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Farthest East, and South and West. Notes of a Journey Home through Japan, Australia and America.
London: W. H. Allen, 1892. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp. xii, 343. With 12 photographic plates including frontispiece. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, as well as black/white illustrations. Navy end-papers. Black ink prize inscription to verso of front free end-paper. Reading lean. Clean and..... More
The Metropolis. And the Second Part of the Metropolis.
Dublin: John Barlow, 1805 and 1806. SECOND EDITION. Duodecimo. pp. 69, 87. In recent marbled paper-covered boards with navy titles to cream paper label on spine. Top right corner of title page to part two damaged and repaired. Text unaffected. Otherwise a near-fine example in an attractive new binding. An..... More
A Drug in the Market. Author of 'The Slip Coach', 'The Blue Poppy', 'The Down Train' and 'The Black Circle'.
London, Edward Arnold and Co. 1928. First Edition, 8vo. Publisher's light blue/grey cloth, titles in black to spine, in dark blue and white pictorial dust-jacket. Other publications listed to the back. A little bumping and scuffing to spine and corners with a slight lean. Light toning to pages, slightly darker..... More
Historic Memoirs of Ireland; comprising Secret Records of the National Convention, the Rebellion, and the Union; with Delineations of the Principal Characters connected with these transactions.
London: Henry Colburn, 1835. NEW EDITON. In two volumes. Large Quarto, pp.[2] xlii, 358 [2]; pp.[4] x, 464 [2]. With 38 copper engraved portraits, including a frontispiece of Barrington to vol. I, and two plates preceeding the title page in vol. II. Also with three facsimile letters and an index..... More
Studies in Terrestrial Magnetism.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1912. First printing of a collection of the main results of Chree's works on Terrestrial Magnetism up to 1912, with several charts and diagrams. Large 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and embossed to upper. A superb copy of a rare book..... More
['Oxfordshire', from Magna Britannia et Hibernia, Antiqua et Nova, or, A New Survey of Great Britain].
London: E. and R. Nutt, n.d. [1720-31]. REBOUND SECTION on the county of Oxfordshire. Small Quarto, pp.209-508: Dd-Sss4 (-3S3 -3S4). With folding map of Oxfordshire to prelims. In recent black cloth library binding with gilt titles to spine. Bookplate and barcode of Berkshire County Library to front pastedown. Further library..... More
Social Security No. 438-10-1408.
New York, NY: A Milestone Book, Comet Press Books, 1958. [Psychological memoir]. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 73 [1]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page, dated 24th November 1959. In publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Green endpapers. With original cream..... More
Hornblower and The Atropos.
Boston; Little Brown and Company. 1953. FORESTER FAMILY COPY. First US Edition. 8vo. Very good indeed in publisher's sea green cloth titled in gilt to spine, light bumping to spine ends. In an acceptable wrapper with fading to the spine panel, and creasing, chipping and a rectangle of loss to..... More
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John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1926. Mystery novel. First Edition. 8vo.; pp.304 + 8 (adverts). Original red cloth, lettered to spine and upper cover in gilt. Occasional light spotting, joints a little rubbed, minor sunning to back-strip. An attractive example. A Hubin- listed crime title, and a Haycraft-Queen cornerstone..... More
The Sky and the Forest.
Michael Joseph, London, 1948. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 219. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles. Moderately used; a very good copy in similar dustwrapper, a little rubbed and chipped to extremities, price clipped. Shows well. C.S. Forester was awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for both the Hornblower novels..... More
The Sky and the Forest.
Michael Joseph, London, 1948. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 219. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles. Book is fine; jacket near fine with one short tear to crown. A most attractive copy. More
Plan for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor; for Enforcing and amending the Laws respecting Houses of Correction, and Vagrants; and for Improving the Police of this Country. Together with Bills intended to be offered to Parliament for those Purposes.
London: Printed for G. Wilkie, 1781. [English Law and Politics]. ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[4] 139 [3]. Sewn but lacking original covers; loosely housed in brown paper-covered board with brown cloth hinge. Red pencil inscription to top left corner of title page; a little grubbiness to title page..... More
The Conscience of a King.
London, Ward Lock. n.d. Ward Lock Sixpenny Novel. 8vo. Publisher's card wraps. Loss to front corner of the front panel. Some minor chipping to spine panel. A striking chromolith illustration to front panel depicting an eighteenth century gentleman being menaced by what is either a glowing rope or an electric..... More
The History of Kent. In Five parts. Containing I. An exact topography or description of the county. II. The Civil History of Kent.... V. The Natural History of Kent.
London: Printed and Sold by D. Midwinter, 1719. [Kent Topography/Cartography]. FIRST EDITION. Folio (40 x 29cm), pp.[2]; iv, Dedication; iv, Preface; ii, Ode to Kent; iv, List of Subscribers; 592; xl. Illustrated with 43 fine engravings, of which 39 are double-page and/or fold-out. Includes fine panoramas of Rochester and Tunbridge..... More
Nigerian Days.
London: John Lane the Bodley head, 1925. [Colonial History]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 255 [9]. With 32 black and white plates including a frontispiece and a map. In publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original green dust-jacket with black titles. Top edge red, others..... More
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Skating [and] Figure-Skating, with contributions on Curling, Tobogganing, Ice-Sailing [and] Bandy.
London: Longmans Green and Co., 1892. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Illustrated throughout. Bound in half brown morocco, gilt, over original pictorial sides. Internally clean, some dustiness and toning to edges. Very good. More
An Air Fighter's Scrapbook.
London: Nicholson and Watson, 1938. First Edition. Octavo. pp. 332. With 16 illustrated plates, including frontispiece. In publisher's black cloth blocked in red in pictorial dust jacket. Edges lightly spotted; bookplate of Robert Bradford Reid to paste-down. Minor crease to crown of jacket, slightly sunned at spine. A near fine..... More
Brazil and the Brazilians, Portrayed in Historical and Descriptive Sketches.
Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1857. FIRST EDITION. Recently bound in half brown morocco over brown boards, title, author's name, and date of publication in direct gilt lettering to spine. In near-perfect condition externally, extremely limited signs of wear, original spine and beautiful cloth board bound in at rear, text block..... More
Poisonous Plants on the Farm. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Miscellaneous Publications No. 57.
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1927. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.58. With 51 illustrations to plate section at rear. In original leather-effect blue quarter cloth, with titles to plain paper-covered boards. Boards lightly browned, with a couple of small water stains to top edge (upper board only). Near fine overall... More
Right Off The Map.
London, Chatto and Windus. 1927. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's royal blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, slightly faded to spine cloth with a small patch of bleaching at the top. Page edges untrimmed, internally clean. Wrapped in a splendid spine faded dustwrapper in blue and purple. Light wear and..... More
Border Ghost Stories.
London: Erskine MacDonald, 1919. First Edition. Octavo. pp.303. Bound in publisher's dark red cloth, blind ruling to boards, gilt titles to spine; top edge stained maroon; endpapers show scene of a reaver overlooking the Scottish borders, with some lines from The Lyke Wake Dirge. Binding is a little bumped and..... More
The Works of Rabelais, faithfully translated from the French.
London: Chatto and Windus, n.d. [1876]. ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Later impression. Octavo. pp. xxi, 640 [36]. With numerous engraved plates by Dore, including frontispiece and title-page vignette. In publisher's mauve cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt stamping to upper board. Navy end-papers. Gathering loose facing p. 480, otherwise crisp..... More
The Social History of the People of the Southern Counties of England in Past Centuries; Illustrated in Regard to their Habits, Municipal Bye-Laws, Civil Progress, etc.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1856. [English History]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xvi; 572 [26]. With occasional in-text wood engravings. In a mid-twentieth-century green buckram library binding with gilt titles and shelf-mark to spine. All edges flecked red. Library bookplate to front free endpaper, with..... More
No Innocent Abroad. Translated by Patrick Leigh Fermor.
London: Heinemann, 1937. FIRST UK EDITION. Crown octavo, pp.[viii]; 299; [i], blank. Hardback in dust-wrapper. Some foxing to edges and extremities, jacket toned, price-clipped with some chips and tears; very good. The author's debut novel and Patrick Leigh Fermor's first significant literary contribution. An important item, published under the more..... More
Forever Ulysses.
New York: Viking 1938 [actually December 1937]. PRIVATE PRE-PUBLICATION EDITION, number 6 of just 65 copies. Octavo, pp.315; [3], blank. Near fine in original linen-backed silk boards featuring rather striking gold orange and yellow vertical stripes, in accompanying gold card slip-case (rubbed). Translated by Patrick Leigh Fermor. This rare edition..... More