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Extracts from Regimental Orders, for the Use of the First Battalion Grenadier Guards.
[Private Compilation]. n.d. [c.1878]. ORIGINAL HANDBOOK, printed material interleaved with MS notes. Octavo, pp.36, xcv. With approximately half the booklet consisting of blank unpaginated leaves. Printed material interleaved with MS notes in black and red ink, paginated by hand in Roman numerals. Some annotations to printed leaves. Folding poster 'Arrangement..... More
The Festival of Britain Exhibition of Books. Arranged by the National Book League at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
London: Published for the National Book League by the Cambridge University Press, no date [1951]. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.224. Publisher's plain soft covers, titled to upper. A little toned, with heavy spotting to covers, and some light handling. Blue pencil 'IF' to front over. Very..... More
Great Britain and the European Crisis. Correspondence, and Statements In Parliament, together with an Introductory Narrative of Events.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1914. Government publication. Printed pamphlet, pp.xxvi; 102. Original price One Penny. Blue wrappers, slightly browned, simple later paper spine and label. Near fine. More
Greater East Asia War Record. [Official Japanese Second World War Photography].
Tokyo, [circa 1942]. [Japanese War Photography] ORIGINAL COMMEMORATIVE COLLECTION. Small quarto portfolio containing 40 loose black and white photographs backed onto card, with descriptions tipped onto verso. Also with a loose introductory leaf, and publishing information to the inside of the portfolio. Publisher's blue cloth chemise portfolio, with plain card..... More
Kiss of the Vampire — Publicity Services [Film Campaign Brochure].
London: Rank Film Distributors, 1963. [Horror Film] ORIGINAL PUBLICITY SERVICES BROCHURE. A4 magazine format (28 x 22cm), pp.[8]. Including notes on the plot, specs for posters and lobby cards, and suggestions cinema owners for publicising the film and extracting maximum financial benefit from showing it at their venue. Printed in..... More
Literary Characters.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. [Literary Offprint] ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.32. INSCRIBED in black ink to inside of cover on behalf of the publisher. Publisher's plain paper covers with woodcut illustrations, bound with thick brown string. Lightly toned and spotted. Browning to spine and outer edges, with some..... More
Map of Environs of Tunbridge Wells.
Nottingham: Roberts & Co., no date [circa 1890s]. [Tourist Map] ORIGINAL MAP. Folded 19 x 12cm, unfolded 39 x 48cm. Printed in red, blue and black, divided into two-mile squares by a heavy red grid. Showing the country around Tunbridge Wells, between Westerham, Rye, Lewes and Lenham. A free copy..... More
Marylebone Cricket Club Matches for the Season, 1926. With Full Scores and Batting Averages.
London: The Marylebone Cricket Club, 1926. [Cricket] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] vi; 190 [2]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Ink ownerships to front endpapers, with some light Spotting. Spine heavily sunned with some light rubbing to cloth. Very good. More
The Menagerie. No. 102, Dean's Fluffidown Rag Books, Patented.
London: Dean's Rag Book Co., no date [circa 1910s]. [Rag Book] ORIGINAL RAG BOOK. Octavo (21 x 17cm), unpaginated. Five double-sided illustrated cloth sheets showing various exotic animals, in cloth covers, sewn to spine. Strong sewing, but for some fraying to head of spine. All colours except the red on..... More
Miscellanies.
1880. [History] NINETEENTH-CENTURY COMMONPLACE BOOK. Octavo (24 x 20cm), pp.[12]; 315; [21]. Most pages hand-written in black ink, with numerous newspaper and periodical clippings pasted in. Red full morocco with gilt tooling, and gilt and blind ruling to boards. Gilt titles and additional tooling to spine. Raised bands. Bevelled edges..... More
[Movie Wrap-Party Invitation for "The Krays"].
November 1989. [Wrap-Party Invite] ORIGINAL INVITATION and PROMOTIONAL POSTCARD. Presented as a montage within a simple glass frame. Hand-addressed to Rodney Pincott, standby propman for the film. Postcard well-thumbed with a few creases. Light toning and handling to invitation. Very good. Released in April 1990, 'The Krays' was a well-received..... More
Past Feelings Renovated; Or, Ideas Occasioned by the Perusal of Dr Hibbert's 'Philosophy of Apparitions', written with the View of Counteracting any Sentiments Approaching Materialism, which that work, however Unintentional on the Part of the Author, May have a Tendency to Produce.
London: George B. Whittaker, 1828. [Supernatural occurence / mysticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), ppxi; 323. Early two-tone cloth, manuscript label to spine. Contents clean, occasional fold to corners, vintage catalogue description affixed to pastedown, minor rubbing and soiling to covers. A very good copy. Relating to Samuel Hibbert-Ware..... More
[Photographs - Motorcyling / Motor Sport interest].
No place (UK), no date (1950s). A selection of Motorcycle trials and speedway event photographs, being mostly postcard size, black and white images, examples detailing a meeting or meetings held in the 1950 s. One image has competition details to the rear 'J.B. HUNT N v S [North versus South?]..... More
[Photographs of Barre Rangers Foot Ball Club, United States Football Association, 1913].
[Barre, VT]. 1913. [Mounted Photographs] EARLY AMERICAN SOCCER TEAM, winners of the Vermont League and the 5-A-Side Champions of Vermont in 1913. Four mounted black and white photographs. Three photographs of the fourteen team members, as well as trainer, secretary and mascot, each in different attire. One photo of the..... More
Pictorial Sport and Adventure, being a record of daring and marvellous escapes by field and flood, with an account of various countries of the world and their inhabitants: the whole forming a compendium of the world.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [1898]. [True Adventure and Hunting] EARLY EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.viii; 312. With a colour frontispiece and decorated title page, and numerous engravings through the text. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper board. Cracked-earth..... More
The Poll for the Knights of the Shire, to Represent the Western Division of the County of Kent in Parliament, including the Registered Electors who did not vote, also, a General Index, and an Abstract of the Number of Votes for each Parish. Candidates: Thomas Law Hodges, Esq.; Thomas Rider, Esq.; Sir William R.P. Geary, Bart.
Maidstone: J. Smith, 1835. [Kent Voting Register] RARE ORIGINAL PRINTING. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] 192 [2]. In the original publisher's brown quarter leather grain-effect cloth with brown paper over boards and gilt titles to the original navy blue label on spine. Wear to board edges and head and tail..... More
Princes Theatre Christmas Season 1956: The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. [The Gondoliers].
London: Printed by G.J. Parris, 1956. [Theatre Programme] ORIGINAL PROGRAMME. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 13cm), pp.[16]. A programme for Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Gondoliers', with a programme for a whole season of other G&S productions a the Princes Theatre. Publisher's red covers, stapled once with a 6d price label. A...... More
The Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Army. Revised Army Regulations. Vol. II.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, January 1868. [Military Regulations] ORIGINAL HANDBOOK. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.viii; 395 [1]. Interleaved with blank leaves for notes, and with an errata slip. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind titles and decoration to upper. Advertisements to pink endpapers. Repairs to..... More
Recueil de Plans de Batailles, Sieges et Combats, Arrives dans les Expeditions Memorables de la Guerre de Sept Ans, pour Servir A L'Intelligence des Oeuvres Posthumes de Frederic II, Roi de Prusse.
Amsterdam: J. G. Treuttel, 1789. [Seven Years War] DUKE OF GRAFTON'S COPY. Folio (42 x 27cm), pp.[4] followed by 19 plates. Contemporary marbled boards, paper covered spine designed to look like speckled calf, printed paper label to spine. Introductory text in French, text to plates in either English or French..... More
Royal Tunbridge Wells: The Official Guide issued under the Auspices of the Mayor and Corporation and the Tunbridge Wells Advertising Association.
Cheltenham: J. Burrow and Co., no date [circa 1920s]. [Town Guide] FINE COPY. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.120. With frequent in-text black and white photographic illustrations, including many advertisements. Publisher's colour-illustrated card covers, not priced. A lovely clean, barely handled copy. Almost as-new. A general description of the Spa town..... More
Sam Sheridan: The Secret Service Special, or, the jamboree at "Early Bird" bar. The Aldine "Boys' First-Rate Pocket Library." No. 178.
London: Aldine Publishing Company, n.d. [1893]. ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo, pp.32. In original colour illustrated paper covers. Text browned and brittle. Some chips to leaf edges. Covers less brittle, also chipped in places. Spine reinforced with archival tape. Good considering paper stock. More
The Seasons of the Year. Or The Hand of God Manifested in His Works.
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1852. [Natural History] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[4] 416 [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page by T. Brown. Contemporary dark brown full morocco, with gilt titles and decorations to spine, and decoration in gilt and blind to boards. All edges..... More
Tales of the Classics: A New Delineation of the Most Popular Fables, Legends, and Allegories commemorated in the works of Poets, Painters, and Sculptors. Selected and Written by a Lady, for the amusement and instruction of her own daughters.
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. [Greek Mythology] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] xxiv; 302 [4]; pp.[4] iv; 302 [4]; pp.[4] iv; 370 [4]. Contemporary black half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to burgundy labels, further gilt decoration to spines..... More
Triumph workshop manual [for] unit construction 350 c.c. and 500 c.c. twins : T100, T90, 5TA, 3TA, including from engine no. H65573.
Coventry: Triumph Engineering Co., no date [1969]. [Motorcycle Manual] ORIGINAL MANUAL. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), pp.3-178. Stapled twice, in a secondary plain paper cover with titles written by hand in black ink to front cover. Central bi-fold loose. Staples rusted, with significant grease stains and thumb prints throughout. A...... More
Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Adapted from Grimm's Fairy Tales.
London and Glasgow: Collins, no date [circa 1940's]. [Children's Illustrated] VINTAGE COPY, a later printing. Small quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.80. With black and white, and occasional colour illustrations reproducing scenes from the famous Disney film of the same name. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper-covered boards, with the blue cloth spine. Illustrated..... More
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