History & Biography
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The Great War [The World Crisis].
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
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
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
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
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
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.
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
In The Balance. Speeches 1949 and 1950.
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
India. Speeches and An Introduction.
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
Marlborough. His Life and Times.
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
The Second World War.
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
The Second World War.
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
The Liberal Magazine vol. 14. A Periodical for the Use of Liberal Speakers and Canvassers: Forming a Political Record for the Year 1906.
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
The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. With the Precedent Passages, and Actions, that contributed there unto, and the happy End and Conclusion thereof by the King's Blessed Restoration, and Return Upon the 29th of May, in the Year 1660.
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
Cambridge.
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
The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament.
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
The Mastery of the Air.
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
The Problem of Industrial Relations and Other Lectures.
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
Living History.
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
Noted on the Parishes of Fyfield, Kimpton, Penton Mewsey, Weyhill and Wherwell, in the County of Hampshire.
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
Cobbett's Tour in Scotland; and in the Four Northern Counties of England: in the Autumn of the Year 1832.
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
The Medway River and Valley: The Story of the Medway; Aspects of Life on the Medway; Journeyings on the Medway.
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
A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis; containing a detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors By which Public and Private Property and Security are, at present, injured and endangered: and suggesting remedies for their prevention.
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
Darwin and the Naked Lady Discursive Essays on Biology and Art.
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
Alfred in the Chroniclers.
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
The Point of Departure.
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
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Topographical And Statistical Description Of The County Of Sussex [together with] Topographical And Statistical Description Of The County Of Surrey.
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
Man-Eaters of Kumaon.
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