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Farthest East, and South and West. Notes of a Journey Home through Japan, Australia and America.
London: W. H. Allen, 1892. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp. xii, 343. With 12 photographic plates including frontispiece. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, as well as black/white illustrations. Navy end-papers. Black ink prize inscription to verso of front free end-paper. Reading lean. Clean and..... More
Histoire des Diables de Loudun, Ou de la Possession des Religieuses Ursulines, Et de la condamnation et du suplice D'Urbain Grandier, Cure de la meme Ville. Cruels effets de la vengeance du Cardinal de Richelieu.
Amsterdam: Aux Depens de la Compagnie, 1740. [Huguenot History] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (16 x 10cm), pp.[8] 378 [4]. With a copper engraved frontispiece. All text in French. Contemporary speckled calf with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt decoration to spine. Marbled endpapers; edges speckled red. Recent repairs to head and..... More
A Drug in the Market. Author of 'The Slip Coach', 'The Blue Poppy', 'The Down Train' and 'The Black Circle'.
London, Edward Arnold and Co. 1928. First Edition, 8vo. Publisher's light blue/grey cloth, titles in black to spine, in dark blue and white pictorial dust-jacket. Other publications listed to the back. A little bumping and scuffing to spine and corners with a slight lean. Light toning to pages, slightly darker..... More
Historic Memoirs of Ireland; comprising Secret Records of the National Convention, the Rebellion, and the Union; with Delineations of the Principal Characters connected with these transactions.
London: Henry Colburn, 1835. NEW EDITON. In two volumes. Large Quarto, pp.[2] xlii, 358 [2]; pp.[4] x, 464 [2]. With 38 copper engraved portraits, including a frontispiece of Barrington to vol. I, and two plates preceeding the title page in vol. II. Also with three facsimile letters and an index..... More
['Oxfordshire', from Magna Britannia et Hibernia, Antiqua et Nova, or, A New Survey of Great Britain].
London: E. and R. Nutt, n.d. [1720-31]. REBOUND SECTION on the county of Oxfordshire. Small Quarto, pp.209-508: Dd-Sss4 (-3S3 -3S4). With folding map of Oxfordshire to prelims. In recent black cloth library binding with gilt titles to spine. Bookplate and barcode of Berkshire County Library to front pastedown. Further library..... More
Blake: General-at-Sea.
Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, the Wessex Press, 1934. [Naval History] FIRST EDITION WITH JACKET. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 200. With 20 lithographic maps, plans and illustrations, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. With rare original light blue dust-jacket featuring an engraving..... More
Our Mutual Friend.
New York, NY: Hurd and Houghton, 1866. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND by M. Jackel and Co, NY. In four volumes. Crown octavo (18 x 12 x 11cm), pp.[4] 311 [3]; pp.[4] 306 [4]; pp.[4] 305 [3]; pp.[4] 284 [4]. With a steel engraved frontispiece to each volume. In an elegant..... More
Social Security No. 438-10-1408.
New York, NY: A Milestone Book, Comet Press Books, 1958. [Psychological memoir]. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 73 [1]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page, dated 24th November 1959. In publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Green endpapers. With original cream..... More
Cinderella. Together with The Sleeping Beauty. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1919 and 1920. FIRST EDITIONS thus. 2 volumes, large octavos. Publisher's red and yellow pictorial covers, cloth spines, in red and grey illustrated dust-wrappers. Tipped-in colour frontispiece to each volume and numerous black and white silhouettes and three-toned illustrations. Owner name to 'Cinderella', some edge spotting to..... More
Hornblower and The Atropos.
Boston: Little Brown and Company. 1953. [Naval Adventure] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION, from the Forester Family Archive. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 325 [3]. INSCRIBED by Forester in black ink to his wife, Dorothy, on the front flyleaf. Bookplate of the Forester, Troughton-Smith family archive to pastedown. Publisher's green cloth..... More
The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck.
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1959. [Wartime naval history] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 138. Illustrated with maps. Publisher's blue cloth titled in silver to the spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at $3.50. Contents clean, owner bookplate to pastedown, jacket with a few small nicks and..... More
The Sky and the Forest.
London: Michael Joseph, 1948. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.219. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green typographic dust-jacket. Book is fine; jacket near fine with one short tear to crown. A most attractive copy. More
Aerodynamics of the Helicopter.
New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, no date [1952]. [Aviation] GALLEY PROOF. A4 photocopied paper, ring-bound in black plastic with clear plastic covers. (28 x 24cm), lacking pages 2 and 3 (one sheet of paper). pp.[6] 1; 4-343. A small blank area of the first page cut away. Browned throughout..... More
Plan for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor; for Enforcing and amending the Laws respecting Houses of Correction, and Vagrants; and for Improving the Police of this Country. Together with Bills intended to be offered to Parliament for those Purposes.
London: Printed for G. Wilkie, 1781. [English Law and Politics]. ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[4] 139 [3]. Sewn but lacking original covers; loosely housed in brown paper-covered board with brown cloth hinge. Red pencil inscription to top left corner of title page; a little grubbiness to title page..... More
The Yeomen of the Guard. Or, The Merryman and his Maid. With Eight Illustrations in Colour by W. Russell Flint and Drawings in Pen and Ink by Charles E. Brock.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1929. Large Octavo. Publisher's red cloth with titles in gilt to spine and upper, the latter with gilt illustration. Illustrated throughout the text with drawings in black and white. Binding lightly rubbed and marked. Lovely colour plate illustrations, internally clean. Very good indeed. More
The History of Kent. In Five parts. Containing I. An exact topography or description of the county. II. The Civil History of Kent.... V. The Natural History of Kent.
London: Printed and Sold by D. Midwinter, 1719. [Kent Topography/Cartography] FIRST EDITION. Folio (40 x 29cm), pp.[2]; iv, Dedication; iv, Preface; ii, Ode to Kent; iv, List of Subscribers; 592; xl. Illustrated with 43 fine engravings, of which 39 are double-page and/or fold-out. Includes fine panoramas of Rochester and Tunbridge..... More
The Collected Works of Henrik Ibsen. Copyright Edition.
London: William Heinemann, 1906-1910. [Literature] FINELY BOUND BY ZAEHNSDORF. Eleven volumes, octavo (19 x 14 x 37cm). Beautifully bound by Zaehnsdorf in contemporary deep blue half morocco over marbled boards, gilt and leather onlays to spines. Top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Internally fine. Binding lightly handled. A sumptuous presentation of..... More
An Air Fighter's Scrap-Book.
London: Nicholson and Watson, 1938. [Airforce Memoir] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.332. With 14 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's black cloth titled in red to spine, with a facsimile signature in red to upper. With the blue photographic dust jacket, priced at..... More
Small Yachts. Their design and construction exemplified by the ruling types of modern practice. With numerous plates and illustrations.
New York: Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 1885. [Yacht Building] FIRST EDITION. Folio, (28cm x 37cm). With 63 plates and numerous illustrations in text, pp.v; 369. Finely bound in recent brown half morocco, tan label, gilt titles and decoration to spine, original publisher's pictorial boards. Text block rather fragile; there..... More
Extracts from Colonel Tempelhoffe's History of the Seven Years War: His Remarks on General Lloyd: On the Subsistence of Armies; and On the March of Convoys. Also a Treatise on Winter Posts. To which is added A Narrative of Events at St. Lucie and Gibraltar, and of John Duke of Marlborough's March to the Danube, with the Causes and Consequences of that Measure.
London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1793. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. In two volumes. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] clxiv; 214; [6]; pp.[2]; vi; 215-516; [4]. With three folding maps to volume II. Contemporary brown calf with gilt titles to spine and armorial device stamped to all boards. All edges yellow;..... More
Poisonous Plants on the Farm. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Miscellaneous Publications No. 57.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.58. With 51 illustrations to plate section at rear. In original leather-effect blue quarter cloth, with titles to plain paper-covered boards. Boards lightly browned, with a couple of small water stains to top edge (upper board only). Near fine overall... 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
Right Off The Map.
London, Chatto and Windus. 1927. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's royal blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, slightly faded to spine cloth with a small patch of bleaching at the top. Page edges untrimmed, internally clean. Wrapped in a splendid spine faded dustwrapper in blue and purple. Light wear and..... More
Ludmila's Broken English.
London: Faber and Faber, 2006. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[8] 318 [10]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's cream paper-covered boards with black titles to spine. Black endpapers. With the orange dust-jacket designed by Ghost. A fine..... More
The Yearling. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. FINE CONDITION, a later edition. Quarto, pp.[x]; 400; [4], blank. Publisher's illustrated cloth with top-edge red, pictorial endpapers, in original card box with colour plate illustration laid down to lid. Book is fine, box is edgeworn with a few neat repairs. A nicely presented..... More