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My Sporting Holidays.
London: Edward Arnold, 1904. [Hunting and Fishing] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 367 [17]. With 16 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. A large black ink ownership dated Xmas 1904 to..... More
Memorandum on Atmospheric Visibility.
London: Published for the Naval Meterological Service, Hydrographic Department, February 1918. ORIGINAL PAPER. Small quarto, pp.[2], 16. With tables and diagrams. In original oatmeal cloth with black titles to upper board. Some light outer wear and bleeding from rusting staples. Very good. In this short paper Shaw makes some contributions..... More
Indian States and the New Regime.
Sitamau: [Privately printed], 1937. [Indian history and politics] INSCRIBED ADVANCE COPY. First edition. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xxvi; 469 [3]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to flyleaf: 'Presented to the | most Honourable the Marquess of | Zetland, P.C., G.C.S.I., | G.C.I.E., etc. | the Secretary of State..... 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
Naval Costume: From Sketches Made on a Bed of Pain in 1837, Unfaithfully Lithographed.
London: Privately Published, n.d. [1840]. SIGNED COPY. Quarto. Forty engraved plates of ships, both military and merchant. With four page fold-out of a classification of Topmasts, Yards, Sails etc. Two engravings per plate. Inscribed in black ink by the artist on front paste-down to the Bishop of Norwich, dated 1843..... More
Summer of Love. The Making of Sgt Pepper.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2007. [Music History] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, number 150 of 350 DELUXE copies. Large quarto. 'Checked copy' slip laid in. Elaborately bound in full pink leather with a photo of George Martin laid down to upper cover, housed in the original silk-screen printed box with ribbon pull, the..... More
Under Milk Wood. A Play For Voices.
London: Queen Anne Press, Enitharmon Editions, 2013. [Modern classic] FIRST EDITION THUS, Deluxe Edition. Quarto (42 x 32cm in case), pp.173. Number 54 of 100 copies SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, with a separate signed and numbered original print entitled ''The Sailor's Arms''. Publisher's original green cloth with Blake illustration inlaid..... More
Dwin Bramall: The Authorised Biography of Field Marshall the Lord Bramall, KG, GCB, OBE, MC.
Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2005. [Military Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 272. With a suite of eight double-sided black and white photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page, and also INSCRIBED by Lord Bramall to Sharon Taylor in blue ink to title..... More
But Flashes of Wit: Epigrams from Sir Thomas Urquhart's "Apollo & The Muses."
Tunbridge Wells: The Foundling Press, 1999. [Epigrams] LIMITED PRIVATE-PRESS EDITION. Octavo (25 x 14cm), unpaginated. Number 18 of 300 copies thus, letterpress printed on fine hand-made paper. Publisher's burgundy card covers, with the pink illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. Light wear and a couple of small marks to jacket, otherwise a...... More
Man Overboard! [in] The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine. Volume I, 1898-9.
London: Harmsworth Bros., Limited, 1898-1899. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.viii; 672. With black and white in-text illustrations throughout. Publisher's DELUXE BINDING of leather-backed dark green boards with extra gilt decoration to spine, tan endpapers, edges marbled (the standard binding was mid-green cloth. Contents clean, joints slightly..... More
"Q.Q." Detective Stories [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 68 and 69, numbers 405 to 408, and 412 to 413.
London: George Newnes, September 1924 to May 1925. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six parts in their original colour illustrated paper covers, priced at 1s. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[52] 215-318 [53-68]; pp.[64] 319-422 [65-80]; pp.[68] 423-530 [69-84]; pp.[96] 531-670 [97-132]; pp.[68] 319-424 [69-86]; pp.[52] 425-528 [53-68]. With frequent black and..... More
Northern Numbers, being representative selections from certain living Scottish Poets. First Series.
Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, 1920. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 130 [4]. Publisher's blue quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and brown titles to grey paper over boards. Top edge toned; others untrimmed. Black ink gift inscription dated Christmas 1921 to flyleaf. Some weakness to binding..... More
[An Archive of Books and Papers from the Library of Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin].
1907-1988. [Physiology and Biophysics] ORIGINAL FELLOWSHIP DISSERTATION, NOTEBOOK, OFF-PRINT COLLECTION, AND INSCRIBED BOOKS. A remarkable collection of books and papers associated with the Nobel Prize-winning scientist, including the original typescript of the dissertation which won him a research Fellowship at Trinity College in 1936 and a year's study at the..... More
The County Companion, Diary, Statistical Chronicle, and Magisterial and Official Directory for 1887; Containing: the Calendar—Post Office Regulation—Names of British and Foreign Ambassadors—A Topographical, Geological, and Historical Description of the Counties of England and Wales, Supplemented by Electoral, Financial, Administrative, Police, Criminal, Agricultural, and General Statistics, and Comprising Useful Information respecting the Quarter Sessions, Petty Sessional and Lieutenancy Divisions, Prisons, Industrial and Reformatory Schools, Asylums, Chambers of Agriculture and Commerce, Urban and Rural Sanitary Authorities, School Boards, Burial Boards, Poor-Law Districts, and Militia and Volunteer Forces; also a County Magisterial Directory, a Table of Acts of the Parliamentary Session of 1885, and a reliable Government, Public Offices, Law, Parliamentary, Banking, and Insurance Guide.
London: Waterlow & Sons, 1887. [Country Almanac] ORIGINAL DIRECTORY. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.lxxxviii; 586. Also with an unpaginated diary and cash account section towards rear, not filled out. Publisher's grain-effect cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. All edges speckled red; advertisements to endpapers. Hinges split..... More
Heralds of England. A History of the Office and College of Arms.
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1967. [English Heraldry] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 23cm), pp.xxviii; 609 [1]. With 44 illustrated plates, many in colour. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and light blue endpapers. Top edge gilt, with the red illustrated dust-jacket. Presented in the original plain card..... More
Nothing Serious.
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, no date [1950]. [Classic Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.254; [1], advertisements; [1], blank. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Frank Ford with printed price of 8/6 net. No owner names. Some spotting to..... More
A Pelican at Blandings.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1969. [Classic Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.222; [2]. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, in an amusing pictorial dust-jacket designed by Osbert Lancaster, with printed price 25s. A few light marks within, else internally bright and clean. Slight toning to top edge. Light..... More
A Pelican at Blandings.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1969. [Classic Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.222; [2]. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, in an amusing pictorial dust-jacket designed by Osbert Lancaster, with printed price 25s. Simply a fine, fresh copy. Fine. The tenth 'Blandings Castle' novel. Formerly sold by Wodehouse specialist..... More
Spring Fever.
London: Herbert Jenkins, No date [1948]. [Classic Humour] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. 256. Publisher's orange cloth lettered in black to front board and spine, humorous illustrative dust-jacket with printed price of 8/6 to front flap. Toning to edges of textblock, slight rolling to spine..... More