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Everybody's Book of Correct Conduct, Being the Etiquette of Every-day Life.
London: Saxon and Co., 1890s. [Etiquette] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (14 x 11cm), pp.184. With decorative chapter head and tailpieces. Publisher's pictorial brown cloth. Contemporary advertisements as endpapers. Top edge brown. Interior lightly toned, endpapers faintly spotted. Splashing to fore edge, cloth gently rubbed with moderate marking to lower board. Very..... More
An Adventure.
London: Faber and Faber, 1934. [Paranormal Activity] FOURTH EDITION, third impression thus. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.118 [2]. With four folding maps at rear. Publisher's light green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Blind ex-libris stamp of Alan H. Hooker to fly-leaf. A touch of light spotting to endpapers, otherwise..... More
An Adventure. With Appendix and Maps.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1913. [Paranormal Activity] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.viii; 205 [3]. With a number of in-text maps and plans, and four black and white map plates at rear. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt fleur-de-lis device to upper. All edges..... 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
Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965. Taken from the diaries of Lord Moran.
London: Constable, 1966. [Diaries] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xviii; 829 [1]. With 15 black and white photographic plates, some double-sided. Publisher's red cloth in a stylish embossed typographic dust-jacket. Discreet black ink date (May 1966) to flyleaf. Top edge faded, with some spotting to edges. Jacket price-clipped..... More
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
Ill Met By Moonlight. The Story of the Kidnapping of General Karl Kriepe, German Divisional Commander In Crete.
London: Harrap, 1950. [Intelligence / WWII Operation] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Illustrated with frontispiece and 14 plates, 2 maps within the text. Publisher's black cloth in illustrated jacket priced at 10/6. Contents clean, birthday inscription to f.e.p., jacket with some general wear, chips and tears, some rubbing..... 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 Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table. Abridged from Malory's Mort D'Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1917. [Legends] FIRST RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Square octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.xxiv; 509; [1]. With sixteen colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations by Rackham. Publisher's gilt-decorated blue cloth. Contents clean. Armorial bookplate of [Major] Rupert Trevor Wallace Glynn, MC. Some light flecking to cloth..... More
Among the Sioux of Dakota. Eighteen Months Experience as an Indian Agent.
New York, NY: D. Van Nostrand, Publisher, 1881. [Native Americans] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.235 [3]. Recently re-backed in red calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and the original red calf boards with gilt and blind ruling to margins. Lightly trimmed to all edges..... More
The Queen's Awards. Series 6.
London: Gollancz, 1953. [Crime fiction collection] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red clothwith black titles to spine, typographical dust-jacket with printed price 10/6 to flap. Contents clean, owner bookplate beneath flap, light spotting to edges, some minor rubs and marks to covers and jacket, which is a...... 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
Gargantua and Pantagruel.
London: The Folio Society, 2019. [Satirical Novels] LIMITED EDITION, FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Folio (38 x 28cm), pp.xxviii; 454 [6]; pp.xii; 455-949 [5]. A modern translation with Dore's original in-text wood engravings. Number 169 of 500 copies thus, typeset in Bulmer and printed on Abbey Pure Paper at..... More
Agatha Christie, Mistress of Mystery.
London: Collins, 1968. [Literary criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.128. With the photographic halftone frontispiece. Publisher's grey cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 21s to front flap. Internally bright, light spotting to margins and textblock edges. Some toning to jacket with offsetting to..... 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
The Banishing Of Billy Bunter.
London: Cassell and Company, 1956. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.223 [1]. With a colour frontispiece, and black and white illustrations throughout. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black to spine and upper. With the illustrated dust jacket. Light toning and spotting to edges. Price-clipped jacket shows wear..... More
Billy Bunter Afloat.
London: Cassell and Company, 1957. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (29 x 13cm), pp.223 [1]. With a colour frontispiece, and black and white illustrations throughout. Publisher's green cloth lettered in black to spine and upper. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 8s 6d. Light toning and spotting to edges. Jacket..... More
Billy Bunter At Butlins. Illustrations By C.H. Chapman.
London: Cassell, 1961. [Children's classic] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.vi; 217; [1]. Colour frontispiece by Chapman plus in-text line drawings. Publisher's red cloth, titles in black to spine and upper board. photographic jacket, priced 9'6 net. Lightly used with some acceptable edge wear. Very good indeed. With the..... More
Forever Ulysses.
New York: Viking 1938 [actually December 1937]. PRIVATE PRE-PUBLICATION EDITION, number 6 of just 65 copies. Octavo, pp.315; [3], blank. Near fine in original linen-backed silk boards featuring rather striking gold orange and yellow vertical stripes, in accompanying gold card slip-case (rubbed). Translated by Patrick Leigh Fermor. This rare edition..... More
The House of Life: A Sonnet-Sequence. Variorum Edition with an Introduction and Notes.
Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2007. [Poetry] CRITICAL EDITION, First Thus. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxii; 301 [3]. A scholarly edition containing a large introduction, extensive detailed notes, and appendices. Publisher's brown cloth with titles in gilt to spine, and a paper label to upper. A fine, as-new copy... More
The Royal Engineers in Egypt and the Sudan.
Chatham: The Institution of Royal Engineers, 1937. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.xxxii; 571 [1]. With 52 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece, and 35 maps, including two large folding maps at rear. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt regimental badge..... More
The Rose Garden of Sa'di.
London: John Murray, 1943. [Poetry] FIFTH IMPRESSION. Octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.64. Publisher's pictorial wraps, with the dust-jacket of matching design priced at 2/6. Interior lightly toned, the odd mark here and there. Wraps lightly toned and spotted to upper. Jacket also gently toned and marked. Some wear to extremities..... More
Indian States and the New Regime.
Sitamau: [Privately printed], 1937. [Indian history and politics] INSCRIBED ADVANCE COPY. First edition. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xxvi; 469 [3]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to flyleaf: 'Presented to the | most Honourable the Marquess of | Zetland, P.C., G.C.S.I., | G.C.I.E., etc. | the Secretary of State..... More
Poems.
Fairwarp: Printed by Poets' and Painters' Press for Peter Russell, June 1959. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 13cm), pp.29 [3]. Publisher's white soft covers with titles in black and red to upper. With the yellow matching dust-jacket, not priced. A crisp clean copy, showing some wear and toning..... More