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The Darkwater Hall Mystery.
Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1978. Limited edition. Number 67 of 165 copies. 8vo. Illustrated by Elspeth Sojka. Bound in publisher's original marbled card wraps. Fine with trifling edgewear. Internally clean and bright, a very pretty copy of a scarce piece of Sherlockiana. More
The James Bond Dossier
London: Jonathan Cape. 1965. FIRST EDITION. THE AUTHOR'S COPY, in a bespoke quarter leather binding of half red morocco, gilt, commissioned by the publisher for presentation to Amis. Obviously a unique copy, this was likely bound by Ian Fleming's own binder Arthur Last, the style matching closely the author's copies..... More
The James Bond Dossier.
New York, NY: Signet Books, 1966. [Bond reference /critique] FIRST U.S. PAPERBACK. Pp.127 + [1], advertisement. Publisher's illustrated softcovers priced at 60c, all edges red. Cheap paper stock browned as usual, covers slightly rubbed. Near fine. Now a rather elusive paperback, published in the same year as the UK Pan..... More
The Anti-Death League. A Novel.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1966. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.352. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Raymond Hawkey, priced at 30/- net. Some spotting to preliminaries and offset toning to endpapers. Some spotting to top edge, edges toned. Light sunning..... More
The Anti-Death League. A Novel.
London: Victor Gollancz, [1966] 1972. [Modern Literature] SIGNED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.352. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Raymond Hawkey, priced at £2.75. One of an unspecified small number of the second printings issued on behalf of the New Fiction Society..... More
The Green Man.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. [Strange tale] UNCORRECTED PROOF of the FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.253. Publisher's green softcovers in proof-only pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 30s. A fine, unread copy of the book in near fine, lightly rubbed oversized jacket. A ghostly tale set in an english medieval coaching..... More
The James Bond Dossier.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [Reference critique] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY IN PROOF JACKET. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.159; [1], blank. Publisher's paper covers, with pictorial proof dust-wrapper, based on the familiar 'trompe l'oeil' designs which decorated the Ian Fleming first editions. Edges dusty else book is fine. Oversized jacket with minor..... More
My Enemy's Enemy, Stories.
London: Victor Gollancz. 1962. First Edition. Octavo, pp. 224. Red publisher's cloth with gilt titles to spine, in strikingly restrained yellow dustwrapper. Top and fore edge slightly browned, slight bumping to head and tail caps. Some wear to the top and bottom edges of the dustjacket with some marking and..... More
The Light of Asia or The Great Renunciation. Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1908. Deluxe Edition. Octavo, pp.xv; 158. Illustrated with thirty two pictures of Indian scenery from photographs taken by Mabel Eardley-Wilmott. Bound in cream vegetable parchment boards with gilt titles to spine and upper board, and illustrated to the upper and lower boards. Top..... More
Indian Memories. Recollections of Soldiering, Sport, Etc.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1915. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm) pp.xx; 363; [1], blank. With 24 colour plate illustrations and 100 in black and white (by the author). Publisher's pale blue cloth pictorially blocked in colours. Very light handling/wear. A clean, fine copy without the scarce jacket. More
Yachting. With Illustrations by R.T. Pritchett and from Photographs.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894-5. [Sports] FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes, octavo (19 x 14cm). Illustrated throughout. Finely bound in recent dark blue half calf with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt yacht motifs to spines; blue cloth boards; top edges gilt. Internally clean, exterior unmarked. A fine set... More
The Influence of the Gold Supply on Prices and Profits.
London:Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1913. [Economics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x15cm), pp.xii; 104. Publisher's burgundy cloth, blind ruled to boards, gilt titles to spine. Errata slip tipped in at page 58. Discreet ownership to rear pastedown, some spotting to preliminaries, to end matter, and to edges, else generally clean and..... More
Arthur and George.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. [Historical Mystery] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 360 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's olive cloth decorated in black and titled in white to spine and upper. With the original printed paper band to rear board..... 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
Historic Memoirs of Ireland; comprising Secret Records of the National Convention, the Rebellion, and the Union; with Delineations of the Principal Characters connected with these transactions.
London: Henry Colburn, 1835. NEW EDITON. In two volumes. Large Quarto, pp.[2] xlii, 358 [2]; pp.[4] x, 464 [2]. With 38 copper engraved portraits, including a frontispiece of Barrington to vol. I, and two plates preceeding the title page in vol. II. Also with three facsimile letters and an index..... 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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[Sir Malcolm and Donald Campbell Photographic Archive and Long-Play Record, including] World Water Speed Record 1956: Donald Campbell's Southward Run on Coniston Water [and] See Sir Malcolm Campbell Breaking the World's Water Speed Record Using Castrol Motor Oil [Flick Book].
London: His Master's Voice, 1937, 1956, and 1984. [Land and Water Speed Records] ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS, SIGNATURES, FLICK BOOK, NEWSPAPER, AND LONG-PLAY RECORD, LEO VILLA ASSOCIATION. Two ink signatures by Malcolm Campbell on separate scraps of paper, one with a small newspaper photograph cut out and laid on, dated 22/07/1935. One..... More
The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill. General Editor: Michael Wolff.
London: Library of Imperial History, no date (1976). [History / Politics] FIRST EDITION. 4 volumes, octavo (25 x 17 x 15cm). Each volume has the publisher's presentation bookplate loosely inserted, noting that this set is number 8 of a limited edition (an uncommon extra). Bound in original quarter dark blue..... More
The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill. The Centenary Edition. General Editor: Michael Wolff.
London: Library of Imperial History, no date [1976]. The Centenary Edition. FIRST EDITIONS in book form. The first collected edition of Churchill's essays and articles. Not available in any other form. 4 volumes in publisher's full vellum with gilt titles to spines, coat of arms in gilt with gilt rule..... More
Ian Hamilton's March. Together with Extracts from the Diary of Lieutenant H. Frankland a Prisoner of War at Pretoria.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. [Military history] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xiv; 409; [1], blank; [4], ads; [2], blank; [32], catalogue. Elegantly bound in brown half morocco, raised bands, gilt titles and gilt 'lion rampant' motif to spine, top edge gilt, original cloth spine and upper panel..... More
An Important Collection of Winston Churchill/World War II autographs.
no place, no date. [Autographs] A remarkable autograph album of one Lawrence Biggart containing 95 signatures (1940-48), mostly international statesmen, war leaders, dignitaries and prominent military officials and public servants, plus some contemporary celebrities. Small landscape album (18 x 12cm) in brown crocodile skin-effect leather, comprising 95 autographs on paper..... More
Step by Step 1936-1939.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1939. [Politics / Second World War] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.366. With two maps; one folding at rear. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf; toned throughout. Corners bumped. Spine toned, with rubbing to head, tail and joints. Good..... More
Europe Unite. Speeches 1947 and 1948.
London: Cassell and Company, 1950. [Post-War Speeches] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 506. Publisher's bright green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black, yellow and green dust-jacket, priced at 18s. Pink ink ownership to front pastedown. Boards heavily mould-stained, with a light pink stain bleeding through..... More
The Sinews of Peace. Post-War Speeches.
London: Cassell and Company, 1948. [Post-War Speeches] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15), pp.viii [4], 9-256. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket priced at 16s. A little oxidation to gilt on spine; corners slightly bumped. Jacket very slightly sunned to spine, with a little bruising..... More