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The World is Not Enough.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1999. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, bibliographer's copy. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.274; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver to backstrip, photographic dust-wrapper priced at £16.99. A fine/as-new copy. Novelisation of the nineteenth Bond film, which was released in cinemas in late 1999. From the..... More
The World is Not Enough.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1999. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, TRIPLE-SIGNED, with sketch drawing. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.274; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver to backstrip, photographic dust-wrapper priced at £16.99. Signed by author Raymond Benson in his customary sharpie to the title page, additionally signed by actor..... More
The World is Not Enough.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1999. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.274; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver to backstrip, photographic dust-wrapper priced at £16.99. The signature was obtained during the book launch event held at our shop. Contents clean. Jacket is..... More
Church-of-Englandism and its Catechism examined: Preceded by Strictures on the Exclusionary System, as pursued in the National Society's Schools: Interspersed with Parallel Views of the English and Scottish Established and Non-Established Churches: and Concluding with Remedies Proposed for Abuses Indicated: and an Examination of the Parliamentary System of Church Reform lately pursued, and still pursuing: including the Proposed New Churches.
London: Effingham Wilson, Printed, 1817: Published, 1818. [Religion and Education] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.lvi; ix-xliv; 248; 456. Recently re-backed in brown calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to red morocco label on spine, and original speckled calf boards. All edges speckled brown. Pencil notes to margin of..... More
Trent's Own Case.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. [Crime Mystery] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 324 [2]. Publisher's orange cloth with blue titles to spine and upper. Top edge blue, others untrimmed. With the dust-jacket designed by Hawkins, priced at $2.00. The usual wood-grain pattern browning to preliminaries..... More
Trent's Own Case.
London: Constable and Co., 1936. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 314. Publisher's orange cloth with blue titles to spine and upper. Top edge blue. Toronto bookseller's stamp to flyleaf. Erasure of heavy pencil inscription also to flyleaf. Gently toned throughout. Only very minor rubbing to cloth;..... More
Trent Intervenes.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1938. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.280. Publisher's blue cloth with white titles to spine. Top edge blue. Some browning to edges and endpapers, with gentle occasional spotting. Spine toned, with some rubbing and marking to cloth. Very good. A collection of..... More
Health Made Easy for the People; or, Physical Training, to make their lives, in this world, long and happy.
London: Johnstone and Hunter, 1849. [Home Medicine and Self-Help] FIFTH EDITION. Duodecimo (14 x 9cm), pp.224. With 30 in-text engraved illustrations. Publisher's grey boards with titles to upper, advertisements to lower, and a pink cloth spine, priced at 1s. Black ink ownership to title page. Nice and clean internally, with..... More
Duane and the Art Murders.
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1939. [Dective novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 246; [2]. Publisher's red cloth, titles in black to spine, splendid dust-jacket designed by Ronald Lampitt with printed price of 3'6 net to spine. Bookplate detailing provenance to pastedown. Offsetting to endpapers, spotting and dustiness..... More
Peckover.
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1934. [Modern Literature]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[xii]; 297; [1], blank; [10], advertisements. Publisher's navy blue cloth in striking pictorial jacket by Fraser, priced 3/6, showing the confused Gilbert Peckford's haunting and bloodshot reflection. A clean copy of the book, bright wrapper with a...... More
The Tired Train, and other stories.
London: Max Parrish, No date [circa 1952]. [Children's Illustrated] COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS. Octavo (22 x 19cm), pp.36. Colour illustrations throughout. Publisher's blue cloth, with gilt titles to spine and gilt motif to upper. Light spotting and toning to preliminaries. Sunning to spine and board top edges, tearing to spine head. Very..... More
Regiment of Women.
London: Eyre Methuen, 1974. [Modern fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp. 349 [3]. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £2.75 to flap. Interiors clean and bright with minor toning to edges. Very small white mark to low upper board. Gentle..... More
Sport and Exploration in the Far East: A Naturalist's Experiences in and Around the Kurile Islands.
London: Methuen and Co., 1933. [Far Eastern Travel] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xii; 246 [2]. With 24 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece, and a map to front endpapers. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. Blue ink ownership stamp to half-title. Light..... More
The Lady with a Lamp.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1929. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.136. Publisher's black cloth with red paper title label to spine. With the plain dust-jacket, priced at 3/6 for paper, or 5s for cloth. A small blue ink gift inscription to fly-leaf. Quite heavy spotting and offsetting to endpapers..... More
The Boke of Saint Albans. Containing Treatises on Hawking, Hunting, and Cote Armour: Printed at Saint Albans by the Schoolmaster-Printer in 1486, Reproduced in Facsimile. With an Introduction by William Blades.
London: Elliot Stock, 1881. [Hawking, Hunting and Heraldry] FACSIMILE EDITION, first impression. Quarto (30 x 24cm), pp.34; [176]. Printed on fine hand-made paper. Publisher's full vellum, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and blind decoration to boards. All edges untrimmed. Internally crisp and clean, with some offsetting to endpapers..... More
Social Life in England and France, From the French Revolution in 1789, to That of July 1830. By the editor of Madame du Deffand's Letters.
London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831. [Social Studies] PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.vii; [1]; 214; [4]. INSCRIBED to Lord Henry Peter Brougham by Berry in brown ink to title page: 'To | The Lord Chancellor Brougham | from the author | MB.' Advertisements to..... More
An Introduction to Heraldry, Containing the Rudiments of the Science in General, and other Necessary Particulars Connected with the Subject.
London: Printed for T. Egerton, and White and Cochrane, 1810. FIRST EDITION, augmented with cuttings and a hand-painted illumination. Octavo, pp.[4]; 158; [2]. With 12 engraved plates, one chromolithographic plate, and one folding table of tinctures. Many heraldry-themed newspaper cuttings from the 1930s pasted and loose to all endpapers, and..... More
Love and Fame.
London: Faber & Faber, 1972. [American Poetry] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.96. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at £1.40. Very slight toning to jacket spine, with some light rubbing and a few small closed tears to edges. Near fine..... More
A Fountain Sealed.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1897. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. viii; 301; [1]; 32, publisher's advertisements. With the half-tone frontispiece illustration by H.G. Burgess. Patterned endpapers. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to upper and spine, embossed pattern to upper. Exlibris stamp front paste down, some spotting..... More
More Adventures of Rupert [Daily Express Rupert Bear Annual], No.18.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by L.T.A. Robinson Ltd., no date [1953]. [Children's Annual] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.118 [2]. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's matt illustrated card covers, with pictorial endpapers. Title page priced at 4s. 'The Book Belongs To' section filled out in pencil. Colouring section..... More
The New Rupert [Daily Express Rupert Bear Annual], No.19.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by L.T.A. Robinson Ltd., no date [1954]. [Children's Annual] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.123. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy illustrated card covers, with pictorial endpapers. Title page priced at 4/6. 'The Book Belongs To' section filled out in blue ink and pencil..... More
Rupert [Daily Express Rupert Bear Annual], No.20.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by L.T.A. Robinson Ltd., no date [1955]. [Children's Annual] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.107. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy illustrated card covers, with pictorial endpapers. Title page priced at 4/6. 'The Book Belongs To' section filled out in blue ink. Colouring section..... More
Rupert [Daily Express Rupert Bear Annual], No.22.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by Oldbourne, no date [1957]. [Children's Annual] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.107. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy illustrated card covers, with pictorial endpapers. Title page price-clipped. 'The Book Belongs To' section filled out in black ink. Colouring sections at front and rear..... More
Rupert [Daily Express Rupert Bear Annual], No.38.
London: Express Newspapers, Printed by Purnell, 1973. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.115. Stories illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy card covers, pictorial endpapers. Trivial handling, no marks or scribbles. Price-clipped, else a lovely fine example. More
Rupert's Adventure Book [Daily Express Rupert Bear Annual No.5, 1940].
London: Annual Concepts [Express Newspapers], 1992. Facsimile Edition of the 1940 Rupert Annual. Octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.126. Stories pictured in colour throughout. Publisher's colour Illustrated boards. Sunned to spine else a lovely fine copy. More