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Malcolm.
London: Jonathan Cape with Secker and Warburg, 1967. [Drama] UK FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp. [12]; 138; [2]. Publisher's neon yellow cloth lettered in silver to spine, tinted black top-edge of textblock, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 21s to front flap. Some bumping to spine, wear to..... More
Sketches in Portugal. During the Civil War of 1834.
London: James Cochrane and Co., 1835. [Memoir] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[ii]; xvi; illustrative plate of a map; 328; [2], blank. Fully bound in tan calf lettered in gilt to spine, embossed patterning to front and back boards, gilt ruling to boards, spine with raised bands and gilt..... More
Dinner with the Family.
London: Methuen & Co., 1958. [French Drama] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.98 [2]. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to cloth. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Harry More-Gordon, priced at 10/6. A lovely crisp copy, with some toning and chipping to jacket spine. Near fine. An..... More
[Minor Works Collection]. Love and Friendship; The Memoir of Jane Austen; Volume the First; Volume the Third; Lady Susan; Sanditon; The Watsons.
1) London: Chatto and Windus; 2-7) Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1922-1951. [Literary Juvenilia and Fragments] MINOR WORKS COLLECTION. Seven volumes. Octavo (19 x 14 x 13cm). All in publisher's cream quarter cloth with light blue paper-covered boards, except 'Love and Friendship', which is in quarter red cloth with gilt..... More
History of the Wars of the French Revolution, from the Breaking Out of the War in 1792, to the Restoration of a General Peace in 1815; comprehending the Civil History of Great Britain and France, during that Period.
London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. [European History] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound as one. Quarto (27 x 22 x 9cm), pp.[4]; 539; [1]; pp.[4]; 595; [1]. With a number of maps, some folding, and copper engraved portraits, including a frontispiece to each volume. Contemporary full..... More
The Debt We Owe: The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund 1919-1989.
Shrewsbury: Airlife Publishing, 1989. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[8], 216. With a colour frontispiece portrait of Viscount Trenchard, and 12 double-sided black and white plates. INSCRIBED by the author to Guy Huntrods, a prominent Tunbridge Wells based veteran, for his 75th birthday, in bright blue ink to title page. Also..... More
The Romance of the Battle Line in France. With an Additional Chapter on the Results of the Late War as Affecting our National Life and Imperial Interests.
London: Constable and Company, 1919. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 255; folding map attached to rear leaf. Publisher's green cloth lettered in red to spine. Minor toning to endpapers and edges of textblock, pencil annotation to p.230 and some others throughout, wearing to cloth, sunning to spine..... More
A History of Persian Literature Under Tartar Dominion (A.D. 1265-1502).
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1920. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii [4] 586. With twelve halftone plates, including a frontispiece. Red publisher's cloth, gilt titles and decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. Interior lightly marked/spotted with some foxing to prelims and rear leaves. Some dulling to t.e.g...... More
The Pilgrims of the Rhine.
London: Saunders and Otley, 1834. [Romantic Novel] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxxvi; 341 [5]. With 27 steel engraved illustrations by various artists, including a frontispiece and illustrated title page. Contemporary maroon full morocco, with gilt titles and heavy gilt decoration to spine, and equally heavy panelled..... More
Andrew R. Buxton: The Rifle Brigade, A Memoir.
London: Robert Scott, 1918. [Great War Memoir] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 294. With 16 black and white half-tone plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's dark green gained cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Black ink inscription stating 'from Andrew Buxton's Sister | Rosamond Buxton | December..... More
Lewis Carroll's Diaries. The Private Journals of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (including: Vol. 1 January to September 1855; Vol. 2 January to December 1856; Vol. 3 January 1857 to April 1858; Vol. 4 May 1862 to September 1864; Vol. 5 September 1864 to January 1868; Vol. 6 April 1868 to December 1876; Vol. 7 January 1877 to June 1883; Vol. 8 July 1883 to June 1892; Vol. 9 July 1892 to December 1897; Vol. 10 Complete Index Reconstruction of the First Two Missing Volumes).
Luton: Lewis Carroll Society, 1993-2007. [Diaries] SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS. 10 volumes uniformly bound. Octavos (22 x 16cm), pp.158; [2], blank. pp.158; [2], blank, pp.199, [1], blank, pp.399; [1] blank, pp.416, pp.552, pp.606; [2], blank, pp.[2]; 688; [6], blank, pp.408, pp.502; [2], blank. Publisher's blue leatherette lettered in gilt to front..... More
The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. To which is added an Historical View of the Affairs of Ireland. A New Edition [together with] The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon Written by Himself.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1816-7. Eight volumes, Royal Quarto (31 x 25cm), being three books of 'The Rebellion' bound in six volumes plus 'The Life' in two volumes. Engraved frontispiece of the author by Thomas Gardiner. Full English calf, gilt, with twin red title labels, gilt and blind tooling..... More
Ian Fleming and James Bond: the Cultural Politics of 007.
Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005. [Critique] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxvi; 281 [5]. With occasional black and white illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers. A lovely fine copy. An academic study of Ian Fleming and James Bond, with a foreword from Fleming's official biographer Andrew Lycett..... More
The Len Deighton Companion (2 copies).
London: Grafton, 1987, 1988. [Bibliography/biography] FIRST EDITION, together with FIRST PAPERBACK. Octavos (24 x 16cm), (18 x 11cm), pp.336; 336. Publisher's hardcover in jacket and publisher's softcovers. Both books in fine condition (paperback has expected toning to paper stock, minor rubs to spine). An indispensable guide to the writings of..... More
Plays of Near and Far.
London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. [Drama] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[12]; 150; [4]. Publisher's caramel cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. Machine-marbled endpapers, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Previous owner's inscription in black ink to flyleaf verso, toning to edges of textblock, toning to..... More
Games Ancient and Oriental and How To Play Them. The Games of the Ancient Egyptians, The Hiera Gramme of the Greeks, The Ludus Latrunculorum of the Romans and the Oriental Games of Chess, Draughts, Backgammon and Magic Squares.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1892. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4]; iv; 366; [2]. Publisher's grey cloth lettered and illustrated in gilt to boards and spine. With in-text illustrations, diagrams, and mounted plates throughout. Spotting to textblock edges, spotting to spine, severe reading lean. Very good. Falkener..... More
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
London: George G. Harrop and Co., C. 1940 [no date]. [Poetry] FINE COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[iv]; LXXV with 16 illustrated plates. Publisher's green cloth lettered and illustrated in black to upper board and spine, illustrative dust-jacket with printed price of 10/6 to front flap. 16 plates and numerous..... More
[James Bond] 007 Magazine. February 2011.
UK: 007 Magazine and Archive Ltd., 2011. Magazine format in pictorial glossy card wraps, stapled at spine. Pp.34. 'A Deluxe Limited Edition Publication' with colour photographs throughout. Fine / as new. Includes a tribute to the James Bond cover artist Raymond Hawkey by Edward Milward-Oliver, SIGNED by contributor Jon Gilbert..... More
Collected Short Stories of E.M. Forster.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, no date [1948]. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.vii [3] 246. Publisher's teal cloth lettered in gilt to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at 10s 6d. Toning to flyleaf, very small bookseller's sticker front-paste down, toning to edges of textblock, rolling..... More
Marianne Thornton 1797-1887. A Domestic Biography.
London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1956. [English Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 301; [3], blank. 2000 copies only. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 21s. Spine a little toned, slightly pushed to crown, one or two small nicks. Overall a near fine, fresh..... More
A Passage to India.
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924. [Bloomsbury] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.325; [3], advertisements. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper. No inscriptions, contents clean and fresh with just a few minor spots, endpapers toned as usual, binding tight with one small bump..... More
The Right of the Child: A Chapter in Social History. With a Foreword by Countess Mountbatten of Burma and an Introduction by Captain L.H. Green.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1951. [Humanitarianism] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.159 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to V.H.A. (Violet Attlee) to fly-leaf. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. A new bookplate detailing provenance to front pastedown. Spine sunned with..... More
The Windblow Mystery.
London: John Hamilton, 1926. [Mystery] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.247; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, black titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 7s 6d to spine. Interior bright; foxing to preliminaries, rear few leaves, and edges. Bumping to spine ends. Some minor marking to..... More
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1782-88. [Late Antiquity] COMPLETE QUARTO EDITIONS. First volume 'New Edition', vols II-III 'Second Edition', final three volumes are First Editions. Complete in six volumes. Quarto (29 x 23 x 31cm), pp.xx; 704; pp.[12] 640; pp.[12] 640; pp.[4] xvi; 620; pp.[12] 684; pp.[14]..... More
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1788-1789. [Late Antiquity] COMPLETE QUARTO EDITIONS. First three volumes 'New Edition', final three volumes are First Editions. Complete in six volumes. Quarto (29 x 23 x 31cm), pp.[4] xx; 704; pp.[14] 640 [2]; pp.[14] 640 [2]; pp.[6] xvi; 620 [2]; pp.[14] 684..... More