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Roads to Glory.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Demy Octavo. pp. 278. no. 199 of 360 copies, signed by the author to limitation page. With original glassine jacket. In quarter blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and orange / white patterned paper-covered boards. All edges untrimmed. Near-fine with..... More
Memoir of the Life of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. [Engineering]. REVISED SECOND EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xx; 357 [3]. With 17 illustrations, including an etched frontispiece portrait of Brunel. Contemporary full tan calf by HAYDAY, with raised bands, gilt titles to green label on spine and further gilt decoration to..... More
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, and the Apocrypha, Translated out of the Original Tongues; and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be Read in Churches.
Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by Bensley, Cooke and Collingwood, 1815. FINELY BOUND ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Three volumes. Quarto (29 x 20cm), unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with many copper engravings by Charles Heath, after Richard Westall. Contemporary horizontal grained red full morocco with gilt titles to spine and gilt decorations to..... More
Etruscan Bologna: A Study.
Smith, Elder, & Co., London, 1876. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii, 275. Illustrated with folding pullout frontispiece, sepia tone lithograph illustration: Synoptical Table of the Paleo-Ethnological Remains of Central Italy', wood block illustrations throughout text. Bound in Publisher's blue cloth with decorative friezes in black relief to top..... More
The Highlands of the Brazil.
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1869. First Edition. 2 volumes. Octavo, pp.xii; 443, pp.viii; 478. 2 frontispiece plates and title page vignettes, folding map in volume two. Bound in contemporary tan half calf over marbled boards, black and dark brown title squares to spine, gilt titles and decoration to spine. All edges..... More
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.
London: Longman, 1855-56. FIRST EDITION. In three volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2]; xvi; 388; pp.[2]; iv; 426; pp.[2]; x; 448. With four maps and plans, three folding; and 13 lithographic plates, five coloured. Recently re-bound without adverts in burgundy full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spines..... More
Sindh, and the Races That Inhabit the Valley of the Indus.
London: William H. Allen and Co., 1851. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.vii; 422. With fold-out frontispiece map on pale blue paper as issued. In an exquisite later binding of half polished calf with full gilt back over marbled sides, edges untrimmed. Some expected toning to paper and uncut edges, light and..... 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
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BASILIKA. The Workes [works] of King Charles the Martyr: with a Collection of Declarations, Treaties, And other Papers Concerning the Differences Betwixt His Said Majesty and His Two Houses of Parliament.
London: Printed by James Flesher for R. Royston, 1662. [English History] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound as one. Folio (35 x 24cm), pp.[12] 118; [10] 458 [2]; 733 [7]. Complete with the frontispiece, engraved title page, and three further double-page-spread engraved plates. Also with the title page and preliminaries to..... More
The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
London: Bell and Daldy, n.d. (ca.1880). Six volumes, octavo (17 x 11 x 13cm). New and Revised edition of the Aldine Poets, with a memoir by Sir Harry Nicolas. Original red calf, twin title labels, full gilt backs, marbled sides, edges and endpapers. School prize label to pastedown, bindings pleasingly..... More
The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments,... Together with The Psalter or Psalms of David,... and the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining and Consecrating Bishops, priests, and Deacons; and the Thirty-Nine Articles of religion: with Notes Explanatory, Practical, and Historical, from approved Writers of the Church of England, Selected and Arranged by the Reverend Richard Mant.
Oxford: Printed by W. Baxter, 1820. 4to. (30 x 6 cm). Contemporary full black morocco with gilt titles and gilt decorative flat raised bands to spine, blind and gilt panelling to boards; marbled end papers; all edges gilt. With an Appendix. Beautiful binding, a little rubbed; later repair to upper..... More
The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be Sung or Said in Churches; the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons; the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion; and their Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical: with Notes Explanatory, Practical, and Historical, from Approved Writers of the Church of England, Selected and Arranged by the Right Reverend Richard Mant, D.D. Lord Bishop of Down and Connor, and Late Domestick Chaplain to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury.
London: J. G. F. and J. Rivington, 1840. FINELY BOUND, fifth edition thus. Quarto (30 x 24cm), pp.[6] 2, lxxii, 966 [4]. In two columns with very extensive notes by Rev. Mant. In contemporary dark brown diced calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and further blind decoration to..... More
A Pageant of the Spice Islands.
London: John Bale, Sons and Danielsson, 1936. First Edition. Octavo, pp. i, 131. With 5 b/w plates including frontispiece. In publisher's green cloth with yellow titles to spine. With original cream dust jacket, featuring black titles to spine and upper board. Corners slightly bumped, and some light wear to boards..... More
Ranson's Folly. With 16 Illustrations by Frederic Remington, Walter Appleton Clark, Howard Chandler Christy, E.M. Ashe, and F. Dorr Steele.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First Edition. Publisher's brick coloured cloth with gilt titles to upper with colour illustration to centre, gilt titles to spine; top edge gilt, others rough trimmed. Rubbed to extremities; internally clean and sound. Very good indeed. More
Soldiers of Fortune.
New York, Scribners. 1897. First US Edition. 8vo. Publisher's pale yellow decorated cloth titled in blue to spine and titled and decorated in blue and gilt to front board. Very good indeed with only very slight edgewear and light bumping to the spine ends. Slightly dusty top edge, internally bright..... More
The Flowering Plants of Tunbridge Wells and Neighbourhood.
Tunbridge Wells: Stidolph and Bellamy, 1871. First Edition. Octavo, pp. vi, 371. Professionally recased dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, black decoration to boards. Hand coloured frontispiece showing Butomus Umbellatus. Numerous black and white illustrations. Publisher's presentation copy inscribed "to Mr. T. Jones with the..... More
Storm at the Hook.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1948. [Modern Literature]. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.318 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to half-title: 'To my Aunt, / With much love, / & I hope you like / it, / Dick / May 1948'. Publisher's burgundy cloth with silver..... More
The Ultimate Good Luck.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co. 1981. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. SIGNED by the Pulitzer prize winning author. Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper. More
Brewster's Millions
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Co., 1903. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[x]; 325; [3], blank; [1], imprint; [3], blank. Elegantly bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full burgundy morocco with gilt ruling and raised bands to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Discreet initials stamped to third blank..... More
A Short History of the English People.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1902. FINE PRIZE BINDING, later edition. Crown octavo (19 x 13 cm), pp.[2] xx; xvii-xix; [1], xxi-xlvii; [1], 872 [2]. With six coloured maps including a frontispiece, genealogical tables and an index. In contemporary red full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to green label on..... More
A Short History of the English People.
London: Macmillan and co., 1884. Prize Binding. Octavo. Bound in full blue straight grained calf, with triple blind ruling to boards, Leamington College for Boys school crest in gilt to front board, raised bands and gilt titles to spine; all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with maps and tables, several..... More
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An Incident of African History [and] M.I. [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volumes XIII and XIV.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., December 1900 to November 1901. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. In two volumes. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.vi; 754; pp.vi; 714. With frequent photogravure illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt and dark brown titles and decoration to spines and upper boards. Blue ink ownership inscription to..... More
I, In The Membership of My Days. Poems.
New York, NY: Random House, 1973. [Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.135; [1]. Publisher's red cloth, in pictorial dust-wrapper. Dated and inscribed by Richard Harris to front flyleaf. Fine. A collection of poems by the famous actor, acclaimed in roles such as Marcus Aurelius in Ridley..... More
Geyserland. Empiricisms In Social Reform.
Washington. Privately printed for R. Hatfield. 1908. First Edition. 8vo. Very good in publisher's gilt decorated cream cloth. One small nick to the cloth along bottom edge of front boardand a little shelfwear otherwise an unusually clean copy of a downright unusual book. Postulating the existence of lost human forebears..... More
MASH. A Novel about Three Army Doctors.
New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1968. [Comic novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.219; [5], blank. Publisher's brown cloth boards, backstrip in white with colour lettering, top edge navy blue, mustard-coloured endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Bob Shein priced at $4.95. White cloth a little marked/toned as..... More