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Marie.
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1912. [Historical fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; [4]; 346; [2]. Publisher's red cloth, stamped in blind to upper, blocked in gilt to spine. Colour frontispiece, vignette to title page, and three black and white plates. Some spotting throughout, edges a little dusty..... More
Marie.
London: Cassell and Company, 1912. [Zulu / Fantasy Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 346 [2]. With three black and white plates and a colour frontispiece by Michael. Publisher's red cloth with titles in gilt to spine and blind to upper. Heavy spotting to edges, and occasionally throughout..... More
Fairy Tales and Romances.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849. [Continental Fairy Tales] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[2] vi; 562 [2]. With a frontispiece etching of Count Hamilton. In a fine later binding of brown half crushed morocco by Roger de Coverly, with gilt titles and decoration to spine..... More
Psychic Energy: Its Source and Goal.
Washington, D.C.: Published for Bollingen Foundation by Pantheon Books, 1947. [Psychology] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xvi; 497 [5]. With 10 black and white illustrated plates including a frontispiece, as well as occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's black quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and green..... 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
Skating [and] Figure-Skating, with contributions on Curling, Tobogganing, Ice-Sailing [and] Bandy. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. [Winter Sports] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 464. With frequent in-text diagrams and illustrations, as well as a half-tone frontispiece and a vignette title page. Publisher's blue diced half morocco with gilt titles to spine, orange cloth over boards, and Beaufort crest..... More
The Life of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, D.D. Late Bishop of London. By the Rev. Robert Hodgson, A.M.F.R.S. Rector of St. George's Hanover-Square, and one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to his Majesty.
London: For T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812. [Religious history] LEATHER-BOUND EARLY EDITION, the third. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8] 320 [4]. With a stipple-engraved frontispiece by Charles Picart. Contemporary tan full diced calf, board edges gilt-ruled. Spine with gilt titles, raised bands, and blind tooling. Marbled endpapers. All edges..... More
Q. Horatius Flaccus Ex Recensione et cum Notis atque Emendationibus Richardi Bentleii.
Amsterdam: Rod. and Jacob. Wetstenios and Guil. Smith, 1728. [Classics] FINE PRIZE BINDING, THIRD EDITION THUS. Quarto (25 x 22cm), pp.[28] 717; [1] 239 [3]. All text in Latin. With a copper engraved frontispiece, and followed by 'Index in Q. Horatium Flaccum, olim quidem collectus a Thoma Tretero, deinde omnibus..... More
'The London Magazine'. Edited by John Lehmann, Complete Vol.6, in 12 issues, 1959.
London, William Heinemann Ltd, Printed at the Shenval Press. 1959. [Literary magazine] Bound volume collecting twelve issues (the complete year, 1959), with the general index not included in the single issues. Octavo (22 x 15cm). Red buckram, lettered in gilt to spine, institutional blind-stamp to rear cover. Contents clean, one..... 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
The Cloud-Messenger. An Indian Love Lyric.
London: John Murray, 1930. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.61 [3]. Publisher's pictorial softcovers, with the dust-jacket of matching design priced at 2/6 to backstrip. Advertisements to rear. Interior toned with light, infrequent spotting. Toning and faint marking to wraps and dust-jacket. Gentle edgewear to jacket. Very good..... More
Historical Records of The Buffs Royal East Kent Regiment (3rd Foot) Formerly Designated The Holland Regiment and Prince George of Denmark's Regiment 1919-1948.
London: The Medici Society, 1951. [Regimental History, Second World War] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xxiv; 512. With 21 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece, and 20 maps, many folding. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt regimental crest stamped to upper. With..... 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
The Complete Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew; The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; The Horse and His Boy; The Last Battle. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
London: Geoffrey Bles [and] The Bodley Head, 1950-1956. [Children's fantasy series] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS, first impressions. Seven volumes. Octavo (21 x 15 x 19cm). With illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Finely bound in recent navy full morocco, with gilt titles to spines, raised bands, marbled endpapers, and all edges gilt..... More
The Allegory of Love. A Study in Medieval Tradition.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1936. [Literary criticism]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.viii; [2]; 278; [2]. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, lacking the scarce dust-jacket. Neat contemporary ownership to flyleaf. Internally bright and clean, slight lean to the textblock, edges rather toned. Cloth rubbed to..... More
Beyond Personality.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1944. [Lectures] FIRST EDITION, second impression. Octavo (29 x 13cm), pp.64. Publisher's lemon coloured cloth with navy titles to spine, typographic dust-jacket, priced at 2/6. A lovely fine copy with no wear whatsoever. Containing the addresses which C.S. Lewis delivered on the radio in the Spring of..... More
The Great Divorce.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1945. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.117; [1]. Publisher's light yellow cloth with red label lettered in black to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 5s 6d to front flap. Previous owner's inscription in black ink to flyleaf, light spotting to endpapers, rolling to..... More
Miracles. A Preliminary Study.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1947. [Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.220. Publisher's dark green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 10s. 6d. to front flap. Previous owner's name in black ink to flyleaf, toning and spotting to flyleaves and preliminaries, rolling to spine..... More
Miracles. A Preliminary Study.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1947. [Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.220. Publisher's dark green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 10s. 6d. to front flap. Near fine in similar jacket which is a little browned to spine and extremities. Shows well. While most..... More
The Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet; Perelandra; That Hideous Strength.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1938; 1943; 1945. [Science Fiction] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS, First Impressions. Three volumes. Octavo (20 x 13 x 10cm), pp.xii; 264 [6]; pp.256; pp.476 [2]. Recently re-bound in green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spines, matching cloth over boards, and top edges..... More
A Christmas Book. An Anthology for Moderns.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1928. [Christmas stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xix; 320 [2]. With in-text illustrations and music transcriptions by A.C. Harradine, as well as a colour frontispiece. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Top edge tinted red. With the dust-jacket illustrated..... 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