"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
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Yachting. With Illustrations by R.T. Pritchett and from Photographs.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894-5. [Sports] FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes, octavo (19 x 14cm). Illustrated throughout. Finely bound in recent dark blue morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt yacht motifs to spines; blue cloth boards; top edges gilt. Interally clean, exterior unmarked. A fine set, More
Die Another Day.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2002. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by the author and Judi Dench. The novelisation of the James Bond movie. Both the book and the dust-wrapper are absolutely fine /as new. A lovely copy, signed to the title-page. The signature was obtained privately by us-the author did not appear..... More
News From Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2010. [Travel] LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, being one of 150 copies. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.382. Finely bound in the publisher's gilt decorated cloth, to the design of the original first edition binding. With photographic plates and illustrated map endpapers. Absolutely fine/As new. Out of print for..... More
Thrilling Cities. With an Introduction by Jan Morris.
London: Ian Fleming Publications, 2009. [Travel book] FIRST EDITION thus, with a new introduction from the respected travel writer Jan Morris, CBE. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.246. Publisher's green cloth hardcovers titled in silver to spine, grey endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper. A fine/as new copy. Out of print for many years..... More
The Indian Police.
London: Faber and Faber, no date [circa 1933]. [Indian Policing History] FIRST CHEAP EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.353 [1]. With a folding map at rear. Publisher's light blue cloth with yellow titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket priced at 5s. Spotting to edges and preliminaries. A browned newspaper..... More
The Road to Santiago. Pilgrims of St.James.
London: John Murray, 1957. [Pilgrims] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.x; 339;[1] blank. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, gilt motif to upper, dust-jacket designed by Val Biro with printed price of 25s. net. With four double sied black and white plates and a map. Ownership stamp and..... More
Natural History & Sport in Moray,
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1882. [Nature and Hunting] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 19cm), pp.[8] xlviii; 324. With 40 etching, including a frontispiece and vignette title page, with tissue guards. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt crest to upper board. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Illustrated..... More
Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum Regnante Elizabetha. [Annals of England and Ireland in the Reign of Elizabeth]. Tribus Voluminibus comprehensi. E Codice praeclaro Smithiano, propria Auctoris manu correcto, Multisque magni momenti Additionibus locupletato, Eruit ediditque Tho. Hearnius, Qui et alium Codicem e Bibliotheca Rawlinsoniana adhibuit.
[Oxford], 1717. [English History] FIRST THUS, a later edition. Three volumes. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[6] ccviii; 200 [2]; pp.[2] 201-588 [2]; pp.[2] 589-1012 [2]. With two copper engraved portraits of Elizabeth to volume I. Text largely in Latin, with occasional small passages in English (blackletter type). Contemporary full speckled..... More
The Poker Manual: A Practical Course of Instruction in the Game, with Illustrative Hands and Chapters on Bluffing, and Jack-Pots. Together with the International Code of Laws.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1901. [Gambling] VINTAGE EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2]; 119; [1] blank; [8] advertisements. With occasional illustrations in red and black. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board; coloured chips laid over. Orange patterned endpapers and all edges gilt. Lightly browned..... More
Thames and Tweed.
London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, no date [1870]. [Fishing] FIRST EDITION, Ex Libris William Le Fanu. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4]; 141; [19]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt illustration to upper board, with further black decoration to borders. Advertisements to green coated endpapers. Armorial..... More
X-Ray. The Unauthorised Autobiography.
New York, NY: The Overlook Press, 1995. [Popular Music] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 420 [4]. INSCRIBED by the author 'To George' with a short indecipherable note in black ink to title page. Also with a loose progamme for 'An Evening with Ray Davies' (May 1996)..... More
Modern Egypt.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1908. [Near Eastern History] FIRST EDITION. In two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 594 [2]; pp.xiv; 600. With a frontispiece of the author and a folding map to volume I. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spines. Fore edges untrimmed. Black ink ownership to..... More
The Woodlanders.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1887. [Classic Literature] FIRST COLONIAL EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] 352. In a contemporary amateur binding of tan half half with gilt titles to burgundy labels on spine. Grained green cloth over boards. Plain bookplate of Captain Liebert to front pastedown; further black ink ownership..... More
Hunting the Sea Otter.
London: Horace Cox, 1910. [Hunting] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 188. With eight half-tone plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board, priced at 7/6. Light spotting and browning to endpapers. Upper board and spine bowed with some rubbing and a...... More
![Simla Accord] The Boundary Question between China and Tibet: A Valuable Record of the Tripartite...](/pictures/thumb/53745.jpg?v=1579280087)
[Simla Accord] The Boundary Question between China and Tibet: A Valuable Record of the Tripartite Conference between China, Britain and Tibet in India, 1913-1914.
Peking, 1940. [Far East Diplomacy] GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[6] ii; 150 [2]. Publisher's plain paper covers with titles to spine and front cover. Quite heavily browned, as expected. Only mild spotting to covers, and very light edge wear. Near fine. Published while Beijing was occupied by Japanese..... More
![Lord Lytton's Complete Novels]. The Knebworth Edition. [Including 'The Last Days of Pompey;' 'The...](/pictures/thumb/55485.jpg?v=1579186205)
[Lord Lytton's Complete Novels]. The Knebworth Edition. [Including 'The Last Days of Pompey;' 'The Coming Race;' 'The Parisians;' 'Lucretia;' and 'Pausanias the Spartan.']
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1874-78. [Classic Fiction] FINELY BOUND COMPLETE WORKS. In 28 volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 88cm). Each volume with a frontispiece. Fine contemporary tan half calf by MORRELL of London, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels to spines, further gilt..... More
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Handbook to British Malaya [1937].
London: The Malayan Information Agency, no date [1937]. [Malaysian History] LAST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.[6] 201 [7]. With frequent in-text photographic illustrations and two folding maps dated 1937, one loose to pouch at rear. Light spotting to endpapers. Rubbing to boards; upper with a vertical crease. Very good..... More
The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin; Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts.
New York, NY: Burgess and Stringer, 1846. [American Literature] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xiv, 7-249; pp.230. Contemporary dark green half morocco with marbled boards and gilt titles to spine. Bound without the advertisements (as usual). Light spotting throughout. Printing error to pp. 239/40..... More
A New School Atlas of Modern Geography; consisting of twenty-four maps, from the latest and best authorities.
Edinburgh: Sold by White and Co., [etc.] no date [circa 1850]. [World Maps] HAND-COLOURED MAPS. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), including all 24 maps. Original black cloth boards with black leather corners, recently rebacked in plain black cloth, edges speckled red. Gilt titles and price of 7/6 to upper. Slight..... More
The most Excellent Historie of MacHamlet Hys Handycap, or, A You Swipe It, with hys tryalls and tribulatiouns in the game of Golfe and contaynyng many and sundrie typps thereon, both prettie and profitable and most delightfully discoursed, as it hath beene divers tymes acted by the Noe-Trumper Dramatick Players, written by Paul Triefus, adorned with many pleasaunt and merie pictures here for the first tyme dysplayed.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1922. [Dramatic Golf Satire] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 17cm), pp.36. With frequent wood engravings by Sidney Rogerson. Publisher's brown quarter cloth with light brown paper over boards, titled in brown with black illustration to upper. With the yellow dust-jacket, priced at 2/6..... More
On Photography: A Lecture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, November 1983.
New York, NY: Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1983. [Photography and Art] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.29 [3]. With three in-text illustrations. Publisher's gently marbled soft covers with orange titles to upper. Rare. Very light rubbing to edges. Near Fine. From the library of the writer, media and film executive..... More
The Commodore.
London: Michael Joseph, 1945. [Naval adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.271; [1]. Publisher's yellow cloth with silver titles to spine, in striking Barbosa-designed dust-wrapper priced at 9/6. Discreet owner name and date stamped in ink to flyleaf else fine in fine slightly short wrapper - not faded; the..... More
By the Waters of Africa. British East Africa, Uganda, and the Great Lakes.
London: Robert Scott, 1917. [African Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 342. With 58 black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece, a few being double-sided, as well as a folding map at rear. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine. Light spotting to edges. Some rubbing..... More
Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1942. [Evolutionary Science] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.645 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the yellow dust-jacket titled in green, priced at 25s. Light spotting to endpapers; some marking to edges. Jacket sunned to spine and edges; some light..... More
Sword of Honour.
London: Heinemann, 1998. [Naval Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.278. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Geoffrey Huband, priced at £16.99. Page edges toned else a fine, unread copy in crisp, fine jacket. March 1814: The bitter war with the United..... More