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Three of Them [and] Jeeves and the Chump Cyril [and] The Film that was Never Shown [and] The Magic Plus Fours [and] Billy Bones [and] The Forbidden Subject [and] First Aid for Dora [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 55, 56, 64, and 66; numbers 328, 331, 332, 366, 384 and 392.
London: George Newnes, April, July, August, and December 1918, December 1922, and August 1923. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six magazines. Octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.44; 265-344; 45-52; pp.20; 76; 21-32; pp.16; 77-152; 17-34; pp.64; 361-484; 65-82; pp.84; 487-628; 85-118; pp.48; 105-212; 49-64. Liberally illustrated in black and white throughout. Publisher's..... More
History of the County of Kent: Hundred of Blackheath; Deptford.
London: John Russell Smith [J.D. Smith], 1854 [1877] [1922]. [Kent Topography] LIMITED EDITION, a later issue. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.599 [3]. With two geological maps of the region (not coloured); numerous tables; an engraving of the Dreadnought as a seamen's hospital; an engraving of the Catholic Chapel, Mechanics' Institution..... More
Christianity in its Relation to Judaism and Heathenism in Three Tracts: First—On the Winged Symbols of Assyrian Sculptures in the British Museum, compared with the Cherubim of Ezekiel's Typical Prophecies. Second—On the True Historic reference of Jewish Prophecy. Third—The Rise and Progress of Idolatry considered in the relation of its predicted fall to the establishment of Messiah's everlasting Kingdom [and] The Primeval Revelation, as Taught in "The Law & the Prophets:" of, God's Will typically manifested in His Works, especially in His Ordinances of Day and Night, under a threefold Traditional instruction of Science, History, and Religion, allegorically combined, as "The Parables and Dark Sayings of Old," which represent the power of a Threefold Cord not easily broken.
London: Simpkin & Co., 1860 and 1864. [Occult Astrology] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xii; 16; xiv; 7-177 [1]; 137 [1]; pp.xxxii; 72. Filled with astrological diagrams, tables, and lithographic illustrations, many folding. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt..... More
Illustrations of Tracts on the Greek-Egyptian Sun-Dial, with Seven Steps, etc.: Being the second and third series of illustrations for tracts on Christianity in its relation to Judaism and Heathenism, etc. etc.
London: Simpkin and Co., 1870. [Occult Astrology] RARE AND FINELY BOUND. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.9; pp.4. Filled with astrological diagrams and occasional illustrated plates, some folding. Contemporary tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to burgundy label, and Masonic gilt tooling to spine. Marbled paper over boards; all..... More
The Vegetable, Or, From President to Postman.
New York, NY: Scribner's Sons, 1923. [Comedy Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 145 [7]. With the original green cloth cover and spine bound in at rear. Recent green full morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and a gilt autograph stamped to upper board. Marbled endpapers;..... More
The Life, Diary, and Correspondence of Sir William Dugdale, Knight, sometime Garter Principal King of Arms. With an Appendix, containing an account of his published works, and index to his manuscript collections, copies of monumental inscriptions to the memory of the Dugdale family, and heraldic grants and pedigrees.
London: Printed for Harding, Lepard, and Co., 1826. [Academic Biography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.[2] viii; 529 [5]. With a frontispiece copper engraving of Dugdale, another copper engraved portrait, a facsimile autograph letter, and two folding family trees at rear. Also with two contemporary notices of publication loose..... More
A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada. From the MSS. of Fray Antonio Agapida. To which is added Legends of the Conquest of Spain.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1859. [Spanish History] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the third edition thus. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[2] x; 360; [6] 361-492 [2]. Contemporary full tan diced calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to black label, and further gilt decoration to spine, as well..... More
The Vegetable. Or, From President to Postman.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. [Comedy Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 145 [7]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind to upper. Fore-edge untrimmed. Gently toned throughout, as usual. Neat ownership to flyleaf, bookseller's labels to rear endpapers. Gilt a little rubbed..... More
Adam Bede. Novels of George Eliot vol. I.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, no date [circa 1900]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 466 [2]. With seven wood engraved illustrations by Small, including a frontispiece with tissue guard. Contemporary light green half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to orange label and further gilt..... More
Unfinished Poems. "Musings" by William Cullen Bryant, and "Godfrey of Boulogne" by Henry D. Thoreau.
Boston, MA: The Bibliophile Society, 1907. [American Poetry] LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.[4] xxviii [4]. With a double-sided facsimile plate of the manuscript of each poem, and an engraving for each, together with the printed texts. One of 470 copies thus, finely printed on Japanese..... More
The Mill On The Floss.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, no date [circa 1890s]. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND, a stereotyped edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] x; 486. With six of the seven wood engraved plates by Allen, lacking the frontispiece. Contemporary green half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red and brown labels..... More
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Punchard's Agency [and] Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest [and] The British Campaign in France [and] Uneasy Money [and] The Man-Trap [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 53, numbers 315, 316 and 317
London: George Newnes, March to May 1917. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Three magazines. Octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.50; 209-312; 51-58; pp.50; 313-416; 51-58; pp.40; 417-512; 41-48. Liberally illustrated in black and white throughout. Publisher's blue paper covers, titled in red and navy, and priced at 7d. Presented in a navy..... More
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