"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. "
— Oscar Wilde
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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
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
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[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
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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
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
Man of War.
London: Heinemann, 2003. [Naval Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.276; [2], blank. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Geoffrey Huband, priced at £16.99. Autographed in black ink to title page. Signature obtained in person upon release. An as new/unread copy..... More
Poetry of Byron.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1892. [Poetry Selection] FINELY BOUND, third impression thus. Octavo (16 x 11cm), pp.xxxvi; 276. With a vignette title page. Contemporary green full calf by BUMPUS of London, with titles and decoration to spine. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Spotting to preliminaries. Light rubbing to binding; spine..... More
Fantastic Mr. Fox. Illustrated by Quentin Blake.
London: Viking, 1996. [Children's classic] FIRST QUENTIN BLAKE ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.81; [7], blank. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. Dust-jacket unpriced for export. Textblock a touch toned as often found, minor sunning to spine. A clean, near fine copy. More
The Vicar of Nibbleswicke.
London: Century, 1991. [Children's illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.24. Quentin Blake illustrations throughout, some in colour. Publisher's dark blue cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £6.99. Mildly handled. A few small marks to jacket. Near fine. A short novel: Reverend Lee doesn't realise that his dyslexia is..... More
The Ghost City Killings.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1940. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.284; [4], advertisements. Publisher's red cloth, titled and trimmed in black, striking illustrated dust-wrapper, priced 8/3 (including War tax). Some toning to edges, jacket with a few chips and tears, some creasing. Uncommon. An Anthony Trent detective mystery..... More
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The Saville Club 1868-1968. [a souvenir booklet].
London: the Saville Club, 1968. [London Gentlemen's Club Centenary Booklet] SIGNED BY CONTRIBUTORS. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), pp.31 [1]. Also with the Centenary Dinner menu loose at rear. Liberally SIGNED by various contributors and club members, including Stephen Potter, John Pudney, Winston Graham, Ralph Richardson, Eric Linklater, as well..... More
The Second Seal.
London: Hutchinson, 1950. [Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.483; [1], advertisement. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket priced at 12/6. A little rubbed to spine ends else a clean, fine copy. A Duke de Richleau adventure set in 1914. The inside story of..... More
Levkas Man.
London: Collins, 1971. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320; [1], blank. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt to backstrip, cartographic endpapers printed in colour, illustrated dust-jacket by Richard Dalkins. A very good copy in price-clipped wrapper. More
A Most Wanted Man.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2008. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17 cm). Publisher's black cloth hardback lettered in silver to spine, red endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper. Small crease to spine of jacket, which is price clipped. A near fine copy. Basis for the acclaimed movie starring Philip Seymour Hoffman... More
Wycliffe and the Tangled Web.
London: Gollancz Crime, 1988. [Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.191; [1], blank. Publisher's gilt-titled black cloth in dust-wrapper priced at £10.95. A fine copy in near fine jacket. Starring detective Charles Wycliffe, one of the most popular literary Police investigators. More
Fellow Passenger.
London: Michael Joseph, 1955. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pink and yellow illustrated dust-jacket by Wildsmith. Some spotting and toning to edges and endpapers, wrapper lightly handled, sunned to spine with some slight water marking..... More