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Andrew R. Buxton: The Rifle Brigade, A Memoir.
London: Robert Scott, 1918. [Great War Memoir] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 294. With 16 black and white half-tone plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's dark green gained cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Black ink inscription stating 'from Andrew Buxton's Sister | Rosamond Buxton | December..... More
The Seven Lost Trails of Africa. Being a Record of Sundry Expeditions, New and Old, in Search of Buried Treasure.
London: Cassell and Company, 1930. [Colonial Exploration] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 242. With eight black and white half-tone plates, including a frontispiece, and eight maps. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Heavy spotting to edges, with occasional heavy spotting internally. Light rubbing and some marks..... More
The Seven Wonders of Southern Africa.
Johannesburg: South African Railways and Harbours, 1929. [African Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 386 [14]. With 18 colour plates and frequent black and white plates and maps. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Maps to endpapers. A large tear to the first..... More
A Word to Gandhi.
London: William and Norgate 1931. FIRST EDITION, octavo, pp.142. Travel writer ROBERT BYRON'S REFERENCE COPY with his pencil signature and annotations; Byron published 'An Essay on India' the same year. Original yellow card covers printed in black. Some expected rubbing and toning to extremities but generally near fine. Byron has..... More
Centenary at Jalna.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1958. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 302 [2]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to fly-leaf, and dated 14-7-58. Publisher's tan cloth with green titles to spine and upper. With the green illustrated dust-jacket, clipped and re-priced to 15s. Top..... More
Collected Short Stories of E.M. Forster.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, no date [1948]. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.vii [3] 246. Publisher's teal cloth lettered in gilt to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at 10s 6d. Toning to flyleaf, very small bookseller's sticker front-paste down, toning to edges of textblock, rolling..... More
Marianne Thornton 1797-1887. A Domestic Biography.
London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1956. [English Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 301; [3], blank. 2000 copies only. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 21s. Spine a little toned, slightly pushed to crown, one or two small nicks. Overall a near fine, fresh..... More
The Coinage of the British Empire: An Outline of the Progress of the Coinage in Great Britain and Her Dependencies, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time.
London: David Bogue, 1855. [Numismatics] PAPIER MACHÉ BINDING, the second edition. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.160. With 12 plates done in gold, silver and copper, including a frontispiece, and 11 supplemental plates at rear. Recently rebound in tough black buckram with gilt titles to spine, and the original black..... More
Uncle.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Children's Illustrated] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2]; 160; [2]. With in-text line drawings by Blake throughout. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title. Recently re-bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and matching cloth over boards..... More
"The Lanox of Auld." An Epistolary Review of "The Lenox, by William Fraser."
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1880. [Scottish Family History] PRIVATELY PRINTED, the only edition. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[4] xii; 153 [1]. With a genealogical scheme, occasional small in-text illustrations, and three engraved plates showing charter seals. Publisher's brown pebble-grained cloth, with gilt titles to spine and gilt armorial devices stamped to..... More
Common Adventures: a Book of Prose and Verse [and] Nicolas Flamel: a Play in Four Acts, from the French of Gerard de Nerval.
Dublin: The Orwell Press, 1926. [Irish Short Stories and Drama] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.[12] 53 [1]. Number 183 of just 200 copies SIGNED by the author in blue ink to limitation page. Publisher's plain card covers with grey endpapers. All edges untrimmed; partially unopened. Lightly..... More
The Blue Guitar. Etchings by David Hockney, who was Inspired by Wallace Stevens, who was Inspired by Pablo Picasso.
London: Petersburg Press, 1977. [Illustrated Poetry] FIRST THUS. Square octavo (22 x 22cm), pp.51; [1]. Twenty colour etchings by Hockney interleaved with Stevens' poetry. Publisher's grey paper-covered boards with paper title label to upper, brown endpapers, dust-jacket priced at £5.50. Crisp and clean, but for some spotting to top edge..... More
My Life: The Rise and Fall of a Dictator.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1930. [Communist Autobiography] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.512. With a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Fore edge untrimmed. Pencil ownership to fly-leaf, with some light toning and spotting to preliminaries. Cloth sunned to..... More
The Mystery of J.H. Farrer [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 40; numbers 238 and 239.
London: George Newnes, October and November 1910. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCE. Two octavo magazines (27 x 19cm), pp.[84] 385-508 [12]; [85-108]; pp.[90] 509-636 [91-116]. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers titled and illustrated in dark blue, stapled twice, and priced at 6d. Presented in a black fleece-lined..... More
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