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Isotopes.
London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1922. [Chemistry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 152. Publisher's blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine. Ownership stamp to pastedown and neat inscription to title page of Danish engineer and physicist P.O. Pedersen. Occasional discreet pencil annotation else internally fine. Cloth very slightly..... More
Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil, with Notes and Glossarial Index by W. Aldis Wright, M.A.
Cambridge and London: Macmillan and Co., 1865. [Philosophy] FINELY BOUND, the third edition thus. Small octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[2] xxxii; 388 [2]. In a later binding of brown full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and gilt and blind decoration to boards, dated August 1930 in pencil..... More
The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. [American Travel]. SECOND EDITION, identical to the First. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xii; 707. With 10 wood engraved plates including a frontispiece and two folding maps. Nine further illustrations in-text. In publisher's blue pebble grained cloth, re-backed during the twentieth century, with original..... More
Etruscan Bologna: A Study.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1876. [Italian Travel and Archaeology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii, 275. Illustrated with folding frontispiece lithograph showing a Synoptical Table of the Paleo-Ethnological Remains of Central Italy. Also with occasional in-text wood engravings. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, decorative friezes..... More
The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper. Including his Translation of Homer.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1875. [Poetry] FINELY-BOUND COPY. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xxiv; 516; [2]. With eighteen steel engravings, including a frontispiece, after William Harvey. Red full morocco. Tooling in both blind and gilt to boards. Gilt titles, further gilt decoration, and raised bands to spine. Turn-ins gilt ruled. Bevelled..... More
James Cook and the Conquest of Scurvy.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. [History of Medicine] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.x; 163 [3]. With a suite of eight double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to black backing on spine and upper. Black ink gift inscription to flyleaf, otherwise a crisp..... More
Swallow-Tails and Skippers.
London: The Religious Tract Society, no date [1886]. [Children's Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.158 [2]. Publisher's illustrated blue cloth lettered in gilt to front-board and spine. Coloured illustrative frontispiece. Yellow endpapers. Toning and spotting to edges of textblock, toning to spine, bumping and wear to corners. Very..... More
A Games of Murder.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION, REVIEW COPY EX LIBRIS ANTHONY LEJEUNE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.192. With a 'review copy' slip loose to preliminaries, as well as a bookplate detailing provenance. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Colin Andrews..... More
Lady Chillingham's House-Party. Or Margery's Romance.
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1901. [Drama] FINELY BOUND ILLUSTRATED COPY. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[xii]; 150; [2]. INSCRIBED to half-title: 'Harriet Longman | with love and very good | wish from the author |... 1901.' Full green calf, gilt titles and decoration to spine, gilt ruling to boards, gilt..... More
Break In.
London: Michael Joseph, 1985. [Thriller] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.272. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Chris Yates. Inscribed by the author to the halt-title page: "Hi Arthur! | See you at the | next Breeder Cup at | Santa Anita. | Dick..... More
In the Frame.
London: Michael Joseph, 1976. [Horse racing thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.252; [4]. Publisher's black cloth hardcovers with gilt titles, illustrated dust-wrapper designed by Chris Yates, priced at £3.25. Lightly handled, top edge dusty/spotted. A near fine copy. A genre classic from renowned crime writer, Dick Francis... More
Lester: The Official Biography.
London: Michael Joseph, 1986. [Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2]; xii; 338. SIGNED by Lester Piggott in black ink to the half-title. With four suites of photographs. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket designed by Gerry Cranham. Price clipped to..... More
Longshot.
London: Michael Joseph, 1990. [Equestrian Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 277 [5]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half-title. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by John Slater, priced at £13.99. Edges a little toned and spotted. Light..... More
Odds Against.
London: Michael Joseph, 1965. [Crime thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.256. Publisher's brown cloth hardcovers with illustrated dust-wrapper designed by Broome Lynn, in the style of James Bond jacket artist Richard Chopping. Contents clean, some dustiness to page edges, price clipped jacket with a few marks to flaps;..... More
Risk.
London: Michael Joseph, 1977. [Thriller / Suspense] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.252; [4], blank. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Chris Yates, priced at £3.95. A clean copy with a few minor marks. Near fine. Racing thriller set around the Cheltenham Gold Cup... More
Trial Run.
London: Michael Joseph, 1978. [Thriller / Suspense] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.238; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, cartographic endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Chris Yates, priced at £4.50. A little soiling to edges, marginal rub/chip to fore-edge of last few sections, jacket is fine. A...... More
Flying Finish.
New York: The Armchair Detective Library. 1991. Signed Limited Edition. Octavo, pp. v, 307. Limited to one hundred signed copies, bound in maroon cloth with gilt titles and decoration, in matching cloth slipcase. Fine. More
Grimble.
London: Collins, 1968. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4]; 44. With frequent in-text illustrations by Francis. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the red dust-jacket also illustrated by Francis. Internally fine. Jacket price-clipped and sunned to spine with some small closed tears. Very good..... More
The Luck of the Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches.
Boston, MA: James R. Osgood and Company, 1871. [Western Short Stories] FIRST EDITION, Second Issue, including 'Brown of Calaveras'. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2]; viii; 256; [2]. With the ownership inscription of Stafford Nothcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (1818-1887) to flyleaf, dated 1871, Washington. Publisher's pebble grain cloth with gilt..... More
Mysteries of Easter Island.
London: Collins 1969. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp. 224. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial dust-jacket with printed price of 30s to front flap. In certain parts of the book, there are black and white photographs of the island and illustrated maps. Minor toning..... 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
A Treatise on Electricity, Wherein its various phaenomena are accounted for, and the cause of the attraction and gravitation of solids, assigned. To which is added a short account, how the electrical effluvia act upon the animal frame, and in what disorders the same may probably be applied with success and in what not.
Oxford: Sackville Parker, 1752. Octavo. p.40. Bound in quarter brown calf over marbled paper boards, wtih gilt titles to spine; all edges red speckled. With owner's stamp and bookplate. Binding is rubbed, worn to board edges, bumping to corners and spine ends. Internally clean, with one illustrative diagram (p.32) of..... More
Night.
London: John Calder in association with Olympia Press, 1961. [Korean War Novel] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 250 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the black and pink dust-jacket designed by Sewell. A little offsetting to endpapers, otherwise internally crisp and clean. Price-clipped..... More
Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel.
London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1892. [Satirical Novels] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (29 x 20cm), pp.[4] xlvi [2]; 341 [7]; pp.[4] xiv; 455 [5]. With 15 photogravure illustrated plates, including a frontispiece to volume I, with tissue guards. Number 247 of 1000 copies thus. Contemporary green..... More