"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme
History & Biography
The Constitutional History of England, from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of George II.
London: John Murray, 1842. [English History] FINELY BOUND, fourth edition. Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 708 [2]; pp.viii; 601 [3]. Contemporary tan full calf by James HAYDAY for White of London, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting labels, and further gilt decoration to spines. All edges speckled..... More
View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages.
London: John Murray, 1853. [Mediaeval History] FINELY BOUND, the tenth edition. Three volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xvi; 504 [2]; pp.viii; 427 [3]; pp.[2] iv; 517 [3]. Contemporary tan full polished calf with gilt titles to contrasting brown and green labels, and very elaborate gilt tooling, to spines. All..... More
Road through Kurdistan. The Narrative of an Engineer in Iraq.
London: Faber and Faber, 1937. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.331; [1]. Publisher's grey cloth, gilt titles on red square to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. With twenty-eight half tone illustrations and two folding maps. Neat ownership to fly-leaf, some light spotting to preliminaries and to the folding maps at the..... More
Warriors and Strangers.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1971. [Autobiography and African Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[6] 320 [2]. With a large folding map. Publishers brown with gilt titles to spine. Top edge red. With the orange dust-jacket designed by George Mayhew, priced at £2.75. Jacket bruised and lightly chipped to edges..... More
All Trivial Fond Records.
London: The Grey Walls Press, 1950. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] 202. Publisher's grey cloth with blue titles to spine. With the pink dust-jacket illustrated by Evadne Rowan, priced at 12/6. Light spotting and toning throughout. Jacket toned to spine, with losses to head and tail, and..... 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
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Chatham [and] Pitt. Twelve English Statesmen.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906 and 1907. [British Political Biography] FINE PRIZE BINDING, later impressions. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] vi; 239 [1]; pp.viii; 301 [3]. Contemporary burgundy full calf for Berkhamsted School, with raised bands, gilt titles to orange label and further gilt decoration..... More
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent.
Canterbury: W. Bristow, 1797-1801. [Kent history] SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED. Twelve volumes, octavo (24 x 15 x 46cm). With 34 folding maps and 33 plates, (volume twelve lacking two plates). Solidly bound in brown quarter cloth over green cloth sides, gilt titles to spine. Modern bookplates to pastedown of..... More
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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Containing the Antient [Ancient] and Present State of it, Civil and Ecclesiastical; Collected from public Records, and other the best Authorities, both Manuscript and Printed: and Illustrated with Maps, and Views of Antiquities, Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, etc.
Canterbury: Printed for the Author, by Simmons and Kirkby, 1778-1799. [Kentish history]. FIRST EDITION. In four volumes. Folio (41 x 26cm), pp.[4]; xii; clii; 580; 42; [2]; pp.[4]; 817; [1]; 72; pp.[4]; ii; 765; [1]; 51; [3]; pp.vi; 788; 46; [2]. Complete with all 167 copper engraved illustrations, including county..... More
Nigerian Days.
London: John Lane the Bodley head, 1925. [Colonial History]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 255 [9]. With 32 black and white plates including a frontispiece and a map. In publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original green dust-jacket with black titles. Top edge red, others..... More
The Little Locksmith.
London: Faber and Faber, 1944. [Memoir] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.167 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pink typographic dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. Times Book Club stamp to rear pastedown. Light toning and marking to jacket, with minimal wear to edges. A...... More
Muhammad Ali. His Life and Times.
London: Robson Books, 1991. [Boxing Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.544. With 12 double-sided black and white photographic plates. INSCRIBED from the author to 'Malcolm' in black ink to half-title. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and white dust-jacket featuring a...... More
The Emigrant.
London: John Murray, 1847. [Upper Canada Rebellion] FIFTH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[10] 441 [3]. Contemporary brown half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red label, and further gilt decoration to spine. Brown cloth over boards showing a watered silk pattern; grey endpapers. Plain bookplate to front pastedown..... More
De La Politique et du Commerce des Peuples de L'Antiquité. Traduit de L'Allemand sur La Quatrième et Dernière Édition.
Paris: Libraire de Firmin Didot Frères, 1830-1844. [Ancient History] COMPLETE EDITION IN FRENCH. Complete in seven volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 21cm), pp.[10] xxxii; 555 [5]; pp.[2] viii; 470 [2]; pp.[10] viii; 489 [3]; pp.[10] iv; 398 [4]; pp.[10] iv; 332 [2]; pp.[10] xii; 497 [3]; pp.[10] viii; 424..... More
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["Mis"-Prints Connected with the French Revolution 1789] La Révolution française depuis l'ouverture des Etats-Généraux jusqu'au 9 brumaire. [and 11 other contemporary engravings relating to the French Revolution].
Paris: Chez Decrouan, Imp. de Baudouin, et al., various dates, especially 1838. [Revolutionary Engravings] RARE CONTEMPORARY ENGRAVINGS, including part of the second edition of Helman's famous print collection. Large portfolio codex (39 x 65cm), featuring 10 engravings of the French Revolution by Helman, after drawings by Monnet, and 11 other..... More
Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902. [American Civil War] NEW EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xxviii; 447 [3]; pp.viii; 528 [2]. With 33 maps, including the large folding map of Virginia and Maryland at the rear of volume I, and two portraits of Stonewall Jackson, one..... More
Raymond Roussel: a critical guide. French Surrealism.
London: Calder and Boyars, 1966. [Literary Criticism and Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.vi; 97 [1]. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green dust-jacket designed by John Sewell, priced at 25s. Very light handling to jacket. Fine, almost as-new. More
Byzantium: The Suprising Life of a Medieval Empire.
London: Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2007. [Byzantine History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 392. With two suites of four double-sided black and white plates, and one suite of four double-sided colour plates. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, and maps to endpapers. With..... More
War and Turpentine.
London: Harvill Secker, 2016. [Great War Memoirs] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[8] 296. With occasional in-text photographic illustrations. Publisher's photographic soft covers, priced at £16.99. A fine, as-new copy. Originally published in Dutch in 2013, this is a semi-novelisation of the wartime experiences of the author's grandfather..... More
The Professor and the President: Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon White House.
Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2015. [American Politics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 172 [2]. With a contemporary book review loose to preliminaries. Publisher's black quarter cloth with silver titles to spine and blue cloth over boards. With the blue dust-jacket. Bookplates detailing provenance to endpapers. A fine..... More
Jungle Trails in Northern India.
London: Methuen and Company, 1938. RARE FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[10], 278. With 24 photographic plates including a frontispiece. In publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With rare original dust-jacket. Maps printed to endpapers. Some damage to head of spine. Jacket spine sunned, with loss to head and tail..... More
The Life and Times of James Catnach, (Late of Seven Dials), Ballad Monger.
London: Reeves and Turner, 1878. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp. xvi, 432 [12]. With frequent engravings. In publisher's green cloth with black titles to paper label on spine. All edges untrimmed. Reading lean. Title label badly worn; titles largely obscured. Good overall. 'Here, you may read how he was bred and..... More
The Kinks All Day and All of the Night. Day-by-day concerts, recordings and broadcasts, 1961-1996.
San Francisco, CA: Backbeat Books, 2004. [Pop Music] SIGNED BY THE KINKS. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.352. Illustrated with occasional black and white photographs. SIGNED by Ray Davies, Mick Avory, Jim Rodford, and Ian Gibbons in black and blue marker to inside front and rear covers. Publisher's photographic soft covers..... More
Peeps at History: Ireland.
London: A. & C. Black, 1927. [Ireland] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.iv; 92. With eight colour-illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and 20 in-text illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the green dust-jacket titled and decorated in navy, not priced. Heavy..... More
Reminiscences 1848-1890.
London: John Murray, 1924. [Military Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 310. With a black and white photographic portrait frontispiece of the author. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and a gilt regimental stamp to upper. One leaf, pp.5/6, coming loose, with some dog-earing. Otherwise internally..... More