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History of Battle Abbey.
London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons, 1877. [English History and Topography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.[8] 357 [3]. With a coloured folding plan of the abbey facing p.1. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to the title page: 'Augusta Carrington | from her very affec.[tionate]..... More
The Hand-Book of Swindling. By the late Captain Barabbas Whitefeather, late of the Body-Guard of His Majesty, King Carlos; Treasurer of the British Wine and Vinegar Company; Trustee for the Protection of the River Thames from Incendiaries; Principal Inventor of Poyais Stock; Ranger of St George's Fields; Original Patentee of the Parachute Conveyance Association; Knight of every Order of the Fleece; Scamp and Cur.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. [Crime and Con-Artistry] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (16 x 10cm), pp.viii; 87 [1]. With four engraved plates by "Phiz", including a frontispiece. Publisher's green limp cloth covers, with gilt titles and decoration to upper. All edges gilt, with yellow-coated endpapers. A highly attractive armorial bookplate..... More
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1979. [American Travel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 340 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to a bookplate on the half-title. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, and maps to endpapers. Top edge red. With the dust-jacket designed by Peter..... More
Moscow, 1911-1933, being the Memoirs of Allan Monkhouse.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1933. [Metro-Vickers Affair] INSCRIBED COPY, second impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.349 [3]. With 16 black and white photographic plates. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to half-title: 'To Rena, | Please accept this book for | what it is—not, as its pub- | -lishers describe..... More
Scottish Eccentrics.
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1936. [Scottish Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, an association copy. Octavo (26 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 320. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf: 'To | Mr. & Mrs. F.G. Scott, | with love | from | Mr. & Mrs. "Hugh MacDiarmid," | Whalsay..... More
Brazilian Adventure.
London: Queen Anne Press, 2010. [Travel] LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, being one of 150 copies. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.364. Finely bound in the publisher's gilt decorated cloth, to the design of the original first edition binding. With photographic plates and illustrated map endpapers. A fine, as-new copy. Out of print..... More
Philosophical Dissertations on the Egyptians and Chinese.
London: Printed by T. Chapman for J. Edwards, 1795. [Ethnography] FIRST EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xxiv; 339 [3]; pp.[6] 320 [2]. With the folding map of Egypt to volume I and the folding map of China to volume II. Recently bound in brown half calf..... More
The Second World War.
London: Cassell and Co., 1948-1954. [Military history] LEATHER BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Complete 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. Elegantly bound in green half morocco, with twin red title..... More
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