History & Biography
The Seasons of the Year. Or The Hand of God Manifested in His Works.
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1852. [Natural History] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[4] 416 [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page by T. Brown. Contemporary dark brown full morocco, with gilt titles and decorations to spine, and decoration in gilt and blind to boards. All edges..... More
Who's Who & Where: The Illustrated Year Book of Tunbridge Wells & District. Complete Local and Official Information.
Brighton: The Robinson Printing Company, 1908. [Town Guide and Directory] FINE COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.18 [2]; xlvi; 19-168. With frequent in-text black and white photographic illustrations, including many advertisements. Publisher's red quarter cloth, with colour-illustrated card covers priced at 6d. Just a touch of toning and spotting to..... More
Russian Ballet. Camera Studies by Gordon Anthony. With an Introduction by Arnold Haskell.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1939. [Ballet Photography] LEATHER-BOUND First Edition. Large Quarto (33 x 27cm), pp.[32]. Illustrated with 96 tipped-in black and white photographs of Russian ballet stars, including a frontispiece. Recently re-bound in navy half morocco, with gilt titles to twin red labels, four raised bands to spine, and matching..... More
The Autobiography of Francis Arago. The Traveller's Library 78.
London: Longman, Brown, and Longmans, 1855. FIRST EDITION, with rare original covers. Crown octavo, pp.[6], 122. In publisher's original cream paper wraps with black titles printed to spine and covers. Covers lightly browned; more heavily to spine. Some loss to tail of spine. Very good indeed, especially considering the rarity..... More
Those Three. Forty-Four Cartoons.
London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., no date [1942]. [Second World War] FIRST EDITION. Oblong octavo (14 x 21cm), pp.[48] unpaginated. Publisher's wraps printed in red and black with printed price of 1' net. Stapled twice to spine. Three page introduction followed by forty-four full page cartoons with captions..... More
The History of Gambling in England.
Chicago, MI: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1899. [Gambling] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] viii, 286 [8]. In contemporary maroon half morocco by the Eagle Art Bindery, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed; marbled endpapers. Text..... More
[Ian Fleming / James Bond reference] The Inner Circle. A View of War At The Top.
London: Hutchinson, 1971. [Intelligence / WWII Operations] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.228. Illustrated with eight photographic plates. Publisher's red cloth in dust-jacket priced at £2.25 /45s. Signature of the author in blue ink to the title page. A fine copy. Joan Bright was a key British Intelligence..... More
Graham Greene.
London: John Calder, 1957. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.240. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 21s. Light toning to edges and endpapers, and a little light wear to extremities. Jacket shows moderate wear and chipping to edges..... More
A Living Memory: Hodder and Stoughton Publishers 1868-1975.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975. [Publishing History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.287 [1]. With eight double-sided black and white photographic plates. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to fly-leaf: 'for my good friend | A.J. Edgar | in gratitude for | your service, and in |..... More
Histoire des Diables de Loudun, Ou de la Possession des Religieuses Ursulines, Et de la condamnation et du suplice D'Urbain Grandier, Cure de la meme Ville. Cruels effets de la vengeance du Cardinal de Richelieu.
Amsterdam: Aux Depens de la Compagnie, 1740. [Huguenot History] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (16 x 10cm), pp.[8] 378 [4]. With a copper engraved frontispiece. All text in French. Contemporary speckled calf with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt decoration to spine. Marbled endpapers; edges speckled red. Recent repairs to head and..... More
Pigsticking, or Hog-Hunting. A Complete Account for Sportsmen and others.
London: Harrison and Sons, 1889. FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.211; [1], imprint; [16], advertisements. Bound in publisher's blue-black cloth, titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board, sepia floral endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Illustrated throughout by the author, depicting the techniques and tribulations..... More
Birds And Beasts In Africa, and The Angler In South Africa.
London: Macmillan and Co, and Johannesburg: Hortors Ltd, 1938 and 1923. Pair of Baden-Powell association copies, with a letter of authenticity from the scout association: 1) The Angler In South Africa. Inscribed "To The Chief Scout" by H.V. Marsh, the Assistant Commissioner of Natal during Baden-Powell's trip to South Africa..... More
History of the Wars of the French Revolution, from the Breaking Out of the War in 1792, to the Restoration of a General Peace in 1815; comprehending the Civil History of Great Britain and France, during that Period.
London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. [European History] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes bound as one. Quarto (27 x 22 x 9cm), pp.[4]; 539; [1]; pp.[4]; 595; [1]. With a number of maps, some folding, and copper engraved portraits, including a frontispiece to each volume. Contemporary full..... More
Historic Memoirs of Ireland; comprising Secret Records of the National Convention, the Rebellion, and the Union; with Delineations of the Principal Characters connected with these transactions.
London: Henry Colburn, 1835. NEW EDITON. In two volumes. Large Quarto, pp.[2] xlii, 358 [2]; pp.[4] x, 464 [2]. With 38 copper engraved portraits, including a frontispiece of Barrington to vol. I, and two plates preceeding the title page in vol. II. Also with three facsimile letters and an index..... More
Three Years in Tristan Da Cunha.
London: Skeffington & Son, 1910. [South Atlantic Islands] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii; 280. Complete with 37 black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece, and a map. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, and a black and white photographic image to..... More
Tears of the Desert. One Woman's True Story of Surviving the Horrors of Darfur.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2008. [Memoir] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xi; [3]; 367; [3]. SIGNED by both authors in black ink to flyleaf. Publisher's red cloth, blue titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £12.99 to front flap. Some very faint foxing to top edge..... More
An Historical Account of Thomas Sutton Esq.; and of his Foundation in Charter-House.
London: Printed by E. Owen, and sold by F. Gyles in Holborn; W. Hinchliffe in Cornhill; Mess. J. and P. Knapton in Ludgate-Street. 1737. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 276. With an engraving by George Vertue between pages 160-161. Errata to page 276. Missing the folding plate..... More
It Gives Me Great Pleasure.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1955. [Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 214; [2] blank. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Beaton with printed price of 16s net. Photographic frontispiece and occasional in-text illustrations. Inscribed by the author to the flyleaf: "To dearest Enid..... More
The Unexpurgated Beaton. The Cecil Beaton's Diaries as he Wrote Them. Introduced by Hugo Vickers.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2002. [Photographer's Memoirs] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), ppxii; 418. With three suites of double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket. Some light marking to textblock edges. Jacket price-clipped. Some scuffing and edgewear to..... More
And Even Now.
London: William Heinemann, 1920. [Memoirs] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.ix; [1]; 320. Publisher's yellow cloth, paper label with titles to spine. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Interior bright and clean. Light offsetting to endpapers. Edges toned. Sunning to board extremities and spine. The odd mark here and there..... More
Stalingrad.
London: Viking, 1998. [Second World War] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xviii; 494. With two suites of four double-sided black and white photographic plates. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, and illustrated endpapers. With..... More
Teems of Times and Happy Returns.
London: Heinemann, 1961. [Literary Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[12] 234 [2]. With two double-sided black and white photographic plates and a frontispiece sketch of the author. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the brown dust-jacket designed by Leslie Needham, priced at 18s. A lovely..... More
Barefoot Soldier: A Story of Extreme Valour.
London: Sphere, 2006. [Military Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 370 [4]. With two suites of four double-sided photographic plates. SIGNED by Johnson Beharry, VC, in black ink to title page. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, and black endpapers. With the photographic..... More
The Deep.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1964. [Diving novel] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.252. Publisher's blue cloth cloth with gilt titles to spine, pale blue endpapers, illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £3.25 A very good copy in a lightly used jacket with a little sunning to spine. Shipwreck mystery set in..... More
Dark Destroyer. My Story.
London: Blake Publishing Ltd, 1999. [Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xii; 276. With three suites of four double-sided photographic plates. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'To "Father Derek" | Enjoy the "read" | Nigel Benn'. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine..... More