History & Biography
The Annals of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, Volume IV, The 60th: The K.R.R.C. With Illustrations and Maps.
London: John Murray, 1929. [Military History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xl; 398. With four black and white photographic plates including a frontispiece, and 20 maps. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt regimental badge to upper. Black ink stamp of Regimental Headquarters, The Royal..... More
Recollections of Rifleman Harris.
London: Peter Davies, 1929. [Napoleonic Wars] Second impression thus. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 191 [1]. Publisher's yellow cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dark green typographic dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. A nice clean copy internally. Jacket shows some toning to spine and a little wear to edges..... More
The History of Kent. In Five parts. Containing I. An exact topography or description of the county. II. The Civil History of Kent.... V. The Natural History of Kent.
London: Printed and Sold by D. Midwinter, 1719. [Kent Topography/Cartography] FIRST EDITION. Folio (40 x 29cm), pp.[2]; iv, Dedication; iv, Preface; ii, Ode to Kent; iv, List of Subscribers; 592; xl. Illustrated with 43 fine engravings, of which 39 are double-page and/or fold-out. Includes fine panoramas of Rochester and Tunbridge..... More
Man of War. The Secret Life of Captain Alan Hillgarth. Officer, Adventurer, Agent.
London: Century, 2012. [Espionage/biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.433; [3], blank. Illustrated with two suites of plates. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles, illustrated dust-jacket priced at £16.99. A fine copy. Biography of British agent and novelist Alan Hillgarth OBE (1899-1978), who had a prominent role in the..... More
Peter Fleming. A Biography.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1974. [History/biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.419; [1], blank. Illustrated with black & white plates. Elegantly hand-bound in half deep red calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands, top edge coloured, original cloth spine bound in at rear..... More
The Arms of Time, The Power of Chance, and Halfway To Heaven. A Memoir.
London: Hamish Hamilton, Sinclair-Stevenson, Sutton Publishing, 1979, 1991, 1998. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITIONS, three volumes. Octavo (24 x 16 x 6cm) pp.xii; 157 [1], pp.xii; 196, pp.xii; 163 [1]. Publisher's hardcovers in photographic dust-jackets, variously priced (first vol. p/c). No ink inscriptions, contents clean, crisp jackets (spine sunned to first title)..... More
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent.
Canterbury: W. Bristow, 1797-1801. [Kent history] SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED. Twelve volumes, octavo (24 x 15 x 46cm). With 34 folding maps and 33 plates, (volume twelve lacking two plates). Solidly bound in brown quarter cloth over green cloth sides, gilt titles to spine. Modern bookplates to pastedown of..... More
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Containing the Antient [Ancient] and Present State of it, Civil and Ecclesiastical; Collected from public Records, and other the best Authorities, both Manuscript and Printed: and Illustrated with Maps, and Views of Antiquities, Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, etc.
Canterbury: Printed for the Author, by Simmons and Kirkby, 1778-1799. [Kentish history] FIRST EDITION. In four volumes. Folio (41 x 26cm), pp.[4]; xii; clii; 580; 42; [2]; pp.[4]; 817; [1]; 72; pp.[4]; ii; 765; [1]; 51; [3]; pp.vi; 788; 46; [2]. Complete with all 167 copper engraved illustrations, including county..... More
The Little Locksmith.
London: Faber and Faber, 1944. [Memoir] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.167 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pink typographic dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. Times Book Club stamp to rear pastedown. Light toning and marking to jacket, with minimal wear to edges. A...... More
Muhammad Ali. His Life and Times.
London: Robson Books, 1991. [Boxing Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.544. With 12 double-sided black and white photographic plates. INSCRIBED from the author to 'Malcolm' in black ink to half-title. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and white dust-jacket featuring a...... More
De La Politique et du Commerce des Peuples de L'Antiquité. Traduit de L'Allemand sur La Quatrième et Dernière Édition.
Paris: Libraire de Firmin Didot Frères, 1830-1844. [Ancient History] COMPLETE EDITION IN FRENCH. Complete in seven volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 21cm), pp.[10] xxxii; 555 [5]; pp.[2] viii; 470 [2]; pp.[10] viii; 489 [3]; pp.[10] iv; 398 [4]; pp.[10] iv; 332 [2]; pp.[10] xii; 497 [3]; pp.[10] viii; 424..... More
["Mis"-Prints Connected with the French Revolution 1789] La Révolution française depuis l'ouverture des Etats-Généraux jusqu'au 9 brumaire. [and 11 other contemporary engravings relating to the French Revolution].
Paris: Chez Decrouan, Imp. de Baudouin, et al., various dates, especially 1838. [Revolutionary Engravings] RARE CONTEMPORARY ENGRAVINGS, including part of the second edition of Helman's famous print collection. Large portfolio codex (39 x 65cm), featuring 10 engravings of the French Revolution by Helman, after drawings by Monnet, and 11 other..... More
Raymond Roussel: a critical guide. French Surrealism.
London: Calder and Boyars, 1966. [Literary Criticism and Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.vi; 97 [1]. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green dust-jacket designed by John Sewell, priced at 25s. Very light handling to jacket. Fine, almost as-new. More
War and Turpentine.
London: Harvill Secker, 2016. [Great War Memoirs] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[8] 296. With occasional in-text photographic illustrations. Publisher's photographic soft covers, priced at £16.99. A fine, as-new copy. Originally published in Dutch in 2013, this is a semi-novelisation of the wartime experiences of the author's grandfather..... More
The Professor and the President: Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon White House.
Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2015. [American Politics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 172 [2]. With a contemporary book review loose to preliminaries. Publisher's black quarter cloth with silver titles to spine and blue cloth over boards. With the blue dust-jacket. Bookplates detailing provenance to endpapers. A fine..... More
Jungle Trails in Northern India.
London: Methuen and Company, 1938. RARE FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[10], 278. With 24 photographic plates including a frontispiece. In publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With rare original dust-jacket. Maps printed to endpapers. Some damage to head of spine. Jacket spine sunned, with loss to head and tail..... More
The Life and Times of James Catnach, (Late of Seven Dials), Ballad Monger.
London: Reeves and Turner, 1878. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp. xvi, 432 [12]. With frequent engravings. In publisher's green cloth with black titles to paper label on spine. All edges untrimmed. Reading lean. Title label badly worn; titles largely obscured. Good overall. 'Here, you may read how he was bred and..... More
The Life of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, D.D. Late Bishop of London. By the Rev. Robert Hodgson, A.M.F.R.S. Rector of St. George's Hanover-Square, and one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to his Majesty.
London: For T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812. [Religious history] LEATHER-BOUND EARLY EDITION, the third. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8] 320 [4]. With a stipple-engraved frontispiece by Charles Picart. Contemporary tan full diced calf, board edges gilt-ruled. Spine with gilt titles, raised bands, and blind tooling. Marbled endpapers. All edges..... More
Pictures and Problems From London Police Courts.
London: Edward Arnold, 1900. [Law/Legal memoir] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.viii; 329; [3]; 32. With the photogravure frontispiece. Advertisements to rear. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. Blind double rulings to boards. Fore edge untrimmed. Interior bright and clean. Gutter visible in a few areas, although binding..... More
Peeps at History: Ireland.
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
General Gordon: The Christian Hero.
London and Felling-on-Tyne: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., no date [1908]. [African Colonial Wars] FINELY BOUND, a later edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 369 [3]. A stamp at rear suggests a printing date of April 1908. Contemporary red full calf by RELFE BROS of London, with gilt titles..... More
Simply Churchill.
London: Robert Hale, 1965. [Politics] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp. 192. Green publisher's cloth lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Paul Mechan with printed price of 25/- to front flap. Photographs throughout the book featuring Winston Churchill. Shaken in case, toning and spotting to edges..... More
Heroes of The Argonne.
Kansas City: Franklin Hudson Publishing Company. 1919. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's olive green cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Minor rubbing and edgewear, a trifle shaken, gilt somewhat dulled, strong and clean, a very good copy. Internally clean. Dogearing to some early pages, illustrated throughout..... More
The Cinque Ports. A Historical and Descriptive Record.
William Blackwood and Sons, 1900. [Kent]. Quarto (30 x 23cm), pp.xiv; 403; [1]. Publisher's beige cloth blocked in gilt, top edge gilt, red endpapers. Fourteen photogravure plates with tissue guards, nineteen in text and other illustrations. Small repaired marginal tear to page 43, discreet cancelled library stamp to flyleaf with..... More
Rugby Tennessee. Being Some Account of the Settlement Founded on the Cumberland Plateau by The Board of Aid to Land Ownership.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[12] 168 [32]. Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt title to spine, black ruling to spine, navy endpapers. Red stamp to first flyleaf, else internally clean. Upper hinge split. Textblock top edge heavily toned, with some light toning and wear..... More