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Love Lies Dreaming.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1927. [Romance] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.289; [1], blank; [6], ads. Publisher's blue-green cloth with gilt titles. Contents clean, some toning to endpapers, spine a little discoloured. A very good copy of this early Forester novel. More
The Man In The Yellow Raft.
London: Michael Joseph, 1969. [Navy stories] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.191 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 25s. Contents clean, jacket is bright and fresh. A fine copy. A collection of stories about the US Navy in the Pacific..... More
Napoleon and his Court.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1924. [Historical Biography] FIRST EDITION, first impression, a variant binding. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.247 [9]. With 16 black and white plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with titles and decoration in gilt to spine, and blind to upper. Other copies have been seen..... More
The Nightmare.
London: Michael Joseph, 1954. [Strange tales] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.240. Publisher's grey cloth with red and black titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 12/6 to front flap. Contents clean, owner bookplate to pastedown, jacket with a few small nicks and tears, toned..... More
A Pawn Among Kings.
London: Methuen, 1924. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.220. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles. Contents clean, some spotting to endpapers, single ink name to flyleaf, bookplate to pastedown, old repair to inside joint, covers rubbed, one tear to crown. Very good. The author's first book..... More
Payment Deferred.
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1926. [Mystery novel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.304; [8], ads. Elegantly hand-bound in half burgundy calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands, original cloth covers preserved at rear, top edge tinted red. Contents..... More
The Peacemaker.
London: Heinemann, 1934. [Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.341; [3], blank. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles. Contents clean, some light spotting to edges of text block, bookplate to pastedown, lacks f.e.p., cloth with light general wear. Very good. More
Plain Murder.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1930. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.322; [6], ads. Elegantly hand-bound in half black oasis morocco over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands, original cloth spine preserved at rear. Contents clean, page edges..... More
Randall and The River of Time.
London: Michael Joseph, 1951. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Biro, with printed price 10s 6d. Slight spotting and toning to text block edges, else internally clean. Light rubbing to spine head/tail, minor bumping to board..... More
Randall and The River of Time.
London: Michael Joseph, 1951. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, SUPERB PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Biro, with printed price 10s 6d. With author's inscription to flyleaf: 'To Sir William and Lady Tennant /with best wishes from /..... More
The Shadow of the Hawk.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1928. [Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.284; [4], ads. Elegantly hand-bound in half mid-green calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands, original cloth cover and spine preserved at rear. Contents clean but..... More
A Ship of the Line.
London: Michael Joseph Ltd., 1938. [Naval fiction] FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.304; [1], advert; [3], blank. Second issue; sheets bound up later in the orange cloth (rather than blue), blocked in black to spine, pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by Rowland Hilder, clipped and priced down to 3/6..... 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
Two-And-Twenty.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1931. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.312; [8], ads. Publisher's mid-blue cloth with yellow titles to upper and spine. Contents clean, some light spotting to edges of text block, bookplate of Trevor Hickman to pastedown, backstrip sunned/toned, cloth with light general..... More
U 97. A Play in Three Acts.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1931. [Naval adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.99; [1], blank; [8], ads. Publisher's green cloth with printed paper title label to spine, in original printed dust-wrapper. Owner bookplate. Contents clean, covers have some dampstaining which has offset to jacket. Some chips..... More
Victor Emmanuel II and the Union of Italy.
London: Methuen and Co., 1927. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.viii; 246; [2]; 8, adverts. With twelve halftone illustrations, a map and genealogical table. Publisher's bright blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, cartographic tail edge untrimmed, typographic dust-wrapper priced at 10/6. Contents clean, jacket with a little edgewear..... More
The Wonderful Week.
London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd., 1927. [Mystery Thriller] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[8] 314 [8]. Recently re-bound in tan half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. With the original tan cloth spine and upper bound in..... More
The Gun.
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1939. [Modern Literature] VINTAGE PENGUIN EDITION, first Penguin Edition. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.245; [1]; [10], publisher's advertisements. Publisher's orange and white softcovers, matching dust-jacket with printed price of 6d. to front flap. Ex-libris stamp front paste-down, toning to edges of textblock and internally, toning to covers and..... More
Brown on Resolution.
London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1929. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.272; [8], ads, followed by foldout facsimile review. Publisher's blue cloth trimmed in yellow. Owner bookplate to pastedown, contents clean and fresh, covers are square, spine sunned. Near fine, without jacket. 'An epic in miniature of..... More
Sir John Moore's System of Training.
London: Hutchinson & Co., no date [1925]. [Military Training / Napoleonic Wars] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.255 [1]. With 10 illustrations, including a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. A black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Light toning throughout, with some spotting..... 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
Twelve Part Songs. Omnipotent Lord; Little Celandine; Gitanella; Bright Star of Eve; My True Love Hath My Heart; Take Me, Mother Earth; The Farewell; Go, Lovely Rose; The Bell; Far From My Native Mountains; Adam Could Find No Solid Peace; Le Loup et L'Agneau (The Wolf and the Lamb), a Fable from La Fontaine, with French and English Words.
London: Goddard & Co., no date [1872-1873]. [Part-Song Collection] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITIONS, with two significant associated inscriptions. Two six-part series bound as one volume. Large octavo (27 x 19cm). With the composer's blue ink stamp-signature to title page of each Part Song. Additionally INSCRIBED in pencil to the composer's sub-conductor..... More
Annals of the Five Senses.
Montrose: Privately published by the author, 1923. [Stream-of-Consciousness] FIRST EDITION, a presentation copy. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 195 [3]. With a black and white photographic image of the author clipped from a newspaper tipped onto flyleaf, with a presentation note (possibly secretarial) in pencil stating 'from the author.' Publisher's..... More