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The History of the Russian Revolution to Brest-Litovsk.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1919. [Russian Revolution] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.149 [3]. Publisher's black cloth with red titles to spine and upper. Heavy pencil ownership, a small black ink ownership, and a blind ownership stamp to flyleaf. Crisp and clean internally, with just a touch..... More
Documents of the First Session of the First National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China.
Peking: Foreign Language Press, November 1955. [Chinese Politics] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.231 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Very gently toned throughout, with a touch of light wear to cloth. Near fine. A collection of 'all important documents' from the..... More
The Otto Penzler Collection of Bibliomysteries. A Catalogue of First Editions of Mystery Fiction Set in the World of Books, 1849-2000.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, 2017. [Bookseller's Catalogue] SIGNED COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4] 147 [1]. With occasional in-text colour images. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, priced at $10.00. A fine, as-new copy. A prime sale catalogue of book-related..... More
The Modern Antiquarian: A Pre-Millennial Odyssey through Megalithic Britain, including a Gazetteer to over 300 Prehistoric Sites.
London: Thorsons, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, 1998. [British Prehistory] FIFTH IMPRESSION. Quarto (30 x 20cm), pp.x; 438. Rainbow-coloured leaves, heavily illustrated with colour photographs and maps. Publisher's glossy orange paper-covered boards, titled and decorated in metallic purple and white, with photographic endpapers. In the publisher's blue glossy paper-covered..... More
Gwen John: Letters and Notebooks. Selected from the Gwen John papers at the National Library of Wales.
London: Tate Publishing, 2004. [Letters from an Artist] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.192. With frequent black and white photographic illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the plain green and white dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. Some light handling; near fine. More
Mayflower.
London: The Folio Society, 2019. [American History] FIRST EDITION THUS, a new edition. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xxvi; 436 [2]. With three suites of four double-sided colour plates, and a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with white titles and black decoration to spine, and an illustration laid onto the upper. Maps..... More
Shut In: A Tale of the Wonderful Siege of Antwerp in the Year 1585.
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1894. [Children's Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.491 [5]. With a double-page sketch-map and a vignette title page. Publisher's red cloth with gilt, black and blind titles and decoration to spine and upper. Top edge gilt, and floral-patterned endpapers. Illustrated bookplate of..... More
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