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Handbook to British Malaya [1937].
London: The Malayan Information Agency, no date [1937]. [Malaysian History] LAST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.[6] 201 [7]. With frequent in-text photographic illustrations and two folding maps dated 1937, one loose to pouch at rear. Light spotting to endpapers. Rubbing to boards; upper with a vertical crease. Very good..... More
Oscar Wilde: A Study.
Oxford: The Holywell Press, 1905. [Literary Biography] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[12] 110 [2]. From an edition of 500 copies. With five illustrated plates, including a frontispiece caricature of Wilde. Publisher's slate blue paper-covered boards with red and black titles to paper labels on spine and upper. All..... 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 Story of the Arab Legion.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1948. [Middle East / Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.371; [1]. Numerous sepia-plate illustrations and maps. Bound in recent red calf over publisher's sand-coloured cloth boards, titles and crest in gilt, raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Internally clean, a little marking..... More
History of Greece, Abridged, for the Use of Schools.
London: Printed for J. Brambles [etc.], 1807. NEW EDITION. Duodecimo, pp. viii, 269 [3]. With a frontispiece engraving of the death of Alexander the Great. In contemporary half brown calf with gilt titles to spine and marbled boards. Black ink ownership inscription to front free end-paper. Lightly browned throughout; wear..... More
Annabel: An Unconventional Life.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004. [Memoirs]. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xi; [3]; 274. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket. Illustrated with three photographic suites. Signed by the author to the title page. Fine. More
The Fifth Army.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1931. [Military history] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xiv; 355; [1]. Publisher's dark blue cloth, blocked in gilt, red and white to spine and upper. Frontispiece portrait, twenty sketch maps (nineteen folding). Spotting to edges and occasionally throughout the textblock, neat gift inscription to..... More
Festivals and Songs of Ancient China.
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1932. [Chinese History] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] x; 281 [3]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge pink; others untrimmed. With the plain dust-jacket, titled in green and priced at 18s to spine. Spotting to preliminary leaves..... More
'twixt Sand and Sea: Sketches and Studies in North Africa.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., no date [1911]. [North African History and Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xii; 504. With 58 black and white plates, including a frontispiece, as well as a folding map. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Fore and lower..... More
Good-Bye to All That. An Autobiography.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. [Great War Memoirs] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.448. Including the Sassoon poem to pp.341-43, and no deletions to p.290. Sewn and bound with tapes, endpapers, and glue to spine, but no binding. Possibly a proof or advance copy, printed on thinner paper..... More
Good-Bye to All That. An Autobiography.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. [Memoirs] LEATHER BOUND FIRST EDITION, second issue. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] 448 [2]. The second issue, with deletions to page 290 and the Siegfried Sassoon poem deleted from pages 341-343 (marked by asterisks), errata slip inserted at page 398. With the original cloth spine bound..... More
The World of C.P. Snow. With a Bibliography by Bernard Stone.
Lowestoft: Scorpion Press, 1962. [Literary Biography and Bibliography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.64. With two double-sided photographic plates. Number 20 of just 50 copies SIGNED by the author in blue ink to limitation page. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket..... More
A Short History of the English People.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. [English History] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] xlviii; 872 [2]. With a chronology, genealogical tables, six coloured maps, and dates printed to margins. Contemporary navy half morocco with gilt titles to spine, blue cloth over boards, and the gilt crest of King..... More
A Short History of the English People.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1907. [English History] FINE PRIZE BINDING, revised edition, a later impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xlviii; 872 [2]. With a chronology, genealogical tables, six coloured maps, and dates printed to margins. Contemporary red full calf for the Judd School, Tonbridge, with gilt titles to green..... More
Kate Greenaway.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.[xx]; 301; [2], advertisements. Illustrated with numerous photos, plates and in-text line drawings, including several in colour. Bound in early quarter brown calf over blue cloth sides with red morocco title label to spine, ruled in gilt..... More
Getting to Know the General. The Story of an Involvement.
London: The Bodley Head, 1984. [Modern History/Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.224. Hardback in dust-jacket. Appears unread. A clean, fine copy. Greene was preparing for a visit to Panama in August 1981 when the news came of the death of General Omar Torrijs Herrera. His small plane had..... More
The Fighting Cheyennes.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915. [Native Americans] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 431 [1]. With 11 maps and plans, some folding. Publisher's tan cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, with a black and white illustration stamped to upper. Fore-edge untrimmed. Light wear..... More
La Révolution Française (1789-1799), D'Apres les Temoignages Contemporains et les Historiens Modernes.
Paris: Alcide Picard et Kaan, no date [circa 1900]. [French History] FINELY BOUND, the fifth edition. Large octavo (28 x 20cm), pp.[2] xvi; 459 [7]. All text in French. With frequent wood engravings by various artists. Contemporary red quarter morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and..... More
The Twelve Days of Christmas.
London: Cassell, 1961. [Christmas] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.176. With 24 double-sided plates, including a frontispiece and many colour images. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Eric Fraser, priced at 30s. A little light handling. Near fine. A general history..... More
Regeneration. Being an Account of the Social Work of the Salvation Army in Great Britain.
London: Longmans, Green, 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. Light browning to text-block. Spine heavily sunned and worn, especially to head. Good..... 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
William Pitt the Younger.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2004. [Political Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.xxvi; 652 [10]. With three suites of four double-sided colour plates. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page; 'For Roger | with best wishes | William Hague.' Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine..... More
History of the United States, From their first settlement as colonies, to the close of the war with Great Britain in 1815.
London: John Miller, 1826. First English Edition. Octavo. Bound in publisher's paper boards, with paper title label to spine; all edges uncut. Binding is worn, with bumping to corners and spine ends, spine chipped, extremities worn, joints cracked. Internally clean,with spotting to prelims and final pages. A popular early US..... More
Lawrence of Arabia: Being an Address delivered by Viscount Halifax, Chancellor of Oxford University, in St. Paul's Cathedral on the occasion of the unveiling of a Memorial to the late T.E. Lawrence on 29th January 1936.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [Memorial Speech] ORIGINAL SUPPLEMENT. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), pp.8. No covers; stapled twice. Light toning and spotting. Very good. A supplement published exclusively for readers of Cape's 'Now and Then' magazine. O'BRIEN, E0.94. More
Modern Weapons of War: By Land, Sea and Air.
London: Blackie and Son, 1916. First Edition. Octavo. pp. 192. With 34 photographic plates and a colour frontispiece. In publisher's explosive pictorial tan cloth, with titles to spine and upper board. With rare original monochrome dust jacket. Grey end-papers. Large red stain to jacket back cover, and some slight wear..... More