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The Temple Church.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843. [Mediaeval Architecture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.viii; 127 [5]. With five fine lithographic plates by Brandard, including a frontispiece and decorated title page. Engravings also to chapter headings. Publisher's cloth stamped in blind and in gilt to spine and upper, yellow-coated..... More
The Air Cadet's Handbook on Navigation Part One (and Signalling). Air Cadet's Handbooks No. 1.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1941. [Science and Nature] FIRST EDITION. Sexto-decimo (17 x 12cm), pp. 80. Small in text illustrations. Green paper over boards. Spotting and toning to edges of textblock and boards, book remains internally clean, rolling to spine, wear to spine and edges. Very good. A rare..... More
Those Three. Forty-Four Cartoons.
London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., no date [1942]. [Second World War] FIRST EDITION. Oblong octavo (14 x 21cm), pp.[48] unpaginated. Publisher's wraps printed in red and black with printed price of 1' net. Stapled twice to spine. Three page introduction followed by forty-four full page cartoons with captions..... More
An Art Tour to Northern Capitals of Europe.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1873. [Russian and Scandinavian Museum Tour] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xii; 455 [3]. Contemporary dark brown half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and blind decoration to spine, and lighter brown cloth over boards, with a gilt institutional device to upper..... More
Empire of the Sun.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1984. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pps.278. Publisher's cloth in dust-wrapper. First issue jacket with quotes by Graham Greene and Angela Carter to the rear panel. Quite heavy toning to text block. Jacket very slightly sunned to spine, with some light wear to..... More
Quality Street. A Comedy in four acts. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [circa 1913]. [Illustrated Drama] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.[4] viii; 198 [2]. With a loose flier for the original exhibition of Thomson's watercolour illustrations for the book, November and December 1913. Complete with 22 colour plates by Thomson, including a frontispiece..... More
The Admirable Crichton. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [c.1914]. FIRST HUGH THOMSON EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), with twenty mounted colour plates and captioned tissues. Publisher's pale green cloth blocked in dark green and red to upper, gilt to spine. Contents are a little foxed, binding lightly handled, one neat/accidental pull to crown..... More
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. [1920s]. [Children's] RACKHAM ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.126; [1], advertisement. With sixteen mounted colour plate illustrations, each with captioned tissue guards, illustrated map endpapers. Bound in publisher's gilt decorated green cloth, original pictorial dust-wrapper with colour plate to front, priced 10/6. Undated, with..... More
By the Way.
London: Sheed and Ward, 1931. [Humour] FIRST THUS. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.390; [2]. With numerous pen and ink illustrations by Nicolas Bentley. Colour halftone illustration by Bentley adhered to front pastedown. Publisher's green cloth to boards, blue titles to upper and spine. Top edge blue. Leaves lightly toned, spotting..... More
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testament, with the Apocrypha; explained with Short, Apt, and Instructive Notes, in a Method entirely different from all Modern Publications of the Sacred Book: and Cleared from that Variety of Opinions and Conjectures, many of which have no Support in the Scriptures; have been collected without Judgement; and serve more to disturb and confound, than to instruct, edify, and confirm the Reader in the Faith and Practice of a Christian.
London: W. Adlard and J. Browne, date misprinted [1770]. [Illustrated Bible] RARE IMPRINT. Folio, (42 x 28cm), unpaginated. Collation: A-13F2. Date misprinted as 2170 in Roman numerals. With a copper engraved frontispiece by Cole after Wale, as well as 33 further copper engraved plates by various artists. With an index..... More
China Under the Empress Dowager, Being the History of the Life and Times of Tzu Hsi. Compiled from State Papers and the Private Diary of the Comptroller of Her Household.
London: William Heinemann, 1911. [China] VINTAGE COPY, a later impression. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.xxviii; 525 [3]. With 26 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece, and a map of Peking. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and black titles and a red device to upper. Fore..... More
Once an Artist Always an Artist.
London: Page and Company, 1921. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. 175; [1]. Illustrative frontispiece, 20 pages of photography with one page being a pull out, untrimmed edges. Publisher's quarter bound cream cloth covered by mottled grey paper. Exlibris stamp front paste down, previous owner's address and..... More
The History of Surrey, by Edward Wedlake Brayley. Assisted by John Britton and E.W. Brayley, Junior. The Geological Section by Gideon Mantell.
Dorking: Robert Best Ede, 1841-48. FIRST EDITIONS. 5 volumes as 10 parts. Octavo (26 x 17 x 28cm). Publisher's original embossed purple cloth with gilt titles to evenly faded spines, yellow endpapers, edges untrimmed. Illustrated with 127 full page steel engraved plates by Thomas Allom, Thompson and others (some folding)..... More
Beasts in Heraldry.
Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1974. [Heraldry] FIRST EDITION. Square octavo (22 x 22cm), pp.96. Containing twenty colour illustrations by Marie Angel (1923-2010). Publisher's cream vegetable parchment with gilt titles to spine, presented in the original blue paper-covered box, with a cream insert and a tri-fold flier for the..... More
Wycliffe and the Tangled Web.
London: Gollancz Crime, 1988. [Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.191; [1], blank. Publisher's gilt-titled black cloth in dust-wrapper priced at £10.95. A fine copy in near fine jacket. Starring detective Charles Wycliffe, one of the most popular literary Police investigators. More
The Thorough-Base Primer: Containing Explanations and Examples of the Rudiments of Harmony; with Fifty Exercises.
Boston, MA: James Loring, 1828. [Music] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Duodecimo in half-sheets (15 x 10cm), pp.138. Publisher's red quarter morocco with gilt titles to spine, and pain pasteboards. Plain small bookplate to front pastedown. Black ink ownership to half-title. Light occasional spotting. Moderate wear to binding, with marks and stains..... More
Chandler Before Marlowe: Raymond Chandler's Early Prose and Poetry, 1908-1912.
Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1973. [Posthumous anthology] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 110. With a frontispiece of the author. Number 167 of 499 copies. Publisher's red quarter faux leather with gilt titles to spine and mottled cream paper over boards. Matching cream endpapers; all..... More
Heroes and Kings: Stories from the Greek.
London: Seeley and Co. Ltd., 1905. [Greek Myths] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Sexto-Decimo (14 x 10cm), pp.[2] xii; 242 [2]. With 11 engraved plates. Contemporary tan full calf by RELFE BROS., with raised bands, gilt titles to a black label and further gilt to spine, a large gilt crest of Hazelhurst..... More
Three Greek Children: A Story of Home in Old Time.
London: Seeley and Co., 1908. [Ancient History] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 193 [3]. With nine illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and occasional in-text illustrations. Contemporary brown full calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbling to all edges and endpapers..... More
Helmet and Spear: Tales from the Wars of the Greeks and Romans.
London: Seeley and Co., 1900. [Ancient Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 380 [8]. With eight black and white plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles, and gilt and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. Heavy spotting to first and final leaves..... More
Roman Life in the Days of Cicero.
London: Seeley and Company, 1884. [Roman History] FINELY BOUND, the fourth printing thus. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2]; xii; 291; [3]. Twelve illustrations including frontispiece. Contemporary tan full calf, with gilt titles on green label to spine, gilt decorations to spine, raised bands, gilt decorative panelling to boards, gilt dentelle..... 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