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London: George Newnes, 1933-34. [Military History] FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION IN BOOK FORM, preceded by the 26 serial magazine parts, constituting the first illustrated edition of Churchill's The World Crisis, with a brand new foreword by the author. Complete in three volumes. Large octavo (25 x 18 x 14cm), pp.iv; 512;..... More
London: Cassell and Company, 1956-58. [English History] HANDSOMELY BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes, octavo (25 x 17 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxii; 416; pp.[2] xii; 344 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 332 [6]; pp.[2] xii; 322. With occasional in-text maps and plans. In recent green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1956-1958. [English History] FIRST EDITIONS, leather-bound. Four volumes. Octavo (25 x 17 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxii; 416; pp.[2] xii; 344 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 332 [6]; pp.[2] xii; 322. With occasional in-text maps and plans. In recent maroon half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to..... More
London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1956-8. [English History] FIRST EDITIONS, leather-bound. Four volumes. Octavo (25 x 17 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxii; 416; pp.[2] xii; 344 [2]; pp.[2] xii; 332 [6]; pp.[2] xii; 322. With occasional in-text maps and plans. In recent deep red half oasis morocco with raised bands, gilt..... More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. [Post-War Churchill Speeches] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] x; 456. Publisher's brown cloth with darker brown titles and decoration to spine. With the deep red dust-jacket designed by Samuel H. Bryant, priced at $5.00. Light toning and spotting to edges. Light..... More
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1931. [History and Politics] FIRST EDITION, first and second impression in soft covers. Two volumes. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.141 [3]; pp.141 [3]. With advertisement for the Indian Empire Society at rear. Volumes are identical, except that the first impression is in orange soft covers, and..... More
London: George G. Harrap and Co., 1933-1938. [Biography/History] FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes, the first volume SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY CHURCHILL IN THE MONTH OF PUBLICATION. Octavo (24 x 17 x 22cm), pp.[4]; 612; pp.651; [1]; pp.[2]; 608; [2]; pp.671; [1]. With 325 illustrations, including a frontispiece to each volume, black..... More
London: The Educational Book Company, no date [1955]. [Military history] The Chartwell Edition, THE First Illustrated Edition. Six volumes (25 x 18 x 27cm). The standard binding of red cloth, embossed silhouette of Churchill on a brown leather square to upper boards, gilt titles to brown leather squares to spine..... More
London: Cassell and Co. Ltd., 1948-1954. [Military history] FIRST EDITIONS. 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 burgundy half morocco with twin air force blue title panels..... More
London: The Liberal Publication Department. 1907. Including Churchill's speeches on South Africa and Ireland. Octavo. pp. 764; 72. In navy blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Binding somewhat loose in places, but complete with index. Published following the landslide victory for the Liberal Party in the 1906 General Election..... More
Printed at the Theater, Oxford, 1732. [English Civil War history] FIRST ILLUSTRATED FOLIO EDITION. Folio (41 x 27cm), pp.viii; 737; [15], Index; [4], adverts; [2], blank. three volumes bound as one. Illustrated with copper plate engravings. Attractively bound in half recent calf leather, black label, marbled boards, raised bands with..... More
London: Seeley and Co., 1907. [Topography and University History] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a new edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 325 [3]. With 34 engravings and etchings, including a frontispiece. Contemporary green full calf for Croydon High School, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a gilt school crest..... More
London: Printed by R. Taylor and Co., for Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1808. [Slavery] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] 572; pp.[2] 592. With two folding plates, including the famous cross-section of a loaded slave ship, and one further plates illustrating various manacles and and instruments..... More
London: Blackie and Son Ltd., 1916. [Aviation] THIRD EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.256. Publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and titled in black to upper board, pictorial illustration to spine and upper board, gilt decoration reading 'The Edinburgh Angus Club' to lower board, pictorial frontispiece and 11..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1929. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Publisher's blue cloth in scarce original dustwrapper. The book is absolutely fine and appears unread; jacket shows some chipping to spine tips, and a little toning to extremities. An attractive copy. First edition in book form. Some of these essays had appeared..... More
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2003. [American politics] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xi; [3]; 562. Publisher's black quarter cloth over black paper covered boards, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Jackie Seow, with printed price of U.S. $20.00 | Can $44.00. With two suites of..... More
Salisbury: Bennett Brothers, 1898. [Hampshire]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 203; [blank]. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to upper board, black coated endpapers. Illustrated with eight plates, including a frontispiece portrait of the author. Neat ownership in pencil to verso of flyleaf, a few neat pencil annotations to..... More
London: Printed by Mills, Jowett, and Mills, 1833. [Scottish Topography] FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo (19 x 12cm), pp.[2] 264 [12]. Publisher's quarter green cloth and plain pasteboards, with printed paper title label to spine stating a price of 2/6. Advertisements bound in to front and rear. Top and fore edges untrimmed..... More
London: The C.W. Daniel Company, 1929. [Kent topography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.239 [1]. With 47 half-tone plates, most double-sided, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper, with a ship design to upper, dust-jacket printed in red and black, priced at 10/6..... More
London: Printed by H. Fry for C. Dilly, 1797. [London Policing] FINELY BOUND FIFTH EDITION, revised and enlarged. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] xxxvi; 444; xxviii [6]. With the folding table of prisoners facing p.230. Recent full speckled and panelled calf, with raised bands and gilt titles to a red..... More
London, Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1961. FIRST EDITION: Publisher's boards with original dustwrapper. A fine copy in slightly faded to spine wrapper, with small closed tear verso. From the author of "The Joy of Sex" More
London: Elliot Stock, 1900. [Anglo-Saxon History] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 235 [1]. Lacking the map; with the errata slip. Contemporary brown morocco by STOAKLEY of Cambridge for Perse School for Girls, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, green cloth over boards, and gilt armorial school crest..... More
London: Simon and Schuster, 2003. [British Politics] EX-LIBRIS LORD MOYNIHAN, First Edition, association copy. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.x; 368 [6]. In publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. Recent bookplate detailing provenance affixed to flyleaf. A fine copy. From the Library of Lord and..... More
London: C Cooke, [c.1820]. Duodecimo. Two volumes in one. pp.180; 168. Bound in original red morocco-backed marbled boards, ruled in gilt to spine, later/replacement title labels. Illustrated with a map of the county to each title, and further including a table of information concerning the principal towns of the county..... More
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1946. [Tiger hunting] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xvii; [1]; 212; [2]. Publisher's orange cloth, gilt titles with a dark red drop shadow to spine, red top edge, map endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price of 10s. 6d. net. Frontispiece portrait of the..... More