"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C. S. Lewis

London: Duckworth and Co., 1905. [Artist Biography] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] xii; 239 [3]. With 39 black and white half-tone plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green full calf by BUMPUS of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and delicate panelled decoration..... More
London: Bradbury and Evans, 29th October 1851 to the 28th July 1852; from the 28th September 1852 to the 27th July 1853. [Current Affairs] FINELY BOUND ORIGINAL SUPPLEMENT. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[2] viii; 241-264; 25-168; 24; 217-280; 168; 265-280. Confusingly bound, with various sections completely out of order. Contemporary..... More
London: John Murray, 1876. [Ecclesiastical History] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the fifth edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.lxxxviii; 437 [3]. With a coloured folding map to rear. In a fine full green morocco binding bearing the arms of both Winchester College and the Baron Saye and Sele, stamped in gilt to..... More
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1963. [Colonial Wars] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 210 [2]. With four double-sided black and white photographic plates, and three maps. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge red. With the dust-jacket designed by Brian Keogh, priced at 21s. Spotting to..... More
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1889. [Latin Literature] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the Third Edition, revised. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xx; 474 [2]. Contemporary black full calf by RELFE BROS of London for Huddersfield College School, with gilt titles to red label and further gilt decoration to spine, and the..... More
London: Printed for Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 1822. [Ancient Cameos] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xx; 52 [2]. With 21 etchings by Dagley, including a frontispiece, and an appendix at rear giving details of each gem. Contemporary tan half calf by BIRDSALL & SON of Northampton, with gilt titles..... More
London: Collins, 1938. [Colonial Wars] NEW EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8] 262 [2]. With three colour-illustrated plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with navy titles to spine, and a navy stamp in the shape of Africa to upper. Top edge blue. With the red illustrated dust-jacket. Spotting to..... More
London: John Murray, 1869. [Ancient History] FINELY BOUND, a New Edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 626 [2]. With numerous in-text illustrations, and a frontispiece. Contemporary tan half calf, with gilt titles to black label and further gilt decoration to spine, raised bands, and marbled paper over boards. All edges..... More
Milano: Casa Editrice "Alpes," 1926. [Fascist Speeches] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.281 [7]. All text in Italian. Publisher's white paper covers, titled in black and red, with a gilt illustration to upper. All edges untrimmed; substantially unopened. Heavily browned throughout to low grade paper. Moderate rubbing to covers..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1937. [Travel literature] First Edition. Octavo, pp.341 [2]. publisher's light blue cloth (presumed second binding), with gilt titles to spine. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Age toned to spine. Very good indeed. Byron, who died young in the Second World War, was one of the Brideshead..... More
Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2012. [Ian Fleming / James Bond] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 255 [5]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £19.99. A fine, as-new copy. The history of a recently unclassified sabotage operation performed with..... More
London: Colburn and Co., 1852. [Near Eastern Travel] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the Second Edition. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 316; pp.iii-x; 307 [3]. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume; bound without half-titles. Contemporary green full calf for Bray Collegiate School, with gilt titles to..... More
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1782; 1787; 1787; 1788; 1788; 1788. [Late Antiquity] FINELY BOUND QUARTO EDITIONS, first three volumes New Edition, final three volumes First Edition. Complete in six volumes. Quarto (29 x 23 x 31cm), pp.xx; 704; pp.[12] 640; pp.[12] 640; pp.[4] xvi; 620; pp.[12]..... More
London: George G. Harrap and Co., 1933-1938. [Biography/History] FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes, the first volume SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY CHURCHILL IN THE MONTH OF PUBLICATION. Octavo (24 x 17 x 22cm), pp.[4]; 612; pp.651; [1]; pp.[2]; 608; [2]; pp.671; [1]. With 325 illustrations, including a frontispiece to each volume, black..... More
London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.[2] xx; 447 [3]. With 21 coloured engraved plates, some folding. Bound without the half-title. Contemporary brown mottled calf boards with panelled decoration in gilt, carefully respined in the later nineteenth century in matching..... More
London: A. & C. Black, 1927. [Ireland] SECOND EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.iv; 92. With eight colour-illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and 20 in-text illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth with navy titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the green dust-jacket titled and decorated in navy, not priced. Heavy..... More
New York, NY: William Morrow and Company, 1985. [Literary Letters] FIRST THUS. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.448. Publisher's white quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, white paper over boards, and brown endpapers. Top edge brown; fore-edge untrimmed. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at $17.95. Illustrated bookplate to front pastedown..... More
London: Heinemann, 1968. [Music biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.374. With four suites of four black and white photographic plates. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the laminated psychedelic jacket designed by Alan Aldridge, with printed price of 30s net. Heavy wear to jacket, with..... More
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1891. [Pedagogy] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the fourth edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 548 [2]. With nine illustrated plates, including a frontispiece portrait of Arnold. Contemporary red full calf for Beaconsfield School by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles to green label and..... More
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. [Ancient History] FINE PRIZE BINDING, the second edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xxx; 426 [4]. With 62 maps and illustrations, including a folding map of Palestine. Contemporary tree calf by BICKERS & SON of London for Tonbridge School, with gilt titles to brown label and..... More
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1890. [Military History] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 528 [2]. With occasional engraved plates by Caton Woodville, including a frontispiece. Contemporary red full calf for Beaconsfield School by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles to black label and further gilt decoration to..... More
London: The Bodley Head, 2002. [Artist Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (29 x 24cm), pp.208. Heavily illustrated by the author in colour throughout. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and illustrated green endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £19.99. Light rubbing and bumping to outer edges, with..... More
London: Walker Books, 2018. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.264 [24]. Illustrated throughout with a mixture of fine colour photographs and reproductions of Oxenbury's artwork. Publisher's photographic cloth with blue and maroon titles to spine, and red endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £30. Some..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1876. [Political Pamphlet] ORIGINAL PAMPHLET. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.24. Publisher's grey paper covers, priced at 1s. The lightest of handling to edges. A crisp, fine copy. The poet questions why the Ottoman suppression of the Bulgarian April Uprising of 1876 had received such widespread condemnation..... More