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Bond Behind the Iron Curtain.
The Book Collector, 2021. [Literary history] FIRST EDITION, double SIGNED copy. Octavo (20 x 12cm), pp.125; [2], advertisements; [1], blank. With sixteen illustrations, several in colour. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to backstrip, hammer and sickle device to front board, black endpapers, typographic dust-wrapper. Fine / as new. Fleming..... More
The Fate of Admiral Kolchak.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963. [Russian History] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.253 [3]. With seven double-sided photographic plates and a photographic portrait frontispiece of the subject. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the red and yellow dust-jacket illustrated with a map. Top edge grey. With..... More
Invasion 1940. An Account of the German Preperations and the British Counter-Measures.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.323; [1]. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographic plates and drawings within the text. Publisher's black cloth in photographic dust-wrapper. A lightly used copy with some dustiness/spotting, jacket spine moderately sunned, some minor rubs, price-clipped. Very good..... More
Invasion 1940. An Account of the German Preperations and the British Counter-Measures.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. [Military History] FIRST EDITION, warmly inscribed. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.323; [1]. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographic plates and drawings within the text. Publisher's cloth in photographic dust-wrapper. Author's SIGNED presentation note to J.S. Maywood, head of The Times' Intelligence Department (noted within the..... More
News From Tartary. A Journey from Peking to Kashmir.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [Travel Literature] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] 384 [2]. With 32 photographic plates including a frontispiece, and a fold-out map. Recently re-bound in burgundy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Top edge burgundy; lower edge..... More
Travels in Tartary. Containing 'One's Company' and 'News from Tartary'.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1948. [Travel omnibus] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.603; [5], blank. Illustrated with maps and plates. Publisher's hardback cloth binding, top edge red, in illustrated dust-jacket priced 16s. Contents clean, edges and endleaves spotted, jacket is particularly clean and fresh. A fine copy of a scarce..... More
Seven Years in Tibet.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953. [Central Asian Travel] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH (without 'The Book Society' to imprint). Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 288. With 12 double-sided black and white photographic plates, a double-page sketch-map, and a colour photographic frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge red..... More
Red Eagle. The Story of the Russian Revolution and of Klementy Efremovitch Voroshilov, Marshal and Commissar for Defence of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.
London: Hutchinson, 1937. [Military History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.390 [26]. With a coloured halftone frontispiece, 16 plates (30 illustrations), and 8 maps. With author's gift note in blue ink to the title page: 'For / Percy Muir / With the best of / good wishes /..... More
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