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Solomons Seal.
London: Collins, 1980. [Ocean-going adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.320; [2], blank. With two maps before the text. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, orange and brown dust jacket. Spine sunned almost to green, otherwise fine. Very good overall. The story of the Holland family..... More
Solomons Seal.
London: Collins, 1980. [Ocean-going adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.320; [2], blank. With two maps before the text. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, orange and brown dust jacket. Top edge a little dusty else near fine in similar, lightly used and unfaded wrapper. The..... More
A Short-Cut to Investment Values. An Advertisement of Investographs, Inc.
Rochester, New York, U.S.A., 1936. Pamphlet approx. 145 x 218mm; pp. 20; stapled. Grey card cover with titles in black to upper within a double green rule. With 2 pages of graphs in colour. Fine. A self-advertising pamphlet by Investographs, Inc., detailing their analysis and statistics of the market, ending..... More
England's Topographer or a New and Complete History of the County of Kent. From the Earliest Records to the Present Time. Including every Modern Improvement. Embellished with a Series of Views from Original Drawings by Geo. Shepherd, H. Gastineau, etc., with Historical, Topographical, Critical and Biographical Delineations.
London: Geo. Virtue, 1828-1830. [Kent] FIRST EDITION, ILLUSTRATED. Four volumes, octavo (22 x 15 x 21cm), pp.[4]; ii; 712; xix of index; [1]; pp.[2]; 713; [1]; xv of index; [1]; pp.[4]; 698; xviii of index; [4]; pp.[2]; 780; xiii of index; [1]; [8 of errata]; 19 list of subscribers; [1]..... More
A Child's Book of Hours.
London: Humphrey Milford, n.d. [1921]. FIRST EDITION. Folio (37 x 25cm), unpaginated, printed on 16 thick card leaves with 12 fine chromolithographic plates. In publisher's quarter tan cloth with tan paper-covered boards. Titles and clock illustration printed in colour to upper board. With rare original dust-jacket, mirroring upper board. Very..... More
Salmagundi. Or, The Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. and others.
London: Printed by T. Davison for Thomas Tegg, 1824. [Satire] SECOND UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.viii; 391; [1]. Contemporary brown quarter cloth with gilt titles to a dark red morocco label on the spine, and plain grey paper covered boards. Small label of R. Riviere, bookseller, to front..... More
A History of New York, From the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty. Containing, among many surprising and curious matters, the unutterable ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the disastrous projects of William the Testy, and the chivalric achievements of Peter the Headstrong, the three Dutch governers of New Amsterdam; being the only authentic history of the times that hath ever been published.
London: John Bumpus, 1825. [History] Duodecimo (16 x 11cm), pp.xx; 340. Bound in pictorial paper boards, with titles to spine and publisher's advertisements to rear boards, edges uncut. Binding is rubbed and chipped, with a small split to front hinge. Text shows some spotting, particularly to front matter. Very good..... More
Prater Violet.
London: Methuen and Co. Limited, 1946. 8vo. Publisher's violet cloth, slightly rubbed, neat name to fly leaf. Dustwrapper with one small chip to upper, spine a little browned. Near fine. FIRST EDITION. More
Paris de Reves [Paris of Dreams]. 75 Photographies D'Izis Bidermanas.
Lausanne: Editions Clairefontaine, 1950. FIRST EDITION. Quarto. pp. 158. b/w photographic plates to every other page. In publisher's grey card with b/w photographic covers pasted to spine. Errata slip loose to p. 46. Black ink ownership inscription to front free end-paper; light wear to edges; some creasing to spine. Very..... More
Short Cruises.
London: Hurst and Blackett Ltd., 1907. [Short Stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.viii; 298 [6]. With 38 illustrations by Owen. Publisher's orange illustrated cloth, with gilt titles to spine, black decoration to spine and upper, and black titles to upper. A neat ownership. Minor wear to cloth, with..... More
The Outcry.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. [Classic Literature] First Edition, the UK and US editions being published simultaneously. Crown octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 261; [1]. Publisher's mid-brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Blue ink ownership to front pastedown, dated..... More
The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw [and] Covering End.
London: William Heinemann, 1898. [Strange tales] FIRST EDITION, first impression, earliest state. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[iv]; 310; [2], blank; [32], catalogue. Title page printed in two colours. Publisher's mid-blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper cover, with four irises in blind to centre of same, edges untrimmed..... More
Washington Square. The Pension Beaurepas. A Bundle of Letters.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. [Literature] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, Hybrid issue. Two volumes, Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.265; 271. With a 24-page catalogue at the rear of volume II, dated January 1881. Publisher's blue-green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, coated brown endpapers. Contents clean. A used set with some..... More
Innocent Blood.
London: Faber and Faber, 1980. [Crime novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.276. Publisher's maroon paper boards, titles and publisher's imprint in gilt to spine, pictorial dust-jacket priced at £5.95. Text block toned (heavier to top edge). Near Fine in Fine jacket. More
We Speak No Treason [and] The King's Grey Mare.
London: Collins, 1971-1973. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.576; pp.448. Family trees printed to grey endpapers. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spines. With the dust jackets illustrated by Jillian Willett. Some spotting to top edge of volume I. Reading lean to both volumes..... More
Hodge and his Masters.
London: Smith, Elder, 1890. NEW EDITION. Octavo, pp.viii, 424. In publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and black decorative stamping to upper board. Black end-papers. Reading lean and some light shelf-wear. Very good overall. A collection of articles on farming and the rural economy first published in the..... More
A Flora of Tunbridge Wells. Being a List of Indigenous Plants Within A Radius of Fifteen Miles Around that Place.
Tunbridge Wells: J. Colbran, [1845]. [Botany]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.xx; [4]; 134; [two of sunscriber]. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles and blind stamped decoration to spine and upper board. Two hand-coloured plates. Yellow endpapers. Small embossed label for the 'Colbran Library Tun. Wells' to pastedown. A very..... More
The Old Rectory: The Story of the English Parsonage.
London: Continuum, 2009. [Architecture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.xii; 282 [2]. With a series of glossy photographic plates in black and white and colour. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket. A fine as-new copy. More
Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race. Derived from a Comparison of the Languages of Asia, Europe, Africa, and America. Being an Inquiry How Far the Differences in the Languages of the Globe are Referrible to Causes now in Operation.
London: Samuel Clarke, 1843. [Anthropology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.lx; 103; [1]; 20, advertisements. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine. Yellow coated endpapers. Bookplate of writer and illustrator Maud J. Vyse to pastedown. Some light spotting and toning. Occasional pen annotation. Residue where a label has been..... More
Biggles Investigates.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1964. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.184. With a colour frontispiece by Stead. Publisher's grey cloth with orange titles to spine. With the blue dust-jacket illustrated by Stead, priced at 8/6. A touch of spotting to edges, with some light wear to jacket extremities..... More
Biggles and the Black Peril.
London: Dean and Son Ltd., by arrangement with Thames Publishing Co., no date [circa 1960]. [Children's adventure] ATTRACTIVE REPRINT. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.184. Publisher's cornflower blue cloth, titles in black to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket. Neat gift inscription to flyleaf. Minimal bumping to spine and corners with very slight..... More
Biggles and the Poor Rich Boy. Another case from the records of Biggles and the Special Air Police.
Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1961. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.182; [2]. With a chromolithographic frontispiece and occasional in-text illustrations by Leslie Stead. Publisher's brown cloth with green titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Stead, price obscured. Very light spotting to edges. Bruising and very..... More
The Bride Elect.
London: Hand and Heart, n.d. [c.1878]. CHARMING EARLY EDITION. Octavo, pp.xii, 158 [6]. In publisher's red and gilt-stamped cream cloth boards. All edges gilt. Light spotting to prelims textblock slightly shaken, some abrasion and loss to left hand side of the front pastedown, spine slightly tanned, corners bumped, some marking..... More
Wolves of the Channel (1681-1856).
London: Wishart and Company, 1931. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.xi; [1];309; [3]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, in orange typographic dust-jacket. Illustrated with plates. Some spotting to edges and offsetting to endpapers, light shelf wear, dust-jacket is toned with loss to the bottom of the front panel, to..... More
In Parenthesis. seinnyessit e gladyf ym penn mameu.
London: Faber and Faber, 1938. [Great War Literature] THIRD IMPRESSION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xx; 226. With two lithographic illustrations after drawings by the author, and a map. Publisher's light tan cloth with titles blocked in grey and gilt to spine, tinted top edge, typographical dust-jacket. Edges toned, ink name..... More