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Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. A Triumph.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. [Arabian Travel / History] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST TRADE EDITION, following the privately published edition of 1926. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.672. With 54 plates and four folding maps. Complete with appendices and index. Recently bound in mid brown half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to red..... More
Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. A Triumph.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. [Arabian Travel] FIRST TRADE EDITION, following the privately published edition of 1926. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.672. With 54 plates and four folding maps. Complete with appendices and index. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, gilt scimitars and motto motif to upper board, top edge..... More
Revolt in the Desert.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. [First World War] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.[2] 446. With 16 black and white plates, including a frontispiece, and a folding map at rear. Publisher's tan cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge tinted brown, others untrimmed. Crisp and clean internally..... More
The History of Little England Beyond Wales, the Non-Kymric Colony Settled in Pembrokeshire.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1888. [Welsh History] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 24cm), pp.xvi; iv; 458 [2]. With frequent in-text wood engravings, and occasional full page plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind decoration to boards. All edges untrimmed; brown endpapers. Armorial..... More
A Book of Nonsense.
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1863. [Children's Illustrated] FOURTEENTH EDITION. Oblong (15 x 23cm), pp.[4] 112. Printed on the recto of each leaf only. All the original illustrations and verses, plus some new ones. Rebound in the mid twentieth century in brown half cloth with the original yellow illustrated cover..... More
A History of England in the Eighteenth Century. Cabinet Edition.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899-1901. [British History] FINELY BOUND SET, the Cabinet Edition, new impressions. Complete in seven volumes. Octavo (18 x 13 x 23cm). In contemporary green half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and lighter green cloth over boards. Top edges gilt, and..... More
Bertie and the Big Red Ball.
London: John Murray and Gallery Five Ltd., 1982. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.[32]. With colour illustrations by Cook to every other page. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated hard covers, priced at £4.95. Light spotting to endpapers, and a small tear to the lower edge of the first..... More
The Sixpence that Rolled Away.
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.24. With five colour plates and six line drawn illustrations by Bawden. Publisher's colour illustrated paper covered boards, with the matching dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Some offsetting to endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Wear to extremities and some..... More
Whaler 'Round the Horn.
London: Museum Press, 1953. [Children's Adventure Novel] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 244. With a colour frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text illustrations, by Shenton. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Shenton, priced at 7/6. A touch of spotting..... More
Len Deighton. An Annotated Bibliography 1954-1985. Foreword by Julian Symons.
London: The Sammler Press, 1985. [Bibliography] FIRST EDITION, Signed Limited Edition, no.360 of 375 copies. Association copy. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.64; notes. Black cloth hardcover, dust-wrapper designed by Raymond Hawkey. Each copy includes a signed uncorrected page proof from the forthcoming novel 'London Match' (page number corresponding to the..... More
The Desolate Antarctic.
London: Lutterworth Press, 1950. [Antarctic exploration] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION WITH TLS. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 172. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, cartographic endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price of 12s. 6d. net. Illustrated with photographic plates. Warmly inscribed by the author to W.G. Whincop to the half title..... More
Complete Diaries: The Python Years, 1968-1979: Halfway to Hollywood, 1980-1988; Travelling to Work, 1988-98.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2006, 2009, 2014. [Comedy/travel] FIRST EDITION, three volumes, octavo (24 x 16 x 15cm), SIGNED by the author to final volume. First book includes a talking CD. Publisher's cloth hardcovers titled to spines, in pictorial dust-jackets. Each with photographic sections. A lovely fine, unread set... More
A Canvas to Cover.
London: Collins, 1947. [Art] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.[2] 134 [2]. With four colour and sixty-four monotone reproductions of Seago's oil paintings. Publisher's oatmeal cloth, brown titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket. Interior bright and clean, minimal marking/spotting throughout. Price clipped to front flap. Cloth extremities..... More
Peace in War.
London: Collins, 1943. [Art / English Topography] FIRST EDITION. Slim quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.80. With 25 photogravure illustrations of paintings depicting the English countryside by Seago, and a frontispiece portrait of the author. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price of 12s. 6d. net..... More
The Sonnets of Shakspere.
London: C. Kegan Paul and Co., 1881. [Love Poetry] FIRST DOWDEN EDITION, finely bound and printed. Small octavo (16 x 10cm), pp.[6] lxii; 251 [5]. With a frontispiece etching of the Bard, as well as extensive notes and an introduction. Printed by A. and T. Constable at the Edinburgh University..... More
Gael Over Glasgow.
London: Sheed and Ward, 1937. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.ix; [1]; 357; [1]. Publisher's green cloth lettered in yellow to spine, photographic dust-jacket with printed price of 7s 6d to front flap. Top edge green. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf. Dark..... More
The Picnic Basket.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1967. [Memoir] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[xxvi]; 224. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gold to spine, photographic dust-jacket designed by Martin Bronkhorst, printed price 36s net, top edge purple, photographic frontispiece of author. Signed by author to flyleaf. Minor spotting to edges, internally..... More
Prelude to Victory.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1939. First Edition. Octavo. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine; top edge stained red. Dust wrapper has titles in black to front cover and spine, rear cover blank. With an introduction by Winston Churchill, fold-out maps and photographic illustrations. Binding is lightly rubbed..... More
M.S. [The French Retreat from Moscow]. Original M.S. of the article published in the Quarterly Review October 1867.
[c.1867]. BOUND MANUSCRIPT. Small Quarto, pp.305. Page numbers in light pencil; writing in black ink. In a contemporary binding of full calf with raised bands, burgundy calf label with gilt titles to spine, marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Edward Stanhope to front pastedown. Large water or oil stain to top right..... More
The Voyages of Lemuel Gulliver to Lilliput and Brobdingnag [Gulliver's Travels].
London: The Folio Society, 1948. [Adventure fiction] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xx; 153; [1], colophon. Elegantly bound in red half morocco over marbled boards, spine ruled in six compartments with raised bands, twin black title labels. Contents clean, exterior as new. A fine copy in an attractive..... More
In Pursuit of Spring.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1914. [Travel] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.301; [3]. With six halftone illustrations, including a frontispiece, adhered on one edge to tipped-in grey leaves with letter-pressed tissue guards. Cartographic endpapers. Publisher's blue cloth to boards, gilt titles, device, and rulings to upper..... More
Little Innocents: Childhood Reminiscences.
London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1932. [Childhood Anthology] DELUXE FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii, 124 [4]. In contemporary full vellum with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Binder's label for Leighton Straker Bookbinding Co. to copyright page. A little toning to edges, and some light marks and discolouration..... More
Tickle Me [MOVIE CAMPAIGN BROCHURE]. [Elvis Presley].
London: Warner-Pathe, 1965. [Movie Memorabilia] DISTRIBUTOR'S CAMPAIGN BOOKLET. Folio (38 x 26cm), a single folded sheet of card with one leaf inserted. Illustrated in blue and orange to front cover, concerning the musical comedy film 'Tickle Me' starring Elvis Presley and Jocelyn Lane. Two hole-punch marks near spine. Light handling..... More
Now and Then. A Journal of Books and Personalities Published Occasionally from 30 Bedford Square. Number 77.
London: Jonathan Cape, Autumn 1948. [Literary Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo pamphlet (25 x 17cm), pp.32. With occasional woodcut vignettes. Publisher's tan typographic paper covers, priced at 6d. Light wear to covers, with heavy oxidation to staples. Very good. The very first post-war issue of Cape occasional literary magazine (suddenly doubled..... More
Greater London. A Narrative of its History, its People, and its Places.
London: Cassell & Company, no date [1889-1890]. [London Topography] PUBLISHER'S CLOTH, later printings. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (27 x 20cm), pp.xvi, 576; pp.xii, 560. Illustrated with numerous in-text engravings. With the large folding map loose to a pouch in volume II. Volume I coded 03.90 to advertisements at rear..... More