History & Biography
A History of English Costume.
London: Methuen, 1937. [Historical Costume]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 227 [1]. With numerous in-text illustrations by the author. Publisher's red cloth with blue titles to spine. With the white illustrated dust-jacket. Light spotting throughout. Slight reading lean. Chipping to jacket edges; light toning to jacket spine. Very..... More
Beasts in Heraldry.
Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1974. [Heraldry] FIRST EDITION. Square octavo (22 x 22cm), pp.96. Containing twenty colour illustrations by Marie Angel (1923-2010). Publisher's cream vegetable parchment with gilt titles to spine, presented in the original blue paper-covered box, with a cream insert and a tri-fold flier for the..... More
Northern Lights. A Poet's Sources.
London: John Murray, 1999. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; [4]; 336. With eight full-page black and white illustrations by Charles Shearer, and two maps of Orkney and Shetland following editor's introduction. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket also designed by Shearer priced..... More
Venetian Studies.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1887 [1892]. [Venetian History] FIRST EDITION, a later issue (publisher's catalogue dated 1892). Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 433 [67]. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and boards. Green-coated endpapers. A crisp, clean copy with a slight reading lean..... More
Charterhouse Past and Present: A brief history of the Hospital founded in Charterhouse by Thomas Sutton, and more particularly of the school belonging thereto.
Godalming: H. Stedman, 1879. [Public School History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 239 [3]. With 20 illustrations, including a frontispiece and plans of the school. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to first blank: 'Cecil James Gladdish Hulkes | from Dr. Haig Brown | for History..... More
A History of Persian Literature Under Tartar Dominion (A.D. 1265-1502).
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1920. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii [4] 586. With twelve halftone plates, including a frontispiece. Red publisher's cloth, gilt titles and decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. Interior lightly marked/spotted with some foxing to prelims and rear leaves. Some dulling to t.e.g...... More
Chaucer's England.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1869. [Literature / History] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes, octavo (20 x 14cm). Illustrated. Elegantly bound in full tan polished calf by Riviere and Son, with twin red and green title labels, full gilt backs, top edge gilt, swirled marble endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, publisher's cloth bound..... More
The African Colony. Studies in the Reconstruction.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1903. [History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xviii; 404. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, edges untrimmed, two folding maps printed in colour, blue coated endpapers. Reading lean, textblock generally bright and clean with just the occasional mark, some tearing and..... More
The Buchanan Book: The Life of Alexander Buchanan, Q.C., of Montreal, followed by an account of the Family of Buchanan.
Montreal: Printed for Private Circulation, 1911. [Canadian Legal History and Genealogy] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[6] xiv; 475 [3] 5 [1] viii [4]. With 13 illustrated plates, including a frontispiece portrait of the subject, each with a tissue guard. Number 126 of just 300 copies SIGNED by..... More
An Official Tribute and History of The Royal Observer Corps.
Leatherhead: Ashford, Buchan & Enright, 1993. [Military History] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 176. SIGNED by the author in black ink to fl-leaf. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket. Lightly handled; a fine copy. More
The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer. The Fourteenth Edition: To which is added an Appendix, including the Statures of the last Session of Parliament (20G.3.) and some adjudged Cases.
London: Printed by W. Strahan and M. Woodfall for T. Cadell, 1780. [English Legal Procedure] FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING, the fourteenth edition. Complete in four volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 19cm), pp.[2] xxviii; 540 [6]; pp.[2] 607 [1]; pp.[2] 581 [5]; pp.[4] 504 [170]. With an unpaginated table of statutes..... More
The History of Tunbridge-Wells.
London: M. Hingeston, J. Dodsley, T. Caslon; Tunbridge Wells: E. Baker, 1766. [Kent Topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2] xii; 317 [9]. Re-backed in recent tan calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to the original green morocco label laid over, further gilt decoration to spine, and contemporary speckled..... More
The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. [American Travel]. SECOND EDITION, identical to the First. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.xii; 707. With 10 wood engraved plates including a frontispiece and two folding maps. Nine further illustrations in-text. In publisher's blue pebble grained cloth, re-backed during the twentieth century, with original..... More
Etruscan Bologna: A Study.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1876. [Italian Travel and Archaeology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xii, 275. Illustrated with folding frontispiece lithograph showing a Synoptical Table of the Paleo-Ethnological Remains of Central Italy. Also with occasional in-text wood engravings. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, decorative friezes..... More
Andrew R. Buxton: The Rifle Brigade, A Memoir.
London: Robert Scott, 1918. [Great War Memoir] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 294. With 16 black and white half-tone plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's dark green gained cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Black ink inscription stating 'from Andrew Buxton's Sister | Rosamond Buxton | December..... More
The Road To Oxiana.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1937. [Travel literature] First Edition. Octavo, pp.341 [2]. publisher's light blue cloth (presumed second binding), with gilt titles to spine. Illustrated with maps and photographs. Age toned to spine. Very good indeed. Byron, who died young in the Second World War, was one of the Brideshead..... More
Pathological Studies of the Past: Curious Bypaths of History, being Medico-Historical Studies and Observations.
Paris: Libraire des Bibliophiles, 1898. [History of Medicine] LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 366 [4]. With a frontispiece after Daniel Vierge, engraved on copper by F. Masse. Number 464 of just 500 copies in this edition, printed on Van Gelder's vellum paper. Publisher's black cloth with..... More
My Life in Pieces. An Alternative Autobiography.
London: Nick Hern Books, 2010. [Autobiography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xii; 436. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'Hi, Hayley! | All the very best | Simon Callow'. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket designed by Ned..... More
For the Record.
London: William Collins, 2019. [Politics] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xix; [1]; 732. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, blue endpapers, photographic dust-jacket priced at £25. With two photographic suites. Signed by David Cameron to a printed 'Limited Signed Edition' leaf, with 'signed by the author' roundel..... More
To the Farthest Ends of the Earth. 150 Years of World Exploration. Forewords by David Attenborough and John Hunt.
London: Macdonald, 1980. [Geographical History] FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED BY ATTENBOROUGH. Octavo (27 x 20cm), pp.288. Publisher's blue cloth, silver titles to spine, illustrations throughout including frontispiece and endpapers. In a pictorial dust-jacket designed by Anne Davison, price-clipped. INSCRIBED by David Attenborough in blue ink to title page, reading 'To Sarah..... More
The Martyr of Erromanga. Or, the Philosophy of Missions, Illustrated from the Labours, Death and Character of the Late Rev. John Williams.
London: John Snow, 1842. [South Pacific Missionary] FINELY BOUND, the Second Edition. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[4] xii; 526 [2]. With a hand coloured frontispiece and a wood engraved title page vignette. Contemporary brown full calf with raised bands and gilt titles to black label, and further gilt decoration to..... More
The Hero with a Thousand Faces.
New York, NY: Published for Bollingen Foundation Inc. by Pantheon Books Inc., 1949. [Comparative Mythology] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 416. With 12 double-sided black and white illustrated plates, and occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's black quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and green cloth over..... More
[Sir Malcolm and Donald Campbell Photographic Archive and Long-Play Record, including] World Water Speed Record 1956: Donald Campbell's Southward Run on Coniston Water [and] See Sir Malcolm Campbell Breaking the World's Water Speed Record Using Castrol Motor Oil [Flick Book].
London: His Master's Voice, 1937, 1956, and 1984. [Land and Water Speed Records] ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS, SIGNATURES, FLICK BOOK, NEWSPAPER, AND LONG-PLAY RECORD, LEO VILLA ASSOCIATION. Two ink signatures by Malcolm Campbell on separate scraps of paper, one with a small newspaper photograph cut out and laid on, dated 22/07/1935. One..... More
The French Revolution: A History.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1889. [History and Philosophy] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a later edition. Three volumes bound as one. Octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.iv, 252; pp.iv; 260; pp.iv; 300 [2]. Contemporary red full calf for Clapham Middle School, with raised bands, gilt titles to green label and further gilt decoration..... More
A Screw Loose: My story so far.
London: B and T Publishers, 1977. Signed First Edition. Octavo. Bound in wine cloth with gilt titles to spine. Red dust wrapper bears titles in red and white to spine and front and rear covers. The binding is tight. The text is clean, and shows no signs of spotting. The..... More