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Bond On Bond. The Ultimate Book on 50 Years of Bond Movies.
London: Michael O'Mara Books, 2012. [James Bond Film Reference] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 22cm), pp.224. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's black cloth blocked in silver to spine, with colour-illustrated endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £25. A fine, as-new copy. More
The Man Who Supercharged Bond.
Yeoville: Haynes Publishing, 2009. [Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.352. With two suites of sixteen photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half-title. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and grey endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £25. A fine, as-new..... More
Summer of Love. The Making of Sgt Pepper.
Guidford: Genesis Publications, 2007. [Music History] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, number 1605 of 2000 copies. Large quarto (35 x 28cm). Elaborately bound in pink fine-grained leather with gold-blocked lettering on the spine, illustrated covers, gilt edges, housed in original silk-screen printed box with ribbon pull, the whole protected in a green..... More
Orientations.
London: Ivor Nicholson, 1937. [Colonial Biography] AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM AUTHOR. First edition, fourth printing. Octavo (27 x 17cm), pp.[2]; xviii; 624. With seventeen illustrations including a frontispiece, and four maps, some folding. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt device stamped to upper. Top edge blue..... More
The Cruise of her Majesty's Ship "Bacchante" 1879-1882. Compiled from the Private Journals, Letters, and Note-Books of Prince Albert Victor and Prince George of Wales, with Additions by John N. Dalton.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1886. FIRST EDITION. In two volumes. Octavo, pp.xxviii, 675 [1]; pp.xii, 803 [1]. With numerous charts, maps, plans and steel engravings. With a folding map of the voyage to prelims of vol. I. In publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration stamped..... More
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Mein Kampf [My Struggle]. Unexpurgated edition.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1939. [Nazi Literature] FIRST UNEXPURGATED EDITION, ninth impression, seventy-first thousand. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.568. With a frontispiece portrait of Hitler. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt eagle and swastika device to upper board. Toned throughout, otherwise a clean copy. Spine..... More
Scottish Eccentrics.
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1936. [Scottish Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 320. Publisher's pink cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge pink. Light spotting to edges and preliminaries. A distinct tobacco scent. Spine sunned, with a little handling. Very good. Twelve short biographies of..... More
Fulness of Days.
London: Collins, 1957. [Political Memoirs] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.319 [1]. With three double-sided black and white photographic plates, and a portrait of the author as a frontispiece. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to brown backing on spine and upper. With the black typographic dust-jacket, priced at..... More
Seven Years in Tibet.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1953. [Central Asian Travel] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 288. With 12 double-sided black and white photographic plates, a double-page sketch-map, and a colour photographic frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge pink. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at..... More
The Rhodesia That Was My Life.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1968. [Colonial Law and Politics] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.271 [1]. With three double-sided black and white photographic plates, and a portrait of the author as a frontispiece. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's green cloth with..... More
Saints of Sind.
London: John Murray, 1956. [Religion and Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 200. With a black and white photographic frontispiece, and a sketch-map to preliminaries. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Wildsmith, priced at 18s. Heavy spotting to edges and preliminaries..... More
A Nation and its Navy at War.
New Delhi: Lancer International, 1987. [India Naval Warfare] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] 190. Maps to endpapers. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at 140 Rs. Light handling, with some dulling to gilt. Near fine. An assessment of Indian naval prowess..... More
The Sudan.
London: Ernest Benn, 1954. [Colonial History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.255 [1]. With a folding map at rear. Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket, priced at 21s. Illustrated bookplate of G. Lillywhite to front pastedown. Heavy spotting and browning to endpapers and..... More
A History of the Sikhs, from the Origin of the Nation, to the Battles of the Sutlej.
New Delhi: S. Chand & Co., 1966. [Sikh History] FACSIMILE REPRINT. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.l; 402. Publisher's orange leatherette, titled in black to spine and upper. With the illustrated dust-jacket by Chadda. Some damp rippling to front endpapers. Pencil ownership of Roderick Cavaliero to front fly-leaf, and a postcard..... More
Fire in My Blood.
London: Elek Books, 1958. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.212. With a black and white photographic frontispiece of the author. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and white illustrated dust-jacket, titled in orange and priced at 16s. Possibly a later issue jacket. Light..... More
A Time to Live.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2002. [Retrospective] REVIEW COPY. Folio (36 x 25cm), pp.240. Finely printed by Grafiche Milani, with a large section of monochrome photographs on glossy clay paper. An unnumbered review copy, not part of the limited edition of 2001 copies. In the standard maroon cloth binding, with titles and..... More
A History of the Weald of Kent. With an Outline of the Early History of the County. Also, a Sketch of the Physical Features of the District.
Ashford: Henry Igglesden, 1871-1874. [Kent Topography] FIRST EDITION, a presentation copy. Two volumes bound in three parts, as issued. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 462; pp.xii; 424; pp.iii; 425-935. With six folding maps. Publisher's handsome green cloth with gilt titles to spine, black tooling, and gilt motifs to the upper..... More
The Assassination of President Kennedy.
London: Jackdaw Publications, 1967. [Historical Dossier] FIRST EDITION. A blue card wallet (23 x 36cm), complete with all 18 documentary items and the contents pamphlet. Light handling and creasing to wallet. Missing a couple of small pieces of the Dealey Plaza model. Near fine. 'This Jackdaw — originally published in..... More
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The Great War [The World Crisis].
London: George Newnes, 1933-34. [Military History] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION IN BOOK FORM, preceded by the 26 serial magazine parts, constituting the first illustrated edition of Churchill's The World Crisis, with a brand new foreword by the author. Complete in three volumes. Large octavo (25 x 18 x 14cm), pp.iv; 512;..... More
James Bond, the Spy I Loved.
London: Twenty First Century Publishers, 2006. [James Bond Film Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8] 178 [6]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue marker 'To Simon' to title page. Publisher's glossy photographic soft covers. A fine, as-new copy. Rare thus. More
The Old Court Suburb: or, Memorials of Kensington Regal, Critical, & Anecdotal by the late J.H. Leigh Hunt Esq., edited by Austin Dobson Esq., & newly embellished by Herbert Railton, Claude Shepperson, & Edmund J. Sullivan Esq.
London: Freemantle & Co., 1902. [London Topography] ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 16cm), pp.[2] xviii; 211 [1]; pp.[2] x; 208. With 108 engraved illustrations, including numerous plates, and a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spines and uppers. Top edges gilt;..... More
Malay Sketches.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head. 1895. [Malaysia] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xii; 289 [19]. In recent brown half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to red morocco label on spine, and brown cloth over boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A small paper note pasted to..... More
Royal Yachts. Published by Gracious Permission of His Majesty The King.
London: Rich & Cowan, 1932. [English Yachts] FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Quarto (30 x 24cm), pp.[2] 338 [4]. Finely printed by The Mayflower Press on untrimmed laid paper, with 16 mounted colour plates, including a frontispiece, plus over one hundred further black and white plates. Number 141 of 1000 copies..... More
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