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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 about The Darkwater Hall Mystery
Jake's Thing.
London: Hutchinson and Co., 1978. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.285 [3]. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine, dust jacket illustrated by Quentin Blake. Jacket spine just very slightly faded; near-fine. More about Jake's Thing
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 about The James Bond Dossier
The Alteration.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1976. [Alternative history novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.208. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge green, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Tom Adams. Textblock slightly toned, slight reading lean. Near fine. More about The Alteration
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 about The Anti-Death League. A Novel
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 about The Anti-Death League. A Novel
Girl, 20.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1971. [Modern Literature]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.253; [3]. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Bill Botten. One closed tear and a couple of slight nicks to top edge of price-clipped jacket. Very good. More about Girl, 20
The Green Man.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. [Strange tale] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.253. Publisher's hardback in pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 30s. A gently used copy with a sunned spine; near fine. A pub landlord starts seeing ghosts, in a particularly literate tale that must have inspired John Cleese's Basil Fawlty... More about The Green Man
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 about The Green Man
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 about My Enemy's Enemy, Stories
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 about The Light of Asia or The Great Renunciation. Being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of...
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 about Indian Memories. Recollections of Soldiering, Sport, Etc
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 about The Influence of the Gold Supply on Prices and Profits
Arthur and George.
London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6]; 360; [2]. Signature of Julian Barnes to the title page. In publisher's olive cloth decorated in black and titled in white to spine and upper. With the original printed paper band to rear board, issued in place of... More about Arthur and George
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 about The Admirable Crichton. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson
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 about Historic Memoirs of Ireland; comprising Secret Records of the National Convention, the Rebellion,...
The Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression, as Connected with the Fine Arts.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1865. [Art] FINE PRIZE BINDING, Fifth Edition. Octavo (27 x 18cm), pp.[2]; viii; 275; [3]. With frequent in-text steel engravings, and four full page plates with detailed descriptions at rear. Contemporary red full morocco for the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on... More about The Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression, as Connected with the Fine Arts
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 about The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
My African Journey.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. [Colonial History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 226; [18], catalogue. With sixty-one illustrations from photographs by the author and Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Wilson, and three maps. Publisher's red cloth pictorially blocked in gilt and colours. Usual spotting to edges, a few plates edgeworn, cloth... More about My African Journey
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 about The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill. General Editor: Michael Wolff
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 about The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill. The Centenary Edition. General Editor: Michael Wolff
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 about Ian Hamilton's March. Together with Extracts from the Diary of Lieutenant H. Frankland a Prisoner...
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 about An Important Collection of Winston Churchill/World War II autographs
Savrola. A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania.
London: Beacon Books, 1957. [Literature] SECOND PAPERBACK EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.222 [2]. In the publisher's colour-illustrated card covers. Heavily browned, as expected. Rubbing and light wear to joints and edges. A crease across the top corner of the front cover. Very good. Winston S. Churchill's only novel (not... More about Savrola. A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania
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[War Speeches 1938-1945]: Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards to Victory; The Dawn of Liberation; Victory; Secret Session Speeches. Compiled by Randolph S. Churchill.
London: Cassell and Company, 1941-46. [History] COMPLETE WAR SPEECHES IN FIRST EDITION, smartly bound. Seven volumes bound as six (Victory and Secret Sessions bound together). Octavo (22 x 14 x 19cm). Includes several half-tone plates. Recent dark green half morocco, with gilt titles and gilt lion motifs to spines, raised... More about War Speeches 1938-1945]: Into Battle; The Unrelenting Struggle; The End of the Beginning; Onwards...