Six Silver Moonbeams, Agustín Barrios Mangoré biography, Stover, guitar.

The Life and Times of Agustín Barrios Mangoré by Richard D. Stover, published by Querico Publications in 1992. A 271-page illustrated paperback biography of the great Paraguayan guitarist and composer, long out of print and much sought after by classical guitarists.

In good condition with light shelf wear and a crease across the lower corner of the front cover.

The portrait on the cover shows Barrios in the feathered costume he performed in as "Cacique Nitsuga Mangoré" - Nitsuga is simply Agustín spelled backwards.

An antique bound annual volume of The Girl's Own Annual from 1898, published in London by the Religious Tract Society. Red cloth boards with a striking gilt Aesthetic Movement style cover design, and a matching gilt spine with the date at the foot. Packed with a year's worth of stories, articles and illustrations for Victorian girls.

The Girl's Own Paper launched in 1880 as the sister to the hugely popular Boy's Own Paper, and these bound yearly volumes were often given as Christmas or birthday presents.

Good condition, with a little fraying to the head of the spine and light wear to the corners; the front endpaper has some pencil and ink doodles from a previous young owner.

Victorian, 1898, London. A lovely antiquarian or dark academia shelf piece.

"With an Ocean Liner (Orient Co's S.S. Ophir) through the Fiords of Norway: A Photographic Memento of a Fortnight's Cruising" by P. Heywood Hadfield, 6th edition, published in London by The London Stereoscopic & Photographic Co. It is an antique hardback, c.1905-1910, bound in burgundy cloth with black and silver lettering to the front board.

Condition: good for its age, with rubbing and light scuffing to the cloth boards, bumped corners, a little loss at the head of the spine edge, and some scratches and marks to the back board. The title page and contents page are clean.

The Ophir was the Orient liner that had carried the future George V and Queen Mary on their 1901 royal tour, and the photographs record a cruise of the Norwegian fjords in August 1905. The contents include a preface, notes on the cruise, botanical remarks, practical advice for passengers, verses and a series of original photographs by the author. A lovely piece of antiquarian travel and maritime history, with a touch of old-world cruise-liner glamour.

Country of origin: England.

A hardback copy of Philemon Slater's History of the Ancient Parish of Guiseley, a facsimile reprint of the 1880 edition published in 1985 by MTD Rigg (Publications), Guiseley. It is limited to 300 copies, and this is copy number 154, one of the cloth-bound copies. It has dark green-grey cloth boards with a gilt Celtic-knot border and bright gilt lettering, and was printed and bound by Smith Settle of Otley. A useful reference for Yorkshire local history and family history.

Published 1985 in England.

Philemon Slater died in 1868, twelve years before his history of Guiseley was published in 1880.

Good condition with only minor wear. The gilt titling is still bright and there is a mark to the cloth on the front board.

Gerald Durrell's much-loved memoir of his boyhood on Corfu, published by Rupert Hart-Davis of Soho Square, London, in 1959. The copyright page confirms it as the eighth impression, printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay and Company, Bungay, Suffolk. It comes in its original pictorial dust jacket designed by Ralph Thompson, with the 18s net price still printed on the flap and the Book Society Choice wording, over green cloth boards. A cosy cottagecore, vintagecore addition to a shelf, and a lovely read for animal lovers.

Condition is good for its age and clean inside, with some light age spots to the endpapers and first pages. The dust jacket shows its age: the head of the spine is chipped with a small loss, the top right corner of the front panel is torn, and there are nicks, creases, fading and some surface soiling. The jacket is complete, and the colourful front and back panels are still bright.

Durrell was ten when his family moved to Corfu in 1935, and this was the first book of what became known as his Corfu trilogy.

A set of seven matching hardback books from the 1950s and 1960s, printed in the UK. Six are Reprint Society book-club editions in cream cloth with a gilt RS monogram and a coloured title label on the spine, and the seventh, Makers of the Realm by Arthur Bryant, comes in pale yellow cloth with a brown gilt label and sits neatly alongside them. Together they make a good-looking run on a shelf, very much in the vintagecore and grandmillennial style.

The seven books are:

The Blue Nile by Alan Moorehead

The White Nile by Alan Moorehead

The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden

Scruffy by Paul Gallico

The Affair by C.P. Snow

Born Free by Joy Adamson

Makers of the Realm by Arthur Bryant

Joy Adamson's Born Free, the story of Elsa the lioness, was made into a film in 1966.

All seven are in good vintage condition with minor wear: the spines are lightly toned with age, there are one or two small marks, and The Blue Nile has a small crease near the top of the spine.

Two volumes of The Paston Letters 1422-1509, edited by James Gairdner and published in Edinburgh by John Grant in 1910: Volume II (Edward IV, 1461-1471) and Volume III (Edward IV to Henry VII, 1471-1509). This is the Edwardian reprint of Gairdner's 1872-5 edition, with the supplement of additional letters. Printed in Scotland. Bound in half cloth with grey boards, tan buckram spines and leather spine labels lettered in gilt. A lovely antiquarian pair for a dark academia bookshelf, or for anyone who enjoys medieval history.

The Paston family's letters are the largest surviving collection of private correspondence from 15th-century England. Volume III includes Margery Brews' 1477 letter to John Paston III, one of the earliest Valentine letters written in English.

Condition: good for their age, with the wear you'd expect. One volume has a tide mark to the spine and back board, and the other has a crease across the spine and board. There are a few small ink marks on the boards, the leather labels are rubbed (the one on Volume III is darkened), and there is light spotting to the page edges. The pages themselves are clean and the bindings are sound.

A deluxe boxed edition of The Motoring Century: The Story of the Royal Automobile Club by Piers Brendon, published by Bloomsbury, London, in 1997 to mark the RAC's centenary (1897-1997). A handsome quarto hardback of around 430 pages with a translucent dust wrapper and a centenary bookmark with a gold tassel, all housed in a blue presentation box with the gilt RAC cypher and a blue ribbon. Made in the United Kingdom. A lovely piece of motoring heritage for a dark academia bookshelf, a gentleman's library or the classic car enthusiast in your life.

The endpapers reproduce Hanslip Fletcher's 1946 pen and ink drawings of the RAC's grand Pall Mall clubhouse, including the Great Gallery and the Members' Lounge.

In excellent, as-new condition. Please see the photographs.