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Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965. Taken from the diaries of Lord Moran.
London: Constable, 1966. [Diaries] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xviii; 829 [3]. With 15 black and white photographic plates, some double-sided, including a frontispiece. Recently re-bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Top edge..... More
Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965. Taken from the diaries of Lord Moran.
London: Constable, 1966. [Diaries] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xviii; 829 [3]. With 15 black and white photographic plates, some double-sided, including a frontispiece. Elegantly hand-bound in red half oasis morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt 'lion rampant' motif to spine, matching..... More
Utopia, written by Sir Thomas More in Latin, and translated by Ralph Robynson, to which are added The Life of the Author by his son-in-law William Roper, and some of his Letters. The Chiswick Library of Noble Writers.
London: printed at the Chiswick Press for George Bell and Sons, 1903. [Utopia] LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Quarto (35 x 22cm), pp.xii; 265 [1]. With an engraved frontispiece and decorated title page by W.L. Bruckman, as well as two woodcuts taken from the 1518 Basel edition by Ambrose Holbein. Number..... More
Gallipoli Today.
London: Ernest Benn, 1926. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] 115 [1]. With 48 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's tan cloth with gilt titles to spine. Black ink stamp of Queen's Westminster and Civil Service Rifles Sergeants' Mess to pastedowns and to half-title..... More
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents.
London: Doubleday, 2001. [Children's Fantasy] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.270 [2]. With occasional in-text illustrations by Wyatt. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and yellow endapers. With dust-jacket also illustrated by Wyatt, priced at £12.99. A touch of toning to edges, otherwise a crisp..... More
Carpe Jugulum. A Discworld Novel.
London: Doubleday, 1998. [Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.285; [3]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's black cloth to boards, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket, designed by Josh Kirby, priced at £16.99 to front flap. Red endpapers. Leaves..... More
Dodger.
London: Doubleday, 2012. [Historical Satire] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8]; 355; [5]. Publisher's navy cloth, gilt titles to spine, marbled endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Paul Kidby printed price £18.99. Internally clean and crisp. Bumping to lower and upper back board, creasing to dust-jacket edges. Near fine... More
Feet of Clay.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1996. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp. 288. Publisher's grey cloth lettered on gilt to spine, pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Josh Kirby and designed by Splash, priced at £15.99 to front flap. A bright and clean copy, some bumping to spine and dust-jacket spine..... More
Jingo.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1997. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp. 285; [3]. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Josh Kirby and designed by Splash Studios. Spotting to edges of textblock, rolling to spine, rolling to dust-jacket spine, price clipped. Very good..... More
Maskerade.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1995. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp. 285; [3]. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Josh Kirby and designed by Splash Studios, priced at £15.99 to front flap. Very light scuffing to cloth, slight rolling to spine and..... More
Nation.
London: Doubleday, 2008. [Fantasy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[14]; 409; [8]. Publisher's blue cloth, silver titles to spine, blue 'starry sky' endpapers from John Sanford/Science Photo Library, illustrations internally. Pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Jonny Duddle, printed price of £16.99. Written by the Carnegie-medal winning author... More
The Rincewind Trilogy: A Discworld Omnibus. Sourcery; Eric; Interesting Times.
London: Gollancz, 2001. [Fantasy Satire] INSCRIBED FIRST THUS, an omnibus. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 568 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in black marker to title page: 'To Colin | it's still true! | Happy Hogswatch | Terry Pratchett.' Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket..... More
The Shepherd's Crown. A Discworld Novel.
London: Doubleday, 2015. [Fantasy Satire] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 343 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, with gilt titles to spine and light blue endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Paul Kidby, priced at £20.00. A crisp copy showing a little light handling only. Near fine. Pratchett's..... More
The Sign of The Fish.
London: Collins, 1960. [Literary essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Illustrated with plates. Publisher's red cloth, pictorial jacket. A fine book in a near fine, price-clipped jacket, with a few small nicks to extremities. The Sign of the Fish is a study of the art of..... More
Castle Dor.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1962. [Cornish historical fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.242. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at 16s to front flap. Small bookseller ticket to pasdeown, contents clean, no inscriptions, some spotting to edges of text block..... More
In Powder and Crinoline.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [1913]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.164. With 24 mounted colour plates, including a frontispiece, each with a captioned tissue guard. Re-bound later in the twentieth century in tan quarter cloth with grey paper over boards and green titles to plain..... More
Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel.
London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1892. [Satirical Novels] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (29 x 20cm), pp.[4] xlvi [2]; 341 [7]; pp.[4] xiv; 455 [5]. With 15 photogravure illustrated plates, including a frontispiece to volume I, with tissue guards. Number 247 of 1000 copies thus. Contemporary green..... More
The Last Fight of the Revenge. With an Introduction by Henry Newbolt.
London: Gibbings and Company, 1908. [Maritime history] Quarto (26 x 17cm), pp.132. Contemporary binding by Onrock and Son in full red crushed morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine; period three-masted tall ship made from brown and white leather onlays to centre of upper with elaborate gilt-stamped..... More
Scott's Last Expedition. Vol. I being the Journals of Captain R. F. Scott, R.N., C.V.O., Vol. II being the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E. A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition. Arranged by Leonard Huxley. With a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1913. [Polar Exploration] FIRST COLONIAL EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xviii; 497; [11]; pp.x; 431; [1]. With eight photographic plates including a frontispiece to each volume, and a folding map at the rear of each volume. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles and..... More
Woodstock, or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-One.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1887. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 503; [3]. With an engraved frontispiece and title page by the Dalziel brothers. In a fine prize binding for Harrow School. Slightly later full green calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a...... More
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet. The Globe Edition, with a Biographical and Critical Memoir by Francis Turner Palgrave.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.xliv; 559 [3]. Small print, mainly in two columns. Contemporary brown full morocco for Stonyhurst College, with raised bands, gilt titles and further gilt decoration to spine, as well as gilt school stamp to..... More
Anne of Geierstein, or, The Maiden of the Mist.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1887. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 490; [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and title page by the Dalziel brothers. In a fine prize binding for Harrow School. Slightly later full green calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a...... More
The Antiquary.
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1886. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 438; [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and title page by the Dalziel brothers. In a fine prize binding for Harrow School. Slightly later full green calf with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a...... More
Chronicles of the Canongate.
Edinburgh: Printed for Cadell & Co., 1827. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION IN PUBLISHER'S BOARDS. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[4] xxviii; 351 [1]; pp.[4] 374 [10]. Publisher's light brown pasteboards, with plain printed paper title labels to spines. All edges untrimmed. Twin black ink ownerships to fly-leaf..... More
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