History & Biography
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Three Greek Children: A Story of Home in Old Time.
London: Seeley and Co., 1908. [Ancient History] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 193 [3]. With nine illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and occasional in-text illustrations. Contemporary brown full calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbling to all edges and endpapers..... More
Helmet and Spear: Tales from the Wars of the Greeks and Romans.
London: Seeley and Co., 1900. [Ancient Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 380 [8]. With eight black and white plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles, and gilt and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. Heavy spotting to first and final leaves..... More
Virginia Woolf.
London: Editions Poetry London, 1945. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.151 [1]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece portrait of Woolf. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the red typographic dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. Gently toned to wartime economy paper. Bumping to corners..... More
Sicilian Carousel.
London: Faber and Faber, 1977. [Sicilian Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.223 [1]. With four illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and a sketch-map of the island. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket titled in red, priced at £5.25. Jacket spine a little toned..... More
Meeting With Japan.
London: Hutchinson, 1959. [Travel] FIRST UK EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.467; [1]. Hardcover in dust-jacket. Translated from the Italian by Eric Moshcacher. Map of Japan at the end of the XVIIth century printed as the front endpaper; map of the Japanese islands printed as rear endpapers. 32 Plates..... More
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