn King's 31 Patience Games, W. H. Paul, Wychwood, Upper Court Road, Woldingham, Surrey. A NAVAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND: Vol 1: The Formative Centuries by G. J. Marcus. F. R. MacGinnis, 37, Belgrave Square, London SW1.

SUNRISE TO WINDWARD by Miles Smeeton, Contact Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 3, Upper James St., London W1. Tel : 01-734 8080 ext. 7100.

CLIMATOLOGICAL ATLAS OF THE BRITISH ISLES, HMSO (1952), Of. D. J. Hambler, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD7 1DP.

IN ANOTHER COUNTRY by John Bayley, Write Spectator Box 722, CRANFORD, Good copy ill, by Hugh Thomson. Macmillan & Co (1891 reprinted 1892-5). Tel : 01-2287247. LA MARE AU DIABLE and Francois le Champl by George Sand ill. Gertrude Leese. (Bell 1908). Also The Phoenix Nest by J. R. Levy. (Ryder 1901). Write: Quentin, 5a Kensington Church Street, London W8, BOOKS ON CATHEDRALS, Churches, Monasteries, Abbeys, Gothic art and architecture, by Francis Bond, John Harvey, Paul Frankl and others. Write : David Hall, 346 London Road, St Albans, Herts.

THE POETRY OF JOHN CLARE ed Tibble. (2 vols.) Cullingford, 59 Alexandra Road, Malvern, HENRY JAMES. Vols 8 & 9 of the pre-War II Macmillan Pocket Edition. 0. D. Leavis, 12 Bulstrode Gardens, Cambridge.

MACHADO DE ASSIS titles wanted. 24 Cloudesley Square, London Ni.

LLEWELYN POWYS, SKIN FOR SKIN and BRIDLEGOOSE especially, but others. Stephen Surrey, 14 Church Lane, Southampton, OLD STOCK EXCHANGE DIRECTORIES, Financial and Banking Almanacks, British. Continental and N. American, Contact: Wiltshires, 1 Circus, Bath, Avon.