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The History of the Valiant Knight Arthur of Little Britain. A Romance of Chivalry. Originally Translated from the French by John Bourchier, Lord Berners. A New Edition. With a Series of Plates, from the Illuminated Drawings contained in a valuable Ms. of the Original Romance.
London: Printed for White, Cochrane and Co., 1814. Limited Edition to 175 regular copies. Quarto; pp: half title page, frontispiece, title page, (12), (1), vi - xxvii, (1), iv, 544. Illustrated with black and white plates based on drawings from the original manuscript. Complete. This edition is edited by Edward..... More
The History of England. From the Accession of James the Second.
London: Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, 1877. [English History] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Two volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xxiv; 776 [2]; pp.xii; 820 [2]. Contemporary black full morocco for King's College London, with gilt titles and decoration to spines, and a large gilt college crest to upper of each volume..... More
The History of England. From the Accession of James the Second.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. [English History] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Two volumes. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 776 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 820 [2]. Contemporary tan full calf for Hurstpierpoint College, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting brown and green labels, further gilt decoration to spines, and and..... More
Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965. Taken from the diaries of Lord Moran.
London: Constable, 1966. [Diaries] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xviii; 829 [3]. With 15 black and white photographic plates, some double-sided, including a frontispiece. Recently re-bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Top edge..... More
Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940-1965. Taken from the diaries of Lord Moran.
London: Constable, 1966. [Diaries] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xviii; 829 [3]. With 15 black and white photographic plates, some double-sided, including a frontispiece. Elegantly hand-bound in red half oasis morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt 'lion rampant' motif to spine, matching..... More
The Desolate Antarctic.
London: Lutterworth Press, 1950. [Antarctic exploration] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION WITH TLS. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 172. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, cartographic endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price of 12s. 6d. net. Illustrated with photographic plates. Warmly inscribed by the author to W.G. Whincop to the half title..... More
News Cuttings: [Campaign to errect a Memorial to Robert Louis Stevenson].
London: Marcus Ward & Co., Limited, circa 1896-1904. [News Cuttings Album] ORIGINAL CUTTINGS AND LETTERS. Quarto (30 x 24cm), with 70 numbered pages of news clippings, 111 blank numbered pages, and 12 pages of official typed letters from the Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Committee at rear. Publisher's burgundy cloth with..... More
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