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Life at the Limit.
London: William Kimber, 1970. [Biography] SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. First edition, second impression. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.x; 11-255; [1] blank. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket with printed price of 36s. net. Illustrated with numerous photographs spread over eight double sided black and white plates. Signed by..... More
Winston Churchill. Being an Account of the Life of the Right Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, P.C., C.H., T.D., M.P.
London: Mills and Boon, Limited, 1927. [History / Politics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[2], 272; [24]. With 11 illustrations over eight plates, including a frontispiece portrait of Churchill. Publisher's navy blue cloth, titled in gilt to spine and upper, fore-edge and tail untrimmed. Contents clean, edges a little..... More
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
London: Cassell and Company, 1956-8. [English History] FIRST EDITIONS. Octavo (25 x 17 x 15cm), pp.[2]; xxii; 416; pp.[2]; xii; 344; [2]; pp.[2]; xii; 332; [6]; pp.[2]; xii; 322. With occasional in-text maps and plans. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spines, top edges red, pictorial dust-jackets priced..... More
A series of adventures in the course of a voyage up the Red-Sea, on the coast of Arabia and Egypt; and of a route through the desarts of Thebais, in the year 1777; with a supplement of a voyage from Venice to Latichea; and of a route through the desarts of Arabia, by Aleppo, Baghdad, and the Tygris, to Busrah, in the years 1780 and 1781, in letters to a lady.
London: J. Dodsley, 1787. THIRD EDITION. Octavo, two volumes, pp.xvi; 387; [1]. pp.[2]; 401; [1]. With five folding maps and views, and four plates. Bound in later brown quarter calf over brown cloth boards, titles in gilt on red and green squares to spine. Generally bright and clean with just..... More
"Through Samaria" to Galilee and the Jordan: Scenes of the Early Life and Labours of Our Lord.
London: Thomas Nelson, 1889. FIRST EDITION. Quarto. pp. 330. With 123 in-text engravings and an engraved frontispiece, all from the author's drawings. In publisher's dark green cloth with black and gilt stamping to spine and upper board. All edges gilt; brown end-papers. Blind stamp of G.D. Croker, Waterford, to front..... More
A Brief Record of the Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force Under the Command of General Sir Edmund H.H. Allenby, G.C.B., G.C.M.G. July 1917 to October 1918. Compiled from Official Sources.
London: Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1919. [First World War] SECOND EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.[6]; 114. With 56 maps printed in colour showing the progress of the campaign, each with a facing page of explanatory notes. Photographic frontispiece portrait of Allenby. Publisher's quarter grey cloth with plain..... More
The Wisdom of Winston Churchill. Being a Selection of Aphorisms, Reflections, Precepts, Maxims, Epigrams, Paradoxes and Opinions from his Parliamentary and Public Speeches, 1900-1955.
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1956. [Bons mots] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.427; [1] imprint. Publisher' blue cloth, titles in silver to spine, top edge dark blue, dust-jacket with printed price of 25s net. Tiny tear to the foot of one page otherwise internally fine, cloth at..... More
The Cruel Victory. The French Resistance, D-Day and the Battle for the Vercors 1944,
London: William Collins, 2014. [Military history] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), xxii; [2]; 472. Publisher's grey cloth, gilt titles to spine, red endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price of £25. Signed by the author to the title page. Illustrated with two photographic suites. Edges toned, cloth and wrapper lightly..... More
Winston S. Churchill. 1874-1965.
London: William Heinemann, 1966-1988. [Political biography] FIRST EDITIONS. Illustrated with photographs throughout. The complete set of the Life. Eight volumes, octavos (24 x 17 x 51cm). In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spines, in original dust-jackets of various colours, red top edges. Some light spotting/toning to edges, some..... More
The Downing Street Years.
London: Harper Collins, 1993. [Politics] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Royal octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xiv; 914. With nineteen double-sided photographic plates divided into five suites. Signed by Baroness Thatcher to a tipped in blank between half-title and title page. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, blue endpapers, photographic dust-jacket..... More
A History of Sarawak under its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908.
London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1909. [Malaysian History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 464. With 74 half-tone plates, including two frontispiece illustrations, as well as a large coloured folding map at rear. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. Bookplate to front..... More
The Life of Nelson, The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, and Company, Limited, 1987. [Naval history] FIRST UK EDITION, bound from the American sheets. Octavo (23 x 17 x 9cm), pp.xxiii; [5]; 454; [2]; pp.xvi; [4]; 427; [1]; [3] publisher's advertisements ;[3]. Illustrated with nineteen plates and twenty plans. Publisher's navy blue cloth, gilt titles to..... More
The Treaty of Waitangi. Or how New Zealand became a British Colony.
Wellington: S. and W. Mackay, 1914. [History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xv; [1]; 346; [2]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper. Illustrated with two maps and fifteen plates. Inscribed by the author to the verso of the half title page: "To | J.R. Raw..... More
A Narrative of the Voyages Round the World Performed by Captain James Cook. With an Account of his Life, During the Previous and Intervening Periods.
London: Bickers and Son, 1893. [Voyages] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 404; [2]. Beautifully bound by Bickers and Son in dark blue full calf, gilt crests of Sherborne School to boards, gilt titles and tooling to spine, marbled edges and endpapers. Prize bookplate to pastedown, some spotting..... More
The American Civil War.
London: Cassell and Company, 1961. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.111; [1], blank. With maps and photographic illustrations. Publisher's red cloth in photographic dust-wrapper priced at 12/6. Some toning to edges of text block. Jacket clean and bright. Near fine. The first separate edition of Winston Churchill's..... More
The Lonely Sea and the Sky.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1964. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xvii; [3]; 21-352. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge green, dust-jacket featuring wraparound artwork by David Cobb. Internally fine, textblock a little shaken, some toning and marks to edges. Cloth lightly sunned to top and..... More
Plutarch's Lives. Translated from the Original Greek, with Notes, Critical and Historical: and a Memoir of the Translator.
London: William Tegg and Co., 1876. [Classics in translation] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xx; 748. Very small print in two columns. Slightly later dark green full morocco by J. LOW of London, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and the gilt crest of the Law Society..... More
Terence Rattigan: The Man and His Work.
London: Quartet Books, 2010. [Literary Biography] INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, revised third edition. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[2] 534. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'For Edward | with best wishes | Michael Darlow | 1st August 2011. Publisher's soft covers priced at £22.50. Light wear..... More
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