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The Memoirs of Giacomo Casanova di Seingalt. Translated into English by Arthur Machen.
London: The Casanova Society, 1922. [Memoirs] LEATHER-BOUND LIMITED EDITION. Complete in 12 volumes. Quarto (26 x 21 x 36cm). Privately printed for subscribers only on fine hand-made paper, number 452 of 1000 sets thus. With a frontispiece to each volume, as well as 17 maps, and an index. Recently re-bound..... More
The English Baronage: Or an Historical Account of the Lives and Most Memorable Actions of Our Nobility; With Their Descents, Marriages, and Issue. Deduc'd From Records, Historians, Manuscripts, and Other Authorities. By Arthur Collins Esq. Volume the First.
London: Printed for Robert Gosling, 1727. [English History] SCARCE FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.[4]; xvi; 683; [13]. With numerous engravings by Gerard van der Gucht, including two fold-out monument illustrations. Recently rebound in green cloth, gilt titles to spine. Leaves toned and somewhat soiled/spotted as to be expected..... More
The Autobiography of Arthur Machen.
London: The Richards Press, 1951. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION WITH ASSOCIATED LETTERS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.308. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt to spine, top-edge red, photographic frontispiece of author, two further photographic plates. Loosely tipped in are three associated items; A letter from Morchand Bishop to News Chronicle journalist..... More
Robert Kennedy and His Times.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. [American Political Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, Ex Libris William Averell Harriman, with his annotations. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xx; 1066 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in black marker to fly-leaf: 'For Averell and Pam | with love over | the years | Arthur.' Publisher's grey..... More
The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D., Sometime Head-Master of Rugby School, and Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. The Minerva Library of Famous Books.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1891. [Pedagogy] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the fourth edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 548 [2]. With nine illustrated plates, including a frontispiece portrait of Arnold. Contemporary red full calf for Beaconsfield School by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles to green label and..... More
Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey.
London: John Murray, 1868. [Architectural and Ecclesiastical History] FINELY BOUND, the Second Edition, revised. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.lii; 632 [2]. With 22 illustrations including a frontispiece, as well as a title page vignette. Contemporary peach diced calf with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt crossed..... More
Punchard's Agency [and] Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest [and] The British Campaign in France [and] Uneasy Money [and] The Man-Trap [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 53, numbers 315, 316 and 317
London: George Newnes, March to May 1917. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Three magazines. Octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.50; 209-312; 51-58; pp.50; 313-416; 51-58; pp.40; 417-512; 41-48. Liberally illustrated in black and white throughout. Publisher's blue paper covers, titled in red and navy, and priced at 7d. Presented in a navy..... More
Report of The Santiago Campaign, 1898.
Kansas City: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co. 1908. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, a little scuffed and soiled. Titled in black to spine and front board. Very good. Portrait frontis. Internally clean. A clean tidy copy of a near contemporary account by an officer who served in the campaign. More
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