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A Sermon Preach'd at the Funeral of the Right Noble William, Duke of Devonshire, in the Church of All-Hallows in Derby, on Friday Septemb. 5th MDCCVII, with some Memoirs of the Family of Cavendish.
London: Printed by W.B. for John Churchill, 1708. [Eulogy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[8]; 208. Eighteenth-century brown half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. All edges speckled red. Armorial book plates of Brasenose College, Oxford to pastedowns, with stamps confirming removal... More about A Sermon Preach'd at the Funeral of the Right Noble William, Duke of Devonshire, in the Church of...
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[The Trial of Madame Laffarge for Poisoning her Husband], The Mystery of Marie Lafarge.
London: Clerke and Cockeran, 1840 and 1951. [Original news clippings scrapbook] First Use of Forensic Evidence, contemporary newspaper reports, with a first edition of the 1951 biography by Edith Saunders. Quarto (29 x 24cm), and octavo (22 x 15cm), 31 leaves with newspaper clippings pasted to recto only in two... More about The Trial of Madame Laffarge for Poisoning her Husband], The Mystery of Marie Lafarge
Crazy Horse: The Invincible Ogalalla Sioux Chief. The "Inside Stories," by Actual Observers, of a Most Treacherous Deed Against a Great Indian Leader.
Los Angeles, CA: Wetzel Publishing Co., 1949. [Americana] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.87; [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf: 'autographed for | Capt. Russell V. Steele | =R.A.M.C.= | Peuryhu Lodge | Gloucester Gate. London, | by the author | E.A. Brininstool |... More about Crazy Horse: The Invincible Ogalalla Sioux Chief. The "Inside Stories," by Actual...
A Memoir of the York Press, with notices of Authors, Printers, and Stationers, in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries.
London: Nichols and Sons, 1868. [Printing History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[2] vi; 397; [3]. Publisher's blind stamped maroon cloth, with gilt titles to spine. Armorial bookplate of Henry Peckitt to front pastedown. A few splits to weak binding; some gatherings starting to come loose. Head and tail... More about A Memoir of the York Press, with notices of Authors, Printers, and Stationers, in the Sixteenth,...
England's Thousand Best Houses.
London: Allen Lane, 2003. [Architecture] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[xl]; 950. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles, red endpapers, in pictorial dust-jacket. Internally clean, author's signature in blue ink to title page. No rubbing or wear, wrapper is unclipped. Fine. Columnist for the Guardian and the Evening... More about England's Thousand Best Houses
The Coinage of the British Empire: An Outline of the Progress of the Coinage in Great Britain and Her Dependencies, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time.
London: David Bogue, 1855. [Numismatics] PAPIER MACHÉ BINDING, the second edition. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.160. With 12 plates done in gold, silver and copper, including a frontispiece, and 11 supplemental plates at rear. Recently rebound in tough black buckram with gilt titles to spine, and the original black... More about The Coinage of the British Empire: An Outline of the Progress of the Coinage in Great Britain and...
One Hundred Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander.
London: Harper Collins, 1992. [Naval Memoirs] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 360. With six double-sided black and white photographic plates. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'for Colin Moynihan | Sandy Woodward | Dec '93.' Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine... More about One Hundred Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander
Oscar Wilde. The Story of An Unhappy Friendship.
London: Privately Printed by the Hermes Press, 1902. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (25 x 20cm), pp.278; [2]. With photogravure plates and two facsimile letters. Library binding of green cloth with gilt titles and shelfmark to spine. Yellow endpapers; all edges speckled red. Library bookplate and barcode to flyleaf... More about Oscar Wilde. The Story of An Unhappy Friendship
The Iron Ship. The History and Significance of Brunel's Great Britain.
Bradford-on-Avon: Moonraker Press, 1975. [Maritime History and Engineering] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 21cm), pp.[6], 253; [1]. Illustrated throughout with maps, plans, black and white photographs, and very occasional colour plates. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to flyleaf: 'To Jaqueline Iversen / with my thanks /... More about The Iron Ship. The History and Significance of Brunel's Great Britain
The Second World War.
London: Cassell and Co., 1948-1954. [World War Two] FIRST UK EDITIONS. In six volumes, octavo (22 x 15 x 27cm), pp.xv, 640; pp.xvii, 684; pp.x, 818; pp.xviii, 917; pp.xviii, 673; pp.xviii, 716. With numerous maps and plans, some folding. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, top edges red... More about The Second World War
Leaders.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1982. [World Politics] EX LIBRIS LORD MOYNIHAN, First UK Edition. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10]; 371; [3]. With sixteen double-sided black and white photographic plates split into two suites. Publisher's quarter black cloth with silver titles to spine and blue paper over boards. Dark blue endpapers... More about Leaders
Six Old English Chronicles. Of which two are now first translated from the monkish Latin originals: Ethelwerd's Chronicle; Asser's Life of Alfred; Geoffrey of Monmouth's British History; Gildas; Nennius; and Richard of Cirencester.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1848. [English History] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.xx; 512. With a frontispiece etching of Alfred the Great. Publisher's green blind-decorated cloth with gilt titles to spine. Yellow endpapers; all edges untrimmed. With the 'Bohn's Classical Library' catalogue tipped onto the front free endpaper. Slightly... More about Six Old English Chronicles. Of which two are now first translated from the monkish Latin...
Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. [Literary Biography] INSCRIBED ASSOCIATION COPY, First Edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 340; [2]. With eight double-sided black and white photographic plates. INSCRIBED by the author: 'For dear Anne, who was "in" / at the very beginning. Hope / you enjoy reading it. / Richard. 21... More about Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall
The Naked Civil Servant.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.217; [1]. Publisher's purple cloth titled in silver to spine, in photographic dust-jacket designed by Ivor Kaplin with the photographs by Simon Dell, Angus McBean, and Peter Hirst Smith, priced at 25s. A near fine copy with just the lightest of toning... More about The Naked Civil Servant
The Battle of Waterloo, containing the series of account published by authority, British and Foreign, with circumstantial details, relative to the battle, from a variety of authentic and original sources, with relative offical documents, forming an historical record of the operations in the Campaign of the Netherlands, 1815. To which is added the names alphabetically arranged, of the officers killed and wounded, from 15th ti 26th June, 1815, and the total loss of each regiment, with an enumeration of the Waterloo honours and privileges, conferred upon the men and officers, and lists of regiments, etc. entitled thereto. Illustrated by a panoramic sketch of the field of battle, and a plan of the position at Waterloo, and movements, with a general plan of the campaign. By a near observer.
London: Printed for John Booth, 1816. [Napoleonic Wars] EIGHTH EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] lxxxvi; 196; [2]. With two folding maps and a large folding panoramic plan of the battlefield. All except the frontispiece map backed onto cloth. Contemporary tan half calf with gilt titles to spine and marbled... More about The Battle of Waterloo, containing the series of account published by authority, British and...
England Expects.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1959. [Naval history] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.368. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge blue, pictorial dust-jacket featuring a painting by Harold Wyllie, with printed price of 25s net. Illustrated with eight double sided black and white plates and a.... More about England Expects
The Alhambra.
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1896. [Travel] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xx; 436. Publisher's ornately gilt blocked green cloth, dark green coated endpapers, all edges gilt. With numerous in-text illustrations. Some moderate spotting throughout, ownership to half title, cloth lightly rubbed to extremities, some marks. Very good... More about The Alhambra
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