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Akhnaton.
London: Collins, 1973. [Play] PROOF COPY. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.157; [1]. Publisher's mottled red paper wraps, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Andrew Vargo priced at £1.80 net. A scarce proof copy sent out in advance of the first edition. Dust-jacket very slightly creased and rubbed to top and bottom edges..... More
Churchill Christmas Greetings card.
London and Tunbridge Wells: Printed by Photocrom, n.d. [circa 1945]. Card-backed cut-out photographic print of Winston Churchill, with "The Prime Minister Faces Facts and Gives Facts", printed on the front. Sent out as a greetings card by A. Cohen and Co. of Great Dover Street, London with the text reading..... More
Man Overboard [in The Harmsworth Magazine no.6 for December 1898].
London: Harmsworth Bros, Dec. 1898. First appearance of Churchill's short story 'Man Overboard'. Small quarto magazine format in original publisher's illustrated paper covers. Very minor edgewear and very slight chipping to spine ends otherwise bright, clean and strong. Quarter inch of loss to tail of spine panel. Staples faintly rusting..... More
The Liberal Magazine vol. 14. A Periodical for the Use of Liberal Speakers and Canvassers: Forming a Political Record for the Year 1906.
London: The Liberal Publication Department. 1907. Including Churchill's speeches on South Africa and Ireland. Octavo. pp. 764; 72. In navy blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Binding somewhat loose in places, but complete with index. Good. Published following the landslide victory for the Liberal Party in the 1906 General..... More
The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. To which is added an Historical View of the Affairs of Ireland. A New Edition [together with] The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon Written by Himself.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1816-7. Eight volumes, Royal Quarto (31 x 25cm), being three books of 'The Rebellion' bound in six volumes plus 'The Life' in two volumes. Engraved frontispiece of the author by Thomas Gardiner. Full English calf, gilt, with twin red title labels, gilt and blind tooling..... More
The Problem of Industrial Relations and Other Lectures.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1929. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Publisher's blue cloth in scarce original dustwrapper. The book is absolutely fine and appears unread; jacket shows some chipping to spine tips, and a little toning to extremities. An attractive copy. First edition in book form. Some of these essays had appeared..... More
Incendiary.
London: Chatto and Windus, 2005. [Modern Literature] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 242; [6]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, dated 17th June 2005, three weeks before the book was published. Number 58 of 500 copies stated on a special tipped in..... More
Living History.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2003. [American politics] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xi; [3]; 562. Publisher's black quarter cloth over black paper covered boards, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Jackie Seow, with printed price of U.S. $20.00 | Can $44.00. With two suites of..... More
The Man From The Clouds.
New York, NY: George H. Doran, 1919. [War fiction] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[iv]; 292; [iv], blank. Bound by R.R. Donnelley and Sons in blue green half morocco over marbled boards, lettered in gilt to spine, gilt top edge, blue endpapers. Tipped in explanatory note from the..... More
The Spy in Black.
New York: George H. Doran Company. 1918. First U.S. Edition. Octavo, pp. 306. Orange cloth with black titles to spine and upper board, in pictorial dustjacket. The thrilling story of a German Navel spy dropped of from his U-boat onto the English coast equipped with a familiar type of English..... More
Carrington's Cases.
London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1920. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Publisher's bright red cloth titled and decorated in black to front board and spine. A trifle rubbed but otherwise bright and clean. Light toning to page edges, internally clean. A lovely copy of this Queen's Quorum mystery featuring the cases of..... More
The Spy in Black.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1917. First Edition. Publisher's red cloth with titles in gilt to spine and upper. Faded spine, dusty edges, extremities lightly rubbed. A sound and tight copy of this scarce title. A Great War espionage tale from the author of 'Carrington's Cases', etc. More
Garmiscath.
London, Blackwood. 1904. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's deep red cloth titled in gilt to the spine and titled in black to front board. Light rubbing to extremities, binding tight, internally clean notwithstanding occasional light, marginal spotting. An attractive copy of a novel set in the Orkney Isles and written by..... More
Mr Churchill and the Church.
Worthing: Lloyd Cole, no date [1943]. [Religion and Politics] ORIGINAL PAMPHLET, the third edition. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.32. Publisher's pink printed card covers, with two staples to spine, priced at 6d. Lightly browned; some light oxidation to staples. Black ink note to front cover: 'From Central Station Bookstall, 1.11.43'..... More
Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit.
London: William Pickering, 1840. FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo, pp.[16] x, 95. In publisher's navy leather-grain effect cloth with black titles to white paper label on spine. All edges untrimmed. Reading lean and wear to title label. Very light internal spotting. Good overall. A collection of MS letters discovered at the poet..... More
The Romance of the Echoing Wood.
Newport: R.H. Johns, the "Directory" Press, 1937. [Welsh Fairy Tale] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[8] 43 [5]. Number 50 of just 220 copies, SIGNED by all the contributors, including the publisher, to the limitation page. With wide marginal illustrations and three full page plates all engraved..... More
The Moonstone.
New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1868. [Literature] FIRST US EDITION, being the FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, also first single volume edition. Published the same year as the UK triple-decker. Slim octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.223; [1] blank. Publisher's blind-stamped textured brown cloth (not ribbed, as some copies), with decorative gilt..... More
The Story of a Puppet or the Adventures of Pinocchio. Translated from the Italian by M.A. Murray. Illustrated by C. Mazzanti.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. [Fairy tale] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[6]; 232. Publisher's white cloth with blue floral decoration, blue title to spine and upper. Edges and endpapers repeating the design of the cloth. Illustrated with a tissue protected frontispiece and numerous in-text illustrations by..... More
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church of England: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches: and the Form or Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.
Oxford: Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill, and sold by S. Crowder, 1776. [Prayer Book] FINE BINDING WITH ROYAL ARMS. Folio (42 x 27cm), unpaginated. Collation: ; A-H2; A-4Q2; a-f2. Printed in two columns, ruled in red and black ink. Contemporary black full calf with raised bands, gilt decoration..... More
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches; the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons; the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion; and their Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical: with Notes Explanatory, Practical, and Historical, from Approved Writers of the Church of England, Selected and Arranged by the Right Reverend Richard Mant, D.D. Lord Bishop of Down and Connor, and Late Domestick Chaplain to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury.
London: J. G. F. and J. Rivington, 1840. FINELY BOUND, fifth edition thus. Quarto (30 x 24cm), pp.[6] 2, lxxii, 966 [4]. In two columns with very extensive notes by Rev. Mant. In contemporary dark brown diced calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and further blind decoration to..... More
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the use of the Church of England and Ireland: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches; and the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1855. FINELY BOUND EDITION, with quite large print. Octavo (23 x 15cm), unpaginated. Contemporary deep burgundy full morocco by Hayday, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Gilt embossed decoration to boards. All edges gilt. With a gilt embossed leather monogram roundel loose to prelims..... More
The Rover.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1923. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.317; [3]. With the textual error ' o' for 'go', p. 221, line 2. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top edge lightly tinted green. With the cream illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 7/6..... More
The Secret Agent.
London: Methuen and Co., 1907. [Landmark Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 442; [1], imprint; [1], blank; [40], advertisement catalogue dated September 1907. Bound in publisher's burgundy coloured cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Edges of text block toned/browned, binding a little sunned to the spine..... More
Suspense. With an Introduction by Richard Curle.
London and Toronto: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1925. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. ix; 303; 4 [advertisements]. Bound in publisher's purple textured cloth, with blind ruling to front board, publisher's logo blind stamped to front board, title in dull gilt to spine, top edge coloured dark green. In a pictorial..... More
The Point of Departure.
London: Simon and Schuster, 2003. [British Politics] EX-LIBRIS LORD MOYNIHAN, First Edition, association copy. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.x; 368 [6]. In publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. Recent bookplate detailing provenance affixed to flyleaf. A fine copy. From the Library of Lord and..... More