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Memoirs of King Abdullah of Transjordan.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1950. [Middle East Political Memoir] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.278; [2]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's pink cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the cream dust-jacket titled in black and purple, priced 15s. Top edge pink. Some offsetting to endpapers. Apparently..... More
Rab and His Friends.
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1862. [Illustrated] FINE COPPER ENGRAVINGS, later edition. Slim quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.34. With seven fine copper engravings after George Harvey, R.S.A., including a frontispiece. Recently re-backed using original white glazed paper-covered boards, with black titles printed to upper board. Black ink gift inscription to half-title..... More
The Story of Broadcasting.
London: Cassell and Company, 1924. [Wireless and radio] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 182 [2]. With eight half-tone plates including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 3/6 to to spine. Offsetting to endpapers; a little..... More
Charge Delivered in Whippingham Church, at the Confirmation of His Royal Highness Prince Leopold, January 30, 1869.
London: Rivingtons, for private circulation only, 1869. [Royal Confirmation] INSCRIBED PAMPHLET. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.20. INSCRIBED in black ink to verso of half-title: 'Sent by the Queen's desire | to Mary Friers | Dunkeld | in recollection | of H.R.H. Prince Leopold's Confirmation | at which she was present..... More
Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries visited during the Voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle" round the World. Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. From the corrected and enlarged edition of 1845. With a Biographical Introduction. The Minerva Library of Famous Books
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1889. [Natural History] FIFTH EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.xx; 381; [15]. With 16 full page engraving, including a frontispiece, as well as occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt to spine, and in black to upper. Green patterned endpapers. School prize plate..... More
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex.
London: John Murray, 1871. [Evolutionary science] FIRST EDITION, Second Issue. Two volumes, octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.424; pp.476, with pp.16 adverts bound at the rear of each volume. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, stamped in blind to covers, coated brown endpapers. Light and occasional spotting, same ink..... More
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex.
London: John Murray, 1871. [Evolutionary science] FIRST EDITION, Second state. Two volumes, octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.424; pp.476. Bound without adverts in contemporary green half morocco, gilt, with matching cloth sides, marbled edges and endpapers. Contents very clean, same neat ink name (Dutton) to each half title, binding gently aged..... More
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex.
London: John Murray, 1885. [Evolutionary science] SECOND EDITION, revised and augmented (nineteenth thousand),in a single volume; first published in two volumes, 1871. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 693; [1], blank. With in-text black and white illustrations. Bound in original green cloth with gilt titles to spine, ruled to covers in..... More
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
London, John Murray. 1901. New edition, with illustrations [the first of this 2/6 edition, November 1901]. Octavo, pp.1031. Bound in publisher's mid green buckram cloth with gilt titles to spine, title panel and floral decoration stamped in dark green to upper. Some trivial wear, lightly spotted, discreet ink ownership to..... More
A Naturalist's Voyage Round The World.
London: John Murray, 1909. Octavo. Bound in green cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and dark green panelling and design to front board. Includes Christmas gift insert and review slip. Stain to front board, and some spotting to edges. Occassional spots in text, mostly to prelims, but largely clean, including..... More
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
London: John Murray, 1892. [Evolutionary science] Sixth Edition (Forty-third thousand). Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xxii; 432. Bound in publisher's green buckram, lettered and trimmed in gilt to backstrip, blind-stamped borders, pale blue floral-patterned endpapers. Ink name to first blank (dated 1894), second name to flyleaf, contents very clean, some browning..... More
The Works of Charles Darwin. Edited by Paul H. Barrett and R. B. Freeman.
London: William Pickering, 1986-1989. [Science / Evolution] THE COMPLETE WORKS, Pickering Masters Series. Octavo, 29 volumes. Handsomely bound in dark green half morocco over green cloth boards, raised bands and gilt titles to spine, top edges gilt. The complete works in 29 volumes edited by Paul H. Barrett and R...... More
By Way of Introduction.
London: Methuen and Co. 1929. [Sherlockiana] FIRST EDITION, First Issue. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii, 208; [8]. In publisher's pink cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, lower edges untrimmed, printed dust-wrapper. Contents clean, very faint inscription to flyleaf, jacket toned to spine with a few minor chips..... More
By Way of Introduction.
London: Methuen and Co. 1929. [Sherlockiana] FIRST EDITION, First Issue. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii, 208; [8]. In publisher's pink cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, lower edges untrimmed, printed dust-wrapper priced at 6s. Contents clean, jacket toned to spine, lightly rubbed at joints. Very good indeed..... More
Edmund Dulac's Picture Book.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, for The Daily Telegraph, no date [1915]. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.135; [1] advert. Twenty tipped-in colour plates, one tipped-in photograph of Dulac by E.O. Hoppé. Half dark green oasis, gilt titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, matching cloth sides, top..... More
Sindbad (Sinbad) the Sailor, and Other Stories From the Arabian Nights.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. Circa 1915. Quarto. Pp.224. Illustrated with 23 stunning colour plates, mounted, with captioned tissues, text pages printed in two colours with geometric arabeque borders. Elegantly hand bound in blue half morocco, gilt, with matching cloth sides, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Internally clean, binding unmarked..... More
The Art of Photoplay Making.
New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1918. [Filmmaking] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10]; 283; [11]. With 10 photogravure plates, including a frontispiece of the Venus de Milo. Publisher's brown cloth. gilt titles to spine and in dark brown to upper board, dust-jacket title with printed price of $2.00..... More
Two Tales Of Shem And Shaun. Fragments From Works In Progress.
London: Faber and Faber, 1932. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.45; [3], blank. Publisher's light blue paper-covered boards with dark blue titles to spine, orange dust-wrapper priced at 2/6. A near fine copy of the book, jacket slightly toned and torn, with a few tiny chips..... More
It's Me O Lord: The Autobiography of Rockwell Kent.
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1955. [Artist Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xii; 617 [3]. Heavily illustrated by the author with 96 new drawings, 170 reproductions, and eight colour plates. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to fly-lead: 'Inscribed for her mother, |..... More
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The First and Fourth Renderings in English Verse.
New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, n.d. [1930]. POGANY ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Crown Quarto. pp. 175. With numerous full page colour plates and black and gold illustrations throughout. In contemporary full tan morocco with gilt titles and stamping to spine, green and gilt stamping to upper board and blind to lower..... More
The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. [American Literature / Verse] FIRST EDITION, First Issue, with "treacherous" for "ruddy", l.3, p.124. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.215; [1], blank; 12, advertisements dated October 1858. Publisher's brown cloth decoratively blocked in blind, gilt-lettered to spine, brown endpapers. This copy with the additional inserted ad..... More
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1867. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a new edition. Small quarto (22 x 18cm), pp.[2] iv; 556 [2]. With frequent in-text wood engravings by the Dalziel Brothers after illustrations by Gilbert, and a frontispiece etching of the author. Contemporary green full panelled calf with..... More
The Complete Writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Craigie Edition, with Portraits, Illustrations and Facsimiles.
Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1904. [American Literature]. FINELY BOUND COMPLETE WORKS. Eleven volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 36cm). With 76 engraved plates including a frontispiece to each volume. Contemporary green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and marbled boards and endpapers. Top..... More
Longfellow's Poetical Works. Author's Complete Copyright Edition.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1883. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 680; [2]. With 14 engraved plates. Contemporary red full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Elaborate gilt decoration to spine and boards. Gilt textured endpapers; all edges gilt. Spotting to preliminaries and..... More