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The Gulistan of Shaik Saday; a Complete Analysis of the Entire Persian Text.
Calcutta: Thacker Spink and Co., 1861. [Persian Literature in translation] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; pp.592 [2]. Re-bound in contemporary or slightly later brown half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and blind decoration to spine, and textured brown cloth over boards. Marbled endpapers, and vestiges of..... 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
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
Ian Fleming and James Bond: the Cultural Politics of 007.
Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005. [Critique] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxvi; 281 [5]. With occasional black and white illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers. A lovely fine copy. An academic study of Ian Fleming and James Bond, with a foreword from Fleming's official biographer Andrew Lycett..... 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
Fighter. The True Story of the Battle of Britain.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1977. [Military history] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.304. Publisher's blue cloth hardcovers lettered in gilt to the spine, red endpapers, top edge red, dust-wrapper displays a Paul Nash painting, priced at £4.95. With many photographic plates. Near fine. Deighton's acclaimed account of Germany's first major..... More
The Ginger Man. With an Introduction by Arland Ussher.
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. The Traveller's Companion Series, n° 7. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.353 [5]. Publisher's green card covers. Trivial wear, bump to top corners else a fine, fresh copy of this important book. The Irish American playwright's first novel, being the..... More
Edward Thomas: A Biography and a Bibliography.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1937. [Literary Biography / Bibliography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxii; 328. With 10 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to maroon backing on spine. Top edge green. A few spots, and a tear to..... More
Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844. [Game Shooting] FINELY BOUND, the ninth edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxviii; 623 [3]. With numerous in-text woodcuts, and several full page engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green half morocco with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and Papier Tourniquet over..... More
Enter the Lion: A Posthumous Memoir of Mycroft Holmes.
London: J. M. Dent, 1980. REVIEW COPY. Octavo, pp.xxii; [2]; 237; [3]. With publisher's compliments slip loose to prelims. In publisher's grey cloth with red titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. Light shelf-wear; likely unread. Near fine. A prequel to Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries, in which Mycroft..... More
The Tower.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1968. [Village Farce] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.223 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Donald Green, priced at 18s. A lovely bright, crisp copy, showing just a handful of spots to top edge and a...... More
Kuwait and Her Neighbours. Edited for publication by Clifford Witting.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1956. [Travel / history] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth, title gilt on green plaque to spine, top edge orange, sewn-cloth joints, illustrated dust jacket by Gross-Andre, repriced to 75s. With coloured frontispiece, 27 pages of black & white plates..... More
Innocent Blood.
London: Faber and Faber, 1980. [Crime novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.276. Publisher's maroon paper boards, titles and publisher's imprint in gilt to spine, pictorial dust-jacket priced at £5.95. Text block toned (heavier to top edge). Near Fine in Fine jacket. More
The Lighthouse.
London: Faber and Faber, 2005. [Crime Mystery] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 323 [3]. SIGNED and dated '27 Oct 2005' by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's navy paper over boards, with cream titles to spine and green endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by..... More
A Mind To Murder.
London: Faber and Faber, 1964. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.224. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, rich pink illustrated dust-jacket designed by Charles Mozley. No inscriptions. A fine copy of the book; jacket remains fresh with a little rubbing to front panels, an..... More
The Murder Room.
London: Faber and Faber, 2003. [Crime novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.371. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's maroon boards, titles and publisher's imprint in white to spine, yellow endpapers. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Ghost with a printed price of..... More
Original Sin.
London: Faber and Faber, 1994. [Crime fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.426. Publisher's black cloth with white titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £14.99. Autographed in back ink to the title page. Minor toning to text block as usual, else fine in like, fresh..... More
The Skull Beneath the Skin.
London: Faber and Faber, 1982. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.384. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the purple illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £7.95. Edges slightly dusty else fine in a clean, fine wrapper. The second Cordelia Gray case. More
Small Yachts. Their design and construction exemplified by the ruling types of modern practice. With numerous plates and illustrations.
New York: Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 1885. [Yacht Building] FIRST EDITION. Folio, (28cm x 37cm). With 63 plates and numerous illustrations in text, pp.v; 369. Finely bound in recent brown half morocco, tan label, gilt titles and decoration to spine, original publisher's pictorial boards. Text block rather fragile; there..... More
Stopover Tokyo.
London: Collins, 1957. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.254. Publisher's blue cloth in original pictorial dust wrapper priced at 12/6. Some minor dustiness. A crisp, fine copy of this Mr. Moto mystery. Earl Derr Biggers' Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan was a popular success for the Post journal. When..... More
Stopover Tokyo.
London: Collins, 1957. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.254. Publisher's blue cloth in original pictorial dust wrapper priced at 12/6. Contents clean, edges slightly toned. Near fine in similar jacket with one small chip to lower edge of rear. Earl Derr Biggers' Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan was a...... 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 Play's the Thing.
New York, NY: Brentano's, 1927. [Hungarian Drama] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 139 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with titles blocked with designs in blue and green to spine and upper board. Fore-edge untrimmed. With the green dust-jacket titled in a darker green. Lightly browned throughout. Dust-jacket..... More
Forever Ulysses.
New York: Viking 1938 [actually December 1937]. PRIVATE PRE-PUBLICATION EDITION, number 6 of just 65 copies. Octavo, pp.315; [3], blank. Near fine in original linen-backed silk boards featuring rather striking gold orange and yellow vertical stripes, in accompanying gold card slip-case (rubbed). Translated by Patrick Leigh Fermor. This rare edition..... More
The Lost Viol.
London, Ward Lock. 1908. Strange tale.First edition. 8vo. 316pp + 16pp ads. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt and decorated in green to spine and front board. Light bumping to spine ends otherwise a clean and handsome copy. The helpful addition of a Book Lover's Library label to the front..... More