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A Time of Gifts. On foot to Constantinople: from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube.
London: John Murray, 1977. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.291. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with crane in gilt to front board, titles in gilt to spine. Pictorial dust wrapper depicts Fermor striding past ruins and castles into the sunset, continued to spine, blue rear cover with crane..... More
Invasion 1940. An Account of the German Preperations and the British Counter-Measures.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. [Military History] FIRST EDITION, warmly inscribed. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.323; [1]. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographic plates and drawings within the text. Publisher's cloth in photographic dust-wrapper. Author's SIGNED presentation note to J.S. Maywood, head of The Times' Intelligence Department (noted within the..... More
Invasion 1940. An Account of the German Preperations and the British Counter-Measures.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.323; [1]. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographic plates and drawings within the text. Publisher's black cloth in photographic dust-wrapper. A lightly used copy with some dustiness/spotting, jacket spine moderately sunned, some minor rubs, price-clipped. Very good..... More
Travels in Tartary. Containing 'One's Company' and 'News from Tartary'.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1948. [Travel omnibus] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.603; [5], blank. Illustrated with maps and plates. Publisher's hardback cloth binding, top edge red, in illustrated dust-jacket priced 16s. Contents clean, edges and endleaves spotted, jacket is particularly clean and fresh. A fine copy of a scarce..... More
Napoleon and his Court.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1924. [Historical Biography] FIRST EDITION, first impression, a variant binding. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.247 [9]. With 16 black and white plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with titles and decoration in gilt to spine, and blind to upper. Other copies have been seen..... More
Oriental Assembly.
London: Williams and Norgate, 1939. [Travel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 291;[1]. With four illustrations including frontispiece, as well as 111 photographic images on plates. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge tinted black. Typographic dust-jacket with titles in black to spine and upper..... More
Scarne on Cards Tricks.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1950. [Sleight of hand, cheating, gambling] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, fourth printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.308. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial jacket. With author's signed presentation to free endpaper; Best Wishes / John Scarne / 10/18/50. A fine copy of the book; jacket sunned to spine..... More
Scarne on Cards.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1949. [Sleight of hand, cheating, gambling] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 406. With frontisportrait and 75 illustrations. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial jacket. With author's signed presentation to free endpaper; To my pal / Donald Borg / the old slicker / and confidence..... More
The Manners of the Ancient Israelites; Containing an Account of their Peculiar Customs, Ceremonies, Laws, Polity, Religion, Sects, Arts and Trades, Division of Time, War, Captivities, Dispersion, and Present State. With a Short Account of the Ancient and Modern Samaritans. The Whole Much Enlarged from the Principal Writers on Jewish Antiquities.
London: Sold by William Baynes, 1809. [Jewish History] FINELY BOUND, the third edition thus. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] 389 [5]. With a frontispiece etching of the author after Gobert. In later tan half calf, circa 1900, with raised bands, gilt titles to a black label, Masonic gilt tooling to..... More
Old Waldorf Bar Days. With the Cognomina and Composition of Four Hundred and Ninety-one Appealing Appetizers and Salutary Potations Long Known, Admired and Served at the Famous Big Brass Rail; also A Glossary for the Use of Antiquarians and Students of American Mores.
New York, NY: Aventine Press, 1931. [Cocktails] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 242 [6]. INSCRIBED by Oscar Tschirky (1866-1950), Head Waiter at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, in black ink to flyleaf: 'To | Judge Byron K. Elliot | with best wishes | from Oscar | of the Waldorf..... More
Two Discourses. The First, Concerning the Spirit of Martin Luther, and the Original of the Reformation. The Second, Concerning the Celibacy of the Clergy.
Oxford: [no publisher stated] 1687. [Theology] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes as one. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), pp.[26]; [8]; 104; pp.[4]; 39; [35]. Contemporary brown panelled calf, rebacked to style with raised bands and gilt titles. Small black ink 'R.H.' to top right corner of fly-leaf, denoting the initials Woodhead..... More
Churchill Christmas Greetings card.
London and Tunbridge Wells: Printed by Photocrom, n.d. [circa 1945]. Card-backed cut-out photographic print of Winston Churchill, with "The Prime Minister Faces Facts and Gives Facts", printed on the front. Sent out as a greetings card by A. Cohen and Co. of Great Dover Street, London with the text reading..... More
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