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Doctor Therne.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898. [Medical Dystopia] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] x; 253 [3]. Publisher's light tan cloth with titles in gilt to spine and brown to upper, with patterned endpapers. Textblock shaken. Very light occasional spotting. Edges toned. Light wear to cloth; spine toned. Very..... More
Finished.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1917. [Fantasy Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.320. With a black and white half-tone frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. Hinges split; spotting to edges and preliminaries. Rubbing to boards; spine head pulled; corners bumped. Good. The..... More
Jess.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1887. [Boer War Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 336 [8]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and black titles to upper board. Foliate patterned endpapers. Some very light tape burns to endpapers. Spine lightly sunned, with some rubbing and a...... More
Joan Haste.
London: Longman's, Green, and Co., 1895. [Romantic Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.x; 425; [3], blank; 24, catalogue dated July 1895. With a frontispiece illustration and nineteen further plates. Publisher's blue-grey cloth, bevelled edges, gilt titles, black endpapers. Some mild spotting/toning; generally fresh in a crisp binding. Very..... More
King Solomon's Mines.
London: Cassell & Company, 1898. [Fantasy Adventure] SIXPENNY NOVEL. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.128. With five in-text illustrations by Walter Paget. Publisher's plain paper covers, with titles and an illustration in blue to upper. Toned throughout with some spotting to preliminaries. Covers quite heavily browned and spotted. Joints just starting..... More
King Solomon's Mines.
London: Cassell & Company, 1886. [Fantasy Adventure] FIRST EDITION, the seventh impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[4] 320 [14]. With the folding colour map frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth pictorially blocked in black, with titles in gilt to spine and black to upper, and light yellow-coated endpapers. Catalogue dated 5G.1.86, final..... More
King Solomon's Mines. The Arm Chair Library No. 4.
New York, NY: F.M. Lupton, 28th January 1893. [Fantasy Adventure] PIRATE DIME NOVEL. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.61 [3]. Publisher's plain soft covers, priced at 10c, or $2.50 for an annual subscription. Heavily browned. Chipping to covers, especially spine and corners. A rare survival. Very good. The first of the..... More
Mary of Marion Isle.
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1929. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 286. Publisher's light blue cloth with navy titles to spine and upper. Vestiges of pink pencil inscription to fly-leaf. Spotting to edges and light tape burns to fly-leaves and blanks. Light toning to spine and light general..... More
Queen of The Dawn.
London: Hutchinson and Co., no date [1925]. [Fantasy novel] FIRST EDITION. Undated, but published 8th April 1925. FIRST ISSUE, with 'sisturm' for 'sistrum' page 11 line 12. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.287; 48, advertisements dated 'Spring 1925'. Bound in publisher's grey/green cloth, titled in black. Upper panel of scarce original..... More
Queen of The Dawn.
London: Hutchinson and Co., no date [1925]. [Fantasy novel] FIRST EDITION. Undated, but published 8th April 1925. FIRST ISSUE, with 'sisturm' for 'sistrum' page 11 line 12. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.287; 48, advertisements dated 'Spring 1925'. Bound in publisher's grey/green cloth, titled in black. Spotting to prelims and edges..... More
Regeneration. Being an Account of the Social Work of the Salvation Army in Great Britain.
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1910. [Charity History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. 264. With six black and white photographic illustrations, including a frontispiece. Publisher's maroon cloth with titles in gilt to spine, and blind to upper. Gently toned throughout, with a little light spotting to preliminaries. Fairly..... More
She. A History of Adventure.
London: George Newnes, no date [circa 1920]. [Fantasy Adventure] SHILLING NOVEL. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] 190. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, priced at 1s. Heavily browned, as expected. Chipping and bumping to all edges, especially corners. Heavy rust bleed from staples in the spine. Good. An eerie Late-Victorian adventure in..... More
The Way of the Spirit.
London: Hutchinson and Co., 1906. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.344 [32]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Partially erased ink ownerships to flyleaf. Heavy browning and spotting to preliminaries and edges. Repair to split lower joint. Spine sunned with some light rubbing and..... More
When The World Shook. Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot.
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1919. [Fantasy] FIRST EDITION, first state binding. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.viii; 347 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with titles in gilt to spine (second state binding has black titles to spine), and in blind to upper. A lovely clean copy internally, with some toning to..... More
The Annals of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, Volume IV, The 60th: The K.R.R.C. With Illustrations and Maps.
London: John Murray, 1929. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xl; 398. With four black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece, and 20 maps. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt regimental badge to upper. Black ink stamp of Regimental Headquarters, The Royal..... More
Recollections of Rifleman Harris.
London: Peter Davies, 1929. [Napoleonic Wars] Second impression thus. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 191 [1]. Publisher's yellow cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dark green typographic dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. A nice clean copy internally. Jacket shows some toning to spine and a little wear to edges..... More
Jungle Trails in Northern India.
London: Methuen and Company, 1938. RARE FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[10], 278. With 24 photographic plates including a frontispiece. In publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With rare original dust-jacket. Maps printed to endpapers. Some damage to head of spine. Jacket spine sunned, with loss to head and tail..... More
Half A Hero.
London: A. D. Innes and Co. 1893. FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, octavo, both with the half-titles and publisher's advertisements. Bound in original blue-grey cloth lettered in dark blue to upper with gilt titles to the spine. Light coloured cloth is darkened and dusty as expected, pictorial bookplate of Richard Chamberlain..... More
The King's Mirror
Bristol, J.W. Arrowsmith 1899. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 312, + 40 of adverts dated Sptember 1899 (partially unopened). Publisher's blue/grey cloth, titled in gilt to spine and upper, top edge trimmed, others uncut. Spine a shade darkened, minor wear, occasional spotting, ink name to flyleaf; very good. More
Translations & Verses
London: The Dropmore Press. September 1949. [Literaturel] LIMITED EDITION. One of fifty copies in Niger (although un-numbered/out-of-series) from a total edition of six hundred (the remainder in buckram). Large Octavo (24 x 15cm). pp.[6]; [vi]; 63; [3], blank, printed on cream wove paper, title and colophon printed in two colours..... More
A Life In Reuters.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1951. [Journalism] FIRST EDITION, publisher's FILE COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.496. Red hardback cloth binding lettered in gilt to the spine, top edge red, in typographic dust-jacket priced at 25s. No ink inscriptions, contents clean, bumped to lower edges, jacket with a few small chips..... More
The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1874. [Children's Classic] FINELY BOUND, a later edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 388 [2]. With four illustrated plates including a frontispiece. Contemporary tan full calf by BICKERS & SON, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels, and further gilt tooling to..... More
Return to Malaya.
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1936. [South-East Asian travel] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.[6] 376 [2]. Publisher's light green cloth with dark red titles to spine and upper board. Maps to endpapers. Top edge green; others untrimmed. With the red and green dust-jacket, priced at $3.00..... More
Cruising and Ocean Racing. The Lonsdale Library Volume XV.
London: Seeley Service and Co. Ltd., 1933. [Yachting] ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.592. Publisher's tan cloth, titled in gilt to spine, gilt insignia to spine and upper board, blue illustrative endpapers, top edge brown, photographic frontispiece. With over five hundred illustrations. Some spotting to the textblock. Binding a little..... More
A History of Eton College (1440-1910).
London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. FINELY BOUND, Fourth Edition. Large Octavo, pp.[4]; xxiv; 627; [5]. With 11 full-page plates, some colour, including a frontispiece. Also with 63 in-text woodcuts. In contemporary brown full morocco by SPOTTISWOODE, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. All edges and endpapers marbled. Black..... More