Books Wanted

NAPOLEON by Emil Ludwig. A. Shepherd, 41 Mermaid St, Rye, Sussex.

GUY DE MAUPASSANT and 'An Indiscreet Guide to Soho', both by Stanley Jackson. Write: L. O'Callaghan, 46 Constantine Rd, London NW3 2NE.

TANTE MARIE: 'French Kitchen', 'The Listeners' by Anne Telscombe (Hawill), 'The Fourth Seal' by Sir Samuel Hoare (Heinemann), and 'Dark Forest' by Hugh Walpole. Air Cdre John Mitchell, The Paddock, Badminston Drove, Fawley, Hants SO4 1BW.

HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW by Holdsworth. D.M. Thompson, Saunders, Church St, Cogges- hall, Essex.

SHELDRAKE, a novel by Michael Wharton. Box No 207SA.

ROTHMANS RUGBY YEAR BOOK 1972-1973. Box No: 21ORR.

DARWIN, HUXLEY, Hooker, Lyell, Wallace, Romanes, Emma Darwin — their lives and let- ters, condition immaterial. Or any other Darwin- iana. Nigel Sitwell, 243 Kings Rd, London SW3 5EL.

BOMBING OF THE U.K. 'Front Line' (M.O.I.) and any books covering the regional or local scene including newspaper features. D. Upton, 4 Pitshanger Court, Pitshanger Lane, London W5. COKE: 'Institutes' and 'The Thing that hath been; or a Young Man's Mistakes' by Gilkes. H. D. Sills, Hillstead, Great Shelford, Cambridge. CERVANTES: 'Journey to Parnassus' trans. by Young 1883, 'Galatea' trans. by Delsner and Welford 1902, 'The Wanderings of Persiles and Sigismunda; A Northern Story' trans. by L. D. S. 1854. Please contact Somerville, Moorefield, Higher Kingston, Yeovil, Somerset.

THOMAS DE QUINCEY. Autographs, books wanted. Buckle, Stancliffe Hall, Darley Dale, Matlock.

TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY by R. L. Steven- son. Preferably the Folio Society edition. J. W. Aggleton, 1 Kings Rd, Richmond, Surrey.

21 DELIGHTFUL WAYS TO COMMIT SUICIDE by Jean Bruller, New York, Covivi. 1930. Box No: 214 DW.

NO FLIES IN CHINA by George Stafford Gale, 'A Dictionary of Modern Painting' by Lake & Maitland (1964 Methuen Impression), 'Spec- tator' backnumbers 1950-69, 'Encounter' backnumbers 1953-63, 'A High Wind in Jamaica', 'A Moment of Time'. 'Confessio Juvenis' all by Richard Hughes. Cost/condt. to Dennis Ward, Snowdon View, Timble Freat, Otley, Yorks, LS21 2NN.

THE COMPLETE TALES OF HENRY JAMES, vols 9 & 10, ed. Leon Edel. Stephen Brook, 12 Queens Gate Terrace, London SW7 5PF.

H. ROSENTHAL: 'Two Centuries of Opera at Covent Garden'. F. Traynor, 5 Levernside Cres- cent, Glasgow, G53 5JY.

GLANCES BACK THROUGH SEVENTY YEARS by Henry Vizetelly (London 1893). S. E. Curtis, 25 Hawthorn Grove, Heaton Moor, Stockport, Cheshire.

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