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Out of Africa.
London: Putnam, 1937. [Memoir] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.ix; [1]; 416; [2]. Publisher's dark red cloth, gilt titles to spine. A lovely clean copy internally, slight lean to the textblock, edges a little toned. Boards slightly bowed. Cloth very lightly handled to extremities but bright and unfaded. An..... More
Crusader Castles.
London: The Folio Society, 2010. [Near East Archaeology and Architecture] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.xiv; 226. Heavily illustrated with sketches and black and white photographs. Publisher's blue cloth with black and silver titles and decoration to spine, and further decoration to upper. Black endpapers. With the navy..... More
The New London Family Cook.
London: Albion Press, Printed for James Cundee, 1808. [Cookery]. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.634. Full tan diced calf, respined to style with a red title label, marbled endpapers. With a portrait frontispiece and ten further plates. Textblock is nice and clean with just occasional light spotting, embossed library stamps to..... More
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979. [American Travel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 340 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to a bookplate on the half-title. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, and maps to endpapers. Top edge red. With the dust-jacket designed by Peter..... More
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