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The Dream of Ravan: A Mystery. (Reprinted from "The Dublin University Magazine," 1853 & 1854.)
London: The Theosophical Publishing Society, 1895. [Hindu Theosophy] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] 248. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. Merchant Taylors' School prize plate to front pastedown, dated 1944. Spotting to endpapers, and to first and final few leaves..... More
Avedon: Photographs 1947-1977.
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. [Fashion Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (37 x 28cm), unpaginated, with 162 black and white photographs. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication by the photographer in black ink to title page. Publisher's glossy photographic paper-covered boards. With the original clear..... 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
Life's Not a Rehearsal. The Autobiography of Margaret Durdant-Hollamby, MBE, Founder of the Stag Theatre, Sevenoaks.
Sevenoaks: Durdant-Hollamby, 1998. [Theatre] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 239 [1]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. With three suites of four double-sided photographic plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and architect's drawings to endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced..... More
The Vicar of Wakefield.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1915. [Illustrated Classic] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a later impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4]; xxxvi; 305; [3]. With numerous wood engravings by Thomson, including a frontispiece. Contemporary lilac half calf by RIVIERE, with raised bands, gilt titles and decorations to spine, and blue cloth over..... More
La Révolution Française (1789-1799), D'Apres les Temoignages Contemporains et les Historiens Modernes.
Paris: Alcide Picard et Kaan, no date [circa 1900]. [French History] FINELY BOUND, the fifth edition. Large octavo (28 x 20cm), pp.[2] xvi; 459 [7]. All text in French. With frequent wood engravings by various artists. Contemporary red quarter morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and..... More
The Story of The 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
Oxford: B.H. Blackwell, 1920. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 226 [2]. With 20 black and white half-tone plates, a colour frontispiece, and numerous in-text illustrations by the author. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and a red and black device stamped to upper. Armorial..... More
Men. A Dialogue Between Women. Translated from the French by Vyvyan Holland, with a Prefatory letter by Graham Greene. Illustrated by Mervyn Peake.
London: Cresset Press, 1955. INSCRIBED First Edition in English. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.95 [1]. INSCRIBED by the translator, Vyvyan Holland, to the author, publisher and critic Alec Waugh in blue ink to front free endpaper: 'For Alec / who knows / far more / about this / subject than..... More
Scott's Last Expedition. Vol. I being the Journals of Captain R. F. Scott, R.N., C.V.O., Vol. II being the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work Undertaken by Dr. E. A. Wilson and the Surviving Members of the Expedition. Arranged by Leonard Huxley. With a Preface by Sir Clements R. Markham.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1913. [Polar Exploration] FIRST COLONIAL EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xviii; 497; [11]; pp.x; 431; [1]. With eight photographic plates including a frontispiece to each volume, and a folding map at the rear of each volume. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles and..... More
The Poems of St. John of the Cross. The Spanish Text with a translation by Roy Campbell.
London: The Harvill Press, 1951. [Christian Mysticism] FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[6] 90. The original Spanish and Campbell's English translation printed on facing pages. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket. Gilt to spine dulled, with a couple of marks where the jacket..... More
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